You Aren't Alone Chapter 1
ChaoChao: Hi Terra Nova fans, I'm new to writing about this series and plus I just finished watching Terra Nova for the second time and I got this idea.
Disclaimer: ChaoChao does NOT own Terra Nova or anyone/anything that you recognize from the series. She only owns the OCs like Matt, Alex, and the random names of the guards etc. R&R
Enjoy!
"Private, is the terminus up and running yet?" Taylor asked as he walked up with Lieutenant Washington.
"Commander!" the private yelped frantically moving into a salute, making Wash chuckle to herself. "Um..."
Taylor smiled, "Go take a break, Reilly cover for this guy!"
"Yessir!" Reilly said as the new private went back to the rovers.
"I want to be the first to know when this is back up and running." Taylor ordered as he and Wash walked back over to their rover.
"Taylor, do you want me to stay here?" Wash asked making him turn to her as he opened the driver door on the rover.
"Naw, they'll be fine. Lucas hasn't tried anything yet and if he does try something they can handle him." Taylor said as Wash nodded and they both got into the rover to get back to Terra Nova.
"Nice to have you two back." Shannon smirked as the two leaders of the colony jumped out of the rover.
"Nice to be back, I see you didn't burn the place down while we were gone." Wash smirked making Taylor shake his head while chuckling.
The three leaders walked back to the command compound. Taylor sat down behind his desk.
"Do we have any news on Lucas's location, Shannon?" Taylor asked looking at Shannon.
"Nothing yet..." Shannon trailed off as Skylar ran into the room.
"Commander!" Skylar panted.
"What is it?" Taylor ordered with a frown.
"We got a time fracture signal and it's not from Hope Plaza." Skylar said.
"How is that possible?" Wash asked looking at Taylor.
"I have no idea. Let's go, we need the coordinates sent to our comms." Taylor ordered as the three Terra Nova Security officers rushed out of command and got in a rover.
"Yessir." Skylar saluted as he ran off to find the others with the info.
"This is Malcolm, you need to go 10 klicks northeast." Malcolm said over the comms.
"10 klicks, are you sure that's right?" Wash asked.
"Yes, I'm getting a perfect signal." Malcolm said.
"I thought all time fractures can only be 3 klicks from the terminus?" Shannon asked.
"Yeah, but apparently that's not true. Malcolm, can you get an aerial view of the area to see if any new colonists arrived?" Taylor said.
"Sorry Taylor, I can't get a clear view with the infrared scanner, there doesn't seem to be any heat...wait!" Malcolm semi-yelled.
"What is it Malcolm?" Taylor asked as slowed the rover down somewhat just in case it was Lucas and his army.
"There's one heat signature." Malcolm said.
"Only one?" Shannon asked.
"Yeah." Malcolm said.
"Why would they only send one person through?" Wash asked.
"I have no idea..." Taylor trailed off. "Malcolm send word to Charlie team to back us up."
"We're already on our way, we're 3 klicks from the location." Stewart said.
"Good, when you get there spread out in pairs and search for this person and take the person into custody and watch your backs until we get there." Taylor ordered as he went full throttle with the rover.
A few minutes later, "This is Charlie Team, we have the subject, Commander." Stewart said.
"Good job, we're rolling up." Taylor said as he stopped the rover and the three officers jumped out and walked over to Stewart.
"Who is it?" Shannon asked as they all walked up to the area where some of Charlie Team was pointing their pulse rifles at someone on the ground.
The person was sitting down in the dirt with plastic wired cuffs gagged and blindfolded.
"We found him like this." Stewart said.
"Why would Hope Plaza send one prisoner through like that?" Shannon asked.
"They wouldn't." Wash said, Taylor nodded.
"Do we know who he is?" Taylor asked with a frown when the guy looked up in Taylor's direction and started trying to speak, but it was muffled.
"You aren't going to like it, Commander..." Stewart said as he walked up to the cuffed guy and lifted the blindfold off the guy's head.
Shannon and Wash pulled out their sonic pistols instantly to aim at the guy's head.
"Lucas?"Shannon asked as Taylor's mouth dropped in shock.
The guy shook his head and mumbled through the gag before getting punched in the face by one of the men of Charlie Team and having the blindfold shoved back on his head.
"How can that not be Lucas when it looks like the fucking bastard?" Drake asked.
Everyone turned to Taylor as he ruffled his hair, "Pack him up, we're taking him back to Terra Nova." Taylor ordered as some of the men tried to grab Lucas's arm.
"You sure that's a good idea?" Shannon asked.
"Probably not, but we can't leave him out here like that and we can't let him go either." Taylor said as they were about to walk away when Lucas started struggling in the mens' vise like grip.
He started screaming and yelling into his gag making the men angry. He kicked two of the soldiers in the knee making him fall back down to the ground.
"Damn that bastard..." the two muttered as the three officers turned back to the commotion.
Lucas stared straight at his father mumbling through the gag and moved his leg to point in the direction of some bushes where he was found at.
"Load him up, Wash help them." Taylor ordered as they grabbed Lucas securely, who tried to break free again while looking in the direction of the bushes.
"Taylor, I think he's trying to say something is in the bushes." Shannon said as he stepped over to the bushes, making everyone stop in place watching him.
"Taylor, there's a box here in the brush." Shannon said as Taylor walked up beside him.
Lucas sighed in relief and relaxed instantly.
"I think he didn't want to leave this box here." Shannon said as they stared at the locked treasure chest shaped box.
"You're probably right...load both of them up and lets get the hell back to Terra Nova." Taylor ordered as he helped Shannon lift the heavy box back to the rover. "I want Lucas watched every second."
They dropped the box inside their rover as Lucas was loaded up in Charlie Team's.
They high tailed it back to Terra Nova. As they stopped just inside the main gates, the Terra Novans grouped up and watched silently as they carried the box out of the rover and watched in shock, terror, and relief as Lucas was escorted out of the second rover with six pulse rifles aimed at him.
Wash and Shannon dropped the box on the ground a few feet away from Lucas as Taylor spoke.
"Take off the blindfold." he ordered.
The blindfold was pulled roughly off his head, making Lucas blink to the bright sunlight as he watched the colonists stare warily at him.
He mumbled through the gag, turning his head towards Taylor.
"Shut it, bastard!" a soldier ordered punching his gut.
Lucas groaned hunched over.
"Take him to the Hold." Taylor ordered as Lucas yelled into his gag and looked frantically around and to his father.
Taylor sighed in frustration and sadness as his son was being dragged away.
Somehow the gag loosen enough so it fell out of his mouth.
"DAD! DAD!" Lucas yelled making everyone turn to him and the guards.
Taylor's eyes widen in surprise at his son's voice as a soldier punched him in the gut again making the twenty five year old grunt in pain as he was dragged towards the Hold.
"STOP!" Taylor ordered as the men stop and Taylor ran over to his son and hugged him tightly with tears in his eyes. "Release him..."
"WHAT?!" all of the colonists and soldiers semi-yelled.
"You've finally lost your mind Taylor." Malcolm said. "It's Lucas who tried to destroy our home."
"I know..." Taylor murmured in Lucas's shoulder.
"I don't think you do." Malcolm stated with a glare.
"Taylor..." Wash said quietly.
"Do it, uncuff him." Taylor ordered.
"Taylor, Malcolm is right we can't release Lucas here inside Terra Nova." Shannon calmly said walking to his side.
"I know Shannon, but this isn't Lucas." Taylor said.
"What?" Shannon asked as Wash stared in surprise looking at the Lucas look alike.
The colonists murmured to themselves confused if it isn't Lucas then who is it and why does he look like the evil physicists?
"It can't be Taylor...he disappeared the same day Lucas was exiled." Wash said.
"It is, I don't know how they survived out there this long..." Taylor said.
"Come on Dad, it's me, Matt." Matt whined.
"I'm very confused." Shannon said.
"Well, good for you but I really have to use the bathroom, since I was freaking kidnapped by my own twin." Matt whined.
"Twin?" Shannon and Malcolm asked while all of the colonists stared at the guy in shock.
"Yeah, you know, two embryos in their mother's womb at the same time, yeah twins, sheriff. Two people that look exactly alike." Matt stated slowly like he was explaining something to a three year old.
"Shut it, Matt, everyone knows what twins are." Taylor smirked.
"Fine, but seriously I need to use the freaking toilet, before you start torturing me for information, Dad." Matt whined with a bright smile as he made his father chuckle.
"It's good to see you alive, Matthew." Wash smiled.
"Thanks, Lieutenant, not so bad yourself." Matt smirked.
Wash cut him loose, Matt rubbed his wrists as he stepped towards the box, making all the soldiers with pulse rifles aim at him.
"Woah. I'm not going to try anything, I don't want to go back with my younger idiot brother." Matt said holding up his hands in surrender.
"It's good to have you back, son." Taylor said as they hugged tightly each other.
"Thanks Dad, for actually getting to me before the slashers came." Matt half smiled.
"Can I see what's in the box, now?" Matt asked as they separated.
"Wait, you don't know what's in it?" Shannon asked as Matt shook his head.
"All I know is that I was sent from 2149 with this box for you, Dad." Matt shrugged ruffling his brown hair in worry as he stared at the box.
"Could it be a bomb?" Wash asked as Reilly stepped closer just in case.
"Did Lucas sent you back here?" Taylor asked looking at his eldest son.
"No he didn't, he was the one who kidnapped me and Alex the day he was exiled. We survived out their together until one day he came back from the jungle without Alex... I was freaking sick and I told him I didn't want Alex to go with him, but they went anyway." Matt explained with a pained and guilty look.
"So Alex is...dead." Taylor said quietly while Matt nodded.
"At least that's what Lucas said, but I don't trust that bastard." Matt growled.
Taylor stared sadly at down at the box, "Help me open it, Matt." he ordered as they kneeled in front of the box and lifted the lid slowly up.
Taylor pulled out a teddy bear with a note tied around its foot, he untied it and opened it.
"Love you Daddy! -A" Matt read over his father's shoulder.
"Dammit...I can't even save my own family." Taylor growled punching the front of the box.
"Get this stuff to Command." Taylor ordered standing up while wiping the dirt off his pants, the soldiers closed it and carried it up the steps as Matt stood up.
"You ready to be a Corporal again." Taylor asked Matt.
"Yeah, as long as I get to stay here in Terra Nova and stop Lucas from destroying our home." Matt said with a salute and a small smile.
"Good, let's get you cleaned up and updated on what's been going on from when you left." Taylor said as he laid an arm across his son's shoulder and they walked up to Command followed by Shannon and Wash.
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"The Raven has arrived." Thomas Farley said to Lucas and Weaver.
"Why aren't our employers coming instead of this Raven?" Weaver complained as a black caped figure walked partly into the half-light stopping so you could see the outline of the figure barely while still being hidden by the shadows of the room.
"It's good to see you again, Raven." Lucas smirked cruelly.
"It's nice to see you still alive, Lucas." the Raven spoke.
"So we came here to speak to some woman when we need to be getting back to Terra Nova to strip the place free of resources for our employers." Weaver glared at the the dark figure.
"They sent you to me, Mr. Weaver, to make sure you do your job flawlessly. If you don't succeed you're both pointless and will be killed on the spot." Raven said.
"Um...uh..." Weaver trailed off nervously fidgeting.
"Cat got your tongue, Mr. Weaver." the Raven smirked as she stepped closer so they could see the hooded figure clearer.
Her hood darkened her face so it wasn't recognizable.
"We will destroy Terra Nova and my father." Lucas smirked.
"You better because I will not hesitate to kill you both and go to Terra Nova myself to finish this. We need to control the past to control the future. Now, get out of my sight!" she demanded as the two men were escorted away.
"Raven." one of her soldiers said as he and his three other men kneeled before her.
"What is it?" she demanded.
"Matthew Taylor has escaped."
She turned quickly around from him and his men in anger.
"I know."
"I'm sorry, we won't let him escape next time."
"There won't be a next time." she ordered as she waved her other soldiers to seize the men. "Kill them, they are useless to our cause anymore."
The men were carried away, the Raven smiled sadly to herself as she walked back into the dark from where she came as the lights shut out behind her.