Book Twenty-Eight: The Taking of Planet 5
Simon Bucher-Jones & Mark Clapham, 1999
The doctor shoves them all to the ground as he recognises the firing of a parallel cannon. His fall is cushioned by Fitz, though, so unclear if he got any bumps or bruises - but Fitz describes his eyes as stinging from a bright light, so we can assume the Doc got flashbombed too
The Doctor bruises his wrist slapping an elder thing-shaped time lord soldier on the back(???) and yells himself hoarse
He ends up nearly getting hit by some sort of energy weapon from the baseâs self defence mechanisms, but only ends up with lightly scorched hairs on his hand
Then, struck with blind panic, he takes off running resulting in him bolting face first into a wall, scraping his hands when he catches himself. His higher senses seem on the fritz, and he worries heâs going mad, panicked and nauseous, and then proceeds to faint(?) while chanting to himself
Captured by the elder-thing-time lords (and a celestis agent in disguise in particular), the Doctor gets strapped to a table and interrogated via elder thing technology. Itâs described as âcell destroyingâ, and it feeds on his blood to determine truthfulness and exerts pain upon him. The narration describes pools of blood and his lips âshreddingâ
After some of the above torture, Investigator One attempts to probe the Doctorâs mind directly. This backfires spectacularly on him, and the Doctor manages to get off the Torture Stone (with a âwet sucking soundâ), though heâs described as bruised and bloodied all over from the experience
Upon finding an old celestis artefact, the Doctor immediately sticks his hands inside. It âlooks like it hurtsâ, and the colour of it seems to be infecting his hands as he pushes them in and is spreading up his wrists, but he describes it as âjustâ awful pins and needles as his blood supply in his hands is âfading in and outâ. When he pulls his hands out, theyâre fully blue and mottled, and he tries to warm them up frantically
Trying to avoid a disaster, the Doctor sticks himself inside a blob of avulsed TARDIS matter (âjellyâ) and experiences the fringes of its agony. While in there, he begins to get a little delirious from oxygen starvation and pain
And then he breaks his left wrist, on purpose.
Then, when all else fails, he plugs himself directly into the rebel TARDISâ telepathic circuits and hurls abuse at it in hopes of making it go against his faux demands, resulting in him taking the full force of its hatred, anger and pain directly to the brain
By now, heâs very heroically curled up in a foetal position and whimpering on the floor with a massive headache. The rebel TARDISes do, however, heal his wrist. But in the wake of an attack launched on The Predator, the inside of the TARDIS heâs in is filled with mercury vapour and carbon dioxide, and other such pleasant things, not to mention that the TARDIS is dying, which will strand him unprotected in outer space
After the rebel TARDIS dies, the Doctor is exposed to outer space unprotected for circa twelve minutes, sustained only by trace amounts of oxygen that his respiratory bypass system could process for a limited period of time. Chilled and subjected to the radiation present in outer space, the Doctor is described as âliterally cracking a smileâ when heâs rescued by Fitz. He seems to be recovering once heâs been brought in, though heâs still limping and in need of some rest
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