They all set out on foot, searching for these strange white creatures. The snow had almost all melted.
'I wonder how many there are..' Tosh muttered.
'A bloody lot I expect' Owen replied.
'Look', Gwen pointed towards where they were stood, and everyone's eyes reached the thing in which she was pointing to.
'Okay, move out. We'll surround it. How many bullets did you say it took to take down the first one?' Jack asked Gwen and Owen.
'About 6 or 7', Owen replied.
'Right. Aim for the head!' Jack said loudly as they ran towards the creature.
'Jack!' Ianto shouted. He'd spotted another one. The only problem was that it had spotted them first. It began running towards Ianto, who was the closest to it. 'Shit..' he muttered, loading his gun, his hand shaking. Why didn't you load it, first? he thought to himself angrily. He then spun around, but by that point the creature was 5 metres from him, towering over him intimidatingly. I'm too late, he thought to himself. The creature's large hand moved towards him, in a fist. It was stupidly strong for something fluffy and white. The ground shook with every step it took.
'NO!' Jack shouted, his gun raised. One touch and you were dead. Trapped in an icy coffin forever. Jack took 5 shots at the creature, 2 bullets in the hand, the other 3 in the head. It began to fall. 'MOVE!' Jack shouted at Ianto, who was slightly disoriented, and ran out of the way before he was crushed by the huge beast.
'Great. One down, What about this one?' Owen said to himself, dodging the creature's arms as they swung at him. 'Can I get some help?' he shouted.
Gwen turned round, lifted her gun and shot at it. 'It's moving too much..' she muttered, frustrated.
At that point another one appeared and started running towards them. It heard all the commotion, which was understandable as the things were pretty loud.
'Me and Ianto will take down this one, Toshiko, you help Gwen and Owen finish that one off.' Toshiko nodded, aiming her gun at the constantly moving white beast that was screaming at them all.
'This is ridiculous. I feel like I'm in bloody Scooby Doo', Gwen said, aiming her gun at the "yeti" who had started to calm down, and was moving less.
'Yeah, except when we're done they won't take their masks off and say "I would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for these meddling kids". And we have no dog', Owen replied. He then shot the creature in the head, and it dropped to the floor. Another gunshot came from behind them, and they heard another loud thud. They turned round and saw three creatures lying on the floor, followed by Ianto saying 'I've got blood on my bloody shoes.'
Just as they were leaving to return to the Hub, John appeared again.
Owen groaned. 'What a bloody surprise.'
'Nice to see you, too', John said.
'What are you doing here, John?' Jack asked him impatiently.
'I've come to warn you.. again.'
'Yeah, yeah. You said all of that earlier. "Something's coming"', Gwen said, rolling her eyes. John scowled at her.
'Something is coming.'
'What's coming?' Jack asked him.
'Oh so now you all want to know', John smirked. Ianto looked as if he was about to spark John out - his fist was raised and everything.
'Okay, okay! Wow, eye candy has a temper..'
'Get on with it', Ianto said through gritted teeth.
'I don't know exactly.. sources told me that something is coming. And it's not going to be good. Thousands of lives are going to be put in danger', John told them.
'What sources?' Jack asked him, sounding more and more irritated.
'Well that's my business.'
'Fine. Okay. When?'
'In a couple of months', John replied.
'Great. Thanks for the heads up', Jack replied, and they left.
Back at the Hub, everyone was sat working, researching, making coffee, the usual. Owen was sat staring into space, the same morbid expression on his face that he'd had all week.
Ianto brought him some papers that he'd mentioned he needed.
'Cheers', Owen replied.
No 'tea boy'? Ianto thought to himself. Something must be wrong.
Ianto walked back into the kitchen for a while, beckoning Gwen and Tosh in there with him. Owen didn't even notice.
Five minutes later the three of them returned, surrounding Owen. He looked up, a suspicious look on his face.
'Owen, we understand how hard this is for you. We really do. We're a team, we work together. So we've decided we're going to cheer you up', Ianto told him.
'How?' Owen asked, curious.
'Twister!'
Jack came out of his office, carrying the Twister box with one hand, smiling.
That evening consisted of them laughing, using foul language and falling on top of each other. 'You're such a cheat!' Ianto shouted at Jack.
'How did you work that one out?' Jack asked, laughing.
'Those 51st century pheromones of yours..' Ianto started, looking up at Jack.
'Save it for the bedroom, you two. I'm about to win', Owen said.
'No you're not!' Gwen shouted. 'An earthquake would hit and I'd still be on all fours.. wait..'
Owen raised his eyebrow.
'Enough dirty talk, it's my turn', Jack said as the spinner landed on "left foot red." Everyone else burst out with laughter.
'Good luck with that one, mate', Owen said. He had two of his feet behind him, leaning over with one hand holding him, on the blue spot.
'Thanks', Jack replied, moving his left foot carefully onto a red spot on the mat. Owen had made a gizmo a couple of years back that moved the spinner, so that everyone could play, and no one had to be in charge of the spinner.
'No! Not yellow!' Tosh shouted as the spinner landed on right hand yellow. Gwen started laughing again.
'I wouldn't be laughing if I were you, Gwen. Have you seen what it's just landed on?' Owen said, smirking.
'Bollocks', she replied.
That evening everyone returned home with a big smile on their face. Even Owen.
'See you later!' Tosh shouted as she departed, crossing the road away from Gwen and Owen.
'See ya', Tosh!' Owen shouted.
'Bye!' Gwen waved, still partly laughing as she walked backwards down the street with Owen. 'That was a laugh', she said, smiling.
'Yeah. We should do stuff like this more often. I could use a break once in a while.'
'Me too.'
They reached the end of the road in which they both turned different directions for home.
'Right.' Owen said with his hands in his pockets. 'See you tomorrow, Gwen', he winked at her.
'Bye, Owen.' Gwen turned and started walking home. Owen stood and watched her until she disappeared into the darkness, and then returned home, too.
