Torchwood: Owen' World

Chapter One

Fiends in Disguise

Chris and Liam ran into each other in the marble lobby of an abandoned hotel in Wales and caused each other to drop expesive pieces of equipment on the ground,

"I lost them!" Liam said out of breath

"What do you mean you lost them!? They were right on you!" Chris cried, "Where are Pitch or Morgan?"

"Don't know...you still haven't told me, who this Pitch guy is"

"He worked for me at the Empire' court, that's all you need to know" Chris said

Just as Pitch appeared at the bottom of the stairs a vortex opened up behind them and the Torchwood car shot out of it, heading straight for Pitch,

Morgan arrived and dived at Pitch, bring him to the ground as the car vanished into a second portal.

For a stunned minute not a word was spoken until Liam broke the silence,

"They're back then" And with that he laughed whole heartedly,

At that moment one of the aliens they were after became human in appearance and jumped into the vortex the Torchwood Car had flown out of as Liam and Pitch pumped him full of bullets that did absolutely nothing to him.

Two hours ago: Jack, holding a baby in a brown car seat, Jasmine, Adrian and Owen ported to just outside the front entrance to the hub, where they found a notice on the door,

"Out, fend for yourselves, Liam" Adrian read aloud,

Jack grabbed the notice and crumpled it before unlocking the hub door with his totem sonic and letting them all in.

They made their way down to the lower central hub and searched the recent activity to find Liam, Morgan and Chris,

"Chloraposers" Owen said, "What's one of them when they're not at home?"

"Trouble" Jack said, he then looked at another reading on the computer beside it, "There are space vortexes all over the place, that's got to be them"

"You won't be able to shut them down until after you've dealt with these aliens" Came an american voice behind them.

They all turned to find a tall black man in a black and silver uniform and two silver gils on each cheek, holding Jack and Jasmine' son,

"Who're you?" Jack asked, calm but angry,

He took out his gun and loaded it,

"You're going to shoot me while I'm holding the baby?" He said in response, then to Owen he said, "You're the assissin, would you shoot your target if he were holding a baby?"

"No, I'd be far more sutble than that but...give me the baby" Owen replied

"I'm here for the baby" The man replied

"What?" Jack said upset

"I know this man" Jasmine revealed, "His name is Michael Iron, he works for an orginisation called SLSC in America' 51' state, it's an island under an shroud no one whill clap eyes on until a mass evacuation thanks to yellow stone blowing it's top 100 years from now"

"Who sent you?" Jack asked, gun still pointed at him

"Emperor did, this child has three fathers and one mother, he will have powers that need specialised training, only we can provide. I will hold him until the host parent is ready. We'll bring him back when he's grown, at the moment, as of now he is ours and you are no longer his parents"

"Wait!" Adrian cried, "What do you mean no longer his parents?" He suddenly realised that Jack, Jasmine and Owen were immobile, "What have you done to them?"

"It's not what I've done, I'm just an immortal servant for the Emperor, you, and once upon a time, your mother" Michael sighed, "I used to travel with her in the TARDIS until I started to fall, I'm a human, your Grandfather banned me from seeing her again"

"I have a pendent for the baby, it's a spell. If he's in trouble it'll call only me and no force on God' Earth will stop me from reaching him is that clear?" Adrian said,

"Crystal...what's his name?" Michael asked

"Honour...now what has the court done to alter things for my mum and Jack?" Adrian asked

In a flash of light Adrian found himself in a black suit alongside Jack, Jasmine, Owen and Brendan, they were at a fresh grave. Covered in flowers,

People passing by, reading the cross would get upset,

"Here lies Honour Ray...born sleeping" Adrian read...he stumbled back, dizzy with shock, looked up and screamed, "How could you do this!?"

Owen went to him,

"Adrian, mate, it's alright"

"No!" He said slapping his chest and his arms, "No! No! No! You don't understand" Owen grabbed him as Adrian collapsed to the grass, sobbing his heart out, "They did this! It isn't real"

Jack sobbed, Adrian' reaction having just acted as a catalyst

10 minutes later Jack, Jasmine, Owen and Adrian were driving through Bay Walk in the Torchwood car,

"Where are we even going?" Owen asked

"Anywhere, I'm in no mood for aliens today"

Adrian burst into tears again, Owen comforted him as best he could, seatbelted in at at back. Then he looked up and saw the vortex,

"Uh, what is that?" Owen asked

"A vortex" Jasmine said

"What do we do?" Jack asked stopping the car, "That thing could lead anywhere"

"Why can't we close it?" Adrian asked

"These aliens have an antitampering system, they're outcast hit men, if Chris, Morgan and Liam aren't careful the wrong person could end up dead, we can't interfeer unless it's one of us their after" Jack said

"Drive through it" Jasmine said

"What!" Everyone exclaimed

"Drive through it" Jasmine said again

"Alright" Jack said unconvinced

He reved the engine and drove through it,

Everything went red, this was followed by the briefest of glimpses of the hotel lobby and Morgan saving Pitch and then another red light until they landed in a ditch at the side of the road of a closed motorway.

Jack, Jasmine, Owen and Adrian were quick to get out before it exploded,

"Great, we're not back two hours and we've already destroyed another Torchwood car" Jack said with a shake of the head

Meanwhile on the other side of the the vortex the humanoid alien jumped out, laughing, before limping and holding himself as though in great pain.

Brendan came into his flat and sighed as he shut the door behind him,

Chrissie and her mother Lydia, who were both sat at the kithen table, having just had a row, stopped when they saw his face,

"How'd the memorial mass go?" Chrissie asked

"Fine but the grave...Adrian' back, he looked at the cross and lost it" Brendan said with a shake of the head

A tear fell from Chrissie' face but her cocern for him left when the humanoid crashed through the door, bleeding from his wounds,

"What happened to you!?" Chrissie screeched running to him, "Robin! Stay awake" Then to Brendan, who was dubious of Robin she screamed, "Get an ambulance! Can't you see he's been shot!?"

"Who did this to you?" Lydia asked

"Torchwood!" He said with a glare and a glas of yellow across the eyes only Brendan saw.

Jack, Jasmine and Adrian were following Owen along the closed motorway,

"I know where we're going now!" He called, stopping to look at his map for the umpteenth time, "Cardiff is 5 miles that way, so Bay Walk is 6 miles away" He added with a point North,

"You said that 5 miles ago, 6 miles ago and 7 miles ago" Jack said sarcastically

"Yes, alright" Owen called, "You don't even know, who you are half the time so I'm not likely to take directions from you"

"Oh burn!" Jack said sarcastically

"We're lost aren't we?" Adrian said

"Oh God yeah" Jack replied

"I thought I'd seen that sheep before" Adrian said

"Right! That's it! One more comment like that and I'll..." Owen began as Jack laughed out loud and Jasmine grinned,

Before he could finish his sentence Andy arrived in a battered cop car,

"Need a lift?" He asked

"What the hell happened to your car? Financial cut?" Jack asked

"A vortex actually, I take it the burnt out discovery with the big T on the back window, that I bounced off of was yours? You might want to do something about it before there's a pile up" Andy replied as they all got into his car.

Too late, over at the sight there were now five cars in a pile and a group of people on the road, one had a notebook in hand and pencil,

Just as another car arrived he called round,

"Blue! Who had Blue?" He asked

Three people stuck up their hands and were given their winnings by the man with the notebook.

Chris, Pitch, Liam and Morgan were outside a car show room when Chrissie caught up to them.

"She looks more pissed then usual, what did you do to her this time?" Morgan asked

"Please explain to me, why it is Torchwood felt the need to pump my boyfriend full of bullets?" She snapped

"Where is he?" Pitch asked

"Cardiff Central" Chrissie said,

Pitch, Morgan and Chris ran off,

"Ah forget it" Liam sighed

"Forget what?" Chrissie demanded

"Robin isn't, who you think he is" Liam said

"And Honour' not dead" She said with a shake of the head, "Oh this isn't good"

"What do you mean, Honour isn't dead? Of course he's not...what's going on Chrissie? Tell me now" Liam demanded

"OK so by all accounds I can't hide what I am around you" She said

"Why?" Liam asked

"No idea but that's not the problem here, you can't be with me all the time and my human self thinks Robin is a boyfriend, no one is acting as they should, someone up there has altered reality...I'm in trouble, this guy is a hit man, what's he want with me? No one but you and maybe a handful of others knows I'm the TARDIS soul"

"I'll protect you" Liam said, "Even if we are rivals"

"We're not rivals, I'm Adrian' home you're his heart" Chrissie said

"Home is where the heart is" Liam said

"In that case you and I should hook up" Chrissie said sarcastically

"Go back to Honour" Liam said

"There's an empty grave Jack, Jasmine and Owen think Honour is in but in reality he's in the care of a man called Michael Iron. His host father is The Doctor' 11th. He's to have a TARDIS within a TARDIS, that takes him to two eras, time with Amy and time with Clara, this is so that whatever happens in those time lines Honour remains protected and the SLSC can train him as he grows"

When Jack, Jasmine, Owen and Adrian got back to the hub Jack was less than impressed to see Pitch' name,

"Steven' Uncle, what the hell is he doing here?" He asked

"According to his file he no longer has any connection to that family, his mind was wiped and altered by something called the SLSC" Owen said

"Who was Steven?" Adrian asked

"I brought up a con-man' daughter, she thought I was her father, Earth was invaded back in the early 2000' like 2008, something like that, I had to kill that girl' son to save everyone. I've can't say I've been living with that guilt ever since because I had the Doctor banish that pain for me in a pool meant to wash away the guilt and sins of the Time Lords. I have a job to do aware or not" Jack said, "Why' he here though?"

"Says he's been working on and off for Chris for years at the court...Chris is the Emperor' 4th, this man has to be a Time Lord or a servant of one at least" Owen said, "So that's why the court let you raise the sister" Owen said

Cardiff Central was now in lock down, Pitch, Chris and Morgan had confined Robin to one ward,

"Who sent you?" Pitch demanded

"No one sent us, we used our initiative" Robin snapped and he pushed Pitch through the sealed door and down a flight of stairs before jumping out of a 4th storey window,

"Oh my God!" Morgan exclaimed

Liam entered his hotel room and jumped when he found Vera there,

"Mum"

Liam grabbed her for a hug,

"Why're we in a hotel?" She asked

"I don't know what's real anymore" Liam sighed, "The court have been altering things for everyone"

"Alright, were you here yesterday?" Vera asked

"Yes, we were, insurance won't pay out, they've been scammed by people, who don't actively live in the area since the War" Liam told her, "Morgan knew the owner intimately so we're staying free of charge"

"The alteration, you were talking about Honour right? I was there when they hit the recall button...i descided it was probably time to come home" Vera said

Out in the middle of a road on Bay walk Robin and another humanoid turned back into the aliens from the hotel and had it out with each other before parting ways.

Up in the court a man watching Adrian in the hub hit a Fog Stamp Pore button.

As Adrian felt it's affects Emperor came into the room,

"How much of that stuff did you just use?" Emperor demanded

"Enough" Came the reply

"Why? By who' order?" Emperor demanded

"The one in the yard, partifimind authorised it, said he knew what he was doing?"

"There's a parasite hidden in the vent! You could kill them!" Emperor said, slapping the back of the man' head,

"Better be there to make sure it's not the wrong one that ends up dead then huh?"

"You're acting like this is my fault!" Emperor snapped

"You should have innformed the court about the parasite in the vent so this is entirely your fault"

Liam entered the hub to be greeted by a very seductive Adrian,

"Miss me?" Liam smiled

Adrian grabbed him into the cloak room,

"The court owe me one" He said slamming the door shut behind him

Meanwhile at the hospital, where Jack and Jasmine were interviewing Pitch the window in his ward smashed and the alien from the hotel climbed in, filled the place with smoke, killed Jack and took Pitch.

To Jasmine' surprise it didn't even register her,

She used her sonic to clear the smoke and waited for Jack to come round,

"Do you always have to gasp like that? You can't just wake up" She scolded

"You've no idea how painful it is to come back. I feel every injury I ever sustained for about a minute afterwards each time"

"Oh" Jasmine said, "Dad' favourite punishment spell, revive and punch" With a nod she added, "Pitch is gone"

Jack flopped back onto the floor with a sigh.

Liam and Adrian joined Jack, Jasmine, Owen, Morgan and Chris in the boardroom as they were using the computers to hunt for the aliens and Pitch.

Adrian had a little cough by now but no one was too concerned,

"How's Pitch?" Adrian asked

"He was taken by that Chloraposer, there seems to be at least four here and the only way to deal with them is to freeze them with LN, we need to get them all in the one place to do that"

"Two of them are still at the hotel, we need to lure the other two back there" Liam said

At that moment the computer located both Pitch and Robin.

Robin was hiding on the roof garden of Chrissie' apartment and Pitch was in an old sewer,

"Morgan, Chris, see if you can get to Pitch without the Chloraposer sussing, if you can get out and use the LN granades in the sewer" Jack said, "We'll go on and detain Robin"

Pitch wasn't alone in the old sewer with the Chloraposer, there was a decaying body beside him with a UNIT badge in his hand,

"Who're you working for? Who was he?" Pitch struggled

"UNIT...the new UNIT, Pole' UNIT" The Chloraposer said, "You see Pole seems to think Torchwood know where T5H' King disappeared, not the one, who abdicated now the next King, his son"

"I won't say it! I don't care how you dare or what you do to me!" Pitch spat

Adrian, Liam, Jack and Jasmine barged into Chrissie' apartment as Brendan opened the door and started to search the place,

"Where is Robin?!" Jack demanded, when they couldn't find him, "It's you he's after"

"Actually, I don't think it is" Adrian said

At that moment Robin came out of hiding and held Chrissie at knife point,

"I can't kill an Emperor but I can kill the one, who's destined to lead him"

"Over my dead body!" Jack snapped before shooting Robin in the head

Robin jolted back,

The bullets were electified,

Chrissie was jolted forwards into Adrian' arms, who moved her to Brendan,

"Get her out of here, get everyone out!" He demanded

At the moment the alarms started blaring Robin grabbed Jack and started sinking into the floor,

Liam grabbed Jack around the waist, Adrian grabbed Liam and Owen grabbed Adrian and eventually they pulled Jack free.

They then ran from the apartment and out into the street.

"Adrian" Chrissie said in alarm, "I see...I don't know what I'm saying"

"You OK?" He asked giving her a hug

"I am now you're here" She said

"Heart" Liam whispered

"Home" Chrissie smiled

"Chris text just now, they have Pitch and a body but both Robin and the other Chloraposer are still on the loose" Owen said

As Adrian and Chrissie parted Adrian' mobile went off,

"Hello?" Adrian said into it as he answered

He sighed as he realised everyone was still once more,

"So that spell works both ways, Torchwood is having an off day I see, let Jack and the team think they handled everything, I'll round them up and we'll say no more about it...but Owen wants to watch his back. That body holds information he should heed" Michael said

"Stop altering reality!" He snapped, "We'd have handled it eventually!"

"I'm not your enemy Adrian" Michael said gently

Later that night Owen found Adrian alone on a bench on the roof garden of their apartment block on Bay Walk,

"Guess what?" Owen smiled with a tap on the shoulder

"Surprise me" Adrian said unenthusiastically

"I got a scratch earlier and I've been bleeding red cell-less blood, there's an increase in brain activity" Adrian smiled at Owen, genuinely happy for him, "I can't eat because my organs aren't working but I need to keep my fluids up so I can drink anything that isn't alcoholic and these tablets the Doc gave me will get rid of waste, I can have coffee again!"

"I'm happy for you Owen" Adrian said in tears

"What's wrong Adrian?" Owen asked

"I'm in trouble...I know where Honour is but I'm not aloud to say, reality was altered by the court twice today...and I slept with Liam" He gives Owen a letter, "This just arrived from the court"

"Crap...what can they do really? You were married once...before you knew what you were but still...it'll be fine. I have to do a post mortum but I'll be back to help you prepare afterwards yeah?"

As Owen disappeared out of sight Adrian made to go back inside but a flash of green light threw him off the roof.

Owen took one look at the body and dropped his cup on the floor in shock.

Jack came rushing into the mortuary,

"Owen..." He began

"This is the man I killed. He worked for UNIT, he was from Cambridge, how did he get here?" Owen said calm but freaked out

"Forget that Adrian' been hurt" Jack said, "And Liam' gone missing"

"What do you mean?" Owen asked

"He was fired off the roof" Jack exclaimed in tears