When I typed what is the collective term for daleks as a search into Google, I didn't actually expect to find the answer. I was wrong. Please enjoy the extra research I undertook for this chapter.
I must apologise in advance for what you are about to read. I've had this idea knocking around in my head for over a year now and I just had to get it down on paper. Please review, all constructive criticism welcome!
Anyway, here's "(The Dalek) Invasion of Endsville" - Part 2.
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"EXTERMINATE!"
The Dalek aimed its' weapon at Billy, and prepared to fire. Billy remained routed to the spot, trembling. He closed his eyes as tight as he could, and heard the sound of a weapon firing.
SPLAT!
That certainly wasn't the noise he was expecting to hear. Billy opened his eyes, and was presented with the sight of the Dalek with its' eye stalk covered in purple goo. He spun round a hundred and eighty degrees and saw Mandy, standing in the doorway clutching a recently fired goo-cannon. Behind her was Grim, who was gawping at the giant pepper pot.
"MANDY! You saved m…." began Billy, but he was interrupted when the Dalek began to shout behind him. Billy spun round again, facing his would-be executioner.
"My vision is impaired, I cannot see! My vision is impaired, I cannot see!" The Dalek screamed, almost in panic. It began to wave it's extremities around futilely, and a bolt of energy shot out of the wire frame on the front of its' body. The bolt crashed into the wall just above and to the right of where Mandy was standing. The jolt shook the room, and the Dalek began firing rapidly in random directions.
"Well don't just stand there you doofus," Mandy shouted over the noise of energy bolts, "let's get out of here!" And with that, Mandy turned round and began to run, gesturing towards Grim for him to join her. Billy followed suit.
"What the heck was that thing, Grim?" shouted Mandy as they ran.
"How the heck should I know?! That thing clearly wasn't from this planet, so way out of my field."
"I think it has friends!" Shouted Billy pointing ahead of them, towards three Daleks that had appeared, seemingly out of nowhere.
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Meanwhile, away from all the fun, Sperg was resting beneath a tree. He had run from Mandy as fast as his legs would carry him. Sperg had decided he couldn't be bothered to go to school today, so he'd seek out other people to torment in Endsville park. Unfortunately, there was no one around.
That is, until the relative calm was interrupted but a sort of whooshing sound. A couple of hundred meters from where he was sitting, the grass began to move violently, as if a storm was brewing in a space no bigger than a telephone box. Suddenly, what looked like a blue telephone box appeared, with the words "POLICE BOX" written along the top. Sperg just stood and stared. Then, the front of the box opened inwards, as if it was a door and a man stepped out. Sperg hid behind the tree so the man would not see him. He had bizarre curly hair, and an unnecessarily long scarf, especially considering it was quite warm out today.
"Here we are K-9, a safe a landing as any," said the man to his as yet invisible companion. He spoke with a deep, strong British accent.
"Affirmative, master!" Came the quickly spoken, almost machine-like reply. As the man began to wander slowly away from the box, what looked like a robotic dog on tracks emerged from within.
"What do you make of it K-9, where would you say we are?"
"Earth, master."
"Very good K-9."
"Early 21st century, United States of America, master," K-9 continued.
"Excellent, K-9! I'd say you were wired up correctly."
"A town called Endsville, master," added the dog, almost starting to sound cocky now.
"All right, all right, don't show me up you lump of metal," said the man, more than a tinge of anger in his voice.
"Hey mister!" Sperg had left his hiding place and was now standing right next to the man and his dog. "That's a cool dog you got there."
"Thanks, I think. I'm the Doctor. Would you like a jelly baby?" The Doctor produced a bag of sweets from within his coat.
"No thanks," replied Speg, "but I will take this!" Quick as a flash, he bent down, summoned all of his strength, and lifted K-9 above his head and ran.
"Master! Master!" Cried the tin dog.
"Come back," called out The Doctor. He gave chase but Sperg was surprisingly fast given the weight of K9. The Doctor continued to run after Sperg, but he tripped over his scarf and tumbled to floor. The Doctor sat up on the grass for a few seconds, dazed, then jumped to his feet and continued to run after Sperg.
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Mandy aimed the goo cannon at the three Daleks and let off a barrage of slime in their direction. She scored three direct hits, blinding the Daleks, and sending them into a frenzy. They ran past the disabled machines towards the main entrance of the school, where another two Daleks greeted them.
"Halt, do not move!" They said in unison. They trio stopped dead, Mandy aimed the goo cannon at them and pressed the trigger. Nothing happened. It was empty.
She threw the cannon violently at the Daleks, taking one of them out. Before the other Dalek could react, she turned to run down the corridor they had just run up, and the others followed. More Daleks were ahead, too many to count now. They detoured through a door on their right, and found themselves running through the school canteen, the Daleks in close pursuit behind them.
"Grim, your scythe," Mandy demanded, sounding slightly out of breath and holding out one hand.
"But Mandy I doubt that will…"
"NOW!" She screamed at him. Grim reached into his robe, produced his scythe and handed it to the girl. Mandy turned, aimed the scythe into the Dalek crowd and fired. Three Daleks exploded in a brilliant flash of light. Suddenly, a barrage of Dalek weapons fire forced the girl to turn once more and rejoin her companions in their tactical withdrawal. The trio reached the end of the canteen, turned into another corridor and up a flight of stairs.
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Far above Endsville someone, or something, was watching the action intently.
Through a massive view screen which showed what the Daleks on the surface were seeing, the mysterious being could monitor everything that was going on. A control panel, of sorts, lay beneath this giant window to the world. Two Daleks manned the bridge.
"Target sighted," said the first one.
"The Grim Reaper is nearly in our possession," the second one confirmed. "Activating underworld dampening field around the building."
"Exterminate the children," the first Dalek commanded to the troops below.
"WAIT!" Boomed an unseen voice. The voice was like that of a Dalek, but deeper, and slower. "The human girl appears to have a power over the Reaper, and has mastered the powers of the underworld. Perhaps she is the reason the Reaper spends so much time in the mortal realm. She may prove useful. Bring all three of them to me, keep the children ALIVE."
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The Doctor wondered through the streets of Endsville in the general direction Sperg had run off in. Somehow, he had managed to lose the boy. The Doctor sighed. He was a Time Lord who had been and done so much with his three-and-a-bit lives, seen so many things, saved countless numbers of people and civilisations, and here he was walking through the streets on 21st century Earth, looking for his tin dog. Wonderful.
However, his attention was soon drawn to the crowd of people gathered outside the school. What caught his attention even more was the military vehicles that had begun to arrive.
The Doctor approached the crowd from behind, and asked no-one in particular "what's going on here?"
Irwin was standing at the back of the crowd. "They're not letting us into the school, yo!" he replied to the Doctor, without turning round.
"A teacher training day, perhaps?" Said the Doctor, grinning.
"I don't think so, they took someone away in an ambulance. I heard he'd had his face eaten off by something horrible yo!" Irwin looked round and up at the tall, strange man standing behind him.
"Something horrible, eh? Sounds wonderful. Would you like a jelly baby?" The Doctor offered Irwin his bag of sweets. Irwin blinked a couple of times, and started to back away slowly.
"My dad tells me to never accept sweets from strange British men wearing long, multi-coloured scarves in spring, yo."
"Your dad is a very sensible person," The Doctor said, putting the sweets away. "Now I wonder who is in charge here."
The Doctor pushed his way through to the front of the crowd. Several army personnel were ushering people back further behind the cordoned off section.
"Everyone, return to your homes, we have this under control," bellowed one of the army guys. The crowd stood and stared at him. "NOW!" He screamed, somewhat manically. Suddenly, the crowd dispersed and all that was left was a cloud of crowd-shaped dust that rapidly faded. All that was left behind the line was the Doctor. The man looked at him.
"Sir you must leave, now! This is a military matter now, and this area is under quarantine."
"Yes, so it is. I'm the Doctor, by the way. And you are?"
"Sergeant Crilly, at your service sir! But I really must insist that you LEAVE NOW!" Crilly was getting agitated now.
"Yes yes yes, so you said. Look I could help here, it's obvious to me that you haven't been brought in to break up a food fight, have you?"
"An astute observation, Doctor, but this really had nothing to do with you. Now leave before I have you arrested."
"I used to work for UNIT," blurted out the Doctor. "Call them, I think you'll find I'm telling the truth. I could be a great help."
Crilly eyed The Doctor suspiciously. He then gestured for one of his troops to come over.
"Get in contact with the UNIT headquarters in London. Verify this man's identify." The soldier nodded, took out a digital camera, snapped the Doctor and went back to his van. Crilly turned to look at the Doctor again. "If you're lying to me I will have you arrested for WASTING MY TIME!"
After a few minutes, the soldier returned.
"Sir, UNIT have confirmed that this man is their ex-scientific advisor. They say to trust him."
"Fine," Crilly sighed, and lifted up the Police tape for the Doctor to duck under. "But don't get in my way."
"Wouldn't dream of it, old chap! Now, shall we?" The Doctor gestured towards the school entrance.
"Yes, get behind me."
Crilly, followed by the Doctor and four soldiers made their way towards the building and entered.
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Grim, Billy and Mandy had reach the top of the stairs, and were standing outside the entrance to the upstairs gym. Mandy turned round to shoot another barrage from the scythe down to Daleks that were looking up at them, but nothing happened.
"Grim! What's wrong with this thing?"
"I don't know child, it was fully charged this morning! Must be some sort of dampening field," Grim replied. The trio looked down at the Daleks congregating at the bottom of the stairs. "I wonder why they've stopped firing?"
"We've found their weakness Grim!" Exclaimed Billy. "They can't climb stairs." He stuck his tongue out and blew several raspberries at the Daleks.
The lead Dalek stared at Billy for a few seconds before replying. "Daleks have no weaknesses. Elevate!" With that, it started to levitate. All of the Daleks began to float up the stairs.
"Agggh! Sorcery!" Billy screamed, and ran through the doors into the gym. Mandy and Grim followed.
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The soldiers and the Doctor made their way down a dark corridor in the school in single file.
"It's too quiet in here," said the Doctor. Suddenly, the soldier at the back cried out and fell to the floor. The others turned round to see three Daleks trundling down the corridor towards them.
"Daleks!" Cried out the Doctor.
"Doctor, get down!" Commanded Crilly. The Doctor ducked out of the way as the remaining soldiers began to open fire on the Daleks.
"Concentrate your fire on the eye stalks," shouted the Doctor. The Daleks remained in tact as they let lose with a barrage of energy bolts. One by one the soldiers fell to the floor dead, leaving only Crilly standing. The Daleks stopped firing, and The Doctor moved to stand by Crilly. The two of them stared at the Daleks. One of the Daleks moved towards the Doctor, looking him right in the eye.
"You will both come with us. Move. Move! MOVE!"
The Doctor and Crilly began to walk in the direction indicated by the Dalek. Crilly turned to the Doctor and spoke to him as they walked.
"What are those things?"
"The stuff of nightmares, Crilly," replied the Doctor, solemnly. "Don't make any sudden movements, they'll kill us on the spot."
"SILENCE!" Demanded the Daleks, and The Doctor and Crilly continued walking.
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As Billy, Mandy and Grim ran through the gym, a dozen or so Daleks chased after them. Mysteriously, they were no longer firing their weapons, but the trio knew they were still deadly. They reached the other end of the gym and found the door was locked.
"Stand back guys," said Billy, trying his best to sound macho and heroic. "I'll break down the door with my super strength! I've had me spinach today, y'know, teeeheehee!"
"But you hate spinach!" Said Grim, before realising at this point in time that was probably irrelevant.
"I said STANDS BACK!"
And before Mandy or Grim could stop him, Billy ran as fast he could at the door.
"Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiyaaa!" He screamed as he leapt into the air, his right leg outstretched before him. "Ooof!" He cried as he smashed into the door, not breaking it in the slightest. Billy moaned softly as he began to slide slowly down the closed door, his arms and legs splayed out in all directions. Mandy and Grim watched as he came to rest on the floor and fall backwards. His arm twitched slightly.
"Well, that was helpful," said Grim, deadpan.
"Mmhmm," agreed Mandy, equally as emotionless.
"Fargle bleh," added Billy, still on his back.
"HALT!" Came a voice from behind them. Mandy and Grim spun round to see a destruction of Daleks staring at them. There was nowhere for them to run. They were trapped. Most of the Daleks were gold coloured, except for one which was red. The red one approached them.
"You are prisoners of the Daleks," it said.
"Second time today, teeheehee!" giggled Billy, raising to his feet, seemingly recovered from his collision with the door.
"Shut it, you idiot!" Snapped Mandy.
"You will all be taken on board our ship," the Dalek continued.
"A real space ship?" Billy questioned, his eyes wide with excitement.
"Ech, been there, done that," said Grim, sounding bored.
"SILENCE!" Screamed the red Dalek. A gold Dalek approached.
"Intruders have been caught downstairs," it said to its' leader.
"Bring them here. We will show these earthlings the power of the Daleks!"
"I obey!" The golden Dalek trundled out of the open gym door, and returned with the Doctor and Crilly in tow. Even more Daleks followed them in.
"Stand with the others," the red Dalek commanded the Doctor and Crilly. They moved over to stand with Billy, Mandy and Grim.
"Hello, I'm the Doctor," said, surprisingly, The Doctor, and extended his hand towards Mandy. She looked at him in silence for a few seconds.
"I don't care," she growled, staring at him through narrowed eyes and brandishing Grim's scythe at him. The Doctor took a step back, startled.
"Hmm, Doctor. I know that name," said Grim.
"You've heard of him?" Questioned Billy.
"Only as a myth throughout time. "Wherever the Doctor has been, Death is not far behind." If this is the same Doctor, I've cleaned up countless messes he's left behind."
"And I take it you're Death?" Exclaimed the Doctor, not quite believing he had just said those words.
"The one and only!" Said Grim.
"Doc-tor?" Said the red Dalek, softly. "THE Doctor?!" It added, more violently.
"The one and only …. kind of," he replied, grinning his toothy grin and adjusting his scarf.
"YOU ARE AN ENEMY OF DALEKS!"
"Yes…"
"YOU WILL BE EXTERMINATED!" The red Dalek was beginning to shake out of anger.
"Quite…"
"YOU ARE THE DOCTOR!"
"Well I think we established that."
While this had been going on, Crilly had begun to edge away from the group. Finally, he snapped and began to make a run for it.
"Halt, or you will be EXTERMINATED!" Yelled one of the Daleks, turning round to give chase.
"Halt!" Cried several more, also turning round.
Crilly did not heed this warning, as he ran towards the exit. The Daleks opened fire, Crilly screamed and fell to the floor, dead. Mandy gasped silently, her eyes wide, while Billy screamed loudly and ran around in small circles.
"Now why did you have to do that? You know how much paper work is involved in things like dis?"
"He was unnecessary," replied the red Dalek, coldly.
"Like a plot device that was no longer needed," said Mandy to no-one in particular.
"Enough of this," cried the Dalek. "You will now be transported to the Dalek ship."
On hearing this, Billy immediately stopped running his circles of terror and perked up.
"Oooh yay!" He cried. "But how will we get there?"
"By trans-mat," replied the Dalek, and it moved back to reveal a dark blue platform at the side of the gym, only about half a metre high."
"That's a gym mat!" Billy insisted.
"It is a trans-mat."
"GYM mat!"
"TRANS-MAT!" The Dalek was shaking again.
"It's a gym mat, I tells ya!"
"SILENCE!!!! The idiot will no longer speak!" Ordered the Dalek, approaching Billy rapidly.
"That's what I've been trying to tell him for years," said Mandy, boredom and frustration apparent in her voice.
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Grim, Mandy, Billy and the Doctor had been transported on board the Dalek ship, and were marched down a corridor towards the bridge. Mandy was still carrying Grim's scythe. Once there, they were ushered in front of something that resembled a Dalek, only much larger, and the organic interior could be seen. The mutated being stared at the group with it's single, deformed eye and fixed it's glare on the Doctor.
"Doc-tor," it said slowly. "We meet again."
"A pleasure," said the Doctor, smiling sarcastically.
"What in holy heck is that thing?" Cried Grim, pointing a boney finger at the abomination of nature.
"The Dalek Emperor," the Doctor replied, his gaze not straying from that of the mutant. "Or rather, a Dalek Emperor, I'm not really sure if there was only ever one or more. What are you up to this time?" He called out to the massive thing.
"We are here for the being known as the Grim reaper. If the Daleks control the forces of life, death, and everything in between we will once more become the most powerful force in the universe, and we will exterminate all those that oppose us in one, foul swoop. Ultimate power shall be ours! No one can stop us! You will all be EXTERMINATED!"
"You are mad, aren't you?" Said the Doctor.
"Silence, Doctor. You are in no position to stop us this time."
"But, why me?" Cried Grim, butting in. "There are loads of Grim Reapers out there, at least one for every planet!"
"Yes, but you are the easiest to capture. You're a pushover, even more of one than we originally thought. You're being held captive by mortal children!"
"He's got you there, Grim," said Mandy. Grim nodded, very reluctantly agreeing.
"Um, excuse me?" Billy piped up. "But are you a slug?"
"What?" Exclaimed the Emperor, slightly taken aback by the question.
"I mean, if someone poured salt on to you, would you melt?"
"Please ignore Billy," interrupted Mandy, before the Emperor could respond. "He's an idiot".
The Emperor's eye slowly turned to fix its' gaze on Mandy. "Yes," he boomed, "but you are not."
"Uh, thanks …?"
"You have a power over the Reaper. You control him. We had devised numerous ways to tap into his power but now we don't need to use them. We have YOU."
"What are you on about?"
"Join us, child. Teach us the powers of the underworld, and you shall rule this planet as Queen of the Daleks!"
Mandy paused for a moment, almost speechless. "Intriguing," was all she could manage to say, and her eyes widened at the prospect of power. True, it would only be one planet - for the time being at least - but as she'd always told herself, she had to start somewhere!
"Mandy, no!" Shouted Grim.
"I thought you'd be interested," the Emperor continued, ignoring the Reaper. "But you must first prove yourself to us."
"How so?"
"Take the scythe you are holding, use the forces of the underworld., and kill the Doctor."
"What?" The Doctor said, wide-eyed with concern.
"And Billy." The Emperor finished. Mandy's eyes widened with shock as the Emperor said the last part. She turned her head to face the Doctor, and then round to look Billy in the eyes.
"M … M…. Mandy?" Stammered Billy, his eyes widening to puppy-dog size, his bottom lip beginning the tremble.
"Kill them!" Boomed the Emperor. "Kill them both! Exterminate them now! Obey me, or you shall be exterminated too! Obey me!"
"Obey the Emperor!" Cried a chorus of Daleks that surrounded them. "Obey. Obey! OBEY!"
Mandy stepped back further and stared at her friend and the stranger that called himself the Doctor. She looked at Grim, who was just standing there with a look of disbelief on his face.
"Mandy?" Grim questioned the girl, not knowing what she was going to do next.
"Obey! Obey the Emperor! Obey! Obey! OOOOOBEEEEEEYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!" Cried the Daleks, almost taunting the girl.
Mandy glanced down at the scythe, and began to raise it above her head.
She knew what she had to do.
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Grim, Billy, Mandy and all related characters created and owned by Maxwell Atoms. And Cartoon Network, probably.
Doctor Who, and the Daleks are owned by the BBC. The Daleks were created by Terry Nation, and a very good creation they are too.
