The Frankenstein Particle (comic story)

 was a Doctor Who Adventures comic strip published in 2011.

Summary
On a colonial supply base on Figaro Xll, Doctor Trudo’s experiment (477/B12) goes wrong when the base's particle accelerator shows an energy spike and looks like exploding. But before Trudo can shut it down a brand new atomic particle breaks free from the machine and forces Trudo to do its bidding…

Something in the time/space vortex upset the TARDIS and the Doctor, Amy Pond and Rory Williams are forced to make an emergency landing, arriving at the supply base to find it overrun by low-level intelligence Dronebots who were busy damaging certain power lines to chanel all the energy to one location. Against their programming, the Dronebots turned on the human staff, defending their work. Tracking the centre of the energy flow back to the laboratory, a stunned Trudo warns them that a lone Dronebot is absorbing all the energy, using the particle accelerator to feed and grow – and that somehow it is ‘alive’! Racing to the controls the Doctor boosts the energy and by overloading the system, blows a fuse on the accelerator. With a sudden ‘pop’ the Dronebots are rendered inactive and the base avoids a big bang. The “glowy-thing” in the Dronebots head has gone, possibly sent back to wherever it came from, but the Doctor notices a small hole in the roof …

On a hillside away from the base, a Dronebot (with the glowy-light in his head) looks on, marking the day the Time Lords waged war against the Atomon!

Named characters

 * The Doctor
 * Amy Pond
 * Rory Williams
 * Doctor Trudo

Original print details

 * Publication with page count and closing captions
 * 1) DWA 244 (4 pages) WHAT ARE THE ATOMON PLANNING? FIND OUT SOON! ANOTHER ALL-NEW ADVENTURE NEXT TIME!
 * No reprints to date.

Continuity

 * Amy Pond and Rory Williams have rejoined the Doctor in his travels onboard the TARDIS.

Timeline
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