The Crimson Hand (comic story)

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The Crimson Hand was the final Tenth Doctor comic strip to appear in the pages of Doctor Who Magazine. It was also the last to feature companion Majenta Pryce as a regular part of the DWM stable of characters. The publication of its final part in DWM occurred just prior to the premiere of the Eleventh Doctor's first series on BBC One.

Summary

Intersol have searched the galaxy high and low for Majenta Pryce. They have finally found her, but what has she done wrong and what will be her fate?

Plot

Part 1

Intersol is chasing the TARDIS...as it hits it, Justice (a telepathic computer) tells the Doctor and Majenta to surrender now or be destroyed!

The Doctor and Majenta are in the TARDIS, the Doctor gets a message in the TARDIS from himself, it says that the TARDIS cannot leave the Time Zone. Suddenly a man appears as a hologram. he is called Finn Dargo, Chief Marshall and Supreme Commander of the Intersol Fleet. He tells them that the TARDIS is now the property of Intersol. He places them both under arrest and shoots a beam at the Doctor. The Doctor is hit, Majenta thinks he is dead, but Finn says he is stunned. Majenta escapes before he can knock her out.

On the ship, Finn says to Justice that Majenta made it out of the TARDIS. Justice says that she will prepare an execution cube for the Doctor but Finn stops her saying is is going to interrogate him. Meanwhile Majenta disguises herself as one of the guards.

Finn begins his interrogation of the Doctor, when the Doctor wonders what Intersol want with Majenta, he begins to show the Doctor clips of her past life. He says she has affiliated the most dangerous criminal organision in the universe. Intersol thought they had caught her at ThinkTwice prison but Majenta had escaped with the Doctor. He then tracked her down to the Proxima system, to Stormlight House, but they found nothing there. The Doctor speaks up for Majenta but gets tortured. A woman under a mask says "Is torture the right answer?"

Majenta boards a ship to try and escape and leave the Doctor but she is attacked by the masked woman. They fight but Majenta is on the floor quickly. The womans takes of her mask to reveal Zed, Majenta's cell mate in ThinkTwice Prison. Majenta asks Zed if it is her to which Zed replies "No, Majenta, it isn't..." and fires.

Part 2

Majenta wakes up inside the Justice computer banks/cells. She is sentenced to maximum interrogation. Zephyr goes to the Doctor's cell, and he realises that the TARDIS allowed Justice to hack into it because there is something dangerous stored in Majenta's mind. The Chief Marshal watches some of Majenta's recent memories through a neuroscopic probe, then manages to find one from before the Hotel Historia event, where Majenta joins the Crimson Hand. The Marshal finds a hidden room inside Majenta's memories, and then Justice detects four inbound energy signatures. It is the Crimson Hand.

Part 3

The four remaining members of the Crimson Hand walk through the portal. They start to fly through the memory banks of Justice's system and then destroy her. The Doctor probs Majenta's minds and finds that she once led the Crimson Hand and how she had to prove her self worthy, she met Wesley Sparks, seduced him and abondoned him on the night before his wedding. Majenta explains to the doctor that the Crimson Hand found the Manus Maleficus a device that could destroy planets. A flashback reveals that the five members of the inner sanctum of the Crimson Hand used it to destroy the home planet of the Skith. A race she and the Doctor had encountered before. Majenta revealed that she got scared she ran, but with out her the hand would not work so Fanson found her and wiped her memory so she would be sealed away from the hand. The Crimson Hand start to destroy Intersol killing most of the crew on the ship, but robots disracted them allowing several members of the crew to escape. Finn is then killed by Pi by getting absorbed into his system. Pi tries to attack the Doctor Majenta and Zed but Zed fires at him missing but scaring him of. The Doctor tries to get into the Tardis but finds the lock is gone. He looks up to see Majenta with the lock in front of her floating in air. She then destroys it and her voice changes. She says she is sorry to the Doctor and then turns him into ashes, as Zed looks on.

Part 4

The Crimson hand members, using their power, swept away galaxies, rebuilt solar systems and erased a countless number of races from causality. In their place was new race, better worlds. This was an age of peace and prosperity for every living being in the universe. Majenta's home planet, Vessica was also changed into a happy planet, and it remained that way...for a while. Majenta does not understand why there are attacks after she gave the people of Vessica everything they could have, Zed, now working as Majent's servant informs her that there is a rift in time and space above them. The Crimson hand members realise they have made a mistake about Majenta, and she is to be no longer trusted. As the presure on Majenta grows and grows, she eventually shouts 'Doctor, I need you!', the TARDIS then appears through the rift and Majenta and Zed are warped inside. Zed is puzzled when she sees The Doctor, and Majenta repiles that she didn't kill him, instead Majenta just sent The Doctor away. The Doctor tells Majenta that Zed and her have to return to Vessica and protect Majenta's race, because if The Doctor does not succed in defeating the Crimson hand, the people of Vessica will fall to the hand first. However, Majenta is not going to give up, she tells The Doctor to set the coordinates for the citadel of the Crimson Hand and ends her sentence with the words 'It's time to finish this.'.

Part 5

Characters

References

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Notes

  • Doctor Who Magazine is promoting this strip as the final strip to feature the Tenth Doctor. The Tenth Doctor's illustrated adventures are expected to continue in comics produced by IDW Publishing to the end of 2010. Additionally, it will conclude the story of Majenta Pryce.
  • The story overlaps DWM's change of format associated with the Eleventh Doctor. This previously occurred when DWM published a Seventh Doctor strip following the introduction of the Eighth Doctor.

Continuity

Timeline

External Links

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