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There are a few gun shots (as well as nail-balls and blades) from the Munchers. Rhys switches weapons, tossing another to Martha and opening fire as he yells at them "Oh, now you're likin' guns, huh? Cheaters!"
He takes a hit in the shoulder, grimaces and keeps firing.
Ianto watches, the gun limp in his hand.
Toshiko grabs it and starts another round - but she's peppered with dart-like projectiles. She screams and drops the weapon, pulling the projectiles from her - Rose helps her up, pulls her back as Martha shouts "Everybody fall back! Fall back!"
Everyone stumbles or is dragged into the inner corridor.
Rose hits the controls and the doors start to close, from each side and above and below. Then, when the hole is maybe four by four, they stop.
"Rhys! Grenade!" Martha yells as she regains enough footing to fire again.
"Very last one..." He tosses it through the hole. Martha doesn't even flinch from the blast as she thinks.
"They're gonna get in" she mutters as she tries to find a solution.
"Can close it... from outside..." Toshiko pants with pain as she writhes in Owen's arms.
"No one's coming back from that" Martha snaps as she tries to stand, fails. "How much ammo do we have?"
"We got three full cartridges and my swingin' cod. That's all" Rhys postures suggestively.
Rose is by the elevator, pounding for it to come "Lift isn't moving..."
"When they come, try to plug the hole with 'em..." Martha says with a new calm.
Toshiko cries out and Owen moves to hold her tighter "I'm starting to lose some feeling here... I think there's something in them darts they throwed at me."
"Lie still. I'm gonna give you something to counteract the…"He stands, looking around him. His bag is over by Martha. "My bag."
SHKOWW!
the bullet takes him in the belly – everything suddenly moving very slowly as he spins slightly, one foot lifted, a confused expression on his face - then speeding right back up as he slams down on his back, gasping for air.
Ianto's mouth opens in a scream he doesn't make.
Blood spreads from Owen's belly. Rose rushes to him, grabs cloth and puts pressure on the wound, puts Owen's hand on it.
"Keep pressure here..." Rose sobs.
"My bag. Need... adrenaline... and a shot of calaphar for Toshiko... I can't... Ianto...?" Owen slurs and he is by his side, takes his hand. Ianto has a kind of Serenity to him, like he understands something now. "Ianto... I'm sorry..."
"No." Ianto croons "No."
The lights go out. Everyone looks about them. Rhys fires again, but all the sound has bled out save these two.
"I hate to... leave..." Owen chokes.
"You won't. You take care of me, Owen. You've always taken care of me." Ianto croons, the he stands as the emergency lights come on, giving his face an unearthly glow as he looks down at him. "My turn."
He's running so fast, nobody has time to react til he Dives through the hole in the doors, then Owen screams his name, the scream following us back into the Black Room where Ianto lands in a perfect roll, comes up in a room full of Munchers.
Without a moment's hesitation he makes it to the panel, gets the doors closing. He dodges a blade, but a blow to the back of the head shakes him.
He weaves around a couple of Munchers to get to the closing doors, but at the last second his ankle is grabbed and pulled out from under him.
The last thing they see is him being dragged back as they swarm over him.
The Blast Doors shut with a shuddering clang.
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BASEMENT, OVER THE GENERATOR
Jax gets up the chain to the platform.
The Agent is on Jax before he gets his footing, tackles him as Jax's gun goes skittering over the edge into oblivion. There is a railing here or Jax would go over as well - but he comes back with a couple of hammer blows, gets The Agent off him.
They square off, Jax stumbling back into a tool chest, knocking over tools and computer parts.
The Agent reaches behind him and pulls his sword gracefully from the holster under his armour.
Jax produces his weapon: a tiny screwdriver.
He hurls a toolbox at The Agent and rushes him, gets inside sword range and tries for the neck with the screwdriver - The Agent blocks it and works the sword point against the edge of Jax's stomach. Starts pushing slowly, despite Jax's resistance, and breaks skin.
Jax looks at The Unit Agent a moment - and the sword slides all the way through Jax's belly.
Jax's eyes go wide.
"You know what your sin is, Jaxtson?" the Agent asks softly as their noses almost touch.
Jax answers with a shaky smile "Aw hell, I'm a fan of all seven."
He headbutts The Agent viciously, then punches him so hard he staggers back, losing his grip on the sword. The Operative responds with a spin kick –Jax holds up the screwdriver and The Agent swings his foot right into it, gasping as Jax pulls the screwdriver - and leg it's stuck in - back as he rockets his fist into The Agent's chin.
The Agent goes down hard, dazed, as Jax grabs the sword still in his belly.
"But right now..." Jax groans as he pulls the sword out, grimacing. Holds it over the Operative. The smile gone. "I'm gonna have to go with Wrath."
He stabs down at his foe's face - but The Agent rolls out of the way, kicks Jax from the ground and is up in a second, grabbing Jax's sword hand - the sword drops – and punching him repeatedly in his stomach wound.
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The gang is subdued - because they are all of them injured and Owen is slipping away. Rhys looks at Martha.
"You suppose he got through?" Rhys asks her softly "Think Jax got the word out?"
Martha answers almost convincingly "He got through. I know he got through."