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War

The anomaly behind her grew larger, and a host of creatures came out. First were two Gorgonospids, growling at them. An Arthropleura then slithered through, before rising up to click it's jaws at them angrily. Beneath it hundreds of large spiders came crawling through. A flock of Hesperonis then fluttered through, screeching a challenge at them. On the ground were several parasites, pulsing largely. There was a lot of screaming, and a massive flock of Anurognathus arrived. Next of course came over twenty snarling future predators, clicking away. Next were three Deinonychus, snarling at them all. Massive worms then slugged through, staying on the floor. Next through was another Smilodon, roaring a challenge at their one. Several Mer thudded through, braying at them, and they were followed by a Mer queen. Three massive scorpions then came through, making their strange noise and baring their tails. Next was a camo beast, clawing the air at them. There was then about fifty clones coming through, their rifles raised. A Giganotosaurus gave a terrifying roar and came thudding through, roaring at them. A flock of terror birds then came through, cawing wildly. A swarm of megopterans then came buzzing through, clicking madly. Two Torvosaurus then came through, snarling. Dozens of cockroaches then came clicking through, and they were followed by a large mantis. A horrid snake like creature appeared next, hissing at the orang-utans. All the creatures, bar the clones, wore neural clamps.

"Very clever Nick. you never should have gone with miss prissy here. We're too much alike." she said, indicating Jenny with distaste.

"I'd rather be with her than you any day. And the fact we think alike is a very good reason for me to keep my distance." he growled.

Jenny smiled at him thankfully, while Helen sneered.

"So you choose her. I like how you've assembled your own army to stop me. Give me the Artifact, the opener and you and Johnson, and I'll let everyone else go free. Otherwise, I let my pets loose." she snarled, levelling her gun at him.

Nick reciprocated, pointing his gun at her.

"Does it really have to be this way Helen?" he challenged.

Helen narrowed her eyes.

"The future's too important for this Nick. I cant let you let these things evolve." she said, pointing at the predators.

"For the last time, it isn't him you cloth eared bint! It's you! It always was you! You're the raving lunatic who lets them loose into the timeline and sends everything to the dogs! You! You, Helen Cutter, the so-called saviour, are actually the villain! So, why don't you stop all this, send your beasties home, surrender, and then we can all go back to living our lives while you rot in a padded cell somewhere!" Jenny screeched, losing all control.

Helen looked at her, flabbergasted. Nick and the others turned to her in amazement.

"Glad I got that of my chest." she said happily, then aimed her gun.

Helen gave her a hateful glare.

"I'm sorry it has to be this way Nick. The future's too important to lose. Once I've dealt with you, I'll open the anomalies and everything will be alright again." Helen said, tearful but certain.

Nick sighed.

"Don't make the creatures fight." he said.

Helen sniffed arrogantly.

"Why not? You brought them here." she said.

"To try to deter you. If you fight, it'll be a bloodbath." Nick warned.

Helen grinned maliciously.

"Then you have a lot more to lose than I do Nick. I'm sorry. Kill them all!" she yelled, and her creatures leapt.

The monsters sprang at the ARC team's, and the battle was on. Bullets rang out from the soldier's guns, spraying the immediate area. The Brachiosaurs gave howls and then charged into the ranks of the enemy, as did the mammoths, their long trunks slamming into clones and sending them flying. Future predators leapt out and started to rip apart the herd of Embolethriums. They gave frightened howls and charged forwards, crushing more clones and some of the predators on their backs. The Giganotosaurus gave a roar and rushed towards their ranks, but the matriarch Brachiosaurus met him head on, knocking him off balance with her head. She reared onto her hind legs and came down, crushing a couple of megopterans, before swinging her tail to take down a future predator. The Giganotosaurus recovered and sprang at her, backed up by the Torvosaurus.

"Not our dinosaur!" Sarah vowed, and she and Becker let loose with a hail of bullets from their machine guns.

The smaller dinosaurs reeled, and then charged at them., their jaws lowered. The Pteranodons swooped down, and plucked out the eyes of one. It gave a furious roar and started to jump to try and reach them, while the other went for Becker and Sarah. The baby Brachiosaurus then darted out of nowhere, slamming the dinosaur to the ground. It growled, but the baby was too quick for it, and crushed it's skull with his foot.

"Good boy." Becker congratulated as he and Sarah ripped into the gigantic worms with their guns.

A gigantic millipede, the Arthropleura came slithering towards Lester.

"That's it ugly, try your luck." he challenged.

The creature reared and darted down, and he danced out of the way, before firing several rounds into it's head. It clicked and hissed, before trying to bite him. Lester rolled to the ground, aimed upwards, and blasted away at the beasts body. It gave a whine and collapsed to the floor.

"Haha! Up yours sucker!" he said in triumph.

He turned as he heard a snarling, and whirled to see a predator about to strike. A second alter, it was gone, crushed under Mickey's foot.

"Good lad." Lester said, patting it.

Johnson gave a battle cry, and let loose with hundreds of bullets, sending megopterans to the floor, spurting blood everywhere. She then saw a group of Anurognathus swoop down at her monkey friend.

"Take this you monsters!" she yelled, losing all control and ripping into them with her machine gun.

The little dinosaurs screeched in pain as she laid into them, and a second alter they had been diced up by her bullets. The monkey gibbered at her in thanks and went to engage a Gorgonospid. .

Clones rushed at the troops, and bullets flashed between them. The mammoths were causing harm on both sides, trampling many troops from both forces. They gave a large trumpet, and charged at the scorpions, who started advancing with their tails. Minnie trumpeted and reared, crushing one before it could raise it's tail. However, the next one stabbed her with it's tail, and she fell to the ground, convulsing. Mickey gave an enraged howl and tried to flatten the creature, but some Hesperonis swooped down and started pecking away at him. He shook his head, smacking some from the air with his trunk. As he did so, the future snake slithered up to his neck and stuck it's fangs into him. He cried out in surprise before it too toppled to the ground, crushing the snake in the process.

Danny watched as the second mammoth fell. Shame. There was a growl, and the camo beast sprang at him.

"This is for my brother." Danny growled, and pumped three shots into it.

The beast went to the ground, and then jumped up at him, trying to claw out his neck. Rex then slammed into it, knocking it into the bath of their Smilodon, where it was devoured.

"Thanks pal." he said, patting the thing on the head.

It was clear that the ARC team was losing. The predators had decimated the herd of Emblotherium, both mammoths were dead, many of the orang-utans had been ripped to shreds by the clones bullets, and the Australopithecus had been killed mostly by Helen, who was watching from the office level, and shooting down at their creatures. The ARC team was spread out, and was ready to fall.

The Deinonychus charged forward and began to quickly slaughter the Diictodons.

"Sid! Nancy!" Abby cried, rushing to save them.

The father dinosaur then ripped Sid apart in his jaws.

"NO!" Abby cried in horror.

The mother then ripped apart Nancy, and Abby raised her gun to kill the three beasts.

"ABBY!" Connor yelled, running towards her.

Abby turned to see the Mer Queen come down at her, about to crush her. There was no way to escape. Then, she was knocked to the ground as Connor shoved her out of the way.

"Connor, no!" she cried.

The Mer crashed down, and dragged herself off. Connor's broken body was beneath it, his skeleton crushed beyond recognition as being human.

"You!" Abby screamed in rage, and let loose with her gun, pumping the Mer full of bullets.

The mother Mer roared in pain and then fell to the ground. Abby picked up her dead lover's gun, and rushed at a host of clones, firing as she did so.

Nick looked on as shock as Connor died to save Abby. The poor kid hadn't stood a chance against the beast. Nick gave a snarl, and then slid to the ground, letting loose with his gun. The group of parasites burst all over the place as they were blown to bits by the force from the bullets. Nick then got to his feet and took stock of the situation. Most of the Brachiosaurus herd was still fighting, though many were down, and many more were wounded. The matriarch was fighting the Giganotosaurus valiantly, despite the wounds on her neck from the remaining Torvosaurus. The Scutosaurus had engaged the Gorgonospid, joining with the orang-utan thing. A future snake then flashed out, ripping the monkey's throat apart. Johnson cried out in sorrow, and Lester riddled the snake with more bullets than it could cope with. The Pterosaurs swooped about the rafters, slamming into the Hesperonis, sending them crashing to the ground as they fought. Megopterans then ripped apart the Pterosaurs, and Nick re-entered the battle, determined to reach Helen.

Sarah blasted down one of the terror birds that had attacked them at the old camp, and gave a snarl as she ran at two more, firing at them and cutting them down with her bullets. She heard a snarl behind her, and turned to see the Smilodon. Sighing in relief, she turned her back.

"Sarah, that's her one!" Jenny shouted.

Sarah heard the snarl, and closed her eyes before it's massive claws ripped her in two.

"SARAH, NO!" Becker cried, trying furiously to get to her.

He broke free of the swarm of Anurognathus, ignoring the rips in his skin and clothes as he ran to where the Smilodon was advancing on Sarah's body. Becker let loose, peppering the creature with bullets. It gave a surprised yowl and collapsed. Becker was nearly there when one of the terror birds appeared above him. It dove forward, puncturing his chest. He gave a gasp and dropped his gun, and the bird began to feast as he died.

Nick looked on in horrified surprise. They had lost Connor, Sarah and Becker now, and they were going to lose the battle. The Giganotosaurus finally dodged too quickly for the matriarch to protect herself, and bit so deeply into her neck that the mighty creature gave a yell, and died. The gigantic dinosaur then leapt forwards, to where Lester was decimating the worms that were surrounding him.

"Got you!" he said joyfully, unaware of the death of his comrades.

His clothes were ripped and he was a mess, but he would outlast these monsters.

"LESTER!"

Lester turned to Cutter's call, and found himself staring at the foot of the Giganotosaurus. It darted down to swallow him whole, and Lester grinned. He dropped the pin from the grenade and allowed oblivion to come.

The massive dinosaur consumed Lester.

"My god." Jenny said meekly.

There was an explosion and the dinosaur's head was blown apart and it's decapitated corpse fell to the floor, smoking. Lester was gone.

"No…" Jenny murmured, then seized her gun.

"I've had enough." she snarled and ran forwards, ripping into Helen's creatures and remaining clones, before turning to deliver hundreds of blows to the last scorpion, which dropped down. Jenny discarded her spent weapon and seized another, before dropping two more clones and rushing to join Nick and Danny, who were back to back.

Helen watched the battle, shooting only at Rex and his fellow species as they swooped down.

"Go away!" she hissed, and finally scored a direct hit on Rex.

The bullet ripped through his chest, and he fell from the air to smash into the ground below. Helen sneered as the other lizards flew off, and Helen looked out. The ARC creatures had taken severe losses, and she still had at least half of her predators, which were currently finishing off the Scutosaurus, which was standing triumphantly over the Gorgonospid. She heard a click from behind her, and turned to see Abby.

"You got them all killed." Abby said, seething with rage.

Helen smiled.

"If you'd done what I wanted, we wouldn't be here Abby. Put the gun down." she said.

"No. I'm going to slaughter you, like the others were slaughtered."

Helen flicked her knife from her belt, and lunged. Abby wasn't expecting it, and the blade stuck in her neck. Abby looked at Helen in shocked horror as she felt her own blood sweep down her neck. Abby's eyes then rolled back and she fell over the banister to crash down below. Helen hissed. It wasn't the first time she'd harmed an ARC member. And it got easier as she went on.

Johnson looked around in sorrow. Most of the creatures they had assembled had been killed, along with Abby, Connor, Sarah, Becker and Lester. Johnson realised too late that the entire team had become her friends. And now she didn't have them. Up ahead, Danny, Jenny and Nick were firing away, joined by the few remaining soldiers as they tried to delay the inevitable, as the predators ripped apart another one of their creatures.

"How did I ever want to control the future?" she asked herself.

She was spared an answer as a group of predators dropped down from above and stalked silently towards the others. Johnson took a deep breath, and charged, blasting as she did so. The predators turned to her, and as she killed many, many more sprang at her. They grabbed her and she didn't evens cream as they ripped her apart.

"Johnson…" Danny said mournfully, watching her fate.

The cries of death continued as the three were pushed to the ramp leading up to Helen, and more of their creatures were killed as they ran out of time. As the last Brachiosaurus fell, silence reigned, and Nick realised they were the last ones left.

In the silence they heard footsteps, and turned to see Helen, who didn't even bother to raise her gun.

"Nick…" she said.

"What now Helen? You've killed everyone. What next?" he asked her, his voice wavering.

She looked at him pityingly.

"I don't know. What do you think?" she asked.

Nick glared at her, as did Danny and Jenny, while Nick slipped the opener out of his belt and let Danny take it.

"If you ask me, there's still a way to stop the predators evolving. Who knows how many have run off during the battle? Humanity could be dying right now, and you begun with my friends." he snarled.

Helen shook her head.

"It was all you Nick. I told you to stand down." she said sadly.

Danny made a noise of victory.

"Sorry Helen. You know I cant do that. And you also know I cant admit defeat." he said.

An anomaly flared to life, and Helen shrieked.

"NO!"

"We're going to stop the predators, and you, once and for all!" Nick vowed.

"And make everything right again." Jenny snarled.

"Which translates as up yours!" Danny roared.

The three then stepped into the anomaly, and it flickered shut.

"Damn them!" Helen cursed.

She had to find her opener, somewhere around here, a sit had fallen out when the fight started. Nick was going to go back, allow his friends to live, and this time do something that would mean she lost the battle. Then, he would rule the future.

She couldn't allow that. She'd been nice so far. Now it was time to be nasty, and just kill them all at once.

"No Nick. Not now." she said, and started hunting madly for her opener.

Helen has won the battle for time. Or has she?

Nick and the others are going back in time. To do what? Start the battle all over again? Ensure victory through some other means? Will their lost friends return?

I felt it was appropriate for all of them to die in the battle, especially the way they did. It had to be nasty and horrible for the big battle.

What will happen next? Will our dead heroes live another day? Who will die in the final battle for time? And ultimately, who will control time at the end?

Nick or Helen?

Time will tell! All being well this will be finished tomorrow! Until then, PLEASE read and review!