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KatWillow 60 - Hmm a threesome?
And Gwen just abandons the hub (having done something bad to Tosh's program) to rescue Rhys like he is damsel in distress and eventually is the first to have her face eaten (I am a baaad girl)
Eleana666 - Sorry, I am sick but still reading!
FF
FranArian - Think I'll see how this is progressing before I throw my evil ideas into the ring...
Brose1001 - How about the doctors duking it out led the critters to earth in the 1st place, and Gwen's tampering removed a necessary alarm that keeps the hub safe? Thus leading the critters straight to it?
DarqueQueen7 - Oooo. Jack gets jealous because Kev likes talking with Ianto. Both Doctors make it inside the Hub, because thanks to Gwen being a cow, Mainframe's defenses are down. Jack has to try and keep Tosh from killing Gwen. The Doctors try to figure out why and how the Bakuu are on Earth...i'm tired now. See ya.
Right then…. Hmmmm
Gwen knew she was in trouble for this, the programme Tosh had been working on not just stalled or paused or whatever she thought the little triangle would do … as things flashed quickly across the screen it became apparent even to someone like Gwen that it was deleting something.
Bad.
Really….really…bad.
She shrugged, deciding it was not her problem and went back over to her workstation and the dresses she hadn't wanted to lose by changing screens. Then with a dramatic sigh she grimaced and closed that screen off, a new screen now showing where she clicked into a news band to watch the raw footage being filmed by a local news crew.
Two TARDIS flying about like locked in some weird mating dance, a cylinder softly falling from the clump clouds that were fast moving in a circular motion … it reminded her of when you pull the tub's plug and the water swing in ….ah…. a vortex? She stared at it for a few moments and then realised this might be a little… not good. The cylinder was a vessel of some sort, the way Jack was driving like a lunatic away from it all she needed to know.
She snatched the phone "Rhys?"
"Gwen love?"
"Where are you?"
"At home, I just for off that trip through to surrey with the load of…"
"No time for that. I need you to come to the Hub, something is happening and…" she cut him off.
"Don't' be daft. I can't drive, on a 24 hour stand-down after filling me logbook!" he laughed "You know that. I will see you later."
"Rhys, look out your window and tell me what you see!" she demanded. "Rhys?"
He didn't answer and she stopped talking, her eyes darting about as she listened and in the background heard him swearing and cursing. Sounds of crashing and banging as her eyes widened with horror. She was too late. It had started.
Gwen dropped the phone and ran for her chair, scooping her jacket off the back and racing for the door. She had to save him, screaming at the still open phone line as she passed the desk "Don't worry Rhys, I'm coming"
She was out the door before his voice came back on the phone with a harried lack of breath.
"Sorry love, the fucking bacon started to spit and went everywhere, then me egg I was poaching overflowed. You know me, a right pig in the kitchen. Gwen? Gwen?... Gw…. Ah… she's not even there is she. Bloody typical."
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The team walked into the Hub as Jack called out to Gwen, stepping aside to let Ianto pass while sliding his coat off to hang on the stand.
"Gwen?" Jack yelled again, this time with more anger in his voice as he slowly turned in a circle by her workstation, the live feed still on the screen and he stopped moving to watch as the Bakuu now swarmed from the ship across the grass.
They looked like a cross between a hamster and a body builder, their muscular yet furry arms swinging their weapons menacingly about as they walked. Of course … the dog that raced over when it saw them and grabbed one in its jaws (they are also the size of hamsters) startled them and they gaped as one of their officers was killed and then the dog raced off with its new toy.
"Sir?" one asked nervously of its leader "Was that one of their defence mechanisms?"
"Stay frosty, there may be more" came the angry reply as the small creature bristled with anger.
"Oh no" Jack said softly as he clearly understood the chipmunk chattering for what it was, swinging to stare onto those stormy pools of intelligence "Ianto. They are pissed now."
"GWEN!" Toshiko screamed with rage, her fists pumping at her sides as she ranted in Japanese, making both Jack and Ianto wince at some of the language that she was using.
Owen chose to enter at this time, still talking to Kev who was totally ignoring him and as Owen stopped to hang up his jacket Kev saw Ianto and Jack, heading straight for them "You two! You are the ones who I saw the other night night and… that's them!"
He pointed to the screen with glee "See? I'm not mad, there were two of those things in the night club, and people were kicking them about like they were balls. I saw that they were alive and tried to scoop them up out of the way but one of them gut stomped pretty good. Died. The other one was so passed… little screaming and weird noises as it tried to attack everyone. Rabid or something. Someone killed it with a bar stool."
"Oh god" Jack groaned "The advance party."
"Clearly not that advanced if they snuffed it!" Owen laughed bounding over and gawking over at Toshiko "What's wrong toots?"
"When I find Gwen I will batter her to death with one of her fucking shoes" Toshiko snarled, her face twisted in rage "She fucking wreaked it!"
Owen's mouth fell open as he heard a cuss word from the usually serene woman and he turned slowly to Jack with the same look etched on his face.
Ianto had other problems, Kev now standing a little too close as he leaned in and …sniffed him? "Hey handsome. We meet again. God, you look like you should be lying under a ton of sushi, placed just so and then I come along and with my nose I softly nuzzle…"
Whatever else he ws going to say was but off as Ianto deftly rabbit-punched him in the throat and then walked over to Toshiko to soothe as Kev stood there with his eyes watering, holding his throat and choking a bit. Then he grinned and whispered "spicy."
"Jack?" Owen said with surprise "Is that… two Doctors?"
Jack swung to look and the two TARDIS were now landed and one Doctor had exited the TARDIS and was slamming against the other one with rage. Each time he bounced off the door would open and another version would poke his head out, yell something and slam it again before the outside one could react, another volley of body slamming starting.
"So … this is their fault?" Owen asked with confusion "I mean … they came through, then the cigar that wants to treat us like Monika Lewinsky right? So … they brought the little gerbils of doom?"
"Don't call them that, they really hate that. They have a real problem with sizism." Jack snapped, swinging to ask Ianto something and freezing as he watched Kev walk up behind Ianto then stand so close their bodies were almost touching. Ianto was unaware of this as he helped Toshiko run a backup recovery, soothing her as he spoke in fluid Japanese and Kev leaned in, his crotch sliding into Ianto's arse as Kev let his hands grab Ianto's hips.
"Anything gi can do to help? I give great massages" he purred in Ianto's ear and Ianto froze, his hand that had been waving also stopped as he stared at Toshiko with widening eyes.
Toshiko reached onto her desk and scooped up a taser, zapping Kev in the side and he yelped then fell like a block of wood. She then resumed talking to Ianto like nothing had happened and both Jack and Owen were quick to pull the now unconscious man away.
"So … still. Their faults?" Owen asked as he watched Jack handcuff Kev to the railings of the stairs.
"Well, I hate to say it but.. yeah. Hey, is it just me but did that Doctor in the TARDIS still look a lot like…. Never mind." Jack frowned.
"Frobisher. Yeah, he does a bit. The other one is a bit naff with that silly Fez too" Owen agreed, "what the hell are they doing?"
"Oh no" Toshiko said softly "Not only did she dismantle my program but the safety protocols too. Jack … we have been wide open, no filtering. Mainframe is not secure, the firewalls are gone. Anyone.. I mean anyone can simply Google Torchwood and she would say hello."
"What?" Jack squealed in a most unmanly way as he raced over to look and his hands flapped with horror.
People WERE saying hello back.
"GWEN!"
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So, ho's that so far? Does Gwen find Rhys OK, or does she cause more chaos getting to him like running over a few Bakuu or something?
Who can get into Mainframe, and what will she tell them?
What next guys?