Chapter 19
Dalek Sec had been in many battles since he had been birthed. He had been genetically altered to help the Daleks against this enemies. At first it was seen as a mistake to give a Dalek emotions, but he and his brother, Dalek Caan had proven them wrong. He had been designed to think like the enemy. He had been given more emotions than the common Dalek to get into their mind to think what they would do next. He may have been given more emotions but it was still nothing compared to the emotions that humans and Time Lords showed. But it was more emotions than any Dalek before him ever had.
Not only was he given genetics that allowed him to have more emotions, his genetics were of a Dalek Supreme. From the get go he was to command his own battalion. He had no experience and he only had the word of the Emperor to go by with his orders. Orders that he was able to add a flair to with thanks to his inhanched Dalek emotions.
He first battled had been against the Mechonoids. He had been one of the generals who fought against the robotic race. He had been a nameless Dalek who soon made a name for himself with the way he had ordered his battalion against the Mechonoids. It was with his command style that had earned him the attention of the Dalek Emperor. Already the Emperor was seeing that his experiment to add more emotions to his generals was already a good battle tactic in making Daleks the supreme beings of the universe.
By the time the Time War had been arranged the Dalek Emperor had already created a new team of Daleks. A team of Daleks that were following the idea of Dalek Sec and Dalek Caan before them. These two new Daleks were put through the tests to make sure that they were valuable to the Dalek Empire and they were. That was when Dalek Thay and Dalek Jast where named as the new commanders under Dalek Sec's leadership. The Cult of Skaro were Daleks that would be more feared than the other Daleks in the empire and that included the Emperor himself. With their more advanced emotions the Cult of Skaro were able to think like the enemy and that made them more dangerous in more ways than one. The Cult of Skaro quickly become a legend.
A legend that the Time Lords had hoped was just that. A story the Daleks were telling in hopes of scaring them. They hoped that it was just the Dalek and their propaganda to make them scared. The Daleks were waiting for the Time Lords to slip up, but the Time Lords did not such thing during the Time War. The Time Lords had collected heroes and warriors from all over the universe from different times to help them in their fight agaisnt the Daleks. And one of the teams that they had plucked was a mistake for both the Time Lords and the Daleks.
The Guardians had been picked with their knowledge of warfare and with the fact that they were hard to kill. But they did not like to be told what to do and that was evident by both Nightshade and Edward. The Dragonoid and the Ghoul made the Daleks look like nothing when they butchered Time Lords and Daleks alike during missions. Dalek Sec had always thought that Nightshade was one of the beings who fought to keep live, but the Time War showed another side to her. It had taken Edward interrogating a Dalek Supreme and breaking it after threating it with making it paint did the Time Lords learn who they really where. By that point it was already too late. The Cult had been watching the Time Lords and the warriors that they had plucked out of their own time to aid in the war for years that they knew what to do.
The Cult of Skaro would have helped in ending the war for the Dalek's side if it had not been for Nightshade who finally appeared in the battle. It was not only Nightshade, but it was also the Doctor. The Doctor had changed. He was no longer caring who died as he fought to get the war to end. It would explain why he used the Moment against the Daleks and his own people.
After the Time War he had been in more fights. He had fought against the Doctor, Cybermen and Torchwood in London before Dalek Caan betrayed him and sent him to the Dalek Asylum. In the Asylum he was given a chance to redeem himself to the Emperor and was made to work with the Daleks worst enemies: the Doctor and Nightshade. He had fought against Dalek X who was creating a new Empire of the Daleks that would wipe everything out. With working with the Doctor as they went all across the universe looking for pieces of the Star Bane that Dalek X was looking for he began to see how wrong the Daleks were. It was with those thoughts that he had decided to join the Avengers in their fight against Seth, but it was more than that for him. He was also helping them as he was looking for revenge against Dalek Caan who had sided with Seth after his speech about helping non Daleks. He was going to make Dalek Caan pay for what he had done to the Cult of Skaro and what he had done to himself.
Since Dalek Sec had become a member of the Avengers he had been searching into all of his team mates past. He always found it better to work well with others when he knew their background. The human members of the team were simple to follow. They had either discovered their powers at a young age and were shunned by society by them. Or, like Captain America they had stepped up to be a hero when others just looked down at him. The Guardians like Edward and Julian it was a bit more complicated. But he got the just of them. He also understood Galvatron who had came from another dimension and had started to have feelings for Nightshade who had stood beside him as he fought agaisnt his past demons in Unicron.
Then there was Nightshade. Who from the records seemed to have appeared out of nowhere. Her history had been hiding behind a firewall of her and the Moonray's design. And even with his knowledge of hacking he would not be able to hack into the Moonray's systems that kept changing like every few seconds.
Even his knowledge of the Dragonoids was very limited. He only knew that they were much, much older than the Time Lords and lot of the other older races in the universe. To many lesser worlds they were seen as Gods for their powers to control over the natural and unnatural elements. He along with many others knew that the Dragonoids had gone long before the Time War had been raging, but no one could point the finger at what actual brought them to their knees. But there had been a few sayings over the years that the Titians led by Kronos brought them down. How Nightshade was alive it was unknown when she like the Doctor is the last of her kind. It was a topic that Nightshade did not want to share with anyone. He didn't know if the Doctor or if even Edward knew what had happened to Nightshade and her people.
With what seemed like a lifetime to Dalek Sec, and it was, he was standing across from Dalek Caan. Once they had been fighting for the same thing: The Dalek Empire. But now they were fighting for different things. They had changed so much thanks to their advanced emotions that they know longer looked at the Dalek Empire like they had done when they had first hatched. No they saw that there was no chance for the Empire with the way that it was going on at the moment. There was changes that needed to be done. Dalek Caan saw that with Seth he would be able to become more powerful than the Emperor himself, but Dalek Sec knew that those two would stab each other in the back when they had the chance to it.
He saw that the whole Dalek Empire was wrong. It had not worked long before the Time War on their planet and it wont war after the Time War. It was true that they did conquer worlds, but that did not last long as either they stood up for themselves or the Doctor showed up. No he wanted to show the universe and the Daleks themselves that they can work and fight with others from different worlds and backgrounds. With the Avengers he felt welcomed and he felt that he was making a difference.
He was brought out of his thoughts when a laser fire blasted right beside him. His eye stock rotated around to face Dalek Caan. The Dalek that he had once been his brother in many ways had taken a battle stance, something that he could not do. He had not been given an upgrade like Dalek Caan had been given when Seth aided Dalek X in his failed invasion plan for earth. He was still in his original casing that he had been given when he became the leader of the Cult of Skaro.
"ARE YOU READY TO BE EXTERIMINATED LIKE A GOOD RETRARTED DALEK THAT YOU ARE? ONCE YOU HAVE BEEN EXTERIMINATED THE DALEK RACE WILL BE PURE ONCE AGAIN!" Dalek Caan boomed from across the church yard. He was not phased by the two Cybertronians that were still present in the church yard. They were not his concern. No they were witnesses to when he finally defeated Dalek Sec.
Dalek Sec's tentacles curled up inside his casing. It was something he had been doing more and more since all of this had started. He had begged the Doctor to give him more emotions and he was given emotions. He had been quick to learn how to control his emotions so he did not go mad inside of his casing. It still scared him to think that he had once thought like Dalek Caan and the other Daleks.
"IT IS NOT ME THAT MUST BE EXTERIMINATED! IT IS YOU DALEK CAAN!" Dalek Sec shouted at Dalek Caan. He knew that Dalek Caan needed to be stopped. If he kept doing this there would be no going back and they were dealing with a world that neither of them were use to. They both needed to be careful and not be used by a God of Choas like Dalek Caan was being used at the moment.
He rotated his domed head around to Barricade. The Transformer who took the form of a police car looked ready to join the fight against Dalek Caan at any moment. "BARRICADE GO AND ASSIST THE AVENGERS! THEY ARE IN A SCOTTISH TOWN CLOSE TO GLASGOW! YOU WILL KNOW WHERE IT IS WHEN YOU SEE THE FLAMES FROM THE MOONRAY!" he told Barricade.
Barricade's optics widened as he looked from Dalek Sec to Dalek Caan. He knew that Dalek Sec was matched to Dalek Caan but he wanted to see the two Daleks fight and take out the one who was still standing. But he had been given an order to leave the church yard, something that he wanted nothing more than do it. He wanted to drive until he found Galvatron. Hopefully his leader would be able to fight against Unicron, but seeing how angry he had gotten when the Chaos Bringer kept bringing up Nightshade he had no doubt that Galvatron was going to end Unicron.
He didn't say anything as he transformed into his vehicle form and raced away from the church yard. He activated his sirens as soon as he left the grounds and headed north. He was not going to allow Galvatron and the others to glory of ending Unicron when he can have a part of it.
Megatron from this dimension transformed into his tank form when he sensed that it was not his place to watch the Daleks. He had no time to deal with them, he had plans to plan on taken Earth for himself and there was no way that he was going to work with Seth to do it.
Dalek Sec seeing that Barricade was gone looked back at Dalek Caan. "NOW THAT WE ARE ALONE WE WILL SEE WHICH ON OF US WILL BE SUPIEROR THAN THE OTHER!" he said to Dalek Caan. He hovered towards his former second in command. The Dalek that he had trusted since he was nothing more than a hatchling. "YOU WILL PAY FOR BETRYAING US DALEK CAAN! YOU WILL PAY FOR LEAVING ME TO DIE!"
"YOU WILL PAY FOR MAKING ME SUFFER FOR CENTURIES UNDER YOUR COMMAND! WE MAY SHARE THE SAME GENETIC CODING BUT WE ARE NOTHNING ALIKE!" Dalek Caan shouted at Dalek Sec. His heavy foot slammed into the ground as he showed Dalek Sec his sharp claws.
"THEN LETS END THIS DALEK CAAN! IT IS CLEAR NOW THAT WE ARE NO LONGER BROTHERS!"
"EXTERIMANTE!" the two Daleks screamed at the same time.
Dalek Caan fired red lasers at Dalek Sec. Dalek Sec hovered away just in time as the lasers exploded into the church that was already destroyed by Galvatron and Unicron in their fight against each other. Dalek Sec had also fired his lasers and all of them had hit their mark on Dalek Caan.
Dalek Caan stammered back before he fired at Dalek Sec again, but this time he fired a couple of rockets. Rockets that zoomed towards Dalek Sec faster than what he could react too. Seconds after they had been fired they had struck their target. Dalek Caan stomped towards Dalek Sec whose casing was now destroyed and sparking. He snarled back a snigger as he saw Dalek Sec's tentacles fall out of the chasing that he had just destroyed.
"I AM THE SUPERIROR ONE AND YOU ARE THE ONE THAT HAS BEEN EXTERIMINATED BY ME!" Dalek Caan boast as he glared down at the little tentacle creature that was in front of him. "YOU HAVE HELD ME BACK FOR SO MANY YEARS DALEK SEC! YOU HAVE BECOME WEAK! JUST LIKE THE INFEIOR CREATURES THAT YOU WORK WITH! YOU ARE NOT A GOOD DALEK, DALEK SEC!" Dalek Caan declared to Dalek Sec.
Dalek Sec blinked his eye tirerdly up at Dalek Caan. Once again he wrapped his tentacles around his body. It was not enough to protect him from the attack that his former second in command was going to fire at him. His chasing that since his birth was no good agaisnt the new technology that Dalek Caan was using thanks to whatever Seth had done to it. He looked from Caan and to the part of chasing that was hanging just above him.
He screamed when his life support system started to fail. Sparks of electricity that was to keep him alive suddenly attacked his body. Then the organic material that was his food suddenly dribbled down onto him as the tank that held all of it was suddenly cracked. His weak eye caught movement too late. He was picked up from his chasing by Dalek Caan's clawed hand. He let out a small cry of pain as he was torn out of his chasing. The armour that he had been given by the Dalek Emperor had lasted the war agaisnt the Mechanoids, the Time Lords had not lasted in fighting agaisnt Dalek Caan.
"YOU ARE WEAK! AND YOU ARE NO LONGER A DALEK!" Dalek Caan stated as he suspended Dalek Sec's slimly organic body above the ground and his chasing. Without warning he releashed Dalek Sec who landed with a plop. "YOU DO NOT DESERVE TO DIE LIKE A DALEK!" he said. With that Dalek Caan turned his back on the helpless Dalek creature.
Dalek Sec shivered as he watched Dalek Caan disappear into nothing as he swallowed by a ring of shadows. It was not bright and warm like the Ground Bridges that the Moonray opened when requested to be opened. No this source of power sent a warning through all of Dalek Sec's cells. Cells that had been designed to exterimante other life forms before being modtifed to take the fight to them. What use they were now that they had been defeated by a Dalek that during centuries of warfare had always been at his feet.
He let out a small mewling sound as relatity crashed down upon him. He had fought in so many battles and had killed so many foes. He had turned his back on the Daleks when he found that their way was wrong. He was once more feared than the Dalek Emperor himself and had once commanded a fleet. All of that and he meets his end on Earth like any normal Dalek. This was not what he was expecting when he had become an Avenger. He had become one of them to fight for his new beliefs and it had caused him to be defeated.
He was Dalek Sec no more. He was just a nameless Dalek that had meet its end on Earth. He was not even in his chasing anymore. He had been dumped and left for the birds of this world to be eaten by them. He was not even a Dalek. He was a lump of meat. He was a lump of meat that was far from home and had no friends who could save him. There was no Doctor to swing in and safe him like he did many years ago. There was no Nightshade to appear suddenly and get him back into his chasing. There was no one.
He wrapped his tentacles around his body as he thought of what had become of his life. He had once been one of the greatest Daleks in Dalek history. Now he was scavenger food on Earth. He was nothing.
He closed his eye as the cold of the English night seeped into his skin. He was so cold. He was hurt. He was lost. These were emotions and feelings that he normally would never feel while still inside his chasing. Since he had joined the Avengers he had been learning new emotions. Some were good and he always wanted to fell them. Friendship. Love. Happiness. It was strange that a Dalek would feel those emotions.
But he also felt the standard Dalek emotions. Hatred. Anger. Despair. Having better emotions he never wanted to feel the box standard emotions of Dalek kind. It always set him apart from the other Daleks and even the rest of the Cult of Skaro.
But what good were his emotions now? He had been defeated. Cast out by Dalek Caan. He was nothing now. He had no brother. He had no other Avenger to look after him and get him back into his chasing. They were all fighting Seth at the moment at some location far away from him.
He was in his own self-pity that he did not hear someone approaching him. He did not hear their even breathing as they approached. He did not hear the clanking of their armour as they got closer to him. He was ready to die. He let out a pained groan to let whatever was there to know that he wanted to be left alone.
His warning was unheard as he was suddenly lifted. It was not mechanical arms that were lifting him. No these were organic like many of the humans that called Earth their home. But it was not human. There was power seeping out of the person who had lifted him. His tentacles suddenly dropped and dangled as he lost the last of his strength. Why couldn't the world know that he wanted to die. He was not a hero. He was not a Dalek. He was Nothing.
"You are nothing Sec!" spoke a warm voice that was thick with an accent that came from Greece. "You are one of the chosen ones to defeat Seth!" she spoke again as she used her other hand to support his tentacles that dangled towards the ground.
He let out a pained groan again. He was making it clear that he wanted to die. He had been left to die. No one knew that he had been destroyed. He knew Wasp would morn for him. She had always been kind to him, even if she was scared of him.
Fear! That was a new emotions he was feeling. He didn't like it. When he had been a Dalek he would love to see it on his enemies. But he did not like feeling it.
"Now stop feeling that way, Sec! You are not going to die! You just need more firepower to take down Dalek Caan and Seth! This is just a chapter in your long story! All mighty heroes meet this at some point or other! And they come back stronger and more wiser! You are a fighter Dalek Sec!" she spoke again as she placed him back on the soft grass that was around the churchyard.
He slowly opened his eye and was able to see the person that had come to stop his death. She was tall and slender. He did not know much about humans, but what he was seeing was that his rescue was one beautiful lady. She wore armour on her shoulders, chest and legs. Under the armour that was gold she wore a blue dress that flowed like the water of a waterfall.
She smiled as she looked down at him when she saw that he had opened his lone eye. "Now why don't we see about getting you ready for your rematch against Dalek Caan?" she asked. She clicked her fingers and before he could react he could feel his flesh melding with metal and machinery.
He closed his eye as the pain increased. He had never felt pain like this before in all his life. Not even the torture that the Time Lords and even Nightshade rivalled this pain. He could feel his flesh being joined with the machinery. He recognised bits and pieces from his chasing but a lot of it was brand new.
Slowly he dared to open his eye to see the world so much clearer than before. There was no more blue tint that came from his optic, but he could still tell that it was the optic and eye stock that he had for years. A moment later strange symbols filled his vision and he knew he was running a system check. It was something that he had done all the time when he woke up. This time his systems had been updated that he had no clue what any of it meant, but he understood what was being said.
"Now that is a lot better! I have added more systems to your armour and also updated it for you!" the lady spoke as she walked towards him. She clicked her fingers and a mirror appeared between them allowing Dalek Sec to see what he looked like
He stared at his reflection for a good moment as he took in every detail about his new look. His armour was still black and on his chest was the "A" crest of the Avengers. His armour had been designed to be like that of a Cyberman. He had legs, that unlike Dalek Caan that was animalistic his legs were more human like. He also had arms. One arm had hand with fingers that moved with his thoughts. His other arm ended with his classic death ray gun.
His head was still similar to his original design that had been doing the Daleks good since Davorus had come up with the idea for their travel units. Travel units that they were still using. He still had the lights on either side of his head but they had been redesigned to look like small horns. He also had his optic and eye stock that had hardly changed at all. His head looked like the Tripods head from the War of the Worlds film that Wasp had made him, Nightshade and Galvatron watched as a team building thing. But it was mainly because she wanted to watch it and to be honest with someone Dalek Sec found Wasp scary when she was mad.
He stepped back and watched his reflection do the same thing before he walked back towards the mirror. He turned around and found his neck could only move so much unlike before where it could turn a full 180.
"Well, do you like?" she asked. The mirror vanished and Dalek Sec was once again looking right at her.
He was silent as he checked his new form. He found a system that he had never seen before and like the cat with curiosity he checked the system. His body dropped lower to the ground. His human legs had been replaced by four spidery legs. His arm that had the hand had once again become a plunger. He had a plate of armour showing from his back that procted him from all sides. He undone what he had just done and he found himself with his human legs.
"I DO! BUT WHY HAVE YOU ASSISSTED ME WHEN I WAS READY TO DIE?" he asked her. He was glad that it was his voice and not a new voice that he was hearing as he spoke.
"Like I said before: it is not your time to die! But you must hurry before someone does die! The ship that is called after the moon has crashed and an ancient evil now stalks the land!" she told him. She turned her back on Dalek Sec. "I need to gather my forces for the final fight against Seth and you have to help the other Avengers! Seth and his allies are getting closer to get the Book of the Dead!"
Dalek Sec looked at his hand. He moved his fingers before he looked back at the woman who had saved him and made him better than Dalek Caan. "IDENTIFY YOURSELF! I DEMAND TO KNOW WHO YOU ARE AND WHY YOU HAVE ASSISTED ME?"
"My name is Athena and that is all I can say!" Athena explained to Dalek Sec. She then turned her back on him and started to walk away from the Dalek that she had just upgraded. She walked until she was gone from Dalek Sec's view like she was never there at all.
Dalek Sec studied where Athena had been only a second ago. It was as if she was never there and he had been saved by a ghost. He would have to check with one of the Avengers on who Athena was.
"DALEK SEC TO UNIT COMMAND! I NEED A PICK UP TO BE TAKEN TO THE MOONRAY'S LAST KNOWN LOCATION!" he spoke into his communication system.
He only had to wait a moment before a helicopter from UNIT landed in front of him. Marching towards the doors he scanned the shocked faces that the soldiers were given him, but they did not say anything. He had earned their trust and they knew that he was not a threat. He was one of them. He was Dalek Sec member of the Avengers. He was once the feared Dalek commander of the Cult of Skaro, but that was in the past. That was in the past like his brotherhood to Dalek Caan. Now they were enemies. And at the end of it all only one of them was going to walk away alive. And it wont be Dalek Caan.
The helicopter lifted up off the ground with its rotor blades spinning to live. He could feel the soldiers of UNIT staring at him and his new upgrades. He tried to curl his tentacles but he found his limbs instead moving. Snarling he relaxed and copied what the humans were doing and sat on one of the benches inside of the helicopter. He scanned the interior of the helicopter to see the pad that had once held him when he had been in one of these in his original casing. Now he no longer was held by the cage.
He was now free.
He was no longer a Dalek. He was an Avenger. He was Dalek Sec and he was coming for Dalek Caan.