Nothing to fear
Chapter 4
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You're all hot and flustered as you walk into the main room of the ARC, no award as to guessing why. As Becker's practically living in your flat, you grin at the thought. You place yourself at a desk, and start to work through your growing amount of paperwork. You're distracted when you hear Becker walking up behind you, you turn around and expect him to be there. But he's not, he's over by Jess handing her a bar of chocolate.
"Nothing with orange in it, right?" you hear him, Jess smiles sweetly and thanks him for the chocolate. You glare, knowing that she likes him. Yet Becker's the only one oblivious to the fact.
"Jealous?" a voice pipes up beside you, you look and the voice belongs to Abby. You glare at the blonde.
"What?" you ask although it's more of a hiss, not wanting her to find out your feelings for Becker.
"Come on. It's so obvious, why don't you just tell him that you like him?" Abby asks, grinning at you.
"It's not as easy as that." is your reply, you duck your head down and carry on with the paperwork. Abby sighs.
"Look, if you like him. Tell him; just ask him out for dinner. Come on, I'll even do it for you." Abby pleas, she tugs on your arm and you roll your eyes.
"No." You hiss, your voice getting kind of loud, "Just, I'll tell him when the time's right." you sigh.
"Oh, and when will that be. When he's been attacked by a creature and is bleeding to death?" Abby asks, sarcastically of course. You roll your eyes, she huffs and strolls away. You continue to glare at Jess, who is now tucking into a huge bar of chocolate.
"Don't worry, I haven't forgotten about you." you turn around, Becker's stood behind you. His arm stretched out, your eyes work your way down his arm and in his hands is an even bigger bar of chocolate. You smile, taking the chocolate. You open your mouth to thank him, but all that comes out is the loud blares of the ADD's alarm. You groan, and make your way over to Jess.
"What have we got?" Matt asks, Emily's by his side and Abby and Connor are not far behind. Jess clears her throat and frowns.
"The anomalies in- you wouldn't believe this." Jess breaths in and out and you raise an eyebrow at her. "It's in Buckingham Palace." she squeals, her voice loud and squeaky. You grin. "Head off, I'll send you the coordinates."
The team bursts into action, grabbing black boxes and EMD's. You jump into the SUV's and it isn't long before you're passing through large, black gates. You've made it to Buckingham Palace successfully. The comms burst into life, Jess's voice on the other side.
I've evacuated everyone in the building, also most outside doors and windows have been locked in case of a creature incursion. I have CCTV of the whole building, get in through the side entrance. Jess informs and you, Becker, Connor, Emily, Abby and Matt jump from the trucks.
"Got it." Matt nods, you follow him towards the side entrance of the palace.
You head into Buckingham Palace, your EMD at the ready in case of a creature.
"Jess? Where's the anomaly?" Matt asks. Upstairs, along the corridor, take the second left and it should be in the first room to the right. Jess replies, you follow her directions and come face to face with the anomaly.
"Connor, lock it." Becker orders. You step around the room, it's big and more like a grand hall than an office. There's a large sparkly chandelier that hangs from the colourfully patterned ceiling, you admire the room. Connor locks the anomaly quickly.
"There." he sighs and you roll your eyes.
Suddenly the anomaly gets bigger, and then smaller, it then unlocks itself.
"That's not meant to happen." Connor mutters, you raise your EMD quickly towards the anomaly and so do the others.
"Connor, fix it." Becker snaps, his EMD held tightly in his hands.
"Okay, okay. I'm fixing it, I'm fixing it." Connor mutters as he crouches down to the locking device, Becker and Matt have their EMD's raised to the anomaly and you've already joined them.
You're going to need the EMD, because several large creatures pour through. You fire, Becker fires, Matt fires, but it doesn't work. The creatures are way too strong.
"Run!" Becker yells, You, Abby, Connor, Becker, Matt and Emily dash from the room and sprint down the corridor. The creatures somewhere behind you, you don't know exactly what they look like. You didn't get a good glance at them, but you know they're not from the past.
"Jess! We need backup here now!" Becker shouts, He's in a bad mood. Running from dinosaurs obviously wasn't top of his wish list today.
You shut yourselves into a small room, you look around and it's a storage closet.
"What the hell were they?" you snap, you immediately look at Connor.
"Well don't look at me. I don't know, I've never seen anything quite like them before." he replies with a roll of his eyes.
"Well, if they aren't from the past, they must be from -" Emily starts, but you cut her off.
"The future." you finish the sentence for her.
"And that only means one thing, trouble." Matt snarls. Connor sighs loudly from beside Abby and you all turn to stare at him.
"What?" Abby asks, laying her hand gently on his shoulder.
"I'm just thinking, my locking device always works. Why didn't it today?" Connor asks, obviously disappointed with his invention and you all look at him like he has two heads.
You all know it, but you don't want to say it. Helen's involved.
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Matt and Becker stand, their backs pushed against the door. The two of them are trying to keep it shut from the oncoming creatures.
"Matt, what's the plan?" You ask, glancing towards Matt.
"We'll wait for backup, then we'll help kill the creatures and lock the anomaly." before you can reply, Abby buts in.
"Kill them? We can't kill them. They're living creatures." she protests, Matt sighs and you bite your lip.
"I'm sorry Abby, they're like future predators. They're fast, strong, and agile. We have no choice. I'm sorry, really I am. But there's no way we're going to be able to get them back through the anomaly." Matt speaks calmly and Abby sighs.
"Okay, fine, we kill them." she gives in. You sigh, not wanting to kill them but knowing you have no choice.
"Right, how long's backup going to be?" you enquire, your heart is beating pretty loudly due to the carnivorous creatures that lurk outside.
"I don't know, maybe ten, fifteen minutes." Becker replies.
"Right, and how long do we have before those- those things get in here?" you question, Matt shrugs.
"About five to six minutes." he swallows and you growl, not happy by the news.
"Right- Well we can't just stand here, what are we going to do?" You ask.
"She's right Matt, if we stay here, we'll die." Becker stares at Matt. "Matt -"
"Alright, I don't know. I don't know what we're going to do." Matt snaps, the stress finally becoming too much. There's a banging at the door.
"It's trying to get in." Connor swallows, you shoot him a glare.
"I think we've noticed that Connor." Matt snaps as he puts all his weight on the door, forcing it to remain shut. Abby looks up.
"Hey, if these things are anything like future predators, then they would track their prey using ultrasound they work on sonar, they pick up low pitch noises, way beyond our hearing, they can see in infrared." she nods.
"Abby's right, they'll use ultrasound, their eyesight is probably limited." you nod.
"Then we can overload them, like we did before, in the ARC." Abby sighs. "Jess, you have your laptop on you right?" Abby asks her.
Yep.
"Jess, do you still have the file from a while back?"
Yep, it's still on here.
"Jess, I need you to do something for me, I need you to find that file, and feed the sound through all of our black boxes, can you do that?" Abby asks. There's a short pause.
Yep, I can do that.
There's a one minute pause while Jess sets up her laptop, you and the team stand in silence. All of you thinking the same thing, Helen's back.
Laptop's ready.
"Okay, Jess. On the count of three, I want you to feed the sound through." Abby nods, Matt holds the door handle, ready to fling it open. "Okay, 3, 2, 1!" Abby shouts, Matt flings the door open, and Jess turns the sound on, there's a horrible moment of hope as you pray for the plan to work, you open your eyes, and see a creature on the other side of the door, standing tall. It's a bit like a giant lizard, with scales up its back, although its feet are more like raptors, its head rounded, with a large mouth with several rows of sharp pointy teeth. It has four eyes, which are clustered together.
Becker wastes no time in shooting it, his EMD on the highest setting, it takes a couple of shots, but it goes down, dropping to the floor, you recharge your EMD, and head out with the others into the hallway.
You're met by at least ten creatures which stand less than ten metres from the closet that you were just in. You aim your EMD, and fire at the creatures, managing to knock all of them down.
"Connor! Go and lock the anomaly, before more of them come through." Matt orders. Connor nods, and runs down the hallway, avoiding the creatures.
Suddenly, the sound that's coming from the black box stutters, it stops, then starts, then stops,. Releasing the creatures from their trance.
"Jess!" Abby cries. No answer.
The creatures burst into life, they screech as they bullet towards you, you turn, and run, you sprint through the doors at the end of the corridor and find yourself in a very large spacious dining room. You're greeted by the most comforting reassuring sight, at least thirty ARC soldiers, all prepared with real machine guns, ready to fight.
Hope it was Okay! Spent ages on this chapter! More? :D