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Rose is on her knees, unwrapping the oilcloth we saw Ianto with from the shuttle. Ianto is in the corner, clutching his head.
"I can't shut them up..." Ianto whimpers.
"It's okay..." Owen tries to comfort him.
"They're all made up of rage." Ianto gasps "I can't..."
A BANG as a body slams against the door.
"Just stay low. I'm right here." Owen assures him even as he looks more than terrified as well.
Rhys moves past them to Martha, takes position by her.
"Rhys and I take the first wave." Martha is on control as she calls to the team "Nobody shoots less they get past our fire."
Owen moves to Toshiko, who is shaky as hell. The bangs on the door continue.
"Oh, I didn't plan on going out like this. I think we did right, but..." Toshiko says to him quietly.
"I never planned... anything. I just wanted to keep Ianto safe. Spent so much time on Torchwood trying to find us a home I never realized I already had." Owen replies.
She looks at him with soft surprise.
"My one true regret in all this is never being with you." Owen sighs.
Toshiko blinks as she gapes at him "With me? You mean to say, as, sex?"
"I mean to say." Owen says softly as his hand brushes her arm.
Toshiko snaps her cartridge home with way more precision than we might expect from her, takes steady aim at the door. "Hell with this. I'm gonna live. We both are and I'm gonna wreak you!"
Owen looks at her a moment, then turns his attention to the door.
Rose comes up with the contents of the oilcloth: a bow and arrow, which she pulls back with focused grace.
The door starts to come off its hinges.
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A panel is kicked in from the ceiling and The Agent drops down, having clearly entered from a different location.
He looks around, carrying a laser-pistol. He moves past Mr Universe and Gwen "Guy killed me, Jax."
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Jax has reached the generator room and surveys the situation.
Before him is a railing, and he can look down on the generator shaft. It's miles deep, with machines rotating and grinding, and arcs of electricity ricocheting around it.
On the other side is a platform, with the broadwave console sitting behind a clear plastic partition. Cables and chains run along the ceiling, around a series of ladder rungs.
"Hard to get to" Jax snorts "That's a fact."
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The door is pried partially open - enough for one Muncher to squeeze through and charge.
Martha stands up and shoots him in the head. He arcs back hard as the second comes, Martha shoots him, calmly walking toward the door -
"Martha... Goddamn it..." Mickey roars but she is in a trance, and we see beneath the calm, to the bubbling magma of rage that keeps her firing, single shots, each one a kill, till five men down and she's out of ammo.
The sixth comes at her swinging a blade and she blocks, the precision of military training still in her as she flips him, wresting the blade free and swinging it down out of frame, bringing it up bloody, swinging again as the door bursts open and she's rushed from behind - But Mickey totes an automatic, sprays killing fire on the lot, moving forward himself -
"MARTHA!" Rhys roars "Get yer ass back in the line!"
She looks up, almost confused - and one of Rhys' targets comes back off the ground and slices at her back with a blade, she screams as he cuts deep - and an arrow lodges in his neck. Mickey grabs for her as he looks back to the line and Rhys who is still signalling to them.
Rose pulls up a fresh arrow, shaking only slightly.
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BASEMENT, OVER THE GENERATOR - LATER
Jax is on the railing, reaching for the 'rungs' on the ceiling just above him. He can almost get them - one wrong move and he pitches into the jaws of death...A laser shot nails him in the lower back - he arches, legs sliding off the rail - he falls and hits the rail with the backs of his legs, flipping painfully onto his face as he falls, mercifully, back onto the platform.
The Agent comes around some equipment for a closer shot as Jax gets shakily up. "Shot me in the back. I haven't...made you angry, have I?"
"There's a lot of innocent people in the air being killed right now." The Agent informs him.
"You have no idea how true that is." Jax responds and there's no wise-ass attitude in him now. They stand, facing off at ten paces. "I know the secret now. The truth that burned up Ianto Jones' brain and set you after him. And the rest of the 'verse is gonna know it too. 'Cause they need to."
The Agent hesitates as he cants his head "You really believe that?
"I do."
"You willing to die for that belief?" the Agent asks calmly.
"I am."
The Agent raises his gun – but Jax is the quick draw master, shoots the gun out of The Agent's hand and gets two hits to the chest (armored) before he makes it to cover.
"Of course," Jax says conversationally "that ain't exactly the plan"
He drops out his cartridge and slams another in.
The Agent hides behind some machinery. Tries to peek out at Jax- and more shots send him scrambling back to cover.
Jax holsters his gun and jumps for the rung above him, starts going hand over hand to the island, moving as fast as he can.
The Agent sees his moment, dives for his gun - but it's been ruined by Jax's shot. He looks over at Jax with death in his eyes. He runs at the railing, vaults off it, and grabs a chain - it snaps and he swings, grabbing another.
He reaches Jax and double kicks him from behind –Jax flies off the rung but grabs a chain - he tries to kick at the Operative, but the guy is frikkin' Tarzan, he climbs up and pulls a lever releasing one end of Jax's chain – Jax goes swinging, smacks into the wall six feet below the platform.
He scrambles up just as The Unit Agent swings himself toward the platform from above.
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Rhys is still firing continuously as Mickey drags Martha back to the barricades. Owen moves to help - Toshiko firing now, squinting with effort - and pulls open the cut back of Martha's shirt, checks the wound. "Spine's intact"
"Just gimme a bandage." Martha snarls as she weakly fumbles for another gun.
Owen pulls a spray can from his bag, sprays the wound with a foam that hardens instantly into an elastic covering.
Martha snarls as she turns to watch her husband take her place at the line.
Gods she loves that man.
They are all gonna die, at least they go together.