A rare disclaimer to remind you all i do not own Torchwood, if i did CoE wouldn't have ended the way it did. nor do i own Christina Aguilera, or her songs, unfortunate. i do however own Captain Rachel Falcon. she is mine. as is llewelynn the fire lion who i have adopted into my home. XD
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Rachel sniffed, a familiar smell of cooking bacon wafted towards her nose.
Rachel opened her eyes, "Ianto?" She called.
"No, guess again," Jack's voice called.
"Bringing me bacon?" She asked.
"Dream on,"
"Ianto brings me bacon." Rachel protested.
"So, Ianto eats bacon off me,"
"Jack, please," Ianto said heading into the lounge. Handing Rachel a bacon butty and a glass of Apple juice. Rachel had been there long enough that Ianto knew what she liked on a Sunday morning.
"Thanks, toes," Rachel muttered, taking a bite out of the sandwich.
Jack came into the lounge with his own sandwich, wearing boxers and nothing else. Sitting on the couch next to Rachel.
"Are you going to get dressed?"
"Me or him?" Rachel asked the already dressed Ianto, he had his pink shirt on, waist coat his Jacket on the back of the chair.
"Both of you," Ianto said.
"Well, I'm already wearing more than him." Rachel nodded to Jack, she had an old tank top and shorts on.
"How are you?" Ianto asked, as he did every morning. Rachel knew what he meant, but surprisingly, today, she was better. She couldn't find a reason why, maybe because her ribs had healed, the bruises gone, the only reminder was her body's constantly tense state and the scars that littered her body.
Something in the back of her head told her she was happy, genuinely, not the fake happy she'd been putting on, she was still hurting, but. No way near as much.
"I'm…good, actually, real good." Rachel grinned. Ianto returned it, it was the smile he loved, where her eyes would sparkle and shine. He hadn't seen it for months.
"You coming, Rachel?" Jack asked.
"You two go, I'll catch up," Rachel said. As the door clicked behind them, Rachel found her trunk, lay on the top were her clothes, the black crop top, black leather pants, her cowboy hat and mask. Along with her full length leather jacket.
She changed into her old clothes, a sense of her old self filled her.
We're back. And we're going to make one hell of an entrance.
Everyone bar Rachel was in the hub.
"Where on earth is she?" Ianto wondered aloud.
"Who knows," Jack answered.
Music rang through the hub.
"After all you put me through,
You think I'd despise you,
But in the end I wanna thank you,
Cause you made me that much stronger,"
"ooh, I love this song," Gwen said. Christina Aguilera's Fighter, flooded the hub.
"When I, thought I knew you,
Thinking, that you were true I guess I, I couldn't trust
Called your bluff time is up 'Cause I've had enough
You were, there by my side" The hub door swung open, Rachel danced in, wearing her old clothes, a grin on her face. She grabbed onto Jack and started dancing around the hub, singing.
"Always, down for the ride But your, joy ride just came down in flames
'Cause your greed sold me out of shame, mmhmm,"
"After all of the stealing and cheating You probably think that I hold resentment for you
But, uh uh, oh no, you're wrong
'Cause if it wasn't for all that you tried to do
I wouldn't know just how capable I am to pull through
So I wanna say thank you," She spun away from jack to Ianto, dancing with him, laughing.
Rachel began dancing with Owen next, who was pulled reluctantly from his seat by Gwen and Tosh.
Rachel danced from the others standing up on Toshiko's desk.
"'Cause it makes me that much stronger
Makes me work a little bit harder," She walked along the desk.
"Makes me that much wiser
So thanks for making me a fighter," She jumped onto Owen's desk and began walking slowly along that.
"Made me learn a little bit faster," She jumped onto Gwen's.
"Made my skin a little bit thicker," Onto her desk.
"It makes me that much smarter," Onto Ianto's
"So thanks for making me a fighter," Quickly across Jessica's desk, she landed onto John's. she hesitated a moment, John was sat on the chair looking up at her.
"How could this man I thought I knew
Turn out to be unjust so cruel
Could only see the good in you
Pretended not to see the truth
You tried to hide your lies, disguise yourself
Through living in denial
But in the end you'll see," She jumped to the ground, Jessica stood in front of her, glaring. Rachel smirked at her, as the Christina sang.
"YOU-WON'T-STOP-ME," She walked past Jessica without a second glance. Back to the still dancing team.
"Cause it makes me that much stronger
Makes me work a little bit harder
Makes me that much wiser
So thanks for making me a fighter
Made me learn a little bit faster
Made my skin a little bit thicker
It makes me that much smarter
So thanks for making me a fighter," She sat back down at her desk, laughing.
"Well, that was an entrance," Jack said.
"I thought, why the hell not, plus, I love the song." Rachel said.
"it is a good song," Ianto conceded.
"Going downstairs," Rachel called, throwing her hat and jacket over the back of her chair.
"She's back," Jack grinned as Rachel walked downstairs.
"Where does she go?" Jessica asked.
"There's a small gym, near the shooting range," Jack said.
"She gets lots of excess energy from the demon so she has to burn it off," John explained.
"Plus, she's getting all her muscle mass back from…" Owen said. "She was starving, so her body used what it could. But now she's not, she's putting it all back on."
"And like clockwork, every morning, in three, two, one.." Tosh said. Rachel emerged from the stairs, pulling her crop top over her head. She gets changed before working out, otherwise she'd be in sweaty clothes all day.
Ianto was giving out coffee, he lobbed a tub across the room towards Rachel.
She caught it, looking at it, she smiled. "Thank you! Spoon might help though," Ianto threw the spoon and Rachel caught it, opening the Ben and Jerry's Cookie dough.
"Thank You Mr. Jones." She called.
"What are you doing?" Gwen asked. It was a quiet day, the rift had spat out a couple of artefacts, nothing interesting.
"I am supposed to be typing up a report about a wooden box that fell through the rift two hours ago." Rachel said. "Instead, I am doodling,"
She showed Gwen the Sketch of Llewellyn. The lion had picked up a habit of laying across the couch, fully stretched out in the picturesque of relaxation.
"Not a care in the world that cat," Gwen laughed.
"Must be nice," Rachel joked.
"At least the world isn't ending," Tosh called over.
"For once," Owen grumbled.
As soon as Owen had said this the rift alarm sounded.
"And, we just jinxed ourselves," Ianto said.
The rift was visible, as they got there. Like fire, hovering in the air. It seemed to almost quake. Something shot out of it. A metallic sphere.
"Shit, Jack, look out!" Owen called.
Jack caught the object, and looked closely at it.
There were marks on it. Rachel came to his side. She took a step back at seeing the orb.
"Throw it back," Rachel mumbled, her eyes sliding into the demon blue.
"What is it?" Tosh asked.
"A grenade," Rachel snarled at the object. "It shouldn't be here, not here, not now, I've only just sorted everything"
"Rachel…" Ianto sounded worried, he'd never seen her like this. The rift began to shimmer, something else came through, a man, he looked scared for his life but once he saw the object in Jack's hand his expression changed. He lifted his gun and shot at jack, hitting him squarely in the chest. He fell back and the man ran towards his body, grabbing the sphere, heading back to the rift, dodging the shots.
"No!" Rachel snarled. As the rift began closing behind him, she let the electricity course through her, hitting the rift, it juddered and stayed open.
"What did you do?" John asked.
"Locked it," Rachel muttered through clenched teeth, trying to regain the control of her hands and feet. She looked down at her fingers, which were silver steel three inch claws.
"Rachel. Calm down," John warned.
"Believe it or not, I am trying my best," Rachel snarled, "Is he Ok?" Rachel nodded to Jack, who had gasped and jolted back to life.
"Fine, What happened,"
"Man came through, shot you, took grenade and left." Gwen said.
"We need to get it back, in the wrong hands that's the end of the universe," Rachel muttered, her fingers slowly returning to fingers.
"What do you mean?" Jessica asked.
"Inside the grenade is a tiny piece of space, and a tiny piece of time, in between them, was the middle of the grenade. Open the grenade, middle disappears, space and time collide and rip the universe into pieces." Rachel explained. "However it was meant to be under guards in New New York, someone must have stole it, never screams good intentions, we need it back,"
"How?" Owen asked.
"Well, I locked the rift, wherever he went, should be through there."
"Should?" Gwen sounded uncertain.
"Well, it's never an exact thing, about 50/50, I'm going anyway, I've fought to hard for this life to get it blown up."
"Rachel, wait," Jack demanded.
"We're coming with you," Ianto said.
"We just need some weapons," Owen said.
"Have we saved the universe, before?" Gwen asked.
"I think it was only the world," John said.
"Alright."
"Will we need food?"
"I'm sure we can find food when we're there!" The hub was in frantic mode. Packing for any situation, the hub was being put into lockdown, food left for the pets as they left for the rift sight.
"Do you actually know where it's going?" John muttered to Rachel.
"I have an idea,"
"If this goes wrong, will it…"
"Yes," Rachel said, pulling her mask over her eyes.
"Oof,"
"Ugh, god my head,"
Rachel cricked her neck, covering her eyes against the bright sun. instantly recognising where they were.
"Welcome to New New York." Rachel smiled. "The 13th New york I think,"
She pressed some buttons on her manipulator.
"Yes, 42nd century, 17 years since I was last here," Rachel grinned.
A two hour space ship ride and she would be in Vegas 4. Her home.
Rachel stood up, looking around she found herself looking down the barrel of a gun. Scratch that, many guns.
She spun around, police were glaring at her.
"Hello boys," She grinned.
"You're meant to be dead," One snarled.
"Precisely, therefore no reason to kill a dead person, hey?" The guard merely unclipped the safety.
"One day, that will work. You really don't want to do that, just let us go, for once I just want to go to Vegas."
"Ha, like we would believe that,"
"Boys, just put the guns down, you'll get hurt."
"We have you and your friends surrounded."
"Not all of them are my friends, but you are forgetting one thing,"
"And what's that?"
"I'm amazing," She drew her hand back and punched the police in the face as gunshots fired Rachel dropped down.
"Run," She said to the team.
They scrambled through the streets, down the back alleys and side streets.
"Stop," John panted.
"There's only one place, where they've got the resources to find that guy, and grenade. But he can't set it off for a while, needs more energy from the moon." Rachel looked up at the sky, there wasn't a moon in the sky, a new moon.
"We've got 28 days to save the world." Tosh said.
"Always fun," Jack grinned.
"You," Rachel said to John.
"What,"
"Whistle, black, looked like a dog whistle, do you know where it is?" demanded Rachel.
"Why would I know?" John said in the same tone, this was the most the two had spoke for months.
"Because last time I had it was when I lived with you, but of course you wouldn't have paid any attention," Rachel grumbled, patting down her pockets.
"Ah!" She dug deep into her back pocket, she pulled out the whistle.
She grinned. Put the whistle to her mouth and blew, hard. A shrill ringing came from the whistle.
Miles away, a rickety ship covered in dust and moss turned itself on. With a whirring of the engines and the lights flickering it took off.
"What on earth was that?" Asked a man, as they watched the old ship blast into the sky.
"That's impossible," Said another, as the ship was lost in the sky.
"What was that?" Jack asked.
"Our ride," Rachel said, sitting on the ground. "We'll just have to wait for a bit."
"Are we safe?" Gwen asked.
"Should be, just don't draw attention to yourself." Rachel said. She let out a yawn.
"Are you seriously going to sleep?" Ianto asked.
"Time travel is hard work," Rachel replied. "avoiding cops and calling a space ship is even harder,"
Gwen was watching the sky, slightly over whelmed by the whole situation, she watched hover cars glide aimlessly over the skies.
There was a thundering bang, Gwen looked over to the source of the noise, a black blur was flying towards them.
"Jack?" Gwen asked.
He looked over at her, "What's a matter?"
Gwen pointed to the blur.
I Kno this is moving a bit fast but trust me, it was a neccesity. Leave a review :P