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}}The '''Volatix Cabal''' were a secret [[Dalek]] society of mutants, who operated during the [[Last Great Time War]].  

==Nature==

The members of the Cabal were created by the Daleks for possessing a talent that no Dalek could possess — creativity. They were warped both in mind and body compared to regular Daleks, and their mechanical shells had a variety of shapes only faintly resembling the familiar Mark III Travel Machines, though they still tended to possess [[Dalek eyestalk]]s. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Organ Grinder (comic story)|The Organ Grinder]]'') Much like the [[Cult of Skaro]], they were distinct from the [[Dalek Empire]]; their motto was "Exterminhate", an atypical example of Dalek wordplay. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Downtime (comic story)|Downtime]]'', ''[[The Organ Grinder (comic story)|The Organ Grinder]]'')  

The Cabal's minds were as bent as their bodies, "volatile". This was reflected in their rambling, incoherent, digression-prone speech and their constant suggestion of new and strange ideas for weaponry inspired by their surroundings. The Cabal Daleks knew that they were impure by Dalek standards for being "unique", and looked forward to the "delight of self-terminating" that was in store for them at the end of the [[Last Great Time War|War]]; however, they were otherwise unbothered by the knowledge of their inferiority, and chose to enjoy their odd and shifting existence while it lasted. The Volatix Cabal Daleks enjoyed "wallowing" in impurity, to the point that one of them had read [[Earth]] literature, later quoting ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]'' to [[Alice Obiefune]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Organ Grinder (comic story)|The Organ Grinder]]'')

[[File:Volatix_Cabal.jpg|thumb|left|[[Alice Obiefune]] interrogated by a member of the Volatix Cabal on [[Golgauth]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Organ Grinder (comic story)|The Organ Grinder]]'')]]The Volatix Cabal had a base on [[Golgauth]]. The [[War Doctor]] and [[the Master]] killed one of its members near where the TARDIS landed on the planet. Volatrix tendrils captured [[Alice Obiefune]] (who had traveled back to the Time War from the Future) and scanned her mind to discover her origins; in doing so, they discovered that the Daleks were doomed to lose the Time War.  

They did not doubt the information, but had no other reaction to the news than to laugh, something which they explained to Obiefune as an effect of their insanity. However, this did cause them to switch plans; as a future without Daleks was unbearable to them, the Cabal reasoned that the only rational thing to do was to destroy the [[Universe]], and therefore the future, so that such a world would never come to exist. They planned to recruit the [[Cyclor]]s (godlike beings from a higher dimension, who had recently allied with the Daleks in the War) to achieve this.  

One Volatix agent (who had been posing as a human soldier) touched the energy emitted by the [[Psilent songbox]], and harnessed the temporal trauma caused by the [[Temporal paradox|paradox]] of [[The Master|the Master]] trying to break the [[Time lock|Time Lock]] from the inside using a [[Chronal tumour|chronal tumour]]-augmented [[The Master's TARDIS|TARDIS]] he hadn't created yet, merging the Volatix Cabal and the [[Cyclor]]s into [[the Malignant]].  

Despite the Squire's gloating about this being the beginning of a new age of "Cookoo Deities", the Doctor stopped the Dalek Gods by summoning [[The Then and the Now|the Then and the Now]] and having Obiefune (whom the Then and the Now now recognized as its "mum", having finally learned the circumstances of its own creation) tell the Then and the Now to fight the Dalek Gods. The Then and the Now, thanks to its paradoxical temporal powers, was able to cancel the genocide absorption of the Overcaste by the Malignant (resurrecting their people) while still banishing the Cyclors back to their own universe. The Dalek Gods, stripped of their powers and again nothing more than the mad Volatix Cabal, were then swallowed by the Then and the Now, forever trapped at the heart of the “living paradox” with no way to affect the rest of the universe. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Gently Pulls the Strings (comic story)|Gently Pulls the Strings]]'')