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===The Battle=== | ===The Battle=== | ||
Examining the schematics for the power plant, the group determines that there are three targets they need to hit: Lumic's [[zeppelin]] on the roof, the cooling tunnels underneath the factory and the main gate using dead EarPods to trick the Cybermen. The goal of the two groups sneaking into the factory itself is to reach the control center and shut down the conversion machines while the group attacking the zeppelin targets the transmitter on board Lumic is using to control the people through their EarPods so they will be set free and can flee. Its decided that Pete and Rose will enter through the front gate to try to rescue Jackie while the Doctor and Mrs Moore will use the cooling tunnels and Jake and Mickey will attack the zeppelin. | |||
Jake and Mickey make their way to the zeppelin and use a bottle of something created by Mrs Moore to knock out the guards and board the zeppelin. On board the zeppelin, after taking out the remaining guards, the two men search for the transmitter controls to deactivate the transmitter, spotting an empty Cyber suit along the way. The two locate the transmitter controls, but they are locked behind protective glass. As Mickey tries to hack the zeppelin's controls so they can crash it, he inadvertently awakens the Cyber suit which attacks. Mickey lures the suit in front of the transmitter controls and tricks it into punching into the control panel. The Cyber suit is fried while the transmitter is deactivated, releasing the people from the control of their EarPods. Regaining their senses, those still not upgraded flee Battersea. | |||
The Doctor and Mrs Moore make their way through the cooling tunnels which are filled with upgraded but non-active Cybermen, but accidentally trigger a trap that alerts the Cybermen to their presence. The two manage to flee the Cybermen up a ladder and lock the trap door at the top of the ladder behind them. On the next level, a Cyberman attacks them, but Mrs Moore takes it out with an electromagnetic bomb. The two perform a makeshift autopsy on the Cyberman, discovering that it has an artificially grown central nervous system and an [[emotional inhibitor]]. As they discuss how without the emotional inhibitor the Cybermen would go insane after seeing what they've become, the Cyberman is revealed to still be alive, its emotional inhibitor destroyed by Mrs Moore's bomb. After speaking to the Cyberman, [[Sally Phelan]] about who she is, the Doctor deactivates her with his sonic screwdriver in a mercy killing. However, the revelation of the emotional inhibitor gives the Doctor a plan to stop the Cybermen: if they can find the cancellation code for the emotional inhibitor and feed it through the system, the Cybermen would regain their human emotions and realize what they are which he believes would destroy them. At that moment, another Cyberman arrives and kills Mrs Moore. Detecting that the Doctor is not human, it takes him to Cyber Control for analysis. | |||
Rose and Pete successfully infiltrate the factory which has upgraded over six thousand people successfully, but are exposed when they run into an upgraded Jackie and express emotion at her now being a Cyberman. As Pete used to work for Lumic, the Jackie Cyberman orders them taken to Cyber Control, the factory's control room. | |||
In Cyber Control, the Doctor, Pete and Rose meet the now-upgraded John Lumic who has been turned into the Cyber-Controller, the Cybermen's leader. Shortly afterwards, Mickey destroys the transmitter controls and the unupgraded people flee. However, Lumic informs them that he has Cyber factories on all seven continents and the Cybermen will take the world by force since the EarPods have failed. The Doctor points out to Lumic how he is removing the very thing that led him to make the Cybermen by getting rid of emotions and speaks to Mickey, watching from the zeppelin, disguised as ranting about humanity to Lumic. The Doctor instructs Mickey to find the cancellation code for the emotional inhibitor in the Lumic Family Database under Binary Nine and send it to Rose's [[superphone]]. Mickey is able to hack the database, find the code and text it to Rose. With the code now on Rose's phone, the Doctor plugs it into a docking port and the code is transmitted throughout the Cybermen in the factory. | |||
With their emotional inhibitors turned off, the Cybermen regain their humanity and horrified by what they have become, start to explode, causing Battersea to start to explode as well. The Doctor, Rose and Pete attempt to run for safety, but find their way out blocked. Meanwhile, Jake tries to flee with Mickey in Lumic's zeppelin, but Mickey refuses to leave the others behind and calls Rose to order them to the roof so he can pick them up in the zeppelin. As the group climbs a rope ladder to the zeppelin, Lumic, who survived the deactivation of the emotional inhibitors, starts climbing the ladder after them. The Doctor tosses Pete, the lowest person on the ladder the sonic screwdriver and orders him to use it against the rope ladder. Declaring that he's doing this in the name of Jackie Tyler, Pete uses the sonic screwdriver on the rope ladder, severing it below him. Lumic falls into the exploding factory, killing him. The Doctor and the others escape in the zeppelin as Battersea and all the Cybermen within it are destroyed, liberating London from the control of the Cybermen. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Age of Steel (TV story)|The Age of Steel]]'') | |||
===Aftermath=== | ===Aftermath=== | ||
[[Category:Conflicts]] | [[Category:Conflicts]] | ||
