Chapter 2: Earth
Earth (Land Without Magic)
Mickey Smith, Gwen Cooper, and Ianto Jones stood under the sun in downtown Cardiff just above the underground Torchwood base, looking out at the sea.
"I hope Martha's alright." Mickey said.
His wife along with Jack Harkness and Rose Tyler had gone with the Doctor, Clara, and Captain Hook to Wonderland, trying to stop the Daleks from reaching Neverland.
"I'm sure they'll all be back soon." Gwen said.
"Jack can't die." Ianto said, assuring himself that no matter what, Jack would make it out alive.
"Is he even human?" Gwen jokingly asked.
"Oh ya." Mickey said. "He's as human as they come. I knew him before he became immortal."
His words stunned Gwen and Ianto. They had no idea that Jack and Mickey's relationship went so far back that it existed before he was granted immortality by the Bad Wolf.
"Seriously?" Ianto questioned.
"Absolutely." Mickey said as he turned around and pointed a few yards behind them. "I met him for the first time right over there."
Suddenly, there attention was drawn back to the sea by a mysterious green light. The green light turned into a large, swirling portal. It looked like a whirlpool. Things had been quiet for Torchwood since the Dalek invasion a few days earlier. People in Cardiff began rebuilding from the damage that was done. The Torchwood team (operating at less than full capacity without Jack and Martha) hoped this wouldn't be another alien or magical occurrence. The last time a green portal opened on the sea, a boat came through, carrying the Evil Queen, Prince Eric, and a crew of sailors from the Enchanted Forest. They hoped especially that Regina had not returned to Cardiff. A few days after the Queen almost destroyed the city by opening the rift and unleashing monsters, Peter Pan unleashed an army of Gorgons into the city. Then, a spaceship carrying one hundred Dalek appeared in the sky and attacked the city. However, it was not the Evil Queen that ascended from the green water, but rather thousands of Daleks. The alien killers hovered over the water for a moment before catching sight of the land. They had their orders from Pan and they would kill anyone who stood in their way, or simply who was not the child he was looking for. Women of all ages and men who were not children were to be shot on sight. Mickey, Ianto, and Gwen quivered as they realized they had to face yet another Dalek invasion. This time, Jack had taken one of their laser guns with him to Wonderland, the Doctor would be incapable of coming to their aid, and the Torchwood base had been partially destroyed from the last Dalek attack. If the world was to be saved from these monsters, it could not be done by the three Torchwood agents. So, Gwen, Mickey, and Ianto ran back to the secret entrance in a shack by the docks and went deep into their half-functioning base. They tried to find sufficient weapons to fight the creatures, but they couldn't. They went to their screens and saw that outside, at least five thousand Daleks had come out of the portal so far, but not all were staying in the city. Some were spreading out, presumably to go to other parts of the world.
"It's over." Mickey said.
U.N.I.T. struggled to understand what was happening. All they knew was that the Daleks were somehow invading Earth from a portal in Cardiff Bay and that they just kept on coming with no end in sight. It would take time to gather all the weapons capable of destroying Daleks, which not all operatives knew how to use. The Daleks spread through England and into mainland Europe. From there, they would go into Africa and make their way across Asia. A few thousand were crossing the Atlantic on their way to Canada, where they would descend into the United States, Mexico, Central America, and then South America, killing everyone who did not possess the heart of the truest believer. Even at U.N.I.T., the situation seemed dire, especially since the President of Earth was nowhere to be found. However, while the Doctor could not go to Earth, he would try to stop the invasion at its source. He would try to stop Peter Pan and close those portals before it was too late.