Scratchwood Station

Electricfox · Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 9:00 pm Post subject:

*There's a clunk on the way down. Something flies past the windscreen.*

Keab: "Was that a tyre?"
Electricfox: "It did seem to resemble..."
Keab: "Did the back tyre just fall off my gorram ship for no reason?!"
*The ship shudders*

Electricfox: "Looks like it..."
Keab: "I have a clear memory of Sparrow checked those tyres, I have a clear memory of it!"
Keab: "Yeah, well if we can't get the right angle on, this landing is going to get interesting..."
Electricfox: "Define 'interesting'."
Keab: *deadpan* "Oh god, oh god, we're all going to die?"

Electricfox: "This is the captain, we have a lil' problem with our entry sequence, so we may experience some slight...turbulence, and then...explode. [to Keab] Can you shave the vector?"
Keab: "I'm doing it, it's just not enough!"
Electricfox: "Just get us on the ground!"
Keab: "Oh, that part will happen pretty definately!"

Charlie: "Are we going to explode? I don't want to explode."
Keab: "Not to fret, everything is shiny!"

*The shuttle plummets towards Bowie Base One.*
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Electricfox · Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 10:33 pm Post subject:

*With two bumps, a crash and a bounce, the shuttle grinds to a halt just outside Bowie Base One.*

Keab: "That wasn't so bad..."

*He looks behind, Charlie, Derek and Matt are in a pile behind the pilot capsule.*

Derek: "DE-ACT-I-VAT-ING NEAR-DEATH EX-PER-IENCE MOOODE!!"

Electricfox: "One of your better landings, I'll admit."
Keab: "Now...we need to put the spare tyre on."
Electricfox: "That means an EVA."
Keab: "The suits are by the door."
Electricfox: "And the spare tyre?"
Keab: "In the boot."
Electricfox: "I should have known."

*He unbelts himself from the co-pilots seat and begins putting on the spacesuit.*

Matt: "You're not going out there?!"
Electricfox: "I won't be long."
Charlie: "But if you open that door..."

*Electricfox puts helmet on, secures it, checks the pressure seals and then opens the door. Contrary to popular belief, all the air in the shuttle is not suddenly sucked out.*

Charlie: "Eh?"
Keab: "Bubble shield, but it's not infinate so don't leave the door open!"
Electricfox: "I'm going, I'm going..."

*Electricfox steps outside and starts walking around the car.*

Electricfox: "Gravity is much lighter out here...it's quite nice. Visibility is poor though and the wind is gusting up."
Keab: "Yeah, that sandstorm is moving in so hurry it up!"
Electricfox: "Yeah, yeah, what am I, a Kwik-fit fitter?!"

*He opens the boot which leads to a giant hangar inside.*

Electricfox: "Hmmm, you didn't skimp on timelord technology did you?"
Keab: "If you've got it, use it..."
Electricfox: "He is going to be so pissed..."

*He searches inside the hangar and finds a tyre, repair kit and jack. He goes back outside and starts jacking the car up to change the tyre. Some twenty minutes later he finishes and throws the tools back into the boot hangar. On the horizon a cloud of red stretches from ground to sky moving closer by the minute.*

Keab: "...'fox..."
Electricfox: "Yeah, I see it..."

*He gets back in and takes the suit off.*

Keab: "Alright...now the base oughta be somewhere in this direction..."

*He switches on the engine, it whirrs a couple of times but won't start.*

Keab: "Oh you've got to be kidding me..."

*They look at Electricfox, he sighs and puts the suit back on.*
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The local 'Bobby'

Electricfox · Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 10:53 pm Post subject:

*Electricfox is rummaging through the cars engine.*

Keab: "Is it the flux capacitor?"
Electricfox: "Might be..."
Keab: "How about you reverse the polarity of the neutron flow?"

*Electricfox looks up at the windscreen at him.*

Keab: "What?"
Electricfox: "Right...right...and while I'm at it I'll give it a damn good kick!"

*He fiddles about in the engine and then kicks it. Keab tries again, it whirrs a bit and then dies again. Electricfox slams the bonnet down, picks up a Martian rock and throws it at the bonnet, there is a clunk and then the engine suddenly roars into life.*

Electricfox: "Well I'll be b-"
Keab: "Get in! Get in!"

*Electricfox darts back into the car as the sandstorm hits, reducing visibility to zero and rocking the car in +100mph winds.*

Electricfox: "Gusty..."
Keab: "Yeah, it's blowing over a hundred mph out there..."
Charlie: "How come we haven't been blown to Olympus Mons?"
Keab: "Stabalisers, automatically compensate for crosswind. I think they tested something like it on Top Gear the other week..."

Electricfox: "So...Bowie Base One?"
Keab: "Yes!"

*They drive off towards the base.*
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The local 'Bobby'

charlierc · Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 12:02 am Post subject:

*The car slowly progresses over harsh, unforgiving red rock as the car struggles across the landscape in the direction of Bowie Base One. There is a sudden sound that sounds like a person in pain.*

Keab: You didn't leave the door open did you Jamie?
Electricfox: No, I think the sound's different.
Charlie: Er guys...
Keab, Electricfox: What?
Charlie: I think Matt didn't appreciate the landing and... well he's thrown up.
Matt: I thought Balowski was a bad flier... man he was worse.
Derek: OH PIPE DOWN! YOU ARE GET-TING RAN-CID SMEL-LING OLD FOOD ALL DOWN MY CA-SING AND I DO NOT AP-PRECIATE THIS YOU MOR-ON!
Matt: Just shut up and let me be sick in peace.
Derek: AS LONG AS YOU GIVE MY CA-SING A THO-ROUGH CLEAN-ING FIRST PUNY HU-MAN!
Matt: Who pays your wages?!?
Derek: UM... YOU?
Matt: Yes, and if you keep staying stuff like that they'll be gone.
DEREK: OH BUG-GER! FINE!

*The car continues across the unforgiving Martian landscapes in the direction of Bowie Base One.*

Charlie: Are you sure you're not lost again?
Keab: Nonsense, it is close here.
Electricfox: Er, if I remember correctly, you once got us lost once when we got on a train thinking we were heading for London and we ended up in Newcastle, even when Charlie announced that's where it was going.
Keab: Oh... well... erm...
Charlie: Going back to what you said earlier, why are the Martians transferring to Venus?
Electricfox: No idea why - this is a better planet for life really. Have you ever been to Venus?
Charlie: No.
Electricfox: Exactly. Noone would want to - it's just so harsh and unforgiving. Though it's likely they work in their own similar environments to Bowie Base One.
Charlie: So have they decided to leave without telling us?
Electricfox: I don't know, so let's carry on and see what fate awaits.

*The car progress onwards, heading towards the steep side of a volcanic crater, though harsh, unforgiving conditions surrond the vehicle as bright red dust wirls around the car.*
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Mattaf · Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 12:37 am Post subject:

*The reliant robin drives through the sandstorm, completely missing an equally out of place blue box that is mysteriously standing a few feet away.*

Matt: Are we there ye...
All: NO!!!
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Electricfox · Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 5:38 pm Post subject:

*The Reliant Robin pulls into a shed and the doors close behind it, there is a hiss as air is pumped into the room and a red light on the wall goes green.*

Keab: "Ok, here we are!"
Electricfox: "Thank god for that...I thought that Sat Nav was going to lead us all around Mars..."

*Electricfox gets out and takes a torch with him, Derek, Keab, Matt and Charlie also exit.*

Charlie: "Bit damp..."
Electricfox: "Yeah...it's built on an old canal which glaciered..."
Matt: "Wow...it seems all so...human..."
Electricfox: "Hard to believe that we're on another planet, eh?"
Matt: "Yeah..."

*They walk down a corridor.*

Electricfox: "If it helps, look out the window..."

*He indicates the Martian landscape outside, once again visible now the sandstorm has passed.*

Derek: "ALERT! LIFE FORM DETECTED AHEAD!"
Electricfox: "That's the control center..."

*They open the door, one of the crew is standing there dripping wet.*

Electricfox: "Hello?"

*The crewman turns around and hisses water.*

Electricfox: "Bugger...feared as much...back up folks..."
Derek: "HOS-TILE LIFE-FORM!! EX-TER-MIN-AAAATE!!"

*He fires at the crewman who falls over.*

Keab: "Right...no-one touch him."

*He scans the crewman with a complex looking gadget.*

Keab: "Wish Domino was here...biology always was her strong point...but from what I can make out...some form of life is using this man as a host."
Matt: "Right...well...we know what's happened...now can we go home?!"
Charlie: "Yeah...erm...not sure it's a good idea to hang around here...erm..."
Electricfox: "The Commanders office is just over there, I'm going to check the logs, Keab you check the main database, Derek...cover the exits...there's seven people on this base."
Charlie: "Great...six more water-zombies."

*Electricfox walks up the staircase and looks out of the window, he sees a blue police telephone box out the corner of his eye but when he looks back again it's gone. He blinks, shakes his head and keeps walking.*
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The local 'Bobby'

Electricfox · Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 5:46 pm Post subject:

*Matt and Charlie look around the place while Keab looks through the database.*

Matt: "So..erm...how did people live here? You know...eat and that?"
Keab: "Rations to begin with, but they grew some small plants and vegetation in a facility below us near the reservoir."
Matt: "You mean, there's water here?"
Keab: "Yeah...the glacier provides the water needed for the..."

*He pauses, frowns and then searches through the database.*

Matt: "What?"
Keab: "I'm just thinking..."
Matt: "Dangerous."
Keab: "Funny...but what if the lifeform was in the glacier?"
Charlie: "Aren't there filters to prevent diseases and that from reaching the crew?"
Keab: "There should be...but...ah! Here we are...filter six broke down two weeks ago, they must have been replacing it when...well, when it happened."
Charlie: "But how did they all get infected?"

*A jet of water passes over Charlies right shoulder and splashes against the wall, they all turn around, the crewman is up again and hissing.*

Derek: "DAM-MIT! STAY DEAD WILL YOOOU?!!"

*He shoots the crewman again.*

Charlie: "Should we take his head off or something?"
Keab: "No...I don't think it'd matter, he's just dripping water from every orifice..."
Matt: "Ugh..."
Keab: "Since the human body is made up of mostly water, we're perfect hosts...alright...whatever you do, DO NOT drink the water or get in contact with it in any way...Derek...is your casing waterproof?"
Derek: "I CAN OP-ER-ATE IN A VAC-UUM!!"
Keab: "Ok...you're probably the only one who is safe here...we...what was that noise?"

*There's a thump, a crewman is seen with his face pressed against the window of one of the doors, water begins dripping around the door seals.*

Matt: "Crap!"
Keab: " 'FOX WE'VE GOTTA GO!!"

*Electricfox comes out of the office and sees the crewman at the door.*

Electricfox: "Damn...Derek, can you kill him?"
Derek: "LA-SERS ARE IN-EFFECT-IVE!"
Keab: "They seem to be able to reanimate."
Electricfox: "Yeah...bullets won't work either...they already tried. Ok...everyone back to the Reliant!"

*They all run back to the Reliant Robin as the door finally gives way behind them.*
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The local 'Bobby'

Electricfox · Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 6:13 pm Post subject:

*Back in the Reliant Robin.*

Electricfox: "Ok...here is the deal. These guys started showing up approximately two weeks ago..."
Keab: "After the filter system broke down."
Electricfox: "Yeah...and they've learnt of the existance of Earth."
Charlie: "How?"
Electricfox: "One of the crewmen told them...tried to make 'first contact'...sadly all these aliens want is the waters of our planet...and us."
Matt: "All the more reason for us to LEAVE!!"
Electricfox: "We can't...not yet...there's a lot of old Martian equipment from the invasions left around...if these aliens learn how to operate it through their human hosts, they could fire a cylinder into the oceans of Earth and infect us all."
Matt: "....oh...."
Electricfox: "Exactly...so...somehow we need to stop them."
Charlie: "The filter system seemed to be the only reason they didn't show up sooner..."
Keab: *looks thoughtful* "The filter system...the filter system..."
Electricfox: "I know that look...spit it out Keab..."
Keab: "Well, I was just thinking, the filter system worked by boiling the water, perhaps the high temperatures killed the alien creatures in the water?"
Electricfox: "That's an idea...one way to find out...Derek?"
Derek: "YES?!"
Electricfox: "Mind taking this cup and going and getting a sample?"
Derek: "YES!"
Electricfox: "Come on...you're the only one who can do it without getting infected!"
Derek: "I DO NOT LIKE WA-TER!"
Electricfox: "Don't be such a wuss!"
Derek: "GAAAAH! OK...BUT I AM GET-TING DAN-GER MON-EY FOR THIIISS!!"

*He leaves.*

Electricfox: "He's becoming more human by the day..."
Matt: "I know...he's going to demand a pay rise one day...I just know it..."

*After a couple of minutes, a soggy Derek comes back.*

Electricfox: "No-one touch him! Keab...get the cup!"

*Keab carefully gets the cup whilst wearing a pair of gloves.*

Derek: "YES...THANKS FOR NO-THING!!!"
Electricfox: "Derek...just stay in the corner until we've confirmed this, alright?"
Derek: "YES...YOU UN-SOCI-ABLE BAS-TARD..."

*Keab pours the cup of water into an empty kettle, scans it and then switches it on, a couple of minutes later the kettle boils. Keab scans it again, and then pours it into a cup and sticks his finger in it briefly, he then screams.*

Electricfox: "KEAB!"
Matt: "WE'RE GOING TO DIIIIE!!"
Derek: "EM-ER-GAN-CY!!"
Keab: "No...it was just bloody hot..."
Electricfox: "It's boiling water you idiot! So I take it that the aliens are dead?"
Keab: "Yup...it looks as though at high temperatures the enzymes which they are composed of unravel."
Electricfox: "So...we need to boil the base somehow?"
Keab: "Yeah...but how..."

*They look out of the windscreen, a pyramid structure is seen in the distance. Electricfox stares at it and the smiles.*

Electricfox: "I'm an idiot..."
Matt: "Well...we knew that..."
Electricfox: "Heat Rays!"
Matt: "Wha?"
Electricfox: "Keab...head for that pyramid...hopefully it's abandoned...we're going to find a fighting machine!"
Matt: "No...I stand corrected, you're more than an idiot...you're certifiably INSANE! And we're all gonna die!!"
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The local 'Bobby'

charlierc · Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 9:14 pm Post subject:

Charlie: Is it just me or do these staff trips get stranger and stranger everytime?
Matt: I don't care anymore, I just want to go home before we destroy ourselves.
Charlie: And the Earth?
Matt: Yeah, that too.
Charlie: Surely if you detonate the pyramid it could blow up the base and the water-zombies.
Keab: No, it would just melt the glacier and release whatever's waiting. And it's bad enough in it's current form.
Electricfox: KEAB! HURRY UP! WE DON'T HAVE ALL DAY HERE!
Keab: I'm coming, I'm coming...
Electricfox: Derek, you're in charge. If Matt and Charlie are threatened by the water, you will not to do.
Derek: UM... NO! BUT I WILL HAVE A GO AT DE-FENS-IVE ME-THODS ANY-WAY!
Electricfox: Um.. yeah. Toodles.

*Electricfox and Keab leave in space suits, sealing the doors.*

Derek: RIGHT THEN YOU BAS-TARDS! I AM IN CHARGE HERE!
Charlie: Well yes, I know.
Derek: AND I AM RE-SPON-SIBLE FOR YOUR WELL-BEING!
Charlie: Oh. God.
Derek: SO IF THIS MY-STER-IOUS CREA-TURE COMES HERE, I WILL HAVE TO TAKE YOU BACK TO EARTH COS YOU, HU-MAN DES-IG-NATED CHAR-LIE, FOR-GOT YOUR TELE-PORT!
Charlie: I didn't forget it I just misplaced it.
Derek: THAT'S THE US-UAL EX-CUSE YOU MO-RON!
Matt: Anyway, where will we go?
Derek: I HAVE DES-IG-NATED THE HU-MAN TRAN-SPOR-TATION EX-CHANGE OF MOSS JUNC-TION AS OUR STOP!
Charlie: Ok.

*Charlie heads to a seat and monitors a scanner checking for infected. The red dots are all concentrated on the control centre except one ominously pacing towards the central glacier. Matt returns to cowering under his table. Derek is patrolling the door. *
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Keab42 · Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2009 8:09 pm Post subject:

*The sun rises over the Martian Pyramid, to the strains of Thus Spoke Zarathustra*

Electricfox: Will you turn that down?
Keab: Sorry....

*They continue the slow walk to the Martian Pyramid*

Electricfox · Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2009 10:41 pm Post subject:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39M5UpUzCoM

*They reach the pyramid and step through an entryway. Keabs scanner begins to beep and he looks at it.*

Keab: "I'm reading a standard atmosphere in here...Earth like, should be safe to take the helmets off."
Electricfox: "Heh...should...ah well...what the hell."

*He takes his helmet off and breathes in.*

Electricfox: "Corr, a bit musty...this place must be old."

*They walk further into the pyramid and come to a room with writing on the wall.*

Keab: "Can you read it?"
Electricfox: "....no...and that's not right."
Keab: "Well...it is a load of hieroglyphs..."
Electricfox: "No...I mean, I can read Martian, well, I have a basic understanding of it...and this is not Martian."
Keab: "Well, then what is it?"
Electricfox: "I don't know..."

*They move on, reaching a large room with a mural on the wall.*

Electricfox: "Well...bugger me..."
Keab: "Indeed..."

Keab: "Well...there's Earth...with some kind of lizard men..."
Electricfox: "Silurians and Sea Devils..."
Keab: "You know them?"
Electricfox: "Ancient creatures, from the dawn of the dinosaurs...they went into hiding during a close lunar approach. UNIT and the Doctor have had some run-ins with them."
Keab: "And the ones on the moon?"
Electricfox: "I don't know about the big headed guy but the other guys are Selenites, they've been around as long as the Martians but deep underground. Haven't heard from them in a long time, Torchwood thinks that they've gone into isolation after the Cavorite incident."
Keab: "That creature on Mars on the right...looks like the bodies we found in the cylinders during the invasions."
Electricfox: "Yeah...that's what I thought...see that planet there between Mars and Jupiter?"
Keab: "Yeah...I don't understand that though, there is no planet there."
Electricfox: "No...but there IS an asteroid belt..."
Keab: "You mean that planet is the asteroid belt now?"

*Electricfox nods.*

Electricfox: "They did it before and they've tried to do it again, flee one dying planet for another healthier planet, and then move on when they've used it up...they're like locusts..."

*They both stand and stare at the mural for a few moments.*

Electricfox: "That answers a lot of questions we had on the Martians...I mean...this place must pre-date them, they must have just used it after they conquered Mars..."
Keab: "They're not even Martians though..."
Electricfox: "I know, but they're from a dead planet so what does it matter what we call them?"
Keab: "They just exist to conquer and devour..."
Electricfox: "Yup...but they met their match in Earth...so now they're picking on Venus."
Keab: "But why?"
Electricfox: "God knows...but we definately saw cylinder launches from Mars and impacts on Venus...we monitored the whole thing."
Keab: "Do you think they'll try for Earth again?"
Electricfox: "I know they will...maybe not in my lifetime, or even the next...but they're patient...they've waited thousands of years...they will wait another thousand if that's what it takes..."
Keab: "If we don't destroy the Earth ourselves first..."
Electricfox: "Now that's true...you know...in a way...we're not that different to them."
Keab: "How so?"
Electricfox: "We consume, without any care for sustainability, we drill for oil, use it up to the last drop and then move on. Coal seams are exploited and then closed, we've conquered native races and enslaved them for our own gain and when they're no longer of any use, we've just left, we're locusts, picking the bones of our Earth dry...as Herbert said...are we such apostles of mercy to complain if the Martians warred in the same spirit?"
Keab: "Yeah...but I'd rather keep my blood on the inside, if it's all the same..."
Electricfox: "Hmmm....yeah...anyway...we'd better find that Fighting Machine!"
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The local 'Bobby'

Electricfox · Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2009 10:51 pm Post subject:

*Meanwhile back in the Reliant Robin.*

Charlie: "They've been gone a while..."
Derek: "APP-ROX-I-MATE-LY ONE TWEN-TY FOUR-TH OF AN EARTH RO-TAT-ION!!"

*There's a pause.*

Charlie: "So about an hour then..."
Derek: "YES!"
Matt: "Perhaps they're dead?"
Charlie: "Don't say that!"
Matt: "Well what if they are?! How the hell do we get back home without them?!"
Charlie: "Erm..."
Matt: "Exactly...I don't want to be stranded on an alien planet for the rest of my life!"
Derek: "SCANS IN-DIC-ATE IN-SUFF-I-CIENT FOOD AND WA-TER RE-SERVES FOR STAT-ED PERIOD!"
Charlie: "So we'd starve to death before then."
Derek: "YES!"
Matt: "THAT'S NOT HELPING!!"

*An alarm goes off.*

Charlie: "Huh?"
Derek: "EMER-GANCY! EMER-GANCY! MAR-TIAN WAR VEH-ICLE APPROACH-ING! EN-GAGE PANIC CIRCUITS!! PANIC PAAAAANIIIICCC!!"

*The Martian Fighting Machine stalks over to the Reliant Robin and then stops and lowers itself down.*

Matt: "Why are we not dead yet?"
Charlie: "It's them! They've actually stolen a Martian Fighting Machine! I'll be damned!"
Matt: "How the hell did they do that?"
Charlie: "I dunno!"

*The Fighting Machine strolls over to Bowie Base One and sets to work demolishing it with its Heat Ray, once the base has been completely leveled and no further life signs are detected, the Martian returns to the Reliant Robin and picks it up in one of its tentacles, sending everyone flying inside.*

Matt: "What the hell is he doing?!"
Derek: "I DO NOT KNOOOOOW!!"

*The Martian Fighting Machine carries the Reliant Robin across the landscape towards a large crater in the distance.*
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The local 'Bobby'

Electricfox · Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2009 11:03 pm Post subject:

*The Martian Fighting Machine reaches a hole, some thirty yards across, nearby there is a lift which the machine strolls onto and collapses itself down. The lift begins to lower after the Fighting Machine plugs a tentacle into a slot on it. Once the lift has cleared the surface, a door closes overhead and a normal atmosphere is created. Keab and Electricfox get out of the Fighting Machine and walk over to the Reliant Robin.*

*Matt, Charlie and Derek get out.*

Matt: "What the hell was that for and where the hell are we?"
Electricfox: "Descending into a Martian cylinder launch site."
Charlie: "But why?"

*Keab sighs.*

Keab: "Because there's no other way home...I had hoped that the space ship would still be at Bowie Base One...but it was destroyed while the crew battled those water monsters...the Reliant can't take off on its own power, not without a runway...and I don't think the Martians were kind enough to make one for us...*
Matt: "Crap..."
Keab: "Crap, Indeed."
Electricfox: "However...I think there's probably a couple of cylinders left over, so all we have to do is program in the destination, wait until the right rotation period and then fire!"

*The lift reaches the bottom and opens up into what looks like a large gun chamber, with a cylinder waiting to be loaded, a thin layer of dust covers everything.*

Electricfox: "Thank god they just left everything when they left..."

*Keab gets back in the Reliant and drives it off the ramp and into a nearby empty cylinder, Electricfox then loads in the Martian Fighting Machine while Keab dials up the launch computer.*

Keab: "Ok...according to this we have approximately two hours before Mars is facing the right direction for launch. I've programmed in for us to land on Scratchwood Common, so we won't be far to go. I'll set the machine up for automatic launch so we can all get in. Ok...it's on a countdown now for thirty minutes so I suggest we load up in the Reliant Robin and prepare ourselves."
Electricfox: "I'll miss this place a bit..."
Matt: "I won't..."
Electricfox: "Been quite an adventure."
Matt: "No it hasn't! It's been a bloody nightmare!"
Electricfox: "Oh come on Matt...you've just been to another planet! How many people on Earth can say that?"
Matt: "I don't care! All I wanted out of life was a little cafe of my own and no-one to doubt me! I don't want all the exciting drama that you Torchwood types get!"
Keab: "Believe me...sometimes neither do we!"
Electricfox: "Well...look...just make a cup of tea and some sandwiches in the kitchen, alright, and we'll be home before we know it."
Matt: "...yeah..."

*He walks out into the kitchen in the Reliant as the rest of them gather around a table and start playing cards to pass the time.*

*Thirty minutes later, there is a dull thud as the cylinder screw is automatically fixed on and shut.*
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The local 'Bobby'

charlierc · Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 12:31 pm Post subject:

Martian Sounding Voice: Fire in the hole!
*There is a strange sensation as the craft erupts out of the crater but the crew are still.*

Charlie: That's weird. How come we've not been pummelled back and hit the wall?
Electricfox: Don't know. Though I bet we will have a crash landing.
Matt (from kitchen): Damn you! I don't want a crash landing!
Electricfox: Evidently you got on the wrong flight back at Scratchwood.
Matt (from kitchen): I didn't get on it, I was pushed on it.

*The crew at the table focus on the cards.*

Keab: Got any nines?
Derek: GO FISH!
Charlie: How does a Dalek play cards anyway?
Derek: DO NOT ASK HOW, JUST TRY NOT TO LOSE! GOT ANY FOURS?
Charlie: Damn.
*Charlie hands 2 fours to Derek.*
Derek: NOW I HAVE ALL THE FOURS! SUCK IT, PUNY HU-MANS!
Charlie: Well I say how rude. And anyway, Jamie?
Electricfox: Mmmm?
Charlie: Won't Torchwood staff confuse us for Martians and shoot us?
Electricfox: I hope not. Torchwood know that the Martians upped sticks after the invasion 5 or 6 years ago failed and are currently trying to make a base out of Venus.
Charlie: But still, the sight of a big silver cylinder crash-landing on Scratchwood Common isn't going to go unnoticed.
Electricfox: Oh no. But I'm sure they'll assume it's us.

*From the small cylinder window the crew can just see the ink-black void of space. At the table, it is clear Derek is winning the game of cards by miles, as Matt toils away making bacon sandwiches, with some pink lemonade (for Charlie) and tea (for everyone else) to go with.*
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Mattaf · Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 7:40 pm Post subject:

*A Nuclear Power Station, 15 miles east of Scratchwood*

*Alarms are blaring all around the facility. In the central control room, four men brandishing AK47's burst in and force the teriffied staff into the corner.*

Russian Man: Установка видеокамер!

*Two of the men set up a video camera on a tripod in the corner of the room and begin recording.*

Russian Man: Внимание! Мы захватили контроль над этой атомной станции. Мы требуем, чтобы русский командующий известный как Капитан Balowski предстать перед нами в течение трех часов, безоружные и в одиночку. Если наши требования не будут выполнены, мы принесем ядерный реактор в этом учреждении крах. У вас есть три часа, чтобы соблюдать.
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Mattaf, Station Master
Scratchwood - "How the Rail Network Should be... sorta..."