VENGEANCE
TWELVE
Tosh and Owen had rushed back to the Hub.
As she hunted for a way to locate Jack and Wil, Tosh listened while Ianto and Gwen reported the results from their database search.
"The Torchwood database itself has no information on races that have developed teleport capabilities," said Gwen. "But The Doctor has provided us with parts of his Gallifreyan database; just select portions mind you, as we don't have the capacity to store the entire thing. And regardless he probably wouldn't want us to have the whole thing, anyway. But in it there's a reference to the Voord. The Doctor encountered them as one of his earlier regenerations on a planet called Marinus."
Ianto picked up the story. "The Doctor fought with and defeated the Voord on behalf of the society of Marinus, and in doing so was sent on a sort of quest using a teleportation device. There's no indication that the Voord were totally wiped out, or that they didn't subsequently assimilate the transport technology."
"The Time Lords themselves mastered what they called transmat technology," continued Gwen. "But if we're to believe The Doctor, they must be excluded from any list of possible suspects because they no longer exist. In yet another incarnation at the end of the twenty first century The Doctor came up against a militant Martian race…"
"Martian as in Mars?" Owen interrupted, scowling.
Gwen ignored him.
"A militant Martian race that also had teleportation capabilities. He fought them and foiled their attempted invasion of earth. That's all we were able to find, just those two cases, discounting the Time Lords themselves."
"What about the Enterprise?" Owen snarkily offered.
Gwen rolled her eyes but Ianto flashed him a grin. A little humor was always a welcome thing as far as Ianto Jones was concerned. He was trying to come up with a clever repartee when Tosh gasped.
All three turned to look at her.
"I know where they've taken Jack and Wil," she shook her head.
"This advanced alien tech requires massive amounts of energy and leaves all kinds of traces if you know exactly…"
"Oh, get on with it," snarled Owen.
Tosh blushed.
"Gwen, you nailed it during our last conversation with Jack. It's the Shrake." On the main screen she displayed a familiar star chart, and overlaying an all too memorable planet was a big red 'X'.
"Oh my God," murmured Ianto, shaking his head. "But they don't possess teleport tech do they?"
"No," answered Gwen. "Not according to the Torchwood database, although we still don't understand how they nabbed The Doctor. But remember what Wil told us: they weren't working alone then. We can assume they're not working alone now. So maybe the Voord?"
"I don't know that it really matters," Tosh responded, shaking her head. "The Shrake potentially have lots of allies, we already know that…"
"Well, so do we!" declared Ianto. The other three all turned and looked at him inquisitively.
"We do, don't we? Have allies?" he asked sounding less sure of himself.
"We've got The Doctor, at least. Let me see…" said Tosh as she punched a few more keys. "I think we can still trace him, too…
"Oh no," after a moment she pointed to the star chart. Overlaying the big red 'X' that was overlaying the Shrake homeworld there was a cute little rectangular blue box.
"Damn it," hissed Owen. "We need to get us some other allies."