((RP for
@Zorbak the Ebil Moglin as Merlyn and all allies of the League of Assassins, Black Sun, or Torchwood))
While Hellsing and UNIT main teams take care of bigger problems, the Torchwood teams across Europe have been running themselves into the ground with handling random dimensional and temporal rifts opening and allowing creatures and beings through. The chaos has mostly be animals and historical machines but also occasional aliens and invading historical armies. The Torchwood Three (Cardiff) team had been split into multiple groups of two. Gwen and Ianto were in Cambridge hunting down a small group of goblins causing havoc and destruction. Another two team members were handling a platoon of 20 soldiers from the Norman Invasion in Shaftesbury. Another duo is dealing with a dragon like creature called a wyrven killing cattle near Plockton.Zelpharia and Captain Jack Harkness are teamed up together as usual and investigating reports of a temporal rift opening up that let a bunch of dinosaurs through. They found the temporal rift easy enough and signs that a pack some kind of dinosaurs had been through. The two of them are now walking and scanning the area which is oddly deserted after the initial chaos, making everything eerily quiet. Zelpharia: Tell me again why we took the dinosaurs again instead of something easy like goblins.
Zelpharia checks her scanner as she and Jack walk down a street looking for the reported dinosaurs. Zelpharia: I mean wasn't the triceratops enough of a job to have allowed us a break?
Jack: Oh come on now. You and I did the assignments fairly by letting the others choose which assignment they wanted. No one wanted the dinosaurs so we got it.
He says with a charming smile as he also checks his scanner from time to time while looking around. Jack: Besides you should be happy that we got the dinos because we could be trying to avoid becoming dragon chow right now.
Zelpharia sighs a bit. Zelpharia: I hardly call paper, rock, scissors a fair way to decide assignments, but you're right.. and it's called a wyrven, not a dragon.
Jack: Wyrven.. dragon.. they're both really big, fly, have dangerous breath, and eat a lot of cattle. Sound like similar creature to me.
Jack says in a smartass joking way. Zelpharia: Leave it to you to have such rationale.
She says as retort to Jack's smartass joke which makes him laugh a bit. They continue on after that for a while longer before both get a big hit on their scanners. Zelpharia: Looks like we may have hit the jackpot.
Jack: Yeah, I'm seeing the signatures on my scanner too. It looks like they're this way.
Jack says as he looks looks up at the intersection and down one direction. Jack: Let's go and see what kind of big lizard we've got this time.
Jack then turns down the street that the scanners say the odd signatures are coming from.Zelpharia is quick to follow Jack as she puts her scanner away and draws her laser pistol. The street is like all the others with no one around, trash and random items littered everywhere from people running in terror, and no typical animal sounds in the immediate area. As they get close to an alleyway, they begin to hear the sounds of velociraptors growling, chirping, and eating something made of flesh. That sound makes Jack put his own scanner away and draw his Webley Revolver as they both come to a stop near the alleyway. Jack gives Zelpharia a hand signal that they'll both look around the corner on the count of three. Once he finishes counting, Zelpharia and Jack both look down the alley and see the gory scene of three velociraptors eating on the body of a poor, overweight man. Both then quickly move back and look at each other as they whisper. Zelpharia: Oh great.. it's damn velociraptors. The smartest and most pack orientated of the dinosaurs for their time period. How are we suppose to get them back through the rift?
Jack: I don't think we can at this point. They'd turn us into chow like that poor man before we can get near the rift without help.
Jack says with a more serious, thoughtful look as they discuss their options. Jack: Don't they normally travel in larger packs than just three?
Zelpharia: Typically, yes they do. They typically travel in packs of 5 to 10 raptors, but we could be lucky if it's just these three.
Jack: So I say we go in with guns blazing and humanely euthanize these guys so we don't have to try to lure them back home.
Zelpharia: I hate to say this, but that actually sounds like a good idea.
Zelpharia and Jack then both step into the alleyway with their guns held up and aimed at the three velociraptors. Each one fires and manages to take out one raptor each as the third looks up, makes an angry call, and then runs in the opposite direction. Jack: It's running! Let's go!
Zelpharia follows Jack's lead as they both go running down the alleyway. They make a turn as they follow the fleeing raptor and end up on another street. They start to gain on the raptor and try to take a shot here and there but miss each time. Jack: I'm impressed! They're faster and more agile than I expected.
Jack says to Zelpharia as they chase the raptor.Zelpharia: Yeah, be impressed all you want but don't stop to admire that.
She says as they run after the fleeing raptor. The raptor takes them several blocks through random turns down streets and alleyways until finally it just stops and stares at them. The raptor makes a low pitch sound of warning towards Zelpharia and Jack as they slow to a near stop and aim at the beast. That's when the sounds of several more raptors begin to emanate from yards and alleyways around the raptor and themselves. Zelpharia: Um.. Jack, I don't think there was just three raptors.
Zelpharia says as she comes to a complete stop as her Temporal 6th Sense goes nuts with the possibilities of attack.Jack: Oh I can hear that one, Zeph.
He says as he stops and begins to look around for a possible escape route. Jack is the first one to see several more raptors begin to reveal themselves, counting at least two on each flank of the two of them. Jack: And see that. Remind me. Aren't velociraptors ambush predators?
Zelpharia: Yes, they are. I think we should run and think of a new plan.
Zelpharia says as she turns around to face another raptor that her 6th sense says is behind them.Jack: That sounds like a good idea.
Jack says as he begins to slowly back away and then turns just in time to see Zelpharia shoot down of the ambush raptors. Jack: Run now!
Jack and Zelpharia both take off down the street and barely get missed by the second ambush raptor as it jumps out at them from a broken window. They run down the street and zig-zag through streets and alleyways as the raptor pack chases them. A couple of times, Jack and Zelpharia had to make sudden turns or fire at a raptor that managed to get ahead of them. Zelpharia: I am really glad that I wore my damn running shoes today!
Zelpharia says as she takes another random shot at the pursuing raptors.Jack: Lucky you! I decided to go with smart shoes that match my suit.
Jack says jokingly as he knocks over some trash cans to try and slow down the raptors. He then pulls at Zelpharia's shirt sleeve to indicate a turn and leads Zelpharia down another alleyway., just to find out that this was a dead end alley. Jack: This isn't good.
Jack says as they both come to a stop and starts looking around at their options. Zelpharia is quick to pull out her sonic screwdriver when she spots a door. Zelpharia: Try to stall them while I pick the lock on this door, Jack.
She says as she turns on the screwdriver, points it at the door lock, and begins to try and unlock it.Jack: I'll do my best but please hurry. I really don't want to find out what it's like to come back from being a raptor happy meal.
Jack says as he pulls out his laser gun from its hiding spot and begins to fire at 8 velociraptors which does slow them down and makes them hesitate.It only takes Zelpharia a several seconds to get the door unlocked with her sonic screwdriver and open it. Zelpharia: Come on, Jack!
She says as she puts her screwdriver away and pulls Jack through the door.They get inside just in the nick of time and slam the door shut just as a couple of raptors slam against it. Zelpharia's back is against the door as Jack has his hands against it, facing the door, and locks it. Jack: This is the last time I wear dress shoes on a dinosaur mission.
Jack says while trying to catch his breath and leans his head against the door. Outside the raptors bang against the closed door trying to figure out how to get in.Zelpharia: I tried to warn you before we left headquarters.
She says as she looks about the room they happen to be in and begins to get an odd feeling. She doesn't realize that she and Jack have just basically broken into the League of Assassins guild building, but her Temporal 6th Sense goes nuts and shows her every possible encounter they are about to have with Malcolm Merlyn. Her face changes from what relief she was feeling to a look that is a combination of confusion and seeing a ghost as she stares directly where her 6th sense says is the most likely spot that Malcolm will appear from.Jack: I know. I know. You and Ianto both warned me, but of course, I didn't listen.
Jack says with a charming smile and a bit of a breathless laugh. He is completely unaware of both his surroundings and Zelpharia's still worried look. Jack: I'm just a slave to looking good some times.
He says with his smile as he takes a deep breath to help calm his heart and still not noticing that Zelpharia isn't retorting back as usual. Jack: I'm just glad that I'm in shape to run like that and that we made it to regroup our thoughts..
Jack trails off as he finally takes note of Zelpharia's silence and odd worried facial expression. Jack: Zeph, are you okay? You look like you're seeing a ghost.
Jack says as he looks to the locked door handle when a raptor tried using the handle, reminding him how smart raptors possibly could be.Zelpharia doesn't look away from the spot that she's looking at when she finally responds to Jack. Zelpharia: Jack, have you ever been in the 21st century prior to meeting the Doctor and me wearing all black assassin's clothes with a quiver of arrows on your back and a bow in hand?
Jack doesn't turn as he listens to Zelpharia but does laugh. Jack: God no. I haven't worn anything like that since I worked on a Time Agency case back when I had to save King Henry VII. Why?
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