Attack of the Rats (comic story)

Opening narration box
The Doctor has tracked the latest alien pod to France ...

Summary
In Paris the area around a third crashed alien craft has been evacuated and placed under UNIT control. The Doctor's psychic paper gives them entrance as providers from Noble Catering. This was a bigger craft with more crew and more alien mutations, this time giant rats. Taking refuge in the alien craft the Doctor uses the communication system to contact the mothership. Onboard the mother ship the Queen of the Zantraan, is expecting her three scout ships to have found a safe landing ground for the royal ship. The Queen is not happy that her scouts have all died and uses a tractor beam to bring back the space craft along with the Doctor and Donna, who are encased in an isolation sphere to protect the Zantraans from germs. Following their exodus from a plague ridden homeworld the Zantraans are looking for a new world to colonize. Fortunately for them as their ship is dying they came across the Earth, the Pure Planet, a fresh clean world. The Doctor and Donna fail to convince the Zantraans that the Earth isn't suitable as its ridden with pollution, smells and disease. Instead The Zantraan Queen orders preparations to cleanse the planet through burning...

Characters

 * Tenth Doctor
 * Donna Noble
 * Zantraan - Large, grey in colour, three-eyed, six tentacled limbed creatures, ruled over by a monarch Queen. The Zantraans were forced to leave their home planet when it was ravaged by a plague. The surviving population fled in a shape ship destined to find a new world.

Original print details
(Instalment, publication with page count and closing captions)
 * 3/4 Doctor Who: Battles in Time Issue 47 (4 pages) TO BE CONTINUED…
 * No reprints to date.

Continuity
to be added

Timeline

 * This story takes place after DWBIT: Sting of the Serpent
 * This story takes place before DWBIT: The Zantraan Invasion