From The Future
It's late afternoon peaceful and quiet, the odd gust blows scattered rubbish that litters the docks. A single metal spoon lying on the ground begins to shake then rattle then thrash about until it is pulled like an arrow from a bow into the glowing miniature sun at the center of a thousand shipping containers. The silence of the day is broken by an ear piercing shriek.
Two white trucks roll up to the docks rapidly displacing the gravel that lay idly by. Hastily Conner, Abby, Becker and Cutter followed by a team behind them wearing all tactical gear carrying automatic rifles. Another shriek draws the looks of everyone towards the far end of the dock obscured by Cranes and containers.
"Conner any clue as to what that is?" Becker asked.
He replied "Uh Something very scary"
"Becker have your men set up a perimeter, we can handle the creature" Ordered Cutter.
Becker gave a signal to his men and promptly returned to the group.
"Right let's get going then" Abby said while loading a Red dart with a tasseled end into the rear of a Tranquilizer Gun.
The four of them enter the dock after more and more noises getting louder they knew they were getting closer to it. When they got to a corner Cutter who was at the front peeked around to see a creature about 16 feet long and 6 feet tall, it had a long wiped tail, 3 toes on its feet and short but sharp claws.
"It looks like a Velociraptor" Cutter said almost silently
"You sure?" Connor asked
A loud roar broke though the stillness
"Pretty sure" in a foreboding tone
"Right then what's the plan" Abby asked
"You and Conner go around and when I dart it you need to be ready in case it doesn't go down"
"Got it let's go" Conner said acknowledging as the two of them left.
Then Cutter slowly peered around the creature was facing the other way He and Becker who had his regular Pump action shotgun in hand and ready after the two of them were out in the open cutter aimed at the Raptor and fired, the hiss of the dart shooting out of the barrel was all to be heard for a less than a second before the low toned whine of the creature followed by it crashing to the floor.
Connor and Abby came out from behind the corner
"Huh well that went well" Conner said with a fake surprised look
The creature snapped it's jaw with razor like teeth at the group as they closed in but a single dart from Abby silenced any further attacks.
"Right let's get this thing secured and out of here until we can find the anomaly" said Becker
"Good let's-..Augh!" cutter was cut off by static coming through the comm in his ear as was everyone else.
"Cutt-Cutter you need to get back to the arc right now we have a ... Situation" Jenny was trying to get through to him and the crew.
"Jenny, Jenny what's going on I can barely hear you. What's going on at the ARC?"
"If I told you you wouldn't believe me"
"Try me, were on our way back"
Cutter looks at the rest of them "We need to get back to the arc"
With all of them looking confused conner piped up "Whats going on"
Cutter responded "We're going to find out come on let's go"
All of them leave get into the trucks leaving behind only some of the guards to watch the tranqued creature.
It's not a long journey back about twenty minutes or so arriving at the gates they park up and head towards the command room they are met by jenny halfway through a hallway with guards placed every few metres.
"Jenny what is happening" asked Cutter
"Come see for yourselves" she responded
Still completely unaware of what was going on until they reached the double armoured doors of the command room opening and in front of them a dozen guards aiming there weapons at an anomaly dead in the center of the room.
The four of them looking shocked as all hell trying to figure everything out piece by piece.
"Hold up and anomaly opened up in the ARC" conner blurted out"
"That's not the half of it"
Somehow looking even more confused than before Abby asked
"What do you mean did something come through?"
Jenny motioned them with her hand to follow her leading them to one of the secured rooms with had even more men posted outside. jenny nodded to one of the guards who opened the door to revel three people zip tied to chairs Conner,Abby and Matt
