Chapter 2: Mission

The minister sighed, turning off the three screens and turned to the ARC crew. "James, we need your team to find out who those kids were, you have three days!" he muttered, turning off the screen.

Lester turned frowning. "Well that was rather brief wasn't it, WELL" he began. "Your the bright sparks, so where are the BRIGHT ideas!"

Matt turned to Emily, who had been in a daze the whole time. "Are you alright?" he asked.

She turned to him slowly, "Yes! Its just... well, I could swear those girls and the boys were the "Time Travellers!"

Becker laughed, choking on his own laughter. "Time travellers! Come on Emily! This isn't Doctor WHO!"

Emily glared at Becker, then turned slowly to Lester. "When I was a girl, I was playing on the Thames bridge and I nearly fell, but a teenage girl came along and stopped me falling, we then saw her running off into an alleyway with the others! Then ten years later, they stopped a coach crash, in the marketplace, but they looked EXACTLY the same!" she started. "For years they appeared and disappeared, capturing the name... Time Travellers!"

"I've found them!" Jess cried.

Whilst Emily had been talking, Jess had been doing her usual, and researched them on the internet. In a flash, pictures of the group of four appeared all in different time zones.

"Well at least we know where they are, now any chance of tracking them?" Lester scoffed, not even showing the SLIGHTEST consideration to Jess's handiwork.

Jess began to type, when red lights appeared and an alarm sounded, blasting its way throughout the ARC. Jess began to type on the ADD and an image of the school came up. "St James Primary!" she gasped, turning to Becker. "RILEY!"

Becker nodded running out of the room and into the armoury, closely followed by the team.

Jack stared at the glowing light that had appeared in the classroom cupboard. At first he thought nothing of it, and then there were sounds, growling, snarling... roaring. He blacked it out of his mind, and walked out of the cupboard carrying the pencils to the table, where Riley sat alone. "What is that?" Jack queried looking at Riley's drawing.

"Its a pterodactyl" he sighed, knowing that Jack wasn't really interested.

And as usual, he was right. The only reason Jack ever spoke to Riley, was to cheer him up. Riley, much like his mum, was brilliant with computers but had never QUITE grasped his dad's military skills. He was good with a gun, but not soldier-style like Becker. Every time Jess had to take Riley to the ARC, he would just sit with Connor talking about dinosaurs and that had developed his dream of becoming a palaeontologist. Also, much like his father, he was no lover of socializing. Jack gazed at the cupboard and then heard the shouting of the others. "Come on Jack!" yelled one boy.

"Leave Harry with his bucketful of dinosaurs alone!" yelled another.

Reluctantly, Jack stood and walked over to them, leaving Riley alone, as usual. At school Riley's only friend was Nicholas Temple (Conner and Abby's son) but he wasn't in his class, and so, Riley was left alone.

Becker ran to the cars closely followed by Conner, Abby and Matt. Running to the cars Becker paused. What if he was too late? What if their was an incursion? What if Riley was...? He shook the thought out of his head and got into the car, trying to push positive thinking into his mind.

Mrs McCallum had heard unusual noises coming from the closet and finally pushed herself to see what it was. Something inside was pushing her back, like a magnet dragging metal toward it. But she had to open the door. As she grabbed the handle, the door jumped as

if something on the other side crashed against it. She clumsily pulled the keys out of her pocket and fumbled for the right one, before shoving it into the lock and securing the door tight. "CHILDREN! GET OUT! THERE IS SOMEONE IN THE CLOSET! EVERYONE TO THE DOOR!" she shouted, beginning to panic.

The children ran to the door pushing to get out, and when the teacher was sure everyone was gone, she locked the door behind her. But not everyone was gone, lying on the floor, was Riley Becker, knocked unconscious. During the hustle to get out, he'd been trampled on, and now lay still and quiet on the floor.

Without thinking, Mrs McCallum smashed her hand into the glass, activating the fire alarm, causing children and teachers to run around screaming... causing a lot of noise.

Inside the cupboard, a grey hunchbacked monster snapped its jaw, the noise causing it to go into a frenzy.

On the floor outside in the classroom, Riley sat up slowly, panicking as he heard the fire bell. "Mrs McCallum... anybody...HELP ME!" he yelled.

The creature now crashed against the door again and this time, the wood split open and it crashed through, snapping at the now crying boy now hustled into the corner.