Manwe looked back at the Dalek Emperor.
"What… what have you done?" Manwe asked.
"Not even the powers of Aule and Ulmo can stop the Cruciform. Now your friend is dead. Do you really think this will be over that easily? I've sent the surviving ships besides this one to harvest the mithril we uncovered. Meanwhile, I have lured you into this trap."
"Even with the power of the Cruciform, you still underestimate the Vala. I will destroy you."
"Then come at me. But while you are up here, your friends will be surrounded and slaughtered."
"They can fend off your strikes."
"Tell that to dear old Ulmo," retorted the Emperor.
"This is no time for words. I will beat you and save them too. For all that is Good in Ea!" Manwe finished, with a hint of anger in his voice, before leaping forwards with his gleaming blade. A volley of noise and lasers came next.
"Exterminate! Exterminate!" cried out a legion of Daleks swooping down to fight Manwe, but Manwe's sword moved and reflected each strike back at the Daleks. Within moments, that legion had destroyed itself.
"You'll have to try a little harder than that," taunted Manwe.
"And I can. Behold - the Cruciform!" responded the Emperor menacingly. He had activated the Cruciform to channel through him and out of a blaster attached to his impressive casing. A large green beam of pure unspliced z-neutrino energy aimed directly at Manwe. But Manwe would not give up that easily.
"Behold - my magic!" cried Manwe as he unleashed a powerful incantation. A beam of pure light flew out and the two beams were stalemating each other.
"Impossible! You are countering the Cruciform's power! How strong… how strong are you?" screamed the Dalek Emperor, suddenly much more afraid.
"Much stronger than you are," came the response from Manwe. Manwe's beam pushed forward against something capable of annihilating matter, the weapon that destroyed Ulmo was nothing to Manwe Sulimo, Strongest of the Vala and the Ainu.
"THIS IS FOR ULMO!" he shouted as he increased the strength of his beam even more. It pushed back to the very brink, of the Cruciform being destroyed. Manwe was so close, when a portal opened up. Dalek Y plummeted out from its Emergency Temporal Shift, screaming in pain and rage, just in time to sacrifice itself to block both beams. So the beams stopped for that split second. As Manwe prepared to fire his attack once more, a dark shadowy figure in a roughly humanoid shape dashed up from seemingly thin air to Manwe. With burning eyes and a hammer wreathed in shadow, the figure struck.
"Manwe. You never could understand true power. Now is your time to die." The hammer smashed into Manwe bashing him far to the side. Manwe flew back into the wall and both of the beams dissipated.
"What the… Morgoth… you… how?"
"Heh. I am not 'Morgoth'. I am Melkor. Morgoth Bauglir was weak and foolish. He spread his power too thin throughout his servants and kept too little in himself. But when you banished him and destroyed his servants, his power returned and slowly consolidated. Now I am Melkor once more. I am stronger than you. No, I am stronger than all of you combined."
"We beat you before, and we beat you again."
"But then you had Ulmo."
Melkor takes his massive hammer - undoubtedly Grond, the Hammer of the Underworld - and brings it down upon Manwe, who tries to block it with his sword. However, the hammer continues to fall, shattering Manwe's sword. The hammer then proceeds to break a hole in the base of the ship, and Manwe falls.
"I am stronger than all of you! I am the strongest! You will fear me once more!"
