Miracle Day- Blood Battle- Part 1
After transporting Rex, Esther and Vera to Buenos Aires, I transported the original Torchwood team to Shanghai to the location of the Blessing locations in the show.
Then I gave Jack my vortex manipulator saying, "Go get Oswald Danes. He will be useful to us once we gain entrance into the Blessing Chamber."
"Alright." Jack said, kissing me. He smiled. "Be right back," and he vanished in a flash. I felt a sharp pain in my stomach. The contractions were closer together now, but I could tell that I still had a while before Amelia popped out.
In a flash, Jack was back, dragging a very pissed off Oswald Danes. Danes spun around and his eyes widened once he spot me. "You. I should have known once Harkness showed, you would be here as well."
"Hello Danes." I said with hatred. "How's life without death treating you?"
"Very well actually." Danes replied smugly.
I smirked. "Because it won't be lasting forever. Enjoy your last free moments, Danes." I turned to Jack. "Transport us to the Shanghai Blessing Chamber. The coordinates should already be in the Vortex Manipulator."
Gwen, Tosh, Ianto, Owen, Jack, and I joined hands while Jack held onto Danes and transported up to the Shanghai Blessing Chamber.
As we flashed into the room, I heard the clicking of weapons being loaded. I spotted Jilly and her mother over by a huge hole in the ground. At our entrance they spun around, shocked expressions on their faces.
The mother recovered faster than Jilly. "Captain Jack Harkness and wife, Susan Jane Harkness. At last." The mother said, walking over to us while the guards never wavered their weapons from us.
Danes stepped forward. "No, no, no, no, this isn't about Jack. No, ma'am. Excuse me, but it's not at all. My name is Oswald Danes. Well. Hmm. Good evening, Miss Kitzinger. You've been promoted. And this is the new empire you're servicing? My, my, my, my, my, my, my."
"With all due respect, Mister Danes, you're a by-product of the Miracle. Not really relevant at all." The mother said.
Danes expression darkened. "That's what the Captain said when he picked me up. He tried to tell me that my life has become a very small thing. Tiny. And yet right here, right now, at the very end, I would describe myself differently. I would call myself vital." Danes opens his coat to reveal a suicide jacket of explosives. He arms the trigger.
"Jack, how could you miss that?" Tosh asked.
"Madam, you're a fine woman. You should be careful now, very careful indeed. It seems like you've been planning some kind of an explosion, but I'd love to make sure you're still inside." Danes said.
"Advantage Torchwood." Jack commented.
The large screen hanging above the hole suddenly switched on to show a similar hole in Buenos Aires. "Well, I'm afraid we have a major disagreement here in Buenos Aires." The cousin said. "I'd say advantage Families. Say hello to your friends."
"What's that supposed to mean?" Ianto asked, confused.
"He means us." Rex said as Rex, Esther and Vera were forced into the line of sight for the camera.
"Rex? Oh my God." Gwen said. "Esther and Vera?"
"We're here. They caught us." Vera said.
"Just glad to hear you're alive." Gwen said.
"I'll swap your standoff for my standoff." The cousin said and he aims his gun at Vera's head.
"Don't you do it." Rex said, his face paling.
"But nobody dies. She'll keep on living, just perforated."
"Threaten me, you coward, not her." Rex said.
"Rex. Hey, I'm okay." Vera said.
"If you hurt her, we've got explosives here ready to go." I hissed.
"And don't imagine I won't. Whatever happens here tonight, there's no place on Earth that I can go, and I wasn't planning on coming out of here alive." Danes said.
The Cousin lowers his gun. "So, who's gonna lose their nerve first?"
"The thing is, we don't need explosives or guns or threats, because I've got the most powerful thing of all." Jack said. Jack walks to the hole in the world and cuts his finger. His blood flies into it. "It wants me. Mortal blood. The only one in the whole world. So I suggest you're very careful with me, okay?"
"And if you fail to take the Captain's advice, you can certainly come to oblivion with me. Jack, you're the future man. You've seen wonders beyond this world, so tell us of these Blessings and Miracles." Danes said.
"What the hell is that thing?" Gwen asked as the hole began to glow.
"Can you feel it?" Jack asked.
"Yeah, I can feel it. Oh, yeah. God, I can. Okay, God. Oh, my God." Gwen said.
I was rubbing my stomach and I winced in pain as another contraction hit. "Yes, I can feel it as well." And Amelia hates it. I thought to myself.
"It is said that it reflects your own self back at you. What can you see?" The mother asked.
"Enough guilt to last me a lifetime. But that's okay. I'm a working mother. I don't need the Blessing to tell me that." Gwen said.
"I have more guilt than you can possibly imagine. I've helped civilizations and hindered them. I've even died and came back." I said stepping forward. "I don't need a damn blessing to tell and remind me of that. Not when I have a child on the way." I said patting my stomach.
"And you, Jack?" The mother asked.
"I've lived so many lives. And now I can see them all. Hey. Not so bad." Jack said.
"Well, you might want to question your choice of weapon, soldier. Let's see. You brought the world's biggest bastard, wired him up to a bomb and then showed him his soul. Hmm, that's good work. You know, I feel really safe right now." Jilly said.
"Oswald? Oswald. Don't lose it." Jack said to Danes who was staring down into the hole in the ground.
"Sin. The Blessing feels like sin." Danes said.
"Oswald, don't. I need you."
Oswald shrugged. "I guess I'm accustomed to sin."
"Thank you." Jack said.
"I still don't get it. What are we looking at? The Blessing, is it the rock or is it the edge? What?" Owen asked.
"It's the gap in between, the nothingness. The space. It's alive." I said.
"It's like they broke the world." Danes said.
"You're the expert. What is it?" Ianto asked.
"The world's been turning for over four billion years. There's so much buried under its skin. The Doctor used to say there's Silurian mythology, Huon particles, Racnoss energy, an expansion of their hibernation matrix, maybe." Jack asked.
"You don't bloody know, do you?" Gwen asked.
Jack shook his head. "No."
"No. It's been here since the Earth began?" Tosh asked.
"Could be." I replied.
"Yeah. Oh, it has. I can feel it. We're so used to these things being extraterrestrial, but this might be the most terrestrial thing of them all. Wow." Gwen said.
"So, you found The Blessing and you worked out this morphic field." Rex concluded.
"The Blessing exists in a symbiotic relationship with the human race. It transmits a morphic field around the planet, binding us together like magnetism, like sunlight." The Cousin said.
"But finding it wasn't enough. You had to experiment on it." Esther said.
The cousin shook his head. "No, we fed it."
"We fed it the blood of an immortal. We had one remarkable artefact. We found a second remarkable artefact. The combination was inevitable." The mother said.
"So The Blessing absorbed the blood, copied it like a new template. So, the system changed its setting." Gwen said.
"You know why it did that? I think you hurt it. It was being attacked, so it took the blood pattern and made it a gift. It's exerting itself to sustain every person on the planet. This whole Miracle, it's trying to be kind." Jack said.
"You've seen immortality. I'm living it. Why would you want this?" Rex asked.
The Cousin smiled. "This is only stage one."
"But you ruined the world out there!" Gwen protested.
"The Miracle shocked the economy. The economy collapsed. We tear down in order to rebuild. And now it's almost within sight. The new world." The mother argued.
"Yeah, with no room for the poor, the weak or the ones that don't fit in." Ianto said.
"That's the way the world works. Now, we're just making it official. The families have just been waiting. Now we can step in to control the banks. The banks control government. The government controls people. Soon we'll be able to decide who lives, how long, where and why."
"It's about time!" Jilly exclaimed.
"Oh, great. So it's the world according to Kitzinger, is it?" Tosh asked.
"Listen, you can bleed your liberal heart all over the place, but are you really gonna tell me the world was working before? Because I have worked for the rich and the powerful and the obese. I have stared into the high end of Western society and let me tell you, it is like shoveling an open sewer. These families, they want to make the world fitter, more compact, more disciplined. And I like the sound of that. That sounds like salvation." Jilly said.
"But before you launched this brave new world, you had to deal with one more thing. Yeah. Me." Jack said.
"So as soon as the miracle happened, you sent the Torchwood email." Esther concluded.
"His blood endangers the plan. We had to draw him out into the open." The Cousin said.
Jack shrugged. "Well, you failed. I got to Shanghai. I've got the only mortal blood on the planet. If it gets into The Blessing, life switches back. I can make the whole world mortal." As Jack is about to slit his wrist, Mother laughs.
"No." The Mother says.
"Oh, no." The cousin repeats what the mother said.
"Sadly not." The mother is now smirking.
"He's not listening." The Cousin taunted.
The Mother shook her head. "He doesn't seem to get it."
"No, no, no."
"Polar dynamics, Jack." The Mother smirked.
"Everything on this axis operates in a polar dynamic field." The Cousin said.
"You could reset the Blessing, your blood could make the whole world mortal again, but only by introducing it to both cities at once." The Mother walked up to Jack while the Guards still held their guns on us.
"Blood in Buenos Aires." The cousin said.
"Blood in Shanghai."
"Entering The Blessing simultaneously."
"That's how we fed it."
"That's how we made the world immortal."
The Mother giggled. "And for you, I'm sorry, it's impossible."
"You did very well, almost worked it out, but all that spare blood of yours went up in flames." The Cousin held his hands in front of his face in an 'Oops pose'.
"So I'm just gonna have to kill you." The Mother waves her hands to give the order to her Chinese henchmen.
A/N: Surprise! :) Happy Fourth of July everyone! I will be back to posting regularly tomorrow.
Reviewer:
Maren the fangirl: Yep, In my series, Time Lords can open a Telepathic Link with any species for a short amount of time, but after that time, it closes. When you Telepathically Bond with someone, you have a connection with them forever, unless one of you die (permanently, regeneration does not count). The one draw back is that you can open Telepathic Links less often if you have a Telepathic Bond, but if you don't have a Telepathic Bond, you can do it when ever you want and how long you want.