Chapter 8: Enemies are Friends, and Friends are Enimies

"WHY?" Dalek Sec asked. The Dalek was in a glass cage beside the The Doctor who sat on the floor of his glass cage. His one blue optic locked onto the old face of the Time Lord who was rubbing his face with both hands.

"Why what?" he asked. He didn't even look at the Dalek that was beside him. "Why Nightshade just abandoned us? I don't know! " he replied unaware that he was being studied.

Dalek Sec's optic narrowed as he studied the Time Lord that he had once feared during the Tine War, but now he had a great amount of respect for him. "WHY HAVE YOU GIVEN UP? YOU KNOW AS WELL AS I THAT NIGHTSHADE WOULD NEVER ALLOW THE POWER SOURCE OF THE STAR BANE TO FALL INTO THE CONTROL OF DALEK X AND HIS FLEET?" he asked again. "NIGHTSHADE WAS THINKING LOGICALLY IN THE MATTER OF KEEPING THE STAR BANE SAFE! SHE HAD TO MAKE THE CALL TO KEEP THE POWER FAR AWAY FROM HERE!" Sec rattled on. His words just feel onto deaf ears.

Narrowing his organic eye within his casing Dalek Sec continued to stare at the Doctor. The man who had escaped many prisons in his lifetime and here he was just sitting on his backside no longer carying what happened to the universe in a glass cage. The universe that had just turned its back on him including one that he thought was his friend. He could understand how it felt to be betrated thanks to Dalek Caan that saw him becoming a paradox after he was turned into a Human-Dalek Hybrid. "WE MUST PLAN AN ESCAPE AND HOPE THAT NIGHTSHADE WILL RETURN ONCE SHE IS CERTAIN THAT THE STAR BANES PEICE IS SAFE FROM BOTH DALEK X AND THIS COLLECTOR!" he shouted at the Doctor through the glass of his cage to the Doctor who sat on the floor of his cage. His monotone voice echoed all around the cage that he was in.

The Doctor didn't say anything. He just stared at a point in the ground. Dalek Sec was beginning to wonder if there was a plan between the Doctor and Nightshade that they had failed to inform him off. It must be that. The Doctor is just keeping up appearance that he was betrayed for the benefit of the Collector. Nightshade must be taking the heart of the Star Bane to a place she knew was safer than the TARDIS or the Moonray.

"You don't get it do you Sec?" the Doctor finally spoke. He didn't look up from the point on the floor as he talked to Dalek Sec. "Nightshade left us here and she even paid for it! We are now a part of his collection!" he snapped.

The Dalek creature within the case shrank deeper into hinself at the Doctor's words. The Time Lord that was feared by all Daleks had given up on escaping because a old ally had given up on him. "NO!" Sec shouted. The lightbulbs on either side of his domed head lit up in time to him speaking.

Finally the Doctor looked up from the point on the floor. "What did you just say?" the angered Time Lord spat.

If Sec could move in the small box that he was put in he would have. He would have rolled backwards to get away from the Doctor's rage. "WE ARE NOT A PART OF THIS COLLECTION UNLESS YOU ALLOW YOURSELF TO BE!" rattled Sec. He didn't want to stay in the cage. He wabtewanted to be free. Being in the cage reminded him of all the years he had been influenced by Dalek beliefs, but now he was outside of the cage. He had already learned so much from the Doctor and Nightshade. It may not seem much to them, but to him it was a lot. How to interact with those they were friendly with to those who needed to keep a close eye on. To everyone else that was basically an everyday interaction, but to him he was learning it for the first time like a baby does.

"WE ARE GETTING OUT!" Sec boomed at the Doctor. The Doctor was once again looking at the floor of the cage that he was in.

The sound of someone sighing caused Dalek Sec to seek the source out. Standing outside of the two cages was the Collector himself. He had his hands behind his back as he studied his two new collections like a child would with an insect collection. "You are not thinking of leaving? Are you?" he asked leaning in close to study Dalek Sec.

Dalek Sec could only narrow his optic at the man in front. "AFFIRMATIVE!" he replied. His anger for the man before him was growing. He had hoped that the Doctor would say something to back him up, but the Time Lord didn't say anything. The Doctor was just focusing on a point behind the Collector. "YOU CANNOT KEEP US HERE! ANY OF US! WE ARE ALL FREE BEINGS THAT MUST RALLY TOGETHER TO STOP AN EVIL PLOT TO DESTROY THE UNIVERSE!" Sec shouted at the man. He could see his pink skinned assistant tensing at his words. She had already heard what had happened at Nova Prime with the Kree and the Guardians of the Galaxy. If this was another attack done in revenge to that the Nova Prime and Nowhere didn't stand a chance with the Guardians gone somewhere else in the galaxy beig chased by Ravagers.

"A Dalek that wants to save and defend the universe! Now that's something you don't see or hear at all!" the Collector gasped. His new collection was more fascinating then he had first thought it was.

Dalek Sec would have said something to the man that was holding him prisoner in his mad collection but was stopped when an explosion ripped open the side of the building that was holding his strange and barbaric collection. The Collector whirled around to see many of his collection running free. The Transformer that was in the collection transformed into a jet and jetted out of the massive hole that had been opened in the explosion followed by many other prisoners of the Collector. The Collector's face dropped as many of his items started to aattack his guards as they made a break for it. It did not get any better as a Heavy Weapons Dalek rolled towards him. It's massive canon was still smocking as it had just fired the shot that had destroyed the side of the building. Behind it the White Dalek rolled in flanker by two bronze Daleks. Behind the white Dalek, Nightshade strolled in with two human slaves behind her.

The shapeshifter kept a good distance away as a bronze Dalek fired at the glass cages that were holding one of their own and a former enemy.

The white Dalek rolled up towards the Doctor as Dalek Sec rolled over to Nightshade. "WHY DID YOU ABANDON US?" he asked her as the Dalek Supreme talked with the Doctor.

Nightshade looked back at Dalek Sec as she listened to what the Doctor and Dalek Supreme talked. "I done so because I was falling back as quickly as possible as Dalek X's fleet was bearing down on us! They still think that the Star Bane is within the Dalek fleet!" she replied to the black Dalek.

"AND WHERE IS THE HEART OF THE STAR BANE?" he asked. He felt anger boil as Nightshade smiled and walked back towards the hole that had been blown up by the Heavy Weapons Dalek. "NIGHTSHADE EXPLAIN!" he shouted after her as he followed her back outside to see that the Moonray was waiting for them.

"We need to get to Cybertron to find the second piece of the Star Bane and hopefully once we find that peice we can locate the final part of the weapon!" she replied walking towards the Moonray. The silver and blue jets massive engines whirled into life as the three appraoched it. Within it the TARDIS groaned as their Time Lord got closer.

"THAT DOES NOT ANSWER MY QUESTION!" he snapped. His optic narrowed his optic at the back of the shapeshifter. He was too focused on giving the Dragonoid the death glare he didn't notice the massive Cheshire cat smile on the Doctor's face behind him.

The White Dalek suddenly boomed out, "YOU BETTER HURRY! OUR SCOUTS HAVE REPORTED THAT DALEK X'S FLEET IS GETTING CLOSER TO THIS LOCATION! WE SHALL HOLD THEM OFF AND LEAD THEM INTO CYBERMEN TERRITORY! WE SHALL ALLOW OUR TWO ENEMIES BEAT EACH OTHER AS YOU GET OUT OF HERE!" he ordered the Doctor who was keeping his hand in his jacket pocket.

"Oh, come on Nightshade! Don't leave him in the dark!" the Doctor sniggered. He brought out the box that the Collector had given to Nightshade. The box that the Collector had put the power source of the Star Bane in. "He was going to find out about the deception that I planned before we landed on Nowhere!" he continued saying as Dalek Sec's domed head turned around to face him.

Dalek Sec's domed head turned from the Doctor to Nightshade. His blue optic narrowed and then widened as he tried to make sense of what was happening. He noticed that Nightshade and the Doctor were smiling like the big children that they were. They had not just coned the Collector but they had also managed to slip a simple plan by Dalek Sec. Dalek Sec in not knowing what was happening had basically told the Doctor that Dalek Sec was not like any Dalek that he had come across. Dalek Sec wanted to stop the end if the universe and had talked to the Collector that everyone in his collection were free beings.

"I'm sorry, Doctor! But look at his face!" Nightshade laughed from where she stood under the Moonray's wing.

"EXPLAIN!" Sec demanded the both of them.

"It was the only way we could allow one of us to get reinforcments while the Collector thought his prize was on board the Moonray while in fact it was still on the planet!" the Doctor explained. The aged Time Lord walked into the Moonray with Nightshade on his heels. Dalek Sec followed after them. "And it was a test that you passed!" he shouted over his shoulder before disappearing within the Moonray.

Nightshade looked at the Dalek when she heard him shout after the Time Lord, "I HATE TESTS!"