The Sky Below (comic story)

Opening narration box
When the strange planet swallowed the TARDIS the Doctor had no choice but to follow …

Summary
Now realizing the planet is alive, the Doctor, using an anti-gravity pack taken from one of the many wrecked spacecraft on the surface, the Doctor descends down a blowhole in the planet’s skin-like crust in his quest to relocate the TARDIS. At the end of his drop is an ocean of plasma (the planets bloodstream), where he finds an island constructed from debris (including the TARDIS), and the surviving descendents of a race fleeing from stellar catastrophe in a Gamma Class VII Life Ark, scavenging for survival. The Doctor avoids attack from the planet’s green, sharp teethed, giant, snake-like defences by using spare fuel cells from his anti-gravity pack, and lodging the anti-gravity pack in one of the defence creature’s mouth sends it up to the planets surface. The survivors are encouraged to climb the ridges of the creatures body and adapt to a new life on the surface by the Doctor who slides back down the tail-end to retrieve the TARDIS only to find it taken even deeper into the planet…



Characters

 * Tenth Doctor
 * Life Ark (Gamma Class VII) survivors – brown humanoid, hairless creatures with large mouths and blue eyes. They were drawn down into the living planet where they survived by scavaging and living on an island of debris also drawn down beneath the surface. The Doctor helped these nice, bright, adaptable creatures find a route to the surface for settlement.

Original print details
Installment, publication title with page count and closing caption.
 * 2/4 Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 13 (4 pages) TO BE CONTINUED!!!
 * No reprints to date.

Continuity
to be added

Timeline

 * This story takes place after DWBIT: Beneath the Skin
 * This story takes place before DWBIT: Beyond the Sea