A Brand New World [Open]

[Jenny]

It appeared to the shuttle pilot of the Infinite Improbability as a vast ribbon of shimmering spectral colors a crossed a dark star filled sky. Visible light particles whirl and danced as atoms of light went through the void of space at 299,792.458 kilometers per second. Bursts of burning gases; helium red and krypton blue mingled and pulsed with hues of copper (II) chloride green and cobalt (II) chloride white. It looked as if someone had sliced a hole in space and this phenomenon was a beautiful, terrifying, and yet festering wound that wanted to suck in anything that got too close to its splendor.

Jenny had never seen anything like it before and she stared at it in wistful wonderment. She had been working on the final tweaks before a test run of her self made DARTS technology. The D.A.R.T.S or Dematerialization and Re-materialization, Transport System, was a masterpiece if Jenny did say so… but only to herself. This was mainly because she had no one to share it or anything with. For the last year Jenny had been traveling the universe in a ship that was little more than a gum wrapper with wings, or at least that was how it felt to Jenny once in a while, stuck in the small ship day in and day out, rarely finding alien civilization and the adventure that she had been so craving when she first took to the stars.

This wasn’t to say that she had seen little, but it seemed little compared to everything she wanted to see and this little surprise in the middle of space was an adventure in the making. Most of her current work consisted of devising a system that would keep her ship from running into a sun, a star, a planet, or anything else encountered on her travels. She felt nervous about testing the DARTS so close to an unknown and unexplainable force but she was also impatient to get on her way and at more then what she considered a crawl.

Strapping herself into the pilot seat of the ships cockpit Jenny smiled brightly and flipped a switch, pressed a few buttons and then gripped the navigational controller like she was in an intergalactic ship racing event. With a final button press and a yell of triumph at the sounds of the engines building up electromagnetic energy, Jenny fully expected to pull away from the anomaly and go in the opposite direction, she was wrong. She didn’t even make it an inch before the ship shook badly enough to rattle her teeth and to make the unpleasant sounds of twisting metal. There was a blinding flash, darkness and then she was no more.

At least as far as anyone would have been able to tell if this had been observed. But to Jenny, it felt as if she hadn’t moved at all. Jenny blinked her eyes several times in the darkness. Her eyes searching, waiting, and hoping that the darkness would not last forever. A blue glow seemed to materialize in front of her ship and that glow took on form. That form was a planet, whose rays of its singular sun became scattered within its atmosphere, catching the blues and violets of the suns light. It gave the planet a vivid blue glow and it was the most wonderful and beautiful thing that Jenny had ever seen in her exceedingly short life.

That planet promised adventure she was sure of it. Her transceivers picked up strange radio waves that brought with them sounds, people talking, music, and other data. She turned a knob and the ships cabin filled with the sounds of a new civilization. Some of the words were even familiar to her and she felt an extra pang of excitement. Adjusting the ships controls she headed down to the planet’s surface, past bodies of water, land masses, and noticed splashes of green. It was one of these green areas that her ship finally came to rest.

[Mary Clyde]

Torchwood. Big name lot of stories behind it lots of things that she could discover. More importantly there was a whole lot of things to take apart. Torchwood had ground up some of the things that she had been chasing that seemingly disappeared. Putting it off to her own errors [which were never thanks] that she miscalculated the landing of by some hundred miles and by now the government was swarming all over it. The technology in the Torchwood hub was something that Mary could only dream of. Literally, these were some of the things she dreamed up. A rift control device, calculating the energy coming from the rift that they were right on top of. Toshiko’s time lock code which was absolutely brilliant and the moment Mary figured it out she was going to rewire it to reset again just in case the hub was in danger. Mary had so much to do and so little time and if the woman she replaced was alive the girl would drop to her knees and beg the woman to teach her the ways of the master because this stuff was beyond even her comprehension. And Mary was a self proclaimed genius.

No one was really in the hub, which was a shame, she was about to melt down some crayons again. She liked melting crayons with a welding torch. Despite the large amount of things there were to do around here Mary, she was sitting with her welding mask on melting crayons to make the outer shell of a mold she was working on in order to restore the rest of the gun how she figured it was supposed to be put back together. Mary never knew if she was doing things right when she rebuild things or at least modeled them with the melted wax crayons, but she always imagined that it was what the unfinished bits of machinery looked like, these wires went here, sometimes despite the crayon casing the machines worked and she was always more than thrilled when they did. Though half the time she had no idea what they were capable of. Well that’s what Torchwood was for. She enjoyed going up to Jack and asking about something. It was like he knew everything. It was awesome. There were no more unanswered questions, what the computer didn’t know, Jack knew. It was the perfect set up, way to score Mary Clyde!

Just as she was making her selection of robins egg blue and periwinkle, the slight blip on her station screen went off. Then it started chirping and Mary turned off the blow torch and made her way over to her screen where she began typing quickly over the keys to see what was amiss. Something entering the atmosphere? Woah, ”Hey anyone around? Heeeey.” she chimed looking around the hub, ”Oh bugger.” she muttered and took off the welding helmet throwing it her seat as she began stuffing things into her hoodie pockets including her gun and tazer. She nearly dumped everything on her desk into her back pack in a mess manner and then ran over to the big door that lead out the long way from the hub, the main entrance, not the fun one. She was on her own, woo, excitement, yet scary. What if it was an alien? Not a crashing space craft like Big Ben or something like a legit alien? Bugger, she should be getting Arwen, wasn’t that he job to like protect them and stuff? No. She was off on her own like she was on her own secret mission so she could go ‘look what I found’ next time she saw Jack.

The girl was running, confusing by standards and following the proximity meter that was tracking the craft back at the hub, she rounded a corner and the ship was in plain sight, well not plain sight, the bit of grass it had landed on wasn’t in the direct line of sight. Bloody hell, ”Hey! Hey! You totally can’t put that there, mate!” she shouted like this alien – who looked like a girl – was just a normal bloke. Which by now Mary could make out that she wasn’t and that this was going to turn really bad really fast. ”Less that thing’s got a really strong perception filter or a chameleon circuit you might want to move it somewhere less where people can see. I mean dependin’ on what operation you’re driving I could probably give it a whirl myself if you ain’t got nothin’ to ya know, work with.” she was supposed to protect earth, not become chummy with the tourist, ”Ah crumpets, nevermind, state your intention!” she shouted, reaching for her gun in her hoodie pocket. What was she even doing right now?

Tags: Jenny, Open!
Word Count: 797
Music: Moondance - Michael Buble
Notes: Mary = not smart
Made by TARDIS

[Jenny]

She sat there in silence for a moment contemplating the tell tale signs of a problem. The problem was in the form of a light cloud of smoke that was drifting through the ship. She could actually taste the compounds in the cloud and it wasn’t the pleasantest thing she had ever encountered. She was more than positive that her DARTS missed their target and would need some repairing before another attempt could be made.

Reaching up she unhooked her harness and slipped out of her seat. Leaning forward Jenny looked through the glass window right at the front of the shuttle to get a better view of the surrounding area she had landed in. At first she didn’t notice the young shouting woman staring at her from outside the ship, but when she did she grinned and flipped a switch.

The girl’s voice reverberated around the ship like the shoot of a riffle. “Ah, crumpets, nevermind, state your intention!”

Jenny gave the yelling girl a grin, a wave, and bounded away from the safety of the old familiar cockpit and made her way to the release hatch. The smoke was stronger here Jenny noticed and it escaped into the planets atmosphere when the hatched opened with a decompressionating hiss. Fresh air made its way throughout the ship bringing with it all the fragrances of fresh grass, sunshine, and civilization. To Jenny it smelt wonderful and she took a deep breath before climbing down the side of the ship to the ground below.

The first thing she did upon hitting the ground was not to go bounding over to the woman. Instead Jenny spun on her heals and glanced up at her ship, looking with a critical and analyzing eye to make sure all was as it should be. After giving it a quick once over and satisfying any concerns of the space anomaly damaging her ship any further she turned back towards the agitated woman.

Jenny slipped a hand into her pocket; working on fishing out the little black device she had made that would turn on the ships chameleon defenses and walked over to the stranger as she did it. “Hello! What did you say? I missed most of that.” Jenny said, in a way that was almost too cheerful. She looked out upon the new planet with eyes that wanted to see everything. Jenny found herself paying less attention to the human, or at least that was what Jenny assumed she was by her appearance and more attention to her surroundings.

She had not seen living plants since her father had introduced her to The Source. That had been almost a year ago. It had been the day Jenny had been born from the machine that had extracted and utilized her father’s DNA. The place was wide, open, full of sounds, and light. To Jenny it was the grandest thing ever.

[Mary Clyde]

She was rambling, she was new to Torchwood, what was the protocol on this again? Wow she probably should have memorize that yeah? Probably would have been a smart thing to do. Yet all that knowledge all up in her brain and she couldn’t think of maybe learning the rules around here? Way to go Mary, you’re going to be dead next, like Owen and Toshiko, your genius will be left in the hands of another genius and that genius won’t be able to tell what your codes are even after studying them. Look at your life, look at your choices. Mary. What are you doing here without Gwen, Jack, Ianto, or Arwen. You’re being stupid. Now you can’t get out of it. As she rambled at herself in her head holding the gun extended, the woman stepped out of the cockpit and bounded toward her in which Mary held the gun tighter. Awesome, looked human, hated those ones made it so much harder to shoot people. She didn’t even like shooting people.

”Stop. Stop right there just. Hold on.” she didn’t even know where her phone was. She dialed a number and it went straight to voicemail, ”Jack, check the scanner.” was the only message she left and hoped that he or someone else got it. But for now she’d have to keep an eye on this girl. ”Nice piece of te-“ chameleon circuit was activated, ”tech…Nice.” she swooned a little. ”What sort of ship is that?” nothing she’d seen before, and now she was interested, seemingly single pilot which meant she was probably the only one and that was good. She rubbed the back of her neck and put the gun back in her pocket. The creature didn’t seem to be much of a threat, so far. No need to shoot, she supposed.

”Um…welcome to Earth?” she threw her hands up in the air a little like she had no idea what she was doing, ”Mind me asking what you’re doing here? Alien invasion or just, you know, visiting. My boss won’t be too fond to have you just landing your ship there and wandering off.” she wasn’t sure what her boss wanted her to do. Maybe she should have waited for Arwen, the least she could do was keep and eye on this girl. She stepped closer to the Timelord. ”You seem a bit distracted.” almost like she wasn’t listening at all but was more fascinated with the earth and area around her. This was such a bad idea to come here. Such a really bad idea, she should be melting her crayons and minding her own.

Tags: Jenny, Open!
Word Count: 440
Music: Moondance - Michael Buble
Notes: Arweeennnnn
Made by TARDIS

[Jenny]

Jenny decided that while she was here that she was going to find out everything that she could about the plants of the planet. They fascinated her to no end; she wanted to know everything about them. She listened vaguely to the young woman but Jenny was hard put to pay attention to anything but the lush green around her. But finally Jenny extracted her thoughts from the grass to the woman that was talking and asking questions of her. Jenny looked her over and decided that she was probably most definitely human. She seemed uptight, agitated, confused, and inquisitive. Inquisitive Jenny could deal with. She smiled brightly.

“That is the Infinite Improbability, actually its just a shuttle I picked up and re-outfitted to serve for use in deep space travel. A person can find themselves with a lot of time on their hands when they are stuck moving at a crawl in deep space. So this is Earth?” She said quickly and with little breath, it just seemed to come from her mouth at a bazillion miles per minute. Jenny was just a little overly excited about her new found discovery. It was then that Jenny looked around again her eyes filling once again with wonder and wondered briefly if her home world would someday look similar once The Source had done its job, “Never heard of it?” She said tearing her gaze once again from the vast open surroundings.

“Doing here? Oh well that, I was just testing out my new wormhole traveling activator… well trying to test it out… but there was this anomaly in space that my wormhole seemed to latch onto… which it’s not suppose to do…. And it just seemed to grab a hold of my ship and then all of a sudden your pretty blue planet was sitting there being all inviting looking and broadcasting such wonderful noise…. So I thought I would pop in and explore and do something about my engines …. Since they seem to be a bit toasty… now and find out what all this green stuff is…” She seemed to pause briefly for breath trying to calm down some of her emotions.

“No, no invasions? Why do you have a problem with alien invasions?” Jenny frowned at the thought of this pretty planet being the recipient of unwanted alien military advances. But it was quickly erased when the woman mentioned her distraction, “sorry, I haven’t seen a plant in about a year, only seen them once before. Fascinating things they are… plants.” She said, no longer talking quickly and suddenly wondering if her father ever talked like that. “So this is a bad place to land then? Is there someplace I should move her to then? She might make it… can’t guarantee how far though. Not sure what that space anomaly did to the interior infrastructure of the engines… and all that, yet.”

[Mary Clyde]

Mary fished into her jacket for her goggles and put them on, registering the heat signatures in the thing, or more what was broken in the ship lit up like it was molten hot, they weren’t really inferred goggles, they were close, they were specially designed by her to pick out what parts of a machine were broken or damaged so that she could fix them. Damaged parts gave off a lot of energy if the tool was activated at the time. Just like the ship, it had yet to cool down and it was brimming with white hot energy in the places were it had been broken. Mary felt a ping of pain for the poor ship, all rubbish and broken all over the place and she put a hand to her chest as Jenny explained to her what it was, ”She’s in shambles!” Mary threw the off the goggles and they rested on the ruffle of her blonde hair, she turned to the woman. ”Deep space in a crawl? How could you get through the Earth’s atmosphere without turning to goop.” yet Jenny seemed unconcerned.

She never heard of Earth…well that was first right? Well of course no alien had heard of earth. She ran her hand down her face as the woman rambled on and she seemingly seemed lost, but Mary was picking up every word as she started to go on and she looked at the ship again, seemingly more concerned with the piece of machinery than the woman, ”It’s grass.” Mary said very punctually as she moved toward the ship, she reached into her back pocket and put her bright purple gloves on and reached up to the machine and put the goggles back on. God this thing was a mess. ”Uh. Yeah exploring might be off the list. I think I’m supposed to take you to my boss.” she muttered looking over her shoulder for a moment and finally tearing herself away from the broken ship that she was just dying to take apart and fix. But she folded her hands together, ”You do realize rift activity has been up by twenty percent and tearing through a wormhole just might make it upset? Do you even know what the rift is – Who are you?” she threw up her hands. This job was getting considerably hard.

Invasions, right. ”Yes. We have problems with invasions.” she pursed her lips. But this woman didn’t seem to be a huge threat. Mary took off the goggles completely and she exhaled, ”No your…whatever mechanism your using seems to hide it fine, it’ll be fine there until we can get a better perception filter on it so people won’t even bother coming over here, maybe a temporal barrier just to be safe, something…” she took off her gloves and stuffed them in her back pocket. ”Yeah your ship ain’t goin’ anywhere, sweetheart.” she frowned at the woman. ”It looks like it barely got through that anomaly…let alone going to fly around like a bird…” she said nodding her head toward that. ”I could probably fix it.” with what? Crayons. There were no spare alien ship parts around here and she wasn’t so fond of jerry rigging something that was going to potentially try and fly.

Tags: Jenny, Open!
Word Count: 545
Music: Moondance - Michael Buble
Notes: Lol I love Jenny
Made by TARDIS

[Jenny]

Jenny watched in curious interest as the woman took out what appeared to be some sort of eye covering and placed it on her head. The woman seemed to closely examine Jenny’s shuttle and Jenny winced slightly as another puff of smoke from its interior creped out from the shuttles ajar door. “That might take awhile to fix.” Jenny admitted both to herself and to the young woman. Jenny though about her re-entrance into the planet’s atmosphere and was at a complete loss, she had never entered a planet’s atmosphere before. “I’m not sure… I’ve never entered a planet’s atmosphere before… I left one once… but I’ve never entered one. I must have been luck I guess.” She said thinking that it was yet another first in her exceedingly minuscule and short life.

The woman seemed very, very interested in the Infinite Improbability. More interested than the fact that she had encountered an alien. Jenny felt that this was a hopeful sign. It meant that other aliens had been here before and that there wasn’t going to be any mass hysterics from the planets… Earth’s, inhabitance. The ship, Jenny supposed, must have looked even more interesting with the goggles on since the woman seemed to keep putting them back on. “Oh your boss?” Jenny asked in a questioning manner. Now she was getting somewhere, she thought. But no exploring was definitely a letdown of immense and intolerable proportions. Jenny decided very quickly that the, no exploration rule was NOT going to happen if she had anything to do about it. She would not be fettered down and she would check out this new world for herself no matter what.

Something caught Jenny’s attention while her mind was already planning forays into Earth’s social structure. “The rift? Was that what the anomaly was then? What is it? It looked like a tear in space. Is it a tear in space?” Jenny started to speak quickly again and she had to force herself to slow down. “I am Jenny, ” she said truthfully, finding no harm in revealing her name. After all what was a name but something to be called when someone wanted to distinguish you from another being. The girl seemed to be having some major agitation and exasperation issues. It wasn’t the first time she had seen an adult get aggravated in her presents. But Jenny was sure that she hadn’t done anything wrong. After all, she hadn’t hurt anyone, or blew anything up. She did damage her ship, but then that wasn’t completely her fault. It was the fault of the Rift thing that the girl had mentioned.

The something else took a hold of her attention and Jenny’s face took on the look of one who was worried, “Invasions…. past, present… or future?” She asked. Alien invasions were always a problem to deal with. But if these people and their pretty blue sphere of water, green, and light were in danger from an alien threat then Jenny would do what she could to help them. She was almost itching to feel the cold hard grip of one of her Messalinian weapons. However, it didn’t take long for her to give herself a mental kick at the thought. What would your father say? Hearing about invasions and immediately wanting to defend with a gun? Jenny was positive that it was thoughts like this that kept her in check from doing things that were dangerous and rash.

Jenny grinned at the girl when she mentioned fixing her shuttle. The thought intrigued Jenny and it was something that she felt she could look forward to. “Well then, I suppose first things first, so take me to your leader?”