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Rich's Notes: The Time Daleks show up, throwing many of the companions into a panic. The Daleks don’t help the situation by employing their own special brand of crowd control, aka. exterminating a few to make an example of them. Captain Jack takes a zap for Jamie and Nyssa gets hit trying to save Tegan.
The Brigadier pushes the 7th Doctor aside and fires at the lead Dalek’s one true vulnerable spot: the eyestalk. They should really consider developing some kind of shielding for that. The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Chapter 8 179
Rich's Notes: Sarah Jane mourns over Captain Jack’s body, Grace tries to keep Nyssa among the living and the 9th Doctor gets Drax to start removing companions to his TARDIS while the now-blind Dalek opens up its casing to reveal the 10th Doctor. The other Doctors are shocked. The 9th Doctor, however, loses it and tries to get the Brigadier to destroy the travesty before them (Perhaps he feels that inducing a regeneration will break the conditioning?). The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Chapter 8 180
Rich's Notes: The 9th Doctor and the Brig struggle with the gun, which fires but deflects harmlessly off of Dalek Tor’s casing.
The 7th Doctor expresses his despair as Dalek Tor prevents the other Dalek from exterminating the Brigadier. Dalek Tor then forces them to surrender by threatening Susan and the rest of the Doctor’s companions. He orders them to leave Captain Jack’s body and to bring Nyssa along for conversion.
They all head off towards the labs while the Rani and both K9s watch from the shadows. The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Chapter 8 181
Rich's Notes: The 5th Doctor discovers Leela who is undergoing very intense Dalek mental conditioning, but resisting to the last, even at the expense of her own destruction. He helps her by dismantling the machinery and prepares to help her more once the 4th Doctor makes his plan known. In the meantime, he goes to recruit help in the form of the Daleks’ other prisoners. The first of which is a strange man in a victorian suit. The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Chapter 8 182
Rich's Notes: The 9th Doctor decides that this cannot continue and attacks Dalek Tor. When the other Dalek threatens Rose, the 9th Doctor remains steadfast in his decision. This shakes the confidence of all the other companions and the 1st Doctor goes into a rage. The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Chapter 8 183
Rich's Notes: The 1st, 2nd and 2nd-and-a-halfth Doctors argue about the value of lives with the 9th Doctor, who lays it out on the line about how evil the Daleks really are.
The 7th Doctor, ever the judge of his own character, has faith that the 9th Doctor doesn’t have it in him to let Rose die.
He’s right. Even Dalek Tor is touched. The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Chapter 8 184
Rich's Notes: Dalek Ahn continues to try to break Leela, despite the broken equipment, but the TARDIS arrives with the 3rd and 6th Doctors, which breaks into a fight, during which the 8th Doctor frees Leela from the conditioning machine. The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Chapter 8 185
Rich's Notes: The battle rages between the Daleks, the 3rd, 5th, 6th and 8th Doctors, Leela and her freed children and the remains of the high council.
Finally, Dalek Tor arrives with the 1st, 2nd, 2nd-and-a-halfth, 7th and 9th Doctors in tow along with the other companions. The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Chapter 8 186
Rich's Notes: Much to everyone’s amazement, Grace identifies the Victorian-clad stranger as the 8th Doctor, who still doesn’t recognize his future or past selves, other than Dalek-Tor, of course, who he’d already met.
The 2nd Doctor wonders if this isn’t all some kind of massive illusion, but the 9th Doctor remembers the original events of the 8th Doctor’s experiences on Gallifrey and concludes that they’ve all been brought here deliberately to change things.
Damon’s message was somehow important. The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Chapter 8 187
Rich's Notes: The Doctors try to sort out what’s going on, the 2nd Doctor attributing it to Omega’s plan of making chaos of the universe.
Dalek Tor takes command of the Daleks, declaring himself supreme, a combination of Dalek and Doctor, and orders the Daleks to prepare the Doctors to all be converted! The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Chapter 8 188
Rich's Notes: Dalek Tor reveals that it is unconcerned with the temporal paradox of processing the earlier incarnations of the Doctor. The universe will descend into chaos from which its new Dalek/Doctor hybrid will emerge to create a perfect universe.
Ace starts to put up a fight but is quickly subdued. The Doctors surrender. Nyssa is carried off to be converted and the Doctors are lined up for processing.
“Soon the Daleks and the ten Doctors will be one!” The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Chapter 8 189
Rich's Notes: The Daleks wire all the Doctors into the Neural Distillation unit and Dalek Tor into the receiver end. The machine is activated and it begins to sap their minds, distilling their essences and loading it into Dalek Tor.
But they’ve made a critical error. The 4th Doctor disrupts the process with a quick zap from the sonic screwdriver and a witty remark. The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Chapter 8 190
Rich's Notes: Keeping Dalek Ahn with him to repair the Neurological Distillation unit, Dalek Tor sends all the other Daleks after the 4th Doctor so that he can be wired in to make a complete set.
Meanwhile the companions discuss their fate while a K9 sneaks up to the cell door. The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Chapter 8 191
Rich's Notes: K9 releases the companions and attempts to lead them away to safety. The Brigadier, however, takes over the operation, instructing the men and Romana to follow him and the others to get themselves clear. Leela breaks away from the group and runs off, trying to get to the bottom of everything herself. She finds the Daleks chasing the Doctor and runs off after them, hoping to catch up before the Doctor simply eliminates what remains of some of her children.
Meanwhile, Maxil passes by… The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Chapter 8 192
Rich's Notes: Maxil finds Captain Jack sneaking around behind the scenes while Dalek Ahn repairs the machinery that will allow Dalek Tor to complete the absorption of the 9 Doctors. K9 (or one of them, anyway) sabotages the control unit which short circuits and electrifies Dalek Ahn. He then frees the 9th Doctor who leaps out of his seat to attack Dalek Tor! The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Chapter 8 193
Rich's Notes: While K9 releases all the Doctors from their bonds, the 9th Doctor yanks the 10th Doctor out of the Dalek casing. The Doctors confront and are about to destroy Dalek Ahn when the 8th Doctor makes an appeal, explaining who he is and that he deserves at least a chance at survival. K9 is, however, running out of power to incapacitate him and he is attempting to call in reinforcements. The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Chapter 8 194
Rich's Notes: The 4th Doctor leads the Daleks on a merry chase down into the Temporal Engineering section. They arrive at a chamber where the Rani and the old K9 wait in ambush with some sort of rigged up contraption. The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Chapter 8 195
Rich's Notes: Leela pops in behind the Daleks at the last minute and the Doctor rushes back to save her, but the Rani pulls the lever anyway and they’re all caught up in the blast. The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Chapter 8 196
Rich's Notes: The President of Gallifrey is converted to a Time Dalek and with the rest of her Dalek-ized council members unable to contact Dalek Ahn, she resumes her position as leader. She orders the conversions to continue as starts on two more hapless Time Lords.
Nyssa’s body is dying and the Time Daleks decide to remove her brain for conversion. Jack and Maxil look on and Maxil decides that enough is enough. He calls in his own reinforcements. The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Chapter 8 197
Rich's Notes: The Brigadier has lead his little ‘unit’ of companions to the lab where they see the Dalek conversions taking place. Ace, of course, would not be left out of the action and invited herself along. Romana has found some old staser pistols in a security storage facility and doles them out, unsure as to their state of repair.
As the Brigadier peeks out to guage the timing for an attack, a vintage cadillac-shaped TARDIS materializes in the middle of the lab. The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Chapter 8 198
Rich's Notes: Captain Jack pops out of hiding with a massive laser rifle (given to him by Maxil when the citadel guards show up equipped to defend their planet) and blows the ever-lovin’ crap out of a Dalek.
The Brig leaps out as well, with his posse, blasting away with the pistols Romana found.
The TARDIS trunk opens up with Drax and Glitz firing a laser bazooka which all but disintegrates the nearest Dalek.
Finally, Maxil leads his squad of guards into the room and the battle is on! The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Chapter 8 199
Rich's Notes: Meanwhile…
K9 warns that he’s about to run out of power and Dalek Ahn will be free. While the 3rd and 5th Doctors haul the 10th off to be attended to somewhere more controlled, the other Doctors decide, much to the 8th Doctor’s dismay, that there probably isn’t anything they can do for Andred, and he best be put out of his misery. Just as the 9th Doctor is about to take care of things, Dalek Ahn finds itself free enough to make an Emergency Temporal Shift… and escapes. The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Chapter 8 200
Rich's Notes: The battle rages on:
A Dalek takes aim at Romana, but Jamie uses his metal beam to smash the gunstick off. Then Ace gives it a mighty kick that knocks it back and off balance.
The Brigadier helps Maxil coordinate the attack.
The Dalekized president attempts to make an Emergency Temporal Shift, but Captain Jack destroys it first.
Turlough gets Peri to help him move Nyssa to safety. The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Chapter 8 201
Rich's Notes: Leela wakes up to the face of the 4th Doctor grinning down at her. It turns out that his rigged up machinery took years off their lives and Leela is a teenager again. Her children have been reduced to infants and toddlers, their bodies regenerated, their minds pure. The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Chapter 8 202
Rich's Notes: Dr.Grace Holloway, with the help of Romana, nurses Nyssa out of danger and well on the road to recovery.
The 8th Doctor is called in to an inner room where the rest of the Doctor (minus the 4th) are assisting the 5th Doctor in healing the 10th. They now have to join minds to combat the Dalek conditioning in his brain. The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Chapter 8 203
Rich's Notes: The 4th Doctor arrives and immediately begins to take over. He is amused by the 2nd Doctor’s 2nd-and-a-halfth Doctor projection, the 3rd Doctor is less so. The 5th Doctor gets them coordinated and they all join minds in an attempt to battle the Dalekized part of the 10th Doctor’s psyche.
No special story celebration set up for page 200, I’m afraid. It does, however, and coincidentally, mark the first time in the story that all 10 Doctors (10-and-a-half, even!) appear in the same room…even in the same panel!