Jen and Chloe listened from the stairs to the shouting match that was going on downstairs. "What's Torchwood?" Chloe asked quietly.
"No idea," Jen answered truthfully. Loud screams filled the air, and both girls looked at each other. They were aware of students running, screaming.
"Jen, what do you think is going on?" Chloe asked nervously. "Because what ever it is, we need to leave."
"We can't. Owen is downstairs, our friends are down there!" Jen craned her neck to try and get a better look, but all she could see was a blinding bright blue light.
"Jack, what the hell are they?" Gwen asked, her eyes wide as she watched in horror as the four men raised there hands to their heads.
"Zips in their head?" Owen laughed. "Zippy!"
"Owen!" Jack hissed, he gestured his head to the bannisters where he knew two girls were watching. One of them was undoubtedly Owen's sister, pale features, bright eyes, brown hair. The other small and blond, watching with fear in her eyes.
"Jen," Owen mumbled. Ianto looked up at the stairs and saw the two girls watching. One clearly panicking, the other watching with brave eyes.
"Jack what are they?" Toshiko asked as she watched as the creatures peeled away layers of skin. Students around them started running and screaming. Jack wanted to tell them to stop running, it wouldn't do any good, but they were only children.
"Slitheen." Jack cursed.
"How do you kill them?" Gwen demanded.
"You'll have to catch us first, that is if we don't get the children first!" They moved their chubby green arms to their wrists, and more lights followed before they disappeared.
"Short range telleports." Jack mused.
"They're still on site," Toshiko said as she read from her PDA.
"Owen!" Jen shouted as she ran downstairs. She flung her arms around her brother and held onto him tight. "Are you okay?"
"I should be asking you that," Owen smiled, pulling away slightly to double check his sister.
"I'm fine,"
"You know him?" Steve yelled, he and the teachers had backed away with the children.
"He's my brother," Jen replied.
"You were ill," Steve rambled. "What's going on here Miss Harper?"
"I'm cured." Jen shrugged making Owen laugh. "And I don't know what's going on."
"There aliens." Jack started.
"Aliens?" Chloe stuttered from behind Jen.
"Like from Mars?" Sam piped up, he had been standing behind Owen the whole time.
"No from Rex..." Jack shook his head. "Rex oh something."
"Aliens aren't real!" Sam laughed.
"You saw what we saw Sam! How do you explain it?" Jen shouted.
"It's just a trick of the light..."
"You're delusional." Jen muttered. "So, what you're like alien hunters?" She asked looking at her brother.
"Something like that," Owen smiled.
"So what are you going to do?" She looked up at Jack, she could sense he was the man in charge.
"Hey, why aren't you asking me?" Owen laughed.
"Because I'm the boss." Jack smirked. "Captain Jack Harkness..."
"Pleasure," Jen grinned.
"Stop it!" Owen barked.
"I was just saying hello."
"Seventeen," Owen hissed.
"As fun as this is, there are Slitheen on the site still, with a hundred students running for their life." Ianto pointed out.
"Toshiko can you trace them?" Jack asked.
"No. There are four telleports on the site,"
"The rift spikes." Ianto said. "There were four."
"We need to split up." Jack stated. "Gwen and Toshiko go to the first one, see if you can disable it. If you see any Slitheen shot on site. Ianto with me. Owen, I need you to get all the students out."
"What about the other three sites?" Jen asked.
"We'll do it one at a time, but we wont be able to do it with students every where."
"But you can't disable the telleports!" Jen said as Jack was walking away.
"And why not?" Jack asked, he had a feeling Owen's sister would be just as stubborn.
"Because, students are going missing. If they've used the telleports to get the students out then shutting them down means the students wont be able to come back!" Jack exchanged looks with Owen and smiled.
"She's smart, shame it doesn't run in the family."
"Hey. I'm a doctor. Medical school doesn't accept just anyone."
"Didn't except you till your third pleading letter either," Jen smirked.
"I like you." Jack grinned, Jen just smiled back. "So, we don't disable them, we look for the Slitheen and kill them."
"How do we know if they're Slitheen?" Gwen asked. Jen and Chloe looked at her and smirked, could she be that stupid?
"You can smell them!" Chloe smirked.
"Who are you?" Jack asked.
"Chloe Granger," She smiled. "The Slitheen, they're in suits. And the people they are using are fat and they fart a lot."
"Gas exchange." Jack shuddered.
"So we go round shooting people whose had one too many pork pies?" Owen grinned, making Ianto smile slightly. Jen watched the two and grinned.
"So you're the boyfriend?" She laughed.
"You can have proper introductions later, but right now we need to find a way to stop them." Jack sighed. "Owen stay with your sister, you might learn a thing or two."
"So, he's your boss?" Jen smiled as they walked around the site. She had already asked to hold Owen's gun, or for any other weapons but Owen point blank refused.
"Yes, and no you can't have his phone number." Owen laughed.
"Who says I was interested?" Jen grinned. "Any way, he's what forty?"
"More like one hundred and..."
"What?" Chloe asked, she and Sam had refused to leave Jen with Torchwood. Not believing that there was really aliens in the building.
"Long story." Owen sighed. Why was it always he who had to play babysitter. Surely this was Gwen's role. He didn't mind his sister, but her friends were starting to do his head in – how could they be so naïve.
"Can you smell that?" Jen asked as they walked down the stairs to the game room.
"Smells like..." Chloe went to finish her sentence but Mr Foster blocked her way.
"Ah, children. Why aren't you running scared like your friends?"
"Why should we be scared of flubber in a face mask?" Jen said standing her ground, Owen grinned. He had been thinking of an insult similar.
"Then you're fools." Owen raised his gun and aimed it at its head, shooting and watching as the green blood splattered every where.
"Now that's just nasty." Sam said as he wiped the blood spatter from his face.
"What's down here?" Owen asked, they had walked down a long flight of stairs past the game room and were now standing in a large room.
"Says no Entry." Sam stated.
"But there's nothing in here." Jen said. The room was completely.
"It's the telleport!" Owen mumbled, just as the room filled with a bright light.
"What the hell?" Chloe shouted.
"Where are we?" Sam yelled.
"Be quiet," Jen hissed. Her friends stopped talking immediately and followed Jen's and Owen's eye line. Standing in front of them with their backs turned was at least ten Slitheen.
"We're screwed." Owen mumbled. "Absolutely fucking screwed."
