The First ( comic story ) The First was a comic story published in " Doctor Who Magazine " . It was written by Dan McDaid . Summary . A trip to the Antarctic Circle proves eventful for the Doctor and Martha as they find themselves battling to save the human race from the Skith . Plot . Part 1 . It is 1915 and a group of men are on a trip to cross Antarctica . As they joke , James Francis Hurley is taking photos . He thinks he has seen something on the screen . All of a sudden some ice tentacles lash out and attack Robert Clark . They grasp him and it swims away . Elsewhere the TARDIS lands and the Tenth Doctor has taken Martha to see the Aurora Australis . Martha says it looks amazing but the Doctor notices a hole in them , saying that something has come through . All of a sudden they find the are surrounded by the men on the trip . Martha notices Clark ' s hand has been frozen . They agree to take Martha and the Doctor to their ship , the " Endurance " . On their way there the Doctor tells Martha that Hurley is a world famous photographer . When they get to the ship they are interrogated by Ernest Shackleton , who does not believe they ' re a liability and orders James Wordie to lock them in the hold . Frank Wild shows Ernest a piece of tentacle with a bit of blood on it . The Doctor explores the hold and finds a jar with a green oval - shaped egg inside . The Doctor says that he does not know what will happen to Clark . He says it is nothing good . Meanwhile Ernest and Frank go looking for Clark . Clark , now having two ice hands and glowing eyes , leaps at Ernest but is blocked off . The Doctor , Martha and James escape to find Clark climbing up to the mast . All of a sudden the monster comes back in full form and grabs James by the tentacle . Part 2 . The crew open fire but the bullets won ' t stop the monster . Martha discovers that the creature is made of ice and the Doctor observes that there is a heart beating inside . The crew then proceed to go on and harpoon the monster hitting it in the eye . Ernest orders it it to leave and it does so . Later , the Doctor and Dr Macklin are in one of the " Endurance " s bedrooms . The Doctor suspects that Mr Clark is carrying something in his bloodstream that is rewriting his DNA at a terrifying speed . This will make him inhuman . Ernest walks in and tells the Doctor that he does not want any rubbish poured into his men ' s heads . He threatens the Doctor that anymore funny business from him and Martha will " feed them to the dogs " . The crew as well as the Doctor and Martha head out , Clark with them but strapped up so that he can not get away . All of a sudden the ice sea monster jumps out on them and a tiny part of its tentacle falls off . The Doctor touches it and ends up communicating with the aliens behind this . He detects that the sea monster is about to explode and it does so , knocking everyone back . The crew pitch their tents . The Doctor and Martha discover that the monster that attacked them was once a whale but the aliens altered its DNA and turned it into ice . Clark is escaping but Frank follows him but gets frostbite when he exhales him with his breath . He runs into a tunnel and he gets Ernest to fetch the others . They enter the cave and find Clark running down . Suddenly three alien heads pop up from out the ground and rise to full form . They say , " Do not be afrrraid humansss . . . The Skith receive you all with pleasssure ! " Part 3 . The crew open fire but the Skith shoot ice shards into their hands . They are brought down to their lair , including Martha and the Doctor . They witness the Mindcore , a device which lets the Skith communicate . It is also the sum of all Skith knowledge . The Skith take the Doctor away to observe his mind . Martha and the crew are tied up . The Skith tell him he will come in a moment . The Doctor wakes up in a room hanging upside down with a red Skith . He soon finds out that is their leader . He tells the Doctor that the Skith are scientists . All of a sudden in the chamber in which Martha and the crew are held a boar creature , called a Byndalk , escapes . The Skith terminate him and say that he was the last of his kind . The Skith then decide to take Martha away for experimentation . Meanwhile the Doctor has his mind scanned and the Skith leader wonders what is going on . Meanwhile Clark has had his body taken over by the Skith . He heads for the control panel and terminates some of the Skith . They begin to shatter . He gets Ernest , James and Martha free . The Skith leader plans to take the TARDIS . He beams the Doctor with ice . Part 4 . " to be added "