Once again, thanks to all of those who have read and enjoyed any of the chapters in Skaro And Earth. I would especially like to thank my beta, TenRose4ever. Please enjoy the Chapter Three.
Chapter Three
Dalek Sec, leader of the Cult of Skaro, observed the rogues' starship. He was following it closely, but was using a cloaking system so that his ship could not be seen or detected on radar.
His ship was certainly smaller than theirs, but it was not exactly meant to be a battle ship. It had, however, very advanced technologies, most of which were his own inventions, creations that rivaled even the technology of the despised Time Lords. He had managed to hack into the rogue ship's system. He was not going to destroy it, not yet. First he had to force the rogues to go where he wanted them to go. Their landing on the planet Earth would set the perfect trap, without him or his unit, the Cult of Skaro, getting noticed. All that needed to happen for everything to fall into place was the rogues switching to auto pilot.
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This was exactly what they did, for they did not see the need to continue flying manually. They wanted to explore the ship. It was clearly a battle ship, as it had many weapons. It was pretty much a gigantic disc with two rooms: the captain's room at the centre and the battle stations around the perimeter.
Becky and Maddy traveled on like this for a long time. The time dragged on, and the Universe around them remained almost exactly the same everywhere. There was no variation. Since they had emotions, they experienced boredom, even more so than a human would, for daleks do not sleep. Eventually, Becky got so bored that she tried to turn the ship back to manual control, but the infamous Dalek Sec would not be bested so easily. The ship was locked on 'auto pilot', but she couldn't know that it was really just Sec's associate, Dalek Thay, controlling the ship. So, when Becky tried to put the ship on manual control, her access was denied. She tried again, but with no luck.
"Maddy!" she called. "How do I switch the starship to manual control?"
After a few seconds, Maddy came to the control station. "You simply have to put your plunger here and turn this switch," Maddy explained.
"I tried that!" Becky whined.
"Oh, let me see," Maddy chided.
She turned the switch to manual control. Nothing happened. It was still on auto pilot.
"See!" Becky said petulantly.
"I do not know what is going on," Maddy growled.
She started pressing random buttons with her plunger. Nothing happened. She grabbed the switch again and yanked it around like a crazed time lord operating a T.A.R.D.I.S. Nothing happened.
"What is going on?" Maddy snarled, her frustration rising.
She went into the battle stations. She pressed random buttons there as well. No weapons were fired. The starship continued moving on steadily at very fast pace, not at cruise speed. It had been doing this for the entire journey. Maddy was now a little scared, and apparently, so was Becky.
The poor dalek was whimpering. Maddy came up close to comfort her.
"Why is it doing this?" Becky asked.
"I do not know," Maddy whispered to her. "I do not know."
There was a sudden jolt. The starship slowed down rapidly. The daleks rushed to the control room and looked out the window. They were approaching a planet.