Control Room
"What is it, Doctor?" Martha asked walking up behind him.
"Do you see the insignia on the side of the ship? It means it's from the Dobranje* galaxy."
"And I have pulled up a list of every known species originating in that galaxy. Well, that we know of." Winn said, spinning around in his chair.
"Hey, I've heard of the Dobranje galaxy," Supergirl said, "But why are they here? Their people usually don't leave their own galaxy."
"That's the question, Supergirl," The Doctor said. He had millions of scenarios playing out in his mind of what they could be doing here, how they got here, what planet they're from. Not a lot of the scenarios were positive, very few of them were.
"Could they be the Zmije*?" J'onn said, "I know their planet has fallen on hard times lately."
"It could be," The Doctor and Winn said at the same time. Winn pulled up the file on the Zmije and their home planet and displayed it on the big screen.
"Wow," Martha mumbled, "They have a lot of alien tech to their name."
"Yeah, a lot of them being weapons," Alex added.
"I guess it's safe to say they're not here in peace," Supergirl added.
"Their planet has recently suffered a catastrophic war with their sister planet, I believe both planets were destroyed," J'onn said.
"And since Earth has a similar atmosphere I'm guessing they're here to take it over," Winn said.
"That would be my guess," The Doctor said absentmindedly. He had pulled out his glasses and was scanning the screen. The DEO had a lot of alien information but there were some gaps in their files, "If you look at their ship it's severely damaged, meaning they're not going to fully assault the planet. There's damage to the hull by the weapons systems and the core. Most of their weapons are either destroyed or they're using the core to power live support instead of the functioning weapons."
"So they're going to try and infiltrate us slowly and attack once they have sufficient ground soldiers," Alex said, "We have to intervene sooner rather than later."
"Alex is right," Supergirl said, "J'onn do you have any ideas?"
J'onn barely heard Supergirl, he was focused on the Doctor. He had just told them more about the Zmije ships than any of them would have known from just reading the file, they didn't even have an image of an undamaged Zmije ship.
"J'onn," Supergirl called again snapping J'onn from his thoughts.
"Since their systems are severely damaged we might be able to send a threatening message and get them to leave peacefully."
The Doctor didn't like the word Threatening but sending a message was much better than launching an attack.
"Winn, can you open up a link with the Zmije ship?"
"On it."
Martha walked over to the Doctor and whispered, "They're not going to let us go are they?"
"No, they would have let us go already, they wouldn't want us seeing their operation. I'm sorry Martha, they're keeping us here because of me."
"Don't worry, Doctor, it's not your fault. This operation is really interesting."
"Interesting and deadly."
"Ready when you are J'onn."
J'onn turned to face the screen and Alex and Supergirl stood on either side of him. Winn, the Doctor, and Martha were obscured in the background but parts of them could still be seen.
"This is J'onn J'onzz calling you from Earth. Identify the nature of your visit. We are armed and ready to fire at any hostile actions."
Winn typed a few commands and ended the transmission, "I think that struck the balance of welcoming and threatening very well."
"Now we've just got to wait for a response, yeah?" Martha asked. Alex nodded.
"Hey, Winn. How did you find the ship's frequency so quickly?" The Doctor asked, "Using 21st-century technology it should have taken you at least an hour."
"Well, I used some alien tech from various species."
"Wow, can I take a look?" Winn nodded then started spewing high-grade technobabble to which the Doctor responded with even more technobabble.
"Those two are really getting along," Supergirl whispered to J'onn.
"I know. I don't like it, this Doctor seems to know everything about these aliens. I'm starting to think he is one."
"Any species in mind?"
"No. But I do believe that he's a time traveller, only because Martha confirmed it."
"So he could be any species past, present, or future. That narrows it down."
"What's life like in 2007?" Alex asked walking up to Martha.
"I don't know, normal I guess. After seeing the things I've seen with him my life in 2007 seems so... mundane."
"What have you seen?"
"After the who Judoon incident, he took me to see Shakespeare to thank me for resuscitating him."
"He took you to a play? Seems like he's trying to, you know..."
"I wish, but he's still hung up over Rose. And he didn't take me to a play, we went back and met Shakespeare and watched his lost play."
"What was it like?"
"Well the play was written by aliens trying to get the rest of their kind out of prison, but the Doctor and I stopped it."
"Hey, J'onn! We've got a response!"
"What did they say?"
"I don't know, their language isn't in the database, it's going to take a while for me to translate."
"You don't need to translate it," The Doctor said looking a little frightened, "It says 'prepare for transport.'"
Just as the Doctor said that a blue light surrounded all of them.
"Doctor what's going on!?" Martha shouted.
"They're teleporting us onto their spaceship."
Then Martha saw a blinding flash of light and closed her eyes tight. She had a throbbing headache and had ended up on the floor. When she opened them she was no longer in the DEO.
"Doctor?" She called. No response. "Doctor?" She called again.
"Martha? Is that you?" Someone called, it certainly wasn't the Doctor, "It's Winn. Are you alright?"
"Yeah I'm fine," Martha blinked a few times, "Are you okay?"
"Yeah. Do you think we're on their spaceship?"
"Yeah," Alex said from across the room, "My question is where's Kara? And why did they separate us?"
"The Doctor and J'onn are missing as well," Winn pointed out.
"So that's our priority, finding Kara, J'onn and the Doctor," Alex said, "Let's find a way out of this room then navigate the ship from there."
For the first time, they took a proper look at their surroundings. This part of the ship was very high tech with alien-looking computers in the walls and with what could only be described as futuristic tools covering tables and filling up cabinets. Winn was obviously attracted to the computers in the wall and immediately started learning the alien computer language.
Alex started coming up with an exit strategy, for one to work she needed to find a door or a hatch or a vent big enough for them to crawl through. It wasn't a big room, she should have found something by now.
Martha started looking at some of the tools lining the table, she didn't know much about alien tech but she could've sworn that the alien tools looked like medical equipment.
"Woah," Winn muttered, "You might want to take a look at this," He said to no one in particular. Martha and Alex both made their way over and took a look at the screen.
"Those are our heart rhythms," Martha said pointing at the 3 lines on the screen, "And I'm assuming that the other readings are monitoring us as well."
"I agree," Alex said.
"Why are they monitoring us?" Winn said a bit panicked, "What could they gain by monitoring us?"
"I can't answer that," Martha said, "But I think I know why they separated us. They separated the humans from the aliens."
"So they're probably monitoring us to figure out a biological weakness they can exploit," Alex added.
"So we're basically guinea pigs," Winn said.
* Dobranje is pronounced DOE-brawn-yeah; Zmije is pronounced ZMEE-yeah
