Matt Johnson

**Matt Johnson** was a sleuth who inadvertently caused a whole host of consequences and actions after he obtained alien technology in order to further his own agenda.

## Biography

An amateur sleuth who was inspired by his police detective father, Matt grew up on stories about Torchwood, Counter-Measures and the Alliance of Shades - organisations that his father had worked and liaised with whilst at his job. As an adult, he investigated minor alien incursions which often tended to be hoaxes or minor cases that brought no harm. Wanting to do more, Matt met with a man who knew a woman who knew the organisers of an alien black market that was run within a vast underground cavern in Wales.

Attending the market, Matt purchased a loot stack of Braestral technology and was told by the buyers that they found and obtained it inside a crashed ship on the outskirts of a battle site. Now in possession of technology that he spent five days working out how to properly operate, he decided to use it for his own money-making scheme; he would use the technology to fake alien incursions on Earth and set himself up as a freelancer that people would pay to fight these alien attacks quickly and effectively. In reality, he merely just turned off the illusions he had activated and pretended the aliens had been destroyed. But such was the limit of the technology, that every incursion Matt faked always appeared to be from the Braestrals.

Matt did not take any note of this, but the repeated reports of Braestral attacks led to agents from London's Trap Street to contact the Braestral home world. In response to this, Braestral High Command sent a strike squad to Earth, knowing Matt's rough location. To them, what Matt was doing was equal to slander to their name and damaging to their reputation.

Whilst at home, Matt was visited by UNIT, who had the Eighteenth Doctor, Ruby Barrella and Johnathon Danielsen in tow. They explained they needed him to help with a Braestral incursion at the Savoy Hotel who had UNIT personnel trapped; due to his apparent numerous dealings with them. Realising that his lie was about to be caught out, Matt ran off after claiming he required the toilet, leaving his house via the window. He planned to get back to the alien market in Wales and work out his next steps from there, however, his departure did not go unnoticed by UNIT and they gave chase.

Once they caught up with him and being half intimidated by the soldiers, Matt admitted what he had done and eventually went with the three to the Savoy, giving himself up to the Braestrals - who freed the UNIT personnel within the hotel, but due to Matt taking so long to admit himself to them - they exclaimed that they would purge the entirety of London in fire as consequence. With UNIT unsure what to do and ready to call an evacuation command as best they could, Matt realised an answer could lie within the technology he had bought.

Offering it to the Doctor, they discovered that a signal link had now been connected due to a Braestral ship being in close proximity - and henceforth, they could hack into the ship network and shut down their weapons. After the Braestrals left, UNIT took their technology off Matt's hands, who was admittedly now happy to be rid of them, but was also unaware as to what to do now. The Doctor claimed he would look into securing a position at UNIT for him; as some form of redemption. (PROSE: *Catching Fire*)

## Trivia

The name "Matt Johnson" is a deliberate parody of the names of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and former Health Secretary Matt Hancock.