Sting of the Serpent (comic story)

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The Doctor and Donna are on the trail of an alien spaceship ...

Summary
On the TARDIS scanner the Doctor and Donna see a second alien pod, this time in the middle of the Arizona desert. They emerge five minutes before the actual crash. They see something leave the short range escape pod before they find the pod's dead pilot (a three eyed many tentacled body).

Outside the pod, the alien escapee has mutated into a nearby entity, not a cactus but a giant rattlesnake. Retreating to the safety of the pod, the Doctor wires up the craft's auxiliary power to send a charge through the hull of the ship which the snake has wrapped itself around. The creature is simply angered and the Doctor activates the pod's auto-destruct system before legging it with Donna. The creature and pod are destroyed.

Back in the TARDIS the Doctor detects on the scanner an alien mothership about to enter Earth's atmosphere. ...

Characters

 * Tenth Doctor
 * Donna Noble

Original print details
(Installment, publication with page count and closing captions)
 * 2/4 DWBIT 46 (4 pages) TO BE CONTINUED…
 * No reprints to date.

Continuity
to be added

Timeline

 * This story takes place after DWBIT: The Black Sea
 * This story takes place before DWBIT: Attack of the Rats