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The Magician's Apprentice

by EmperorDalek

Chapter 19: Victory? Part 2

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Suddenly, the door into the Prime’s Throne Room exploded inwards, sending bits and pieces of it’s burning fragments inside the Throne Room, startling the angered Daleks, but at the very least, directing their attention away from Luna. They rotated their domes’ Eyestalks in direction of the destroyed door.

‘’Alert! Alert!’’ It shouted, shocked by the explosion. ‘’Intrusion at Main Throne Room. Send reinforcements to the Dalek Prime’s position, quickly’’ A white and gold Dalek shouted in a wild frenzy, as it moved closer towards the tall, bulky Dalek in the center of the room. It moved back behind the Dalek Prime.

‘’Drones! Protect your Prime! Protect! Protect!’’ It screamed, franticly.

‘’Protect! Protect! Protect!’’ The Drones started chanting in unison as they approached the smoking, destroyed door.

From out of the smoke, a sudden explosion sounded. It caught the Daleks off-guard, startling them, and making them back away, frightened by the sudden intrusion of the explosions. The Daleks, looking through their eyestalk lenses, started picking up several organic forms on the other side of the smoke.

‘’Organic component detected!’’ The Dalek Leader shouted. ‘’Fire! Fire!’’

‘’Exterminate! Exterminate!’’ The Daleks started to shout, as they raised their gunsticks, aiming them out towards whatever they had detected behind the smoke. The energy started to build itself up within the Daleks’ gunstick barrels, growing stronger and stronger, as the moment for them to unleash their death beams upon what was attempting to gain entrance to the Prime’s Throne Room.

‘’Extermina-‘’ *Boom!*

Suddenly, all of the Daleks’ casings erupted outwards. Their upper body being completely torn to pieces, as a violent explosion exploded outwards from inside it. Drawing notice of what had just happened, the Prime and the Sub-Prime were left in a state of confused, and shocked silence, as they beheld what had happened to their Drone Daleks.

‘’What happened!?’’ The Prime spoke. ‘’Explain! Explain!’’ It demanded to be told what had just had happened there. Nervously, the Sub-Prime moved up from behind the Dalek Prime’s form, positioning itself in front of it so that the Prime could see him. It looked it’s eye screen up towards the Prime’s Eyestalk, meeting it’s gaze.

‘’M’’ He spoke, as he stared. ‘’It would appear that something was interfering with the Dalek casings, preventing their energy to be discharged and fired outside, instead causing their Travel machines to explode from the inside out.’’ He explained. ‘’What was the cause, I cannot say with certainty.’’

‘’Call for reinforcements! The threat must be neutralized, immediately!’’ The Dalek Prime ordered.

‘’I obey.’’ The Sub-Prime heeded the Dalek Prime’s order. It turned itself around, and started to move back towards a secure location where it could make the call for assistance.

‘’I don’t think so!’’ A voice, suddenly, shouted out from behind the layer of smoke, the two Daleks turned. Looking their eyestalks/screens towards the source of the speaker. Slowly, the smoke started to clear up, fading away.

From outside the door in the hallway, a loud buzzing hum entered the airspace of the chamber. The lights of the chamber started to flicker, electrical surges started ravaging the walls, and causing static to be the only sound that was heard within the Travel machine.

The Prime looked it’s eyestalk around the chamber, in panic, as it as well as the Sub-Prime, were caught in a state of confusion and frantic panic.

The Prime turned it’s lens towards the Sub-Prime as all the haywire chaos came to a stop. The chamber was returned to the state it had been before it had all started acting up.

The Sub-Prime looked the eye on it’s screen down, staring downwards towards the floor. Inside the spherical dome, the Dalek creature operated several controls. But what it was trying to accomplish, just didn’t seem to be happening. As it noticed that it nothing was seemingly happening, it instead moved up towards the Dalek Prime.

‘’I have detected a malfunction.’’ It said up towards the Prime’s eyestalk, as it looked down towards the side towards it. ‘’The transmat has been deadlocked into a de-activated state. It cannot be unlocked.’’ It informed the Dalek Prime.

‘’Than go, use the transmat in the personal quarters instead! They are far enough isolated from the Throne Room to ensure a successful teleport!’’ It instructed in a panic. Soundlessly, the Sub-Prime obeyed. It started to hurriedly glide across the floor towards the door towards the wall where the door had been. It didn’t have a Manipulator arm to use to access the control globes. But it did not require them. Using a wireless network, it hacked into the controls, and remotely unlocked the door.

*Whoosh*

The door swung up, and it began to move forward. But as the door slid up all the way, it stopped in place, all of a sudden. Looking it’s eye screen out in front of it at the figure standing in front of it. As the light shone upon the obstacle in it’s way, it backed away, having been startled by the creature’s sudden appearance – Especially in this corridor.

The figure raised a hoof up, smiling from ear to ear, as it noticed the Dalek’s reaction to it’s appearance in the corridor.

‘’I’m afraid, but it appears that you are being held as a hostage.’’ The equine shape spoke to him.

‘’M!’’ The Sub-Prime called back. The Dalek Prime rotated it’s dome, looking it’s eyestalk towards the opened door. It noticed the Sub-Prime and a shadowy figure standing behind it. Few snippets of it’s outline being displayed visibly to it, for it’s lens to see.

Inside the Dalek Prime’s creature containment, the creature’s eye widened in shock, as it beheld the situation.

However, as much as it would have liked to focus it’s attention one problem at a time, it’s attention was ripped back towards the front, as the sound of several hoof steps that entered into the chamber. It’s eyestalk rotated back, looking it’s lens straight towards the source of the hoof steps as it continued to enter the chamber, approaching it’s form.

‘’You!’’ It said, as it laid eyestalk lens on the new arrival. Inside, behind it’s metal skin, it could feel it’s rage building. ‘’You did this!’’

The Medic trotted up towards the Dalek Prime, holding his Screwdriver with his hoof, and just looking back up towards the Dalek Prime’s eyestalk with a blank expression. Through the lens, it was only able to see his face change into an angry stare, as he looked back up towards it.

He ignored the Dalek Prime, and directed his attention away from it, instead looking his eyes towards the Sub-Prime and Twilight at the other end of the room.

‘’That’s enough, Twilight.’’ He said towards the pair in front of him. ‘’Come out into the chamber, the both of you. But let him go first, have him in front of you.’’ He instructed towards the lavender Unicorn behind the white-gold Dalek.

‘’Okay.’’ Twilight’s voice chirped up from behind the Dalek. She kicked her hoof against the front of the Dalek’s skirt. ‘’Alright then.’’ She said, gently. ‘’Move forward. Move out into the chamber.’’ She ordered to it. With no options, the Dalek turned itself around, it’s eye screen faced out towards the Medic. It started to move forward, but a much quicker speed. ‘’Slowly!’’ Twilight said, as she used her magic to grab hold of the Dalek, restraining it in place.

The Dalek, reluctantly, slowed it’s pace, and continued to move forward into the chamber – With Twilight following slowly after it.

As Twilight and the Sub-Prime entered back out into the Throne Room chamber, the Medic approached Luna, who had been silently observing everything this whole time. He raised his Screwdriver up towards the restraints. With a quick loud buzzing hum, the restraints opened, and Luna was freed from it, falling back down onto her hooves as she landed on the floor.

‘’Thanks, Med.’’ Luna said, relieved. Thankful that she was no longer forced to remain strapped to that awful contraption.

‘’Not to mention it. I’m just glad to see that you are unharmed.’’ He replied, smiling warmly. It was clear that she wanted to hug him, but restrained herself just enough so that she didn’t.

Watching the duo, the Dalek Prime, the Sub-Prime, and Twilight, observed it all. Inside, the Prime started to feel rage, and fear beginning to consume it’s mind. The Nightmare was free!

As she looked into the Medic’s face, happy that he had saved her, Luna’s eyes looked up to the side, noticing the Dalek Prime looking down towards them. She could feel her magic beginning to flow more fluidly through her horn once more…But now she couldn’t bring herself to simply fly up, and deliver a killing blow to the Prime. Questions were beginning to pile up, and she wanted answers to them. Why had the Daleks feared her? Why had they referred to her as the Nightmare? But more importantly, why hadn’t her magic worked when she attempted to teleport away earlier?

She strode forward, trotting past him, as she approached the Dalek Prime. Trotting up to the front, and sitting herself down on the floor, her eyes up towards the eyestalk.

‘’Now, I think it’s time you answered a few of MY questions…Dalek Prime.’’ She said. The Dalek Prime remained, silently, in it’s place, as it looked down towards her. ‘’Who and what is this Nightmare that you have been referring to?’’ She asked, intrigued but stern. ‘’For depending on what answer you give me now, I might not be this ‘’Nightmare’’ that you are all talking about.’’ Luna spoke up towards the Dalek dome. Curious, the Medic looked his eyes up, staring them towards the Dalek Prime, in anticipation for what it would respond to such a request with.

‘’Very well!’’ Replied the Dalek Prime. ‘’Commence questioning!’’ It said. Luke inhaled a soft breath, before she started. Shooting the Prime a serious glare.

‘’What, or who, is the Nightmare?’’ Luna asked. Twilight looked her eyes up towards Prime.

‘’The Nightmare is a creature that is prophesied to bring about the destruction of the universe. Shrouding everything in it’s path by darkness, and enslaving all those that stand to oppose it, or worse, kills them!’’ The Prime replied. As it continued to speak, a look of fear settled on Luna’s face. That sounded eerily similar to-. Her eyes widened, and pupils shrank, as her despair piled on, getting stronger by the minute.

‘’No…’’ Twilight whispered under her breath. ‘’That sounds like-…’’

‘’Nightmare Moon.’’ Luna spoke. In her mind images and memories from the time when she had once been that great and terrible power. Her serious demeanor vanished, and was replaced by a saddened frown. She lowered her head, still bearing the frowning disappoint now that she knew the reality of what they had been taking about all along – Which was a true one – A terrible sleeping memory that was now dug up from the depths of her mind.

‘’Nightmare Moon. The ancient terror that you are referring to is called Nightmare Moon.’’ She said, craning her head up. Looking her eyes back towards the eyestalk lens. ‘’I-…I am-…was once this entity.’’ Luna spoke, softly. ‘’B-but that was a completely different life…A long time ago.’’ Luna said.

‘’Then you are indeed the Nightmare, or as your Equestrian race refers to it, the Nightmare Moon…!’’ The Prime interjected. ‘’As foretold to bring about an endless darkness to the universe!’’ It said.

‘’No.’’ Luna replied back, surprising the Prime a little. ‘’I may have been that pony in the past, but no more. No longer am I that. Nightmare Moon was killed in the Ruins of the Everfree Forest…But I am Luna, reborn. Princess of Equestria – And I will not be intimidated by even a mere audience with the Dalek Prime, itself. I will never unleash the tyranny of the Night.’’ She spoke long and sternly, and with a serious tone in her voice. ‘’Never.’’ She spoke, as she shook her head back and forth, from side to side.

‘’Evil is a disease that can never be contained indefinitely, it’s reach can only be halted for a short period of time!’’ The Sub-Prime said. Twilight’s kicked the Sub-Prime’s Travel machine. But ending up doing far greater harm to herself, than the mutant creature inside it.

Luna, the Medic, and the Dalek Prime turned, looking their eyes towards the Sub-Prime. ‘’I have witnessed your evil firsthand, ‘’Princess’’ Luna.’’ He said. ‘’You may claim to have changed, to be an Equestrian reborn. But how do the Daleks not know that you are playing them for fools? That this is just a performance that the Nightmare has put on to hide itself from the eyes of the world?’’ He asked, as it looked the eye screen towards her. At hearing this, Twilight gasped in shock. How dare this…Dalek accuse Princess Luna of being…Evil!? It was unheard of! She didn’t feel like standing back, and just listening to this Dalek taunt Equestrias’ sole surviving ruler.

‘’You take that back, freak!’’ Twilight exclaimed, angrily. Taking a step out from behind the Dalek in front of her.

Seeing an opportunity to turn the tables, the Daleks chose to utilize it.

‘’M! Now!’’ The Dalek in front of Twilight shouted. Quickly, it moved out of the way, to the side, and headed towards the Dalek Prime. Getting as close as it could.

‘’Wait, what?’’ A confused Twilight asked, as she regained her senses.

Down at the bottom of the strange compartment space underneath the Dalek Prime, at the hinges where it looked like where several mechanical arms would be, tentacle-like appendages shot out. They were quick, as they shot towards Twilight and Luna, instantly, wrapping themselves around the two of them. Once again, Luna was back in a restrained position, as she and Twilight was lifted up off the floor, and dangled in the air.

‘’Twilight! Luna!’’ He shouted. But was only forced to watch, as they tried to struggle against their binds.

‘’The Nightmare has been re-captured!’’ The Sub-Prime exclaimed, victoriously. ‘’All praise Zenvros! Praise Zenvros! Savior of the Daleks!’’

The Dalek Prime tightened the grasp of it’s long, slender, tentacle-like appendages around both of Twilight and Lunas’ bodies, as it turned it’s eyestalk to look down towards him.

‘’Praise are appreciated, but the time has come for neither!’’ It said. ‘’Not until our plan has been carried out, and completed!’’

Twilight continued to struggle against her binds. But stopped, when she looked down towards the Medic. Through her eyes, she watched, as he motioned for her not to try. Knowing that this was done for the matter of protecting them, she nodded her head in response. She turned and looked towards Luna.

‘’Luna…’’ She spoke, softly. Luna stopped struggling, and looked her eyes up towards Twilights’. ‘’Stop struggling.’’ The lavender Unicorn instructed. Looking back towards Twilight’s face in confusion, Luna suddenly stopped.

‘’Well, Dalek Prime…’’ The Medic said. ‘’I mean, it is Dalek Prime, isn’t it?’’ He asked, jokingly, as he looked up towards the Dalek eyestalk. ‘’Oh! What a ridiculously pretentious title…Don’t you?’’ He continued, stepping closer towards the Prime’s casing.

Inside of it’s casing, the Sub-Prime glared infuriated towards the Medic. Like Twilight, earlier, it could not stand to have it’s…leader mocked by this…This Time Lord! It wanted to scream out, but knew it’s M would never approve of his rude behavior during such a vital moment in Dalek History.

‘’A pretentious title, is it!?’’ The Dalek Prime’s voice boomed throughout the chamber, as it spoke again. ‘’And what of yours!?’’ It asked. ‘’And what of your own!? The Medic, the healer of war…!’’ Said the Prime. ‘’But also a taker of lives, as well. Ironic, don’t you think!?’’

His calm and collective demeanor started to fade away, as anger replaced what little joy he got out of taunting the Dalek Prime.

‘’Hurts does it not!?’’ Asked the Prime. He looked his eyes away, not leaving them visible to see. ‘’What little connects us, in these new days of this so-called ‘’peace’’, is the pain that is felt at having lost so many lives, on the opposite lines of battle!’’ It said. The eyestalk lowered itself, looking down away from him.

Suddenly, and unexpectedly, the Dalek Prime said something that Twilight never expected to hear the Dalek Prime say.

‘’The war is almost over, but why end it in complete genocide!?’’ The Prime asked. ‘’Join me, and bring the peace of the days of old to the present day future! Aid in rebuilding both the Time Lords and the Dalek Races!’’

‘’R-rebuild the Time Lord Race?’’ He asked, dumbfounded. ‘’Peace?’’

Twilight and Luna gasped, as his response reached their ears. Their eyes grew wide, and their mouths hung partially open.

‘’Yes, Medic!’’ Replied the Dalek Prime to his response. ‘’Imagine it, Medic…A galaxy where nothing but the pure majesty and complexity of the Time Lords standing tall, once more. It’s allies, the greatest military force the galaxy will ever know! Imagine it…!’’

‘’Thinking about it…’’ He said, looking his eyes down, holding his head low, as he thought about it. He closed his eyes, entering deep into thought. Still enraptured by the appendages’ grasp, Twilight and Luna looked in awe towards him. The Sub-Prime had moved a little out from behind the Dalek Prime’s casing, approaching the Medic a little.

His eyes shot open, looking out in front of them at the floor. Slowly, his head looked back up. His eyes staring out in front of him. ‘’I can see, indeed…’’ He continued. His head raised, looking further up, until his eyes looked back into the lens of the Dalek eyestalk. ‘’But I don’t like it…’’ He replied. His eyes crossed. ‘’I desire peace…And I do believe that one day the entire universe may come together and rejoice if it ever comes around.’’ Said the Medic, wearing a gentle smile, but the smile, however, faded away, as he continued speaking. ‘’But the future you are proposing may indeed benefit the Daleks and the Time Lords, but what of those less fortunate…Like the Ponies?’’ He asked, raising an eyebrow back at the Prime. ‘’If the Time Lords are restored, then they will refuse to share their technology with the Ponies…And the Daleks will most likely, out of sheer hatred, attempt to exterminate them, and wipe them from the face of the galaxy. There will be no future for them in this ‘’perfect’’ era of peace, that you are proposing, Zenvros.’’ He smiled, softly. ‘’I must unfortunately decline the offer, as tempting as it is.’’

Inside it’s casing, the Dalek Prime’s organic eye widened in shock. Twilight gasped in surprise at his decision. H-he…was willingly letting his race become extinct!

‘’B-but do you realize what you are doing, Medic!?’’ The Dalek Prime asked, awestruck surprised by his decline to the offer. ‘’You are willing to let the Time Lords die, due to your own compassion towards these creatures!?!?’’ It shouted back. Inside the casings’ screen, the mutant creature of the Dalek Prime watched, as the Medic smile grew bigger.

The Sub-Prime backed itself away from him, nervously.

‘’The Time War ends, today.’’

Crossing it’s one organic eye, the Dalek Prime’s mutant glared angrily towards the screen.

‘’So be it…!’’ Said the Prime. ‘’Our Time Lords allies may be lost, but the future of which I speak will still happen!’’ It said. ‘’It will still happen! Nothing can stop it!’’ The eyestalk raised itself up, looking straight out in front of it. Like with the Sub-Prime, the Dalek Prime could connect itself wirelessly to the machines and systems within the chamber. A direct result of this, was a large, square, rectangular screen appeared, hovering in the air. Turning is head around, he directed his eyes up towards the screen. Twilight, Luna, and the Sub-Prime, all looked their eyes up towards the screen, whether it being digital or organic.

‘’No!’’ He said outload, but softly. The Prime lowered it’s eyestalk down towards him, it’s lens focused on him.

‘’And now he sees it! The hopelessness of the situation he has gotten himself into!’’ The Dalek Prime’s voice spoke behind his back. A mechanical whirr followed in it’s wake. ‘’I hoped that I could convince you to make the smart decision…! But after hearing how your compassion towards the Equestrians made you chose them, you have left me with no choice but to obliterate you both!’’

On the screen, his eyes did not deceive him. In front of his eyes, on the screen, was the image of the sun at the heart of this galaxy.

Outside the giant Dalek Saucer, the ship was already at the furthest edge of the galaxy that Equestria lay inside. On the side of the Saucer, a large hatch started to open, revealing a large round, rectangular shape that greatly resembled a canon that emerged out from within the opened circular space.

‘’No…’’ He said, softly, but with a hint of fearful dread in it. He turned, and looked his head back towards the Dalek Prime, watching only as it’s eyestalk lens looked down towards his eyes.

‘’Behold, Medic, for on this day, I, Zenvros, the Resurrected, the Redeemer of the Daleks will bring peace to the entire universe!’’ It shouted, narrowing it’s eyestalk lens light. ‘’Bear witness, Medic, for this day all of creation will cease…at my…Hoof!’’

The screens on the Command Deck displayed the events of what was unfolding in the Throne Room to the Dalek Personnel, whom had by now stopped attending to their duties, in order to watch this historic moment in not only in Dalek History, but in the History of all Creation.

Large, hovering screens were showed throughout all of the Dalek Saucer, just like with the ones on the Command Deck, displaying the unfolding events that were taking place, right this moment.

The hangar, the corridors, the crew quarters. Everywhere, the screens were showing all that was occurring at this point in time.

The Dalek observers looked their eyestalks up towards the screens, watching silently…Until they all, all around the ship, started to, in one voice, chant as loud as any Dalek could.

‘’ALL PRAISE ZENVROS! ALL PRAISE ZENVROS! ALL PRAISE ZENVROS!’’

All throughout space onboard the Dalek Saucer, and even, into a corner of space, itself, the Daleks’ voices called out in victorious celebration at their moment of ultimate victory.

‘’From the edge of the galaxy, the Hand of Omega will be launched at the Core sun, but having been fired from this distance, it will have picked up a speed far too great, that by the time it makes impact, the explosion will be much stronger than required, the sun will detonate, and all of the universe will cease to exist! Being utterly re-written into a new Dalek age!’’ Said the Dalek Prime.

The Medic turned, looking his eyes back up towards the Dalek dome.

‘’This is your final failure, Medic! While we have been playing this little game, the Saucers’ crew have brought us to the outskirts of the galaxy…!’’ It’s eyestalk looked up, staring out, towards the screen of the sun. Another screen appeared, showing the head-shot of a Dalek, but this one was golden-bronze. ‘’Red Dalek! Trigger the Hand! Detonate the sun, and be on stand-by to activate a Time Corridor!’’ The Prime ordered towards the screen showing the Dalek.

‘’I obey.’’ This Dalek replied. ‘’Firing Hand of Omega in twenty rels.’’

Twilight, and Luna looked up towards the two screens in horror. Wearing horrified expressions, as they witnessed everything that was about to take place right before their eyes. Twilight’s thoughts returned to her family back on their home –Planet –…Spike.

‘’Firing in fifteen rels. 15 rels….14 rels…13 rels…12 rels…11 rels…’’ The voice of the Dalek on-screen spoke throughout the Saucer, on every single screen. ‘’10 rels to firing…9…8…7…6…5…4-‘’

Twilight bit her lip, looking her horrified eyes down towards the Medic. He looked back up, meeting her gaze, but responding to her with nothing but a terrified, hopeless, expression, that only showed one thing, and one thing only: Shame.

‘’M-Medic!? Stop them!’’ She shouted down towards him, but he could nothing to prevent what happened next.

‘’3….2…1.’’ It was over. The countdown had reached it’s final end. ‘’Activating Doomsday-classed missile launcher!’’ A voice over the ship’s internal speakers, informing every single Dalek of what was happening.

The opening in the ship started to glow, humming louder and louder. Then, suddenly…

*BOOM!*

A massive explosion erupted from it, and out from the opening, a shape, barely larger than two Dalek missiles (roughly the size of two Daleks) shot out. At the rocket’s end, it suddenly, received a speed boost, as it started picking up speed, as it shot forward, speeding through the entire galaxy in almost the blink of an eye. Zipping towards the sun, getting faster and faster, as it drew closer and closer.

‘’Now…Begins the Era of the Daleks!’’ The Prime said. ‘’Stand witness, Equestrians, and watch as your age dies, paving way for Dalek dominance!’’

‘’Noooooooo!’’ Luna screamed.

It was not too visible from the surface of Equestria’s thick skyline, but still, the inhabitants who did manage to see it, saw only a long, white, streak that flew across the sky. The dark night time, being a perfect opportunity to see it in the open. Many that did see it, either watched in awe, at the magnificent phenomenon, or entered into a panicked frenzy. Running around in utter chaos.

The rapidly increasing in speed missile, shot past Equestria, and it’s sun, heading straight for the sun at the center of the galaxy. A red light on it’s form started to beep, going from red to green. A loud humming noise followed the changing of color.

Unleashing a shockwave as it broke the sound barrier, the rocket increased it’s speed one final time…before finally penetrating the unbearable heat of the surface of the sun, and vanishing deep inside it.

On the screen, an explosion erupted outwards from where the missile had penetrated the sun, reaching out, up into space.

‘’Here it comes…’’ He said, frowning in despair, as he looked his head away from the screen.

‘’Indeed, Medic. This is the end of-‘’

Suddenly, electrical charges started to ravage the sun, consuming it in a plethora of violent, electrical, dis-charges surges forth. Something didn’t look right with the sun.

*KA-BOOM!*

The sun exploded, sending outwards a devastating, purple, shockwave that rippled all the way across space, traversing the galaxy at a speed similar to the missile had been fired in the first place.

The Dalek alarm started to sound throughout the chamber, blaring a violent, bright red throughout the entire Throne Room.

‘’That…wasn’t supposed to happen!’’ The Dalek Prime said. Suddenly, having lost all of it’s pride and sense of ultimate triumph. ‘’What is happening!? Explain! Explain!’’ It shouted, as it demanded to be told of what had happened.

It looked it’s eyestalk down towards the Medic. His right hoof was grasping something. Inside it’s casing, the organic mutant crossed it’s eyes, glaring at the screen. ‘’What have you done!?’’ The Prime asked, infuriated.

Turing himself around, he directed his eyes up towards her, but now, unlike earlier, he was smiling, and with the sense of victory about him, that she should have had.

‘’One word, Zenvros: EMP…Or much better known as a-‘’ He said.

The mutant’s eye widened. The Prime looked it’s eyestalk up towards the screen, watching the shockwave approaching the Saucer at a faster and faster rate.

‘’A-an Electro Magnetic Pulse!’’ It said, continuing the summarization.

‘’Oh, but don’t worry. I promise that I will be merciful when it hits.’’ He said.

‘’Alert! Alert! Electro Magnetic Pulse approaching! Repeat, there is a-‘’

Without a second’s hesitation, the shockwave penetrated the ship’s hull, passing through every nook and cranny of the immense Saucer. The walls, smaller ships – such as Fighters –, and all manner of technology, were ravaged by electrical surges and charges. The hum of the Throne Room died down, and the lights switched off all throughout the ship. Everywhere within the massive starship, there was nothing but darkness and silence. Nothing moved, nothing spoke…Everything was left inert, and lifeless.

Raising his hoof, he held out the Screwdriver, he pressed it, making the top glow, and the familiar, loud, buzzing hum to sound throughout the room. He raised it up, pointing it up towards the ceiling.

*ZZZZST!*

The lights flicked, restoring themselves to life, banishing the darkness, and filling the chamber with light, once more.

He looked his head up towards the form of the Dalek Prime. It didn’t move, or even utter a sound...Even the light in it’s eyestalk from the lens, had gone out. He frowned a saddened frown, as his eyes stared out towards the Dalek dome, slowly, inching it down towards the section right underneath it. He raised, and touched his hoof against the side of the Prime’s base, holding it there.

‘’I’m sorry.’’ He said.

‘’Um, you mind giving us a hoof with getting out of this bind?’’ He heard the voice of Twilight ask down towards him. He looked up, looking above him, and seeing the, still restrained, forms of Twilight and Princess Luna.

‘’I don’t need to. Just use a teleportation spell. The ship’s internal Hostile Energy Neutralization System has been de-activated. Everything onboard this ship is dead…Well, the hardware, anyway.’’ He replied, back up towards the two of them.

The two Mares looked at each other. Luna remembered back to when she had tried to use a teleportation spell, but it hadn’t worked for some strange reason.

*Pop* *Pop*

A second later, the two of them were, once again, back down on the floor. Out of sheer happiness for what hadn’t happened, Twilight galloped over towards the Medic, and without a hesitation of a second, giving him not enough time to prepare himself for it, she embraced him in a warm hug.

‘’Oof!’’ He groaned, as he felt her tight grasp around him.

‘’Yeah, I’m fine, Twilight…’’ He said in response to her warm hug. ‘’Having a bit of trouble breathing, though.’’ He strained underneath the tight strength of Twilight’s hooves. She was surprisingly for being…Well, an egghead.

‘’Sorry.’’ Twilight said, pulling herself back away from him. She retracted her hooves, letting him go, once more.

He turned, shifting his attention towards Luna. He stepped forward, approaching her.

‘’Princess, are you all right?’’ He asked in a concerned manner. She smiled, gently, nodding her head back in response.

‘’I’m fine. That Dalek Prime couldn’t do much to me, anyway.’’ Replied the blue Alicorn. He sighed in relief, at hearing this. Letting out a soft breath.

Looking his eyes up, again, they looked past Luna, instead falling upon the inert and lifeless form of the Dalek Prime, and at seeing this, his smile contorted itself into a saddened frown.

He trotted forward, approaching the tall, bulky Dalek, receiving the stares of Twilight and Luna, both, as they looked towards him. He raised his hoof up, and touched it against the base of the Dalek Prime’s casing. He looked his head up at the motionless Dalek casing, which towered over him.

Slowly, and hidden away from the eyes of the two Mares behind him, a drip started to run down it’s side.

‘’I’m sorry…I-I’m so sorry for everything.’’ He whispered, softly, his voice breaking as he sat himself down, still keeping his hoof placed against the base.

Opening his eyes again, he stood himself up off the floor. His head turned, looking itself towards the side, falling upon the equally as lifeless Travel machine of the Sub-Prime. He crossed his eyes a little, getting a stern face, as he looked towards it.

Noticing that his attention had moved towards the Sub-Prime, Twilight and Luna shifted their stares towards it too. The three of them looked towards it for a long time.

Slowly, turning his head back away from it, he looked his eyes up towards the Dalek Prime’s dome. His frown did not change.

Standing back up on his hooves, he retracted his hoof’s touch from the Dalek Prime, and trotted out to the side, making his way towards the Sub-Prime. Twilight and Luna, following after him. Keeping their mouths shut the entire time, being nothing but mere observers of the whole thing.

He stopped in front of the Dalek Travel machine, looking back at it with a serious stare. Keeping it transfixed on the Sub-Prime for several minutes.

‘’Medic, what a-‘’

‘’Shsshh!’’ He immediately, silenced her by raising his hoof up. Twilight, instantly, fell silent, as she gained a frightened expression. Her mouth closed shut, and dared not to speak another sentence.

The two Mares sat themselves down on the floor, looking their curious eyes towards him, as they observed him doing…whatever it was, that he was doing. The Medic’s eyes looked up, down, and from the sides, as he studied the Sub-Prime’s casing.

‘’She was quite keen on protecting you, wasn’t she?’’ He finally spoke, bringing his right hoof up, and gently putting it against the sphere-shaped head-section of this Dalek unit. ‘’What is it about you, that’s so special to her?’’ He asked, crossing his brows a little further.

‘Wait a minute!?’ Twilight thought, her head shooting up from her hooves, as she stood herself up a little. ‘Did he just refer to one of the Daleks as a ‘’she’’?’ She mentally asked herself. Slowly, she turned her head to the left, looking her eyes back towards the motionless casing of the Dalek Prime.

He backed away from the Sub-Prime, and raised his Screwdriver. The Screwdriver buzzed to life, and the light at the end glowed. The Sub-Prime’s casing, clanked, whirring loudly, as internal mechanisms became unlocked. Startled by it, Twilight, immediately, jumped back…But instead of doing the same as Twilight, and being scared, she was instead intrigued by it, and actually trotted forward, approaching the Medic.

Looking back at the Dalek, he waited, wearing a curious expression, as he heard the internal mechanisms. A gentle hiss of steam sounded, as the front half of the spherical head shape opened, being opened, as it separated into separate pieces that revealed the internal space of the head-section.

Luna’s eyes widened, followed by a gasp, as she laid eyes on the form inside the wide, open space. It was organic, like a blob of flesh. Out from it’s body, tentacles moved, gently, in place.

‘’Don’t worry. It can’t hurt you.’’ He re-assured her, as he looked inside the opened space towards it.

‘’I-is it dead?’’ Luna asked him, to which he shook his head, softly, in response.

‘’No.’’ He answered. Certain parts of it’s fleshy body, calm and controlled pulsations emerged. ‘’It’s…dormant.’’ He said.

‘’I-is that really what the Daleks look like inside their machines?’’ Luna asked, again.

‘’Yep. This is all that is left of their race. The last Dalek in existence.’’ Replied the Medic.

‘’S-should we kill it, then?’’ Luna asked, cold, with a tone of vengeance dripping from her voice. Both Twilight and he, looked towards her with horrified expressions. ‘’I mean, they did try to kill me, and with this one being the last one in entirety, and dying, we could put it out of it’s misery.’’ She suggested.

He looked back towards the Dalek creature, before returning his gaze to Luna.

‘’If…If you permit me to find out what I need to know first…’’ He started, before turning his head, and looking his eyes back towards Twilight, who shook her head. She strongly objected to this decision. Surely, they should help the Dalek, in place of merely killing it, especially with it being the last, and this decision, ultimately bringing about their extinction.

‘’Then…’’ He said, with a tone of great reluctance. ‘’you can kill it.’’

She nodded her head, looking her eyes down towards the Dalek mutant.

‘’Go on, then. Get it over with, so we may return to the TARDIS as quickly as possible.’’ Said Luna. This time it was his turn to nod.

He turned himself around, and approached the casing, sitting himself down on his hind legs. He reached his hooves inside the casing, touching them against the side of the Dalek mutant, he closed his eyes, and began to concentrate. In a flash of images and voices, entire memories and events flashed before his eyes. Showing this Daleks’ entire life in a few minutes.

With a final flash of light, he quickly removed his hooves from the Dalek mutant, backing away from the casing. This frightened outburst, attracted Twilight and Luna’s attention. The two of them watched, surprised, as he breathed heavily, staring back at the Dalek with a fearful expression upon his face.

‘’Medic? What is it? What did you see?’’ Luna asked, concerned. But he didn’t respond to her questioning. Twilight turned, looking her eyes back, seeing the Dalek creature, as it didn’t move an inch of it’s tentacles. The only indication for Twilight that the creature was still alive, was it’s gently pulsating form.

‘’W-we cannot kill this Dalek.’’ He said, his voice dripping with a nervous fear spread widely across his face.

‘’What!?’’ Luna and Twilight exclaimed. Twilight, being a little surprised by how she had reacted, the same as Luna had. ‘’Why not? You promised me that we would end it all after you got to see what you, apparently, needed to see.’’ Luna replied, enraged, slamming her hoof down into the floor.

He shook his head with a quick speed. ‘’No. It’s over…’’ He said, raising his Screwdriver up, and pointing it back towards the Dalek, the Screwdriver buzzed to life, and the Dalek casing, re-sealed itself up, again, closing off the entire unit.

‘’I’ve got a much better way for getting rid of the Daleks…’’ Said the Medic. He raised his Screwdriver, and pointed it towards Luna. ‘’But for now, wait for my by the TARDIS.’’

‘’Wait, what?’’ Luna managed to utter, before her body vanished away, disappearing completely from view.

He turned towards Twilight, and pointed the Screwdriver towards her. ‘’You next.’’ He said.

‘’Wait, don’t-‘’

Before Twilight could protest, she too, vanished away. Disappearing out of the room.

He lowered the Screwdriver down, holding it with his hoof. ‘’There...’’ He said to himself in relief. ‘’Now, to get myself to the Command Deck. This ship is about to make a detour.’’ He pointed the Screwdriver up towards the ceiling, the Screwdriver made it’s sound, and he too, teleported out of the room.

Back at the TARDIS, Twilight and Luna, re-emerged, as they found themselves being teleported back into the hangar, where the TARDIS was being kept.

‘’Uh, Twilight!? Are you alright!?’’ Twilight heard Luna’s voice speak to her.

‘’I don’t know, Princess, but I-!‘’ she said, turning her head, looking around at her surroundings…But freezing, paralyzed in place, as her eyes looked out in front of her, at the hundreds, no! Thousands of shapes in front of her!

‘’D-Daleks, Princess Luna!’’ Twilight screamed out in panic. ‘’I am surrounded by Daleks! Help! Help me!’’ The lavender Unicorn shouted, as she curled herself up closer to the TARDIS.

‘’Fear not, Twilight Sparkle!’’ Luna’s voice called from behind the other side of the TARDIS. ‘’There are Daleks on this side too, but-…Are your Daleks moving!?’’

She turned her head, looking back out in front of her. No…The Daleks were completely still. Not moving their casings an inch from where they stood.

‘’No!? They’re just…standing still!?’’ She replied, confused.

‘’Then it is undoubtedly the Electro Magnetic Pulse! It affected their casings!’’ Luna’s voice responded to her response.

‘’Yes. You’re right!’’ Twilight tapped her hoof against one of the Daleks, but unlike her expectations, it didn’t move, or respond in an aggressive manner, as she expected it to. ‘’Yes. They’re all…They’re all dead.’’ She said, somewhat quietly, to herself.

Back on the Dalek Command Deck, the Medic re-emerged from the teleport. Upon arriving, the first thing to greet him, were the non-moving Dalek Personnel that were all standing together in a group.

‘’Huh. I guess they put the Saucer into ‘’hover’’ or something, in order to watch the Prime’s defeat. Good chaps.’’ He commented on their situation.

He trotted towards the Control console, and pointed his Screwdriver at it, buzzing to life. The control interface started glowing, as it’s systems were being restored after the short-out. The Engines were re-activated, he entered new co-ordinates into the Navigational Computer. ‘’This should get rid of them for good.’’

A screen on the wall, glowed to life, displaying a map, which showed the entire galaxy. Dots moved towards Equestria’s new sun.

For a moment, he froze in place, the Sonic was still being pointed towards the screen. He wanted to press the button down, and finally end it all…Forever. But at the back of his head, a thought tore at his mind, preventing him from performing this one single act.

His eyes closed themselves shut, and he stood still…

Suddenly, back in the hangar of the Dalek Saucer, the ship shot forward, catching the two Equestrians off-guard. Making them fall down onto the floor. All around them, the entire ship started to creak. Dalek Ships coming lose from their stands, and fall down towards whatever was underneath it, crushing it.

Clinging to the TARDIS, neither Mare seemed willing to move away from the Medic’s ship. It was by far the safest place amidst...the thing that was unfolding in front of their very eyes. Out from the walls, flames were beginning to erupt, pieces of debris from the things above them, came collapsing down towards whatever was underneath it.

‘’Oh! Where is he!?’’ Twilight groaned in frustration, as she attempted to make out the Medic amongst all this chaos.

‘’He’s over here, Twilight Sparkle! I can see him!’’ Luna’s voice sounded over the loud, bouldering destruction.

*Pop* *Pop*

Vanishing and re-appearing in the blink of an eye, Twilight looked out in front of her. Beside her stood Luna who was looking out in front of her, at a being that was galloping down towards the duo.

‘’The Medic!’’ Both Mares called out in joy, as they recognized his apparel.

‘’Get in the TARDIS, both of ya’!!’’ They could hear his voice scream out towards them. They turned around, and came face-to-face with the TARDIS doors. ‘’Oh right…’’ He corrected himself. ‘’My bad!! Never mind!!’’ he called back, correcting his mistake.

The moment he reached the TARDIS, he barely hesitated to unlock the TARDIS doors and let themselves in. behind them, as they closed the doors, the collapsing hangar area continued to be ravaged by fire, and the crumbling of debris.

While he rushed over towards the TARDIS Console, and began flicking switches, pushing buttons, and pulling levers, Twilight collapsed down onto the floor grating, exhausted. She panted, softly, but still that did not stop her friends from rushing over to her side, and trying to help her. Luna trotted over towards the Console, and looked at the Medic with a serious expression upon her face.

‘’What did you do?’’ She asked him. No response came from him. He completely ignored her.

‘’Once we’re clear, I’ll show you, instead of explain it.’’ He finally replied.

The column at center of the TARDIS, started to move up and down, glowing, as the wheezing groan of the TARDIS Engines roared to life. Outside it, the TARDIS started to materialize away, leaving the Dalek hangar, as the fires spread. But all the doors of the massive space were closed, preventing them from spreading further.

Outside in space, the Dalek Saucer, moved forward, shooting through space, as it speed towards it’s destination.

Not too far away from it, the TARDIS re-materialized itself, floating soundlessly through space, as it stopped groaning.

‘’Now, what did you-‘?’

But before the blue Alicorn could finish speaking, the Medic pressed a button on the Console, and before anyone else knew it, the Console, the walls, everything within the Console Room faded away, leaving them stranded in space, in the middle of nothing.

Pinkie Pie gasped, drawing breath…Wait! Breathe? This little detail caught Twilight’s attention, drawing her towards it.

‘’Um, Pinkie?’’ Twilight asked, nervously. Pinkie interrupted her next outburst, and instead replied with a bubbly and happy ‘’Yes, Twilight?’’ Towards the Unicorn. ‘’Uh…How are you able to breathe in space?’’ She asked, the rest of Twilight’s friends lost their panicked states of being, as Twilight asked this very obvious question, and they all turned towards Pinkie Pie, trotting towards each other, and coming together, forming a group.

‘’I’d be glad to answer that, Twilight.’’ He spoke up, interrupting either of them before they could say anything. They all turned, and looked towards him. ‘’We’re still in the TARDIS. The Console Room just…looks a little bit like the outside. It’s an illusion, but to such a degree that neither could tell the difference.’’ He explained to them.

He turned, looking his head out in front of him. In front of him stood the sun, and he stared out towards it. ‘’I wanted to show you something…Especially you, Princess.’’ He said, gently turning his head to the side, as he looked it towards Luna. ‘’Observe.’’ He instructed, shifting back. They all of them looked out, staring towards the sun, as he was.

In the distance, a large form shot through the blackness of space, becoming visible to see, even from where they stood. But once their eyes saw it, and could clearly make out what it was, they gasped in shock.

‘’It’s the Daleks! Duck!’’ Fluttershy exclaimed, ducking down, bringing her hooves up, and covering her face.

‘’Don’t worry about it, Flutters. There is no one controlling it…’’ He said, trying to calm the Mare down. And besides, it isn’t heading for us position, either way.’’

‘’Huh!’’ Sounded from the confused Equestrians, even Princess Luna seemed to give him a confused stare.

‘’Just…’’ He hesitated. ‘’Just watch…’’ He said, lowering his head a little, but raising it back up, as he looked out towards the Dalek Saucer.

Having it’s speed building more and more, the Dalek Saucer started to be surrounded with flames, as it got increasingly closer and closer to the sun.

Only a mere hundred yards away from the sun, the Dalek Saucer suddenly, shot forward. Flying down towards the sun at speeds similar to the missile from earlier. With an all-powerful crash, the Saucer penetrated the surface of the raging sun, being swallowed up by it’s raging fires, and erupting infernos. Out from it’s impact site, an explosion erupted, stretching so far out, that the flames within that one explosion, would have been the same as one planet-size of Equestria, itself.

‘’Whoa.’’ Rainbow Dash commented, as she beheld the explosion, unable to believe her eyes. She had seen a lot of weird things recently, but that, that explosion sure took the cake.

‘’Ahhhh!’’ Pinkie squee’ed in pure awe, as she too was amazed by the explosion brought forth by the Saucer’s impact with the sun. Every one of the Equestrians there, present, to witness it were awed, and amazed by it’s sheer force in destructive power.

Holding his head low, the Medic, still looked his eyes towards the Core sun. Observing the calming explosion with his own two eyes.

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