Chapter 2
A short while later, they had all looked around most of the hub, but Jack had one room left - his office. He approached the door with some trepidation and took a deep breath before turning the handle and opening the door. He stepped in and saw that it looked as he remembered it, while the furniture wasn't the same it was of a similar style and everything was in the same place as his old office - there were even papers and documents on the desk, Martha and Mickey had obviously been using it. After sitting in the new chair and looking around the room he left and joined Martha, Rex and Gwen in the main part of the hub.
"You did a great job Martha, it look almost exactly like before" says Jack.
"Thank you, oh and by the way, we salvaged some stuff, it's all in a storeroom, thought you might want to go through it yourself".
"Thanks"
"This place is insane, it's all just ... wait, what's that down there, I didn't see?" asked Rex pointing down at the door that led to the cells where the aliens/creatures are kept.
"That's the accommodation for some of Torchwood's more violent captures"
"Is there anything down there?" asked Gwen.
"Janet is?"
"She survived the blast!"
"Yep, we found her wandering the streets of Cardiff, there's a few others down there too"
"Rex, before you ask, we'll take you down there later, but first you need to hear everything"
It was at that moment that Rhys and Mickey walked through the door, each walking up to their prospective wives.
"Hey, how's me mam?" asked Gwen
"She's good, happy to see her granddaughter and happy that the whole miracle thing is over"
"Nice job with that by the way" stated Martha before continuing with "Right then, follow me"
A few minutes later they were all in the boardroom, with Martha and Mickey stood up infront of the rest.
"When the hub blew up, along with the tower we think it sent a ripple through the rift that's been attracting all sorts of things to the city"
"What's a rift?" inquired Rex.
"Think of it like the San Andreas Fault in California, it's an invisible line running through the city, it's a gap in time and space that gets wounded sometimes and bleeds out creatures"
Rex looks shocked and doesn't know what to say, this is when Jack stands up and says "Maybe, before we go any farther I should explain some of this stuff to Rex"
"Go right ahead" answered Mickey before he and Martha sat down.
"Rex, I know you're probably really confused right know, but I'm gonna explain some stuff and hopefully give you a bit of context, ok?"
"Ok"
"The Torchwood Institute was founded in 1879 by Her Majesty Queen Victoria, it was to be an organisation to protect the British Empire from invasion"
"Invasion! Invasion from who?"
"Aliens"
"You gotta be kidding me!"
"Absolutely not, Rex there is so much out there, many hundreds of planets and many thousands of species, some friendly, some hostile. It's an amazing universe out there, if you know where to look".
"Wait, back up, how did Queen Victoria know about aliens?"
"She was staying at a place called Torchwood House in Scotland on her way to Balmoral when a Lupine Wavelength Haemovariform made itself known"
"A what?"
"Werewolf"
"Seriously!"
"Yeah, but thankfully it was stopped by a man called the Doctor, he's an alien too, however afterwards the Queen did banish him"
"Why, is her dangerous?"
"No, he's a good guy, in fact, he has saved this world more times than I count, he's an amazing man, I should know, I've travelled with him".
"Me too" says Martha
"And me"
"So this guy, the Doctor, he goes all over the planet defeating aliens and monsters?"
"Not just this planet and not just this time period. He has a ship called the TARDIS, it can travel anywhere in time and space"
"You're not kidding are you?"
"Nope, I've been to the year 100 trillion"
"I met Madame de Pompadour"
"Shakespeare"
"Rex, would you like a minute to process all of this before Martha and Mickey tell us all why we're here?" asked Gwen.
"Please"
After a little while and after Rex has had a few minutes to process everything that he heard, Martha and Mickey then got up and stood infront of everyone.
"We called you all here for a very good reason, Cardiff is under siege" stated Martha.
"Yeah, ever since the 456 there have been steady increases in alien activity in the city, but since the miracle it has gotten 10x worse".
"What species are we talking?" questioned Jack.
"At the moment its only large numbers of minor species, Weevils, Blowfish, Krillitane, we're just scared that if it doesn't stop soon their activity might attract more dangerous stuff like Daleks and Cybermen, that's why we called you?"
"So what have you been doing to find and fight them?" piped up Rhys.
"Mickey developed a device to track where there are high percentages of alien activty"
"You did that?!"
"Yeah, you're talking to the man who blew up Downing Street - from his bedroom"
"Why would you do that?"
"A problem with some Slitheen, but that's a whole other story. Jack what do you wanna do?"
"I wanna see all the data you have, on my desk in 10 minutes, Mickey show these three how the device works and Gwen, tell everyone everything you know about the species that these guys have seen. Come on people, get to work?"
Everyone then jumped up out of their seats and quickly walked out of the room.
End of Chapter