Weapons of Past Destruction (comic story): Difference between revisions

Now the threat of a NEW temporal war brews on the horizon. Can the Doctor stop history repeating itself?​  

As Rose falls through the Vortex, the Doctor tries to materialise the TARDIS around her, but only her jacket appears within. Meanwhile, Rose wakes up next to a squid-like alien. The Doctor refuses to believe she is dead, and uses the TARDIS to track the DNA from her jacket. However, the coordinates it finds would place her in the blast radius of a nascent [[supernova]] [[Beart-54]] in the [[Beart system]]. Jack materialises the TARDIS on a nearby planetoid, [[Fluren's World]]. They find the sun's nova is being held back by a [[time bubble]], technology that hasn't existed since the [[Last Great Time War|Time War]].  

Jack takes the Doctor to the [[Fluren Temporal Bazaar]], a [[black market]] for time weapons. There, they find Rose, who has been stuck there for four days. She fell through the Vortex, and the tachyon inhibitor protected her from the [[time wind]]s. [[Glom]], the squid alien, picked her up with his ship's [[Time scoop|time scoops]]. The Doctor recognises one of Glom's weapons, and realises they're all from [[Gallifrey]]. He flips Glom's table in anger, and steps up to make an announcement. He's offering his [[Time Lord]] mind for sale, in an attempt to attract the Unon. Instead, the Lect appear.  

The Doctor tries to open the Lect robotic armour with his screwdriver to see who he is dealing with, but he is not quick enough. While Jack and the Doctor wrestle with the Lect, the Unon arrive and engage the Lect in a fight without so much as a warning.  

In the Vortex, desperate Jack is trying to half threaten half reason with the TARDIS. Suddenly, the Doctor's face appears on one of the screens. The Doctor explains that the Unon are bringing the TARDIS to him. The TARDIS materialises in the [[Perpetual City]], which is anchored within the Vortex itself. Jack warily steps out, gun in his hand, and receives another reprimand from the Doctor, until the latter realises that Rose is not with Jack. Arnora is pessimistic about Rose's fate, Jack tries to stay optimistic while simultaneously flirting with the mother superior, and the Doctor heads for the TARDIS to save Rose no matter what, when [[Evja]], the Grand High Seer of the Unon, who has no ordinary sight but can see through time and space, explains that Rose is not on Fluren's World any longer. She is in a forbidden sector of time. The Doctor is unimpressed but another Unon, [[Borga]], blocks his way to the TARDIS. She insists that the Doctor must remain and do the will of the mother superior, accusing him of the atrocities of the Time War. The Doctor intends to have none of this. Only the intervention of Arnora prevents further escalation.  

She explains that before the Time War the Unon were explorers, scientists. The war destroyed their civilisation and nearly destroyed theme  species itself. But it was the aftermath of the war that was more important. The demise of both Time Lords and [[Dalek]]s created a vacuum of power that many races wanted to fill, races like [[Cyberman|Cybermen]] and [[Sontaran]]s. The Unon seers saw what was coming, so the Unon decided to prevent further chaos. They collected the detritus left over from the Time War and turned it into tools for peace, including the Perpetual City they are in. The Unon have no ambition to control time, but they prevent others from doing so.  

The Doctor asks if the Lect are one of those trying to cease control and learns that Borga despises them. Arnora intercedes once again before the tempers could flare. She saw in his mind the sacrifice the Doctor made for the good of the universe. She knows he's a good man. She proposes an alliance.  

The Doctor, however, is determined to save Rose first. But Arnora shows him a planet, [[Traxis]], a world with more than seven billion inhabitants. A fracture in time caused by the Time War resulted in the past, present and future coexisting and creating chaos. If left unchecked, this time fissure would spread to the whole sector with catastrophic consequences. She shows him a temporal stabiliser of Gallifreyan make that could stitch time back together. She thinks that the Doctor is best qualified to put it to the good use.  

As the Doctor reaches for the stabiliser, he, Jack and Borga are suddenly transported to Traxis. The Doctor is not amused but resigns to do the job first and make a row later. The place is a mess with dinosaurs, neanderthals and killer robots competing for the title of the deadliest menace. While Jack and Borga cover his back, the Doctor detects the fault line smack under a mammoth. Briefly regretting not having learned Mammoth and rescued by Borga from being trampled over, the Doctor activates the device.  

Just as the device does its magic, the Doctor, Jack and Borga find themselves back in the Perpetual City. Arnora shows them the peaceful Traxis. She explains that this was the last test to make sure of the Doctor's motives. Finally, a mutual understanding of the common goals starts to emerge between the Doctor and Arnora.  

The Doctor comes to on the [[Lect command ship]], understandably mad at Rose. She explains that they needed to plant a tracker on him for the Lect transmat to work. She did not know this would knock him out. Using Lect equipment, they try to locate Jack but he cannot be found on the Perpetual City. A Lect approaches the Doctor to discuss tactics and opens up the armoured suit to reveal a creature inside, a creature the Doctor clearly recognises.  

With Marleth down, the Doctor threatens to ignite the entropy engine himself if Arnora does not stand down. She does not believe he is capable. But he's already done it once. The Unon have become just like the Time Lords, paranoid, corrupt and tyrannical.  

As an Unon sneaks behind the Doctor to deal a fatal blow, he is preempted by Evja, who is carrying Jack on her back. She implores Arnora to listen to the Doctor because she saw their own future. Arnora disagrees. But Marleth, in a last effort before his death, manages to kill Arnora and is immediately killed by the Unon. The Doctor says that it is already too late and there is no way to disperse the energy in time. Evja is  ready to accept her fate and resigns to disappear along with the Perpetual City.  

* Rose says that a tracker was needed to beam the Doctor up. The phrase "beam you up" is a reference to ''[[Star Trek]]''.