hey! I'm back! I wanted to make sure that I could keep this story up that's why there's been such a gap between the announcement and the actual chapter. Sorrry readers...but with no further ado back again Jenny!
Jenny:Hey! Guys! I'm much more gung-ho in this version! Less damsel in distress-y!
PunkWolf:yes, well that was your request...
Jenny:Mhmm! So this chapter is all with me! So enjoy!
PunkWolf:Jenny, aren't you forgetting something?
Jenny:Oh right! PunkWolf32 doesn't own Me, the time vortex, or any obscure refrences to the show. Or the show either, cause if she did i'd be a regular!
PunkWolf:You can shush now, they want to read the story. Enjoy!
TIME VORTEX
Jenny strained against the controls of her ship, she'd been following the Dalek space-craft through the void for what felt like ages. The ship she was in hadn't actually been built for travel through time. Though it had been designed to actually ride solar flares, and navigate the trickiest of wormholes, so Jenny figured it was good enough. She'd only recently modified the craft and hadn't actually had time to test it. To tell the truth Jenny wasn't particularly clear on the specifics of time travel, but some part of her brain, somewhere in her subconscious knew how to do it. Jenny simply tried not to think too hard on what she was doing, and let instinct kick in.
Which at first had seemed like a simple thing to do, Jenny was interested by the smallest of things she was only nine months old, and much of the universe was new to her. Yet, she somehow found it hard to fill her mind. Multi-tasking came as naturally to Jenny as breathing, and much like a computer it was difficult for her to find one single task that required all of her brain power. It took a lot of trials until Jenny decided that she'd stick with something uncomplicated. So distracting herself had become a simple matter of observing her surroundings well running equations through her head. Usually some little detail would get her train of thought going and diverging all over the place. She had tested this theory numerous times, and found that she was much better with computers when she wasn't thinking about them.
Jenny theorized that the ability with computers, and time-traveling came with her Time Lord DNA. Parts of her father's consciousness may have downloaded along with her training. Jenny did find, however there were lots of things she didn't know. She didn't know how to socialize and often found herself being a bit too touchy- feely for most races. She didn't have knowledge on most alien races or their cultures. She didn't know how to cook, or how to fly a ship. Jenny did learn the latter, while the former continued to elude her. However, Jenny found she learned quickly.
Jenny picked up languages simply by standing in a crowd. If she listened long enough she began to understand. She was extremely adaptable and managed to make friends easily as she quickly adjusted to a race's culture. Jenny found that most people were tolerant, though quite a few races had a bit of a vendetta against humans in general. Which kind of annoyed Jenny, because she wasn't human. It was however, a lot easier to let people assume she was.
That usually avoided things like the Dalek she was chasing from trying to kill her. That is until everyone suddenly forgot who the Doctor was. Which was what made this particular one so special. The Dalek did remember, it had even thought she was the Doctor after scanning some of her DNA. The downside to having only one genetic parent, is when an alien race that uses DNA to identify beings has a vendetta against said genetic parent.
That's why Jenny was so focused on making sure it didn't get away from her. If this Dalek knew her father, then maybe it knew why everyone had suddenly forgotten about him. Jenny had to know, she just had to. She knew he wasn't dead, she'd sense it if the last other of her kind died. Jenny knew that somewhere deep in her soul, she could sense her father. She remembered that odd twinge she had gotten in her heart when she had passed the Medusa Cascade. Something had happened to him, but she had felt him come back like a solid presence.
So, no he wasn't dead. Still something had happened to him, and Jenny just had to know what. If she was ever going to reunite with her only parent, she had to find out. The dalek's ship swerved as a stray object blurred past them, almost clipping the side of Jenny's ship. Jenny dodged flying junk as they zoomed past a rift in time. She was also keeping a sharp eye out for any blue boxes, if she found her father in here she'd ditch the Dalek.
Jenny was dodging a particularly large piece of time junk, and almost rammed into another ship. Jenny tried to make it out in the craziness that is the Time Vortex, but the ship seemed to be giving off some sort of light and she couldn't quite make it out. Deciding that the light spaceship was most definitely not her fathers(Donna had described it as a big blue box, though Jenny never did get to see it), Jenny returned her attention to dodging space junk and not crashing into the walls of the vortex. Though one wouldn't exactly call them walls, they were simply edges of nothingness, nonexistent spaces, an endless abyss that you couldn't fall through, or walls.
Jenny's sudden mental distraction on the walls, that weren't really walls, but might as well be called walls, caused her to miss the sudden swerving of the Dalek's craft. The Dalek had suddenly burst out of the vortex and Jenny was slow to follow. She couldn't quite figure out when the Dalek had exited to, but she could figure out where. Well, at least within ten miles or so. She swerved her clanky, durable, not vortex suitable craft out into the time stream, and found herself suddenly plunging through an atmosphere. An atmosphere that was comfortingly similar to that of her home planet Messaline, at least she knew she could breathe here.
Jenny's attention was soon absorbed, reentry was one task that required almost all of Jenny's brainpower, leaving only a teensy bit left to make unimportant, and often irrelevant observations. She'd even struggled to hold a conversation once, when traveling with a particularly talkative creature from Beetlejuice-Four, with two heads. The struggle mostly came from differentiating between which head was talking do to their extremely similar voices, and the fact that Jenny couldn't see them since her focus was on flying. She only had time to remember the frustration she had felt during the incident, before her ship entered the Troposphere, and all her brain was required to focus on flying while locating a suitable spot to land.
The area below her was mostly farmland according to her ship's scans. There weren't any spaceports nearby, which wasn't very surprising. Most growing food didn't react well to spaceship exhaust. Normally, Jenny would avoid landing in such areas, but the nearest spaceport could be on the other side of the planet. This is where the Dalek had landed, or Jenny admitted will land. She at least had to try to end up in the vicinity. She set her scans to locate an open flat space unoccupied by any higher life forms. After having to explain to the computer, that yes, cows were higher order life forms. She eventually found an open glade that was most likely left unoccupied due to its vicinity to a roadway.
Jenny carefully turned her ship, and descended slowly into the spot, the planet was just beginning to turn the side Jenny was on towards the sun when her ship rested firmly on the ground. It was only when Jenny had grabbed her bag and flung open the ship's port did she realize she'd landed under radio silence. Even planets with only one spaceport would monitor all space entry's to prevent smuggling. Yet, no one had bothered to even attempt to communicate with her ship. It was this realisation that made Jenny run back into her ship and activate the chameleon circuits. If her entry hadn't been questioned, then chances were this planet had yet to invent space travel. If Jenny's assumption was correct then the sight of her ship in the field could cause problems. Even if the planet's sentient race(or races) couldn't recognise it as more than a hunk of metal.
Jenny ran back out and examined her ship from all sides, and attempted to climb on top, though the hull still hadn't cooled down quite enough for that, she had the burns on her hands to prove it. After verifying that all parts of her ship that she could see, she couldn't see, Jenny turned to face this new planet. Her first observation was that it was awfully quiet. Jenny could actually hear the birds singing. The area was absent of the usual industrial sounds that Jenny had grown accustomed to. It was also absent of the noises Jenny generally associated with people.
Upon observation Jenny discovered that the planet was most definitely inhabited. The roadway, though absent of any sort of vehicle, was in good repair and she could faintly see what looked like lights in the distance. She couldn't really tell with the sun rising to her left and all, but the roadway headed in that direction, and the opposite one, roadways tended to do that. Jenny decided simply to follow the roadway towards what looked like lights, but might not be lights. She simply locked her ship, marked it's location on her pocket computer and headed off.
Tada! It's even over a thousand words! I know it doesn't look long, but hey shorter chapters mean more updates. The next one should be up some time next week! It stars the master, and an alien race of my own creation! So look forward to that till then review!