Chapter 5: Alarms
"Owen! Gwen!" Toshiko yelled, tapping furiously at her keyboard. They arrived at her desk together, with Ianto just a little way behind his hand still untreated. "There's been an incursion, in the vaults. Something's down there."
"Anything on CCTV?" asked Gwen.
"No, the feed's off-line. Must have been affected by the blast."
"Why haven't the alarms gone off?" queried Owen. Normally any incursion by non-Torchwood personnel sent the base into lockdown.
"No idea. Owen, with me," Gwen shouted, already heading for the armoury and her gun. He ran after her.
Toshiko continued to tap away, processing information almost quicker than her computer. "There's another one. The Boardroom," she said using her comms to make sure her colleagues heard her. "And another, the Tourist Office," she added before anyone could react.
Ianto was down the steps, two at a time running to the others who were hesitating at the armoury door. "I'll take the Tourist Office," he said, taking the gun Gwen handed him. He turned, heading for the cog-door.
"Gwen, you take the vaults and I'll do the Boardroom." Owen was off to the stairs even as he spoke.
"Right. Tosh," Gwen ordered as she headed down, "keep track of us and let us know if you find anything."
All three were out of sight when they heard Toshiko. "Another one, in the med bay!" She bent down and retrieved her gun, grateful she still had it in her bag from a Weevil hunt the day before. She walked over to the medical bay entrance, skirting Jack's body which lay unmoving. She hesitated at the archway, then moved down the two steps. The place was a mess from the blast but she could not see anything out of the ordinary.
She gingerly moved to the railing and looked down. There was a crumpled form below her. She trained her gun on it. It looked humanoid, dressed in grey with dark brown hair. As she watched it groaned and then moved, stretching out an arm. Definitely humanoid, she thought as she saw a hand emerge. She moved to her right onto the first step down into the bay to get a better angle. Her movement was noticed and the form suddenly looked up, staring straight at her. She stood transfixed.
The humanoid man stood, still looking at Toshiko. He stretched the kinks out of his neck and she heard the vertebrae click into place. "Hello there," he said, "Captain Jack Harkness." He smiled at her and if she had had any doubt before there was none now.
She glanced over to her left, back into the Hub, and saw Jack's body lying in the same place. She was not going mad; there were two Jack Harknesses – and this time they had the same face..