Mistress of Chaos (comic story): Difference between revisions

|featuring        = [[Mother G]]

|publication      = [[DWM 543|DWM 543]] - [[DWM 548|548]]

|reprint          =  

|format            = Comic- 6 parts

The Doctor scales the wreckage of the power plant, following the voice which belongs to someone named [[Harold (Mistress of Chaos)|Harold]]. The Doctor engages Harold in conversation, telling him a knock knock joke she once told [[King Harold]]. She tells Harold to jump, but as the smoke clears, Harold sees the Doctor's face and suddenly refuses her help, claiming she set the station to explode. The Doctor, confused, asks Harold what he means, informing him the walkway is about to collapse. She begs him to jump, but he refuses, calling her a monster as the walkway collapses and he falls to his doom. The Doctor watches, horrified.  

Berakka has just returned to her office after finishing a phone call with the president. She gets frustrated the lights won't come on and sees the Doctor sitting in here chair, remarking it's just the two of them. Berakka welcomes the Doctor and asks if she's seen her recent news broadcasts. The Doctor asks Berakka if she ever thought she could get away with it, but Berakka responds by saying that wherever the Doctor goes there is chaos and death and that she is merely presenting the facts. The Doctor gives Berakka one last chance, but Berakka just tells the Doctor that she owes her. Berakka mentions how when the Doctor ended the war between Tumat and Kraytos on Gatan, she thought it was all over for her, until she realised that the Doctor was the source of all of her problems. She says that the Doctor is a story that never dies out, and stories can monetised. The Doctor refuses to become a figure of fear, but Berakka says that the Doctor is whatever she says she is.

In the TARDIS, Yaz is frustrated, remarking that the Doctor could do something stupid and that she is going to look for her. Ryan agrees, and Graham says they need someone to keep them out of trouble. They leave the TARDIS and hear voices, with Yaz realising they are not alone. In Berakka's office, Sandola arrives and is shocked by the Doctor's presence. Before she can call security, the Doctor uses the sonic and overloads Sandola, breaking her. Berakka is angry at the Doctor, claiming that Sandola 'is mine', but the Doctor says that she is going to take away everything Berakka ever owned. She mentions how Harold died because of Berakka's lies, and how Berakka only thinks she know the Doctor.  

Suddenly, three people burst in, spouting nonsense and the female leader mentions the chaos queen. The Doctor asks Berakka who she is, with Berakka informing the Doctor that her name is [[Krizanthia Kalos]], a psychotic killer wanted in twenty systems and that the Doctor let here in. Krizanthia bows in front of the Doctor calling her mistress chaos, and the Doctor realises that Krizanthia is a fan. Krizanthia asks if she can turn 'lady grumpy' into dust as a present, and the Doctor says no. Krizanthia asks why, and the Doctor quickly tells her that Berakka is spreading the word of her deeds, so she is good alive. Krizanthia then presents [[The Eye of M'Dulia]], last of the chaos engines and mentions she killed so many to get it, all in the Doctor's name. From the corridor, Graham, Ryan and Yaz watch, concerned that the Doctor might say the wrong thing and make Krizanthia snap. Ryan gets his phone out and plays music to distract her.

Berakka takes this chance to attack Krizanthia, who retaliates. Graham, Ryan and Yaz push a shelf on Krizanthia's two goonies, and the Doctor tells Krizanthia and Berakka to stop. Berakka throws Krizanthia onto the Doctor, as Graham rushes to help the Doctor. Krizanthia then teleports herself, Berakka, the Doctor and Graham away, leaving Ryan and Yaz to face Sandola, who just rebooted and confronts them. The Doctor, Graham, Berakka and Krizanthia arrive in an underground cave, where Krizanthia pulls out a spare pistol, and informs the group they travelled far across [[Venus]]. The Doctor mentions to Graham that the hole in the ground looks like the well from [[castle Houska]] which led to the [[Catastrophia]], the universe of pure madness, and also mentions that Dagmar and Dominik told them about the children of chaos, and bets that Krizanthia is a member. Krizanthia says that the Doctor will be embraced at last, and Graham remembers that anyone who entered the Catastrophia didn't come back alive. Krizanthia activates the eye, and Graham says he is not jumping into the portal, to which Berakka agrees. Suddenly, tendrils burst from the portal, pulling them all down into the Catastrophia.

Graham and Berakka wake up, with the Doctor telling them that she got them to safety just in time. They observe huge towers with highly complex equations on them, and Graham remarks that they can't be in the Catastrophia anymore. The Doctor begs to differ and shows them that they are inside a logic cube. They then hear a huge scream and they are about to set off, when Berakka refuses to obey the Doctor. The Doctor gets angry at her and they start arguing until Graham breaks it up and tells them to follow him. The Doctor and Graham walk off, and reluctantly Berakka follows, as a crystal hand appears higher up, watching them go.  

The Doctor explains to Graham that now she has seen her future of being warped by the Catastrophia, she cannot change it. Berakka asks the Doctor to get her out of here before her brain goes crazy and Graham is disgusted by her words. The Doctor vows to get the Herald free and starts to shut down the Pylons holding it, but the group are attacked by logic people!

Yaz explains to Ryan how she and Graham met Mother G in castle Houska and Mother G is impressed Yaz remembers. She then informs the duo that their friends will be in the Catastrophia by now and that they will be in danger.

Still shocked, the Doctor asks the Sanity if she knows who she is, and the Sanity claims her identity is irrelevant. The Doctor tries to get the Sanity to remember what she was like before she arrived, and tries to get her to remember the Sonic Screwdriver. The Sanity breaks it and tells the Doctor to not oppose her further. Graham asks the Doctor who she is, and the Doctor tells him that the Sanity is her future self. Confused, Graham remarks that he thought the Herald was the Doctor, to which she replies that due to the laws of the Catastrophia, she is seeing two possible futures for her, both as bad.

Soon, the TARDIS arrives at a little pocket of chaos within the rational universe, and Mother G explains they can use it as a gateway to the logic cube, the pocket of logic inside the Catastrophia. However, once inside, the TARDIS starts to contort, as the chaos pocket attacks the TARDIS. In the logic cube, the Doctor asks what the Sanity's plan is, and the Sanity tells her that she will open every gateway from the Catastrophia to the rational universe all at once, allowing chaos entities like the Herald to escape. Bewildered, the Doctor asks why a creature of logic would do such a thing, and the Sanity tells her that the feedback would pour back through the open gateways destroying the Catastrophia, and claims the process will take less than three hundred thousand years. The Doctor says that she of all people cannot let trillions of innocent people die like that. The Sanity claims that it is the nature of all life to conclude, and starts the process, syphoning the Heralds energy.  

At the citadel of the knights of the solitary sword, Dominik desperately calls for Dagmar, proclaiming hundreds of gateways are opening at once, in every era, every world. He says that even with all the knights, they couldn't possibly close them all, and Dagmar says that their must be a way. Dominik apologises, and proclaims that this is the end of all that is real...

[[file:Sharon Allen Mistress of Chaos.jpg|thumb|Sharon Allen reporting for [[GBC]]]]

The Doctor enters the TARDIS, and Yaz tries to comfort her by showing a different news feed to Berakka's. Captain R'Takk is saying how the Doctor uncovered a conspiracy killing their people and that she is an honorary centurion of the Mobox empire, Tondi says how the Doctor ended the war between Kraytos and Tumat on Gatan, and many other aliens all share stories of how they were saved by the Doctor. Finally, it cuts to Sharon Allen mentioning how she first met the Doctor when she was a girl, and that she is an example that if everyone could expose a lie, stand up to something wrong, reach out to someone in need, then they can ''all'' be the Doctor.

* Captain [[R'Takk]]  

* {{Gomez}}

== References ==

** The [[Mahuika Power Station]] feeds energy to a quarter of the planet, and was constructed in a remote location because a [[meltdown]] would devastate everything in a fifty-mile radius. The meltdown happened due to a combination of "[[executive]] ineptitude, [[budget cut]]s, and staff shortages".

* The Doctor tells Harold Wyntonia a joke as she tries to save him: "What do you call a [[knight]] who always cheats on his tests? [[Sir Glancelot]]!"

* [[GBC]] reports positively on [[the Doctor]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Abel's Story (comic story)|Abel's Story]]'', ''[[The Stockbridge Showdown (comic story)|The Stockbridge Showdown]]'') interviewing [[R'Takk]] on [[Acantha]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Power of the Mobox (comic story)|The Power of the Mobox]]'') [[Tondi Dayon]] on [[Gatan]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Warmonger (comic story)|The Warmonger]]'') and [[Sharon Allen]] on [[Unicepter IV]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Dreamers of Death (comic story)|Dreamers of Death]]'', ''[[The Stockbridge Showdown (comic story)|The Stockbridge Showdown]]'', et al.)