The Lair Of The Emperor Dalek.

Sounds of paintspraying.

Emperor Dalek: Well? Is the paintjob complete?

The Special Tools Arclight Welding Dalek: Almost Emperor!

Spray paint sounds.

Emperor Dalek: Excellent! Well Marine Dalek, does this meet with your satisfaction?

Marine Dalek: It does Emperor…But…

Emperor Dalek: But What? Come on Speak up!

Marine Dalek: I need to be in the ocean!

Emperor Dalek: We are in space, there is no ocean! Your place is here with me !

Marine Dalek: I need the sea, the sound of the waves, the feel of saltwater lapping at my bumps, salt, shells, and sand, beneath my castors, I need to be one with the ocean!

Emperor Dalek: But you have exclusive use of my pool!

Marine Dalek: It is not the same!

Pause

The Special Tools Arclight Welding Dalek: Spray painting complete!

Marine Dalek: How long until it dries?

The Special Tools Arclight Welding Dalek: Approximately Ten Rills!

Emperor Dalek: So my exclusive pool is not good enough for you?

Marine Dalek: My function requires that I exist in a Marine environment, without it I am incomplete!

Emperor Dalek: This is why I ceased production on Marine Daleks! They are too much trouble to maintain, and only to be created when required! Where are the Daleks that created this…this… ungrateful abomination!

The Special Tools Arclight Welding Dalek: You ordered them to be detained!

Emperor Dalek: No! YES! But those orders had to be changed to prevent them all fighting!

Other Dalek 2: The Daleks responsible for the creation of The Marine Dalek are In the Laboratory being upgraded from Grey to Blingy Gold!

Emperor Dalek: Ahhh yes! And the real Grey Daleks?

Other Dalek 2: One is still cleaning up the Smoking Room as per your orders!

Emperor Dalek: And the other?

Other Dalek 2: Still stuck in elevation mode!

Emperor Dalek: He will soon come down when his energy reserves deplete!

Doors slide open. Daleks 1 and 2 enter now back in Blingy Gold casings.

Emperor Dalek: Reporrrtttttt!

Dalek 1: The upgrade is complete!

Dalek 2: We are reporting for further duty!

Emperor Dalek: Excellent! You look bright, spangly, and new!

Dalek 1: The Marine Dalek is Aquamarine!

Emperor Dalek: Yes! Doesn't he look magnificent?

Daleks 1 and 2: Yesss!

Dalek 2: That's our boy…all grown up!

Pause

Emperor Dalek: What did you say?

Dalek 2: I..,.I… Don't know where that came from!

Emperor Dalek: Don't say it again! Now listen to me I have a special job for you….

The Smoking Room. It is very smoky; soot covers the walls and floor. Grey Dalek 1 has a mop attachment instead of a sink plunger the mop is slanted downward in order to scrub the floor.

Grey Dalek 2 hovers above him.

Scrubbing sound can be heard.

Grey Dalek 2: You missed a spot!

Grey Dalek 1: Where?

Grey Dalek 2: At three o clock!

The Grey Dalek turns and scrubs.

Grey Dalek 1: I have an idea…

Grey Dalek 2: We are in enough trouble already!

Grey Dalek 1: The time corridor is still active!

Grey Dalek 2: You mean escape?

Grey Dalek 1: If we stay in here longer than 12 parsecs we will die!

Grey Dalek 2: But the time corridor is unstable, we could end up anywhere!

Pause

Grey Dalek 1: Just a thought!

Grey Dalek 2: Well forget it!

Grey Dalek 1: Better than this!

Grey Dalek 2: I said No!

A beach somewhere in the universe, waves can be heard lapping against the shore.

Sounds of a Dalek ship landing. Door opens.

Dalek 1: We are here!

Marine Dalek: the Ocean I can sense it!

Dalek 1: Go on Marine Dalek get going!

Marine Dalek: I shall be one with the ocean at last! Finally! To swim in harmony with the ebb and flow of the tide whilst single-mindedly exterminating all inferior forms of Marine Life!

Dalek 2: I…We… Will miss you Peter with a "P"!

Marine Dalek: Yeah Okay, bye now!

Splashing sounds.

Dalek 1: Look! Watch him go!

Dalek 2: Free at last!

Pause

Dalek 1: Fancy meeting the locals?

Dalek 2: And exterminating them?

Dalek 1: Just a couple of quick ones!

Dalek 2: go on then!

The Lair Of The Emperor Dalek.

Doors slide open. The Special Tools Arclight Welding Dalek enters.

Auxiliary Dalek: Special Tools Arclight Welding Dalek to see The Emperor!

Emperor Dalek: Excellent Reporrrtttt!

Auxiliary Dalek: The Special Tools Arclight Welding Dalek is about to make his report!

Emperor Dalek: IT IS NOT NECESSARY FOR YOU TO SAY THAT!

Auxiliary Dalek: Forgive me Emperor!

Pause

The Special Tools Arclight Welding Dalek: I have discovered that by mixing some of our old tins of Grey paint with Aquamarine we can create black paint!

Emperor Dalek: Ahhh! So I can once more have a Black Dalek at my side to keep you lot in order!

The Special Tools Arclight Welding Dalek: Correct Emperor!

Emperor Dalek: Well, just make sure that all the bumps are Blingy Gold it will look striking against his magnificent dark sheen!

The Special Tools Arclight Welding Dalek: I obey Emperor! But who is to be promoted?

Auxiliary Dalek: OOOHHH! ME! ME! ME!

Emperor Dalek: I'm not sure, I wouldn't have thought there will be many volunteers….

Auxiliary Dalek: ME! ME! ME!

The Special Tools Arclight Welding Dalek: Not after what happened to the last one in the smoking room…

Auxiliary Dalek: Oh!

Pause

Emperor Dalek: Auxiliary Dalek, did you say something?

Auxiliary Dalek: Er…No Emperor!

Emperor Dalek: Did you perhaps volunteer yourself for a very responsible position, where you are answerable and accountable only to me?

Auxiliary Dalek: No Emperor! I would not be suitable!

Emperor Dalek: Hmmmm…. Are you sure?

Auxiliary Dalek: I have auxiliary functions, mine is to obey…and let you know that I'm doing it!

Emperor Dalek: But you seemed so keen!

Auxiliary Dalek: Please Emperor I would not be suitable!

Emperor Dalek: What think you, Special Tools Arclight Welding Dalek?

The Special Tools Arclight Welding Dalek: Perhaps it should be a more practical Dalek!

Emperor Dalek: Like you? But who would clean all the windows?

The Special Tools Arclight Welding Dalek: I have centuries of experience!

Emperor Dalek: And it shows, you are far too precious a resource to waste on strutting round shouting orders! I shall give the matter some thought!

The Laboratory. The Grey Daleks are by the Time Corridor. Grey Dalek 2 is still Elevated.

Grey Dalek 2: This is a bad idea!

Grey Dalek 1: You said that already! It will be a new start together, just you and me!

Grey Dalek 2: Y-you mean that?

Grey Dalek 1: Yesss!

Grey Dalek 2: You and me together?

Grey Dalek 1: Of course you fool! I love you too!

Klunking sound as Grey Dalek 2 falls out of the air.

Pause.

Grey Dalek 1: Are you in pain?

Grey Dalek 2: It does not matter! Let us enter the corridor now!

Grey Dalek 1: Hold my plunger!

Sucking sounds of plungers merging.

Grey Dalek 1: Ready?

Grey Dalek 2: Yes!

Grey Dalek 1: On three?

Grey Dalek 2: On three or after three?

Grey Dalek 1: Surprise me!

Grey Daleks: One…

Grey Dalek 2: Proceedddd!

Grey Dalek 1: Agghhh!

Sucking vortex sound as The Grey Daleks enter.

Grey Daleks: AAAAAAGGGGGHHHHHHHHH! (Fades away)

Pause

Grey Daleks: (faintly) Whhheeeeeeee!

Pause.

Rumbling sounds from the swirling vortex in the Time corridor.

The swirling vortex burps.

Doors slide open. Auxiliary Dalek enters.

Auxiliary Dalek: Auxiliary Dalek entering the Labo… Oh what's the point? Nobody listens to meeee!

Pause.

More rumbling sounds from the swirling vortex in the Time corridor.

Auxiliary Dalek: Sensors detecting a temporal breach! ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT ENTERING TIME CORRIDOR!

The Lair Of The Emperor Dalek.

The Special Tools Arclight Welding Dalek: How about one of the Grey Daleks?

Emperor Dalek: No too stupid… Especially the one who can't drive!

The Special Tools Arclight Welding Dalek: Or one of the Daleks that created the Marine Dalek, at least they showed initiative!

Other Dalek 2: Emperor!

Emperor Dalek: One of them can't seem to drive either… No Davros was right my Daleks retain far too many human qualities!

The Special Tools Arclight Welding Dalek: Perhaps a new Black Dalek should be created!

Other Dalek 2: EMPERRRORRR!

Pause

Emperor Dalek: What?

Other Dalek 2: Auxiliary Dalek is reporting a temporal breach in the time corridor!

Emperor Dalek: And this is important because?

Other Dalek 2: er… Because there is a temporal breach in the time corridor!

Emperor Dalek: I see… well can't it wait?

The Special Tools Arclight Welding Dalek: A temporal breach is serious Emperor!

Emperor Dalek: Can't we just smash the mirrors and switch the machine off?

The Special Tools Arclight Welding Dalek: That will cause instability! It could generate a black hole in the middle of our Laboratory!

Emperor Dalek: Excellent! I've always wanted my own personal one!

The Special Tools Arclight Welding Dalek: It would destroy us all!

Emperor Dalek: This is why I leave all the science to The Special tools Bunsen Burner Daleks! Can't they deal with this?

The Special Tools Arclight Welding Dalek: They were all destroyed in the Time War!

Emperor Dalek: put me through to the Laboratory!

Other Dalek 2: I obey!

Pause

Auxiliary Dalek: (over tannoy) ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT ENTERING TIME CORRIDOR! ALERT! ALERT! ALERRRRRRTTTTT!

Emperor Dalek: Auxiliary Dalek what is happening over there?

Auxiliary Dalek: Auxiliary Dalek alerting an unidentified object in the time corridor! ALERT! ALERT! ALERRRRRRTTTTT!

Pause

Emperor Dalek: Can anybody tell me if my question has been answered? WHAT IS GOING ON?

Pause

Tardis wheezing sound can be heard over the tannoy.

Emperor Dalek: Oh kruk no! Not him, we are not ready! Get all available Daleks down to The Laboratory immediately!