A/N. Hi everyone, sorry it's been a while between chapters, but i'm back on track now and hopefully won't take as long again. A big thank you to rosieposy for her help with this chapter. :) Enjoy. Kat x

Chapter 42.

Molly was standing by her computer terminal, frantically typing on her keyboard. She had the signal she needed, but was having trouble getting it up to a strength that would transmit as far as she needed. 'Power, I need more power,' she said to herself. 'Great, now I'm talking to myself.' Molly knew time was of the essence as Jack had told her they would need the signal sooner rather than later. As she worked at boosting the power, Jack's voice came through her comms again.

'Molly, now would be a good time to have that signal working.' His voice was tight, and in the background she could hear the growl of weevils.

'It's nearly there.' Molly hooked up another cable to her terminal, hoping that she could boost the amount of power flowing through it. 'Please work' Molly said to herself. The display on the computer next to her showed that the power was draining at an alarming rate, hopefully she could give them enough time to destroy the control device.

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Jack, Gwen, Ianto and Jamie, were doing what they could to take down the weevils that were attacking them, but they were hopelessly outnumbered. Three had been shot, but the others had now split the group up. Jack and Gwen were being forced in the direction of the aliens, who were taking great delight in watching the proceedings. Ianto and Jamie were pushed back until they were cornered by a wall. The weevils were now in a holding pattern, as if waiting for permission to make their final move. None of the team were prepared to fire in case this caused the weevils to move prematurely.

'This is going to be so much fun,' the alien called from it's place in the alley. 'I'm going to watch you all die, and then I will be free to do what I want.'

'God, you really do like the sound of your own voice, don't you.' said Jack. 'There's not just us.'

'Oh yes, there is another isn't there. She poses no threat to us, once you're gone, she'll be on her own, easy to take out.' smirked the alien. It held up the device it was using on the weevils, it pushed a button and said 'Finish them.'

The team braced themselves for the attack, except nothing happened. The weevils looked disorientated as if they had just woken up from a long day's sleep. Molly's voice sounded over the comms.

'Is it working?'

Jack answered. 'It seems to be, the weevils have stopped doing what the aliens want.'

'Good, but it's not going to last long. I can give you two minutes tops.'

'Two minutes?' queried Jack.

'These chips weren't designed to send signals over too far a distance, that's why the alien was always around. It's taking a massive amount of power to send this signal, two minutes is all I can hold it for. You need to destroy whatever it is they are using.' Molly took a breath, she was talking fast. 'Damn, gotta go.'

'Molly is everything alright back there?'

'Fine, don't worry about me.' Molly cut off her comm.

'What is going on,' shouted the alien in frustration. It was the first time it had lost the smug tone from it's voice, it was starting to sound a little worried.

'You shouldn't have underestimated the team member that isn't here' said Jack.

The weevils seemed to be back to normal now, they were no longer doing what the alien wanted no matter how hard it tried. Three of them headed back to the sewers, all but one of the others went for the aliens. Weevils were not known for their intelligence, but these seemed to sense that these aliens had been causing them trouble. The aliens scattered, all except one which was frozen to the spot, a weevil picked it up and killed it instantly. One headed for the alien that had been taunting them, but this alien was quick and sprayed something at the weevil that knocked it out instantly. They must have a more advanced version of weevil spray Jack mused to himself. This was not the time though, he needed to get that device before the jamming signal wore off.

'I'm going for the device, cover me.' he shouted to Gwen.

Jack ran towards the alien with the device while Gwen kept her gun trained towards the weevils in case one went for Jack. Ianto and Jamie were still dealing with one of the other weevils. Jack followed the alien as it went into one of the warehouses. He carefully walked through the door and saw the alien standing a little way in the distance.

'So what now, you shoot me.' said the alien tauntingly.

'Well, I did promise.' answered Jack.

The alien just continued smirking, 'I'm not afraid of death.'

Jack was getting angry now, nothing seemed to phase this alien. 'Give me the device and I might think about letting you live.'

The alien scoffed, 'Yeah, right. You'll let me live, but it will probably be in some kind of prison, what kind of a life is that. Anyway whatever your little tech person has done, won't last forever.'

'You're right it won't.' said Jack. He raised his gun and fired at the device in the aliens hand.

'My hand' screamed the alien as it dropped the device, that was now sparking violently, and held up its hand which had a bullet hole through it. 'Fine, I don't need those weevils anyway.' The alien launched itself at Jack taking him completely by surprise. Up until now it had shown no signs of being capable of violence itself, but it had seen everything it worked for fall apart. Jack fell backwards and landed with a thud on the ground. The alien had landed on top of him and it's features had changed, it was snarling. It tried to bite him, but Jack managed to keep it away with one hand, while with the other he reached for his gun which had been dropped. He could just about feel it with his finger tips when he heard a shot and the alien slumped down on top of him. Jack heaved it off and looked over to the door to see Gwen standing there, gun raised.

'Thanks,' he said, picking up his gun and standing up.

'Anytime.' she said. 'The others have managed to disable the weevil without having to resort to killing it, but there are still two more out there, probably hunting the other two aliens.'

'Ok, lets regroup and look for them.' Jack strode out the door and back down the alley towards Ianto and Jamie. As he reached the weevil that the alien had knocked out, he saw a canister lying on the floor. He picked it up.

'What's that?' asked Gwen.

'The alien used it on that weevil,' answered Jack, 'I think it's some form of advanced weevil spray. Could come in useful.'

They walked back over to the others who were finishing off restraining the weevil they had knocked out.

'Everyone ok?' Jack asked. Ianto and Jamie nodded. 'Good, we're going to try and find the last two aliens.'

'Where do we st…' Jamie was interrupted by something that sounded like a howl. 'Never mind, I'm guessing we follow the howl.'

They ran off in the direction of the noise and found on the other side of the warehouse, the last two weevils attacking the other two aliens, who obviously didn't have anything to defend themselves with. They didn't stand a chance and were dead before the team could do anything. The two weevils turned their attention to the team. Jack stepped forward and sprayed the canister at one of the weevils taking it out instantly, the other turned and ran back in the direction it had come from, probably back to the sanctuary of the sewers.

'Great, so four of them got away.' said Gwen.

'It's ok, I'm sure we'll come across them again, and now we have this,' Jack indicated the canister in his hand. 'We have a way of sedating them. We will have to see if we can replicate it to make our spray stronger. For now though, we need to clean up here.'

'I'll call Molly, get her to bring the SUV.' said Ianto.

'I don't think that's going to do it,' said Jack. 'It will take too many trips. We have four dead aliens, three dead weevils, as well as three unconscious ones. Plus from the little I saw of the warehouse, there is all the equipment these aliens were using.'

'I could call Rhys.' interjected Gwen, inspiration hitting her. 'He can get us a large vehicle to use.'

'Good, get on that.' Jack then gave Ianto and Jamie tasks to do before getting Molly on the comms. 'Molly, you there.'

'I'm here,' she answered. 'Did you destroy the device?'

'Yeah, you gave me the time I needed to destroy it. We should be on our way back in an hour or so, after we've cleaned up. Is everything ok back there?'

Molly paused before answering, 'Well, I do have a few things to fix. I'll explain when you get back.'

Jack was a little puzzled by the last comment, but went back to work, helping the others with the clean up.

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About two hours later they arrived back at the Hub and started unloading the aliens, weevils and equipment that they had cleaned out from the warehouse. Rhys had come through and lent them a lorry from his haulage firm, meaning they only need one trip. As they walked back into the main part of the Hub, they noticed that the lights were not fully on, and there was a burning smell in the air.

'Molly,' Jack called as they entered. Molly appeared seconds later, looking slightly dishevelled and with a bandage on her hand. 'What happened?'

'Like I said I needed a lot of power, so it needs time to reboot. Thankfully I didn't drain it completely or I would have sent the place into lockdown. The lights should be back up properly in about thirty minutes.'

'What about your hand?' asked Jamie, hurrying over to examine it.

'Oh, that. I burnt it slightly, when my computer started sending up showers of sparks. I may need a new one.' she said rather guiltily, not looking Jack in the eye. 'Sorry.'

'I think a new computer is the least I can do considering you just saved our lives. Right, we have lots of things to bring in. Ianto and Jamie, I want the two of you to deal with the dead aliens and weevils, I'll bring up the unconscious ones. Gwen and Molly start bringing the equipment in, and the rest of us will help when we can. The sooner we start, the sooner we can finish and go home.'