Month: July 2025

“That was the last death the Daleks will ever bring!” promised Rosalina.

“You have no means to destroy us,” replied the Luigi Duplicate.

“We are made of a stronger Dalekanium Alloy that cannot be destroyed by heat,” agreed the Amy Duplicate.

“…Metalert, is it?” mused the Doctor.

“That’s all I need to know!” said Rosalina. “MARIO! LUIGI!” She then made two Ice Flowers appear. The Mario Bros grabbed the Ice Flowers, their clothes then adopted icy color palettes, and they fired a combined stream of ice at the Duplicates. As the Duplicates were encased, fear crossed their faces as they uselessly reported the malfunctions.

“Gyroscopic circuits: impaired!” yelped Luigi’s Duplicate. “Balance: impaired! Temperatures below safe engineering tolerances!”

“Cold cutting through!” wailed Amy’s Duplicate. “Strength draining away!”

“EVERYBODY DOWN!” shouted Omega. Everyone dove for the ground as the Duplicates screamed electronic screams before exploding violently! After a while, everyone looked up to see the Duplicates’ heads being the only evidence they ever existed.

“…Now THAT’S something I don’t want to have to do too often!” shuddered the Doctor.

“No kidding!” agreed Amy.

“I hate to add a wrinkle,” remarked Daisy, “but the Daleks only made ONE copy each of Amy and Luigi, right?”

“Daisy!” yelped Luigi in disbelief.

“Of course,” assured the Doctor as she booped their noses.

“Cut that out!” protested Amy as she swatted the Doctor’s hand away while Luigi looked embarrassed.

“These two are warm. Daleks never get that right,” chuckled the Doctor. She then saw Omega looking sadly at Phi’s remains.

“…Our last words…and they were hostile,” mumbled Omega. The Doctor put a reassuring hand on Omega’s dome.

“…I’m sorry, Omega,” she said. “The best way we can honor him is to complete the mission. …And I think I have an idea. Amy, Luigi, I’ll need your help.” Amy and Luigi arched an eyebrow in confusion.

---

“No signal from Duplicates!” reported the Dalek Communications Officer.

“Report on life signs near Deep Hibernation Unit!” ordered the Dalek Supreme.

“Insufficient data!” replied another Dalek.

“Alert! Alert!” warned a third Dalek. “Transmat in progress! Three figures! Time Lord genetic structure confirmed! They are arriving on the bridge!”

“All Daleks, prime weapons!” The Doctor, Amy, and Luigi appeared. Amy and Luigi had blank expressions while the Doctor looked downcast.

“The Doctor has been recaptured,” reported Amy.

“Your transponders have stopped transmitting!” barked the Dalek Supreme. “Why are you using voice synthesis?”

“We sustained damage,” replied Luigi.

“Doctor! You will be returned to Skaro for interrogation by the Emperor!” revealed the Dalek Supreme.

“Yes,” sighed the Doctor. ‘You’ve finally defeated me.”

“Where are the other prisoners?” demanded the Dalek Supreme.

“Destroyed,” reported Amy. “It was unavoidable.”

“Prepare missiles! We will destroy this planet! Doctor, you will assist!”

“I obey,” mumbled the Doctor.

“Duplicates will ensure that the Doctor does not betray us!”

“We obey,” replied Amy and Luigi. The three then began their tasks. Amy and Luigi handed over the components the Doctor asked for. The Doctor then used the components to wire the positronic brain into the Dalek Computer Systems.

“Alert! Alert!” warned a Dalek. “Unknown software has been installed on all Dalek systems! Comet Observatory Occupation Force affected!”

“Doctor, explain yourself!” barked the Dalek Supreme.

“Don’t worry, the software is harmless,” replied the Doctor. “Better targeting systems, that’s all.”

“Our targeting systems have already been updated to superior Dalek standards! Uninstall-! …Wait! The Duplicates are registering incorrectly!” A Science Dalek then entered the bridge.

“Chief Scientist, reporting!” it said.

“The Doctor has installed software while still under the watch of the Duplicates! Why are they not-?”

“Biological signatures detected!” warned the Chief Scientist. “These are not the Duplicates!”

“Darn right, we’re not!” replied Amy as she summoned her hammer.

“EXTERMINATE THEM!” shouted the Dalek Supreme.

“I wouldn’t advise that!” warned the Doctor.

“YOUR ADVICE IS UNWARRANTED!” shouted another Dalek currently connected to the ship through its plunger. The Doctor switched on the brain just before the Dalek disconnected. “YOU WILL B-BE EEEEEeeeee…!” All Daleks looked at the lone one.

“Are you experiencing a systems malfunction?” asked the Dalek Supreme.

“…I…I…I cannot…cannot…tolerate…all…all…must…be…exterminated!” The affected Dalek then aimed its gunstick on its fellows! “All…must be…exterminated!”

“FACTOR INFECTION! FACTOR INFECTION!” warned the Chief Scientist. “ALERT! ALERT! MOVE AWAY FROM THIS UNIT!”

“Explain!” ordered the Dalek Supreme.

“MOVE AWAY!” insisted the Chief Scientist. “THIS UNIT MUST BE EXTERMINATED!”

“Unacceptable!” replied the Dalek Supreme. “This unit requires stu-!”

“SILENCE! SILENCE!” shouted the Chief Scientist. The Dalek Supreme was taken aback at this! “THERE MUST BE NO ALTERATIONS TO THE DALEK FACTOR! THIS CREATURE MUST BE-!”

“Creature?! That is one of our own!”

“NO! NO! IT IS NO LONGER A DALEK! FACTOR INFECTION!”

“This must be studied at-!”

“THAT IS NOT POSSIBLE! THE EMPEROR HIMSELF OVERSAW THE INITIAL EXPERIMENTS I CONDUCTED! WE BOTH AGREED THAT ALL DALEKS WITH THE DALEK FACTOR NEGATIVELY ENHANCED MUST BE EXTERMINATED TO PREVENT INFECTION!” Another Dalek then started twitching.

“Must…kill…all…must…die…must…exterminate! Exterminate!”

“FACTOR INFECTION! EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!” That was when Dalek fired on Dalek all across the bridge!

“Time to go!” yelped the Doctor. She, Amy, and Luigi dodged Dalek laser fire as they made their way to the transmat. They then vanished as the Dalek Supreme was twitching thanks to Factor Infection.

“E…E…Exterminate! EXTERMINATEEXTERMINATEEXTERMINATE!”

---

The Doctor and her group arrived back in the ziggurat. “Omega, fire on the transmat!” ordered the Doctor as she quickly keyed in a computer command.

“Got it!” replied Omega as he fired.

“Everyone out! Now!” called the Doctor. Everyone dove out of the ziggurat.

“What did you do?! Self-destruct?!” asked Mario.

“Three…two…one…!” Smoke billowed out of the ziggurat and Omega’s cell as the tech there self-destructed. Rosalina then used her magic to call on her Lumas.

“Comet Observatory, please respond!” she said.

“Polari, reporting!” replied a voice. “The Daleks went on a rampage against one another and killed themselves in the process. The Dalek Ship has also exploded, no survivors. We’ve got a mess to clean up.”

“…Doctor, I may need your help,” said Omega. “Us humanized Daleks have a policy of clearing all battlefields of Dalek technology so the natives don’t utilize it.”

“Not a bad policy, all things considered,” mused the Doctor.

“I’ll help as well,” offered Rosalina.

“Not me!” grunted Bowser. “I’ve had enough of Daleks already! Besides, I’ve got to take Wario and Waluigi to the Dark Lands to stand trial. They stole from me a week ago!”

“…Very well, do what you must,” said the Doctor.

---

The cleanup operations took a while. During that time, Omega constructed a casket for Phi’s body. He intended to take it back home with him to New Dalazar, the capital world for his sect of Humanized Daleks. He also shared his techniques on how to dispose of Dalek technology, as well as getting ideas from the Doctor. Once everything was disposed of, a small scout ship arrived at the Comet Observatory. Omega looked back and waved his manipulator arm at the crowd before entering the ship. The ship then left quickly. “…I suppose it was for the best, really,” mused the Doctor. “Leaving such technology behind would result in cultural contamination.”

“On top of reminding everyone how dangerous a normal Dalek is,” shuddered Peach.

“…So, Amy,” said Mario, “will we see you again in the next Smash Tournament?”

“Naturally!” replied Amy. “We gotta go, everyone.”

“It’s been nice meeting you all!” called the Doctor as she and Amy entered the TARDIS. The TARDIS then took off.

“Arrivederci, Doctor!” called the Super Mario Bros.

---

As the Doctor worked the console, her face was creased with worry. “…Doctor?” asked Amy.

“There were temporal spies among the Skaro Daleks’ ranks,” replied the Doctor as she moved over to the panel with orange controls. She placed her hands on the spheres and shut her eyes.

“What are you doing?” asked Amy.

“TARDIS telepathic circuits,” said the Doctor. “I’m sending a message to Rassilon on Gallifrey. She needs to know that our home is being watched by Daleks.” Amy wisely waited until the Doctor was finished. The Doctor then opened her eyes after a minute and sighed with relief. “Good. She’s reconstructed the transduction barriers.”

“Some sort of defense shield?” asked Amy.

“Planetary defense shields that keep Gallifrey slightly out of phase with the rest of the universe,” explained the Doctor. “The Daleks won’t like that.”

“What if they intercepted your warning?”

“The Daleks own telepathic circuits aren’t up to scratch. Oddly enough, it’s their innate hatred of non-Daleks that interferes with their own psychic abilities.”

“…What about the Humanized Daleks?” asked Amy.

“Oh, they’re well on their way to becoming a greater force to be reckoned with,” replied the Doctor. “They’ve got just enough of the Human Factor to ensure that.”

“Will this fight end the war between them and the Skaro Daleks?”

“Oh, I doubt it. It might have set the Skaro Daleks back a bit, maybe a thousand years. I don’t know. I’ll have to look it up.”

“In another book you borrowed from Rosalina’s library?” snarked Amy. The Doctor winced.

“Actually…I’ve been banned from her library,” she admitted lamely.

“Well, too bad for you!” Amy held up a book from Rosalina’s library. “And I’m bringing back during the next Smash Tournament!” She stuck her tongue out playfully as she headed off to her room to read.

“…Lucky!” grumbled the Doctor as she continued working the controls.

The airship had made it to a safe location with everyone outside the sick bay. Pauline fiddled with her hat, waiting for news about Daisy and the Hammer Bro’s condition. The Doctor and a medical Koopa stepped outside.

“…The bad news is that the Dalek that shot Hammer Bro Johnson,” sighed the Doctor, “killed him in a way that took all his lives thanks to what I translated. …The good news is that the blinded Dalek couldn’t calibrate for Daisy’s extra lives, so she’s woken up. All that told me is that a Dalek has to see its target for it to properly calibrate its gunstick.”

“I guess I have a condolence letter to write,” muttered Bowser. “…He’ll be avenged.”

“We have to play this smart,” said Amy. “The Daleks are clever and it’s more than likely they’re going to figure that blind weakness out.”

“Not likely,” replied Phi. “The eyestalk has to be carefully constructed and integrated with our real eye. We have no choice but to keep that weakness.”

“I guess you’re volunteering to be the test subject!” snarled Bowser as he punched his hand, ready to pulverize Phi!

“Lord Bowser, I understand your anger,” interjected the Doctor, “but Phi isn’t the enemy here. Nor is Dalek Omega.”

“His buddies killed one of my soldiers!” growled Bowser. “I made Johnson my son’s godfather!”

“They’re not my buddies, they’re my enemies!” insisted Phi.

“Look, pointing the finger isn’t going to help, Bowser,” said the Doctor. “Phi, you said Dalek Omega was here. What was he doing that got him locked up?”

“Amplification of the Dalek Factor,” answered Phi.

“…Amplification? What…oooohhhh.”

“Doctor?” asked Peach.

“I told you all how I implanted the Human Factor in a faction of Daleks, yes?” asked the Doctor.

“That’s right,” replied Amy, just as lost as Peach.

“What’s the Human Factor?” asked Bowser.

“It’s the distillation of the essence of what separates humans from Daleks,” explained the Doctor. “It’s marked by inquisitiveness, questioning, exploration of their world beyond propaganda.”

“Meanwhile, the Dalek Factor,” supplied Phi, “is marked by blind obedience and destruction of all that is non-Dalek.”

“The Dalek Emperor,” continued the Doctor, “wanted me to spread the Dalek Factor throughout the human race. I turned the tables and introduced the Human Factor into several Daleks. …But if a Dalek already imbued with the Dalek Factor got a further taste of it…no wonder the Emperor’s locked Omega up. That kind of research…yikes!”

“What, would a Dalek with an enhanced Dalek Factor be more murder happy?” asked Bowser.

“That’s the theory,” replied the Doctor.

“…I was joking!”

“We’re not,” remarked Phi. “It’s a last resort that the Skaro Daleks don’t want us to have.”

“…It seems we’ll need to use it on the Daleks invading here,” muttered the Doctor.

“How can we do that without putting the Dalek Factor into Phi or Omega?” asked Amy.

“…Why did you have to say that?” asked Phi. “Now I’m REALLY worried about that plan!”

---

“Dalek Supreme on Nokiko to Emperor on Skaro!” said the Dalek Supreme as it was patched through to the Emperor.

“Report!” boomed the Emperor.

“We have obtained the means to exterminate the local indigenous life!” reported the Dalek Supreme. “The Doctor has escaped as a result of the guard being a False Dalek under Omega’s rule!”

“Is the False Dalek Leader still under heavy guard?” asked the Emperor.

“Yes! But all probable outcomes indicate that the Doctor and her companions will free him!”

“Where is Omega imprisoned?”

“Inside the Birabuto Kingdom of Sarasaland! The heat will be a deterrent for organic life!”

“Unacceptable!” boomed the Emperor, surprising the Dalek Supreme. “The Daleks there are using normal Dalekanium shells, are they not?”

“Correct!” replied the Dalek Supreme.

“Then they will be cooked inside their casings!”

“Forgive the contradiction, but the duplicates have a Metalert endoskeleton! They will be more efficient in defeating the Doctor!”

“Agreed!” said the Emperor. “Proceed!”

“I obey!” replied the Dalek Supreme.

---

Daisy had recovered and was filled in on the plan once she was checked over. “And here we are again, back at the ziggurat,” muttered Amy. The Doctor was checking over the systems for any signs of Omega.

“Cramped!” muttered Bowser.

“It WAS meant for a Scout Dalek and whatever prisoners it could get,” remarked Phi.

“Why did you insist on going in first?” asked Daisy.

“Because my casing is made of Dalekanium,” replied Phi. “The desert’s heat would cook me inside my casing. If the casing was made of Metalert, I’d be okay.”

“I think I heard about Metalert,” remarked the Doctor. “That’s what Dalek ships are made of, yes?”

“Yep! Discovered by a Dalek Scientist during our early years, it can resist extreme heat, acid, and mercury! …Though it IS vulnerable to extreme cold like liquid oxygen. Supposedly, there was a famous Dalek during the Time War that had a Metalert casing, some Black Dalek that had a name. …Sug…Seg…Sud…”

“Sec!” said the Doctor. “Dalek Sec of the Cult of Skaro!”

“…You actually MET the Cult of Skaro?” asked Phi. The ziggurat then shook. “Whoa! What’s with the earthquake?!”

“Aha! Something else the ziggurat was meant for!” chuckled the Doctor. The Mario Bros looked outside to see a smaller ziggurat rising to the surface.

“Doctor, how many of those are there?!” gulped Luigi.

“Just that one,” replied the Doctor. “And it’s meant to hold a prisoner.” A shaded ceiling extended from the main ziggurat to the smaller one as the door to the smaller one opened. Out glided a Dalek with the capital Greek letter Omega around its eyestalk.

“…Oooggg,” groaned the Dalek.

“Elder Omega!” whispered Phi.

“…Ph…Phi?” asked Omega.

“Is it really you?” asked the Doctor. “Omega?”

“…Doctor!” realized Omega. “Still alive, Savior!”

“Savior?” asked Amy. “I didn’t realize you became a god for Humanized Daleks.”

“I don’t really like that title,” remarked the Doctor. “…And after that mess that got Omega’s brother, Alpha, killed, I…hang on, Omega, do you know about Alpha?”

“That he and his colony were tricked by Kata-Phobus into being its telepathic food source, so they all self-destructed? Yes, Doctor, I know. And I know of your involvement in that incident. Beta told me everything last time you visited him and explained why you had to break your promise to Alpha. …While I don’t like that you did that, Alpha shouldn’t have held those colonists as hostage and, ultimately, a greater danger was what took Alpha’s life, not you. Do not blame yourself for Alpha’s death. He died defending others from a threat that would have killed them and the colonists.”

“…Thank you, Omega. …But Beta learned about it a year after the incident, that was centuries ago. When did you learn about it?”

“An hour before my imprisonment. All thanks to Phi over there!” Phi twitched.

“…Phi, is there something you wish to share with the class?” asked Bowser.

“I…Well, I…” stammered Phi.

“You intercepted Beta’s message about the conversation he had with the Doctor!” snarled Omega.

“What?! Why?!” asked the Doctor.

“To spare him the pain!” replied Phi.

“That was my brother! I needed to know!” snapped Omega.

“Dalek Phi, what you did was augment his pain!” snarled the Doctor.

“Doctor, Elder, I-!”

“That’s enough!” snapped Amy. “Phi, what you did was cowardly, but we’ll discuss that later! Omega, do you still have that Dalek Factor plan in place?”

“I take it the Doctor gave you all the specifics?” asked Omega. Everyone confirmed it. “Well, I do.” Omega opened his casing and pulled out a small device. “This shielded positronic brain contains the Dalek Factor. It must be installed on the bridge of the Dalek ship. The Skaro Daleks already fear it as it is.”

“Why?” asked Bowser. “If it makes them deadlier-.”

“The cost is too high for the Skaro Daleks,” replied the Doctor. “On top of their predilection for purity-.” She stopped when she heard the transmat.

“Who-?!” asked Pauline. That’s when Luigi’s Duplicate grabbed her by the throat.

“PAULINE!” shouted Mario. Amy’s Duplicate then threw Mario aside before leveling a laser pistol at Pauline.

“Too late, Doctor,” said the Amy Duplicate.

“Almost, Doctor, but not quite,” taunted the Luigi Duplicate.

“Let her go!” demanded the Doctor.

“And lose our advantage?” purred the Amy Duplicate. “Humanoids do not react well to the effects of Dalek gunsticks. …Obey our instructions, or Mayor Pauline is exterminated.”

“We have the means to read how many lives she has left,” chuckled the Luigi Duplicate. “You had 42 1-Ups recently, did you not, Your Honor?” Pauline gasped for air.

“I’ll shoot!” threatened Omega.

“And kill her?” chuckled Amy’s Duplicate.

“…Power your gunstick down, Omega,” sighed the Doctor.

“Surrender the Dalek Factor Positronic Brain,” ordered Luigi’s Duplicate. “We cannot risk the Dalek Factor being enhanced.”

“BELAY THAT!” shouted Phi as he raised his gunstick. “I have a mission to complete!”

“You will do as your Elder had done and power down your wea-!” Amy’s Duplicate couldn’t complete her order as Phi shot her and Luigi’s Duplicate in the face. Luigi’s Duplicate dropped Pauline and the real Luigi and Mario got her to safety.

“Thank you!” panted Pauline. Then, like sci-fi horror villains, the Amy and Luigi Duplicates turned to reveal the hole blown in their external skin covering, showing off their inner workings. They locked onto Phi, grabbing him!

“Inferior, emotionally-driven False Daleks against superior Dalek technology,” said Amy’s Duplicate. “Foolish hatchling.”

“False Daleks,” scoffed Luigi’s Duplicate. “So fragile. All I have to do…is punch through…” he did so, “and you die like so!” He then tore Phi out of his casing violently. Phi spasmed in pain before shutting down completely and was tossed aside like trash.

“PHI!” wailed Omega.

In the Dark Lands, the domain of Bowser, a castle with a Bowser motif loomed over the fiery landscape with Koopas, Goombas, Shy Guys, and all various soldiers of the Koopa Kingdom patrolling for enemies. Inside the castle’s throne room, Bowser looked out the window, surveying his kingdom. “…Still as awesome as ever,” he purred to himself.

“Your Watchfulness!” called Kamek’s voice as he came into the throne room.

“You’re a bit early for your audience with me, Kamek,” remarked Bowser. “There IS such a thing as being TOO early.”

“Apologies, my Liege,” replied Kamek, “but I finished my research on these Dalek creatures!”

“So?”

“They’re the most ruthless life form in existence! They’re sure to overcome our 1-Up mushrooms and betray us!”

“Stay ahead of the game, Kamek, that’s how we keep them under our-.”

“Forgive the interruption, Your Cunningness, but there’s more! The Daleks failed to report the abduction of Princess Peach and our spies have evidence that they already kidnapped her, the Mario Bro-!”

“WHAT?!” roared Bowser. “I ORDERED THEM TO REPORT WHEN THEY GOT PEACH! READY THE FLEET! WE’RE VOICING OUR COMPLAINTS TO THE DALEKS PERSONALLY!”

---

A Dalek glided up to the Dalek Supreme. “Science Division reports that the Doctor has begun her work in decoding all coded research!” it said.

“Excellent!” replied the Dalek Supreme. “Ensure that she works with all due speed!”

“I obey!” That was when an alarm sounded. The Dalek Security Chief checked its console.

“Alert! Alert! Alien prisoners at liberty! Dalek assigned to guard them is leading the way!” it warned.

“Explain!” barked the Supreme.

“Identity discovered! It is Phi of the False Daleks! We have been infiltrated!”

“Order security squadron to intercept and exterminate Phi before he summons Elder Omega!” ordered the Dalek Supreme. “The prisoners must be recaptured! Their health is unimportant!”

“I obey!”

---

Alarms rang throughout the ship. “What’s cooking?” asked Wario.

“…Your heads and my tentacles!” gulped Phi. “That’s a general alarm!”

“They know we’re out!” realized Luigi.

“Prisoners and False Dalek sighted!” called a Dalek to its compatriots. “Prisoners are to be kept alive! Damage is authorized! The False Dalek must be exterminated! Crush all resistance!” The Daleks opened fire!

“Get back!” yelped Phi. He then fired at the ceiling.

“Watch where you’re shooting!” protested Amy as she backed away from the rubble.

“That should make things a little more difficult to navigate for them!” remarked Phi. “Come on! We have to get to the ship’s lab!”

“Look, I’ve been silent for a while, but-!” argued Amy.

“The Doctor can confirm that I’m a humanized Dalek! Now come on!” Phi led the way as the Daleks tried blasting their way through.

---

The Doctor was busy decoding with two Daleks watching her. “…Aren’t you Science Daleks?” she asked. “Don’t you want to get stuck into the decoding business?”

“That is for the Dalek Intelligence Division, not us!” replied one of the Daleks. If the Doctor didn’t know better, she could swear that Dalek scoffed at the idea of doing something only a Dalek from the Intelligence Division would do.

“Have it your own way,” she muttered. She then heard Dalek weapons fire outside the room.

“We will investigate!” the other Dalek said to its companion. The door then opened and Phi came in, gunstick blazing and destroying the two Daleks!

“WATCH YOUR FIRE, YOU TRIGGER-HAPPY-! Oh, never mind!” The Doctor looked back to see the damage. Both Science Daleks were destroyed with only their travel skirts barely intact. “I see you all made a new friend in Phi,” remarked the Doctor.

“Doctor, do you know this Dalek?” asked Amy.

“Dalek Phi is one of the early Daleks I humanized,” explained the Doctor. “During my second incarnation, I was roped into the Daleks’ scheme to distill something called the Human Factor. The Daleks were going to use that research to identify the Dalek Factor so they could turn humans into Daleks mentally. I turned the tables by initially adding the Human Factor into three Daleks, naming them Alpha, Beta, and Omega. Other Daleks were tricked into having the Human Factor instilled in them and it sparked a civil war in the Dalek Emperor’s Throne Room. The Humanized Daleks fled Skaro and established colonies elsewhere.”

“I chose to follow Elder Omega,” continued Phi.

“So Omega’s the leader in this war between you lot and the Skaro Daleks,” mused the Doctor.

“And he’s been captured, Doctor,” explained Phi. “He’s somewhere in this sector of space.” That’s when the alarm changed pitch and the lights changed colors. “…Oh no!” groaned Phi.

“What’s wrong?” asked Peach.

“That’s the Air Attack Warning!” replied Phi. He then stuck his plunger onto a sphere on a computer console. “If I can just find out who-!” The computer beeped angrily. “…Infernal cheek! They locked me out!”

“Let me see what I can do,” said the Doctor. She started messing with the computer console.

“…Aha! Got it!” called Phi. “It’s…it’s Bowser! Oh no! He ordered us to report if we kidnapped Peach! He’s calling the Dalek Supreme!”

“We have to get him to turn around!” urged Peach.

“He’s talking to the Dalek Supreme!” revealed Phi. “Hang on! I’m putting the call through my casing’s external speakers!” It took a few seconds, so the call was only patched through when Bowser was busy shouting at the Dalek Supreme.

“-you to report Peach’s capture to me, did I not?!” roared Bowser.

“Your desire for someone who rebuffs your advances is irrelevant!” retorted the Dalek Supreme. “You will obey Dalek commands or you will be exterminated!”

“Yeah, right!” scoffed Bowser. “You can’t permanently kill us, remember?!”

“We have the means to counter 1-Up mushrooms! Do not force us to demonstrate!”

“You’re lying!”

“Patch me through!” the Doctor hissed at Phi.

“What?!” yelped Phi.

“Don’t argue, just do it!” urged the Doctor. Inside his casing, blinked, then shrugged a pair of his tentacles before patching the Doctor through.

“Lord Bowser, the Dalek Supreme ISN’T lying!” warned the Doctor.

“Doctor!” barked the Dalek Supreme.

“Bowser, I beg of you!” urged the Doctor. “I translated the notes on how 1-Up mushrooms gives a person extra lives! They most likely have applied that knowledge and made updates to their casings! If you board this ship, it will be a massacre!”

“Oh, it’s gonna be a massacre, all right!” boasted Bowser. “We outnumber them three to one!”

“The Doctor was right to warn you!” taunted the Dalek Supreme. “Our firepower is superior! Your inferior weapons will not harm us! I repeat, surrender or be exterminated!”

“Me and my minions don’t know the meaning of ‘surrender’!”

“Then the Daleks will educate you on that word’s meaning before you die! Raise communications barrier!” The call ended.

“Hoo boy! We better get to the docking port!” gulped the Doctor. “Phi, can you assist the Koopas?”

“Can do, Doctor!” replied Phi.

“We’re joining in the fight!” declared Amy.

“You can’t-!” countered the Doctor.

“Doctor, you’re risking your neck to save us!” interrupted Peach. “We have to help!”

“If you want to get past Dalek shields,” explained Phi, “aim for the eyestalk on the top of the dome. That’s the weakest point.”

“It’s true, but watch out for the Blind Dalek Freakout,” warned Amy.

“The what?” asked Mario.

“You’ll see,” warned Amy and Phi together.

---

Bowser’s minions boarded the ship with reckless abandon. “SCRAP THEM ALL! PEACH IS MINE!” ordered Bowser as he flashed his claws.

“ALL HAIL BOWSER!” replied his men.

“Sir! Daleks inbound!” warned a Hammer Bro.

“EXTERMINATE BOARDING PARTY!” shouted a Dalek. “LEAVE NO SURVIVORS! EXTERMINATE!” The Daleks rounded the corner and fired wildly. Bowser and his men retaliated. Then…it happened. One of the Hammer Bros aimed his hammer at a Dalek.

“That’s it! A nice, fat target!” he said.

“Target acquired!” announced a Dalek. “1-Up counter initialized! Calibrating weapon! EXTERMINATE!” The Dalek fired on the Hammer Bro. He briefly turned into an x-ray of himself and screamed in agony before the Dalek ceased fire. The Hammer Bro collapsed with a look of pain and fear on his face. A medical Koopa then checked him over and goggled in fear.

“…H…How?! He ate enough 1-Ups to get 99 extra lives!” gulped the Medical Koopa.

“He’s dead?!” gasped Bowser.

“1-Up Counter and Calibration 99% effective!” reported the Dalek that killed the Hammer Bro.

“All Daleks, activate 1-Up countermeasures!” ordered the Dalek Battle Commander. “Exterminate them! Exterminate them all! EXTERMINATE!”

“BACK TO THE SHIP!” ordered Bowser as he got between his men and the Daleks. “EVERYONE, BACK TO THE SHIP!”

“HOLD THAT GANGPLANK!” called the Doctor’s voice. Amy clobbered a few Daleks out of the way as Phi shot them, tearing through their casings.

“Do not let them escape!” ordered the Dalek Battle Commander At that moment, Peach whacked the Battle Commander’s eyestalk off with her cast-iron pan! “MY VISION IS IMPARED! I CANNOT SEE!” it shrieked as it fired. Unfortunately, Daisy was hit!

“DAISY!” shouted Luigi as he grabbed her.

“COME ON, BRO!” called Mario.

“LET THEM ONBOARD! LET THEM ONBOARD!” Bowser ordered his men. The group boarded the airship and Daisy was taken to the medical ward. The airship escaped with the Dalek ship in hot pursuit.