Decky Flamboon

Decky Flamboon
Species:	Brancheerian
Place of origin:	Sirus
First appearance:	Meteorite Meeting
Appearances:	see list

Decky Flamboon was a companion of the Eleventh Doctor. He was a Brancheerian shapeshifter who could turn into almost anything. Decky's true form was a lizard creature. He wanted to get back home to Sirus, but had lost the coordinates. The Doctor offered to help, however long it took them to find Sirus.

Biography

Before meeting the Doctor

Decky was on a research mission for the making of an Olympic stadium when his ship was hit by a meteorite and crashed on Earth. (COMIC: Meteorite Meeting ^[+]Loading...["Meteorite Meeting (comic story)"])

Meeting the Doctor

The Doctor arrived on Earth where he met Decky, intially as terrifying apparitions due to a faulty tech whom he repaired. The Doctor managed to get the ship and meteorite into the sky, but Decky had lost the co-ordinates for his home planet. He and the Doctor set off to find them and have adventures along the way. (COMIC: Meteorite Meeting ^[+]Loading...["Meteorite Meeting (comic story)"])

Finding the co-ordinates

The Doctor and Decky arrived on Cobaltikar 45, a planet inhabited by robots, because something was pulling energy out of the universal atmosphere. They found a replica of the Eiffel Tower. At the base of the tower was a machine that used atmospheric energy to hold a robot which had broken free. The Eiffel Tower started to fall down and the duo ran away. The robot was hit by the tower and was destroyed. They found part of the co-ordinates and found out that the robots bought the replica off a Brancheerian, both helping Decky get one step closer to home. (COMIC: Tower of Power ^[+]Loading...["Tower of Power (comic story)"])

The duo then arrived at Seacyde only to be interrupted by a giant shark-shaped spaceship, who landed there in an emergency. They were hooked and brought aboard in which the Doctor was able to repair the damage. (COMIC: The Shark Shocker ^[+]Loading...["The Shark Shocker (comic story)"])

Decky and the Doctor prevented a forest on the planet Guzan from flooding, but were shaken by Reethe, a giant native who used the TARDIS as a toybox. The Doctor expelled all the toys and they departed. (COMIC: The Toybox ^[+]Loading...["The Toybox (comic story)"])

Decky assisted the Doctor in returning an Archie separated from another Archie after he got sneezed out and caused havoc in Leeds. (COMIC: The Runaway Bogey ^[+]Loading...["The Runaway Bogey (comic story)"])

Landing on Christmas Eve, 2012, the Doctor and Decky noticed the house completely empty before being absorbed by a Christmas card. This card ended up being a portal to Edger, a two-dimensional entity who kidnapped the family to feed on them. The Doctor and Decky hopped through portals and returned everyone back to the home before destroying the portal to the universe. (COMIC: On the Cards ^[+]Loading...["On the Cards (comic story)"])

Becoming human

Wanting to give a human Christmas another go, the Doctor fixed his belt so that he would appear human. However upon landing in the 25th of December, 2034, they see that there's no Christmas anywhere as decreed by the Arch-Mayoress. Landing at the town hall, they confronted and bested her by having Decky revert back into lizard form, setting her machine, the Scrooge 3000, to reverse. (COMIC: Decky the Halls ^[+]Loading...["Decky the Halls (comic story)"])

The duo land in the Alps to go skiing, but struggling with his lizard form, he accidentally knocked the TARDIS down the mountain. He turned back into his human form and raced down after it. The Vendraxoo noticed the TARDIS and ceased their invasion plans due to the superior technology they detected. (COMIC: Snowball! ^[+]Loading...["Snowball! (comic story)"])

Further adventures

In an effort to find further co-ordinates back to Sirus, the two land in the Cosmic Museum to ask the Curator, only to find that the exhibition was dedicated to the Doctor. The Curator locked his TARDIS in a stasis field, intending to keep it as part of his collection. In an attempt to free it, the Doctor accidentally freed the villains but using a hologram tricked them into powering the entire museum down. (COMIC: Museum Piece ^[+]Loading...["Museum Piece (comic story)"])

Decky accidentally damaged his belt swimming in the TARDIS pool, only filled with lemonade instead of water, which caused him to continually shapeshift into an assortment of shapes, objects, and creatures. The Doctor took him to a hospital where they got the sugar out of his circuits, restoring him back to normal. (COMIC: All Change! ^[+]Loading...["All Change! (comic story)"])

The Doctor and Decky landed in China, 620, and were met with severe wind conditions caused by a dragon that appeared in the sky. The dragon turned out to be an Andrassi Warship which they destroyed using fireworks. (COMIC: An Ill Wind ^[+]Loading...["An Ill Wind (comic story)"])

Decky pressed a control which caused the TARDIS to crash land upside down on Hydrocallica. Under the surface of the water world, they found Strigidae who were hiding from being hunted but had problems with their water molecule shield. The Doctor fixed it, and to repay the debt, they flew them back to their TARDIS. (COMIC: The Water World ^[+]Loading...["The Water World (comic story)"])

The Doctor took Decky to a pet shop on Kandro Four where Decky bought some Space bugs. Landing in Dubai, 2013, the bugs grew to giant size and climbed the Burj Khalifa. Presenting it with more time energy caused them to evolve further, in which they left using their mind powers. (COMIC: Pet Panic ^[+]Loading...["Pet Panic (comic story)"])

Decky raced in the Great Space Race on Space Station Cherry Delta to investigate the disappearances of four previous racers, only to disappear himself. The Doctor tracked him down to a junk planet only to find his and other racing pods turned into robots. He tracked down the Robot King causing this and turned him into a toaster as he only wanted to feel useful again. (COMIC: Space Race ^[+]Loading...["Space Race (comic story)"])

The duo arrived during St Valentine's Day in 2013 to find everyone around them lovesick, and Cupid flying and firing arrows. He attempted to fire one at the Doctor but Decky got in the way and took it himself. The Cupid ended up being an Ameteli, but Decky, having faked being hit and knocked out, fired the arrow at the Ameteli causing it to fall in love with a distant planet with no one to bother. (COMIC: Love is in the Air ^[+]Loading...["Love is in the Air (comic story)"])

Decky was taken to a Space Dentist due to having a toothache, only for the dentists to try and take his teeth. The dentist ended up being an Amorta who values calcium like gold, but the Doctor was able to send it back to its pocket universe. (COMIC: Toothache! ^[+]Loading...["Toothache! (comic story)"]

Closer to Sirus

On the Hollow Moon of Artenture, the two come across a replica of the Taj Mahal, and extract more co-ordinates to Sirus. The replica turned out to be full of weapons as per Propheetis plans to attack the Earth, but the Doctor set off all the weapons so that they couldn't. Learning that a Brancheerian sold them this replica too, Decky realised they needed to stop him. (COMIC: Terror in the Taj Mahal ^[+]Loading...["Terror in the Taj Mahal (comic story)"])

Wanting to investigate Kestraleves sudden seclusion, the Doctor had Decky shapeshift into a local to investigate, finding that being an alien is punishable by death. The two are caught out and sentenced to death before Decky deduces that the "local" sentencing them is actually a Homozillian invader which the Doctor reveals, causing the real locals to turn on them. (COMIC: Eye Spy ^[+]Loading...["Eye Spy (comic story)"])

The Doctor and Decky find another replica, this time of the Colosseum, on Phwillite. They extract the final coordinates before meeting the owner, Professor Rulas, who wanted find the best fighters to fight in the Colosseum. It detected the Doctor as a good fighter and zapped him in. Decky noticed the Brancheerian inside was Monty Punnions, and tricked the supercomputer to take Rulas inside, who shut down the operation, teleporting everyone away. He told the Doctor he had to warn everyone on Sirus about Monty. (COMIC: Colossus of the Colosseum ^[+]Loading...["Colossus of the Colosseum (comic story)"])

Leaving the Doctor

Decky soon returned home and found that nobody was there, when suddenly Giant Silver Ants invaded. Decky discovered Monty led them there. The Doctor tricked Monty into taking Decky's belt, using the sonic on it to inflate him into a giant ball. Monty struck him with his tail, defeating both him and his army. He found out that the other Brancheerians were living on the three moons, and upon them returning to the planet, decided to part ways with the Doctor, home at last. (COMIC: The Tail of Decky Flamboon ^[+]Loading...["The Tail of Decky Flamboon (comic story)"])

Behind the scenes

Mitchell Collett's original drawing of Decky Flamboon

The name and basic design for Decky came from Mitchell Collett, as an entry to a Doctor Who Adventures competition to create a new companion to appear in the magazine's comics following the departure of Amy Pond and Rory Williams and prior to the introduction of Clara Oswald.