Lonely Planet (comic story)

Opening Tag
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 ships info-banks down to the heart of the planet the Doctor and Kul are attacked a further time 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 the antibodies and knocked to the ground, makes a telepathic contact through the root-like nerves with the planet itself. Linked mind to mind the planet explains that the antibodies protect it from all lifeforms, unable to distinquish between ‘visitors’ and real life infections. The planet is lonely and only able to communicate with passing alien technology which it has attracked over the years, most of it crashing on impact, the survivors being hunted down by the antibodies. The antibodies launch a further assault on the Doctor and Kul which result in Kul exposing the planets nerve-root ganglia. With a little ‘surgery’ the Doctor is able to make the planet’s antibodies less aggressive and allow the planet to finally make contact with the organics. The planet gives it word to look after Kul and his people and will share the info-banks knowledge which it had absorbed with them. With roses sprouting from the ground around Kul, up on the surface, 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 (Publication with page count and closing captions)

 * 1) Doctor Who Battles in Time Issue 15 (4 pages) THE END

Reprints

 * None to date

Continuity
to be added