Ben was expecting to shield his face from the sunlight but instead all he that greeted his expectant face was the darkness of what he thought was night.
"Night time?" He asked more to himself then any one else as he stepped out into the street.
"Must be" Turan agreed as she followed behind, she was intrigued as to what her ancestors lived like.
"For once both of you are wrong," The Teacher said following behind them. He closed the door of the Urchin behind himself as he did so.
The Urchin was a time machine not too different from the Tardis its only real difference was it's appearance. The Teacher had accidentally broken the computer that control it's outside appearance so now it had the form of an Archway door. Something that looked as though it belonged in the medieval age not the time they were now in.
The Teacher pulled out a small black cube from his pocket. Ben and Turan only gave a fleeting glance to it. They recognised it and knew what it was too pay too much attention to it. The Teacher tapped the side of it. It then seemed to turn to liquid and began to move in strange shapes and slowly but surely as usual it began to form the shape of a bird. A small sparrow like looking thing although it maintained its ebony black glaze to it. Then after a while it seemed to take a biological appearance and suddenly the little statuette became alive and gave its usual cheery whistle.
Tweet Tweet"Good Morning Hedge" The Teacher said a compassionate smile crossing his lips as his oldest friend sprang to life. He'd travelled through time longer then he had with Turan and Ben.
"What do you mean?" Turan asked
The Teacher looked up, "That's a ceiling." The Teacher said.
"A ceiling?" Ben questioned.
"No…impossible there weren't such things as metropolis' then" Turan gasped. "The first one was around 2600, I'm sure of it"
"Correct" The Teacher, replied his hands going straight into his pockets and Hedge flew up to his master's shoulder and happily perched next to his ear. "Interesting, no?"
"OI YOU!" a voice shouted.
All four of them looked around and saw three men approach them all wearing armour of some kind and all three held sticks that looked like cattle prods. On the front of their chest armour there was written N.L.I.
"Us?" The Teacher question raising a defensive finger to point at himself.
"Yes you, what do you think you're doing here?" The leading man asked, it was impossible to see his face as he was wearing a riot shield mask.
The Teacher looked around at his feet, then at his companions. Then looked back at the leading man. He smiled and then looked back at his feet. Then back at the man.
"Standing" he replied.
"I'm not going to take any lip from an Un-Chosen" The man replied waving his weapon right under the Teacher's nose. "Now I want an answer."
"I believe my friend can answer that question." The Teacher replied glancing over to Ben.
Ben frowned and shrugged his shoulders as the men all turned to look at him. The Teacher raised his eyes brows and tried to make a throwing movement trying to hint to Ben.
Ben just shuck his head in confusion and frowned.
Turan was left standing in between the two confused more than usual.
The Teacher then pointed at his own belt and then made a throwing action again as the men turned to look at him. The first man began to speak.
"What the h-" he began but the Teacher rolled his eyes and grabbed a small ball from Ben's belt and tossed it to the ground.
There was a sudden flash of light, which the Teacher and his companions were expecting as soon as they saw the ball. "RUN!" he shouted.
The three turned and ran of into the distance as the men tried to recover.
As they ran down the street the Teacher shouted at Ben. "What's wrong with you?"
"What?" Ben replied glancing back and seeing the men had taken up pursuit of them.
"How could you not get that?" Turan asked
"Shut up Turan, you didn't know what he meant you look just as confused as usual" Ben snapped as he panted in between you're breathing.
"Oh you wait till we loose these men I'll bring you a time load of pain you stupid primate" Turan yelled back at him
"SHUT UP YOU TWO!" The Teacher said as they ran past yet another street in the dingy light the men were beginning to catch up with them.
They ran past another street and the Teacher glanced down it and saw what he thought was a police box.
"Down here you two." The Teacher said running down and alley. Ben and Turan slipped down with him. They hurriedly pushed their way along the thin stretch of walkway and reached the end into yet more alleys.
They turned left and then right and before they knew were they were going. The Teacher had them climbing over a wall. They landed in what was once a garden. They all sat silently. As they heard the men run past in the other direction. Then they commenced panting to get their breath back.
The Teacher leaned over and clipped Ben round the back of his head.
"Ouch!" he exclaimed
"I gave you those sun spore bombs for a reason." The Teacher sighed.