The Zantraan Invasion (comic story)

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The Doctor and Donna are prisoners of the fearsome Zantraan Queen ...

Summary
Before killing the Doctor and Donna, who are being held in an isolation bubble, the Zantraan decides to test what the Doctor has told her about the scout mutations. She orders a guard to leave its body and take over the Doctor. The guard obeys and for a moment the Doctor undergoes a mutation, but the Zantraan guard is overcome by a smell coming from a blue cheese baguette in Donna's pocket, and has to leave the sphere.

The Doctor makes a hole in the sphere with his sonic screwdriver and, as the germs escape, spreading panic amongst the queen and her people, the Doctor takes over the controls and lands the mothership on a remote farm. On opening the doors they are 'greeted' by pigs.

The Zantraan are overwhelmed by the smell and and disgusted by the animals. They accept the Doctor's help fixing the ship's drives and sending it back to Zantrah, where the plague should have died out. Half an hour later the Doctor and Donna realise they are some five hundred miles from the TARDIS, which was left in Paris.

Characters

 * Tenth Doctor
 * Donna Noble
 * Zantraan - Although they appeared as large, grey, three-eyed, six tentacle limbed creatures ruled over by a monarch Queen, they were in fact a host body. The Zantraan are more, and capable of leaving their body. The Zantraans were forced to leave their home planet when it was ravaged by a plague. The surviving population fled in a spaceship destined to find a new world. Finding the Earth undesirable, they repaired their ship and returned home, where the plague should have died out.

Original print details
(Installment, publication with page count and closing captions)
 * 4/4  DWBIT 48 (4 pages) THE END
 * No reprints to date.

Continuity
to be added

Timeline

 * This story takes place after DWBIT: Attack of the Rats
 * This story takes place before DWBIT: Pawns of the Zenith