WHOA! I’m crashing!

REBIRTH BY

MATTHEW GRANT

Later that day...

DCI Emily Abbott. You

called?

Yes. It’s about this

man.

What about him? Who is he?

That’s just it. We have no

idea who he is. And his

biological makeup is

unusual. We cannot explain

it.

Any I.D. on him?

No. He was found by a police box of all things. Haven’t seen one of those since I was a boy.

I’ll look in to it.

Miles above Earth...

Well, I wasn’t

expecting that!

Ah, the repairs are done. Thank goodness, I was getting

sick of hospital food

What on Earth?

Oh my god!

All of them are here. All of them must

be killed.

How is that… what?

Someone’s coming

Well, what have you got for me this

time?

Not bad old girl…

not bad at all

A little dark, but

that can be fixed.

Hands up

That won’t work. The

TARDIS is in a state of grace

Your weapons

can’t work in here

I don’t believe

you

Oh well, worth a

try

What is this place?

It’s called a TARDIS. Time And Relative Dimension In Space. It’s a

machine designed for

travel in space and time

That’s not

possible

And bigger on the

inside is? C’mon, it’s

not too much of a

leap

What’s that?

The atmospheric penetration

detector

Which is?

A thing that goes beep

It means that a ship is about to collide with

Earth

So what are we going to

do?

Go there of course

Ah, steering

must be a bit rusty

On the ship...

So we’re stuck?

Not quite

Sonic screwdriver.

Always a hand in a

jam.

What’s that?

I’m the Doctor by the way, and you?

Emily, who names their

child Doctor?

Well, here we

are

I’m on a spaceship, in a corridor.

Bit of a comedown

You know what’s weird about this

place?

What?

It’s silent. The engines are running, but there

are no signs of life

Should we be worried? It could be

the autopilot.

This is a Jagaroth ship. They wouldn’t leave it alone.

Ah, this looks

like the bridge.

Incarnation 14 is aboard

And you are?

The ship computer. I run the ship

Where are the crew?

I killed them. I opened the airlock and

ejected them

What? Why?

My systems were hacked

My new prime directive is to kill the fourteenth

incarnation of the doctor before he

regenerates

Insufficient data. All that is known is that we need to stop the final Doctor from

destroying the universe

What? Why?

Why would my last

incarnation destroy the universe?

Insufficient data. All that is known

is that he started a fire that burnt

the universe

I must complete my mission

A self destruct sequence has

started

I don’t think so!

Run!

What did you

do?

Slowed down the self

destruct, gave us enough time

to get out

Also downloaded the file on all the things being

done to stop my last incarnation

What are you going to

do?

Save them, but with a decent suit of course

This may take a while

Many hours later...

Your verdict?

Awful

Perfect, might pick up a hat to go with it

The TARDIS has found another

incarnation of me, wanna

come?

Sure

Excellent

The Doctor is in

NEXT TIME

GHOST IN THE MACHINE