You missed the regular Doctor.

Why do you miss him? Because, currently, some cyber—bug things turned him into a robotic cyberman… sorry, Cyberplanner, and you had been playing chess with The Doctor— or should you call him by his chosen name, 'Mr Clever‘ — for hours now.

This only happened, because Angie and Artie had — unsurprisingly — ignored The Doctor‘s advice and gotten themselves turned into Cyber— whatever they were, they weren’t physically affected, only their brain being deactivated and controlled by the Cyber bugs.

But, chess match it is, and anyway, this depended on you. You made a deal. You win, you and the kids get to leave, no bugs involved. He wins… the kids go, but you take their place.

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Every so often while playing the prolonged chess match, the only mumble from either of you would be 'Check‘ or a simple click of their respective tongues, and it was taking so long, that you had gotten extremely exhausted — and slightly fumbled every other move.

And, of course, the expression of him lighting up and immediately jumping onto the opportunities that you had opened up gave you momentary peace, before remembering it was the Cyberplanner, and slumping again. After another one of these fumbles, he jumped to the opportunity once more — and finally, after two whole hours of somehow playing the longest game of chess in human history… it was over.

"Checkmate, Finally!“

He exclaimed proudly, jumping up from the chair.

"You‘ve been beaten!!“