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==== More adventures out of prison ==== | ==== More adventures out of prison ==== | ||
{{Section stub|Info from | {{Section stub|Info from ''[[Suspicious Minds (short story)|Suspicious Minds]]'', ''[[A Gamble with Time (short story)|A Gamble with Time]]'', ''[[Death in New Venice (short story)|Death in New Venice]]'', & ''[[River of Time (short story)|River of Time]]'' needs to be added}}River was sent to retrieve one of the solar batteries powering a [[miniscope]], and travelled to [[Inter Minor]], where the [[Third Doctor]] was working on disabling one. She miniaturised and went into the miniscope, only to find out that the Doctor neglected to look at the bin of the miniscope, inadvertently leaving other species contained in the machine to die when it would go out of order. With the help of [[Dibbsworth]], a man trapped into the miniscope with his office, she managed to get out of the miniscope with the battery and the bin, and gave them to the Doctor; she also took advantage of his chance and consoled him for the imminent separation between him and [[Jo Grant]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Peepshow (audio story)|Peepshow]]'') | ||
On an expedition to find out what happened to [[Annam Henic]]. River arrived to the planet [[Jellidius]], where she was greeted and welcomed by a deserted colony of [[Mechanoid|Mechonoids]]. Suspecting that they seemed not to know Henic, she digged under the ice and found an inner chamber, but accidentally caused a [[glacier]] to fall over the ship. Now stranded, she sent a distress message, which [[Space Security Service|Space Security]] agents [[Anya Kingdom]] and [[Mark Seven]] picked up a month later. River manipulated them into helping her get to Henic's tomb, where they found out that he was actually alive, partially converted into a Mechonoid and in command of an army of Mechonoids he reprogrammed to get revenge on [[Earth Empire]]. River and the agents worked together to stop him, and were eventually able to trap him in the ice - event though River had to give up her plan to retrieve Henic and give him up to the authorities. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Queen of the Mechonoids (audio story)|Queen of the Mechonoids]]'') | |||
==== Recruited at UNIT ==== | ==== Recruited at UNIT ==== | ||
[[The Master]] hired River to transport an expanding sun and its planet, in [[Dimension condenser|dimension condensers]], from one side of the universe to the other, to a place where the planet would have been saved from destruction. River accepted the assignment, but during transport a fault in her [[vortex manipulator]] caused her to crash to Earth, separated from the two condensers. Aware that they would soon burst from the pressure of their contents, River infiltrated [[UNIT]], sending the [[Third Doctor]] on a wild goose for [[Sensorite|Sensorites]] and convincing [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|the Brigadier]] to hire her as [[Liz Shaw]]'s assistant; thus she was able to take hold of [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] and use it to trace the capacitors. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Rivers of Light (audio story)|Rivers of Light]]'') | [[The Master]] hired River to transport an expanding sun and its planet, in [[Dimension condenser|dimension condensers]], from one side of the universe to the other, to a place where the planet would have been saved from destruction. River accepted the assignment, but during transport a fault in her [[vortex manipulator]] caused her to crash to Earth, separated from the two condensers. Aware that they would soon burst from the pressure of their contents, River infiltrated [[UNIT]], sending the [[Third Doctor]] on a wild goose for [[Sensorite|Sensorites]] and convincing [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|the Brigadier]] to hire her as [[Liz Shaw]]'s assistant; thus she was able to take hold of [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] and use it to trace the capacitors. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Rivers of Light (audio story)|Rivers of Light]]'') | ||
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The [[Wampeerix]] captured River and took away her time-travelling technology, which they used to try and drain the Earth of its energy at three different points in time, creating a [[Temporal paradox|paradox]]; their Queen even assumed River's appearance to lead the operation. Escaping their clutches, River travelled to Earth and, after attempting to warn her once, rescued [[Petronella Osgood]] in [[1971]]. The two fell through a time fissure and ended up in [[2091]], where Osgood was contacted by her boss, [[Kate Stewart]], from [[2019]]. River and Osgood worked together to destroy the Wampeerix's Earth-ray in 2091, thus contributing to the operation by which UNIT repelled that species' attempted incursion on Earth. Having resolved the paradox, River asked Kate if they were going to lock her up somewhere, but she chose to let her go instead. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Power of River Song (audio story)|The Power of River Song]]'') | The [[Wampeerix]] captured River and took away her time-travelling technology, which they used to try and drain the Earth of its energy at three different points in time, creating a [[Temporal paradox|paradox]]; their Queen even assumed River's appearance to lead the operation. Escaping their clutches, River travelled to Earth and, after attempting to warn her once, rescued [[Petronella Osgood]] in [[1971]]. The two fell through a time fissure and ended up in [[2091]], where Osgood was contacted by her boss, [[Kate Stewart]], from [[2019]]. River and Osgood worked together to destroy the Wampeerix's Earth-ray in 2091, thus contributing to the operation by which UNIT repelled that species' attempted incursion on Earth. Having resolved the paradox, River asked Kate if they were going to lock her up somewhere, but she chose to let her go instead. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Power of River Song (audio story)|The Power of River Song]]'') | ||
River was captured by [[Balthazar Drix]] and brought to the [[SS Pollyanna]], where she was kept in a cage and "entrusted" to two robot animals, [[K9 Mark III|K9]] and [[FE-LINE]], for safekeeping. On Drix's instruction, K9 tried to convince River she had been involved in another fight between the Doctor and the Master, and was kept here to heal from a biological weapon she was in touch with. River, however, saw through the lies and convinced FE-LINE to help her get out and find out the truth: Drix had come in possession of the K9-Mark III the [[Fourth Doctor]] was sending to [[Sarah Jane Smith|Sarah Jane]], reprogrammed it and copied it to keep his crew prisoner; River even discovered that the mind inside FE-LINE belonged to Drix's assistant, [[Maria]]. River then forced Drix to release Maria from her FE-LINE body, discovered a cure for his condition she did share with her but not with him, then healed K9 and sent him to Earth. She then left, leaving Drix in the same situation he put her: a pet in a cage. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[A Forever Home (audio story)|A Forever Home]]'') | |||
==== Confronting her past ==== | ==== Confronting her past ==== | ||
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==== The mysterious planet ==== | ==== The mysterious planet ==== | ||
When a mysterious planet appeared out of nowhere, a message was sent to the [[Luna University]], requesting the aid of its most eminent archaeologists. River accepted the message and went there with a class of students, where they found a tomb apparently untouched by scavengers. As they opened it, though, they found that [[Bernice Summerfield]] was already in it: she arrived first upon receiving the same message as River, recognising that it came from the Doctor. Minutes later, the [[Eighth Doctor]] landed on the planet with his present companion, [[Ria (Lies in Ruins)|Ria]], and River sent her class back, fearing for their safety. She later made the shocking discovery that the planet they were on was the ruins of [[Gallifrey]] after the [[Time War]]; she wanted to keep it quiet, but Benny told the Doctor. Upon further searches, they found out that the [[Matrix]] was still active, and that the Doctor and Ria had the power to access it and control it. The arrival of another troop of scavengers then prompted the Doctor to use the powers of the Matrix not only to protect the ruins, but also to rebuild Gallifrey; River then encouraged him to do so, to make himself a [[god]], thus snapping him out of his delusion. By then, she had already worked out that the planet was not really Gallifrey, but instead the ruins of a TARDIS, which projected the illusion of Gallifrey by connecting with the mind of the Doctor. The Doctor then reprogrammed it to dispel any illusion after he, River and Benny had gone. River and the Doctor stood hand in hand and watched Gallifrey disappear, before leaving. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Lies in Ruins (audio story)|Lies in Ruins]]'') | When a mysterious planet appeared out of nowhere, a message was sent to the [[Luna University]], requesting the aid of its most eminent archaeologists. River accepted the message and went there with a class of students, where they found a tomb apparently untouched by scavengers. As they opened it, though, they found that [[Bernice Summerfield]] was already in it: she arrived first upon receiving the same message as River, recognising that it came from the Doctor. Minutes later, the [[Eighth Doctor]] landed on the planet with his present companion, [[Ria (Lies in Ruins)|Ria]], and River sent her class back, fearing for their safety. She later made the shocking discovery that the planet they were on was the ruins of [[Gallifrey]] after the [[Time War]]; she wanted to keep it quiet, but Benny told the Doctor. Upon further searches, they found out that the [[Matrix]] was still active, and that the Doctor and Ria had the power to access it and control it. The arrival of another troop of scavengers then prompted the Doctor to use the powers of the Matrix not only to protect the ruins, but also to rebuild Gallifrey; River then encouraged him to do so, to make himself a [[god]], thus snapping him out of his delusion. By then, she had already worked out that the planet was not really Gallifrey, but instead the ruins of a TARDIS, which projected the illusion of Gallifrey by connecting with the mind of the Doctor. The Doctor then reprogrammed it to dispel any illusion after he, River and Benny had gone. River and the Doctor stood hand in hand and watched Gallifrey disappear, before leaving. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Lies in Ruins (audio story)|Lies in Ruins]]'') | ||
=== Adventures with the Tenth Doctor === | === Adventures with the Tenth Doctor === | ||
River discovered [[Kamen Vers]], a Movellan/human hybrid created by the [[Movellan]]s during their [[Dalek-Movellan War|war]] with the [[Dalek]]s whose emotions had caused the entire Movellan crew to malfunction. She posed as a Movellan herself and tried to keep his emotions in check, however struggled to control him as he began using a [[tractor beam]] to capture more and more vessels to attach to the crippled Movellan ship he'd been created on, forming [[Mto]] and tricking human colonists into believing they'd crashed here. She diverted the [[Tenth Doctor]] and [[Anya Kingdom]]'s time jump to make them arrive nearby and lured them to Mto With a message of "hello sweetie" in a Dalek voice. As the Doctor and Anya investigated River maintained the pretence of being a Movellan, to the Doctor's frustration, until they managed to expose the truth about Kamen and send the humans on Mto to safety. This drama caused her to lose control of Kamen's emotions, leading to him fatally overloading. Overwhelmed by the effort of trying to control Kamen, River advised the Doctor to find the [[Mark Seven|First Movellan]] and then left with her [[vortex manipulator]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The First Son (audio story)|The First Son]]'') | River discovered [[Kamen Vers]], a Movellan/human hybrid created by the [[Movellan]]s during their [[Dalek-Movellan War|war]] with the [[Dalek]]s whose emotions had caused the entire Movellan crew to malfunction. She posed as a Movellan herself and tried to keep his emotions in check, however struggled to control him as he began using a [[tractor beam]] to capture more and more vessels to attach to the crippled Movellan ship he'd been created on, forming [[Mto]] and tricking human colonists into believing they'd crashed here. She diverted the [[Tenth Doctor]] and [[Anya Kingdom]]'s time jump to make them arrive nearby and lured them to Mto With a message of "hello sweetie" in a Dalek voice. As the Doctor and Anya investigated River maintained the pretence of being a Movellan, to the Doctor's frustration, until they managed to expose the truth about Kamen and send the humans on Mto to safety. This drama caused her to lose control of Kamen's emotions, leading to him fatally overloading. Overwhelmed by the effort of trying to control Kamen, River advised the Doctor to find the [[Mark Seven|First Movellan]] and then left with her [[vortex manipulator]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The First Son (audio story)|The First Son]]'') | ||
