The trio continued to walk Rita staying silent as the Doctor and Rose spoke. It wasn't that Rita hated the blonde, she definitely did not hate her. Rose was just trying to help a friend but didn't fully understand what effect her words really had on the brunette, she never really had anyone to talk to due to her horrible childhood and upbringing with hardly any friends that properly understood her.

She mostly stayed to herself and didn't have many friends like she had told the Doctor and Rose when they asked her about her life before meeting them many times due to having some interest in the girl.

Rita couldn't help but fall silent just listening to Rose and the Doctor talk she knew he was still a little angry at the blonde but couldn't really understand why since on 'the episode' he looked 'okay' at around this time.

She just assumed it was due to the whole 'things don't play out like you see it' and shrugged it off not thinking much else of it. Rita found the Doctor and Rose's conversation interesting and calming to listen to considering what she knew was going to happen. It was definitely up there in one of the scariest 'episodes' she had watched in series two.

"Mickey's mum just couldn't cope." Rita had guessed that the Doctor asked about Mickey's life and wat could possibly be in 'gingerbread world' her own thoughts caused her to not listen in on how the conversation started.

"His dad hung around for a while, but then he just sort of wandered off. He was brought up by his gran. She was such a great woman. God, she used to slap him!" Rose laughed then her face grew woth sadness. "And then she died. She tripped and fell down the stairs. It's about five years ago now. I was still in school."

"I never knew." The Doctor sighed.

"Well, you never asked." Rose countered.

"You never said." The Doctor said back. Rita gave him a little nudge to show that she would rather not having another argument. She really did not like arguments or fighting.

Rose noticed the brunette paying attention and started to mumble still feeling horrible for what she had said to Rita earlier in the day. "That's Mickey. I suppose I, we just take him for granted. Do you think she's still alive, his gran?" She asked.

"Could be." The Doctor shrugged. "Like I said, parallel world, gingerbread house. We need to get out of here as fast as we can."

"Oh she's alive" Rita smiled warmly at Rose signalling to her that she held no grudges or was at all angry at her, slightly disappointed, sure, angry and mad that she would hate one of her best friends? Definitely not.

The three stopped in their tracks hearing a loud beeping sound from around them. The Doctor frowned and cluched onto Rita a little more she shook her head as if to tell him that they would be fine breathing deeply he let go a little yet still held the brunette's hand in his. They then noticed that all the people stopped moving, they all had the earpieces in.

"What're they all doing?" Rose asked slowly walking towards one of them and stopping before getting too close not sure if she should trust it.

"They've stopped." The Doctor pointed out.

"Thanks, Sherlock" Rita smirked.

"Cheeky" he looked at her grinning then looked around at all the people again. "It's the earpieces." He explained. "Like Bluetooth attachments, but everyone's connected together."

Rose pulled out her phone feeling it vibrate in her pocket. "It's on my phone." It's automatic, look. It's downloading." She showed him. "Is this what they're all getting? News, international news, sports, weather."

"They get it direct. Downloaded right into their heads." Rita shivered at the thought not liking the idea of that her nose scrunching up showing creases the Doctor chuckled at her expression while nodding his head in agreement understanding what the brunette found a little creepy.

"TV schedules, lottery numbers." Rose read the categories of as they flashed on her phone while they downloaded.

"Everyone shares the same information." He told them looking between Rita and Rose who was looking down at her phone watching the categories continue to pop up one after the other. "A daily download published by Cybus Industries." The people then all laughed signalling the joke and then continuing on with their days as if nothing out of the ordinary happened.

"You lot, you're obsessed. You'd do anything for the latest upgrade." The Doctor spoke in a disgusted tone.

"Oi, not my lot. Different world, remember." She told him.

"It's not so far off your world. This place is only parallel." The Doctor pointed out.

"Reminds me how everyone goes crazy for the latest phone models back home." Rita winked at the Doctor who laughed at her.

"I forget that you live in the future of a parallel universe" he shook his head then looked down at the phone. "Oh, look at that. Cybus Industries, owners of just about every company in Britain, including Vitex. Mister Pete Tyler's very well connected." He looked at Rose his eyebrows rising he then rolled his eyes noticing her pleading expression. "Oh, okay. I give up. Let's go and see him." They then walked off Rose telling them the address.

"I'm not wearing a skirt" Rita mumbled thinking aloud though gritted teeth. "No way"

"Why would anyone make you wear a skirt?" Rose asked Rita raising a brow

"I know his plan," she told the blonde smiling inside glad that they were 'okay'

"And what plan is this?" He raised a brow.

"Secrets I can't tell you" she winked grinning. "No skirts" she pointed at him with her free hand. "Or someone is going to have to figure out how to take me back to my world" the Doctor and Rose blinked not understanding if the brunette was actually joking.

"You think I'm being serious?" She laughed. "You two are stuck with me" she grinned madly. "I'm going nowhere."

"Wouldn't change it at all" the Doctor grinned back.

"Me either" Rose grinned as well copying Rita's expression.

"I warned you" Rita huffed carrying a metal tray with food she never even heard of before. "I told you no skirts" she whispered burning her deadly gaze over to him.

"We could have been anyone." Rose groaned.

"Got us in, didn't it?" The Doctor grinned a little. "Plus you said you wouldn't leave us" he winked at Rita.

"You're in charge of the psychic paper." Rose glared at him carrying around her tray. "We could've been guests. Celebrities. Sir Doctor, Dame Rose and Dame Rita. We end up serving. Did enough of this back home."

"If you want to know what's going on, work in the kitchens." He old Rose. "According to Lucy, that man over there-"

"Who's Lucy?" Rose interrupted him.

"She's carrying the salmon pinwheels." He looked over to a woman who waved over at him. Rita snorted out a laugh which soon disappeared when a guest of the party looked over at her disapprovingly.

"Bet she fancies you" Rita chuckled the Doctor looked over at her confusion spread over his face.

"Oh, that's Lucy, is it?" Rose asked. The brunette standing beside her felt a little sorry for her.

"Yeah." He shrugged off Rita's comment obviously not seeing the looks she was giving him. "Lucy says, that is the President of Great Britain." He looked over to a man with a drink in his hand talking to some of the other guests.

"What, there's a President, not a Prime Minister?" Rose asked.

"Seems so." The Doctor shrugged.

"Or maybe Lucy's just a bit thick." Rita laughed a little at her comment.

"Parallel world don't forget, having a president and not a prime minister is possible" Rita reminded her then noticed Pete Tyler standing on the large fancy stairs.

"Excuse me!" He spoke loudly gaining everyone who was not already looking to stop their conversations and pay attention to what he was about to say. "Thank you very much. Thank you if I could just have your attention, please?" He continued until everyone had stopped, the room hall fell silent  with everybodys eyes watching the man.

"Pete! Go on, Pete!" A man in the huddle of people at the bottom of the stairs cheered on.

"Thank you very much!" He smiled obviously loving the attention he had gained.

"It's about time you did some work." Another man said then added "I thought you liked them young." Rita crinkled her nose not sure what the man had meant by the comment but honestly didn't want to know.

"Um, I'd just like to say thank you to you all, for coming on this, this very special occasion. My wife's thirty ninth." He said as if he was lying which Rita and Rose knew very well he was.

"Don't believe that one." 

"Trust me on this." Pete winked Rose chuckled a little at the sight not believing that 'her dad' was standing right before her. Oh how she wished she could run up to him and cry tellling him that she missed him so much and wished he knew who she was, but she couldn't no matter what she couldn't do that.

"And so, without any further ado, here she is, the birthday girl. My lovely wife, Jackie Tyler." Rose snapped out of her thoughts hearing 'her mothers' name, she looked up the stairs to see a woman who was identical to her mother back in her world however, this Jackie looked happy and not lost and lonely without her daughter. She walked down the stairs waving at all the people at the bottom and in the hall who clapped their hands together.

"Now, I'm not giving a speech." She told them as the applauses died down. "That's what my parties are famous for. No work, no politics, just a few good mates and plenty of black market whisky. Pardon me, Mister President." The majority of the crowd laughed. "So, yeah, get on with it. Enjoy, enjoy."

"You can't stay." The Doctor reminded Rose whispering into her ear. "Even if there was some way of telling them."

"Course I can't." She told herself more than him. "I've still got Mum at home. My real mum. I couldn't just leave her, could I?" She then sighed. "It's just, they've got each other. Mum's got no one."

"She's got you." The Doctor spoke truthfully. "Those two haven't. All these different worlds, not one of them gets it right." He looked over to Rita and winked she rolled her eyes at his comment scoffing a little.

"He is right,  though" Rita told the blonde. She was about to continue but was then interrupted by Jackie Tyler calling what Rose thought was her name. She snapped her head in 'her mothers' direction only to seeYorkshire terrier running up to Jackie. The Doctor and Rita looked at each other then Rose's unamused face and burst out laughing only to stop forcing a serious expression when Rose looked like she would strangle both of them there and then.

"Sorry." They both then muttered. The Doctor walked back into the kitchen placing his tray down. Rita followed behind him knowing that Rose needed to have a word with Jackie, she knew it would help the girl.

They walked though the house. Rita then spotted a door slightly opened and noticed a blue glow coming out from the room she grinned and tapped the Doctors shoulder, he turned around and grinned at her then cautiously walked in the room Rita following behind him. He took out his black glasses placing them on his face on one swift motion. Rita rolled her eyes knowing that he most likely didn't even need them. "What are we looking for then?" Rita asked.

"Foreknowledge?" He raised a brow.

"Don't know this" she replied watching him on the computer.

"Anything to do with what Cybus Industries"

"What like that?" Rita pointed to the screen which then showed up what looked like the logo of the company.

"Rita Stone you're brilliant"

"If you say so" she looked at him smugly.

"Cheeky" he retorted. She rolled her eyes and continued to watch him on the computer.

Rita walked over to the door and opened it slightly looking out of the room. "Doctor we should go" she suggested.

"We haven't found anything yet" he told her.

"Doctor we need to go" the Doctor used the sonic screwdriver on the computer and the image of a head appeared. "It's the Cybermen!" she shouted to get his attention. he turned to her his face full of horror snapping his head back to the screen he saw the metal frame and his eyes grew wide. Leaving the computer he grabbed the brunette and pulled her away back to the main hallway of the house he spotted the blonde who looked just as worried as they did.

(The Doctor and Rose meet up and go to the window.)
The Doctor gritted his teeth rushing over the Rose yet trying to stay as calm as possible. "It's happening again." He told her though his gritted teeth looking out the window.

"What do you mean?" She asked fear showing in her voice.

"I've seem them before." He said not fully answering her question.

"What are they?" She asked looking over to the brunette for help or some sort of explanation.

"Cybermen." The Doctor replied. Rita grabbed Rose and the Doctor pulling them both down towards the floor seconds before glass shattered simultaneously throughout the ground floor of the house. People were shreaking and screaming at the sight and sound.

Cybermen marched though the front door and started to climb through what once was the posh french windows of the mansion. The Doctor pulled Rita and Rose back away from them and to near the large stairs before they were crushes by a Cyberman climbing through the window that Rita had pulled them both away from moments before. He pushed both of them behind him gently yet firmly and made sure they were both standing behind him in arms reach if need be if they ever so desperately needed to run.

"Mister Lumic." The president spoke with absolutely no fear in his voice, he didn't know Lumics intentions and truely horror of a 'plan' for every single person on the Earth. "I forbade this." He said obviously talking to Lumic himself now. Rita couldn't hear the conversation clearly but heard the world 'children' she wrinkled up her nose at the tone and voice she heard in that word. They were not his children, they were people and he basically killed them.

"What are they, robots?" Rose guessed leaning forward a little to talk to the Doctor.

"Worse than that." He told her not looking away from the metal people standing what he guessed as almost proudly infront of him.

"Who were these people?" The president asked confirming Rose's previous question.

"They're people?" She said more in shock than a question.

"They were, until they had all their humanity taken away. That's a living brain jammed inside a cybernetic body, with a heart of steel. All emotions removed."

"Why no emotions?" She questioned.

"Because it hurts." He said as if it hurt to say those three words.

"The one thing that made them people" Rita mumbled looking sadly at the Cybermen.

"I demand to know, Lumic. These people, who were they?" The president sounded like this had happened before. Had it happened before? Probably.

"We have been upgraded." It spoke in the annoying robot like voice. Rita had forgotten how annoying it sounded to listen to one of them.

"Into what?" The Doctor asked. The Cyberman looked over in his direction and replied. "The next level of mankind. We are Human point two. Every citizen will receive a free upgrade. You will become like us." It told them.

The president looked at the Cybermen as if it had suddenly clicked. "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry for what's been done to you, but listen to me. This experiment ends tonight."

"Upgrading is compulsory." It replied Rita could see that the Doctor was thinking. A plan? Prehaps.

"And if I refuse?" He asked.

"Don't." The Doctor warned him.

"What if I refuse?" The president askes again ignoring the Doctors warning. He wasn't going to listen all the Doctor was to him was just a waiter at the party nothing else. So why would he listen?

"I'm telling you, don't." He said firmly trying to get the president to somewhat listen to him.

"What happens if I refuse?" The president pressed on.

"Then you are not compatible."

"Don't question him." Rita said she couldn't just stand there and watch someone else die because she didn't do anything, she couldn't so she told him not to whether he wouls listen or not was his own decision to make. But at least she tried.

"What happens then?" Rita sadly looked at the president who was confused.

"You will be deleted." The most deadly four words known when facing the Cybermen. It placed it's hand on to the presidents shoulder a little closer to his neck and electricity pulsed though him. He cried out in pain before slumping to the floor. The Doctor grabbed Rita and Rose behind him then ran.

"Window!" Rita shouted spotting the broken window with a 'safe' path towards it. Rose jumped though first carful not to cut herself on the glass still attached to it. Rita then jumped though as well then finally the Doctor. He grabbed the girls again and continued to run.

"There's nothing we can do." He told Rose more than Rita knowing that she already knew that.

"My mum's in there!" Rose protected running back to the house. Rita grabbed her and pulled her back. Tears in the blondes eyes.

"She is not your mother!" He shouted grabbing Rose again. "Come on!" They started to run heading for the lawn. Rita skidded to a stop jerking the Doctor back.

"There is Cybermen coming!" She shouted just before a row of Cybermen could be heard stomping in the distance towards them.
The Doctor pulled them woth him to run around the side of the house heading to the back.

"Quick! Quick!" Rose psaw Pete and pulled him with her. He followed the three to the back of the house.

"Pete, is there a way out?" The Doctor asked frantically looking around.

"The side gates." He replied then asked at not the best of times: "Who are you? How do you know so much?"

"You wouldn't believe it in a million years." He told him as more Cybermen started to cut them off forcing them to run to the front of the house. Two shapes of humans then ran across the lawn holding guns.

"Who's that?" Rose asked.

"Get behind me!" The man Rita knew as Rickey who looked like Mickey shouted pointing a gun at the Cybermen and started to fire his gun. The bullets had no effect amd just bounced of the bodys as they continued to move forward.

"Rose-" Rita was about to tell her that it wasn't Mickey however she got cut off by the blonde.

"Oh my God, look at you." She gasped hugging Ricky who didn't look at all happy and quite disgusted actually. "I thought I'd never see you again!" She cried out, however, showing no tears.

Ricky pushed her away. "Yeah. No offence, sweetheart, but who the hell are you?" Rose's face fell at his words shock and disbelief thinking that he was probably joking.

Rita then noticed Mickey running in the distance towards the group. "Rose!" He skidded to a stop beside her. "That's not me. That's like the other one." He looked at Ricky.

"Oh, as if things weren't bad enough, there's two Mickey's." Rita slapped the Doctor slightly as if to say 'not the time' he looked over to her and whined a little rubbing his shoulder where She had hit him she rolled her eyes thinking that it wasn't a hard slap.

"It's Ricky." Ricky told the Doctor his face a fixed frown and his voice angry.

"But there's more of them." Mickey warned the group.

"We're surrounded."

"Put the guns down." The Doctor ordered. Bullets won't stop them." Jake started shooting ignoring his order. The Doctor shouted at him while pulling the gun away. "No! Stop shooting, now. We surrender! Hands up." They all followed raising there hands. The Doctor slowly returned to his place before beside the brunette and just behind Rose. "There's no need to damage us. We're good stock. We volunteer for the upgrade program. Take us to be processed." He clearly told the Cybermen what they wamted to hear however it wasn't enough.

"You are rogue elements." It stated. The Doctors eyes widened and anger filled inside.

"But we surrender."

"You are incompatible."

"But this is a surrender." He shouted at the Cybermen.

"You will be deleted." One of the Cybermen stated they started to slowly walk forward the circle closing on the group.

"But we're surrendering!" The Doctor shouted as loud as he could trying to get the Cybermen to listen and take them. "Listen to me, we surrender!"

"You are inferior. Man will be reborn as Cyberman, but you will perish under maximum deletion." They then held out their hands ready to kill the group. The Cybermen then began to chant: "Delete. Delete. Delete!"