Ground Zero (comic story)

Ground Zero was a comic story featuring the Seventh Doctor and Ace.

Summary
The Threshold have kidnapped four of the Doctor's former (and one current) companions, using them for their employer's benefit; the Lobri — a creation of the human unconsciousness, feeding on fear. They intend to destroy the unconscious link between humans. They are stopped, but at what cost?

Plot
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Characters

 * Seventh Doctor
 * Ace
 * Susan Foreman
 * Sarah Jane Smith
 * Peri Brown
 * Threshold

Energy and radiation

 * Ace, Sarah, and Peri are sent to a "collective unconsciousness"; a place of pure psionic energy, only humans can survive there.

Individuals

 * The Threshold neuro-lock Susan.
 * Peri is tortured to get the most fear out of her.
 * Susan Foreman recognises the Doctor as her grandfather.
 * Susan can't be sent to the Lobri's realm because she isn't human.
 * Ace attacks the Lobri single-handedly with the Doctor's umbrella and a can of Nitro-9. She is blown up and killed, destroying one of the Lobri.
 * The Doctor places mental blocks on Peri and Sarah's minds of the events.

Timeline

 * Peri was taken from Hollywood, 14 May 1938.
 * Susan was taken from London, 22 October 1963.
 * Sarah Jane Smith was taken from Takhail, Russia, 25 April 2086.

Organisations

 * The Threshold's motto is 'Just around the corner'.
 * The Threshold are surprised initially that the Doctor isn't human (they kidnapped Susan in 1963, knowing she was connected to the Doctor, but not that she was an alien).

Species

 * The Threshold's clients are called the Lobri, they feed off of primal emotions; fear and hatred.

TARDIS

 * The Doctor links the Threshold's ring to the TARDIS's trans-reality navi-systems.
 * As the TARDIS breaks through the collective unconsciousness, it starts to break apart, the cloister bell begins to ring, the Doctor tells Susan to refocus the force-field prisms.
 * After the TARDIS's journey into the collective unconsciousness, the Doctor tells Susan to re-establish the tertiary navi-links.
 * The Doctor lands the TARDIS inside the Lobri, the safety interlocks would have prevented this, had they been functioning.

Time Lords

 * Susan says (in a monologue) that her people can see beyond the 'facades' (various regenerations).

Weapons

 * Ace uses her Nitro-9 to dispatch several of the Lobri.

Continuity

 * Sarah was taken by the Threshold in COMIC: Black Destiny.
 * Peri was taken by the Threshold in COMIC: The Curse of the Scarab.
 * Susan was taken by the Threshold in COMIC: Operation Proteus.
 * The Seventh Doctor is wearing the same outfit he is wearing in TV: Doctor Who (1996), the console room and the rest of the TARDIS is heavily damaged during this story, seemingly setting up for the changes seen in the TV movie.