Uroboros (comic story)

Summary
As Feyde arrives aboard the TARDIS, the Doctor uses Shayde’s skills to trace the kidnappers’ energy trail back to its point of origin. As they travel back to Mexico, he realises they have been following him. However, his next destination is Ophidius, which leaves the TARDIS immobile. Fey goes to disable the power inhibitor. The Doctor, meanwhile, is captured by the now-ruling Mobox. He realises they are repairing Ophidius to help them in a coming war. Fey makes it to the heart of Ophidius, but is shot down by Mobox.

The Doctor sees Presidor B’rostt give a speech about the coming war with the Ophidians, then meets a seer called C’sorr who tells him that moments yet to be may become entwined with those departed. Fey, meanwhile, is examined by S’lokk, chief scientist of the Mobox Empire. She is trapped and unable to escape. The Doctor meets Presidor B’rostt and realises this is the same Mobox who killed Destrii. But the Doctor is not interested in B’rostt’s power games - the Ophidians are no longer a threat, and B’rostt is simply building his own power base. However, B’rostt believes the Doctor and his accomplice have come to steal Ophidius. He orders the Doctor’s body to be dumped in the jungle, but the Doctor seizes control of the flyer that he is forced aboard and crashes it into a jungle lake. Escaping, he finds himself face to face with Destrii, still wearing Izzy’s body.

Destrii eventually tells the furious Doctor that B’rostt did not destroy her body but deconstruct it and store it inside his own body. He then went to the jungle of Mobox and reconstructed it over a pool of piranha-like fish, feeling it a fitting death. But Destrii managed to escape the fish, with help from a mysterious benefactor, and survive in the jungle. The Doctor is wracked with guilt - he could have spared Izzy months of anguish if only he’d researched the Mobox. With Destrii as an uneasy ally, they head back to the Mobox village. Fey manages to escape confinement by allowing Shayde to take complete control, but Ophidius has been reactivated and it is beyond control.

As Ophidius begins to attack the Mobox, calling for the Saviour, the Doctor steals a flyer with Destrii’s help. Pursued by the Presidor, he flies straight inside Ophidius. Feyde shadow-slides aboard and they head for the integrated processing cortex. Here the Doctor says that Destrii is the saviour - she freed Ophidius by destroying the Gorolith. But Destrii doesn’t care... at least until Fey offers to put a bullet through her head. Destrii talks to Ophidius and persuades it not to kill any more Mobox. But as the Presidor arrives, she adds one final instruction and the Presidor and his men are all stakes and killed. The Doctor visits C’sorr. He knows it was the seer who saved Destrii from the fish in the jungle. However, C’sorr tells him that he will fail to recover Izzy, but the Doctor is determined - and he’s taking Destrii with him whether she likes it or not.

Characters

 * Eighth Doctor
 * Destrii
 * Feyde
 * Ophidius

Continuity

 * Fey and Shayde became the entity known as Shayde, when Shayde was critically injured during his fight with the Pariah. (DWM: Wormwood)
 * The Doctor and Izzy met Ophidius in the story of the same name.
 * Izzy and Destrii swapped bodies in DWM: Ophidius.
 * Izzy was abducted at the end of DWM: Children of the Revolution.

Timeline

 * This story takes place after DWM: Children of the Revolution
 * This story takes place before DWM: Oblivion