The Time Machination (comic story)

Promotional summary
London, 1889 and a time-stranded Doctor needs the help of an old friend to fix the Tardis... but is beset by pursuers sent by Queen Victoria herself! How is this connected to a previous tale of the Sixth Doctor -- and a Fourth Doctor adventure that hasn't happened yet? And what will happen if the Doctor is captured by the Torchwood Institute? A special standalone tale!

Plot
London 1889 two men are talking one is H.G. Wells the other is a man known as Jonathan Smith, they are talking about the doctor. They enter a little passage way to see the Tenth Doctor. The Doctor states the tardis is out of power, and would go to Cardiff to fuel up, but he says he can't do that due to threats such as Torchwood.

Elsewhere two torchwood agents are tracking Chronal signals, they finally figure that the doctor is trapped.

Jonathan touches a device which sends out chronal enegery, the doctor decidesd he needs to go and find somethings he changes into victorian clothes. They then exit only to come across the two torchwood agents luckily they are unseen. But the power on the chronal energy detector goes mad. The Torchwood Agents know the doctor is there. They are chased, but the male Torchwood agent fires hitting H.G Wells stunning him, the two torchwood agents take H.G Wells back to the Torchwood Base at the West Indian Docks.

At the West Indian Docks Herbert is interrogated, for what he knows about the Doctor. Wells tells them about his meeting with the Sixth Doctor and his "Young Assistant" appeared out of nowhere and took him to planet Karfel. He tells them that the fought Morlox and the Borad and then went home after.

The male torchwood agent asks if the assistant was female, young and indecntly dressed. Herbert replies yes and asks why they know this. The man says Queen Victoria met the doctor after he saved her from a Werewolf ten years ago in Scotland. The female agent then says, Torchwood has followed the doctor to places like America, Kraktoa and Perivale and then miss him everytime he goes there. They then discover the doctor has changed fitting their discription of him.

Inside the Tardis, Jonathan and the Doctor are busy, Herbert arrives safe he tells Jonathan about Torchwood and how they are wating for the Doctor outside. Jonathan confronts the doctor saying that once Torchwood captures him, Jonathan will be able to have tea with Queen Victoria.

Outside the Tardis, Wells shows the Torchwood agents where the Doctor is. They surround the Tardis demanding the doctor comes out.

The Doctor figures out Jonathan is a time traveller from the 51st Century. He wants revenge for what the doctor did to Magnus Greel. The Doctor says in other words that he did not kill Magnus Greel but cellular regeneration killed him and technically it has not happened yet. Jonathan says he is here to stop the Fourth Doctor from killing him, he says he found the secret diary of H.G. Wells on the lanet Biblios documenting the doctors death. The Doctor outsmarts Jonathan, the Tardis fades without him, revealing Jonathan to the Torchwood Operatives. they think he is the doctor and stun him.

As Wells is walking he bumps into the Tenth Doctor who encourges him to write War of the Worlds. The Doctor leaves, but Wells is stunned to find the Tardis arriving again and sees The Fourth Doctor and Leela walking out. He wonders to himself how many Doctors there are. The Fourth Doctor and Leela walk off to see LI H'Sen Chang master if magic mesmerism and Wells decides to write a book called the Time Machine.

Characters

 * The Doctor
 * H. G. Wells
 * Johnathan Smith
 * Fourth Doctor
 * Leela
 * Sixth Doctor (appears in flashback)

One of the Torchwood agents resembles Alice Guppy, however it is likely it isn't her as the story is set in 1889 and she joined Torchwood 9 years later.

Planets
to be added

Continuity

 * The story is a semi-sequel to both DW: Timelash (and arguably Tooth and Claw) and (due to time travel) both a sequel and prequel to The Talons of Weng-Chiang. A reprise of a scene from the last-named appears from the point of view of H. G. Wells.