March 20th 2017
Penguin HQ, New York City
10:00 A.M. Eastern Standard Time
(Skipper's POV)
"What am I looking at Kowalski?" I asked. "The updated map of the zoo," Kowalski replied, "updated with the expanded children's zoo, the first stage of the expansion, and the as yet to be open second stage." "Plus the new discovery center and the event pavillon." "And the new food truck lot!" Private said. "Food truck lot?" I said. "A upgrade to the traditional food carts that are around the park," Kowalski said. "The zoo's going to have different food trucks every day!" Private said. "FOOD TRUCKS!" Rico shouted. "Let's swing by this food truck lot and upgrade our concession runs," I said. "Food trucks should be arriving as we speak," Kowalski added. "What is this I am hearing about food trucks?" Julian said.
"What's a food truck," Mort asked. "Only the greatest culinary invention ever mort!" Julian said, "We shall go to this food truck place!" "Fine," I said, "you can come." "I have the map right here," Maurice said. "Then we shall feast!" Julian said. The Four of us and the lemurs left our HQ and headed for the zoo's food truck lot. It was conveniently located next to the new event pavillon's parking lot. The portion of the zoo exhibits expansion that was still under construction and under wraps was visible nearby. In the food truck lot a variety of food trucks serving a variety of food. "the Italian truck is mine!" Julian said. "Fish! Fish! Fish! FISH TACOS!" Rico shouted. "The ramen truck is calling me for some reason," Maurice said. "excellent choice," Kowalski said, "Now do I go with something familiar like the Hot dogs of America truck? Or do I go for something different but oh so sastifying like the Indian curry truck?" "How about both," Private said. "Private we are not ordering anything from the Lunacorn truck!" I said. "aw," Private said, "but it looks so inviting!" I spotted a truck that caught my eye as the smell of sweet southern barbeque reached my nostrils. "BBQ truck here I come!" I said. "Ice cream!" Mort shouted.
"ka-bobs!" Private said running towards a middleeastern truck serving gyros and ka-bobs. The smell of swarma and fahlafa filled the air. I quickly looked at the rest of today's offerings. A donut truck, a Pizza truck, a burger truck, a Asian truck, a Korean bbq truck, A Breakfast truck, a Mexican truck, a truck serving "iconic sandwiches of America", a thai truck, a vietnamese truck, and a Fried chicken truck. Plus the usual streets vendors and food karts were there as well. I turned around and found Private…not surprisely…at a food truck selling bangers and mash, fish n' chips, and other british classics. Rico was enjoying a bunch of fish tacos while Kowalski ate several hot dogs and bowls of curry. Julian was eating some pasta dish while Maurice and mort had ramen. "This is the greatest place in world!' Private said biting his ka-bob. "yeah! yeah!" Rico said. I got some bbq from the southern bbq truck and sat with the others. I took a bite, "now that's some good bbq."
Suddenly a big silver food truck drive up and stopped. "Um…there's now driver…no chefs," Kowalski said, "It's a trap!" "Hmm," Julian said, "I wonder what that truck serves." Suddenly a zoo overlord rushed up to the truck, "Hey! What gives your not on my list! You want a spot you give us 24-hour notice…I'm going to have to ask you to leave!" The truck did not move and the zoo overlord did the one thing you should not do. "Hello? Did you hear me?" He asked, "don't make me come here there!" The Zoo official tried to pry open the door while the other food truck operators and zoo patrons looked on with varying expressions. They were too distracted by the unauthorized visitor to notice four penguins and three lemurs. "Open this door or I'm calling the police!" the official shouted. Suddenly a police car pulled up, "No need," the officer said with a terrifying blank expression, "we already been called." "Open this door," the official said. "we will open this door," the officers said in a monotone voice.
"There is something not right with those police officers," I said. "I concur," Kowalski said. "Did you see their eyes skipper?" Private asked. "Blank as blank can be," I said. "I lost my appetite," Maurice said pushing his ramen away. "Your lost," Julian said as he started to finish maurice's meal. "Door open," the officer said. The officer stormed into the food truck, "alright wise guys…wait…who are you…what are you…" The official exited the food truck but the officers grabbed him. "What is this?" He asked. "We must keep you in food truck," the officers replied, "you must give into upgrade." The officers threw the terrified official into the truck and closed the door. And then with blank expression they started to move on the terrified citizens. "Upgrade…" I said. "What is that!" the official shouted, "no get off me get off me!" Suddenly their was a scream followed the sounds of saws and drills as the food truck filled with light.
"Upgrade in progress!" "Cyber-men," I said. "No," Kowalski said as the food truck's back open and out rolled a new upgraded Cyber-dalek. "Cyber-dalek," Kowalski said. "Okay," Julian said looking visibly sick, "I'm not hungry any more." "I'm going to be sick," Maurice said. "What is that," a new york accent said, "is that a dalek or something." "It looks like one of them cybermen to me." "I am a cyber-dalek the final stage of cyber-evolution…YOU WILL NOW be upgraded." "And if we refuse?" a man asked, "are you gonna exterminate us or something." "Exterminate is a word used by the inferior daleks," the cyber-dalek replied, "you will be deleted."
"I thought we destroyed the last of them in Siberia!" Private shouted (A very penguin Christmas: gift of the cybermen). "I guess they inherited the daleks ability to always survive," Kowalski said. "No chance of another dalek team-up?" I asked. "No," Kowalski said. "Rico!" I shouted, "tell me you packed the cyber-gun!" Rico hacked up the cyber-gun and Kowalski started to make adjustments. "Self-upgrading Cyber-gun charged Skipper!" Kowalski shouted. "take out their food truck of doom!" I shouted. "Alert! Alert! Mobile Cyber factory is under attack!" "Delete the rouge elements!" The Cyber-dalek leader shouted. Kowalski fired and destroyed the Cyber-dalek leader. Kowalski then aimed for the cyber food truck when suddenly. "emergency replication procedure activated," the cyber food truck replied, "Upgrading all food trucks in the area! The Era of the Cyber-dalek begins!" Suddenly the sides of the food truck fell over revealing a strange cyber-weapon that blasted all the food trucks in the lot. The Operators of the trucks were instantly vaporized while all the food trucks lost their colors and became silver Cyber-trucks. "Replication procedure complete," all the converted trucks said, "commencing mass upgrade of compatible elements." And then a wave of cyber-mites started to flow out of them. Anyone still here suddenly went into a panic and ran for their lives.
"Kowalski options?" I asked. "Submit to your demise!" the original cyber-truck replied. Kowalski threw a grenade which exploded taking out several cyber-trucks and all the cyber-mites. "What was that!" Private shouted. "Cyber-grenade," Kowalski said, "I took the design for the cyber-bomb and made it smaller." Suddenly all the twenty or so remaining food trucks started their engines and left the food truck lot. "Where are they going?" I asked. "they went off to find more trucks to convert," Kowalski said, "It could be the end of food trucks as we know it!" Suddenly Kowalski smiled, "Luckly I planted Nano-Cyberbombs on each of the trucks…" Kowalski pulled out a remote and hit a button. The air filled with the sounds of cyber-trucks exploding. "Crisis averted!" Kowalski said.
"Then we do this the old fashion way…" The Cyber-Dalek leader said as five cyber-daleks teleported in. "Pst…five cyber-daleks?" I said, "bring it on!" Suddenly a giant Cyber-ship appeared above us and hundreds of cyber-daleks started to pour out. "Um…that never a good sign…" Kowalski said. Private had a smart phone out, "Oh this isn't good…" "What!" I said. Private showed me a news boardcast. "This is Action 1 news Now…the latest news updates sent straight to your mobile device. When there is breaking news we break it….digitally." "This is Chucks Charles reporting that strange Dalek-like robots have suddenly appeared in every major city around the world. The Story is always the same…first Food trucks turn on citizens…People disappear…and gaint space-ships appear over every city on earth."
The newscast showed Cyber-daleks in Paris, on the lawn of the taj mahal, at the base of the shard in london, on the steps of the capitol, in Havana. "Dussodolf," Kowalski said. "Oska," Private said. "Hawii," Kowalski said. "Bejing!" Private shouted. The newscast showed the cyber-daleks overpowering the secret service as the Presidential helicopter turned tail and ran. I was probably running off to some secret presidential bunker somewhere. "UNIT has fallen," Kowalski said, "and I can't hail the IPSA! OR IASA(International animal spy alliance)! And the North Wind secure line is just playing epic hold music!" I did in fact hear epic hold music blare out of the phone's receiver. "well at least it's not boring hold music," I said, "we're on our own with this…" "Private!" I said, "phone the doctor…and keep dialing the doctor's number until one of them picks up!" "heck I'll even settle for clara and her time-traveling diner," I said.
"You will be deleted!" the cyber-dalek leader said as the…let's abbreviate…C-Ds closed in. "I think not," I said. Suddenly the first doctor's TARDIS materialized behind us and the twelfth doctor stepped out with…the first doctor? "Hmm?" the first asked, "what's this." "Daleks?" The twelfth said, "why is it always daleks?" "WE are not daleks…we are the cyber-daleks…the ultimate evolution of the cyber-men." "Is this related to that strange glass woman?" The first asked. "So…" a girl asked, "what's with the penguins…" "Ah," I said, "the names Skipper…you must be Bill…Bill potts am I correct." "How…" "Tardis translation circuit," Kowalski, the First Doctor, and the Twelfth Doctor replied. "So…doctor," I said, "why are you hanging out with grandpa over here?" "Grandpa?" the first doctor said. Suddenly the run down tardis of the War Doctor materialized and a slightly redesigned one materialized as well. The door on the new tardis opened and out stepped a blonde woman. "Opps…wrong timeline," She said with a Yorkshire accent. "Who are you?" I said. "Not yet! It's too soon" She replied as she ran back into her Tardis, "but it's going to be brilliant!" She closed the doors only to open them again as she added, "and also absolutely Fantastic!" She closed the doors and the Tardis Dematerialized as the Eleventh Doctor's Tardis arrived.
The eleventh Doctor smiled as he exited the tardis but it turned into a frown when he saw the Cyber-daleks. "Daleks…" The doctor said, "what's with the silver…" "Doctor…" The Cyber-dalek leader said, "resistance is futile…YOU WILL BE DELETED!" "get back!" The War Doctor shouted, "The Cybermen have evolved!" "We are the Cyber-daleks…you belong to us…you will become like us…You will evolved!" "Oh I definetly am not," the tenth doctor replied, "so…cyber-daleks right?" "The Doctor will be silent the doctor will…" Suddenly a familiar gun blast destroyed the cyber-dalek leader revealing the Red Supreme dalek. "Exterminated!" it said in it's ego-tistical pride-filled voice,"The Cyber-daleks are an abomination they must be destroyed!" "So you'll help us again?" Kowalski asked. That Caused all the doctors present to look at Kowalski in shock. "WHAT!" they all shouted. "What. What? WHAT!?" The Tenth Doctor said. "Um…it's a long story," Kowalski said. "never say that," the twelfth doctor said, "are you feeling a ice cream pain?"
"What?" Kowalski said, "Oh…he thinks…dream crabs…" "here's the short version," I said, "we managed to defeat the cyber-daleks but only with some help from the daleks…" "This is correct," The Supreme said. "Well that is…unexpected," The Twelfth Doctor said. "The Daleks…redecorated," the First Doctor said, "I don't like it." Suddenly the Surpreme aimed it's weapon, "You are the first Doctor!" "yes," the first doctor said. "Then if I exterminate you the doctor will be wiped from existence? I would be responsible for removing the predator of the daleks from the timeline?" "No," the Twelfth Doctor, "your not doing that!" "The Prime Minister's words still hold truth," The Supreme said, "Even we know the terrible disasters that would occur in a universe without you Doctor…THE DOCTOR OF WAR!" "Yes," The War Doctor said, "I suppose we are." The tenth and eleventh doctor didn't look comfortable with the Doctor of War description. "what does he mean prime minister's words?" The first doctor asked. "Daleks think hatred is beautiful," the Eleventh Doctor replied with a disgusted look on his face. "Well that explains a lot," the Tenth replied.
"So are you helping us with the Cyber-daleks?" Kowalski asked. The Supreme Dalek glared at Kowalski it's intense hatred burning into kowalski's soul. "I take that as a no then," Kowalski replied. "Well then," I said, "let's leave this popsicle stand and…" "You are going nowhere!" The Supreme shouted, "Engage defense Zero-Five!" "transmat engaged!" "No! No! No!" The Eleventh Doctor shouted. there was a flash and we found ourselves in the middle of the Dalek Parliament Ship. Thankfully the dalek left the Tardis back on earth…actually…that's not good. The Dalek Prime Minister spoke up immeditately, "You have all been charged with crimes against the dalek empire! The Penguins for destroying the new reality bomb!" "What!" the Tenth doctor shouted. "You will be silent while the prime minister is talking," one of dalek puppets replied. "And the Doctors and the companion for being the ultimate enemies of the daleks!" "Ultimate enemies of the daleks?" the first doctor said with a look of concern, "explain to me how that is…" Every Single dalek and Twelfth, Eleventh, and Tenth Doctors glared at the War Doctor. "The Prime Minister will see you now!" the Supreme dalek replied. "well then," the eleventh Doctor replied, "Hello daleks! Here we are…It's Christmas! Well you have us just where you want us! You knew you want to do it…it against every fiber of your being to not exterminate me. Come on! Do it! DO IT!"
"that glass woman was right," the first doctor said, "I am the doctor of war…" I have to ask them what the heck he means by "glass woman" later. And probably if we not exterminated or deleted in the next 48 hours I'll ask about this "doctor of war" business. "Exterminate the First doctor!" the white supreme shouted. "Hold your fire," the Prime Minister replied, "they will be given a fair trial! If they are not given one then that would undermine dalek democracy!" "The Case of the Daleks vs. The Predator, bill potts, and the Penguins is now in session!" the eternal replied. Since when do daleks have a court system? Or a concept of Democracy? "Well…this is new," the eleventh doctor said. Yup that just about sums it up…
(end of chapter one)
