We moved as silently as possible through the mostly destroyed buildings. What once was the city of Manehattan was now just a collection of rubble, and the ruins of the buildings that Manehattan used to be known for. Now it was known as the place where the Daleks had landed one of their ships as a sort of base.

"Okay, our mission is to take out the Dalek ship somewhere in this city," Our group leader, Shining Armour, said as he put a schematic of a common Dalek ship on a bit of rubble, "We are to enter the ship using the air vents, which open to the outside of the ship here," he continued, while pointing at the location of the vent.

"Why do they need air vents that open into space?" another member of our small group asked.

"It's not for air, if an intruder were to get on the ship, if no Daleks were close enough to their location, then they would sent a highly lethal gas out through the vents in the intruders location, the vents that open into space are used to get the gas out of the ship, leaving the Daleks unharmed," I say. I had studied the Dalek ships before, the gas was made to kill the intruders almost instantly.

"Anyway," Shining said, "Once we are in the vents, we will have to get to the center of the ship and plant an explosive charge made by the Timelord over here," he finished.

"Half Timelord," I corrected him.

"Right, half Timelord," he said.

"Whats stopping the Daleks from using this gas while we're in the vents?" the same pony as before asked.

"They won't know we're in them, the interior of the ship has detectors that alert the Daleks to any non-Dalek life form, but they don't have any of these in the vents. They don't expect anypony to be crazy enough to try entering that way." I answered.

"So, are there any more questions?" Shining said, looking around at the group. "Alright, lets go," he said when nopony raised their hoof.

About half an hour later we were still moving through the destroyed city.

"How can the Daleks hide a ship this well?" Shining asked, obviously getting frustrated.

"Over here!" we heard somepony whisper from a room just to our right.

"Lyra, what are you doing here?" I asked when we had entered the room.

"I was sent as a scout," she said simply,"And, I found the Dalek ship. You know how the TARDIS has a broken cameleon circuit? Well, the Dalek's have made a cameleon circuit of their own, the ship you are looking for is the only one that has it so far, but I still found what felt like some vents in the side of it!"

"How could they have gotten a cameleon circuit?" I ask, more to myself than to anypony it the room,"Anyway, where is the vent you found? We need it to get in the ship and blow it up."

"Over here," she said as she went over to a window of the old room.

"I still think you shouldn't have come with us," I say to Lyra as we crawl through the vents.

"I'll be fine," she says.

"I still can't believe we weren't caught by a single Dalek guard while we were in there," I say as we stand by the crater of what was once a Dalek ship.

"Exterminate! Exterminate!"

"More Daleks! Hide!" I say as we all duck for cover. I ready my modified rifle as they draw nearer.

"Find the ponies that did this, they must be exterminated!" says one Dalek that appears to be the leader of their small squad.

The others begin to ready their weapons, Lyra being sure to stay hidden, as she was never given a weapon. "Use this," I whisper as I pull a pistol out of it's holster on my side.

I don't know who fired the first shot, Daleks or Ponies, but I do know we made short work of them, though we lost much of our group.

"Ex...ter...mi...nate," one dalek says as it fires off a random shot, then died.

I hear the sound of metal hiting something, then somepony falling to the ground and look behind me. "Lyra! Dangit, that Dalek was aiming at her." The Dalek had missed, but hit a pole coming from a nearby building that fell and hit Lyra right on the head, along with a few bricks.

"Exterminate! Exterminate!"

"More Daleks are coming, we have to get out of here," just as Shining said that, one of the approaching Daleks came around the corner and shot at the first pony it saw, which happened to be Lyra as she stood up from the ground, rubbing her head from the pole and bricks that fell on her.

"Get to cover!" said one of the few remaining ponies in our group.

We ran into another one of the ruined buildings as I called the TARDIS using the silver stop watch my father left me, I had configured it to call the TARDIS from anywhere in the universe, which saved me a few regenerations. The TARDIS landed and we all got inside, I pulled the dematerialization lever and getting us out of Manehattan.

"How am I going to explain Lyra's death to Bon-Bon?" I asked myself.

"Who is Bon-Bon?" Shining ask?

"Lyra's best friend, and old roommate," I answer.

"Oh, I'm sure she will understand that she was killed by Daleks," Shining says, trying to reassure me that Bon-Bon won't be mad at me, but at the Daleks.

I wake up to the sun in my eyes, should have closed those blinds, I'm not a big fan of getting woken up by the sunlight. I look out the window after getting up, seeing Rose, Rory, and Amy walking over from their houses, all three smiling. Looks like I'll have to deal with the sun for the next few months until the Dalek scouts get here. For now, Rose and Amy will probably try to get me to go outside and make some friends before we stop the war from happening, and Rory will be more afraid and want to say inside so he doesn't mess up time or something. All I can do is hope Rose and Amy will agree with him, friends won't help me in any way if we succeed, and the war doesn't happen. I hope I can get them to understand that, though I already know that I more than likely won't be able to.

Author's Note

Sorry for the wait, you few people that do read, and like this story. But I've had a bit of writers block, couldn't decide how I wanted this chapter to go, and I know, "Where's the battle? That wasn't a battle!" But here's how it went in my alternate universe: Anything that is considered a victory over the Daleks, blowing up one ship included, is called a battle. And as long as a few Daleks were killed, then it is called a battle.

As always, feedback is accepted!

-TNB