"Bastard John's taken our SUV" Cali muttered as they all trekked toward Gwen and Owens car.

"Looks like he's driven it back to Torchwood." Ianto said looking at the GPS tracker.

"I'm getting reading of rift activity all over the City." Tosh said as Owen helped her to the car. "Major rift flares at St. Helen's hospital, the police headquarters," every one heard her voice hesitate over that location "and the Central IT server station." Just then her phone rang, with a short struggle she pulled it out, relief on her face, "Hey, Andy" she answered. "Okay, I'm a little un abel to at the moment, but I will send Gwen, all right?"

"This is him, isn't it, this Captain John or what he likes to call himself." Cali said helping lower Tosh into the car.

"Owen, once we are all gone, you cover the hospital. Drop Tosh and Ianto at the Central Server Building. Gwen and Cali, the police station and take me to Torchwood.

"Jack, these are traps." Tosh argued.

"So be careful, you know what he is capable of."

"Um … I don't!" Cali put in, "besides explosives."

"I'll explain on the way." Ianto said. "What about you?" he said looking at Jack.

"I'm gonna go reason with him."

"He just tried to kill us." Cali pointed out.

"good thing I cant die then." He said shrugging, "I was the only one who could ever control him. That's why the Time Agency partnered us."

"Fucking TA." Cali growled. "I take it he was an agent too?"

"yeah."

"and this is why no one likes them, they hire psychopaths and sociopaths."

"I take offense to that." Jack said.

"you should." Cali shot back.

"Why is he doing this, Jack? What does he want?"

"That's what I'm gonna go ask him."

"did you hear him?" Cali asked, "he wants you to spend time with him. You bloody well better warn him Jack that the person you are dating now is a helluva lot more psychotic than anyone he's ever met, and extremely jealous. I will cut a bitch." Cali warned, her blood boiling.

Cali couldn't believe her eyes when they got to the police station. The walls had been splattered with blood and they could see several slain officers bodies still littering the ground.

"Andy." Gwen said rushing forward.

"Thay just appeared out of nowhere," he said, "across the whole building. They weren't human. At least not like any human I've ever seen. Half the station's in shock. Four most senior officers murdered. Everyone is running around like headless chickens."

"Don't worry Andy, we'll take care of it." Cali assured him. Quickly he brought them to the holding cells. Where Gwen and Cali found a heard of extremely aggravated Weevils.

"What the hell are they?" Andy asked.

"Weevils." Both girls answered together.

"They live in the sewers." Gwen provided.

"Tell me you're joking."

"Not at all I'm afraid." Cali said shaking her head. "Don't mind if we subdue them do you?" Cali asked.

"Be my guest." Andy said. Quickly Gwen tossed in a small smoke bomb filled with the anti Weevil Serum.

"They killed the four most senior officers" Gwen asked.

"Almost like it was targeted."

"Weevils aren't that intelligent." Cali said.

"maybe they've been trained?" Gwen suggested, hand moving to her Comm, "Tosh, reposrt where you are."

"Just entering the Central Server." Her voice filled both Comms sets, "No sign of rift activity yet. This building houses servers for the military, police, NHS. Even looks after the server systems for the nucular station at Turnmill."

"What problem did they report?" Ianto asked.

"Ghosts. IN these server stacks."

"Hows the arm?" Owen injected, he had done his best to do a quick patch in the car, along with a good few doses of industrial strength painkillers.

"Seems to be doing the trick." She answered, "Ianto." Suddenly her voice was on edge. Ianto saw why as soon as she turned around, there were three masked figured all carrying menacing looking Syths.

Suddenly all three spoke, "Devils! Blasphemers! Pray to your heathen god while in the Lord's name we cast you out."

Over the Comms suddenly Cali heard gun shots, "IANTO!" She yelled, her nerves were to far on end after the explosion.

"There we are, then." He answered calmly.

"Sorted." Tosh followed mater of factly. "All we had were a few crazy humans,"

"We shot them." Ianto provided.

"Oh thank god, we got crazy weevils." Gwen replied rolling her eyes.

"Owen, it's Gwen. Do you have anything to report?" Gwen asked her and Cali waited for Ianto and Toshs help with the Weevils.

"We got some activity in the basement." Owen said. A few moments later he came back, "Got a Hoix here. Wish me luck, I'm going in to sedate."

"Owen, you bloody well better be careful." Gwen demanded.

"All fixed." He said a moment later.

"Good lets all try to get these back to the Hub." Cali suggested.

"how exactly are we going to do that?" Owen grouched.

"in the boot of your car." Cali provided.

"Attention, Torchwood employees. Evening all." Suddenly all of their Comms were filled with John Harts voice, "Now, stop what you are doing."

"Jack, whats going on? Are you okay?" Cali demanded.

"Jack can't come to the comms right now, bur if you leave a message, I'll be sure and pass it along. Well that's a new voice, have you been recruiting?" John asked Jack.

"what've you done to him?" Gwen demanded.

"no, no, wrong question. You should be asking what am I about to do to you."

"Put Jack on right now."

"Eye-candy! That was so masterful, so bossy, so basically powerless. Get up to the roofs of your building quickly now. Spit-spot."

"listen here you psychotic bastard, if you hurt a single member of this team I will skin you alive and hang your hide as art. And if you ever call Ianto eye-candy again, I'll feed you your own tongue and eye balls." Cali growled into the comms.

"so feisty. You know I actually look forward to meeting you. We'll see how cocky you are in a few minutes though. If you don't hurry, well, you'll miss all the fun. Wait a minute, so I mean fun? Do I mean carnage? I get them confused. Are you running yet? No dawdling now."

"You really do like the sound of your own voice don't you asshole?" Cali asked as her and Gwen headed to the roof of the police station, she really couldn't wait to get her hand on this asshole.

"Gwen? Cali? Where are you going?" Andy called.

"Cardiff, isn't it pretty?" John asked "Doesn't it twinkle so. Take a good look. Remember this, 'cause it all goes so quick." Suddenly there was an explosion, and then another, and another; fifteen in total.

"oh, god." Gwen said looking out over the city she had grown up in.

"oh, shit" Andy said from behind them, "oh, my God. What do we do? What do we do?" he demanded, panic clear in his voice.

"okay, get down there, keep everyone calm," Gwen ordered him, "tell them to get every officer in. RUN!" she sent him out to be in charge of the police before turning to Cali, "now what do we do?"

"we let them handle the civilians, we go find this John Hart and we destroy him. Get every one on the Comms make sure they are all ok and partition out orders to them." She said pulling hers off, "I'm going to go hot wire us a car."

"Tosh, Ianto, Owen, are you okay?" Gwen asked as she followed Cali down the stairs. "Good, okay, good. Cali is working on getting us a ride here on our end. Tosh, do we have the scale of the damage on the city? …. Right, Tosh, Ianto, you have to stabilize the nuclear power station. Make that a priority." Cali whipped her head around.

"oh for the love of god, I am going to kill that man when I finally meet him." She muttered, "tell Ianto that if he hurts himself I'll kick his ass." Cali said pointing a finger at Gwen.

"Be careful, Cali said she would kick your arse if you get hurt Ianto." Gwen said into the comms, "Owen, whats it like at the hospital? …. Okay, all of you, listen to me. we're gonna fix this, we're gonna put this city back together, we're going to find Jack, and we're going to punish John. More like watch Cali punish John, Ianto I have never seen here this pissed, its kind of scary. Now I need you to be careful. Okay?" She watched as Cali ripped open the door of a police cruiser and hot wired it, "where are you Jack?" she whispered. "where are you?"

"Get in, lets go."

"Wait I have to try to help here." Gwen said looking at the mass Chaos inside the precinct.

"then hurry up."

She wastched as Gwen walked in and stood on the main desk giving a short whistle to gather everyone, "This was a targeted attack designed to cause maximum panic. Usual emergency procedures wont cover whats happened here. This is where we find out how good we really are. Cover the whole city. Knock on doors, check on people, tell people that they are safe and that it is being dealt with. Get out there and do your jobs."

"Good now lets go." Cali had to admit, she could see why Gwen had taken over when Jack had left, she kept a cool head under pressure. A few moments later Gwen pressed a hand to her Comms unit.

"Do you think it could be him?" she asked

"What is it?"

"Tosh just got a rift alert from inside the hub mirroring the pattern from when Jack disappeared."

"I guess we are going to the Hub." When they got to there Cali sen Gwen down via the tourist office while she took the lift. "Be carefull." She warned Gwen.

"You too, and wait a few moments so we go in together."

"I don't feel like being ambushed. " Cali waited a few moments, trying to estimate where Gwen would be before stepping onto the lift. Her head had just cleared the main ground when she heard Gwen shouting at someone.

"On your knees!"

"Honestly, its just sex, sex, sex with you." The voice that had been tormenting them all night replied.

"Now!" Gwen shouted with an accompanied cocking of her gun. "hands behind your head." Cali jumped from the lift when it was about five feet up still before briskly making her way towards the ruckuss.

"Is this him?" she asked, gun already out.

"Cali-Ann, meet Captain John Hart."

"I'm going to need a really good reason not to skin you alive before letting her shoot you." Cali glared down at the man.

"I know where Jack is."

"You're lying." Gwen replied.

"He's buried alive somewhere beneath this city. I came back to help you."

"You bombed this city." Cali pointed out.

"Listen to me!" he shouted, "you have to believe me. It's Gray, Jack's brother, that's been doing all this."

"Don't talk rubbish."

"He placed a bomb on me. Molecularly bonded the detonator to my skin. I had to do what he wanted. Look." He said standing up and holding out one hand with a device that looked similar to Jack's Vortex Manipulator. "He forced me to bury Jack and then he freed me. He told me I could go anywhere I wanted. I could have run but I chose to some back here."

"Why should we trust you?" Cali asked, she could see that the Manipulator had been tampered with and did appear to be adhered to his skin.

"They were separated as children, Gray was abducted. When I found him, he was chained to the ruins of a city in the Bedlam Outlands, surrounded by corpses. He was the only one left. The creature had long since gone. Don't know how long he's been there. He thought I was the rescuing hero. So, it took me too long to realise he'd learned terrible things watching those creatures. He let me trust him." Suddenly John started screaming, Cali pushed Gwen behind her, not wanting to risk the baby. "The molecules are un-bonding. Just like he promised." Clenching his teeth he ripped the manipulator away from his wrist, creating a large patch of raw flesh. "See? Free man, apparently. I didn't have to come back here, I could have run."

"So you keep saying." Cali was getting tired of the monologue, and was more interested in saving Jack and the city. "You find Jack, I'll let you live, but you better be quick."

"Fine." Looking down at his manipulator which he held in his hands he pushed a few buttons, "Toshiko. I need you to run a trace for an etheric particle signal NME, transmitting at 200 beta-cycles."

"Gwen, Cali, where are you? Whats he doing? Wheres Jack?"

"Trace that signal. We'll find him."

"It's okay Tosh, we've got him covered." Gwen reassured her, Cali still had yet to put her comms back in. "Do as he says."

"No signals even vaguely resembling that."

"No, there must be." John insisted, "That transmitter was guaranteed for five millennia. Through three ecological permi-layers, it has to still be transmitting. If not, we'll never find him. He'll be buried forever." Suddenly the Hub was filled with a high pitched screeching, Cali's ears felt as if they were going to burst.

"What the hell is that?" Gwen asked, clutching at her ears, moving over to one of the computers and pulling up the CCTV footage. "Theres Weevils loose in the lower corridors." John, moved up to stand next to her, Quickly she moved away, "Stay there, stay there." She said moving to point her gun at him again.

"Oh my god. Whats going on? How did they get out?" Cali wondered, trying to get her head to stop pounding.

"It's Gray. He must be here in the city." John said. "He said he was going to take Jack's life, destroy it from the inside out. A Weevil wakeup call could be just the beginning."

"Owen, Gwen, Cali, can you hear me? The streets are flooded with Weevils." Ianto said over the comms. "They came out of nowhere. There's no chance we'll get to the nuclear power station in time."

"Ianto, leave it to me." Owen said, knowing he would be much closer than the others. "I can get there."

"Owen bloody Harper, you better be careful." Gwen growled into the comms. "I am telling you, I have run every san possible." Gwen said looking at John, "there is no signal traceable."

"Then try again, it's go to be there." He insisted, "Oi! I'm talking to you." Suddenly the Hub was filled with Weevils.

"You know, you got a real pest problem around here."

"Shut the hell up!" Cali said finally snapping. Suddenly Ianto and Tosh came in, quickly subduing all three of them.

"God, I'm so please to see you." Gwen said. Suddenly Ianto was walking towards John, gun pointed at his head. Cali moved in quickly pushing the gun up, blocking him.

"Hey! Hey!" John called hands up in surrender. "Don't start. I'll make thing right, eye-candy." Cali whipped around eyes on fire. "Ianto, I meant Ianto."

"Then start by getting those Weevils down the vaults before they recover. Takes more than a bullet to stop them." Cali said, "Tosh I need your best on the go Tech, I'm going to go help Owen."

"Cali, are you sure?" Ianto said, taking her shoulders in his hands.

"We have to save this city, it's what Jack would want."

"Be careful." He said kissing her quickly.

"Always, and Don't trust him Ianto."

"I wont."

"Cali, I'll talk you and Owen through everything."

"right, I should put this back in then." She said sliding her Comms unit in, "I'm taking the SUV."

Cali made it to the power plant as quickly as possible, finding Owen and another lady in the main room.

"A soldier never leaves her post." She said.

"Yeah well, your going to want to." Cali said.

"You can go now, okay? We're with Torchwood and we're dealing with it." Owen said a little calmer.

"Yeah? What do you know about nuclear containment structure?"

"Well, I'm only a layman, but I'm presuming if you've run out of power then the containment structure's over-pressurized, the containment spray and cooling systems aren't working so the fuel probably cant be cooling down, it's over heating." Owen said. "So sooner, rather than later, there will be a meltdown, and radioactive material will be released into the atmosphere. Yeah? Roughly."

"Roughly." She answered.

"Right." Cali said setting her bag down on the console, "you need to go. "

"Be careful, there are creatures out there on the loose." Owen said, "Take this," he said giving her a Weevil spray, "it's a kind of mace."

"Sounds more dangerous out there that in here."

"yeah, I'd say its pretty much even. Go."

She started walking out before turning to look at Owen, "Thank you."

"I don't think she liked me much." Cali pointed out.

"Tosh, you're going to have to help us out here. I haven't got a bloody clue what I'm doing." Owen called back over the comms.

"Okay. I don't want you to panic." Tosh said. "but the reactor's already hit the critical point."

"Okay, you're telling me its going into meltdown, aren't you?" Owen said.

"And we're in the eye of the storm." Cali, concluded.

"yeah, sorry."

"Right, can you fix it?" Owen asked, his mind racing to his wife and unborn child.

"Of course I can, I'm brilliant." Tosh answered.

"Yeah." Cali replied.

"I'm going to try and divert power from an auxiliary source back to Turnmill. If that works, I can talk you through restoring the coolant system. Right. Now…" suddenly they heard a gun shot over the comms.

"Tosh?" Cali said, panic rising. "Tosh can you hear me?"

"Tosh, can you hear me?" Owen demanded, "Tosh?"

"Tosh, talk to me." Cali called, looking at Owen worriedly. "I need your help here, babe."

"Tosh?" Owen, called, getting extremely worried about all involoved, "Come on, girl." Suddenly the lights came back on. "Here we go!"

"Right, you've done it, Tosh" Cali encouraged, still worried that they hadn't actually heard from her yet, "we've got power."

"You okay?" Owen asked, hearing the pained gasp.

"Yeah. I'm fine."

"Right. Whats going on there?" Cali demanded.

"Just a … machine malfunction."

"you hurt?" Owen asked.

"who, me? no I'm fine. It's just my arm."

"okay."

"I'm sorting out another painkiller."

"Good. Well, come on, let's do this."

"All right. Okay."

"Oh, God."

"Whats the matter?" Cali asked.

"Theres no way to stop the melt. It's too far gone."

"Okay, okay, that is not good is it?" Owen responded. "Come on, Tosh. Theres gotta be something, theres always something. Come on."

"The only option now is to vetn the flow channels internally."

"Vent them where?" Cali asked.

"the area you're in, it's a containment building."

"yeah."

"you need to set up a time-delay program. Channel the fuel into that bunker and instigate permanent lockdown. Seal the building and the meltdown will be contained within. And obviously remember to get out."

"yeah, I think we can remember that bit." Owen said.

"I'll open the system protocol. You just need to enter the time frame and authorize it, okay?"

"okay, Tosh, lets do this thing. And, Tosh, thank you."

"That's what I'm here for."

Both of them immediately started to hit the buttons as they were told until the right message flashed on screen.

"Yes! Rock and Roll!" Owen shouted.

"Oh, no. Owen, Cali, get out of there. There's a power surge in the system. When that hits, it'll trigger an emergency lockdown." Just as she said that the door suddenly slid shut.

"No! No! Tosh!" Cali shouted.

"Toshiko, we can't get out!" Owen said as he pounded on the door. "I'm not dying yet!"

"Cali, in your bag, there should be something to open the door." Tosh instructed.

"Cali, Tosh has been shot." Ianto said over the comms.

"Damn it Tosh, you said you were fine." Owen said as Cali worked the door.

"Owen, lets go!" Cali said as the door slid open, once they were out she pulled the device off the door slid back shut. "Talk them through helping Tosh, I'll drive."

"Ianto, you need to start her on blood right away, type A, under the cabnet."

When they got there, Owen was able to stich Tosh up while Cali and Ianto helped Jack put Gray into the Cryo Chamber. They sent Hart away with a warning never to come back. The rest of the week was spent trying to help put the city back together as best as possible.