Bus Stop ! ( comic story ) Bus Stop ! was a Tenth Doctor comic strip published in " Doctor Who Magazine " . Summary . When the Doctor gets a bus , things start to go wrong . . . Plot . A blond young man reads the paper on a double decker bus . He ponders that weirdo types always sit next to him on the bus and how he can avoid them . Someone who turns out to be the Tenth Doctor , wearing a Freeview aerial on his head to confuse the bio - scanner of time assassin s from the future , is the next one to bother him . The Doctor asks to use his cell phone to call 27th century Mars , where Martha Jones is . The man sitting on the bus lends him the cell phone . He believes the Doctor is a nutter , a sci fi fan who probably lives with his mother . The cover of the " Evening Standard " he is reading has a story about the mayor vanishing . A flask the Doctor shows this man has soup in it made from the DNA of the Mayor of London . Time assassins from the future are chasing the soup to extinguish the Mayor ' s entire lineage . The Doctor makes the phone call Martha . Detective Inspector Moloch , an alien bodyguard of the Mayor ' s descendant President Lithops , is with her outside the Science Compound on Mars . They wear helmets and spacesuits . After the Doctor vanished in a makeshift , poorly constructed time machine made by the President ' s people , mutated time assassins showed up at the lab so Martha , DI Moloch and President Lithops race outside . The Doctor lures the assassins away from the Mayor by creating a decoy Mayor DNA soup , rewiring a Freeview Box and buying an Oyster card . The Doctor is the only one who can use the machine without becoming as fatally mutated as the assassins . They have to fetch the Doctor . Lithops says he has a bout of asthma brought on by almost having never existed . Moloch claims that where he goes , the President must go . Two assassins in a Lada follow the bus . Moloch attacks the base and blasts mutant assassins down with his ray guns . One of the time assassins , who are green and sport " cephalapod " beards , is waiting at the Doctor ' s next bus stop . The female bus driver does not have time for jokes and the mutant is stalled for a bit . Martha reverses the controls on the time machine as Moloch takes care of the mutants — he , at first , thought there was just one , but there were two . The man on the bus does not see the Doctor vanish . The Doctor tells Lithops that his scientists are just as dangerous as the assassins . They have taken stolen or scavenged items and made a time machine that is a death trap . If anyone travels in it , their genetic code is scrambled , and eventually they will die . The Doctor rigs it to start a terminal overload and when it explodes , the assassins in London will have their connections terminated and they will vanish . As it explodes , Martha and the Doctor head for the TARDIS . One of the assassins sits next to the blond man and asks where the Mayor of London is . He pulls a gun on the man , all unnoticed by the man himself . The time assassin vanishes . The man resolves that he will start riding his bike to work . . . References . " to be added " Continuity . " to be added "