Decky Flamboon was acompanion of theEleventh Doctor. He was aBrancheerianshapeshifter who could turn into almost anything. Decky's true form was alizard creature. He wanted to get back home toSirus, but had lost the coordinates. The Doctor offered to help, however long it took them to find Sirus.

Biography[[edit] |[edit source]]

Before meeting the Doctor[[edit] |[edit source]]

Decky was on a research mission for the making of anOlympic stadium when hisship was hit by ameteorite and crashed onEarth. (COMIC:Meteorite Meeting^[+]Loading...["Meteorite Meeting (comic story)"])

Meeting the Doctor[[edit] |[edit source]]

The Doctor arrived on Earth where he met Decky, intially as terrifying apparitions due to a faulty tech whom he repaired. The Doctor managed to get the ship and meteorite into the sky, but Decky had lost the co-ordinates for his home planet. He and the Doctor set off to find them and have adventures along the way. (COMIC:Meteorite Meeting^[+]Loading...["Meteorite Meeting (comic story)"])

Finding the co-ordinates[[edit] |[edit source]]

The Doctor and Decky arrived onCobaltikar 45, a planet inhabited by robots, because something was pulling energy out of the universal atmosphere. They found a replica of theEiffel Tower. At the base of the tower was a machine that used atmospheric energy to hold a robot which had broken free. The Eiffel Tower started to fall down and the duo ran away. The robot was hit by the tower and was destroyed. They found part of the co-ordinates and found out that the robots bought the replica off a Brancheerian, both helping Decky get one step closer to home. (COMIC:Tower of Power^[+]Loading...["Tower of Power (comic story)"])

The duo then arrived atSeacyde only to be interrupted by a giantshark-shaped spaceship, who landed there in an emergency. They were hooked and brought aboard in which the Doctor was able to repair the damage. (COMIC:The Shark Shocker^[+]Loading...["The Shark Shocker (comic story)"])

Decky and the Doctor prevented a forest on the planetGuzan from flooding, but were shaken byReethe, a giant native who used the TARDIS as atoybox. The Doctor expelled all the toys and they departed. (COMIC:The Toybox^[+]Loading...["The Toybox (comic story)"])

Decky assisted the Doctor in returning anArchie separated from another Archie after he got sneezed out and caused havoc inLeeds. (COMIC:The Runaway Bogey^[+]Loading...["The Runaway Bogey (comic story)"])

Landing onChristmas Eve,2012, the Doctor and Decky noticed the house completely empty before being absorbed by aChristmas card. This card ended up being a portal toEdger, a two-dimensional entity who kidnapped the family to feed on them. The Doctor and Decky hopped through portals and returned everyone back to the home before destroying the portal tothe universe. (COMIC:On the Cards^[+]Loading...["On the Cards (comic story)"])

Becoming human[[edit] |[edit source]]

Wanting to give a humanChristmas another go, the Doctor fixed his belt so that he would appear human. However upon landing in the25th of December,2034, they see that there's no Christmas anywhere as decreed by theArch-Mayoress. Landing at the town hall, they confronted and bested her by having Decky revert back into lizard form, setting her machine, theScrooge 3000, to reverse. (COMIC:Decky the Halls^[+]Loading...["Decky the Halls (comic story)"])

The duo land in theAlps to goskiing, but struggling with his lizard form, he accidentally knocked the TARDIS down the mountain. He turned back into his human form and raced down after it. TheVendraxoo noticed the TARDIS and ceased their invasion plans due to the superior technology they detected. (COMIC:Snowball!^[+]Loading...["Snowball! (comic story)"])

Further adventures[[edit] |[edit source]]

In an effort to find further co-ordinates back to Sirus, the two land in theCosmic Museum to ask theCurator, only to find that the exhibition was dedicated to the Doctor. The Curator locked his TARDIS in a stasis field, intending to keep it as part of his collection. In an attempt to free it, the Doctor accidentally freed the villains but using a hologram tricked them into powering the entire museum down. (COMIC:Museum Piece^[+]Loading...["Museum Piece (comic story)"])

Decky accidentally damaged his belt swimming in theTARDIS pool, only filled with lemonade instead of water, which caused him to continually shapeshift into an assortment of shapes, objects, and creatures. The Doctor took him to a hospital where they got the sugar out of his circuits, restoring him back to normal. (COMIC:All Change!^[+]Loading...["All Change! (comic story)"])

The Doctor and Decky landed inChina,620, and were met with severe wind conditions caused by a dragon that appeared in the sky. The dragon turned out to be anAndrassi Warship which they destroyed usingfireworks. (COMIC:An Ill Wind^[+]Loading...["An Ill Wind (comic story)"])

Decky pressed a control which caused the TARDIS to crash land upside down onHydrocallica. Under the surface of the water world, they foundStrigidae who were hiding from being hunted but had problems with theirwater molecule shield. The Doctor fixed it, and to repay the debt, they flew them back to their TARDIS. (COMIC:The Water World^[+]Loading...["The Water World (comic story)"])

The Doctor took Decky to a pet shop onKandro Four where Decky bought someSpace bugs. Landing inDubai,2013, the bugs grew to giant size and climbed theBurj Khalifa. Presenting it with more time energy caused them to evolve further, in which they left using their mind powers. (COMIC:Pet Panic^[+]Loading...["Pet Panic (comic story)"])

Decky raced in theGreat Space Race onSpace Station Cherry Delta to investigate the disappearances of four previous racers, only to disappear himself. The Doctor tracked him down to a junk planet only to find his and otherracing pods turned into robots. He tracked down theRobot King causing this and turned him into a toaster as he only wanted to feel useful again. (COMIC:Space Race^[+]Loading...["Space Race (comic story)"])

The duo arrived duringSt Valentine's Day in2013 to find everyone around them lovesick, andCupid flying and firing arrows. He attempted to fire one at the Doctor but Decky got in the way and took it himself. The Cupid ended up being anAmeteli, but Decky, having faked being hit and knocked out, fired the arrow at the Ameteli causing it to fall in love with a distant planet with no one to bother. (COMIC:Love is in the Air^[+]Loading...["Love is in the Air (comic story)"])

Decky was taken to aSpace Dentist due to having a toothache, only for the dentists to try and take his teeth. The dentist ended up being anAmorta who valuescalcium like gold, but the Doctor was able to send it back to itspocket universe. (COMIC:Toothache!^[+]Loading...["Toothache! (comic story)"]

Closer to Sirus[[edit] |[edit source]]

On theHollow Moon of Artenture, the two come across a replica of theTaj Mahal, and extract more co-ordinates to Sirus. The replica turned out to be full of weapons as perPropheetis plans to attack the Earth, but the Doctor set off all the weapons so that they couldn't. Learning that a Brancheerian sold them this replica too, Decky realised they needed to stop him. (COMIC:Terror in the Taj Mahal^[+]Loading...["Terror in the Taj Mahal (comic story)"])

Wanting to investigateKestraleves sudden seclusion, the Doctor had Decky shapeshift into a local to investigate, finding that being an alien is punishable by death. The two are caught out and sentenced to death before Decky deduces that the "local" sentencing them is actually aHomozillian invader which the Doctor reveals, causing the real locals to turn on them. (COMIC:Eye Spy^[+]Loading...["Eye Spy (comic story)"])

The Doctor and Decky find another replica, this time of theColosseum, onPhwillite. They extract the final coordinates before meeting the owner,ProfessorRulas, who wanted find the best fighters to fight in the Colosseum. It detected the Doctor as a good fighter and zapped him in. Decky noticed the Brancheerian inside wasMonty Punnions, and tricked the supercomputer to take Rulas inside, who shut down the operation, teleporting everyone away. He told the Doctor he had to warn everyone on Sirus about Monty. (COMIC:Colossus of the Colosseum^[+]Loading...["Colossus of the Colosseum (comic story)"])

Leaving the Doctor[[edit] |[edit source]]

Decky soon returned home and found that nobody was there, when suddenlyGiant Silver Ants invaded. Decky discovered Monty led them there. The Doctor tricked Monty into taking Decky's belt, using the sonic on it to inflate him into a giant ball. Monty struck him with his tail, defeating both him and his army. He found out that the other Brancheerians were living on the three moons, and upon them returning to the planet, decided to part ways with the Doctor, home at last. (COMIC:The Tail of Decky Flamboon^[+]Loading...["The Tail of Decky Flamboon (comic story)"])

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

Mitchell Collett's original drawing of Decky Flamboon

The name and basic design for Decky came from Mitchell Collett, as an entry to aDoctor Who Adventures competition to create a new companion to appear in the magazine's comics following the departure ofAmy Pond andRory Williams and prior to the introduction ofClara Oswald.