42

Ianto was walking the warehouse again, this time he was larger and more of a smokey grey that seemed to blend better in the half light. He again headed for the Mozzie Man as Owen had named it. He took time to study it, to memorize the smells, sounds and the light of the place before heading out to walk though the other rooms.

He found two more room the same but devoid of Mozzies. One seemed still having the smell which told Ianto that one had recently moved… or died. Maybe it died. They seemed to know when one was hungry, in need of feeding. This means maybe a trial and error sort of thing. Also, did this mean the men would be going to try to get another one if this last one was sickly now? Where from?

Ianto headed out to tell Jack but found himself in a bit of a spot as his little hole in the wall was currently blocked by a couple of men in an argument. They were trying to get another one but the rift spot was dormant. Hadn't seen another one for several months and they were getting worried.

Good. Their GPS should show somewhere they keep going out of the way. Ianto just had to wait for them to fuck off from this spot. As he waited he found himself looking into the low boxes of stuff, finding more than he bargained for he came across a box of old hand grenades from World War II that were amongst some other explosives. Wow. Jack will love these. Ianto find himself memorizing their exact spot… then thought better of it.

Once the men moved away he transformed to human form and lifted the box to the window, and then handed it out to a very surprised Jack. "What the hell?"

"Quick, take it" Ianto hissed and Jack peered into it, then back at him with wonder.

Ianto reached out his hand and Jack took it, leaning in to kiss it than yelping as the hand transformed into a large black frog that blinked at him and he started to laugh softly as he turned to let Ianto leap from his hand to transform again into human form which was preferable.

"There are more, some of the ordinance is ancient" Ianto said as he pulled Jack away from the building to tell him what else he had found in there.

"Ianto? Can you transform into any creature?" Jack asked and Ianto tilted his head.

"I am Felinealiod so I do prefer to be human or fuzzer but… yes. Only the most ancient of us can choose another for a short time but it is not fun. We prefer to use the ones that are fun" Ianto winked.

Jack laughed as he looked into the box again "cripes. Some of these are practically sweating. Boom baby."

Ianto was still thinking about Jack's questions as they got into the SUV and he turned to him to say "I have an idea. But you will not like it."

Jack looked at him with consternation as he knew this man well enough to know that it was going to be what they went with, whether he liked it or not.

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The men were waiting in the same spot they had the last three nights at this same time. Clearly this was where the portal would open momentarily at the same time but on unknown days. Jack could not help but wonder how many of those bugs got loose before the men found them and started to use them like some weird slave thing.

No time to chew over things though, Toshiko grinning as her fingers danced and a large bug staggered into the light only to be pounced on by the men.

"Come on, let's hustle" one yelled as he threw the sheet over the bug, pulling it towards the van as the other one grabbed it's legs and help propel it into the cavernous inside.

Soon they were travelling with an SUV trailing behind at a respectable distance, Jack's grip knuckles white on the steering wheel. Behind him Toshiko kept up a running commentary of what she could hear through the microphone now inside the van with the men tlkaing freely as they did not know the depth of shit that they had just stepped in.

"Barret is meeting us at the usual time and place. Apparently he wants this one for breeding. Wants us to let it be in a nicer fucking pen so if and when a female comes though we can try farming them. Can you believe that shit? Only one female ever came through, the fucking maggot things in her armpits were disgusting. Made me wanna vomit." One said.

"Yes, but he was right. Stomping on them like that only made her enraged and we had to put her down. Every male since has been a disappointment" the other one said.

"What will we do if it stops?"

"Bend over for him to fuck up with a huge bloody fist I guess"

"There he is, over there"

The van swung into a car park and there was a man leaning against a Ferrari with a look of total boredom. One of the men yelled out the van window at him "Bore Da Barret!"

"Another male?"

"Sorry, yeah. Seems heavier than the others. Maybe a god sign?" came the reply as the bug was revealed in the back of the van with a flourish, the door opened to let him see in before it was closed again to retain the bug.

"Look… this is getting fucking annoying. You have to start watching the portal every night. We need more" Barret scolded.

"But there are jut us two, just three of us total. We need to bring in more men if we want this to take off" came the whine of displeasure at the thought of night time stakeouts every bloody night "A female might never come through again. We need some lackeys."

"YOU are MY lackeys ya feckin twats!" Barret snarled "and I want to keep it intimate. Just us three involved. The less know, the less chance of someone… what is wrong with the bug?"

They all turned to see the bug convulsing under the sheet and one swore as he clambered into the van to see what was wrong.

Three.

Only the three men present were part of this, they had heard everything they needed to. They now knew no one else was out there to continue this disgusting enterprise.

As the bug sat up and the sheet fell away to reveal the largest ginger tabby cat the man had ever seen, his mouth fell open in silent horror. This was not a bug. This was… this was some sort of cat man thing. Oh god. Like a member of Catkind.

The cat then let out an unearthly yowl that had the other two men clambering in to see what the hell was happening and as the van door slammed shut they realized a beat too late that they were now trapped with a monster.

And my, did Ianto rampage.