The Forgotten (comic story): Difference between revisions

The Doctor arrives and manages to distract the Metebelis 3 spiders with the crystal from his sonic screwdriver, which is similar to the type they search for. He and Martha escape and the Doctor vaguely recalls the phrase "There's something on your back." Then he collapses and begins to fade again. Martha hands him the cat brooch and goes off to hunt for the "[[Time Ring|Time Bracelet thing]]" and another screwdriver in the Fourth Doctor's costume, while the Doctor recalls his sixth incarnation.

He remembers the time when he and Peri were in the court of a group of animal people, with Peri under the accusation of the first-degree murder of Professor Mis'kin Karac. On day one of the trial Peri tells the court of how while in the market, a boy pushed a gun into her hands, which fired, killing the professor as he left the building. Peri says she never meant to kill anyone, and the Doctor calls off questioning.

As day two pulls around, Professor Karac's assistant places evidence against Peri, and the judge calls a recess until the next day. The Doctor gets the assistant's permission to check out the lab, where he and the professor had been looking on quantum flux technology. The Doctor finds the murder weapon in the lab and comes up with a plan.

The next day in court the Doctor pulls out the gun and aims at Peri, explaining that it is tagged with a genetic signature which the bullet uses to find the target when fired. He also explains that this was why the professor's assitant was behind Peri: so that he could fire through her at the professor and make it look like she, being the one with the gun, had done it. He then tells the assitant how he is currently wearing a cat brooch doused in chronal energy and with a drop of his blood on it, meaning that if he fires, the bullet will kill him, not Peri. Under huge pressure, the assistant confesses and is taken away, while Peri and the Doctor leave, the Doctor explaining that the gun wouldn't have work, and that he was bluffing, a bluff which the assistant luckily took.

Back in the museum, the Doctor speaks through a camera to the mysterious onlooker, who says he and the Doctor have much in common, except from the obvious, and that he should have left him in the [[Crucible]]. Meanwhile the Doctor challenges him to come out, holding up an umbrella and remembering his seventh incarnation.

He recalls the time he and Ace ended up in the war of Angrivan Seven, which was declared a non-intervention site by the Time Lords. Someone had given the Strykes a Gallifreyan virus to use over the Marats, and the Doctor must stop it. They were captured by the Strykes, but managed to escape due to an air strike. They met a Marat, who took them to the sick Marats infected by the Strykes' new bioweapon. The Doctor met with Doctor Treykan, and gave her the antidote to the plague, hidden in his umbrella. Then he seemed to talk to the current Doctor, telling him to fight to survive.

Back in the museum, the Doctor finds the same restorative inside the umbrella, and then begins to hear the Cloister Bell. He states the impossibility of this, as it can only be heard in the TARDIS, the Time Lord Matrix, or on Gallifrey, none of which they are at--or are they?

Martha then demonstrates knowledge of the Cloister Bell she shouldn't yet know and the Doctor remembers her saying he isn't the only doctor in the TARDIS, though she's only a medical student. The Doctor wonders again what's really going on, while the mystery onlooker says they can't have the Doctor remembering his future just yet, and sends out a Clockwork Droid and a Voc Robot. The section ends in the TARDIS with the Cloister Bell tolling, the inside red, and an alien life form attaching itself to the unconscious Doctor...