The Time Machination ( comic story ) The Time Machination was an IDW comic story . It was written by Tony Lee . Publisher ' s summary . London , 1889 and a time - stranded Doctor needs the help of an old friend to fix the TARDIS . . . but is beset by pursuers sent by Queen Victoria herself ! How is this connected to a previous tale of the Sixth Doctor — and a Fourth Doctor adventure that hasn ' t happened yet ? And what will happen if the Doctor is captured by the Torchwood Institute ? A special standalone tale ! Plot . London , 1889 : Two men are talking . One is H . G . Wells and the other is a man known as Jonathan Smith . They are talking about the Doctor . They enter a little passageway and see the Tenth Doctor . The Doctor says the TARDIS is out of power . He would go to Cardiff to fuel up , but can ' t due to threats such as Torchwood . Elsewhere two Torchwood agents are tracking Chronal signals . They finally figure that the Doctor is trapped . Jonathan touches a device which sends out chronal energy . The Doctor decides he needs to go and find some things . He changes into Victorian clothes and they exit , only to come across the two Torchwood agents . Luckily , they escape without being seen , but the power on the chronal energy detector goes mad . The Torchwood Agents know the Doctor is there . They are chased . The male Torchwood agent fires , hitting H . G . Wells and stunning him . The two agents take Wells back to the Torchwood Base at the West Indian Docks . At the Docks , Herbert is interrogated about the Doctor . Wells tells them about his meeting with the Sixth Doctor and his " young assistant " , who appeared out of nowhere and took him to the planet Karfel . He tells them that they fought Morlox and the Borad and then sent him home after . The male Torchwood agent asks if the assistant was female , young and indecently dressed . Herbert replies yes and asks how they know this . The man says Queen Victoria met the Doctor when he saved her from a werewolf ten years ago in Scotland . The female agent says Torchwood has followed the Doctor to places like America , Krakatoa and Perivale and missed him every time . They learn the Doctor has changed , fitting their description of him . Inside the TARDIS , Jonathan and the Doctor are busy . Herbert arrives and tells Jonathan about Torchwood and how they are waiting for the Doctor outside . Jonathan confronts the Doctor , saying that once Torchwood captures him , Jonathan will be able to have tea with Queen Victoria . Outside , Wells shows the Torchwood agents where the Doctor is . They surround the TARDIS , demanding the Doctor come out . The Doctor figures out Jonathan is a time traveller from the 51st century . He wants revenge for what the Doctor did to Magnus Greel . The Doctor says he did not kill Magnus Greel ; cellular degeneration killed him and technically it has not happened yet . Jonathan says he is here to stop the Fourth Doctor from killing him ; he found the secret diary of H . G . Wells on the planet Biblios documenting the Doctor ' s death . The Doctor outsmarts Jonathan and the TARDIS fades without him , revealing Jonathan to the Torchwood Operatives . They think he is the Doctor and stun him . As Wells is walking , he bumps into the Tenth Doctor , who encourages him to write " War of the Worlds " . Wells wonders what happened to Jonathan , and the Doctor explains that Jack Harkness will eventually convince the staff that he ' s not the Doctor . The Doctor leaves , but Wells is stunned to find the TARDIS arriving again , with the Fourth Doctor and Leela emerging . He wonders to himself how many Doctors there are . The Fourth Doctor and Leela walk off to see Li H ' sen Chang , master of magic mesmerism . Wells decides to write a book called " The Time Machine " .