Plague Panic (comic story)

Opening narration box
When the Doctor lands in 1348, he doesn’t realise that the Black Death will be the least of his worries …

Summary
The Doctor arrives on a coastal hilltop in England 1348, around the same time as the Black Death. He bumps into another doctor, dressed in a bird like costume, who has been visiting the local sick villagers. The doctor is fleeing from some 'different' plague victims with green flesh, behaving like zombies, who are in pursuit. The two Doctors hide in a nearby forest.

In the forest they learn from two children that the zombie victims must have angered the ‘fairies’. They take the Doctor to the giant, egg-shaped ‘fairy nest’ which the Doctor identifies as a Zeerover space craft. The Zeerover are a race of tiny creatures who exist to heal others, and they are far from home. The zombie villages catch up with them and infect the doctor by cheek to cheek transmission.

The Zeerover explain to the Doctor that they ran out of fuel, were unable to return and landed on Earth, a planet whose air is poisonous to them. They tried to use the human villagers as hosts, hoping they would filter out the toxins but instead the villagers become ill. The Doctor returns to the TARDIS and prepares a fuel cell to launch their craft and allow them to leave the planet In exchange for his help, the Zeerover heal the surviving victims.

Characters

 * Tenth Doctor
 * Zeerover – small penguin-like purple creatures who exist to heal others. They travel in space in egg-shaped craft and are capable of taking over native bodies as hosts through by contact. Accidentally arriving on Earth, they found the atmosphere poisonous. The Doctor assisted their departure by replacing their craft's damaged fuel cell.

Original print details

 * 1/1 DWBIT 16 (4 pages) THE END
 * No reprints to date.

Continuity
to be added

Timeline

 * This story occurs after DWBIT: Lonely Planet
 * This story occurs before Deep and Dreamless Sleep