This is set in torchwood series 2, between "Adam" and "reset"
If I owned torchwood, would I earn millions of pounds by selling books or recording episodes or would I post it on a free fan fiction site?
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December-Apples
Welcome to the fic. Thanks for your kind review. It is a little late for this fic, but the suggestion about more detail into jack's deaths is a good one, and I will bear that in mind for my next TW fic (and the alternate ending of this fic)
Happygogirl
I hoped someone would fall for it. And I'm glad you liked the real chapter...the wait is over... here is the final chapter (of this ending anyway)
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Chapter 12– the final showdown
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"By the way, captain. She will keep going despite pain. You have to kill her with that gun if you want to stop her" Lisa said
"Jack, don't you dare" Owen said, as jack lifted up his gun. On the verge of pulling the trigger. It was the only way to save the world.
But he couldn't do it. It was Toshiko. Jack began to lower his gun when 4 weapons got thrown into the hub through the hole. Jake jumped in too, with a gun in each hand.
"anti-cyberman guns" jack said, shooting one of the cybermen. It exploded "how did you get these?"
"Ill tell you later" Jake said. The team each shot a 2 cybermen, reducing it to 19 cybermen
"Cease firing or I will force the implant to explode and the one designated Toshiko Sato gets deleted" the head cyberman said. The team stopped shooting and looked at jack, who had his gun pointed at the head cyberman and was stood as still as a statue. They were all waiting for jack. It was his choice. Toshiko or the world.
"Ok... we surrender" jack said, putting his gun down on the floor
"You shall all be deleted" the head cyberman said
"I don't think so" Jake said, firing at Toshiko. Jack put his gun to jakes head in a blink of an eye
"She has an implant. Cyber technology. It is destroyed without harming Toshiko" Jake said "now we can kill them again" but the head cyberman, stood right next to Toshiko placed a hand on her shoulder. Toshiko came to here sense, and she was showing emotion again. Fear. Terror.
"Any of you move and I delete her" the cyberman said "you shall be the first of to be converted into a new empire of cyberman"
"Ok." Jake said, holding his gun in the air, he fired it "oops, sorry, accident". The wave expanded over 6 of the unit ships. They began flying over the base again. During this distraction, jack shot the head cyberman, who exploded. Toshiko ran over to Owen, and then fainted ... she was distressed; it isn't everyday you nearly get shot, actually get shot with an energy gun and get held by a cyberman and survived... unless it was jack, of course. The unit ships began dropping missiles next to the hub, causing it to shake alittle
Lisa walked over as grabbed the replicator, and headed towards the breach in the rift.
There was a large explosion nearby that caused the whole base to shake as if it had been hit by an earthquake. Jack ran over to Lisa, who had to pause to keep her balance.
Jack tried to grab the replicator off of Lisa, but they both lost there balance as a large explosion struck the centre of the cybermen force, and both Lisa and jack fell into, and were absorbed by the rift.
Jack loved the sensation of rift travel. It was just like falling off a tall building. And he was used to it. Lisa on the other hand wasn't, and the rift had been damaged. There were gaps everywhere, portal to any where, any when.
Jack knew this wasn't important. well, it was, but it would heal. The one thing that jack had to worry about was the replicator. With it, Lisa could do anything.
"Give me the replicator" jack yelled
"No"
"I will take it by force if I must" jack said.
"Just try it captain jack" Lisa said. Jack moved forward, it was like swimming. He got close to Lisa, and grabbed the replicator. She used the stub of her arm that wasn't holding the replicator to whack jack on the head. He held on, so she turned her arm and used the gun. Jack died for a few seconds, and had to release the replicator before he came back.
"Stay dead!" Lisa said, shooting him again and again. When jack kept coming back she screamed. On the 4th time she shot him, he stopped dying
"no!" Lisa screamed, shooting him 3 more times. He didn't die, even for a moment
"You can't kill me. you can't even stop me any more. My body has recognised a shot from a cyberman as a regular danger. Rather than bringing me back, I have become immune" Jack said, as Lisa shot him in the head again "and if you don't stop shooting me, I will have to shoot you"
"But you are unarmed" Lisa said, shooting him one more time
"do you think?" jack said, Bringing out his last resort gun, the Compact Laser Deluxe, which he hid..., well you don't want to know. It had saved him from killer robots once before, so long ago yet in the far future, it might work again. He shot Lisa's arm, which detached, and released the replicator. It fell through a hole in the rift
"Have mercy" Lisa said. "I am just like you, please have mercy"
"I gave you fair warning. I gave you a chance. You should have taken it" jack said, pointing his laser gun at Lisa's head. He fired and her head exploded. Her remained would securely be decomposed in the time vortex with him. This was the end of him, but it was worth it.
Suddenly a ship appeared, scooping jack up. The ship had one person on board, a woman.
"Hello captain jack. It's nice to meet you in the flesh... the living flesh" the woman said
"Who are you? What are you doing? And where are we?" jack said
"This is my rift ship. I'm taking you back to your own time." The woman said
"Why?" jack asked
"You are important. One day, I will obtain your rift manipulator, allowing me to save the doctors life. If you get trapped in the time vortex now, I can't get it, and the doctor can't be saved" the woman said "here we are. Your time. Lie low for a few hours, you are a little in your past. And whatever you do DON'T CHANGE ANYTHING!" the woman said
"Ok... but who are you?" jack said
"I am doctor river song" she said "me and the doctor go way back... or forward... depends how many dimensions you think of it"
"Well thanks... where did the replicator end up?" jack asked
"Don't you know? It would have come out of no-where with no trace"
"It went back to a few hours ago! When we found it" jack said, and river song gave a cheeky smile
"That's right"
"Does the doctor trust you?" jack asked
"Maybe, maybe not... he will do, one day" river said "but I don't want to give you lot any spoilers. You can go now."
"Ok" jack said. He began to walk away. The then paused... he turned and saluted "thank you for everything, Ma'am"
"Lets just say that we are even now" river said. She powered up the ship and flew off quickly. Jack then saw his team, and himself, leaving the pizza place... it was just before they found the replicator
"Great. I have to avoid myself through everything... fun" jack said.
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"We counted 30 cyberman heads, plus I got rid of Lisa, so we got them all. And we completely replaced the computers; there is no trace of the virus" jack said to Martha Jones as they walked into his office
"I read your report. A lot of loose ends. You claim Tosh had been under some mind control...but how did you know?"Martha asked
"The first clue was that the machine had her for too long to have done nothing. then there is my favourate thing about we are going to do something deadly, or have just escaped something scary. she gives a small smile that gives us all the confidence to carry on. she didnt do that. after that, i knew she wasnt herself. Then I shot the SUV. I shot her pride and joy and she showed no emotion, then there were a few other things, I believe Owen said she had gone "Wikipedia" on us, she was trying to find out more information, and she led us straight into Lisa's trap, and far away from Cardiff"
"Right..."Martha said
"So, end of the world survivors club" jack said
"God, I am so glad to see you jack" Martha said
"So you did come all this way just to see me. Its jaw line, once seen, always yearned for... (you know all this from reset so I will skip a bit)...You should have called me if you were looking for a job" jack said
"I wasn't, this woman from unit rang from out of the blue. Said I was just what they needed, that I'd come highly recommended by an impeccable source" Martha said
"You mean..."jack said, then pointed up
"Well, who else would have done it?"Martha said, they were both lost in thought for a moment
"He must have thought he owed you a favour... guess we all do" jack said then paused for a moment "speaking of him... did he ever mention a doctor river song to you?"
"No, who is she?"Martha asked
"No-one. I've looked for her, there is no record of her, but she claimed to know the doctor" jack said
"Well, he didn't talk to me about everyone he knew. I never heard about you until I met you, and I had been travelling with him for months before then" Martha pointed out "plus, he is a time traveller. We met this person, sally sparrow. She gave us some instructions to follow, which she knew because we had already done them. The doctor called it the wibbly wobbly timey wimey scenario."
"Yea... she saved my life"
"Really?"
"Yea. I'm surprised you didn't ask what happened after I fell through the void." Jack said
"I assumed it was like you did before, lived though the centuries" Martha said
"No. This doctor song ... she had a ship... like one I had never seen before. Like a huge egg with legs from the outside"
"I don't know..."Martha said "maybe some day we will find out more, but she is no different than you"
"What do you mean?"
"You know what I mean, you don't exist according to the records, and you know that." Martha said "why wasn't this woman in your report?"
"I don't have to make reports to unit, your lot should be grateful you got anything" jack said "and I feel... I don't know, she seemed like someone I didn't want unit chasing after."
"Ok, few more questions"
"What are you, a reporter?" jack said
"no, just curious, and a tool of the Garnetto to tie off loose ends without showing it" Martha said "is that connection between all the technology still there?"
"No, we sent a dispersal signal. It is like it was before the kalek signal"
"And you never said... how did Jake get those guns? And how did he get back to the hub" Martha said
"Well... he hid in the boot of the SUV, which Tosh used to drive back. He then claims he found the guns. Someone left them in a box just outside the hub... in case you missed that but, it was me."
"Well, Jake is now happy in his job at unit" Martha asked "who would have thought he would have made a strike squad leader in 2 weeks?"
"Good to hear it. He did brilliant. It was either you lot or the amnesia pill" jack said
"Right... there is one more gap in the report" Martha said
"What is it?"
"What happened to the weapons you used to destroy the cybermen?"
"UNIT cant have those weapons" jack said "no-one on the 21st century can... not UNIT, not Henry van Staten, and not us... they had to be destroyed"
"You know colonel mace will want your head for that" Martha said
"He can have it, it will grow back... So do you think you could get me one of those red caps?" jack said
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WELL... did you like? I believe all loose ends are tied up, if I missed anything ask and I will edit this chapter to explain it
Sorry for the delay. I posted it, then re-read it and... Well it was rubbish. So I deleted it and began from scratch. It had the rift, for some reason, eating the cybermen and instead of Jake with cyber guns, it was Andy with light sabers, who brought his playlist on a radio, introducing him with "holding out for a hero" the bit when he was in being "dual of the fates (the one from star wars on all the big battles)" and at the end it was "we are the champions"
Also, on my profile in the next few days, there is "revenge of the cyber woman- delorian ending". It is different, contains a whole new perspective to the cyberman invasion (please note it is related to back to the future, so it will be better if you have seen that. It will be sufficiently explained though)
I have to say this, when I was re-watching reset, I realised how truly fantastic Martha was. In dr who during her time on the TARDIS, the whole "in love with the doctor" plot got too old too fast, and ruined her character. But in last of the time lords (and from there on) she became amazing. Possibly my fave companion, especially in the reset trilogy.
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For all your reviews. Your input made the fic better, and what it is now
Lol. I have the first (written paper) copy in front of me now. 2 chapters, 4 sides of A4, where it is just a computer virus (nothing more) and the solution was just to shut down the entire computer system for a few minutes. Didn't even have Owen or Ianto mentioned. How it has developed over the last 2 months. I hope you have all liked it and that you will continue reading my fics