Final Genesis (comic story)

Summary
The Third Doctor and the Brigadier are killed in a gigantic explosion…

Landing the TARDIS in a parallel world, the Seventh Doctor finds that Silurians and humans are walking side by side, seemingly living in harmony together. However, strange creatures are attacking UNIT troops (called URIC, United Races Intelligence Command in the parallel world), which are repelled through use of a neuro-paralyser. The Doctor convinced URIC that he’s a friend and, working with the Silurian scientist Thactus, discovers that the creatures are a crossbreed of reptiles and mammals. The Doctor and Thactus go to fetch equipment from the Doctor’s TARDIS but are held hostage by a mind-controlled Captain Paris. Benny saves them having noticed that Paris had stopped blinking ten minutes ago and the Doctor mind links her to Paris to find out what’s going on. Benny learns that their enemy is Mortakk but getting the information costs Paris her life. Thactus informs them that Mortakk was the blackest character in Silurian history, who had conducted genetic experiments on Silurians and Sea Devils. However, he was tried and executed before the great hibernation. His base is located at an abandoned nuclear research centre at Darkmoor and the Doctor, Benny and Thactus take the TARDIS there. They find Mortakk there and Mortakk announces his plan. He’s developed a gas, which contains mutagenetic properties. Upon contact with human or Silurian life, they will be forcefully evolved into the hybrid creatures. URIC turns up with Ace in the (dead) third Doctor's TARDIS but their neuro-paralyser isn’t effective against the more advanced hybrids. The Doctor fights Mortakk in a sealed room and ends up releasing the gas. Mortakk is killed and the Doctor, who’s DNA is so vastly different from that of a human, walks away unaffected by it. Benny, the Doctor and Ace depart the parallel world, neither companion knowing the real reason the Doctor took them there in the first place.

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