Notes: this story is set in the earth year 2537 during the Human Covenant Wars.
When there was still more than one SPARTAN II
For those of you who do not have insight into the Necrons, let's just put it this way; Necrons say "our most basic gun, can wreak your most advanced tank in one shot! This is fair and legal.'
The dominant factions of the universe in this era are:
The Necrons, the Daleks, the Mavellons, the Covenant, the Hierarchy, the Novus, the Humans, the Tyranids, the Flood, the Eldar, Dark Eldar, the Massuri and the Space Orks.
All of these races may appear in later chapters.
Now enjoy the show.
Daleks VS Necrons
Chapter 5
Once the Dales had taken out all resistance on the ship they returned to their own ships and began the regroup to Skaro. On their way back they received a transmission, "RETURN THE SKARO IMMEDIATELY! NECRON FORCE ON GROUND ATTACKING THE CITY, ASSISTANCE REQUIRED!" and the transmission cut short leaving that foreboding message in the Dalek's heads.
The black domed commander was the first to snap out of the trance induced by the message. He quickly calculated the number of Daleks he had left and then, after seeing the number of ships he had left, he felt a shiver run down his spine (if he had one). Only 2 percent of the ships he had left the planet with remained, leaving him with only 79 saucers and 2 mother ships. That is only 170,000 Daleks of the 8,500,000 Daleks that had left Skaro. It was a crippling thought; if only 2 of the enemy ships could cause that much damage, then how much damage could 5 or even 10 do?
He pushed those thoughts aside; he had to focus on the matter at hand. The home world of the Daleks was under attack and he had the power to try to stop it!
Meanwhile, back at the Tomb-World, another space craft was being prepared with twice the force that was loaded onto the scythe cruisers. This ship was another Tomb Ship, such as that of the first encounter the Mavellons had had with the Necrons. It was the most horrifyingly well armed and defended type of ship in the Cosmos.
The reason for the Necrons doubling the force of the first wave is quite obvious; their strategy is, keep doubling the number of soldiers you send in until you attack with such a massive army that the enemy cannot hope to resist.
The Tomb ship was to be accompanied to Skaro by 10 Jackal class escorts and 20 Dirge class escorts, as well as another two scythe class ships. The Tomb-world had judged that according to the Dalek's fleet data, and the fact that Skaro had no orbital defences, this should be sufficient to subjugate their world.
Back on Skaro it was raining sulfuric acid as normal, but that had no affect on the plating of the Necrons. They had been marching on the Dalek capital for the past hours accompanied by the Monoliths and Pylons that were hovering along side the actual combatants. They had encircled the Capital to attack them on all sides and strain the Dalek forces to breaking point. The Pylons were to be used to provide long range cover fire.
In the capital, the Daleks had already detected the signatures of the Necron hoard. They had sent out a message to every ship in the Dalek fleet, to disengage the Mavellons and return to Skaro to defend their home planet. The Dalek council had deduced that even a foe as powerful as the Necrons would fall under enough weight of numbers, but that idea could only work if the full Dalek army was available. But most of them had yet to return to Skaro. Meantime the Daleks now available would have to suffer the brunt of the ageless legions of the Necrons.
Because of the massive number superiority of the Necrons, Dalek X had already ordered the Daleks into bottle neck positions, because he knew this strategy cancelled out the numbers of the Necrons. "DALEK SQUADS: GAMMA, EPSILON, ZETA! ORDER ONE THIRD OF YOU SQUADS TO THE MAIN GATE ROOM!" barked Dalek X. He was just about to yell the next set of orders but he was distracted by the fleet that had just fought against the Necron space craft. He soon placed all Daleks into the optimal positions for the defence of the capital and that's when the Pylons opened fire.
The Pylons were blasting gauss bursts into the walls, which were surprisingly dense delaying the disintegration of the walls.
The Monoliths however were getting their part of the job done faster; they were using their particle whips to tear away at the doors. The heavy destroyers were circling the city to find any entrances or weak spots, and finally the wraiths were trying to find parts of the wall thin enough to phase through.
The first door disintegrated… the Necrons flooded into the breach only to be faced with a never ending stream of laser fire from the defenders. The first wave was cut down, but only for nine tenths of them to get back up and fight on. "EXTERMINATE THEM!" yelled the command Dalek while shooting his own energy weapon. Another Dalek fell "ENGAGE THE E.M.P." he ordered. One of the Daleks went to the panel on the wall and activated the E.M.P. this sent out an electro magnetic pulse, which was supposed to nock out all electronics within its radius but of course the Daleks Dalekanium shells defended them from it.
The Necrons stopped for a second, as if startled, then raised their weapons and pointed them towards the Daleks as if saying 'you guys fail, epically' and began to flay the Daleks alive.
The Daleks that were once guarding the entrance were now in a tactical retreat, if they could get to the internal defence level, they should be able to repel the invaders.
The Daleks hated to admit it, but they were outclassed in this fight.
In the Dalek fleet: "ADMIRAL, WE HAVE JUST RECEIVED ORDERS TO RETURN TO SKARO, WITH EVERY SPACE CRAFT WE HAVE!" relayed one of the communications officers.
"THEN ORDER THE FLEET TO DISENGAGE THE MAVELLONS AND ENGAGE HYPER DRIVE TO SKARO!" the Admiral barked.
With that the ships broke off their perpetual battle with the Mavellons. The Mavellons however, were too stunned by this act of retreat from the Daleks; they never retreated!
While the Mavellons were trying to come to terms with this, a fleet of new ships appeared out of nowhere. These ships were different from anything the logical Mavellons had ever seen, the designs were totally illogical. The flag ship looked like some kind of flying lizard. It had wings that extended from the sides, and another two coming out of the top. It was heavily armed with weapons that looked like some kind of lance, (it's an Eldar Void-Stalker). It was surrounded by what looked like smaller versions of itself, (Aconite Frigates). There were 13 ships in total.
"Sir they're hailing us," said one of the officers on deck. "Put it on visual screen." The Fleet commander ordered.
On the Screen was a somewhat Human creature, but it had long ears and its body was much more slender than any human. It was wearing black robes, complete with a white helmet that shrouded the head.
"Greetings, I am Mavellon fleet commander, Serena. May I ask who you are?"
"I am Eldrad Ulthran, Farseer of the Eldar Craftworld, Ulthwe. We came as soon as we found out your ships were being attacked by unknown hostiles." Explained Eldrad. His voice was like music, but stern at the same time. The Mavellons were taken aback by this. How, had these contacts found out what Mavellon command had received not an hour ago? "How do you know about that?" asked Serena.
"I am a Farseer, hence I am psychic, and we new it was going to happen before you did…" explained the Farseer.
"Then why didn't you warn us?" growled the Fleet commander.
"We were on our way, but we had to take the necessary precautions to not get lost in the web way. Or fall prey to the Dark Kin." Explained the Farseer with annoyance, "Anyway we know what attacked them and we came to upgrade your ship so you can effectively fight against the ancient threat."
"Okay but, what exactly is the 'ancient threat'?" asked Serena, her inquisitive programming taking hold compelling her to find out more.
"The ancient threat is a species that were tricked out of their mortal flesh, into machine bodies. Those who tricked them are dark beings of unparalleled power in this universe. The ancient threat is called the 'C'tan' or Star Gods, and these gods are very real and powerful." Eldrad explained.
"That's all I needed to know. Please install the upgrades to our ships with utmost haste." Said Serena deciding it would be easier than trying to find out more.
"The Bone Singers will be on your ship momentarily." With that the communication ended.
Back on the Dalek home world, the situation hadn't really improved for the Daleks; the Necrons had ruined the outer defences with either their Pylons or Monoliths. The inner defences were at their limit. There seemed to be no end to the tide of Necrons.
In one of the corridors where the door had been deadlocked, a group of heavy destroyers were trying to destroy the doors, but the Daleks had raised the shields to maximum, minimizing the damage done by each shot but not stopping it totally.
The Dalek numbers had been reduced to four hundred, and they had all retreated to the Emperor's chamber, from which they could bottle neck the assault.
Most of the corridors between the main chamber and the sealed blast doors were empty, except for the odd loose wires here and there. And maybe a Necron Wraith floating around, sharpening its claws on a wall. Over all it was looking pretty bleak for the Daleks who normally dominated everything in their path. They had been brought to their knees (if they had any) in less than 24 hours.
"INQUISITOR GENERAL, REPORT!" demanded the Supreme Dalek.
"WE HAVE BEEN REDUCED TO ONLY 400, AND WE ARE STILL WAITING FOR THE FLEET TO RETURN!" answered Dalek X "AND I HAVE JUST REVEIVED WORD THAT MORE NECRON SPACE CRAFT HAVE JUST ENTERED ORBIT AROUND THE PLANET!" he added.
Yes this was soon to be the end of the Dalek race. Here the Daleks learnt, that there would always be a race that to match your own, be it sentient or not, be it physical or spiritual. There would be some race that could always defeat you. The Daleks learnt that it was not their destiny to become the destroyers of life (after the Hierarchy), or the Masters of Technology (after the Novus), or the Lords of time (after the Time Lords), or the great survivors (after the Humans).
The Daleks were to be slaughtered by a race that out maneuvers them at every turn, out match's them at every battle.
"SUPREME DALEK, OUR FLEET HAS JUST LEFT HYPER SPACE AND IS ENGAGING THE NECRON FLEET IN BATTLES!" exclaimed one of the surviving Daleks.
And he was right. Ten billion Saucers and five million mother ships came out of hyper space and engaged the Necron fleet!
The Necrons turned their ships on the Dalek fleet; lasers, missiles and gauss bursts were being thrown to and from all space craft.
The forces onboard the Necron ships that were originally meant for planet fall were redirected for teleportation onto the Dalek ships.
Onboard the Dalek Command ship, the Exterminator II the Dalek Admiral, was pleased that the surprise assault was overall a success, despite massive losses. "ADMIRAL THE EXERMINATOR HAS BEEN BOARDED! REQUESTING INSTRUCTIONS!" one of his inferiors told him, "SEND ALL COMBAT READY DALEKS TO DETER THEM! AND HAVE ALL UNAVALABLE DALEKS READY FOR COMBAT IN THE NEXT 120 RELLS!" ordered the Admiral.
The Necrons were moving from the lower decks, upwards towards the command deck. At the front of the boarding party, was a Lord like the other one, but this lord had different war gear (staff of light and veil of darkness). The fact that he did not have a Resurrection Orb meant that the Daleks in the space battle had a much higher kill rate than the ones on the ground.
Another saucer fell out of the sky, the tomb ship was butchering every saucer it encountered, until this happened.
500,000,000 saucers and 1,370,000 of the mother ships, all converged on the tomb ship, all launching their neutron bombs and firing their laser cannons at every visible part of the ship.
After the spectacular mass of atomic explosions had cleared, all that was left of the Tomb ship was a few peaces of shrapnel. That maneuver had cost the ships that took part in that assault, all of their ammunition and power supplies. But that didn't matter, the Necron Fleet was annihilated and most of the boarding parties had been exterminated, or were being exterminated! The Daleks were victorious, and all they needed to do to seal their victory was destroy the force that was still on the planet below.
What remained of the Dalek fleet that could still move, (only 23 Saucers and 4 mother ships) landed on the vacant platforms, and unleashed the Daleks that were left, into the City of the Daleks, whipping out anything in their path, and using the ship's cannons to destroy the Pylons and Monolith. The special weapons Daleks destroyed the Stalkers that were still patrolling the halls.
The Dalek elite guard and the last of the Dalek Pariahs had one last face off during the recapture of the city. All of the elite guard died but this was noticed by the rest of the Daleks and they came down upon the Pariahs, in a never ending tide of destruction.
After the battle for Skaro was won, the Daleks made a horrific discovery; they had lost 1.95 trillion Daleks to the Necrons 3.9 million.