The Stockbridge Showdown (comic story): Difference between revisions

[[Sharon Davies|Sharon Allen]], a former companion of the [[Fourth Doctor]] who is now a [[journalist]] for the [[Galactic Broadcasting Corporation]], confronts Dogbolter. She tells him that there have been many men throughout history as powerful as Dogbolter is now, and that eventually all their empires fell. Before Dogbolter can reply, he receives a notification on his [[mobile phone]] that pleases him immensely. He tells Sharon, "See you later, Miss Allen... or earlier!"

Dogbolter enters a dark basement where he greets the person who sent him the notification: [[Frobisher|Chiyoko]]! Chiyoko tells Dogbolter that she has achieved harmonic alignment with Stockbridge in [[2016]] and created a crude [[Time corridor|time tunnel]] leading to the village. She explains that she froze Stockbridge's citizens to lure the Doctor to the village and that the Doctor fell for the trap.

Back in Stockbridge, the Doctor and Maxwell encounter [[Gol Clutha]] and her group of mercenaries. Dogbolter has hired her to escort the Doctor and Maxwell to [[St Justinian's Church]], where Dogbolter and Chiyoko are waiting. The Doctor uses the city's temporally frozen nature to escape: he throws a [[cricket ball]] at a nearby [[fountain]], disrupting the static [[atom]]s of the water, causing it to explode. Maxwell and the Doctor use the distraction to run away.

Berakka Dogbolter bursts into the room and hysterically announces that she will give "her daddy" an extra present for his birthday: Majenta's head in a box. As she lunges towards Majenta with a sword, Majenta presses a button on her glove and a figure with a sword jumps through a circular window to rescue Majenta. That figure is [[Destrii]]!

Destrii lands on the ground and blocks Berakka's sword with her own. She then punches Berakka's face before jumping away to avoid being sliced in half. The two continue to fight in this pattern, with Destrii evading Berakka's sword but not using her own. Eventually, Destrii manages to kick Berakka, knocking her out. Majenta then addresses the shareholders, saying that she'll now buy their shares for 5 Mazumas each.

The Doctor and Maxwell enter the church to see Dogbolter and Chiyoko waiting for them; behind them covered in orange wrapping paper and a blue bow is the ultimate birthday gift: the Doctor's TARDIS. Dogbolter forces the Doctor and Maxwell to kneel before him as he explains that with a time machine he can "destroy [his] competitors before they're born" and "play the [[stock market]] and always win", letting him become the wealthiest man in all of time.

At this point the Doctor asks Dogbolter if he remembers hiring an assassin to kill [[Angus Goodman]]. Dogbolter tells the Doctor that he's killed thousands of "nobodies" to get his way and Angus was not more significant than any of the others. Dogbolter then proclaims that the Doctor is a dead loss and orders Clutha kill him.

* The [[Skith]] first appeared in [[COMIC]]: ''[[The First (comic story)|The First]]''.

* The [[Shasarak]] first appeared in [[COMIC]]: ''[[Planet Bollywood (comic story)|Planet Bollywood]]''.

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