Not So Grand Entrance!(Open)

[Lanku D'Certo, aka Zero]

"Status report."
"All systems clear, sir."
"Very well, begin descent to Earth."
"Aye, sir."


A large spaceship floated in orbit above the Earth. It was simple in design, a large oval shaped body with two wings on each side in an X pattern with engines on each wing, and easy to maintain, unfortunately, the old girl had seen better days. This would not be one of those.

As they began their entry sequence through the Earth's atmosphere, The ship began to shake once again. Part of this was normal, yet everyone stayed on guard, just in case. Standing behind the helmsman was Lanku D'Certo, in his Captain garb. He was a feared pirate and known only by the name of Zero amongst his enemies and anyone who saw his wanted posters. Lanku held onto a side panel as the ship began to shake. Suddenly, a piece of the ship flew off and the turbulence became much worse. Lanku quickly said, "What was that?"

His Helmsman, Yakar Somont, just responded with, "Did you see that?!"

Lanku stared at Yakar and asked, "Was that the Primary Buffer panel?"

"It did seem to resemble the-" Yakar replied before being interrupted by Lanku again. "Did the Primary Buffer panel just fall off my ship for no apparent reason?"

A might jolt shook the ship before Yakar could respond, though he then said, "Looks like it, sir."

In disbelief, Lanku checked a few panels where he was standing, trying to find the cause of the disruption. He then began talking to himself, saying, "I thought Shala checked the entry couplings. I have a clear memory of it. What happened?"

Yakar spent the next few moments doing his best to keep the ship in the air, but he was worried and expressed his worries to Lanku. "Well, if she doesn't give us extra flow from the engine room to offset the burnthrough, this ride is going to get pretty interesting."

Lanku turned to Yakar and responded, "Define 'interesting'."

"Oh, god! Oh, god! We're all gonna die?"

The Captain sighed, walking over to the intercom system and sending out a message to the rest of his crew. "This is the Captain. We've had a slight problem with our entry sequence... so we may experience some turbulence and then... explode." He flicked off the intercom instantly and turned back around to Yakar, asking, "Did you shave the vector?"

Yakar yelled out at Lanku as he was leaving, "I'm doing it! It's not enough!"

"Well, just get us on the ground!"

"That part'll happen pretty definitely!"

Lanku trudged through his ship, barely able to stand during some of the jolts. He was on his way to the engine room, as he had a bone to pick with a certain mechanic. It took him a few minutes to traverse the area due to the violent shakes and jolts that rattled the ship. "Shala! Shala, what in the five balls of Kinnot are you playing at? I've got the Primary Buffer panel falling off my-"

Shala interrupted him, though, saying, "I've got it under control, Captain. Not to fret."

"You told me those entry couplings would last another week!"

"That was six months ago, Captain," Shala said, trying to keep the ship from falling out of the sky. Lanku became increasingly frustrated and wagged his finger at her, saying, "My ship doesn't crash! If she crashes, you crashed her!"

Yelling from the bottom of a panel she was fixing, Shala exclaimed, "Why don't you do something useful for once and stay out of my way!?!?!"

A small explosion off to the side of them cut off the conversation as Lanku ran back to the helm. Bout the only thing he could do now was make sure they crashed safely. He joined Yakar in the Co-pilot seat and helped him navigate the unresponsive ship down to Earth.

Course, at this point, about as much as they could do would be to crash in a body of water, which is what happened. It was a rough landing, with many small internal explosions happening afterwards. Lanku groaned as he sat upright, having been tossed onto the piloting computers in front of him. He said, "Yakar, you alright?"

Yakar groaned and said, "Yeah... I guess it wasn't really interesting, since, you know, we didn't die and all." He stared at the scanners in front of him and said, "Location is Earth, United Kingdom, Cardiff. Cardiff? What's in Cardiff?"

Lanku stood up and groaned again before saying, "I don't know, but you best get that cloak back up before we find out exactly what's in Cardiff.. the hard way."

The helmsman flicked a few switches but nothing happened. He said, "Well, it looks like we blew a fuse or three. The cloak isn't working."

Lanku was already climbing to the top of the ship to step out and look at the damage. "Well, hell. As far as landings go, we could have done worse. But the blasted cloak isn't working... Only a matter of time before someone shows up. What to do, what to do..."

He had to figure out something, cause people would start asking questions if he tried to keep his base of operations in the middle of Cardiff. Oi, what a day this was going to be.

[Owen Harper]

(I read this Monday. I need to go to the gym!)

[The Fifth Doctor]

The General was sitting at the local coffee shop, he looked out the window and sighed, I thought this day was a bit quiet, he activated his communicator.
"You see that?" he sent to all Torchwood operatives in the area.

[Owen Harper]

Owen was well in bed with a female. That was all had to be said because the rated of the game. And Owen had saw it and his lady friend did not. He had look of you are kidding me. Deep inside, Owen did not want to go but he felt he had too. Looking down at the lady friend in bed.

"I am late for work," he said lying as he looked at her. She gave him a look and smacked him. okay, that was uncalled for. So Owen yelled at her and to get out in his own colourful of words. She wasn't happy and Owen wasn't.

Picks up his phone, he called, "What the ****! I was havin' a go and you---yea I am on way...Why can't these events happen with a call. Hey this crashing alien ship we are coming and giving you a warning!' he hang up the phone and quickly dress feeling the energy of excitement. He was still drunk, he had a lady friend and a ship appeared. Not bad but he missed the sleeping part! And he gonna be cranky too!

[The Fifth Doctor]

"Oh i'm sorry lover boy, Bryan, what's happenin' up your end?" The General said with a smirk on his face.

[Owen Harper]

"Wrong bloke," Owen said unhappy in the phone. "And you here." Owen looks outside. "That explains the ship. Bring a time lord in an area and there is trouble..."

[The Fifth Doctor]

"It's not my fault, probably don't even know I'm here, although they're Uni.... where is Bryan anyway?" The General said again.

[Owen Harper]

“He could be home,” Owen said. Owen pulled his coat on, after he changed. He walked out of his flat. “So, what do you know about that ship out there?” Owen said as he walked. Owen was curious why the General was here. Owen thought the name was a military. Did he over looked that before? Could that be a sign of real trouble?

Owen started to text message Toshiko, ‘we need you at the hub. You there?’ Owen texted to her. Owen would not blame if Toshiko wasn’t there. Toshiko had deserved a break from her work. But it wouldn’t hurt to ask. Anyway, the ship in the sky would be hard to miss. So, Torchwood will be alert as UNIT. Hey, maybe Jack be around for this.

[The Fifth Doctor]

"I like to call myself, an 'unofficial' member of Torchwood, but anyway, they're Uni, looks like some sort of pirate ship, probably looking for an artifact, Earth artifacts fetch a fair amount of credits out there in space," The General said.

[Lanku D'Certo, aka Zero]

A few more showers of sparks popped from the inside and the outside of the ship as Lanku climbed back in the ship, shouting, "Xia, get the cloak back online! Zane, help Shala with the repairs."

Pacing around his bridge, he muttered to himself, "Not exactly the best way to start this mission. We're not exactly going to be 'undercover', but we can at least get out of here discreetly... I hope."

It took a few moments of seemingly nothing happening before Xia spoke from the intercom, "Engaging cloak now, sir!" A small humming noise was heard as the ship disappeared from the water. Lanku turned to Yakar and sighed, saying, "Finally. Now, release a small memory pulse to wipe the minds of the people in the area. We've got to remove their notice of us."

Yakar flipped a switch and pressed a small blue button before saying, "Zero, we may have another problem. I'm reading massive fluctuation in this area."

"Is it from the ship?"

"No... but it's strange. It's almost temporal, yet it's not controlled. I'm patching it through to the main screen."

Lanku and Yakar both gazed at the screen as it showed the readings. "Well, well... I've seen something like this before. It's a rift. Cardiff sits on a temporal rift. This little rock holds many more interesting secrets than I thought. We may be able to use that to our advantage."

A small alarm rang off, interrupting Lanku's thoughts. Yakar brought up a view of the outside as he said, "Something's wrong. The memory pulse reacted strange to someone and stopped."

"How? Even this old ship has technology that's centuries beyond Earth," Lanku asked, looking at the scans. What was going on? It was a strange planet, to be sure, but this made Lanku want Earth's riches for his own even more.

"Wait, this can't be. I'm reading something I never thought we'd find right away. Zero, there's a life sign that registers as a Time Lord somewhere nearby!" Yakar exclaimed. Lanku stared at his cohort and asked, "Are you serious? Well, if that's true... then he probably already knows who we are and what we just did. Get the crew ready. We may have a guest soon and we'll need to, at the very least, try not to act like Pirates... for now."

"Aye aye, sir!"

[The Fifth Doctor]

"Ok, i'm off to check it out, they probably know i'm here by now, so lets make them feel welcome," The General said programming the approximate coordinates of the ship, and pressed the button, finding himself at the exact coordinates of it. They must of used their cloaking.... He felt a shockwave, and lifted himself up. Now, I was doing something, what was it, umm, oh yes! I was looking for a Uni ship, I hate memory pulses... He scanned his sonic screwdriver over the ship, disabling its cloaking, and opened a hatch in the top, he jumped in, and before the guard right in front of him could scream, he knocked him out, we don't want any alarms going off.

But then a alarm went off.

[Lanku D'Certo, aka Zero]

"Proximity alert! We've been compromised!"
"Turn off that blasted alarm, restore the cloak, and let's go meet our guest!"

Silence filled the ship once more as the cloak was restored. Lanku and Yakar made their way to the hatch that was in use. They were joined by Xia, a younger Uni. She was a head shorter than Lanku and Yakar and sported bright red hair. A few other guards circled the area as the trio entered the room with the Time Lord.

Lanku was the first to speak, introducing himself and the others, "Well, well, this is a surprise. I am Lanku D'Certo, Captain of this ship. This is my First Officer, Yakar Somont, and my Senior Operations Officer, Xia Mektin. Welcome aboard, Time Lord. Though, honestly, you didn't have to take out my sentry. We were expecting you."

He grinned, staring at the Time Lord. Surprisingly, he was already seven steps closer to his goal.

[The Fifth Doctor]

"Nice to meet you...." The General said, "so why are you here?"

He was cautious, they seemed like pirates, but they were nice enough.
"Hey Owen, i'm in....." He sent over the radio, he also stared, investigating the Uni.

"Loud alarm you have, scared the daylights out of me." He said after a while.

[Owen Harper]

(I forgot Owen was after being dead…LOL)
Owen got in his blue sports car and he hated not feeling his left hand on the stick driving manual. That was one of the coolest things driving a manual car. It gave you the power to feel you are total control over the engine. He like automatic but the transmission did what it wanted. He liked he had power over something.

“I’m on my way,” Owen said.

A few minutes had gone by, “G-general I am sorry did I see a ship? I feel like it wasn’t real...” Owen felt confused. He thought he saw a ship but it was like the tip of his mind. “Did they try to erase people’s memories because it really did not seem to work on me. Another benefit being a walking dead man,” he smirked to himself.