Beyond the Sea (comic story)

Opening narration box
The TARDIS has gone missing on a living planet. With the help of Kul, the Doctor embarks on a desperate hunt …

Summary
Using aquabikes from more of the spacecraft's wreckage the Doctor, accompanied by Kul, drive beneath the ‘sea’, or the life sustaining plasma of the planet as the Doctor describes it. They are attacked by more antibody defences this time looking like giant floating eyeballs with tentacles. Kul and the Doctor escape these antibodies by hiding in a hole in the rock, which turns out to be the very craft that Kul and his people came from. Anti-aquatic gases outside create a pressure round the wrecked Life Ark which itself is protected by an army of cleaning robots acting like antibodies to keep the ship sterile. The planets antibodies break through the pressure barrier and battle the cleaning robots. The Doctor boots the anti-aquatic gases,creating a pressure bubble that expels the planets living antibodies from the ship. They then manage to safely locate the ships info-banks. The info-banks have been drained by root-like nerve endings that extend up from the heart of the planet through a further hole in the ground. The Doctor with Kul’s help must follow the nerves down to the planet’s ‘brain’ and find out why it is hungry for knowledge and to find out what it has done with the TARDIS…



Characters

 * Tenth Doctor
 * Kul – one of the Life Ark (Gamma Class VII) survivors – brown, hairless humanoid with large mouths and blue eyes. Once lived beneath the living planet where he survived by scavaging and living on an island of debris.
 * Cleaning robots

Original print details
Installment, publication title with page count and closing caption.
 * 3/4 Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 14 (4 pages) TO BE CONTINUED!!!
 * No reprints to date.

Continuity
to be added

Timeline

 * This story takes place after DWBIT: The Sky Below
 * This story takes place before DWBIT: Lonely Planet