Species (Crisis Prevented)

An unnamed **species** attempted to subvert history by radically altering the outcome of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

## History

Mysterious in name and origin, the Twenty-First Doctor later admitted to her companions Kane Solace and Ruben Gomez that she had no idea who this species was - or if they were even a species at all; but she assumed so due to encountering two of them. Spurred on by the chaos to the timeline caused by Earth's destruction, this species intended to mess with history even further; merely because they found it fun. They chose Earth due to it being the origin of the current timeline disaster and the Cuban Missile Crisis after determining it to be the biggest flux point in the planet's history, where one change could eradicate everything.

Despite that, no member of this species ever took a step on Earth's soil, they instead, watched from an unknown location as they possessed two humans and spoke through them. Their plan was to use the mind controlled agents to manipulate the current American President John F Kennedy into launching a full on nuclear war against the Soviet Union and Cuba - one agent at the White House to directly influence the President and another on a Cuban ship to make it somehow provoke America.

As they were establishing themselves and their agents, this species noticed the Doctor's TARDIS flying close by in the time vortex and simply knocked it out of the vortex, not wanting anyone to interfere. However, the Doctor was able to wrestle back control - although she and her companions were booted out of the ship as a consequence. The Doctor found herself in Washington D.C., Kane in Cuba on a beach which had been surrounded by Cuban and American forces and Ruben on the same Cuban ship as the agent; the Doctor theorised that the TARDIS had deposited them there in a last ditch attempt to get them to prevent the upcoming catastrophe before it spiralled out of control and left them psychic hints about what was going to happen.

Stuck on the Cuban ship and trying to hide from the Cubans in fear of being mistaken for a spy whilst he looked for a disguise, Ruben discovered and overheard the agent speaking to the other about their plans; realising the danger that was soon to come, Ruben shadowed the agent and ultimately prevented him from sabotaging the ship in a way that would've provoked the American ships - knocking him out which seemed to release the species' control. Meanwhile, as Kane successfully escaped Cuba via a small boat away from the crisis, the Doctor set herself up in the White House using her psychic paper after following the TARDIS' hints to keep history on the right track.

Looking for the agent, she eventually uncovered and confronted him as he was struggling to enact his plan following the other agent's being disconnected by Ruben. There, she forced him to explain his plan, but he expressed that if he failed that day, he would try again the next. Unsure on what to do, the Doctor linked herself psychically with the agent and wiped the species' memory of what they intended to do, whilst also disconnecting the human from the mind control.

To ensure that what she had done worked, the Doctor found the TARDIS who had also landed in Washington D.C. - believing it was always going to land with one of the three, but grateful it was her instead of the other two who couldn't fly it - collected Kane and Ruben, before waiting around in 1962 until the crisis was over and all was relatively well, for the time period at least.
(TV: *Crisis Prevented*)