The Doctor and her group arrived in Sarasaland once again, this time with better heat protection. “Right, I want to investigate this ziggurat that appeared out of nowhere,” declared the Doctor.
“What for?” asked Rosalina.
“Because this feels similar to the Daleks’ infiltration of Kar-Charrat,” explained the Doctor.
“Kar-Charrat? Did they discover the library there?”
“Yes, and it was lost in the confusion.”
“Blasted Daleks!” hissed Rosalina.
“Oh, blasted librarians too,” remarked the Doctor. “They kidnapped the native aquatic life-form and wiped their minds to become part of their new wetworks store.”
“What?! Elgen would-?!”
“He did, so I had to free them by allowing the library to be destroyed.” At that moment, they arrived at the ziggurat Amy and her group found. “Aha!”
“Doctor, it’s open!” yelped Mario.
“…From the inside,” remarked Rosalina.
“I noticed that,” said the Doctor. Her ears caught a familiar sound. “And THAT’S the pulsing noise you hear in all Dalek installations.”
“But it looks so old!” remarked Pauline.
“The Daleks have time corridor technology,” replied the Doctor. “It’s more than likely that they sent this thing and its occupant to the distant past.”
“Occupant?” asked Mario.
“This is actually a Dalek Deep Hibernation Unit. It’s designed to put a Dalek into a form of stasis for long-term missions. Usually waiting for a time-sensitive person to be discovered.”
“But what about the Dalek in my city?” asked Pauline.
“I have a theory, but I need to get inside,” replied the Doctor. “Come on!” The group entered the ziggurat. Rosalina whistled in amazement at all the equipment inside.
“Look at all this!” she said. “Hibernation equipment, nutrient feed, a short-range transmat! They packed a lot in here!” The Doctor checked the computers monitoring everything and pulled up mission logs.
“Aha!” she said. “Pauline, Mario, that Dalek spotted in New Donk City? It’s the same one as the occupant here! It used short-term time corridor technology to send itself and the equipment into Sarasaland’s far distant past to pick up a time sensitive for some reason.” She then found audio files and played them. The files were recordings of the arrival and departure noises of a TARDIS! “Aha! They were waiting for me! Now why would they need me, hm? And how would they lure me into their clutches?”
“…Doctor, what’s that pod?” asked Mario.
“Pod?” asked the Doctor. She looked to see Mario pointing at some sort of pod with a clear lid. She checked the files on that machine and gasped in horror. “A Dalek Duplication Pod! Oh no!”
“Doctor?” Rosalina sounded concerned now.
“It’s Amy and Luigi!” explained the Doctor. “I arrogantly assumed that the Daleks would be after me! But it’s Amy and Luigi! They’re Dalek Duplicates!”
“The Observatory!” realized Rosalina. She then tried to make contact. “Polari! Do not let Amy and Luigi near any computer systems! They are Dalek Duplicates! …Polari?! Polari, respond!” Nothing came. “…We’re too late!”
On the Observatory, Wario and Waluigi groaned as they woke up. Wario spoke in angry German before he sat up. “Who hit me?!” he demanded. “What was the number of that truck?!”
“Stop shouting!” complained Waluigi. “I’ve got a splitting headache!” He then looked at his surroundings. “…Hey, isn’t this that space chick’s home?”
“Hey, yeah, you’re right!” replied Wario. “…All this technology! …All that money!” His eyes were filled with greed!
“And it’s back to brass tacks,” muttered Waluigi. He then spotted someone in the doorway. “…Hey, look! It’s Greenie!” he laughed.
“Greenie? Luigi?!” yelped Wario. He turned around, then started laughing. “So, dumping that weed, huh? Dating the space babe?”
“You will follow me,” replied “Luigi” in uncharacteristic coldness.
“…I’m sorry, you seem to have forgotten THESE guns!” laughed Wario as he flexed. “Luigi” then pulled Wario’s arm behind his back and caused the fat Mario clone considerable pain.
“You will obey all instructions or you will suffer,” ordered “Luigi”.
“Hey! You can’t do that!” snarled Waluigi like a bully that had the tables turned.
“You will obey his instructions!” barked a Dalek that glided up to them. “Obey! Obey! OBEY!” Luigi frog-marched Wario to the observation deck with Waluigi herded there by the Dalek. The Dalek Supreme and “Amy” were overseeing the operation as Daleks swarmed the Observatory like locusts, herding the Lumas to the Terrace and surrounding the TARDIS.
“These two,” reported “Luigi” as he threw Wario at the Dalek Supreme’s travel skirt bumper, “were part of an expedition in Sarasaland. Their purpose is unexplained.”
“The Scout Dalek in the Hibernation Unit,” recalled “Amy”, “reported two intruders. We simply used them as part of the bait that lured the Doctor to Sarasaland. They were identified by Mario as Wario and Waluigi.”
“You will explain your purpose here!” the Dalek Supreme barked at the Wario Bros.
“We were recovering from that shot your friend gave us!” snapped Waluigi. “Those heroes let their bleeding hearts bring us here!”
“You will explain your purpose in Sarasaland!” continued the Dalek Supreme.
“Oh, we were looking to get a good tan and hot babes!” replied Wario, somewhat untruthfully.
“Answer the question,” ordered “Amy”. She slapped Wario hard, sending him skidding across the deck. “You will answer questions truthfully or you will suffer.”
“You’re not Sonic’s fangirl!” snarled Wario. “And I’ll bet that’s not the real Luigi!”
“These androids are products of superior Dalek duplication technology!” said the Dalek Supreme. “You will answer all questions directly and truthfully! What was your purpose in Sarasaland?!” Wario sighed as he ran out of options.
“We heard about the ziggurat and went to steal it so we could sell it,” he answered.
“Truthful response detected!” reported a Drone Dalek.
“How many are you?” continued the Dalek Supreme.
“Four,” answered Wario. “Me, Waluigi, and Dr. Crygor and Mona, my two employees. …They fled to get me help after your buddy knocked us out.”
“Truthful response detected!” reported the same Drone Dalek.
“These two are no threat to Dalek operations,” remarked Luigi’s duplicate. “They are valueless.”
“I must disagree,” replied Amy’s duplicate. “They may be used by Science Division to test the upper limits of a 1-Up mushroom’s resurrection abilities.”
“In due course!” said the Dalek Supreme. “There is another project that requires the Doctor’s cooperation! Your basis comes from a world that does not have 1-Up mushrooms! She will be the main catalyst to ensure the Doctor’s cooperation! Bring the Doctor’s companion here!”
“I obey,” replied Amy’s duplicate. She headed off to obey.
“Alert! Alert!” called a Dalek. “Our Deep Hibernation Unit is attempting to contact this observatory!”
“It is the Doctor! Allow her to communicate!” ordered the Dalek Supreme.
“I obey!”
“Doctor, what ARE you doing?!” asked Pauline as the Doctor kicked the opened and scavenged control console.
“Modifying the computer!” replied the Doctor.
“With your feet?” quizzed Mario.
“There ARE a few universal truths, Mario,” chuckled Rosalina as she remembered her own maintenance of the Observatory. “One of them is that every computer needs a good kicking when you’re modifying it.”
“Hello, hello, hello!” the Doctor said into a communications channel. “Come in, please! Come in, Comet Observatory!” An image of the Dalek Supreme then filled the screen. “Ah, the Dalek Supreme himself! We should be honored, everyone. This planet is very high on the Dalek Emperor’s list of priorities. The Dalek Supreme’s doing his own dirty work.”
“I will speak only to the Doctor!” barked the Dalek Supreme.
“This is she,” replied the Doctor. “I call upon you to leave this planet and never return!”
“Terms unacceptable!” dismissed the Dalek Supreme. “These are the Daleks’ terms! You will surrender to us immediately! We have your TARDIS and your companions! The one identified as Amy Rose has not consumed any of the fungus known as 1-Up Mushrooms! If you do not surrender, she will be exterminated!” To prove its point, the Dalek Supreme moved aside to reveal Amy on her knees with her hands bound behind her and held in place by her duplicate as well as Luigi’s. The Dalek Supreme aimed its gunstick at Amy.
“Don’t listen to it, Doctor! Get away!” begged Amy.
“You have five rels to comply!” warned the Dalek Supreme. “Five!”
“Doctor, she’ll be killed!” Mario hissed in worry.
“Four!”
“It could be a bluff!” replied Rosalina. “It could be another duplicate!”
“Three!”
“What would they need another duplicate of Amy for?” muttered the Doctor. “…We’d best do as they say.”
“Two!”
“Can we trust them?!” asked Pauline.
“We can trust them to kill her if we don’t comply,” replied the Doctor.
“One!”
“We surrender!” called the Doctor.
“NO!” wailed Amy.
“You and your companions will step onto the transmat!” ordered the Dalek Supreme. “You will be brought to the ship! You are now a prisoner of the Daleks!”
“It seems that way,” sighed the Doctor. “Come on, everyone.” She brought everyone onto the transmat and they vanished.
“End communications channel!” the Dalek Supreme ordered the Dalek Communications Officer.
“I obey!” it replied. The screen switched off. The Dalek Supreme swiveled its eyestalk to the duplicates.
“Return the Doctor’s companion to the ship! She will serve as Science Division’s control group when they start their experiments!”
“We obey,” replied the duplicates as they roughly forced Amy to stand.