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So, here we go again. This chapter is a rather calm one and the next one will be as well. I hope you still like it=)The next chapter is as good as finished and I plan to upload it this weekend.
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"Lt Carter, I got the map right here, you have to turn right and then left. You should be able to see it in a second."
"Copy that, Jess." Jessica was in her action mode. She typed away on her keyboard busily and checked all the screens at once. Sometimes it was really hard to follow her, let alone to know how she did all the multitasking.
"We need another car in Hillingdon Street. Connor you are closest!" Jess coordinated.
"Got it! I've always wanted to do this!" Connor said while he raced the black SUV through the streets like a maniac. "I love my job!"
Jess sniggered while everyone else just rolled their eyes or pulled a face.
The team was busy catching a stray mammoth baby. The animal had missed its last loophole home and galloped through the streets of London now. The team tried to corner it hence they had to cut off his escape routes.
"I am in position!" Connor reported right on time because only a second later he watched the mammoth gallop wildly past him.
"Abby, Matt, it should be heading towards you!" Jess chimed in. The two of them was waiting in a car at the end of a street blocking it from traffic.
"I see it, Jess." Abby said aiming an EMD at the little one that was actually really as big as their car.
It seemed to be totally blind for everything. It was in a flight mode and just kept running and running. Abby waited for it to be in shooting range. "Come on." She mumbled while she held her weapon close to her face.
She shot and the mammoth tripped and fell before hitting the concrete with a loud bang. It slid over the ground a few metres until it came to a halt right in front of their car. Matt sucked the air in sharply at the view of the heavy fury animal.
"That was close."
"The soldier who is bringing the cage is just round the corner, Abby." Jess said.
"All right, well done guys. Now let's just pack this thing up…" Abby shot Matt a disapproving look and he corrected himself. "…the mammoth and get it to the ARC."
At the A.R.C. Lester entered the ops room just then. As always, despite his height, he walked around as proud as he could, looking very busy in his dark suit and with the briefcase in his hand. He had just returned from a meeting with the Prime Minister.
"Jess, fill me in here."
"We caught a mammoth baby, but the anomaly is already closed so they have to bring it in."
"Another one for the petting zoo, lovely. Anyway, shouldn't you be at home after everything?"
"No, Sir."
Lester rolled his eyes. "But no long hours today! When that clock strikes four you are out of here."
"But…"
"Did I not make my point?"
"Yes, Sir." Jess suppressed a grin.
"Good." He walked towards his office. "Ah and we're having a team meeting this afternoon!"
Jess turned back to the ADD and coordinated the last steps of the mission.
"Hello Miss Parker." The voice was familiar but Jess hadn't heard it in a long time. She turned around at once and smiled as she saw who it was.
"Julian! Hi! Where have you been? I haven't seen you in ages!" She smiled at the soldier Julian Cooper who had once been her secret admirer. She had gone out with him once, but he had quickly noticed that Jess had already fallen for Captain Becker. However, she still owned him a meal and a dance.
He chuckled. "Well, I haven't been in the country. Secret mission. I'd have to kill you if I told you!"
"I see! But you're back!"
"I am." He smiled. "So what's going on around here? I mean, I have heard some bits of course…"
Jess nodded. "Yeah, this really is like a déjà vu, isn't it?"
"Almost seems like it."
Matt locked himself in his office after everything was done.
He needed silence in order to think about everything that has happened so far concerning the present and future.
He sat down at his desk, but stood up again to make a few steps through the room. He sat down again and his fingers drummed a rhythmic pattern onto the table top.
Matt stood up again and rubbed his face. This was so frustrating!
The team leader with the Irish accent couldn't grasp a clear thought.
He went over to a high narrow metal cupboard.
He pulled out the top drawer that looked bigger from the outside than it did from the inside.
The team leader emptied it at first before he pushed a small button under it that made the base pop. It came off and there were lots of pictures and newspaper articles hidden, all documents that better stayed hidden.
He picked up a small silver object and turned it around in his hands. He remembered Becker telling him something about it being the key to the chest and that he should trust his guts...
"Well, my guts tell me that the key is kind of important." Matt muttered still looking at it. Processing…
Something else came to his mind then.
After he had put everything back into place he walked out of his office in the direction of the science wing.
He passed Connor's lab and as the scientist spotted him he waved him inside hectically. The door opened with a hissing sound.
"Matt, you've got to see this!"
"What is it, Connor?" Connor excitedly started typing on his laptop without noticing the sour undertone in Matt's voice.
"Look at this!" He pressed some more buttons and grabbed a remote that was wired to the laptop. "Okay." Connor pointed the remote into the air. "Watch!"
Matt crossed his arms over his chest with a rather dull expression on his face.
There was a laser ray coming out of the object, but not a normal one, because this one just ended after about two meters. It just hung there in thin air like a laser sword out of Star Wars.
"That…" Matt frowned.
"That's not all!" Connor pressed a few more keys on his laptop grinning stupidly the whole time.
The end of the ray grew thicker. The air suddenly started to heat up quickly. It flickered and sizzled around the red light ball.
A silver spark appeared out of nowhere.
Matt raised his eyebrows as a golden one joined the silver one.
"Connor, what…" More sparks appeared.
"It's the beginning of an anomaly!" Connor laughed excitedly.
Matt just stared at it incredulous.
Connor was still laughing but his happiness didn't last long.
Suddenly the ball that had had the size of an orange now disappeared and the laser did what every normal laser would do. It burned a whole into the wall.
"Oops!" Connor quickly shut it down. "Of course it still has some glitches!"
Matt cocked his eyebrows. "Is that your TV-remote?"
"Er, well…"
The other man couldn't help grinning. "I have a feeling Abby won't be too happy about it! Keep trying Connor." He patted the scientist's shoulder before he left the office. But as he did part of him wasn't sure if it was such a good thing to be able to open an anomaly anywhere as you please.
Of course this was different from New Dawn, the huge anomaly Philip Burton had created in order to get new resources.
Robert dripped a few drops of a yellow liquid into five different Petri dishes.
Matt walked up to him and as he said "hello" Robert almost dropped the pipette. "Whoa…"
"Easy there, mate!"
"Mr Anderson…" Robert struggled to get his bearings back up. "What are you doing here?"
"Nothing in particular." Robert wiped one arm over his forehead. He put the pipette down carefully, though his hand had started shaking. "What's that?" The team leader pointed at the dishes.
"We extracted the different substances from plants…from the ancient ones of course…er, and we made some kind of serum with all the self-healing components in it and we are planning to test it on human cells."
"What do you expect from that?"
"Well, er…to see what happens… There might be a cure for some disease?" He had made it sound like a question rather than a statement.
Before Matt could enquire any further Jess told him over coms that he was to see Lester.
The whole team was gathered in Lester's office.
The boss stood behind his desk with his arms behind his back.
"Listen, I saw the Minister this morning and being the Minister you don't say no to him, so his nephew is going to visit us tomorrow."
"His nephew?" Abby asked.
"Yes, as far as I know he is 16 years old and has an IQ of god knows what. He's all into science and wants to study in Oxford. The Minister wants him to have a look into our facility."
"What?"
"Does he know what we're doing here?"
"No details of course! The A.R.C. is nothing to brag about! He does know there are anomalies, but he doesn't know that we are travelling through time like we're taking a walk. So, no word about that, especially not about missing people! I don't want to have any trouble with the press later on if the boy doesn't keep his bloody mouth shut. And he certainly doesn't know about the petting zoo we have here. So keep him out of that area!"
"Excuse me? 'Keep him?'" Danny asked with his arms crossed.
"Of course you'll be showing him around." Lester's gesture indicated the whole team. "As if I want to spend my day babysitting, so he could spy on me and tell his uncle." He mumbled.
"But who will watch him then?" Emily asked.
"I have lots of stuff to do!" Danny put his hands up in defence.
"Yeah, me too!" Abby said not really keen on taking on the responsibility.
"What about Connor watching him?" Danny asked grinning. He could practically hear Becker laughing along with him. If he was there, he would have said something like: "Yes, put the child together with the mad scientist." Danny probably wouldn't admit it, but he missed his friend.
"Excuse me!?" Connor complained.
"Well, birds of a feather flock together. You could talk science the whole day." Lester said.
"Ouf, well I don't know if that's such a good idea…I mean…"
"We'll make a schedule!"Jess cut in and saved Connor an excuse. "That way everyone has to deal with him and the kid gets a look into every ones work and has lots to tell his uncle."
Lester considered it and approved the idea. "Sounds perfect, Parker!"
Everyone agreed to that, some rather reluctantly and some more willing like Emily for example.
"Great, we are eight and that…" Jess stopped and swallowed before she corrected herself. "I mean there are seven of us which means everyone will watch him for a little more than an hour and I assume you take the first hour, James?" Jess asked cheerily and everyone grinned at Lester's dumbfounded face.
"Er, me?"
"Of course! You as head of this facility should welcome our guest personally! Especially since it's the Prime Minister's nepew!"
There was suppressed laughter all around.
"For god's sake!"
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