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Torchwood 5 - Torchwood Esselman - Detail 1: Prologue - Author: KJas (Douglas Moore)

Roger Esselman stood in front of the newly completed Torchwood base. This would become the official unofficial Torchwood 5 and work to achieve the same goals as Torchwood Cardiff. It had been a year since the adventure he had with the original team. The events that had happened since then, at least for him, were just building the base. However, the city was shut down once over the course of the year due to major explosions. The nuclear power plant even went into meltdown. Luckily, the radiation had been vented inside of the air tight building instead of to the city. It had also been a couple of months since the incident with the 456. He would have contacted the captain, but he had been way too busy to find out very much information. The only thing he knew was that the Torchwood Cardiff base had been destroyed in a major explosion. He hoped that no one had been in or near the base at the time of the explosion.

He snapped back into reality and looked over the base one more time before walking in. On the outside, it was just a house. Unlike Torchwood Cardiff's base, which was under and a part of the water tower, he made his underground with the upper most stories disguised by a two story house. Underground, it was five floors deep. The two deepest floors were monitored maximum security cells specialized for containing aliens. The one right above that was a morgue and above that was the power maintenance and the extra generators for the entire base. The uppermost underground floor was cryogenics, science laboratory, and the medical bay. The first floor above ground was the main hub. The very top floor was storage and spare bedrooms for the employees to stay in if they had to work overnight or were just too tired or lazy to go home.

Walking in through the front door landed Roger in a living room of metal walls. There were two couches and three chairs surrounding a rather large coffee table. At one corner of the room was a television set. On the other end, there was a pool table(Roger loved his billiards). The room split off into two other rooms. One of them was a rather large kitchen with the same metal walls. It was well stocked with food. The other room - which took up the rest of the floor - was the "office" where all the work would be done. The monitors, the computer stations, everything was all there. It was also the room which held the lift to the other floors. There were no stairs, but the lift was faster than normal ones. Instead of you having to wait for the doors to close, there was a set of doors you close manually and swiftly. They were strong and could stand up to an elephant stampede if need be. It was also slightly faster at actually moving up and down than regular lifts.

Everything from technology to translation (and other programs) was up to date with Torchwood Cardiff before the explosion. There was even a garage with several Torchwood Black vehicles with the proper technology. All that he needed to do now was to find new recruits.

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Sorry this is so short, but I didn't know what else to write in for the prologue. Don't worry, beginnings are always boring, so this will (hopefully) get better as I write more. If you have any suggestions, then please feel free to tell me in a review or a PM.