Apotheosis ( comic story ) Apotheosis was a " Doctor Who Magazine " comic strip featuring the Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond . Summary . The Doctor and Amy arrive on a space station where time is running faster . They team up with a party of nuns to escape . But the problem may lead to the TARDIS itself . Plot . Part 1 : Apotheosis . The Doctor and Amy arrive at what is intended to be Wembley Stadium , 2030 . In reality they are on board a large space station . They enter an abandoned laboratory , only to be attacked by a plague robot . It is destroyed by a group of nuns with guns : Mother Ivana , Sister Bridget , Sister Sophia , and Novice Konami , along with two others . After Bridget confirms that they are not " abominations " , they are taken prisoner . Ivana explains their mission : To investigate the structure , which entered human space a year ago , is of alien origin , and is emitting exotic particles , and to find out what happened to the previous expedition , which disappeared without trace six months ago . The group move ahead to locate the station ' s command hub . Amy talks to Konami , who explains that she joined the sisters of purity to protect mankind from " the abominations " . They then find the source of the exotic particles , which the Doctor identifies as a primitive attempt at building a time engine . Two plague robots attack and kill one of the nuns . The others retreat into the next room , where the Doctor uses the station ' s control computer to over - ride the security protocols and deactivate the robots . Sister Sophia finds a group of skeletons which she believes to be what ' s left of the crew . However , the Doctor finds a fully - functional teleport , meaning the crew must have left . That leaves only one explanation ; The skeletons are the the first expedition . Ivana says that it ' s impossible , as the bones had to be hundreds of years old , but the Doctor makes a groundbreaking discovery . He has stubble . The passage of time is being accelerated as an after - effect of the time engine going wrong . Time is progressing faster in some areas than others , and unfortunately for Novice Konami , she is stood in one of the faster areas . She has been aged so much that she can barely stand . A lizard runs over Amy ' s foot , and the Doctor and her give chase . The nuns follow them . Outside , a jungle has grown , and the plant s are growing before their eyes . The lizard has died of old age . Realising that time is running out and getting faster and faster , the Doctor offers to take the group back to the TARDIS . With Konami in need of help , Ivana agrees . Amy wonders where the jungle is coming from , and why the plants are becoming blue the closer they get to the TARDIS . The answer soon becomes clear . At the centre of the forest is the TARDIS , mutated , with Cosette , Margaret and a Shasarak trying to force their way out . Part 2 : Hybridogenesis . The TARDIS is caught in an accelerated time field . Amy sees Cosette and Margaret , who beg her to help them . The Doctor pulls her back as they coalesce into one enormous creature . The nuns shoot to kill , but it kills one of them and grabs Konami , absorbing her into itself . It separates from the TARDIS and walks away through the ship , pursued by the nuns . With the time field dissipated , the Doctor and Amy enter the TARDIS . He realises what has happened : The jungle outside is the one from planet Basingstoke , which infected the TARDIS , resulting it absorbing the Shasarak , Axos , Cosette and Margaret . The temporal acceleration allowed the absorbed life forms to evolve into an independent being which was then expelled by the TARDIS , finally disinfecting it . Meanwhile , the three remaining nuns , Ivana , Sophia and Bridget , have the creature cornered . However , to escape harm , it dematerialises . Ivana orders Bridget to rig the time engine with explosives . The Doctor lures the creature into the teleport using his sonic screwdriver . While he is distracted , the nuns catch up with him , and Ivana holds Amy at gunpoint , demanding that he tells her everything he knows about time technology . He makes the deduction that the nuns are fighting a war , and they were hoping to find something on the station to use as a weapon . He also realises that it ' s androids that they ' re fighting , for two reasons : When they first arrived they were checked to see if they were organic , and everyone in the group has been getting visibly older except Sister Bridget . Bridget kills Sister Sophia and is attacked by Ivana , who manages to sear off some of her fake skin , showing her true robotic face . The Doctor seals the door , trapping him , Amy and Ivana inside . Outside , Bridget connects to the control computer . Ivana explains that she is a Galatean , a robot duplicate with delusions of divinity . Bridget reactivates the plague robots , and Ivana uses her last sonic grenades to destroy all of the ones in the room . However , Bridget has amassed a small army of robots outside the door , and they cannot use the teleport to escape without killing the creature , and Cosette , Margaret , the Shasarak , and Konami with it . As the robots begin to cut through the door , Amy is caught in an accelerated time field and ages dramatically . Part 3 : Time Storm . Amy looks for reassurance from the Doctor that the ageing can be reversed , but receives none . Mother Ivana , wishing for them all to escape using the teleport , threatens to kill the Doctor and Amy if they don ' t destroy the creature inside it . Amy stands up to her , but the confrontation is cut short as the plague robots blast through the door . Ivana , having rigged the time engine with explosives , threatens to destroy it if the robots come any closer . Bridget shoots her anyway , fatally injuring her , but Ivana still manages to trigger the explosion , telling her to go to hell . The robots are blown away by the force , and the Doctor and Amy are forced to leave the creature behind and take shelter in the eye of the storm to avoid being aged to death . The jungle dies and the wind stops , allowing them to leave and make their way to the control room to see if they can still save the creature . However , they are captured by plague robots and taken to Sister Bridget . Now insane , she claims to have " seen the light " and that they have been blessed by a " divine incarnation " . The teleport opens . . . . . . and Chiyoko emerges . She greets the Doctor and Amy as the one who made her and the one who saved her life . Bridget hails her as flesh and machine combined , the ultimate expression of being , and Chiyoko destroys her and the robots with a wave of her hand . The Doctor offers her his help , but she says she doesn ' t need it , looking into all the potential pasts and futures , seeing all the wars and wasted lives . She finds it fascinating . The Doctor begs her to save Amy in return for her saving the creature in the teleport that became her , but she declines , instead dematerialising and saying goodbye . The Doctor apologises to Amy for always letting her down , but Amy says it ' s her fault , and she should have stayed in the TARDIS . She dies in his arms . The Doctor refuses to accept that she is gone , and uses the body patterns still on Bridget ' s bio - scanner and the teleport to restore them to how they were when they first arrived . With the station about to explode , the Doctor and Amy teleport back to the TARDIS , and pursue Chiyoko through the vortex .