Chapter 10

(At the hub Rhys and Mickey are clearing away the rubble of the destroyed hub and surveying the damage)

Rhys: So Mickey, wasn't it, how do you know Jack?

Mickey: I met him a few years ago, I think it was 2006, anyway I met him right above our heads.

Rhys: Seriously!

Mickey: Yeah, it was when my ex turned friend Rose called me to meet her, Jack and the Doctor at Cardiff to give her, her passport, though to this day I don't see why she'd need it.

Rhys: I don't get it.

Mickey: You see Jack and Rose used to travel with this guy called the Doctor in a ...

(Everyone else walks in)

Jack: ... time travelling blue box called the TARDIS which stands for...

Martha: Time And Relative Dimension In Space.

Rhys: You expect me to believe in time travel.

Jack: After everything you've seen why not?

Rex: So who is this Doctor guy?

Mickey: You don't know who the Doctor is, he's the whole reason there's even a Torchwood, well him and Rose.

Gwen: What do you mean?

Jack: The Torchwood Institute was founded in 1879 by her majesty Queen Victoria to help protect the British Empire from extraterrestrial threat, to capture the Doctor (who she saw as a threat, though I assure you he isn't) and to secure alien technology for Britain. The institute is named Torchwood after the house in Scotland where this all started.

Martha: Now I don't get it

Jack: Old Queen Vicky had a problem with a Lupine Wavelength Haemovariform, or Werewolf to you and me.

Rhys: A werewolf, really?

Jack: Yes really

Gwen: You told me once that this Doctor guy has saved the Earth more times than Torchwood so why would Queen Victoria set up a group like this to capture him.

Jack: Because she saw him as a threat

Gwen: But why did she think of him like that?

Martha: Probably because he's an alien too. He's a Time-Lord,...

Mickey: ... actually he's the last of the Time-Lords. There was this war thing between them and the Daleks, and when it came down to it the Doctor had a choice, kill both races or let the universe be torn apart.

Gwen: He must be so lonely

Martha: Not really, he picks up people here there and everywhere, I should know, I was one of them.

Gwen: You've travelled in time?

Mickey: So have I

Jack: And me.

Mickey: I met Madame de Pompadour.

Martha: Shakespeare

Jack: And he took me to the year 100 trillion.

Martha: That's not strictly true though is it Jack, you clung to the outside of the TARDIS as we hurtled through the Time Vortex

Rex: This is just adding to the weirdness of the situation.

Jack: Yes, right, so you two, I see you've managed to clear away a fair bit.

Mickey: Yeah, it'll take at least another day to get rid of the rest, and we're gonna have to deal with the Weevil problem downstairs.

Gwen: Let's do that first then, who's with me.

(They all mumble their agreement and went to see what weapons they can find to help them deal with the Weevils).

End of Chapter