"Care for a gummy bear?" Jack offered to Hikaru as he held a packet of the candy to her. "I would've offered them last time but they were in my other coat."
"Thank you," said Hikaru as she took a gummy bear, a strawberry-flavored one, and popped it into her mouth. She was currently inside TARDIS after re-meeting Jack Smith also known as the Wanderer and now a companion of his as they travel inside the TARDIS. "So, now that you can experience all of time and space in the entire multiverse. Where do you want to go?" Jack asked.
"I... I don't know. This is all so new to me." Hikaru said, which is true sense this is the first time she ever been in this kind of scenario before (The thought of going on a machine that can go on any planet, in any time, hell even across the multiverse. Doing one is just amazing in itself, but all three? That's mind-boggling to say the least.)
"Then I'll choose for us. But first, why don't i give you a guided tour! I'll show you around the TARDIS first so you can get acquainted with her!" Jack said as he began leading her around.
"Now the Time And Relative Dimension In Space AKA TARDIS, or as some people call it TT Capsule, is an interesting piece of machinery. Normally a TARDIS is grown from coral, a process that could take many centuries, but this one was actually built, not grown. Same function as a normal one, but it's basically made using the same tech as a time train, plus technology so it's bigger on the inside." The doctor began to say
"Wait coral? Time trains?" Hikaru questioned feeling confused as hell.
"Ah don't interrupt." Jack stated calmly as he continue the tour. Showing her different area of the TARDIS, including swimming pool, library (Jack told her his grandfather was much bigger.) Kitchen (Hikaru blanch at the description of the food machine though Jack assured her it was tasty food) and many others.
When they reach a control panel room, he stopped near a panel pulled it up. "Now this bit gets abit technical but I think you should know about some of the equipment. One of which is the Chameleon circuit. You see it is the component of a TARDIS which let its outer plasmic shell assumes any shape. This let it blend in with its surroundings, as long as the shape fits into its surroundings."
"OH! So that's why it looks like a phone booth!" Hikaru stated, wondering why something this advance looks like that.
"Actually it's a phone BOX. Though the reason it looks like that is also because it's, for lack of better terms, broken."
"Huh?" Hikaru said
"Yeah for some reason it is stuck in the phone box setting. According to my dad, he broke it with a combination of a wild party, a Power Ring, a Sonic Screwdriver, and someone giving my mother a Red Bull. Oh, and for some reason a lizard was involved." Jack said shrugging. "Ever since I been trying to fix the chameleon circuit, but so far I had little luck with that."
Hikaru nodded, although she felt as if with question answered, more took there place, specifically, how did he (Or for that matter his father if she assume he inherited it) got it from. She was about to question him about that but jumped as she heard some loud cursing.
"What the hell was that?" Hikaru questioned.
"Oh yes, I nearly forgot about him!" Jack said calmly.
"Him?" Hikaru questioned just as someone entered the room.
He was wearing a blue shirt under a red jacket, green cargo pants and black shoes. With dark brown hair, blue eyes and abit of an athletic build to him "For god sake Jack, The next place we land on, better be near a place that sell mattresses. Where the hell you get that thing from? Medieval Europe," The man groaned, before noticing Hikaru "Err, whose this?"
"Glad you ask, Hikaru this is Hiram Benton. Benton, this is Hikaru Hiyama." At this Benton eyes widen in surprise
"OH! That girl from the Cyberman incident you told me about!" Benton said "Glad to meet you miss."
Hikaru blinked confused before "Okay back up, I'm sorry but how do you two know each other, and more importantly why wasn't he with you during the whole cyberman thing?"
"Simple really, I meet him somewhat AFTER the cyberman incident during another crisis that dealt with rather nasty individuals."
"Ohh let me tell it, I'm pretty good at story telling." Benton grinned. "You better sit down miss, it's a pretty good story."
Hiram Benton lived a somewhat of a dull, depressing life. He was 22 and was living with his uncle (Benton: Before you asked, no my parents aren't dead).
He worked as a cook at a local restaurant, and his uncle was always complained about how he should get a better job. He knew that his relative just wanted more money from him. He also known though that he was working a dead end job that would probably never go anywhere. The only reason he was in this predicament because one year ago, he decided he could become rich by leaving his home country of Britain to try to find a way to make his fortune in North America. Not one of his best ideas since it landed him in a bad job in Canada with a rather annoying relative.
"I really should have thought this through." Benton muttered, wondering why his life sucks as he drove the lone road home.
Then around the bend in the road he saw it. It was huge just defiantly standing in the middle of the road, and it didn't plan on moving. Benton didn't get a good look at it but thought it was some kind of deer so tried using his car horn a couple of times to let it know he wanted through but it wasn't moving. It just stood there, staring at the car. He was thinking what to do but his mind stopped as the creature walked into car lights.
'That not a deer." he said out loud as he saw the creature. It was a rather large creatures with reptilian and bird-like traits. It had a parrot-like beaks, quill-like horns, two wattles on the sides of its heads, long necks and what looked like quills down it's tail. Finally he notice from its body stance that it was not happy.
The creature let loose a roar as it charge at Benton.
"Oh shit!" Benton stated as he started the car in reverse, he was too slow however as the beast charged forward and hit the car hard enough it flipped backwards. Benton grunted in pain as he suddenly found himself upside down.
The creature roared angrily and seems ready to attach the vehicle with its claws before it scream. From what Benton heard, it sounded like some kind of gun fired
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" A voice snapped angrily as Benton saw through his rearview mirror (Which miraculously was not cracked.) that the beast ran away into the woods.
"Isn't obvious, I'm firing at the Krafayis." A second voice said calmly
"YOU IDIOT! The boss told us to bring the creature alive, why!" the first voice snapped.
"I didn't want to risk confronting a rampaging beast. So I shot at it, figuring if it wounded it can be taken back easily enough."
"Whatever, now where going to have to look through the woods all nights, hopefully that dumb beast hasn't made it too far out." The first sighed
"What about the car." The second voice stated, making Benton heart nearly stopped.
"What about it?" the first said
"Shouldn't we take care of its occupants? They seen the Mandrel, and I doubt the boss would be too happy about that." The second said his voice never losing its calm tone.
"Don't worry about it, if the shock of seeing the mandrel didn't cause them to faint from shock, they probably all have a concussion because of what the mandrel did, now come on, we have to find that thing and soon." The first voice said annoyed. The second gave a snort as they walk past him and into the woods.
Benton waited till he was sure they were completely gone before pulling his cellphone out and began calling.
"BULLSHIT!" Reginald (Benton uncle) snapped
"I'm telling you its true!" Benton said.
"Hiram, you can say its true an infinite amount of time, but if you expect me to believe some monster flipped your car, then being chase off by two guys after it." Both of them were in a repair shop, after a mechanic came and took him back home last night.
"I didn't say it was a monster, I said it was a Krafayis." Benton stated annoyed.
"Another thing, what kind of stupid name is Krafayis!"
"Uggh, look I told you what happen last! " Benton said
"Noo, I was berating you for somehow getting the car turn over by a moose, then you started blabbing your mouth about some asinine story of a freaky bird-lizard monster." Reginald said annoyed.
"Whatever." Benton sighed as the mechanic came forward.
"Good news, your car should be fine, but its going to take awhile to fix, something scratched the front of car bad, plus the roof pretty dented when it landed backward so its going to take a few more hours but you should be able to get it back later in the day."
"Good" Benton sighed in relief as he got up and handed a card to the mechanic "Here's my cellphone number, please call me when you're done."
"And where are you going?" Reginald said with annoyance.
"Simple, after I get something to eat, I am going to get prove to you that I'm not making this up." Benton said confidently
"Whatever Hiram," His uncle scoffed. He wasn't going to bother arguing anymore with his nephew now questionable sanity. He decided to just head back home and hope that his nephew will let go of this insanity soon.
"If I may interject Benton," Jack spoke up "I want to add my own encounter when I landed in your world."
"Go ahead and be my guest." Benton stated as Jack began to speak
Jack was heading towards the console.
"Lets see, if my calculation were done correctly I should have landed in her world in the country of Japan..." But when Jack use the computer to check where he had landed, it revealed that he was in-
"Canada?" He said confused. "Well that can't be right." He began checking his computer "And both the timeline and world is wrong as well." Jack said annoyed, he was hoping to get back to japan, but unfortunately his TARDIS seem to have had other ideas. Before he could correct the machine so he could head out, he heard what sounds like knocking coming from the door.
"Oh great, what now, some poor fellow telling me I landed on his car." Jack muttered as he got up and headed to the door. When the door opened, he had to blink surprise at what he was seeing.
The man before him was clothed in a white-long sleeves shirt and black vest, deep black trousers, clicking brown moccasins each of his fingers had a gold ring on them. But while his clothing were clearly human, its face certainly wasn't. It had a large, round, multifaceted eyes, tapir-like snout, and a pair of saucer-shaped antennae on their heads, (which served to detect vibrations if Jack remembered this species biology correctly). Jack realized he was looking at a Rodian.
And judging by the blaster pointed at Jacks head, he was not happy.
Now most people in this scenario would either, a) panic, b) freeze up, or c) get angry and try to disarm the gunman. Instead of doing either of those three, Jack just smiled, raise his hand and stated "Bah-weep-Graaaaagnah wheep mini bong."
"What did you just say?" Hikaru said confused at that line.
"Hmm? Oh, that's was the universal greeting."
"Your response to a gun to your head is the universal version of hello." Hikaru said dubiously.
"That exactly what he said, and my response in the past was."
"Well certainly I have no idea as to why your pointing that gun to my head, for all I know I might have accidentally landed right on top of some poor fellow." Jack stated.
The Rodian kept pointing his weapon at jack for a few seconds before chuckling as he lower his gun. "You're pretty funny for a madman mister..."
"Wanderer" Jack said as he pulled out his bag of gummy bears "Care for a bite". Before the Rodian could respond the door swung open with two people filing in
"Boss, are you okay, we heard some weird noises." The first one (a Lurman Jack surmise due to the orange tint to the skin.) asked concerned.
"Yes I'm fine Vox, just surprise is all." The Rodian stated. The two newcomers then took notice of the TARDIS and Jack.
"Hey, whose he?" the second (A Duros.) said, pointing at Jack, his red eyes narrow. The Duros hand was close to the blaster attached to his belt.
"Me, oh I'm just a fellow passing through is all." Jack said with a shrug. "Though now I'm somewhat curious… why are all three of you arm, did I land in some restricted of some kind?"
Before anyone can speak, there was a loud collective roar. Both Vox and the Duros seem to jump but the Rodian was calm. "You ask why were armed, why don't i show you the reason." The other two aliens looked at their boss as if he grown a second head. Ignoring the looks he led Jack towards the door.
When Jack enter the room, he realize two thing, one the office he landed in some kind of factory (With the room he was in as some kind of office.) secondly he saw several creatures in a four squared stasis field all roaring angrily with some bashing against the stasis field in a attempt to get out.
"My name is Officer Koobis. I and my associates were sent by our superior to retrieve these animals from earth." The Rodian stated calmly.
"Really?" Jack said curiously
"Yes apparently some poacher stole these animals from there home world and were last seen heading to this star system to lay low. We were able to track them down to this planet, to our luck it appears that the poacher seem to have crash, killing themselves on impact yet there stolen cargo were able to survive.."
Jack raised a eyebrow "The crews dead? Yet the creatures survived?"
"That why I said lucky, unfortunately we weren't that lucky. These creatures," Gesturing to the them "Have wander out of the wreck and into the wild. We manage to capture most of them but there is still one of them out there."
"I see…" Jack said calmly as he process the thoughts in his head "Anything I can do to help?"
"Now hold on!" The Duros said annoyed "I thought you said you were passing through?"
"Indeed I am, but I wouldn't sleep well at night if I let a creature like this wander the woods and harms someone." Jack said, not revealing that he didn't buy for one second that story.
"Ha, and why should we take you, have a death wish or something." Vox snapped waving his blaster in Jack face.
Faster than Vox could react, Jack grabbed his hand twisting it so he let go of the gun, He then knocked him to the ground with a quick blow to the head.
"As you can see i can fully take care of myself." Jack said turning to both Rodian and Duros who looked impressed at his skills.
"After seeing that, I must agree wanderer." The Rodian admitted. "Very well you may come with us but be warned, what were hunting is no ordinary creature.
"Oh and what the name of this thing?"
"Krafayis."
Jack said nothing as he and the others were walking inside the woods. Besides him and the Lurman, the Rodian and Duros each were using holograms to make themselves look like regular humans. They abandon the car to trekked into the woods where the Krafayis is supposedly in
"So It's somewhere in these woods?" Jack questioned. "How are you so sure, last I checked they were generally invisible?"
"Normally yes, but this one seem to have been born with a defect as it were."
"Really, how?"
"Seem to flicker on and off with it's invisibility, probably how it got caught in the first place. Personally it makes our job easier to hide it from the humans." Koobis answered
"Plus, if human get attack, everyone thinks it's a bear and the guy off his rocker." Vox finished with a chuckle.
"Stop." Koobis stated making the group pause as the Rodian checked the path they were on.
"Hmmmm...I was afraid that this would happen… multiple path to choose and little footprints to see which path the right one." Koobis murmured. "All right boys, here's the plan. Vox, you take the left, Ellorrs (AKA the Duros) and Jack you take the right, and i'll naturally go forward."
"Yes sir."The two aliens under his employ stated in unison. Koobis handed Jack a blaster "It only has one setting so it should be perfect for attacking the thing without killing it."
"Right then," Jack nodded as he began to walk westward. Ellorrs was about to follow him but was stopped by Koobis "Now remember Ellorrs, I want you to take 'utmost care' with this, is that understood."
"Perfectly sir," Ellorrs said with a nod before turning forward.
Jack carefully crept through through the woods, with twigs that snapped under his boots. Careful to keep his eyes and ears open for any signs of the creature. he was about to ask Ellorrs (Who he thought was still behind him.) if he saw anything when he suddenly heard something…
Jack paused in his story. "Why are you stopping, what happened in the woods?" Hikaru asked wanting to know.
"Sorry Hikaru, but the story has to wait for a moment, its time for dinner."
"WHAT!" Hikaru shouted "You two start telling a story of how you met and your going to leave me hanging with a cliff-hanger!"
"Oh relax, we're not dropping it altogether, were just pausing it till after dinner." Jack said
"In that case I suggest we land then, I'm getting tired from eating from the food machine." Benton said as the two headed out. Hikaru blinked, feeling slightly cheated before saying "This story better be interesting or I'm going to be pissed at this interruption."
Author note
Yes I know its short but please bare with me. I will try to make the next chapter longer I promise.
Doctor Who Alien Database
Species: Lurman
episode appearance: Carnival of Monsters
The Lurmans were human-like in appearance, though with an orange tint to their skin. They had hair in a variety of colors, such as orange and silver. (DW: Carnival of Monsters) Some also had silver-colored eyes.
Lurmans developed mentally at different rates than humans. For example, A Lurman that would physically be in his/her twenties would mentally be like a twelve year old humans. Despite this, they would work the hardest at this age. As they grew older, many of them went into show business.