Final Fantasy -- Victory? At least partially, maybe?
Although Final Fantasy had enough combat training to not be distracted too much by unexpected things happening in battle, the combination of the TARDIS literally appearing around him mid-charge combined with the Doctor's exclamations were enough to cause the RPG Fandom's step to falter just a bit -- which might or might not be why his attack failed to pierce the robot's defenses. No time to think about it though; the batlte wasn't over yet. Bringing his attention back to the remaining Cyberman, Final Fantasy moved his sword a bit to the side, then struck as soon as the robot-thing raised its arm to shoot him. At about the same time, the Doctor struck the Cyberman in the back with... something. Whatever it was, the combined effort of FF's and DW's attacks were enough to bring it down, this time for good.
As the last enemy fell to the ground, Final Fantasy hummed a little theme, then sheathed his blade once again. Afterwards, he turned to the Doctor. "I see you've managed to summon the TARDIS after all, Doctor. I've managed to locate Sherlock, but... ," he started, then cut himself off as the Doctor noticed the infected Fandom. "I... Yes, he was this way when I first met him. Sadly, I do not now how long he has been that way before that. ...It's not too late, is it?," he continued, fearing he had failed his quest.
The Doctor hesitated, not willing to commit to a yes or no answer.
"Well…" he started to reply.
"As of right now, he's only been partially converted into a Cyberman. Most of his body is still in-tact. If he'd been fully converted, there'd be no chance of changing him back. Not unless someone has a really good deus ex machina hidden up their sleeve." He looked sadly at Sherlock's flat, emotionless expression as he spoke.
"For now, it's primarily only his brain that's been altered, which is…" the Doctor squirmed nervously for a moment before continuing.
"…theoretically reversible." he told FF.
"Y'see, what the Cybermen do is, they take away your emotions. Suppress them. Our Sherlock is still in there — all his memories are still in-tact — he just doesn't care or feel anything anymore. And once they've stripped away your emotions, your personality — you won't have much reason left to disobey any orders given to you by the Cyber-net." the Doctor explained.
"Now, theoretically I could easily use my sonic screwdriver to disable the emotional inhibitor in his brain, therefore mostly changing him back to his old self. But, that could be a very dangerous idea for a number of reasons. For starters, it-" the Doctor was about to elaborate, but he stopped as he heard the sound of the TARDIS engines starting up again.
"…What?" he asked, at a loss for any other words.
"What's going on? Where are you going?" he asked again, seemingly addressing the TARDIS itself as he poked one-handedly at the controls.
"The controls aren't responding." he then told the other passengers.
"Wherever she plans on taking us, I can't get her to stop…"
Trying to ignore RvB's other comments, Touhou focused on Soul Eater's explanation. So... whatever the creature was, it had no 'soul', and therefore was not a ghost, at least not according to SE's definition of the word. "So... Are there any spiritual beings that possess a mind and will, but not an actual 'soul'?," Touhou asked Soul Eater. Obviously whatever thing had taken posession of her amulet -- and the tank she had destroyed, for that matter -- could live without a body, which meant it had to be some kind of supernatural thing. ...Of course, that meant absolutely nothing in the Fandomverse, but eh.
"Uhh… I dunno." Soul Eater replied to Touhou's question, scratching his head.
"The Doc — or, whoever that guy is — said it was an AI, so maybe he's onto something with that?" he suggested unsurely.
"It sounds more like his area of expertise. Or maybe just the real Doctor's area of expertise. Or… something. I dunno. The point is, I'm really not an expert on this sort of… philosophical stuff, especially not when it comes to robots." he explained.
"Or… whatever RvB is, anyway."
Speaking about supernatural things, it was about that moment that the TARDIS started to fade out of reality -- or, more likely, teleported away to Kanako knows where. "Uh... Did that blue box-thing just disappear into thin air?," Touhou asked for the obvious. "I mean, I know it can do that, but I thought that only the Doctor could make it do that. ...Which I guess would be a giant tell-tale sign that this Doctor is not the Doctor?," she continued, rubbing her forehead with her free hand. This day was just getting more and more insane. "Which raises the question; who are you really?," she asked Animorphs as she glided towards him. Not that she really cared that much about the person's real identity in the first place, but she figured that the faster this problem was taken care of, the faster they could focus on the creature possessing her amulet again.
"I… can't tell you my name. Or anything else about my identity, really." Animorphs replied. BB shot him a skeptical look.
"And I… realize that sounds like a very suspicious thing to say. But uh… but listen, don't we have more important things to be worried about right now?" he asked, desperately trying to change the subject.
"Like, the TARDIS. You were so worried that some imposter was going to steal it. Now who knows where it could be. Isn't that maybe a more important mystery to solve first?"
"Last I checked, some imposter did steal it." Black Butler replied, arms crossed.
"How did you do it the first time?"
"I didn't steal it." he protested.
"And now that it's gone, I wouldn't even know how to track it down agai- wait, no. Hold on." he cut himself off, turning and pacing back and forth as he tried to think.
"Maybe I do…" The Doctor said he couldn't use the remote summoning, but, I fixed that when I flew it here, didn't I? And you activate the remote summoning with a key… And I have a key.
"Ohhhh I think I might have something!" he exclaimed, scurrying away from BB to put some distance between himself and the rest of the group as he fished through his pockets for the key.
"Hey, where do you think you're going?!" BB called out after him.
Anim stopped running and held the key out in front of him. It began to glow.
"Ohhh yes!" he exclaimed as the sounds of the TARDIS materializing could be heard again.
"Ohhhh yes yes yes! Hahaha, I'm outta here!" he cheered, practically jumping for joy as the TARDIS's vague shape started to appear around him.
BB immediately sprang into action, running towards him as the TARDIS materialized.
"Ohhhhh no you don't!" she exclaimed, diving and tackling him as the TARDIS's form solidified.
"…Um. Ok. That just happened." Soul Eater spoke up, breaking the relative silence that was left after BB and Anim disappeared.
"So, does that mean they're both… in there, now?" he asked.
"Do you think we should… knock on the door, or something?"
The Doctor leapt back in surprise as two more figures appeared in the center of the console room — one of them violently pinning the other to the floor.
"Doctor!" BB exclaimed when she realized the room was not empty.
"I found this imposter, parading around as you, and with your TARDIS! But, it looks like the situation's under control now." she reported, still keeping him pinned to the ground.
"I'm glad to see that you're alright, Doctor. I was starting to worry that this imposter might have you locked up somewhere, or worse…"
"Eh… yeah, no, I'm fine, ish." the Doctor replied, struggling to even think up any words to use to respond to this increasingly ridiculous situation.
"Er, I mean, he didn't hurt me or anything. He's kind of a friend of mine, actually."
"You… you know this… doppelganger?"
"Yeah, sure, let's call him that for now." the Doctor replied.
"Yes, I know him. Can you maybe get off of him now?"
Still left with many questions, BB reluctantly agreed to the request.
"Are you alright?" the Doctor asked.
"Ughhh… you mean aside from having my head slammed against the hard floor just now? Yeah… I'm fine…" Anim groaned, slowly getting back onto his feet.