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ProfessorBernice Surprise Summerfield (married namesKane-Summerfield andSummerfield-Marillian), also known asBenny, was a notedarchaeologist who originated from the mid-26th century. She was a close associate ofthe Doctor, having encountered several of theirincarnations.^{[nb 1]}

Benny travelled with theSeventh Doctor for a considerable amount of time, becoming one of the Doctor's longest servingcompanions. (PROSE:Human Nature^[+]Loading...["Human Nature (novel)"]) For some portions of their travels, Bernice and the Doctor were joined byAce, (PROSE:Deceit^[+]Loading...["Deceit (novel)"] et al.)Chris Cwej andRoz Forrester. (PROSE:Original Sin^[+]Loading...["Original Sin (novel)"] et al.) Benny left the Doctor to marry Jason Kane. (PROSE:Happy Endings^[+]Loading...["Happy Endings (novel)"])

Bernice's history following her marriage with Jason was heavily manipulated byIrving Braxiatel, (AUDIO:The End of the World^[+]Loading...["The End of the World (audio story)"]) who tried to keep Benny close to him due to her potential destiny as an integral person in the creation of theDeindum. (AUDIO:Escaping the Future^[+]Loading...["Escaping the Future (audio story)"])

After shedivorced Jason after only a few months, (PROSE:Eternity Weeps^[+]Loading...["Eternity Weeps (novel)"]) Bernice met theEighth Doctor and settled into a job atSt Oscar's University onDellah in the2590s. (PROSE:The Dying Days^[+]Loading...["The Dying Days (novel)"] et al.) After Dellah was devastated by theFerutu, Bernice spent a few years working for theUniversity of Vremnya. (PROSE:Twilight of the Gods^[+]Loading...["Twilight of the Gods (VNA novel)"])

In2599, Bernice left Vremnya to work at theBraxiatel Collection, (PROSE:The Dead Men Diaries^[+]Loading...["The Dead Men Diaries (short story)"]) where she would stay for almost adecade. (AUDIO:The Wake^[+]Loading...["The Wake (audio story)"],PROSE:Nursery Politics^[+]Loading...["Nursery Politics (short story)"]) During this time, Bernice gavebirth to herson,Peter Summerfield. (PROSE:Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Glass Prison^[+]Loading...["Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Glass Prison (novel)"]) After leaving the Collection with Peter, Bernice became involved in theDeindum War. (PROSE:Present Danger^[+]Loading...["Present Danger (short story)"] et al.)

After being displaced intime at the end of the war, Bernice metRuth andJack onZordin. (AUDIO:Judgement Day^[+]Loading...["Judgement Day (BFBS audio story)"] et al.) Benny stayed friends with Ruth and Jack and was reunited with Irving Braxiatel and Peter onLegion. (AUDIO:Paradise Frost^[+]Loading...["Paradise Frost (audio story)"]) After a series of adventures - largely in the early27th century - with new and old friends, (AUDIO:Vesuvius Falling^[+]Loading...["Vesuvius Falling (audio story)"],The Revolution^[+]Loading...["The Revolution (audio story)"],PROSE:Adorable Illusion^[+]Loading...["Adorable Illusion (novel)"],Big Bang Generation^[+]Loading...["Big Bang Generation (novel)"] et al.) Benny was pulled into aparallel universe bythat universe's Doctor, where she became stuck. (AUDIO:The Library in the Body^[+]Loading...["The Library in the Body (audio story)"] et al.) After spending some time there, she returned to her own universe. (AUDIO:The True Saviour of the Universe^[+]Loading...["The True Saviour of the Universe (audio story)"])

Later in her life Benny stayed for a time at theEternity Club, (AUDIO:The Armageddon Chair^[+]Loading...["The Armageddon Chair (audio story)"] et al.) becoming embroiled in a new Dalek master plan, (AUDIO:The Lonely Bomb^[+]Loading...["The Lonely Bomb (audio story)"]) and continued working as an archaeologist, leading to encounters with theFugitive Doctor and theNinth Doctor. (AUDIO:Coda - The Final Act^[+]Loading...["Coda - The Final Act (audio story)"],Ancient History^[+]Loading...["Ancient History (audio story)"])

Biography[[edit] |[edit source]]

Early life[[edit] |[edit source]]

Dating Bernice's early life was difficult. Some dates given for her birth would have placed it a century too early for her to have lived through her formative events (PROSE:Falls the Shadow^[+]Loading...["Falls the Shadow (novel)"]) and others would have meant that she was only three years old when she was depicted as being seven. (PROSE:Return of the Living Dad^[+]Loading...["Return of the Living Dad (novel)"]) These discrepancies were due toIrving Braxiatel meddling with her timeline. (AUDIO:The Wake^[+]Loading...["The Wake (audio story)"], et al.)

Birth and childhood[[edit] |[edit source]]

Bernice Surprise Summerfield, theonly child ofClaire andIsaac Summerfield, was born on theEarth colonyBeta Caprisis. The date and era she was born into varied, being either21 June2540, (AUDIO:Just War^[+]Loading...["Just War (audio story)"])2422, (PROSE:Falls the Shadow^[+]Loading...["Falls the Shadow (novel)"]) or2472. (PROSE:Travelling Companions^[+]Loading...["Travelling Companions (feature)"])

A child of theSecond Dalek War, (PROSE:Love and War^[+]Loading...["Love and War (novel)"]) Benny moved fromschool to school too often to settle in anywhere. It was at a boarding school onMal Oreille that she had her first recorded adventure; she discovered the Matron was a gianttoad feeding on the pupils. She was duly expelled. (PROSE:Biology Lesson on Mal Oreille^[+]Loading...["Biology Lesson on Mal Oreille (short story)"])

By the time she was seven, (PROSE:Return of the Living Dad^[+]Loading...["Return of the Living Dad (novel)"]) Bernice and her parents were living in thetown ofVandor Prime on the planetBeta Caprisis. Despite herfather's time-consuming job as anadmiral inSpacefleet in wartime, she saw him regularly. He filled herhead with pearls of military wisdom, (PROSE:The Evacuation of Bernice Summerfield Considered as a Short Film by Terry Gilliam^[+]Loading...["The Evacuation of Bernice Summerfield Considered as a Short Film by Terry Gilliam (short story)"]) took herfishing and read her fairy stories. (PROSE:The Pit^[+]Loading...["The Pit (novel)"]) Bernice had already begun to keepa diary — she continued to keep diaries her entire life. She evinced some interest inarchaeology by this point: she sent off for a badge that read "I DigArchaeology". (PROSE:Oh No It Isn't!^[+]Loading...["Oh No It Isn't! (novel)"])

Bernice later recalled waving goodbye to her father's battleship, (PROSE:Shadowmind^[+]Loading...["Shadowmind (novel)"]) theTisiphone, as it departed to fight theDaleks nearBellatrix. (PROSE:Return of the Living Dad^[+]Loading...["Return of the Living Dad (novel)"]) The ship went missing and Bernice's father was thought dead. (PROSE:Love and War^[+]Loading...["Love and War (novel)"]) Worse, the reports of theTisiphone's final minutes made it appear it had fled the battle. Admiral Summerfield was deemed a deserter. Benny never gave up hope she would discover what had become of her father; the search for him was one reason for her early wanderings around the galaxy.

Within six months of Admiral Summerfield's disappearance (PROSE:The Evacuation of Bernice Summerfield Considered as a Short Film by Terry Gilliam^[+]Loading...["The Evacuation of Bernice Summerfield Considered as a Short Film by Terry Gilliam (short story)"]) and some time after Benny's eighthbirthday, (AUDIO:Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Extinction Event^[+]Loading...["Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Extinction Event (audio story)"]) theDaleks attacked Beta Caprisis. In the havoc of the attack, Claire got Bernice to the safety of a shelter — but was exterminated by a Dalek ray while trying to retrieve herdaughter's favouritedoll. (PROSE:Love and War^[+]Loading...["Love and War (novel)"],Return of the Living Dad^[+]Loading...["Return of the Living Dad (novel)"]) This was how Bernice recalled it. (PROSE:Lucifer Rising^[+]Loading...["Lucifer Rising (novel)"])

During her evacuation she didn't eat. She met an entertainment troupe who wanted to put on a show for her. She didn't like it whenPandemonium Jack called her an Orphan. With the other survivors, Bernice was evacuated to aspace station aboard theStar of Lucknow and, now anorphan, tofoster care. (PROSE:The Evacuation of Bernice Summerfield Considered as a Short Film by Terry Gilliam^[+]Loading...["The Evacuation of Bernice Summerfield Considered as a Short Film by Terry Gilliam (short story)"])

Teenage life and young adulthood[[edit] |[edit source]]

She declined the hospitality of herfoster parents by running away; (PROSE:Parasite^[+]Loading...["Parasite (novel)"]) by thirteen (PROSE:The Tunnels to Heaven^[+]Loading...["The Tunnels to Heaven (short story)"]) she found herself in aSpacefleetmilitary academy. (PROSE:Love and War^[+]Loading...["Love and War (novel)"]) She showed aptitude for soldiering, but treated the whole ethos with disdain. She was considered for Section Leader among the cadets, but her disciplinary record prohibited this. (PROSE:The Tunnels to Heaven^[+]Loading...["The Tunnels to Heaven (short story)"]) She was involved with extracurriculars in her time at the Academy; she was one of its better tennis players, (PROSE:Thirty Love^[+]Loading...["Thirty Love (short story)"]) and she sang in its production ofCarousel. (PROSE:No Future^[+]Loading...["No Future (novel)"])

During her time at the Academy, Bernice was sent on an exercise to the planetGoethe in an exo-suit. After Bernice ridiculed her lecturer, OfficerZhang, for owning22nd century modelsubmarines, she was punished by having to use an exo-suit that had received a paint job, making it look like a pink bunny. On the surface of the planet, this had unexpected ramifications. One of the long-deadpsychic inhabitants of the planet mistook her exo-suit for a pink toy bunny she had intended to buy her child. The manifestation shut down Bernice's suit and followed her across the planet. Bernice found a museum, which housed many artefacts excavated from below the surface. There Bernice found a toy bunny, and gave it to the manifestation, allowing her to regain the functions of her suit and return to the Academy. (PROSE:The Bunny's Curse^[+]Loading...["The Bunny's Curse (short story)"])

The Spacefleet used a technique called "the Haze" to try to break Benny's mind and make her into an emotionless killer. Fortunately for Benny, this technique failed. (PROSE:Oblivion)

By sixteen, Bernice had run away from the Academy and was living in the nearby woods. She had become a guru to the girls who came to her for advice. (PROSE:Love and War^[+]Loading...["Love and War (novel)"]) It was they who first gave her the nickname "Professor". (PROSE:Blood Harvest^[+]Loading...["Blood Harvest (novel)"]) Benny was not alone in the woods; fellow student runawaySimon Kyle had built a shelter for his illicitly reconstituted Galapagostortoises. He became her first lover, but betrayed her to the Academy when they were discovered by a patrol. (PROSE:Love and War^[+]Loading...["Love and War (novel)"],Return of the Living Dad^[+]Loading...["Return of the Living Dad (novel)"]) During her time in the forest she met a future version of herself and was suspicious. She learnt from one of her fellow students that the principal was escalating the searches in the camp. One night she was nearly caught by a search party when they released a gas, but was saved by her future self. The two then had a philosophical debate. The younger Benny found something buried in the academy grounds. She helped to defend the grounds when the enemy attacked. She betrayed her future self to theAcademy Principal and then dug up what was in the grounds. She saved the academy when an entire space-fleet came and fixed the shields using parts of the crashed ship. She then discovered that she had been in the presence of a future Benny. (AUDIO:Ever After Happy^[+]Loading...["Ever After Happy (audio story)"])

Bernice, still inSpacefleet Academyuniform, is found byLisa Nguyen. (PROSE:Prelude Sanctuary^[+]Loading...["Prelude Sanctuary (short story)"])

Still about sixteen, Bernice left the Academy's planet by stowing away onLisa Nguyen's ship theFaithful Pet. Agreeing to take her toSalostopus, Nguyan nicknamed Bernice "Benny". (PROSE:Prelude Sanctuary^[+]Loading...["Prelude Sanctuary (short story)"])

Due to a draft, Benny was conscripted into Spacefleet. (PROSE:Oh No It Isn't!^[+]Loading...["Oh No It Isn't! (novel)"]) She later recalled being the youngest private in the corps, (PROSE:Dry Pilgrimage^[+]Loading...["Dry Pilgrimage (novel)"]) She deserted in an escape pod from a troop ship en route to theplanetCapella. (PROSE:Love and War^[+]Loading...["Love and War (novel)"])

By hear early 20s, Benny had woken up in prison several times. (PROSE:Charged^[+]Loading...["Charged (short story)"])

Two years after her escape fromSpacefleet, Benny spent some time wandering the galaxy with her friend Louise. (PROSE:Benny and Louise^[+]Loading...["Benny and Louise (short story)"])

Not quite twenty-two, Bernice faked herarchaeological qualifications and bluffed her way onto digs. She doctored her passport with the notation TMF (Too Mad to Fight) to avoid the draft. (PROSE:Beyond the Sun^[+]Loading...["Beyond the Sun (novel)"],PROSE:Genius Loci^[+]Loading...["Genius Loci (novel)"]) She was exposed as a fraud by the leader of a dig on the planetJaiwan, but was offered genuine academic credentials (an MA inarchaeology) in exchange for her help on the dig. (PROSE:Genius Loci^[+]Loading...["Genius Loci (novel)"]) On one dig in her early career, she learned there was only a subtle difference between a knife used for cutting and a spear or hunting knife. (PROSE:Just War^[+]Loading...["Just War (novel)"])

Still aged twenty-four, presumably, not long after parting ways with Louise, Benny excavated a Martian site,Mare Sirenum. This dig established her reputation as an archaeologist and formed the basis for her bestselling bookDown Among the Dead Men. (PROSE:The Dead Men Diaries)

Travelling with the Doctor[[edit] |[edit source]]

First adventures[[edit] |[edit source]]

Benny celebrated her thirtieth birthday on the planetHeaven. While there, she worked with a team of archaeologists unearthing aHeavenite arch.

Benny metAce, who Benny learnt couldtravel in time. Beneath the arch, Benny's student,Clive Aubrey, discovered a passageway leading to a door. With the help of theSeventh Doctor, with whom Ace travelled intime andspace, Benny opened the way, discovering a Heavenite observatory that could detectHoothispheres. By making psychic contact with Benny's mind, the Doctor tricked the Hoothi into assuming they had infected Benny when they hadn't, saving her life. Ace's new love,Jan Rydd, sacrificed himself by igniting the sphere that was over Heaven with hispyrokinesis, saving the people on Heaven and billions of others.

Ace was upset with the Doctor for allowing Jan to die and left in disgust. Benny agreed to travel in time and space with the Doctor — but only after he had promised not to play games with her life. (PROSE:Love and War^[+]Loading...["Love and War (novel)"],AUDIO:Love and War^[+]Loading...["Love and War (audio story)"])

Leaving Ace on Heaven, the Doctor took Bernice to theSolar system in2109, her past. They metKadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart, a descendant of the Doctor's long-time associatethe Brigadier, and stopped the destruction of theSol Transit System by "Fred", the ruler of another dimension. (PROSE:Transit^[+]Loading...["Transit (novel)"])

The Doctor tried to track down a space-time anomaly known as aFortean Flicker, leading the pair toHogsumm in2680. They encountered the war-likeChelonians, a train car full ofhumans from1993 and a group of22nd century teenagers on their way to a concert, all having been transported there by the Flicker.Sheldukher, the most wanted criminal in the galaxy during Benny's time, also came to the planet believing it to be the mythicalSakkrat. Bernice nearly had her brain melted by the teenagers'Bubbleshake, a highly addictivesoft drink. (PROSE:The Highest Science^[+]Loading...["The Highest Science (novel)"],AUDIO:The Highest Science^[+]Loading...["The Highest Science (audio story)"])

In theAlthosian system, the Doctor and Benny prevented theYssgaroth from breaking through into ouruniverse. (PROSE:The Pit^[+]Loading...["The Pit (novel)"])

Ace rejoins[[edit] |[edit source]]

Benny and the Doctor returned to the26th century, arriving three years after they left, and reunited with Ace, who had become battle-hardened fighting withSpacefleet in theSecond Dalek War. After putting a stop to theSpinward Corporation's experiments on their colonyArcadia with the help of a clone ofAbslom Daak, Ace rejoined the TARDIS crew. (PROSE:Deceit^[+]Loading...["Deceit (novel)"])

Bernice examines the strange wildlife insideMoloch. (PROSE:Lucifer Rising^[+]Loading...["Lucifer Rising (novel)"])

The three travellers visitedProject Eden in the Lucifer system in2157. After the death ofPaula Engado, theAdjudicatorBishop arrived to investigate. Before the culprit was found,twomore people were killed as well. The Doctor figured out the killer wasPiper O'Rourke, who was acting as a spy for theInterplanetary Mining Corporation. IMC tried to take over the system to mine Lucifer, but theAngels who inhabited the gas giant closed off the system. (PROSE:Lucifer Rising^[+]Loading...["Lucifer Rising (novel)"])

In1915Haiti, the Doctor, Benny and Ace stoppedGilles Lemaitre from unleashingone of the Great Old Ones. (PROSE:White Darkness^[+]Loading...["White Darkness (novel)"])

After this, the Doctor wanted to take Ace somewhere special for her birthday, and they arrived inNew Byzantium in2673. They defeatedUmbra, which had been trying to take over the human coloniesArden andTairngaire. (PROSE:Shadowmind^[+]Loading...["Shadowmind (novel)"])

While the Doctor fought theCybermen in2006 withRuby Duvall, (PROSE:Iceberg^[+]Loading...["Iceberg (novel)"]) Bernice and Ace were stranded in1909 and22000 respectively. Benny befriendedMikhail Popov andMargaret Waterfield and prevented theCharrl from using theTime Vector Generator to breach theGreat Divide and conquerEarth. (PROSE:Birthright^[+]Loading...["Birthright (novel)"])

Alternate universes[[edit] |[edit source]]

After enteringan alternate universe in which theThird Doctor had died and theSilurians had taken over Earth,the Doctor's TARDIS was lost in a tar pit. Bernice stowed away aboard a nuclearsubmarine to try to prevent the humans from wiping out the Silurians. In the end, the Doctor destroyed the alternate universe because it was draining energy from the main universe, and the three continued travelling inhis alternate self's TARDIS. (PROSE:Blood Heat^[+]Loading...["Blood Heat (novel)"])

Bernice, theSeventh Doctor, andAce under attack by aliens in an apocalypticalternate timeline. (COMIC:Time & Time Again^[+]Loading...["Time & Time Again (comic story)"])

While Ace and the Doctor confronted theGarvond onSpace Station Q4 in2381, Benny befriended ProfessorJames Rafferty and faced "the President", arenegade Time Lord, and hisandroidassassinAmanda inOxford,1993. (PROSE:The Dimension Riders^[+]Loading...["The Dimension Riders (novel)"])

On holiday inSwitzerland in2030, the trio received a message fromCristián Alvarez. They encountered him out-of-order inMexico City1994 andLondon in1968 and1980 while fighting theAztec godHuitzilin. (PROSE:The Left-Handed Hummingbird^[+]Loading...["The Left-Handed Hummingbird (novel)"])

Benny, Ace, and the Doctor next landed in the idyllic village ofArandale, but they eventually realised that it was in fact theLand of Fiction, now being run by a teenage boy namedJason. (PROSE:Conundrum^[+]Loading...["Conundrum (novel)"])

To figure out once and for all who had been messing with time, the Doctor took his companions toLondon1976, where Bernice joined the punk bandPlasticine to find out more aboutDanny Pain. The Doctor uncovered a plot byMortimus to take over the Earth using aChronovore nameArtemis and theVardans. (PROSE:No Future^[+]Loading...["No Future (novel)"])

InEmpire City on the planetOlleril, the three time travellers arrived during theTragedy Day celebrations, and discovered that the society was being controlled by the cult ofLuminus, led by a young boy namedCrispin. (PROSE:Tragedy Day^[+]Loading...["Tragedy Day (novel)"])

Next, they visitedPeladon in3985, fifty years after the Doctor's last visit in histhird incarnation. Benny decided to take a break from the TARDIS, joining an archaeological expedition toPhaester Osiris with theMartianRhukk. (PROSE:Legacy^[+]Loading...["Legacy (novel)"]) Bernice spent three months in that time period. After Osiris, she visited for the first time theBraxiatel Collection, where she metIrving Braxiatel. She joined another expedition, this time to the ruins of thePentillanian Theatre onMenaxus. There, she met up again with the Doctor and Ace. Benny figured out that all of the ruins had been planted by Braxiatel as part of an elaborate plan to protect the collection. (PROSE:Theatre of War^[+]Loading...["Theatre of War (novel)"])

Whilst the Doctor started an investigation inLondon in1887, she was left inBombay to participate in the investigation. When the Doctor arrived in Bombay, she gave him some of the information that she had obtained aboutBaron Maupertuis and where he was going in India. They followed the path but the Doctor was kidnapped. Arriving atTir Ram's palace with two gentlemen, she discovered that the Doctor was in the caves beneath. She then went with him through the portal toRy'leh and helped to stopAzathoth from invading the Earth. Afterwards, Benny received a book detailing the adventure, calledAll-Consuming Fire and written byArthur Conan Doyle. The names of the two men had been changed to "Sherlock Holmes" and "John Watson". She found the book to be in many ways inaccurate. (PROSE:All-Consuming Fire^[+]Loading...["All-Consuming Fire (novel)"])

The Doctor, Ace, and Bernice during their encounter with theScourge. (AUDIO:The Shadow of the Scourge^[+]Loading...["The Shadow of the Scourge (audio story)"])

The Doctor, Benny and Ace visited thePinehill Crest Hotel in2003. As part of this she investigatedAnnie Carpenter and her channellingOhm. She saw her transform into a Scourge. Benny went inside the Doctor's mind and saw his past incarnations. She tried to help him fight the Scourge in his mind. After the Doctor, Benny and Ace regrouped and changed the matter of the dimension, she used her memories of sleeping with the people she loved and tea and scones to defeat the Scourge. (AUDIO:The Shadow of the Scourge^[+]Loading...["The Shadow of the Scourge (audio story)"])

Benny decided to stay onOrbos to take part in an archaeological dig and wanted to see her old friendVictor Farrison as he wanted to see her. As Victor didn't arrive she spent her time collecting trash. She later saw black fire which she later realised was related to theCult of the Dark Flame.Slyde pushed Benny into the waste disposal unit. The disposal unit placed onMarran Alpha where she met Victor and saw Slyde use Remnex's body to resurrectVilus Krull. She was later touched by the Dark Flame and became possessed by it. Vilus later wanted to inhabit Benny' body. She was forced to start the black light explosion and her hand was aged. After Ace and the Doctor stopped the explosion her hand was rejuvenated and she left with them. (AUDIO:The Dark Flame^[+]Loading...["The Dark Flame (audio story)"])

Further Travels with the Doctor and Ace[[edit] |[edit source]]

When the Doctor got a call from the Time Lords, Bernice was dropped off on thevampire planet inE-Space. People grew suspicious of her claims that the vampires were rising once more. She also metRomana. The two women discovered that it wasAgonal who wanted to resurrect theGreat Vampire. The Doctor and Ace later saved them and the four travelled toGallifrey, where the three women got captured. Ace managed to break them out, and they warnedFlavia of the danger. Romana stayed behind, and the Doctor trapped Agonal, with theCommittee of Three being arrested. (PROSE:Blood Harvest^[+]Loading...["Blood Harvest (novel)"])

At some point, the Doctor dropped off Ace and Benny ina university somewhere in Liverpool. Benny became trapped in a book, and Ace had to figure out the puzzle of thelibrary by herself. With Ace's help, Benny managed to trapVassa andLycurgus. She grew annoyed when it turned out that the Doctor was in Kent, rather than in his TARDIS. (AUDIO:The Big Blue Book^[+]Loading...["The Big Blue Book (audio story)"])

Benny performs with Flash Trash. (COMIC:The Last Word^[+]Loading...["The Last Word (comic story)"])

The Doctor sent Benny to join the band Flash Trash in1981, claiming time had been distorted there, as part of his plan to lure out theTimewyrm. During their performance, Benny caught a glimpse of the Timewyrm. The Doctor picked her and Ace up afterwards and explained he'd used them to distort history to lure the Timewyrm which had inadvertently corrected the timeline itself. Benny complained that things were always so "bloody complicated". (COMIC:The Last Word^[+]Loading...["The Last Word (comic story)"])

After Ace had left again, the Doctor and Benny visited the planetShanquis where she attended an archaeology conference whilst the Doctor was organising a piece treaty. At the conference she was told about an old forbidden language that had been given occult status because it could cause magic like situations. On investigating she discovered that it was a crime for anyone to have knowledge of or artefacts containing this forbidden language. After the Doctor was kidnapped she started looking for him and discovered that the language wasEnglish and the magic came from a terraforming machine which would react to any command it heard. (AUDIO:Bernice Summerfield and the Criminal Code^[+]Loading...["Bernice Summerfield and the Criminal Code (audio story)"])

Travelling with Roz and Chris[[edit] |[edit source]]

After hearing fromHomeless Forsaken that something was going to happen on Earth, she told the Doctor and they went there. They landed in theOvercity and wanted to find aHith to find more information. After the TARDIS was taken, they travelled toPurgatory to find more information. After getting there, she was sentenced to death.Roz Forrester andChris Cwej arrived and took her back to Earth where they were trapped byTobias Vaughn. She then managed to get to the Hith Ship in order to stop it from being used. (PROSE:Original Sin^[+]Loading...["Original Sin (novel)"])

Marriage and divorce[[edit] |[edit source]]

Bernice andJason Kane face anautomaton in theDagellan Cluster. (PROSE:Death and Diplomacy^[+]Loading...["Death and Diplomacy (novel)"])

Towards the end of Benny's travels with the Doctor, she met her future husband,Jason Kane. The two sparred and their relationship continued to be antagonistic untilShug, a mutual acquaintance, pointed out they had fallen in love. According to Shug, Jason's bad childhood made him equate love with violence; he sought only sexual encounters with no emotional involvement. Benny, on the other hand, had givenher absent father god-like attributes to which no one could measure up; she manoeuvred men into betraying her, re-enacting her father's perceived betrayal. They fell in love because they were both trying to sabotage their relationship. (PROSE:Death and Diplomacy^[+]Loading...["Death and Diplomacy (novel)"])

The Doctor took Benny and Jason toCheldon Bonniface to bemarried on24 April2010. They argued a lot in the run up to the ceremony and had to fightthe Master, but they were finally married, exchangingTime Rings which the Doctor had been given byhis final incarnation. Although Benny insisted that she become "Bernice Summerfield-Kane" whilst Jason became "Jason Kane-Summerfield", (PROSE:Happy Endings^[+]Loading...["Happy Endings (novel)"]) they ended up becoming "Bernice Kane-Summerfield" and "Jason Summerfield-Kane". (PROSE:Return of the Living Dad^[+]Loading...["Return of the Living Dad (novel)"])

Benny and Jasonhoneymooned onPlautus, transported there by the Doctor, (PROSE:Happy Endings^[+]Loading...["Happy Endings (novel)"]) and there Jason gifted her with a tinyBible and ahair slide. (PROSE:Eternity Weeps^[+]Loading...["Eternity Weeps (novel)"]) She regretted not having completed herdoctorate and was motivated by Jason to finally write herthesis, for which they lived in atent onYoukali Six (PROSE:Beyond the Sun^[+]Loading...["Beyond the Sun (novel)"]) for several months. The couple decided to have a child, selecting the names Keith and Dorothy, and tried for one during the Youkaliautumn without success. They consideredadoption, worrying that they might not be able to have children naturally, but they found it unlikely that they would be accepted as adoptive parents.

In2587, Benny and Jason were reunited with the Doctor, Chris and Roz and travelled back in time to1983 to meether father, who had been pulled backwards in time when she was a girl. Whilst in the past, a ghost handed the couple an eighteen-month-old child called Keith, who later faded away. Upon returning to 2587, Benny continued to work on her thesis on Youkali Six. (PROSE:Return of the Living Dad^[+]Loading...["Return of the Living Dad (novel)"]) They moved from their tent to a rental academic house and were visited by the Doctor and Chris after Roz's death. (PROSE:So Vile a Sin^[+]Loading...["So Vile a Sin (novel)"])

Benny and Jason once visitedSouth Africa and found themselves stranded due to anoutbreak ofEbola. (PROSE:Eternity Weeps^[+]Loading...["Eternity Weeps (novel)"]) Benny eventuallygraduated in a ceremony which Jason attended. (PROSE:Beyond the Sun^[+]Loading...["Beyond the Sun (novel)"]) The two went on holiday to2003 using their Time Rings and, following an argument, they joined separate expeditions to findNoah's Ark inTurkey and eventually used their rings to call in the Doctor and Chris. They worked with them to stopAgent Yellow, in the course of which Benny lied to Jason about beingpregnant in order to manipulate him.

Because of the rift in their relationship, Benny and Jason decided to get adivorce whilst onthe Moon. (PROSE:Eternity Weeps^[+]Loading...["Eternity Weeps (novel)"]) They had a divorce ceremony and parted ways (PROSE:Beyond the Sun^[+]Loading...["Beyond the Sun (novel)"]) with Jason returning his Time Ring and remaining in 2003. (PROSE:Eternity Weeps^[+]Loading...["Eternity Weeps (novel)"])

The St Oscar's years[[edit] |[edit source]]

Shortly after herdivorce, Bernice received an invitation to take up theEdward Watkinson Chair of Archaeology atSt Oscar's University on the planetDellah at a time some years in her own future (2593). She accepted, and was taken to Dellah by theEighth Doctor, (PROSE:The Dying Days^[+]Loading...["The Dying Days (novel)"]) with whom she almost hadsex. (PROSE:Beyond the Sun^[+]Loading...["Beyond the Sun (novel)"]) He also gave herWolsey. By this point, the Doctor stated she was his longest-serving companion. (PROSE:The Dying Days^[+]Loading...["The Dying Days (novel)"])

Benny lived in theGarland College of Residence and was theRector ofGarland College. She went on a dig to the planet ofPerfecton to find out what wiped out thePerfectons. Whilst leaving the planet, the expedition was attacked by theGrel. At the same time, amissile from the planet collided with the ship. She woke up in a strange land where Wolsey was a person and she supposedly wanted to be lord mayor. She thought that she was dead and in theafterlife. She eventually realised that she was in a storybook land. At the king's ball, Benny decided to try and stop the world by marrying all of the eligible bachelors. After meeting theFairy Godfather, she realised that the Perfectons were watching her. To find out more, she hypnotised Wolsey and found out that this world came from the thesis that she was reading. She worked out that the lamp from the Aladdin play was important, but the Grel used it to release a Genie, which was the Perfectons' guidance computer. She managed to get the lamp back to stop the ship from being blown up by the exploding sun. (PROSE:Oh No It Isn't!^[+]Loading...["Oh No It Isn't! (novel)"])

Whilst at St Oscar's, she metIrving Braxiatel, who was then head ofSt Oscar's theatre department. This meeting was their first from Braxiatel's perspective, but subsequent to their earlier encounters from Bernice's. Upon being thrown out of apub on Dellah, she foundNewark Rappare bleeding out in an ally. The next day, she was asked to go on a dig, funded byRomolo Nusek, onStanturus Three to investigate an ancient civilisation. She used this as an advantage to investigate Rappare's death as the dragon in his studio was the same as the one in Nusek's archives. She was attacked on the dig. Because she was recovering, she escaped an explosion at the second dig site. She was then tasked with proving the veracity of the third dragon. She exposed Gamaliel and the dragon by showing it had a camera in it. (PROSE:Dragons' Wrath^[+]Loading...["Dragons' Wrath (novel)"])

Bernice enjoys drinks on theTitanian Queen. (PROSE:Ship of Fools^[+]Loading...["Ship of Fools (novel)"])

She was interviewed byKeri about her expedition to Aggravar to find its lost fields for one of her shows. Using theLaw of Consonantal Shift, she realised that Aggravar had mutated in caravan and went to the holiday planet of Shangri-La. Whilst walking around, she explained the myth of how the planet became a muddy field. Walking through the fields, they fell through into a cavern. Exploring the cavern, they found a set of carts which confirmed the myth as being true. (AUDIO:Making Myths^[+]Loading...["Making Myths (audio story)"])

During a dig onApollox 4 to allowTameka Vito andEmile Mars-Smith to complete their mandatory field trips, she was visited byJason Kane, who showed her a mysterious artefact. She then wanted to leave the planet after Jason went missing. On her way back to Dellah, she got the ship to do a sweep ofUrsu and the ship was shot down. She then went to see DrKitzinger to find out more about the artefact and theBlooms. She thought that it was ridiculous that the artefact would give power beyond the sun. Discovering thatMiranda was on the planet, she tried to find more information about the whereabouts of Jason and why theSunless were on the planet. Her friendsLeon andScott where taken by the Sunless in order to get the artefact from Benny. Taken to their homeworld, she found Jason in their prison cell. She tried to stop Miranda but was blackmailed by her. She realised that there was a mistranslation and the visionary wasn't the artefact but was instead Miranda, as the machine was to give the sun power beyond its natural life. (PROSE:Beyond the Sun^[+]Loading...["Beyond the Sun (novel)"])

While recovering from a hangover, Benny was contacted by two Neuroseismology students named Ash and Lucretia who wanted to show her an unusual object that they had bought from the Xan Burrosa markets. This turned out to be the diary of the famous missing archaeologist Franz Nils Kryptosa. Shortly after discovering this, Lucretia was kidnapped by a Neo-Nazi organization known as the SSSSSSS and brought to Tyler's Folly (where the diary had been found). Benny and Ash followed the SSSSSSS to the planet and were roped up in events involving a People psychopath named !X and his psychologist Fos!ca and an "Inner World" within Tyler's Folly that had ties to the People. While the entirety of the SSSSSSS was killed (with their commander Ernst Katastrophen sacrificing himself to save Benny, Ash, and Lucretia), the three occupants of St. Oscar's University managed to escape the Inner World.

Shortly after leaving the Inner World, Benny was captured by the authoritarian Republican Security Forces and interrogated by them. While Benny told her captors a mostly true story, she inserted a pulpzine hero named Mr. Misnomer into the narrative for various reasons. Soon, though, !X entered into Benny's cell and attempted to use her as an example of his dichotomous world views by either torturing her or having her kill him. Instead of doing this, Benny simply froze !X and allowed him to be reclaimed by Fos!ca. Benny (alongside Ash and Lucretia) left Tyler's Folly shortly after this. (PROSE:Down)

Due to being in a destitute state, Benny was forced to take a gig babysitting rich children while they explored the temples of Malanoor. While Benny was on Malanoor, theSchirron Dream crashed onto the planet and Benny was reunited with Sgloomi Po. Sgloomi (alongside Chris Cwej) revealed that something had caused various parallel universes to occupy the same space as "our" own and were greatly shortening the lifespan of the universe. Benny soon discovered (to her chagrin) that her ex-husband Jason Kane was piloting theDream. They were soon joined by a past version of Roz Forrester and travelled to Earth (the epicentre of the threat). Unfortunately, this turned out to be a trap as the crew of theDream was captured by Randolph Bane (who was using the Doctor's amaranth to try to give himself immortality) and nearly used as fuel for the amaranth before they were rescued by Roz and Sgloomi. (PROSE:Oblivion)

Benny withJoseph in ancientBabylon. (PROSE:Walking to Babylon^[+]Loading...["Walking to Babylon (novel)"])

Several months later Benny, was visited byWiRgo!xu. She became irate when she learnt that he was one ofthe People. Shortly afterwards, she realised that Jason had stolenher Time Ring and went after him. She discovered that he had gone to ancientBabylon. Arriving at the same time as Jason, she encountered a fellow time traveller,John Lafayette, and explained her situation. With the help ofNinan-ashtammu, she located the People. She was kidnapped by the People so that they could learn more about the time path. She was rescued and tried to work out a way to stop the People from sending a bomb down the time path. She went back through it to explain that!Ci!ci-tel was staying behind and stop the bomb. (AUDIO:Walking to Babylon^[+]Loading...["Walking to Babylon (audio story)"])

Due to the presence of the People's bomb in the time corridor, she exited the corridor in1909 instead of2593. She then metMikhail Popov again but neither of them remembered their previous encounter. She learnt about the death of his daughter in a manner resembling a vivisection. She then investigated the murders. She discovered where Lafayette had stored her device. She planned to go back and get it but she was captured and threatened with being sent to prison because she had hidden her time ring. After meetingJared Khan, she worked out that he was allowing theCharrl to get to Earth and invade it. She was infected by the Charrl. She managed to stop them but Khan jumped into the tunnel and her calculation went wrong. (AUDIO:Birthright^[+]Loading...["Birthright (audio story)"])

She ended up landing inGuernsey in1941, which was occupied by theNazis. She spent her time cleaning at the local hotel. Three months into her stay, she went walking withGerhard Flur and witnessed a plane crash. On investigating the crash, she killed Gerhard. She thought that she should have been one of the people who was killed because of her actions.Joachim Wolff arrested her and tortured her. She admitted to them that she came from the future but they didn't believe it. She managed to escape by stealingRosa Kitzel's uniform and locking her in the morgue. She made her way to the airfield but was stopped byOskar Steinmann and taken to Jason. She helped him to escape and work out what destroyed the German plane and destroyed its twin. They then returned to the 26th century. (AUDIO:Just War^[+]Loading...["Just War (audio story)"])

Benny repeatedly slammed her door on Jason when he visited her to try to rekindle their relationship, leading him to disguise himself as adeliveryman and trick her into using the Time Rings to take them back toParis in1899. However, her attempts to cancel mid-time jump resulted in them arriving in2160sBournemouth whilst their rings returned to Dellah. The two of them became separated and Benny was captured by theGrel, whom she defeated by releasingExtra-Strong Fact-Removal Gas before making a deal with them to take her and Jason home. Once there, she told Jason that they were not good as a couple and that may or may not change in the future. (AUDIO:The Grel Invasion of Earth^[+]Loading...["The Grel Invasion of Earth (audio story)"])

Benny with theutahraptorPatience inParis. (PROSE:The Sword of Forever^[+]Loading...["The Sword of Forever (novel)"])

She was asked by a peace keeping force to be an impartial observer when they documented what was discovered. She discovered a villa owned by a ruthless dictator. Outside the villa, she saw a mass grave which had been covered with concrete but she could still see some of the bodies. Inside the villa, she saw a group of women who had been repeatedly raped, some of them now pregnant. Exploring the house more, she found more people who were involved in genetic experiments, and people who had been tortured. Seeing all of the devastation that had been caused, she decided to use the time rings to go back and avert the war. She went back to the day thatIsabella, the dictator's mother, was murdered and told her the story, and that she had a choice to make, to kill the baby, Isabella or the murderer. In the end, she wounded the murderer and left to see the new future that she had made. (AUDIO:Closure^[+]Loading...["Closure (audio story)"])

After hearing of another archaeologist discovering batteries in ancient Baghdad, Bernice travelled to the city in the eighth century and began looking for evidence of the battery. She heard about a "hunchback" reviving dead fish and looked for him. While looking for the "hunchback", Bernice was dared to drink an extremely alcoholic drink and wandered through the streets of Baghdad while drunk. This caught the attention of the servants of Vizier Jafar Abd al-Malik. Bernice escaped them after her translator's battery exploded and found the "hunchback" Assad after hiding in an alleyway. Unfortunately, Bernice caught the attention of the servants and the two were dragged off to the offices of the Vizier.

While in the audience of the Vizier, Bernice tried to escape a death sentence by claiming to be a demon. The Vizier still had her thrown into an oubliette - where Bernice met a mysterious metal figure which could answer any question given to it. Bernice asked it several questions to discover what it was but was dragged out of the oubliette before she could read the final answer. Before leaving, Bernice tried to justify herself to Assad but failed. (PROSE:The Judgement of Solomon^[+]Loading...["The Judgement of Solomon (short story)"])

While on Mars to give a speech at an archaeological convention, Benny encountered her ex-husband Jason. She discovered that a fellow archaeologist was actually an infamous figure in Martian history and accidentally revealed this to an audience of Martian war veterans. Shortly after this, she stopped the machinations of the York twins - who basically owned the entire planet of Mars - and an insane AI called CATCH. (PROSE:Beige Planet Mars^[+]Loading...["Beige Planet Mars (novel)"])

Following the evacuation of Dellah during its occupation by theAll-High Gods in2595, Bernice learned she was dying of an incurable condition. (PROSE:Tears of the Oracle^[+]Loading...["Tears of the Oracle (novel)"]) She was, however, cured (PROSE:Return to the Fractured Planet^[+]Loading...["Return to the Fractured Planet (novel)"]) and played a major role in the destruction of the gods. (PROSE:Twilight of the Gods^[+]Loading...["Twilight of the Gods (VNA novel)"])

The Braxiatel Collection years[[edit] |[edit source]]

Following Dellah's destruction/removal from normal space, Irving Braxiatel asked for her to come to theBraxiatel Collection. (PROSE:Twilight of the Gods^[+]Loading...["Twilight of the Gods (VNA novel)"]) She became the newly formed Collection's staff archaeologist; she took up her post as the year2600 dawned, when she was still in her thirties (she had regressed in age at one point in her travels). It was as part of her duties on the Collection, during an expedition to locate theDoomsday Manuscript, she first encountered theFifth Axis. (PROSE:Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Doomsday Manuscript^[+]Loading...["Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Doomsday Manuscript (novel)"])

She then decided to go on holiday onChosan whilst there was a civil war. Her yacht was destroyed by one of the sides but she was rescued byDamien Colley. Here she discovered a plan to use aSheen as a bomb byHannah Brennan to destroy her opponents continent. She discovered theSheen became a human bomb in order to destroy Callabraxia. (AUDIO:Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Secret of Cassandra^[+]Loading...["Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Secret of Cassandra (audio story)"]) Her next mission was to discover a temple on the planetVenedel, as it contained an item which would allow her to find Jason. (PROSE:Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Gods of the Underworld^[+]Loading...["Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Gods of the Underworld (novel)"])

Motherhood[[edit] |[edit source]]

Travelling toHera, she explored a cave which contained the mind ofAvril Fenman. Avril stole Benny's body and began to abuse it. Avril then seducedKilloranAdrian Wall, an act which resulted in Benny fallingpregnant. (PROSE:The Squire's Crystal^[+]Loading...["The Squire's Crystal (novel)"]) This event caused some friction between Adrian and Benny when they had to go toRhinvil to discover what had happened to his crew on the planet. She discovered thatBratheen Traloor had an obsession with Benny and programmed his house with her memories. The House became jealous when Benny came to the house and tried to kill her. (AUDIO:Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Stone's Lament^[+]Loading...["Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Stone's Lament (audio story)"])

Irving Braxiatel took her toPalastridon in order for her to validate the authenticity of aHalstad Harp. Through her investigation, she helped to uncover the truth behind the destruction ofHalstad by theGulfrarg. She encounteredHulver who told her about life on Halstad (AUDIO:Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Extinction Event^[+]Loading...["Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Extinction Event (audio story)"]) She travelled toStation Control after being asked to find out what had happened toRupert Alouicious Barnstable Gilhooly ship. There she found Jason Kane and brought him back to her universe. She also discovered that she was pregnant. (PROSE:Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Infernal Nexus^[+]Loading...["Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Infernal Nexus (novel)"])

Five months into her pregnancy, she went toKarthos to help her to investigate a mysterious ruin on the planet, which shouldn't exist according toCaitlin Peters. When she travelled to the planet, she discovered that Caitlin had disappeared and she went to the ruin to discover that the ruins were created by an ancient civilisation to protect the planet. (AUDIO:Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Skymines of Karthos^[+]Loading...["Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Skymines of Karthos (audio story)"])

Bernice in theFifth Axis'Glass Prison. (PROSE:The Glass Prison^[+]Loading...["The Glass Prison (novel)"])

Nearing the end of her pregnancy, she went on a trip but her ship was attacked. She crashed on the planetDeirbhile and was imprisoned by the Fifth Axis. She became of the focus of a cult in the prison because of the unusual circumstances of the conception. She eventually gave birth whilst in prison, to a boy namedPeter Summerfield, who was half-human and half-Killoran. He was born via c-section, since he was too large to be delivered normally. (PROSE:Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Glass Prison^[+]Loading...["Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Glass Prison (novel)"])

She once decided to go on an dig because it was on theGigamarket parking lot. She wanted to go and buy loads of shoes and stole Adrian's credit chip do to so. Inside the shop she met withKeelor who showed her the shoe canyon and a book display of down among the Dead men. She experienced time shifts and then went shopping because it reset the credit chip without a limit. The shifts meant that theBorvali escaped to their section of the Gigamarket and started hunting the humans. She encounteredTarband who was a soldier from 100 years ago and helped him fight his way through the shop. When there she discovered that the Gigamarket was selling humans to the Borvali. The shifts almost destroyed the shop as they set off a self destruct routine in the security regime. She decided to stop the bomb by hitting the controls with her shoes. (AUDIO:The Greatest Shop in the Galaxy^[+]Loading...["The Greatest Shop in the Galaxy (audio story)"])

Benny caught betweenJason Kane andAdrian Wall competing to help raisePeter Summerfield. (AUDIO:The Green-Eyed Monsters^[+]Loading...["The Green-Eyed Monsters (audio story)"])

Benny was adamant that she raise her son by herself as a single mother, despite Jason and Adrian each wanting to play a role. She was initially told by Adrian that the males of his species didn't rear the child but this didn't sit well with her. She let them look after him when she went toGoronos afterAshantra asked her to come as an expert to look over some artefacts they had. She realised it was a scam to get Peter away from her. (AUDIO:Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Green-Eyed Monsters^[+]Loading...["Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Green-Eyed Monsters (audio story)"]) She later softened her stance, though, and both men were involved in Peter's upbringing.

Benny once landed onArtaris to avoid a space fleet, she left the collection to avoid Peter's screaming. She metIris Wildthyme there. Benny thought that Iris might have been a Fifth Axis agent, but got drunk with her. She was noticed as being an outsider and was to be trailed as such. She helped Iris to find out the truth behind the plague that hauntedExcelis. (AUDIO:Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Plague Herds of Excelis^[+]Loading...["Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Plague Herds of Excelis (audio story)"])

Iris smuggled Benny on board the space liner theEmpress while Iris continued on her own, telling Benny to act like she owned the place and she'd get home. The partner-in-crime of the thief,Karter, hacked into theEmpress' systems to put Karter on the staff. The partner intended to set off a small explosion to damage just one floor and quickly steal from them, but mistimed the explosives and damaged the entire hull. While trying to steal the jewels of two deadKolgarian delegates,Asnarbi andMusjarna, the jewels shattered and emitted a gas that brought the memories and emotions of Asnarbi and Musjarna into Benny and theIce WarriorGrand MarshallSstac ofNew Mars.

While trying to save themselves from the collapsing ship, the memories of the dead Kolgarians and their quarrelling surfaced in Benny and Sstac. Meanwhile,GeneralAzzar, deciding that the explosion was the result of QueenBastrovan's retaliation against theEmpress, set the ship on a collision course forRonos Minor, faking a distress call so that armies could start a war against her. Azzar electrocuted herself on the flight controls, while Karter, after being discovered, escaped in the last shuttle. With little oxygen left, the last traces of Asnarbi and Musjarna left Benny and Sstac's minds while they clung to life. A group of Ice Warriors, answering Azzar's distress call, rescued the survivors on the ship. Benny wrote to Sstac that she would visit the delgates' next of kin onKolgar and invited him to come along. (AUDIO:Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Dance of the Dead^[+]Loading...["Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Dance of the Dead (audio story)"])

She travelled with Jason, Adrian and Brax through the mirror that was in the Braxiatel collection. She wanted to explore the base to find Brax and Adrian when they went missing. She foundCarnivel in the base, she said she knew Benny. She discovered that the mirror projected the dark side of the looker. She discovered that there was a creature in the mirror, a creature that wanted to be born after it saw the memories of Peter's birth. The creature then wanted Benny to give birth to it. Adrian's love for her managed to break through the creatures hold on her and she managed to escape. (AUDIO:Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Mirror Effect^[+]Loading...["Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Mirror Effect (audio story)"])

She was asked by Braxiatel to helpPatrick Quilby track the source of higher technology onBellotron. On her way to the planet she was attacked by aRutan Host and was copied. (AUDIO:Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Bellotron Incident^[+]Loading...["Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Bellotron Incident (audio story)"]) She was then invited toDraconia by LordParanash. She was asked because of her adventure with the Doctor onMarran Alpha, because it led to her becoming in contact withVilus Krull and theCult of the Dark Flame. She had her skull drilled into in order to release the essence of Vilus' mind, and then to assassinate EmperorShenn. (AUDIO:Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Draconian Rage^[+]Loading...["Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Draconian Rage (audio story)"])

TheEarth Reptile Council asked Benny to look for a terrorist wanting to disrupt theSea Devil colony onChosan. She met her old friendNedda and discovered that there was a greater problem than terrorism: the water contained a protein that changed the minds of the Sea Devils making them become more violent. Whilst she was offworld, the Collection was invaded by the Fifth Axis. (AUDIO:Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Poison Seas^[+]Loading...["Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Poison Seas (audio story)"])

Bernice among theBraxiatel Collection resistance against the Fifth Axis. (PROSE:Life During Wartime)

She was part of the resistance against the Fifth Axis (PROSE:Life During Wartime) On one resistance task, she found out that the Fifth Axis was using her father as a tactician. She discovered that her father was based onHeaven, and planned an archaeological dig there to find him. She discovered that theDaleks were on Heaven and behind the Fifth Axis. Arriving back at the collection in time for the liberation, she made the ultimate decision to destroy the Fifth Axis for all the terrible crimes they had committed. (AUDIO:Death and the Daleks^[+]Loading...["Death and the Daleks (audio story)"])

She found it weird that Braxiatel had found a fiancée. She was suspicious ofVeronica Bland and hiredReep Saluja to investigate. She was in charge of taking an inventory of the artefacts after the Axis invasion. She warned Veronica to not trust Brax. She was annoyed when Veronica would allow her access to the east wing. Brax got her slightly drunk to find out why she didn't like Veronica. She thought that Brax was marrying Veronica as she was rare, exactly what he liked in his collection. She was banished by Brax for this view. She came back to the collection on the quiet. She told Veronica that Reep was attacked by a plant. She found out thatCrofton's books had been taken from the library and that Veronica's species was a plant in his greenhouse. She discovered that Veronica was a plant and used some weedkiller on it. She hoped that this would make Veronica die back. She officiated at the wedding. (AUDIO:Braxiatel in Love^[+]Loading...["Braxiatel in Love (audio story)"])

She was asked byLynton Jellis to explore some ruins found at a prospective mine onTysir IV, because if it showed signs of recent indigenous life the colony would be declared illegal. She was tricked into entering the site which was aCyberman base, so that Lynton could get a plague for a group of separatists. She had to work with a Cyberman in order to get out of the base before it was destroyed. (AUDIO:Silver Lining^[+]Loading...["Silver Lining (audio story)"])

On one occasion when Jason was looking after Peter, she noticed that Pete had gotten hold of the time rings. He activated them and took her first to theFestival of Piranha where she rode the ghost train. Learning that there were flesh eating wraiths she asked Peter to escape them. They then travelled to AncientEgypt. She was delighted when they landed near theSphinx and showed Peter one of the pyramids. When theGrel shot her, she had a dream where she went into the pyramid but was questioned by the GodAnubis who judged her, andAmyt, the devourer of souls, about actually wanting Peter. They then travelled to a jungle when Peter wanted to go to a zoo. This was when the time rings started to get hot. The Grel made a copy of Benny to tempt Jason to give them Peter. She became annoyed at how they had made it. They quickly visitedAustralia, a football match and then Paris. When the time rings overloaded, they gave Benny a glimpse of Peter's violent future. (AUDIO:Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Grel Escape^[+]Loading...["Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Grel Escape (audio story)"])

She was sent by thePerloran government to obtain theWishing Bone of Perlor in return forGalyari weapons they obtained during a civil war. When she visitedThe Clutch, she met with the star gypsyMordecan to find out what he did with the bone. She discovered that they had used the bone to createGreeko, but in encountering him his conditioning failed due to her latent psychic abilities, and he became reckless. She failed to get the bone back and it was destroyed when Greeko was killed. (AUDIO:The Bone of Contention^[+]Loading...["The Bone of Contention (audio story)"])

Benny was shot down byElise Kalwell when she travelled toJegg-Sau to find some valuable artefacts for Brax. Whilst there she found an obsolete RobotK103, which was one of the treasures. She found it weird that Elise andEthan Kalwell wouldn't eat fresh meat and thought they were mad. She discovered that the Robot had created duplicates of the real Elise and Ethan which were then removed their reasons for them to leave the planet. She found out that he based the duplicates mind settings on a porn simulation. (AUDIO:Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Relics of Jegg-Sau^[+]Loading...["Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Relics of Jegg-Sau (audio story)"])

She had became trapped in theSpinster's Prison. She helpedthe Spinster to discover a murderer at theQueen of Spring. She later metthe Player and thought him to be annoying as he insulted her. She later became the Queen of Spring. To escape the play she had have a verbal sparing match which unsettled the play structure. This was all an effect of virus located on an artefact Benny had found. (AUDIO:Professor Bernice Summerfield in the Masquerade of Death^[+]Loading...["Professor Bernice Summerfield in the Masquerade of Death (audio story)"])

OneChristmas she was sent toMarlowe's World to discover why aPulsar was heading towards the Braxiatel Collection as she was the closest one to the planet. The Pulsar was beaming the coordinates of Marlowe's world inMorse code. Whilst there she was constantly being shot at in different circumstances, or seeing people in that state, such asTopsy Turvé almost being crushed by a piano. She was then chased around the city. She discovered that she was being manipulated by theEternalsBarron andRaymond Hardy in order for one of them to winEnlightenment. (AUDIO:The Heart's Desire^[+]Loading...["The Heart's Desire (audio story)"])

She was investigatingHalyvon artefacts when she heard26's voice in her head. She then travelled to find her. Arriving on the planet she soon discovered the 26's masters, theMonoids. The Monoids believed Benny to be one of their slaves and planned to remove her tongue as she had eyes, ears and speech, she managed to fool them into believing she was deaf. One of the artefacts she found allowed her to telepathically speak with other people who wore the necklace. She was disturbed that when theHalyvon regained their telepathic abilities they removed the Monoids' power of speech. (AUDIO:Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Kingdom of the Blind^[+]Loading...["Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Kingdom of the Blind (audio story)"])

Markwood invited her and Jason to search through the damage of theTrib Museum during the civil war. She had help fromEnil though she wasn't too helpful as Jason's translator wasn't working properly. She discovered a torture chamber in the museum used by the military to conduct experiments on the locals. When a local stole Benny's note she ran after him in just a bath towel. She lost her arm when a building fell on her. After the war was over she was happy people were handing things back to the museum. (AUDIO:Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Lost Museum^[+]Loading...["Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Lost Museum (audio story)"]) She had to chase afterClarissa Jones when she decided to kidnap Peter. (PROSE:Parallel Lives)

Parasiel asked Benny to tell him about the recent circumstances with Clarissa and Braxiatel. She decided to tell him about her recent visit toEtheria to discover the lost tomb ofAldébrath with her friendKeri. The tomb was said to be there by a bunch of monks and one of them helped on her expedition. The ship she was on crashed and she was told by Keri that it was going to explode. She discovered that Keri was lying to her to get good ratings by putting Benny in danger. On entering a crashed ship, she discovered it to be the lost tomb and that Aldébrath was a woman. Returning to the monk she realised that the monks weren't worshipping a god, but were supposed to be worshipping the Goddess of Love and Peace, the same one whose name she took in vain. (AUDIO:Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Goddess Quandary^[+]Loading...["Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Goddess Quandary (audio story)"])

Jason told Benny that he and Brax were going to see theGalyari production ofMacbeth onBerkoff IV, she didn't believe them and followed into the ship. She discovered that they were going toCantus on the tip-off ofThesanius. When they explored Cantus they discovered aCyberman tomb. On entering a conversion chamber she became disgusted when she found out that infants were converted intoCybermats, and ran all the way back to the Collection. She returned to Cantus just after Jason was converted into a partial Cyberman with the power of the Gallifreyan Crystal byt Benny managed to stop it fully taken hold. She used the crystal to overload the Cyberman logic circuits and defeated them. (AUDIO:Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Crystal of Cantus^[+]Loading...["Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Crystal of Cantus (audio story)"])

She went missing after an archaeological dig, and theCroSSScape had information on her. She was taken to be tortured by placing her in a reality where she experienced old memories. The CroSSScape wanted to convert her to be like him, in order for her to be more useful for their plans.NI/cian 137 helped her to escape from her imprisonment, but she was informed that Jason was there and he would be used instead of her. She was eventually converted so that their god could be placed in her mind, and they could learn from it. She managed to undo the conversion and return back to the collection. (AUDIO:The Tartarus Gate^[+]Loading...["The Tartarus Gate (audio story)"])

Benny then went to theLabyrinth of Kerykeion in order to buy some books, as it was the largest repository of human books outside Earth, on behalf ofBev Tarrant. On her journey there she metSamuel Wolfe and his daughterJean, whom she found out that had bought the Labyrinth. On staying there, she discovered that there was a murdering robot in the building who killed Samuel. She also found out that the Labyrinth was awash with time loops and paradoxes, which she utilised to save Jean. She realised eventually that the reason that the librarian was so useful as she was Jean all grown up. (AUDIO:Timeless Passages^[+]Loading...["Timeless Passages (audio story)"])

Jason asked her to investigate a murder onthe Drome which was caused by a fake highwayman. She managed to get an all-access pass around the Drome which madeJane Peters. On one set she saw how the Drome was making things seem real like making an unplugged cable live. She proposed that something like cabin fever was happening on the station. The computer was imposing control on the humans, and Benny asked the computer to start treating the humans like things and not plot devices. When this didn't work, she decided that only singing a happy song would overthrow the malicious conditioning. (AUDIO:The Worst Thing in the World^[+]Loading...["The Worst Thing in the World (audio story)"])

She got slightly annoyed at Jason's promiscuity afterDoggles tried to have sex with her. Even though Doggles had a slight crush on her, this happened because there was a sex epidemic on the collection and students, academics and staff were constantly having sex. Managing to stop herself from joining in, she tasked herself with finding the root cause of the epidemic. WithHass's help they discovered that it was the plant he had recently sowed in order to strengthen the planetoid. She got agitated at Bev's lack of interest in what was happening on the collection, due to the diplomatic talk. During one of the talks, Bev passionately kissed Benny. She eventually joined in with the orgies as Jason was off world. (AUDIO:Summer of Love^[+]Loading...["Summer of Love (audio story)"])

Bev sent her to find the Oracle of Delphi in order to find out about the future of the collection. She metSocrates and was delighted to see him. She found out thatMegaira had found a stone which gave her the power of prophecy and how she used that to empower Jason to do her dirty work. She forewarned Socrates about the upcoming plague which was caused by Megaira and found out the reason why he survived it. (AUDIO:The Oracle of Delphi^[+]Loading...["The Oracle of Delphi (audio story)"])

Finding out the stone was called the stone of barter, she knew where it was in her own time and went tothe Empire State to find it. It was a ruin but when she got there she found herself in a bustling metropolis, and that she had gained the power to fix things. She discovered that she gained her powers from the stone who stole them fromMaggie Matsumoto. After Maggie gave up trying to stopRand she worked that in resurrecting the people and fixing the building that she had made the idealised version of the planet. She discovered that the stone contained Braxiatel. (AUDIO:The Empire State^[+]Loading...["The Empire State (audio story)"])

With the Braxiatel Collection under aMim blockade, Benny and Maggie had to run it in the pretence of bringing Braxiatel to be buried on the collection. She tried to stop herself from telling Maggie about the things Braxiatel did. She also knew of the Deselby Matango Effect and what it did to the humans. She was annoyed when Maggie became the anchorite for the ship. (AUDIO:The Tub Full of Cats^[+]Loading...["The Tub Full of Cats (audio story)"])

She wasn't comfortable when Bev invitedKothar theDraconian ambassador to the collection. She later helped to find a way to remove a Draconian Gauntlet from Bev's left hand. Unfortunately, she had to use Braxiatel's help which stopped him building the defences, allowing the Draconians to invade. (AUDIO:The Judas Gift^[+]Loading...["The Judas Gift (audio story)"])

During the Draconian occupation, she hid in the bowels of the Collection and taught Draconians archaeology. Kothar started to hear her voice when searching for her. This was due to the virus which was implanted in the scotch he drank. She wanted to hide as she thought it was the best thing to do, and became angry when Jason told Kothar where she was. (AUDIO:Freedom of Information^[+]Loading...["Freedom of Information (audio story)"])

Bernice was invited to Earth byKadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart in order to help her discover what was wrong on Earth. There she discovereda clone of herself which was created to play her in a show about the Braxiatel Collection, which retold her life. She worked out that the President of EarthFiona Dickens was replaced by a clone. This clone was created as part of a plot to take over the Earth government, as their creator Clarissa Jone's father, wanted to wipe out aliens. Benny's clone was sent to kill her, but thanks to Bernice herself and Kadiatu, the clone was able to overcome her programming and gain independence. The clone told her that their creator died in theDraconian-Mim War and that was what set off the plan and was eventually electedPresident of Earth. (AUDIO:The Final Amendment^[+]Loading...["The Final Amendment (audio story)"])

She was agitated after the death of Jason, and suspected that Braxiatel was involved in manipulating Peter to kill him. She started to teach the students again, and during one of her classes there was a fake invasion. Doggles took her out to dinner and then attempted to rape her. Hass told her that he was behind the Mim's destruction. With Adrian and Bev's help, she escaped the Collection with Peter. (AUDIO:The Wake^[+]Loading...["The Wake (audio story)"])

Going freelance[[edit] |[edit source]]

AfterJason'sdeath and the revelation thatBraxiatel had manipulated events towards that end, Benny left theBraxiatel Collection permanently. (AUDIO:The Wake^[+]Loading...["The Wake (audio story)"])

WithPeter in tow, who, though still achild, was already stronger than all but the most augmentedhumans, Benny roamed the galaxy, chasing freelance jobs and searching for a place to settle down. (AUDIO:Beyond the Sea^[+]Loading...["Beyond the Sea (audio story)"] et al.)

This period of Benny's life lasted about three years. (PROSE:Six Impossible Things^[+]Loading...["Six Impossible Things (short story)"])

She was unaware that Braxiatel was spying on her. (AUDIO:Escaping the Future^[+]Loading...["Escaping the Future (audio story)"])

Benny withKerry Lyle andRick Hertz surrounded byzombies onMaximediras. (AUDIO:Beyond the Sea^[+]Loading...["Beyond the Sea (audio story)"])

After they saw her old documentaryOur Martians, Ourselves,Kerry Lyle andRick Hertz hired Benny to promote their planet,Maximediras, fortourists. Lyle and Hertz believed that Maximediras - a planet covered almost entirely inwater - had practically no interestingarchaelogical history and hoped that Benny would make things up to add intrigue. However, while Benny was on the planet, she discovered a civilisation ofsentient microscopic cells. She helped deal with a rogue faction of Maximedirans that wanted the humans to leave and tried to scare everyone by taking over the bodies of dead tourists. (AUDIO:Beyond the Sea^[+]Loading...["Beyond the Sea (audio story)"])

After leaving Peter onFomalhaut XI, Benny led an expedition to theBlood Citadel of Alukah for theFomalhaut Museum of Forerunner Artefacts. During the trip, they accidentally awoke avampire,Olena. Olena killed the rest ofarchaelogists and hypnotised Benny, keeping her under her thrall for four months. InJune2609, Olena took Benny to a conference onvampirology atMurigen. With the help ofImogen Tantry,Lloyd Doihara,Emanuel Valeriani, andAntonio Finlay, Bernice overcame Olena's influence and foiled a plot to use Murigen's experimentalquantum gateways to spread vampires across the universe. (PROSE:Predating the Predators^[+]Loading...["Predating the Predators (short story)"])

She was worried when Peter travelled throughtime. When she caught up with him, she told him about what was happening to the planet. (AUDIO:The Adolescence of Time^[+]Loading...["The Adolescence of Time (audio story)"])

On her way back to her own time, she was diverted to theLondon Zoo in1893 byStraxus. She met up withMycroft Holmes and investigated a set ofmurders which involved the numberseven. In the course of their investigations she discovered that the murder was aCwej namedSeptimus. (AUDIO:The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel^[+]Loading...["The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel (audio story)"])

Using works ofJohn Watson to get their attention, Bernice applied for a job atthe Depository. She discoveredbook worms, who ate and absorbed thebooks. To hide her involvement,Myrtle Bunnage decided to kill the book worms and Bernice got caught in the pesticide gas. Realising that the worms were a unique species, she pledged to save them. (AUDIO:The Diet of Worms^[+]Loading...["The Diet of Worms (audio story)"])

She was asked byBev andAdrian to help raidVingus Bank. Upon entering thebank, she became distressed, as it was staffed withclones of Braxiatel. She was tasked with climbing the maintenance shafts, whilsta clone of her stayed with Adrian. In the shaft, she was chased by a maintenance robot. She was caught in the manager's office, which was part of the plan. She revealed that what they had actually done was to destroy the utility companies that served the bank to allow them access to the vault which contained her painting of Braxiatel. (AUDIO:Glory Days^[+]Loading...["Glory Days (audio story)"])

On their way toVenus, she landed onAbsence to refuel but had no money. She hoped to be employed on an expedition to the centre of the planet but Peter got employed instead, because of her gaps in employment. She got stuck servingburgers instead. She was extremely concerned about his well being and started to despair about her situation. Whilst waiting around, she became friendly withAaron Keep. She found out that Keep had a radio connection with Peter's mission and became worried when theTechnocult invaded. She found out thatLamarque Aslinedes had left Peter to die and became distraught.Cindy saved Peter and took him back to her. (AUDIO:Absence^[+]Loading...["Absence (audio story)"])

They got toEarth and left Peter with Adrian. She visited a publisher to obtain the royalties for Jason Kane's erotic novels. She then went toEros as his bank account was under the control ofMegali Scoblow, an old acquaintance to Benny. She was glad that this happened quickly. Unfortunately, all banking transfers were suspended due to increasing violence on the planet. When one of Scoblow's employees joined the riots, she had to go on a date withN'Jok Barnes and it ended with her having gone to his room intending to havesex with him and nearly got caught in the lift. She used the fact that she looked like thePresident of Earth to her advantage and stopped a potentialwar. Adrian informed her that Peter had been kidnapped. (AUDIO:Venus Mantrap^[+]Loading...["Venus Mantrap (audio story)"])

She went toBuenos Aires to find Peter and was contacted byRobyn. Robyn informed her aboutFrost and went after him. On the way, she got an amulet which stopped his plans and killed him by accident. She then fell ill. Robyn managed to save her life and started to remind her about the other times that she and Frost encountered Benny. The first was when an alien being started eating people's thoughts which Frost wanted to take to Earth. The second was when they visited a vast tomb which helped Frost gain something he wanted. She temporarily died, but Robyn resuscitated her. The first time she met Frost was in1937, when they were being chased byNazis to find something in a mountain. She realised it was something related to Braxiatel. She discovered that Brax created Frost in order to destroy Buenos Aires. These were artificially created in order to help Robyn's plans. She thwarted Braxiatel's plot to prevent the creation of a new alien species. She then realised it was time to go back to the Collection. (AUDIO:Secret Origins^[+]Loading...["Secret Origins (audio story)"])

Bernice withskulls onJovellia. (PROSE:Secret Histories)

Bernice delayed her return to the Braxiatel Collection after she was invited to a short-term job uncovering artwork in the ruins of a church onJovellia. She discoveredskulls made of aa black material with psychic properties left over fromJovellia's civil war. The skulls reached out to Benny'smind and she told them stories from her past relating to her previous encounters with the black material the skulls were made of. (PROSE:Secret Histories framing sequence) Before leaving Jovellia, Benny received a tip-off from aBandril trader directing her toJavarda. (AUDIO:Resurrecting the Past^[+]Loading...["Resurrecting the Past (audio story)"])

On Javarda, Benny discovered what she thought was a lost civilisation. However, it was actually a trap arranged by Irving Braxiatel. ABraxiatel Protective Mechanoid was waiting to capture Benny and teleport her to a location which would be beneficial to Braxiatel's plans.Benny fought the mechanoid and succeeded in damaging its teleport system, but was nonetheless captured and put intostasis. (WC:Dead and Buried^[+]Loading...["Dead and Buried (webcast)"])

She sometimes taught atLuna University during the52nd century, where she met "her most annoying student" for the first time. (AUDIO:Lies in Ruins^[+]Loading...["Lies in Ruins (audio story)"])

The Deindum War[[edit] |[edit source]]

The identity of this species and the entire reason Irving Braxiatel had been so interested in Bernice in the first place was revealed when she stumbled uponDoggles' research facility on the moon. A new alien species with the potential to replace theTime Lords were to be created and Bernice'sDNA would be instrumental to these efforts. However, in a cock up,Hass prevented Bernice sacrificing herself, resulting in the formation of a more aggressive time-travelling species. (AUDIO:Resurrecting the Past^[+]Loading...["Resurrecting the Past (audio story)"])

When theDeindum declared war, Bernice joined the fight against the future aggressors. (PROSE:Present Danger^[+]Loading...["Present Danger (short story)"])

In an attempt to rescue the "World Cleaver" either from the clutches of the Deindum or from being destroyed, Bernice teamed up with Outland Revenue agent Felterby (whom she had first met on the planet Venus shortly after Jason's death) and travelled with him to the planet Krypsec - home of the Red Monks (servants of the "Devourer of Innocents") - and helped him to audit their finances. The two discovered a discrepcancy in the records of the Red Monks that let Bernice and Felterby take the World Cleaver. Unfortunately, one of the Devourer's relatives had already taken the World Cleaver. Bernice then stuffed Felterby in a box and put him on a ship leaving Krypsec right before the planet was destroyed. (PROSE:In the Ledgers of Madness^[+]Loading...["In the Ledgers of Madness (short story)"])

Peter and she travelled through time to discover a weakness in the Deindum and concluded she would require Braxiatel's help to defeat them. She finally confronted him on the death of Jason Kane. Although she was not satisfied by his reasons, she agreed to fight the Deindum together. They waged their own personal time war against the Deindum and in their victory she was lost in a dissipating nexus of causality, separated from her own time. (AUDIO:Escaping the Future^[+]Loading...["Escaping the Future (audio story)"])

The Epoch[[edit] |[edit source]]

Benny found herself ona planet with no history beyond the last fifty years, where anything predating the dateYear Zero was forbidden. She started investigating the history of the planet through digs. Her status as anarchaeologist had her arrested and nearly executed. She found it peculiar that people were being forced to forget. One of her interrogators told her about her work, and got her to do some deductive reasoning about hercultures. She worked out some of their culture about Year Zero from a can of fizzy drink because of the six languages on it and one of them came from a different city. (AUDIO:Year Zero^[+]Loading...["Year Zero (audio story)"])

In captivity, she discovered this was one of a small cluster of planets, all governed by the same entity, existing with the same rules, and that beyond them space was empty. She escaped, and after an encounter with "nothingness" (which threatened to destroy what little of space was left) she crossed space to the home planet of the system where she hoped to find out what happened in Year Zero. (AUDIO:Dead Man's Switch^[+]Loading...["Dead Man's Switch (BFBS audio story)"])

Upon arrival, however, the planet renamed itself Atlantis, and the moment Bernice stepped out of the spaceport, she was caught up in the world re-writing itself and stranded in what appeared to be the lost, ancient city of Atlantis. She discovered that a lot of Atlantis' myths and legends were being made true, such as a Kraken attacking the city. After confronting theQueen about her actions her only friend was rewritten into forgetting her. (AUDIO:The Kraken's Lament^[+]Loading...["The Kraken's Lament (audio story)"])

Benny later encounteredLeonidas andRuth who took her on an archaeological dig. She was surprised that there were no strata in the soil. To find the answer, she went to the layer of theGreat Leader who teased them with questions, though after this she managed to destroy it. (AUDIO:The Temple of Questions^[+]Loading...["The Temple of Questions (audio story)"]) Soon after this, the world started to rewrite itself and many people started to become hierophants, as well as things from her time starting to appear. It was in a trading company building that was supposed to be the temple of Hermes, she started to see what was happening, as well asJack|Jack's message. She believed thatthe Epoch was scared of her because she knew of the universe before Year Zero. (AUDIO:Private Enemy No. 1^[+]Loading...["Private Enemy No. 1 (audio story)"])

The Epoch split her and Ruth into three versions placed one in Victorian London, another in Jurassic Earth and one on their ship and made her choose which was the real version. She watched the demise of herself before Ruth shut the reality down. Her Victorian version met with Jack and discovered what he was doing. She chose to shutdown the version of reality with the Epoch spaceship to stop their manipulation, as they believed her to be a threat. After confronting the Epoch, she sealed herself in a stasis capsule in the hope of being reunited with her friends back in her own time. (AUDIO:Judgement Day^[+]Loading...["Judgement Day (BFBS audio story)"])

Legion[[edit] |[edit source]]

Bernice was released from the capsule to find a message left for her by Irving Braxiatel, claiming he was not the same man whom she knew and that he had her son and they were both onLegion. (AUDIO:Judgement Day^[+]Loading...["Judgement Day (BFBS audio story)"])

She travelled toLyndyaz in order to join in a dig to find out more information about Legion. On the, planet she encountered Ruth, who had escaped the Epoch but still had no memory of her past life, as she was the assistant of the financier of the digHarry Burtenshaw. Benny discovered that the local deity was based on her and helped to exposeGabriella andFederico Dominicci as manipulating the religions of the planet. Following this, the two set out for Legion. (AUDIO:Brand Management^[+]Loading...["Brand Management (audio story)"])

As part of her trip, she went toAgora to find information of the location of Legion. In order to be allowed on the planet she had to pose as a nun and join a choir. There was a dig on the planet which contained the artefact which had the coordinates of Legion and she posed as an the dendrochronologist Professor Hare to gain access to the dig. With the help ofMelville Trout and MotherAurelia, she discovered that a secret order in the religion wanted to stop the dig on the planet to keep the artefacts hidden and that SisterMarianne was involved. She stole one of the relics that contained information on Legion and went off world on a medical ship. (AUDIO:Bad Habits^[+]Loading...["Bad Habits (audio story)"])

Benny and Ruth took a space taxi to Legion after they were thrown off the medical ship. On their way, they crashed onKaff Zarnak, when DoctorCarol Bauer andYukon 9 forced them to land so they could get off the planet. She got to an old holiday resort which was under the attack of Sand Roaches. She helped them to get to the secret landing pad and escape capsule. On their way up they were hunted my the Roaches. Benny discovered that DoctorJared Jones had accidentally released a virus that turned people into Sand Roaches. Benny and Ruth managed to escape from the resort. Upon arriving on Legion, she was reunited with Peter, Irving (who claimed he had never met her before) and alsoJack. Bernice was heartbroken to discover Peter was now fully grown and was making a living as a thug, and that he wanted nothing to do with her. Bernice found employment on Legion and set about putting her life back in order. (AUDIO:Paradise Frost^[+]Loading...["Paradise Frost (audio story)"])

Peter resented his mother being on Legion, though from time to time he used her expertise. She got drunk and told the drinkers at the Bar embarrassing stories from his youth. Benny investigated the shipVesuvius when it fell towards Legion, in order to stop it destroying Legion. Upon arriving, she discovered thatSheira Rynn had been murdered. She performed an autopsy on her body. Whilst doing this, she discovered that all of the footage and journals were corrupted. She managed to uncover the truth about an on board murder which occurred 5000 years earlier, by realising that the body had been changed. She worked out that Sheira andMortan Hardak were spies and thatRickard Karne had been killed, not Sheira. (AUDIO:Vesuvius Falling^[+]Loading...["Vesuvius Falling (audio story)"])

She was hired to find a picture on Legion. AtTriptic House she experienced visions ofDorian Gray's life when Jack performed a psychic experiment. Dorian then turned up to collect his picture. (AUDIO:Shades of Gray^[+]Loading...["Shades of Gray (audio story)"])

After a karaoke night in the White Rabbit, Benny slept for two days and still had a hangover. Irving brought her to anIkerian settlement to buy stuff for the bar. She found it rude that one of the Ikerians thought that she was Irving's concubine. Irving also brought her to a base of operations on Legion. She confronted Irving about howGalot knew him, and how he was different to the Brax she knew. She got angry at the way Galot treated her. She stayed at the base to check over it and see what needed to be done to the place. When talking to the base's computer, she found out that it had an extensive file on Braxiatel. She wasn't told that the plumbers were coming and she panicked. She almost died when the faulty plumbing caused the base to flood with hot water. Soon afterwards, she was visited byJulezand who was coming to decorate the base. (AUDIO:Everybody Loves Irving^[+]Loading...["Everybody Loves Irving (audio story)"])

Benny was employed to find out what was causing a set of disappearances at a museum. Here she saw the events of her life depicted as holograms. The first was from one of her digs when she was a Professor of Archaeology atSt Oscar's University onDellah. This was when she had dug up the Quantum and the mystery behind it. The Vice Chancellor of the university started to question her qualifications, and told her to give up on finding out the Origins of the Quantum.

Her former porterJoseph was part of the Collection. She was reminded of an incident on theBraxiatel Collection where a set of assassins were sent to kill her and she found one dead in her bed another dead on her kitchen floor and a final one in her wardrobe who she killed. She was then shown a projection of Jason from a letter they had found, but that turned out to be from the original timeline before Braxiatel's manipulations. She was then shown a projection of when Peter, Adrian and Benny were in a teach simulation when Peter was locked up after killing Jason.

On mentioning Braxiatel, she was shown a time when they went to Ancient Blackpool where he had stolen a Doomsday Book and tried to recruit her. Bev Tarrant was in the next hologram where they were under Buenos Aires trying to get a black box of Braxiatel's which recorded the original time lines it was. When theCurator tried to hurry her along, he showed her a projection of when she and Iris were going to a ball and a shapeshifter tried to kill both of them. She was then reminded of a time on Zordin where Leonidas and Ruth were talking about how they could suddenly be changed at whim.

She told them that even if she forgot that she was an archaeologist, she would still be a mother. A couple of weeks before coming to the museum, Jack and Benny went to a casino onLegion, where they were trying to cheat. Jack told Benny a story about his friend Lara and how she died. This was to make Benny cry so they could discover the true cheater. The museum showed her a possible future where she had escaped her nursing home to go on a dig. The museum brought all of her enemies which wanted to kill her. With help from Joseph, they wiped a virus from the systems and stopped the disappearances. (AUDIO:Many Happy Returns^[+]Loading...["Many Happy Returns (audio story)"])

After being a very expensive courier, she landed on the desertedNemeqit. This was because she had received a distress call asking for an archaeologist. On the planet, she discovered two individualsBel andLud who wanted to tell her of their ancient religion. She started to explore to find more information about the planet. In a cave, she found some glowing diamonds which depicted the states of life, and realised that they worshipped the planet as a conscious being. She foundVonna Byzantium annoying. She later realised that two new planets that had appeared were Lud and Bel. (AUDIO:A Handful of Dust^[+]Loading...["A Handful of Dust (audio story)"])

Peter then asked her to help him discover why ships were going missing. They ended up landing onMortis Dock which they found deserted. She was intrigued when she saw theHMSSurprise in the harbour. Jack showed her amobile news droid and found out when the people disappeared. She detected another lifeform about and went to the lighthouse to find it. Inside the building, she discoveredLucas Catch chained up. She learnt about the zombies which were the former colonists. She noticed that there was a heartbeat on the ship and found a healer was inhabiting the ship. She talked to it and it wanted to be released. She tried to offer her own body to let it escape. (AUDIO:HMS Surprise^[+]Loading...["HMS Surprise (audio story)"])

She then celebrated Advent Day with her family though she had to relocate to the surface of Legion. She met Peter's boyfriend,Antonio Tulloch, whom everyone else thought didn't exist. She became flustered when this happened. She learnt from Peter what happened to him after the Deindum War. It turned out thatAvril Fenman was manipulating them, and wanted Peter back. After Fenman was killed by Peter, she consoled Peter as he mourned the loss of Antonio. She helped him to bury his body. (AUDIO:The Curse of Fenman^[+]Loading...["The Curse of Fenman (audio story)"])

The Epoch returns[[edit] |[edit source]]

Bernice finally managed to fulfil a childhood dream by appearing onBig Dig. She went toSaravas with Jack and Ruth where she hoped to uncover more information about the lost civilisation. According to her, it was one of the great impossible digs due to the climatic conditions on the planet. She found it exciting to be on actual dig and found an ancient statue in the ground. She got annoyed whenShepton Rothwell wore the helmet of the Rock Bot she had uncovered, and damaged it. When it repaired itself, she was amazed. She worked out that the people who were wearing the suits died in the shade and starved to death. She thought Ruth's claims Shepton said that Jack and Benny was enamoured. She thought that something was being planted there just for them. She realised that someone was controlling the Suns and making the archaeologists behave strangely. She did this by running into the light that was supposed to kill them. She discovered a secret base, which had writing on the wall which was simultaneously in English, Greek and Kadeptian. She worked out that someone was controlling them all through Rothwell and using truths. She discovered that the planet was created bythe Epoch. She managed to defeat them, but forgot whoJack andRuth were. (AUDIO:Big Dig^[+]Loading...["Big Dig (audio story)"])

Peter then asked her to accompany him on a job toMoros Prime. She attended one ofWillem van der Heever's party and questioned why he tolerated a free press. She wanted to know more about theKai. She told Peter that she didn't trust Willem. She found one of the Kai attractive and alerted Peter to this fact as well. She was caught creeping about Willem's house and was impressed when he knew of an obscure paper of hers. She was concerned about the amount of security cameras in the estate and the lack of footage relating to the recent murder. She askedKrige if she knew anything about a potential attack. At the masquerade ball, she tried unsuccessfully to stop someone from dying. There she discovered the truth behind van der Heever and his physician Krige. After a gas attack byNexo, she forgot that she had a son. (AUDIO:The Revenant's Carnival^[+]Loading...["The Revenant's Carnival (audio story)"])

WhenCazador came to look forthe Brimstone Kid, she was in the White Rabbit pub. She found it funny when she learnt one of the new customers, Miss Hannigan, came to become a teacher. She had to take Cazador around the pub to find theBrimstone Kid. When Cazador came she was tasked with taking him round the pub. She went with Braxiatel to a Diamond Mine in the back ofCrazy Hank's Land Crow. In the mine, she discovered that the Kid was actually a bounty hunter named Pike Thornton who was after Braxiatel. She leftLegion using one of the mine's escape pods. Whilst escaping, she lost Brax, thinking that he had apparently crashed into a meteor. (AUDIO:The Brimstone Kid^[+]Loading...["The Brimstone Kid (audio story)"])

She landed on a planet where she saw a depiction of her apparent previous visit to the planet. This was at first a statue saying she was the woman who killed the world. On her previous visit, she had fallen from the sky and was called the Sky Witch. She was taken to KingTheon, whereMeriol wanted her burned. The populace thought that she would bring the end of the world. She was worried about the plague that apparently was ravaging through the city, and the locals thought she was the cause of it. She learnt from aYokel Child that there was something in the forbidden woods. Theon asked her to marry him. She found the source of the plague which was the radiation leaking from a timeship. She found a source of medication and some weapons. When Merriol used the weapons to kill a neighbouring tribe, she was appalled. Benny was then imprisoned in a tall tower where she watched the city grow using the technology from the crashed ship, which included increase the radiation. She witnessed all of the planet's inhabitants die from that tower. Because her tower was lead-lined, she didn't get sick. Eventually Theon let her out when he finally decided to switch off the radiation. When this didn't work, he switched on the engine and sent her through time and space. When the Benny who had crashed on the planet discovered this, she thought that she was being shown this so that she could change the future. She was then captured by the Epoch. (AUDIO:The Winning Side^[+]Loading...["The Winning Side (audio story)"])

The Epoch was removing Benny's friends from time as they believed that there were time disturbances around her. They finally decided to erase her from the continuity by thinking that she was an actor named Lisa Bowerman, who was playing Benny and a character called Emma Dunmop. However, this conditioning eventually failed. Together with two alternate versions of herself, one from theVictorianEngland, and the other a male version,Bernard Springmoore, who was in control of the Epoch, they fell into theTime Vortex and the Epoch's plans collapsed. She then planned to use the Epoch's technology to find her friends. (AUDIO:In Living Memory^[+]Loading...["In Living Memory (audio story)"])

She later travelled back in time by accident to her time inthe academy and accidentally let slip toSimon Kyle that he betrayed her. She posed as agardener in the grounds. She saved her younger self and talked to her about why she rebelled. She later helped her younger self when the enemy attacked. She found out that it wasthe principal who had sabotaged the academy shields, and she admitted that she came from the Braxiatel Collection. She had travelled back with Peter but he had been caught in the explosion of the time ship and aged quite drastically. She hoped that when they returned back to their time, this would be undone. (AUDIO:Ever After Happy^[+]Loading...["Ever After Happy (audio story)"])

Having rented a faulty spaceship, Benny and Ruth crashed onDrahva looking for a previous ship that was there. Benny was initially captured byZabel but was released whenShekkina thought Ruth was an empress. She found it weird that people lived on the dark side of Drahva. She tracked it to a sacred temple which only Shekkina was allowed to enter. Benny thought that Ruth was getting to into royal life. She was told by Zabel that her rooms had been moved and Zabel helped her get into the sacred Temple. She discovered that Ruth was to be killed. She found the original ship in the temple. (AUDIO:Empress of the Drahvins^[+]Loading...["Empress of the Drahvins (audio story)"])

Reunited with the Doctor[[edit] |[edit source]]

Bernice was called toArviem 2 to help discover information about the indigenous population withDr Amelia Geller. She met withRenk Van Magnastein in a bar where she explained the philosophy of Archaeology whilst drunk. She met the Seventh Doctor who was on Van Magnastein's wall. She stole a hover bike from Renk to escape theRobots with the Doctor. She was being pursued because of the archaeological finds she had dug up. After a group of frogs fell from the sky, she went to see her team after hearing messages from Dr Geller and asked Renk for his ship. Renk thought Benny and the Doctor were a couple. When Benny and Renk started getting acquainted, the Doctor reappeared and crashed the ship. She tried to explain to the natives that she was there as an independent witness to save their religion. This was the reason she was being pursued. On arriving at her dig, she discovered that her team had become zombies. She didn't believe that the Doctor's jacket hopped off on its own. After asking for a cocktail from one of the indigenous peoples, she discovered that Renk had manipulated the history of the planet using the Doctor's TARDIS. The Doctor then gave her a message that she should go and find Ace. (AUDIO:The Revolution^[+]Loading...["The Revolution (audio story)"])

Following Ace toAdolin, she crashed on the planet. On the surface she metSteven Day andClaire. She was delighted to explore the famous ruined cathedral on its surface. On walking through the ruins, she explained the religion of the planet to Steven. She found a set ofNitro-9 in the Cathedral which confirmed that Ace had been there. Shortly afterwards, aDalek caught up with them. She didn't like Daleks but she knew that she had to follow them to get to Ace. She found her childhood doll in the ruins. She used one of the Nitro 9s to blow up a Dalek. She later realised that Claire was aDalek duplicate ofher deceased mother created from theDalektime ship that was in the ruins. Claire gave Benny a message from Ace, but told her that she would die if Benny chose to use the ship to follow her. Knowing that she owed it to her friend, she sacrificed her chance to keep her "mother" alive and chose to pursue Ace to the place she had travelled using the ship. (AUDIO:Good Night, Sweet Ladies^[+]Loading...["Good Night, Sweet Ladies (audio story)"])

Arriving on a "forbidden world", Benny located Ace but became trapped in a 24-hour time loop along with a small group of natives and visitors. Falling in love with a native namedKlinus, she worked together with a scientist namedVarna and a visitor to the planet,Vince Foster, to break into the city and break the loop, avoiding the "ghosts" of the natives who were outside the loop. The group managed to use the energy discharge caused by the ghosts coming into contact with matter inside the loop to open the doors to the city, much to Ace's dismay, who revealed to Benny that the planet wasSkaro. (AUDIO:Random Ghosts^[+]Loading...["Random Ghosts (audio story)"])

Because of thetime-lock that Ace placed on the planet, Benny lived through stages of the Daleks' time line from, theFirst Doctor's first visit there, to meeting theDalek Emperor during and after the Dalek civil war, to the destruction of Skaro's sun. When the Doctor finally managed to materialise on the planet, he asked Benny to take theOmega device that Ace had used to create the time-lock. She created atime corridor which allowed a Dalek that had survived 4000 centuries to meet itself at the start and end of its life, because of the experiences that the older one had told his younger self, it exterminated him and created a paradox, which ended the decaying time-lock. Benny then asked the Doctor to take her back to her family, but he asked her to stay for a while to keep the peace between him and Ace before he took her back toGallifrey. (AUDIO:The Lights of Skaro^[+]Loading...["The Lights of Skaro (audio story)"])

Bernice met theTwelfth Doctor when investigating theAncients of the Universe. (PROSE:Big Bang Generation^[+]Loading...["Big Bang Generation (novel)"])

It was during this time that she metVienna Salvatori. (AUDIO:The Lady from Callisto Rhys^[+]Loading...["The Lady from Callisto Rhys (audio story)"])

She went on an archaeological dig toSisyphus IX. She found a wreck of aGomagog ship afterIris Wildthyme flung it into the vortex and the comedian thatJenni Marcel reported on as missing. She found out thatQuinn was helping the Gomagog. After defeating them she travelled to Mars to escape the explosion, encountering Vienna. She and Vienna then went tothe Archive to return theKronos Vad book Vienna had recovered. (AUDIO:The Phantom Wreck^[+]Loading...["The Phantom Wreck (audio story)"])

It was during this time she met withthe Valeyard who wanted her help with finding a myterious text relating tothe Caragot. He posed as the Doctor. She went with the Valeyard andLiyi through an ancient temple which reconfigured itself. Upon talking toChorus she found out that the tunnels were actually a living creature, and she was inside one of them. She eventually worked out that the Valeyard wasn't the Doctor. She worked out that the Valeyard couldn't regenerate and was afraid of dying. She worked out a way to bluff the Caragot not integrate them. (AUDIO:Every Dark Thought^[+]Loading...["Every Dark Thought (audio story)"])

Whilst taking a fortnight off to attend her son's wedding, she found an ancient tablet, which told her to go to a Pyramid on Mars. At the pyramid, she found the Doctor in the middle of the tomb in a trance vowing to bringSutekh's gift of death. She managed to trap Sutekh in his sarcophagus chamber. She found a strange pool of liquid in the pyramid. She tried to escape the pyramid butHorus' guardians of truth and lies tried to stop her. The guardian of lies took the voice ofJason Kane to try and trick her. She found theOsiran flesh loom and tried to disable it. Because it would only respond toOsirans, she injected herself with the remains of an Osiran, but this action poisoned her. She used her new powers to convince the warring colonists to bomb the pyramid. The Doctor managed to find a cure but promptly crumbled to dust. She was left stranded on Mars, until Ace turned up in the TARDIS. (AUDIO:The Pyramid of Sutekh^[+]Loading...["The Pyramid of Sutekh (audio story)"])

Ace told Benny that she had also seen the Doctor die onEarth in Sutekh's tomb. Ace took her back there and they discovered that theEye of Horus had been stolen. They managed to track it down with the help ofAlozza to the local museum. Having found that it had been stolen, they went to the local gang leader who told him to go toVasha. She went with them toGeneva and met with the bank managerGraull. Graull invited her to his bank and she found out he wanted to use it to destroyIsis. Benny then helped Isis to escape her prison. After this, she fell through time. (AUDIO:The Vaults of Osiris^[+]Loading...["The Vaults of Osiris (audio story)"])

She eventually landed in the time ofHatshepsut, where she was introduced as the goddess Hathor. At a party, she met the Doctor who was trying to protect theEarth. She became annoyed when the Doctor wouldn't give her a full answer. She accidentally told Hatscheput about her legacy.Tutmosis wanted to know from her about his future, but she wouldn't tell him. She sought Tutmosis' advice on how to tell the Doctor that he would die. She became agitated when Tutmosis let Sutekh in. She tried to get the people to ignore Sutekh. Tutmosis had Benny and the Doctor locked in a tomb, where she wrote the tablet that led her to Mars in the first place. She used her last breath to apologise to Peter. Ace saved her from death. (AUDIO:The Eye of Horus^[+]Loading...["The Eye of Horus (audio story)"])

When they landed in the29th century, Benny went off in search of survivors against the Doctor's advice. She thought it was weird that the aristocracy had survived. She discovered the Sutekh worshippersSusannah andRussell Courtland and their daughterAlyx. She couldn't convince Russell and Susannah to escape with her but Alyx came with her. She was to be sacrificed to please Sutekh. Before Sutekh came to the house, she told Susannah and Russell that Sutekh would kill them. After Alyx died, Iris came to stop Sutekh from killing Ace and Benny. The Doctor made her believe Sutekh had won in order to trick Sutekh into creating an Ouroboros loop. (AUDIO:The Tears of Isis^[+]Loading...["The Tears of Isis (audio story)"])

Travelling with an alternate Doctor[[edit] |[edit source]]

Trapped in a dying universe[[edit] |[edit source]]

During one of herlectures,an alternate version of the Doctor came to take her, so he could anchor himself to her universe. She came with him tothe Library. She found that theKareem were appalling as they wanted to destroy all knowledge. She tried to find a way to defend it when it came under attack, and eventually found a way. When there was a murder in the Library, she used thePrisoner's Dilemma to make sure that she was free to find out who did it. WhenMandeville told her that the Doctor was president of the universe, she found it hilarious. She realised that there was something wrong with the Library when it had a book that knew everything about her. She worked out how to stop the Library by getting the visitors to write the most painful thing that they could think of. (AUDIO:The Library in the Body^[+]Loading...["The Library in the Body (audio story)"])

She decided to go toPlanet X when the Doctor asked her where she wanted to go, though the Doctor kept trying to directthe TARDIS somewhere else since he knew enough about the planet's reputation to know she wouldn't enjoy it.

She discovered that she wasn't taken away to be processed because the people thought archaeology was boring. She was later almost arrested withMillie for being emotional. Millie told her that if they got excited the local police force will kill them. She gave Millie her name because she wouldn't remember her number. When she saw how the police killed a local, she wanted to fight against it. She helped Millie to realise she was in love with a fellow student. She went with Millie to find him in the north quarter and discovered it empty. In the quarter, she theorised that anyone who showed excellence was killed. When they were attacked by the blank squad, they discovered that they were the people who passed the excellence exam including Millie's boyfriend. (AUDIO:Planet X^[+]Loading...["Planet X (audio story)"])

She became furious at the Doctor when he wouldn't stop the attack onTramatz. When the Doctor wasn't paying attention to what was going on, she became furious. She was the only one who could hear AdmiralEffenish's ultimatum. Benny kept mentioning the Unicorns butMegatz told her to stop mentioning them. When Benny mentioned the very dark thing, she was amazed that no one else had already seen it. She later met a unicorn and had to have a chat with one. She wanted to keep the unicorn but the Doctor wouldn't allow it. She had to explain about the weapons she had seen in this universe and the reality destruction. She was delighted that Megatz decided not to use the superweapon again and turned it off. (AUDIO:The Very Dark Thing^[+]Loading...["The Very Dark Thing (audio story)"])

She went exploring around the Emporium when she discovered that people could sell their memories in exchange for credits which could buy them a way out of the universe. TheUnbound Master tried to persuade her to go through a portal back to her own universe in order to stabilise the portal, but in fact she discovered that he was converting everyone that went through the portal into energy so that he could escape the universe. (AUDIO:The Emporium at the End^[+]Loading...["The Emporium at the End (audio story)"])

Exploring a new universe[[edit] |[edit source]]

Benny went toXarva to excavate theSky Pyramid and was interested in theStone Demons, which she andAndrea McAllister unsuccessfully attempted to activate using acopperwire.Gilly foundBenny's diary buried and showed it to her, shortly after which theBright Violet brought the Stone Demons to life. The Stone Demons were defeated by thesoldiers and Benny visited the injured Gilly. (PROSE:Hue and Cry^[+]Loading...["Hue and Cry (short story)"])

On her way tothe Dinarchy, Benny was thrown back in time after getting close to theA0620-00 Bblack hole and found herself quickly climbing the social ladder and meeting the royal family. She was tasked by aprincess with protecting her younger sister,Emi li Loree na Kia, fromassassination and left with her, purchasing forgedboarding papers fromCalico Nightstreet to get her to theKoriss system. They were chased and ended up on the Sky Pyramid, where she placed her diary for her past self to find. (PROSE:Never the Way^[+]Loading...["Never the Way (short story)"])

Benny was hired byOpie to use what he claimed was an operatingMantt field to interview people from the past ofCormascgon to find out how they first made contact with offworlders. After interviewingRenna, she realised that she had been interviewing impostors and learnt that Opie and his team were lying her in order to secure funding from the Doctor. The Mantt field started genuinely working and Benny sarcastically congratulated Opie for being the first offworlder that the people of Cormascgon met. (PROSE:Fast Contact^[+]Loading...["Fast Contact (short story)"])

When herspaceship required repairs, Benny stopped onHP79 and went on aFutureproof promotional tour. She followedAriane 7986521 when she slipped away from the tour and unwittingly travelled with her into the future to the end of the world. She was disturbed by what she saw and, when she and Ariane returned, she was oddly comforted bythe guide asking her to explain herself. (PROSE:Futureproof^[+]Loading...["Futureproof (short story)"])

Anadvertmesmerised Benny into going to ahealth spa onBelanine and soon realised that she was in aretirement home that she would never be allowed to leave. She stowed away in aspace pod whenthe Warden andMatron sent sundries toColin and exposed his manipulation of theThubs, saving Belanine frominvasion. Considering her to be a disruptive influence, the Warden and Matron insisted that Benny leave. (PROSE:Stockholm From Home^[+]Loading...["Stockholm From Home (short story)"])

Benny skipped the instructional video when she arrived onBliss and, unsure as to why she only sawrobots inBliss City, she followed a robot intoSinging Starlet of the Seven Isles' house and wasarrested. She asked to seethe King and woke him up to find out why the people of the city were allsleeping, after which he returned to his sleep and she was taken tocourt. (PROSE:Bliss^[+]Loading...["Bliss (short story)"])

Benny was put ontrial and made to tell six stories to calibrate theJury Computer; she chose to tell of her adventures on Xarva, in the past, on Cormascgon, on HP79, on Belanine and on Bliss. She was saved when the King arrived and disconnected thecomputers, after which he told her that he had decided to give his people the opportunity to choose whether to wake up. (PROSE:Transcript of Court Session: Bliss City Council Records B116 22 Trial^[+]Loading...["Transcript of Court Session: Bliss City Council Records B116 22 Trial (short story)"])

A few months after leaving Xarva, Benny andAndrea McAllister joined Gilly onQiyos to celebrateThree Sisters. Their ship crashed and they and Gilly encountered theMother of the Waters and her three daughters, to whom they gave gifts. In return, the Mother of the Waters took them back to their ship, wherethe pilot had called for a replacement. (AUDIO:Wise Women^[+]Loading...["Wise Women (audio story)"])

After visiting theMuseum of Past Innovation, Benny was followed byGaia and allowed her to clean her spaceship. She started hearing the voice of a girl from theSpacefleet Academy and realised that it was the result of aLegacy Present at the museum. She returned to the museum to get rid of the voice and, when Gaia returned to her exhibit with hermemory erased, she decided that she had been travelling on her own for too long and returned to the Doctor. (PROSE:Legacy Presence^[+]Loading...["Legacy Presence (short story)"])

Saving the universe[[edit] |[edit source]]

Benny went on an archaeological dig to find theApocalypse Clock at the behest of the Doctor. She was delighted to actually go on a fully funded dig for once. Using her research, she thought that there might be some truth in the legends. She became angry when the Doctor hadn't read her reports. When the Doctor was interested, she thought that her Doctor would be in his element right now. Whilst working at the dig, she was spooked by a man in a radiation suit. The following day, she became very angry that the Doctor's most important presidential issue was to fix the plumbing in an ambassadorial suite. She went after one of the ghosts and watched him walk through solid rock, which caused the entrance of the Clock to be found. She turned off the Clock which allowed the ghosts to disparate. (AUDIO:The City and the Clock^[+]Loading...["The City and the Clock (audio story)"])

She suggested that the Doctor should seek therapy. In a war zone, she criticised him for actually starting a war, by just walking out on the peace summit. She was angry when the Doctor met with a genocidal maniac to get resources that he needed for the universe. She got annoyed when she realised that he was manipulating time to get to all his meetings. When the Doctor was trying to prove a point to a leader, she became irate that this would result in the death of an entire race. She came to the Doctor's psychiatrist,Guilana, to talk about him and not her drinking problem. She thought that the Doctor would be the same in each incarnation fundamentally. After the Doctor's last session, she walked him home. (AUDIO:Asking for a Friend^[+]Loading...["Asking for a Friend (audio story)"])

Benny joined theMother Superior at avampire asteroid which showed her an idealised version of her life where she was living happily withJason,Braxiatel,Joseph andPeter. The Mother Superior wondered if it might be kinder to allow the people of the Unbound Universe to die happily under the effects of the asteroid, but Benny disagreed and had faith that the Doctor would succeed in his mission. They returned to theParliament of the Universe. (PROSE:The Death of Hope^[+]Loading...["The Death of Hope (short story)"])

She went after the Doctor when he went gallivanting across the universe for a source of excitement. She was only a few hours after him. She eventually caught up with him on Kellor. She was captured with him, and argued with that his mid-life crisis would have to wait until he solved the apocalypse. When she went to the security services, she discovered that all the planet was the invaders. She discovered that there was only one of the original inhabitants left on the planet. She went to Kellor but wasn't allowed on the planet. Bernice convinced the invaders to organise the movement of the people into the safe zone. (AUDIO:Truant^[+]Loading...["Truant (audio story)"])

After the Mother Superior arrested the Doctor, the Master came to Benny saying that he would save the Doctor. The Master took her to a tea shop to discuss the Doctor's impeachment. She was later shot at by theHood but managed to survive. The Master later took her to dinner at the best restaurant in the universe. She realised that the Master was in fact behind the failings. When the Master addressed the Parliament, the Hood arrived and tried to bribe her by saying that the true saviour could get her back to Peter. The Master tried to persuade her to stay with him. She was the first to see that something had gone wrong after the Master had activated the Apocalypse Clock and theGreat Old Ones arrived. The Doctor then used the energy that this had created to get Benny back to her home universe. (AUDIO:The True Saviour of the Universe^[+]Loading...["The True Saviour of the Universe (audio story)"])

Back in her universe[[edit] |[edit source]]

Benny took the Doctor to a bazaar which she had wanted to visit for ages. She found an interesting artefact of theLampian. She wanted to learn more and went to the Asimar archive to discover if other examples of Lampian art existed. She worked withDrolla to learn more about it. She got annoyed at the Doctor who was adamant that the Lampian didn't exist. She discovered more information about the Lampian when more artefacts were found in the archive. She theorised that the Lampian were wiped from history. When the Lampian invaded, she was determined to solve was the true providence figurine she had was. The Lampian bowed down to Benny and asked for orders. The artefact fed on Benny's wants to make a great discovery. (AUDIO:Pride of the Lampian^[+]Loading...["Pride of the Lampian (audio story)"])

Visiting a planet being excavated, Benny used asubjectivity recorder to experience the life ofAnnis, using the Doctor as her anchor to her real life. After experiencing Annis' persecution and eventually death, Benny awoke and the Doctor took her to an excavated cathedral to show her how Annis' work had been discovered. (AUDIO:The Angel of History^[+]Loading...["The Angel of History (audio story)"])

The Doctor and Benny landed onCivitas-G which was a cutting edge simulation. She wanted to study this civilisation and learnt of a catastrophe on the planet. TheAdministrator showed her the history of the planet. She was intrigued that something was revising the history of the planet. She learnt fromZita about how the system was collapsing and a whole generation of children had gone missing. The Administrator tried to convince her why he was recreating the world in his image. Her knowledge of the original version of the planet helped her to find where the Administrator was. She saved the world by giving everyone Zita's computer permissions. (AUDIO:Clear History^[+]Loading...["Clear History (audio story)"])

Benny and the Doctor pretended to be a married couple when they stayed atFlor's bed and breakfast onNeirut. She pretended to be an amateur archaeologist on a dig. She wanted to investigate the dig. She found a door to the catacombs underneath one of the trenches and went exploring. She realised that there were translation errors in the history. Benny worked out it was the psychic network of the ancient queen that caused the justice system to be a larder for the queen. She was later possessed by the ancient queen, but the Doctor helped her become free again. (AUDIO:Dead and Breakfast^[+]Loading...["Dead and Breakfast (audio story)"])

Responding to a distress signal, they came to a half abandoned museum where she encounteredLandren and joined him on his dig for a lost train of an ancient civilisation. When an earth tremor happened she fell into a hole. She found the train and encounteredAnita who was being chased by creatures. She asked the train for more information and learnt that it didn't know about the number of passengers, and that it was sentient. It removed the life support system upon learning she wasn't a rescue party. She theorised that Anita was a psychic imprint. She realised that the creatures that were attacking the train were the psychic remnants of the other passengers. She convinced Anita to get to the surface. (AUDIO:Burrowed Time^[+]Loading...["Burrowed Time (audio story)"])

Arriving aboard theArk of Whispers, Benny was frustrated when the Doctor fell down a sheer drop after refusing to wait for her to fetch a torch. Exploring, she discovered a computer interface and deduced it was learning communication from her and the Doctor, beginning to use it to indirectly talk to the Doctor by teaching it language. Reaching the flight deck, she tried to arrange to meet with the Doctor at the archive but the interface compromised her message and she began to distrust it. In the archive she managed to convince the interface to relay their words accurately and deduced the true nature of the ship. After the Doctor planned to blow up the ship to stop it colliding with a populated planet, Benny convinced the interface to stop him to force him to find a better way and managed to get him to conceded he'd been moody lately. He devised a plan to persuade the interface to avoid the collision, having Benny retrieve theTARDIS tuner to force it to listen to the people on the planet. After his plan worked, Benny and the Doctor parted ways with the interface, though they were saddened when it revealed that it had to delete all its newly acquired knowledge to complete its mission. (AUDIO:Have I Told You Lately?^[+]Loading...["Have I Told You Lately? (audio story)"])

The Doctor took Benny to the bogs ofGelmoth so she could investigatethe Undying, an ancient being who had died despite being supposedly immortal. They arrived just as a preserved body was excavated by a group seeking the Undying and joined their expedition, with Benny criticising their lack of archaeology on the site of the body. After one of the crew died due to running into the bog in fear, the expedition left in their spaceship with the Doctor and Benny. During the journey they discovered the Undying was actually a fungus possessing a host and its spores had been influencing them. After the Doctor purged it using the spaceship's airlock, he and Benny made to depart. However, as they entered the TARDIS, theTime Lords attempted to stop them. (AUDIO:The Undying Truth^[+]Loading...["The Undying Truth (audio story)"])

To evade the Time Lords, the Doctor took Benny to a unremarkable planet and turned off the TARDIS. For twenty-six days they resided in a cabin on an island, with Benny being intrigued by the nearby tribe whilst the Doctor saved a sea monster from them. They passed the time with board games, which the Doctor cheated at to Benny's annoyance. Benny deduced the truth about the tribe by studying ruins and their songs - that they tolerated outsiders for twenty-seven days before killing them - she and the Doctor were captured just as she told the Doctor of this. After they escaped being tied to a pole as the tide rose, the Doctor revealed he'd deduced the monster was a survivor of a past alien expedition to the island and its eggs were signal devices. To Benny's surprise, he fully activated one to help the creature, which also attracted the Time Lords just as the tribe had discovered their survival. (AUDIO:Inertia^[+]Loading...["Inertia (audio story)"])

OnGallifrey the Doctor was placed on trial for existing and appointed Benny as his defender. Observing increasingly bizarre behaviour from the Time Lords, including the prosecutor CoordinatorNarvin, Benny researched Gallifreyan law with the aid of an archivist and devised a plan where the Doctor would seemingly be executed but actually be transported intothe Matrix. Afterwards, she witnessed the archivist die in a failed regeneration and was horrified by Narvin's nonplussed reaction. Reuniting with the Doctor, she helped deduce the Time Lords were being infiltrated by theNow, pan-dimensional parasites. The Doctor devised a way to force the Time Lords to regenerate using theCrown of Rassilon to purge the Now, but realised it would kill all of the Now as well as many Time Lords in the process and backed out of the plan. However, Narvin initiated it himself, revealing he had had the Doctor brought to Gallifrey in the hopes of him finding a solution. Furious at his actions and attitude, Benny punched Narvin and subsequently departed Gallifrey with the Doctor. (AUDIO:Gallifrey^[+]Loading...["Gallifrey (audio story)"])

Facing Cybermen in Berlin[[edit] |[edit source]]

The Doctor took her to1930sBerlin to trace an alien signal, much to her frustration as she deeply disliked being in that time period. Whilst he sought the source of the signal, she investigated disappearances withWulf, discoveringCybermen abducting people living in the woods near the city. She and Wulf were caught and taken for conversion, being injected with nanites. She tried to resist and encouraged Wulf to try too, but began to succumb to the conditioning until the Doctor intervened in time. He rescued her and hurriedly took her to the TARDIS, with her forgetting about Wulf due to her confusion. (AUDIO:Willkommen^[+]Loading...["Willkommen (audio story)"]) The Doctor reprogrammed her nanites to be dormant unless the Cybermen attempted to convert her again, when they would defend her. (AUDIO:Auf Wiedersehen^[+]Loading...["Auf Wiedersehen (audio story)"])

Remembering Wulf, Benny tracked him down to his village and found him partially converted and working on his parents' farm. She at first thought him a potential threat but eventually realised he was bottling up his pain and tried to convince him to let it out. She decided to leave Wulf be and was met by the Doctor who had pre-empted her desire for some work to take her mind off things, (AUDIO:Wulf^[+]Loading...["Wulf (audio story)"]) showing her a recently excavated rock with alien particles around it. They joined an expedition to excavate where it had been found, with Benny growing suspicious of the motives of the professor leading it and disliking her blunt force methods. Her suspicions were vindicated when the archaeologists turned out to he occulist Nazis. She and the Doctor finally deduced the site was a Cyberman trap but were unable to stop the Nazis activating it. The Cybermen caught the Doctor, so he told her to escape. She was caught herself, but the Cyberman let her go after detecting the nanites and believing she would soon be converted anyway. (AUDIO:Übermensch^[+]Loading...["Übermensch (audio story)"])

Benny followed the Doctor and the Cybermen to Berlin and found the city asleep due to a hypnotic pulse. She tried to find survivors but those she found got themselves killed by the Cybermen. Benny was caught and paraded before the Doctor to a conversion chamber, as the Cybermen were trying to make him stop resisting their conversion. To her horror he refused to yield even for her and gave her a parting handshake. In truth he'd used the handshake to trigger the nanites, who saved her from conversion and attacked the Cybermen. The Doctor then turned the hypnotic pulse against the Cybermen and they finally departed the 1930s as the city recovered. (AUDIO:Auf Wiedersehen^[+]Loading...["Auf Wiedersehen (audio story)"])

Finding Dark Gallifrey[[edit] |[edit source]]

Determined to make a lasting discovery, Benny decided to find the legendaryDark Gallifrey. She succeeded however whilst exploring it she and the Doctor encountered theImbomination which toyed with her timelines. Benny managed to weaken it by spreading its paradoxical energy through the timeline of every Doctor in theMultiverse, much to his annoyance, which enabled them to escape. Though disappointed at losing her discovery, she and the Doctor agreed they couldn't let anyone else find it and did their best to erase every trace of Dark Gallifrey. Knowing someone would likely force her to lead them to it one day however, they also planned a contingency for him to rescue her. (AUDIO:The War Master^[+]Loading...["The War Master (audio story)"])

Later life[[edit] |[edit source]]

Stay at the Eternity Club[[edit] |[edit source]]

Having been elected to join, (AUDIO:Mr Pym Has an Adventure^[+]Loading...["Mr Pym Has an Adventure (audio story)"]) Benny stayed at theEternity Club however struggled to fit in with the other residents and found her bill wasn't being paid by her bank. The club secretary,Pym, put her to work to pay off the bill and suggested how she may be able to get the residents' respect. Benny helped amnesiac cyborg312 recall an event when he helped save a star system, however was frustrated a day later that he'd forgotten her gesture entirely. Benny then encountered the oldest member of the club, known only asthe Oldest, and realised during their conversation that she'd forgotten how she'd come to be at the Eternity Club. (AUDIO:The Armageddon Chair^[+]Loading...["The Armageddon Chair (audio story)"])

Benny was told by Pym to provide catering forGrizella, an exiledDrahvin resident of the Eternity Club, who was leading an expedition to the ruined city ofParroon. Benny grew frustrated at Grizella's portrayal of the history of the world and finally called her out for missing the suffering of the women who had once lived there. Afterwards she and Grizella spoke privately and came to an understanding, with Grizella admitting she didn't recall why Benny had to come to the club either. (AUDIO:Triumph of the Drahvin^[+]Loading...["Triumph of the Drahvin (audio story)"])

Pym tasked Benny with resolving a row betweenDraconian residentAltazar andSontaran residentStarll which was risking putting their empires at war caused by Altazar exclaiming rhubarb repeatedly. She found him increasingly speaking the word at random which began spreading through the entire club. With the Club now only speaking rhubarb aside from her, she finally found the source wasdark rhubarb growing on telepathic treeDerek, who'd she neglected to treat with the anti mould spray due to the row. (AUDIO:Rhubarb^[+]Loading...["Rhubarb (audio story)"])

Given a ticket for the cloakroom, Benny talked Pym into helping her retrieve the item. They discovered a secret society of sentient clothes deep in the cloakroom due to the accidental detonation of a terraforming devices years previously. Escaping them into the depths of the Club, Benny was able to use its telepathic technology to make peace with the clothing. Unable to recall who had given her the ticket to begin with, Benny suspected the Oldest and went to confront her but was mentally influenced to leave by her nurse. (AUDIO:Please Retain Your Ticket for the Cloakroom^[+]Loading...["Please Retain Your Ticket for the Cloakroom (audio story)"])

After Derek spotted the lostEndless Arboretum, an ark with the last fauna ofLucrece, Benny insisted on taking him there. They encountered a group of loggers that had come for the lasthoar trees and managed to trap them and then unleashed burning gases from the trees they had set alight on them to force their retreat. However, their leaderAlkaran escaped and cornered them. Benny hid as Alkaran attacked Derek with her chainsaw but they were both saved when the hoar trees bloomed telepathically, which briefly incapacitated Benny. She persuaded Derek to remain in the Arborteum to help guide the young trees. (AUDIO:The Terrible Shame of a Tree^[+]Loading...["The Terrible Shame of a Tree (audio story)"])

Benny forced Pym to leave the Club, using Butlers to take him to the nearest planet. They discovered a ruined temple, which Pym had the Butlers rebuild to her horror. The rebuilt temple opened a gateway to another universe and an entity came through by possessing the Butlers, determined to destroy the universe to stopthe Death. However, Benny stole their shuttle'slaunch key to stop it heading for the Club. After Pym destroyed the possessed Butlers, they returned to the Club and she confronted the Oldest with her recent suspicions, that the temple had been connected to 312's past and the planet visited with Grizella. However, the Nurse took her away shortly into their conversation. Benny shared her suspicions with Pym that the Oldest was actually the Master. (AUDIO:Mr Pym Has an Adventure^[+]Loading...["Mr Pym Has an Adventure (audio story)"])

Whenthe Liturgy laid siege to the Club and demanded the Master, Benny was keen to simply hand the Oldest over however faced opposition from the other residents, who conspired to hide the Oldest. Benny reluctantly worked with the Nurse to find her, who revealed she was actually aSentinelTARDIS guarding the Oldest. They found the Oldest however the Liturgy broke in. (AUDIO:Sanctuary^[+]Loading...["Sanctuary (audio story)"]) Whilst Pym bought them time by posing as the Master, Benny worked with the residents to drive the Liturgy out the Club. Whilst Derek came to their aid in breaking the siege, the Oldest finally saved the Club by scaring the Liturgy off with a broadcast warning of the consequences if she truly were the Master; an act Benny found a little too convincing. (AUDIO:Liturgy of Death^[+]Loading...["Liturgy of Death (audio story)"])

Foiling the new Dalek master plan[[edit] |[edit source]]

Though her bills had finally been paid off, Benny decided to remain at the Eternity Club for a while to keep an eye on the Oldest, however a capsule arrived at the Club, (AUDIO:Liturgy of Death^[+]Loading...["Liturgy of Death (audio story)"]) unleashing aDalek Delegate. Realising it had been thrown back in time ahead of an upcoming conference to form a new Dalek alliance, Benny was able to steal the Delegate's list of allies and persuaded the Nurse to use her engines to escape the Club, taking 312 with them. They reached a nearby planet under siege by the Daleks and made contact with the sentient weapons system, theJohannes Arsenal; one of the future Dalek allies on the list. Whilst Benny initially sought to keep running and hide from the Daleks in bunkers, 312 encouraged her to stand up to the Daleks and together they persuaded the Arsenal to destroy the Daleks in orbit and not destroy itself. Afterwards she resolved to properly fight back against the Daleks, by foiling each alliance on the list before they were made. (AUDIO:The Lonely Bomb^[+]Loading...["The Lonely Bomb (audio story)"])

Benny sent Starll and Altazar toSempry to end the war there so they could resist the Daleks, whilst she and 312 investigated a planet recently wiped out by the Daleks. They found a lone survivor who told them of a new weapon the Daleks were building which grew stronger as more allies joined. Escaping Daleks searching for the survivor, she reunited with Starll and Altazar and was horrified to discover they'd only escalated the war, leading to both sides being wiped out. (AUDIO:The Winner's Tale^[+]Loading...["The Winner's Tale (audio story)"])

Benny travelled toLepidora to warn of the Daleks' coming but was horrified to discover they were already under the rule of a Dalek whom they'd taken for a god after crashing there, theOversoul. In talking to the Oversoul she learnt it had fashioned the outwardly beautiful society to be primed for Dalek conquest, once it's communications system had been repaired, and it tasked her with making the people fear the Daleks. She tried but found the ruling council fully at ease about the Daleks, and disbelieving of the prophesied harvest. She finally convened them as a group and tried to ferment rebellion but the Oversoul interrupted and killed the ministers. Whilst mulling on her failure the following day, Benny spotted the council alive and realised the Oversoul'sgunstick hadn't been repaired properly and the Lepidorans were tricking it. She confronted the Oversoul directly knowing she was safe and tried to force it to admit that it could have repaired the communications years ago, but hadn't out of love for the world it had created. Her forcing the Oversoul to admit to love caused it to have a meltdown, killing it. (AUDIO:Oversoul^[+]Loading...["Oversoul (audio story)"])

Caught in a battle of Doctors[[edit] |[edit source]]

She was tasked with excavating an ancient treasure but woken up an ancient dragon, but encountered theFugitive Doctor not believing her to be the Doctor, thinking she came from another universe, mentioning she's met another alternative version before. She accompanied her to encounter the person she was tracking. After seeing the Doctor encounter theVoord, she saw the TARDIS drag an Elizabethan ship realising that the person the Doctor was tracking was another version of the Doctor, butone she didn't recognised. She realised that they needed work together to stop theOuroboros. She was given a beer mat fromVienna Salvatori to get her out of the TARDIS. She was then sent back to her archaeological dig. (AUDIO:Coda - The Final Act^[+]Loading...["Coda - The Final Act (audio story)"])

Encounter with the Ninth Doctor[[edit] |[edit source]]

Benny became employed on aLomaz expedition to learn about theKorravin. She didn't likeCantiple's modern and propriety methods. She became annoyed when she learnt that Professor Arthur Van Dango was theNinth Doctor after seeing the TARDIS buried and was hurt emotionally because of this. She was only on the expedition for her clout. She had heard of theLast Great Time War due to what it had done to established history. He told her that he caused the cataclysm by stopping the Korravin using some Time Lord technology. The Doctor asked her to abandon the planet to get the authorities to quarantine the planet. She couldn't abandoned him and blew up the mountain. She helped the Doctor defeat the Korravin. He gave her his sonic to keep the back up of George. (AUDIO:Ancient History^[+]Loading...["Ancient History (audio story)"])

Return to Dark Gallifrey[[edit] |[edit source]]

Benny worked as a teacher at theBraxiatel University and lived with a number of cats, including some holographic ones. She became friends with the new Provost, in actuality theWar Master in disguise, and was wooed by one of her students,John Hart, however in truth both were attempting to get her to reveal the location ofDark Gallifrey which she'd let slip about in a bar. After discovering their real intentions, Benny attempted to flee but the Master beat her to the shuttle she'd hired and John caught up with them, so she was forced to take them both to Dark Gallifrey. Upon arrival she again encountered theImbomination but was rescued by theUnbound Doctor as they'd planned, leaving the Master and John behind. She asked the Doctor to take her home, planning to introduce him to her cats. (AUDIO:The War Master^[+]Loading...["The War Master (audio story)"])

Death[[edit] |[edit source]]

Different accounts were held of her death by the46th century, confusing laterarchaeologists and making many of them believe her to be naught but a myth. A popular version was that she died in thecatacombs of a cathedral onVremnya on31 October2599. Even her tomb there was not valid evidence, though, as there were similar tombs both onMars and in theKalkravian asteroid belt. (PROSE:Paydirt^[+]Loading...["Paydirt (short story)"])

Other realities[[edit] |[edit source]]

In an alternative timeline wherethe Epoch captured Benny, she mapped and remapped herself until she becameDr Bernard Springmoore, who became their leader. (AUDIO:In Living Memory^[+]Loading...["In Living Memory (audio story)"])

After the downfall of Atlantis, the Epoch held one version of Benny whilst one was placed in prehistoricEarth and another ("Victorian Benny") was placed in19th centuryLondon. Caveman Benny was eaten by aTyrannosaurus rex, but Victorian Benny survived and left London withJack. She eventually sacrificed herself and Dr Springmoore to reset the universe. (AUDIO:Judgement Day^[+]Loading...["Judgement Day (BFBS audio story)"],In Living Memory^[+]Loading...["In Living Memory (audio story)"])

Personality[[edit] |[edit source]]

Benny was intelligent and observant, with a well-deserved reputation for thinking on her feet. (PROSE:Ship of Fools^[+]Loading...["Ship of Fools (novel)"]) Her intellectual gifts had less to do with straightforward, logical intelligence (she did not enjoy logic puzzles) (PROSE:Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Infernal Nexus^[+]Loading...["Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Infernal Nexus (novel)"]) and more to do with seeing disparate parts of a problem and correctly inferring the connections between them — and therefore, the solution.

She tended to eschew the detached, purely analytical approach of academia (PROSE:Dragons' Wrath^[+]Loading...["Dragons' Wrath (novel)"]) in favour of reconstructing history from primary sources. Though she loved getting her hands dirty and the thrill of discovery, she appreciated creature comforts, particularly baths, and didn't particularly enjoy the tedious, day-to-day grind of archaeological fieldwork. (PROSE:The Dead Men Diaries,AUDIO:Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Extinction Event^[+]Loading...["Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Extinction Event (audio story)"])

Bernice's living quarters were perpetually disorganised. She had several organisers, but rarely used them except to reset her watch to the current local time. She was also habitually tardy (PROSE:Dragons' Wrath^[+]Loading...["Dragons' Wrath (novel)"]) and absent-minded, frequently mislaying her Braxiatel Collection identity card. (PROSE:The Dead Men Diaries)

Benny prided herself on her tolerance and open-mindedness. (PROSE:Dry Pilgrimage^[+]Loading...["Dry Pilgrimage (novel)"]) Though her mother wasCatholic, (PROSE:Love and War^[+]Loading...["Love and War (novel)"]) Bernice was a lifelongatheist. (PROSE:Oh No It Isn't!^[+]Loading...["Oh No It Isn't! (novel)"],Dry Pilgrimage^[+]Loading...["Dry Pilgrimage (novel)"])

Benny viewed food derived from actual animals with a vague distaste, and was a vegetarian on most of her travels. (PROSE:Ship of Fools^[+]Loading...["Ship of Fools (novel)"])

Her favourite colour wasturquoise. (AUDIO:The Worst Thing in the World^[+]Loading...["The Worst Thing in the World (audio story)"])

Bernice kepta diary from her childhood. (PROSE:Love and War^[+]Loading...["Love and War (novel)"],Oh No It Isn't!^[+]Loading...["Oh No It Isn't! (novel)"]) She wrote longhand in a notebook she kept with her at all times — if she forgot, she would try to go back for it. (PROSE:Falls the Shadow^[+]Loading...["Falls the Shadow (novel)"]) Benny frequently "corrected" diary entries with sticky notes or correcting fluid, often rewriting embarrassing or painful events to be more appealing. (PROSE:Human Nature^[+]Loading...["Human Nature (novel)"],Down^[+]Loading...["Down (novel)"]) She published at least one compilation of her diary entries. (PROSE:Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Doomsday Manuscript^[+]Loading...["Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Doomsday Manuscript (novel)"]) At some point before 2601, she replaced her notebook with an electronic catalogue of vocal recordings. (AUDIO:Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Greatest Shop in the Galaxy^[+]Loading...["Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Greatest Shop in the Galaxy (audio story)"])

Benny often displayed a sense of wittedsarcasm whenever she was in danger, (PROSE:No Future^[+]Loading...["No Future (novel)"],Conundrum^[+]Loading...["Conundrum (novel)"]) and was an expert inbody language. (PROSE:Love and War^[+]Loading...["Love and War (novel)"]) During the early years^[which?], she wasn't very fond ofhugging. (PROSE:Love and War^[+]Loading...["Love and War (novel)"],Where Angels Fear^[+]Loading...["Where Angels Fear (novel)"])

Physical appearance[[edit] |[edit source]]

Benny was aCaucasian woman with dark eyes, and dark ruffled hair that she kept short, but occassionally tied up in aponytail. She recognised herself to be physically attractive, referring to herself as "gorgeous, a certainty that sprang from an internal well of gorgeousness." (PROSE:Love and War^[+]Loading...["Love and War (novel)"],Oh No It Isn't!^[+]Loading...["Oh No It Isn't! (novel)"],et al.)

Clothing[[edit] |[edit source]]

Benny often sported rugged, practical clothing suited for excavations, such as white or beige cargo pants, held up by a black and red tie worn as a belt, a tan jacket, brown boots, blue socks, and a satchel for tools. Underneath, she wore a white button-down shirt and a brown knit tie. (AUDIO:Just War^[+]Loading...["Just War (audio story)"],The Doomsday Manuscript^[+]Loading...["The Doomsday Manuscript (novel)"],The Dead Men Diaries^[+]Loading...["The Dead Men Diaries (anthology)"],The Shadow of the Scourge^[+]Loading...["The Shadow of the Scourge (audio story)"], etc.) Occasionally, she would instead wear a set of khaki pants and a blue jumper over top of the button-down. (PROSE:The Gods of the Underworld^[+]Loading...["The Gods of the Underworld (novel)"])

When she first met the Doctor, Benny wore an orange, turtlenecksweater with a geometric pattern across the chest, tight-fitting bluejeans, and black boots. On her ears, she wore a set ofgold earrings in the shape of a tear drop. (PROSE:Love and War^[+]Loading...["Love and War (novel)"],COMIC:The Last Word^[+]Loading...["The Last Word (comic story)"], et al.)

Occasionally, Benny wore a white tanktop, green fatigues, tall silver boots, and a wrist-strapped communicator. (WC:Dead and Buried^[+]Loading...["Dead and Buried (webcast)"],AUDIO:The Green-Eyed Monsters^[+]Loading...["The Green-Eyed Monsters (audio story)"],The Dance of the Dead^[+]Loading...["The Dance of the Dead (audio story)"],Beyond the Sea^[+]Loading...["Beyond the Sea (audio story)"], etc.)

In later years, she wore a collarlessblackleatherjacket over awhite (PROSE:The Weather on Versimmon^[+]Loading...["The Weather on Versimmon (novel)"],The Slender-Fingered Cats of Bubastis^[+]Loading...["The Slender-Fingered Cats of Bubastis (novel)"],AUDIO:Paradise Frost^[+]Loading...["Paradise Frost (audio story)"],Good Night, Sweet Ladies^[+]Loading...["Good Night, Sweet Ladies (audio story)"], etc.) or black (PROSE:Filthy Lucre^[+]Loading...["Filthy Lucre (novel)"],Adorable Illusion^[+]Loading...["Adorable Illusion (novel)"],AUDIO:Judgement Day^[+]Loading...["Judgement Day (BFBS audio story)"],Brand Management^[+]Loading...["Brand Management (audio story)"],The Eye of Horus^[+]Loading...["The Eye of Horus (audio story)"], etc.) shirt, a set of washed out bluejeans, and black knee-high boots. Around her waist, she wore a belt with several pouches. ([[PROSE:Big Bang Generation^[+]Loading...["Big Bang Generation (novel)"],et al.)

Academic career[[edit] |[edit source]]

Benny was an expert inMartian language and culture, particularly that of theIce Warriors. It was her excavation of a Martian site at age twenty-four that cemented her reputation as anarchaeologist. (PROSE:The Dying Days^[+]Loading...["The Dying Days (novel)"],Transit^[+]Loading...["Transit (novel)"],Legacy^[+]Loading...["Legacy (novel)"],AUDIO:Benny's Story^[+]Loading...["Benny's Story (audio story)"]) She was also an expert on20th centuryEarth history, especially the period that she called the "earlySpace Age", (1963-1989) (PROSE:The Dying Days^[+]Loading...["The Dying Days (novel)"]) but admitted her knowledge of Earth history was a bit hazy before about1900. (PROSE:Walking to Babylon^[+]Loading...["Walking to Babylon (novel)"])

Benny was proficient inEgyptian,Hebrew,French,Ancient Greek,Modern Greek,Old English,Old Norse and most Martian dialects. (PROSE:Just War^[+]Loading...["Just War (novel)"],The Dying Days^[+]Loading...["The Dying Days (novel)"])

Degrees[[edit] |[edit source]]

Benny had at least two degrees: a M.A. in Archaeology, from theUniversity of Jaiwan, awarded in2562 (PROSE:Genius Loci^[+]Loading...["Genius Loci (novel)"],Old Friends) as well as a Ph.D. in Archaeology, which was awarded in2587. Her Ph.D. dissertation was titledThey Sit Above In Shadow: Archaeological Echoes of the Universe's First People (PROSE:Return of the Living Dad^[+]Loading...["Return of the Living Dad (novel)"])

Impressive-sounding titles[[edit] |[edit source]]

Benny seemed to enjoy inventing impressive-sounding titles to append to her name. Some common ones included:

• F.R.A.S. - Fairly Rotten At Scrabble
• F.G.A.S. - Fairly Good At Scrabble
• Holder of the Martian Gallantry Medal (she found it and felt she had earned it) (PROSE:Human Nature^[+]Loading...["Human Nature (novel)"])

Bibliography[[edit] |[edit source]]

• Down Among the Dead Men (2466, revised edition published2593) (PROSE:Theatre of War^[+]Loading...["Theatre of War (novel)"],Walking to Babylon^[+]Loading...["Walking to Babylon (novel)"])
• The Dead Men Diaries, Bernice's autobiography (PROSE:The Dead Men Diaries^[+]Loading...["The Dead Men Diaries (short story)"])
• Devil Gate Drive: The Influence of The Descent of Inanna on Twentieth Century Popular Culture (2594) (PROSE:Walking to Babylon^[+]Loading...["Walking to Babylon (novel)"])
• A Practical Guide to Archaeology for Beginners (2594) (Broadsword issue 4)
• An Eye for Wisdom: Repetitive Poems of the Early Ikkaban Period (2595) (PROSE:SLEEPY^[+]Loading...["SLEEPY (novel)"],Walking to Babylon^[+]Loading...["Walking to Babylon (novel)"])
• S for Surprise: Memoirs of an Unorthodox Archaeologist (after2595) (PROSE:Walking to Babylon^[+]Loading...["Walking to Babylon (novel)"])
• Halstad Musical Notation: Initial Thoughts and Questions (before2600) (AUDIO:The Extinction Event^[+]Loading...["The Extinction Event (audio story)"])
• The Traxian Paradox: A New Perspective (before2600) (PROSE:A Question of Identity^[+]Loading...["A Question of Identity (short story)"])
• Incredibly Bad Jokes of the Twentieth Century (before2600) (PROSE:Sky Pirates!^[+]Loading...["Sky Pirates! (novel)"],A Question of Identity^[+]Loading...["A Question of Identity (short story)"])
• Little Archaeologist's Primer: A Storybook (2605) (AUDIO:Timeless Passages^[+]Loading...["Timeless Passages (audio story)"])
• The Collected Benny Summerfield (2617) (PROSE:Sky Pirates!^[+]Loading...["Sky Pirates! (novel)"])
• Orisons in Two Languages (2617) (PROSE:The Slender-Fingered Cats of Bubastis^[+]Loading...["The Slender-Fingered Cats of Bubastis (novel)"])
• Head Invaders: Asinine Quasi-Psychological Old Toot of Your Times (2619) (PROSE:Sky Pirates!^[+]Loading...["Sky Pirates! (novel)"])
• 45 Second Piglet (acomic book only commissioned as Bernice was passing through anAmerican publishing house and had an English accent) (PROSE:Oblivion^[+]Loading...["Oblivion (novel)"])
• Similarities in Proto-Cultural Artifacts of the Second Dynasty of the Zyrs (in print in the60th century) (PROSE:Zamper^[+]Loading...["Zamper (novel)"])
• Man, Two Hearts in One Mind (AUDIO:Master^[+]Loading...["Master (audio story)"])
• Practical Archaeology for Beginners (editorPaul Cornell) (PROSE:Extract from 'Practical Archaeology for Beginners' by Prof. B. S. Summerfield PhD, FGAS^[+]Loading...["Extract from 'Practical Archaeology for Beginners' by Prof. B. S. Summerfield PhD, FGAS (First Draft). Editor: Paul Cornell (short story)"])

Alternate timelines[[edit] |[edit source]]

Bernice's personal history contained some ambiguity. Partly this was due toIrving Braxiatel's attempts to edit her timeline for his own purposes. (AUDIO:The End of the World^[+]Loading...["The End of the World (audio story)"],Resurrecting the Past^[+]Loading...["Resurrecting the Past (audio story)"])

Both contradictory accounts of her visit toGuernsey (PROSE:Just War^[+]Loading...["Just War (novel)"],AUDIO:Just War^[+]Loading...["Just War (audio story)"]) appear to have taken place (PROSE:Paydirt^[+]Loading...["Paydirt (short story)"]) and Bernice was able to recall them both. (PROSE:Dear Friend^[+]Loading...["Dear Friend (short story)"])

In general though, Bernice's timeline was not fundamentally unknowable or non-linear likeIris Wildthyme's, but was repeatedly diverted from what it should have been. Bernice and Jason's divorce was never meant to occur and by the time of theMim-Draconian War, itself an alteration to history, they should have had two children together. Key moments from her relationship with Jason Kane were removed from the timeline, making it as if they had never happened. (AUDIO:The End of the World^[+]Loading...["The End of the World (audio story)"])

In analternate universe,the Doctor saw an image of a woman from his past. She appeared as "professional‐looking with a generous mouth, wearing a tailored suit and baggy coat" with "long legs, high cheekbones and ruffled black hair". She was also heavily pregnant. (PROSE:The Infinity Doctors^[+]Loading...["The Infinity Doctors (novel)"]) A universe existed in which Benny and theEighth Doctor had thirteen half-immortal children. (PROSE:Paydirt^[+]Loading...["Paydirt (short story)"])

Behind the scenes[[edit] |[edit source]]

Original art of the character drawn byLee Sullivan, printed inDoctor Who Magazine192.

Paul Cornell created the personality and biography of Bernice Summerfield with assistance of the then-editor of theVirgin New Adventures range of novels,Peter Darvill-Evans, with artistLee Sullivan "designing" her visually. Initially, Cornell had visualised her as resembling a short-haired version of actressEmma Thompson.

Bernice first appeared in the VirginNew Adventures series, heralded by an illustrated two page introductionTravelling Companions inDoctor Who Magazine192. Later, she crossed over into comics inDoctor Who Magazine. Since her creation she starred inher own series of novels, and would later appear inaudio dramas and new novels and short fiction from Big Finish Productions. The cancelled 30th anniversary storyThe Dark Dimension would have featured an alternate timeline character named "Summerfield," but it is left open to interpretation in the script if she and Bernice are one-and-the-same.

Lisa Bowerman currently acts as Benny's voice in audio plays as well as serving as the visual model for cover art, publicity photos, illustrations, and other depictions of the character.

In terms of continuity, early novels placed Bernice Summerfield as living in the25th century when she first met the Doctor. Later books changed this to the26th century, to better fit in with continuity established in theDoctor Who television storyFrontier in Space, which took place in the year2540.

In the intentionally confusing short storyIris Explains, which was released as part of theMissing Piecescharity anthology,Iris Wildthyme makes reference to Benny as someone the amnesiacEighth Doctor needs to remember before having a "terrible thought" and askingMiranda if her mother was Benny. In the end, Iris declares:

Doctor, you had thirteen children with [Benny], and you don't even - forget I said that. You didn't do that. You didn't even ... oh wait, you did. The once. Or was that in a differentbottle altogether? [...] I'll explain later. No, sod that, I never understood all that business with the bottles. Forget the bottles. Forget most of the Bennys. A quick rule of thumb - if she doesn't look like Emma Thompson, you can forget it.Iris Wildthyme^{[[[Missing Pieces]] [src]]}

Footnotes[[edit] |[edit source]]

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