Chapter Three-
"But he's from a fictional timeline!" Tosh protested, and Harry shot her a quizzical glance.
Doctor Banner and Doctor Jane Foster finally pulled a small handheld device out of the trunk, and approached the Torchwood team, S.H.I.E.L.D members, and Harry Potter.
"Can someone please explain where I am and who you people are?" Harry inquired, and glanced around at everyone nervously.
"You, kid, are from a British book series that everyone loves that appeared in front of me. Don't ask me how the hell it happened; just go with it, because I have about as much of a clue as you do. Blueberry?" Tony pulled out a pouch of the dried berries and offered some to Harry, who eyed him before taking one.
Poor kid. Owen thought, but tried not to show the slight sympathy he felt. If he's from the last book, then he's just defeated Voldemort... I wonder if he's facing severe PTSD at the moment.
Harry took in the people and the scenery wide-eyed, trying to figure out where he was and if these people would try to kill him. The only person that didn't look willing to kill was the petite Asian woman that reminded him of Cho.
"You're in Cardiff, Whales, and we're trying to unravel the mystery of how you got here, and try to send you back." A man with light brown hair, blue eyes, and a long, greyish blue coat informed him.
"Where is he going to stay, I mean-"The Asian woman started, but was cut off.
"Tosh." The man with the long coat tried to get her attention.
"Where are we going to stay? We can't go back into the Hub because of the power outage-"
"Toshiko." The man snapped, and she fell silent. "We have to focus on the problems at hand."
"Tosh is right." A man wearing a doctor's coat over casual clothing piped up. "Our technology to unravel this is inside the Hub, and we need a place to work."
"Stop squabbling like a flock of old women." Owen turned to see Doctor Banner next to Tosh. "We have equipment to help figure out the matters at hand."
Doctor Jane Foster held up a grey, metal, handheld device that seemed to meld to her hand. She waved the device around, and checked the readings.
"We should be dead by now." She concluded."We're at the centre of all the activity, and three hundred and eighty-two joules of electromagnetic energy are emitting from this rift. At two hundred joules, people die from the energy, yet we're surviving. How?"
Everyone was silent, when Jack spoke up, "Does that thing know what's causing it?" He pointed at Jane's hand.
"That's beyond the machine, unfortunately." She bit her lip, before shaking her head. "All that's coming up is a bunch of numbers and letters."
"I can record them; they must mean something." Ianto pulled out a small notepad and pen from his inner suit pocket. Jack just smiled at Ianto always having something in his pockets that benefits the situations they've been in.
"Here they are." Doctor Banner paused, looking over Jane's shoulder before reciting. "Seven point nine point thirteen point J point K point R dash seventeen dash three slash S point C dash system error dash four slash D zero seven seven zero R dash three H zero point one three A nine dash three zero seven F."
"All of the letters are capitalized." Jane added helpfully, and Jack looked over Ianto's shoulder at what he'd written.
7.9.13.J.K.R-17-3/S.C-SYSTEM ERROR-4/D0C770R-3H0.13A9-307F.H37P5-Y0U
"What the hell?" Jack muttered, before he pointed out the first three numbers, 7.9.13. "That could be the date."
Tony glanced over Ianto's other shoulder, and Owen read the code upside-down.
"Idiots." Tony replied to Jack. "We're in the month of September, not July."
"Americans." Owen rolled his eyes, and sighed. "In Britain, it's written as the day, then month, then year."
Tony muttered something inaudible, but Jack figured it was something about Britain.
"The last two letters and the zero seem to spell out 'YOU'." The man wearing the American flag coloured bodysuit added, and the Torchwood team had almost forgotten he was even present.
Owen looked him up and down distastefully. "Who're you and what are you supposed to be?"
"I'm Captain Steve Rogers. During World War Two I was the successful science experiment. I was the perfect soldier, and I still am. I was known to the people as Captain America."
"Does being the perfect soldier experiment refrain aging?" Captain Rogers shrugged, and Owen snorted slightly, before he glanced at Jack. "It's like you all over again."
"I did serve during World War Two, yet I wasn't the government's science experiment, nor was I the perfect soldier. I became the way I am now in the future, not in the past."
"To add to it, Captain Steve Rogers probably isn't an omnisexual." Ianto added quietly, which turned quite a few heads in shock, and caused Owen to try very hard not to laugh.
"What do you mean, 'I became the way I am now'?" Captain Rogers looked unaffected by Ianto's remark.
"He can't die and doesn't seem to age." Owen replied, before adding mockingly. "Your Star-Spangledness."
Captain Rogers just glared and Tony stepped in. "Hey, it's my job to heckle and slightly harass him, not yours. Back off Owen Harper."
"But-How-?" Owen tried to figure out how Stark knew his name. He knew he hadn't told him, so how-? It didn't add up.
"Jarvis, play 'God Bless the U.S.A' by Lee Greenwood."
"If tomorrow all the things were gone I'd worked for all my life,
And I had to start again with just my children and my wife.
I'd thank my lucky stars to be living here today,
'Cause the flag still stands for freedom and they can't take that away.
And I'm proud to be an American where at least I know I'm free.
And I won't forget the men who died, who gave that right to me.
And I'd gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today.
'Cause there ain't no doubt I love this land God bless the U.S.A." Came loud and clear from Stark's wrist band, and Owen couldn't help feel a pang of jealousy.
"Jarvis, turn off music."
"Yes, sir." Came the reply from the wrist band that reminded Jack of Ianto.
"Wait," Tosh whispered, taking the note pad from Ianto, before sighing, "Never mind."
"I'm starving." Harry commented, and Stark nodded in agreement, noticing he was out of dried blueberries.
"I could really go for some shawarma." Stark replied, and Rogers and Doctor Banner rolled their eyes.
"What the hell is shw- that?" Owen gave up on trying to pronounce, before continuing. "I suggest pizza. There's a great joint a three minute's walk from here."
The Torchwood team simultaneously looked at each other, not bothering to mask their grins.
"Before we go any further, who the hell orders pizza under the name 'Torchwood'?" Jack glanced at Owen.
"Oh yeah, that'd be me. Sorry, I'm a twat." Owen replied, and his grin stretched wider.
"Brits." Stark sighed, and glanced at Rogers. "Pizza it is, then."
The Torchwood team continued grinning about their inside joke all the way to the pizza joint.
