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 Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 1:38 pm
OoC: Crappy title. Probably will change.
IC:
Arwen looked around Cardiff Bay in wonder. She had never been to Wales before but, with the TARDIS needing to be refuelled on the Rift here in Cardiff and 24 hours to spare, she had decided to head out into the city and explore. She had tried coaxing the Doctor into coming along with her but he had claimed that a sub-modulator of something to do with the TARDIS stabilisers needed re-aligning or something and wanted to do that during this pit stop. She shrugged and shook her head to herself as she thought about this. She hadn't understood a single word but that was the Doctor. The Mad Man with a Blue Box.
As she wondered where to go next, she smiled in amusement as she saw a Welsh sign. Apparently the TARDIS couldn't translate Welsh for her.
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Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 2:30 pm
Sitting alone in the Torchwood 3 base was a little unnerving for the Auton. She was trusted enough to be alone in the base, but not trusted enough to go on a mission with the others in the team. It wasn't a logical thing to do. If she were human, she would have shook her head and sighed. But she was not, so she didn't. As it stood, she was wirelessly accessing the network, doing tedious reconnaissance work, making sure that nothing was happening in Cardiff. Tedious and repetitive work.
It was a while before anything interesting happened. The first of which was daylight robbery, where a youth had stolen a woman's purse. Melissa was quick to notify the authorities about it, and saw soon afterwards that the purse had been returned. The second happening was the materialisation of an instantly recognisable blue police box. The wheezing the accompanied its arrival ground at her ears, making the artificial woman pull an uncomfortable face. Pulling faces was not in her normal repertoire, but she had been learning to be human, and pulling faces was normal to her now.
She had been told by the captain to look out for a blue police box that would land on the rift, and that it would be the doctor. She could recall from her previous programming that the doctor was a man to be feared and respected for the things that he could do. The hair on the back of her neck stood up on end, and her spine shivered. As there was nothing wrong with the police box being there, she leaned back in her chair -a cushy wingback that had been given to her by one of her team members for her 'birthday' last year- and closed her eyes. Naturally the only thing that this did was eradicate the outside world to her. The hud that she was seeing was still there and she used her brain to flick through webpages and had the countless CCTV video camera feeds streaming straight into her mind, allowing her to simultaneously see everything going on.
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Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 2:47 pm
As the day lapsed, Arwen took in a few tourist sites before heading off the tourist trail and into main Cardiff, where the locals shopped, played, ate and lived. She loved this, seeing new places, experiencing new things, exploring. The absence of aliens was great also, especially after her last adventure which had included being covered by vomit...not the nicest of experiences...
Shaking her head and noting it was starting to get darker, she headed back to the TARDIS to see what the Doctor was up to and also maybe to change. Surely she could encourage the Doctor to head out for a meal. It would be fun.
Just as she thought this the world suddenly seemed to shake and she grabbed the rail by the Bay in surprise. "An earthquake?" she said out loud as people ran away in terror. Running towards the epicentre, she saw the TARDIS beginning to fade away.
"DOCTOR! DOCTOR! WAIT! WHERE ARE YOU GOING?!"
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Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 3:12 pm
Melissa sprung into action and sprinted for the hatch that opens up at the rift. The tremor was something that even she hadn't anticipated, there wasn't any rift activity estimated for today, so it completely caught her off guard. As she rose up to ground level, she cut the majority of the CCTV feed going to her mind, and focused on the ones that centred on the millennium centre. The blue police box was disappearing and reappearing erratically, which was out of character for the device, from what her records told her.
As she reached the top, she cut off all feeds altogether and began strutting towards the girl at the epicentre. She had come with the doctor, but he had left her. Maybe she was a threat and had caused the rift to behave erratically, even if she was one of the doctor's many companions, then there would be no harm.
"Miss," She said in as much of an approachable tone as she could muster as she took the last few strides towards the panicking girl, her heeled boots clacking on the stone floor as she went. "I must ask who you are yelling at." She commented, her question not seeming very much like one.
((OOC: Super tired and early lectures tomorrow >< I think that I'm gonna have to stop for the night. ))
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Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 3:56 pm
As the TARDIS totally vanished, Arwen stopped and looked at the spot where the old box was meant to be. Her mind went blank then started panicking some at the prospect of being left behind by him and in a place so far away from home. After a moment, Arwen's mind kicked into action trying to work out why the Doctor and the TARDIS had left suddenly without warning. The Doctor would not leave her alone without a good reason but even so, he would still give some cryptic reason why she had to stay behind. He would never leave with no warning.
No warning...warning...wait a minute!
She pulled the chain from around her neck on which she kept her TARDIS key as she hoped that it would at least have some sort of gold aura to show the TARDIS was still around but it lay on her hand hard, silver and cold.
As she heard another woman's voice and the clacking of heels, she shoved the key under her clothes again and turned to the woman.
Thinking on her feet, she answered the woman. "Oh, just a friend. He ran off when the quake started."
As she looked at the woman, she noted that she was tall, rather pretty and had an odd straight faced look to her. Her voice was also odd, or rather her tone. As if she was trying to be something she was not. Never a good sign as she had learnt in her travels. Something was not right here and this woman's appearance just after the quake and the dematerilisation of the TARDIS made her suspicious.
((OoC: No worries. I understand.))
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Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 4:10 pm
Melissa looked at the girl strangely. It wasn't logical for her to be running to the epicentre of the 'earthquake' to look for her friend. The woman stood completely still, not even mimicking breathing as she began pouring through CCTV footage in the back of her head, trying to follow the mysterious girl's footsteps through Cardiff. It was a minute or so before she realised that she was focusing her whole processing power on the footage. With a curse, she resumed acting human once more and took a mobile phone looking device from her pocket and started tapping it furiously, while still looking through the footage, but slower now.
"I apologise, miss, but you should leave the area immediately. I'm sure that you will find your friend away from here." For a robot, she wasn't so good at putting two and two together. She began walking around, holding her handheld device in various positions and angles, walking as if she were a model on a catwalk.
After taking some readings, she was going to return to her quarters in the base, but saw that the girl was still there, at the epicentre of the rift activity. "I can't stress enough the fact that you should not be here. It's for your own safety." She commented as she strutted back to the girl. "You should leave. Now." The second comment was because her device had started beeping, alerting her to activity of the alien description.
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Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 4:32 pm
Arwen looked back at her, still trying to work out what was going on. Where had she appeared from? Did she have a perception filter like the TARDIS? Noting that the woman had frozen stock still, Arwen took a small step back wary and knowing not that this woman was not human. She was acting too oddly to be human.
"Yeah..." she said quietly as she was ordered out of the area then watched the woman, pivoting round on her foot as the woman strutted around with her handheld device. Her mind was working fast as she fitted the minimal evidence she had together, eliminating possibilities. Not a woman. Not human. A thing...alien...robot...
As the woman came over to her again, ordering her to leave, it clicked in her mind and she took an extra couple of steps back in alert as she spoke the answer she had been looking for just as the device began beeping.
"Auton."
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Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 12:03 pm
Melissa had looked to her handheld device to see what the beeping was all about. And naturally, it appeared in a language that she had not been programmed to understand, so she'd have to look it up when she returned to her "home" in Torchwood 3. She was about to leave the girl where she stood and go back to the fountain, when she heard the stranger announce that Melissa was an Auton.
Automatically she spun on the ball of her foot to face the girl, dropping the device on the floor as she went. Her two last fingers on her right hand were curled in while her index and middle were dead straight, a gesture used more often by children playing cops and robbers. Her left hand instantly reached for the girl's shoulder, holding it tightly, ready to knock her out. "What did you say?" She accused, her face contorted with fury, hiding the fear that lay beneath. She didn't even give the girl enough of a chance to reply before asking again, urgency in her voice. Her gun hand was pointed dead between the eyes of the girl.
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Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 12:14 pm
Arwen watched the woman drop the device she was holding and gasped in surprise when the woman curled her hand into the shape of a gun and her shoulder was grabbed by the woman. Her stomach starting tying itself into knots as she swallowed scared, staring up at the womans face.
"A-auton...you're an auton...aren't you?"
OoC: Bare with me. Doing a million and one things at once
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Posted: Fri Jul 19, 2013 9:58 am
Kayla came down from her father's office in the Torchwood Three team's hub. She rolled her eyes when she heard yelling, and took the scenic route up to the surface. As soon as she was close enough to the sidewalk, she grabbed the ledge and pulled herself up, flapping her wings underneath her hoodie a bit.
When the halfbreed saw Melissa and ran towards her and the girl she was with. "What's going on--" Kayla stopped dead when she saw the Auton's arm, now a gun, "Melissa! If she came with the Doctor, who your yelling for woke me up, she might know about us. Well, probably will know about you, I'm not sure if she knows of the Angels yet, or at all."
Kayla, the Weeping Angel-Jack Harkness hybrid, then spun towards the girl. "I'm Kayla. What's your name?" she asked, finding a small retcon pill in her pocket and smiling.
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