A/N: Okay so the bit with Martha and Owen was never in the original plan but as I was writing it just seemed to appear there somehow so the next chapter is the last.
Sorry for the long gap but I wanted to get Shattered Dreams up and then I sort of got addicted to reading Eastenders fan fiction but here is chapter ten, finally.
Enjoy.
"Evacuate the base! Evacuate the base!" The Cyberboss ordered. Instantly the Cybermen holding Owen and Martha released them and started marching towards The Chambers and Upgrades. Martha ran to Jack's side.
"Owen, help me with him, quickly!" Martha said trying to drag Jack who was slowly regaining consciousness. Owen flung one of Jack's arms over his shoulder and the other over Martha's.
"We need to get out of here!" Owen yelled as they begun dragging Jack towards the door. The Cybermen scurried about like ants in a destroyed ant hill trying to rescue their eggs. The convertor tables were being detached and dragged out of the base. None of them were paying any attention to a few humans trying desperately to escape the pandemonium.
"We've got about four minutes!" Martha told the others as they hurried towards the door.
"But Martha...the Cybermen are going to escape..." Jack said weakly.
"The time can be overridden but it has to be done from a U.N.I.T. account. If we could just get in contact with Tosh back at the Hub she could activate it from my account but the Cybermen took the Comms." Martha said, sounding panicked.
"There's a spare Comm. Get it out for me" Jack said.
"Where? Wouldn't the Cybermen have found it?" Martha asked. Jack pointed and grinned.
"Oh no! I am not putting my hand down there Harkness!" Owen yelled in disgust.
"Not there," Jack managed to laugh "a pocket just inside my trousers, for emergencies." Owen grimaced and in one swift movement he took the comm. out and gave it to Martha who wiped it on her top before turning it on.
"Tosh?" asked Martha down the comm.
"Martha is that you? Are you all ok? We lost your comm. signals."
"Tosh we've got a problem. I need you to activate the bombs now!"
"But your heat signals say you're still down there, you're going to get killed!"
"We're almost out but if the Cybermen escape the whole world is in danger, we have to activate the bombs. Tosh I need you to log into U.N.I.T. The username is Mike, Alpha, Romeo, Tango, Hotel, Alpha, five, six, six, seven, one and the password is Delta, zero, Charlie, Tango, zero, Romeo." Martha paused, listening to Tosh typing frantically.
"Okay I'm in. What now?" Tosh asked.
"Click on tracking, under satellites. Go to activated bombs and click on the ones in this location, a timer should appear. Press override."
"I need the access code. I could use the password program I wrote but it'll take too long" Tosh worriedly
"It's four, four, four, seven, five, then confirm." Martha told her as they ran down the tunnel. Jack had fully regained consciousness by this point and was listening intently to the conversation.
"But-" Tosh protested.
"Just do it! That's an order" Jack said. taking the comm. from Martha.
"It's done" said Tosh.
Jack, Owen and Martha heard the automated voice of the computer down the comm. begin to count down, "Detonation in ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one." There was the sound of an explosion then the comm. went dead.
"Jack? Owen? Martha? Can you hear me?" Tosh asked frantically "Jack?"
"Tosh what's wrong?" asked a sleepy Gwen from the sofa.
Tosh didn't reply.
"What is it? Where are Jack, Owen and Martha? Hang on...what time is it?"
"They left... It's five am." Tosh looked down awkwardly.
"What?" Gwen said angrily as she realised what Jack had done "How could he, he said that-"
"Gwen that's not important right now! The bombs went off and Jack, Owen and Martha were still down there. Never mind the Weevils, they might be dead!" Tosh burst out uncharacteristically, waking Ianto who was, until then, asleep in the chair. Tosh explained to a dazed Ianto and an irritated Gwen what exactly had happened.
"But they're ok aren't they?" Gwen said sounding concerned, her initial anger forgotten for now.
"They were caught in the blast, the comms. cut, I haven't heard from them since and the SUV is still in its original place." Tosh told them.
"What about their heat signals?" Ianto asked helpfully.
"The explosion took down all the monitors and CCTV in that area."
"Looks like we're going to have to do it the old fashioned way then, you know, with our eyes." Ianto laughed, trying to make light of the situation. No one else seemed to find it funny.
Ianto drove them down to Moorland Park in silence. Police and U.N.I.T. officers were already swarming the area trying to clear up the rubble. Gwen immediately took charge of the search, informing the officers there were three missing people. Tosh began scanning area, looking for signs of life under the rubble.
"I've found something!" One of the U.N.I.T officers called as he dragged a body barely recognisable as a Cyberman from the wreckage.
"If that's what it did to the Cyberman then think what happened to-" Ianto began.
"You can't think like that Ianto. They'll be okay..." Gwen said trying to reassure them all.
"Over here! We're going to need a medical team over here, this one's not breathing!" A Policeman yelled. Gwen, Tosh and Ianto froze.
"Male, Caucasian" the officer yelled.
"Owen" Gwen said.
"He's in some kind of army coat" he called again.
"Jack" Tosh breathed a sigh of relief as she heard Jack take a huge breath of air and come back to life. Gwen, Tosh and Ianto ran to his side.
"We'll handle this, please just find the other two" Gwen said authoritatively. They sat by a dazed Jack and explained to him what had happened as they waited for news on Martha and Owen.
An hour later and there was still no sign of them. A whole load of dismembered Cybermen bodies had been pulled from the ruins and disposed of quickly by U.N.I.T. But Owen and Martha were still missing.
Owen woke up, his head pounding like he had a particularly bad hangover. He could feel his whole body bruising and there were scratches on his arms. His jeans were ripped and he was covered in earth. The air around him was musty and made it hard to breathe. The ground was dusty and it was very dark around him.
"Where am I? What happened?" He asked himself out loud. As his eyes adjusted to the darkness he managed to make out a woman lying next to him. Instinctively he reached out to check her pulse. Weak, but definitely there, Owen thought to himself. Her arm was bent at a funny angle and she was bleeding heavily from a gash in her head. Taking off his top, Owen bandaged up her head as well as he could and straightened out her arm before finally stopping to address the next issue. Where was he and what the hell had happened? Owen thought hard. He remembered being woken by Jack and the three of them had gone to plant bombs. The three of them: Jack, him and Martha ... Martha! That's who the woman next to him was! But something had stopped them and they had been caught in the blast. He stood up slowly and began to feel his way around in the dark. He was in some kind of chamber of rubble. Knocking gently on the ceiling he realised he was underground. He and Martha must be trapped in some kind of tunnel underground, the area around them had caved in and they had been knocked out when the bomb exploded. He heard a groan as Martha began to wake up.
"Ugh... What happened? Where am I? Jack? Owen?" Martha yelled, the volume of her voice rising slowly.
In an instant, Owen was at her side, "You're fine, I'm here. It's Owen Martha. We were caught in an explosion and we're trapped but it's going to be just fine. Jack will find us and get us out." Owen reassured her.
"Everywhere hurts..." Martha said softly.
"Just stay still, you're going to be fine Martha darling," Out of the corner of his eye Owen saw movement in the darkness "Hello? Who's over there? Are you ok?"
There was no reply.
"Owen, what is it?" Martha asked her voice shaky.
"I thought I saw something move." He crept closer to the place he had seen the movement "I'm a doctor, if your hurt I can help you."
Owen took another step into the darkness towards who or whatever was there.
"I've got a torch in my back pocket if you want it" Martha offered.
"Thanks" Owen said as he gently took the torch out. He switched it on and shone it towards the corner of the tunnel. Owen froze as the light glinted of a metal shell. A metal shell that was beginning to get up. The same Cyberman's face he had seen on the screen. Owen backed away quickly. The mutated Cyberboss now stood at full height a few feet from Owen and Martha.
"You destroyed everything," the Cyberboss growled "for that you deserve to die."
"Owen, help!" Martha whimpered.
"Stay still for me." Owen pulled her injured body from the floor into his arms. She clung off him as he backed into the corner.
"Delete! Delete!" The Cyberboss roared as he marched towards them.
"Help!" Owen yelled, desperately using his free hand to hammer against the ceiling and walls; "Help us, Jack! Jack!"
A/N: I just wanted to show you the logic behind Martha's log in and the override code. Basically her username was her first name with her U.N.I.T. number after and her password was Doctor but the O's were zeros and I did the letters phonetically. The override code was the number of letters in the names of each member in the order they appear in the opening credits. See? I do occasionally make sense.