Beyond the Sea (comic story)

Beyond the Sea was a comic story published in Doctor Who: Battles in Time. It was written by Steve Cook.

Opening narration box
The TARDIS has gone missing on a living planet. With the help of Kul, the Doctor embarks on a desperate hunt...

Summary
The Doctor and Kul take aquabikes from more of the spacecraft's wreckage. They drive beneath the "sea", or the "life-sustaining plasma of the planet" as the Doctor describes it. They are attacked by more antibody defences, this time looking like giant floating eyeballs with tentacles.

Kul and the Doctor escape these antibodies by hiding in a hole in the rock. This turns out to be the very craft that Kul and his people came from. Anti-aquatic gases outside create pressure round the wrecked Life Ark, which is protected by an army of cleaning robots. The act like antibodies to keep the ship sterile. The planets antibodies break through the pressure barrier and battle the robots.

The Doctor boots the anti-aquatic gases to create a pressure bubble. This expels the planet's antibodies from the ship. Kul and he find the ship's info-banks. These have been drained by root-like nerve endings that extend from the heart of the planet through another hole in the ground. The Doctor and Kul must follow the nerves down to the planet's "brain" and find out why it is hungry for knowledge and what it has done with the TARDIS...

Characters

 * Tenth Doctor
 * Kul

Worldbuilding
to be added

Original print details

 * 3/4 DWBIT 14 (4 pages) TO BE CONTINUED!!!
 * No reprints to date.

Continuity
to be added