Soledad's Journal

Title: SPECIAL UNIT 3
Author: Soledad

Fandom: Torchwood/Special Unit 2 x-over, with a guest appearance of the Tenth Doctor.
Category: Heavy-duty Gwen bashing and a great deal of silliness.
Rating: G, suitable for all, with the exception of die-hard Gwackers.
Genre: Crackfic, with gender bending, body swap, whatever – the whole nine miles.
Series: none
Timeframe: indefinite. Perhaps “Sleepers”, from Series 2 for Torchwood, but not necessarily.
Summary: Once again, Gwen fumbles around with something she was told not to touch. The consequences are…unusual.

Disclaimer: the usual: don’t own, don’t sue! Everything belongs to RTD and BBC - and UPN, respectively.

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PART THREE: WE ARE LEARNING WHO WE ARE

Author’s notes:
It turns out that things are a lot more complicated than our fearless heroes would have expected to be. But that’s Torchwood for you.

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Jack followed Ianto back to the storage room where Artefacts number one through five were still waiting to be taken to the Archives. Apparently, Ianto had begun to take them away backwards.

“So?” he asked, a little impatiently.

There was the canine skull in the jar; the Draconian holoprojector, showing the three-dimensional images of unknown stellar bodies; the alien soup tureen containing the forcefield of no visible purpose; the Alzarian tool with the whirling blades – and something that looked like a translucent stained glass Tiffany lamp, filled with blue and golden light. It was beautiful, but…

“Wait a minute!” Jack realized. “This isn’t what Artefact #2 is supposed to look like. Wasn’t that the metal arch of Chulan technology marks on it? The one with the winged pendant?”

“It was… in its inactive state,” Ianto pointed at the winged broche on top of the ‘lamp’. “And there is the pendant. We know some of this stuff changes its shape when activated… well, I have to say, this is quite the metamorphosis! Just like…”

“Just like with us,” Jack finished for him grimly. Ianto nodded.

“Exactly. Whatever this device is, and frankly, I haven’t got a clue, it has to do something with our problem.”

“But how the hell did Gwen manage to activate it?” Jack wondered. “The UNIT scientists have tried everything they could think of to make it do something; it never worked.”

“Well, scientists work methodically,” Ianto said. “The thought to start poking it like a bloody fool possible never occurred to them.”
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Part 05: Higher Powers