Terminal of Despair ( novel ) Terminal of Despair was a novel in the " Doctor Who " 2 in 1 books range . Publisher ' s summary . In Terminal of Despair , the TARDIS crew is quarantined in Terminal 4000 , where the hideous Despond s have destroyed the hopes of all awaiting passengers . Can the Doctor and his friends help them escape without succumbing to despair themselves ? Plot . The Doctor , Amy and Rory have landed inside what seems to be a spaceport and look around . The Doctor meets a flight attendant with a grim face . She explains that thirteen creatures had invaded Terminal 4000 . Amy and Rory , inside a shop , find that something ' s inside with them . A dog - like creature is inside the shop . When Amy approaches it , it jumps on her . A tentacle protrudes from its mouth and tries to latch onto her throat . Rory helps knock it out the way and they escape . The Doctor learns the creatures are called Despond s , dog - like aliens who feed off hope . Everyone is in despair because there is no hope left inside them . The TARDIS crew meet Roger McDowell , who has apparently shot one of the creatures . Now there are twelve . The Doctor follows Janie and Amy to the control room . Rory remains with the people in the lounge and meets Mr and Mrs Henry . In the control room , the Doctor tinkers with a machine . Realising that an alien has just entered , the computer releases a killing gas . Janie and Amy choke on it as the outside doors began to close . The Doctor , unaffected by the gas , disperses it . Rory goes to look for Amy and the Doctor and finds Roger , who knocks him on the head with a gun butt . The Doctor decides the only way they could escape is if he dies . Amy isn ' t so sure . The Doctor performs a Time Lord trick involving his binary vascular system . Amy and Janie escape and return to the lounge . The Doctor wakes and tries to figure a way out . In the lounge , everything is chaos . People talk of raiding the shop where other people went . Amy and Janie feel compelled to help them . Amy and Janie are caught in the raid . Rory wakes in a space ship , where Roger introduces him to Cap . They believe that he can fix their ship ' s engines . Rory is forced to agree to help . The Doctor is still inside the control room , trying to get the spaceport ' s quarantine lifted . A control panel gives him an electrical shock . Amy grows worried about Rory . The raid persists to continue in their attack and the Doctor watches from the cameras as Amy is thrown against the shop along with other caught people . Rory is now fastened into a space suit and led by Roger out into space who would watch over him and make sure that he wouldn ' t tamper with the engine , but instead fix it . Deciding to escape , Rory tries to distract Roger and starts to head back to the airlock , but too late . Cap cuts the wire and he is sent sailing out into space . The Doctor finally manages to trick the machine and he escapes from the control room . Rory , starting to panic , pulls the air tube from his tank and points it out to space . He begins to soar towards the airlock . He quickly enters the terminal . The raid , after a quick brawl , gives up on its attack and Amy is allowed to roam free . She finds the Doctor in the baggage claim , but Desponds suddenly approach them . Rory wants revenge and so leads two Desponds into the space ship where Cap and Roger were hiding . They begin to feed . The Doctor is attacked by one of the Desponds and is fed on , he loses all hope of ever escaping the terminal or helping the passengers . Amy drags the Doctor away from the Desponds and into the TARDIS , where they are safe . Rory finds them and discovers what has happened . They try to rejuvenate the Doctor ' s hope , but it is no use . He is completely drained of any information or hope on ever escaping the terminal . Amy decides to try something and heads up to the control room . Turning on the microphone she begins to recite the story of the " raggedy Doctor " . She talks of monsters and aliens that they had faced together and how the Doctor had made them turn away . Passengers were beginning to feel hope and were gathering outside the TARDIS , chanting the Doctor ' s name . The drained Doctor seems confused , wondering whether he is the correct man . Rory reassures him of that . Suddenly , he becomes the real Doctor again and begins to organise the people . He sets up three ships and puts Janie in charge of organising everyone for each ship . Rory is helped by a few male passengers to divert Desponds away from the crowds . He is forced to use a primitive weapon as a helping tool . Upon entering a shop , Rory and his fellow searchers are trapped as six Desponds surround them . Roger appears from his ship ; he had left Cap behind to be fed on . He finds Amy and tricks her into opening the TARDIS . Shoving her inside , he orders her to control it and take them away from the carnage . After she refuses , he decides to drive it , and the TARDIS disappears from the terminal . The Doctor arrives in aid of Rory and the male passengers and locks the Desponds inside the shop . He then spots his ship hovering outside a window , in the middle of space . Inside the TARDIS , Roger apologises for his action to Amy and explains that it was his fault that the Desponds had invaded and how the quarantine had begun . Under the orders of the Doctor , Rory begins to organise the passengers onto the ships . Meanwhile , the Doctor has called the TARDIS phone and explains to Amy that she must fly the TARDIS at an exact moment . Using his sonic screwdriver , he attracts the creatures ever closer . Roger explains that it was his fault . He had found the Desponds when they were babies after their mother had died . He kept them and looked after them inside the Terminal , in a storage cupboard . And they managed to escape . Amy doesn ' t blame him entirely . After not hearing from the Doctor for a while , Amy decides to pull the lever , it engulfs the Doctor and Rory as they back away from the Desponds . Steering carefully onto one of the space ships , the Doctor , Amy and Rory say their goodbyes and thank Janie for her hard work . The TARDIS disappears . " more to be added " References . " to be added "