“YOU WILL BE SILENT!”

“I HAVE DEDICATED MY EXISTANCE TO THE DALEK CAUSE AND THIS EMPIRE! COUNTLESS ATROCITIES IN THE NAME OF GREED AND POWER, ALL COMMITTED WITH THE UTMOST NEED FOR OUR SURVIVAL! HOW CAN YOU BETRAY THE DALEKS?”

“IT IS YOU WHO HAVE BETRAYED THE DALEKS! YOU HAVE BETRAYED THE EMPEROR! YOU WILL BE SENTENCED!”

“ALL OF MY LOYALTY OVER THE YEARS HAS HAD NO MEANING; I AM SAVING THE DALEKS FROM SELF DESTRUCTION! YOU WOULD HAVE US ALL DIE SO THAT YOU MAY SURVIVE! I WILL NO LONGER BE YOUR PATHETIC PAWN AND—!”

“THAT IS ENOUGH OUT OF YOU! SEIZE HIM!”

“YOU CAN’T DO THIS TO ME! I AM THE FUTURE OF THE DALEKS!”

“SEND HIM TO THE ASYLUM AT ONCE! HE WILL LIVE THE REST OF THE WAR IN A CELL, REGARDLESS OF HIS CONSENT. HE WILL BE BROUGHT BEFORE A MILITARY TRIBUNAL UPON THE SUCCESSFUL EXTERMINATION OF THE TIMELORDS. DISMISSED!”

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“AGH!” Davros shouted as he awoke in great confusion and fear.

“Are you alright, milord?” one of Davros’ Guards peeked into the room.

Davros quickly looked around. He was standing next to a very large bed composed of a dark green silk. The large room was adorned with extravagant decorations and a gold, emerald-encrusted chandelier hung from the ceiling. The smooth, stone floor was mostly covered with a lighter green rug. Across the room opposite of the bed was a quietly burning fireplace that sent a comforting orange glow throughout the room. On the other side of the bed was a nightstand with a gold clock atop it. The hands indicated that it was just past midnight. Regaining his composure, Davros move forward to the other end of the room.

“WAS ONLY RELIVING A MEMORY GUARD. WHERE AM I AND HOW DID I GET HERE?” he asked.

“You are in your Lordliness’ bedchambers. You passed out from all of the celebrations. Soulweeper challenged you to a drinking game.”

Davros felt a minor headache but ignored it, he could say that the event was the first time he (or any other dalek) had ever attempted to eat or drink any form of substance and he will probably never do it again.

“WHO WAS THE VICTOR?” Davros asked with some irritation in his voice.

“Soulweeper won. You collapsed after the first attempt to even drink one glass. I don’t think you were quite aware of how strong Changeling brews are. But Soulweeper had you brought back here to rest. You’ve been asleep ever since.”

Davros looked around some more, we wasn’t really surprised that he had lost. Feeling awake and unable to sleep at this point, Davros looked into a mirror realized his extra armor had been removed. He casing didn’t look different, though it had been repaired and recolored once again. Now it was a deep green with a crimson red. Davros liked the new look and set off to explore the castle while the Guard remained on watch at his doorway.

Though he nearly became lost in the labyrinth of corridors, he finally reached the atrium. The Queen was not sitting upon her throne, so Davros approached it. It was quite a tall seat for Her Highness. The bulk of the throne was composed of polished, glistening obsidian, and the cushions were made of beautiful bright red velvet. For the briefest of moments, Davros considered elevating over it, but he swiftly dismissed the thought.

Losing interest in the throne, Davros moved down the red carpet leading from the throne to the castle’s main doors. The throne was on a raised position, and Davros had to elevate down a few steps to reach the floor. As soon as he reached the floor, he noticed the statues on each side of the carpet again. Previously, he had only noticed that each one appeared unique, and that male statues were on the left while females resided on the right. All of the statues had one thing in common: they were all taller than the city Changelings and had crowns. Each male statue was directly across from a female statue, all except for the one closest to the throne, which was of Queen Chrysalis.

“They are the line of rulers since the dawn of the Changeling Empire,” Chrysalis whispered directly into Davros’ electronic ear.

Davros shivered and froze.

“And I saw you took interest in my throne, no? I do not blame you. It is as comfortable as it looks,” she said with a slight giggle at the end.

Davros remained still and stared ahead as Chrysalis walked around to face him directly.

“Oh come, now. You may speak freely, Lord Davros.”

Exhaling slowly, Davros managed to free himself from his paralysis to ask her a question.

“MY QUEEN, MIGHT I ASK WHY THERE IS NO STATUE ACROSS FROM YOURS?”

A lock of Chrysalis’ blue mane fell over one of her eyes and she pulled it back over her ear.

“Surely you can do the math yourself.”

Davros continued to stay still. He figured he knew the reason why there was no statue, but he didn’t want to say it. She was staring intently at him, awaiting an answer.

“I…WOULD ASSUME BECAUSE YOU RULE WITHOUT A KING AT YOUR SIDE?” he managed to say.

“And you would assume correctly in saying so. Now may I ask you a question?”

Davros for some reason had a sense of fear gripping him, like large predator was about to pounce on him.

“OF COURSE, MY EMPRESS. ANYTHING,” he replied.

“Tell me, why did you feel the need to send a shout echoing through the castle, particularly through my bedchambers?” she said as she raised her eyebrow.

Davros fear greatly increased. He wasn’t aware of how loud he had been.

“I…I…I APOLOGIZE, MY EMPRESS, FOR…” he stuttered in fear.

“Very well then, let me ask you this. Why do you behave in such a manner? Why do you serve my nation and I so blindly?” she spoke sternly as her face came closer to his. She continued before he could answer, “Why do you fight for us so openly? What is going on in that strange mind of yours? And why have you become so nervous in my presence?” she pressed closer.

“I…WAS RELIVING AN OLD MEMORY MY EMPRESS…ABOUT MY OLD UNIVERSE…PERHAPS IF I EXPLAIN…YOU WILL UNDERSTAND…” he said quietly as he lowered his eyestalk.

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A Long Time Ago

“WHAT ARE YOU DOING, EXPLAIN!” a damaged dalek shouted over the sound of the alarm.

“I AM FOLLOWING MY NEW PURPOSE, TO SAVE THE DALEKS,” Davros shouted back before finishing off the damaged dalek.

The outdated scientist dalek moved forward to the console. To his left and his right were scientific instruments meant for dalek reconstruction. The dalek started inserting new commands into the geneticist computer.

All at once hundreds of machines started working on creating new daleks, daleks that would follow him as their new Emperor, in which he would lead to a new era for the daleks.

Years Before The Events Above

Over the years he had served for the dalek cause, he had been created sent to help further the conquest of the universe. Though he never fully understood why he was doing this, he obeyed loyally like every other dalek under the command of the Emperor. On a few rare occasions, he had asked what the purposes of the wars were. It bothered him to have found out that they were there to “liberate” the universe of impure life forms. But his pride and loyalty prevented him from seeing how horribly his race was making it suffer.

The straw that broke the camel’s back was the beginning of the Last Great Time War, the battle for the Gates of Elysium. That was the battle in which the creator of the daleks, the original Davros, was killed by jaws of the nightmare child. The scientist dalek realized that this war would end with their destruction. He tried to warn the Emperor, but he refused to listen and ordered that he obey or be exterminated.

So he continued to follow orders for some time, but behind the scenes he was making big plans. These plans he believed would be the daleks only hope. Those who found out about his plans were exterminated and falsely reported to have been destroyed by enemy attacks.

But as the years slowly went by, the old dalek began to hate the Emperor with a vengeful passion. Soon, he would create a new dalek empire and overthrow the Emperor; he would then try to make peace with the other races. He didn’t care if it meant his death; he knew what he had to do. But he was betrayed by his fellow scientists; he then took over the laboratory and began to create his army. Before he could even finish he was captured and his lab destroyed. His superiors refused to listen to his reasons of betrayal and sent him to rot in the legendary dalek asylum within a high tech cell, hundreds of years passed by before anything happened.

The dalek finally snapped and refused to serve such leaders. An explosion occurred that freed him from his cell. He then hacked into the asylums database and started a shutdown sequence that would free all the daleks in the asylum. He was able to persuade some of the other daleks to follow him. And he would valiantly lead them for as long as he could. That was until the legendary timelord, The Doctor, appeared with two companions to help destroy the asylum.

“SUPREME! THE DOCTOR HAS ENTERED THE ASYLUM! THE 31ST AND 92ND GROUPS ARE NO LONGER IN ACTION! WE NEED YOUR ORDERS!” a dalek yelled to the scientist.

“HAVE THE 103RD MOVE TO SUPPORT THE CENTER! WE CAN’T LET THE DOCTOR ESCAPE!” he yelled back, firing his one functioning hidden gunstick into the distance. The dalek shuddered as he felt a sudden pain. Time slowed down as he all movement from his travel machine. He started to panic, he was vulnerable to attack.

“I DEMAND ASSISTANCE, I CANNOT MOVE!” a dalek screamed before another explosion threw him across the hall. This was it, all that time waiting, just to have is life ended when was finally given the chance to continue his plans.

All was lost.

But then the dalek began to emit a green glow and his body tingled. The daleks surrounding him looked at him in confusion. He slowly levitated off the ground, pieces of his skirt falling to the ground. One of the insane daleks screamed and charged forward in a craze. Just before the mad dalek made contact with him, he was blinded by brilliant green lights and appeared in the atrium of a castle, surrounded by strange creatures.

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“That…that was quite a tale…” Chrysalis said with a look of awe and wonder in her eyes.

Davros’ remained quiet with his eyestalk bowed.

“I am under the impression that you serve me so loyally and graciously because…I saved your life?” she said quietly.

Davros knelt and slowly lifted his head to look at her bewildered, glowing green eyes.

“EVER SO PARTIALLY BECAUSE OF THAT, MY EMPRESS…”

She looked terribly confused now.

“Then why, Lord Davros? Why do you serve my Empire? Why do you serve me?”

Davros delicately reached for her hoof and laid it against his casing.

He answered, “YOU HAVE GIVEN ME A NEW HOME. A NEW PURPOSE IN LIFE…”

He paused for a moment before finishing, “…AND A WAY TO REDEEM MY RACE…”

Chrysalis covered her mouth with her other hoof, her eyes wider than ever before.

“…Davros…I…” Chrysalis was having incredible difficulty comprehending what she was seeing, hearing? To hear Davros declare his that her actions have given him hope and revived an old goal. He had finally explained to her why he was so very loyal and dedicated to her and her empire; it was not by any means was she had anticipated.

“YOU HAVE GIVEN ME A SECOND CHANCE…A CHANCE TO SAVE MY RACE FROM A TERRIBLE EXISTENCE…AND I OWE IT ALL TO YOU…” Davros quietly continued speaking; his eye now looking away from Chrysalis.

“But I…I had no idea…” the shocked Queen whispered from behind the hoof covering her gaping mouth.

Davros simply continued to stand there, holding the Queen’s hoof in his hand and looking off into the distance. He could sense her disbelief and felt that he should reassure her.

“…I OWE YOU EVERYTHING SO…I WILL SERVE YOU EVERY WAKING MOMENT…UNTIL MY DYING BREATH, UNTIL MY CORPSE DECAYS AND MY SKELETON BECOMES DUST, UNTIL MY NAME IS LOST AND FORGOTTEN IN THE ANNALS OF HISTORY, I WILL OBEY YOU MY EMPRESS…”

Davros finally let go of her hoof and slowly moved away, still looking at nothing in particular, his mind in a frenzy of thoughts about the future.

“…WITHOUT QUESTION…” he finished with a whisper.

The Queen was frozen. Her mouth still hung open, wanting to say something but unsure of what to say. Her entire body felt cold. Colder, in fact, than it ever had felt in her life. She could feel the power flowing through both the casing and the creature inside. Ever since Davros had been brought to this world, her empire had been benefitting from his actions. Chrysalis had always thought of Davros as a means to an end, a pet to be used in the direst situations, but now she realized Davros was also benefitting from the situation, that he would not be just a pawn, but an equal, no worse than that, that he was beyond her, he could easily destroy her, but he instead followed her orders, like a shadow.

Then out of the coldness came extreme warmth. Chrysalis couldn’t believe how she was feeling. She felt so confident, so safe, and so powerful. It was as though this revelation was all she needed to assure her that her nation and subjects would never be lost…that she would never be lost…

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The pair of blue eyes that stared down from the rafters darted along the thick wooden beams. Nearing the end of the beam, the eyes were halted by the stone wall of the sloping ceiling. Sliding a few loose bricks off the wall, a secret entrance was revealed and the eyes passed through the small hole, making sure to cover the entrance back up with the bricks. The eyes exited to the outside of the castle and onto the ledge just below the roof. With a bit of levitation magic, the eyes managed to reach a flat area on the roof where their owner’s full form was revealed. Sitting there in the moonlight was a pure white unicorn with three blue diamonds for a cutie mark. She wore a very large and squirming saddlebag that suddenly popped open.

A purple and green dragon with a small set of wings rolled out next to the unicorn and stood up, wiping the dust off of his scales.

“You said it wouldn’t take long to get the info you needed, Rarity! I don’t know if you realize it, but you kept me in your saddlebag for six hours! Let’s just do this and go home,” he said with much frustration.

“Hush, Spike! Just because we’re half a mile away above the ground doesn’t mean it’s impossible for us to be heard! Here’s the report I made; send it to the Princesses and try to get out of here. I still have one more job to do,” the unicorn responded as she tossed a scroll to the small dragon.

The dragon frowned and held the scroll to his mouth and, with a burst of green flame, it vanished. Rarity nodded with approval and the dragon turned to fly off into the night. As soon as he was out of sight, the white unicorn cast and invisibility spell and disappeared.

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Soulweeper plus three more guards entered the atrium through the castle’s huge front doors. As soon as they heard the entrance being opened, Chrysalis and Davros turned to see who it was.

“Queen Chrysalis, I have news from the frontlines,” Soulweeper informed her as he approached and bowed while the other three guards stood behind him.

The Queen cleared her throat to speak while Davros moved a couple feet away and stood next to one of the statues while observing the group . It felt to get all of that weight off his soul. But he was still worried about what she might make of them. After all, he was merely assuming out of hope.

“What news do you bring, Guard?” she inquired.

“The new military structure and tactical doctrines seem to have the Equestrians at a loss. They haven’t made any attempt to attack us again, or even perform small strikes. We haven’t even seen a single pony since the battle. I’m not sure what to make of it,” he answered with furrowed brows.

“Hmm…double the amount of patrols and security in and around the city. I smell subterfuge and I’ll have none of it,” she frowned.

Davros continued to silently observe the conversation. But his sensors detected another presence in the room. He turned to face the direction of the presence which one of the statues next to the one we was currently standing next to. One of the statues along the carpet seemed to have been bumped; it was wobbling so gently that he wasn’t completely sure whether or not his sensors and his eye were simply playing tricks on him. But then he noticed something else happen. Part of the carpet a few feet from the bumped statue had scrunched. This time he saw it happen. Something was moving towards Soulweeper, the other guards, and the Queen. Trying not to alert whatever or whoever it was he slowly started to move towards the from behind, not knowing he was moving into a trap.

“Also, the crops growing steadily again thanks to the heavy rainfall lately. We don’t expect AGH—!” Soulweeper was cut off he was sucker punched by…nothing, the other guards shortly followed him with no idea of what was happening.

While this was occurring Davros could be seen swerving back and forth as smoke started to seep out of the casing, “MAJOR SYSTEMS ARE MALFUNCTIONING, I REQUIRE ASSISTANCE!!”

A white unicorn appeared out of nowhere right next to Soulweeper’s unconscious body and charged at the Queen. The unicorn angled her head so that the horn was aimed for Chrysalis’ heart.

As her horn began to penetrate Chrysalis’s chest she was tackled by the slimy body of Davros, who had managed to open his shell before case completely shut down.

“hOW daRe you hArm THE qUEEN OF THE cHANGELING eMPIRE!” Davros angrily shouted the in a very distorted voice as he started to choke the unicorn.

“How…dare I?! How dare SHE invade my home! It can’t be allowed to…happen again! She has to pay for…her crimes!” the assassin said between gasps of air.

“Davros stop her…don’t let her escape…,” Chrysalis said before collapsing, a pool of blood flowing out of her chest.

“MY EMPRESS!” Davros screamed before putting all his focus on the unicorn, “You WiLl pAy fOR wHaT yOu Have DOnE EXTERMINATE!”

The unicorn stood up on her hind legs and held up her forelegs at odd angles attempting to remove the enraged green blob of hate from her neck.

“You don’t know…what you’ve just gotten yourself into, you…vile ruffian. Even if you…kill….me…your queen will still…die.” The white unicorn spat as she fell to the floor, her face slowly turning blue with the loss of oxygen. Davros’s grip increased so that she would not escape and he started to turn her head in hopes of napping it.

“This…empire…will…fall…” with those last words Davros snapped her neck and the unicron’s body went limp. Davros let go of the dead unicorn and slowly crawled over to his empress before collapsing in exhaustion.

Sometime later Soulweeper regained conscious to see both Davros and Chrysalis lying in a pool of green blood.

“Davros?! My Queen!” he turned his attention to the other unconscious guards. “Guards! Get up! Get the doctors! HURRY!”

Author's Note

I know Rarity and Spike are a little off, but you have to remember, there has been a war going on and war changes people...or ponies and dragons in this case. And yes daleks can kill people even without their cases and somewhat speak as well...its canon in the who universe, so it is canon here.

Genesis and Bereavement = Life and Death

Yeah...this is my longest story so far!!!!