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Pursuit
Danny frowned as they erupted through the anomaly.
"Oh not here again." he grumbled under his breath.
The others appeared swiftly behind him.
"What's Helen doing here? She cant destroy mankind by coming to somewhere where it doesn't exist." Sarah said, gazing around in wonder.
Abby nodded agreement.
"Keep quiet. If the future predators find us we're mincemeat." she said warily, remembering the death of Stephen all too keenly.
Connor patted her shoulder, as Becker turned to her in irritation.
"What, you don't think I can take a few future predators?" he asked indignantly.
Before Abby could retort, Danny silenced them both with a gesture.
He was the new leader of the team, having replaced the dead Nick Cutter after he had been murdered by their quarry, Helen Cutter, who was trying to stop the destruction of Earth and the rise of the future predators. He was tall, had brown hair, a gruff look and manner about him, and his experience with the anomalies was that his brother had been killed by a camouflage beast from the future.
Captain Becker was an excellent soldier, charged with protecting the team due to the death of Stephen. Medium height, medium build, with brown hair and a piercing gaze, he was a valuable addition to the team and had saved them from many dangers.
Sarah Page was a historian at the National Museum before her boss had been killed by a Pristichampsus. After that she had joined th team, helping Cutter figure out which creatures from myth could have come through anomalies. She had lately started helping the team in the field, fed up of always being in the lab, and not able to match theories with Cutter anymore. She was smart, sexy and intelligent, with olive skin and blakc hair.
Abby Maitland had been brought into the world by Cutter when he asked her to identify Rex, a dinosaur rather than a lizard. She had been with the team ever since, combating Helen's schemes and enduring the death of both Stephen and Nick. She had recently showed feelings for Connor, but it had yet to go further. She was a young, experienced member of the team, with bleach blonde hair and a tough outlook.
Connor Temple had been a student of Nicks at the university, and got involved with the incident in the Forest of Dean. He had been with the team ever since. He was young, with short blakc hair and technological know how.
Danny motioned to them to keep moving. It was quiet, but that meant nothing in this nightmare.
The team crept silently among the derelict cars, trying to find clues as to where Helen had went. She had killed her ex-huband Nick and had cuased a lot of trouble throughout the timelines and was intent on causing more. She had the idea that humans were inevitably going to destroy the world and she was going back to the past to stop them before they did so. However, her plan to do that had been thwarted when the team had arrived in the Ice Age to stop her before she went further in time to end humanity. She had fled, and now the team was here looking for her.
"Why come here? It doesn't make any sense." Connor said worriedly as they crept silently.
"She never did make a lot of sense though did she?" Abby asked, peering around a corner.
Danny turned to them.
"So, what's the deal with Helen anyway? I want it all, from the beginning."
Connor nodded to Abby.
"An anomaly opened up about ten years ago now. Helen had been chasing it, but wound up on the run from it. She ran into the anomaly and wasn't seen for eight years. She started appearing in and out of the anomalies, teasing Nick. She knows a lot more about them than she's telling us, that's for sure. If you ask me, she must have some way of opening them. She slept with Stephen to get to Nick, and then had that idiot Leek betray us. She trapped us all in a bunker and tried to kill us all. Stephen sacrificed himself to stop all the creatures she had there locked up."
Danny, Becker and Sarah were listening intently.
"As far as we're able to determine, she nicked the Artifact from Johnson's troops and made a run for it. She then cloned Nick, came into the ARC to try to get him to read it, and killed him when she couldn't. And now she wants to kill off mankind by going back and finishing us before we begin." Connor finished.
Danny turned to Becker and nodded.
"Definitely nuts."
Becker fervently agreed, then held his finger up.
"What?" Sarah asked anxiously.
Claws suddenly grabbed Becker and dragged him forward.
"NO!" Sarah yelled, as claws clasped around all of them.
As the team struggled, they could see that their captors were future predators. Connor swore.
"What's up?" Danny asked casually as the predator stalked forward, grasping him in its arms.
"Aside from being in the clutches of this thing? As we aren't dead, it can mean only one thing: Helen."
"Correct!"
The predators dropped them in front of a building that had once been a bank. On top of a flight of stairs, Helen was standing there, clad in her black jumpsuit and grinning evilly.
"Helen." Abby spat.
"Hello to you too. You lot are really getting on my nerves. I have a job to do. Stop interfering."
Danny narrowed his eyes art her.
"Sorry, I don't know what you mean." he said boldly.
Helen gave him a sad smile.
"You know Danny, if you weren't so stubborn, I would find you quite likeable." she said sadly.
"Why did you do it Helen!?" Connor demanded.
Helen turned to Connor, not noticing as Becker sidled towards his gun.
"Do what Connor?" she asked innocently.
"Murder Nick." he snarled.
Helen gave him a pained look.
"I didn't murder him. I stopped him from making a terrible mistake. He would have thanked me if he'd known." she said in a small voice.
"You killed him." Abby growled.
"For the good of all mankind, for all of Earth, Abby. I wish you had all seen what I have seen. Then, you would understand." she said, looking at them pityingly.
"You're deranged." Sarah said bravely from the feet of a future predator, and she seemed unable and unwilling to ever move again while it was near her.
Helen smiled at her.
"If you'd only seen what I have seen, you wouldn't be calling me deranged. You'd be calling me a saviour." she promised.
"I doubt that." Sarah said defiantly, watching Becker quietly grab his gun out of the corner of her eye.
Helen laughed.
She then shrieked as Becker blasted his predator guard in the head with a bullet, and then calmly fired at the car beside them.
"NO!" Helen cried.
The bullet lanced through the fuel tank, and many years after it had gone derelict, it still exploded. The noise sent the predators reeling, clutching their heads. The team leapt to their feet, aside from Sarah, who was pinned beneath the foot of her guard. Becker shot it, and hoisted her over his shoulder.
"Hey!" she protested, as they ran for it.
Helen growled, as her predators recovered.
"After them! Kill them! They're too big a threat to my plans!"
The predators tore off after them, and Helen cursed herself for not watching the soldier more carefully. She'd been too busy playing with the others.
"I'll get you for that." she promised, and retreated into the bank as the megopterans swarmed the skies.
Danny leapt around a corner, ducking to avoid a feral predator's swing.
"Why are some working for her?" he demanded.
"See the things that are on their heads? They're neural clamps. She can control them. Leek used them on his beasties." Abby explained as they dashed through the desolate street.
Dozens of future predators were swarming out of the abandoned buildings, and the flying mantises were swooping down at the predators.
"Becker!" Sarah cried from his shoulder.
Becker turned to shoot another one of Helen's creatures, the noise driving the natural beasts to distraction. The insects came at the team, but the predators then started growling and the natural predators started fighting the insects, determined to stop them getting to their prey. Only Helen's predators followed.
"I really hope the anomaly hasn't closed." Connor said as they rounded the last street corner.
Danny led the ay towards the shimmering anomaly that was their salvation.
"Go, run!" Becker urged Sarah, setting her down.
"Becker, Sarah, move!" Abby cried as one of Helen's predators leapt at them from above.
Sarah grabbed Becker's gun and fired.
The predator dropped to the ground, a bullet through it's throat.
"How did you do that?" Becker asked in amazement.
"Luck. Come on!" Sarah said, dragging him.
"There's only two of Helen's ones left, look!" Danny said pointing as they came bounding towards them.
"Doesn't matter. Get through the anomaly!" Connor said, shoving him and Abby through.
As they vanished back to their own time, Becker took aim and downed another stampeding predator.
"Good shot." Connor said as he shoved Sarah into the anomaly.
Becker didn't hear or feel him as he tried to push him into the anomaly.
"Becker?"
Wordlessly, Becker pointed.
Connor went pale.
The future predators had apparently escaped the megopterans and there were over fifty coming straight for them.
"Get in!" Connor yelled, and the two leapt through the anomaly.
They flashed through the anomaly and landed in the Ice Age.
"God its cold!" Abby complained.
Sarah sighed in relief as she sealed the anomaly shut.
The team stood there for a moment, getting their breath back. Connor held Abby to him to keep her warm. Sarah turned to Becker.
"Thank you." she said with a smile.
"I reckon we're even. The ay you shot that predator…" he said admiringly.
Sarah grinned and stood on her tiptoes. She then kissed him. Becker's eyes widened in surprise, but he then reciprocated.
Danny rolled his eyes.
"First you and Connor, now that two. It's all your fault." he said, mock angry, to Abby.
She stuck her tongue out at him as Connor sniggered.
The two broke apart and faced the others, looking quite unabashed.
"Are you two quite finished?" Danny asked sarcastically.
"We can start again if you like." Sarah teased.
"No. I don't know if snogging warms you up, but I'm frozen. Let's go home."
They stepped through the anomaly back into the present, in the garden beside the ARC, where it had opened most conveniently.
The five traipsed into the ARC, entering the ready room to calm down and relax.
"So, where have you all been?" a familiar voice asked.
They turned, smiling, to the door to see Jenny Lewis smiling at them.
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Helen swore as she watched the last of her pet predators was killed. Grumbling, she pulled out her Anomaly Opener, which had been created by a scientist from the future. She had killed him and had stolen it to use for her own ends.
"Blast them. I should have just killed them there and then. Ah well. Time to tie up some loose ends." she snarled, and opened a portal so she could go to the cloning factory.
The ARC team was getting quite out of hand. It was time to remove their threat to her plans once and for all. She would gather an army of cleaner, Nick and Stephen clones, and get some more pet predators, and maybe some megopterans.
And then she would deal with the ARC once and for all.
Hello there!
This is just a little something I thought I'd cook up to see how I would manage a Primeval story. I have an entire for the entire story, so please tell me if you like it! If so, I will update soon! And if I do the next chapter is:
Battle in the ARC!