Time of the Cybermen (comic story): Difference between revisions

[[The Doctor's TARDIS|The TARDIS]] lands in Centuria Central and in a [[temporal stasis]] field. Kadett is caught in the frozen moment but the Doctor, a Time Lord can resist the field. The Cybermen in a patrol aircar, spot him moving around and pursue. But the Doctor uses his [[sonic screwdriver]] to bring the [[aircar]] crashing down and drawing the attention of other Cybermen. More Cybermen arrive to salvage parts and take them back to base. The Doctor smuggles himself into the base with the salvage. The base is the Triplanetary base which the Doctor suspects has been robbed of its Hargstone reserves to enable the Cybermen to maintain a stasis machine. The Doctor learns from the Cybermen that they built the stasis machine from [[Torchwood Institute|Torchwood]] files and used the device to subdue overwhelming opposition. Choosing the most secure place for the machine, the Doctor escapes and rightly heads for the banks vault but it is made of [[titanium]] and is protected by laser-proof glass and destructor rays. While the Doctor can't get in he uses the sonic screwdriver to turn the destructor rays inwards destroying the stasis machine. The Cybermen had a mental link with the machine that enabled them to move around inside the stasis field, when the machine was destroyed the temporal feedback overloaded their circuits. With the Cybermen now no more than ghosts, and the stasis field gone the Doctor says goodbye to Kadett, warning her to keep her eyes peeled. In the shadows the eyes of Cybermen glow red.