Lonely Planet (comic story)

Opening narration box
The Doctor finds the TARDIS but must tame the planet's unfriendly antibodies before he can step inside!

Summary
Following the nerves running from Kul’s ancestors' ship's info-banks to the heart of the planet, the Doctor and Kul are attacked yet again by the planet’s antibody defences. This time the antibodies take the form of purple-pink humanoid blobs.

The Doctor uses his sonic screwdriver to temporarily confuse them and knock them to the ground. He makes telepathic contact through the root-like nerves with the planet itself. Linked mind to mind, the planet explains the antibodies protect it from all lifeforms, unable to distinquish between ‘visitors’ and real infections. The planet is lonely and only able to communicate with passing alien technology which it has attracted over the years. Most of it crashed on impact and the survivors were hunted down by the antibodies.

The antibodies launch another assault on the Doctor and Kul. Kul exposes the planet's nerve-root ganglia. With a little ‘surgery’ the Doctor makes the planet’s antibodies less aggressive and allows the planet to contact the organics. The planet gives its word to look after Kul and his people and share the info-banks knowledge which it had absorbed with them. With roses sprouting from the ground around Kul, the Doctor leaves in the TARDIS with his own Roses to think about.

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.

Original print details
Installment, publication title with page count and closing caption.
 * 4/4 DWBIT 15 (4 pages) TO BE CONTINUED!!!
 * No reprints to date.

Continuity
to be added

Timeline

 * This story takes place after DWBIT: Beyond the Sea
 * This story takes place before DWBIT: Plague Panic