Chapter Three
The Ocean' Fury
A number of space police gathered within a busy office, where the orders were barked out by computers,
"What's the situation!?" One barked
"One of our officers is being held hostage by an ancient Time Lord Mam" A police officer said
"What is this Time Lord' stance?" The computer barked
"Well she's making it rain at the moment...we need to get someone out here who can negotiate with her, see what she wants" The police officer said
"Where is she centred?"
"Bay Walk" The police officer replied
"This is Torchcwood' problem, block Wales off from the rest of the planet, that should get their attention" The computer barked
Owen opened the door to the Torchwood hub, and nearly got blown away,
"Really?"
With that he slammed the door shut again.
Jack and the 11th Doctor were sat in a field, a fire before them, TARDIS behind them and a warm breeze wafting over them as they drank their favourite tipple,
"So, where is Jasmine tonight?" The 11th Doctor asked,
"She's on Galafray with Emperor and Adrian, have you asked him yet?" Jack asked
"No, I thought I'd wait until we were on the football pitch and Partifimind is doing the bit to ask him to be my best man...of course I have, you asked Owen?"
"Uh...no, I thought I'd wait until we were on the pitch" Jack said
He burst out laughing,
"So, Jasmine "died" at your wedding, she really did die at mine, she can't die again so what do you think is going to stand in the way this time?" Jack asked
"Don't even joke" The 11th Doctor said, "I need to make my marriage to River illegal, I like a party and Adrian' team are in the final in Limerick...which coincidently is where the Emperor' book is housed and may or may not come in handy looking at that storm that only seems to be focused on the Bay Walk over there"
Jack lay back and growled,
"Why can't it be simple with you?"
"Where is the fun in that?" The 11th Doctor said, "Up, my TARDIS should be able to pick up on something"
Jack followed The Doctor through the TARDIS from Clara' era and through the console...though to be honest Jack did hesitate a little at first until the Doctor grabbed his hand and pulled him through.
Here Jack found another control room, this one was carpeted and was baby-proofed and had toys littered about,
"Shut the door!" The Doctor screeched, "Don't want Amy or Clara finding this ship"
"Uh, there something you want to share there Doctor?" Jack asked raised eyebrows
"I have a fetish" He replied sarcastically, "Oh...this is awkward"
"No secrets" Jack said
"Ah" he said turning and putting his hand to his forehead, "I can't tell you"
"I'll blame Owen, just tell me" Jack demanded
"I have Honour" He said
Liam found himself on a twisted path that went off in all directions, into purple forests, through walls of water, walls of fire. There were grey shadows everywhere and sad lookig zombified Time Lords and either turned their heads in shame or tried to reach out for him.
It took Mo appearing before they retreated,
"Where the hell am I?" Liam demanded, "That wasn't the real Darlek Emperor"
"No, it was a beam fired by the court of ye-old Gallifrey EY. They found out what we've kept secret for an age, your father" Mo told him
Liam sighed,
"Emperor is not my father"
"He is and your mother is Galafray, when they killed her he buried her soul in a glass bottle, withi the soil of the long dead Earth and from it she built his heaven, a place for the noble Time Lords, leaving the traitors on Gallifrey EY, where having a TARDIS was a privalidge meant only for his spies, now you know why he loves humans, why the Doctor loves humans" Mo said
"This is all very interesting and a little bit redundant now that I'm dead!" Liam snapped
"Only for now" Mo said
"Oh what's dad going to do build me a new body from scratch?" Liam asked sarcastically
"Yes actually, your spirit was severed from a body with a mind that's still very much awake but your pulse is so weak not even the heart monitor could pick up on it" Mo said
"So they buried me is that what your saying?" Liam said
"This is where you home in on your skills, call this a training scheme. This path takes you around and between Earth and the Emperor' empire, at each check point you will be put to task and if you succeed then a clue and a piece of your memory will present itself to your father so he knows where to follow on to, once he has everything he needs he can rebuild you and you'll keep the skills you learn along the way"
"When I come back, I'll be a Time Lord?" Liam asked
"We'll need your brother too, but that may take a while, he never did believe in aliens" Mo said, "The first check point is through the parting of the waters" He added
The 11th Doctor looked at Jack' white face,
"Forget I said anything"
"I will not" Jack replied, "Honour was..."
"The court altered reality, you were never meant to be his parents, we gave the court the DNA they needed, Jasmine was the carrier. If I want to remain seperate from the 10th Doctor and the conciquences of his actions from the moment he chose to save Jennie to telling some pore woman he was a God and could choose who lived and who died then I had to accept their terms, I had no idea what those terms were. I thought it might just stretch to helping Torchwood with Adrian' training but about a month ago I was handed this baby and bang everything they altered was reversed, they gave me a TARDIS that sits within the one I lived on and goes between two eras, by going to the era of a future companion I become privy to problems I face with Amy and River Song. The dangerous I'm put in. With one perpose, to stay alive long enough for Honour to reach his 18th birthday, meanwhile SLSC train him up, help him to home in on his skills" He said, "He's a story teller Jack" The Doctor said with a smile, "He can write anything he wishes real, we need to train him to only do this to aid Adrian. It makes training easy when he's old enough to write and think for himself because he's safest within the pages of his book"
Jack was stunned,
"Has he anymore powers I should know about?"
"The most annoying one and the real reason I told you to shut the door, he can blend in" The Doctor sighed.
"You mean..." Jack asked suddenly being careful of his footing
"Exactly..."
"Hang on, who looks after Honour while you're out galavanting with the girls?" Jack asked annoyed
"The TARDIS"
"Which TARDIS?"
"Thee TARDIS, keep up, she ports here in her sleep and I manipluate time, time is irrelavent out of body. She's very good with him" He hears a gurgle and grabs him, "Ah ha! There you are"
"Can I?" Jack asked, tears in his eyes
"Sure" He said handing him over, "Doesn't change anything now that you know, I need to triangulate the the sourse blocking off Wales to the rest of the world"
Jack stared at his son, the day he was taken flashig back into his mind,
"Michael" Jack said, angry
"He's not the enemy Jack" The Doctor said firmly
Adrian was sitting on multi-coloured grass with Jasmine and Emperor, within the Emperor' garden. A large, impressive space with a turquoise pool centre and arch walkways going off into the distance.
"Why is the grass like this?" Adrian asked
"It's mood grass, you're all over the place right now, hardly surprising" Emepror said, "That pool washes away guilt, sorrow and sins from the working Time Lord, so Time Lords like Jack, who test the Doctor and his loyalty.
At that moment, a guard came over to the Emperor,
"Sir, the Doctor blabbed but we have another problem...Ocean' Fury broke out of jail and is currently drowning Bay Walk" The guard said, "The space police want Torchwood to deal with it...they have a hostage situation"
"Wow, so that's how it's going down is it? Send the Doctor the signal, tell him to tell them Torchwood is aware and to break down the barriers, we'll need time, and time is something we're losing the less space she has to use her powers to drown them with" Emperor said
"Should we go down?" Adrian asked, suddenly nervous
"Not yet...I want to show you something" Emperor told him, "The training area of the Emperors of tomorrow...basically at some point all or your future forms and the souls I keep in my library have been put to task. We may as well do a little something while we're here. A trial and if you're successful then I will gift you, your mother's spear, the spear of Honour"
"What are you up to?" Jasmine said, "That spear has to stay here, it brings humans back from the dead"
"Yes, I need it to revive Liam, only his heart can make it beat once more, and Owen is taking far too long to come round, Pole is moving fast and the spear of Revival won't work without the spear of Honour on Earth...you are going to create something for Adrian to fight...just don't make it too easy"
Owen looked like a drowned rat as he squelched into the apartment he shared with Morgan. Daisy had left shortly after the War, to work for UNIT. Something Owen was yet to understand, she said she had her reasons, he felt hurt but something in him had to trust that she knew what she was doing.
As Morgan laughed at the state Owen was in there was a knock on the door,
Owen opened it to Layla and stared at her for a second,
"Layla"
"My car won't start...I remembered you saying you lived in this block and I wondered if you knew anything about mechanics" Layla said
"Uh...come in, Morgan will go" Then to Morgan he added, "It's a red Kia with a dent on the side and a dragon on the bumper"
"How'd you know that?" Morgan and Layla asked
"These things come to my mind lately" He said, "Why are you drying? You only have a provisional"
"Uh...OK can you stop doing that? I look like mum with my hair up so I use her liscence when I go out"
Morgan laughed,
Owen pointed,
"Sit, I'm calling your mother"
"Don't do that!" Layla pleaded
"Give me one good reason" Owen said
"She has a migrane!"
"Liar"
"She sounds like someone you used to know...don't read my mind anymore please" Layla said getting upset
"I can't help it...fine so she sounds like Tosh, Tosh died, I can handle it, I'm calling her, what's her name?" Owen said
"Prya" Layla said
Owen knew the woman' name was Tosh but Layla' discomfort was screaming at him now so he dropped it and told Morgan to call Tosh instead.
He looked over at Tosh' photo and a tear fell from Tosh' cheek before the glass smashed and everyone jumped.
The TARDIS materialised by a door in a road, it was dry here but raining on the other side and water was starting slosh about,
The Doctor and Jack stepped out of the TARDIS and The Doctor wrapped his knuckles on the door. The door opened and they were blinded by white light.
As the light faded they found themlseves in the space police office, lasers pointed at them by the computers,
"Who're you?" The computer barked
"The Doctor...what's the situation?" He responded
"We have a hostage situation, one of our officers has been captured by an ancient Time Lord, who can control water"
"Yeah, she's not a real Time Lord" The Doctor said
"Matters not she's your problem, deal with it" The computer barked
"Drop the barriers and Torchwood will handle it...all we need is the Emperor' book" The Doctor said
"It was absorbed" The police officer said
"By who?" Jack asked astounded
"Guess you'll have to go and asked Lady Justice yourself" The police officer said, "Dropping barriers"
Up on a storm cloud sat a hidious looking woman, she had a blue face, that was swallen and wrinkled, like she'd been submerged in water for a long time and her eyes were black,
"Too many to count...we need a little memory dust" She said
Adrain was led into the training area by Emperor and Jasmine, it was a massive open space with sandstone walls, read and gold pillars and flames and red clay floor.
He stood in the centre and then looked at Emperor and Jasmine,
"Should I call my sword?" He asked
"Yes" Emperor said, then to Jasmine he added, "Dig deep dear"
Jasmine closed her eyes and a grey morphing mass appeared before Adrian. He stared at it in disgust. He yelped and ducked as it went for him and splattered off the wall at the far end before dripping off and morphing into a humanoid,
This time Adrian was ready for it, he sliced the morphing alien in half but now he had two of them to worry about.
Adrian waited for the two to join together again and then used the torch to set it on fire. Emperor, Jasmine and Adrian looked on in shock at the fireball that flew up into the air as did many of the Time Lords going about their business outside,
"What if I freeze it?" He asked then he sighed, "I don't have that ability yet"
"You do while in these walls, call on the power of your future self" Emperor told him
Adrian closed his eyes until this 2nd form appeared and merged with him. Adrian opened his eyes and looked at his hands they had blue fire and white smoke around them.
He looked at the morphing alien and waved his hand to freeze it before reclaiming his sword and shattering it,
He then used the torch to melt the ice and a loud fanfair declaired that he had been successful.
He slumped to the clay, out of breath and his second form detached himself, grinned and vanished through a mirror that appeared breifly before him,
"Thought of a name for that thing?" Jasmine asked
"You want me to name it?" He asked
"You beat it, you name it" Emperor told him calling the spear to his hand
"I was going to say moulder but they looked like cats" There was a thunder strike, "Oh Lord, I created the moulders"
"Your mother' spear" Emperor said presenting it to him, "I must send you back now"
Adrian woke up in his bed and started to cry until he saw his mother' spear and then he gasped,
"I was there!" All of a sudden there was a knock at his front door, he ran down to find the 12th Doctor, "You"
"Apparently something happened, you were sad, 11 is going to limerick, Jack' going, Owen, your mother, something to do with a wedding or something stupid like that and we have to meet them and take a plane...I think it has something to do with an angry Time Lord, don't want her getting her hands on our ship, if you met her you'd understand, she drowns planets you know...what's with the face? Can I come in?"
"Wow! Just wow!" Adrian said, "My husband was...sent somewhere, they say he was murdered but I'm not buying it...how can you forget that?" He added hurt
"Me and 11 are two different beings remember, since he seperated himself from 10" The 12th Doctor said "I suppose you...oh sod it" And with that he grabbed Adrian for a hug. But it was a real hug, he let go of his ridgedness and held his son the way he wish his father had held him when he was grieving, "I need to stop you crying"
"I don't think I'll ever stop" Adrian sobbed
"Hey" He said seriously, pulling away and looking him in the eyes, "You say his death isn't all it appears then one day you'll find him again, you're a Time Lord Adrian, hold on to that, I found your mother didn't I? I found you again"
Adrian was strangly comforted by this,
He noticed some tickets in the Doctor' hands,
"They for the plane?"
"No these are finals tickets, front row for the match in Limerick, I was personally hoping you'd support my Buzzards but..." The Doctor smiled, "Did I do well?"
"Oh my God! I tried to get these tickets..."
"Time Lord" The Doctor grinned
"Jasmine!? You ready?" The 11th Doctor called from the lower central hub
"Hours ago" She said creeping up behind him and making him jump, "The whole us remarrying thing, is it really just to make your marriage to River illegal? You could just ask dad for a loan of his doubles crystal you know and marry her without emotional attachment"
"Your father hates me" The 11th Doctor said
"This is true but he hates her even more, I've seen your future Doctor" Jasmine said
"I want to remarry you anyway because last time we didn't get past the reception and you died in Jack' arms, plus 10 wiped 9' marriage to Jack from his mind as well as their son, we deserve a happy day" The Doctor said
"You and Jack had a son?" Jasmine asked in surprise
"He was used to revive the Dark Empire. That's when Devine was put in a cryogentic chamber, he absorbs all of Adrian' memories and skills, I dread to think what he's keeping him for" The 11th Doctor said, "Ooh I probaly shouldn't have told you that"
"How long have you been privy to Devine' location?" Jasmine asked
"Since I was given a second TARDIS and...Honour, oh I'm dead" He said
"Anything else I should know?" She asked
"Ocean' Fury has abducted an officer, he's trapped in Limrick where the wedding is tomorrow and the book...your dad' book, only Lady Justic is expecting Adrian not him...oh I'm dead" The 11th Doctor whimpered
"Ocean' Fury...I thought last night was a dream, there was a barrier, dad told the guards to find you and get you to tell the space police to stand down the boarder before Wales drowned"
"Yes! It gives us time but the roads are already starting to flood, we need to go now" The 11th Doctor said
Owen and Jack were driving the Torchwood car, they were currently stuck in traffic and both of them had distant looks on their faces. A thunder clap snapped them both out of it,
"What was that?" Owen exclaimed, seeing a face in the mirror
"Ignore it...'ere, don't know why but I've been thinking a lot about the past today" Jack replied
"Same as that...this rain storm, reminded me of this alien made of water, they arrived in that hurricane, remember and everyone got flu but it wasn't flu it was this alien thing possessing humans" Owen said with a shiver,
"This is worse...remember the one they left behind, at the club, didn't you and Tosh do a music video?" He asked with a laugh
"Yeah...that was the start..." Owen said
One month after Owen joined Torchwood: Owen was sitting on Tosh' sofa,
"Come on Tosh! Let's just do this" Owen called, Tosh came out in just a shirt, and holding a hairbrush, "Wow...I mean you'll do"
Tosh smiled,
They started recording the video to the song; Love me, and as the song went on they forgot about the camera and started to play into each other' hands. They made eye contact, they got closer and closer and closer until they were in kissing distance,
"Owen" She breathed, "If you don't need me..."
"I can't do this" He said, stepping back, "Not to you, I don't want to hurt you and I will hurt you Tosh, it's what I do, you deserve better"
"It's alright Owen, it was just a dance" Tosh said with a nod, though clearly rejected
"My fiance'...she, if she hand't...you've got me at the wrong time is all" Owen said kindly. "I should go...but Tosh, you look beautiful"
Tosh smiled as Owen left.
Now: "I think I still have that video you know" Owen said
"Ever wonder what might have happened if you'd given in?" Jack asked
"All the time" Owen said
"She never stopped covering for you" Jack said, "No matter what you did to her"
"I wasn't exactly easy to work with back then" Owen said
Jack smiled and stared out the window,
One week after Owen joined Torchwood: Jack and Tosh are having an exchange in a cafe,
"You have got to reign him in Jack!" She snapped, "His force field gives off signals whenever he loses his temper"
"What do you want me to do Tosh? He's grieving...oh God" Jack said
He was watching Owen stumbling about outside and then he disappeared, now worried Jack ran after him.
Jack caught up with Owen as he was trashing his appartment,
"Woe! Hey!" Jack called, grabbing him to stop him, "Stop!"
"I thought it was her!" He screamed, then he held up his bleeding hands, "I...I thought, I"
With that he collapsed in Jack' arms and sobbed,
Jack cried with him on the glass covered floor,
"My wife died too, you're not on your own"
A few JD' later, Jack had bandaged Owen' hands and was as drunk as him,
"How'd she die?" Owen asked, "I thought you were Gay"
"Why limit yoruself to one species?" Jack asked, Owen laughed, "She was murdered on our wedding night"
"Forget that" Owen remarked
"Before that my husband left me for dead on Satellite 5 and then when he regenerated he forgot all about me, even went as far as to burn our wedding photos" Jack said,
"Bastard" Owen spat
"He's a lovely man" Jack smiled goofily, "I'd do anything for him...no thanks but" Then he looked at Owen, "You can stay at the hub till you find a new place"
"Don't you trust me not to trash yours?" Owen asked
"Torchwood is my home, my last was repossessed because my papers don't add up, the one before that was a base for a con' kid and her son, the one before that was very strange, apparenty I built it myself, I've layed a lot of things but I brick aint one of them" Owen scoffed at this, Jack continued "The one before that was bombed in the War, the one before that was a tent in the battle of..."
"I get it, you take work home with you" Owen said
Jack giggled
Now: "God help me, you should have fired me" Owen said with a shake of the head
"Never" Jack smiled, "You remind me a lot of my younger self"
"Shame Tosh never got married" Owen said
"She did" Jack said
Owen looked at him in shock,
"What?"
"He's in there" Jack said pointing at the graveyard beside them, "Name' Zane, he was a Doctor, it's why she felt safe with you"
"Well I'll be damned!" Owen exclaimed, "What happened to him?"
"Some alien exacapees killed him while he was on duty and then as she was a whitness, forced her to build them a sonic modulator, short story is she fixed what the government couldn't and then UNIT busted her, put her in prision for life. I already knew of her and made a deal with them to get her out but she could never leave Torchwood or see her family again. She impressed me and ACID so much we slackened the rule, aloud her access to the family, the crown made sure they were well cared for"
"When you said she impressed ACID..." Owen said
"I already told you too much" Jack said
Emperor jumped as he felt a tap on his shoulder as he was about to board a coach to Fishguard. He turned to find Vera behind him,
"Wherever you think you're going I'm going" She told him
"Limerick for a wedding but OK" He said
"Don't give me that" She said
"I really am going to the wedding" Emperor said shiftily
"I have ways of making you talk" She snapped
"Oh alright so Liam' brain is still alive but he's somewhere else, I'm going to note whatever clues arise and follow him on so I can rebuild his body and make him a Time Lord. Happy?" Emperor said
She slapped him,
"Yes...now move up the line I'm coming with"
"It's not going to be as easy..."
"Does it look like I care?" Vera snapped
"The kids" Emperor pleaded
"Are teens and Chris is Earthbound" She said
He sighed and they both boarded the coach.
Just as Adrian and the 12th Doctor had finished their game of Chess loud claps of thunder sounded and cracks appeared in the glass,
"Oh she's peaking" The 12th Doctor said going to the window,
Adrian followed,
"What the hell is that!?" He screached
A wall of water with a face screaming within it came right at them and smashed through the windows,
Emperor clapped his hands as the coach was tipped over by the same wall of water, purple lights shot out in all directions,
He then nodded for Vera to walk with him out of the bus,
She was surprised to find that she could even stand in all this water, let alone breathe,
"We can walk, they can't it's too much pressure" Emperor told her, "We have to find the others"
The 11th Doctor and Jasmine jumped out of the car before the wall of water reached them and they held onto each other as it forced them some way back and into the doors of at travel lodge.
They lay on the floor of reception, looking at each other in dismay at the purple light,
"We're dead surely" He said
"Oxsayphian charm" She said getting up off the floor, "You'll get used to it"
Jack and Owen were just about to board the ferry when the wall of water picked the Torchwood car up and carried it a fair distance, into the window of the cafe and tipping the ferry over before carrying on across the water, increasing with height as it headed for Ireland.
All Morgan, Chrissie and Brendan could do was watch through the windows of their apartments,
"This is the day Earth drowns" Chrissie shivers