Last time found our heroes and allies confronting the insidious Daleks. The vile creatures revealed themselves to be among only a handful of Daleks who survived the Last Great Time War and were carrying out their mission; to destroy everything that isn't like them.
Grekor, Ikura and Orkal were brought in for interrogation, while The Daleks tried to torture Kairi to learn the secret of her magic.
Just then the demon popped in, demanding to take Kairi with it. It turns out that the demons what were spying on the realms were in fact looking for Kairi. Why they want her, we don't know yet.
But then Orkal told Sora how best to disable a Dalek. Sora blinded one of the insidious creatures, creating enough chaos in the room for our heroes, allies and enemies to escape, but not before Orkal was struck down by a Dalek death ray. Ikura and Grekor left our heroes to escape, while the two Hakonians went back to finish some business with the demon and The Daleks. 'Nuff said, on with the show!
Chapter 9: Escape and Judgment
"Outta the way!" shouted Donald as he shot a massive Thunder spell at the throngs of Heartless in the hallway, blasting a path for our heroes to run through.
"Don't these things ever get tired!" Shima asked.
"What makes you think they ever sleep?" Kodai asked
"This is nothing," said Sora as he slashed a Neo Shadow, then blocked a Darkball from biting his head off, "this one time I took on a thousand Heartless all by myself."
"And don't get me started n what the rest of us have faced," said Aiden.
Just then a side panel in the hallway opened, revealing two Daleks.
"EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!" shouted both Daleks as one of them fired its death ray at Kairi. She dodged it then threw her Keyblade at the creature. The Keyblade bounced off it's armor, but Aiden transmuted the floor under the Dalek into razor-sharp, diamond-hard spikes, impaling the creature from below and killing it.
The other Dalek fired its death ray at Aiden, but Aiden dodged it. The ray wound up hitting Analyzer, but it didn't harm him at all.
"As I said," said Analyzer as he rolled up to the Dalek, "I am a genius!" Analyzer then ripped the creature's death ray gun out from it's body, while Riku sliced off the top of the creature's armor off.
"Oh my god!" said an appalled Yuki as she and everyone else saw what was inside the machine. The real Dalek was a hideous creature that was barely more than a brain with a single eye and several writhing tentacles.
"So that's what a Dalek really looks like," said Riku.
The mutated creature glared contemptuously at Riku with its single eye, then leapt at him, grabbing onto Riku's throat with its tentacles. Riku tried to get the creature off of him as it began to strangle him, but the thing wouldn't let go.
"Hold still!" said Sora, "I'll burn it off!"
"Wait!" said Tess as she pulled out a strait razor and opened it. With the skill of a professional barber, she sliced off several of the creatures' tentacles, forcing the mutant off of Riku. He gasped in relief as the thing fell to the floor, twitching in pain from its severed tentacles. Kodai then took out his blaster and vaporized the thing.
"I thought you threw your fathers razor away," gasped Riku as he felt the bruises where the mutant tried to strangle him.
"It's a spare," said Tess as she wiped Dalek goo from the razor blade, closed it and pocketed it, "and is that all you've got to say to me? After I just saved your miserable life?"
"I…I just," said a flabbergasted Riku.
"Oh shut up already," said an exasperated Tess as she grabbed Riku by his shirt and kissed him. Riku was startled for a second, but then he kissed her back with equal passion.
"Whoa," said a stunned Kairi, while Aiden, Sora, Donald and Goofy looked at the kissing couple with dumbfounded expressions on their faces.
"I knew that she said she likes him," said Aiden, "and I guessed he likes her."
:They're kissing already,: said Kairi to Sora, :it took us weeks to get the nerve up.:
:But we're not Riku and Tess,: said Sora.
But then Kodai ruined the mood, "hey! There's a war going on!"
"I know," said Tess after she and Riku broke lip contact for some much needed air, "but that doesn't mean we can't have fun, now can we?"
"I won't argue with that, young lady," said Captain Okita, "but there's a time and a place for everything."
"He's right," said Riku, "we'll finish this later."
"That we will," said a grinning Tess, "that we will."
Just then two more Daleks trundled into the hallway, "EXTERMINATE! ANNIHILATE! DESTROY! DESTROY!"
"Oh shut up already!" shouted Riku as he blasted one of the Daleks with his Dark Aura, while Goofy smashed the eyestalk of the other Dalek.
"MALFUNCTION! VISION IMPARED! MALFUNCTION!"
Sora blasted the creature with a Fireball, melting it into the floor while also destroying the death ray.
"Just how many more of these things do we have to kill?" Aiden asked.
"Hopefully none," said Riku as they reached the fork in the hallway that branched off to The Yamato, "we're almost out of here."
"What do we do now?" Kodai asked, "Our normal guns don't work against Heartless, and I'll bet they're useless against Daleks as well."
"If we run into any of those things," said Shima, "we're done for."
"We'll go with you to The Yamato," said Sora, while Donald and Goofy nodded in agreement, "Sidney can beam us back to our ship."
"Good luck," said Riku and Kairi at the same time.
"You'll need it," said Aiden, while Tess nodded in agreement.
"Right," said Sora. With that he, Donald and Goofy went with Kodai, Yuki, Shima, Analyzer and Captain Okita down the other hallway to The Yamato, while Riku, Kairi, Aiden and Tess hurried towards The Intrepid Heart.
"THE HUMANS ARE RETURNING TO THEIR SHIPS!" said the fourth Dalek, "ALL ATTEMPTS TO RECAPTURE THEM ARE PROVING INEFFECTIVE!"
"THEY MUST NOT ESCAPE!" said the first Dalek, "ACTIVATE HOLDING CELLS! IMPRISON THEM WITH FORCEFIELDS!"
"HOLDING CELLS NOT OPPERATIONAL!" said the third Dalek, "TRACTOR BEAMS ARE ALSO OFFLINE!"
"HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE?" shouted the first Dalek, "EXPLAIN! EXPLAIN!"
"FORIEN PROGRAM DETECTED IN COMPUTERS!" said the fourth Dalek, "IT IS THE SAME ARTIFICAL INTELEGENCE AS BEFORE. IT HAS SABOTAGED THE FORCE FIELDS AND TRACTOR BEAMS!"
"Looks like your computers need debugging," said the demon as it grinned viciously.
"SILENCE!" snapped the first Dalek, "YOUR INTERFERENCE WILL NO LONGER BE TOLERATED! PREPARE FOR EXTERMINATION!"
"Don't make me laugh!" said the demon, "your weapons cannot harm me!"
"But mine can!" shouted Grekor as he sent a curse at the demon. It barely dodged the curse, then sent a blast of dark magic at Grekor.
"Haven't you had enough, Hakonian prick!" the demon shouted as it and Grekor kept trading blasts of dark magic, "you've lost! Just accept it!"
"It's not over until you're dead, bastard!" shouted Grekor, "you killed my friend; your ass is mine!"
"Dream on!" shouted the demon.
"ENOUGH!" shouted the first Dalek, "YOU WILL ALL BE EXTERMINATED!"
"Shut your frigging trap already!" shouted Ikura as she jumped over Grekor, ran past the demon and kicked the first Dalek with enough force to shatter a brick wall. Yet her kick failed to penetrate the creature's force field. She then had to jump out of the way to avoid several death ray blasts.
"YOU WILL ALL BE EXTERMINATED!" shouted the first Dalek as all the Daleks in the room kept trying to blast Ikura, but she was too fast for them.
But then Ikura nearly ran into the wall and had to stop for half a second. This was long enough for one of the Daleks to aim and fire. She jumped but part of the death ray blast hit her. She screamed in agony as part of her body was filled with the deadly energy, causing about a third of her skeleton to be made visible.
Several Daleks closed in on the disabled Ikura. "YOUR ANTICTS WILL NO LONGER BE TOLERATED," said the first Dalek, "YOU WILL TELL US WHERE THE REST OF THE HAKONIANS ARE."
"Or what?" Ikura asked through gritted teeth, "you're going to torture me! I'll tell you nothing! Nothing!"
Just then Grekor finished blasting the demon across the room, "pathetic demon!" smirked Grekor.
But then the third Dalek fired its death ray at Grekor. He tried to get out of the way but was hit in the arm. His left side was filled with the death ray energy and his skeleton was partially illuminated.
"Damnit!" shouted Grekor as he fell to the floor.
"We're almost at The Yamato!" shouted Kodai as he, Yuki, Shima, Captain Okita, Analyzer, Sora, Donald and Goofy ran to the end of the hallway. They reached the airlock and rushed in.
"I never thought I'd be so happy to be back on this ship," said a relieved Shima as they all headed for the elevator to the bridge.
:Kairi,: said Sora, :you and the others okay?:
:We're fine,: said Kairi, :We just got back to The Intrepid Heart.:
:Sidney says that she took care of the tractor beams,: said Riku, :and that both ships have enough power to get away and fight.:
:Awesome!: said Sora. He then told Kodai and the others the good news.
"Excellent," said Captain Okita as the lift reached the bridge. Kodai and Yuki ran to their stations while the captain walked calmly to his station.
"Captain!" said Sanada, "we're no longer being held by the tractor beam, and Chief Tokugawa says that the Wave Motion Engine has been recharged enough for us to maneuver and fight."
"Outstanding!" said Captain Okita, "Shima, I believe we've worn out our welcome. Start thrusters! Hard to starboard!"
"Thrusters on!" said Shima, "helm answering hard to starboard!" The ship lurched to the right and was free of the Dalek mother ship.
On the view screen, Sora saw The Intrepid Heat also lurch away from the Dalek mother ship and was heading away as well.
"Once we're clear," said Captain Okita, "turn us around and prepare for battle."
"All hands!" said Yuki into the ship's intercom system, "battle stations!"
A loud klaxon sounded throughout the ship.
"Incoming transmitting from the Intrepid Heart," said Yuki.
"We're ready to fight," said Riku over the radio, "Sora, we can beam you over when you're ready."
"OBLITERATOR MISSILE ARMED AND READY!" said the fourth Dalek.
"TARGET THE INTURDER SHIPS," said the first Dalek, "EXTERMINATE THEM ALL!"
"Captain!" shouted Yuki, "the Daleks just fired a Cobalt-infused missile at us!"
"Fire counter missiles!" shouted Captain Okita.
"Firing counter missiles!" said Kodai. Several smaller missiles shot from The Yamato and headed for the Dalek missile. The smaller missiles exploded, their blasts creating energy barriers that the enemy missile hit and detonated with enough force to rock both The Yamato and The Intrepid Heart down to their bolts.
On the Yamato bridge, sparks were flying everywhere as circuits shorted out and computer panels exploded. One computer panel flew towards Kodai and hit him on the shoulder, knocking him out of his seat.
"Kodai!" shouted Yuki. She and Sora rushed over to Kodai and helped him stand up, but his right arm hung limply.
"I think my shoulder's broken," said Kodai through gritted teeth.
"Dr. Sado to the bridge at once!" said Captain Okita into the intercom, "and someone give me a damage report on the double!"
"Captain!" said Chief Tokugawa, "only minor damage to the ship, nothing that can't wait. We still can maneuver and fight."
Just then Dr. Sado hurried onto the bridge with a black medical bag, "now where's this patient of mine?"
"Broken shoulder," said Kodai as he grimaced against the pain, "but I can still fight!"
"Can you press a button or pull the Wave Motion Gun trigger without your right hand and arm?" Dr. Sado asked as he opened his black bag, "I don't think so."
"Sora," said Captain Okita, "Take Kodai's position!"
"Me?" Sora asked, "but I don't know how to use your systems, and I defiantly don't know how to fire the Wave Motion Gun."
"It's easy," said Kodai as Dr. Sado examined his shoulder, "just aim and pull the trigger."
"There's no time for doubts, Sora!" said Captain Okita, "I'm hereby naming you an honorary crewmember of The Yamato; Acting Gunner's Mate First Class. Now assume your position!"
"Yes, Captain!" said Sora as he realized that now wasn't the time for arguing. He hurried to Kodai's seat.
"Those buttons coordinate the Shock Cannons," said Kodai as Dr. Sado immobilized his broken shoulder, "and those coordinate the pulse lasers. The firing controls for the Wave Motion Gun are self explanatory."
"Right," said Sora as he familiarized himself with the controls.
"Sora," said Riku over the com line, "we had to raise shields against that missile. We're fine over here, but what about you?"
"Everyone's fine on The Yamato," said Sora, "but Kodai's out of action. Captain Okita wants me at the weapons station, so I won't be beaming over to you any time soon."
"You be careful over there," said Kairi.
"You to," said Sora, :we'll be together again before you know it.:
:I'll hold you to that,: said Kairi.
"PREPARE ANOTHER OBLITERATOR MISSILE!" said the first Dalek, "THE HUMANS MUST BE DESTROYED!"
"You pathetic toss pots!" snapped Grekor as he and Ikura tried to sit up, but the death ray energies they received were beginning to take their toll on their bodies. "That bigger ship, The Yamato, it has defenses against your missiles. And the ship of The Keyblade brats, they'll probably either dodge it or shoot it down."
"THE HAKONIAN PROVIDES VALID INFORMATION," said the third Dalek.
"THEY WILL PROVIDE MORE," said the fourth Dalek, it aimed its death ray at Grekor and Ikura, "YOU WILL TELL US HOW TO DEFEAT THE HUMANS."
"Or what?" Ikura asked, "you're going to torture us? We're as good as dead as it is," she held up her hand, on which the skin was already turning ash gray, "what makes you think we'll help you mutant bastards with anything!"
"BECAUSE EVEN THOUGH HAKONIANS HATE DALEKS," said the first Dalek, "YOU HATE THOSE HUMANS EVEN MORE AND WISH TO SEE THEM SUFFER."
"The rust bucket has a valid point," said Grekor as he looked at Ikura, "we did promise Maleficent that we would destroy the brats, and since you and I won't be in this existence for much longer," he held up his hand, showing that it was also turning ash gray, "we might as well as make due with our promises."
"Yes," said Ikura, "we'll keep our word to Maleficent," she looked at the Daleks, "alright, you want to beat the brats? Try swarming them. The Keyblade ship has shields, but any shield can be overwhelmed. Unleash enough firepower on them and the brats are as good as dead.
"As for The Yamato, just get one good blast to their engines. Or better yet, hit them with an Electromagnetic Pulse. That will surely cripple their engines and leave them helpless."
"YOUR INFORMATION IS VALID," said the first Dalek.
"BATTLE COMPUTER ALSO ACCEPTS INFORMATION AS VALID AND HAS ALTERED STRAGETY," said the third Dalek, "LAUNCHING DRONE SHIPS!"
"Captain!" said Yuki, "the Dalek Mothership has deployed several saucer ships."
The view screen showed about a dozen Dalek ships that looked like flying saucers, yet each counter-rotating ship was bristling with death rays.
"One hit from one of those things will break The Yamato in half!" said Shima.
"Don't count us out so easily, Shima," said Sanada, "our armor can hold out against their death rays, not for long, but we will hold."
"Launch Black Tigers!" said Captain Okita, "Sora, ready to fire all weapons!"
"Shock Cannons locking on targets," said Sora, "Pulse Lasers ready!"
"Our shields can hold out against those death rays," said Sidney as Riku piloted the ship to a offensive position alongside The Yamato and a dozen Black Tiger fighters, all of them facing off against the dozen Dalek drone ships, "but not for long."
"But The Yamato has no shields of her own," said Aiden as he programmed his station to take on Donald's roll of keeping an eye on the magical balance in the ships' engine, "and I honestly don't know how much punishment her armor can take."
"Then let's not give those metal maniacs a chance to do any harm," said Kairi, "let's take them down!"
"I think they've already made the first move," said Tess as she took Goofy's seat at the weapon's station. Sure enough, three Dalek ships were heading for The Yamato, while the remaining nine had assumed a wedged-shaped attack formation and were heading for The Intrepid Heart.
"All weapons are fully charged!" said Tess, "locking onto the lead ship!"
"Fire!" shouted Riku.
Tess fired the ships' lasers, hitting the lead Dalek ship with Thunder, Blizzard and Fire damage, then shooting a pair of missiles that hit the enemy ship, all together delivering enough damage to knock out its engines.
The other eight Dalek ships broke formation and began swarming The Intrepid Heart, deluging her with death ray fire as the eight enemy ships flew circles around her.
"I can't get a solid lock on any of them!" shouted Tess, "they're too fast!"
"Then we'll have to be faster!" said Riku as he plotted the ship through a zigzag course in order to shake off the Dalek ships, yet they kept shooting.
"Shields are holding!" said Aiden, "but they're drawing more and more energy from the core! If things keep going they way they are, the core could lose balance!"
"And we explode," said Riku, "I know. Hang on!" he then put the ship through a spiral move, spinning the ship along its central axis, while Tess kept firing the ships lasers and missiles. Two more Dalek ships were damaged by this maneuver, but the other six ships kept attacking.
"How's The Yamato doing?" Riku asked.
"They're holding their own," said Sidney, "but they've lost four Black Tiger fighters. Those smaller lasers just aren't effective against that Dalek armor. The other Black Tiger fighters are being recalled."
"All Black Tigers fighters recovered!" said Shima as he pulled The Yamato through a hard left.
"Firing Shock Cannons!" shouted Sora. The ship's main guns fired at one of the Dalek ships, but it avoided the triple-helix blasts. "Why won't they hold still!"
Just then one of the Dalek ships swooped in for a strafing run, hitting The Yamato with several blasts that shook the whole ship but didn't do much damage.
"You'd think they'd make it easy for us once," said Donald as he and Goofy held on as The Yamato turned sharply again.
"Then things would be bornin,'" said Goofy.
"There's still six more Dalek ships attacking The Intrepid Heart," said Yuki as she checked the ships' radar.
"And we're still in trouble!" said Shima as he pulled The Yamato through a hard right to avoid one of the Dalek ships attacking them, but then had to turn again to avoid another, all the while being strafed by the third.
"We've got all the firepower we need in the Shock Cannons to blow those things to pieces!" said an irate Sora as another Shock Cannon blast missed, "but our weapons are too slow!"
"Captain!" said Sanada, "I think I have a way of evening the odds. As far as we can tell, those ships attacking us are just drones being controlled by the enemy mother ship, and they're being controlled via a specific carrier wave. If I can jam that signal…"
"Then they'll stop and we can hit them!" said Sora.
"Maybe," said Sanada, "it's still a question of how strong their signal is, and how long before they realize I'm trying to jam them. If Dalek technology is as advanced as I think it is, then they can counter my countermeasures."
"Do your best, Sanada," said Captain Okita, "your plan may be our best chance of winning."
"Yes, Captain," said Sanada. He then began transmitting a jamming signal through the ship's communications array.
"I'm picking up a strange signal coming from The Yamato," said Sidney, "it's aimed at The Dalek ships."
"It's like they're trying to jam them," said Kairi, "but will it work?"
Just then the ship shook from a particularly brutal death ray blast.
"Shields down to 83%!" said Sidney. Another brutal blast hit the ship, "61%!"
Sora and the others on the bridge were nearly knocked out of their seats as a massive death ray blast hit the ship near the engines.
"Hull breach on Deck C!" said one of the bridge officers, "we're venting atmosphere! Sealing off that section, now!"
"Casualty reports!" shouted Captain Okita.
"Only minor injuries," said Dr. Sado through the intercom, "but things will keep getting worse unless you guys up there end this!"
"Let me resume my station, Captain!" shouted Kodai through the intercom, "I'm fit for battle!"
"Shall I restrain him, doctor?" Analyzer asked.
"By all means," said Dr. Sado. Through the intercom Sora and the others on the bridge heard Kodai arguing with Analyzer as the android strapped Kodai to an examination table.
"How's that jamming coming, Sanada?" Shima asked as he piloted The Yamato away from one Dalek ship, only to be strafed by the other two, causing The Yamato to shake yet again.
"Another minute an I'll have it," said Sanada. The ship then took a triple blast, causing more panels to short out on the bridge.
"We've got hull breaches on nearly every deck!" shouted the damage control officer.
"Sanada!" shouted Captain Okita in an insisting tone.
"Got it!" shouted Sanada as he pressed the appropriate button, "transmitting jamming signal!"
Within seconds the strafing stopped as the three attacking Dalek ships, as well as the other Dalek ships attacking The Intrepid Heart, stopped dead in space.
"It worked!" said Shima.
"Let's not celebrate too soon!" said Captain Okita, "Sora!"
"Firing Shock Cannons!" shouted Sora. All the ship's main guns fired. The triple energy blasts hit the three Dalek ships and destroyed them.
At the same time, The Intrepid Heart turned around and fired its weapons as the other crippled Dalek ships and destroyed them.
"And that's how we do that," said Sora.
"THE STRATAGEM HAS FAILED!" shouted the third Dalek. It aimed its death ray at Grekor and Ikura, who were looking more and more ash-gray by the second, while small cracks began to appear on their faces, "THE HAKONIANS LIED TO US!"
"It's not our fault that you're so hung up on destroying everything that you can't anticipate the imagination of individuals," said Grekor as he and Ikura finally stood up.
"ENOUGH USELESS WORDS!" shouted the fourth Dalek. It fired its death ray, hitting both Grekor and Ikura. They both screamed in agony and fell to the floor.
"Danm," said Ikura as her skin turned completely gray and she began to fall apart, "I hate losing."
"You're not alone," said Grekor as he watched his hands crumble to dust.
"Let's just hope the brats have better luck than we did," said Ikura. With that her whole body collapsed into dust.
"I only hope that The Keyblade Wielders deliver the message to my grandson," said Grekor, "Reddik's the only one among our people who can truly lead us to our promised land, him and Rakel." With that Grekor crumbled into dust.
"STATUS ON OBLITERATIOR MISSILES," said the first Dalek.
"OBLITERATOR MISSILES READY!" said the third Dalek, "TWO MISSILES ARE PREPARED AND LOCKED ONTO THE INTRUDER SHIPS!"
"THEN FIRE!" shouted the first Dalek, "EXTERMINATE! ANNIHILATE! DESTROY!"
"Captain!" shouted Yuki, "two cobalt missiles have been launched."
"Fire counter missiles!" said Captain Okita.
"I'm firing them!" said a frantic Sora as he kept pressing the missile-firing button, "but they're not launching!"
"The firing circuits for the missiles have been damaged!" said one of the bridge officers.
"Shima! Evade!" Captain Okita ordered.
"They're too fast!" said Shima as he desperately tried to get The Yamato to turn in time, "we're not going to get out of this one!"
"We've got them!" shouted Riku over the com line. The tactical display showed The Intrepid Heart heading for two incoming missiles. The ship fired its lasers at one of the missiles and destroyed it.
"That's one!" said Sora, "Riku, can you guys get the other one?"
"We just tried," said Riku in a grave tone, "I'm sorry, Sora, but we can't get it in time."
"We're not gong to avoid it in time," said Shima as he tried to get the ship to turn.
But then the missile exploded 200 meters from The Yamato without detonating its warhead.
"How'd that happen!" Kodai asked.
"Thought you folks could use a hand," said group Captain Quartrane over the radio.
"Captain!" said Yuki, "it's the Micandorians!"
Sure enough the missile was destroyed by the fighters from Micandor V.
"My people would be sorry if we didn't help you after you helped us," said Quartrane, "us V's, and them other guys over on Micandor IV."
The tactical display showed not only the fighters from Micandor V, but also a large taskforce from Micandor IV.
"With all of us working together," said Quartrane, "we'll be sure to beat them Daleks!"
"Without a doubt," said Sora. Just then a status light on his consol blinked green, "oh, now the Side Missiles are working again," he said in an exasperated tone.
"We're sure to need them," said Captain Okita, "communications, patch me through to all ships." the communications officer pressed the necessary buttons and gave the captain the thumbs up, "This is the captain of The Yamato speaking. The enemy has thrown everything it has at us. Now it's time we did some throwing back. We will launch a counterattack and destroy The Daleks before they try to destroy anyone else!"
"THE LIFE FORMS OF THE PLANETS HAVE INTERFERED AGAIN!" said the third Dalek.
"LAUNCH OBLITERATOR MISSILES!" said the first Dalek.
"NO OBLITERATOR MISSILES ARE READY AT THIS TIME," said the fourth Dalek. "YET THERE IS ANOTHER METHOD OF EXTERMINATION AT OUR DISPOSAL."
"THE DEATH RAY ENERGY," said the first Dalek, "OUR REACTORS CAN FIRE A DEATH RAY BLAST THROUGH THE PRIMARY DEFLECTOR ARRAY AND EXTERMINATE EVERYTHING WITHIN THE SOLAR SYSTEM."
"BUT IF WE CHANEL REACTOR POWER THROUGH THE DEFLECTOR," said the fourth Dalek, "WE RISK OVERLOADING PRIMARY SYSTEMS, INCLUDING PROPULSION. REPAIRS WOULD TAKE DAYS."
"THE RISK IS WORTH TAKING," said the first Dalek, "THESE HUMANS AND ALIENS HAVE PROVEN FAR TOO MEDDLESOME. THEY MUST BE EXTERMINATED BY ALL MEANS AVAILABLE, EVEN IF WE RISK MAROONING OURSELVES. OUR SURVIVAL MUST TAKE PRECEDENCE."
"BATTLE COMPUTER CONCURS," said the third Dalek.
"CHANNEL ALL POWER FROM THE REACTOR THROUGH TH E DEFLECTOR ARRAY!" said the first Dalek, "EXTERMINATE THEM ALL!"
"Wait!" said Sidney, "I'm picking up some strange readings from the Dalek mother ship. They're…no! They can't be that desperate!"
"What are you talking about?" Aiden asked, "what sick plan are they going to throw at us now?"
"They're using their own reactor to channel death ray energy through their deflector array," said Sidney, "that much power will create a death-ray wave that will wipe out everything in the system! Including themselves!"
"How can they be that stupid?" Tess asked.
"They don't seem to realize that using that much power will fry all of their systems," said Sidney, "including the computer systems that keep their reactor from exploding. They think that whatever damage their ship will take can be repaired, but they're setting themselves up for their deaths as well as ours."
"Then we have to stop them," said Sora, "we have to call them, try to get them to stop."
"Why?" Tess asked, "haven't you heard how much they want to kill us? They're so wrapped up in their own personal hatred of everything that isn't a Dalek that they won't listen to reason, even if it will save their own miserable lives. If they want to blow themselves up, let them."
"And they'll kill everyone on Micandor IV and V in the process," said Captain Okita, "The Yamato and The Intrepid Heart could get away, but all the people of this star system will be killed."
"We have to stop them from firing their super death ray," said Kodai, "Captain, permission to fire the Wave Motion Gun."
"Unadvisable," said Analyzer, "sensor readings of Dalek Mothership tell that whole ship is composed of denser alloy than that of the smaller Dalek ships. Wave Motion gun would only scratch them."
"And our weapons won't work either," said Sidney.
"What about one of those cobalt missiles," said Aiden, "will that work?"
"Calculating," said Analyzer, " A detonation from a cobalt missile would significantly damage the Dalek mother ship, especially if missile detonation can be delivered to enemy deflector array."
"I already had that answer, rust bucket," said Sidney.
"But I delivered it better, hologram," said Analyzer.
"It's a good plan," said Shima, "but last time I checked, none of us have any cobalt missiles."
"But The Daleks have them," said Aiden, "if we can hack into their weapons computer and tell it to explode a missile, while it was still in the launch tube, then they'd go up like a supernova."
"That would be definitely do the job," said Sidney, "blow them up from the inside. Yes, it can be done. But it's risky. I barely managed to disable their tractor beams and force fields without their security programs damaging me. Now I'll have to go deeper inside their computers. Their countermeasures will surely catch me this time."
"Not if we distract them somehow," said Sanada, "and I believe I have the means to do so. Captain, I have an idea."
"REACTOR POWER EXCEDING 110%," said the third Dalek, "ESTIMATED TIME TO FIRING, TEN RHELLS."
"DIRRECT THE DEFLECTOR ARRAY AT THE INTRUDER SHIPS," said the first Dalek.
"DEFLECTOR ARRAY LOCKING ON TO INTRUDER SHIPS," said the fourth Dalek.
Just the view screens began to flicker and shake, as if receiving bad reception.
"THE INTRUDER SHIPS ARE ATTEMPTING TO JAM OUR SENSORS," said the third Dalek, "DEFLECTOR ARRAY WILL NOT ALIGN."
"COUNTER THEIR JAMMING!" ordered the first Dalek, "EXTERMINATION MUST PROCEED!"
"THE JAMMING IS BEING CARRIED ON A RANDOMLY CNANGING FREQUENCY," said the fourth Dalek, "COUNTERMEASURES INNEFECTIVE."
"Brilliant, Sanada!" said Shima, "using the controlling signal to transmit the jamming signal right back at them."
"I only started on the Dalek control frequency," said Sanada, "then I instructed our computers to alternate our carrier frequency, so The Daleks can't isolate and counter it. But I don't know how long it will take for the meta-heads to figure out the pattern. Could be minutes, could be seconds."
"Let's hope its enough," said Sora.
"I'm inside their computer system again," said Sidney as she closed her eyes, "They haven't detected me yet. I'm trying to get to the weapons system…there! Now…yes! I have access to the programs for the cobalt missiles!"
"Can to blow one up?" Kairi asked.
"Yes and no," said Sidney as she opened her eyes, "There aren't any missiles ready to fire yet. The warheads haven't been armed, while the missiles themselves haven't been fueled…wait, there are two missiles in the process of having their warheads armed and fueled. I'll just speed up the process and…there. I just told the missiles to blow up. But it takes about a minute for them to do so."
"Everyone cover your eyes!" Sora shouted so that everyone on The Yamato, The Intrepid Heart and the Micandorians could hear him, "this is going to be big!" At the same time all the ships backed away from the Dalek mother ship as fast as they could.
"ALERT!" shouted the fourth Dalek, "OBITERATOR MISSILES ARMED AND DETONATING!"
"WHAT!" exclaimed the first Dalek.
"COMPUTER WILL NOT ACCEPT DISARMING CODE!" said the third Dalek, "WHAT DO WE DO? WHAT DO WE DO!"
"NOTHING," said the fourth Dalek in a defeated tone, "WE HAVE FAILED, AND DALEKS WHO FAIL DO NOT DESERVE TO SURVIVE."
"NO!" shouted the first Dalek, "WE WILL NOT SUBMIT TO OBLIVION! WE WILL RETREAT FOR NOW. WE WILL RECOVER OUR LOSSES ELSEWHERE. WE WILL REBUILD OUR FORCES! WE WILL BE MORE POWERFUL THAN EVER! WHEN THE TIME IS RIGHT, WE WILL RETURN AND EXTERMINATE ALL WHO DARED TO DEFY US! DALEKS CONQUER AND DESTROY!"
"DALEKS CONQUER AND DESTROY!" shouted the third and fourth Dalek.
"INITIATE EMERGENCY TEMPORAL SHIFT!" said the first Dalek. It and the other Daleks on the bridge, as well as the remaining Daleks onboard the mother ship all glowed bright white for a second, then they all vanished.
A few seconds later there were two massive simultaneous explosions that completely atomized the Dalek Mothership and everything on it.
"It's over," said Riku with a relieved sigh, "it's over."
"Not exactly," said the demon as it teleported onto the bridge, "I still have my prize to claim!"
"You stay away from Kairi!" shouted Sora, "just wait till I get over there!"
"By the time you get here, boy" said the demon, "it'll be too late, and there's noting you or anyone can do to stop me!"
"Actually," said Kairi as she pressed the desired buttons on her consul, "there is. I hope you like the cold," she smiled, "'cause it's freezing where you're going."
"Excuse me?" the demon asked, just as the ship's transporter beamed it into the absolute zero depths of space.
"What happened?" Sora asked frantically.
"I just took care of the demon problem," said Kairi.
"And now I'm going to finish it," said Tess. She locked the ship's lasers onto the frozen demon, but hesitated to pull the trigger, "wait…I feel like I should say something cool."
"How about 'freeze in hell, bastard!'" said Aiden, "oh, how about, 'eat lasers, dick!'"
"No," said Tess, "I'll just keep it simple," she held her finger around the trigger, "goodbye!" and pulled it. The lasers fired and blew the flash-frozen demon to kingdom come.
"Now it's over," said Tess as she smugly crossed her arms.
The end of chapter 9.
Next chapter our heroes say goodbye to the crew of The Yamato and return to their universe and prepare for the next adventure. Reviews will be rewarded with cake and pie. See you next time!
