The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Chapter 7 153 Rich's Notes: The Sontarans fire their laser at the door, but as they do so, the TARDIS materializes in front of it. At their moment of confusion, the 6th Doctor (now wearing the 4th Doctor’s scarf) stuns them all. He uses a sonic lance and a bit of jiggery-pokery to break into the door and comes face to face with the 4th Doctor. The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Chapter 7 154 Rich's Notes: The 6th Doctor expresses his anger, not so much over the fact that the 4th Doctor turned out *not* to have died in the fall, but that it made the 6th Doctor wrong. They enter and join the War Chief and the 3rd and 5th Doctors in the communications room. The War Chief analyzes the attack patterns and predicts that ultimately only Davros & his Daleks will remain. The 7th Doctor volunteers to solve that problem. The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Chapter 7 155 Rich's Notes: The 2nd Doctor deduces that the Celestial Toymaker couldn’t be behind ALL of what’s gone on, he simply hasn’t got that kind of power. As the Toymaker informs him that he is doomed, the 2nd Doctor challenges him to a game of Crazy 8s. The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Chapter 7 156 Rich's Notes: The Brigadier organizes the companions aboard the Rani’s TARDIS, preparing for a rescue operation. Romana defers to the Coordinates that Susan recieved in the Doctor’s message, for lack of a better lead, and off they go through the vortex… followed by a TARDIS shaped like a car. The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Chapter 7 157 Rich's Notes: The 1st Doctor resigns himself to death, debating as to whether this was a manipulation of time or time correcting itself. Just as the TARDIS pops and fizzes and gives up the ghost, another TARDIS materializes INSIDE (around) it, and several people rush out to rescue him. The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Chapter 7 158 Rich's Notes: The 1st Doctor is angered by what he percieved as a pointless risk for the sake of one man, especially for his Granddaughter. Turlough is mad, but the Brigadier explains to the Doctor that the impact he’s had on all their lives was worth any risk. The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Chapter 7 159 Rich's Notes: While the 1st Doctor and many companions have a touching moment, a gravity bubble forms in the TARDIS within a TARDIS field, and they start to continue the plunge into the dying sun of Proammon. That is, until a TARDIS shaped like a caddy shows up and extends its forcefield around them, stopping their plunge, and then uses a TOMTIT device to extract the passengers. The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Chapter 7 160 Rich's Notes: Omega steps through the gateway from his anti-matter universe to check on the Toymaker’s progress, but is shocked to find he and the 2nd Doctor squatting on the floor playing cards. Omega tells the Doctor that his buying time will gain him nothing, since while he is idling, he isn’t interfering and Omega will destroy him and the Time Lords. But suddenly, there’s yet another Doctor standing behind him. The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Chapter 7 161 Rich's Notes: Omega lays out his plan to the projected 2.5th Doctor about how he intends to remove the Doctor from all of time and space so that it will all dissolve into chaos, from which he will rise as god of all time, space and matter. The Doctor is flattered by the importance laid on his involvement in the plan. The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Chapter 7 162 Rich's Notes: Omega explains to the 2.5th Doctor exactly why the universe would dissolve into chaos if he wasn’t around to save it. The 2.5th Doctor isn’t as sure as Omega is that his 2nd incarnation is under much threat from the Celestial Toymaker. In fact, the 2nd Doctor is playing for his freedom against the Toymaker’s plot to hijack Omega’s plan to reorder the chaos they will plunge the universe into by removing the Doctor from it. Bleah… these summaries no longer make any more sense than the comic does. The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Chapter 7 163 Rich's Notes: Omega confronts the Celestial Toymaker for making a fool of him, but the Toymaker points out that he has no choice but to trust him. The 2.5th Doctor tries to comfort Omega, but Omega vows to take him to oblivion wth him if his plan fails. The Doctor is saddened by this reply, but he did expect it. Meanwhile the Toymaker returns to the game only to discover that the 2nd Doctor has beaten him. The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Chapter 7 164 Rich's Notes: The 2nd Doctor points out to the Toymaker that at their last meeting, the Toymaker made cheating legal, consequently, he cheated and won. Meaning that it wasn’t so much a game of chance, but a cheating competition that the Doctor won. Omega goes into a rage and turns on the 2.5th Doctor, who chucks a matter cricket ball into the gateway to Omega’s antimatter universe. To avoid the backblast from the explosion, the Toymaker is forced to close the gate, trapping Omega in his little neutral-verse. So the 2.5th Doctor calls for Glitz to fire a matter energy weapon blast directly into Omega…. and runs for the TARDIS. The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Chapter 7 165 Rich's Notes: Doctors 2 and 2.5 and Glitz hightail it out of the Toymaker’s universe as Omega begins to flare up into a massive matter-antimatter exposion and the universe goes– BOOM! The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Chapter 7 166 Rich's Notes: The 4th, 5th and 6th Doctors are getting in eachothers’ ways and on eachothers’ nerves. To mitigate the damage, the 3rd Doctor orders 2 of them to find something else to do. He suggests going to Gallifrey to follow the lead they picked up on the Daleks, Sontarans and the Master. In a huff, the 4th Doctor stomps off. The 3rd Doctor sends the 5th Doctor to accompany him. The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Chapter 7 167 Rich's Notes: The High Council gather for an emergency meeting, but they can’t figure out who actually called it or what it’s about. That is, until a Dalek arrives, exterminating the Castellan and claiming to be the Doctor. The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Chapter 7 168 Rich's Notes: Dalek Tor informs the High Council that they are instructed to come back to the lab to be converted into Daleks. They surrender. The 8th Doctor is horrified at what has transpired, and the 4th and 5th Doctor watch the Daleks march the Time Lords back towards the lab. The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Chapter 7 169 Rich's Notes: The 4th Doctor realizes that the Daleks are rounding the High Council up and leading them to the lab not so that they can extract information from them, but so that they can be used as genetic material for new Daleks to expand their numbers quickly (rather than waiting for a new batch to grow in a clone tank). K9 finds the 4th and 5th Doctors and tells them what’s happened to the 8th Doctor, the 10th Doctor and Leela. The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Chapter 7 170 Rich's Notes: In space over Earth the “battle of 5 armies” continues but numbers are dwindling. While Davros’ flagship picks off a couple of Sontaran battlecruisers, a Movellan assault shuttle homes in. It smashes into the back and drills through the hull. Davros sends a Special Weapons Dalek to take care of business, but the Rani drops a bulkhead in its way, diverting its route. The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Chapter 7 171 Rich's Notes: The Movellans break into the Imperial Dalek flagship, but instead of coming face to face with Dalek troops, they find a funny little fellow with a hat and brolly greeting them. The 7th Doctor escorts them directly to the control room while the Rani continues to divert and confuse the Dalek troops. The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Chapter 7 172 Rich's Notes: The Movellans and the Daleks engage in a firefight right in the command module of the Dalek flagship. The 7th Doctor informs Davros that he is quite through with dealing even remotely mercifully with him and leaves him to his fate with the Movellans. As the Doctor is leaving, however, Davros makes a cryptic remark that stops the Doctor in his tracks. The Ten Doctors: A Graphic Novel by Rich Morris Chapter 7 173 Rich's Notes: Before the 7th Doctor can figure out what Davros is talking about, he is tracked down and spotted by the Special Weapons Dalek and his team. They chase him back to the TARDIS where the Rani is waiting and ready to take off.