The ute sped along to the anomaly site, which was at a swimming pool (co-incidentally, the same one that the mosasaur had come through all those years ago).

Now that Connor had discovered what he believed to be the first co-ordinate for the anomaly the Entity wanted them to go through, the gloomy mood at the ARC had lifted at least a little bit. Connor had explained his theory to Lester and had requested to see the files of previous anomaly missions, specifically the one where the team had first encountered a future predator, in the hopes that that would reveal the other two co ordinates. However, Lester had been slightly hesitant to give them to him.

"I only wish I could just hand you over the files, Connor" he had said. "But these are confidential files, I'll need the minister's approval before I can give them to you."

So for the time being, Connor contented himself with the first co-ordinate. And now that he had more hope in discovering the other two, he was smiling a lot more, and as a result, so was Abby. Unfortunately, the rest of the team was not so joyful, indeed, they only seemed to get more gloomy, particurlarly Jenny and Danny. Both of them spent a lot of their time looking around suspiscously at just about everything and with unnerved looks on their faces. Sarah and Becker made more of an effort to keep their worries at bay, but even so, they still permeated through at times.

Finally, the ute pulled up at the swimming pool. Jenny had convinced the owners that an inspection needed to be carried out and as the result, the pool had been closed for the day, not an easy task for the owners to do seeing as it was a Saturday when loads of kids would otherwise be coming down to the pool for a dip.

The team filed out into the pool area. There in the larger of the two pools was a strange looking creature resembling a cross between a salamander and a fish. None of the team was the least bit surprised when Connor identified it immediately.

"A crassigyrinus" he said, pointing at the creature. "Carboniferous period, amphibian, carnivore. Probably would have eaten bugs and fish."

"Well, I'm glad that's been sorted out" said Jenny. "The question now is how do we get it back through the anomaly, where is the anomaly anyway?"

"There it is" said Abby, pointing across the pool to a now open grating, where a small anomaly was shimmering. Becker turned to Connor.

"Ok then, team leader. What should we do to get this thing back now?"

Connor looked around at the rest of the team, but they were all staring at him, expecting him to come up with an answer to Becker's question. He sighed.

"I'll do it" he said. "Just give me a second." He disappeared in the direction of the men's changing room and returned moments later dressed only in his boxers. Then he went over the side of the pool. The crassygyrinus was only about the size of a small dog and it had diminuitive limbs, but its large jaws could still deliver a nasty bite, Connor would have to be careful with it. He took a deep breath and then, in the style of Crocodile Dundee, dived into the pool right of top of the shocked amphibian. For a moment they both disappeared beneath the surface of the water, although the team could see Connor wrestling with the creature as it thrashed its powerful tail and wriggled about in an attempt to free itself from Connor's arms.

Finally they both surfaced again. Connor was greeted by wild applause from Abby and Sarah has he tried to avoid the snapping jaws of the crassigyrinus, which had now decided to resort to more violent methods of freeing itself. With some difficulty, Connor swam over to the open grate where the anomaly was. As he reached it, he held the crassigyrinus in front of him, to get one last look at this strange creature which even now was fairly unknown to science. Suddenly, he had a thought and hurriedly thrust the crassigyrinus through the anomaly, which closed immediately afterwards. Quickly, Connor swam back to the edge of the pool, an excited look on his face.

"OK Connor, what's up now?" asked Jenny as she handed him a towel. "You had that same look on your face when you discovered the first co ordinate."

"Well, I was just thinking when I held that thing about the time zone it came from, the Carboniferous" said Connor has he dried himself. "And then for some reasn I started thinking about that period's place in the time line, the Carboniferous is the sixth period in Earth's history."

"And?" said Becker.

"And the anomaly that the future predator first came through was our sixth one, and also (this part may just be co incidence), today's a Saturday, the sixth day of the week."

"But you told me that the co ordinates went anomaly, day, time" said Sarah. "So far the only day you've mentioned is Saturday, that just seems to be rather random to me."

"I think the anomaly the future predator first came through opened up on the sixth of some month" said Connor as he ran the towel over his dripping hair. "But I'm not sure, I'll have to take a look at the files of previous anomaly missions first."

At that point, Jenny's mobile rang.

"Hello. James....no it went fine, a creature came through but it was only a small one and Connor got it back alright. Pardon? Oh." She handed the phone to Connor. "It's Lester, he wants to talk to you. Connor held the phone to his ear.

"Lester"

"Connor, you may be pleased to hear that I've had a little chat to the minister about your theory. He was reluctant to believe it at first, but when I told him it may solve the whole damn anomaly problem for good he gave me permission for you to hear the information in the files."

"Really?" said Connor.

"Yes" said Lester. "Now I've had a look at them myself so to save you polluting my office with your presence I've decided to read the information out for you now." He cleared his throat before continuing. "The anomaly in question opened up on the sixth of March in the Forest of Dean at around 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Hope that was of use to you."

On the other end of the line, Connor grinned from ear to ear. "Oh yes, Lester. Thanks for giving me that info."

"Don't mention it" said Lester. "Ever!" And he hung up.

"Well, what did he say?" asked Jenny.

" I think we've got our co ordinates" said Connor. And he headed off to the changing rooms to retrieve his clothes. Had he stayed, he would have noticed the ashen look that had appeared on Jenny, Sarah, Danny and Becker's face, and that as he had said the words co ordinates, Danny and Jenny had shivered with what could only have beent the cold certainty of their fates.