Maria Jackson: Difference between revisions

=== Meeting Sarah Jane Smith ===

In [[2008]], Alan and Maria moved to [[Bannerman Road]] in [[Ealing]]. The first night in her new home, Maria made the life-changing discovery about her neighbour, Sarah Jane Smith, whom she saw talking with a [[Star Poet|glowing, winged alien]]. The next day, she and a new friend, [[Kelsey Hooper]], went to the [[Bubble Shock! factory]] where Maria learned she was one of the 2% who didn't drink [[Bubble Shock!]] When Kelsey used her phone, it triggered the [[Bane (Invasion of the Bane)|Bane's]] alarms which awakened their artificially created human child, "the Archetype". Maria escaped the factory with Sarah Jane and the Archetype. On their return to Bannerman Road, Sarah Jane told her to forget everything she had seen and go live her life like a normal person.

They were joined by Kelsey, and then [[Davey (Invasion of the Bane)|Davey]], a disguised Bane who unmasked and tried to kill them. After Davey was defeated, Maria went upstairs to Sarah Jane's attic, where she was told the truth about the universe: aliens came to Earth all the time. She met [[Mr Smith]], Sarah Jane's alien supercomputer and [[K9 Mark IV]], her robot dog who was stuck beneath [[Switzerland]] trying to repair a [[black hole]] so the Earth wouldn't be sucked in. She, Sarah Jane and the Archetype banded together to defeat the Bane invasion and blow up the Bubble Shock! factory. On naming the Archetype that Sarah Jane adopted, Maria replied, "I like [[Luke Smith|Luke]]". ([[TV]]: ''[[Invasion of the Bane (TV story)|Invasion of the Bane]]'')

Mr Smith told Maria and Sarah that Alan's original form was retrievable until 16:00. The Gorgon — a parasite inside the Abbess — chose Sarah Jane as its next host. Just as the Gorgon began to transfer itself, Maria arrived and used a [[mirror]] to revert the transfer and turn the Gorgon — and Abbess — to stone, freeing the nuns of their mind-control. Maria disconnected the talisman and the portal shut down forever. The talisman brought her father back to flesh-and-blood and Chrissie left, reuniting with [[Ivan]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Eye of the Gorgon (TV story)|Eye of the Gorgon]]'')

Maria helped defeat [[Uvlavad Kudlak]] and discovered why children went missing all over the country because they were taken by an [[H₂O scoop]] at [[Combat 3000]]. She left Earth for the very first time and saw Earth on the [[Uvodni warship]] in space with Sarah Jane. ([[TV]]: ''[[Warriors of Kudlak (TV story)|Warriors of Kudlak]]'')

Maria, Clyde, Luke, [[Sam (The Thirteenth Stone)|Sam]], [[Bradbury (The Thirteenth Stone)|Mr Bradbury]] and Sarah Jane went on a school trip to the [[Stone Whisperers]]. There the alien [[Ravage]] started to take control of Luke's mind. Maria supported Luke when he fought a mental battle against Ravage and helped Luke expelling Ravage from his mind. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Thirteenth Stone (audio story)|The Thirteenth Stone]]'')

Mr Smith was monitoring a [[K67|meteorite]] that passed a radar blindspot and prepared to send it back. Sarah Jane handed Maria a [[Verron puzzle box|puzzlebox]] a [[Verron soothsayer]] had given her the previous week. [[The Trickster]] had been making a deal with [[Andrea Yates]] in [[1964]] to swap places with her friend. When the deal happened, Maria awoke in [[Andrea Yates' World|a world]] where she never befriended Clyde, Sarah Jane had died in 1964 and Mr Smith was never installed in [[13 Bannerman Road]]'s attic. The Trickster had guided away Maria's various encounters with aliens so that he could feed on the chaos of the meteorite strike.

The Trickster's [[Graske]] servant, [[Krislok]], captured Maria, and sent her to Limbo causing her to be erased from Earth's timeline. There she encountered Sarah Jane, who told her about the day Andrea died. Alan captured the Graske and got Maria back, and she assisted in helping Andrea go back to her rightful place, so that the timeline returned to normal and Mr Smith could prevent the meteorite from hitting Earth. ([[TV]]: ''[[Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? (TV story)|Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?]]'')

However, in the process, Alan stumbled in on the existence of Sarah Jane's activities. Maria told him about her adventures and the things she had seen. He decided that they were moving away, concerned for his daughter, but Alan recanted and decided to stay in their old home when Maria convinced him that not all aliens were evil. Maria and Alan then helped defeat the Slitheen and the rogue Mr Smith. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Lost Boy (TV story)|The Lost Boy]]'')

=== A Sontaran farewell ===

Alan later received a letter inviting him to work in [[America]], at the head office of ''[[CapitolSys Technologies]]''. Maria was distraught at the implications, despite Alan telling her that the decision was not just his to make.