Chapter 37: The Battle Ends
Dalek Command Ship 2013
The Supreme Dalek in charge of Earth's invasion sat in the command center of the main ship with only two other Daleks. The majority of their army was down on Earth attacking every city on the planet. Only a few other Daleks were patrolling the ship and keeping watch for possible intruders. This made the Doctor, Martha, and Thor's mission slightly easier. While the Supreme Dalek was overseeing the invasion, the ship received a message from one of the Daleks on Earth.
"We have located the TARDIS in London." The Dalek said.
"Bring it to me." The Supreme Dalek ordered.
The two other Daleks in the command center maneuvered the accessible buttons on the ship's controllers. Within moments, the TARDIS was teleported into the command center. However, Clara, Simmons, and Fitz, who were inside the TARDIS, were unaware that it had been taken.
The Doctor, Martha, and Thor quietly walked the halls of the ship on their way to the command center. Martha was armed with her special S.H.I.E.L.D. lightning gun. When used, it fired a small bolt of electricity with highly destructive abilities. Thor held his Asgardian hammer with enough power to shatter a Dalek to pieces. The Doctor carried his sonic screwdriver, a device that was vital to the success of the mission. The goal was to open the Supreme Dalek's hatch. The head of a Dalek is connected to the rest of its body. Within the shell, but just above the living squid-like creature inside is a special device that connects the Supreme Dalek to the other Daleks under its control. The Doctor's plan was to use the sonic screwdriver to create a fake message of retreat on the device and send it to all the Daleks on Earth, who will obey their leader without question. Once every Dalek and every ship are in space, the Doctor will give Skye the signal to send up Earth's nuclear missiles to destroy the entire Dalek fleet. The trio walked through a long hallway and then turned left into the next long hallway. However, there was a Dalek patrolling this particular part of the ship.
"Exterminate!" The Dalek cried.
Thor, using his warrior instincts, immediately threw his hammer directly at the Dalek. The alien was unable to fire a deadly laser blast before the hammer broke it to pieces. They then moved past the broken Dalek body and proceeded down the hallway as Thor retrieved his hammer. Eventually they came to the hallway's end and the only way to turn was right down yet another long hallway.
"Alright." The Doctor said. "If we turn right here, there'll be another hallway. At the end of it there should be a door that leads to the command center."
Upon turning right, they did see a large door and two Daleks guarding it.
"Exterminate!" The Daleks yelled from across the hall.
"I've got it." Martha said.
Martha then stood in front of the Doctor and Thor and aimed her lightning gun at the two murderous creatures. Martha then fired the weapon and a bright blue bolt of electricity shot out of the gun straight at the Daleks. Upon impact, both Daleks were destroyed in an electric explosion so powerful that it also created a wide hole in the door to the command center. However, the Doctor, Martha, and Thor could not see this hole through the intense smoke that was created by the explosion.
"I have to let this recharge before I can use it again." Martha said.
Suddenly, the two Daleks from the command center appeared through the smoke to investigate the cause of the explosion. Thor, realizing he was the only one left with the ability to destroy these Daleks, ran towards them with his hammer. The Daleks were about to fire at him, but he jumped over their heads and landed behind them before they could get a good aim. As they started to turn around to face him, Thor used the hammed the destroy both of them. By now, the smoke was clearing, and everyone could see the hole in the wall.
The Doctor and Martha ran to catch up with Thor. The three of them then entered the room together and were shocked to see the TARDIS. They didn't have time to ask questions before the white Supreme Dalek started yelling for their extermination. Thor prepared to attack with his hammer.
"No, you can't destroy it." The Doctor said. "It has to be alive for the message to get to the other Daleks."
Thor still ran up to the Dalek and used his hammer to knock off its gun stalk, eliminating the Dalek's ability to fire deadly lasers. Thor then jumped on top of the Dalek and pulled its head off. While the rest of its body frantically moved about the room, the Doctor tried to jump on top of it and stick the sonic screwdriver inside to send the message to no avail.
"Hurry up and do it!" Martha yelled.
"It's harder than it looks!" The Doctor said.
"Did you hear that?" Jemma asked.
"That sounds like the Doctor and Martha." Fitz said.
Clara heard their voices as well and stormed off towards the TARDIS doors.
The Doctor found it hard to focus on the Dalek, especially as Clara opened the TARDIS doors and started yelling at him.
"How dare you send me away!" Clara yelled. She seemed too preoccupied with yelling at the Doctor to notice that the TARDIS had been moved from London to the Dalek command center.
"I'm a little busy right now!" The Doctor said.
The Doctor then aimed his sonic screwdriver at the Dalek and activated the device. The Dalek then ceased moving.
"Is it dead?" Martha asked.
"No." The Doctor said. "It's sonically paralyzed, but only for a few moments."
The Doctor seized his opportunity and jumped on the Dalek. He then reached his arm inside the open hole and activated the sonic screwdriver. The sonic technology expertly reacted with the machine inside the Supreme Dalek's body and sent an order for every ship and every Dalek to retreat back into space.
Sydney, Australia 2013
Black Widow saw the shadow of the first Dalek about to approach her team, the last defense protecting Skye, Director Fury and the missile launch codes against their alien foes.
"Get ready boys." She said to her soldiers.
The shadow of the Dalek suddenly stopped moving closer and seemed to just turn around and leave.
"What?" Natasha said to herself.
"What's going on out there?" Fury asked on his S.H.I.E.L.D. wrist communicator.
"The Daleks are turning around." Natasha said.
"The Doctor did it." Fury said.
"Does Skye have the codes?" Black Widow asked.
Fury looked at Skye, who nodded her head for a positive confirmation.
"Yes." Fury said. "We just need the Doctor's signal."
Agent Ward still laid under chunks of rock and metal in another part of the base with the unconscious bodies of Mickey Smith and Captain America next to him. He was about to finally emerge from the rubble, but stopped moving when he heard the Daleks return. Agent Ward laid motionless and was happy to realize that the Doctor's plan worked.
New York City, United States 2013
The Second Battle of New York between the humans, Chitauri, and Daleks continued to rage on. The Daleks miraculously seemed to be retreating. Now that the military only had one alien menace to face and the Chitauri reinforcements had been stopped, the tide of the battle had turned in favor of the human race.
Dalek Command Ship 2013
"Is it done?" Thor asked.
"Yes." The Doctor said. "You may destroy it now."
Thor then happily used his hammer to destroy the rest of the Supreme Dalek's body.
"As I was saying," Clara said.
"Not now Clara." The Doctor said. "We've got to send that signal to Director Fury. It won't take the Daleks long to figure out that something's wrong."
The Doctor, Clara, Martha, and Thor then entered the TARDIS with Jemma and Fitz already inside. The Daleks were quick and obedient. Within moments of the message's transmission, millions of Daleks flooded back into their ships and flew back up into space. The Doctor used a S.H.I.E.L.D. wrist communicator that Director Fury gave him to send a message down to the planet below.
"Fire!" The Doctor said.
"You heard him." Fury said.
Without hesitation, Skye typed in the nuclear codes on the computer and set the missiles to attack the Dalek ships above Earth. Soon all the nuclear missiles in the United States, France, Russia, China, the United Kingdom, India, Pakistan, and North Korea simultaneously launched and headed for the Dalek ships. Sensing the imminent destruction of the Dalek fleet, the Doctor started the TARDIS engines and set his time machine on a course for New York City. After the TARDIS left, the nuclear missiles exploded violently upon impact with the Dalek ships, destroying about ninety nine percent of them almost instantly. However, a few Daleks ships were able to escape the blasts and retreated across the stars away from the Earth in defeat. In New York, and many cities across the globe, citizens saw the destruction of the Dalek fleet. It looked like a far away fireworks spectacle to all who were able to see it.
The TARDIS landed in New York City and found that the battle had died down. The military, Iron Man, Hawkeye, and the Hulk had taken out most of the Chitauri that were able to enter the city. Thor immediately started to assist them, while the wrest of the team in the TARDIS began helping civilians and bringing them to safety shelters underground. It took only two hours after the TARDIS' arrival in New York for the battle to end in Chitauri defeat. The Earth had been successful in surviving a catastrophic double invasion. After the battle, the Doctor, Clara, Martha, River, Jack, Melinda May, Simmons, Fitz, Iron Man, Thor, Hawkeye, and the Hulk regrouped inside the TARDIS. The big blue box then disappeared from the streets of a broken New York and headed toward the underground S.H.I.E.L.D. base in Sydney, Australia.