Stranger in a strange land
Xena and Gabrielle had been traveling for days and it was beginning to worn the women out, even Argo was tired if all the traveling. Gabrielle wiped her forehead, whilst Xena sighed, they were on their way to visit her mother in Ampholis and she wasn't particularly looking forward to it. Gabrielle didn't mind Xena's mother but she wasn't looking forward to paying the town a visit, the pair were only going to pass the time until the day came for the meeting they arranged with Hercules and Iolaus at one of Aphrodite's temples to have a catch up.
"Oh come on lets stop for a break." Xena urged.
"The sooner we see your mother then the sooner we can shoot off to meet Hercules and Iolaus." Gabrielle said also sighing.
"We need to rest, my mother can hold on just a little while longer to see us. Come on, there's a field up ahead. We can let Argo go for a run around whilst we go to the stream and collect some water." Xena said before letting out a yawn.
"Okay." Gabrielle said.
"You know maybe we could stay the night here, mother wont mind having one day less to spend time with us." Xena said with a wicked grin.
"You read my mind." Gabrielle said also grinning as the horse moved into a clearing between some trees.
"Xena stop the horse." Gabrielle said spotting something in the distance.
"What is it." Xena said bringing the horse to a halt.
"Over there." Gabrielle said pointing, Xena looked around to where Gabby was pointing. In the distance she saw two bodies lying near some trees at the side of the field.
"Get out your weapons." Xena ordered.
"Why?" Gabrielle asked.
"Someone of something may have harmed those people and we may be walking into a trap, they themselves might be the trap." Xena said, Gabrielle nodded and the pair dismounted the horse. They both then pulled out their weapons, the two looked at each other for reassurance before moving in for a closer look.
Martha winced in pain as she regained conscious, she then sat up and quickly noticed Clare lying unconscious a couple of feet away from her.
"Clare are you alright." Martha said rushing over to the blonde girls side, there was no response. The medic then kneeled down by her side and checked for a pulse, it was still there. The woman was also breathing to Martha's relief, she didn't have a clue where she was and didn't plan on finding out on her own. She was about to stand up from her kneeling position when she spotted the brunette woman and the blonde woman advancing towards her and her fellow UNIT officer.
"Uh Oh." Martha thought to herself, she then took in a deep breath. If these women posed a threat to Clare and herself then Martha had to defend the Lieutenant, she quickly jumped to her feet coming face to face with the brunette and the blonde who were now only a couple of feet away.
Xena and Gabrielle approached the dark skinned girl with caution, they spotted the unconscious blonde woman on the floor and suspected the girl to be responsible.
"Who are you?" the girl asked in a worried tone.
"My names…" Gabrielle said stepping forward before being cut of by Xena.
"My names Xena and you are?" Xena questioned whilst giving the girl a suspicious stare.
"I'm Martha, Martha Jones." The girl said worriedly.
"That's a funny old name Martha Jones." Xena said cautiously.
"Xena's no better." The girl scoffed.
"What happened to your friend there?" Gabrielle said stepping in before Xena reacted to the insult.
"I work with her, we got transported here." The now identified Martha spoke.
"Where am I?" she added.
"Your in Greece of course, where else?" Xena scoffed.
"Oh that's no good, I need to get back to Britain." Martha said urgently.
"You mean Britannia." Gabrielle corrected, a look of horror then appeared on Martha's face as she realized the rift may have taken her and Clare further back than she anticipated.
"Doctor." Martha thought aloud.
"Doctor?" Gabrielle repeated.
"What are you on about." Xena snapped.
"My friend, I need to speak to my friend." Martha said before scrambling around her pockets trying to find something before she realized that she had left her super-phone in her lab-coat back at the UNIT base, Martha slowly slid to the floor as she realized that she was stranded and that the Doctor or anyone else would be coming to her rescue.
"Are you okay." Gabrielle said kneeling down beside her, Xena quickly moved over and pulled Martha to her feet.
"Look you don't look so good, we'll take you and your friend to the nearest town and you can get yourself sorted out." Xena offered.
"Thank you." Were the words Martha wanted to say, but the sound didn't leave her mouth. Shock and horror filled her stomach as she started to feel dazed and disoriented, Martha then passed out.
"Come on, lets get her to Ampholis." Xena said hoisting Martha over her shoulder.
"Hang on, she said her and her friend were transported here. Mortals cant transport unless something sends them, what if the Gods did this. What if they sent her here." Gabrielle said, aload of thoughts ran through her mind, they had barely met Martha and her unconscious friend when already they were trying to uncover a scheme from Ares or one of the other Olympian Deities.
"We'll figure it all out later, come on lets get the girl to mothers. Go and get her friend will you?" Xena said, Gabrielle nodded as Xena carried Martha over to Argo the horse. Gabrielle looked around to see where the unconscious blonde woman lay and discovered that she had disappeared.
"Xena the girls gone." Gabrielle shouted to her friend.
"Forget her, we'll backtrack later. We need to get this one healthy again." Xena said referring to Martha, Gabrielle once again nodded before looking back at where the body once lay. A chill trickled down her spine before she ran off to join Xena and the dark skinned girl.
In the distance, there was a presence. Somebody or something was watching Xena and Gabrielle along with their new found yet unconscious companion.