B00DPX9ST8 EBOK

by Parkin, Lance

  Sarah Jane and Mr Smith deflected the meteor at the last moment. Having skimmed Sarah Jane’s memories, the Trickster became curious as to how much damage would ensue if the Doctor had never existed.

  2008 - SJA: The Glittering Storm / SJA: The Thirteenth Stone [1241]

  Sarah Jane and her friends investigated a series of gold thefts, and found that the Keratin (slug-like aliens who used gold to enhance their psychic abilities) had a foothold at the Auirga Clinic in Hounslow. The Keratin’s mind-slaves were developing a bacterial culture that would boil away Earth’s oceans in a day, exposing twenty million tons of gold that the Keratin could harvest and use to conquer many worlds. The Keratin on Earth were destroyed with seawater, and Sarah Jane and Luke destroyed the formula for the culture.

  Luke Smith’s class visited a tourist attraction called The Stone Whisperers - actually the petrified criminal Ravage and his twelve jailors. Ravage transferred his mind into Luke’s body, and his wardens revived as armoured warriors intent on killing his host form. Luke banished Ravage from his mind, and the warriors turned themselves back into rock.

  c 2008 (a Saturday) - SJA: The Lost Boy [1242]

  Mr Smith moved forward his secret plans to free the colony of Xylok crystals trapped since ancient times under the Earth’s crust. Smith allied itself with a group of Slitheen, who - disguised in new fleshsuits that were slimmer, and handled gas exchange better - posed as the Stafford family. TV news reports were said they had been looking for their missing son, Ashley, for five months - and the photo shown was that of Luke Smith. Sarah Jane was arrested for child abduction, and “Ashley” was reunited with his “parents”. UNIT vouched for Sarah Jane and she was released.

  Mr Smith had manipulated the Slitheen into spurring the creation of a telekinetic energiser, Magnetized Intensification of Telekinetic Reactive Energies (MITRE), at the Pharos Institute. Luke’s mind was forcibly used to power the device and draw the moon toward Earth; Mr Smith intended that the collision would free the Xylok. Earth experienced spontaneous forest fires, avalanches, freak storms and tidal waves. The United Nations convened an emergency session.

  Sarah briefly brought K9 back to Earth. The robot dog defeated Mr Smith, who was reprogrammed to protect Earth from harm. The moon returned to its original position, and the Slitheen departed.

  Darlington became a nexus point for adventurers and other travellers because it was home to the Deadly Flap: a gateway to the multiverse. In December 2008, Barbra the vending machine arrived in Darlington from the fifty-ninth century via the Deadly Flap. Iris Wildthyme persuaded MIAOW to accept Barbra as a trainee operative. [1243]

  2008 (December) - The Raincloud Man [1244]

  A coalition of species had restrained the alien Tabbalac, and an unknown party infected the Tabbalac with a neurosis that created the Cyrox - a race that replicated like a hyper-intelligent virus, and was ever ready to combat Tabbalac aggression. The Tabbalac could still leave their homeworld, but only if their intentions were peaceful.

  In Manchester, DI Patricia Menzies had developed a network of aliens and time travellers whom she’d aided. The sixth Doctor and Charley again met Menzies while investigating Carmen Priminger, a time traveller who had gambled her memories away at the planet-jumping High Straights casino boat a year ago. The Doctor and Charley played a Tabbalac leader at the High Stakes table, and Charley’s victory caused the Tabbalac to forfeit their conflict with the Cyrox. As events played out, the Tabbalac leader and Brooks - the High Straights owner - were killed, and the casino was destroyed.

  2008 (mid-December) - “The Stockbridge Child” [1245]

  The Doctor’s former companion Izzy was now a world traveller, and had recently written to Max Edison that she’d found something “amazing” in Kabul. Bonnybridge, Scotland, contained a large dimensional flaw, and would have been a nexus of alien activity were it not for the Cardiff Rift.

  The TARDIS brought the tenth Doctor and Majenta Pryce to Stockbridge as the town celebrated its Aurelia Winter Festival. The Lokhus, which hailed from the universe after ours, had completed its chrysalis stage - upon its birth, it would be larger than Earth’s sun. The creature was incinerated before this could happen. After the Doctor and Majenta left, the Crimson Hand scanned Max’s memories to determine Majenta’s whereabouts.

  Lucie Miller, thinking the Doctor dead, accepted a lift from the Time Lords back to Blackpool. [1246]

  2008 (24th December) - Death in Blackpool [1247]

  The Zygon Hagoth, still disguised as Lucie Miller’s Aunty Pat, discovered he was dying from melanoma - the result of his having maintained the same form for too long. “Pat” outwardly looked middle aged as a result, and the only cure was the milk of a Skarasen.

  A Zynog (sic) named Landack schemed to mentally possess Hagoth and become a proper Zygon again. Hagoth - knowing he wouldn’t live another year - summoned the eighth Doctor and Lucie to Earth, wanting to have a proper Christmas with Lucie one last time. Landack killed Hagoth’s mind, then transferred his consciousness into his body - which Hagoth had poisoned, slaying Landack.

  Lucie discovered the deception that the Doctor and Hagoth had perpetrated regarding her “Aunty Pat”, and - unable to trust the Doctor any longer - left his company and stayed in Blackpool. She agreed to keep low until the Headhunter kidnapped her younger self, who was currently back home, the following summer.

  2008 (24th-25th December) - Voyage of the Damned [1248]

  London was near-emptied as everyone feared a repeat of the devastating events of the last two Christmases. The Queen stayed in Buckingham Palace over the holiday. Wilf Mott, a news vendor, was impressed by her courage and stayed at his post.

  Max Capricorn Cruiseliners now offered tours from the planet Sto in the Casavanian Belt to “primitive” cultures, and had one starliner designed after the Earth vessel Titanic. Max Capricorn himself wanted revenge after he was voted off the company board - he bribed the captain of the Titanic to lower the ship’s shields during a meteor storm as it arrived in Earth orbit to celebrate a traditional Christmas. Capricorn hoped that the Titanic would crash and detonate its nuclear storm drives, destroying Earth and dooming the board to charges of mass murder. He then intended to retire to the beaches of Penhaxico II, where the ladies loved cyborgs such as himself.

  The tenth Doctor met the waitress Astrid Peth and the faux historian Mr Copper aboard the Titanic, as well as Wilf Mott during a brief shore leave to Earth. Capricorn’s plan came to fruition - the Titanic fell from orbit, and the Heavenly Host angelic robots built to serve the passengers started killing everyone on board to eliminate potential witnesses. Astrid sacrificed herself to kill Capricorn, and the Doctor both assumed command of the Host and ignited the Titanic’s secondary engine, pulling the ship up just before it hit Buckingham Palace. The Queen thanked the Doctor for his help, and wished him a Merry Christmas. Mr. Copper started up a new life on Earth.

  By the Light of the Asteroid was a popular soap opera on Sto. Cyborgs were discriminated against on Sto, but were gaining more rights, including the right to marry The minimum penalty for space-lane fraud was ten years in jail. Five thousand Sto credits represented twenty years’ wages; 50,000,056 credits equalled a million pounds.

  Earth was designated as a Level Five planet and had six billion people. The Doctor hinted that Europe and America would go to war at some point in the future.

  Mr. Copper founded the Mr. Copper Foundation. Harriet Jones, the former Prime Minister, had Copper’s foundation develop the Subwave Network. [1249]

  (=) 2008 (24th-25th December) - Turn Left [1250]

  The Noble family followed Rose’s advice and stayed in a hotel outside London. The starship Titanic hit Buckingham Palace, killing everyone in London and dosing southern England with radiation.

  Amy Pond learned to pick locks when a Mr. Harrison became a little over-eager with the handcuffs during a 2008 Christmas party. [1251]

  2009 [1252]

  A young woman who would befriend Clyde Langer
became homeless after her father died and her mother remarried, and the new living situation “didn’t work out for her”. She adopted the name Ellie Faber. [1253] Leet, a child of the Dellacoi, rode the time winds but was hurled to Earth. His arrival killed sixty-three people at the Regal Cinema in Splott. Leet sought refuge in the only survivor, 22-year-old Oscar Phillips. [1254]

  In 2009, Hyperville opened - at five square miles, it was the largest shopping mall in Europe. The Nestene-controlled Elizabeth Devonshire had facilitated construction of Hyperville for benefit of the Nestene unit she was nursemaiding, and also arranged for production of Plastinol-2: an all-purpose plastic intended to serve as the chief substance of a new generation of Autons. At this time, Kate Maguire, age 16, was given an all-access Hypercard to Hyperville by a mysterious stranger - the tenth Doctor, who knew they would need the card in 2013. [1255]

  UNIT repelled an advance party of Ice Warriors. [1256] Craig Owens (a future flatmate of the Doctor) and his friend Sophie met at a call centre. [1257] The last of the Steggosians attempted to wipe out Earth with poison. The tenth Doctor fought him on top of Big Ben, and the fight ended with the Steggosian Captain falling to his death. [1258]

  The Sontarans collaborated with Luke Rattigan in a new bid to conquer Earth. Rattigan’s company distributed the Sontaran-based Atmospheric Omission System (ATMOS), a navigation system and means of reducing carbon dioxide emissions in cars to zero. Before long, it was fitted as standard on all UK government vehicles. [1259] Some bees on Earth were migrant bees from the planet Melissa Majoria. Sensing danger approaching due to the Daleks’ reality bomb, they began returning home. [1260]

  2009 - Peri and the Piscon Paradox [1261]

  The fifth Doctor and Peri dealt with a suicidal Piscon named Zarl - or so they believed. The sixth Doctor, sensing something awry about the incident, revisited it... and accidentally killed Zarl before his previous self had defeated him. The sixth Doctor fulfilled history by disguising himself as Zarl, and was aided by Peri’s contemporary self: Dr Perpugilliam Brown, a talk show host and three-time divorcee who convinced her younger self that she was a secret agent for the X-Files. Thinking “Zarl” defeated, the fifth Doctor and “his” Peri left. The older Peri declined to travel with the sixth Doctor again.

  c 2009 - The Sontaran Games [1262]

  The tenth Doctor arrived at the British Academy of Sporting Excellence (BASE), where elite athletes were training for the Globe Games. A group of Sontarans from the Twelfth Sontaran Fleet, led by Major Stenx, forced everyone there to a series of physical challenges to assess human prowess - those who failed were killed or fed to Sontar Sand Shrews. The BASE athletes gained the upper hand, and killed Stenx’s Sontarans. The Doctor realised that Emma, one of the athletes, was a Rutan spy wanting to stage a diplomatic incident at the Games, which would trigger a war and allow the Rutans to invade. She seemed to consider the Doctor’s offer that she abandon her plan and let him take her away from the Sontaran-Rutan conflict - but before she could decide, she and Stenx died in combat with one another. The Doctor fled as the energy Emma had absorbed was released, destroying BASE.

  2009 (March) - TW: “The Return of the Vostok” [1263]

  Torchwood killed the Vostok - jelly-fish-like aliens capable of creating winter conditions, and who sought to use the Rift to retroactively send an ice age back through time.

  2009 (a Tuesday and Wednesday in March) - Partners in Crime [1264]

  The loss of the breeding planet Adipose III compelled the Adipose first family to hire Matron Cofelia of the Five-Straighten Classabindi Nursery Fleet to oversee the production of their offspring. She founded Adipose Industries on Earth as a front for this operation. The company signed up a million customers to its weight-loss programme in Greater London alone, with the intention of going national. Pills were distributed under the claim that anyone who took them would lose exactly a kilogram a day, but in actuality the pills slowly transformed people’s fat into baby Adipose. The tenth Doctor and Donna independently investigated Adipose Industries, were reunited, and came to the realisation that the pill-takers’ bones, hair and internal organs could be completely broken down into the Adipose offspring.

  The Matron sent a signal that generated ten thousand Adipose, who marched through the streets of London, but the Doctor stopped the signal from fully converting all one million of the weight-loss customers. A giant ship of the Adipose first family arrived over London and collected the baby Adipose with levitation beams. Seeding a Level Five planet such as Earth with offspring violated a galactic law enforced by the Shadow Proclamation, and so the first family killed the Matron to cover up her crime.

  The Doctor agreed to let Donna join him on his travels, and briefly showed the TARDIS in flight to Wilf Mott as they departed.

  Before she left with the Doctor, Donna briefly met the dimension-hopping Rose Tyler.

  (=) 2009 (March) - Turn Left [1265]

  An Emergency Government took control of the United Kingdom. Seven million were in need of relocation from the radiation-flooded southern England, and France closed its borders. The Noble family were relocated to Leeds, and shared a small house with the Colasantos family. The United States promised £50 billion in aid... but before it could deliver, America’s economy was devastated when sixty million Americans were converted into Adipose. Spaceships collected the Adipose offspring.

  2009 (March) - The Sontaran Stratagem / The Poison Sky [1266]

  UNIT had been renamed the Unified Intelligence Taskforce. It received massive funding from the United Nations in the name of homeworld security, and still operated the Valiant. UNIT had access to the nuclear arsenals of the US, UK, France, India, Pakistan, China and North Korea. Sir Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart was currently in Peru. The Doctor was technically on staff with UNIT, as he never formally resigned. UNIT Headquarters was near Tower Bridge, London.

  The ATMOS navigation/anti-pollution system had now been installed in half of the world’s eight hundred million cars. Martha summoned the tenth Doctor and Donna when fifty-two people were poisoned to death inside their cars at the exact same moment, in eleven different time zones. General Staal the Undefeated of the Tenth Sontaran Battle Fleet advanced his plans to release poison gas from every car fitted with ATMOS. The gas was a Caesofine concentrate that would alter Earth’s atmosphere, turning the planet into a Sontaran breeding world.

  As the ATMOS-made gas intensified, the UK government declared a national emergency, and the UN issued a worldwide directive for people to leave the cities. The first deaths were reported in Tokyo. In Europe, thousands walked across country to escape. The Eastern seaboard of America became reminiscent of Dunkirk, as boats took refugees out into the Atlantic. The tenth Doctor and Donna restored Earth’s atmosphere to normal, and the genius entrepreneur Luke Rattigan, realising the Sontarans never intended to give him the power he sought, sacrificed himself to destroy the Sontaran mothership.

  Martha was now engaged to Tom Milligan, who was in paediatrics and working out in Africa. Rattigan’s inventions, not all of them derived from Sontaran technology, included nanotech steel, biospheres, gravity simulation, rattifan 18 and a cordolaine signal.

  The tenth Doctor and Donna returned Martha home after sharing an adventure with her - and the Doctor’s daughter Jenny - in the future. [1267] The Rutans learned of the Sontaran plan to make Earth a breeding world, and seeded Saturn with a spore that would possess the resultant clones. With the Sontaran defeat, the spore remained inactive on Saturn until the twenty-sixth century. [1268]

  (=) 2009 (mid March) - Turn Left [1269]

  With so little petrol, Britain was spared the worst when the Sontarans activated their ATMOS stratagem, although the rest of the world was badly affected. Torchwood took the fight to the Sontaran mothership and although they prevailed, Gwen and Ianto were killed, and Jack Harkness was transported to the Sontaran homeworld. Rose met Donna again, and claimed that Donna would come with her in three weeks time.

  2009 (April) -
TW: Fragments / Exit Wounds [1270]

  Jack Harkness’ vengeful brother Gray coerced Captain John Hart into embarking upon a major terror campaign against Torchwood. Hart wracked Cardiff with fifteen building-levelling explosions, and aided Gray in taking Jack back to 27 AD and burying him. Gray enhanced the Rift so that Cardiff came under siege from ghosts, Weevils and hooded figures bearing scythes. The four most senior police offers were murdered. The systems servicing the Turnmill Nuclear Power Station failed, and Owen Harper died a final time while diverting irradiated coolant to contain the resultant meltdown. Gray shot Toshiko Sato, killing her. Torchwood quelled the situation; Jack revived from the stasis into which he’d been placed in 1901 and overpowered his rogue brother, then placed him in cryo-freeze.

  Martha attended Owen and Tosh’s funerals. [1271]

  2009 - SJA: The Last Sontaran [1272]

  Strange lights were seen near the Tycho Project, a radio telescope that searched for friendly alien life. Sarah Jane, Clyde, Luke and Maria went to investigate and were stalked by Commander Kaagh, a Sontaran who had survived the recent invasion. He planned to use the Tycho radio telescope to crash Earth’s satellites into its nuclear stockpiles, but Sarah Jane and her friends drove Kaagh away.

  Kaagh became a mercenary for the Bane, and encountered the fugitive Mrs Wormwood on a planet in the Snake Tongue Nebula. They hatched a scheme to acquire the power of the banished Horath. [1273]

  2009 - Beautiful Chaos [1274]