AN: Hiya guy's! Just wanted to say many thanks to those of you who have viewed my story and reviewed it. So I'll give the reviewers a BIG COOKIE!
AN 2: I have also made up some of the solders names, so I don't have to keep repeating myself saying ARC team, Soldiers, Military men etc etc lol. I've also made up times and a particular date...you will figure it out as you read on.
Now on to the story!
Everyone ran; ran for their lives.
A predator jumped down from one of the buildings above them; and grabbed one of the ARC soldiers. The soldier's scream echoed through everybody's ears as they ran. Becker took a quick glance backwards and stopped suddenly in his tracks. In the background gun shots are firing.
"No...Not Dave..." Becker stuttered in his own thoughts. It felt like something important had been taken away from him. A tear trickled down his cheek, and he quickly wiped it away, "Focus on the job at hand...this is what Dave would have wanted me to do...complete the mission..." As he turned around a predator stood boring into him. It stared at him like it was taunting him, it snarled as it lunged forwards. Becker taken aback fell backwards and hits the floor hard. Out of nowhere a gunshot rang through his ears. The predator falls onto Becker. He gasped as the weight landed on him. With strength and force, Becker managed to push the dead predator off his body. As he sat up slowly he sees Sarah with her gun still pointed at the Predator.
"Thanks." Becker continues to stare at her with a curious glance, "Err, Sarah...you can relax now, it's dead." He adds with a smile.
Sarah jolted out of what seemed like a trance. She smiled sheepishly.
"Yeah I know. Just making sure it won't be...jumping around any time soon."
Sarah held out her hand, and he gladly accepted it. They ran towards the centre of the fight. Becker and Sarah split up. Becker began to shoot at the endless amount of predators from the top of the buildings. Sarah shot the predator to her right with two bullets. Another appeared on her left and then another two appeared in front of her. She quickly took out the one on the left with another two bullets, then the two in front of her with two bullets each. Her clip was empty by the end of it. She rapidly changed her clip and reloaded her weapon. Unexpectedly she heard something coming from above her; she hastily looked up, and saw another predator coming straight for her. She dodged it just in time; the predator pounded the ground in frustration and leaped towards Sarah again.
Sarah looked on with fear. She composed herself, brought the gun out pointing towards the enemy and pulled the trigger in a nick of time. The creature fell near her feet. She let out a sigh of relief.
"It's OK Sarah. You are very much alive!" She was breathing heavily and trying to smile at her achievement of still existing.
Suddenly, Becker ran up to Sarah and turned her around.
"We have to move, like right now!" Becker shouted over the turmoil taking place.
He grabs her arm with force, and they started to run. A strange noise rang in Sarah's ear's a tune she thought she would never wanted to hear again, constant buzzing, getting louder and louder as if it is close by.
"Oh no, not those bugs too..." Becker glanced at his partner and gave a nod to confirm what she was thinking.
The defence force stopped firing and followed their Captain. The future predators growled at the approaching enemies. Becker and Sarah came within reach of the biggest building and found a door that had been slightly left ajar.
Both try to budge the door open. It was stiff and stubborn after all these years of not being used. Eventually, they got the door open enough to get everyone in. The defence force started to shoot, but realize it is futile as the bullets don't affect the bugs much. The defence forces enter through the door, followed by Sarah then Becker. The bugs reached the door. They tried to attack by poking their sharp, thorny, knife like legs through the door. Becker is trying to close the door whilst trying to avoid getting scratched or cut by their deadly legs. He knew well enough that if he got scratched or cut even by the slightest he would become a host for the bug's newborns, which would not be a pretty sight. Half of the defence force shot at the bugs trying to keep them back as the other half tried to get the door closed. Sarah watched on with pure fright clear on her face. She wanted to help but her fear kept hold of her. Finally, they managed to get the door closed.
Sarah was hyperventilating. Becker gathered his men around.
"OK men, check this small section of the building and report back to me. Make sure it is safe for us to proceed on." Becker waved his hand and the soldiers walk down the long corridor.
Becker walked up towards his lover; he placed his hands gently upon her shoulders. Sarah's eyes meet up with his. She throws herself at him and embraces him tightly. He kissed her head and stroked her hair.
"It's OK. Breathe Sarah. They aren't coming anywhere near us, now." He could feel her breathing getting back to normal.
"Captain, the location until the bottom of this corridor is safe, but we have to proceed with caution from that point onwards." Said Wilkinson.
Becker and Sarah break apart from the embrace feeling quite embarrassed. Sarah brushed her fingers through her hair whilst Becker bit the bottom of his lip.
"OK, let us continue then." Becker flung his gun over his shoulder and walked towards the darkened corridor. Behind him were Sarah and the soldiers.
The corridor was so dark that Becker had to put on the flash light attached to his weapon. The soldiers previously had there's on due to them checking this area already. He felt a familiar presence rubbing up against his shoulder. He could make out a faint hint of fragrance and the soft touch of her skin against his as her arm wrapped around his.
"You are afraid of a lot of things aren't you Sarah?" He mused.
"Shut up, Becker. Not everyone is Action Man or Superwoman." She whispered sarcastically in his ear.
Out of no-where there was a clank sound. Like something metal just fell or whacked up against something else that is metal. The team was alerted. The team approached two corners on either side of them. Becker stops just before the corner. He signals for Davidson to take the other corner. Sarah stepped backwards until she reached the centre of the group.
Becker slowly glanced around the corner, so did Davidson. On either side was a predator. Becker stepped back.
"We need to put silencers on our guns. Predator at nine o clock and one at three o clock." He whispered. They took their rack sacks off, took out a standard gun and put on the silencers.
"Captain, they know we're here!" Shouted Davidson. The Predator jumped onto Davidson and began clawing at him. His weapon shot bursts of gun fire. The other predator rounded the corner and flew into the air. Becker and his team of soldiers fired back. They managed to repel it back, and it landed on the floor with its back scraping the floor. The other one ran across the wall and took out another soldier. Sarah stood close to the wall, hugging herself. She slid down the wall until she sat down still hugging herself.
Becker and his team continued to fire their guns, until eventually the creature fell to its doom.
"These predators are annoying." Becker muttered to himself.
Sarah still continued to hug herself. Suddenly, she saw a hand in front of her face. She looked up and saw that it was Becker. She took his hand but refused to let go off it.
They walked through a door that was wide open; it must have been the clank sound they heard before the predators attacked them. They entered the room and closed the door right behind them. Becker and his men went to explore the area. Sarah stood by the door. She glanced behind her when she stares at something with a bolt from the blue type expression.
"Becker...you ought to come here and have a look at this." She called out.
Becker ambles over.
"What's going on?"
"Look at this sign..."
Becker and Sarah exchanged glances, "We're in the ARC?" he said with disbelief, "So what Helen Cutter was saying about the future is right, then, that the ARC is responsible for all this."
"Let's not try and jump to conclusions here. She said that Nick Cutter was responsible for whatever happens in the future. She killed Nick. We do not know what is right or wrong. And besides Helen Cutter is psychotic. Never listen to that woman."
Sarah wanders through the room. Her eyes fall onto what looks like a table. She walked over and saw batteries connected to the unit. She realized that this is some sort of computer. She tried to get it to work, but it doesn't work no matter what she tried. She looked at the batteries.
"What if the batteries are low?" she thought, "Does anyone have batteries?" she asked suddenly.
The men glanced at each other with blank expressions.
"I need batteries...you know they help to power things..." She said sarcastically.
Some of the men took batteries out of the torches that they carried, but hardly used since their guns have lights on them anyway.
"Thank you." She disconnected the old set of batteries and connected the new ones in the same way. The system started up. She couldn't believe it when she saw that the table was the screen. She fiddled around with it trying to get used to the touch screen. On navigating through the system, she came across a folder named "downloaded Data".
She tapped the screen and entered the folder. She remembers the date, the system had seen used twice to download data, one at 15:45 then another at 15:50. Only five minutes apart.
"Becker." Sarah called out.
"Yeah." He places a hand on her shoulder.
"Do you remember what date Abby, Connor and Danny went missing?"
"Yeah it was on 15th September"
"This system is telling me that data has been downloaded onto some other device twice, and five minutes apart."
"So what is the data that had been downloaded?"
Sarah takes a closer look. It looked like destination points. Suddenly, it clicked as she saw a particular location.
"Location 333..."
"Location 333, you mean in the past?"
"Yeah, Helen's diary had this location plastered all over her pages. I think that they must have followed Helen Cutter to the past."
All of a sudden, something clanked against something above them. The ceiling was pretty dark. Then it happened again but from the far right hand side and then the far left hand side. Clank, clank, clank...and muffled growls.
"Sarah, stay by my side OK." Becker stepped in front of her and raised his big gun towards the ceiling and switched on the light. The ARC military followed. As the light shined up towards the ceiling silhouettes of small figures swinging on dead lights hanging from the ceiling made themselves known.
The ARC soldiers also put on their lights. The growling chattering multiplied and then everyone realized they were not alone in the room. They were completely surrounded. A room filled with Predators, hunting their prey in complete darkness...
AN: So what did you guy's think? Any suggestions on how to improve on my writing or anything else?
Oh my gosh I cannot believe that series 4 has finished already! What a way to finish the series. If I had my way I'd have Primeval on 365 days in a year!