It was a warm and delightful start to the worst day of the week. Six O'clock on a Monday morning and the sun was up and blinding every poor soul who dared to open their curtains. The weather forecast on the radio alarm welcomed everybody into the day and stated that it was going to be one hell of a hot day in London. Connor grunted as he opened the curtains, silently cursing the sun for burning his eyes out. He rubbed his eyes to get rid of the sleep and adjust them to the bright light that invaded his night-vision. He threw on a dressing gown and waddled to the bathroom where he turned on the shower. He was wondering what the day would be like, there was always something going on especially in his line of work. He was also wondering what Philip was going to say to him. He noticed that he always had a different attitude towards Connor, sometimes welcoming, other times cold and rebuking. Not that he cared of course, it wasn't going to change the way he did his job. He took his time in the shower, knowing he had plenty of time until he Abby came to pick him up, he always enjoyed the shower, it was much better than a bath. He came out after half an hour and got dressed. His phone rang.

"Connor, its Matt, we have an incursion; be ready I'm on my way." Drats Connor thought, he was looking forward to his lift off Abby. He pulled on a pair of socks then slipped his shoes on. Quickly brushing his hair, he heard a car beep outside. Looking out the window he saw the black Mitsubishi L200, he threw on his jacket, picked up his phone and Date Calculator then ran down the stairs. Matt was in the driving seat with Becker next to him and Abby in the back. He climbed in next to Abby and the welcoming smell of coffee and Abby's perfume hit him in the face. As he strapped on his seat belt Abby gave a cardboard cup of hot coffee and a smile.

"Morning." Connor smiled back.

"Morning," looking to Becker, "What have we got?"

"We got a signal about fifteen minutes ago that there is an anomaly not far from here, in the old Library down Russet Street."

Matt turned the wheel and pulled away, instantly accelerating to thirty-five miles an hour. There wasn't much said in the car, they were getting focused, always wondering what they would come up against, whether it would be a Terror Bird or a Velociraptor or something else. They were working out in their minds what they would do in the situations, even though most of the time, things didn't work out according to plan, it's not like the creatures followed a script. But it was always good to have some sort of base plan to go by; it took the chill off the worry. They were weaving through the traffic at fifty in a thirty zone. They passed a police patrol car on the way. It always made them smile at the fact the other drivers would be confused at why the cops didn't pursue. The reason was that it came up on their ANPR cameras that it was a government car and therefore not to take action.

"There's Russet Street." Connor shouted as Matt nearly flew passed it, who then slammed on the break, spun the wheel and skidded round the corner in a maelstrom of ear-pounding noise and choking tyre smoke. They pulled up outside the library and got out, instinctively going to the back of the vehicle. Matt and Becker each grabbed one of the electro-rifles and Abby and Connor snapped up their own special pistols. Becker threw the Anomaly locking device that was in the holdall across his back then followed Matt in to the building. The butts of the rifles were in their shoulders, muzzles at a 45° angle facing the floor, ready whip up when they needed it. Connor was looking at the hand-held tracking device.

"Guy's, the anomaly's downstairs. In the basement." They all acknowledged with a nod then made their way for the door that led to the basement. As they walked down the corridor the smell of old books ran up their nostrils. Then there was another smell, the unmistakeable, coppery smell of blood. Then there was a noise of something getting knocked. They all froze.

"Connor, Becker, carry on down to the basement and lock that anomaly, Abby come with me." Matt whispered, punctuating each command with a hand gesture. Becker and Connor both nodded and continued to the door, both hoping that the hinges were well oiled. Doubtful though, the door looked like it hadn't been used for ten years. Becker pushed the door. There wasn't even a three inch gap when what seemed like the mother of all squeaks erupted from the hinges. They both flinched, Becker silently swore about the state of the door. And pushed again, this time it didn't even move a centimetre when the door squeaked again. Fuck it, Becker thought and pushed the door all the way open, it didn't squeak so loudly this time however as the hinges weren't put under as much pressure. They slipped through the door. And headed down the stairs.

Matt and Abby cringed when they heard the loud creak in the door as Becker and Connor pushed it open. They were certain that the creature heard it as well, which wasn't very good. They walked around the bookshelves slowly and purposefully, following their weapons round. The smell of blood was getting stronger, signifying that they were getting closer to the source. As they turned round the next corner, they saw it. The body of the librarian lying on the floor; body ripped open and crushed bone sticking up from what used to be the chest and the insides hanging out. It was a mess; one could hardly tell it was once a human. Abby grimaced; Matt pointed at the body, held up a finger and waggled it, showing that he thought there was more than one creature in here. They daren't talk as they knew the creature would be around somewhere, they rarely left the food half eaten. They stepped over the body and carried on with the recce. They needed to find the creature before it got into the street. They were walking down aisle when they heard a low guttural growl behind them. They slowly turned round and saw a large wolf-like creature crouching behind them, snarling and readying itself for a pounce. Abby brought up her pistol to shoot the creature when another growl warned her not to carry out the action. Matt aimed at the creature that was standing in between the two aisles not three feet away. Another two growls emerged behind and to the left of Matt. They had walked into an ambush and were now surrounded and trapped.

"Connor, we need some help up here." Abby's voice came through from the earpiece in his ear. She was calm but there was a hint of fear in her controlled voice. "We're surrounded, by large wolf- like creatures."

"Aye, we had a couple down here, we handled it; the anomaly is locked. Don't do anything rash, hold your ground, we're on our way up."

"What are they?" Matt asked.

"Borophagus diversidens, scavengers, but not impartial to hunting easy pray. They are early wolves from the Miocene era about 4.9 to 1.8 million years ago."

Connor and Becker made their way back up the steps and into the section where their teammates were trapped. They checked that their weapons were still on the low setting in case they had knocked them by accident and continued to the back of the room where they could here the loud growling. They came to the second-last aisle, Becker motioned to Connor to go down the last while he went down his, focused on the back half of the canine creature. He closed the gap to ensure he couldn't miss then shot. Its back legs went limp for a second as the creature let out a yelp. It turned and snarled viciously at Becker who put another bolt into its head and knocked it out cold. Connor was round the aisle now and double tapped a creature. The first bolt caught it on the back the other in the side of its head, another down. Abby and Matt then took care of theirs. They knew that the creatures would be out for a while and so did a sweep of the building ensuring that there were no more creatures loose, when they were satisfied they took the creatures to the anomaly, unlocked it and waited for them to wake up, which didn't take long, once awake they went straight through, one looked back and did one last growl to ensure they weren't followed then followed its pack. The gateway then closed.

"Ah another day at the office." Connor joked; Abby shook her head as the other two smiled at the bad joke.

The team got back to the ARC and went to into the main control centre. Something was wrong, everyone seemed on edge for some reason as if there was a surprise inspection or something, even though there had never been a surprise inspection since they had been there. Connor and Abby approached the Anomaly Detection Panel and asked the operator what was happening.

"There's been a lot of Anomaly's opening today, much more than there are usually." There was anxiety in the brunette's voice and in her eyes. "There's never been this amount of Anomalies opening at once before. We've intercepted calls to the police about dinosaurs and other creatures roaming around the streets."

Connor and Abby looked at each other. This couldn't be happening, it shouldn't be happening, Connor used to think that it was impossible, usually the Anomalies own magnetic fields counteracted other anomalies wanting to open in the sector, but previous events have falsified that hypothesis. Connor didn't know what they could do, they didn't have the man power to contain every creature here and close every anomaly. What he did know however was that if this wasn't dealt with, London would become a play ground to all of these creatures until it would have to be sealed off by the Emergency services because most of the population had been eaten. There was no way they could cover something this big up. Connor ran his hand through his hair and shook his head. He turned and made his way to his lab to try to think of ways to deal with this. He wasn't alone in doing that however, everyone was now sitting down trying to think of ways to get round it, either it be to cover it up or to actually deal with the creatures and the anomalies. Lester's face came up on the video phones calling all the senior members into his office, which meant Matt, Becker, Abby and Connor.

"Right what's the situation?" He asked.

"Anomalies are opening up all over the place." Connor said.

"This should happen but it is, and we have to find some way to stop it." Matt added.

"Yes, but also there is the problem of covering it up, when it is just a single anomaly and only a couple of people involved we can easily deal with it, but on a scale such as this, we cannot cover it up so easily."

"We just have to tell the news something and make it look like an accident or something, but what about all of the creature sightings, how can we deal with that, we haven't the man power to deal with this at once, yet if we don't, something terrible will happen." Abby said.

"We will come up with something, for now I want you to get out there and go to the nearest site and see what you can do, dismissed." Lester swivelled in his chair showing that he was not going to talk any more and the team left. They went down the hall went to detection panel.

"Where's the nearest anomaly from here?"

"About 3 miles away, in a factory that has been closed and scheduled for demolition this week."

"We'll be right on it." The team turned round and left the ARC going to the site.

Once there they could see certain signs that an anomaly was here, but something seemed different, never before had magnetic things strained close a building.

"Look at that, have you ever seen this before?" Abby asked.

"No, this must be a big anomaly, either that or there's quite a few in there."

They went in to the building, again Connor was fixed to his tracking device trying to locate where it was.

"The anomaly's upstairs." Matt said. Connor looked up in shock.

"How do you know that? It hasn't even come up on my tracker yet." Matt pointed to a hole in the ceiling.

"Because I can see it."

"But how-?" Connor shook his head in confusion, "there must be too much magnetic flux that is messing with the circuits."

Once they got up stairs they saw the anomaly in full, it was big, but not much bigger than the others they dealt with, but it looked different, instead of being golden in colour, there were traces of blue in there.

"This isn't like any we have dealt with before." Connor said. He pulled out his Date Calculator. "Guys, this says this anomaly leads to the 27th century."

"What? That's impossible." Matt said.

"Well that's what this says, and it hasn't let me down yet."

"We had better check to make sure there are no creatures about."

They started to look for signs that there was a creature, but couldn't see any; they then split up to check.

Unbeknownst to them they were being watched, but it wasn't a creature, it was a man. His eyes glinted as he watched them, and they rested on the blonde girl. A smile creased across his shadowed face and he licked his lips. He checked his weapons then quickly and silently jumped out of the glassless window, down to the ground and ran off. Abby stopped and looked, she thought she saw something in the corner of her eye, and she had had the strangest feeling of being watched. But when she got to the window, she couldn't see anything. Suddenly they all twisted round and held their guns up, the team and the soldiers that accompanied them were all standing ready as a strange noise erupted, but it wasn't from the anomaly, instead they were facing the opposite way. To their surprise a blue box appeared as the whooshing noise that had startled them so got louder, and then started to fade. One of the doors was opened slightly and a head pooped out with a greeting smile. Connors jaw dropped.

"It can't be!" He gasped.