The explosion rocked the kitchen. Sarah flew back a couple of feet into a large fridge and Becker was slammed into the edge of a metal counter. The rest of the soldiers and staff ducked. Becker stood and limped over to Sarah. He shook her awake
"Sarah? Are you alright?"
"What Happened?"
"The anomaly device blew up, serves you right for trying to reconfigure it without the Brainiac here"
"Let's try it again"
"No way, you need to see the medical team, get your head checked. Me to it would seem, come on "
they ambled away towards the ambulances that were parked on the outside of the football stadium.
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"What's the time?"
"Don't know, my watch stopped working when I fell."
"How long do you suppose we've been here?"
"A day or so"
"It's so hot, if we don't get some more water soon... I hate to think"
"You might be able to, get water I mean, but there's no way I'm getting down from this tree, not on this ankle"
"Is it swollen?" Abby reached down to Connors sock and pulled it down ever so slightly. He winced in pain. The ankle was swollen and bruised in purple and yellow.
"Do you think they'll find us?"
"Dunno, Sarah might figure it out."
"Figure what out?
"Remember that anomaly ages back, the dodos, when- when tom died?"
"Course I do! Spaghetti junction you called it." She laughed at the memory, especially Leek shrieking like a girl when the dodoes came through.
"Well it opened on to hundreds of other anomalies, hundreds! But it didn't seem to actually be any were. It had no animals or plants other than common grass."
"So?" she was failing to grasp the point to one of Conner's endless rambles
"I don't really know how to say it... remember the second matrix movie with the corridor in the building that didn't actually exist in reality, but its doors opened to hundreds of places? That's what I think our Spaghetti junction is. It's the back door of all anomalies. Sarah and I hypothesised that from that plane you could access every anomaly that ever was."
"But how do we get there?"
"That's sort of the snag. Although you can access any anomaly while there, there are only a few anomalies that lead back to the plane, the one in the kitchen being one of them"
"So that sort of throws a spanner in the works"
"Well no, actually. A large number of mythological beasts appeared from this time period, but throughout history suggesting that either we are about to see a huge number of anomalies open, or one of them will happen to open into our spaghetti junction"
"And how do you suppose we find these anomalies huh?"
"With this" he pulled an old anomaly detector out of Becker's bag "Becker must have thought it was useful"
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'Here we are"
"Were?" Becker looked around. All around him was sand and stone crags.
"Site 333. Hopefully this it were Danny and Abby are"
"DANNY" Becker didn't exactly look hopeful but he was trying at least. They started toward one of the higher hills to get an over view and saw far off in the distance a man wearing a red shirt
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She was fighting sleep. Her eye lids were so heavy they felt leaded but she knew that if she slept she was likely to no wake up again. She looked over at Conner. He too was having the same problem. Every now and then his head would bob forward and he would jerk up wards eyes open wide. His lips were cracked and chapped and his eyes were blood shot. She didn't suppose she looked any better. His breathing seemed heavy, in a bad way.
"Conner?" he didn't answer just smiled dreamily as his head bobbed up and down. "Conner? Come on wake up, don't sleep now!"
But Conners face tipped backwards and his head hit the tree branch. She shook him over and over, but moving her arms was like swimming through syrup. Her movements were slow, and her eyes were becoming itchy and dry at the effort to keep them open.
"Come on..." she was yawning now, big fat yawns. Her mouth was parched and her head hurt, all the while sleep was beckoning to her like a dark black lake, a cool reservoir from the pre historic sun. She finally succumbed to her sleep; her body slumped over Conner's legs. He didn't even notice the pain from his ankle anymore.
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Danny was hauled back through the anomaly, practically unconscious, exactly 2 days and 4 hours after he left. The entire medical team of the ark was on site, crowded into the small metal kitchen, clumped around metal tables. They all started forward as Becker burst through the anomaly.
It took about an hour and a half to get Danny to stop yelling at them about Abby and Conner and how much he "hates this bloody sodding job" before the medics could finally check him over. They found a series of long cuts on his neck and face, and they were now being slowly stitched up
"What the matter?" Sarah had turned around to see Becker leaning up against the side of an industrial fridge, looking like he was about to kill someone.
"Danny is still wittering on in nonsense and if we don't get Abby back TODAY, Lester will have my head on the chopping block"
"Well go for you then, because through Danny's babbling and my own guestimations-"
"guestimations?"
"It's a very scientific term Becker". She was giving him the evil eye so he shut his mouth on what he was about to say. "I think I have the right anomaly. A scouting team went through 3 minutes ago. If they find anything, or anyone, they can bring them back"
"But that's my job"
"Honestly Becker, we've both been up for 2 days straight, worried about our friends working ourselves to the bone. We are too tired right now, let some else who actually slept last night do the job, you can be hero guy later!" the last bit was snapped out but right now she didn't really care. They stood fuming at each other until one of the tech operators called out to Sarah, or rather yelled out
"We have visual of a young woman in a tree!"
"WHAT" both Becker and Sarah were next to the terrified technician before he could get a word in edge ways.
"Becker, there! Look there!" Sarah was pointing on the fuzzy screen, practically bouncing up and down. One of the men in the group had zoom in on the canopy of a tree, and there, sleeping in its branches, was the unmistakable figure of Abby.
"Ok boss, were going in for the retrieval". Abby finally stirred as they were climbing down the tree, starting to mumble and groan as the men moved her down to the forest floor and towards the first anomaly. It wasn't until they reached the anomaly junction that the trouble started.
"Stop, stop please, where's Conner?" she was being dragged along behind a group of Anomaly personnel. When they continued walking she struggled against his grip on her arm, wrenching herself backwards and into the man behind her. "WHERES CONNER!"
Becker and Sarah watched as Abby started fighting. "Who are you, where are you taking me AND WERE THE HELL IS CONNER?"
"There she goes, just like Danny! Babbling on in nonsense"
"Perhaps she doesn't recognise the guards in their new uniforms?"
"We changed the uniforms from navy and black to black and green, it's not a huge change"
"I'll go get her; it might be good for her to see a familiar face."
"You just want to be the hero don't you Mr Becker" she smiled and raised her eyebrows at him
"Captain Becker to you Sarah." He smiled at her. The casual flirting had been going on for a month now, but this was still as far as it got
"Do you actually have a first name?"
"No"
"Everyone has a first name, tell me. Is it embarrassing?"
"Yes very!" he was strapping on his vest again and checking his guns
"Come on tell me"
"Hilary," he said as he vanished through threw anomaly. Sarah was left to giggle her heart out.
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"Stop!" the 4 people in front of him continued fighting, Abby tackling of the 3 trained ark personnel with surprising ease, something Becker made a note of. He stuck his fingers in his mouth and whistled, LOUDLY.
"EVERYBODY STOP MOVING" the fight froze, everyone turned to face him. The three ark soilders quickly fell in line, but Abby rushed forward to him and hugged him tightly.
"Becker, come on help me get out of here"
"Abby these people are ark personnel; they came to retrieve you from the past." Abby stood there, considering the sentence. Becker put a hand on her back and started leading her toward the anomaly
"They did?" she stepped through first, greeted by a round of loud cheering
"Yes they did"
"Then why didn't they get Conner?"
"Abby "the rest of the group was coming toward her, Sarah smiling warmly. But there was someone else with her, standing beside her, drinking a star bucks coffee, and smiling at her helping Danny stand on wobbling legs.
"Where's Conner?" she whisper it more to her this time, timid and scared.
"Abby, "Stephen looked at her with wary eyes "Who is Conner?"
..... CREDITS
AN: Oh my god everybody, its Stephen, Stephen hart BACK FROM THE DEAD!!!! And Conner has pulled a Claudia on us.
So this is probably the first episode. Maybe not as long as I would have liked, but I hope it was ok. Sorry about any grammar mistakes, I am my own editor. Flames Welcome but cookies Prefered!