B00DPX9ST8 EBOK (152 page)

On Day Four, the 456 said humanity had one day to deliver 10% of their children; refusal would trigger the destruction of the entire human race. The 456 refused a counter-offer of one child for every million people (6,700 in total), and made Earth’s children chant a number equal to 10% of the children of each country. Green’s Cabinet privately decided that children would be taken from the lowest-rated schools, and exempted their own children and grandchildren from the selection. Torchwood forced a confrontation with the 456 - who, as a demonstration of their power, released a virus that killed nearly everyone within Thames House, including Ianto Jones of Torchwood. The 456 sent a pulse that killed Clement McDonald, who had been tethered to the 456 following the 1965 incident.

On Day Five, the 456 told Earth’s negotiators that the surrendered children would be biologically grafted to the 456, and not age while producing chemicals that made the 456 “feel good”. The world governments mobilised to secure the children by force, under a cover story that they were to be inoculated against further alien communication. The UK army started collecting children from schools and their households at 12:00 hours. Green informed Frobisher that the government must be seen to have suffered loss against the 456, and ordered that Frobisher surrender his two daughters to the aliens. To prevent this, Frobisher killed his daughters, his wife and then himself.

Jack Harkness transmitted the wavelength used to murder Clement through humanity’s children, turning it into a constructive wave. The 456 representative exploded in a shower of blood, and its remains were withdrawn on a column of fire. Humanity’s children suffered no harm, save for the single child Jack had used at the centre of the resonance: his grandson Steven, who died. Frobisher’s executive assistant, Bridget Spears, used Torchwood’s surveillance equipment to record Green making incriminating statements, allowing Home Secretary Denise Riley to gain political leverage over him.

Gwen Cooper learned that she had been pregnant for three weeks. The Home Office believed that Torchwood Two had been disbanded.

The Hub’s destruction created enough kinetic energy to activate the alien viewer in Suzie Costello’s belly, and would facilitate her revival in weeks to come.
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Martha Jones and Mickey Smith married
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and were on their honeymoon during the 456 crisis.
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The tenth Doctor sent them a wedding gift - without warning that nobody should spill champagne on it. Martha later chastised the Doctor for this, claiming it took four hours to get her mum off the ceiling.
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John Hart was present at Ianto’s funeral. Also in attendance were alternate-history versions of Mairwyn and an Ianto who had accepted her offer.
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Angelo Colasanto’s agents recovered a Proper Null Field - an alien device that could generate a cancellation wave - from the Hub’s remains.
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2009 - “Don’t Step on the Grass”
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Martha, now a freelance agent who sometimes continued to work for UNIT, summoned the tenth Doctor, Emily Winter and Matthew Finnegan to Greenwich. They and UNIT forces led by Erisa Magambo became embroiled in a pitched battle between the Enochians (who had freed themselves from imprisonment, and whose essence was variously turning trees into ravenous monsters or animating clockwork bodies) and the Knights of the Arboretum. The Advocate had engineered the conflict as part of her crusade against the Doctor, but the Enochians were contained aboard their spaceship and blown up. Matthew left the Doctor and Emily’s company, preferring to travel with the Advocate.

The Department’s salvage team retrieved a Ytraxorian Reality Gun from the Hub’s remains.
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2009 (11th-13th October) - SJA: The Day of the Clown
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Haresh and Gita Chandra moved into 36 Bannerman Road. Sarah Jane, Luke and Clyde quickly made friends with their daughter, Rani, a budding journalist... and Clyde was horrified to discover that Haresh was their new headmaster.

Meanwhile, three children had gone missing in two weeks. Rani, Luke, Clyde and Sarah Jane all worked out that every missing child had visited the clown exhibit at a local circus museum: Spellman’s Magical Museum of the Circus. The owner, Elijah Spellman, was the legendary Pied Piper. He caused balloons that mesmerised on contact to rain from the sky, and thereby attempted to steal all the children at Park Vale. He psychically attacked Sarah Jane, but Clyde broke the spell by telling jokes. Spellman weakened, and was confined to a fragment of the meteorite he’d fallen to Earth in centuries before. Sarah sealed the meteorite fragment away in a box of Halkonite steel, though which not even thoughts could penetrate.

By now, Sarah Jane, Luke and their friends had saved the world twelve times.
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2009 - SJA: The Nightmare Man
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Luke told Sarah Jane he planned to take his A Levels early, allowing him to go to university a year ahead of his class - and made this announcement while the two of them were handcuffed to a bomb by a group of Slitheen. K9, Rani and Clyde saved them.

2009 (30th-31st October) - Forever Autumn
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The tenth Doctor and Martha arrived in Blackwood Falls, New England, to investigate an anomalous energy pulse. The buried Hervoken spaceship had repaired itself, but required an injection of negative emotional energy to power its escape. The Hervoken planned an atrocity in the town using possessed animals and Halloween costumes, but Doctor disrupted their ceremony and destroyed them.

2009 - SJA: The Time Capsule / SJA: The Ghost House
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The Persopolisian named Janxia revived from stasis, and sought out the components of the lost construction device. One of these was the black diamond of Ernfield - an enigmatic 82-CD gem that was on exhibit at the Natural History Museum, where Luke Smith had a work placement. Janxia’s attempts to claim the diamond triggered chaos, causing a dinosaur exhibit to explode. Sarah Jane and her friends accidentally caused Janxia and the diamond to meet their fate in a car compactor. Sarah gave the museum a copy of the diamond and, to avoid awkward questions about Luke’s role in the fracas, also donated an alien jewel she’d obtained from a Kissarni.

Sarah Jane and her friends discovered that the plain-looking house at 39 Bannerman Road had mysteriously been replaced by the Victorian villa that had stood there from 1865 to 1969. A temporal bridge formed between their era and 1884, and they journeyed back there to stop a pair of alien war criminals from destroying the world.

2009 (early November) - TW: Long Time Dead
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The Department, as led by Mr Black, had dispatched retrieval teams to sift through the Hub’s remains. Suzie Costello awoke in a fully healed body within the heavily damaged Torchwood morgue - but found that the alien viewer in her belly had linked her to an extra-terrestrial blackness, a space between dimensions that was hungry. Its energies surged through Suzie and killed various individuals - their brains were pulped, and their consciousnesses were consigned to the darkness’ void. As the darkness grew stronger, at least fifteen Cardiff residents were pulled into seemingly ordinary shadows. The proximity of the darkness caused at least seven people who had been treated with Retcon to regain their memories, and they committed suicide after scrawling “I Remember”.

Suzie became lovers with Detective Inspector Tom Cutler. He deduced her involvement in both the mysterious deaths and the spatial disturbances, which were now large enough for NASA to detect. Cutler lured Suzie to the ruined Hub, where his associates detonated charges that brought rubble down atop them. Jack Harkness was nearby as the darkness within Suzie claimed Cutler, instants before their bodies were pulverised.

2009 (5th-7th November) - SJA: Secrets of the Stars
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Every star in the universe aligned in a perfect conjunction for the first time since the universe’s creation thirteen billion years ago, and so the Ancient Lights made a bid to enthrall Earth - the first stepping stone to controlling every living being in creation. Martin Trueman, as empowered by the Ancient Lights, had gained fame as a psychic and star of the stage show
Secrets of the Stars
. Broadcasting from the East Acton New Theatre, he hijacked every TV station in the world and began systematically bringing the human race, one star sign at a time, under the control of the Ancient Lights. News services all around the globe reported that mass droves of people had fallen prey to a television hypnosis stunt. The President of the United States, also enthralled, walked out of the White House holding hands with the wife of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan. Having no star sign, Luke Smith was immune to the Lights’ power and defeated them. Trueman vanished into space, either destroyed or having journeyed away with the Ancient Lights.

Shortly after Trueman’s defeat, Luke and Sarah designated “today” as Luke’s “birthday”.
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Sarah Jane met Peter Dalton in a shoe shop, and they started dating in secret.
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2009 (Friday, 13th November to 14th November) - SJA: The Mark of the Berserker
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At Park Vale School, student Jacob West used a mind-controlling talisman - a device made by the alien Berserkers to create soldiers - to hypnotise a teacher. Rani found Jacob’s pendant, and deposited it with Sarah Jane for safekeeping. Meanwhile, Clyde’s long-lost father, Paul, showed up. Clyde showed him Sarah Jane’s attic, and Paul pocketed the pendant. He revelled in the pendant’s mind-controlling ability, but the more he used its power, the more he was converted into a Berserker-soldier. Sarah Jane held up a mirror, shocking Paul into becoming himself again. She and her friends throw the pendant into the sea.

(=) 2009 (Friday, 20th November to Saturday, 21st November) - SJA: The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith
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The Trickster opened a time fissure to 1951, and engineered a situation wherein Sarah Jane was tempted to travel there and visit her parents. She saved them from their historical deaths, an act that enabled the Trickster to come through a weak point in the web of time, and fully manifest from the limbo dimensions. This created an alternate history in which the Trickster sucked the life from the world - Clyde and Rani, protected from historical alterations by the Verron soothsayer’s box, witnessed the remnants of humanity working as slave gangs driven by Krislok the Graske. The timeline was restored when Sarah and her parents changed history back. Clyde gave Krislok the soothsayer’s box as payment for his help, freeing the Graske from the Trickster’s control.

2009 (21st-22nd November) - SJA: Enemy of the Bane
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Mrs Wormwood asked Sarah Jane for help, claiming that the Bane were hunting her, and that she wished to gain revenge by stopping them from releasing the ancient, evil being named Horath. Wormwood didn’t know where Horath rested, and so Sarah Jane called on Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. He aided Sarah in acquiring an artifact stored in the UNIT Black Archive: the Tunguska Scroll, which could summon a portal to Horath’s dimension.

Sarah and her friends discovered that Wormwood was in league with the Sontaran Kaagh, and that they wanted to rule the universe using Horath’s power. Wormwood and Kaagh opened the portal to Horath at a stone circle in Whitebarrow, but Wormwood then betrayed Kaagh. To regain his honour, Kaagh pushed himself and Wormwood into the portal. Sarah sealed the portal behind them, and destroyed the Scroll.

UNIT now operated under a Homeworld Security Mandate.
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2009 - SJA: From Raxacoricofallapatorius With Love
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A Slitheen posing as “Ambassador Rahnius of the Galactic Alliance” teleported into Sarah Jane’s attic to lavish praise upon her group... and then immobilised them with energy-laced deeley boppers. The Slitheen hoped to capture K9 and use his systems to steal from galactic banks. Sarah overcame the Slitheen with her sonic lipstick, and Mr Smith teleported the Slitheen away.

The Sarah Jane Adventures Series 3 (first half)
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2009 (a Sunday) - SJA: Prisoner of the Judoon

The homeworld of the reptilian Veil had perished when its sun turned cold. The Veil named Androvax, thinking himself the only survivor, subsequently became a nihilist and was responsible for the destruction of twelve planets. The Judoon captured Androvax, but Tybo, a captain of the 1,005th Judoon Guard, crashed to Earth while escorting Androvax elsewhere. This was a violation of The Articles of the Shadow Proclamation, which deemed Earth as primitive and forbade the Judoon from setting foot there.