Here's the next part to Heigia Hundeb. It was supposed to end after this one, but it kind of took on a life of it's own, plus I was so willing to answer the question of Astra leaving just yet. Reveiw's make me a very very happy person, so please, if you like it, reveiw, let me know your thoughts.

Anja

Heigia Hundeb 2

-Wednesday Evening-

"It looks like a PDA," Gwen said, staring at the thing they'd picked up.

Astra looked at her, "Ok... A very alien PDA..." She put the thing down on her desk and typed something on her computer, "Ok, firewalls and extra security procedures are in place," She said.

"Then let's plug this thing in and see what it does," Jack said.

They watched as she attached the object to a cable. She looked back to her screen and started to access the the device. Suddenly the computer went black. Looking around, every computer in the hub went black, then the lights went out, leaving them in the eerie green light that wasn't powered by anything in the hub. The noise of their extensive computer system died too.Myfawny screeched from above, obviously insulted by the sudden darkness.

"What the-" Taye started.

"We're locked in?" Gwen asked.

Jack looked around the Hub, then at Astra, "What just happened?"

She shook her head, "I have no idea. It's not a lock down though..."

"What makes you so sure of that?" Gwen asked.

"In lock down the computers still work. Every thing's dead besides for that stupid green light powered by the city power grid!"

"When did we get that green light by the way?" Jack asked.

She glared at him, "You care about that? Geez Jack, I hate to break it to you, but without power we're still locked in! Because all our external doors are powered by the generator! Oh... So are half of our internal ones."

Jack nodded, "You still didn't answer my question though..."

"I can't believe you! I did it while you were in Ireland ok? But that's not the point!" Astra said.

Jack's grin turned serious, "Ok, we need to get the power back up."

Astra got up from her seat, "I'm going to the generator," She said.

"I'll come with you!" Taye said.

She nodded, "Ok."

"Yeah, so will we," Ianto said, grabbing Jack. Jack looked at him confused, "The door was powered, it's going to take a few of us to open it."

Jack sighed, "Right..."

Gwen looked around, then hurried after them, "Uhh... Yeah, me too!"

-T-O-R-C-H-W-O-O-D-

Gwen and Astra watched as the guys struggled with the door to the generator room. Gwen glanced at her watch, they'd been at it for about ten minutes with no luck.

"Who's bright idea was it to have automatic doors?" Gwen asked.

Jack shrugged, "Don't know. Well, actually I do know, but it was done years ago."

Astra looked around and caught sight of the manual over-ride pad. She'd stared at it a few times over the past ten minutes, "Jack, is the manual over-ride powered by the generator or the city power supply?"

He stopped what he was doing, "I know it used to be the generator... But people like Suzie fiddled with that... Maybe it got switched to the city supply."

Taye looked at the pad, "Well, here goes nothing," He typed in his access code, then stepped aside for someone else to enter theirs. They'd need three of the five.. Four, Astra's access codes didn't count.

Jack entered his, then Ianto. The door slid open, "Typical..." Gwen said, leading the way in.

Like the rest of the hub, the generator room was lit by the eerie green light. The team entered the small room and looked around. The usually incredibly noisy generator was silent. Astra walked up to it and opened the control panel. She could hear the others shuffling along behind her, waiting for her to do something. She flipped all the switches to the off position. Someone coughed behind her. She sighed, but kept working. She continued to open another hatch on the generator.

"I should have known..." She muttered, looking at the interior.

"Should have known what?" Jack asked.

She looked at him, "That even our... Your generator would be alien."

He looked at her and nodded slowly. He hadn't missed the change of words. He gave a side glance to the others, but they'd started to discuss something else and apparently hadn't noticed, "Uhh, yeah... That gonna be an issue?"

She shrugged, "Give me a few hours and I'll see what I can do... which will be a lot more if you guys aren't hovering over me," she said, looking towards the others, "Go check the external doors or something, see if they work off the city grid or the generator."

Gwen, Taye and Ianto nodded, "On it!" Ianto said, taking the other two with him out of the generator room.

Astra eyed Jack and pointed towards the main hub, "You too. actually.. Don't we... You have a vault full of aliens, who's doors could be open?"

Jack nodded, "Right..." He turned towards the door then stopped. He walked up to her, "Stop this."

"What?"

"The change of words. You're part of this team through and through till I say otherwise," The look on his face said not to argue.

She shrugged, "Right..." She turned back to the generator, "I've got work to do."

-T-O-R-C-H-W-O-O-D-

Gwen went to the cog door first and checked the control panel. She tried entering her access codes, but the pad didn't how any sign of life. She turned back toIanto and Taye and shook her head, "No luck here."

Taye frowned, "Ok, that stone slab then."

They went over and Ianto pulled out his PDA. He tapped in the commands for the slab, but his PDA screen started to... frizzle. That was the best word. Frizzle. He held it up to the others, "No good. My PDA's now dead..."

Gwen frowned, "Brilliant..."

They heard some one moving the the doors to the vault and moved that way as a group. They spotted Jack trying to open the door.

"What are you doing Jack?" Taye asked.

Jack looked at them, "The vault..." He looked at Gwen and Ianto, "The cells can open during some power outs."

Taye stared at him, "They can?"

Gwen nodded and walked over to Jack. She put her access codes into the pad beside the door and waited for Ianto to do the same. The door slid open.

Jack lead them into the Vault surprisingly enough all the doors were still sealed. Janet was safely withing her cell as was another Weevil. Jack looked around approvingly.

"Ok," He said, "All is good here."

The others nodded, also happy with the outcome.

-T-O-R-C-H-W-O-O-D-

-Wednesday Late Night-

It was eleven thirty-three on Wednesday evening and they had nothing to do. The computers were dead, the couldn't leave and they were bored.Ianto had given up on bringing coffee because he couldn't find anything in the dark. They were gathered in the board room, attempting to play cards in the light of some torches.

They'd played three rounds of poker, four rounds of old maid (seemingly Jack always wound up to the be the old maid). They were just about to start another game when the lights came on and they heard a solitary cheer coming from downstairs and the sound of footsteps running along the metal floors, then up the stairs to where they were. Astra burst through the open door of the board room before any of them could say anything.

"Power's back!" She cried.

The stunned expressions on their faces suddenly changed to glee.

"We can go home then!" Gwen said.

Astra nodded.

"I can fill up the coffee supply?" Ianto asked.

Astra nodded again.

Taye got up and hugged her, "You're a genius, you know that right?"

She nodded again.

Jack laughed, "Alright everyone, get your ass's out of here!"

They all nodded and said their good-byes as they made their way to the main hub to collect their coats. Astra ducked away to the locker room then out into the store room.