Chapter 9, part 2
Before I could go through Becker tackled me to the ground.
"You can't go after her, it's too risky." He said pinning me down.
"I can't leave her in there. She's worth too much to me." I said fighting Becker.
"Robert, you can't…" Before Becker could finish his sentence I punched him in the neck.
I pushed him off me and got up grabbing my weapon. I ran through before anyone could stop me. I stood in a clearing in the cretaceous era. I looked around taking in the landscape full of trees and mountains. I walked on slowly looking for the car.
I heard a roar come from the left which sounded like a junior Tyrannosaur. I ran as hard as I could in the direction of the roar. Between two trees was my car lying on its side with the Rex trying to get in. I saw the Rex kicking it to try and get easier access. The car was staring to bend at the ends which meant it would break and go through the trees.
"Hey ugly!" I shouted at the Rex.
It looked at me and I turned the power on the rifle all the way to full charge and fired off a shot. It hit the Rex in the side of the face causing its head to whip backwards. It stumbled backwards and kicked the back of the car severing the fuel injection cable. Petrol started to drip from the fuel tank and because the engine was still on the sparkplugs were still working so if one little drop of fuel landed in the engine it would blow the car up.
The Tyrannosaur ran off as I hit it with another shot. I ran over and tried to push the car back on to its wheels. I put all my body weight behind it and it started to tip. As it started to tip Jess started to stir.
"What's happening?" she asked.
"The car flipped and now has a chance of blowing up." I said to her pushing again.
"Leave me then, save yourself and get back to the ARC." She said.
"Fuck no Jess, I am not leaving you." I pushed all the way on the car tipping it back over.
I grabbed the door handle and tried to open the door. It didn't move even a little bit. I put my hand through the window to try and open it from the inside but it still didn't work. I vaulted over the front to try and open the other side. I grabbed the handle and pulled backwards with all my force. The door opened a little bit but not totally.
"Robert, leave me." She said.
I didn't answer her back. I got my hands around the edge of the door and pulled hard. It moved only a little bit again but there was now enough room for me to stick the stock of my rifle in and use it as a lever. I pushed on the weapon and pushed the door open.
"Jess, grab my hand, grab it." I said holding my hand out to her.
She reached her hand out to try and reach. She was still too far away for me to reach. I got onto the chair inside and took her hand. I pulled her out of the car just as petrol landed on the engine causing a fire to lick around the car. I got Jess into my arms and carried her away. I looked back and saw the car engulfed by flames. I dropped to the floor protecting Jess by covering her with my body.
The car exploded in a loud explosion. The heat of the fire reached the back of my neck causing me to sweat a little. I looked around at the car to see if it had finished burning. I saw some green flames to start licking around the rear end. I remembered the nitrous oxide canister in the back which I hadn't hooked up yet. The green flames licked around the whole car and I turned away as the canister exploded and forced the car into the air a little bit. I watched the car fly backwards and disappear over the edge of a cliff.
"You alright?" I asked Jess pulling her up with me.
"Yeah, I'm alright, thanks for saving me."
"No way am I going to leave you." I told her.
"Thank you." She said kissing me.
I pulled away.
"You're bleeding Jess." I said putting my hand against a wound on her head.
"Oh, am I." she said falling backwards.
I caught her as she feinted.
"Come on Jess, let's get you home." I said picking her up and walking back to the anomaly.
I stepped through back into the present. Standing around the anomaly was the team and a very annoyed Becker massaging his neck. Abby and Emily ran over to us and took Jess for me.
"She needs to get back to the ARC and get medical attention." I told Emily and Abby.
They nodded as they took Jess from me and took her to the cars. Becker walked over to me looking like he was going to kill me.
"You have some nerve to do that!" Becker shouted at me.
"If you had let me go through I wouldn't have punched you! But no, you had to stop me from going through!" I shouted back.
"You never think of the risks do you? You always go head first all guns blazing! You never think of the consequences!"
"Do you want a repeat of what happened three years ago? Where someone goes through, and there's a way of them coming back you never leave them there! I am not letting a repeat of Cutter happen!"
"For christ sake Robert, do you know how risky it is to do that?" Becker said calming down.
"Yeah I do, but I am never letting someone get stuck on the other side of an anomaly. Especially when that person means as much to me as Jess means to me. Just face it Becker, I'm always going to break the rules no matter what." I walked over to the cars and got in one and drove off.
I walked into the medical room in the ARC and saw Jess sitting on a bed with Abby and Emily sitting in front of her. I walked over and sat on the bed beside her. She leaned into me and I put my arm around her holding her closer to me.
"You alright now?" I asked her.
"Dizzy, but the doc says I'll be fine in a few days. I just can't work that's all. But I'll be fine." She cuddled closer to me.
"She's a little concussed as well. She must have hit her head hard when the car was flipped." Abby said.
"It's a big wound, not deep but quite long. I cleaned it out on the way here and the doctor put some Steris strips on it to close it over." Emily told me.
"Thanks guys," I turned to Jess, "Can you stay at mine now until you're able to work again? I just want to be able to keep an eye on you in case anything happens."
"Yeah sure I can if it makes you happy." She said kissing my cheek.
"Thanks Jess. Becker isn't very happy with me. So if he seems a bit annoyed you might not want to mention me." I told them.
"What have you done now?" Abby asked.
"Well, when I went through to get Jess, he stopped me before I could go through. So I punched him in the neck so I could get through." I said.
"Ah, okay then." She said.
"Yeah, right I'm gonna go check if the anomaly has closed now." I got off the bed and walked out of the medical room.
I jumped down the steps into the central hub and went over to the ADD and tapped on the keyboard. I brought up security cameras on the site and saw the anomaly closed. I pulled up readings and it said it had been closed for around half an hour and had only been open for around three hours. It was still a short time for an anomaly to be open I thought to myself. I saw something in the corner of my eye on another screen but as I looked it had gone. I brought up security cameras and flicked my eyes over all the cameras looking for anything but I couldn't see anything.
Just at that moment in time the anomaly alarm went off and I tapped at the keyboard. I pulled up the location and it was at an airport about twenty miles south east of the last anomaly.
"Guys, new anomaly alert. I'm sending you the co-ordinates now." I said through the radio tapping at the keyboard sending to co-ordinates.
"Got it," Connor said, "Turning around now and heading to it. We'll meet you there."
I got up and ran off. I poked my head in the medical room and looked at Abby and Emily.
"Guys, new anomaly alert. You can stay here if you want to but I'm going." I said to them.
"I'll come." Emily said.
"I'm going to stay here and keep an eye on Jess." Abby said but I didn't believe her totally.
"Okay, come on Emily. I'll give you a lift." I said walking off to the car park.
I unlocked the truck and opened the driver door. Emily climbed in the other side and clipped the belt it. I shut the door as I got in and clipped myself in. I turned the key in the ignition. The engine revved and I slid the gear stick into place and drove off out of the car park.
Twenty minutes later we pulled into the airport. I looked around and saw Becker, Connor and Matt in a hanger. I pulled the handbrake and slid the backend of the truck out as I came into a hanger. Me and Emily climbed out and I pulled my rifle out and turned the charge on and Emily slid a magazine into her pistol.
"Do we know where it is?" I asked.
"Look up." Matt said.
I tipped my head back and saw just below the roof of the hanger was the anomaly. The shimmering light reflected off the metal of the hanger sending a light around the hanger brightening in up a little bit more than the lights were.
"How we gonna deal with this then?" Becker asked.
"Deal with it exactly like we dealt with the one six years ago." I said to Connor.
"What happened six years ago?" Matt said.
"An anomaly opened at a golf course and a couple of species or Pterosaur came through. One was a flock of Anurognathus and the other was a Pteranodon. The Anurognathus killed one golfer and the Pteranodon got into the city but we got it back and it flew back through and the Anurognathus were all killed by Helen Cutter." I told Matt.
"That still doesn't help with how we'll deal with it." Becker said.
"Solves the creature problem at any rate. The locking device can be tilted up to reach the anomaly, its fine. We just have to make sure…" I was cut short as something huge flew through the anomaly.
It dipped down and went straight out the hanger.
"What the hell was that?" Becker asked.
"Some sort of Pterosaur, maybe Ornithocheirus." Matt said.
"No way, way too small to be one of them," Connor said, "But I still don't have a clue what it is." He looked at me.
"Quetzalcoatlus," I said, "Largest cretaceous Pterosaur to live, ten metre wingspan, eleven metres long, size of a small plane. If that thing gets in the air it's gonna cause havoc. We need to get it back through and shut the anomaly." I told them.
"What's the plan then?" Matt asked.
"Haven't really prepared a plan for a case where a flying reptile the size of a plane gets loose, guess we need to find a way to lure it back here." I said.
"Matt, Emily and Becker stay here, if anything else comes through shoot it." I told Becker.
"Got it." He loaded his rifle.
"Connor, you're with me." I said walking over to a helicopter outside.
"You're not serious are you?" he said.
"You know I am, it's the only way to get it back, and if we can't get it back, then we need to make the menagerie bigger." I said.
I opened the door of the helicopter and climbed into the pilot seat as Connor climbed into the co-pilot spot. I pulled the headset over my head and tuned it to the ARC frequency, Connor done the same. I flicked the switches and the rotors started spinning around getting faster and faster. The copter started to lift off the ground and I increased altitude.
"You know what you're doing?" Connor asked.
"Course I do. Part of my basic military training was to learn to fly a helicopter." I pushed forward on the joystick.
The chopper moved forwards and we looked around searching for the Pterosaur. Luckily because it was so large we could see it flying off into the distance. I increased the speed and flew after it. We could see it growing larger and it starting to turn. We carried on flying until we could see the full size of it again. It was still turning around until it was flying back towards us.
"Oh no." Connor said.
"Thank you for saying what I was going to say." I said.
"We going to move out the way?" he asked.
"Good idea." I pushed my foot down on the left pedal turning the copter around.
I pushed forward again trying to outrun the Pterosaur as much as I could.
"It's catching us." Connor said starting to panic.
"Don't tell me that." I pushed the chopper harder.
"Well it's the truth."
"Screw it." I pulled up on the joystick tilting upwards.
I pushed the speed forwards climbing metre by metre.
"It's followed us!" Connor shouted.
"Shut up Con, I know it has. It thinks we're a threat so it's trying to chase us off. Now let me do this." I told him.
I carried on pushing the helicopter higher and higher until the engines started to splutter. I flicked all the switches off and the copter slowed down until it fell backwards and started to fall nose down towards the ground. We passed the huge Pterosaur and as we did we saw it tuck its wings in and dive after us.
"What the hell are you doing?" Connor shouted at me.
"Only way to get it back without it catching us!" I shouted back.
The dials on the dash were spinning out of control. I flicked the switches back on and the rotors started spinning trying to bring the chopper back under control. The rotors finally spun fast enough to bring the copter back into flight. We started to fly back towards the hanger with the Quetzalcoatlus following us. The hanger came into sight and I pushed the helicopter even faster to get away from the angry Pterosaur. It was far enough behind for me to land the helicopter outside the hanger. Me and Connor climbed out and ran to the hanger keeping the Pterosaurs attention. We ran into the hanger with the Quetzalcoatlus following us. It flew up and straight back through the anomaly.
"Lock it!" Connor shouted at Matt.
Matt pressed the button on the anomaly and the locking beam shot towards the anomaly locking it and sealing the creatures on the other side. As soon as it was locked it started to fluctuate and it closed for good.
"That was close." Emily said.
"Yeah it was. But luckily we got it in time." I said.
"Come on, let's go back. Maybe we can go home before the next alarm." Matt said putting his arm around Emily.
We all walked back to the cars and got in them. We drove back to the ARC thankful that we could get some time away from the anomalies.
It may be my life, I thought to myself, but sometimes it gets annoying as hell.
Now if anybody has any new ideas for the next chapter/episode would love to hear them, done this one from an episode of flying monsters. so any ideas tell me please. R&R cheers
