FD 2

Four Doctors Issue 2
Doctor:	Twelfth Doctor
Companion(s):	Clara
Featuring:	Tenth Doctor, Eleventh Doctor, Gabby, Alice
Main enemy:	Reapers, Voord
Main setting:	Paris, 1923 Marinus, A10%?
Key crew
Publisher:	Titan Comics
Editor:	Andrew James
Writer:	Paul Cornell
Designer:	Rob Farmer
Artist:	Neil Edwards
Colourist:	Ivan Nunes
Letterer:	Richard Starkings Jimmy Betancourt
Release details
Release date:	19 August 2015
Cover date:	September 2015
Reprinted in:	[[reprint::Doctor Who Comic #2.1|'Doctor Who Comic #2.1]]
Format:	Comic
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The second issue of Four Doctors was originally released 19 August 2015.

Summary

The three Doctors meet in 1920s Paris - impossible! Have the laws of time and space been broken? The Doctor Who event of 2015 continues!

Plot

The cafe is destroyed by the Reapers.

The Doctors each come up with a different plan. While Alice and Clara are annoyed at the inability for the three Doctors to be on the same page, Gabby goes with the Twelfth Doctor's plan of finding the oldest thing in the room, by grabbing an old mirror, which a Reaper attacks. Alice asks what the creatures are, and the three Doctors explain. Suddenly, the Reapers focus on the Eleventh Doctor, who fends them off with his comic books.

The group quickly run out of the cafe, with the Reapers following, still targeting the Eleventh Doctor. He deliberately runs away from the group, with the Reapers following him. He tries running past the comic stand where he got his comics, but they ignore it, leaving him wondering why they are targeting him.

The others have already worked out where the Eleventh Doctor plans on going, and reach his TARDIS before he does. The Tenth Doctor snaps his fingers to open the door, but the TARDIS is nothing more than an empty Police Box. The Doctors were already expecting this and have a solution. By triggering another Blinovitch Limitation Effect, they can use the power from that paradox to access the TARDIS interior. The Twelfth Doctor tells the Tenth Doctor to start poking him, but the Tenth Doctor doesn't do so.

A Reaper strikes the TARDIS.

At this time, the Eleventh Doctor runs up to them, still being chased by the Reapers. One of the Reapers tries to strike him, but he and the other dodge, causing it to strike the TARDIS. Clara tells the three Doctors to hurry up. The three Doctors touch, using the energy to restore access to the TARDIS interior.

The Reapers break into the TARDIS.

The group runs inside to find themselves in the Twelfth Doctor's control room. The Tenth Doctor mistakenly thinks it's the Master's, but the Twelfth Doctor corrects him. The Eleventh Doctor realises that it means all three TARDISes have merged. Alice points out that the Reapers are now breaking into the TARDIS. The group runs out of the control room and down some corridors, ending up in the Eleventh Doctor's control room. Clara asks why having all three of their TARDISes here is a good thing. The Doctors explain that the three TARDISes provide an escape from the Reapers. Before they can explain much more, the Reapers break into the control room, forcing the group to leave.

The group ends up in the Tenth Doctor's control room. The Twelfth Doctor starts using the controls, much to the objection of the Tenth Doctor. Gabby can see that there are hundreds of Reapers in the TARDIS, on the verge of breaking into the control room. The Eleventh Doctor slows them down, by making the air older. The Tenth Doctor thinks they should enact the plan now, as the Twelfth Doctor's decision to wait is putting the others in danger. The Twelfth Doctor continues to wait, stating it's for the greater good. The moment all the Reapers are in the control room, the Twelfth Doctor pulls a switch, causing the three TARDISes to demateralise and separate. This forces the Reapers out of their environment, leaving them with the option to either flee or die.

Now back in his TARDIS, the Twelfth Doctor slumps over the console. He explains to Clara that he waited, only to ensure he got all the Reapers. Otherwise, he'd never had put them at risk. He asks Clara if his previous selves will understand that. Clara thinks the three Doctors need a bit of time together, and Clara needs to explain what caused all this to happen. The three TARDISes land back in Paris, and the three companions let the three Doctors talk to each other for a bit.

The group meets up again in Paris, the Doctors still bickering.

The Eleventh Doctor is glad the Twelfth Doctor exists, because it means they have a future beyond their normal regeneration cycle. The Tenth Doctor, on the other hand, is concerned. Where could they have gotten more regenerations? He knows they couldn't have come from the Time Lords. Plus, he is still worried about the eventual existence of the Valeyard. The Twelfth Doctor refuses to tell the two about their future.

Clara decides now is the time to show the three Doctors the picture of them on Marinus, a planet that none of them remember. The Tenth Doctor wonders why it's only the three of them in the picture. He speculates it may be because the three of them are from after the Time War. The Eleventh Doctor is concerned about the fact that neither he nor the Twelfth Doctor have no recollection of these events. The Tenth Doctor states that the picture is a trap of some sort, and the three Doctors decide to head to Marinus, despite Clara's objections.

In the Tenth Doctor's TARDIS, Gabby asks the Tenth Doctor why he is going to Marinus. The Tenth Doctor explains that they could go to the museum Clara found, but he doubts they'll learn anything new. So, that leaves him with two options. He can either spring the trap or live in fear. He doesn't like living in fear.

The three TARDISes materialise on Marinus and the the three duos leave their respective TARDIS. The Tenth Doctor notices that there are no signs of life. He also notices that the planet seems familiar to him, an observation shared by the other Doctors. Clara asks the Tenth Doctor why he would risk the end of the universe by coming here. The Tenth Doctor says he is not. He points out the poses of himself and his other two selves in the picture. So long as they don't assume those poses, they are in no danger of causing the end, and can freely look around.

Unknown to the group, someone else is watching them. The unknown enemy decides to interfere, to force the Doctors to take the poses in the image. The group is struck by a beam, one which the Doctors note came from outside of spacetime. The three Doctors quickly discuss plans on how to face this threat, accidentally taking the poses in the picture. The unknown enemy quickly takes the picture. The unknown enemy reveals himself to be a Voord leader and proclaims that now the Doctors are locked onto their destiny. Every step they take will lead now to the ultimate conquest of the Voord.

Characters

• Twelfth Doctor
• Eleventh Doctor
• Tenth Doctor
• Clara Oswald
• Alice Obiefune
• Gabby Gonzalez
• Reapers
• Voord

References

• The Tenth Doctor once told Gabby about his previous incarnations. She misinterpreted it as versions of himself that were older, younger, or from parallel dimensions.
• One of the figurative Doctors that Gabby draws resembles Dr. Who from the 1960s movies Dr. Who and the Daleks and Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D..
• The Eleventh Doctor remarks that compared to the Tenth and Twelfth Doctors, he might actually win a "least silly Doctor" contest. Alice agrees.
• Gabby desired to visit the Louvre.
• The Tenth Doctor momentarily mistakes the Twelfth Doctor's TARDIS for The Master's due to its dark lighting. When the Twelfth Doctor clarifies that it is his TARDIS, the Tenth Doctor asks "So why the Dalek bumps?" This appears to by a subtle reference to The Curse of Fatal Death.

Notes

• The issue included the back-up comic Open Mic Night.
• In some issues there seems to be a misprint. When the Twelfth Doctor expresses that this previous incarnations will view him as the "scary Doctor", he refers to them as his previous "incarcerations."
  • Unfortunately, this was not corrected for the Doctor Who Comic reprint.
• Special thanks credits in the front of the book include Steven Moffat, Brian Minchin, Matt Nicholls, James Dudley, Georgie Britton, Edward Russell, Derek Ritchie, Scott Handcock, Kirsty Mullan, Kate Bush, Julia Nocciolino, Ed Casey, Marcus Wilson, and Richard Cookson.

Continuity

• The Eleventh Doctor still has the bundle of comic which he bought in COMIC: The Doctor Shops for Comics. He later passes the same newsvendor stand from the story.
• The Tenth Doctor opens the TARDIS door by snapping his fingers. (TV: Forest of the Dead, et. al)
• The presence of the Reapers causes the TARDIS to become an empty shell. (TV: Father's Day)
• The Twelfth Doctor says "now let's go," and adds "or you could leave that untranslated if you wanted to show how in-control of the TARDIS Translation circuits you are." (TV: Army of Ghosts, et. al.)
• The Tenth Doctor remarks "I don't like it" at the Eleventh Doctor's TARDIS control room. (TV: The Three Doctors, The Day of the Doctor, et. al) The Twelfth Doctor retorts that in the Tenth Doctor's case, he just kept the previous version. (TV: The Parting of the Ways)
• The Tenth Doctor is worried about where they will get their future regenerations, and speculates that the Twelfth Doctor may be the Valeyard. The Twelfth Doctor comments "Do I look like I'm out of Panto?" (TV: The Trial of a Time Lord)

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