Stike joined his subordinate Major Varl in Seville where together they worked with Dastari towards putting together a laboratory where Dastari could perfect the Kartz-Reimer module, a crude prototype space-time vessel to assist (as ever) in defeating the Rutans in the endless Sontaran-Rutan War. To this end, the two Sontarans had captured the second incarnation of the Doctor and kept him in the cellar of a mansion. In particular, they wished to find about the Doctor's Rassilon Imprimatur and enable the Kartz-Reimer module to work.