A/N PLEASE READ: there is a little bit of violence in this chapter so read
at your own risk. I don't think it is that bad but if it disturbs you just
let me know and I will tone down the rest of it.
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Disclaimer: I don't own any of this except the extra's I cast. I don't think I can write better than the original characters authors or the people that wrote the script but I hope they don't mind if I try. I don't own, so don't sue.
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Chapter 3: Mission impossible
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The sun was weak and did little for the cold as it rose the next morning. Henry, Tom, Rodney and Nemo sat in Nemo's Automobile that Sawyer had helped him repair, waiting for Quatermain.
Skinner was fixing his sunglasses into place and trying not to smudge his face off while Jekyll played with his pocket watch. Nemo had just explained Mina absence.
"She left?"
"Yes, last night, while you were all sleeping"
"So now we're down the darling so I guess we're just left with the freakies am I right?"
"Only if you're counting yourself" Quatermain appeared in the door way behind them, his usual coat hung over his shoulders and the report under his arm. Rodney made no comment back.
"I wouldn't be calling him a freak if I were you, you're a little ahead of the race" Tom muttered bitterly under his breath but only Nemo caught it and chose to ignore his words.
"We must be leaving, or else we shall be late." Nemo started the car as Quatermain got in, and started through the city to their meeting.
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"Good morning Gentlemen, I trust you all read you reports so you know your mission?" Mr. Williams entered the room briskly and in a rather annoyed air. He took his seat at the head of the table putting his hat and a cardboard box in front of him.
"Oh look, he brought us kittens" muttered Skinner as Williams gave him a withering look but chose to let the comment slide.
"Yes indeed we did read it, but I must confess it was quiet confusing" Dr. Jekyll muttered.
"Time gentlemen." Williams took a device from the box in front of him and lay in the middle of the table. "In simplified language your mission is purely time"
Tom picked up the little machine and fiddled with it for a minute pressing random buttons and changing the display on the screen.
"That's a computer" Nemo said glancing at it as Tom sorted out the buttons.
"No, it is a Thermo Nuclear detonator from the year 2012" Williams corrected as Nemo raised an eyebrow.
"And that would be?"
"A mass destructive weapon that can flatten a city in seconds" he replied off handedly as Tom placed it gently back onto the table.
"What is it doing in this time?" Nemo asked as he picked it up gazing intently at it.
"The man we have been tracking for the past few months had brought it back from one of his journeys and thought it might find worth on the black market" Williams picked up the report and flicked it open to the picture as the door creaked open and the occupants in the room all shifted their gaze to the intruder.
Standing in the door way was a young man in clothes not too different from Sawyers, except for the ankle length white coat and a strange wide brimmed hat that obscured his face from view. He read as he walked in paying them no attention, only staring at the papers in his hands intently.
"Professor Milton I thought I specified that you were to be here early" Williams called to him as he walked quickly across the room and to the small library of encyclopedias in the corner. The boy, so entranced by his calculations, either didn't hear him or chose not to reply.
"And who would this lad be?" Skinner asked as he stood up and headed over to the lad. He stopped abruptly as the boy pointed a pistol at him, still not looking up from the books.
Williams sighed. "This is a new addition that demanded recruitment last night regardless of the situation at hand"
"You can't hit a target when you ain't aiming" Tom muttered as the boy adjusted his aim and shot the glass of water on front of him. It shattered showering Tom in water and glass shards.
"Nice trick, how'd you do tha-" Sawyer broke off as Quatermain indicated to the mirror over her shoulder.
"I don't believe I have heard the exploits of a Mr. Professor Milton" Quatermain said smiling slightly at the look on Toms face and slightly in admiration for the sharpshooter in the corner.
"I would hope not master Quatermain unless I have some distant relative previously unknown to me" The Lad took his hat off and the Men blinked.
"He's a Girl!" accused Rodney as she put the Pistol on the table beside her.
"Last time I check Mr. Skinner" she said evenly returning to her books.
The girl had shoulder length brown hair and hazel eyes. A few light freckles were splashed across her nose and cheeks showing she had not spent all her time inside.
"The young professor was the original tracker of the time jumper and demanded she not be left out of the loop" Williams rubbed his nose under his glasses as she stood up quickly. "No doubt you will find her skills helpful.
"What useful subject have you managed to become a professor in, so early in life miss" Nemo asked as she shut her eyes and listened hard.
"Time Archeology was her original profession but I assure you she has more talents than that" Williams smiled as she threw the book in her hands at him.
"Quiet" she snapped as Dr. Jekyll scratched his ear.
"Alex I thought we agreed that repect-"
"Then 'respectfully' be quiet" she said as Jekyll winced and threw the glass of water away that was in front of him"
"Meaning no disrespect Dr Jekyll, but the beast within you has sharp hearing I suppose?" Miss Milton asked as Jekyll looked at her seriously and stood up.
"The Nautilus" he muttered as she flung her coat off and ran for the door.
"What? Alexia where are you going?" Williams called over his shoulder as Jekyll covered his ears.
"There is fighting, Screams, guns and cannons, near the Nautilus" Hyde's growl was in Jekyll's voice as he took a small bottle from his coat.
"Not in here!" roared Williams as Sawyer, Nemo and Quatermain ran from the room, loading their weapons as they ran.
"You know we never discussed pay" Rodney muttered as Hyde gave a cry of rage, his senses soaring.
"Lets Go Skinner" he growled grabbing him roughly by the shoulders and leaping for the door dragging Skinner behind him who was wisely staying silent. Not bothering with the door handle Hyde crashed through it leaving ruin in his wake as he pounded down the hall catching up to the others quickly.
"The struggle's slowing" Hyde growled as he looked at Nemo and released Skinner to run for himself.
"The Attackers will regret their attempt on my ship sorely" Roared Nemo as he reached the main door and hurried down the stairs.
"I'm driving this time" Sawyer yelled and Nemo had no argument.
"Haste boy" Hyde Muttered as he leapt down the crowded street, ignoring the terrified screams that were following him down the street his mind and senses focused on one thing.
Blood.
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The occupants were out of the car before it reached the dock, half from the terrifying ride Sawyer had provided and half with anticipated dread, and pounded around the corner just as Hyde leapt from the roof to land in front of them.
All of them stopped abruptly. Alexia was standing on the edge of the dock below a flag pole, a long silver sword hanging limp by her side, its blade covered in crimson blood. Around her lay 17 men in black uniforms, either stone dead or dying slowly in agony.
But she wasn't paying them any attention. She was watching the last of the Nautilus sink below the waves at the head of the harbour.
Nemo looked around horrified at devastation on the dock. Hyde punched through a brick wall of a surrounding building in rage as Skinner turned and looked away. Carefully Quatermain and Sawyer climbed amid the ruin recognizing many of the bodies as men they had lived with aboard the ship.
"The crew would never let the Nautilus fall while they still lived" Nemo said proudly as he walked to stand with Alexia.
"Your men died well, but shouldn't have had to die at all" Alexia said as she looked around the dock. She reached down to one the dying men at her feet and tore his mask from his face. His face was brutally disfigured and his veins were visible as they pulsed through his face and neck. His eyes settled on her glazed but still ablaze with menace.
"You have one chance, who sent you?" she asked as he feebly spat at her.
"Go to hell Bit-" His sentence wasn't even finished before she tore the mask from the man next to him and slit his throat.
"Who sent you?" she asked again as the mans eyes widened in shock and he looked at her in surprise. He didn't answer so she did the same to the man on the other side of him.
"I'm a grunt, we ain't told the pin" he cried. "We was working for Ripper"
Alexia nodded before throwing the mask back at his face and plunging her sword through his throat. Tom looked like he was about to be sick.
"He told you what you wanted to know, that wasn't right" he muttered as she turned to him. He gasped slightly as he saw the wounds through her stomach.
"I never said that I would spare his life and you can't defend him after looking around" she said evenly. "Or up"
Slowly raising their eyes the sight that they met made most of them retch or throw up.
"I though she could-" Tom couldn't finish his sentence. "For gods sake someone take her down"
He looked over to Nemo and Quatermain in turn but to his surprise it was Hyde who climbed the flag pole and cut the ropes. He lay her blood soaked body gently on the ground before crying in rage and picking up the black clad bodies and flinging them carelessly into the sea.
"Who ever did this knows how to kill a vampire" Nemo said quietly as Alexia snorted.
"Ripper" Skinner said looking down at Mina's skinned body.
"No, it was one of the others, list them" Alexia said as she reached down and pulled the stake from Mina's chest.
"I don't think this is the time-" Quatermain's words caught in his throat.
Mina's body was slowly healing itself.
"I'll meet you all in an hour at the Atoms Pub; you know where it is I trust Mr. Skinner?"
"Been there a few times" he said looking up at her.
"Good you can come with me"
She started across the dock, back towards the way they had come, Skinner following.
"So where are we going?" he asked as Mina sat up quickly and gasped. Alexia didn't look back as she sheathed her sword.
"To meet an old Friend" she said hailing a cabbie. "An old friend and an old enemy"
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Disclaimer: I don't own any of this except the extra's I cast. I don't think I can write better than the original characters authors or the people that wrote the script but I hope they don't mind if I try. I don't own, so don't sue.
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Chapter 3: Mission impossible
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The sun was weak and did little for the cold as it rose the next morning. Henry, Tom, Rodney and Nemo sat in Nemo's Automobile that Sawyer had helped him repair, waiting for Quatermain.
Skinner was fixing his sunglasses into place and trying not to smudge his face off while Jekyll played with his pocket watch. Nemo had just explained Mina absence.
"She left?"
"Yes, last night, while you were all sleeping"
"So now we're down the darling so I guess we're just left with the freakies am I right?"
"Only if you're counting yourself" Quatermain appeared in the door way behind them, his usual coat hung over his shoulders and the report under his arm. Rodney made no comment back.
"I wouldn't be calling him a freak if I were you, you're a little ahead of the race" Tom muttered bitterly under his breath but only Nemo caught it and chose to ignore his words.
"We must be leaving, or else we shall be late." Nemo started the car as Quatermain got in, and started through the city to their meeting.
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"Good morning Gentlemen, I trust you all read you reports so you know your mission?" Mr. Williams entered the room briskly and in a rather annoyed air. He took his seat at the head of the table putting his hat and a cardboard box in front of him.
"Oh look, he brought us kittens" muttered Skinner as Williams gave him a withering look but chose to let the comment slide.
"Yes indeed we did read it, but I must confess it was quiet confusing" Dr. Jekyll muttered.
"Time gentlemen." Williams took a device from the box in front of him and lay in the middle of the table. "In simplified language your mission is purely time"
Tom picked up the little machine and fiddled with it for a minute pressing random buttons and changing the display on the screen.
"That's a computer" Nemo said glancing at it as Tom sorted out the buttons.
"No, it is a Thermo Nuclear detonator from the year 2012" Williams corrected as Nemo raised an eyebrow.
"And that would be?"
"A mass destructive weapon that can flatten a city in seconds" he replied off handedly as Tom placed it gently back onto the table.
"What is it doing in this time?" Nemo asked as he picked it up gazing intently at it.
"The man we have been tracking for the past few months had brought it back from one of his journeys and thought it might find worth on the black market" Williams picked up the report and flicked it open to the picture as the door creaked open and the occupants in the room all shifted their gaze to the intruder.
Standing in the door way was a young man in clothes not too different from Sawyers, except for the ankle length white coat and a strange wide brimmed hat that obscured his face from view. He read as he walked in paying them no attention, only staring at the papers in his hands intently.
"Professor Milton I thought I specified that you were to be here early" Williams called to him as he walked quickly across the room and to the small library of encyclopedias in the corner. The boy, so entranced by his calculations, either didn't hear him or chose not to reply.
"And who would this lad be?" Skinner asked as he stood up and headed over to the lad. He stopped abruptly as the boy pointed a pistol at him, still not looking up from the books.
Williams sighed. "This is a new addition that demanded recruitment last night regardless of the situation at hand"
"You can't hit a target when you ain't aiming" Tom muttered as the boy adjusted his aim and shot the glass of water on front of him. It shattered showering Tom in water and glass shards.
"Nice trick, how'd you do tha-" Sawyer broke off as Quatermain indicated to the mirror over her shoulder.
"I don't believe I have heard the exploits of a Mr. Professor Milton" Quatermain said smiling slightly at the look on Toms face and slightly in admiration for the sharpshooter in the corner.
"I would hope not master Quatermain unless I have some distant relative previously unknown to me" The Lad took his hat off and the Men blinked.
"He's a Girl!" accused Rodney as she put the Pistol on the table beside her.
"Last time I check Mr. Skinner" she said evenly returning to her books.
The girl had shoulder length brown hair and hazel eyes. A few light freckles were splashed across her nose and cheeks showing she had not spent all her time inside.
"The young professor was the original tracker of the time jumper and demanded she not be left out of the loop" Williams rubbed his nose under his glasses as she stood up quickly. "No doubt you will find her skills helpful.
"What useful subject have you managed to become a professor in, so early in life miss" Nemo asked as she shut her eyes and listened hard.
"Time Archeology was her original profession but I assure you she has more talents than that" Williams smiled as she threw the book in her hands at him.
"Quiet" she snapped as Dr. Jekyll scratched his ear.
"Alex I thought we agreed that repect-"
"Then 'respectfully' be quiet" she said as Jekyll winced and threw the glass of water away that was in front of him"
"Meaning no disrespect Dr Jekyll, but the beast within you has sharp hearing I suppose?" Miss Milton asked as Jekyll looked at her seriously and stood up.
"The Nautilus" he muttered as she flung her coat off and ran for the door.
"What? Alexia where are you going?" Williams called over his shoulder as Jekyll covered his ears.
"There is fighting, Screams, guns and cannons, near the Nautilus" Hyde's growl was in Jekyll's voice as he took a small bottle from his coat.
"Not in here!" roared Williams as Sawyer, Nemo and Quatermain ran from the room, loading their weapons as they ran.
"You know we never discussed pay" Rodney muttered as Hyde gave a cry of rage, his senses soaring.
"Lets Go Skinner" he growled grabbing him roughly by the shoulders and leaping for the door dragging Skinner behind him who was wisely staying silent. Not bothering with the door handle Hyde crashed through it leaving ruin in his wake as he pounded down the hall catching up to the others quickly.
"The struggle's slowing" Hyde growled as he looked at Nemo and released Skinner to run for himself.
"The Attackers will regret their attempt on my ship sorely" Roared Nemo as he reached the main door and hurried down the stairs.
"I'm driving this time" Sawyer yelled and Nemo had no argument.
"Haste boy" Hyde Muttered as he leapt down the crowded street, ignoring the terrified screams that were following him down the street his mind and senses focused on one thing.
Blood.
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The occupants were out of the car before it reached the dock, half from the terrifying ride Sawyer had provided and half with anticipated dread, and pounded around the corner just as Hyde leapt from the roof to land in front of them.
All of them stopped abruptly. Alexia was standing on the edge of the dock below a flag pole, a long silver sword hanging limp by her side, its blade covered in crimson blood. Around her lay 17 men in black uniforms, either stone dead or dying slowly in agony.
But she wasn't paying them any attention. She was watching the last of the Nautilus sink below the waves at the head of the harbour.
Nemo looked around horrified at devastation on the dock. Hyde punched through a brick wall of a surrounding building in rage as Skinner turned and looked away. Carefully Quatermain and Sawyer climbed amid the ruin recognizing many of the bodies as men they had lived with aboard the ship.
"The crew would never let the Nautilus fall while they still lived" Nemo said proudly as he walked to stand with Alexia.
"Your men died well, but shouldn't have had to die at all" Alexia said as she looked around the dock. She reached down to one the dying men at her feet and tore his mask from his face. His face was brutally disfigured and his veins were visible as they pulsed through his face and neck. His eyes settled on her glazed but still ablaze with menace.
"You have one chance, who sent you?" she asked as he feebly spat at her.
"Go to hell Bit-" His sentence wasn't even finished before she tore the mask from the man next to him and slit his throat.
"Who sent you?" she asked again as the mans eyes widened in shock and he looked at her in surprise. He didn't answer so she did the same to the man on the other side of him.
"I'm a grunt, we ain't told the pin" he cried. "We was working for Ripper"
Alexia nodded before throwing the mask back at his face and plunging her sword through his throat. Tom looked like he was about to be sick.
"He told you what you wanted to know, that wasn't right" he muttered as she turned to him. He gasped slightly as he saw the wounds through her stomach.
"I never said that I would spare his life and you can't defend him after looking around" she said evenly. "Or up"
Slowly raising their eyes the sight that they met made most of them retch or throw up.
"I though she could-" Tom couldn't finish his sentence. "For gods sake someone take her down"
He looked over to Nemo and Quatermain in turn but to his surprise it was Hyde who climbed the flag pole and cut the ropes. He lay her blood soaked body gently on the ground before crying in rage and picking up the black clad bodies and flinging them carelessly into the sea.
"Who ever did this knows how to kill a vampire" Nemo said quietly as Alexia snorted.
"Ripper" Skinner said looking down at Mina's skinned body.
"No, it was one of the others, list them" Alexia said as she reached down and pulled the stake from Mina's chest.
"I don't think this is the time-" Quatermain's words caught in his throat.
Mina's body was slowly healing itself.
"I'll meet you all in an hour at the Atoms Pub; you know where it is I trust Mr. Skinner?"
"Been there a few times" he said looking up at her.
"Good you can come with me"
She started across the dock, back towards the way they had come, Skinner following.
"So where are we going?" he asked as Mina sat up quickly and gasped. Alexia didn't look back as she sheathed her sword.
"To meet an old Friend" she said hailing a cabbie. "An old friend and an old enemy"
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