HEY! First I want to say WOW, just WOW! EIGHT REVIEWS? You guys are awesome. So, because of the fact that I got more than 5 reviews last chapter, here is your EARLY UPDATE! And yes, I'll update as well over the weekend. So, this chapter is dedicated to Bellalyse Winchester, InGenworker, Squabble, kickarora, SanctuaryLover123, LG, The Doctor, and Bad Wolf for the amazing reviews. Without you guys, I would not be updating right now! Hahaha, so here's chapter 5. There's a surprise destination, so I hope you guys enjoy it!

"Clearly you've not seen Abby in a bad mood," ~Connor Temple 4.3

"Yes sir we have just arrived at the hotel," spoke Captain Fowler in a somewhat hushed tone. He was talking on the phone as he led Patrick, Emma, Stevie, and Alex into the Hard Rock Hotel.

"Wow," said Stevie as she looked around the lobby. "This place is nice."

"I know," said a memorized Emma. "I can't wait to go to the park tomorrow."

"Yes sir," said Fowler. "I'll report tomorrow." He then hung up the phone and spoke to the team. "Lester wishes for me to remind you that we are here on a mission, not to have fun."

"Well, I'm leader on this mission," said Patrick, "and I say that we have time to do both. And besides, the anomaly had been predicted to appear in the park on that model of Professor Cutter's."

It was true. Before any of them were born, their parents were able to re-build Cutter's model, and the kids had completely forgotten about until two days ago when Patrick found it in a room he was trying to hide in. This was the first anomaly that was actually predicted out of Britain; so basically, Lester wanted them to stay in the location for however long it took until the anomaly appeared. Basically, everyone believed he just wanted to get rid of them for a while.

"So, until it does," continued Patrick. "I say we're free to have fun!"

At the ARC

Lester hung up his phone and turned to Nicole who was standing with her back against the glass wall.

"Well they obviously are going to not listen to me, as long as your brother's in charge."

"I offered to go as well," Nicole argued.

"No," said Lester, almost too quickly. "I need you here. I can't take care of all them by myself."

Nicole muttered a laugh under her breath.

"Alright then," she said. "What do you need me to do first?"

Lester started to say something, but was cut off by the anomaly detector's alarm. It was loud, as usual, and sounded throughout the entire ARC. Lester and Nicole looked out the glass wall and onto the hub. Connor was already at the ADD trying to find the co-ordinates, when everyone else slowly assembled in the hub.

"First, I want you to guide our "guests" so they don't do anything that would lead to a crucial outcome."

Nicole smiled as she nodded and exited Lester's office. Lester watched her leave, secretly wishing she wouldn't. He enjoyed her company. Her presence actually made him feel like…himself. He sighed and turned towards his desk. Time to start on the bloody paperwork.

The hotel room, Lester had payed for, which had worried Emma, Alex, Stevie, and Patrick quite a bit at first; Fowler could care less. They were surprised to see they were staying in a decent sized room, but, obviously, with barely enough beds. Emma and Stevie both slept in the queen bed, Alex and Fowler were in the joining room on the two single beds, and Patrick was on the couch. The room also had a few chairs, two bathrooms, and a table. They were surprised to find that Lester had given them two joining rooms, not just a room with two beds.

The day after they arrived, the team got up at six much to everyone's dismay, to get to the park early. Patrick had a theory that if they got there early enough, they would beat the lines. So after getting ready and a quick breakfast, the team got on the first boat ride of the day and headed over to their destination.

"Wow," said Stevie, as the team entered the park. She seemed to be trying to look at everything at once.

"No wonder it's called the Island of Adventure," said Alex looking at the map. "They have almost everything here!"

"No kidding," said Emma as she looked at Alex's map over his shoulders.

"Now," said Fowler, even though nobody was listening to him, "what we need to do is find the anomaly. The sooner we settle the situation the sooner we can get back to England."

"But the question is, do we want to go back to England so quickly?" asked Patrick.

"Not really," said Stevie.

"We might never get to come back," said Emma. "I say we just live in the moment. Enjoy it over here while we can."

Fowler was about to argue, but then he turned around and met Emma's face; he saw her eyes staring into his, pleading for him to go along with her statement. He was about to lash out and just do what his gut told him, but looking into those eyes, he started to consider the other option. After much debate with himself, he sighed and agreed with what Emma said.

"Just as long as we keep the handhelds ON at all times," he said, as he handed Emma a handheld.

"Done," she said while turning it on and putting it into her pocket.

"Well, I don't know about you, but I'm going on some roller coasters," said Patrick. "Let's meet here in a few hours if nothing happens."

"Come on Alex," said Stevie as she pulled him towards a section of the park.

Emma and Fowler watched as the three ran off into the park. Emma didn't blame them; she was as excited as anyone right now. Her whole life she had been begging her parents to take her here, but work was always an issue in their family, so they never could. The risk of being out of town when an anomaly opens was too big of a risk. So being there right now was completely worth-while.

Emma turned to see Fowler, still standing right next to her, looking out into the distance. He had this look in his eyes that said he was thinking about something. Emma took his hand, which snapped him out of his gaze.

"Come on," she said while tugging his arm a bit. "Where do you want to go first?"

Nicole had just sent to parents from the past out on the mission. Well she really didn't do much. All she did was answer questions on where everything was. They all seemed to know what they were doing so she just stood back and watched. When the team was out of the ARC, and reported back that they had found the anomaly, Nicole decided to head up to Lester's office and "annoy" him, as he called it. Though, she had a feeling that her visits didn't annoy him at all.

As she headed up the ramp, she pondered on this thought a bit more. Sure, Lester was dull at times, sarcastic, and really didn't show any emotion in any cast what-so-ever, but he wasn't that bad of a guy. Sometimes, when they were talking, it seemed like he wanted to act more freely, but something was holding him back. He didn't even seem comfortable in his own skin, literally speaking. He always seemed to be on his guard, which made Nicole wonder what it is he was currently hiding from.

Meanwhile, Fowler and Emma were walking out of a white building laughing a lot. Or at least Emma was.

"I still can't believe you did that!" Fowler exclaimed, still shocked at what had just happened.

"What? Their model of a T-Rex was completely off! It looked more like a G-Rex, and that's saying something."

Fowler sighed.

"Leave it to you to get us kicked out of a dinosaur observatory."

"Hey, those raptor eggs were completely fake, and you know it!"

The two walked in silence for a bit, Fowler trying to take in everything that just happened and trying to make sure that he understood the punishment. Why they didn't just show their government IDs, he didn't know.

"What I don't understand is why our punishment was getting a five year ban from the building, when I already made it clear that I was never coming back."

"I'm sure everybody else in the building can tell them that for you."

Emma elbowed Fowler in the side and pretty hard too.

"That means it's time to shut up," she said.

The two laughed as they continued into the "Dinosaur" part of the park.

"Oooo! They have a Jurassic Park River ride!" Emma exclaimed. "Let's go!"

As Emma dragged Fowler towards the white building, he could have sworn he was hearing a beeping noise. He ignored it and continued on with Emma, now at her side and holding her hand, but he kept hearing the noise. As they got to the entrance of the ride, Fowler was at the point where he wanted to know what it was and turn it OFF. So he asked Emma if her phone was on vibrate or low on battery.

"No, it's not my phone," she said while checking her phone. "Was it yours?"

Fowler pointed to his ear piece. "Radio communication, can call anyone with it. I left my phone at the hotel."

The beeping noise continued, louder than before, and this time, Emma could hear it.

"What is that?" she asked, spinning around in a circle, trying to find it.

As she was doing this, Fowler saw a blinking red light come out of her pocket. On impulse, he reached his hand into Emma's pants pocket, despite all of her protests, and pulled out an activated anomaly dictator.

"Well, looks like fun times over," said Fowler, disappointed that their "vacation" was over so soon, but didn't show it. He was actually starting to enjoy himself. "Come on, let's call everyone else."

The two made their calls to the rest of the team and Fowler reported to Lester that the anomaly did appear. Alex and Stevie were getting the tranquilizer guns and Patrick was grabbing the ASD, so it was up to Emma and Fowler to find the anomaly.

"Where do you suppose it is?" asked Fowler, who was following Emma. She was pointing the detector in all directions, trying to get a general direction of where to start. After making a few turns, two of them being wrong and still ignoring Fowler's question, she found the spot.

"It seems to be right…there!"

Emma pointed her finger to the building right in front of her. She slowly looked up from her AHD and gazed at the building.

"Oh," she said when she saw it. "That could have worked out better."

Fowler looked up as well and cursed under his breath.

"Why the dinosaur exhibit?" Emma asked. "Now we can't get in!"

"I say we call Patrick, tell him what happened, and wait until everyone else gets here. They can handle it, and we can wait until they're done."

But Emma wasn't listening. She was looking intently at the front entrance of the building.

"Or," she said, more to herself, "we go in and find the anomaly ourselves."

"How? We have a five year ban. We can't just go strolling in like we're good friends."

Emma thought to herself while studying the building in front of them. A plan formed in her mind as she smiled.

"I found the tranquilizer!" shouted Stevie from the back of one of the government cars. "It ended up being behind the case and under a black towel."

"Here," said Alex, holding out his hand.

Stevie tossed him a gun, which he caught with ease.

"How are you doing on the ADS, Patrick?" yelled Alex.

"I can't lift it!" Patrick yelled back. "I don't know how Emma can carry this bloody thing every mission!"

Patrick came around the corner, knees bent and shaking as he heaved the huge device towards Alex and Stevie. He thought he was going to make it, but his hand slipped and he ended up dropping the entire thing. Patrick cursed as he threw his hands in the air.

"Dose she lift bloody weights in her spare time?"

"No, because that's not the ADD," replied Alex. "It's in a black case. I don't know what you found. It's not nearly that big."

Danny froze, looked in the trunk at the black case, and then back at Alex.

"Well that would've been nice to know a little sooner," he exclaimed. "I thought it was our snack case that Nicole kept of forgetting to bring with her on the missions!"

Alex sighed and shook his head, as Stevie tried to figure out how Patrick could NOT know what the ASD looked like when he had been working at the ARC for seven and a half weeks.

"Ouch, Emma, that was my head," whispered Fowler in an irritated tone.

"Oh, right sorry. It's kind of hard, trying to track an anomaly in the air shaft with a person crawling right behind you."

"Why did I listen to you?" he asked, as he waited for Emma to get ahead a bit so her foot wouldn't kick his face again. "We should've just waited for the others with the tranquilizer and ASD."

"But that would've taken ages! Besides, this way we can tell them where it is, and we can get done with the job quicker…ah-ha! Found it!"

"It's in the air shaft?" asked Fowler in a bored "I-don't-believe-you" tone.

"Not, git, it's below us."

"Well, how do we get out?"

BANG

There was now a big hole in the airshaft. Fowler figured Emma must've kicked it, being a bit skilled in the art of kickboxing.

"Come on," she whispered as she climbed through the hole and dropped into the exhibit below. Fowler followed close behind her.

When he stood up properly, he took a good look at the room around him. The floor below was brown and grainy. There were sprouts of green, fake grass all around him. Trees blocked his view of anything further than five feet away. His eyes followed up the trunk of one of the trees, then to the branches, then the leaves, and finally the…ceiling? He couldn't tell whatever it was for it was covered in vines. No wonder the air shaft ran through this room. Fowler suddenly realized that he didn't know where Emma was. He tried calling her name.

"I'm over here," Emma's voice responded, quite far off.

Fowler quickly followed the sound into the bushes. He looked around but couldn't find her. Suddenly, a scream sounded to his right. It was Emma. Worried that something had happened, he went running off to where the sound came from. He ran pass bushes, shrubs, branches, logs, trees, and ignored the many scratches he was getting from them. He burst through a wall of vines and came face to face with an opening.

It reminded him of "The Meadow" in the Disney movie Bambi. Going into it might lead him to his death, but he took the chance, and walked into it. It was a big area of dirt that was surrounded by many models of different extinct creatures that probably lived in a specific era that the exhibit was trying to interpret. In the middle of the opening stood the anomaly, but there was no Emma in sight.

Fowler looked around, trying to find her, but all he could see were trees and vines which blocked almost every exit. The florescent lights on the ceiling shined on his face, but they only seemed to light up the opening and no other part of the "forest". He turned back towards the anomaly, and it hit him. Did she get dragged through by a creature? Was that why she screamed? Should he wait to see if she turns up?

Fowler was so caught up in his own thoughts that he didn't sense something watching him from behind in the vines. Slowly, it emerged from the plant and made its way stealthily towards him, not making a noise. It got closer, and closer but Fowler still didn't notice. Then, it pounced.

"So, where exactly are Emma and Fowler?" asked Patrick.

"Fowler said the dinosaur exhibit. He didn't know the official name, though, or where exactly it was in the park."

As the three started to look for a worker to ask help from, they got approached by a police officer.

"Excuse me folks, but…" he looked at case Patrick was carrying. The ASD seemed to be crammed into the case, and it couldn't close because of it. So, as a result, the ASD could be seen through the gap, and the officer must have seen it. "…weird…mechanical…things in a case aren't allowed in the park."

It took a little while for the three of them to figure out what the officer was referring to, but when they did figure it out, they didn't know what to say. Should they tell him they're from the British government and trying to find a portal to the past so they can seal it for the safety of the human race?

"Yes officer, we'll get it out of here right away," said Stevie, since nobody else was saying anything.

The officer gave an approving nod and then continued on with his patrol, muttering something about foreigners and their toys.

"Okay," said Alex, while looking at an enlarged framed map that was near a bench. "We need to go that way then make two rights, a second left, and a tenth U-Turn. Then we should be there."

"I say we book it before we get stopped by another police officer," said Patrick.

Then, the three ran out of the area and towards their destination…hopefully.

"Gotcha!" screamed Emma as she pounced on Fowler's back. Fowler gave a yelp in shock, which got Emma laughing hard. He slowly turned towards her, anger and grief completely covering his face.

"That wasn't funny," he said very professionally.

"Yes it was," she said, laughing again, but stopping when she saw Fowler's face. "Just trying to ease the tension, you know, put a bit of life into the mission.

"By making me believe that you were dead and on the other side of the anomaly, and then jumping out of the vines and scaring me even more!"

Emma saw that what happened really bothered him, so she put a hand on his arm.

"Look, I'm sorry. I didn't know you'd get so worked up about it. Fowler, please forgive me."

Fowler looked up into Emma's brown eyes, and couldn't help but smile.

"Okay, just don't do it again."

Emma smiled.

"Alright, I promise," she said.

"Okay, now back to business. First, did you see any visitors in here who we should probably get out of this room as soon as possible?"

"Nobody's allowed in here," said Emma. "The room's under renovation. I saw a sign earlier today. The doors unlocked, but it's covered in "caution" and "do not enter" tape."

"Okay, that helps a lot. Now, did you see any creatures while scheming a way to scare me?"

Emma shook her head.

"None that I know of. Those models did convince me at first, though. But after poking a few, it was obvious that they were plastic."

Suddenly, a snarl came from behind them. To say they were shocked was an understatement.

"Emma," said Fowler, as calm as he could, "did you check all of the models?"

"No…" said Emma.

Another snarl came from a bush. The two turned towards the bush to see something moving from behind it. Out of the shadows came a medium sized velicoraptor.

"Don't move," whispered Emma.

Fowler made a reach for his gun, cocked it, and aimed it at the raptor.

"No," said Emma, covering the nozzle of the gun and lowering it slightly.

"Emma, what choice do we have?" asked Fowler. "That thing will attack if we don't do something."

Suddenly, they heard another rustle come from a bush behind them. Fowler turned around, gun pointed. A head poked out of the underbrush, it was Patrick's. The rest of his body slowly exited the shrub, hands in the air with a tranquilizer gun in each.

"Here," he said as he tossed one to Emma, who caught it, and aimed it at the raptor. The raptor flinched a bit, but recovered quickly and started to charge. Without thinking twice, she shot it, and the raptor fell to the ground.

"Well that was easy," said Emma tossing the tranquilizer gun back to Patrick.

"For you," he corrected with a over-dramatic sigh.

He motioned for something to come forward and out came Alex and Stevie pushing a cart with the ASD case on it as well as about five unconscious raptors.

"Where did you get the cart?" asked Emma, wondering how she could have possibly passed it up when doing her mass destruction earlier on in the day.

"Stole it from a construction worker…I think," said Patrick.

"Are there any more?" asked Fowler, taking a close interesting in the unconscious raptors and hoping none would wake up suddenly.

"Nope," said Stevie, "they were all at the door, probably waiting for someone to come in."

In the next fifteen minutes, the five were able to seal the anomaly while putting it back in the case properly and send all five unconscious raptors through. They put the case back on the cart and Alex rolled it towards the exit.

"I say we go back to the hotel and just relax there," said Patrick, looking like he wanted to just lay on the cart and have Alex push him and the case.

"That sounds great," said Stevie, giving a small yawn.

"I'll make the call to Lester," said Fowler.

But as the five got to the door, they saw it blocked by two men; a security guard, and the manager of the building. Fowler and Emma laughed nervously.

"Hey Jeff, long time no see," said Emma.

Jeff the manager was not amused.

Meanwhile, back in London, Lester and Nicole were where they usually were; in Lester's office. Talking about nothing in particular and enjoying each other's company. Nicole made a very funny joke about the differences between carpet and Astroturf which made Lester start to laugh, which after a few seconds of doing so, he covered up with a cough. What's wrong with me? I usually never laugh! Not at anything! What is this woman doing to me? Nicole noticed Lester's stony expression, and gave a sad sigh. She could never make him laugh…properly. Lester noticed this and leaned across the desk a bit.

"It wasn't you," said Lester. "It's just…"

"Just what?" she asked.

Lester's instinct was to lash out at her, but one look into her eyes did what it always did; it unraveled him.

"Nobody's been able to make me happy, truly happy for a matter, in a while now. You just seem to have the ability to do that. It scares me."

Lester just poured out his heart before he could think. Well, more like half of it. He didn't say everything that was on his mind. He looked up at Nicole, afraid of her reaction, and relieved to see she was leaning forward as well and had her hand on his.

"That's awful," she finally replied. "Maybe that's just my opinion, but still. It's awful! Then again, having Danny Quinn as a father, "laughter" has to be part of my everyday life."

Lester smiled and chuckled a bit. There it was again. What was it with this woman?

Emma was in the hotel room which she shared with Alex, Stevie, Patrick, and Fowler. Fowler was on a call with Lester and the others were at the pool. After Jeff caught them, they got kicked out of the park because of trespassing on property two of them were banned from and for bringing a "weird mechanical thing in a case" into the park. Now Emma was at a desk in the hotel room, drawing in the journal Connor gave her. She had just finished the first creature since the day her parents left on the anomaly mission, and was working on another one. She had started on at least fifteen in the past seven and a half weeks, but had a tendency to take a while to actually finish them. Her hand started to cramp after a while, so she leant back into her chair and closed her eyes. For a vacation she sure was tired. Even though she didn't realize it she started drifting into a light snooze.

She looked up from her work and saw an anomaly, right in front of her, in the middle of the hotel room. Emma slowly rose from her chair and walked towards the anomaly. Before she could completely register what was going on, she found herself on the other side of it, but she wasn't in some era. No, it looked like the 21st century to her.

She was in a house. It looked awfully familiar, but she couldn't remember where she'd seen it before. Emma looked into the living room and saw a little girl kneeling at a coffee table, drawing pictures with markers. Emma made her way to the girl and was able to get a better look at her. She had light brown hair and looked to be about five. The girl must have noticed another person in the room, because she looked up from her picture. Her eyes got really bit when she saw Emma and her mouth opened.

"Don't come near me," she said, "or I'll call my parents!"

"That'll work," thought Emma. "Then I might be able to recognize this place."

"Go ahead then," she said.

She was surprised to see the girl look down and say her parents weren't actually home.

"They're at work," she said. "That works when they do it on the telly."

"So you're home all by yourself?"

"No, my brother's upstairs."

That brought back so many memories for Emma. With both parents working at the ARC she was usually home alone while they were on a mission. Sometimes, Luke was home with her, but he was usually doing stuff for school.

Suddenly, the girl started to cry. On instinct, Emma bent down and gave her a hug. As she soothed the little girl, Emma noticed that all of the girl's drawings were of dinosaurs. There was what seemed to be a T-Rex, a Coelurosauravus, and…a worm? Probably based off the one her father told stories about. Apparently, it was sucking his head off and Nick Cutter killed it with a samurai sword. They were goo drawings, for a pre-schooler.

When the little girl stopped crying, Emma broke the hug and looked into her eyes.

"I know what it feels like. I was the same way, but you won't be alone forever."

"Promise?" the girl asked.

"Promise," said Emma with a smile.

She noticed out of the corner of her eye the anomaly start to flicker. The little girl must have noticed it too, because her eyes got really big again when she noticed it.

"What's that?" she asked, a little scared.

"Oh, it's a…you know. Don't worry about it. You won't ever have to see one again."

The girl nodded slowly, a look of puzzlement still on her face. Emma gave the girl another hug and a kiss on the forehead. She then went running back through the glowing portal and into the hotel room, the anomaly closing right behind her.

"Emma, Emma wake up!"

Emma felt her shoulder being shaken slightly. She quickly snapped her eyes opened, sat up straight, breathing heavily.

"Shh, it's okay, it's just me."

Emma turned to see Fowler, sitting right next to her with his arm around her shoulder.

"You okay?"

"Fine," she said. "Just had a…weird dream is all."

Fowler nodded.

"I just wanted to say that Lester wants us back in London tomorrow. Our flight's at ten."

Emma nodded, not exactly processing what the military captain was saying. She was too focused, currently, on what she just dreamt about.

If anyone can guess where the team went on this mission, you will receive a virtual cookie! Hahaha, I'll let you know, it's a place I'm going to over Spring Break this year! Don't worry, the rest of the chapters won't be "Mysterious Destination" or something like that. Oh, and the whole "weird mechanical thing in a case" was better before. I realized as I was proofing it that the ASD is smaller than I put it originally. The big thing Patrick came in with was going to be the ASD, but then I realized in episode three that Becker was able to bring it in quite easily, so I had to change it. Originally, I had put "weird mechanical thing on a cart."...it sounded way better before...

PLEASE REVIEW! If I get 30+ reviews (not chapters 6 and 7 combine, mind you) I will update early again. I want to know you you all think! Thanks so much for the feedback so far!

~Logan ;)