Disclaimer: Don't own HP or Terra Nova
I loved the show and was very annoyed it didn't get at least a second season, then again, a lot of shows around that time didn't.
From the Future to the Past
Harry put the last shirt in his bag and then grabbed his PlexPad and packed it before sealing the bag and sitting on his bed. Tomorrow was the big day, the Sixth Pilgrimage would leave from Hope Plaza for Terra Nova, millions of years in the past. He still wasn't sure why he was here, but he had felt drawn to finally accept the recruitment in the Sixth Pilgrimage so perhaps he would find his reason in the past. He'd packed the maximum amount of gear possible with few personal affects. As a scientist, he was allowed to pack equipment on top of the normal single pack. A single colony only able to send lists for equipment every few years…there was so much that could go wrong with that.
The next morning, he caught the train from his apartment to Hope Plaza to join the que of people going through security. Once his identity was confirmed he headed for the portal, which reminded him of an oversized Stargate. He removed his rebreather and put it in the bin, taking short breaths like told as he stepped through. It was a bit disorientating although not as bad as his first trip through the Veil or even the Stargate. He stumbled out the other end and into a clearing, breathing deep in relief as the oxygen rich air hit his lungs. Thanks to his healing his lungs quickly adjusted, unlike others. He moved to help some of the other pilgrims as they had trouble adjusting.
"Welcome! Just stay calm and listen to the medics, we'll get moving to the colony as soon as you're all clear." One of the soldiers called out. Soon they were up and moving through the jungle. Harry grabbed the arm of a woman as she stumbled and she nodded in gratitude. They came out of the jungle and stared at the massive wooden fence in the distance. The gates opened as they approached and they spilled into the colony that was now their home.
"Citizens of 2145! I'm Commander Nathaniel Taylor, but you probably already know that. Congratulations! Each one of you has taken a first step, just as I did three years ago, toward a new beginning. Together, we are at the dawn of a new civilization. No pressure." He smirked and the people chuckled. "The world you left behind fell victim to some of the baser instincts of our species: greed, war, ignorance. We blew it. We destroyed our home. But we have been entrusted with a second chance. A chance to start over. A chance to get it right. Welcome to Terra Nova, folks! Welcome home." He announced and the crowd broke up, the soldiers moving amongst them to give out housing allocations.
It wasn't long before Harry was dropping his bag in his new home. It was small, still bigger than his apartment in the future though. There were a few small crates with the necessities inside such as kitchen appliances and bedding. He unpacked and set about making the place home as much as he could.
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Harry shook hands with his new boss, Doctor Malcolm Wallace, the colonies Chief Science Officer. As a Palaeontologist and Palaeobotanist he never got to work with living samples and yet here that was basically all he would be working with.
"It'll be good to have a palaeontologist on the team again."
"What happened to the last one?" Harry asked, looking up from the samples and Malcolm shrugged.
"Slasher."
"Ah…wonderful." That explained why he had been recruited.
"It's not a regular thing or anything! He was OTG and lost track of time..."
"Warning heard."
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Harry frowned as he saw one of the other colonists approaching the Commander…there was an odd lump in his jacket…his eyes widened in alarm. "Gun!" he ran at the man, tackling him as he began to aide, landing on the ground with him, fighting for control of the weapon. He heard shouts and then another pair of hands were pulling the man away.
"You okay?" Taylor asked and Harry nodded. "Nice tackle, thanks."
"No problem." And then they both ducked. "What the hell is going on?"
"Get to the lab and lock everyone in," Taylor answered and Harry nodded, taking off for the stairs. As soon as he was in he locked the doors.
"Harry?" Malcolm came out of his office.
"Taylor's orders, we stay here." They heard the sound of sonics being fired and Malcolm nodded.
"Everyone secure your work and then get under cover," he ordered as calmly as possible. Harry helped and then soon they were all under the desks, waiting for the all clear.
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"What have we got?" Taylor demanded as Wash entered his office.
"They're gone, OTG with rovers and supplies. Everyone one of them was with the sixth pilgrimage," Alicia Washington answered as she joined him on the balcony.
"All of them?"
"No, a little over half. Your saviour is from the Sixth too," she added and he blinked but nodded.
"Alright, isolate the rest, we'll interview individually. I'll take him first. I want their files gone over too."
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Harry fell back on his bed, exhausted. He could do with never having a day like it again. He'd been interrogated by a lot worse over the millennia though. The fact that half his pilgrimage had tried to overthrow Taylor's group and then run when they failed. There was something fishy about this whole thing and it was driving him nuts. He should have done a lot more research on this whole thing back in the future but he hadn't and it had come back to bite him. There was nothing he could do now except ignore the watchers and go about his life. yes, he had a lot to hide, but it wasn't what they would be looking for.
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Harry logged in and went to work, ignoring the looks and whispers.
"Dr Potter."
He looked up to see Malcom at the end of the bench. "Yes?"
Malcolm shifted uncomfortably. Rumours were flying and Commander Taylor wasn't telling the civilian staff anything.
Harry sighed and put the sample down, turning to face Malcolm and the others. "I came to Terra Nova because I was recruited to work here. I don't know anything about a plot or why the others came. So, we good?" he asked and several of his colleagues nodded slowly.
"Sorry." Malcom offered.
"Not needed, after the mess of the last week you have a right to be cautious."
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"Doctor."
"Lieutenant, can I help you with something?" Harry looked up from the wood he was whittling on his porch.
"We've found…something out near the coast. Malcolm says you're the best so you're coming with us to identify it," Wash answered and Harry nodded, putting the wood aside.
"I assume you mean a dinosaur or plant. How long?"
"Dinosaur. Four days. Be at the gate in an hour."
"I'll be there." He went in to pack what he needed and then headed for the lab for portable equipment, easily making the deadline. He got in the Rover with Wash and two soldiers and they headed out towards the coast.
Harry moved to the decomposed body and went to work scanning the remains for data. "Definitely not a Carnotarus, too big," he muttered.
"Empirosaur?" Wash asked and he shook his head.
"No sail," he answered absently. "Any other remains like this ever seen?"
"No, none we've found anyway."
"it's not surprising, do you know how many large carnivorous dinosaurs lived during this time period?"
"You mean there are predators out there we haven't seen?" Riley asked and he nodded at the young soldier.
"Just be glad we missed the Triassic and Jurassic and only have to deal with one period of dinosaurs…. of course, they spent those time periods getting bigger and bader so…" he shrugged. He checked the scanner and sighed. "Well it looks like this is a juvenile."
"They get bigger? Is it a t-rex?" Bracco asked, hand on his weapon as he scanned the tree line.
"Bone structure is off for a t-rex though I wouldn't be surprised if we run into one of those one day."
"Wonderful." Wash spread her men out a bit more. "Smell doesn't bother you?" she asked curiously and Harry shrugged.
"Just because I trained with fossils…" he shook his head. "I was in Detroit in 2137," he pointed out. "I've smelt worse."
"I see." She'd forgotten that was in his file.
Harry looked over the scan data and pulled up the fossil record date from the correct time period. There was a possibility he wouldn't find a match, after all most of the dinosaurs' terra Nova ran into weren't in the fossil record from the future. "Oh dear." But this one was in the record.
"Doctor?"
"Giganotosaurus," he answered and she frowned.
"Is that bad?"
"A predator bigger than even t-Rex? I should think so. And since the wounds seem to have been made…" he looked up and froze as he stared at the massive head above her. "Don't move," he hissed and her eyes widened. "Theory is they are pack hunters," he muttered even as the soldiers turned to see the two dinosaurs watching them.
"Why aren't they attacking?"
"Even all of us would be a very small meal, not really worth it so just stay still and don't shoot," Harry answered. They sniffed around a little and then withdrew.
"Back to base, now," Wash ordered and there was no argument as they scrambled to the rovers. "Why now?"
"If their prey migrates they'd follow them. Could be numbers grew to great and they have been pushed out to find new territory…no way to know," Harry answered, relieved the top predators had left them. They simply hadn't been worth chasing down.
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"So, we have a new predator moving into the area?" Taylor asked and Wash nodded. "How did the good doctor do out there?"
"Professional and calm, even when facing down two living Giganotosaurus. Said they wouldn't go after us because we're too small, unless we made them angry."
"Sound advice. Best pull back the teams for now, let's see if they're staying or passing through."
"Will do."
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Harry was glad when surveillance was finally stopped on him and the others who hadn't run off. It was a weight off all their shoulders, especially with the Seventh Pilgrimage arriving and everyone helping them settle into life in Terra Nova. The Giganotosaurus had either moved on or where remaining out of sight which was good since they probably could get past most of the colonies defences due to their sheer size. The only trouble now was when Mira decided to hit their patrols and outposts for supplies.
Of course, with things calming down and preparations under way for the next pilgrimage to arrive was when people started getting sick. All science staff were co-opted to help in the infirmary, tending to the ill or working on figuring out what the disease was and a cure.
"Help me!" a young voice shouted and Harry ran out of the back to find a young girl supporting a man, probably her Father.
Harry moved to take the man from her, getting him onto a bed and activating it, watching the results come in, he had the Fever. "What's his name?"
"Corporal Thomas Tate." She answered shakily.
Harry nodded as went about making the man comfortable until a doctor could see him, half wishing he had an MD here so he could miraculously find a cure. "Where's your Mum?"
"Working."
"Alright. What's your name kiddo?"
"Skye."
"See that office over there? Why don't you go wait in there, there's food and drink." He pointed at his office and she hesitated. "I promise I will call you if anything happens." That got her to move as a nurse joined him. They got the solider stable but that was all they could do and they knew it wouldn't last, they had already lost three people and with the winter really setting in it would only get worse.
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Harry sat on his porch sipping a mug of tea, glad to finally be able to relax. It had been called Sincyllic Fever and had claimed almost one hundred lives, including both of young Sky Tate's parents. The good news was they had come up with a vaccine, the bad news was there was still no cure. The information had been sent to the future with the arrival of the next pilgrimage so from now on all newcomers would be inoculated. Synthesising it here had been difficult but now everyone was inoculated. He looked up at the sound of footsteps and nodded. "Lieutenant."
"You look half dead," Wash commented as she joined him and Harry laughed.
"Just glad it's over. I never want to go through that again…odds are we will though. Human immune system was not meant to deal with Cretaceous germs." He offered her a mug and she took it.
"You did good work; all the science staff did. We would have lost a lot more if you all hadn't pitched in." They drank in silence for a while. "I hear we're losing you."
"Just for six months, you'll probably be glad to be rid of me for a while," he smirked and she shrugged.
"Try not to get eaten."
"Definitely. Doesn't seem a nice way to go. Who knows what well find out there."
"Excited."
"Yeah, maybe a little. I'll miss the comforts of home though, camping…" he mock shuddered and she laughed.
"Good luck out there." She left and he watched her go, that had been interesting.
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Harry pilled his bag down and looked around, happy to be back in the colony, their six-month trip had been extended to eight and it was so nice to be back in civilisation.
"Welcome back."
"Commander. It's good to finally be back. We miss anything exciting?"
"Tenth pilgrimage arrived with two stowaways," Nathaniel answered, grabbing some equipment to carry back to the lab.
"Stowaways?"
"New Doc, Elisabeth Shannon was meant to bring her two kids. Her husband and their third child also came."
"They broke the population laws and she was still recruited?"
"Malcolm asked for her. Husband was in prison and Hope Plaza told her to leave the little one behind. I can't blame them for smuggling the girl in, there was no reason to make the doc leave her behind except being petty."
"If her husband was in prison how did he get here?" Harry asked as he put some equipment away.
"Broke out and then into Hope Plaza."
"Huh. He locked up?"
"No, he's a security officer, he was a Chicago cop," he shrugged at the incredulous look that got. "The two of you have something in common."
"Oh?"
"He tackled a Sixer trying to kill me."
"Maybe you should work on not almost getting shot?" Harry grinned and then grabbed his own pack. "I'll pass my report through Malcolm but I need a shower and then sleep."
"Get going."
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When Wash kissed him, he was surprised but he went with it. "What did I do to deserve that?"
"You came back in one piece." And he had come back at all, they'd stopped surveillance and she'd enjoyed his company but a small voice had still said he would leave, join Mira and the Sixers. She honestly liked him and that was rare for her. She watched him closely and then he grinned and she relaxed.
"Then I better make sure I always do." He initiated the kiss then.
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When the meteor explosion killed everything in the colony his over-packing came in handy as he had the various parts needed to get things going again, so they didn't have to rely solely on Boylan. When the Sixers attacked via dinosaur the colony had more security back up than expected and between Shannon, Taylor, Wash and Harry they were stopped from retrieving the box Leah Marcos had originally been sent to retrieve from Mira's old house.
The next night he and Alicia had their second date, a meal on a blanket under the stars. They were taking things slowly considering how busy they both tended to be.
When Maddy Shannon became suspicious of Doctor Horton Harry and Malcom both helped her reveal him as a fake, without risking her own life in the process.
After that things just kept getting more and more complicated as Harry noticed the return of the watchers on him and the other Sixth Pilgrimage people who hadn't left. He didn't ask Alicia about it though, not wanting to put her in a tough spot.
"There's a mole." She admitted as they lay in his bed. They hadn't told anyone yet and wouldn't with the new suspicions. "I know it isn't you. Shannon is in charge of the search though."
"It's fine. You didn't have to tell me."
"I know, but I know you noticed and I didn't want you to think I thought it was you."
"It isn't me." He promised.
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Harry pulled Alicia into an alcove and kissed her deeply. "I have a bad feeling about this, be careful?" he was going with the group to meet the pilgrims to keep more of the actual medical staff in the colony.
"You're the one going into danger, I just have to keep the colony safe. Be careful."
"Promise." He kissed her again. "I love you." And then he jumped in the Rover and the group headed out.
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Harry peered through the scope at the colony, anger burning through him as he saw the Phoenix Group in charge. Alicia was in there somewhere, so were the Shannon's. "There, movement by the wall."
Taylor focused on the section. "Right on time," it would be good to have Wash back as well as the Shannon's and he knew Harry would be pleased too. Nether had said anything but he had known Wash a long time, he knew there was something between them. Of course, that was when it all went wrong. The lights went on all through the colony, shouts going up too. They got ready to move out quick, praying the group would make it and then they saw several people running across the open ground. "Where's Wash?"
"She stayed to buy us time." Jim answered and harry went back to peering down the scope. The rifle had been cobbled together from one of their tranquilising rifles and would shoot actual bullets instead of using sonics.
"I see her. In front of the gates." Harry called and Taylor pulled out his night vision glasses. They watched as Lucas yelled at her and then aimed a weapon. Harry took aim right at the man. "Taylor?"
Nathaniel stared at the scene and then nodded. He would always love his son but he could not let this happen. He should be the one to shoot but Harry was better with the rifle, long months having to take out dinosaurs from a great distance in order to get in close and study them while they were asleep. Nathaniel had never trained as a sniper, few of his men had. Harry took the shot and then another even as Wash ran for it.
"Go, I'll bring her in." Harry told them and Taylor got everyone moving back to camp, leaving a bike for Harry and Wash.
Wash broke into the trees to find Harry waiting for her, his clothes worn and torn but he was grinning at her and she relaxed a little. He slung the od rifle and got on the bike so she climbed on behind him. "I missed you." She kissed his throat as he took off.
"I'm just glad you're alive." Everyone was glad she was alive when they made it back to camp. Without Lucas, they had a better shot at stopping the group and everyone knew it.
When it came time to cut the connection from the other side Harry was tempted to volunteer but Jim Shannon beat him too it. They sedated a Carno and sent the two through the portal as cargo and then all they could do was wait and hope Jim succeeded and made it back. They'd blown the portal o their end already, meaning the fracture could spit him out anywhere but he eventually stumbled back into camp. They were now on their own, there would be no more pilgrimages or supplies, not until the fracture was found again in the future and they may decide not to try and re-establish contact.
All that was left to do was to retake the Colony and with help from the inside they managed it with a minimum of bloodshed, even as the Phoenix soldiers headed out into the wastes. With everyone pitching in it only took days to clean up and get things running again.
"What happens now?" Harry asked as he stood with Alicia in front of her destroyed house.
"We move on."
"You could move in," he offered and she nodded. Life in Terra Nova would never be the same again but they would keep on going.
Hope you liked. One of two chaps left and then this very long part of the worlds series will be done.
