The Raptor ran at him, its mouth open showing its sharp pointed teeth.

Becker sat up against the wall ignoring the pain that was in his shoulder. He quickly untied his boot and threw it as hard as he could at the raptors head. The raptor knocked it away with its head and the boot fell in front of the door way. Becker heard a faint buzz coming from where the boot landed. He looked over and saw Connor standing in the doorway with the EMD aimed at the Raptor.

Connor put pressure on the trigger and fired. The Raptor fell to the ground with a thud in front of Becker's feet. Becker let out a breath that he had been holding and relaxed his muscles which had been tensed from where he had pushed himself against the wall. He looked at Connor, he stood up and glared at him. He could feel anger boiling inside him but he also felt very thankful. "Thank you" he said swallowing his anger, Connor had just saved his life and he would have Lester's anger to deal with later. Connor didn't need his anger as well. Becker walked over to the doorway and put his shoe back on.

Connor looked around at the mess, "I am in so much trouble with Lester." He picked up one of the table legs and let out a sigh "So much trouble."

Becker looked at him, "Did it get into the ADD room?"

"No, only the menagerie and it got into the armoury but I don't think it destroyed much there, all the EMD's where in cases" Connor said knowing that it was good that the ADD hadn't been destroyed.

"That's good" Becker replied thinking the same as Connor "Where are the guards? I didn't see any when I walked in."

"I told any guards I saw to go looking for the Raptor, I don't actually know where they are now." Connor and Becker walked around the ARC looking for the guards. They told some to go back to their posts and got others to help tidy up the mess. The menagerie, armoury and the corridors leading to them were the only places that the raptor had got to, so they were the only places that had been destroyed. Becker and Connor had called Matt, Abby, Jess and Emily and they had all helped clean up as much of the mess too. Most of the damage couldn't be fixed but Connor tried to fix it anyway. He didn't want Lester to know about it. Lester didn't usually go to the menagerie or the armoury but Connor knew that with his luck it would be the today Lester decided to so he tried to make everything look 'normal'. No one had been killed by the raptor and none of the other dinosaurs had been injured either.

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Matt along with the rest of the team was in the ADD room an hour later. He was lent on his hand staring at a blank computer screen. The same words were going over and over in his mind. 'You have to go back' He couldn't get them out of his head and he couldn't get the picture of what he looked like out of his head either. He had mud and dirt all over his face and on his left cheek was three cuts or gashes. There had also been a graze above his left eye. He hadn't been able to ask why before his future self had disappeared. He kept asking himself if he had done the right thing, had he stopped the world being destroyed. After the team had destroyed the anomaly he had had a slight doubt that maybe it wasn't the right thing and now all he could think about was what the future was like. He wanted to go back but he was scared at what it would be like, would it be worse or better he had asked himself so many times but the fear in him was holding him back. Also the past was like his home now, he had made lots of friends and he had found Emily. If he went back he couldn't expect her to follow him, not to the desert wastelands of the future earth. No one would want to live there if they had a choice.

"You are all in very early" Lester said brakeing Matt out of his thoughts. "I wonder why." Connor looked nervously at Abby who turned him round and they got on with the work they were doing. Jess got back to talking to Becker and Matt just sat there. Lester stared at them all, he knew something was up. Something Becker had said made Jess hug him tightly and Becker let out a slight groan.

"I am so sorry" Jess whispered "I completely forgot you had hurt your arm." Luckily Becker hadn't broken anything when he had hit the wall but he had bruised one of the bones in his shoulder and it hurt whenever something touched it or he moved it.

"Don't worry" he said.

"So what happened to your arm?" Lester asked trying to get the answer to what happened out of him. "It wouldn't have anything to do with the RAPTOR THAT HAD THE ARC TO ITSELF would it." Connor sighed. "How did it even escape in the first place?"

"Erm Rex landed on the button to open the Raptor door and it escaped" Connor said quickly turning back to Abby.

"I am so glad this is my life now. One dinosaur opens the enclosure of another dinosaur that destroys the building, great. Who's going to pay for the damage?" There was a long silence "I guess that will be me, WONT IT." Lester shouted making everyone flinch slightly. He walked into his office and slammed the door behind him. Everyone looked around at each other.

"I thought that would be worse" Connor said to Abby. Lester opened the door to his office.

"Connor could you come here" he asked. Connor sighed and walked into Lester's office. You could hear Lester shouting at Connor who stood in front of Lester looking down at the ground.

Matt stood up and walked out the room. He went out the ARC and went to his car. Like every car in the ARC it was black. He knew he had parked it very close to the exit so he headed in that direction. He found his car and got in, he was about to drive of when he got the black box out of his pocket and pulled out the wire so the tracker wouldn't work. He didn't want people to know where he was going. As he pulled away the wheels screeched on the slippery road.

Half an hour later he pulled up in a small car park. There were not many cars in the car park, about eight. There was a black fence with bushes growing on the inside of it so that you couldn't see what was inside. Matt walked over to the gate and pushed it open, it didn't squeak when it opened but it did brush along the gravel on the ground. Matt walked in and closed the gate behind him, as he walked along the path his feet crunched on the gravel. There was one main path that lead through to the gate at the other end and smaller paths branched of it every couple of metres. There was a row of grave stones along each smaller path, and all of them had brightly coloured flowers growing out of pots or the ground around them. Matt turned off onto one of the smaller paths and stopped at the seventh gravestone down. Matt knelt down in front of it in silence. Matt read the gravestone and could feel the tears stinging behind his eyes. His throat ached from holding back the tears.

Whenever Matt needed time to think he would come here so that he was with his father. It was quiet and peaceful and if he needed someone to talk to about the future properly then he could do it with his dad. He sat there for about ten minutes in silence and then stood up. He placed some flowers that he had bought earlier on the grave. "I did it and I know what I am going to do" he said quietly and then he walked back to the car.