Chapter 6: Evils from the Rift
The Minotaur was staring Gwen down. Gwen could see the passion in its eyes. It was going to attack soon. However, the tall beast just stood there by the bathroom with Gwen pointing a gun at it. It wasn't moving. Gwen was confused. She called for the rest of the team who were already on their way after hearing the gun shots. Jack, Martha, Ianto, and Mickey arrived and stopped dead in their tracks. They all stared at the Minotaur in awe.
"How the hell did that get in here?" Ianto shouted.
"Me." Regina replied now stepping out of the bathroom and into view of the Torchwood team.
"But how?" Jack inquired.
"Magic." Regina said. "I control the Minotaur. I make the rules. Now you will do as I say."
"I don't think so." Jack said.
He pointed a gun at Regina and was ready to shoot.
"You think that scares me?" Regina pondered.
"It should." Jack said before shooting the gun and sending a bullet speeding at Regina.
The Minotaur instantaneously jumped in front of Regina just in time to save her from the bullet. The bullet didn't even affect the monster at all. It simply bounced off of the Minotaur's chest and landed on the floor.
"What the hell?" Jack remarked with confusion.
"Like I said before. Magic." Regina said now staring down each member of the team. She saw the looks of fright on all of their faces. This was always her goal. Regina had taken over Torchwood. "Hostility will not be tolerated Jack. Normally I'd kill you, but seeing as I can't, I'll just have to kill one of your friends."
"Over my dead body." Jack fired back angrily. "And I don't think anyone will see that for a long time."
Regina chuckled.
"Alright. I'll give you a choice." The Evil Queen said. "Give me the red diamond and fix the dimension jumper and I'll spare your lives and the lives of those in the city. Your second option is to defy the first option. In which case I'll have the Minotaur kill all the mortal Torchwood agents and every last person in this city until I am given the red diamond and the dimension jumper has been fixed."
"Regina," Jack started to say. "We can't fix the dimension jumper."
"What!" The Queen said sounding very angry and confused.
"The dimension jumpers were made at the Torchwood in London. They had much different technology then we do and they're long gone. UNIT took most of their technology anyways. We can't help you. So you can't do whatever it is you wanted to do with it." Jack said.
"I don't believe you." Regina said.
"It's true." Ianto said. He knew the information Jack said to Regina to be absolute fact. Having worked at Torchwood in London and Cardiff, Ianto knew of all the differences.
"No." Regina said. She was on the verge of tears.
"I'm sorry Regina." Jack said. "It's over."
"No." Regina said. "No it's not. I won't let you stand in the way of my happy ending. I'll burn this city to the ground if I have to. Now fix it!" Regina screamed at them.
"Jack's right Regina." Ianto said. "We can't fix it."
"What a shame." Regina remarked. "It seems you've chosen option two." She then turned her head towards the Minotaur who was standing next to her. "Kill them all." Regina commanded.
The Minotaur understood Regina's orders loud and clear. It prepared to charge at the Torchwood team with its massive horns. Jack, Gwen, Ianto, Martha, and Mickey all understood what the Minotaur was doing and bolted away from the mythical beast. The Minotaur then ran after them. Regina could hear its roars even as the Minotaur swiftly made its way farther and farther away from her. While the Minotaur was attacking Torchwood, she decided to venture through the hub and find the red diamond and dimension jumper.
Meanwhile, the team by this time had made it into the main area of the hub with the all the computers. They could all hear the Minotaur's roars louder and louder as it approached from behind them.
"We've got to get out of here!" Mickey shouted.
"No!" Jack said. "We can't let that thing get loose in the city."
"None of our guns work!" Gwen said. "How do you propose we stop it?"
They soon ran out of thinking time. The Minotaur had arrived. It charged at them blindly without looking where it was going. This made is easy for the Torchwood team to dodge its advances. However, the Minotaur was destroying the hub. It cracked the walls open. It broke machinery. The wild monster soon crashed head first into the Rift Manipulator. This was a tall machine with the ability to open and close the rift. It was important not to tamper with the Rift Manipulator. No one ever knows what will come out of the rift. Now a very dangerous monster crashed into it and caused sparks to fly off of it.
Suddenly, the entire hub shook violently. Jack, Martha, Mickey, Ianto, Gwen, and the Minotaur were being tossed around the already damaged hub. It was an earthquake. Eventually, the hub stood still again and the Minotaur charged through the round door, down the hallway, through the shack, and into the city with no one to stop it. The Minotaur roared through the black night sky as innocent civilians ran quickly away from it. The Torchwood team was left to pick themselves up. Once they all got onto their feet, an annoying alarm sounded loudly throughout the hub.
"What's the alarm for?" Martha asked.
"Check the computers." Jack instructed to Gwen who was closest to them.
"Oh no." Gwen said after disabling the alarm and reading the computer screen.
"What's happened?" Ianto asked.
"That was no earthquake." Gwen responded. "It was the rift. When the Minotaur crashed into the Rift Manipulator, the rift opened and some things got out."
"What things?" Jack asked.
"I don't know." Gwen responded still looking at the screen. "It only says that two new life forms escaped the rift."
"Check the CCTV." Jack instructed. "Maybe we can see these life forms on the screen if they're outside."
Upon looking at the screen, which was projecting a live view of the Cardiff streets, Gwen saw people running away from something. She watched them run for their lives wondering what they could be running from. She suspected that it was the Minotaur. However, she changed her mind when she saw a blue laser beam kill the people while they were running and heard a loud screeching voice say "Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate!"
"Jack." Gwen said very seriously. "A Dalek escaped the rift." The Dalek soon appeared on the screen, confirming Gwen's statement.
This was bad news. Daleks were the ultimate killers. Everyone on Earth knew them. When they stole the Earth just a few months ago, they also invaded the planet and killed so many people. Daleks could not easily be killed. Jack possessed the only gun Torchwood had with the power to destroy it. It was a large powerful laser gun. Now they were going to have to use it. If they failed to kill the Dalek, the world would be exterminated.
"Hold on there's something else." Gwen said while looking at the screen. "Have any of you seen this angel statue before?" Gwen asked referring to a seemingly new stone statue of an angel that she couldn't remember being there before.
Martha's eyes widened. She remembered a certain species that looked like statues of angels. They were deadly. She prayed it wasn't what she thought it was. Martha ran straight to the screens and stared at it. There was a statue of an angel. It's hands were covering its face. Martha knew exactly what this was. She'd seen it before when she as traveling with the Doctor. This was a Weeping Angel.
"That's a Weeping Angel. It must've escaped the rift too." Martha said.
"What's a Weeping Angel?" Mickey asked.
"They're aliens. The Doctor said they were quantum locked." Martha replied.
"But what does that mean?" Gwen asked.
"It means its not really a statue. Its only a statue when you're looking at it. The Weeping Angels can only move if they're unseen. Once you look at them, they turn to stone. But once you look away, once you blink, they get you." Martha replied.
"What happens when they get you?" Ianto asked.
"They send you back in time and feed off the energy that produces." Martha said.
Jack spent a few minutes just thinking and trying to come up with a plan.
"Alright," Jack began. "Obviously we need to get out there and stop the Dalek, the Angel, and the Minotaur. I'll grab the big gun and go after the Dalek. I think the man who can't die probably has the best shot at it. Martha, you've fought the Weeping Angels before. You're the best person to fight them now."
Martha nodded her head in acceptance of this. She was the most qualified, but that didn't take the fear away. She could get sent back in time and without the Doctor there to save her again, she may be stuck in the past forever.
Jack continued to tell his plan. "Ianto. Go after the Minotaur. I want you to use the Hypnosis Charm."
The Hypnosis Charm was a small purple circle which was put on a chain so that it could be worn as a necklace. It was an alien artifact that Torchwood discovered. It had the power to hypnotize anything. It could surely be used to defeat this indestructible Minotaur.
"Gwen and Mickey," Jack continued. "I want you to stay here, close the rift, and stop Regina. I'm sure you can handle it."
Mickey and Gwen nodded. They were prepared to stay and fight in the hub. Jack, Martha, and Ianto grabbed the supplies they would need to fight the aliens and departed from the hub in a hurry. People were dying. They had to stop the killing.
Gwen and Mickey were left in the hub. Suddenly, a strange beeping noise sounded on the computer. Mickey walked over to check it out while Gwen stood still trying to call her husband and warn him about the new dangers in the city.
"Gwen." Mickey called to her.
"Ya?" Gwen responded.
"What were you telling me about the Weevils? Remember while we were waiting two days for Jack to come back? I asked you about the Weevils." Mickey said.
"Ya. I told you that they were vicious and carnivorous. That they would kill anything instantly without even thinking about it. They're savage and they need to be kept here away from the public." Gwen said.
"They've got out." Mickey said.
"What?" Gwen questioned.
"They must have accidentally gotten released from their cells when the Minotaur was jamming into random buttons and stuff."
"So the Weevils are out!" Gwen said.
"Ya." Mickey replied. "And they're coming for us."