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The Slitheen Excursion
(Simon Guerrier) |
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 Name: June
Format:
Book.
Time of Origin: Earth, present; lives in Birmingham
but encountered The Doctor in Greece
Appearances: "The
Slitheen Excursion"
Doctor: Tenth
Doctor
Fellow
Companions: None
History: A British University student studying
Classics - a fact that had caused many people to ask why she didn’t
take a proper subject but which The Doctor appreciated due to her
studying simply
for the sake of it - June first encountered The Doctor while taking
a trip to the Acropolis, where she helped him drive off a group of
aliens who were attempting to plant a bomb powerful enough to blow
up Greece. As thanks for her help, The Doctor offered to take her
back to see the Acropolis when it was new, but in the process received
a distress signal from the same area in the year 1500BC - over a
thousand years before the date The Doctor was aiming for - resulting
in June becoming caught up in The Doctor’s latest fight with
The
Slitheen as the two of them discovered that the crime family
were running ‘package tours’ into the past, endangering
human history as humanity became dependent on the aliens for survival
rather than developing themselves.
During her time with The Doctor, June quickly demonstrated
a great deal of courage and compassion, diving in to help The Doctor
when she saw him being threatened by the aliens even without having
spoken to him before. She also showed a great deal of initiative
and a useful ability to think on her feet; when a Slitheen attempted
to strangle The Doctor after he began to ask uncomfortable questions,
she saved his life by claiming that he was actually there to review
their tours for a magazine (Although this deception was eventually
exposed).
While The Doctor was taken to examine the Slitheen’s
time-travel technology - simultaneously manipulating it to broadcast
the distress signal that drew him and June there in the first place,
June was forced to participate in some of the ‘displays’ organized
by the Slitheen in the form of mock battles from future history demonstrating
humanity’s brutality. However, June managed to win alien support
for the humans when she was part of a group forced to re-enact the
last battle of the Platonic war by arranging for the actors playing
the humans to retreat before the ‘alien’ forces, prompting
the aliens to grow increasingly supportive of humanity. During the
subsequent riots, one of the Slitheen abducted an infant from one
of the tourists in an attempt to use the child as a hostage, but
when a young woman The Doctor and June had befriended took the child
to try the same strategy, June was able to talk the woman down and
convince her to return the child to its mother, helping the aliens
to see that humans weren’t the monsters they believed them
to be.
Outraged
at this latest damage to their business, the Slitheen attempted to
kill June, only for the tourists to rise up in anger against the
Slitheen, forcing the Slitheen to activate an emergency measure that
turned them into statues (Although the statues were subsequently
shattered). After a quick stop-off in 952 BC to show June Athens
like he had originally promised, The Doctor returned to the present,
having deduced that the aliens he and June had encountered when they
met had actually been trying to recover the now - ‘dormant’ Slitheen
- the Slitheen having reverted to stone as they waited for rescue-,
The Doctor and June subsequently immobilising the Slitheen and leaving
them for the aliens (Although June was forced to answer some questions
from the police about the Slitheen’s attempts to capture her
and The Doctor). With the Slitheen defeated and history restored,
The Doctor and June parted company, June having difficulty coping
with the death she had witnessed during her trip, although The Doctor
agreed to help June out by giving her one last lift back home - with
no diversions on this occasion - after she missed her train. |
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