The Doctor and Rose are summoned, none too gently, by Coffa and Lute, the Forest People from END OF THE WORLD. They used a metal machine to draw the TARDIS to their biogrove. They chat about events on Platform One but the tree men tell them the survivors of that event have been vanishing one by one. Since the Forest People allowed their shields to be lowered to let in the TARDIS, another alien ship arrives...with huge robotic like figures. One is named Snip7. Another is Montodon Slemm, who owns Cyborg Intergalactic Garden Centres. He wants intelligent trees for his customers. The Doctor and Rose use avoid tactics but then they use super evolved space dandelions seeds. These grow in metal very quickly and shut down Snip7 somewhat. They also effect the half human half robot cyborg Montodon, who runs off. The trees have vanished. Rose wonders, as she and the Doctor return to the TARDIS, who has it in for the survivors of Platform One. The TARDIS flies off as the Doctor tells her that sooner or later they will find out who is behind this since sooner or later the villains will be coming after them!

The Doctor and Rose look for Hyperstar Cal MacNannovich. When they arrive Rose mistakes an alien movie shooting to be a real attack by an alien. They are on Hyperfilm Studio on the Planet Woldyhool in the year five billion. Great Director Zemm Foolini (four arms and green) chides them but tells them his leading manbot Cal Spark Plug MacNannovich has gone missing. Rose claims this cybernetic hyperstar was on Platform One when the Earth ended. The Doctor reminds her that Trees Coffa and Lute have gone missing too. The monster in the movie attacks for real, eats the extras and the security force. It is a real live Banjunx from the Isop Galaxy. A space agent told the director it was a great actor! The Doctor knows of these monsters and orders all the lights in the studio be turned on. The Doctor makes shadow puppets to stop the thing: it's a baby he deduces. Babies are always shoving things in their mouths, the Doctor says. He also figures it was just tasting those people it ate and didn't really eat them at all: it, the baby monster spits them all out! The casting people messed up in giving them a baby monster to act in the movie! The Doctor points out a grown up Banjunx has spikes...just like the one that arrives. The adult is ready to film now and asks if Foolini has seen its little boy! The Doctor and Rose head into the TARDIS, the Doctor wondering, "What happening to the real Hyperstar Cal Macnannovich? If the guests from Platform One are vanishing one by one -- we've got to find out why!"

The Doctor and Rose travel to anotaher planet in search of the brothers Hop Pyleen, more previous Platform One guests. Skip and Jumo prepare for an Astro Race. The Doctor notes a Hyposlip 500 lightspeed podule and calls it quaint. The race starts and the alien tells them that people would kill to get the new hyposlip tech. Skip gets hit by a death ray and the spaceship that did it starts to swallow him up. The Doctor jumps into action. The ship attacks other ships and the Doctor's space car. Rose asks Jumo to help her take a pod that is in repair to help him. It is prone to power surges. The Doctor gets taken in to the alien ship. Inside, the Doctor sees Rakkonoids, the biggest techno thieves in the galaxy. Skip is behind it all: he wants ten trillion in cash if he gives them the secrets of the H-5000. Rose and Jumo crash into the spaceship. The Doctor locks Skip and the Rakkonoids in a room and pilots the ship to the clifftops. Jumo tells him that his bosses, the brothers Hop Pyleen would want to reward him but they have dissappeared. The Doctor tells Rose they have to figure out why before they, too, vanish.

The Doctor and Rose try to track down more of their old friends before they disappear. Rose seems bored by the Doctor's bringing them to a giant space library. It is the university of Rago Rago Five Six Rago's Reading Dome, five billion years in Rose's future. The books are on data disks zapped straight into the brain via a mindlink which lets you plug directly into the computer net. A tall, handsome redhead in purple greets Rose and tells her this and is named Kriz, head librarian. Rose perks up. He tells her she can plug in and upload a book or take a virtual tour. Rose does this using a mindlink device, a small computer. A green monster calling itself a virus comes out and takes her over. It tells the Doctor they are the Macrobes, having infected the digital world for centuries. Now using mindlinks, they will infect living brains. Anyone not using mindlinks will join with them or die. The things use a taken over boy to attack the Doctor but he throws the boy. The things learned of the Doctor when Rose linked to the computer net. They will infect all time and space using the TARDIS. Rose attacks Kriz but he throws her off and blames the Doctor for all this. Kriz takes the Doctor to the junked book chamber to hide. The Doctor puts on his glasses. The mindlink works both ways so the Doctor takes the junked books, the worst and most boring ones to upload them using a terminal that is not yet infected. The boring books include ToeNail Clippings of the UgRaptor, A History of Peas, How to Speak Zarbi In 10,000 Steps. This puts Rose and the infected Marco Zombies to sleep. While the Macrobes are forced to go back into the Net, the Doctor disconnects it and traps them inside. Kriz tells the Doctor that their technical team (which consists of giant frog faced aliens in helmets and red faced aliens) will clean up the Macrobe infection and make the Mind-Links safe again. Rose tells him good, "I plan on keeping my thoughts to myself in future." The Doctor reveals he came here to share thoughts with the scholars of class 55 who watched the Earth explode on Platform One with he and Rose. The Doctor guesses even before Kriz can even tell him--the schloars of class 55 have disappeared like everyone else who was there. The Doctor tells Rose that maybe in the ten trillion books in the library there is a clue as to how they were taken and why. Rose gasps, "Ten Trillion?" The Dotcor smiles, "Good thing I'm a fast reader."

The Doctor and Rose head to another planet to try and find some more guests from Platform One. The Doctor found a library book on power boosted transmats. It lead him to look for lectra energy leaks and he found leaks at all the places they have been lately. It leads them to a lush planet called Gameworld Gamma owned by Mr and Mrs Pakoo, who are descended from birds of prey. The Pakoos were on Platform One (END OF THE WORLD). When Rose knocks a hunter off his horse thing, it is clear they interupted a royal hunt...hunting with a human being as the prey. We also see the Moxx of Balhoun flying above them in one panel. Whoever is taking the guests, the Doctor and Rose are ahead of them this time. The Pakoo beings and the Doctor starts to talk to them but they order him attacked as a tresspasser. All before the Doctor before he can use the psychic paper. The Pakoo bought the humans from a pet store. More humans come out and get the Doctor and Rose away. The Doctor makes a joke about one good turn when a Tern type of birdperson attacks him. Beings in red KKK-like gear--the HuntMasters chase them. One bare chested human tells them the Pakoo hunted down 50 of them this month, there are so few left. When swampland comes up, the Doctor expects the alien bird people to take to the air, getting off their horses. He also uses the sonic screwdriver, having fiddled with it to make the swamp gas ignite. The HuntMasters find the Doctor's fallen psychic paper and believe it to be his ID: and also believe him to be a personal assistant to President KaaKaa. The Doctor tells them to save their excuses, ban the hunt, and take the human prey back to their homes and he won't tell the President, a female, how rubbish the Huntmasters are. Rose calls the Doctor a con merchant. The Doctor asks to speak to Mr and Mrs Pakoo but the pair have disappeared. Rose claims they are too late again but the Doctor says, "But this time it's different. Whatever's behind all this--now I can track them down!"

The Doctor and Rose finally discover what happened to the honoured guests from Platform One...the Tardis flies through a colorful vortex. The Doctor and Rose are tracking the lecra energy leak of a power boosted transmat beam. Rose is sitting, strapped into the seat. The Doctor is clinging to the console and not too successfully. A purple robed skeletal faced man appears inside, with glowing red eyes, swipes the Doctor's forehead bloody and grabs Rose. He and Rose vanish, leaving the Doctor behind. Rose wakes up and finds herself in a room with all the other kidnap victims. They are prisoners of the Elth of Balhoon. His bio slaves have gathered them and will continue to do so. Elth did not know the Doctor's ability to regenerate and that is why the Doctor has not been taken. Elth's brother Moxx was killed and he feels none of them acted to save him. One of the blue staff boys explaines and claims they cried for him. In accordance with statute 7 of the Hanamacat Pel Jadrabone Convention, the Balhoons will exact revenge. A voice comes, the Doctor's, as he appears, "Don't forget Statue 10--you shall also have a highly narked time traveller on your hands." He uses the sonic screwdriver to free the prisoners, he punches a bio skeleton, saying, "Ohhh, yeah baby!" One of the aliens pushes into the face of a bio slave as Rose watches and then helps. Elth starts to cry that his little Moxx was not avenged. Rose thinks it a trick but the Doctor says, "Losing family is tough. Can make you crazy. I should know..." Elth wants to drown in his own glaxix acid. Rose asks the other aliens to go easy on Elth because they can see he is grieving. One of the creatures with the wickerwork faces thinks maybe he/it could star in a hyper film about Moxx's life. The Forest beings suggest growing a garden of memory in Moxx's honour. The Bird People would sponder Elth or the movie. Another alien, Hop Pyleen, would arrange for free travel for all visitors. Rose thinks it really cool that they are all pulling together. The Doctor thinks that is the only thing to do in life and death situations. Rose says, "Not sure I like the competition. How about we sling our hooks and go somewhere really dangerous?" The Doctor says, "Rose Tyler---you are on!" They are walking back to the TARDIS.

The Doctor and Rose bite off more than they can chew in their search for good food… Rose tastes a food pill that tastes like beef and custard in the TARDIS. He hasn't used the food machine in years. He has what is supposed to be steak but tastes like pickled gherkins, sprouts and ear wax. He wants to take off to Phijax IV, the best all night steak joints in the universe. She wonders if fatboys burgers in Canning Town isn't closer. On the planet, there is non stop rain, very low gravity. Things haven't changed since he was last here. A big purple glutonoid asks Doctor to fight the champion and he will eat the loser. A armored alien man puts a chain on both Rose and the Doctor linking them. They use it to best the warrior. The purple blob attacks Rose anyway, using what the Doctor thinks is the worst chat up line he's ever heard. He uses his umbrealla against the monster's control box…which controls his huge fllying dias. The alien guard falls off but is unhurt (maybe?). The Doctor uses the food pills to toss into the purple Glutonoid's mouth before it can eat Rose, it having her wrapped up in its tongue. The food pills are blueberry pie, bacon, semolina, cabbage, and extra fizzy lemonade. The glutonoid blows apart, stomach first. With its end, no more fights to the death. All that work made the Doctor ravenous. He asks if Rose fancies a bite to eat. She just says, "Er, just a glass of water for me…"

Travelling alone through time and space was taking its toll on the Doctor, so it was time for a well earned holiday… An Earth colony holiday world with two suns is where the Doctor sits on a beach and relaxes, wearing a sombrero, reading a newspaper. He reads the Centuria Times which has a headline: Hundreds More Vanish, Police Baffled. He talks about wanting a Choc-Ice. Behind him, a metal arm grabs a volleyball playing blond girl. A Cyberman reaches for him and pulls him up by his shirt, telling him he will be upgraded. The Doctor makes a joke about the upgrading but then recalls he banished the Cybermen to the void a thousand years ago. He is thrown into a van with beachgoers including the blond girl. He warns them not to fight. Jayne Kadett is on board and is an undercover investigator tracking down interplanetary Info Theft when the Cybermen caught her. The thief is driving the truck. He has a Cyber helmet on. He stole secret files from Torchwood archive and built his own cybermen, planned to use them to sell to the highest bidders as hi tech soldiers. The Cybermen made him their slave. The Doctor and Jayne escape the Cyberman with converting blades on him, the Doctor tossing his hat on one's face and Jayne kicking another Cyberman down. The Doctor uses his sonic screwdriver to blast down some Cybermen into pieces. The Doctor wishes they would settle on settling this with a Conkers fight. They find the thief was using power nicked from the local nuclear grid. The Doctor blows the restraint circuits and the factory (Factory Zero One) blows up as they run out. They hear a Cyberman arm talking via radio to other Cybermen and realize the Cybermen may have taken over the whole planet.

After destroying the Cyber-factory on Centuria, the Doctor and Kadett were tracking down more of the metal menaces…In a zeppelin, Kadett and the Doctor travel over Centuria’s most deserted continent…Azlon. The Robot Run Airships are the only way to get around between the few towns. The zeppelin is on auto pilot. Kadett fears it may take months to find the Cybermen factory as they follow the Doctor is following the signal from last time. The robot conductor speaks like a cyberman and attacks them, trying to delete hostile elements. The Doctor says, "Oi! You’re supposed to punch my ticket, not me!" Airship Conductors double up as law enforcement officers and they are heavily armed. From its hand come laser bolts but one bounces off a chair and hits and disables it. The controls are hit and the zeppelin drifts toward Cybermen herding people onto an airship already on the ground. The Cybermen are broadcasting a hypnotic signal to bring all to Terminus 5. The Conductor’s comm circuits must have picked the signal up too and made it go insane. The Doctor lands, "Right now, I’m feeling quite mad myself." He jumps off onto a Cyberman’s back, disabling it; Kadett does the same to another. The Doctor disguises the Conductor and reprograms it. A Cyberman tells them to turn right for brain implants, left for limb replacements. As they enter a mobile slaughterhouse, a rush job area that turns out Cyber Drones, half human, half Cyberman — the Doctor uses the sonic screwdriver to stop the hypnotic beam. The Conductor attacks Cybermen. One Cyberman orders the Drones to delete Kadett. The Drones, free, however, attack Cybermen. The Doctor tells them to run for it now that they can think for themselves again. A Cyberman blasts the Conductor and the stray fire from the Conductor hits the fuel banks and ruptures them. As everyone runs, the zeppelin explodes, killing the Cybermen. The Drones’ bodies were too weak to run for it in time and as they made it outside, they are incinerated, too. Kadett finds bits of map. It might hold a clue to what the Cybermen are really after on Centuria. The Doctor tells her, "And we’ve got to find out what this is — fast!"

Using the Tardis, The Doctor and Kadett follow the Cybermen's map to Centuria's arctic zone...The Doctor mentions that even Brighton Beach gets warmer than this...sometimes. Cybermen were planning to ship upgraded human drones here. Homaj, a half human, half Cyber drone, escaped the Cybermen who forced him and others to mine Hargstones. He attacked the Doctor thinking, at first, the Doctor and Kadett were working for Cybermen. A giant purple ice snake attacks but Cybermen (on Cyber-dog led sleds) delete it. Homaj makes a run for it and the Doctor deflects one Cyberman's aim at Homaj. The Doctor and Kadett are grabbed from behind by their collars. Another tells them Homaj's implants have failed and "it" will soon die. The pair are taken to a huge mine. The Cyberman tells the Doctor he and Kadett will work until their limbs are exhausted and then the limbs will be replaced. The Doctor, continuing his joking in this story, calls him sweet. The duo spot explosives guarded by Cybermen and Cyberdogs. The Doctor hammers a rock but fake-misses and hits a piece of machinery to distract them. As he does that, Kadett runs for the explosives. Only the timely arrival of a mass of ice snakes---a nest behind the area the Cyberman sliced open----save the pair. Kadett gets the explosives and the Ice Snakes get the Cybermen guards. The Cybermen's rocket takes off with tons of gems on board. Homaj, who's life is failing, tells them he heard a Cyber transmission...the rocket is headed for Centuria Central. Homaj takes the explosives from Kadett and using them seals the mine up permanently (or so the Doctor says). The Doctor tells Kadett they are going to go there using the TARDIS, "It's time to finish this...for good..."

Cybermen have been using upgraded humans on Centurion to mine special gems called Hargstones. But what is their plan?... The Doctor wonders if there are three billion people on the planet how a handful of Cybermen using hargstones can take over. He and Kadett travel in the TARDIS to where the Cybermen were shipping their gemstones. Suddenly, upon exiting, Kadett falls into a time trance, just like everyone in the area. In a flying hovercraft with open top, Cybermen spot the "human male unaffected by temporal statsis field" and try to delete him. As a Time Lord, the Doctor can resist the Hargstone induced statsis machine...for awhile. He uses the sonic screwdriver to crash the hovercraft. Others arrive to use viable parts to take back to base. The Doctor hides under a tarp in the new hovercraft (along with Cybermen parts including heads). They fly to the Triplanetary Bank where the Doctor reveals himself and who he is. The Doctor banks on them not killing him in order for them to find out why he is immune. The Cyberleader tells him they built the stasis machine from blueprints in the Torchwood Archive to subdue opposition. He ducks from two Cybermen and they zap each other, trying to delete him. He looks for the machine and vaults over a Cyberman's head to a vault in the bank...a vault with titanium plate door with laser proof glass. It is also protected by destructor rays. The Doctor uses the sonic screwdriver to redirect the lasers inside the vault to destroy the machine. The Cybermen also burn out. The Doctor says they were ghosts until some fool here rebuilt them but now they will go back to being ghosts. Kadett calls the Doctor Mister Time Lord and asks about how the Cybermen could function in the time field. They had a mental link with it so when he zapped it, temporal feedback overloaded their circuits. She asks if the Cybermen are gone forever. He says forever is a very long time and for her to keep em peeled. He vanishes, saying, "You never know when the past will come back to haunt you!" In the foreground, a Cyberman helmet seems to have red eyes coming to life!

When the TARDIS is pulled down to a strange planet the Doctor steps out to investigate – a long way out in time and space thee Doctor finds the planet has pulled other objects down including a buggy type car, rockets, satellites, and spaceships. Cothax and Major Arn attack the Doctor with a paralysis ray. There are others with them and they have floating robots. The green beings ask the Doctor how he pulled down their ship, they think he’s a local. If he does not talk, Cothax will set his gun to destruct. They claim the planet for the Tragellan Empire and planting a flag, find green slime coming from the surface. Giant rock men with red eyes emerge from the surface, the Doctor calling them the resident oil barons. He tries to get the races to communicate. One rock giant throws the Doctor into an old spaceship as the Tragellans fire destruct rays at the rock monsters. Arn cannot stop the rock men, only bringing more to the area. The hit caused the ray to wear off the Doctor and he can move again. As the Tragellan run with the Doctor, he tells them the rock men grew out of the ground, almost like they are part of the planet. The Doctor uses the Tragellan robotic sample gatherer about the oil, which he finds is not oil at all. It is blood. The planet is alive. The rock things are like anti bodies fighting attacking organisms. The Doctor uses the Tragellan gun to blast the wound to stop further blood loss from the planet. He melts the rock and soil and gets an instant skin graft for the planet. The Tragellan run from more rock men and take off in their ship. When they asked the Doctor how come he was not attacked, the Doctor answers, in “The planet’s hurt and I’m the Doctor?” The rock men go back into the ground. Self satisfied, the Doctor finds a hole in the ground where the TARDIS was: whatever force dragged him down to the living planet, it’s taken his home!

When the strange planet swallowed the TARDIS, the Doctor had no choice but to follow...The Doctor uses anti grav packs from another downed ship and floats down a pore in the living planet, the surface of which is like a living skin. Without the TARDIS, the Doctor's got nothing, he figures. He wishes he took a cuppa tea. Red rock alien men with blue eyes and wearing loin cloths are using floating stones and bits of spaceship debris as rafts. One alien tells the Doctor their ancestors came from far away but now they live here.  A giant green serpent rises from the yellow sea and eats one of the aliens. The Doctor uses a fuel cell on one of the anti grav packs to bzz zzapp the beast. It is an anti body in the planet's bloodstream. The Doctor finds the TARDIS tied down by green tentacles. An island of junk is too small for the aliens to take refuge on. They have captured fish to eat. As the Doctor explains for the aliens to leave, the serpent returns and tries to eat him, putting him in its mouth. He pries the mouth of it open using the anti grav packs and  keeps it open. The aliens climb the neck of the beast to the surface where they will live and use the anti grav packs to get fish.  A nice adaptive race like them, the Doctor figures, will learn to use the technology lying about the planet's surface.  The Doctor sees a broken bit of spaceship that says, "Life Ark Gamma Class VII."  A race was fleeing some stellar castrophe and crashed through the crust of the planet. Once the others get to the surface, the Doctor slides down the tail and the thing bites its own tail in trying to eat him again. At the area where the TARDIS was, the Doctor finds it gone. "Something's taken the TARDIS again, how will I ever find it now?"

The TARDIS has gone missing on a living planet. With the help of Kul, the Doctor embarks on a desperate hunt…Beneath the ocean surface in the living plasma, the Doctor and Kul ride Aquabikes salvaged from one of the ships that was dragged down to the planet. Kul and the Doctor wear green/blue space suits with helmets on. Kul tells the Doctor he wishes he knew what happened to his home. The Doctor says, “Trust me, Kul, sometimes it’s better not to know.” The planet thinks it is contaminating it so it cooked up antibodies to sort them out. Big ball shaped things with one eye in front come at them. The Doctor tells Kul to press the blue button---a power drive booster. They drive right through one of the anti body eyes but the eye heals itself. The Doctor loses his bike so he and Kul get on the same one. Kul claims his extra weight makes it go out of control. The Doctor asks if Kul was saying he was fat. Chased by more anti bodies, they take cover in a purple split in the rock…and crash through a hatch into a space ark. Anti aquatic gas keeps the water out. They are in an airlock, and find that it is part of the Life Ark Gamma Class VII that Kul’s people used to flee from the great catastrophe. Cleaning robots attack them but the antibodies chasing them fight with the cleaning robots. Kul and the Doctor escape to a Systems Centre which broke clear in the crash. Kul’s people’s vital knowledge was stored there. The Doctor puts on his glasses and uses controls to boost the anti aquatic gas. This propels the anti bodies out of the ship. Later the Doctor finds the info links have been drained dry by purple nerve endings that possibly are part of a brain of the planet and which seem to stretch to the very heart of the planet. The Doctor guesses the planet wants tons of knowledge, which is maybe why it took the TARDIS. The Doctor says, “Somehow, we’ve got to find out what it’s planning to do—and fast!”

The Doctor finds the TARDIS but must tame the planet's unfriendly antibodies before he can step inside! The Doctor and alien Kul climb down what seems to be a vein or a nerve, a hair but in reality the Doctor thinks is closer to a root, pushing up to the surface, one end jammed into  an ancient spaceship's computer system, the other guarded by some very anti social antibodies. The purple anti bodies seem like giant blob men and they attack the Doctor and Kul. The Doctor pulls Kul away from one of them after he sees the TARDIS, which is hung up in roots and stems. The Doctor wants to par-ty, get hit with music, and make banana milkshakes for all round. He is knocked down and uses the sonic screwdriver to scramble their command cortexes. Then the roots attack the Doctor and one "roots through" his mind, communicating with him, calling him a Time Lord. It is lonely and reaches out to visitors, longing to communicate with them. But the antibodies drive the visitors away. They think anything organic is an infection but they don't mind machines. So as a last resort the planet using roots communed with spaceships. It tells the Doctor his ship is different, it sings, it has a soul. The Doctor tells it, "I need my TARDIS, I'm lonely too."  He tells it to commune with the people of Kul on the surface. The antibodies merge into one giant antibody and throw Kul against the wall of the inner core. The Doctor does some surgery to the nerve root ganglia using the hole Kul made where his head hit it.  The Doctor makes them less aggressive. "Just call me Dr. Doctor. Hmm, on second thoughts, don't."   The antibodies become green roots too. The roots sprout roses. Kul asks the planet via the nerves and roots to tell him and his people about them: where they are from and who they are. It drained the info banks of his ancient people's spaceship. The Doctor moves into the tilted TARDIS, bidding Kul bye. Kul asks if he must go. The Doctor says, "Fraid so...I've got roses of my own to think about."

When the Doctor lands in 1348, he doesn't realise the Black Death would be the least of his worries...The Doctor breathes in fresh sea air but realizes quickly that he's at Melcombe Regis at the South Coast, the exact time and place where the Black Death first appeared. A man runs into him and the man is wearing a bird shaped breathing mask. He's been to Sutton Poyntz to treat sufferers. Villagers with red eyes and green faces and hands come at them. They run and stop at two children, who tell the Doctor the villagers upset the fairies. The Doctor figures it is aliens. The children show him a round egg shaped device...a trans galactic tour bus. From the atomic structure, the Doctor figures the fairies are really called Zeerover, far from home. This race exists to heal others. The green villagers attack and turn the man into one of them by zapping his face from one of their faces. The Doctor's commanding them to leave him alone does not work. One of the villagers tells the Doctor they ran out of fuel and the air on Earth is poisonous to them but if they use human bodies as filters they can survive. They need fuel cells. They do not mean to but they are making their hosts' bodies ill. The Doctor figures the aliens are no threat to him. They cannot find new hosts because of the plague. Inside the TARDIS, (which is very blue inside), the Doctor gathers some things that can be used to put together something to get them to the nearest inter galactic garage. He just needs some sticky tape. He also wonders where he put the kettle. He gives the aliens a new fuel cell after they heal the villagers and the man, who was a doctor. He waves goodbye as they take off. He enters the TARDIS.

The Doctor and Martha go sightseeing in Harankast when they stumble on an ugly secret…The Doctor tells Martha human colonists came and stayed here and live in harmony or so he’s heard. Joseph Manver introduces himself to them. He tells them strange things are going on. There’s a strange buzzing. He tells them young people keep disappearing, there are secret police files, and the talent less Jazmo Lunk won the Galactic Idol last year. He thinks the Doctor is Martha’s boyfriend. Giant frog-like reptiles with tails grab Martha and the Doctor. The frogs tell them, letting them ride on their backs, that they are the Ranfo. The city dwellers are killing their planet. They want to rise up. The Doctor thinks a war now will devastate it and he asks to find another way for them. The aliens and humans used to live together happily but now the humans drive new cars. The old cars used water and exhausted pumped out steam vapor. The new cars use fuel that produce toxic clouds, which destroy the countryside. The TARDIS protects Martha from a brainwashing beam that the Doctor detects, having the ability to detect more frequencies than she. They see a giant mechanical fly with the name Joseph Manver on it. His spy flies detected the arrival of the Doctor and Martha. Using the Crazy Joe disguise, he checked them out to see how much of a threat they were. His brainwashing beams convinced the humans to use the new cars. He orders the flies to attack the Doctor and Martha but Ranfo uses his tongue to stop one’s weapon. More attack but they run into a building. The Doctor has the fly that Ranfo (or one of the Ranfo—the Doctor calls this one by the name Ranfo) stopped the weapon of. He deduces they are a shared network. If he disables one of them, the others will get disoriented. This happens and Ranfo rounds up his friends to have a fly feeding frenzy. The Doctor apologizes to Martha that this is not what he promised. As Martha rides a Ranfo’s back she says, “I’m having the ride of my life. Who needs roller coasters?” Human police take Joseph away. “Ah well, Joseph, just for once it wasn’t the government,” the Doctor says from the door of the TARDIS as Martha follows him inside.

The Doctor usually goes for milk on a farm in the 9th Century France but the milk maid’s got boils on her hands. He thinks he and Martha have arrived in her time at a supermarket. They have but a giant alien warrior, resembling a Viking with horns on his helmet, rampages through the supermarket. He attacks the Doctor, having heard future craft sounds of the TARDIS. Using the sonic screwdriver, the Doctor makes a light fixture fall on the alien, giving him time to talk. He shoves them into a cart and wheels them through doors. Police arrive and the Doctor wants to take the fight elsewhere. He shoves the trolley into the alien, who claims to be an exile, yelling at someone called Angboda. He is banished from Norsum by Angboda and his name is Thaur. Martha gets his glowing purple crystal thing and threatens to smash it, it is his link to the homeworld. Angboda, he claims is building a war craft to crush a 100 worlds. The Doctor takes some milk as he runs into the supermarket again, leaves money and a note as he, Martha and Thaur escape into the supermarket and into the TARDIS. Inside the TARDIS, The Doctor finds there is a fleet of war ships being constructed in the Norsum system. Thaur wants them to rescue his warrior brothers and let Angboda taste his steel. The Doctor says, “Perhaps a quick cup of tea first though, eh?”

Vulsturg the Vast is stuck on an unnamed planetoid. As the TARDIS group arrive rock faces fly at them. These rock like faces attack and are the jailers and they use their screaming sounds to stop the trio. The Doctor goes back to TARDIS and reverses the sonic field on hearing aids he picked up on the Planet Wispah. Reversing the field allows them to not hear a thing. This allows them to free Vulsturg. The jailers were not just screaming, they were sounding an alarm for a giant rock monster being which resists Thaur’s sword. As the other two keep it busy, the Doctor sets the hearing aids back to normal and puts them on three of the thing’s ears, jumping on its back. The sounds amplify and knock the giant green thing out. The aids short out so it will be all right when it wakes up. The Doctors says, “Now let’s split before our ears do.” Anboda’s (now spelled a bit differently) fleet is almost set to ravage the stars and only they can stop her, Thaur tells the Doctor.

Thaur’s crystal shows Angboda is close to launching her warships. He needs his third brother, Jotastar the Just to help rally worlds to prevent Angboda’s foul mission. The Doctor has already freed Valiant Vulsturg. The crystal gets tuned to the TARDIS controls to search for Jotastar. They land on Haklok, a Tragellan colony on the Pacific Rim. Robo-sassins attack. The Doctor opens a self repairing door and doges auto laser traps, and avoids more robo sassin reinforcements. The others follow and help. Thaur kicks in a wall. They find Jotastar drilling a wall and he wrecked this place. He was breaking into a launch bay to get to a super fast newly developed battle cruiser. The Doctor’s taken the crystal and found out Angboda’s ships are hospital ships—peaceful. The three brothers conquered and crushed the worlds. Angboda is out to aid the populations. Thaur tricked the Doctor and Martha. He swipes his sword at the Doctor and the Doctor falls back into Martha. The three evil brothers escape in the new cruiser to incinerate Angboda’s fleet of peace ships. The Doctor castigates himself, feeling he should have woken up to Thaur sooner. “Back to the TARDIS! We’ve got to warn Angboda, her plans to help those suffering worlds are in danger and it’s my fault. But now I’m gonna sort it!”

The TARDIS appears slowly on Angboda’s ship where they meet her and her second in command Vemnec. The Doctor explains the situation. Martha blames Angboda since she exiled the three brothers to populated planets. Angboda explains she exiled them to deserted worlds but the three were diverted by a teleport wave and she is not sure where the wave came from. Suddenly, the wave makes the three brothers appear in the control room of the spaceship. The Doctor knocks Thaur back over a waiting Martha as Martha hunched over, ready for this move. Using the sonic screwdriver, the Doctor reverses the teleport field and the trio of warmongering Space Viking brothers vanish again. Martha waves goodbye. Vemnec, a traitor, starts to choke Angboda. He teleported the brothers away from their world of exile to populated planets. In the struggle, Vemnec falls against a console and a blast from Thaur’s attack seems to kill Vemnec. A stolen Tragellan craft attacks them. The only thing Angboda has on board is food, medicine, foil blankets. The Doctor’s plan is dump the blankets into space from the cargo hold. When Thaur fires his thermal laser ray strike at her ship, the laser hits the foil blankets (which were for warmth for the war torn worlds’ survivors) the ray is reflected back at Thaur’s stolen ship. The stolen ship crash-lands on a barren asteroid. The Doctor calls them “worriers” instead of warriors. Angboda tells him she will deal with Thaur and brothers later. She begins her mission of peace. The Doctor says, “Who needs luck? She’s determined…in fact, I never THAUR anyone so determined.” He and Martha leave in TARDIS while the three brothers rage on the barren rock.

A strong distress signal from Prof. Dinsdale of the Interplanetary Archaeological Institute calls from Brendock Seven. The Doctor does an emergency materialization. The planet they arrive has lightning type lights in the sky all the time. A creature watches as the Doctor and Martha find the giant statues at the dig. Dinsdale comes running out to them and tells them they uncovered an ancient burial mound at the base of the head statues but the entrance was booby trapped with sonic disruptors. The Doctor modulates the frequency like an umbrella of sound and opens the sliding doors. Inside, he recognizes something on the base: a Vortex Cannon. The Doctor always hoped this dangerous weapon from an ancient and long dead civilisation was just a myth. Dinsdale turns back into what he really is: a spine covered alien monster with red glowing eyes! The gun could destroy the universe and is powered by Treed crystals, which have decayed. The Doctor sees the alien, a Zaan Warrior; the archaeologists were just a trick to lure the Doctor to them, for him to open the doors for them. The warrior triggers some kind of defence mechanism and the place begins to crumble. The statues come alive and grab up the spaceship of the Zaan and crush it. The commander takes the cannon and abandons his crew to be destroyed. The Commander escapes in a pod. The Doctor and Martha view this escape. The Doctor knows that Treed crystals are rare and can only be found on the planet Garvrath. He and Martha will have to get there first to try to stop the Zaan from powering up the Vortex Cannon…

The Doctor and Martha are trying to stop the Zaan from getting the Treed Crystals they need to power the Vortex cannon. Galaxy O’ Rourke saves a planet from the Quelardez Hordes and shoots the last one, a handsome co-star. It is, in reality, Martha and the Doctor watching her on a movie which ends with a statement that she will return and this movie was named Starquake. The Doctor explains to Martha he spent so much money getting tickets to the Premier so he can meet the tar Honey Vox, herself. On her neck she wears a necklace with a Treed crystal. The Doctor gets a space sled or something like it and jokes it is just the thing for outrunning the paparazzi. They have to get near Honey. They head for a yacht as Honey boards it. The Doctor uses the psychic paper and tells security guards he and Martha are both from Serious Crime Squad. He says he is DI Smith and calls Martha Detective Jones. Once aboard, they learn from Honey that she put her necklace in a safe. Jebelex the Pulthasian, a green creature with arms sticking out of his head is climbing on the ship’s exterior. He uses his handy Matter Transmuter which turns solids to liquid in seconds. The Doctor uses his sonic screwdriver to open the safe to check the necklace and sees the creature stealing the necklace. Martha jumps out the hole he made and lands in his small motor boat. Police come in a boat and tell her and the creature to put their hands up. As the creature Jebelex puts his hands up, Martha catches his transmuter after he drops it. Jebelex tells them Martha has the gem but he has it and pushes her overboard. The cops turn into what they really are: two of the Zaan. It appears they hired Jebelex as they say he is of no further use to them. Jebelex escapes in a small spaceship. The Zaan are about to ram the Doctor and Martha but the Doctor recovers the Matter Transmuter and turns the water under Martha and himself to solid so he and she can escape after jumping out the hole of the ship. The Doctor hopes to track Jebelex using the DNA left on the transmuter. Also: Dalek Wars: Exterminated Pests: On Dirimon 7 Daleks faced baby spider monsters, babies of the Nidilla spiders. A long war followed, during which the Daleks defeated the Nidilla spiders.

Jebelex has stolen the Treed Crystal so the TARDIS team and the Zaan are after him! He’s hiding for a few days, hoping to sell it to someone else. The TARDIS arrives on the planet Karaten and the Doctor knows of it and that the inhabitants really do not like visitors. They are gray-ish purple ish alien savages with purple Mohawks for hair cuts. They capture the Doctor using spears and they put him in stocks (where his head and hands are in holes between a top piece and a bottom piece and the two pieces are locked down). A large blue, see through monster that looks like a wave of water comes at him…and inside is the crystal and the skeleton of Jebelex. From the TARDIS, Martha throws the Matter Transmuter at the thing and freezes it and while the aliens are stunned, she frees the Doctor, who complains she left it a bit long. She tells him this was his plan. He uses the top of the stocks to smash the frozen monster and retrieve the crystal. Zaan ships arrive quickly, shoot the alien natives, and prepare to take the crystal from the Doctor. The Doctor uses the sonic screwdriver to undo the frozen liquid and reform the monster, which attack the Zaan and his troopers. One Zaan grabs Martha, using a ray gun, and tells the Doctor to come to the home world. The Zaan ships leave with Martha on board. The Doctor is to bring the crystal to them. The Doctor says, “This has gone too far. It’s time to end it once and for all!” He leaves in the TARDIS and follows one of the ships.

Martha is in an arena with Zaan spaceships overhead as the Doctor pilots the TARDIS to her. The Doctor gives the crystal to the Zaan that has Martha chained up. While the Zaan puts the Treed Crystal into the Vortex Cannon, the Doctor uses the sonic screwdriver to free Martha, suggesting the Zaan stop and give him back the crystal. The time vortex folds back on itself as the cannon is activated. The cannon creates a whirlpool in time and the planet will be trapped in a time loop. As they race into the TARDIS, Martha finds out the Doctor heard a rumor the vortex cannon might have been a trap all along. The Doctor gives the TARDIS console a bit more power and it escapes the time loop. The planet Zaan is trapped in a time loop for all eternity. The Doctor sounds and is sad about it, a great civilisation, gone forever. “Come on, Martha, let’s go somewhere fun!”

The Doctor and Martha land on Earth in London in the year 2000 where Martha claims she is still at school and wonders if they can go visit her. The Doctor tells her the Millennium Dome is built now but in the year 3000 they shift it to Venus. Four armed alien bandits with masks over their faces and seemingly with horns break out of a bank window, firing ray guns! The aliens blast the top off a car, which Martha calls a convertible. She’s always wanted to drive one. The Doctor commandeers the purple car (CPL5433H plates). When Martha jokes about calling the Scotland Yard Alien Division, the Doctor tells her that won’t open for another 45 years. As they give chase in the car, the Doctor and Martha see the aliens open the back door to the van they are in. The alien in back shoots a traffic light down to block the car. They avoid it. In the backseat, Martha finds a half eaten burger and an A to Z map. The Doctor takes a short cut around to the main road. Moving that way, they view more robber aliens: purple outfits, skinny and with three green legs. From an orange/red van, these new aliens shoot rays at the Doctor and Martha, better shots the Doctor says. They reverse but run toward the first set of aliens in a white van. Martha throws the burger at the windshield of the white van allowing the Doctor to back up and turn into a route away from both vans. The vans crash and are incapacitated. The two bands of aliens get together, claim that the contest cannot continue, and activate a trilexic teleport beam, all six getting away. The aliens left the money and no one was hurt. The Doctor wants to find out what the aliens meant and will follow their trilexic teleport beam. “Allons-y!” He says as he runs with Martha…

The Doctor and Martha follow two groups of thieving aliens to the 19th Century. On a schooner a merchant ship in the Caribbean Sea, July 1800 are the TARDIS, the Doctor and Martha. Captain Ross and a sea man come to them, the later with a sword drawn. Ross asks if the Doctor is French, thinking Martha is a local. The Doctor tells him he’s not French but he once helped them invent the Banana Daiquiri. Ross thinks they are French agents. It is the last year of the quasi war with France. France and America fell out over trade, attack and rob each other’s ships. Ross thinks they are after their cargo of jewels and will have them thrown overboard. The Doctor warns him not to: the three green alien robbers are on a boat ship, firing proton cannons at them. When Ross asks if they are friends of the Doctor’s, he tells him his friends don’t fire proton cannons at him, but adds, “Well, not often anyway.” There is another ship on the other side of the merchant ship. The other aliens, the ones with four arms. The Doctor gives orders to get sailing. The Doctor orders Martha to get the food, potatoes and turnips and mash it in with the molasses. The Doctor fires the organic matter at the cannon’s intake valve and it blow sup, knocking the four armed alien robbers off their ship. Ross asks if the Doctor can save them from the second ship. The Doctor orders him to turn them around and head on a collision course. Riding the bowsprit, the Doctor avoids alien laser blasts and selects sonic screwdriver setting 34-H, touching the alien boat’s workings. It blows up and sinks, the aliens getting off it alive. As the aliens transport away, one warned the Doctor, “Last warning, butt out of the contest, wise guy.” Martha and the Doctor rush into the TARDIS to follow them and the Doctor makes a joke, “No schooner said then done.” Ross thinks he needs a lie down…

On the trial of alien robbers, the Doctor and Martha travel to Tokyo in the future…in the year 3000, Martha rightly figures the aliens are contesting to rob a bank using remote controlled robots to break into it. One gang of aliens uses robots, the other gang uses mind controlled bio zombies. The zombies are large green and dressed like cave men. The Doctor and Martha are inside the bank. The Doctor rambles about King Pigo of Pergoss who is the size of a small chicken while the zombie and a robot break into the fence. The Doctor assumes the auto defences have been disconnected. The pair run past an auto intruder tech sign. They are fired upon by both the robot and zombie. Martha is knocked down and out by one blast so the Doctor has to carry her as he bolts for the vault, opening it with the sonic screwdriver. Martha recovers and is told by the Doctor they are inside the Gem Fortress, walls made of ultra thick titanium carboid. He fuses the controls. One of the aliens appears on a screen. He is green and has four arms and hands and red eyes. He tells them the Yedari Dispute must be settled. Green gas floods into the room the pair are in. The Doctor produces a covering for their mouths but he can’t unfuse the controls to get out of the vault. The Doctor instructs Martha to help him dump the diamonds, rubies, hargstones. These focus and magnify the energy. The resonating beam of the sonic screwdriver at the right frequency causes the gems to focus the vibrations downwards against the floor…and at the weakest point give way. The Doctor and Martha fall through the floor and as the robbers teleport away, the Doctor grabs Martha’s hand and the pair of them ride the teleportation field…traveling with them…

The Doctor and Martha are following alien robbers with plans for the Earth in the past, present and future…Martha and the Doctor find themselves on a sideways donut space dock where three alien war spaceships are docked. It is orbiting a planet. The six aliens are there and one of them opens fire on the pair. The Doctor thinks they will find cover in a broom cupboard but the pair stumble into the gangster’s den. The Big Yedari, who is known to the Doctor by reputation, is the most wanted crime lord in future history. He is trying to find out which race he should employ to rob the Earth in all its eras. The Verx (with four arms) and the Alsh (with pointed head and yellow bug eyes) are competing to steal Earth’s riches a million times over. This will leave Earth worthless and ravaged with time paradoxes. The Doctor lies and tells Yedari the Alsh leader hired them to muck up the contest. The aliens start to fight against each other. While Yedari, who threatens to tear apart the Doctor and Martha with his pincers attacks, Martha steals the teleporter bracelet off one Alsh while the Doctor opens a door with the sonic screwdriver. In the control centre, the Doctor cuts loose the three ships and seals off the capsule. He and Martha then teleport into the Yedari ship and overload the teleportation network so that only one works. The Doctor and Martha then take the ship away using the only teleport network that works. This traps the galaxy’s most wanted in the space dock. Then the Doctor signals the location of the criminals to the nearest space cops and he and Martha teleport to Earth to collect the TARDIS. Martha thinks the Doctor sometimes is downright sneaky. He adds, criminal to that.

The TARDIS has brought the Doctor and Martha to an eerie jungle world…The Doctor reads Tempus Fugit: the Time Traveller’s Companion. It tells him that the planet Lumana is all sandy beaches and tranquil grasslands. He thinks the book might be a few million years out of date; for that reason he never uses them. When Martha asks if there’s anything in there about hostile life forms, the Doctor states he always flips past those bits: it’s more fun for him to find out himself. Three alien bat monsters attack them but a loud horn sounds and scares the bats away. Luma, a teddy bear like furry animal being with big ears, arrives with more of his kind. He puts flowers around their necks and tells them he and his kind are here to look after them. Luma (who has big yellow eyes and a long tail) asks for something in return: for them to get rid of the Slaken, a big monster that lives in “the cave” and that wants to kill and eat the furry beings. Martha is not sure she trusts Luma and she tells the Doctor as the pair of them set out to find the monster using a map. One hour later, the approach and enter the cave. The Doctor tells the giant green Slaken he has come about the Loomish, the cheeky, furry, and slightly smelly creatures in the jungle. The Slaken tells them the bat things are friends of the Loomish and that the Loomish played a joke on the Doctor and Martha: he doesn’t eat them. Once the pair returns to the TARDIS, they find the door blocked with the pink, reddish flower lei-like wreaths the Loomish have. The Doctor barges into the TARDIS to find it decorated with flowers and crawling with Loomish. Loomish are stirring pots of soup and laying in the loops that hang from the rafters. Luma, lying on the console, tells the Doctor to take it easy, they are all family now. The Doctor borrows the Loomish horn while Martha finds the guide book. The book reads that the Loomish always con tourists and have incredibly strong family bonds. The Doctor admits the book may not be so out of date, after all. Five minutes later, Martha, who thanks God for those three trumpet lessons she had in year 6, blows the horn. It seems to be a distress call that make the Loomish leave the TARDIS to go help more of their kind. The Slaken greets the Loomish with bowls of soup, giving them treats and in good humor, calling them greedy pests. Martha notices the Loomish are like hungry kids and the Doctor notices that the Slaken loves the Loomish. Entering the TARDIS, Martha sees the pot. The Doctor is absolutely starving and asks her if she fancies a quick bite.

Ancient Worlds Theme Park on planet Dewyn is where the Doctor and Martha are. They see simulations of a one eyed Cyclops, Medusa, Cerberus, and humans. The Doctor calls it a bit hit and myth. A shadowy muscled humanoid watches Martha and the Doctor leave the TARDIS and orders the Zone One guards to get them. The Doctor has heard rumours that things have been going wrong. The Cyclops, Medusa, and Cerberus chase them and the pair fall into the Labyrinth of Minos. The Doctor brags that Ariadne, a lovely girl, had help from the Doctor to get the girl and Theseus out of the maze. A giant boulder just misses them and the Doctor finds skeletons, but tells Martha it is all props and sound effects. A girl and man tells them the Minotaur killed all their friends. The pair hid down there when the guards became aggressive. The Doctor says, “There’s no such thing as a Minotaur anymore.” He tells them to trust him and that evolution has moved on so much in the last 7000 years that a half bull, half man is impossible. Even so, one is behind him. A Minotaur like creature moves at them and attacks. The Doctor recognizes it as a Tauride, a shy species and never so aggressive. The man and woman run off. The Doctor uses a discarded shield to defend himself and notices a dart, which might be a tranquilizer dart or stimulator dart to make it behave badly. The dart is in its back. The Doctor tries to bull fight it but as he removes the dart, the thing uses both horns to trap the Doctor against the stone wall behind him! Martha runs at them, “Doctor!”

The Tauride is back to its natural, friendly self, but is stuck in the wall…and the Doctor’s unconscious! He starts to wake up and as Martha tickles the Tauride, she and the Tauride tell terrible jokes, which gets the Doctor to wake up more fully. The tickling gets the Tauride to crack the wall so the Doctor and it can get free. Medusa, Cerberus, and the Cyclops give chase but Tauride distracts them so the Doctor and Martha can make a getaway. They see souvenir Olympic Torches (see Fear Her). The pair run to an Aztec Zone. Here, a huge sign states, “Aztecs Loved Chocolate So much they built houses from it.” Another says, “The Gods rewarded the Aztecs with chocolate.” The Doctor says, “You’ve just gotta love historical inaccuracy.” They see a woman crying. Her son came here with Pavanelli Tours but the class did not come home. The mother was attacked by an Aztec priest. Martha claims the Aztecs sacrificed thousands of people at once. The Doctor says, “Perhaps those stories were exaggerated.” A green man orders the Aztec Zone guards after them. A sign points to two others signs designating Martha and the Doctor as criminals. On one sign, Martha is seen kicking a woman and on the other, the Doctor is seen pointing a gun. Two Aztec dressed guards come at them so they run into the pyramid, the Doctor having one of the torches. Inside, there is a gift shop. The Doctor has a great deal of money and leaves a great deal of it for the gift shop man. The Doctor has bought himself and Martha Aztec costumes for hire. She dons a jaguar outfit while the Doctor dons an Aztec ruler, sans shirt! The Doctor tells the man to keep the change. The Doctor finds a control panel and on it evidence of a hidden chamber. “Two fat ladies, legs eleven, two little ducks..bingo! I’ve cracked the code.” Inside, is a green man, a large giant of a man with a red eye and one eye covered with a patch. He hovers over a cage of about nine children! The Doctor distracts him. When he comes for the Doctor, Martha lets the children out…but now the giant puts his face right up to the Doctor’s face…

The Doctor has found the creature responsible for all the mayhem but how will he escape? The creature knows the Doctor is a Time Lord. The Doctor tunes into the resonant frequency of the toy torch and magnifies the wavelength so heat is produced and the chocolate pyramid starts to melt. Outside, Mummies and Cat creatures are strangling people from behind and from front. The Doctor wants to find the central command computer and shut it down. The creature, from a window, tells them history is so much fun when the violence, death, and survival of fittest are all real. The Doctor thinks the alien looked like one of a small race of mercenaries that he fought years ago. The more violent they are, the uglier they become. This one is a Chiffala, it thrives off conflict. He travels the galaxy and joins in any war or skirmish they can find. This one tells the pair that he crash-landed on this boring, peaceful planet and made his own conflict. In a giant Sphinx, the Doctor and Martha try to find the command control but mummies attack them in a lift…the monster alien’s plan. The Doctor uses the sonic screwdriver to stop them. He and Martha change clothes with the robots. From behind, the Doctor fires a torch device at door behind the alien while it is looking at the robots dressed like the Doctor and Martha (well, like the leopard and the Aztec warrior/guardian). The door falls on the alien. When the Chiffala are not in full armour, their skulls are thin and they are vulnerable to concussion. Chained up in the TARDIS, the Doctor takes the alien Chiffala to a torture chamber (looking like the Spanish Inquisition). It is chained up on a table as the TARDIS leaves. The Doctor promises to be back in three to six months time…

The Tardis has brought the Doctor to a distant planet…he calls it good old Sartor as if he’s been here before. He will give himself five seconds before he’s bored…no hostile life forms…just peace and quiet…until…androids begin zapping human colonists. Lieutenant Kamini calls the Doctor over to cover in a dome shaped home. A Quarsian pirate ship hell bent on stealing their diamonds is breaking through the protective forcefield and the alien ship will suck everything up once it does break through. Kamini does not trust the Doctor but tells him to run to central control. He can fix a forcefield. As they run and eventually make it, the Doctor jokes and asks her if she has even been ten pin bowling. He tells her he knows how a skittle feels. The aliens are firing through the field at them, trying to atomize them. As the Doctor is let inside, he turns and finds that Kamini is gone. The guard tells him to get inside and that Scientist Nadia will decide what to do with him. An older man tells Nadia that the computer has gone into emergency shut down. Nadia lets the Doctor work on the force field. He works, diverting negative pulses along the induction circuit, recalibrating the parallax scan, and he wires in a safety pin to engage auxiliary feed. He creates a localised forcefield which detects where a bomb shell is about to strike and redirects available energy to that exact point. It will hold for a little while. Android storm troopers are on their way. This planet has loads of diamonds, the locals trade just enough to keep the colony going. Kamini shows up and tries to shut down the controls but Nadia blasts her head off: Kamini is an android double. The Quarsians have made copies of several colonists. Nadia’s sister Kamini died in the first attack and the android copy was waiting for a chance to strike. Nadia built a sonic disruptor that destroys them but it can only hold off one at a time. The Doctor comforts Nadia, who is crying. He wants to put an end to the attack. Nadia’s army is finished. The Doctor tells her, “Oh, who needs armies…” He examines a diamond and thinks one of them can come in handy. Three storm trooper androids break in, firing laser rifles. The forcefield is to be deactivated, the control centre is taken, and all humans must be destroyed…

Android troopers have broken into a human colony on the planet Sartor…Nadia uses a sonic disruptor on the androids. The Doctor uses his sonic screwdriver. A proto anodizing quark circuit maximized the amplification was used. The Doctor just pops it into his jacket for safe keeping and seems to hesitate when he says he will give it back to her later. The Doctor wants to use diamonds to get rid of the Quarsians. He and Nadia in the TARDIS appear on a Quarsian ship. The diamond is responding to a massive build up of Zortron Energy. The Doctor wants to find the engine room. The Quarsians are not fast movers and two pass them, Nadia keeping the Doctor out of sight. Another one spots them. Nadia blasts it with her gun and the Doctor wants to keep moving, fearing Nadia might start enjoying this. Zortron Energy can power massive ships at light speed but needs thousands of heavy vessels to store it. A small number of diamonds can harness enough energy for a fleet. The Doctor wants to stuff a diamond into the top of the stack but as he climbs it seems alive and knows what he is up to: trying to plug it up. The Doctor does this but runs back down to Nadia, telling her the engine will blow any minute. The captain and two other Quarsians arrive…with guns. The captain tells the Doctor he has a twin…one who will destroy the force field on Sartor, kill the humans, and give him the diamonds.

The two Doctors fight, one of them having done something to the ship’s engines. Nadia and one of them run back toward the TARDIS and get inside. The Doctor tells Nadia the diamond stored enough energy until it overloaded. It chucked all the power through the engines in a massive surge. As the two return to headquarters, the Doctor is already there, telling her the Doctor she was with is an android that tricked her. One of them transmitted down to the planet. One of them shows the group the sonic disrupter the Doctor took off Nadia but the other claims the fake pick pocketed him. The Doctor holds out other stuff, telling the fake, a Time Lord’s pockets are deeper…inside he takes out a half eaten apple on core, jelly babies, a Tomagotchi, and a 500 year diary, and bubble gum. The one who was pick pocketed is the Doctor. The other sprouts metallic guns for hands. He is Destructor Unit J7. The Doctor wonders why bother: his masters have been destroyed but it must fulfill it programming. The Doctor tells it to destroy the Sartor Diamonds, it is what destroyed the masters’ ship. It aims at it while the Doctor ushers everyone out in a last minute warning, “RUN! Everyone out of here!” The diamond blows up and takes the android with it as well as the force field. The Doctor figures someone as clever as Nadia will be able to build a better one using the precious stones. Nadia tells him he’s amazing. “Me? Yeah, well, just call me your diamond geezer!”

The TARDIS has alerted the Doctor to massive distortions in the time fields…time spillage? In his brown suit, the Doctor emerges and finds a Jaggrabell flower. He figures he must be on Hortisphere Delta out in the Hej Nebula. When Horace asks if the Doctor wants a bag for his geranium, the Doctor tells him that it cannot be a geranium in the Hej Nebula…however it is the Doctor who is wrong. He is at the Croydon Carden Center. Suddenly a green leaf tree creature comes at them. The Doctor orders Horace to fill up the fountain with his strongest weed killer. The Doctor cranks up the air pump and aims the silver metal fish at the creature. This stops it cold. Horace asks if it is from outer space. The Doctor asks, “What, like the Spider Plants from Mars?” He tells Horace it was an Earth tulip until something super evolved it. A new one, three legs in three pots, grabs up Horace. It asks why they’ve done this. The Doctor tells him someone’s mucking about with time and they have evolved millions of years in a few seconds. The Doctor tells it we (he and Horace) are here to help and to look at Horace’s badge, which says “here to help.” More time spillage happens and the trees evolve into air particles. The Doctor says it is time to get to the root of the mystery. He gets the signal’s source, drags it through the timeslick, and makes appear a metal base thing, man made and from the 51st century. One of the dodgiest time machines ever invented, they were outlawed for being death traps. The Doctor opens this one and finds a dead pilot inside. This one must have crashed in the vortex, leaking temporal energy into this time zone. The Doctor loops the energy back into the zygma drive before everything on Earth evolved toward death. The Doctor ages the Pod to dust. He tells Horace to sprinkle the dust onto his geraniums, they’ll shoot up. The tree things have gone back to just being trees.

The TARDIS brings the Doctor to an empty building on a barren world. He steps out and is in a building and a machine alerts to an intruder. It also fires spears and then green acid at him. A laser matrix bars him from the TARDIS doors. Green smog forms attack him so he runs, feeling it is cold as a tomb, thinking someone’s mistaken him for Lara Croft. He also coughs a lot on this planet. He finds out he is in a computer controlled prison cell and from the look of the dust, no one’s been here for ages. The green smog wardens attack but he uses his jacket to ward them off. The acid has exposed a power cable. He feeds energy through to the main computers and a power surge overloads the cell security. As auto repairs kick in, the Doctor retrieves his jacket and leaves in the TARDIS. He wonders who the prisoner was and how he got away. As he leaves, the computer shows a message that would have alerted him to the fact that the Doctor has escaped…with the prisoner in the TARDIS!

The Doctor continues to cough after having left the strangely empty prison cell on a desert planet. He also brought in some dust from the planet. The Doctor wants to stick a pin in star charts to find out where he will go for his next trip. Suddenly Koto, a bounty hunter, blue and having a crystalline body, comes into the TARDIS through the walls. He uses a spear to attack and hits the Doctor’s star chart. The Doctor tells him he is so over telling people they can’t board the TARDIS in flight. Koto picked up a justice force auto alert that told him the Doctor is guilt of helping a prisoner escape. Koto can absorb all light, heat, and air in the TARDIS. As this happens slowly, the Doctor runs to a clothing room and on a rack hang coats of the others Doctors including the Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth. The Doctor finds a yellow survival suit. Koto finds him and tries to absorb the suit’s built in heat supply. The Doctor shoots a fire extinguisher at him and pours ice from his cocktail shaker on Koto. Then using the console, the Doctor uses a sudden excitation of air molecules to make a snowstorm. Shorting out the thermal balance ( of what?) restored the TARDIS’s power and sent Koto back to wherever he came from. The Doctor gets out of this sector of space and wonders what Koto was on about helping a prisoner escape. The Doctor is still coughing and wiping dust off himself. A creature’s faced is laughing silently at him from the walls of the TARDIS…

Strange things have been happening to the Doctor since he visited a prison…When the Doctor arrives at an Asteroid Bazaar on an asteroid with a pink sky, his suit starts moving by itself, an alien intelligence having turned his suit into a surrogate body, knocking aliens of all kinds aside. Skalesh, dictator of Delossa, deposed and imprisoned by its own people. It was disassembled, existing only as particles of matter. Each movement feeds kinetic energy and makes it stronger. It causes a space man to crash his small rocket jet sled. It throws the Doctor in front of a fire ship that has come to put out the fire. It has altered the atomic structure of the suit so makes them both impregnable to assault. It makes the Doctor crash a den of arms dealers…to get weapons. It extends the Doctor’s suit arm to lift an alien (who was shooting the Doctor in the back) with a one eye on a stalk away. The Doctor takes some lemonade and spills it on his suit, dust does not mix well with liquids. The suit points a gun at the Doctor…his own suit about to shoot him. The Doctor gets himself in front of a fire ship’s hose that is shooting water. The Doctor takes his suit off, is given a blanket by a fireman robot, and then has to watch while the suit, now imbibed with enough kinetic energy…floats away to take his revenge on the people of Delossa. The suit thing feels no one can stop it now. The Doctor says, “P’raps not. But since I set you free...I’m gonna have to try!”

[to be concluded]

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[Issues 57-59 TO COME]

The Daleks are the masters of Earth…proton cannons have turned animal life intangible. Shielding protects the Daleks. Unable to feed the humans will soon die. Daleks will be called from across the universe. War fleets will be built. The Doctor is also intangible. A Head Keeper of a zoo and a police man help the Doctor. The Head Keeper comments that if only humans could be like the Krikoosh and be tangible at will…The Doctor communes with the animal and draws some of its power he regains physical form. He holds the animals and goes from tangible to intangible at will to avoid the Daleks. As he starts to sabotage the proton cannon, he becomes visible and the Daleks move at him. He reverses the cannon field and the humans becomes solid again and the Daleks becomes intangible. Their stolen shielding will keep the Daleks that way and they will probably end up in a zoo. One Dalek’s eye stalk, intangible, sticks through ghostlike the Krikoosh’s nose. Harmlessly. The Doctor tells the Daleks that children will says “Look at the funny Daleks, mummy, they’ve lost forever.” The Daleks find this unacceptable and blow themselves up in their shields. When the policeman thanks the Doctor, he tells them, “Don’t thank me, thank the Krikoosh! The deadliest creatures in the universe (Daleks), defeated by the cuddliest.” The Krikoosh says, “EEEP!”

The Doctor uses a smoke bomb to get rid of what’s attacking him. The Doctor figures out he’s in Milan, late 15th century. He feels he always has time. He tries, after a brisk walk, to visit Leonardo but Leo has given instructions that he is to have no visitors. The Doctor barges in past the understudy, a young man named Ludovico, who has not seen Leonardo for days. All communication is through notes which the Doctor reads, putting on his glasses. Seeing that the ingredients are for something strange, the Doctor tries to climb a large brick wall and gets zapped by an electric field on the spikes on top of the wall…enough to stop one heart but not two. He falls off the wall but it seems deactivated now. He and Ludo climb over, the Doctor telling him that they are about 100 years too early for the most basic electrical know how. In a brick house, a wide-eyed DaVinci is making robots. The Doctor recalls there were robot designs found from DaVinci’s work. DaVinci means of the town Vinci. Knight like robots come up behind the Doctor and one grabs his neck from behind and threatens to punch his face in. Ludo yells, “Doctor!”…

The Doctor is attacked by Renaissance robots in the home of Leonardo da Vinci. Ludovico distracts the knight faced robot away from the Doctror long enough for the Doctor to use his sonic screwdriver to examine it. He also sees some non biological life form on the back of Leonardo’s neck. It looks like a spider robot. he knight robots attack again and the Doctor prepares sulphuric acid to throw but an alien through Leonardo talks. Its old body was ruined in a crash and it wants the Doctor to prepare a new one. The Doctor gets to work on the knight body, a new body for the spider robot thing. The Doctor doesn’t turn on the gas delivery system and the thing, in the knight body, cannot have mobility now. The Doctor will take it back to its home. Leonardo will recover and probably not remember anything of what happened. The Doctor asks Ludovico to not mention he was there and to tidy up. Ludo seems to have gathered up all the plans and is about to burn them in a fireplace.

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