A/N - This week will have two chapters posted, just to get us closer to the 50th Anniversary episode and because I have time.

They all stepped out of the TARDIS.

"Well, here we are. Hedgewick's World. The biggest and best amusement park there will ever be, and we've got a golden ticket. Eh? Eh? Fun," the Doctor said, hopping up on a fake rock.

Elise rolled her eyes.

"What? You used to love this place!" the Doctor told her.

"Then I grew up." The Doctor frowned.

She used to know how to laugh, now it seemed she only became more and more jaded as time went on.

"Your stupid box can't even get us to the right place. This is like a moon base or something," Angie said.

"It's not the moon," the Doctor told her.

"Actually, I think it does look like the moon, only dirtier," Artie said.

"Hey. Guys. It's not the moon, okay? It's a Spacey Zoomer ride, or it was."

A door opened in one of the rocks and a man stepped out. "Psst. Excuse I...I don't suppose you happen to be my lift off planet? Dave's Discount Interstellar Removals?"

"Afraid not," Clara told him.

"They were meant to be here six months ago. Well, that's Dave for you, see? Unreliable."

"Stay where you are!" a voice yelled.

A bunch of soldiers came running in as the man ducked back inside his hiding spot. "Throw down your weapons and identify yourselves."

"No. No weapons," the Doctor said. He pulled out the golden ticket. "Golden ticket. Spacey Zoomer. Free ice cream?"

"Who are you? This planet is closed, by Imperial order."

"How's this?" The Doctor pulled out his psychic paper.

"Oh. Welcome, Proconsul. I wish they'd told us you were coming. Any news of the Emperor?"

The Doctor stood on a rock and straightened his bow-tie. "Oh, the Emperor. No, no. None that you'd..."

"We pray for his return. If there is anything you need, my platoon is at your service."

"Right. Righty-o. Well, carry on, Captain." He gave her a salute and the captain saluted back.

"Platoon, let's move out! On the double. Two, three, four. Two, three, four. Two, three, four."

The soldiers ran out of the room and the man from earlier poked his head out. "Have they gone?"

"Yes," the Doctor told him.

"Uniforms give me the heebie-jeebies. Come on. They can't stop me being here, but they don't like it."

The man led them deeper into the defunct amusement park.

"Ha, ha! You see? I told you it was amazing. Well, it used to be," the Doctor said.

Nature was taking over the landscape.

"It closed down. Wish I'd known that before I landed here. But let me show you my collection. Come along. Follow me. This way. This way in, come on," the man urged.

They came to a room with couches and wax figures.

"Welcome to my ship. Webley's World of Wonders. Miracles, marvels and more await you. I am Impresario Webley. You see before you waxwork representations of the famous and the infamous. Anybody here play chess?"

The Doctor put his hand up, but was ignored by Webley.

"Perhaps you, young man?" he asked Artie.

Elise patted her father on the back, her own silent way of comforting him left over from the days when she didn't speak.

"Actually, I'm in my school chess club," Artie said.

"Ah. Follow me."

In the room ahead sat a chess board. Something sat in a chair covered by a satin sheet.

"Now, let demonstrate to you all the wonder of the age, the miracle of modernity. We defeated them all a thousand years ago, but now he's back, to destroy you. Behold, the enemy!" Webley pulled the sheet off and there sat a Cyberman.

Elise gasped and backed up into her father and Clara.

"Cyberman! Get down!" the Doctor yelled. He pulled everyone down to the floor with him. He could feel Elise next to him, trying not to shake.

"No need to panic, my young friends. We all know there are no more living Cybermen," Webley told them.

They stood up and the Doctor started to sonic the Cyberman.

Elise kept her distance. She didn't trust this.

"What you are seeing is a miracle. The six hundred and ninety ninth wonder of the universe, as displayed before the Imperial court, and only here to destroy you at chess. Careful now. An empty shell, and yet it moves. How?"

Angie scoffed. "Magic."

"That might well be, young lady, but a single penny wins you five Imperial shillings if you can beat this empty shell at chess."

"I haven't got a penny, but I've got a sandwich," Artie told him.

"All right, take a seat. It is free of all devices, and yet it has never been beaten. Would you like to make the first move, young man?"

The Cyberman and Artie started to play, while Webley munched on Artie's sandwich. "If you can tell me how it works, I'll give you a silver penny."

"I think you do it with mirrors?" Angie guessed.

"Hmm. Mirrors. Clever girl," the Doctor said, "Elise? How about you?"

Elise smirked. It really was too easy. "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain."

He snapped and approached the Cyberman. "Low tech. It's a puppet. Monofilament strings, which means the brains are in..." He opened a door in the Cyberman's chair to reveal a small man inside.

"Hello," the man said.

"Hello."

"I'm the brains. Give us a hand."

The Doctor helped the man out.

"They call me Porridge. Oh, it's good to be out of that box."

"For you, Miss, an Imperial penny," Webley said, producing one from behind Elise's ear.

The Doctor half expected her to roll her eyes, but instead she smiled and gingerly took the penny from Webley. He knew the penny would end up in a box in her room where she kept all her trinkets from their travels.

They went back into Webley's room.

"I have not one but three Cybermen in my collection," he said, pulling a sheet off one of the exhibits.

The Doctor scanned it to make sure it wasn't alive.

"Is that the King?" Angie asked as they walked by a wax figure.

"Emperor. Ludens Nimrod Kendrick, etc, etc, the forty first. Defender of Humanity, Imperator of known space," Porridge told her.

"He looks a bit full of himself," Clara commented.

"Don't say things like that about the Imperial family. You can end up on the run for the rest of your life."

"They don't sound very nice," Artie said.

"Go on. If the kids want to ride the Spacey Zoomer, then I can operate the gravity console."

Clara took pictures with her phone as Artie and Angie played around on the Spacey Zoomer.

The Doctor stood next to Elise, smiling.

"What?" she asked.

"Nothing. Just remembering when you were that age and everything fascinated you."

"Smile! Say, Spacey Zoomer!" Clara told them.

"Look at us, Doctor. We're flying!" Artie yelled.

"Having a good time?" the Doctor asked.

Porridge turned off the ride and they floated back down.

"I think that was the most fun I've had in my whole life," Artie said.

"It was...okay," Angie said.

Elise could tell the young girl was trying to hide her excitement. She knew that because that's what she did every minute of every day.

"Clara, I think outer space is actually very interesting."

"Right. Wonderful day out, Doctor, but time to get the kids home," Clara told him.

The Doctor was scanning the area. "Yeah. Er, no. Not actually ready to leave."

"Why not?"

"I don't know. Reasons."

"What reasons?"

"Insects. Funny insects. I should add them to my funny insect collection."

"You collect funny insects?"

"Yeah, I'm starting to, right now." He stood up and crossed over to Elise. He gave her a look and she dropped her mental barriers.

Something's going on, he said.

I know. It's probably the Cybermen, Elise confirmed.

Did you see them? You mean the things that remind me of the Cybermat? Yeah.

They went back to Webley's room where Porridge helped the kids settle in.

"How long do we have to stay here?" Angie groaned.

"Not long. Have a nap. I'll wake you when we're ready to leave," the Doctor told them.

"Comfy?" Porridge asked.

"Sleep well," Clara whispered.

"Good night."

The Doctor turned off the lights and left, with Clara, Porridge, and Elise following. He popped back into the room for a second to say, "Don't wander off. Now, I'm not just saying don't wander off, I mean it. Otherwise you'll wander off and the next thing you know, somebody's going to have to start rescuing somebody."

"From what?" Angie asked.

"Nothing. Nobody needs rescuing from anything. Don't wander off. Sweet dreams." He popped back out and Elise, Clara, and Porridge made their way back out into the amusement park.

"Was this really the biggest amusement park in the universe?" Clara asked Porridge.

"Yeah. Hedgewick bought the planet cheap. It'd been trashed in the Cyberwars."

"Who were we fighting?"

"Cybermen. Technologically upgraded warriors. We couldn't win. Sometimes we fought to a draw, but then they'd upgrade themselves, fix their weaknesses and destroy us. It's hard to fight an enemy that uses your armies as spare parts."

Elise hated the Cybermen, but not as much as she hated Daleks and Weeping Angels.

"You beat them, though. Beat them or you wouldn't be here. How?"

Porridge pointed to the sky. "Look up there. That corner of sky? What do you see?"

"Nothing. It's just black. No stars, no nothing."

"It used to be the Tiberion Spiral Galaxy. A million star systems, a hundred million worlds, a billion trillion people. It's not there anymore. No more Tiberion Galaxy. No more Cybermen. It was effective."

Elise saw Gallifrey burning in her mind. She could still hear the screams of her people.

The Doctor looked over at her. Her first body would have broken down at the mere mention of genocide, but this one just stood there with a blank look on her face.

"It's horrible," Clara said.

"Yeah. I feel like a monster sometimes," Porridge told her.

"Why?"

"Because instead of mourning a billion trillion dead people, I just feel sorry for the poor blighter who had to press the button and blow it all up."

"Clara, did you tell Angie she could go to the barracks?" the Doctor asked, interrupting their conversation.

"You know I didn't...She hasn't."

"She's just gone in there."

"Come on."

A/N - I'm considering a chapter where the Doctor takes a younger Elise and maybe River to Hedgewick's.