Exploration (Archetype2/Open)

[Jenny]

She was so incredibly lost. She had left her ship on the rooftop of what had appeared to be some sort of huge abandoned building. If the doors would have been large enough she would have hidden her ship away in it. Luckily however, Jenny had repaired most of the ships functional problems from her last crash… in Cardiff, including the chameleon circuitry.

The only things that she had brought with her were on this little excursion were her military jacket, a small detector, some deep space ration bars, and her thirst for adventure. That had been 2 days ago and Jenny was finally tired of walking, searching, and checking out what appeared to be an un-thrilling sector of human culture and living quarters.

She found herself on yet another unknown street, in another unknown neighborhood, on this mostly unknown planet. The houses looked for the most part, like every other cluster of homes she had passed and she was ready to head back to her ship and explore somewhere else.

Every once in a while Jenny would take out her detector. It wasn’t a grand looking instrument. Most of it had been pilfered and adapted from something else. But it worked for Jenny’s purposes. She took that device from her jacket pocket and turned it on once again and for what Jenny supposed would be the last time while here.

She paused and stared at the small screen with its little red blimps and a small smile started to creep across her face. After two days she finally found a blimp on the screen and she sighed with relief. She followed it to a large home and paused for a moment to look at the structure from the street. Once… twice she tapped on the device, wondering briefly if there was something wrong with it.

The home didn’t look suspicious in the least; it was just like many other houses she had crossed paths with during her last 2 days of exploring.

[The Bookkeeper]

((Sarah Jane's house gets a lot of traffic))

[Archetype2]

(We can keep it here.)

Sarah Jane was gone for a few days, she'd left on some kind of trip that, the young girl supposed was of no particular interest to her. She had been cleaning, nothing else to do but clean after all, fairly boring day as had the last two or three been. She was alone, had asked Mr. Smith every question she could think of at the time and had even started doing some research on newspaper companies. This research was more for herself then anyone else.

Moving to the window something caught her eye, a women....late teens early twenties maybe, blond hair, with an army jacket? that was odd. She was tapping at something and standing in front of the house. Moving to the door, she opened it and walked out carefully. Dressed rather oddly herself, combat like boots with steel toes, tight black jeans and a grey tank top, she was dressed as if she were going to train somewhere, maybe she was....she hadn't decided on that part yet. Her long red hair pulled back in a low ponytail. "Hello." she greeted, complete confidence in her voice. She had been working on that for the past few days, since the adventure in America she'd been making herself stronger. "Is everything alright?" she asked walking up.

[Jenny]

Jenny looked up from her screen at the sounds of a creaking door and approaching footsteps. A young girl, not much younger than her… apparent age, ventured outside from the very home she was scanning and made her way towards her. Jenny inspected the girl and was reminded strongly of Donna with her flaming red hair. Jenny smiled just from the thought of the woman that more than anyone else she would consider her mother.

“Hello,” the girl stated in tones of practiced confidence. Jenny replied as she moved closer to the girl and the house that was giving her all sorts of weird readings. “Oh, hello, well I’m not completely sure.” Jenny said honestly to the girl, looking back down and tapping her devices screen a couple more times in a slightly aggravated and impatient manner. “Is your house full of alien technology?”

Jenny deleted the current readings with another tap and rescanned and reprocessed the received data, getting identical readings “Because that house is making this thing go crazy.” Jenny looked up from the device and wondered what could be in there that was so powerful, so dangerous, so impossibly not of this world that it would lead her to the homes very doorstep.

[Archetype2]

She frowned and looked at the women before her, she was slightly older then the redhead, well slightly older then she looked. The blond greeted her and asked if there was alien technology here. What should she do now? What would Sarah Jane do? Well Sarah Jane wasn't here so she couldn't very well ask her now could she.

Keeping her face straight as she thought, a small smile spread on her face. "Hypothetically, if I said yes what would you do?" she asked, calm and collected, she didn't have to practice this, she was actually rather pleased with this situation. She liked handling things herself, she could handle it.

Lutessa looked at the blond with the device and grinned slightly. "And....that is what exactly?" she asked patiently. If the women didn't want to tell her what the thing was, then she wouldn't have to.

Something hit her hard and she mentally kicked herself for forgetting, one of the most basic rules of normal human interaction was to introduce one's self. She'd forgotten. "Oh...sorry, I'm Tess." she said quickly, repairing her mistake. She didn't need to give the women her full name, a nickname would do fine for this situation.

[Jenny]

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?”

Jenny, looked at the girl, looked her straight in the eye and stated with certainty and resolution. "You will be watched to make sure your not involved with alien threats or invaders who are doing harm and damage to the planet and its citizens, of course."

Jenny gave her a smile, “You’re not planning on taking over the planet, or doing anything bad with it are you?” Although what she said was true, he main reasons where just that she wanted to see if the device was working properly. If it was true, if this building really did hold an alien threat she would make a note of it, all data that she found, and she would keep an eye on the inhabitance and any militant and dangerous activities.

Jenny lifted up her device slightly at the girl, Tess’s inquiry, “Oh just something I made to detect advanced technology… among other things, still of a bit of a work in progress you could say.” She took the device and pointedly turned it off. After stowing it away safely in one over her Jackets pockets she said simply, “Hello Tess, I’m Jenny.”

[Archetype2]

Lutessa grinned at Jenny. "No, I am not going to take over the planet, that would to a little to hard....I do the exact opposite actually, I stop the invasions...well I help Sarah Jane do that." she said. She was making a friend, or was she a friend, too early to tell. "I think my leader is the Queen, and I've never met her." she explained. She might be able to meet the Queen, maybe Sarah Jane knew how that could happen, or Mr. Smith could arrange it?

"I don't think she'll mind..." she whispered, half talking to herself. "Ok follow me." she said happily as she move toward the house and opened the door, holding it as she waited for Jenny to enter. "I'll be watching you too." she stated, rather simply. If Jenny saw her as someone to watch carefully then she would watch Jenny as well.

"So...what do you call that device?" she asked, curious as to waht the thing might be, it was a makeshift alien technology detector. She remembered the last one of those she'd seen...she'd wanted to call it TADD, it had worked in her head. Maybe, if this one didn't have a name she could figure one out.

(We should get an NPC badguy or someone to be the badguy, then we can run...allot!)

[Jenny]

“Well then. As long as you’re not trying to take over the world then we are good.” Jenny said, her smile brightening. She listened with interest at the girls words, “So someone besides people like Torchwood are watching out for alien threats then? That’s good.” Jenny nodded in satisfaction. Just another protector of the planet, She thought.

“Queen? You have a queen? That sounds fascinating, I don’t have anything like that from my pla…” Jenny suddenly thought better of it, “We don’t have a monarchy where I’m from.”

Jenny followed Tess to the home and entered her mouth dropping slightly at the site that befell her. This was the first time that she had ever seen the interior of a human dwelling and it looked so… comfortable, cozy, safe. Her eyes took in everything that crossed her gaze.

“This place is… it’s, this place is brilliant!” She said, “Well good, maybe if we watch each other then we will become less likely targets,” Jenny beamed slightly at the idea of watching someone’s back, while keeping an eye on them to make sure of their sincerity at being one of the good guys, or in her case… girls.

“The device doesn’t have a name yet.”

(OOC: Yes we should!)

[Archetype2]

She spun around and grinned as Jenny spoke, something unexpected slipping out as she did. This didn't go unnoticed and she grinned happily. "You were about to say planet weren't you?" she asked confidently. This was great, she was meeting a possible alien who wasn't going to try to kill her....not yet at least. "That....is so cool." she stated matter-of-factly as she stopped in the living room.

"our device needs a name, well thats my opinion anyway." she'd loved thinking up her own name so much she just couldn't help but want to name every strange device that didn't already have a name.

Looking at Jenny as the blond's jaw dropped and she started speaking very excitedly, Lutessa cocked her head to one side questioningly then nodded in agreement. "Yes, I think it's brilliant as well, first place like it I've ever been in....only one I've ever been in really." she explained getting a little lost in her own thoughts and forgetting she was actually talking still.

Looking around the room, Tess saw something she hadn't noticed before and moved toward it. Looking at it she noticed what it was, a bunch of money and a note from Sarah Jane. The note explained it was for shopping purposes, for clothes. She wondered if she had extra afterwards if she could just go buy random stuff for entertainment or whatever other reason she would later think of.

Turning to Jenny she asked a very strange question "Do you like shopping? I've never tried it, do you want to go with me?" she asked curiously. From what the redhead knew, shopping was something most girls liked to do, so why not!

[Jenny]

Jenny looked at the girl Tess with a look that said clearly, yes you caught me. “Yeah, I’m not from this planet. Far, far, from it actually,” Jenny smiled as she continued to look at the room, “Not even human… so, you don’t know if all Earth dwellings look like this?” She asked curiously.

“I’ve never been in a house on this planet. Matter of fact…” Jenny looked thoughtful, “I’ve never been in any dwelling that was used just for habitatual living before.” Jenny shrugged slightly, “But then I have never been on a planet before that had a safe atmosphere either.”

Jenny then decided that she was probably saying too much to this strange girl that she just meet, but being stuck in a space ship for months on end by one’s self tended to do that to her.

“You figure out a name for it, you just let me know,” Jenny said while wanting to explore more of the home. While Tess was momentarily occupied with reading a small slip of paper Jenny peeked her head into another room and wondered what all the devices in the room were.

Then Tess spoke and brought Jenny’s thought s back to the newly discovered human, “Shopping? What is it? Sure I’ll go.”

[Archetype2]

She grinned at Jenny, enjoying the women's presence very much. "Well, I'm not normal either...wasn't born like everyone else at all, I was made." she admitted a bit annoyed at the Bane still, she hated them and wanted to go find them and yell at them for causing her so much hardship, for causing Sarah Jane so much worry for Luke's safety, but she couldn't.

Jenny looked back at her and asked what shopping was but agreed to go. So she knew about as much on the subject of shopping as she did. "I think...according to the dictionary Shopping is...To visit stores in search of merchandise or bargains." She thought about it for a second before speaking again. "So I guess, that means we have to go look at stuff and buy what we find, I think...the intention is to look for clothing, like what your wearing and what I'm wearing is clothing." she explained, pretty sure she knew what she was saying correctly.

"So...Sarah Jane left me money that is called Shopping Money, so it's supposed to be used for that reason." she guessed. "How about, after we're done I show you the rest of Sarah Jane's house." she offered, knowing Jenny probably wanted to see it.

Moving over to the door, she opened it and wait for Jenny. "Now all we have to do is find these stores the dictionary mentioned and we're good." she said. This should be interesting.

[Jenny]

Jenny stared at the young woman with a look on her face that was suddenly disconcerting when she told Jenny she was made instead of being born like the rest of the humans on this planet. So, she is some sort of created entity too. Jenny thought, starting to feel a strange sort of kinship with the girl.

Though she would never admit it to the girl, she too had been created. But when they did they had made the mistake of using not a human for the DNA transfer but an alien, a Time Lord. Her father had not been pleased with her creation and it was a never ending internal struggle with her to make him proud.

Jenny smiled brightly, she knew what clothing was, but she had never been shopping for it before and it sounded like fun. Jenny liked fun. But it didn’t sound as fun as seeing the rest of Sarah Jane’s house. “Sounds like fun,” Jenny said brightly going towards the door and leaving the home with Tess.

Jenny looked around outside and smiled at all the plants that seemed to be growing everywhere in her yard. It was a brilliant looking place that she wanted to look at further. But first, there was shopping to do for Tess’s clothing.

“So, which way do we go?” Jenny asked, looking around at the concrete pavement and expansion of asphalt outside the houses fence.

[Archetype2]

Closing the door behind them, Tess looked around as Jenny said it would be fun, yes it probably would and that was the best part, she was going to have fun with her new...friend, comrade...some other word of similar meaning? That would have to be figured out later. Which way to go now. Turning her body a little as her head moved she looked around at everything and at the few people who were out. None of them were Rani's parents so she didn't know them...she barely knew Rani's parents but at least she knew who they were; the rest were complete strangers. "I....I don't know." she admitted, slightly disapointed that there wasn't some huge neon sign saying *Shops this way* and pointing in the direction.

"This way." she finally declared after thinking about it for a few moments. "I think..." she added as a last minute thought. Walking slowly to the direction she'd chosen. "If I'm wrong then at least we get to explore." the redhead continued as they walked.

(ok lets just hope they come to a shop or two.)

[Jenny]

It was all new, but then everything always seemed to be new to her now-a-days. When she thought about it, she realized that she had done very little in her short life. However, since she had arrived on this singular planet she had done more than all the adventures combined from her life.

It was new, it was exciting, and finally above all, she was not stuck in deep space day in a and day out with nothing to keep her company but a few memories of her time spent with her father, Donna, and the few others she had met.

She decided to put her trust in Tess’s hands. After all Tess had been living on this planet much longer then her. Jenny knew that she would be lucky if she could find her ship again, let alone find her way to a human merchandise venue.

Jenny watched in fascination as people passed by or did various mysterious things in their yards. One man looked like he was actually cutting his grass. Jenny couldn’t help but to find this behavior amusing. Why would anyone want to get rid of the lush green carpet? It was just beyond her scope of understanding, coming from a planet that had, had nothing but a poisonous, uninhabitable, atmosphere.

“It’s alright, exploring works too,” Jenny said brightly as she walked along side Tess. “So,” Jenny started hesitantly, “I suppose that you are a relatively new created human then?” Jenny asked in curiosity. She had met many created humans, but then her entire planet had been filled with created humans and hath’s.

(OOC: Or MONSTERS!!! ALIENS!!! BAD GUYS!!! =D )

[Archetype2]

(OMG YEAHm WE NEED A MONSTER!!)

Looking around as they walked she saw the neighborhood residence going about their activities. Some were watering strange plants, some were moving stones, some were sitting around drinking tea or something and others were dong something to their grass. "Why...why are they attacking the grass, what did it do to them?" she asked curiously. The people appeared to be visiously attacking their lawns with machines that they eather walked behind or sat on depending on the make.

Turning to Jenny as they walked, she answered the question as it came. "I was made....I think twelve months ago...a little less then that." she explained, a little unsure of the exact date. "The person who made me wasn't nice...she wanted me to do something back." she explained walking forward. Soon enough they arrived at what looked to be something besides a dwelling, there were people and items in the windows, the sign read *Pawn Shop* Tess blinked and shook her head "What's a pawn?" she asked turning to Jenny.

(so, I think we should find some alien tech in the pawnshop then make the guy give us super deals.)