The Return of Ethan (part 2)
Disclaimer: none of the characters are mine, but belong to Impossible Pictures™.
Note: this story contains spoilers for the official series.
London, the present time
The mood of the ARC crew was rather high, if truth was to be told: they have defeated the latest version of the future predators and stopped Helen's last (hopefully) plan to destroy humanity, this using New Dawn ™ Corporation as her puppet. In short, the world (and humanity) was safe.
For now.
"So, anyone has any ideas where this time anomaly that we're going to be dealing with leads?" Connor asked brightly. "Come on, any guesses? They all have a 50-50 chance of succeeding, you know?"
"The Cretaceous, then," Becker, surprisingly, took up the challenge.
"Oh?" Connor asked, half-surprised and half-pleased that at least someone was willing to play along. "Why?"
"'Cause that's where we shove the T-Rex," Becker said firmly.
"Oh yeah – how did you do it?"
Several hours earlier
The tyrannosaurus just lay there, not quite like a giant, ungainly bird and not quite like a giant, misshapen crocodile, but a bit of both, actually. Well, not just a bit – more like a lot, but like both a bird and crocodile all the same.
"All right, people, let's get it tied up!" Becker commanded, doing his best to ignore the havoc that was going on around them in the streets. Philip Burton is a moron – just how exactly the closure of all the anomalies will make all the animals go away, seriously? "We don't want Rex to recover before we have it under control, right?"
"Yes sir!" Becker's men replied and began to chain the tyrant lizard king.
It was then that Murphy struck, by waking up the dinosaur – just as the first of the soldiers approached its muzzle. Despite its large bulk, the dinosaur opened its eyes and jaws and slid forwards on its' belly so quickly that no one had time to react before the giant jaws snapped shut and the man was gone.
Instantly, the others fired, but it was too late, as the tyrannosaurus stood up, and the shots went wide – and then the dinosaur went on the counteroffensive, by stomping with its huge feet, and at least one of the humans ended up trampled to death.
"Aim better before firing!" Becker yelled as the tyrannosaurus roared its challenge... and was answered, to everyone's surprise, the dinosaur's included.
Admittedly, the challenge was much more high-pitched and it sounded just different from the tyrannosaur's, but was a challenge, and it came from a smaller, more greenish, carnivorous dinosaur that stood behind Becker and his men.
The effect on the original tyrannosaurus was instantaneous and frightening: it ruffled its scaled, emitted a sound that was half a bellow and half a snarl, and its' eyes outright lit up before it charged at the newcomer, which, naturally, fled, because size for size, it was no match for the T-Rex.
Both dinosaurs, the pursuer and the pursued, fled down a side street, and several moments later there was the sound of a time anomaly closing shut.
Now
"Whoa, that's what really happened with the T-Rex?" Abby whispered in awe. "You were so lucky!"
"Yes, lost several of my men to one dinosaur and not even managed to lay a blow on it," Becker said crossly. "Connor, what are you muttering about?"
"Trying to figure out what the second dinosaur might've been," Connor admitted. "So far I'm leaning towards the opinion that it was another T-Rex, only a juvenile, while Matt's specimen was an adult."
"Of course it was, as if anyone's interested, wise guy," Becker replied crossly, before switching to the comm.-link. "Jess, what have you got for us?"
"Well, you should be right where it was – it has closed by now," Jess's voice responded very quickly, implying that she was watching the progress of the ARC field team very closely. Well, considering that after the New Dawn™ incident she did almost lose them, this was understandable after all.
"Well, I guess that all we have to do is to make a patrol sweep in case anything has come through and decided to stay behind instead," Connor said brightly, as he and the others got out of their cars. "Hopefully it won't be another T-Rex, eh?"
"No. It's me." Patrick Quinn, better known in the 21st century as Ethan Dombrowski, emerged from the doorway of a nearby building. "We meet again, I see."
"Ethan... Patrick... whatever your name is... where's Danny?" Abby snapped.
"Dead. I killed him," Ethan said, his voice and facial expression strangely listless. "I shot him and left him to rot, the mammoth hypocrite!"
"What? He loved you, he believed in you," Abby snarled as she lifted her EMP to fire. "He was the only one-"
"Bored now," Ethan replied, still placidly, as he pulled up his own weapon – a remote control. "Good bye now."
It was a really good thing that everyone, even Connor and Emily, had very good field reflexes, and scattered into several directions even as Ethan pressed the button on his remote control... and the sides of the street where the field team's car was parked, exploded into shrapnel.
...When Becker and Abby (they had run towards the opposite side of the street from the other three) finally recovered and looked up, the neighbourhood was severely devastated, and Ethan Dombrowski had vanished.
End Part 2