Chapter 9: The Archives of Iacon
Deep space. It could be peaceful or it could be destructive. Stars that were once massive balls of light that heated planets could become a force of darkness given any second. Asteroids were missiles that could rip through the hull of a Dalek flying saucer were all over the place. Many of them were chunks of rock and ice but a lot of them in this section of space was massive chunks of metal. Metal that had come from the metal world of sentient robots called Cybertronians. The Cybertronian war that resulted in the destruction of Cybertron itself had raged across the stars as Autobots fought against the Decepticons.
Dalek Sec had heard of the transforming race of robots. He had crossed a few him in his time. Some of them had been Autobots and others had been Decepticons who wanted to destroy him. Well the Autobots had wanted to destroy him also, but that was for the old him. He was a different Dalek. He was the Dalek to save the universe from Dalek X by helping the Doctor.
"Cybertron is a dead planet! It went dark cebturies ago!" he heard the Doctor say from where he was standing at the Moonray's controls. Nightshade sat at the command beside him looking over at the plan. "And plus its atmosphere is toxic thanks to centuries of warfare!" he concluded looking at the shapeshifter who sat beside him.
Sec listened to the pair talk. The two them kept throwing ideas at each other. Nightshade suggesting that she heads down to the planet surface to look for the second peice of the Star Bane. The Doctor refused. They needed to have the two ships ready to get them far away from Cybertron in case the faceless guardian decided to make an appearance and force them to retreat. All of the plans that they shouted at each other resulted in them shouting about the faceless guardian of Cybertron.
Sec could feel his anger growing. The needed to stop this shouting and plan a better plan than the plans that they were coming up. Growling to himself he rolled in between the two arguing aliens. "SILENCE!" he shouted as loudly as the speakers of his exoskeleton would allow it to go. He did not show any emotion as both the Doctor and Nightshade stared at him. "WE MUST DO THIS MISSION ON TWO FRONTS. ONE FRONT TO FIND THE STAR BANE AND THE SECOND TO KEEP THIS FACELESS GUARDIAN!" he shouted once again. He spun his domed head around to face Nightshade who was still sitting on the command chair of the Moonray. "DEAL WITH THE FACELESS GUARDIAN WHILE ME AND THE DOCTOR FIND THE PEICE OF THE STAR BANE!" he ordered. He didn't know how much he had missed ordering people around, but ordering two former enemies in helping them to safe the universe had a different feeling to when he was ordering mindless Dalek drones. No he was doing something bigger than he had ever done before. He was protecting every world from a powerful weapon and he was going to succeed. He just needed ti get the Oncoming Storm and Nightshade to work with him rather than him being the third wheel to them saving everything.
"It might work, Nightshade!" the Doctor spoke. The Time Lord had remained silent as he took in Sec's words. "While you keep the guards focused on you, me and Dalek Sec will be able to find the second piece of the Star Bane and hopefully the location of the last peice!" he said to Nightshade looking over at the still sitting shapeshifter. He would have laughed at the sight before him. Holding the Moonray's controls in a white knuckled grip of fear and anger. Emerald eyes had turned red as her true form threatened to appear. "Now don't give me that look!" he laughed while punching Nightshade in the back.
Nightshade gritted her teeth as she once again gatheted het bearings and got herself back in check. "The guardian will no doubt sense that's something is wrong!" she said in a quite tone that even scared Dalek Sec. "But if you are certain that this plan will work I am happy to play pest to the mech!"
"EXCELLENT! NIGHTSHADE'S FORMS WILL ALLOW HER TO HAVE A FIGHTING CHANCE AGAINST A TRANSFORMER UNLIKE ME AND YOU DOCTOR!" Sec boomed as he looked back at the Time Lord. "BECAUSE OF OUR SMALL SIZE WE WILL BE ABLE TO SLIP PAST THE DEFENCES OF THE PLANET BEFORE THEY KNOW THAT WE ARE THERE!" he screeched at the Doctor as he explained more of his plan. It did feel good to be doing battle planning again. It was better than the last time he was ordering a battle unit. The Doctor and Nightshade were not like drone classed Daleks. They could think for themselves rather rely on the orders of Dalek Supremes. No they could put in their thoughts of the plan and make it stronger than the plan that he alone came up with.
His attention moved back towards Nightshade. "YOUR FORMS WILL ALLOW YOU TO FIGHT ANY CYBERTRONIAN THAT YOU COME ACROSS! KEEP THE GUARDS FOCUSED ON YOU AND I WILL INFORM YOU WHEN WE HAVE COMPLETED OUR MISSION!" he explained. His electronic voice echoing all around the controls of the Moonray.
Nightshade only nodded her head in response before returning her attention to piloting the Moonray towards the metal world. That was when the massive jet began to shake and tremble. Explosions blasted at the Moonray resulting in the jet doing a barrel roll to avoid having a wing ripped off. Nightshade was doing all she could to avoid the lasser fire that was coming from the Seekers and their ground support. The Doctor was holding onto a piece of metal by his chair to avoid from falling off the chair from Nightshade's terrible piloting.
"Where did you learn to fly?" he shouted daring to look over at Nightshade.
"Your one to talk, Doctor! The amount of times that Brigadier told me of your misadventures because you had no conrol of the TARDIS at all! And besides its different piloting a jet when I can become a jet!" she snapped back. She suddenly put the Moonray into a dive towards Cybertron with two brightly painted Seekers following right behind them. "Get in the TARDIS an head for Iacon!" she shouted over her shoulder. Once again she put the Moonray into a dive. This dive steeper than the last and pulled up at the last minute. One of thr Seekers that had been following them exploded in a massive fireball when they could not pull up fast enough. The other Seeker was able to pull up quick enough and was once again chasing the Moonray as it dove in and out of the massive buildings that stood tall and proud over the ravaged world of transforming robots.
The Doctor looked at Nightshade with more suspicion. He was still having problems trusting her after her stunt with the Collector. "Are you going to leave us again?" he asked as the Moonray moved suddenly that he was nearly flung off of his chair
"No! There is a higher chance of getting the Star Bane if we split up! The TARDIS can slip into places that the Moonray can not and besides all the Moonray is the bigger threat here!" she shouted back. The Moonray's weapon systems hummed to life blasting two Seekers wings and forcing them to land with a loud boom.
"IACON HAS THE LARGEST LIBRARY IN CYBERTRON. THE EMEPEROR HAD PLANNED TO INVADE CYBERTRON BEFORE THEIR GREAT WAR BROKE BUT THOUGHT AGAINST IT WHEN WE HEARD OF THE FACELESS GUARDIAN! WE GATHERED A GREAT AMOUNT OF INTELLIGENCE ON THE PLANET! THE IACON RECORDS IS HOME TO A GREAT AMOUNT OF ARTIFACTS AND KNOWLEDGE!" Dalek Sec spoke. He was having a hard time to stay balanced on not having any limbs as the Moonray trembled as Nightshade done everything she could to avoid being shot down.
"Doctor go!" Nightshade shouted that spured Dalek Sec to push the aged Time Lord into his blue box as Nightshade shot up into the air. A rocket exploded on the silver and blue jets body. The lights flickered as energy went into the shields. "Go Doctor! I don't know how long I can keep this up!" she shouted as the AI told her informed her of all the damage that the aircraft had sustained. The wheezing rumble of the TARDIS drowned out the alarm that she was hearing and that was the signal that she had been waiting for.
"Moonray open the back door and slip into the time stream!" she ordered the AI. Letting go of the controls that allowed the Moonray to take control she ran to the back of the jet. Her bones were being released by the cartilage that kept them locked in a form losened allowing her bones to take the form of another form. Jumping out of the Moonray as the Moonray slipped into stealth mode the shapeshifter changed shape. With a thrust from the afterburners the British Typhoon shot past the Seekers with great speed. The Decepticon Seekers chased after the Dragonoid shapeshifter who was heading for Kaon. The further she got from Iacon the better.
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The groaning wheezing sound of the TARDIS's engine broke the silence of the Iacon Archives. The TARDIS appeared between two glass cases that held a massive spear that towered over the blue box and a massive shield that was the biggest thing that either the Doctor and Dalek Sec had ever seen. The door squeaked open and the Doctor peaked out his head. His grey hair bouncing slightly from the movement. Dark eyes scanned the room in look for any Transformer and seeing none the Time Lord slowly came out of his ship with the black Dalek behind him. He could hear the light hum of Dalek Sec's weapon system turning on behind him.
"WE MUST LOCATE THE PEICE OF OF THE STAR BANE AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE, DOCTOR!" Sec shouted as quietly as possible for a Dalek who did not know the mean of speaking in a whisper. "WE COULD BE JOINED BY EITHER DALEK X'S FORCE OR EVEN ONE OF THE GUARDS!" Sec shouted once again.
Doctor moved faster than what his current body looked capable of doing and snatched the eye stock of the black pepper pot. "We need to keep quiet! So don't say anything until we get back to the TARDIS! Understand that order?" he whispered to the Dalek creature within the case through the grill at its neck.
"DOCTOR!" Sec said. His blue optic narrowed at something or someone that was standing behind them. He trained his egg whisk shaped gun at whatever it was as the Doctor spun arround to face whatever had manged to sneak up on them.
Standing behind them between two massive computers was a blue and red mech with blue optics that looked down at the two small creatures before it. His hands were behind his back making it impossible to see of he was carying a weapon. "What strange visitors!" the mech said to himself. His voice sounded old and the long white metal beard that grew from his chin also showed that he was oldfor a robot. "It is strange seeing a Dalek and a Time Lord together without them trying to kill each other! That was why the Time War ravaged time and space!" the mech continued to speak as if he was in a dream. "But where is the other?" he asked narrowing his optics at the two small creatures.
"Other?" the Doctor asked looking as innocent as possible. He couldn't allow the mech to know that they had split up. The mech could not know that they were there to take a piece of deadly technology while Nightshade was keeping the Seekers busy along with the faceless guardian while they looked for the part of the Star Bane that held all the energy from the Crystal that they had taken from the Collector.
"Yes! The shapeshifter who has been here before and yet they have not. Time travel it even comfuses me and I was one of to come up with the concept!" the mech said recalling a time when Cybertron was still full of life and the war had just started as brothers fought against brother.
"Don't know who are talking about!" the Doctor lied. He hoped that this was not another lie that Nightshade was telling him. He knew that she was lying when it came to her asking help from Captain America. There was something going on not only on Earth but in the whole universe and she was hiding it.
The mech only closed his optics. He could feel the explosions blasting and exploding near Kaon the Decepticons capital. "Well whoever it is, is doing a good job in keeper the Seekers away from Iacon!" he rumbled with a slight smile on his faceplates.
"DOCTOR ALERT!" Dalek Sec screeched. the hum from his weapon systems got louder as he prepared to fight. The Doctor and the ancient Transformer looked over at him. "DALEK X'S FLEET HAS BROKEN PAST THE EMEPEROR FLEET AND HEARIG TOWARDS EARTH!" he shouted at the Time Lord before he turned his attention to the old Transformer. "WE ARE LOOKING FOR AN ANCIENT WEAPON THAT THE TIME LORD'S AND DRAGONOIDS CREATED BEFORE THE TIME WAR AND WE WERE LEAD IN TO YOUR WORLD!" he explained to the old Transformer.
Alpha Trion the head archivist of Iacon and the mentor of Optimus Prime before and after he became Prime glared down at the Dalek. "And what are you planning on doing with the Star Bane, Dalek Supreme?" he asked. His blue optics had darkened as he focused on the Time War general. "If you are planning to rage another war through time and space then you can just turn around and forgot about this place! The Archives of Iacon had been created to keep relics from falling into Megatron's servos along with his Decepticons and even for beings filled with rage- like you!" he shouted at the Dalek.
"I DO NOT WANT ANOTHER TIME WAR TO BE RAGED!" Sec snapped back. He could feel the Doctor watching him silently. The Time Lord was no doubt seeing where he was going with his rant and was probably ready to call Nightshade to get him off world while he dealt with the Mech. "I AM TRYING TO STOP DALEK X FROM SPARKING A NEW WAR! A NEW WAR THAT WILL BE WORSE THAN THE TIME WAR! I AM THE DALEK WHO DEFENDS THE UNIVERSE! I AM DALEK SEC! THE DALEK WHO SPENT TIME IN THE DALEK ASYLUM BECAUSE I HAD SEEN THE ERROR OF MY PEOPLE'S RACE! IT HAD ONLY TAKEN ME THOUSANDS OF YEARS TO COME TO THAT CONCLUSION. AND IN THOSE YEARS I HAVE DESTROYED RACES THAT COULD HAVE BROUGHT GREAT LIGHT TO THE UNIVERSE BUT THEY COULDN'T BECAUSE THEY WERE DESTROYED OUT OF HATRED! I HAVE ALSO BECOME A PARADOX AFTER BECOMING A HYBRID BETWEEN DALEK KIND AND HUMAN BEING!' he ranted. He had never felt this much emotion before and to be honest with himself, he had never felt better.
The old Transformer took a step back. This Dalek was like none he had meet before. He was completely against the ways of Dalek kind. If this creature that had all emotions genetically removed could change their way then the Decepticons could do such a thing as well. But there was no Decepticon that would be brave enough to stand up to Megatron about his ways that had gotten to far over the past centuries. "Very well! I trust that once you find the remaining piece of the Star Bane you will destroy the weapon?!" he asked looking down at the Dalek. He was not interested in the Time Lord who had saved the universe more times than he could count. No he wanted to see and hear what new Dalek this Dalek was.
"THE WEAPON WILL BE DESTROYED AS SOON AS ALL THE PIECES ARE GATHERED. IT IS TOO POWERFUL TO BE ALLOWED TO FALL INTO THE WRONG HANDS AND IT CAN NOT BE USED WISELY IN THE HANDS OF THOSE WHO HAVE VOWED TO DEFEND THE WEAK!" he replied to the wise mech. The mech that had trained two warriors who fight on earth. He then looked over at the Doctor. The Time Lord who defended all of creation by destroying two species with a weapon that both the Time Lords and Dragonoids had agreed was never to be used. Dalek Sec vowed that he would see the Star Bane destroyed before Dalek X could use it or when the Doctor thought that they needed to use the weapon to save a world by destroying it's sun. The Doctor looked offended but he did not do anything else.
Alpha Trion nodded his helm. "Very well!" he said. He looked down the corridor of the archives. "At the end of the corridor you will come to two doors. Take the door on the right hand side. There you will find the peice of the Star Bane. But you must hurry if you want to stop another Time War!" he shouted after them as they followed his direction. Nodding his helm he looked in the direction of Kaon. Knowing all was in order he went back into his office where all his Datapads were located. He had a great amount of work to do. Work that was confusing him but he was sure that if he kept at it, everything will make sense.
The directions that the Cybertronian had given them was simple that they found the peice of the Star Bane. It was bigger than what they had thought it was going to be. The massive wings and the afterburners were around the same size of the Doctor. The solar panel wings were long narrow and extremely thin. They were that thin that they looked like they would snap if the wind was too strong.
"We need to get this thing into the TARDIS!" the Doctor said. The Dalek nodded his eye stock in agreement to what he said. The Doctor was glad that the case was set to human and minibot size. Opening the case by using his sonic screwdriver. Taking hold of of the wings the Doctor turned around to walk back to the TARDIS. "We'll have to leave for Earth and hope Nightshade is not far behind!" he said coming up to his blue box. The blue box that he had ran away from home in.
Clicking his fingers the doors swung open. Without a second thought he walked into the ship with Dalek Sec behind him. With a loud groaning wheezing noise the TARDIS vanished from view.
This is not a Doctor Who/Transformer crossover. This chapter and the following chapter are just vital for the story line for this story and for later in the series.