//------------------------------// // DOCTOR! // Story: War of the Daleks // by Emperorxeno //------------------------------// “DOCTOR!” The room then became deadly silent, the upper part of the room being covered in smoke from the TARDIS. The Doctor then quickly ran for the door in order to escape, with Amy and Rory behind him “WAIT!” yelled Davros in an attempt to get the Doctor’s attention. The door swung open to reveal a whole army of changelings waiting for their leader to finish interrogating the prisoner. The army turned to face the three time-travelers. The surrounding land was scorched and razed, with the grass dead and no sign of any other life. Before the changelings could react any further the Doctor slammed the door shut. Taking out his sonic screwdriver and pointed it at Davros. “Stay back…or I’ll use this very dangerous weapon.” the Doctor said, in hopes that the Dalek would not recognize the sonic device in the dark room. The Doctor had not thought he would find himself here. After his recent run-in with the Daleks, he and his companions had to chase down a dalek that escaped the Asylums destruction. However, he did not expect to find the escaped dalek so easily and now found himself knee-deep in trouble. Needless to say, he was very upset with whatever divine power put him in this situation. What caught him off guard was that he started to hear the dalek chuckle until it was laughing uncontrollably. "REALLY DOCTOR, DO YOU EXPECT ME TO BELIEVE THAT YOU, THE DOCTOR, WOULD HAVE A WEAPON ON YOU…WELL WITH THAT OUT OF THE WAY, WELCOME DOCTOR." The bow-tie wearing Time Lord continued to stare at the dalek in front of him. This was the second time the dalek race had a chance to kill him, but the first time the daleks wanted him to save them and now this time the dalek laughed at his attempt to sound intimidating and welcomed him. “What?” was all he could say at the moment. “I SAID WELCOME DOCTOR, I NEVER EXPECTED TO EVER MEET YOU IN PERSON DOCTOR, IT IS A PLEASURE!” “Ah Doctor, what is going on? Why hasn’t the Dalek attacked us?" Rory asked. The doctor turned to face Rory, “A better question is the daleks behavior; daleks aren’t known to be nice and polite?” The dalek chuckled. "YOU WOULD BE CORRECT DOCTOR, BUT AS YOU CAN SEE AND HEAR I AM NOT AN ORDINARY DALEK. I EVEN HAVE A NAME, YOU MAY CALL ME DAVROS." “Davros?" The Doctor muttered. "You named yourself Davros?”’ “YES DOCTOR, I NAMED MYSELF AFTER THE CREATOR OF THE DALEK RACE!” "Well, that was unexpected," the Doctor turned to see the tied up alicorn on the floor, “I see you still haven’t changed your ways, planning on executing and enslaving races are we?” "NO DOCTOR…I HAVE NOT ENSLAVED ANY BEING AND THIS WAS AN INTERROGATION, NOT AN EXECUTION.” Davros corrected. "Then let me ask why are you interrogating this colorful equine then?” the Doctor asked. “THE ALICORN AND AN ARMY OF PONY CIVILIANS ATTEMPTED TO ATTACK A CHANGELING OUTPOST!!” The Doctor scoffed at this. "I have no reason to believe you Davros." He turned and began to walk towards Davros. "You and your kind have always been a symbol for destruction and nothing you could say could convince me that your prisoner is the aggressor." "THIS SITUATION IS GREATER THEN YOU THINK DOCTOR." The Doctor stared down at Davros, “Oh, well could you then enlighten me.” Davros moved his eye stalk so that he was metaphorically face to face with the Doctor, “I DID NOT WILLINGLY COME HERE; I WAS BROUGHT HERE AGAINST MY WILL DOCTOR." The Doctor mind stopped dead in his tracks. "Please continue." Davros then turned and slowly moved around the room as he continued on with his story, “WHEN I ARRIVED ON THIS WORLD QUEEN CHRYSALIS, THE LEADER OF THE CHANGELINGS, HAD ME REPAIRED AND WANTED ME TO HELP HER AND THE CHANGELING PEOPLE. YOU SEE DOCTOR; THE CHANGELINGS ARE IN A WAR WITH THE EQUESTRIANS, A PONY-LIKE RACE OF GREAT POWER AND SIZE,” Davros looked into the face of Amy Pond, then to Rory, and back to the Doctor, “BUT WHEN I ARRIVED IT WAS LESS OF A WAR AND MORE LIKE A MASSACRE AND I SAVED THEM.” “I don’t believe it…” The Doctor whispered. “OH YES DOCTOR, ME A SINGLE, SIMPLE DALEK, A RACE KNOWN FOR EXTERMINATING ALL OTHER CIVILIZATIONS, IN FACT SAVED A WHOLE RACE FROM EXTINCTION…AND I’M CONTINUING TO DO SO!!” “And what have you done to do that…mmm…fought in a war, no Davros, there are other ways do this without bloodshed.” The Doctor retorted. “AS YOU SAID DOCTOR, I AM A DALEK, BEING ONE MAKES IT SIGNIFICANTLY DIFFICULT TO THINK OF PEACEFUL WAYS TO FIGHT A WAR.” Amy steps forward, “What started this war in the first place?” Davros turned to point at Soulweeper, “SOULWEEPER, YOU KNOW MORE ABOUT THE BEGINNINGS OF THIS WAR THAN I DO. EXPLAIN OUR SITUATION TO THE DOCTOR AND HIS COMPANIONS.” “Of course sir…it all started when our population started to grow out of control, we needed new land since most of it was being used to produce food and other resources for the citizens, we tried to make negotiations with Equestria to buy off some land from them, but our ambassadors would come back barely alive, stating that the Great Nightmare herself and her guards ambushed. Afterwards our Queen decided to attack the capital in order to take control of the country, but that ended in failure. In stubborn pride we attempted a full blown invasion; very little casualties were made during our invasion, most of them caused by the ponies themselves.” “What do you mean?” Rory asked. “Most casualties were caused by ponies attacking ponies that were suspected of being changeling spies or were killed during the chaos of the invasion, being trampled, falling from buildings, running into dangerous equipment, friendly fire from pony guards, etc.” Soulweeper pointed his hoof at the alicorn princess with a look of mixed pity and anger, “But ponies like her take the events of the invasion and twist it to justify their own actions, saying that we mercilessly killed pony citizens, accusing us of being monsters.” At the mention of these events Twilight Sparkle’s head shot up, in order to hear the whole story, grinding her teeth together in anger. “Our forces quickly took over entire cities within Equestria, but victory didn’t last long. As soon as the Equestrian forces regrouped they quickly overran us. Our queen ordered a full retreat of forces, but the ponies would not accept that, they started attacking retreating forces. Eventually we returned back to our lands, hoping that the ponies would stop chasing us. For a couple a days they did, staying stationed at our borders so we decided sent an ambassador to discuss the terms of our surrender and the possibilities of making a peace treaty. The ambassador never even got ten feet away from the border before he was killed by the Equestrians as they began an assault on our border. The ponies…had decided that the changeling race had to be wiped away from existence; they quickly swept over our land. We begged for help from our allies, but they turned against us. We were almost led to extinction if it were not for Davros’s help. With this leadership we will take back our homes, and then this war can finally end.” “NO!!” Twilight shouted out at the group, attempting to break out of her bindings, “Those are all lies, for one Nightmare Moon no longer exists, she was destroyed by the elements. Two, if there was such an attempt negotiate for land; it would have been said in the media. Three, your invasion was a bloodbath; the guards reported seeing changeling soldiers killing innocent ponies. Also we gave you repeated warnings not to attempt to cross your borders. Soulweeper walked over to the lavender princess, “You are WRONG Twilight Sparkle, the Great Nightmare still lives; reports have shown multiple sightings of the Great Nightmare. She is either working with the Equestrian government, were they planned this war from the start, or the Great Nightmare is working alone and that we are being played as pawns for something much more devious than a war.” Both the Doctor and Davros moved in closer around the changeling and alicorn during the conversation, especially during the parts when Nightmare Moon was mentioned. The Doctor noticed that Davros was just as interested in this as he was, “Well, that’s an interesting fact, but by the way your acting Davros I would have to say you didn’t know this either. “YOU WOULD CORRECT DOCTOR, I’VE HEARD NO WORD OF THIS,” Davros was going irritating finding out that he was just as much in the dark as the Doctor, “WHY WAS I NOT INFORMED OF THIS, EXPLAIN?” “It didn’t seem to be important at the time you arrived, Queen Chrysalis did not believe in the reports, thinking that it was just their imaginations.” “A better question is who is this Great Nightmare and I want to hear it from…as you could say straight from the horse’s mouth, or pony in this case?” The Doctor asked, everyone in the room turned to give the Doctor the blandest faces they could make, minus Davros. Amy rolled her eyes, “Really Doctor, a horse joke?” The Doctor looked around the room, “What? It was a great opportunity for a joke; the tension was getting too…thick.” “ALL…JOKES ASIDE WE NEED TO GET BACK TO THE QUESTION?” “Right,” the Doctor walked over and sat down next to the alicorn, “So…who is this Great Nightmare you’re talking about?” Twilight glared at the Doctor, “I’m not saying anything else to any of you.” “Oh you can tell me; right now I’m just a third party. Amy, Rory, and I are on neither side at the moment, I promise that if you answer any of our questions that nothing else will happen to you.” The Doctor whispered into her ear. Twilight pondered this for a moment, “I highly doubt that you could make such a promise.” The Doctor looked over at the changeling and dalek that were behind him, “Davros?” “YES!” “If I could get her to talk, would you promise me that nothing bad happens to her and that you treat her as though she were an honored guest?” “I WOULD, BUT UNDER ONE CONDITION…SHE DOES NOT ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE OR TRY TO SABOTAGE ANY OF OUR PLANS.” Davros replied. Twilight looked at the dalek with satisfaction in her eyes, “I don’t mean any disrespect, but wouldn't Queen Chrysalis have to make that decision?” The Doctor stood up and walked over to the door, “Davros I wish to meet this queen of yours, where is she at the moment?” Davros looked away from everyone in the room and stared at the ground, "SHE IS...SHE IS DEAD...I AM THE NEW LEADER OF THE CHANGELINGS"