Rock shield and rock hammer in hand, Aule strode forth towards Melkor. The fight begun. Several javelins of stone flew straight at Melkor, and he swung his hammer around, destroying each one as it was about to hit him.

"Aule, Aule, Aule. You were so misguided. And yet I haven't seen any sadness in you. Haven't you noticed your entire people has been reduced to one?"

"My… my Dwarves? I know. They really are gone. But I do not fret, for they are in the Halls of Aule now, where all Dwarves go to rest after they die. And once I beat you, for this is undoubtedly the Dagor Dagorath, they will return to rebuild this world."

Melkor did not reply. Instead, his hammer thudded into Aule's shield, which managed to sustain the hit. But then, the energies of the Cruciform within his hammer triggered. The entire shield turned to dust. And from dust to separated molecules, and then to atoms, and then to nothing. Aule cowered before his mighty foe.

Meanwhile, deep in the ruins of Mount Gundabad, a small force of Daleks were searching. Hunting for the source of the signal. And that's when they found it.

A decrepit Dalek case, broken and smashed. The creature inside had a rock impaling it by one of its tendrils to the case, and the case would most likely not move. But the creature itself lived. It's eye still moved. Dalek X was alive.

"Y-yo-you… y-youu hav-v-v-v-e ar-riv-ed-d-d…" Dalek X pronounced.

"Dalek X. You are intact," stated one of the Daleks.

"I-in-de-d-d-d-ed. I a-am cu-r-r-rren-t-tl-e in-tact. One of y-y-you… give me your-r-r case."

"Understood," reported the Dalek with the least superiority. It opened up the central part and crawled out, slowly but surely. Although not truly effective, the lead Dalek removed the spike from Dalek X. Dalek X transferred itself over to its new case.

"Yes. This case is… far superior," it said, having a new and updated vocal modulator. Then, Dalek X spoke once more.

"Whichever of you has the highest seniority besides me - carry this Dalek. I am returning to the flagship and taking control over all mithril operations."

"Understood, Dalek X!"

The Daleks took off, Dalek X in the lead. They flew back to the Command Saucer, currently in orbit. The Daleks were recovering from the blows that Valar had inflicted upon them. Their advantages only multiplied. Dalek X boarded the command ship and spoke with the Emperor. The Emperor told him of Melkor, and the Cruciform, and updated him of the situation. And because he, along with Dalek Y and Z, were created superior, were created as advisors while the Cult of Skaro was missing, an idea formulated within his brain.

Dalek X felt an idea come together. A plan. The Daleks would win this war.