Sky Scraper (comic story)

Summary
Arriving in a Manchester street, the Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond find the city has been evacuated. Tentacles are ripping up the streets. Hiding down the sewer as the wormlike tentacles lash about, they manage to escape before being discovered by the military who have evacuated everyone from the area. Using his psychic paper to pass them off as ‘Pest Control, Ministry of Agriculture and Fish’, the Doctor and Amy are soon led to a tower block overridden by a giant worm-like creature. As the military prepare an air strike the Doctor senses something is wrong and repels the tentacles with his sonic screwdriver. Amy races with him to the creature's head on one of the top floors. The Doctor recognises the creature as an Alifabe (a race that lives in the matter-lining of hyperspace). The creature is unwell and has fallen to Earth. Its empathic nodule on its head has been bruised and the creature is unable to send a strong enough signal to be rescued. Amy is sent to turn all the satellite dishes on the tower block to point upwards while the Doctor uses Manchester’s power to build history’s biggest interspatial telephone. The Alifabe is able to teleport home in just enough time for the air strike to be aborted and as the Alifabe leaves the sky is lit up with a dazzling array of colour.

Characters

 * The Doctor
 * Amy Pond

Original print details

 * Publication with page count and closing captions


 * 1) DWA 183 (4 pages) NEXT WEEK – Danger in the pyramids for the Doctor and Amy.
 * No reprints to date.

Continuity

 * The Doctor’s sonic screwdriver is used to repel the Alifabe tentacles.
 * The Doctor’s psychic paper is used to give them access to a military restricted area.

TIMELINE

 * This story occurs after DWA: The Scarecrow
 * This story occurs before DWA: The Purrfect Crime