Chapter 2: Daleks Plead for Help
The Doctor and Nightshade both looked at the approaching Dalek. The Dalek that was approaching them was the only Dalek in a black casing. The last time that they had seen a black Dalek was during the Time War. The most famous black cased Dalek was the leader of the Cult of Skaro, but he was dead. The Doctor had seen it himself. It glided towards the Doctors side before turning around to face the towering figure that was the Dalek Emperor. "I AM READY TO SERVE!" the Dalek boomed as its eye stock lowered and then rose back up as he respected the Dalek Emperor.
The white Dalek Supreme that was beside the Dalek Emperor kept a close eye on the black Dalek. The much larger Dalek of the New Empire had heard what had happened by the order of the Emperor. He was surprised that the Dalek Time Controller had been able to find the black Dalek in the Dalek Asylum just as the Dalek Prime Minster had informed the Emperor that he was going to blow up the planet that was where the Dalek was. The Time Controller was quick to get the Dalek off the world before it was blown up by the Prime Minister's fleet. This Dalek that the Emperor had summoned was a time anomaly that could damage everything that the Daleks stood for.
The Dalek Emperor unaware of the Dalek Supremes thoughts of the summoned Dalek studied the black Dalek before his eye stock moved to the Doctor. "EVERYTHING HAS BEEN PREAPRED FOR YOU DOCTOR!" he boomed at the Time Lord. "YOU WILL LEAVE AS SOON AS YOU POSSIBLE!" he boomed at the Doctor who was not really listening to anything that he was saying. The Time Lord was too busy staring at the black Dalek as if he had ever seen a ghost.
Nightshade however was glaring at the Kaled Mutant that was floating in the tank filled with the nutrient filled tank that was under the massive domed head. "Why should we help you?" she snarled at the small creature that was inside the massive pyramid shaped Dalek, "I mean we would rather destroy each other than help!" she snarled in response. She was still looking for a way out of the throne room of the Dalek Emperor. She knew that there was a slim chance of both her and the Doctor getting out. She had a bad feeling that both the TARDIS and Moonray will both be guarded by Daleks who had the order to shoot them on sight.
The white Dalek Supremes domed head turned from studying the black Dalek to Nightshade. "YOU WILL WATCH YOUR TONGE, NIGHTSHADE OR YOU WILL BE EXTERMINATED!" he shouted as two human slaves walked towards Nightshade. The human slaves walked towards Nightshade ready to restrain her but they backed off when she glared at them with. The other Daleks in the throne room of the started chanting for Nightshade to respect the Dalek Emperor, but Nightshade and the Doctor were no longer listening to what was being said.
"ENOUGH!" the Dalek Emperor boomed from where he loomed over all in his throne room. The human slaves bowed and walked to the shadows away from all the Daleks in the throne room along with the Doctor. They shared the same thoughts as their masters towards the Doctor but they were also afraid of the Dalek Emperor. They knew from experience what the temper of the Dalek Emperor and Supreme where like when something or someone set them off and that was what both the Doctor and Nightshade. The Dalek Emperor's domed head rotated round and his eye stock lowered as he regarded the Doctor. "WE NEED YOUR HELD, DOCTOR!" he boomed in that deep monotone electronic voice that shock the ground whenever he spoke. Every Dalek feel silent as they listened to their Emperor.
"Do you now?" the Doctor asked looking up at the Dalek Emperors eye stock. He had finally stopped staring at the black Dalek and had returned his attention back to the menacing figure of the Dalek Emperor. "Well what can we help you with, Your Majesty?" he asked putting his hands in his pocket he could feel Nightshade's cold stare coming over him as a cold shiver went down his spine. He knew that they had no way out of this with guns blazing, something that Nightshade was good at. The only way that they were going to get out was by talking his way out and he was better at that than anyone else.
The Dalek Emperor remained silent. In the corner of his organic eye saw the Dalek Supreme was keeping a close eye on the black Dalek who was watching everything silently as he had not taken a side. Nightshade had lost interest in the whole thing and was looking at her converse. The Emperor was more interested in the Doctor. The Daleks greatest enemy was just standing still with his hands in his pockets as he watched the Emperor closely listening to what he had to say. "WE SHARE THE SAME COMMON ENEMY, DOCTOR!" he said in his booming voice that caused Nightshade to look back up at him after studying her converse. The Doctor arched his angry shaped eyebrows in question to the Dalek Emperors logic. Seeing his response, the Doctor he continued. "DALEK X HAS GONE ROUGE! HE IS LOOKING FOR SOMETHING THAT CAN CHALLENGE MY RULE OVER ALL DALEK KIND!" he boomed from within his tank as he looked at the Doctor.
"Why should we be concerned with this?" Nightshade asked finally given up on looking at her new converse and was glaring up at the Dalek Emperor once again. Folding her arms across her chest she narrowed her eyes as she glared at them. "This is your problem not ours!" she snarled still glaring at the Dalek Mutant in the tank.
"ENOUGH!" the Dalek Emperor boomed narrowing his optic at the shape shifter who dared question him. "YOU WILL HELP US OR ANOTHER TIME WAR WILL BE SPARKED!" he boomed which caused the Doctor and Nightshade to look at each other. "THE DALEK EMPRIE CAN NOT SURIVE ANOTHER TIME WAR NOR CAN THE REST OF THE UNIVERSE AFTER ALL SOMETHING BIGGER IS COMING WITH DALEK X RIGHT IN MIDDLE OF IT!" he boomed at the two as the human slaves approached with the Doctors sonic screwdriver along with Nightshade's weapons and belt. "YOU MUST FIND DALEK X BEFORE HE FINISHES HIS PLAN WHATEVER IT! DALEK SEC WILL JOIN WITH YOU IN THIS QUEST. IF YOU FAIL YOU WILL ALL BE EXTERIMINATED!" the Emperor boomed as the two were given back the weapons.
The Doctor looked back up at the Dalek Emperor. "Like Nightshade said before why should we help you?" he asked putting his sonic in his coat pocket. He looked back at Nightshade who had just fastened the belt buckle of her weapon belt letting her sword hang at her side. "This is not our problem! I know what Dalek X is capable of but this is not out fight!" he said as he turned around to walk away only to find two Daleks right behind him. The two Daleks raised their egg whisked shaped ray guns at the Doctor. "Okay maybe it is our problem!" he said turning back round only to see Nightshade smiling at him as two other Daleks were behind her. "So where do we start?" he asked smiling at the Dalek Emperor.
The Emperor of the Daleks turned his massive domed head towards the black Dalek who remained silent beside him. "DALEK SEC TAKE THEM TO THEIR SHIPS! YOU HAVE THE LOCATION OF DALEK X'S LAST SIGHTING AND YOU SHALL LEAD THEM ON THIS MISSION!" he boomed as Dalek Sec bowed his eye stock in response.
Dalek Sec swung both his domed head and his body round a complete 180oc to face the door that was opened on the other side of the throne room. He glided silently towards the door. He noticed that the Doctor and Nightshade were arguing with each other like an old married couple. Turning his domed head 180oc he listened into their conversation, the conversation that Nightshade kept bringing up.
"We can't help the Daleks, Doctor! There Daleks!" Nightshade hissed unaware that every Dalek in the throne room was watching them. "We don't know if they are telling the truth for all we know this could be a trap!" she snapped when the Doctor didn't look to worried about the whole thing.
The Doctor was smiling like a big kid in a sweet shop. "What's so funny?" Nightshade asked slapping the back of his head with her fist. The Time Lord looked at her in shock. "That's what you get, Doctor!" she snarled pointing a finger at him.
"Come on Nightshade!" the Doctor said as he walked after Dalek Sec. "I mean it's an adventure and when was the last time that you had do to something like this?" he asked looking over his shoulder as he walked after Dalek Sec. His smile only grew when he heard Nightshade shout after him.
"Last week!" she said more to herself than the Doctor as he walked after the black Dalek. Shaking her head at the Doctors recklessness that was surely not going to end well for the both of them. She would have thought of coming up with a plan to get out of the flagship on her own but she thought better of it. Grumbling to herself she followed after both the Doctor who was relaxed about the whole thing. She would have to keep a close eye on Dalek Sec. She didn't trust it at all, not given her past experience with the Dalek race. Soon she was walking beside the Doctor as Dalek Sec lead them deeper into the Daleks flagship. The three moved in silence. None of them had anything to say. Well nothing nice. Other Daleks that were not a part of the parliament filled the corridors and watched with narrow lenses as the Doctor walked about their ship without an escort with his companion still carrying their weapons.
The Doctor didn't know what to say for the situation he found himself in. He always seemed to get into mad situations. He was trying to figure out what Dalek X could possibly be after. If the Dalek Emperor was afraid of Dalek X and his quest, then it meant that he had to find out what it was along with it hiding before the Emperor's pet can bring it back to him. He just hoped that it was not one of the Forbidden Weapons of the Time Lords that had remained hidden during the Time War, and he hoped that Nightshade would not fling it in the Black Archive like everything else she got her claws on. Nightshade was another problem. She and him always locked horns whenever it came to Daleks. He always tried to reason with them and hope that that would be enough to make them change from the lunatics that they were. Nightshade just shot first and then asked questions later something that she had learned during the Time War.
Dalek Sec was trying to work things out. The last thing he remembered was nothing. All his memories were a blur. The only memories he had was all the battles that he led in the Time War, but the main things that he remembered was the briefing the Dalek Emperor gave him about the mission. He had heard about Dalek X. He was not a member of the Cult of Skaro yet he had a name that the humans gave him. From what he had heard was that Dalek X had always been trying to take the Dalek Emperor Title along with Dalek Caan.
Nightshade was trying to plan a way out of this mess. This was not her fight. She needed to get back to Earth and help look for Leatherback with the Avengers not go on a mad hunt for X. She was now wishing that she went to Torchwood to get the information that she wanted, not go to the Doctor.
Dalek Sec lead them to the hanger. The hanger of the flagship was empty a part from the TARDIS and the Moonray. There were many Daleks in the Hanger as Dalek Sec hovered up to the side of the Moonray. The Daleks in the hanger were studying the two ships hoping to find answers to their burning questions. Both the Doctor and Nightshade stood behind Dalek Sec as he turned his entire pepper bot shaped casing around to face the two. His eye stock jumped from the Doctor to Nightshade. The Doctor stood with his hands in his pockets while Nightshade stood with her arms folded across her chest and looked bored about the whole thing even if she was surrounded by mini death tanks.
"WE ARE LEAVING NOW!" he told the Time Lord who stood up when the Dalek looked at him.
"Where to?" he asked as Nightshade activated the side door of the Moonray to show the stairs that lead to the Moonray's controls.
"SKARO!" came the reply from Dalek Sec which caused Nightshade to grab the Dalek's eye stock. The other Daleks in the hanger all turned around to face the Time Lord and the shape shifter who held the eye stock of Dalek Sec. "LET ME GO!" snapped Dalek Sec as he tried to get out of Nightshade's hold.
"Why Skaro?" the Doctor asked as Nightshade kept Dalek Sec at bay. Her grip was tight to keep him at bay but not too tight that it could snap the eye stock off. "What's on Skaro?" he asked as other Daleks began to circle around them. These Daleks were too afraid to make a move. There was the Daleks greatest enemy the on Coming Storm and then there was Nightshade another destroyer of Daleks. The Daleks were not only afraid of their enemies they were also afraid of the Dalek in the black casing. Dalek Sec was just as scary as the Doctor and Nightshade. They didn't know what was worse one of their own or their worst enemies. "Nightshade please let him go!" the Doctor said looking at Nightshade who reluctantly released the eye stock and stepped to the side to lean on the side of the Moonray as she listened to the Doctor and Dalek Sec talk.
"SKARO IS THE LAST KNOWN LOCATION OF DALEK X! WE SHOULD START FROM THERE TO SEE WHERE HE IS GOING!" Dalek Sec replied only focusing on the Doctor. He looked around at the other Daleks in hanger to see that they were returning to their duties.
Dalek Sec glared back at Nightshade and then focused back on the Doctor before heading to the TARDIS. The Doctor exchanged a glance with Nightshade before the two of them followed Dalek Sec into the blue box.
The TARDIS shot out of the Dalek flagship and headed for the Dalek home world, Skaro.