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Endpoint
They emerged from the anomaly into a different world. They were surrounded by space, dazzling stars shining all about them. They had emerged onto a small rocky moon, which was slowly rotating forwards, and all around them were massive planets, gigantic in their size, passing by.
"Where are we?" Johnson asked in amazement.
"At the very end of time. This is what will happen at the end of time." Nick said in wonder.
Connor looked over the edge, and gasped.
"Look!" he exclaimed.
Down below their little moon was a massive black hole, visible only because it was devouring a whole sun at the time. It was a massive swirling whirlpool, made up only of darkness and shadow. A slight orange horizon bordered it.
"I get it. The black hole in the centre of the universe. As time goes on, it must keep expanding until it cant go any further, so it starts to consume everything. Everything that exists is sucked into the black hole, which eventually will spit it back out, beginning time all over again. This is amazing." Nick said as a fiery looking planet drifted past them overhead.
Looking around, they could see planets, stars, comets, asteroid, gases and many other things, many of which collided with one another, massive celestial bodies all bound for the massive black hole which marked the end of all things.
"Not that I'm complaining, but how are we able to breathe?" Danny asked.
"Everything's being sucked in Danny, so all the gases we need to survive will all be going in, like dust into a hoover, so there'll be enough air. And heat too for that matter." Nick said, reaching up to touch the atmosphere of a planet that was bobbing above them, a massive pale blue thing that expanded for as far as the eye could see.
"This is incredible." Sarah whispered, looking up in wonder at the planet.
"It is." Jenny agreed fervently, tracking a small ice ball that barely missed their own hunk of rock.
"Right. Pretty though this is, we're here for a reason: we need to shut this super anomaly you've been going on about. Where is it?" Lester asked.
Nick waited for an icy looking planet to bounce off the atmosphere of the other one and disappear into the hole.
"There." he said.
It was easily the biggest anomaly any of them had ever seen. The one that had opened to allow Lester's pet mammoth on to the motorway was a midget in comparison. The size of something akin to the Empire State Building, it was floating above the black hole, sucking things in that were metallic or too slow to get into the black hole.
"I wonder what would happen if you went through that one?" Abby mused.
"You'd probably wind up being stuck in between all three super anomalies." Nick theorised.
"So, if we close this anomaly, there will be no more anomalies from the future?" Lester asked curiously.
"Well as this is the end of time, then no, there wouldn't be any. However, say we go back to the present for us, in 2009, there would be no anomalies opening from after that date. It may be the smallest, but the one inside the Artifact is the key, which decides where past and future lie." Nick explained.
"No wonder Helen wants it. Let's close it up before she comes after us." Danny said.
"Too late." Helen hissed as she stepped out of an anomaly, followed by her clones.
They all turned in shock as she came out, gazing in wonder at the super anomaly.
"This is wonderful." she said breathlessly, looking at it in wonder.
"Helen." Nick acknowledged.
She gazed longingly up at the super anomaly, then turned to Nick, who was glaring at her. She then raised her gun.
"I cant let you do this Nick. I know you think shutting this anomaly will stop all the other ones opening. But I cant let you do that." she said, cocking her gun.
"Helen, it's the only way to stop the chaos! The chaos that you create I might add! I agree, we cant let those things live, but it has to be on time's terms, not yours!" he shouted at her.
"Why don't we just shoot her?" Johnson snarled, and Danny thought she might have a point.
"Nick, those anomalies are the clue to the future and the past! Think of how much we could discover, you and I! They're too important to lose Nick! I wont let you close them, not when there's so much more to discover." she said, her gaze determined.
Nick shook his head.
"No. We cant keep interfering with time just because we're curious. I'm closing the anomaly." he said, and turned to the locker.
A bullet then rang out, and Nick collapsed to the floor.
"NICK!" Jenny screamed.
Helen cocked her gun again and pointed her gun at Abby.
"Now Connor, give me the locker, or I'll shoot your bimbo." she snarled, glaring at them.
"Not again!" Abby cried, not listening and dashing to Nick's side with Jenny.
Helen advanced menacingly on them, and they all raised their guns.
"No. Don't." Danny warned as she got closer.
"The locker Connor." Helen hissed at him.
"You're vile." he spat, and started to hand it over.
A foot then lanced out and she fell to the ground, cursing and kicking up dust. Nick stood up, and looked down at her pityingly.
"That's not possible!" Helen shrieked.
Nick smiled as Jenny hugged him.
"You forgot: the anomalies are magnetic. It just sucked it straight into it. Didn't even hit me. I knew you'd come closer, so I played dead. I hope one day you realise we're doing this for your own good." he said and took the locker.
"No Nick! You cant! The anomalies are too important! We need them, so we can fix everything!" she said desperately, while hunting for her gun.
Becker sniffed at her as she went scrabbling for her weapon, which was starting to quiver as it got in range of the anomaly's pull.
"Let the future come as it will." Nick said, and fired the locker.
The beam went out and encompassed the massive anomaly. It flickered in it's bubble, and there was a bright flash, and it shrunk and disappeared, plunging them into nigh darkness.
"NO!" Helen cried, leaping to her feet and peppering the area with bullets.
The ARC team leapt to the floor, as the soldiers opened fire. Darkness surrounded them as bullets pinged around., and confused cries could be heard.
"I will find a way to reopen that anomaly Nick!" Helen vowed from further ahead.
"Surely she should like that this one is closed, it should stop the predators." Danny said, wincing as a bullet barely missed him.
"No, they're in our timeline now. We'll have to stop them another way. And she doesn't want to lose the access to the future. It's a moot point when she has the opener, but we aren't telling her that." Nick explained as he entered 00/00/00/00/00/0000~~ into the opener.
The anomaly blazed to life, and Helen's clone started firing at their location, able to see once more.
"All troops, into the anomaly!" Becker shouted, firing at the clones.
There were cries as some finally fell. Sarah and Jenny both let off some shots before running through, and Lester and Johnson opened up with machine guns, just as the light started to get brighter.
"A sun!" Connor said, looking up at the fiery ball as it rolled overhead, as he fired at Helen, who swore and shot back, barely missing.
"No time! Get through!" Danny said, shoving him in.
Helen covered her eyes as the massive sun passed overhead, nearly blinding her and her troops. By the time the sun had gone, the anomaly the ARC team had escaped into had closed.
"Damn it! After them!" she ordered, and the clones, ignoring their six fallen comrades, hoisted their weapons and ran towards where the anomaly had been.
She smiled and entered the date, and they followed.
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They ran out of the anomaly, aware that Helen would be close behind. This world was entirely different from the end of time. Once again they were on an asteroid which was hurtling away from a massive supernova, blinding them all slightly.
"Bright lights! No like!" Becker complained.
Nick shielded his eyes and looked. Massive superheated chunks of rock, tinged with flame, were flying through space, away from the explosion that had not long occurred. Asteroids, comets, and minuscule specks of rock which would one day become massive planets were all hurtling away from the massive supernova. Strains of superheated gas could be seen spiralling their way across space, along with shards of rock and ice. Dust clouded away from the centre, stretching out endlessly from the centre of the universe.
"Wow. This is…beautiful." Jenny said, holding Nick's arm.
"Yeah, it is." he agreed as they stood looking at the purple and brown hues that marked the supernova which had created the universe.
"Quickly! Let's finish this before Helen arrives. If we survive this we can all come back and sight see later." Johnson said irritably.
Despite the fact that she was, as Helen claimed, an ambitious civil servant, she had truly melded with the team in the period of time they'd been together.
"Loathe though I am to admit it, Christine is correct. Let's hurry before Helen arrives for round two." Lester said, then frowned.
"What?" Danny asked, and followed his gaze.
A colossal piece of rock was spinning towards them, orange with heat, and a lot bigger than their small asteroid.
"If that knocks us off course…" Abby said worriedly.
"We've lost then haven't we? We need to hurry. We're getting further and further away from the anomaly as it is." Nick said, looking cautiously at the oncoming asteroid.
"Will it smash us into oblivion?" Connor asked nervously.
"Don't know. I don't particularly want to find out." Nick said, as he readied the locker.
"Where is the damned anomaly?" Danny asked.
Nick pointed outwards, and they all squinted to see it. It wasn't as large as the one at the end of time, but they were further away after all. It was floating in the middle of the bright light that was the epicentre of where the explosion had come from.
"The anomaly at the beginning of time." Nick said wonderingly, then fired the locker.
The beam fired into the anomaly, sealed it in a bubble and then it vanished, leaving only gas behind it.
"That's it. The anomalies are finished then?" Jenny asked.
"Should be. The only one now is the present anomaly, and that's here in the Artifact." Nick said, waving it at her.
There was a flash from behind them, and Danny tackled Nick to the ground as a bullet zoomed through where he was standing a second before. Helen cursed as she emerged from the anomaly, followed by her troops, and some newly acquired predators.
"Nick. Why did you do it?" she asked, arming her gun.
Nick shot her a dirty look as he brushed himself on and faced her.
"It had to be done Helen. The anomalies were only going to get worse, and that's because of you. With them shut, no more threats from past, future or from you going nuts and totally tearing the fabric of time." he said.
"Besides, shouldn't you be happy? It'll stop the predators evolving." Becker said, indicating her new pets.
Helen rolled her eyes.
"They're in too many timelines now, they'll evolve anyway. Especially as you brought the one who did it back to life. It's Nick who creates them. That's why, if I stop him and Johnson, the threat will end, and they wont evolve in any timeline. Closing the super anomalies changes nothing." she insisted, her eyes wavering.
"Is it me, or is she unravelling rather rapidly?" Lester asked Johnson.
"I think we are too. Have we forgotten the immense asteroid hurtling towards us?" she hissed.
Nick and Jenny glowered at Helen, who was panting slightly, and craning her neck.
"It does, as wherever this anomaly is, nothing from before or after it will open up. Which means the predators wont be able to come through except by natural selection, which is what's meant to happen." Sarah explained.
Helen shook her head.
"No. They exist because of you, the entire ARC operation. And the only things that should come through natural selection, are creatures that will not devastate the planet." she said, her eyes bulging.
"Bit late for that isn't it?" Danny asked her.
They turned to him.
"Well humans are devastating the planet every day. So, this brings us back to her wanting to kill off the human race." he said.
"Correct. If we don't evolve, the predators wont either. But first, I need to deal with you." she said, her head wobbling dangerously.
Abby looked to the side, and went pale.
"Helen!" she yelled, but it was too late.
The asteroid slammed into their one, sending their rock spiralling out of control. They all collapsed to the ground, and the asteroid rocked off, bound in another direction.
"Cutter, why don't I feel well?" Lester asked.
"We're getting further away from the centre. There's still loads of oxygen there, but we're getting further away from it. We need to get out of here!" Nick said, jumping to his feet and entering into the opener 07/29/13/26/04/2009AD.
The anomaly flared to life, and the team rushed to their feet.
"Kill them!" Helen screamed furiously.
Bullets lanced out, and the battle was on. Nick took down two of his own clones, while Becker took down three of Stephen's. Sarah crouched down with Jenny and knee-capped two cleaner clones, while Abby and Connor shot at Helen, who dove to the ground. Lester and Johnson were pumping machine gun fire into the leaping future predators, blowing some off the asteroid and sending them out to die in the coldness of space. Helen cursed.
"It's over Nick! I'll open the super anomalies again, and end the threat to the planet! And then I will control the future!" she vowed.
"You've lost it Helen." Nick said certainly, shooting a predator in the head.
"She wants to control the future now?" Abby asked, shooting a Stephen clone.
"She wants to experiment with the timelines. Or at least she did when she was working with Leek, before she went totally round the twist." Nick explained.
Sarah fell to the ground.
"Sarah!" Becker cried, kneeling down beside her.
"I feel a bit woozy." she said as he hoisted her up.
"We need to get out of here!" Becker said and sprayed bullets at the enemy,
"Go! Go!" Danny urged, and the team fell back, with a group of soldiers staying behind to hold off the advancing troops.
"Move, now!" Johnson ordered, as she and Danny went through, firing as they went.
Becker then went through with Sarah, and Abby, Connor, Lester, Nick and Jenny edged back as the soldiers went forward, firing as they did so. Then the predators leapt into the midst of them, and the soldier gave screams, which were strangely quiet.
"There's too little air! Get through now!" Nick said, sounding like a whisper when he was shouting.
They went through, and the anomaly flashed to a close.
Helen, who was lying on the ground, cursed as she entered a date into the anomaly. It was time to bring an end to this once and for all. They would be going back to the ARC. It was there she would crush them, with an army of controlled monsters. Then, she could reopen the super anomalies, ensure the predators didn't evolve and then investigate her final frontier: the future.
Her soldiers were gasping for air around her as she crawled through the anomaly, which closed behind her, leaving them on that desolate moon to die.
Now it was time to crush the ARC team once and for all. Getting to her feet, she flashed an anomaly to life, she set to work.
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They were all gasping the air in heavily as they entered the Arc.
"We did it! No more anomalies!" Johnson said, kissing Danny on the cheek.
"Wonderful. Now I can retire and never have to see the Scooby gang again." Lester said brightly.
Nick got to his feet, and narrowed his eyes at where the anomaly had vanished.
"She's going to be coming after us." he said certainly.
"I know. What do we do? We wont get enough soldiers by the time she gets here." Jenny said worriedly.
Nick was stumped.
"Rex, Sid, Nancy! What are you doing here?" Abby demanded, seeing her three pets trot into the ARC.
Nick saw them, and an idea sprang to mind.
"Creatures! The creatures!" he said excitedly.
He turned to them all as the three creatures leapt into Abby's arms.
"I've got an idea." he said.
"Enlighten us. I'm sure you will anyway." Lester said.
"The creatures. Through the Artifact we can open every anomaly there's ever been, and create an army of creatures to fight Helen with." he said excitedly.
"Isn't that overkill?" Connor asked.
Nick sighed.
"Maybe, but I reckon she's going to have her own army of creatures. What creatures do we have here?" he asked urgently.
"Mickey." Lester said proudly.
They all looked at him.
"Who the devil is Manfred?" Johnson asked.
"He is my pet mammoth, who saved me from the predator. I was thinking of getting Cutter to find him a Minnie Mammoth too actually."
Connor and Danny laughed.
"Anyway…" Jenny said, glossing over this.
"We've got Sid, Nancy and Rex." Abby said half-heartedly.
"And Spyro." Sarah added.
"Spyro?" Nick asked.
"The Dracorex we found." she said.
"God help us…" Nick muttered.
"So what do we do?" Danny asked eagerly.
"Open all possible anomalies. Bring as many creatures through as possible to fight Helen. And hope they don't kill us." he said.
They all nodded.
"But how? That lunatic will be here soon!" Johnson said.
"The Artifact." Nick answered.
He positioned the Artifact over the opener.
"I hope this works." Becker said.
"Course it will. If not, we all get eaten." Nick said.
The opener then flashed through the Artifact, and hundreds of anomalies blazed into life.
"Cool." Connor said.
First was a flock of Colerosavaurs, just like Rex. They chirped at him and he flew to join them. Next came a large Scutosaurus, which brayed a greeting at them. Three Pterosaurs then flew to the rafters of the ARC, where they settled down and cawed. Next through was a group of dodos, which crowded around Johnson.
"Aww!" she cooed, unable to help herself.
"My respect for you is evaporating rapidly Christine." Lester told her.
"Says you who ahs Mickey and Minnie the mammoths." she responded tartly.
A large Pteranodon then flapped through and stood beside Becker, who patted it reluctantly. A Smilodon then plodded through, roaring, but going nowhere near them. There was a shaking of the ground, and another mammoth then entered the ARC, trumpeting it's presence.
"Oh, it's a Minnie!" Lester said delightedly as it walked over him.
Next came a Pristichampus, which started sniffing at the anomaly detector. There was then a squeaking and dozens of Diictodons came tumbling through, and Sid and Nancy ran up to them in delight. There was a honk and a herd of Emblotherium came through, around a dozen of them. Then, a group of primates came through, called Australopithecus. Then the herd of Brachiosaurs came through, the matriarch's head scraping the ceiling as she mewed at Becker and Sarah, who both clapped her sides. There was then a lot of hooting and a group of orang-utan like creatures swung through, and one walked up to Lester and Johnson and held their hands.
"Aww, it's our friend." Lester said happily.
Connor then pulled a lever, and Mickey and Spyro both joined the creature army.
"What now?" Jenny asked, as Nick pulled the Artifact away, shutting the anomalies before anything else came through.
"We wait." he said, loading up his guns.
Then, an anomaly flickered on the other side of the room. Helen stepped through, grinning maliciously.
The fight was about to begin.
The battle for time is about to begin!
Helen has arrived, and we shall see her army next. Will hers or the ARC team's triumph?
Who will win the battle for time? Who will die?
Spyro is of course the little purple dragon from the video game. Connor msut have named him;)
And now you know why Rex and the others came to be in the ARC too. I hope you liked the visions of the beginning and end of time. I felt I didnt do them enough justice.
Two chapters left! The end is near!
P{lease review, and if all goes well this will be finished by the weekned!