The Chronicles of Nick and Nancy

A/N: On to the year 5063!

Chapter 3

Nancy fell on to the hard ground, groaning from the pain shooting up her leg that she had not noticed before. She looked down at her foot and saw that it was puffy and had dry, as well as fresh, blood covering the skin. She tried to move it but it was defiantly broken now after all that running and the predators jaws being clamped onto it. She sat up and tore a piece of fabric off her shirt, tying it around her ankle. Sighing, she looked up at Nick who had not moved an inch while she was in pain, he just stood there awe-struck. Following his gaze, she gasped. They had landed right in front of what used to be the ARC. After thousands of years the ARC still stood, damaged but was still holding up. Although it wasn't a bad sight to see, it had grass growing right over it and a river of sparkling water, almost like a moat, going around it. Future creatures were still crawling all over it, but they had changed a bit. The future predators were no longer black, but dark green and brown most likely to blend with the forest the at surrounded the ARC.

"Nancy look at this!" Nick helped her off the ground and pointed to another devise that he held. Nancy switched her weight over to her good leg and looked down at what he was holding. It was a new devise that Sid had created which didn't have a name yet.

"Whoa," Nancy gasped. The devise showed the earth in this time and from what the devise showed them, the whole planet was now exactly half land, half sea.

"Looks like the continents formed together again," Nick looked up at the ARC and sighed, "I wonder where Helen went"

Nancy looked around for any foot prints and smiled when she finally found Helen's boot print. She leaned against Nick and crouched down.

"Let's follow this trail," She pointed to the prints. Nick followed Nancy down a hill and toward the ARC. Nancy stopped once they had reached the ARC and motioned for Nick crouch down next to her.

"What?" Nick asked, earning a 'shut up' glare from Nancy. She pointed toward the ARC door. Right in front of the door were two cleaner clones, each armed with large guns.

"Oh," Nick murmured, wide-eyed.

"Okay so, how are we going to get past them?" Nancy asked quietly, then started looking through his pack without making to much noise. She pulled out a gun and looked up at Nick.

"We are not killing them," Nick whispered sternly and grabbed Nancy's gun. She pulled it back and rolled her eyes.

"Of course we're not going to kill them Nick," Nancy shook her head, "I was thinking more on the lines of knocking them out" Nick nodded in approval of her plan then they both crawled over to the clones. 'On the count of three' Nancy mouthed, 'One, two, THREE" They knocked both clones out and then took their guns.

"We might need these later," Nick said as he put the guns into his pack. Nancy followed him as they entered the ARC, slowly walking down the corridors just to making sure that they didn't run into any more clones.

"Where are they all?" Nick asked Nancy as she couched down to the floor and found a boot print.

Nancy shrugged, "Don't know, but Helen went this way," she pointed to a flight of stairs. They ran down the stairs as quietly as they could and found Helen. Leaning against the wall, they listened to what she was saying, or tryed to. Nick cocked his gun and hopped out of hiding, happily finding Helen alone.

Helen looked surprised for a second but shook that away, "Well, well, looks like you followed me through," She moved closer to Nick, "Come out, come out from where ever you are, Nancy," She said in a sing-song voice. Nancy slowly walked out of her hiding place and stood next to Nick.

"Put the gun down Nicky," Helen whispered, "You know, I can show you some amazing stuff all you have to is put the gun down and come with me"

"Never," Nick growled, stepping toward her with his gun aimed at her head.

"Fine, have it your way then," Helen grabbed Nancy and pulled a gun out, pressing against her temple.

"You wouldn't," Nick gasped.

"Try me"

Nick lowered his gun and placed it on the floor, his eyes locked onto the gun pressed to his sister's temple.

"Good boy, now..." Helen grabbed an AC and activated it, opening an anomaly.

"What are you doing?" Nancy trembled.

"just a necessary precaution, to make sure you two don't stop me," Helen smiled and Nick gasped, suddenly understanding what she was about to do.

"No!" Nick screamed just as Helen pushed Nancy through the anomaly and closed it behind her. Helen pushed Nick to the ground and ran past up him then up the stairs. Nick was left there staring at the the place where the anomaly used to be. He looked down on the floor to see that his AC that was wired to reopen anomalies, was broken. How the hell am i supposed to follow Helen and rescue Nancy now? Nick pleaded to himself as he pulled himself off the floor.

"I'll save you Nancy, I promise you that I will," Nick whispered to the empty room just before taking off in the direction that Helen had fled.