Torchwood Four
Chapter One
the ones who went missing
"They'll show up somewhere."
It's true. We did go missing. If you look at it, it does seem like we simply, fell off the face of the planet. The truth is, we didn't fall off the face of this planet, we just simply went to another one.
My name is Sammi Rogers. I was the 'technical consultant' for Torchwood Four. My job was to study and discover the uses of any and all alien technology we came across. It was also my job to build technology that they would need. I built anything from lock picks to specialized guns. I enjoyed my job. I had had an obsession with the paranormal and alien ever since I was a small child, and the opportunity to study their works was once in a life time.
The truth is, we were sent to another planet. It happened on a job really. We were called in to investigate a disturbance inside of a sea side warehouse. When we got there, there was this machine sitting dead in the center. That's when our disappearance story began.
"What do you think it is?" Tobi was our 'medical examiner'. It was his job to make sure none of us died, and if we got hurt, it was up to him to make us better. He was very good at his job, but he was actually better at examining aliens than he was at examining people. If alien doctor was a profession, I'm sure he'd be the one to start it, lead it, and make the most money from it.
"I'm not sure, don't go near it," Janet McCracken, a.k.a. Mac, was the leader of our group. She was raised by two mix-martial artists and she could literally kick your head so hard that your neck would snap in half. She is a bit hot headed, but she'll only lash out at you if you've done something wrong. The rule of thumb for her is that if she's mad at you, there's a reason.
"Sammi, you make anything of this?" Aaron was the uselessness. At least that's what we call him behind his back. In all honesty, we're not really sure why he's still around here. I mean, it's not like he messes anything up, but he really doesn't have a specialty. He's pretty much just a field agent I guess.
"It's like nothing I've ever seen," I shook my head and looked at the others.
"Don't we pay you to look at things you've never seen before?" Mac mentioned.
"Well I would investigate it further, but you're the one who said not to go near it," I reminded her.
Mac raised an eyebrow and looked back at me. "Please, be my guest," She motioned to the device with her hand. I sighed and rolled my eyes before walking up to the machine.
The machine was tall and surrounded by pipes and wires. There was a large glass cylinder in the middle and the whole thing was dark. "It looks like it could be some kind of generator. But I don't see any power switch."
"It can't just be a generator," Tobi said. "Otherwise we wouldn't have been called in."
"Well I know that," I replied. "I'm just saying that's what it looks like."
"What if it's a bomb?" Aaron offered. "Or like some kind of cold fusion machine."
"It's too small to be a fusion machine," I informed him. "Besides if someone invented a working cold fusion machine, they wouldn't just leave it around."
"But what if it doesn't work," he replied. "They could have like, blown up half a city and now they're trying to get rid of it or something."
I was getting ready to refute that statement when the device started to whirl to life. It made a sound like nothing I've ever heard and suddenly it flashed with different colors. I backed away from it and stood with the others.
"What did you do?" Mac accused.
"It wasn't me, I didn't even touch it!" I explained.
Before another word could be spoken there was a large flash of white and I felt like I was being stretched out wide. I blacked out. But when I came to, I knew I wasn't on Earth anymore.