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Chapter 1: Beginner's Luck

Jenny's wide grin, which had been there in the six hours since she flew the shuttle off Messaline, grew wider as she caught sight of her first planet. It didn't matter that her jaw was starting to ache from grinning so much, or that the shuttle was almost out of fuel and she didn't know if she could make it to the planet before she ran out, or even that she had no idea if the inhabitants had eggs for heads or not.

She was almost there, only a few hundred thousand miles away from her first adventure. And she was so excited she would've started jumping up and down by now if that didn't risk veering off her course and into an asteroid belt. She laughed out loud, that sounded like fun too.

When she finally got within range of the planet, her fuel gauge was blinking in rather distracting yellow caution lights, and she was so giddy with excitement she wanted to dance, however, that didn't stop the rational part of her time lord brain from telling her that she had no idea if this planet was hostile or not, or if she should announce her presence to the locals, or if…

Jenny shut that part of her brain out while it continued ticking off reasons why just 'dropping in' was a very bad idea, her dad wouldn't have worried so much… maybe… she didn't really know, but if his appearance on Messaline was anything to go by, she was doing just fine.

And so far, no one had attacked her as she landed her shuttle at the flat, white formation she found on this new planet, she hoped this wasn't someone's house or something, that would be embarrassing… Shutting down the engine, Jenny jumped up from her seat enthusiastically, her first planet, did it have life? Were they evolved? What did they look like? Her mind buzzing with questions, the blonde time lady loosed her hair, hesitated and put her gun back in it's cupboard, before she opened the shuttle's door and faced this new world, a broad grin on her face,

What she saw outside stopped her short.

The sky was a lush, verdant green, shining with a bright blue sun and golden clouds, the trees, luminous and milk-white, were twisted and their branches curled around like springs till they ended in thousands of glowing orbs that might have been leaves. Jenny had never seen anything like it on Messaline, it was amazing…

What would her dad have said? She wondered, would he have thought it was as beautiful and wonderful as she did, or would he smile and whisk her off to see something even better?

What was earth like? Was it anything like this? Was it better?

Jenny didn't know, but she hoped that someday she would find out.

That was when she noticed them.

There were at least thirty of them, wearing clothes made of fur woven together, they looked like a cross between some sort of insect and humans, some of them were blue, some green, some gray, and several were very small and were yellow, all were speckled. All staring at her from a safe distance as she emerged from her ship.

How… Alien, she thought immediately, and then laughed at herself, the locals watched her transfixed. Who was this strange creature that came from the sky in the fearsome beast? What was that sound it made? Was it attempting to talk to them? They crowded together and debated over the matter.

Jenny watched them, smiling politely, and hoped that all that chattering the locals were making didn't mean she was going to be eaten or something equally unpleasant; she couldn't understand a word they were saying and berated herself for not thinking about this particular detail when she left. True, she knew about a dozen languages which were pre-programmed into her by the progenation machine, but apparently, this planet's wasn't one of them. She wondered what species they were, although from the looks of it, the civilization was only just starting out…

She was jolted out of her thoughts when the group suddenly prostrated themselves before her and started chanting the same thing again and again.

"Chan, shatha dan ku sah ta, tho" they chanted bowing to her. "Chan, shatha dan ku sah ta, tho"

"Shit, they must think I'm some sort of god or something" she muttered, eyes wide. The locals glanced at each other when they heard her speak.

"Chan, Shit, tho" repeated one of them reverently, and to her horror, the entire group then erupted into a chorus of 'Chan, Shit, tho's.

They continued to worship her, muttering the swear word every now and then, but she noticed several of them left the group and headed away, Jenny frowned, wondering if that was good or bad.

She found out a few minutes later when another group arrived, these were carrying some sort of chair woven out of leaves and flowers and several of them helped her up so she could sit on it, she was then offered flowers and shiny rocks, which she accepted politely while the locals chattered and stared at her reverently.

They carried her into their town… or city… or conglomeration, and paraded her on the streets while the other insectoids –for lack of a name, she called them that– watched her from their houses, chattering to each other, Jenny waved at them and they jumped up and down excitedly and copied the action. Jenny smiled, she was beginning to enjoy herself, Not bad for my first planet, she thought, watching as hundreds of insectoids stared up at her and worshipped.

They brought her into a cave at the other end of the city which had been decorated with flowers, leaves and more shiny rocks, and put her down there, after which, the locals presented her with more tokens and offerings and copied everything she said and did, and when Jenny yawned, tired, and slumped on her flowery seat, the locals looked at her, puzzled, until one of them realized that their god must be tired and they all respectfully bowed themselves away.

Jenny stretched on her seat, took a bite of the glowing, yellow, gourd-shaped fruit that had been offered to her a while ago, and blanched at the sweetness, for some reason, it seemed every single fruit in this planet was unbearably sweet, not that she was complaining, but they hadn't given her any water and she wondered if they just didn't drink water or if they simply forgot.

She stood up, today had been fun, but now it was time to do what her dad did best. Run. Jenny liked being goddess and getting worshipped, but she couldn't stay here anymore, there was an entire universe out there just waiting for her to get up and explore. So with an armful of glowing fruits, and her handy, super soldier, time lady skills, Jenny slipped away and into the bluish-black night.

She ran for a while, not for any particular reason other than to see if she could, she ran and ran, she ran over golden grasses and past glowing leaves on the milk-white trees, leaving boot marks on the red soil and passing a strange creature with six eyes, she ran, not thinking, just relishing the feeling of the wind in her face, her golden hair flaring out like a halo behind her.

Jenny decided she liked running.

By the time she reached her shuttle, her adrenaline rush had disappeared and she realized her biggest dilemma, she was out of fuel… well, not really, but she didn't have enough to even get out of the planet's atmosphere, in other words, she was stuck until someone found her… or until she found a way to synthesize shuttle fuel from fruit juices.

Sighing, she locked the door behind her and draped a blanket over the driver's seat, the shuttle didn't have a bunk and she'd probably be more comfortable in the cave they gave her, but she was fine with this arrangement, it made her feel better than sleeping in an open area without any weapons to defend herself with if something happened. There might not be a war, but she was still a soldier, there was some caution –little though it was– programmed into her psyche.

She picked out a shimmering violet fruit that was a little less sweet than the rest of them and had it for dinner, along with the glass of water she had been missing all day long, and proceeded to go to sleep, hoping she'd figure something out tomorrow.

She didn't have to wait that long.

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Ooohh... Can you guess where she landed? Can you? Can You? Okay, Maybe you can...

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"So… the left wing is scrap metal, power grid is fried –we're running on back-up power cause that's the only line that hasn't been damaged when we hit the Rue'enian's delta wave, windshield is… well, you can guess, third and fourth engines are busted, we've got three different holes, one in the corridor, one in the right wing and another in the engine room, and the metal's peeled off of the roof." She sighed.

"So basically, were stuck" Koryuu summed up.