“Daleks,” muttered the Doctor. “Will I never be rid of them?! I went through an entire incarnation without fighting them!”
“You know what that robot is?” asked Pauline.
“Pauline, that thing is no mere robot,” corrected Rosalina. “It’s a life-form inside a tank that has only one goal in life; the extermination of all non-Daleks.
“They come from Skaro, a planet a few galaxies over,” said the Doctor. “…I really shouldn’t have let Amy and her group go down there. Rosalina, we need to find them.”
“This way,” directed Rosalina. “The Launch Star is still aimed at Sarasaland.” The group entered the Launch Star and spun. The group was launched towards Sarasaland as Amy’s group was.
Amy groaned as she woke up in her cell. Her leg was full of pins and needles. She tested whether or not she could stand on it and slowly walked around the cell. “Okay…now where…?” Memories flooded back. A silver Dalek paralyzed her, her friends brought her into the ziggurat, then they were teleported…where?
“Has your mobility been restored?” asked the Silver Dalek as it approached her cell.
“No thanks to you!” snapped Amy. “What do you need me alive for? Trying to use me as bait?”
“Your survival is necessary for the duplication process!” replied the Dalek. Amy got a better look at the Dalek. It didn’t have the slats around its midsection, its fender at the base of its travel skirt was huge, it had a pincer claw instead of a plunger, and it had a dish on the back of its midsection.
“What kind of Dalek are you? A scout model of some kind?”
“My mission is infiltration and reconnaissance!” replied the Dalek. “Your duplication is necessary for the mission to succeed!”
“You cloned me?” guessed Amy. “The Doctor can see through any copy.”
“Cloning was not necessary! Machines built in yours and Luigi’s respective images sufficed! And your duplicates need only a short time to complete their phase of the mission!”
“What are you talking about?” By now, Amy was worried. “What mission?! What have you done?!”
“You will be brought to the bridge!” barked the Scout Dalek as it used its pincer claw to pull a lever and deactivate the cell’s force field. “Exit the cell and move ahead of me! Move! MOVE!”
“I obey,” said Amy mockingly.
The Doctor and her group trekked through the sands of Sarasaland. “Oof! Good thing I brought my hat!” said Pauline.
“What are you talking about?” asked Rosalina as she floated over the sand. “The temperature’s fine.”
“Easy for YOU to say!” grumbled Mario. “You have magic going 24/7!”
“Doctor, shouldn’t we find cover?” asked Pauline. “Maybe wait until nightfall?”
“Nightfall would be too late!” retorted the Doctor. “If the Daleks are on this planet-!”
“Doctor, surely you exagge-!” Pauline was cut short when she saw Amy and Luigi passed out next to two men, one fat one in yellow, the other a skinny one in purple.
“Wario! Waluigi!” called Mario. He then spotted his brother. “LUIGI!” he yelped as he rushed up to Luigi.
“Amy! Are you all right?!” asked the Doctor as she checked the poor hedgehog over.
“D…Doctor!” gasped Amy.
“Amy, was it Daleks?!”
“T…Too…hot…!” panted Amy.
“Heat exhaustion!” muttered the Doctor.
“What about Peach and Daisy?! Where are they?!” asked Mario.
“If I had to hazard a guess, gone to Daisy’s home for help,” replied the Doctor. “We have to take them back! All four of them!”
“I’ll get us there!” called Rosalina as she pulled out her wand. She spun and everyone vanished in a flurry of sparkling stars.
On the bridge of the Dalek ship, the Gold Supreme Dalek looked over its bridge crew. One of the guards heard the door open and saw the Scout Dalek with its prisoners. “Halt!” barked the guard.
“Scout 4 reporting to Dalek Supreme with alien prisoners!” replied the Scout Dalek.
“Proceed!” directed the guard.
“Move! Move! MOVE!” ordered the Scout as it used its pincer claw to shove Daisy forward.
“STOP PUSHING!” shouted Daisy.
“Human Female will remain silent!” barked the Dalek Supreme.
“You’re part of the Supreme Council, aren’t you?” asked Amy.
“Correct!” replied the Dalek Supreme. “You are the Mobian that abandoned my predecessor to Octus and his false Daleks!”
“So you’re the new model of Goldie, huh?” chuckled Amy. “The Old Gold Supreme rushed forward while its gunstick was offline!”
“Do not contradict your masters! The function of non-Daleks is to obey or die!”
“D-D-DIE?!” squeaked Luigi.
“Why make copies of us in the first place?” asked Amy. “And why just me and Luigi?”
“The Princesses are needed in our ally’s castle!”
“Oh no, not Bowser!” complained Daisy.
“What did you lot falsely promise him?” asked Amy. All Daleks…hesitated at Amy’s question. “…Oh? …Oh! OOOOOOOOOH!” Amy started laughing. “Bowser has power over you! You shot one of his friends and he came back to life!”
“We…cannot account…for local resurrection fungus…” replied the Dalek Supreme.
“And you can’t use it, I’m guessing.”
“…Your theory…is correct…”
“So, Bowser destroyed a few of you in a rage when you attacked him and now you know what it’s like to be enslaved.”
“The positions will reverse to their proper order!” barked the Dalek Supreme. “The Comet Observatory will be brought under Dalek control! Its early warning system will be shut down and all knowledge about 1-Up Mushrooms will be added to Dalek data! The Daleks will use 1-Up Mushrooms to become immortal! The Rebel Daleks will fall!”
“So that’s why you cloned me and Amy!” realized Luigi. “You knew the Doctor and Mario would rescue us!”
“Correct! Your duplicates will shut down the Comet Observatory’s defenses! The Daleks will take control of the Observatory! We shall sweep away all rebellion! All matter shall succumb to the power of the Daleks!”
On the Comet Observatory, Amy and Luigi had regained consciousness while Wario and Waluigi were lying on the bed in the bedroom. “There,” said the Doctor. “Their body temperatures were about 41 degrees Celsius, but they only got hotter after the blunt force trauma to the head. They’ll just need to cool down and drink the water nearby. Now then, Amy, Luigi, what happened out there?”
“We were walking the deserts with the Princesses,” replied Amy. “Daisy was telling us about a ziggurat, but then these two attacked us. I knocked them out with my hammer, but…”
“We didn’t see Bowser’s Minions,” finished Luigi. “They attacked us and kidnapped the Princesses.”
“…Really?” asked the Doctor. “Bowser’s Minions? Or the Daleks?”
“…The what?” asked Luigi.
“Doctor, if the Daleks attacked us, we’d be dead,” remarked Amy.
“…Amy, I think you had better stay here with Luigi and our new friends,” suggested the Doctor.
“What about us?” asked Mario.
“We’re going to check out this ziggurat,” replied the Doctor.
“Not more desert trekking!” complained Pauline.
“I’ll keep us cool,” assured Rosalina. She waved her wand and an aura enveloped them. “There. We’ll be as comfortable in the desert as we are here. …Though I would recommend we still bring water.”
“All right, but no Launch Stars,” said the Doctor. “I’m still dizzy from when we last used it.”
“Doctor, you’re no fun,” teased Rosalina.
“Luigi, you and Amy are all right here, right?” asked Mario.
“Mario, honestly, we’re all better thanks to the Doctor,” soothed Luigi. “You don’t have to fuss. We’re safe, even with those two.”
“…All right, but you call the instant you’re in trouble, okay?” directed Mario.
“We will, Mario,” replied Amy. “No worries.”
“All right, let’s-a go!” Mario said to his team. Rosalina used her magic to teleport herself, Pauline, Mario, and the Doctor back to Sarasaland. Amy and Luigi stood outside the bedroom, then their faces went blank as they looked up as if hearing a voice.
“…We obey,” they said in a monotonous voice. They left the bedroom area and traveled up the Observatory into the Engine Room. They entered the room and spotted a Gearmo working.
“Hey! Wait a minute!” called the Gearmo. “No one’s allowed here without Rosalina’s permission-!” Amy simply twisted the Gearmo’s eyes in opposite directions and shut it down. Luigi approached a computer console and keyed in a command.
“Access denied,” said the computer.
“Emergency vocal override,” directed Luigi. “Passcode: Telescope.”
“Vocal override accepted,” replied the computer. “State sub-menu.”
“Sensor net.”
“Accepted. Voice confirmation required.” Amy looked up to receive her orders.
“…Voice synthesizer-” her voice then changed to Rosalina’s- “activated. Release blocks to sensor net control.”
“Thank you, Rosalina,” replied the computer. “Sensor net control: online.” Amy then keyed in a command. “Sensor net will deactivate. Are you sure?” asked the computer as it pulled up a selection screen. Amy selected “yes”. “Sensor net: deactivated.” Luigi looked up.
“Sensor net: disabled,” he reported. “Advise all battle commanders that they may begin their attack run.”
The Dalek Communications Officer received the report. “Duplicates report success!” it reported. “Comet Observatory Sensor Net is disabled! We may begin our attack run!”
“All battle commanders, report to assault decks!” ordered the Dalek Supreme. “All research concerning the fungus known as 1-Up mushrooms is to be collected! All findings to be reported to scientific division for analysis! This planet shall belong to the Daleks!”