Birth of a Legend (short story)

Summary
Above the jungle on Magella, the final stronghold of Mechanoid resistance to the Daleks, the city on stilts, is being ripped apart in a final battle between the two forces. As the main group of Mechanoids regroups in the city’s main reactor area the Dalek Commander of the Seventh Incursion Squad has travelled down to the planet from the saucer above, believing his front line position will give him the advantage over being on the saucer having to analysise and respond to the Dalek battle commuters. When the threat of the Mechanoids detonating plasmic explosives so close to the reactor is dismissed as a bluff, it is the Dalek Commander who issues the order to check and makes arrangements for a detonation. The Dalek Commander‘s instinct is correct and a withdrawal of Dalek forces from the city and the Dalek saucer is instructed to focus a direct attack (using thronic aura beams to pinpoint their target). With the Mechanoids destroyed by their own means and the Daleks victorious, the Dalek Commander receives a summons to report directly to the Dalek Emperor back home on Skaro. In the Throne Rome in the Dalek City on Skaro, four Daleks have been summoned to an audience with the Emperor. The Emperor addresses the four Daleks; Commandant of Station Alpha (a secret research base), Attack Squad Leader in the Thirteenth Assault Group, Force Leader of the Outer Rim Defensive Battallion and Dalek Commander of the Seventh Incursion Squad. The Emperor explains that all four Daleks have unusually shown initiative – not the Dalek way which is usually to serve and execute given orders, without question. The Emperor explains that a great war has been foretold with an Ancient Enemy, a war that will be waged through Time and Space. In order to ensure Dalek survival the Emperor explains that the four Daleks will each be enhanced and reconditioned to think like the enemy, a taskforce of four that think like no other Dalek, they will be the Daleks greatest weapon, they will be given a name (Daleks Thay, Caan, Jast and Dalek Sec the leader). Collectively they will be known as the Cult of Skaro, a guarded secret, a legend, a myth, a rumour intended to strike fear into their enemies. Together the Cult of Skaro are taken away to have their new casings fitted, new cases of Metalert, an enhanced Dalekanium infused with very rare materials, reinforced with flidor gold and sap from the then extinct Arkellis flower. Once fitted out, and with their mission, they head off to a special area of the city, away from all other Daleks – the secret Strategy Chambers of the Cult of Skaro.

Characters

 * Cult of Skaro
 * Emperor Dalek
 * Mechanoids

Continuity
to be added