Health was stunned when she heard the entire story. She held onto the warp gate to steady herself. “…Th…The Tome? …My Source?” she mumbled.
“That’s why we’re here,” said Farmee, “to keep you and your Source out of enemy hands. …But we can’t exactly leave this universe to the Daleks.”
“…Jak,” Health said.
“Yes?” asked Jak.
“You do realize the Dark Eco Silo isn’t just full of Dark Eco, yes? There’s…something else?”
“That robot Gol and Maia used, yeah.”
“What about it?” asked Daxter. “Jak turned that thing to scrap and those two drowned in the silo.”
“The Acheron siblings are not dead,” replied Health.
“WHAT?!” yelped Jak, Daxter, and Kiera.
“That’s why Drebber and I have been keeping Health’s appearances so scarce,” explained Murda. “Somehow, the Dark Eco has kept them in a state of suspended animation.”
“And that kind of isolation for roughly 300 years, well…” Drebber left the answer up to everyone’s imagination.
“How dangerous could they be?” asked Torn. “They obviously lost.”
“Torn,” replied Jak, “Gol and Maia managed to scavenge a Precursor robot, add their own bits to it, enslave all the Lurkers, and were almost successful in opening the Dark Eco Silo to flood the world with it to try and play God. Trust me, the sting of their defeat will make them crazier and more dangerous on top of being stuck in suspended animation.”
“And with Daleks involved,” sighed Health, “there will be untold amounts of havoc.”
“Well then,” said the Doctor, “…I can’t believe I’m being so cliched here, but Doctor in the house.”
“…Doctor?” asked Health. “…THE Doctor?”
“The Enemy of the Daleks herself!” confirmed Death.
“…Well, with her here,” chuckled Health, “we may actually have a shot! I’m not a fighter, but I’m the best healer in the multiverse!”
“If you could work with our medics,” said Drebber, “I think we’ll be able to see this through!”
“And once the Daleks and their ‘masters’ are taken care of, I’m gonna have to take my Source and leave this world.”
“…Leave?” asked Murda.
“It’s not safe for me to stay here, Murda. I’ll have to go,” said Health.
“…Very well,” sighed Murda.
“In the meantime, we better get ready,” said Jak. He then saw a cluster of yellow energy. “…You know, I’m feeling nostalgic!” he said.
“Yellow Eco?” guessed Farmee.
“The Eco of long-range strength itself!” replied Jak. “There’s probably Daleks on the other side of the door.”
“I’ll lead the way,” said Farmee. “When I get charged up with the Yellow Eco, open that door and storm the place, guns blazing. Healers stay at the back. We need you alive. Jak, Megatron, you’re my guides. Riders, armor up.”
“Understood,” replied Megatron. Adam, Brendan, Death, Henry, Jandro, Joshua, Liam, and Sam brought out their belts. Adam and Sam then pressed a button on their crystal spheres.
“DEVIL!” announced Sam’s Crystal Sphere.
“ARCHITECT!” said Adam’s Crystal Sphere.
“HENSHIN!” shouted all the Riders. Their armor appeared and they summoned their weapons.
“Whoa!” gasped Markus. “That looks…!”
“So cool!” finished Layla.
“All right,” said Farmee. “Here we go! Touching the Eco…NOW!” Farmee touched the Yellow Eco and became charged with energy. The doors opened and everyone fired! Farmee’s punches fired energy shots that struck various Daleks.
“ALERT! ALERT! ENEMY FORCES DETECTED!” warned a Dalek before it was destroyed by Jak’s Morph Gun in its sniper-rifle Blaster mode.
“They must not reach the silo!” barked the Dalek Supreme. “EXTERMINATE!”
“The elevator’s still working!” called Jak. “It’ll take us to the roof!”
“From there, there’s a platform that goes from the roof to the silo!” elaborated Megatron as he fired on the Daleks. Unfortunately, the Daleks regained enough of their wits to start firing!
“They taking two hits!” called a Babak Lurker. “We no-!” The Babak screamed as a Dalek shot it. One could see the skeleton as the shot hit the Lurker, scrambling his insides.
“Aim for the eyestalk!” called Jack as he fired at his Dalek’s eyestalk.
“VISION IMPARED! I CANNOT SEE!” The now-blinded Dalek started firing wildly.
“Path to the elevator’s clear!” announced a Haven Guard. “Go! Go! Go!”
“Jak, you lead everyone up to the roof! I’ll cover you!” said Torn.
“You’ll get killed by them!” protested Jak.
“I’m no hero! I’ll come back!” insisted Torn. “Now GO!” Jak didn’t really want to, but with all the Daleks inside the citadel regrouping, he didn’t have much choice. The team went into the elevator and went straight for the roof. Once up top…everyone saw the Scorpion with a Dalek saucer near the giant silo, both trying to blast the locked roof doors off.
“A command saucer,” muttered the Doctor. “We’ll have a hard time of it.”
“Guys, we better step on it! They’re almost through!” warned Daxter.
“…That door is NOT being broken into,” said Jak.
“Jak’s right, the door is curved upwards,” remarked Galvatron. “Which means…”
“Something’s coming out!” gulped Layla. And something DID come out. It looked like a Precursor robot’s head, but its right eye looked like multiple yellow-lensed cameras were grafted into the socket!
“How’s that thing flying?!” asked Daxter.
“Hold up, the eye’s opening!” said Megatron.
The Precursor robot’s eye opened and out jumped what looked like Ottsel/human hybrids with navy blue fur and glowing Lurker eyes. They looked around and cheered. “THREE HUNDRED YEARS OF IMPRISONMENT!” called the male. “AND NOW WE’RE FREE!”
“THIS WORLD IS OURS FOR THE TAKING!” cheered the female. “ALL SHALL BOW TO US!”
“Gol and Maia Acheron?” asked a voice. Intrag and his team approached them with a squad of Daleks.
“That would be us,” replied the male, the former Sage of Dark Eco, Gol Acheron.
“Who are you?” asked his sister, Maia.
“I am Intrag Emboramii, King of the Under-realm,” Intrag introduced. “And my people have need of you.”
“We serve no one!” snapped Gol.
“Oh, but you do,” chuckled Intrag. “Daleks, prepare them for the experiment. Perhaps THEY will do.”
“We obey!” barked the Daleks.
“Oh, look!” chuckled Maia. “New Lurkers!”
“…Erm, no, Daleks,” replied Intrag, confused. “Not Lurkers.”
“They WILL be!” laughed Gol! He fired a stream of Dark Eco energy at the Daleks.
“WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!” yelped Scorpo.
“ALERT! ALERT! MENTAL STABILITY AT RISK! I! I! IIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA!” The Dalek that spoke then changed! A pair of Lurker eyes opened just under the dome lights with the eyestalk in the middle, the neck section gained a set of Lurker tusks, the travel skirt became warty tentacles, and a mouth formed where the tusks grew! The Dalekanium casing was now as flexible as flesh and so were the limbs and eyestalk! This happened to all the Daleks in the squad and they laughed maniacally once the mutation was complete.
“WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!” demanded Intrag.
“DESTROY THESE INTERLOPERS!” Gol ordered the Lurker Daleks. They trained their gunsticks on their former master and comrades and fired!