Horned Demon

## The Horned Demon

The **Horned Demon** was a mysterious being from another universe who became prisoner of the Temporal Intelligence Agency. He refused to ever speak his name - and thus the Agency eventually granted him the moniker of "the Horned Demon".

## Biography

Breaking into N-Space via the Nikta's hole in the fabric of reality, (TV: *The Universe That Came Crashing Down*) the Horned Demon bled himself into the Time Vortex - which reacted violently to his unusual biology, recognising that his very existence didn't agree with the physics of N-Space, due to him being from another universe where the fundamental building blocks of reality were radically different to N-Space's. He fell through time to arrive on the very edges of the Alae Republic 31 years before the Marno Catiry crisis; where the Temporal Intelligence Agency was vastly unprepared for his appearance. He attacked Nort, a small planet, intending to raze it to ashes in blind fury over the universe rejecting his existence.

The Agency, after many losses, managed to finally defeat the Horned Demon and contain him before any more damage could be done, but he proved impossible to kill - and so a specialist containment cell was constructed nearby the Agency's headquarters in Vallaly so that agents could quickly respond and arrive on scene if any issues took place, but far enough from the city to allow for evacuation if he ever targetted it. (TV: *Chain Reaction*) The entrance to the cell's site was located within the headquarters; an elevator at the end of a long, empty corridor led down to a tunnel that carried trains to and from the site. (TV: *Containment Breach*)

When Revir Ctharcourt and Mera Rakhal raided the headquarters after conducting many attacks on the city above to distract the Agency, they travelled to the Horned Demon's site after locating what they were looking for within the Agency's archives, killed the guards on standby and set him free; (TV: *The Comings and Goings of the Agency*) for which he was grateful and promised to spare their lives. Despite the Agency's attempts at using the various traps set up across the tunnel, he passed through with ease and escaped into Vallaly, placing Revir and Mera at a safe distance who wanted to stay and watch both the Agency and Seventeenth Doctor die. After waves of bombardments on Vallaly, the Horned Demon rested on top of a skyscraper and enacted the next part of his plan - supersizing an atom to use its powerful gravity to bring the moon crashing down in order to ultimately kill billions.

This *should'*ve been impossible to achieve, an opinion voiced by both the Doctor and Luna, once they had realised what he was doing - but his biology and general abilities were so alien to what the laws of physics were used to (and allowed); that they essentially let him continue as they had no real way to combat it. Letting the atom grow in the palm of one of his many hands, the power developing within his body, as a result of this, drove the Horned Demon insane and he went on a rampage, threatening even the lives of Revir and Mera, who promptly fled. The Doctor theorised that if the power was allowed to build up, far beyond what was necessary for what he needed, yet wasn't permitted to actually use it - then it might overcharge, causing to the laws of physics to "snap".

Using the TARDIS, the Doctor travelled to the Horned Demon's location as he recuperated from overexertion and tricked him into standing in front of the TARDIS, where Taylor swung open the doors and Luna let loose vortex energy from the heart of the TARDIS - charging the Horned Demon enough to the point where he could've theoretically carried out his plan, but the atom had been destroyed by the energy and his body was pushed so far, it disintegrated into nothing, not even atoms; as the universe finally fought back against his unknown nature. (TV: *Chain Reaction*)