Agent Provocateur ( comic story ) Agent Provocateur was the retroactive name applied to " Doctor Who " ( 2008 ) , issues 1 - 6 , after the publication of its collected edition . It was published in the first half of 2008 in the United States , and was significant for being the first original " Doctor Who " comic book published in that country . Originally meant to be one story in an ongoing monthly publication , it turned out to be the only story of that title , and , therefore , a mini - series . It should not be confused with IDW ' s later " Doctor Who " ( 2009 ) , a true ongoing monthly comic book . Summary . Over the course of seemingly unrelated adventures , the Doctor and Martha find that events are being manipulated by an alien Pantheon who need the Doctor to clean up their mess . They are simply looking for the best milkshakes in the cosmic galaxy , when a heap of trouble occurs . Plot . Chapter 1 . On the planet Gallifrey lived the Time Lord s , until the war came . All but one died . The Doctor takes Martha to a space station where Martha can have the tastiest milkshake in the whole universe . Once they get there the Doctor notices a Gizou , a shapeshifting alien , currently in the form of a reptilian alien , and the Doctor decides to talk to it . Before they can catch up with the Gizou , a figure in the shadows gets an electronic whip and kills him . The Doctor and Martha find only the Gizou ' s remains – now ashes on the floor . The Doctor is knocked out by the same figure , who also grabs Martha with the whip . Their captor , a Sycorax , takes the unconscious Doctor and Martha to his ship and he tells Martha that he is a collector of alien races . Suddenly the Doctor wakes up and the Sycorax aims his whip at the Doctor , only for the Doctor to grab it . He then begins to sabotage the Sycorax ' s weapon , Martha helps by destroying its staff . He tells Martha that legends say the Sycorax will be one of the last three species remaining at the time the universe ends . Chapter 2 . On the planet Kas a race of lion - like aliens are busy working when all but one vanishes into thin air . On the planet Nyrruh 4 a race of humanoids all vanish , leaving one survivor . The Doctor and Martha are visiting London in 1974 when they find statues of rock and pop stars in a grassy area in front of Westminister . Invited to an art exhibition , they set off to attend and do not notice that they are being followed by a black cat , much less that it suddenly vanishes . Once at the art exhibit , the travellers find figures from throughout British history , all made of sand . The Doctor detects that the statues are modified from living beings — someone turned them into sand statues . Martha asks who could have done it . They turn around to see the man who had invited them to the exhibition , accompanied by a bald woman . The bald woman strokes the black cat who ' d been observing the Doctor and Martha ; a green energy surrounds her , she points at Martha , and Martha is turned into a sand figure . Horrified , the Doctor tries to find out what has happened . The man explains . . . 4000 years ago , an Egyptian princess , Hentopet , prayed to the cat goddess Bast . At around the same time , some enemies of the Pharaoh were killed by a giant cat with a strange green glow . Hentopet tells her father , the Pharaoh , of her visitation — then suddenly stabs him in the chest . She and the Pharaoh ' s scholar talk to Bast . Bast tells them that her true name is Bubastion and she was dispatched there by the Shadow Proclamation to oversee development of Earth . Enraged at the humans ' behaviour , Bubastion curses them never to age . The Doctor realises that the Pharaoh ' s scholar is the man who invited him to the art exhibit , and the bald woman is Hentopet . The man takes advantage of the moment to free himself and Hentopet of the Curse : he turns them both into sand statues . The cat frees Martha and the rest of the people in the building . The two new statues crumble , the cat escapes , and the Doctor and Martha make a break for it in the TARDIS for their next adventure . Elsewhere in space and time , a human male followed by two red humanoids opens a door marked " Executives Only " . Inside the room is full of beings known as the Pantheon , and Bubastion is among them . Chapter 3 . On the planet Mer , a race of amphibious aliens are about their day - to - day business when all but one vanishes instantly . The Doctor and Martha land on New Savannah , where the Catkind are having a meeting with the same human seen entering the executives ' room at the end of Chapter 2 . They are talking about giving the planet to the Earth Empire as the sun has expanded destroying Earth and the remaining humans want to live on New Savannah . Suddenly , the room blows up – rubble falls everywhere , injuring humans and aliens alike . In the middle of the devastation lands the TARDIS , and the Doctor and Martha run to help the wounded . A green sphere appears out of nowhere behind an alley way . The man and the red humanoids appear . He says he wants to get off the planet before midnight . The Doctor and Martha find they are on a planet near New Earth . A male Catkind goes up to him he goes off with him while Martha helps the wounded . Martha asks the Catkind his name . It is Garrard Townsend . All of a sudden Martha is arrested by the police force there . She tells Garrard to tell the Doctor where she is . The man and the red humanoid henchmen enter and doorway and find themselves in a space environment . There is a man there called Silas Wain . Bubastion is also there and they have a quick conversation about private deals . Meanwhile on the planet Omphalos , all the citizens bar one man and its robots are there . This is all part of the plan . On New Savannah , the Doctor is investigating the rubble and he finds force fields . He says that it is interesting how the boardroom was not damaged . He finds out that there was a human in the room and made an Emergency Spatial Shift . The Doctor walks down the stairs and finds Garrard saying he needs to have a little chat . Martha is being interrogated at the New Savannah police station . She is told the story about how the humans saved the Catkind from extinction . But the Catkind had to make an agreement – New Savannah would become part of the New Earth Empire . The Doctor arrives and bails Martha out . He tells her that Garrard was responsible . Garrard is part of an anti - human cult who is planning to overthrow the empire . The force fields that defend New Savannah city were programmed to go down by the man who blew the offices up . All of a sudden giant cat robots that look like Bubastion in his true form attack . The cat robots start killing everything they can find . Martha and the Doctor find Garrard . The Doctor and Garrard have a brawl but the Doctor opens a door to Limbo Space . There he finds Silas Wain . She is killed by a robot but the door closes . There they see Bubastion who tells Martha this is Limbo Space , his home . Bubastion reveals that he has tricked Garrard and the anti - human cult . Garrard escapes but the Doctor and Martha do not pursue him . Bubastion tells the doctor that he is tricking him . The door to Limbo Space begins to close but the Doctor and Martha make it out alive . Garrard stops the giant cat robots . The Doctor , though , says he is going after the cats . Chapter 4 . The Doctor and Martha are in the TARDIS . Martha is flying in the air because the Doctor had said she could do that . They are on their way to a planet . Once the TARDIS lands they walk out and find they are in a mechanical futuristic city with robots everywhere . Martha notices there is no movement apart from these robots . All of a sudden the robots smell out the Doctor and Martha and start chasing them looking for their flesh . They make it to a lift . As they get to the top of the lift they find a man called Professor Tharlot who says he is the only survivor of Omphalos . The Doctor and the Professor go to the lab but Martha , unknown to them , is taken away by a robot . The Professor takes the Doctor to a room with a screen with all the survivors of planets that have had their populations taken away . The Doctor discovers that Tharlot was researching " him ! " Tharlot and the Doctor start having a confrontation but Martha runs in being chased by the robots who are demanding flesh . The Doctor confronts them as Tharlot runs away , the robots say they need a leader ( i . e Flesh ) . The robots then tell them Professor Tharlot is a criminal . The Doctor thinks Tharlot is behind the population theft but finds that the whole planets have been made to align with each other . The Doctor comes to the conclusion that one of the people who Tharlot has found is in league with him . Tharlot , who is watching over a monitor , turns out to be in league with Silas Wain . Wain discovers that Tharlot has grabbed the Doctor ' s ship with a robotic device . The robots tell the Doctor that Tharlot was imprisoned twelve cycles ago for murdering his own kind . When his kind vanished he got back to power . The robots theroize that , as a criminal , he was responsible for the disappearance of all the planet ' s inhabitants . Tharlot , still watching , activates the robots ' self - destruct mechanisms , causing them to explode . The Doctor and Martha run up to a room and find that the TARDIS has gone missing . Tharlot comes out and says he designed the room that the TARDIS was in . He gives the Doctor a device that will lead him to the " Leash " . They walk up to a circle on the floor , the Doctor and Martha and start to fall through the time vortex . Meanwhile there in a star system where all the planets are . The gravitational pull of them is affecting space creating a rend . A ball of energy fires up and two red hands appear . On Omphalos , Tharlot says he has the Doctor and the TARDIS safe . Silas Wain , who is in Limbo space , says he will send men to retrieve the Doctor . The members of the Pantheon including Bubastion and Silas . But the Doctor and Martha are still hurling down the time vortex . Chapter 5 . In Cumbria , at Ainsworth Point , some seagulls are flying about . One of these seagulls is turned into a crystalline form and smashes on the sand . The Doctor and Martha crash land on a shed on the beach . They can ' t hear anything . All of a sudden Martha is shot in the arm and is wounded . The Doctor takes her half a mile to Ainsworth House where he finds out the place is run by the Ministry of Defence and the year is 1957 . A nurse called Nancy sees to Martha and puts her on a stretcher . The receptionist rings the commodore . The Doctor tells them Martha suffered an accident on the beach and introduces himself as Harold Sullivan of the Ministry of Defence . Meanwhile in Limbo Space , Silas is angry that someone has shot Martha . The Pantheon , including an infuriated Bubastion , show up , having only just discovered that the Doctor and Martha were on 1950s Earth . The Doctor and the receptionist wait outside Martha ' s ward . The receptionist takes the Doctor away ; a yellow - eyed nurse , who is looking after Martha , is spying on them . Martha asks for tablets for her headache , prompting the nurse to offer to get some , but when Martha points out they weren ' t available in 1957 the nurse transforms into a Catkind , one Martha had saved from the rubble . Mr Rawlings , the receptionist , takes the doctor to a room containing a Sonic Weapon from the 51st century . The two encounter Silas Wain whose synthetic clothes give him away ; frightened , Mr . Rawlings runs off . Silas ' s two red guards confront Rawlings but when his eyes turn red it frightens " them " off . The alien nurse says she ' s been protecting Martha . They walk down the corridor and find a man lying dead – a doctor . Martha enters the mess hall only to find everyone inside is dead . . . The Doctor and Silas Wain find Martha and the nurse who reveals herself as Brel - Whispah . She wants to know why the Doctor and Martha are on Earth rather than Omphalos where the Pantheon was supposed to meet them . Elsewhere the ten planets begin to make an energy circle and a red beast walks out of the ball of light that was forming . Back in 1957 , the Doctor finds out that the Pantheon and Silas tried to find the Doctor to stop a creature from getting into the universe . Silas also roped in Tharlot and he sent them there . Mr Rawlings comes in , reveals himself as Tharlot , and claims he is in control of the Sonic Cannon . He fires it at Brel - Wispah , shattering her into crystal . He then aims it at the Doctor and Martha . Chapter 6 . An alien named Tarq battles alongside his kind and is wounded . Martha Jones finds him but informs his friends there ' s nothing she can do for him . An army of Robots is advancing on them and millions of species are fighting . The Doctor is riding on Bubastion ' s paw and Bubastion fears they won ' t survive . Martha flashes back to the circumstances that led them there : In Cumbria , the Doctor deflects Tharlot ' s beam , saving Martha and Silas Wain ; in response , Tharlot teleports away as his machine blows to bits . Silas explains to the Doctor what has been going on – Silas , who ' s been working for the Pantheon , unwisely hired Tharlot . The three adjourn to go to Limbo space , discuss plans with the Pantheon , and prepare for battle ; though the Doctor tells Martha to stay in the TARDIS , she insists on participating . Silas , his work complete , is sent home ; he requests one of his workers to track down Martha Jones ' ancestors . Back on the battlefield , the Doctor confronts Tharlot , and manages to turn his own weapon against him , crystallising him . The Demon that has been summoned attempts to kill the Doctor and Martha , but the Doctor uses Tharlot ' s weapon to send it back to its own dimension . The battle over , the combatants celebrate their victory . The Doctor and Martha leave in the TARDIS .