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[when the sphere turns on--and it does so rather stubbornly, he notes, since he voluntarily turned on the communique instead of it randomly turning on for him--it shows a rather picturesque view of the beach, the fields, and even the tops of the trees far below. suddenly, a loud whirring noise be heard a moment later, the picture turning into nothing but static and snow while he fiddles with a couple settings in the sphere itself. his sonic screwdriver could still access the functions he needed, after a bit of tinkering of course, to boost the communications signal on a wide spectrum of channels.

hopefully, he would find the right one he needed to communicate with whomever is on that craft hanging hundreds of feet up above his head.

the whirring noise ceases a moment later and sphere quickly rights itself and flies out of his reach for the time being. he grins proudly at the sphere and looks down at the now tiny beach from his vantage point on top of the Crucible and then up at the other one. it had been quite the climb, but he made it nonetheless, like he told Ollie he would.]

Hello up there! [waves a hand at the new ship.] Couldn't help noticing you hanging about for the past couple days. Nice you could finally drop in for a visit! Afraid I can't offer any tea--well, not any tea that wasn't made with pollen saturated water, anyway--but I would if our ship here hadn't crashed. Hope you've noticed how it's partially buried into the land of this very green planet. I know that's the first thing I would note. [that's a lie, he'd notice half a dozen other things as well, but who's counting?] We're a little stranded here, as you no doubt have seen as well.

Anyway, thought I'd come up and greet you, break the communications barrier we seem to be having. I'm the Doctor by the way and this is...my sphere! [points a finger at it] Don't worry, it's harmless. I'd ask if you needed any sugar, being new neighbours and all, but I'm afraid I don't have any.

What I do have, however, are questions. Mainly ones to quell my fellow passengers' worries that you're going to open up fire on them at any moment. Which I'm sure you won't. [gives the new ship a look, his smile and humour gone for a moment.]

Will you?

[he shrugs, his smile slowly coming back] Not that I'm expecting an answer right away, though that'd be nice, but I'll wait up here patiently. It's a nice view anyway and I didn't climb up here to simply to leave empty-handed!

Oh, and by the way, [he turns and gives the sphere a wink, knowing he's being watched now], I opened up just about every broadcasting channel I know of, so our words should reach our new visitors up there.

And look! Haven't gotten shot with a single laser, ray, or blasting gun yet!

Comments

[teentramp.livejournal.com]

Never been to Japan?

[bit_impossible]

On the contrary, I have several times! Beautiful country.

[teentramp.livejournal.com]

What did Japanese people call you if not "Sensei"?

[bit_impossible]

[silly him and his TARDIS's language translator. it didn't dawn on him that he'd made that slight error until he was called out on it.] Well, I quite insisted on them calling me Doctor, but I got called "foreigner" a lot too. Which was only stating the obvious, but it didn't bother me.

[teentramp.livejournal.com]

[staaaares at the hologram]

[bit_impossible]

What? Have I got something on my face?

[teentramp.livejournal.com]

Just so you know, I think you're one of those pathological liars.

[bit_impossible]

What?

[teentramp.livejournal.com]

-- no wait. Wrong term, I think you lie out of habit.

I meant compulsive liar, sorry.

[bit_impossible]

That's still a liar!

[teentramp.livejournal.com]

You're gonna tell me you're not one?

[bit_impossible]

Yeah. I'm as far from being a liar as they come!

[teentramp.livejournal.com]

You're claiming to be an alien, despite looking like a human. Sure, you could be one, but the possibilities of life in another planet evolving the same way they did in Earth are very slim. And even if it did, their technology wouldn't be much more advanced than ours. So even if you were an alien, you wouldn't be developed enough to hang out on Earth with us.

And you said you've been in Japan but for some reason you'd never heard the word "Sensei"

[bit_impossible]

You're a very close-minded young man, aren't you?

Just because Earth is still stuck in the primitive stages of technological advancement doesn't mean that's the same for the rest of the universe. The universe does not revolve around your tiny little planet. It actually revolves around a black hole that's 672 billion solar masses across in diameter, and that's 37 times bigger than the ones you humans will detect in your near future. But I digress.

And I know the word "sensei". I'm fluent in a billion languages, except Welsh. The word "Doctor" just doesn't translate easily when one means it to be a name and not the title of a profession.

[teentramp.livejournal.com]

The Universe has an age. Taking into account how long it takes for galaxies, solar systems and planets to be develop, other alien technologies can't be much more advanced than ours.

And there's still the fact that intelligent life in other planets shouldn't look like us.

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[pinches the bridge of his nose] The universe does, yes, but time passes at different rates on different planets. Just because life appeared on your planet four billion years ago doesn't mean it took that long for life to evolve on other planets. Ancient and beautiful civilisations rose and fell before your ancestors even set a toe out of the primordial soup.

More to the point, though, you look like other intelligent lifeforms. The universe tends to repeat patterns it finds favourable, so figure yourself lucky!

[teentramp.livejournal.com]

[laughs]

You're good.

[bit_impossible]

You still don't believe me. Do you?

[teentramp.livejournal.com]

Logically I should believe you. I've seen things that make less sense.

[bit_impossible]

Well, that's a start!

Like what, might I ask?

[teentramp.livejournal.com]

Like waking up in a crashed spaceship in an alien planet with no recollection of how I got there.

[bit_impossible]

[he sighs. really, he should've expected that.]

Yes, that's one thing. Sounds like you've got some more tucked up your sleeve, though.

[teentramp.livejournal.com]

Of course I do, Sensei. But considering you don't have a name and refuse to tell me your place of origin, I'm not particularly inclined to share.

[bit_impossible]

[stares at the hologram for a moment before speaking] I already told you my name.

[teentramp.livejournal.com]

[stares back]

Does everyone else in your planet get titles instead of names? The Dentist? The Door-to-Door Salesman?