DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN DOCTOR WHO OR STAR WARS. THEY ARE RIGHTFULLY OWNED BY THE BBC AND DISNEY.
SUSSEX, UK
Was the Saturday afternoon. The sun shone brightly across Sussex's forest, a truly peaceful place. The trees blew in the breeze of winter. The only hint of civilisation was a concrete road which stretched for miles, and a cottage isolated from the city. On this road were two brunette children on their bikes looking around thirteen or fourteen. One of them was a boy named Roy, wearing casual clothing, a blue hoodie and jeans. The other a girl, his sister Rosa, with similar clothing except for the green coat. Roy panted as he road on his bike, "Remind me... why we moved miles from London?"
"Cos dad's in the army and we had to live with Nan." said Rosa.
"Why does she live so far from any towns?!"
"Its peaceful and no noise from cars and other vehicles."
Roy's tone grew angrier, "That doesn't make any se-" He was cut off by a strange sound, "What's that noise?" The two siblings looked up to the sky, they were astonished to see a metallic object dashing from the sky. It flew over their heads and crashed hundreds of yards away from them, grazing the trees and soil along the way. Roy dismounted his bike to find out more about this thing that fell from the sky.
"Where are you going?!" Rosa shouted.
"Somebody could be hurt!" Rosa ran after her brother. The pod had already ploughed the ground. Once she finally caught up with him Roy stopped to examine the object. It was cylindular with a hemisphere at the front. "Looks like an escape pod. Like the ones from the movies," Roy guessed.
"You sure it isn't something from Nasa? Maybe it's from the ISS and it fell out of the sky."
"Look at it. It doesn't look like something we would've built. Plus look at the writing." They examined the alien language engraved across its surface. Roy went to the back of the pod which was probably the entrance. It looked like a black and white pokeball icon with a thin horizontal line going across its centre. "I'm going to knock on it."
"Roy, don't we have no idea what's in there."
"I'm guessing aliens."
"Aliens aren't real, I've told you this hundreds of times."
"How do you explain Big Ben under repairs then? Alien spaceship crashed into it."
Rosa facepalmed, "It's under repairs because the bell is broken." Roy knocked on the door, this scared his sister, "No wait! It could be dangerous."
"Worth the risk," Roy took out his iPhone to record. He knocked on the door, "Hello? Anybody in there?" The pod opened which made the two siblings jump. Inside were two kids wearing cream coloured robes and brown belts with a metallic object on them. One of them was a blonde boy looking their age and girl looking slightly younger, possibly ten or eleven. The girl looked traumatised as she held tightly onto her companion. "Who are you?" The two didn't answer.
"Are you okay?" Rosa asked, quite worried for the two (probably) aliens.
"What planet is this?" The boy asked sounding American.
"Welcome to Earth, aliens," Roy greeted.
"Shut up Roy," said Rosa., "Sorry let us introduce ourselves, I'm Rosa Anderson and this is my brother, Roy. How about you?"
'Weird names,' The boy thought. He greeted, "I'm Sanjar and this is Zena. We're Jedi padawans."
"What's a Jedi?" Asked Roy.
"Jedi, the peacekeepers of the galaxy. Use laser swords and all that," Sanjar explained.
"Never heard of them."
"You people really are aliens aren't you? Please don't probe us!" Rosa begged.
Sanjar turned to his comrade and said, "I think we're on an uncharted planet." This caused Zena to be very cautious, she was on an unknown planet with kriff knows what awaits them. He turned back to the siblings "We're not going to 'probe' you people, whatever that means."
"Is she alright?" Roy asked worriedly.
"Sorry if she's acting all quiet, we just had a horrific experience which traumatised her. I don't want to talk about it." Sanjar got up, "We're going to find out how to get off this planet."
"Yeah that's not going to happen," said Roy, "Our people have only managed to get as far as the moon. And NASA won't just let two alien kids walk up to them and say 'Hi we're two kids from a faraway planet, can we use your bajillion pound rocket ship?' They'll probably kick you out or send you to area 51."
"You're being paranoid, Roy. But he is right you know, our planet isn't advanced enough to send you to another galaxy," said Rosa.
"I guess we're stuck here, know any place we can stay?"
"You can live with us," Roy offered. His sister elbowed him.
"I'm sorry can I discuss this with my brother? Thank you." The two siblings turned their backs to talk to each other. "You're inviting two complete strangers to live with us?"
"It'll be cool. Plus we haven't had much company around."
"We live in a bungalow B-U-N-G-A-L-O-W. With our nan, what will we tell her? 'Hey nan, can these two complete aliens live with us?'" She said sarcastically.
"We can tell her that they're exchange students from America," he looked back at their clothing, "And that they practise karate."
"I don't think she's that stupid."
"She's 80 and very passive."
"I guess you're right. But where will they sleep?"
"The cellar, just put in a few mattresses and blankets with a table and they'll be fine."
Back with the two jedi Sanjar was curious about what they are going to do whilst they're here. "What do you think they're talking about?" He asked. Zena didn't respond, she just glared at him. He crouched down to comfort her, "Don't worry, the clones aren't going to get us. We're safe." Her mood didn't change. The two siblings turned back around.
"We've made our decision, you're coming to live with us. As long as you don't expose that you're aliens to anybody and I mean anybody," Said Rosa. The two Jedis nodded, then exited the pod.
"How far's your house?" asked Sanjar.
"You can't fit on our bikes so I guess we can walk," Rosa suggested.
This frustrated her brother, "For fu-!"
The two siblings held their bikes along the road. Zena stayed close to Sanjar along the way. "So what planet you guys from?" Roy asked turning on the voice memo app on his phone.
"Coruscant. It's a planet which is an entire city and is also the capital of the galactic republic. It pretty much has over a thousand layers of structure or something," Sanjar replied. This confused the two siblings, how ca a planet be an entire city? More importantly how have they not reached the tip of the atmosphere. The two gained more information about the galactic republic. They are a large faction lead by a chanchellor of the senate, kind of like the German government today. But have been at war with the Separatist alliance for a few years now called the clone wars. The two padawans are in training to become Jedi, the leading people of the republic military and have been for thousands of years. "What about your planet? What government does it have?"
"Oh we're not a unified people," said Roy.
"So you're divided? Into how many states?"
Rosa said, "In geography there's around 196 nations on this planet." This shocked Sanjar, he never knew a planet could be so diverse.
"So what state is this?"
"Welcome to the United Kingdom, or Britain, whatever you want to call it."
"And its a.."
"Constitutional monarchy, our monarch is just a figurehead whilst parliament deals with everything. We're a democracy, not a republic but still."
Roy asked, "Since you're people being trained into becoming guardians of the galaxy, what do your parents think?"
"We don't know them, we're abducted from birth with our parent's consent and trained into becoming Jedi."
"That sounds horrible."
"In what way?"
"You're abducted from a young age and brainwashed by a cult into becoming soldiers for the galaxy," Roy summed up.
"We do it to bring peace to everybody and the force."
"What's the force?"
"It's like an entity, it surrounds us, it penetrates us," Roy stopped him.
"So the force is like your God?"
"Kinda, except we don't worship it, we use its power."
"So the Jedi are religious. Did this 'force' create the entire universe?"
"Don't know. What do you guys believe?"
"We're atheist. We're taught the theory that the big bang created the whole universe."
"Big bang?" This all sounded like nonsense to Sanjar, but what would he expect? The people of Earth use primitive beliefs compared to the republic. They started talking about Jedi beliefs, in return the siblings started talking about the many cultures of Earth. From Christians to Buddhists, from the Chinese to the Americans. But they didn't tell them the entire history of the world, you'd need the video on youtube to tell that.
"You said the Jedi used laser swords, is that what they are?" Roy asked pointing the the metal objects on the padawan's belts.
"Well yes." He turned on his lightsaber which emitted a bright blue light. The siblings gasped in astonishment, you'd need a billion degrees rod to have something like that. This caught the attention of Zena who stayed quiet for a while, but she didn't say anything.
SHEFFIELD, YORKSHIRE
Inside the empty grey warehouse, a blue police box held in the air by a crane was surrounded by tools and mechanical parts. A blonde woman wearing goggles held a wrench and screwdriver in hand crouching beneath the object, the base of the box laid beside it, wires and pipes hung out from the bottom. She spoke in a Yorkshire accent, "Just a bit there. Oh for God's sake! Maybe if I adjust that. Yes!" She sealed the base back up. Taking off her goggles she went inside the box, it was a whole lot bigger on the inside, the centre was a console full of dimly-lit buttons and levers which was surrounded by colossal orange glowing rocks. She went up to the console and pulled a lever, "Let's see if you work old girl." Some of the buttons turned bright and a monitor was switched on. But something was off, on the side of the console there was a wooden box with antennas attached on top, a screen covered the top half of the object showing a map of southern England. Lights underneath started making a dinging sound, the woman ran up towards it to see what it was.
"High energy readings, a forest in Sussex? That is not right," she started using the console, "Let's see what it is."
