The Age of Ice ( comic story ) The Age of Ice was a " Doctor Who Magazine " comic strip that featured the Tenth Doctor and Majenta Pryce . Summary . Returning to Earth , the Doctor is reunited with UNIT — and some of his old enemies — the Skith . As a master plan to crack the codes of time travel gets underway , the Doctor , Majenta and UNIT must race against time to stop the Skith leader from avenging the destruction of his home world by wreaking havoc across the Earth . . . Plot . Part 1 ( The Age of Ice ) . As a passenger aircraft approaches Sydney airport , it hits a patch of bright blue lightning . The plane is ripped apart and oxygen masks deploy as the lightning strikes the plane . Later , the TARDIS lands in Sydney , near the Opera House . Majenta heckles the Doctor about the fact that they ' re not on Panacea , but the Doctor ' s looks at a landing helicopter . UNIT soldiers emerge . One of them introduces herself as Captain Kath Braxton . The Doctor is taken to UNIT ' s underwater base . As the Doctor and Majenta are taken down UNIT ' s corridors by armed soldiers , one , named Colonel Tom McCay takes them into the base ' s hospital ward . They are greeted by Corporal Manning , who is taken aback when he sees Majenta . The Doctor investigates the patients there . He is surprised that they are hundreds of years old . McCay says they have aged in the passenger aircraft after it was hit by a chronal wave . He says prehistoric creatures have been rampaging across the city . The Doctor sees a small column of ice . McCay says the ice was found in the plane ' s wreckage . It doesn ' t melt , and is giving off electrochemical signals . McCay organises a helicopter for the Doctor so he can see the chronal wave himself . They realise Majenta is not with them . Corporal Manning had also left the group and is entering the bestiary in the basement . Majenta follows him and finds a room full of ( mostly alien ) tech — Cybermen carcasses , Auton s , War Machine s and more . Manning is communicating with a sentient life form when Majenta appears in front of him . Manning holds Majenta at gunpoint . She says she can tell he is using a cloaking device . Corporal Manning turns off the device . . . As the helicopter approaches the source of the chronal wave , the piece of ice begins talking to the Doctor . It is a message from a life form who has met the Doctor before . UNIT Sergeant Talbot notes that another chronal wave is approaching . Hundreds of prehistoric creatures appear near the bridge . In the bestiary , Corporal Manning turns out to be an alien of the same species as Majenta : an old friend of hers called Fanson . He tells Majenta how much he ' s missed her , but Majenta pushes him away and asks him to explain everything . Fanson says he can ' t . Majenta is blasted away by a pulse of energy as a crystalline life form called the " Skith Leader " appears . . . Part 2 ( Secrets and Lies ) . UNIT ' s helicopter flies past the bridge as the Doctor communicates with an " old friend " via the strip of ice . The helicopter is ruptured by a flash of bright blue lightning — an energy spike . It destroys the engines and kills Sergeant Talbot . The Doctor hits the eject button on his seat . McCay and he are ejected from their seats just as the chopper explodes in flames behind them . Their parachutes deploy and they land safely near the city . Back in the UNIT Underbase , Majenta begins to recover . Fanson begs the Skith Leader to save her life . He agrees , but warns Majenta not to interfere with their plans . Fanson says that after the incident with the Hotel Historia , they were both teleported to Thinktwice . Fanson , however , was intercepted , and brought down to a butcher ' s shop in Australia , where he found the remains of the Skith leader . They made a deal so both of their lives would be saved . He disguised himself as Corporal Manning to carry out the tasks of the Skith . As Fanson finishes his explanation , two UNIT soldiers burst in . Fanson orders the Skith leader to attack the soldiers . The soldiers are transformed into Skith and commanded to spread the Skith transformation through the Underbase . The Doctor and Colonel McCay enter a gift shop . After speaking the keyword , they enter a UNIT safehouse behind the shop . Using the computers and technology , the Doctor reveals the " invisible object " — a huge crystal ship hanging over Sydney . The Doctor explains that the Skith ' s motivation is to " rebuild the world in their own image " . Colonel McCay sends a command to the Underbase control room to attack the bridge . Suddenly , the two UNIT soldiers converted by the Skith enter the control room . . . McCay and the Doctor return to the Underbase , where the Doctor complains of an ice cream headache . Thinking nothing of it , he spots Majenta , who stops , reaches for a taser and electrocutes the Doctor . McCay orders Manning to stop her but Manning refuses , pointing out that McCay is no longer in charge as newly converted Skith soldiers take UNIT captive . The Doctor is dragged away by the converted soldiers . . . The Doctor wakes up with the Skith leader , Majenta and Fanson , whom he fails to recognise . The Skith leader tells the Doctor that the Skith need him to access their crystal ship , which is phased out of time . The Doctor , Fanson and Majenta are taken to " the Starling " , a UNIT flying base . In the control room , the Doctor asks the leader about their plan . The leader says the Doctor is time sensitive , He will open the door and throw him at the ship . Another Skith approaches the leader and warns him not to take such drastic action . He tells the Doctor that " everything is going according to plan " as hundreds of Skith fighters swarm out of the ship towards the UNIT flier . . . Part 3 ( The Master of the Skith ) . In Sydney dinosaur s still roam the streets and chase humans . The Doctor , Majenta , Fanson and McCay are being marched down an ice corridor by the Skith . The Doctor notes the Skith have a huge army . As the is separated from the group by the Skith , he tells Majenta to take care of herself . The Skith General and the Skith leader meet . The Skith leader is annoyed at the Skith General for the breach of authority . As the Skith Mindcore watches in tacit approval , the General turns on leader and throws him into the ship ' s fusion core . At the Underbase the Skith soldiers sense the leader ' s demise and hesitate . Captain Braxton sees an opportunity and calls out the keyword , " Leviathan " . Majenta , Fanson and McCay are bound on examination tables . The Skith scan them and find they can ' t get anything from Majenta , except that she ' s a time traveller like the Doctor . While the Skith discuss what to do next , McCay melts through his bindings , grabs a Skith weapon ( with Skith attached ) and shoots down his captors . The Doctor confronts the Skith General , who says that the Skith home world was destroyed by a large crimson hand . The Mindcore can ' t figure out who or what caused this , but has put the Skith on a war footing to stop it from happening . . . and are working on time travel as a solution . McCay has freed Majenta and Fanson , with a plan to storm the ship ' s nerve centre . At the Underbase the Leviathan protocol activates . The base computer projects a psychic wave that incapacitates all of the Skith in the base , then takes the Underbase up to the surface of Sydney Harbour . The Skith General takes the Doctor to the Skith time machine , which he calls the SKARDIS . The Skith learned of the TARDIS when they probed the Doctor ' s mind in 1915 and built their own version , but found it needed a living time brain to work . The Doctor seems eager to cooperate , but the Mindcore warns this is the Doctor ' s way of " getting inside the system , destroying it from within . " At that moment McCay , Fanson and Majenta race in . The Skith General easily subdues McCay , then turns toward Majenta as a more suitable subject . Over the Doctor ' s protests she is transformed into the new Queen of the Skith . Part 4 ( Ruins and Snow ) . Majenta , now the Skith Queen , orders the Skith General to throw the Doctor , Fanson and McCay into the fusion core . She ' s elated to be part of something big again , but thinking about it brings up a fleeting image of four darkened figures . As the others are led away to the core , the Skith Queen tries out her new SKARDIS . In the newly surfaced Underbase Braxton and Lowrie observe as a chronal wave freezes the Sydney Bridge , killing all the dinosaurs . The Doctor and others arrive at the central core . The Mindcore gloats it will watch as the Doctor falls and burns . The execution is interrupted , however , when the Skith Leader claws his way up from the fusion core and shoots the Skith guards . With his dying breath , the Leader tells Fanson he must save the Skith . Fanson reaches for him as he dies and breaks into shards . Braxton reports to McCay that the Skith ship is making a new Ice Age envelop Sydney . At the SKARDIS the Skith General suggests they strike " the Hand " . The Skith Queen has other ideas , and suggests they go to Panacea to restore her memory first . The Doctor returns . He appeals to the vestiges of Majenta still in her . He tells her that every time they use the SKARDI , S a chronal wave moves across the city , leaving devastation . Unmoved , Majenta turns a dial and the SKARDIS materialises above Sydney . Braxton , seeing the opportunity , turns the Underbase ' s main guns on the Skith ship . The Doctor advises the Skith General to take his ship ( the " Oppressor Two " ) and leave Earth . The Mindcore agrees . The General , furious at the Queen ' s betrayal , shoots ice spikes at her , but Fanson dives in front and takes the blow instead . Fanson , dying , tells Majenta it was he who had wiped her mind . She had gotten herself mixed up in a terrible secret that was driving her mad . Fanson dies as the Doctor pulls an angry Majenta away to the " Starling " . The flier escapes as the Skith ship is destroyed . Inside , the Doctor says the effects of the chronal wave should clear up in a few days . Majenta asks if the Doctor still wants to help her . He admits he can ' t pass up a good mystery , and they agree to stay together .