Dominion (Doctor Who)

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Dominion
Series Eighth Doctor Adventures
Release number 22
Featuring Eighth Doctor
Sam and Fitz
Writer Nick Walters
Publisher BBC Books
ISBN ISBN 0-563-55574-2
Release date May 1999
Preceded by Revolution Man
Followed by Unnatural History

Dominion is an original novel written by Nick Walters and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Eighth Doctor, Sam and Fitz.

Like all Doctor Who spin-off media, the way the plot fits in to the ongoing story of television series is open to interpretation. See Whoniverse#Inclusion and canonicity

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[edit] Synopsis Book 1

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The story begins with a girl named Kerstin swimming in a lake in a lake near a cabin in Sweden. Her boyfriend Johan joins in and chases her around the lake. After he wins, Kerstin and Johan race to the shore (Johan wins again). Later than night, in bed, Kerstin starts thinking about her ex-boyfriend, and whether she really loves Johan or not. After Johan pressures her with some uneasy questions about their relationship, Kerstin goes to get some food from the fridge. When Kerstin gets to the kitchen, she suddenly hears an immense bolt of lightning hit the ground, which knocks her over. When she wakes up, the finds the whole front of the cabin gone, including Johan. There is a huge crater in the earth where the beds should be. After finding no reasonable explanation, Kerstin suddenly realises that she may have lost Johan forever. After getting dressed with Johan's spare stuff in the back of the car, Kerstin goes to the nearby farm.

The owner of the farm, Björn Andersson wakes up at three in the morning. He remembers that he fell into a drunken rage about putting off fixing the farm's power generator. As he walks down to the pen, he hears the pigs screaming. Hurrying back to the house, Björn grabs his shotgun and hurries back to the pen. The lights in the generator aren't working, so Björn takes a torch. He walks to the pen where the screaming is coming from, and finds that there is blood everywhere. There were 12 piglets and a sow in the pen. A strange creature suddenly lunges at Björn. It has sinewy, reptilian legs with cactus-like spines and gleaning white teeth. Björn manages to kill it with the shotgun, before passing out.

Inside the TARDIS, Fitz starts walking towards Sam's room. Sam is still feeling angry at him after the events of the Revolution Man. After knocking at her door, Fitz hears a strange sound like a bell underwater (Presumably the cloister bell). After hearing Sam scream, Fitz barges down the door and sees Sam falling into a whirlpool of light. After it seals, the area which it occupied is replaced with grey static, and the walls start warbling like wet cardboard. Fitz hurries back to the console room, where the Doctor is busy operating controls with his feet while he clings to the central column. Just as Fitz is about to explain to the Doctor what happened to Sam, the Doctor demands that Fitz gets his shoes and hurries onto the console. When Fitz gets the Doctor's shoes, his feet start to sink into the floor. The Doctor puts his shoes back on, and Fitz jumps onto the console. The Doctor explains that the TARDIS is being attacked by something. He initiates the emergency landing just as everything in the room turns into a 'porridgey' substance. The Doctor asks what happened to Sam, but Fitz falls into the porridge. The Doctor and Fitz only just manage to escape the TARDIS.

The TARDIS materialises in a forest, and the Doctor and Fitz are spat out. Fitz explains to the Doctor what happened to Sam and the Doctor says that the TARDIS will need time to heal itself. The Doctor thinks that a vortex infarction or time scoop may have captured Sam, but none of those things should be able to enter the TARDIS, and he admits that he doesn't know what happened to her. After judging the air and pollutant level, the Doctor concludes that they're on Earth in the late 20th Century. The Doctor and Fitz set off to find civilization, but they encounter a strange alien insect in the forest, which crashes into a tree and dies. Fitz wonders if this is really Earth, but the Doctor says that this creature shouldn't be here. Eventually, they find a farm. The Doctor realises that they're in Sweden from the architecture. The two of them walk towards the farm.

Kerstin wakes up in a bed on Björn's farm at midday. After telephoning the police about Johan's disappearance the night before, Kerstin calls again. Inspector Nordenstam tells her that there's been no sight of him, but also lets out a secret that 5 other people have disappeared within a five mile radius of the forest. Then, Kerstin calls her parents for comfort. She hears Björn groaning in the bathroom, and goes to investigate. Björn has a deep gash in his leg and has been applying ointment and painkillers. When Kerstin asks what happened, Björn says that he's not entirely sure he wants to tell her. After applying bandages, Kerstin tells Björn what happened to Johan over breakfast. Then, Björn shows her the creature that was in the pig pen last night. Björn refuses to show it to the police, because all of the media attention would ruin his privacy. Then Kerstin suggests that she phones the police on her own and say that she found it miles away, in the forest. After a while, Björn lets Kerstin use his truck to carry it away, because of the creature's stench. He says that he'll help her because he can see that she's lost someone.

Meanwhile, the Doctor and Fitz are still walking towards the farm. Suddenly, the ground beneath Fitz gives way, and he falls into a hole. The Doctor goes to get a ladder. Fitz notices that the hole is spherical, and maybe it's a natural phenomenon. After The Doctor drops the ladder down, he leans over too far and falls into the pit, too. But the ladder remains perched on the side of the pit. After climbing out of the hole, the Doctor and Fitz return to the farm so they can return the ladder. Fitz smokes again, and the Doctor catches him doing it but lets him go, saying that if it helps him to relax, it's fine. The two them decide to walk to the next town. Soon, they catch the bus to Strägnäs, and Fitz realises that the date is the 31st of July, 1999 from a newspaper. In a cafē, the Doctor says that everything that has happened may have been part of some kind of plan that they've got involved in. After going to find a hotel (despite the fact that the Doctor has no more money), Fitz sees Sam across the street. After chasing after her, Fitz and the Doctor are captured by the police. But the Doctor realises that the police are the most likely people to know about strange occurrences in the region.

Nordenstam receives word of the Doctor and Fitz from Officer Hansson, who claims that their friend has gone missing. Nordenstam goes to meet the Doctor and Fitz. The Doctor asks him if the blonde-hair woman that Fitz saw earlier was Sam, but Nordenstam denies it. The three of them go into an interview room. Nordenstam describes the other six missing people. After more awkward questions, the Doctor says that he is the scientific advisor of UNIT, and Fitz is his assistant, but Nordenstam has never heard of UNIT. The Doctor says that they've been trying to keep quiet about their investigating the disappearances, but they decided to reveal themselves after six occurred. He tells Nordenstam that Sam is a UNIT operative, investigating UFO activity in the area, but vanished. The Doctor shows Nordenstam his UNIT ID, but it has the third Doctor's face on it. Nordenstam tells Hansson to fax the UN to confirm UNIT's existence. The Doctor concludes that the human race is in danger, just as Hansson returns, confirming the Doctor's story. When Nordenstam asks the Doctor to explain the photograph, the Doctor loses his temper. Trying to get the Doctor and Fitz to confess about being impostors, Nordenstam shows them photos of the disappearances. The Doctor says that something is taking chunks out of reality. Nordenstam finally accepts the Doctor's story, and goes to show them the dead alien that Kerstin turned in earlier. The Doctor examines in and concludes that the boundary between this dimension and other one is deliberately being broken down. The TARDIS was attacked because the Doctor was the only person who had a chance of stopping the alien invasion. Nordenstam takes the Doctor to where the body was found.

At the farm, Fitz wonders if the Doctor has found the TARDIS. Björn starts hosing down the pig pen. The Doctor suddenly walks into the pen. When Björn asks the Doctor what he wants, the Doctor replies with the fact that he wants Sam back. The Doctor senses that Björn has lost someone close to him (his wife, Nina), and that he's lost someone close to him, too. After the Doctor mentions the disappearances, he tells Björn that he's going to live for years longer, and shouldn't fill them with remorse or guilt (Nina died when Björn's shotgun backfired). The Doctor goes up to the farmhouse for some tea (but Björn only has coffee). Fitz and Nordenstam drive to another reported crime scene. Another strange alien has been killed. When Nordenstam asks Fitz what it is, Fitz has to examine it to come to any sort of conclusion. A white van pulls up, and some soldiers in white suits emerge. Nordenstam has an argument with them in Swedish, and Fitz tries to settle the matter. The people in white suits identify themselves as the State Biohazard Protection Unit, and tell the police to leave the area. When driving away, somebody naked stumbles in front of the police van. Fitz suggests that they call an ambulance, but Nordenstam says that they don't have enough time. Nordenstam identifies the person as one of the six missing people. The person is Johan.

Kerstin goes to visit Johan in hospital once Nordenstam takes him there. Nordenstam approaches with Dr Lindgard, who says that Johan's sedatives will wear off in a couple of hours. The Doctor and Fitz arrive at the hospital, and Dr Lindgard tells the Doctor that Johan is stable. The Doctor wants to examine Johan, but Lindgard refuses (even though the Doctor tells Lindgard that he studied under Hippocrates himself). The Doctor barges into the isolation ward anyway. After examining Johan, the Doctor pulls Fitz aside and says that he's going to go back and check on the TARDIS, and that Fitz should stay here with Kerstin. The Doctor and Nordenstam go back to the forest, and Nordenstam gives Fitz his mobile phone so Fitz can call him if anything happens (being from the 1960s, Fitz is fascinated with the phone). Lindgard also leaves the room. Fitz starts a conversation with Kerstin. Kerstin asks him if he knows what happened to Johan and about the thing in the barn, but Fitz says that he doesn't know anything about them.

The Doctor begins walking into the forest, but he can't sense the TARDIS at all, due to the telepathic circuits being broken. The Doctor has taken a sample of Johan's blood using a tiny cybernetic mosquito, and has found strands of alien bacteria. Eventually, the Doctor finds the TARDIS, but now it has turned into a grey block. The TARDIS has diverted all of its power to healing itself, even destroying the outer plasmic shell. The Doctor can't find the entrance, and leaves.

Fitz starts smoking outside the hospital, and Kerstin joins him outside. She says that Johan's condition hasn't changed, and she asks Fitz what a TARDIS was. Fitz lies and says that it's a codename for the UNIT base of operations. Kerstin asks him why he stared at her before, in the hospital, like he knew her. Fitz says that it's because she reminds him of Sam, and then explains who Sam is (not a girlfriend). The two of them start walking, and Kerstin says that she speaks English because she spent a year in England, where she met her first boyfriend. Fitz decides to go and check on the Doctor while Kerstin returns to the hospital. Calling Nordenstam on his mobile phone, Fitz asks where the Doctor is when suddenly the Doctor appears next to him. The Doctor explains what happened to the TARDIS and says that if the telepathic circuits are disconnected for too long, the TARDIS will die. Fitz explains the alien creature in the forest to the Doctor, who thinks that it's probably come from a planet with low gravity.

The Doctor and Fitz enter the hospital and visit Kerstin, who's watching Johan. The Doctor manages to strike up a conversation easily, which Fitz envies. Fitz suddenly realises that Johan's head is moving and tells the Doctor. The Doctor, Fitz and Kerstin quickly hurry over to Johan, who starts mumbling Kerstin's name. Johan starts thrashing and screaming, and Lindgard comes into the room. The Doctor sends Johan to sleep with a hypnotic trance, and says that the sedatives may have caused the convulsions. Johan starts sweating violently, and Lindgard administers more sedatives. Then Johan begins to sweat blood. A huge purple lump forms on his chest. It explodes in a lump of clear fluid, and one of the aliens from the forest climbs out of Johan's stomach. The Doctor, Fitz, Kerstin and Lindgard all back out of the room and slam the door shut. More aliens burst out of Johan's body. The Doctor realises that alien eggs have been planted in Johan's stomach. Lindgard ushers the others out of the hospital. The Doctor tells Fitz to get Kerstin back to the farm, and hurries back into the hospital to get a look at the aliens. Fitz realises that the same thing could be happening to Sam.

Fitz takes Kerstin to the reception area, where the nurses tend to her. Nordenstam arrives, but when Fitz goes to show him Johan's body, he finds that it's disappeared. Fitz thinks that the State Biohazard Detection Unit may have taken his body, along with the creatures. The Doctor (who is looking for the body) thinks that the members of the organization might not even be human after Nordenstam confirms that there is no such organization.

The Doctor, Fitz and Kerstin return to Björn's house. The Doctor proposes breaking into the hospital in the middle of the night to find Johan's body, but Fitz says that it's too much for him. Kerstin says that she would go, but Björn hears something outside. Suddenly, one of the alien monsters smashes its head against a window. The Doctor decides to barricade themselves in, and Fitz tells Kerstin to go back to her room. The Doctor finds Björn's shotgun, but can't use it. Björn shoves the fridge into the doorway to block the entrance to the kitchen, where they're hiding. One of the creatures bursts into the window, but Fitz shoots it with the shotgun. Hundreds more aliens crowd the back door. Fitz shoots the alien trying to get through the door that's blocked by the fridge, and they run up the stairs and head for Kerstin's room. The Doctor notices that Björn's missing.

At the bottom of the stairs, Björn gets torn apart by the aliens, and realises that the Doctor was wrong when he said that Björn would live for a few more years. The Doctor realises that he needs the TARDIS to make accurate judgements. They make it up to Kerstin's room. Fitz tries to call Nordenstam, but the mobile phone's battery runs out. The State Biohazard Detection Unit arrive, and use a flamethrower to start to kill the aliens. The aliens outside the bedroom stop scrabbling at the door. As The Doctor steps outside, he finds them all dead on the floor for no reason. The Doctor, Fitz and Kerstin are approached by two members of the unit, and one of them turns out to be Lindgard. He tranquilises The Doctor, but Fitz and Kerstin manage to escape into the forest.

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Sam wakes up in a strange low-gravity dimension, with a sky that looks like a sea, and finds her things from the TARDIS room scattered everywhere. She also notices a strange black disturbance in the sky, which looks like a hole. She finds a tunnel and starts to follow it.

Fitz and Kerstin keep running through the forest until they get tired. Kerstin asks Fitz who he really is, and is shocked when he tells her. Some members of the State Biohazard Detection Unit walk past them, and Fitz and Kerstin follow them.

The Doctor wakes up in a strange, gaudy-coloured room and starts examining it.

Sam finds two strange, frog-like creatures playing in an ocean at the end of the tunnel. She accidentally catches their attention, but then they start playing with her. Eventually, they leave, and Sam follows them to find two adult aliens. The adults take Sam towards a strange, flying, leaf-like vehicle. It starts flying towards one of the sky-seas.

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