Hunters of the Burning Stone ( comic story ) It also added a vital piece of the mythology of Doctor Who , revealing that it was the Eleventh Doctor who broke the chameleon circuit on the First Doctor ' s TARDIS , as seen in the very first episode , giving the TARDIS its iconic image of a police box . The story was voted by " Doctor Who " fans in 2013 as being the best comic of the year . ( DWM 479 ) Summary . Part 1 : Hunters of the Burning Stone . Earth , 1965 . On a former Sontaran timeship orbiting the planet , Captain Gol Clutha has just obtained an important package that she and her crew will be paid heavily for . Returning to her quarters , she finds the Doctor waiting for her there . He tells her that he noticed her ship and came aboard . Examining the ship ' s memory logs , he sees that the ship was taken from the Sontarans after massacring its original crew with halisiton gas , an incident of which Clutha frequently watches the video footage . Clutha picks up a sculpture from her desk , revealing it to actually be a Traulian mind - spike . She points it at the Doctor and threatens to kill him . The Doctor tells her he has already reconfigured it to kill the user instead of the target , but , unfortunately for her , she doesn ' t believe him . She fires the weapon and drops unconscious to the floor . Cornucopia , 2013 . In the aftermath of the Doctor ' s previous encounter with the place , the planet has become a working spaceport with Miss Ghost in charge . The takeoff of a ship has been delayed , and its captain , Pala , demands to speak to Miss Ghost . Ghost and Pala talk , and Ghost lures Pala to a private area on the premise of negotiating the sale of medical supplies . Pala moves to attack Ghost but Ghost knocks him out instead . Ghost , revealing her real name to be Cheshire , contacts an unseen controller , saying , " Pala didn ' t play along . I ' ll have to do this the hard way . " She also says she ' s going to start searching for a certain item in the starboard cargo holds , on which a scan with what appears to be the Doctor ' s sonic screwdriver has revealed the security to be most focused . Revealing her true form to be an android and entering " wraith mode , " Cheshire gets to her destination and discovers , as she had expected , several large containers of psi - responsive metal , the same material used to build the Ziggurat of Cornucopia . Pala wakes up and is discovered by a crew member . He issues the order to take off as soon as possible . Cheshire attempts to leave , but her power is draining and she can no longer sustain Wraith Mode . The crew of the ship discover her and she only narrowly escapes . Back on Gol Clutha ' s ship , her death is discovered by one of her crew . Elsewhere on the ship , the Doctor enters a locked area using Clutha ' s key card , incapacitating the guards with exo - genetic foam . Inside , he discovers a large object similar to the Pandorica , but glowing orange and with sun symbols on its sides . On Pala ' s ship , six objects are seen approaching on the radar . The ship is violently rocked as the mysterious objects land on the ship ' s hull — while the ship is in trans - light mode , which would normally result in the objects being torn to pieces . The objects — now shown to be six glowing skeleton creatures wearing armour adorned with the same sun symbols as the cube — tell the crew they seek the Burning Stone , which the ship ' s crew has stolen , and proceed to kill the crew in their search . The Doctor uses his sonic screwdriver on the glowing cube , made of the same psychic metal Cheshire saw earlier , and walks through its walls , hoping that whoever is behind the chaos he has been witnessing is inside . It teleports him to a different location , and the Doctor looks on in surprise and horror . . . . . . as Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright welcome him to Coal Hill School . Part 2 : Doctor Who ? Ian and Barbara neither recognise the Doctor nor recall their adventures together . The Doctor tries to jog their memories , but to no avail . Looking outside the classroom they are in , he realises that the psychic prison Ian and Barbara have been trapped in is so large , they don ' t even realise it exists . The Doctor asks them what year it is , and they reply that it ' s 1963 , leading the Doctor to realise that their memories of travelling with him have been erased , as they were actually abducted from 1965 . The Doctor tries again to get them to remember him , this time by asking them about Susan Foreman and drawing a picture of the TARDIS on the blackboard . This tactic succeeds , and their memories come flooding back . The Doctor brings them back through the gateway onto Clutha ' s ship . However , he soon realises that Ian and Barbara still don ' t know who he is , as they know nothing of regeneration . Before their conversation can continue , however , Clutha ' s crew start to cut through the door , and the trio are forced to flee into a hatch in the floor . Crawling through a passageway to the engine room , the Doctor quickly sets to work pulling an electrical panel off the wall , while Ian and Barbara find the TARDIS and start calling for the Doctor , believing him to be inside . The Doctor finishes what he is doing and the three go inside the TARDIS . Ian and Barbara are understandably surprised by the new interior , and Ian becomes convinced that the Doctor is an impostor . The Doctor explains what he knows about the psychic metal — that devices made of it " have been raining down on Earth for centuries now , hitting cities at key points in history . " They all seem to be connected to a question that the Doctor has been asked several times in his recent past ( including once by Cheshire ) : " What is buried in man ? " Barbara tells the Doctor of Ian ' s suspicions . The Doctor tries to explain the truth , but he and Ian soon get into an argument . Barbara breaks it up , and the Doctor swiftly sets course for Cornucopia . Ian , immediately noticing that the Doctor is able to pilot the TARDIS accurately , points out to Barbara that the " real " TARDIS was never as reliable as this . Back on Pala ' s ship , the crew issues a mayday call . The leader of the Hunters commands two others , Garn and Rakk , to search the lower levels , where he senses the Stone may be . Cheshire , meanwhile , asks for her extraction from the vessel to be delayed so she can figure out what ' s going on . She pulls aside a passerby , Tarky Pakko , who is rushing to safety and interrogates him about the origins of the psychic metal . She doesn ' t learn much , however , before Garn and Rakk burst through the ceiling . Cheshire and Pakko secretly look on as the two Hunters find the " Burning Stone " — revealed to have been the psychic metal all along . Cheshire detonates a fusion charge and the containers of metal explode . The Hunters , outraged , destroy the ship and take off back into space . Cheshire leaves through a portal . Pakko begs her to take him with her , but she tells him that as he has no information on where the psychic metal was headed before Pala ' s ship took it , he is useless to her . The TARDIS lands in a market in Cornucopia . The Doctor tells Ian and Barbara that they must keep a low profile , as there is evidently a heavy price on their heads . The Doctor then uses his sonic screwdriver to advertise their presence to the right party . The Doctor explains to Ian and Barbara about Cornucopia , then goes off to talk to a vendor . Barbara tells Ian that it ' s not so impossible that the Doctor is who he says he is . Ian agrees , but wants to see some proof before he ' s convinced . The Hunters land in the western plaza . Upon discovering that the Ziggurat of Cornucopia has been destroyed , they decide to " make this world scream and die ! " Part 3 : Night of the Hunters . The Hunters begin their attack on Cornucopia . The Doctor tells them that he was the one who destroyed the Ziggurat , and is nearly killed , but Ian saves him and accepts that he is indeed the Doctor . Cheshire appears and demands that the Doctor tells her what he knows about the Hunters . Barbara arrives and is taken as a hostage by Cheshire . She struggles and they both accidentally fall through Cheshire ' s portal . Ian is devastated , but the Doctor promises him that they ' ll find her . The Doctor and Ian run up to the roof where the Doctor uses his sonic screwdriver to call for help . A group of creatures appear that are seemingly made out of the psychic metal . They introduce themselves as the Promethean s and reveal that they arranged Ian and Barbara ' s kidnapping and asks where Barbara is , saying Ian is " only one half of the catalyst " . The Doctor deduce s that the coated engine , the gauntlet and the Ziggurat were all made by the Prometheans and is about to get some answers when he and Ian are both rescued by Horatio Lynk . They persuade him to help them find Barbara . On Cheshire ' s ship , Barbara demands to know where she is , but Cheshire tells her to shut up . She manages to get a picture of the Prometheans on the monitor . Barbara , enraged at being ignored , exclaims that " This is the second time I ' ve been kidnapped today and I ' m getting jolly sick of it ! " and once again demands to know who Cheshire is . Cheshire gets up and starts to take her helmet off . . . The Doctor , Ian and Lynk are breaking into Miss Ghost ' s home . They are attacked by gravity globes , but the three manage to stop them , Lynk using what looks like a sonic screwdriver . They start searching the house , and the Doctor finds Annabel Lake ' s doll . On the ship , Cheshire reveals herself to be Annabel Lake . She tells Barbara that she first met the Doctor in Prague , 1989 , the night her mother died . The Doctor is confronted at gunpoint by Patrick Lake . The Doctor shouts angrily at Patrick , " WHAT THE HELL HAVE YOU DONE ? " who simply tells him that he took the Doctor ' s advice and made the leap . The Doctor , Patrick , Horatio and Ian are all knocked back by a sudden explosion . Lynk takes the worst of the blast , being knocked unconscious . The Prometheans and the Hunters emerge from the wreckage and knock Patrick ' s gun away . The Prometheans refer to the Hunters as their children , and the Hunters ask Ian for " more words to remember " . When Ian says he doesn ' t know them , they tell him that they remembered his trick in which the skull s came to life in the flame and that they took it for themselves . Saying that they fear nothing , the Hunters blast away their skulls and are revealed to be Za , Hur and Horg from the Tribe of Gum . They decree that they will take back their world . Part 4 : Quantum Leap . The Prometheans revealed that they visited primitive worlds and granted them the gift of their psychic metal , and that they had witnessed Ian , Barbara and the First Doctor ' s encounter with the tribe of Gum , and given the tribe the psychic metal after the TARDIS departed . The Tribe became the Hunters , who travelled through time and space in search of more of the metal . The Doctor was shown Patrick ' s memories ; shortly after a repelled Cyberman invasion in the early 21st century , Patrick lobbied for a new branch of MI6 , one dedicated to space travel and defence against alien threats , to be formed . He trained his daughter to become one of the branch ' s agents . The Doctor , realising the Prometheans were feeding on Patrick ' s psychic energy , shut down Patrick ' s conscious mind . The Prometheans turned on the Doctor , and sent him to relive his most terrifying memories , transporting him to the last day of the Last Great Time War and filling his head with visions of his deadliest foes . Part 5 : History Lesson . The Doctor was able to overcome the onslaught , and the memories changed to the moment during their time in prehistoric Earth , when Ian persuaded the Doctor not to kill someone . The Doctor told Ian that he helped him to be better , and revealed that he had been inspired by Ian and Barbara to take on more human companions . He also told Ian of the many deaths he brought about , particularly those of the Time War . Ian reassured the Doctor that he was a good person , and the two finally escaped the psychic realm . They then discovered that the Prometheans ' craft was a " neural reverser " , which the Prometheans used to regress humanity to the level of cavemen , so that they may once again worship the Prometheans as gods . The Doctor , Ian and Patrick were then picked up by Barbara and Patricia . Once onboard their ship , the Doctor admonished Patrick for turning his daughter into a weapon , with Patricia retorting that she was honouring her fallen mother , and telling the Doctor to think of a solution himself . When the Doctor was unable to , Ian encouraged him , and he suddenly hit on a plan , departing in the TARDIS . Part 6 : Till Death Us Do Part . As the Tribe of Gum instructed the primitive humans to worship the Prometheans , the Doctor returned , having planted images of the TARDIS throughout human history , and using that image to alter the neural platform , reversing the effect , destroying the platform , and " locking " the minds of the human race from being altered again . He answered " What is buried in man ? " : It was him and his TARDIS . Incensed , the Tribe of Gum , at the Prometheans ' urging , attacked the Doctor . Ian and Barbara landed their ship on a fragment of the neural platform , and convinced the Tribe to stop by telling them of love and sacrifice , and how the Doctor protected the people of Earth for years . When the Tribe of Gum ceased their assault , the Prometheans attacked Ian and Barbara . The Tribe of Gum then turned on the Prometheans . Both sides were destroyed in the ensuing struggle . The Doctor tried to shut down Hugo Wilding and Patrick Lake ' s MI6 organisation . Hugo had information on the Doctor and threatened to upload it to every database in the universe and make the Doctor a popular figure again , which the Doctor had spent a long time trying to erase . After ensuring his existence was to remain shadowed , the Doctor attended Barbara and Ian ' s wedding as Ian ' s best man , telling Barbara what he did ; He arrived in 1963 , at Totters Lane , where he entered his first incarnation ' s TARDIS , and used the sonic screwdriver to break the TARDIS ' chameleon circuit . Barbara realised that that blue box would always be around in case of trouble . Plot . " to be added " External links . " to be added "