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Ultimatum
They met up with two trucks full of troops, and the remainder of the ARC's vehicles, which some of Becker's men and the support staff had fled in. They drove towards the Arc, where they would tell Helen what she was going to do and hopefully stop her once and for all.
"You realise she wont listen to you." Jenny warned as they pulled up beside the ARC.
"I know. I'm hoping she'll see reason." Nick said as they got out.
Jenny snorted, and Becker kicked the door in the garage open. The team, all armed, walked boldly down the corridor, and shoved through the double doors into the control room. The clones all raised their weapons, and the predators and megopterans looked at them hopefully, as Helen swept out of Lester's office and regarded them all in surprise.
"Nick? Come to surrender?" she asked as she came down the ramp.
"No Helen. I'm here to talk to you."
"Really?" she asked, strolling over to them.
"What's that smell?" Connor asked, his nose wrinkling.
Helen glared at Abby.
"Ask your little Barbie doll here. My old clothes are over there, I cant work the trash dispenser." she growled bitterly.
"Ahha! It's not just me then!" Lester cried triumphantly, then looked around in embarrassment as his allies, who were giving him a questioning look, and he fell silent.
Helen rolled her eyes and looked at Nick. Both sets of soldiers were twitching nervously.
"Well, what do you want to talk to me about?" she asked.
Nick steeled himself.
"Helen listen to me. We found out how to work the Artifact. It's an anomaly map, a record of every anomaly that's existed. And we found out where the future predators started to evolve. They evolve regardless of my death, we checked. When you escaped the Permian era, you wound up in the future didn't you?" he asked, and she looked at hi in shock.
"We know. You shot Connor and Becker and stole their anomaly openers. By doing that, by taking control of the anomalies you open, you've caused more harm and good. You opening anomalies just opens more, and you're causing it. When you killed me, you totally knackered the proper timeline, the one where you stole the openers in. You doing that started everything off and unleashed the chaos! The tweak in the timeline with Jenny being Claudia was a warning that the entire timeline had changed. The future predators following you through began warping it, and things started to change, like Jenny. That's when the mer and the predators and the megopterans became able to evolve! When you got the opener and started faffing about through the timeline, everything started to change, and things went haywire! I'm not the one who starts the evolution of the future predators Helen! It's you! You cause them to evolve, you doom mankind and the earth! It's all you!"
Helen's eyes widened crazily.
"Me? No Nick. I know. I saw. It's you who causes them." she insisted.
"No Helen. You cause them, because, in your arrogance, you think you can meddle with time and there wont be any consequences! As such, you cause the evolution of the future predators!" he told her.
She took a step back, shaking her head.
"You're wrong."
Sarah however wasn't paying much attention to the exchange. She was more concerned with a pair of future predators, who were snarling loudly. There was something amiss, which she realised a second later. It couldn't bode well.
"Helen?"
Helen, who was about to snarl at Nick, looked at her furiously.
"What?" she demanded.
"What does it mean when the red lights aren't on in the predator's clamps?" she asked.
"It means they aren't working. Why?" she asked, then spun to where she was looking.
"This is it. This is where it begins. I told you!" Nick hollered.
"Don't stand there shoot them!" Helen and Johnson cried in unison.
Becker's troops and Helen's clones opened fire on the two predators. However, the sight of the death of two of their kin sent the rest of the predators into a frenzy and they leapt into battle, heading towards the danger posed to them. Meanwhile, the bugs swarmed in and started to devour the predator carcasses. Bullets thudded in the Arc, as both teams started firing at the predators. The predators tore away at some of the clones and the troopers. One leapt right at Johnson, which Danny promptly shot in the head.
"Thank you." then fired over his shoulder.
Blood went into the air, dropping the predator that had been sneaking up on him to the ground.
"Likewise" he said thankfully.
The predators were being massacred, but some soldiers had been killed as Nick and Jenny shot down the last two, and Helen shot the one that was chasing her. Lester gunned down the bugs for good measure, and then they all turned to aim at Helen and her clones.
"How many did you have, and how many are here?" Nick asked.
Helen gave him a hateful glare and counted all the dead bodies, and nodded grimly.
"They're all here. Looks like you were wrong Nick. Now…"
More clones suddenly appeared from the rooms on the floor and aimed down at them.
"Why don't you surrender, and we can stop the creation of the predators once and for all?" she asked sweetly.
Nick shook his head sadly.
"You know Helen, you really aren't as smart as I thought you were. It's a shame. If you wont stop the evolution of the predators, we'll stop the anomalies all together." he said, and raised the opener, and entered 99/99/99/99/99/9999~~. The anomaly burst into life, and he looked pityingly up at her.
"We stop the anomalies, we stop the predators. Goodbye Helen." he said, and his team went through.
Helen hissed and ran down to the anomaly, which closed.
"Quick, track it!" she barked at a cleaner clone.
He did so and showed her.
"That must be the end of time. Why didn't I think of it before? Oh no Nick. I'm not going to let you destroy the anomalies. They present too great an opportunity. Come on!" she yelled at the clones, as she entered the date into the opener.
"And here we go, the battle for time. I'm going to win Nick, I promise you that. Then your silly prophecies wont matter a bit." she spat and led her small army through after her husband.
Hello again!
Sorry this chapter is so short, maybe I should have put it with yesterday's one. Ah well.
The battle for time is now on! Who will succeed? What will the end and beginning of time look like? What will happen at the super anomaly sites?
All will be revealed, today if you're lucky!
I hope you're enjoying this, as there's only three chapters left! Primeval will soon be finito, sadly.
However, until then, pelase enjoy, read and review!
On to the ends of time!