HOLY CRAP! I'm sooooooo sorry I'm late! Planned on updating every Wednesday, cause the first day I uploaded was Wednesday, an I need a schedual to function... even if that schedual doesn't come to fruition. Here you go, and it's short, so I feel horrible cause on top of being short it's late. Will try to work on that. Whoops, I'm rambling...
Disclaimer: No Immortals, no Raxacoricofallapatorius', no Doctors... not even Doc McStuffins T-T
Martha Jones was sitting in the back of a UNIT van when she called up Torchwood. In Cardiff, Jack Harkness sat on his desk, piles of papers cluttering the surface. Gwen Cooper came from behind with tea, clucking her tongue at the mess when the phone rang. Jack jumped up, dropping a few papers in the process which were immediately retrieved by Gwen. Reaching the phone, he picked it up and answered. "Torchwood 3, Jack Harkness at your service." He said with his normal flirty air. "Jack? Hey Jack, Doctor Martha Jones calling from UNIT. We need your team's help here. We found the Pandorica. It's here in England, under Stonehenge."
"You guys found the Pandorica under Stonehenge? You've got to be joking. The prison for the most dangerous creature in all the universe found under that pile of rocks? Ha ha!" He laughed, incredulous. "Sorry Jack, no joke. We're on our was there now. Please come along, we could use your team's help when dealing with whatever's inside. You all have so much more experience when dealing With dangerous things that aren't of Earthen origin." Martha responded, serious in her tone and request- though she did add a bit of flattery to please Jack's big ego, making the possibility of him actually showing much higher. "Ah, I see. We'll see you there then, Martha Jones." Jack gushed, still surprised at her previous tone. "Gwen! We got a job!"
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Martha stood outside of the large stone blocking the entrance to the vault-like structure they had picked up on the sensors earlier that day. UNIT had scanned the area more thoroughly after they discovered the chamber beneath and found a large, square object they took to be Pandorica. Thus, Jack Harkness and the Torchwood 3 team, who had experience in dealing with dangerous extraterrestrials.
About an hour later, the entrance stood open, a gaping hole in the side of the hill. It was surprisingly well made for a two thousand year old structure, quite perfectly edged and sloping gently down into the chamber. UNIT sent down their assault (more or less) team to investigate, and two minutes later all the scientists were clear to enter. Martha Jones made her way down the slope with a small amount of hesitation, not sure whether she wanted to see what occupied the thing she thought of as a prison cell. Jack Harkness bounded down the slope, nearly running into Martha in his haste. "Hello, my Nightingale!" He called out flirtatiously on the way past. "Hey, Jack, hang on!" Martha dashed behind, following him while blushing a bit. After all, these were her colleagues watching someone flirt with her. 'Then again, better colleagues than family,' she thought to herself after entering a huge room under the Henge. It took a moment for her eyes to register what it was she was seeing, but when they did, Martha gasped in amazement.
The cellar like structure was humungous, with a sloping ceiling and finely cornered walls and floor. Four columns supported the weight of the earth above, and smack-dab in the middle of it all was a very large, very ominous black box. It was coal black with silver writing on it, most likely alien in origin, and was eerily perfect in every aspect. Four other scientists and doctors surrounded it, using specialized stethoscopes to listen for sound within. Jack walked up to the side of it, resting his hand upon the box with fascination written all over his face. He kept pacing around it, circling, if you will, as though it would help him devise what horrible, terrible creature could possibly need such an extensive cage to contain it. Now that it faced Martha, however, the feeling of it being a prison grew.
Thirty minutes later, Jack still circled the box, and Martha had gotten out her own 'stethoscope' to try to hear whatever was within. UNIT and Torchwood had scanned and listened and knocked with every tool they possessed, from little rubber mallets to Jack's very own particle vaporizer. After getting nothing, everyone involved was weary and yearned for sleep. They hadn't gotten any reaction on any of the tools they used, and now grew impatient with the foreign object. Martha took a step back after just one more fruitless try for a reaction, and then leaned against it to look at Jack where he paced.
"Whacha thinking, Jackie-boy?" She questioned earnestly, teasing him a bit as she did. "What in this universe, or any universe, could possibly be in that... that... that cage? What could possibly be so dangerous that anyone would go this far to lock it up?" He asked in reply. Then walking up to what he though was the door, he whispered, " What are you?" Suddenly, the air filled with wailing, piercing screams as though someone was being tortured. Martha quickly was startled off the box before it hit her to put the 'stethoscope' to the box. As her head filled with the unearthly, agonizing cries, Martha nodded to Jack. The screams came from within the Pandorica.
So again, sorry for length, and tardiness, no chapters of mine will ever be this short again! Scouts Honor (is that still a thing?)! Anyway, I believe I might have a legitimate excuse, as I was puking my face off Wednesday and Thursday. Coincidentally, one of those days happened to be my birthday. Funny, right?