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As you can see I had ALOT of fun writing Jack and his team into the story...it just goes on and on (but hopefully not in a bad way).
Jack looked up concerned as a Pterodactyl dived towards Rose; he swung the laser pistol he had been aiming towards the slime up above his head, and fired. He's shots hit the dinosaur in the wing and clipped the side of its head; it gave a piercing screech and flapped up franticly to escape out the roof. He turned to Ianto, "Keep the buggers off Rose. I'm gonna grab something a little more heavy duty." He climbed down to the lockers, forcing the door open as another singed body hit the grating with a dying cry. He reached into the back, promising himself that someone would be doing some organising around here someday soon. Pulling free a pulse launcher Jack aimed for the gap in the ceiling and locked onto the many flapping targets circling above him.
Rose got to the top a little breathless; she swung herself onto the crow's nest at the top and ran a hand over the panel containing the manual controls. They were labelled clearly, actually looking closer she had a feeling Jack had had a hand in writing them seeing as they read 'Stairway to heaven', 'Keeping hell in' and 'The Uhoh button'. There was a thunderous noise and four of the prehistoric birds fell from the sky, she looked down and saw Jack standing in an action hero stance. Rose rolled her eyes, boys and their toys. She pressed the red button, deciding to 'keep hell in' and hope for the best. She glanced up anxiously as motor's started humming and the gap in the ceiling began to slowly close, all the Pterodactyls screeched and it echoed off the walls creating a deafening sound as the majority of them raced for the opening.
The Doctor covered his sensitive ears, "Oi, working with explosive elements here. I need a little shush."
Gwen, Martha and Ianto covered their ears and knelt on the ground, grimacing.
"Bloody hell!" Mickey yelled into the reverberating din as he huddled under the computer desk holding his head.
Jack slung his launcher over his arm, aimed and locked onto the creatures that didn't seem to be moving out fast enough, he didn't bother covering his ears – wasn't like he could go deaf…at least not permanently. The launcher roared to life and this time five fell, and the abhorrent sound lessened just a tad.
Rose slid down the ladder, letting it run through her hands, she was anxious to get as far away from the pterodactyls and the horrid noise as soon as possible. She pulled a face once she'd landed as some burning corpses rolled to a stop nearby, "Jack, lighten up on the firepower!" she shouted, "Damn it Mickey, grab a fire extinguisher." She waved angrily at him as she ran over to the Doctor. "What's the distance on this thing going to be?" She asked kneeling down next to him "If they can't get in here, then they're gonna go elsewhere." Rose questioned quickly and anxiously.
Jack took a couple of shots at the remaining birds, after setting it to stun. Not that he was afraid of Rose Tyler or anything. They fell to the ground like stones, after a couple of thumps the Doctor turned to Rose, "I know that." He looked worried, "If I can get it full strength we'll get about six square city wide blocks." He brushed a frustrated hand through his hair "I need…" he looked down at his fingers and indicated how long "a piece of something conductive this long. Can you-"
Rose put her hand in her inner jacket pocket and produced a strip of metal, she grinned "Steel alright?" she asked handing it over and running a glance over Mickey's jumpy use of the fire extinguisher on the burning remains. "Jack?" she called and he nodded already on his way to the monitors to track the migration. She pushed a few strands of blonde hair behind her ear, "God, I'm turning into you. Carrying stuff around." She sighed heavily.
The Doctor grinned, despite the situation, "Might have to get you your own screwdriver."
Rose giggled and wacked him on the shoulder, mirroring his grin, "I'd rather borrow yours." She got up, hurrying over to the monitors; she stood at Jack's shoulder "Have you got a lock on them yet?"
He typed hurriedly, watching the screen intently as he tried to focus a satellite on the area, "Keep your pants on Rosie, and I don't say that too often." He gave her a smirk, "I've only got two hands remember…although I met this one bloke who-" Rose elbowed him in the side cutting him off, he grinned and then his expression became excited "Yes, got them." He frowned "They're not keeping together." He smashed a hand onto the console "Damn it. We'll be chasing down these things for weeks. They'll be sightings, someone's going to pick this up on their scans; the Air Force, the Army." He gave a rueful sigh, " And Unit. Damned if they don't keep mentioning this for the next couple of years."
Rose rubbed a comforting hand on his shoulder, "Hey, now. You're getting ahead of yourself. We still have time to get this under control, today."
Jack turned to her, his eyes lit up with delight, "You sound like you have an idea. Come on sweetheart spit it out."
Rose's tongue peeped out the side of her mouth and her eyes danced, "I'm gonna speak to the Doctor first, see if it's possible." She blew out a puff of air and turned to watch Martha, Gwen and Mickey struggled to gather together the Pterodactyls that were stunned and scattered around the vast room. "You should help with some of the clean up. We're gonna be in alota trouble if those things wake up, all unrestrained and grumpy." She added the last bit thoughtfully biting on her bottom lip.
Jack narrowed his eyes at her, "Since when do I take my orders from a Miss Rose Tyler?"
"Since always, didn't you get the memo?" She answered cheekily and rushed over to the Doctor's side. "Hey, I was thinking-"
"Uh oh."
"Oi! Look, what if instead of keepin' them out we keep them in? Can you reverse the field to close it up or would that be too difficult?"
The Doctor glanced at her now wearing his brainy specks and his mouth quirked up, "You, Rose Tyler should think more often. That is a very good idea. Flock not keeping together? You know, pterodactyls in my experience-"
"Doctor." Rose said warningly.
"Right, well if I switch a couple of these wires I'll be able to change the way it distributes the field. Then Bob's your uncle." He peered at her through his glasses, "Have you got an uncle Bob?"
Rose groaned and shook her head, "Doctor, can you get it ready in say 5 minutes? Would we need to be anywhere in particular when we set it off?"
"Oh, well we'd need to be above them for starters. Any of them are above where we set it off and they won't be captured." He mumbled absently as he put the finishing touches on the device.
Rose captured one of his hands in hers to get his attention, "Above?" she repeated slowly. She panned her head slowly to look at the ceiling above them, "And how are exactly are we supposed to do that then? What's the max height a pterodactyl gets up to anyway?" She covered his mouth with her other hand to stop him answering, "Look, I'll speak to Jack. See what he can do." She said as she stood up and started walking away.
"Was it really worth ruining my day by making this little stop instead of going part shopping? Or even following that strange signal I was picking up?" he called after her.
She spun around and laughed, "Oh, you love it. Don't act like you're not enjoying yourself." He stuck his tongue out at her and she responded in kind.
Jack looked up as he finished attaching cords around one of the dinosaurs when Rose appeared at his side, "So, all systems go? Do I get to find out what plan b is?"
Rose rolled her eyes, "We're going to try and catch them in a great big force field net. Then I guess it's up to you lot what happen to them after that." She stroked a hand over the scales of the creature nearest to them, a little bit in awe "They're actually quite beautiful up close. When they're not trying to kill you."
Jack smiled at her fondly, "You're too soft hearted Rosie. These things are killing machines."
"I know that." She whined, "Oh." She turned to him pretending to suddenly remembering something "The Doctor says we have to get above the dinos to catch them…so ah if you could work out the details, that would be great." Rose turned quickly to go help Mickey.
"Uh uh uh, not so fast sweetheart." Jack said grabbing her waist and swinging her back around to face him. "I have to do what?!"
So please review, and I have to say I really love writing Jack and Rose. Is this fic funny? Am I keeping them somewhere within character or missing the mark? Come on review you know you want to.