Chapter Nine
The Buried Village
It was another stormy night in Bay Walk, James had an alien cold and wouldn't take his medication so Back was already at his wits end. Then the doorbell went, standing outside he found Morgan' wrecked looking mother,
"What the hell do you want?" Jack asked
Morgan' mother wouldn't say a word unless aloud into the hub first. He refused until Morgan arrived at the hub,
"Mum? What're you doing here?" He asked
"It's not for a reunion" She told him
Jack saw the instant stab of pain on Morgan' face and felt for him.
"I got caught up in something, and was given a task to lure one of you to a spot off the motorway, they asked for Morgan, God knows why. People in our local town are going missing, important people, medics and FBI agents. All identities have been erased, they wanted a medic to go in undercover" Morgan' mother said once she was inside.
Owen wasn't convinced,
"How'd these people die?"
"I don't know...I'm telling you the truth" She said
"Start with the FBI files for Cornwall on missing medics rather than just agents or if not then FBI Wales and see what you can find out" Jasmine suggested
"How did you get mixed up with these people?" Morgan asked
"I don't remember, I wrote this note on my arm in perminant ink, I guess because they kept erasing my memory and feeding me tasks" She replied
"Have you anywhere to stay tonight?" Morgan asked, she shook her head, "You can come back to mine"
None of the Torchwood team could get very far with files,
"8 cases with encrypted coding, it's taken us this long to work out the passwords" Chris sighed
"Adrian, ask Liam to drop in on Vera for a chat...we're not asking them to get involved in the case, we're just asking Liam to ask a question" Jack said
Adrian gave him a dubious look.
Vera looked up from her paperwork to find Liam reading the names of desceased on a board on the wall,
"Can I help you with something Liam?" She called
Liam jumped
"I was trying to be conspicuous"
"It was working" Vera replied sarcastically
Liam and Vera met in the middle of the morgue in the FBI building they both worked in,
"OK so Morgan' mother turned up, she's gotten herself caught up with something...apparently medics and agents have beein going missing. The file was encrypted so I had a chat with someone upstairs and they told him four of them had turned up here but they wouldn't give them access to the files and I just wandered if you knew anything about it?"
"The bodies are here yes but we have a problem, I can't do a post-mortum because no one signed the bodies in and another thing" Vera said, removing a body for Liam to see, "The deat and cause of death is there on the file that came with them. 1994, they turned up a week ago...for bodies over 20 years of age they're remarkably well preserved what?"
"Oh I don't like this" Liam said with a shiver
"We're not getting involved, I suggest you tell Torchwood to do the same" Vera told him firmly
Liam phoned Adrian and told him what he knew, Adrian put him on speaker so he could tell the others too,
"So you saw the bodies yourself?" Jack asked as James threw his spoon across the room,
"If I didn't know any better I'd have said they'd only died in recent days, hell, I'd even go as far as to say they were fresh corpses" Liam replied
"Right" Owen said, "Get me that reference I'm going to see if Tosh can alter it to read living people"
At that moment his phone rang, it was Morgan,
"Mum' gone! Mum' gone and the apartment is trashed" He said
Owen' eyes widened.
When Owen reached the apartment with Jack and Jasmine he found Morgan trying to calm their elderly neighbour,
"But...I saw it" She was saying
"You alright Mrs Dorpursy?" Owen asked kindly
"Oh Ownen" She said coming over to him, arms out, "You're place is haunted...I saw it on your CCTV"
"Our what now?" Owen asked
"Oh yes...would you like to see?" She asked
Everyone went inside and sat down, when Mrs Dorpursy showed them footage of the place she couldn't see what they could. Tall, blue figures in orange robes, that had blue and yellow tridants on the back,
"I know what they are" Jasmine said quietly
Jack' eyes widened,
"You were a spy in your day weren't you?" Jack said to Mrs Dorpursy jokingly
"That's right, I worked for the Russian Government for 14 years" She revealed, everyone stared at her in shock, "You thought I'd lost my marbles"
"Uh..." Owen said
"Oh it's alright Owen I'm not gonna kill ya, you're one of the good guys. I'm afraid I can't let you keep that footage but I can give you the codes for the CCTV they installed in every occupied apartment, it might be more beneficial to you" She told them
"Why would they do that?" Morgan asked
"In case anyone in the building takes a dislike into someone. Insurance, you must have read the fine print surely or at the very least mentioned Torchwood while speaking to the people selling the apartments to you" Mrs Dorpursy said
"Help us out here" Jack said
"Everyone who lives in this apartment block have been at some point known to have worked or fought against the British Government. There are at least five people on this floor, who used to work for the Pentagon" She told them
"Fuck me!" Owen exclaimed on the way out, "A bunch of people, who worked or still work for meagre organisations. Assassins and Spies, I mean what the hell and there was me wandering why no one on Adrian' side of the block would allow anyone on mine to wait there for evacuation from the building?"
"Jas, you said you knew, what they were" Jack said
"Carva Stride, they live in Mulsafray. The Galafraian Medic planes, they could have access to amnisia serums, in fact I'm pretty sure if they're experienced enough they can excrete the stuff from their pours" Jasmine told Jack,
Jack frowned and called Vera to tell her what they knew,
"Oh well see that makes more sense" She said, "Tell Liam, perhaps he and Morgan should take a trip...we need to know how these medics died, leave it with me"
Vera walked into the office of her boss at FBI Wales,
"What can I do for you today Vera?" He asked
"It's about those bodies...1994" She began
"No"
"No?"
"No post mortum, I can't run the risk of putting people in danger when no one will take responsibility for the signing of the bodies?" Her boss told her
"What if I were to tell you I know, who or what is behind it?" She asked
"That would depend on who, or what is behind it" He told her
"Carver Stride"
"No, absolutely not! if the Blue Carvers are up to their old tricks again you really will be putting this base in danger"
"What if I just take a few blood tests to help them out? What harm could come of a blood test?" Vera asked sweetly
"I've heard those words come out of your mouth before and look what happened there?" Her boss said
"I got you out didn't I?" She huffed
However Vera was in for a shock, forgetting their power completely she cut the finger of one of the bodies and grey smoke left it and began to fill the room,
She locked herself in a secure room and sound the alarms,
"What's going on down there?" Her boss called over intercom
"I'm sorry...the bodies, they have Molrock in their system" She breathed
"Torchwood is our nearest access to the nutraliser!" He yelled
"I'm sorry!" She yelled back, "Get them over here now!"
Jack rushed into action the second he heard the word Molrock,
"What is that?" Adrian asked
"Galafranian sea water" Jasmine told him,
"The ocean of Molsephray is similar to that of mercury in that it can be both a liquid and a solid. Molsaphrilian people use it to embalm bodies but once disturbed it reverts to its liquidised state. If this body happens to be on another planet the Molrock reacts to the metals within the surface and causes a smoke with radioactive atributes" Owen said
"Oh wow" Adrian said
Meanwhile on a road in the middle of nowhere a tin flew across Liam' path and forced Liam and Morgan off the road.
They got out to inspect the tin and were stunned to find it full of ID' and notes and a map of an old village no longer visible.
"What's this about?" Liam asked
Morgan spread out the map across the car roof,
"The black patches are villages that were buried to stop the spread of a virus called Singerflue, this was the area in 1994"
The 12th Doctor caught wind of the case and sent text to everyone, telling them all to meet him in the boardroom of the hub. Once everyone was present he sat on the table to tell them all he knew,
"In 1994 an alien virus broke out within 1,994 villages around the UK. A virus called Singerflue,
It really is terrible, if you don't get to it quick enough it can cause mutations, especially in humans,
It can also be passed on to animals and kill plants, trees and if it hits the vegetation too then you're done for because it becomes poisonous. Regardless of a known cure the only way to stop the spread of the virus was to burry and seal the villages exactly 100 foot bellow ground level" He said
"So you let those humans die?" Adrian asked
"Certainly not, this was before I passed out following Galafray' destruction, you see I had three hearts then and a hell of a lot of power. The first thing I did was cure them before creating the first of seven parallel earths and of course in doing that I had to create seven parallel galaxy formations, planets" 12 said
"In the Catholic faith it is believed that God created the world in seven days it just made sense to me,
What I hadn't counted on was the parallel creation of those who were living on this planet. On a parallel that individual makes a decision the one living on this planet would have been too afraid to make, a different career choice or life path" 12 said
"Do you ever visit the parallels?" Morgan asked
"Don't need to do I? I'm there" 12 said as if it were obvious
"Did you ever find out what caused the virus?" Liam asked
"Well yes actually I did. Many years before this occurred I and your Grandfather buried something else, A piece of an evil being known as Principle and a book, which once read aloud can shift buildings of the present and replace them with buildings of the past. If you do that, you blast the individual's resident in the building moved out of existence and revive those within the building replacing it. The building of the village and its foundations disturbed the body and released the virus into the air, the Blue Carvers want to re-release this virus into the air once more. To do that they need to get to the book and to get to the book requires the abstracting of specific particles from the body of exactly 8 medics,
Molsephray is a medical base, they have four already somewhere within the buried villages. Although the bodies at the FBI base were embalmed with Molrock they were in fact human and The Carvers will be relying on us locating the burial sight because the machine is up a running, the blood of four medics who have travelled in time and space would suffice now" 12 said
"If we all venture to the burial sight then the machine is overloaded" Jack said
"Exactly" 12 smiled
"How're we getting down there?" Adrian asked
Jack, Adrian and Vera appeared in one area of the buried village, which resembled a museum piece and Liam, Morgan, Jasmine and 12 appeared in another area. Both felt like they were being watched but thought nothing of it until they were all in the same space and a car revved into life and came at them.
Adrian was shoved out of the way by nothing before Jack' brother, Rupert appared.
Jack was stunned,
"Get out of the damn car!" Rupert demanded, "I've stopped you before and I will do it again"
"How exactly? The only way to end this is the sending of the bodies of 1994, all embalmed with Molrock. All human so if you even try you'll be done for betrayal and by the time you've got yourselves out of that mess we'll have found eight more bodies, reverted the villages back to the upper ground and released the virus in all seven parallels" A Carver said, getting out of the car, "You can't do a sending"
"No I can't but Adrian can"
"No he can't. The bodies of 1994 died from an alien virus released by humankind with the building of this very village" The Carver said
"Be that as it may you dug them up, your intent was to use a machine on those bodies to wreak havoc on a species that can't see you. There for the threat posed was down to alien intent meaning I can send those bodies" Adrian said
Rupert helped to call the bodies to the one space. Wrapped up like mummies they floated into the area and lined up before them. A truly terrifying sight to see,
"You're making a huge mistake" The Carver said as Adrian sent the souls with his cane,
"Really, well when you chose the wrong enemy I rather think it's you, who has made the mistake" Rupert said, "Where is Morgan' mother?"
"No idea, she had a little too much" The Carver said, "Damage is irreversable"
At that moment the Carvers were ported out.
Not long after Morgan shivered as he heard a gun shot and Adrian stared at a letter in shock, it was from Rupert and informed him that he had two more years to produce an heir with Chrissie or Lydia would die from the mark upon her.
Adrian protested but it fell on deaf ears,
"Let me have the child myself!" He pleaded
"It has to be her" Rupert told him
