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Challenge 780 - Cover fire
Title: Cover fire
Character: Ianto, Tosh, Owen, Jack
Author: m_findlow
Author: m_findlow
Rating: PG
Length: 200 words
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Summary: Jack has to rely on his team to get him through this alive. A double drabble.
The hail of gunfire was unlike anything they’d experienced. Whoever these aliens were, they didn’t plan on coming quietly. On the contrary, they planned on going out with a bang, or perhaps were hoping instead that it would be Torchwood going out with a bang.
‘I’ve got it!’ Tosh said, ducked down behind a car that would not be passing its next MOT; not with the enormous hole now lasered into its side. ‘Lower right quadrant of the ship's left hand rear hull. If we can pierce the hull in that spot, it’ll cause a massive explosion.’
‘Presumably enough to nuke the aliens but not us,’ Owen said, occasionally poking his head over a nearby low brick fence to fire off a few rounds.
‘Okay, people!’ Jack bellowed. ‘Cover me! I’m going in!’
‘Don't forget your plasma cannon,’ Ianto said, hefting the large weapon in Jack’s direction.
Jack laughed. ‘As if I ever could. You know I can't resist something massive.’ He leapt over the fence and ran, shooting the whole way under a firestorm of bullets and lasers. In all likelihood he’d be killed in the sacrifice despite the team’s efforts to return fire, but that was the job.
The hail of gunfire was unlike anything they’d experienced. Whoever these aliens were, they didn’t plan on coming quietly. On the contrary, they planned on going out with a bang, or perhaps were hoping instead that it would be Torchwood going out with a bang.
‘I’ve got it!’ Tosh said, ducked down behind a car that would not be passing its next MOT; not with the enormous hole now lasered into its side. ‘Lower right quadrant of the ship's left hand rear hull. If we can pierce the hull in that spot, it’ll cause a massive explosion.’
‘Presumably enough to nuke the aliens but not us,’ Owen said, occasionally poking his head over a nearby low brick fence to fire off a few rounds.
‘Okay, people!’ Jack bellowed. ‘Cover me! I’m going in!’
‘Don't forget your plasma cannon,’ Ianto said, hefting the large weapon in Jack’s direction.
Jack laughed. ‘As if I ever could. You know I can't resist something massive.’ He leapt over the fence and ran, shooting the whole way under a firestorm of bullets and lasers. In all likelihood he’d be killed in the sacrifice despite the team’s efforts to return fire, but that was the job.
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