The Golden Ones (comic story)

Summary
In Japan children are addicted to the new drink and tv show Goruda. A drink that makes them telepathic...and golden.

Part 1
Tokyo, present day. Mr Okada walks into Mr Kin's office, and asks Mr Kin whether he has accepted his company's proposal to launch a product called Goruda into Europe. However, Mr Kin says that he is fully aware that Mr Okada is a spy working for UNIT, and that Okada's company is a fake. Suddenly, Mr Kin transforms into a creature, and pushes Mr Okada out of the window, killing him.

Two days later, the Doctor and Amy are at a UNIT briefing. The Doctor asks Major Hiraki what is the Shining Dawn Corporation, and what is Goruda. Major Hiraki suggests the Doctor should see for himself. Later, Amy and the Doctor turn up at a family's house, pretending to make a documentary about Japanese life. Kaito, a small child, is watching Goruda on the TV. Goruda says "Drink the brain tonic, one, two, three, and lets learn together!" Kaito's mother says his exam results has shot up ever since he started drinking the tonic and watching Goruda. The Doctor asks Kaito if he knows the name of Mozart's pet cat. The Doctor and Amy then go visit more houses.

Back at base, Major Hiraki says to the Doctor that, according to the publicity, the tonic increases the number of links between neurons. The Doctor replies buy saying that when he asked first child he visited, Kaito, the name of Mozart's cat, he didn't know. So the Doctor say to Kaito that his cat's name was Fluffy. From then on, when the Doctor asked the question to other children, they all replied with Fluffy, implying that the drink makes the children telepathic. Anyway, "Mozart hated cats", according to the Doctor. Hiraki says that the lab results suggest the tonic is nothing but H20. The Doctor drinks it, and confirms it as water. He decides to take it back to the TARDIS for further testing. He and Amy decide to take the tube.

Characters

 * Eleventh Doctor
 * Amy Pond

Continuity

 * Axons first appeared in DW: The Claws of Axos.