-Skaro Valley, December 28, 200063; 1800 Hours, Four miles from Inkopolis...-
-Mission X: The Lair of The Pepper Pots-
The Spawning Pad-converted Transmat Beam gave off a massive glow of power, illuminating the entire room. It didn't take long for the intruder to appear; a light black-haired Inkling male with blue eyes, wearing the iconic Hero suit worn by other Inkling agents.
His name: Agent W of the Squidbeak Splatoon.
Real name: Wilium McRoy.
Before the crisis, Wilium had moved to the Inkling city of Inkopolis from his old home in Inkglow, Scotland for a fresh new start. Then, when they invaded, he'd joined a handful of other Inklings and Octolings underground and that was when he bumped into Captain Cuttlefish and the Squid Sisters.
For many days, they trained together, trained to fight and take back their home. After enough time, they'd launched their attack on the enemy strongholds, defeating their war machines and the Octarian army's old weapons that the monsters had converted. Now, the time had come for the final battle, to strike at the heart of the enemy.
And whatever happened, the fate of everyone depended on him, on the Squidbeak Splatoon.
Making sure his Splattershot was fully equipped and ready, making sure his ammo was full enough, Agent W stepped off the Transmat Beam and approached the large door ahead. He'd caused so much ruckus in the other bases, lights were flickering violently and it appeared the base's security system was on the fritz.
This meant he could attack the enemy's positions without detection, using the darkness to his advantage whenever the lights went out and whenever those things had their eyestalks turned.
It would be so satisfying; the pepper pots wouldn't know what hit them. No, not "pepper pots". They needed to be called by their real name now; The Daleks. The Daleks were a race of mutant monsters that looked like robots, but the robots were actually tanks, driven by their real forms, hideous tentacled creatures that were once human.
Years ago, The Daleks had taken on a human form. Then their home-world was ravaged by war and their people faced extinction, prompting them to evolve to survive. But as the years passed, they became obsessed with conquest. No, not just conquest, extermination.
Since that day, the Daleks had invaded many worlds and torn apart many lives. Then, their reign of terror went beyond just their universe they originated from, they'd invaded this universe and this time, a time when the humans were extinct and the only forms of life left on the planet were Inklings and Octolings and a few mammals such as Judd and Li'l Judd.
And just like on every other world, the Daleks conquered everything and were planning their final attack, their final victory, the ultimate extermination of every last squid kid and octopus on this world.
Agent W raised his Splattershot towards a security camera on the wall and pulled the trigger, red ink sprayed from the tip and struck the camera. The device was already moving around in an awkward manner while sparking, with one splat, the camera was out for good.
Grinning with eagerness, the red Inkling approached the door, the door that led to the rest of the base. It slowly opened and Agent W made his way through the ominous corridors, he morphed into squid form and snuck down the hall on the left. The Inkling ducked behind a panel just as the first Dalek guard of the base made its appearance.
"HUMANOID DETECTED!" The Dalek buzzed, "ALL DALEKS BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR INTRUDER! WE HAVE INTRUDERS, INTRUDERS DETECTED! EXTERMINATE ON SIGHT!"
He jumped out from his hiding spot and shot the Dalek, splatting its eyestalk.
"MALFUNCTION! MALFUNCTION!" The mutant screamed, "MY VISION IS IMPAIRED! MY VISION IS IMPAIRED, I CANNOT SEE! INTRUDER IS NEARBY, EX-TER-MIN-ATE!"
The Dalek hovered around blindly and crashed into a wall, the creature fired its laser, only for it to bounce right back at it and the Dalek exploded in a ball of flame. Agent W pumped his fist and headed further down the corridor, keeping an eye out for more guards. This place was like a maze, just like the other bases, the Daleks had been very busy.
A door opened and Agent W hid in the shadows as a red Dalek appeared, the Dalek looked around, its eye glowing ominously in the darkness. With the red guard's back turned, Agent W dashed through the door just as it was about to close. He ran down the next hallway, ducking and hiding in several panels whenever a guard appeared.
Distorted warbling noises caught Agent W's attention as he went further and he froze in place, a shadow loomed ahead, a very familiar shadow.
The shadow moved closer and a corrupted Octarian hovered into view, a Dalek eyestalk sticking out of its forehead and the creature wasn't alone, a sanitized Octoling was with it. The two Dalek-corrupted Octarians snarled when they saw Agent W and fired their weapons, trying to splat Agent W.
With every battle reflex in him, Agent W evaded the Octarians' shots and fired back, splatting the Dalek-Octarian to oblivion and then splatted the Sanitized Octoling. The zombie-like Octo-creature exploded in a puddle of ink, its spirit floating away to places unknown.
Then, without warning, a bright beam of energy streaked past Agent W's shoulder, narrowly missing him. The Inkling agent turned around, his weapon ready, finding himself face-to-face with another Dalek.
"INTRUDERS WILL BE EXTERMINATED!" The Dalek buzzed, "SURRENDER!"
"Not by any chance, pal!" Agent W said firmly, "I got a home to save and you guys don't belong in our world."
"RESISTANCE IS USELESS, THERE IS NO POINT RESISTING THE WILL OF THE DALEKS! YOU WILL SUBMIT TO THE LAW OF THE MASTER RACE; YOU CANNOT STAND A CHANCE AGAINST THE DALEK EMPIRE! WE ARE MANY, YOU ARE ONE, WHAT HOPE DO YOU HAVE AGAINST US? YOU WILL BE SUBJUGATED AND EXTERMINATED JUST AS PLANNED!"
"Subjugate this!" Agent W whipped up his weapon and splatted the Dalek with as much ink as he could, splatting the eyestalk and then taking out its gun-stick. The Dalek hovered around blindly and crashed into the wall repeatedly, screaming indiscriminately.
Agent W headed off, leaving the Dalek to hover blindly as it tried to rid itself of the ink that blinded it, all while screaming; "EXTERMINATE, EXTERMINAAAAAAATE!"
The intrepid Inkling hero cut through another corridor and hid in an alcove to evade more guards, wanting to save up on as much ink as he possibly could. A pair of Dalek-Octarians floated by, emitting eerie warbling sounds that echoed off the walls throughout the corridor. Agent W kept himself together, despite his nervousness.
Shortly after the next batch of guards had passed, Agent W made a squid dash down the corridor and slid through an open door just as it was about to close.
The Inkling looked around, the lights were flickering more intensely, then they cut out and a couple of blue lights activated to provide a little light in the area. No time to rest. Agent W crept his way through the darkness, avoiding guards as best he could and saving up on weapon energy as much as possible.
The red-colored Inkling hid under an alcove in the wall right before another Sanitized Octoling passed by, chittering in creepy undead Octo-speak. A pair of Daleks floated by, their motors whirring in an eerie manner.
Agent W kept himself hidden and his heart pounded as the mutants said in a sort of chant; "Seek, locate, exterminate! Seek, locate, exterminate!"
It took time for them to go by, then Agent W morphed into squid form again and slid down the corridor again, taking a right at the next intersection. He splatted a couple cameras on the way, just in case the security system got up and running again. Agent W turned left, hid from another Dalek, then he went through an alcove and got the jump on another Dalek in the next corridor.
"Vision impaired!" The Dalek croaked when the Inkling took out its eyestalk.
Leaving the Dalek to deal with its blindness, Agent W took another right and soon found himself in front of a large door with a Dalek symbol on it. The door opened slowly, allowing the Inkling agent to enter the next room without resistance from anyone on the other side.
'Odd.' He thought, 'Why do I get the feeling a trap was set? That one Dalek missed me earlier and they seem to be... Hold on, wha...?'
A light flickered, illuminating a platform in front of him. Agent W looked around, whatever this room he just entered was, it was all covered in pitch black darkness. He primed his weapon, his eyes staring deep into the shadows, staring into the darkness as if he expected an attack at any minute.
No alarms, no enemies, something had to be waiting for him. Agent W looked up at the platform in front of him and his eyes fell upon a familiar creature, sparkling yellow and tied up, sitting helplessly on a dais in the middle of this platform: A Zapfish!
"There you are, buddy!" Agent W whispered.
The agent stepped onto the platform, stepping the dais. The Zapfish looked at Agent W and chittered happily, knowing that help had come. Agent W heard electricity crackling, there was power in the room. The dais seemed to glow, the Zapfish must have also been helping the Daleks power the base as well, and against its will too. Now, it would aid them no more.
Agent W reached out and splatted the dais. The Zapfish chittered and leaped towards the Inkling. It landed in his open arms, nuzzling him while Agent W patted the poor creature on the head. The lights went out, leaving Agent W in the darkness with only the Zapfish to illuminate their current spot.
Sounds started up, an ominous electronic heartbeat.
The caring Inkling agent hugged the Zapfish as it whimpered, the creature hid in his pocket, hiding for dear life. Agent W held his weapon firmly, looking around the room as the tension in the air peaked dramatically.
"INTRUDER, YOU HAVE NO CHANCE AGAINST OUR POWER!"
A blue light from above caught Agent W's eye, he looked up, looking in the direction of the voice. Power buzzed and lights flooded the room, revealing a large Dalek that stood just several feet away from Agent W.
It was massive, standing at over eight feet tall, perhaps even taller enough to match the height of Deca Tower. The Dalek was golden, the head of its casing the same as the others that Agent W had face, satellite panels sat on both sides of its casing, wires emerging from it and connecting to some sort of generator.
The massive Dalek was armed too, a massive Splattershot-like energy gun protruded from the right side along with another in the place of those manipulator arms. And it wasn't alone too, a pair of black Daleks stood at both sides of that thing, their gun-sticks ready.
Doors slid open and Sanitized Octolings entered the room, cackling evilly, accompanied by Dalek-Octarians and several more Dalek guards. Agent W gulped, his forehead sweating, as he faced the heart of the Dalek Empire itself, the true face of the Daleks' evil. Whatever that thing was, this wasn't a war machine.
After battling many Daleks, many war machines and taking out so many of their bases, Agent W had come face to face with the mightiest Dalek ever, the most feared out of every Dalek throughout time and space; Raugharogh, the Supreme Dalek Emperor.
Mutant Warlord-Conqueror:
Supreme Dalek Emperor Raugharogh
"We meet at last." Agent W said, "I wondered if we ever would."
"THE RESISTANCE IS OVER!" Raugharogh declared, "YOU WILL BE EXTERMINATED BY THE FULL POWER OF THE DALEK RACE! IT IS ON THIS DAY THAT A NEW ERA WILL DAWN AS THE HARVENGERS OF RESISTANCE AND THE FINAL TRACES OF HUMANITY IN THE WORLD WILL BE DESTROYED BY OUR FULL DALEK MIGHT!"
"EX-TER-MIN-ATE!" The Daleks chanted, even the corrupted Octarians were joining in, "EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!"
Bright red lights flashed and machinery thrummed more strongly than ever; this was the point of no return; the final battle was at hand and all the players were ready. Agent W and Raugharogh, faced one another intensely, their weapons primed. Electronic beeping sounded throughout the room, in sync with the Daleks' chants of "exterminate" as the Sanitized Octolings chanted along with them.
Tensions increased to the max, then, it was on.
Daleks swooped in like vultures; all weapons trained on Agent W. The well-trained Inkling agent rolled out of the way of incoming energy blasts and fired back upon the mutants, striking them in the eyestalks with well-timed shots when the Daleks came closer to Agent W's position.
"VISION IMPAIRED!" The creatures screamed, flying around blindly and flailing their metal arms.
Without their sense of sight and unable to see where they were going, the blinded Daleks crashed into the wall and exploded upon impact with shards of their casings falling to the ground with the charred remains of the mutants inside of them, even as their tentacles flailed before the last of their life force gave out.
Several Sanitized Octolings serving the Daleks rushed in, going to town with their Splatter-fire and attempting to take out Agent W, who ducked their incoming shots and weaved his way through the barrage of enemy fire in his squid form.
Once he'd managed to gain a strategic position between himself and the enemy, Agent W leaped into the air and opened fire upon a pair of Sanitized Octolings, splatting them in red ink and wiping them out. He whipped around, finding himself face-to-face with another pair, and shot them into oblivion before ducking his head when a Dalek laser streaked past.
"EXTERMINATE OPPOSITION!" A Black Dalek commander blared, staring down at the red Inkling.
"Exterminate this!" Agent W pulled out a Splat-bomb from his inventory and threw it at the commander. The bomb exploded and splattered the Dalek in red ink, causing it to blindly crash into the Dalek Emperor as the ensuing explosion rattled the panels at its side.
Red lights flashed and illuminated the room, blaring at high intensity. The platform that Raugharogh stood on vibrated and levitated to a near-higher position, the Supreme Emperor seemed to dwarf Agent W even more and make him feel helpless against his might.
"IN SPITE OF YOUR EFFORTS, YOU CANNOT TOPPLE THE DALEKS FROM THEIR SEAT OF POWER!" Raugharogh boomed, "YOU ARE DELAYING THE INEVITABLE, OUR VICTORY IS…!"
"EMPEROR!" A Dalek buzzed, "WE ARE PICKING UP A FREQUENCY OVER THE SOUND-WAVE!"
"Agent W, do you read?" Callie's voice spoke over Agent W's headpiece.
"We're here to help." Marie's voice chimed in.
"FREQUENCY INCOMING!" Another guard blared, "THE INKLINGS ARE USING SOME SORT OF NEW WEAPON; AN INKANTATION, WE HAVE AN INKANTATION ALARM!"
Static blared over the speakers and music filled the room, vibrant pop music, accompanied by familiar singing voices. It was the Squid Sisters' voices; they were singing in unison like they had before. Agent W knew this song from the bottom of his heart; the Calamari Inkantation.
The heavenly melody of the Squid Sisters, that same melody that had played a key role in many Octolings leaving the servitude of DJ Octavio, it was being used against the Daleks.
And to those creepers, it was all just noise. It even had an effect on the Sanitized Octolings.
As the voices of Callie and Marie sang onward, the notes of the Inkantation picking up with each verse, every zombie-like Octoling stopped firing on Agent W and looked at each other and at the Daleks. The song's effects on the Daleks were bigger too, several Daleks spun wildly and screamed while crashing into each other.
The Sanitized Octolings looked at Agent W, not with contempt, but with sweet smiles as if they were alive. Then, they trained their weapons on the Daleks and began splatting them, even the Dalek Octarians appeared to have been greatly affected as they too began to attack their masters.
The Calamari Inkantation shook the room, echoing off the walls with the sounds of explosions as Daleks went down. A couple Octolings began singing the Inkantation, even Agent W was humming to it. Raugharogh was beside itself, the Supreme Dalek Emperor was screaming; "NO! OBEY YOUR EMPEROR! OBEY, OBEY! WE WILL ALL BE EXTERMINATED, ANNIHILATED!"
Nobody cared, nobody listened. Daleks succumbed to the noise and obliterated themselves, Sanitized Octolings fired on the alien invaders and the wires connecting the Dalek Emperor to the generator snapped off, the lines dangling helplessly and letting off sparks as they gave away to the intensity of the chaos.
Agent W didn't pass up the opportunity to strike. He splatted the wall and swam up to the nearest platform overlooking the enemy's position, aimed at Raugharogh and opened fire, splatting the Dalek's panels and his weapon with streams of red ink.
The Octolings who'd switched sides turned their weapons on the Emperor and joined Agent W's attack, splatting him with several Dalek Octarians turning on the Daleks as well and going to town.
Raugharogh screamed and fired indiscriminately, trying to shoot down his attackers as they overwhelmed him, his eyestalk flickering while the mutant screamed helplessly.
A pair of Daleks crashed into their Emperor and exploded on impact, devastating their leader's casing. Agent W and his Sanitized allies kept at it until Raugharogh was inked up, the explosions lit the paint ablaze and fires began engulfing the Supreme Dalek Emperor.
Static filled the sound-speakers, distorting the Calamari Inkantation and alarms screamed as more Daleks went down. The base began to shake and debris fell, it was time to get out. The ceiling exploded and rubble fell upon the Dalek Emperor, the platform beneath him gave out and the Daleks' not-so mighty ruler fell into a dark chasm.
This was it, victory! All that was left for Agent W to do, run!
The platform he was standing on crumbled and Agent W quickly morphed into Squid Form, leaping off onto the lower floor. He ducked through a door and raced his way through the corridors with a couple Sanitized Octolings following after him, even with all the explosions shaking the Dalek stronghold from the Emperor's defeat.
Agent W darted through a nearby door just as it was about to close and ducked inside a shaft in the nearest hallway, the Inkling morphed back into squid form and made a dash through the tight space, crawling his way through the shaft while more explosions shaking the base as they intensified by the minute.
'Now or never, Wilium.' Agent W thought, 'This is gonna be close.'
He snuck through a grate and slid off the wall, finding himself in a control room occupied by Daleks. And right in the middle of the area, emitting a bright light, was a Warp Pad. The ticket out. The Daleks were scrambling, trying to assess the situation, and were too busy to deal with Agent W.
Taking advantage of the chaos, the Inkling made a mad dart to the Warp Pad and stepped into the middle of it. He pressed an emergency button and the teleporter reverberated vibrantly, giving of a wild glow as its mechanisms got to work.
"INTRUDER!" The Daleks in the room finally screamed. But it was all too late, a massive bright blue light enveloped Agent W and he found his molecules shifting as his surroundings changed, the interior of the doomed Dalek base around him vanishing. He braced himself and closed his eyes, prepared to see where he was going next.
When he opened his eyes again, Agent W saw that he was outside atop a mountain overlooking the canyon, overlooking the Dalek Stronghold. Dalek weaponry and defenses all across Skaro Valley were exploding and vanishing, the stronghold was in collapse, explosions shaking the hills and the ground on which Agent W stood.
A tower came crashing down, collapsing atop a Dalek base near it, the explosion wiping out the other remaining Daleks while Octarians under their control screamed as they were taken out. Agent W watched with a satisfied smile, then he looked up, watching the dark clouds part to reveal a bright blue sky with a shining sun.
He turned, seeing Captain Cuttlefish, Callie and Marie standing by his side with triumphant smiles in their eyes. They all could agree that this victory was well-deserved and, after some clean-up, they could use a good rest after days of battling Daleks as the threat was finally over, all thanks to their heroic efforts!
Objective: Defeat the Daleks
Mission Accomplished!
Until the next mission, stay fresh!
The End