Cuckoo (audio story)

 was the third audio story in Among Us 2.

Publisher's summary
A group of urban explorers break into the Torchwood Hub. They disturb Bilis Manger who has his own plans for the evening.

Plot
Vee and Dee, urban explorers who host the Xplore Xtreme channel, meet up with their old friend Bryn in Cardiff and follow a 19th century sewer network he discovered at work to the Hub. There, they hear strange noises and meet Bilis in the morgue, collecting Torchwood artefacts including a soul-absorbing corpse flask, a singularity scalpel and a tranquilliser gun that he gives to Dee. The exit is locked and, whilst Dee investigates a white figure, Bilis gives Vee and Bryn the base's blueprints for a price that they do not question.

Bryn takes the lift to Roald Dahl Plass, but the ceiling does not open and he is crushed to death as the distressed Vee films it. An emergency program activates and a hologram in the form of Ianto appears to Vee, apparently unseen by Bilis, and recruits into Torchwood by telling him that he is special and needed. Ianto tasks him with ensuring that Bilis does not take any objects from the Hub and fades away to conserve power, continuing to observe Vee through his camera as he searches the base and locates Dee.

Looking through Dee's bag, Vee finds the gun that Bilis gave her as well as a shard drive, one of several that somebody has been blackmailing her into retrieving from the sites that the pair of them have visited. Dee shoots him rather than hand the drive over, but she regrets her act and tries to carry him to safety as the Weevils approach despite Bilis offering to protect them in return for the drive. She is killed and, when he comes around, Vee is told by Bilis how he intends to destroy the artefacts that he has collected to prevent Torchwood, which he sees as an aberration, from saving Earth. In the true timeline, Vee, Dee and Bryn were to join Torchwood and use the Rift Manipulator.

to be completed

Cast

 * Bilis Manger - Murray Melvin
 * Vijay Meghani - Nathaniel Curtis
 * Diana Lopez - Cecelia Appiah
 * Bryn Popkin - Henry Nott
 * Ianto Jones - Gareth David-Lloyd

Continuity

 * Bryn mentions Roger Pugh and his role in rebuilding the Hub. (AUDIO: More Than This)
 * Vijay has visited an old UNIT bunker in Hereford. (AUDIO: Dissected)
 * Vijay brings up Meredith Pope and the ScrapeJane route. (AUDIO: ScrapeJane)
 * The hologram of Ianto says that Torchwood is more than any one person. Ng previously said that Torchwood was more than Jack. (AUDIO: Aliens Next Door)