Chapter 1: Today is Different
Lester sat in his office, loathing the lives of the ARC team. Everyday they would come in, with no idea what they were going to do, whereas he came in, and spent the day avoiding calls from the minister or Mrs Lester and forcing Jess to do things that weren't on her job description. Today would be different, he knew it would, and he was right.
Jess gazed into the screens of the ADD and sighed. Zooming in on the building displayed on the screen, CCTV footage of a classroom appeared. She quickly zoomed in on a 5-year-old and laughed. She smiled as she watched him throwing his hand up, and doing schoolwork. "Mummy loves you Riley!" she whispered, quickly turning off the screen, as the sound of Lester's footprints appeared.
"Mrs Becker! May I remind you government property is not to be used for personal uses thank you!" he groaned, in his slightly sarcastic manner.
"Sorry sir!" she muttered, smiling.
Mrs Becker. She loved hearing that. She'd been married to Becker for four years, the wedding being held shortly after Riley was born, a year after New Dawn, but she still hadn't got used to Mrs Becker.
A few moments after, an alarm sounded and a map appeared on the screen of the ADD. The team began to hustle around Jess, gazing at the screens, which were flashing unusually. "So! Where is it Jess?" Matt bawled, furiously.
Jess began to panic, typing furiously, as the screens began to whir and flash. After about a second, a picture of the Minister appeared. "Lester!" he bawled, calling Lester to the screen. "We believe one of your anomalies has appeared in a rather unusual location!"
Lester frowned. "What?"
Turning on a TV behind him, the minister pointed to a satellite that appeared on it. "This is the MK-11! This morning the first eco-friendly shuttle, the MK-23 was launched and DISAPPEARED shortly after!"
Lester began to look uneasy. Why were they telling him? How could THEY deal with this? "That's not all! Look at this!" the minister ordered, turning on another two screens behind him, one showing mission control, the other showing the empty satellite inside. "This is live readings from NASA's mission control at exactly 0834 hours! Take a look at what happens!"
"MK-11 can you read me? This is Mission Control to MK-11, do you copy?" ordered the man in charge of mission control.
There was an odd silence, as the ARC team exchanged worried looks. "Keep watching" whispered the minister.
There was a whirring sound and then a glow, and then a croaking sound. Suddenly, a green lizard popped up in front of the screen, one that looked just like Rex (Abby and Connor's lizard). "Shoo! SHOO! God, you filthy animal, you!" shouted a voice, and then suddenly a two teenage girls and two teenage boys appeared, wearing tattered denim, with dinosaur teeth hanging in necklaces round there necks. "HELLO! DOWN THERE! WHATS UP OVER HERE? WHAT WHAT! WHAT WHAT!" they laughed in a posh English accent.
"My name is Sir Henry Lloyd, do you mind telling me WHO you are and HOW you got onto our ship?" the man at mission control demanded.
"Wells its all rather confusing isn't it and what? SO you little... oh forget it!" the dark haired girl sighed, going into a Scottish accent. She was rather scruffy, with short curly dark hair and scars that looked like they had been carved there, she and her friends looked like some kind of savages compared to the clean tidy people at NASA. "You know you try to be the best at being British, but it doesn't work!"
"TELL ME HOW YOU GOT ONTO THE SHIP!" Sir Henry demanded.
Tapping her nose, the dark-haired girl floated back off the screen with her friends and the lizard and then the orange glow disappeared.
