Summary: Sequal to A lost childhood friend, while fighting an alien bent on taking over earth(what else is new?) he zaps Sarah-Jane and Alan so that they become merpeople and forced to live in the sea until their young friends can turn them back- featuring Rani, this is set when Alan and Maria come back from America
Main charaters: Sarah Jane, Alan
Secondary charaters: Luke, Maria, Clyde, Rani, Mr Smith, Jack Harkness, Ianto Jones, Gwen Copper, Mickey Smith, Martha Jones
Disclaimer: I do not own Sarah Jane Adventures or any of it's charaters not Torchwood or doctor who and any of it's charaters.
Note: If you haven't read 'A lost childhood friend' yet, I suggest you read it now, it's only a one-shot but it will help you understand the storyline.
It was at least 10 seconds until they hit the water, landing at a slight angle; they turned into their mermaid forms and swam off as fast as they could.
The Torchwood team, just having finished off the guards that were attacking them watched in shock at their fall.
"Blimey." Martha muttered, "I hope they are all right."
"They're mermaids." Jack replied, "A dive in the sea is nothing to them."
"What do you think they are doing?" Mickey asked.
"Well if they are smart," Jack replied, "They would get their fish tails all the way to China."
As soon as he said that, parts of the cliff opened and about three dozen jet-skis and speedboats zoomed out, racing their way towards the two retreating mermaids, followed by a larger, but still fast moving boat.
"Not good." Gwen muttered, as they watched them zoom out of sight.
"Come on." Jack ordered, and ran off to the Torchwood car, with the others following. When they got in, they set off, trying to keep the Area 41 boats in view at all times.
Sarah Jane and Alan were swimming as fast as they could, holding each other's hand. They were starting to get tired and slowing down when they heard the loud engines of the boats heading towards them.
"Oh god," Sarah Jane said, "Under."
Still swimming forwards, they swam lower and lower until their tails barely avoided the seabed. The were horrified when the saw a large net dropped from in-between two speedboats, with weights on the bottom to stop it floating up and leaving a gap, trapping the two mermaids.
"The cave!" Sarah Jane shouted, pointing to the cave they slept in that was in-between them and the net in front of them.
Swimming as fast as they could towards the tunnel, Alan soon realised that they were not going to make it in time. Thinking fast, he grabbed Sarah Jane's tail and span around once before letting go, throwing her like a slingshot into the cave just before the net blocked it.
Recovering quickly, Sarah Jane swam back out to see Alan getting trapped into the nets, which connected together at the edges when they touched to form one net.
"Swim," Alan shouted to her, "Please Sara Ja, get out of here."
Sarah Jane was gob smacked that he finally called her 'Sara Ja' again and swam up to him, following him up with the net.
"No, I can't." she said to him, grabbing his hand.
"Please," Alan pleaded, "For me and the kids."
"OK," Sarah Jane replied, defeated, "I love you Ala."
"I love you too."
After a quick kiss, Sarah Jane moved away, watching Alan break the surface, she swam as fast as she could away from it.
Within a minute, she heard more jet-skis and speedboats coming after her. Swimming quickly up to the surface, she dived and looked behind her, seeing a couple of dozen speedboats and jet-skis racing behind her. Looking forward again, she saw a beach and a very fast moving black land rover heading towards it. Landing in the sea, she grinned as she carried on swimming. She knew whom that car belonged to, it belonged to Torchwood.
In that certain land rover, the whole team was looking out of the window, searching for any sign of Area 41's boats or of the mermaids while Jack was driving as fast as he could.
"There!" Martha shouted, everyone looking to see Sarah Jane dive out of the water and back in.
"Next left Jack!" Gwen shouted to the man behind the wheel.
"Hold on!" Jack shouted, a second later he hit the brake and moved the stirring wheel left as hard as he could. Everyone held on to anything they could as the car skidded around to face the path that led to the beach. Putting the car back in gear, Jack sped off again.
Meanwhile back at the sea, Sarah Jane finally reached the beach. Sitting up, she looked behind her to see the Torchwood team stop their car and get out of it, running towards her.
Lifting her hand up, she used her power to freeze the water around the jet-skis and speedboats, stopping them in their tracks, sending the people aboard them flying.
Sarah Jane looked around and saw that four jet-skis had avoided her freezing. The people aboard them then took out their guns and pointed them at her before she could freeze them.
"Put your hands up." One of them ordered, but Sarah Jane kept them where they were, on the ground, "I said, put your hands up."
They suddenly heard the sound of guns clicking behind them, they turned to see the whole of the Torchwood team aiming guns at them. Jack had his gun against the head of the one that was talking.
"I fully suggest that you run away," Jack said to him, "Now that your guns are useless."
"How?" the guy asked Jack, puzzled.
"Cos Sarah Jane's gone and frozen them." Jack simply answered.
They looked back at their guns to see that the ends were covered in ice, making them completely useless, they then looked at Sarah Jane who then waved cheekily back at them.
Jack cleared his throat loudly, and the men took that as a sign, dropping their guns and running away.
"Nice power Sarah Jane." Jack commented as they put their guns away, "Love the tail, very sexy."
"Thanks," Sarah Jane replied, ignoring the flirting, "But right now, I got to go and save my boyfriend."
So, using her tail as a spring, she managed to fling herself back into the water.
Jack and Martha looked at each other, puzzled and shocked, "Boyfriend?"
Sarah Jane swam as fast as she could towards the fleet of boats that was holding Alan captive. Swimming underwater so she couldn't be detected. Looking up, she saw the bottom of the larger boat surrounded by the speedboats and jet-skis that hadn't followed her to the beach. Speeding their way back to the Area 41 base. Raising the hand that wasn't holding her sonic lipstick, she froze the whole lot, stopping them and watching at least two dozen men fall into the sea, dropping their guns and swimming back up the surface.
Swimming up as fast as she could, she shot out of the water and landing on the main deck, where Alan was laying in a bathtub sized container of water. Wasting no time, she quickly froze every gun in the place and pointed her sonic into the air, sending off the signal that made everyone, excluding Sarah Jane and Alan, scream in pain and collapse, because of their ear pieces.
"Sarah Jane!" Alan exclaimed.
"I always come back." She told him, before turning a bit more serious, "Lets get out of here, use your tail to fling yourself into the sea."
Just before they were able to do that though, one of the men started regaining consciousness, Sarah Jane pointed her sonic at him.
"Please don't hurt me," he pleaded at them, "I won't hurt you."
Sarah Jane lowered her sonic, "Then give a message to your leaders," she said coldly to him, "What happened today, will happen again if you come after us again."
Then, without another word said, Sarah Jane and Alan flung themselves off the boat and into the water, swimming away back to the beach where the Torchwood team were waiting.
When they finally got back to the beach, a relived Torchwood team greeted them.
"You two alright?" Martha asked, as the team ran towards the wet sand towards them.
"We are fine," Sarah Jane replied, "Now help us out the water."
As soon as they were dragged onto the dry sand, Jack rounded up on them.
"OK, so you have got freezing powers," he pointed at Sarah Jane, "So what's he got?" he pointed at Alan.
"This," Alan answered, and pointed a flat palm at Sarah Jane's tail, slowly turning it into a fist. Everyone watched as Alan gently evaporated the water away until she completely dry, allowing her to turn back into her human form, she then stood up. Alan then turned his powers onto himself, when he back into his human form again, Sarah Jane held her hands out and helped him up.
"Next thing," Martha said, "Boyfriend?"
Sarah Jane stood there shocked at realising her little slip up, "Well, yeh."
"And why didn't you tell us."
Alan put his arm around Sarah Jane's waist at this moment and Sarah Jane put her hand on his shoulder, allowing him to pull her closer before she answered, "Well I didn't know exactly how to say."
Martha just smiled in an understanding way.
"Do you really think that Area 41 will leave you alone after this?" Ianto asked.
Sarah Jane turned around, facing the sea, still connected to Alan and then leant her head against his shoulder.
"I don't really know," Sarah Jane answered, "I gave them a warning, but I don't know if they heed it. It's not going to stop me swimming though."
"Me neither." Alan agreed.
The whole group stood there for a little while, watching the sun go down before they finally decided to get in the car and drive home.
The next morning, the black land rover pulled up outside Sarah Jane's house. Sarah Jane and Alan got out first, followed by the Torchwood team. A second later, the door opened and Luke popped his head out.
"Mum," he exclaimed, then popped his head back in, allowing them all to hear him out, "Guys, they're home."
A few seconds later, all the kids came out, which Luke and Maria in the lead. They rushed over to their respective parents and hugged them.
"Dad thank god you're alright," Maria said to her dad as she let go of him, "Sarah Jane managed the rescue you then."
"One high-class rescue yep," Alan replied, smiling at Sarah Jane, "I'll tell you about it later."
Sarah Jane then turned to the Torchwood team, who was smiling at the reunion.
"Thanks Jack." She said to Jack, holding her arms out for a hug, "I couldn't have done it without you or your team."
Jack hugged Sarah Jane, lifting her off her feet for a second before putting her back down again.
"No prob," he replied, "Just call us if you need help again, you know where we are."
"Sure."
The two mermaids then hugged each member of the team, with Alan shaking hands with the boys, Jack then got to Alan.
"Don't break her heart." He muttered to him.
Alan looked at Sarah Jane, who was hugging Mickey.
"I don't intend too." He replied.
After everybody had hugged, Torchwood got back into their car and drove off, with Sarah Jane and her crew waving them off. The windows went down and Martha, Mickey and Gwen stuck their heads and arms out, waving back, while Jack, who was driving, just stuck his arm out.
Going back into the kitchen, Sarah Jane got herself a juice and put it on the table, before turning and searching her kitchen cupboards. The kids and Alan sat themselves around the same table.
Sarah Jane then came back with a small box, sitting in-between Luke and Rani, she opened it up and took out a lollypop stick
"What's with that?" Rani asked, pointing at it.
"It's a tradition every summer for me," Sarah Jane answered, "I made homemade lollies in case I get hot."
"What's with it now?" Rani corrected her first question.
"This," Sarah Jane stuck the stick a little bit in her juice and positioned her other hand near the side of the cup, pointing her palm to the liquid, she froze it and slid a lollypop out of the glass, much to the shock of the kids.
"How?" Clyde asked.
"Comes with the fish tail." Replied Sarah Jane, grinning.
"Ice sure doesn't last long though." Clyde then said.
Puzzled, Sarah Jane looked down to see that the lollypop was indeed, melting. Looking at Alan, she saw that he had his elbow in the table with his chin leaning against his fist, but his hand was turned so his fist pointed right at the lollypop. So he could use his power on it without anyone noticing.
"Alan!" Sarah Jane exclaimed.
"What?" he asked, feigned innocence.
"You know what," Sarah Jane replied, "You used your power to melt it."
"Hold up," Maria interrupted, "Dad has a power."
"He can heat water up until it boils." Sarah Jane replied, grabbing a dishcloth from the sink and wiping up the puddle of juice that used to be her lollypop.
"Had us dry and back in human form in 20 seconds," Alan said, getting up from his seat, "I'll think I'll have some tea.
A couple of minutes later, he sat down with a cup of tea while Sarah Jane had just made herself another lollypop. After random chat for a few minutes, Alan lifted his cup to have a sip of tea to see that the tea was completely frozen, to his slight shock.
"Sarah Jane." He looked up at the offending women on the other side of the table.
"Got you back." She replied, smirking.
"Fine, we're even." He replied, defeated.
Everyone laughed as he lifted his hand to melt and reheat his tea.
A/N: ok next chapter will be the next, it will be a epilogue. and by the way, the doctor will be in the epilogue, i promise, i double promise.
so please read, review and enjoy.