Attack of the Rats (comic story)

Opening narration box
The Doctor has tracked the latest alien pod to France ...

Summary
In Paris, the area around a third crashed alien craft has been evacuated and placed under UNIT control. The Doctor's psychic paper gives them entrance as providers from Noble Catering. This is a bigger craft, with more crew and more alien mutations, this time giant rats taking refuge in the alien craft.

The Doctor uses the communication system to contact the mothership. The Queen of the Zantraan is expecting her three scout ships to have found a safe landing site for the royal ship. She is not happy her scouts have all died. She uses a tractor beam to bring back the space craft, along with the Doctor and Donna, who are in an isolation sphere to protect the Zantraans from germs. Following their exodus from a plague-ridden homeworld, the Zantraans are looking for a new world to colonise. As their ship was dying, they luckily came across the Earth, the Pure Planet, a fresh clean world.

The Doctor and Donna fail to convince the Zantraans that the Earth isn't suitable, as it's ridden with pollution, smells and disease. Instead The Zantraan Queen orders preparations to cleanse the planet through burning...

Characters

 * Tenth Doctor
 * Donna Noble
 * Zantraan - Large, grey in colour, three-eyed, six tentacled limbed creatures, ruled over by a monarch Queen. The Zantraans were forced to leave their home planet when it was ravaged by a plague. The surviving population fled in a shape ship destined to find a new world.

Original print details

 * 3/4 DWBIT 47 (4 pages) TO BE CONTINUED…
 * No reprints to date.

Continuity
to be added

Timeline

 * Attack of the Rats takes place after DWBIT: Sting of the Serpent
 * Attack of the Rats takes place before DWBIT: The Zantraan Invasion