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It almost looked human… almost. There were three of them that came out of the anomalies. They stood on their back legs, standing about 12 feet tall, hunched forward. Their fingers turned into something like claws, and their hair almost like a Lion's mane. This must have be what's left of the human race... they evolved into monsters.

The creatures snapped and nipped at each other. Then they sniffed the air and bared sharp teeth at Dian, Cutter, and Alex; one of the creatures falling down onto its front legs, crouching into a stalking position.

Dian's heart raced; she knew that any moment she could be killed. Still, she wasn't going to give up without a fight. But, all she could manage to think was, "What do we do?" and that's what she said.

Cutter was the one to reply, while Alex obviously had no clue. "We disappear," he stated, looking at Alex. "Alex, you can teleport us out of here," he said.

Alex stared at him in disbelief. "What? No I can't."

"You can! I saw it in the blueprints; your mind can open anomalies, Alex, it's even simpler to teleport. You have to try! Now!" Cutter yelled at him.

Alex tried to concentrate; Cutter held onto Dian and Alex put his arms around both of them, shutting his eyes and imagining them outside the building. He heard the creatures screech and their feet thudding hard against the floor as they ran towards Alex and the others… And then he heard silence. Was he dead? Had it been that quick? He didn't dare open his eyes…

After they'd eaten, it was about 10pm. Mike went off to bed, leaving Connor and Abby watching the "Star Trek" movie that was on. Of course, Mike and Connor were the ones that wanted to watch it; Abby had let them even though it bored her to death. Especially since she didn't speak Vulcan and both Mike and Connor were conversing in it…

Abby looked at Connor, who was engrossed in the movie. She slipped her fingers through his, holding his hand. He looked over at her, surprised for a moment. He smiled, his eyes shining. She smiled back at him and laid her head on his shoulder, sighing contently; not even caring that she hated the movie they were watching. She was just happy she was here with Connor.

The phone rang, making them both jump, startled. Abby laughed, and patted Connor on the knee. "I'll get it," she said standing up and walking towards the phone. She answered to the sound of Lester trying to speak over a whooshing sound in the background. It sounded like… an anomaly, but it was so loud.

Abby! I think there's something you and Connor both will want to come see! He was shouting over the noise. Come to the ARC, quickly!

She didn't have much time to speak before he hung up. She hung up the phone and went back to Connor, who smiled at her as she re-entered the room. "We've got to go to the ARC, something's wrong. Lester said you'd want to come too. Are you feeling well enough?"

His heart sank a bit. Of course work would have to interfere with a perfect night like this… "Uh, yeah. I'm good to go there for a while," he said, regardless of how much he didn't want to go. "Just let me get dressed." He got up and headed for his room.

"Do you want any help? I know it hurts for you to move your arms too much," Abby said quickly.

"No, no… I'm fine, really." He stopped dead in his tracks when he reached his room and shut the door behind him… had he really just declined Abby's suggestion for her to dress him? He almost wanted to go back and tell her that he did need her help after all, but he decided against it.

They got in the car and drove off, not wanting to wake Mike; they just left a note in case he woke up wondering where they'd gone.

They got to the ARC, and immediately after they opened the front doors, they heard the loud sound of anomalies, like booming music. They covered their ears to dull the sound. Looking around, they saw hundreds of anomalies floating in the air. The place was empty of people and it looked like it'd been ransacked by wolves.

"Hello?" Connor yelled over the noise.

"SH!" came the response. It was Becker. He came cautiously from the hall door. He was heavily armed and looked like he was ready to take on world war 3. He swiftly grabbed Connor and Abby, leading them quickly into the hallway and shoving them into a room, locking the door when they were all inside. He bolted the door shut, tight.

Everyone else was in the room as well; Lester, Sarah, Danny, and a few others that worked at the ARC, including a bunch of the other soldiers. "What's goin' on?" Connor asked, stupefied by the huddled mass of terrified people. Becker and a few of the other soldiers were the only ones not looking terrified; they looked prepared and ready for a fight.

Becker put a hand on Connor's shoulder. "We were attacked by future predators earlier," he explained. "These anomalies just came out of nowhere. From what we can tell, they are all future anomalies, and it's only a matter of time before more future predators come through them. Or something even worse…"

"That's why you have to figure out a way to close them all," Lester said, referring to Connor.

"What? Have you seen all those things? There's got to be at least a hundred anomalies out there! I can't lock them all, are you crazy?"

"Connor can't do anything, anyway. He's in no condition," Abby defended him.

Connor's eyes narrowed and he stared at Abby, who didn't notice. He was sick of Abby thinking he was so vulnerable and that he couldn't do anything. His ego got the best of him. "I'll get to work on building a device that can close all the anomalies," he said to Lester.

"What? Connor, you are in no condition-" Abby started, but he cut her off.

"I'm fine, Abby." He walked out of the room, Becker in front of him and two other soldiers following around him to protect him as he went out into the open hallway, then he headed down to the room where they kept the anomaly locking device. He stopped in front of the door, turning to Becker and the other soldiers. "Stay outside the door and keep watch… in case something happens," he said as an excuse. They nodded.

He closed the door behind him and pulled out the small device that opened anomalies, from his bag. He remember when he first saw this thing… the first day he saw Dian; when she was laying, wounded, in front of that anomaly. Even then she looked beautiful.

He snapped out of it and inspected the device. It closed anomalies too, but the question was: could it close more than one anomaly at a time? He set to work opening the device to see its electronic make-up and determine what it was capable of.

When Alex opened his eyes, everything went black for a moment like the blood was rushing from his head too quickly. When his vision cleared, he saw pavement as he stared at the ground. When he looked up and looked around; they were outside the building, safe from those creatures… for now.

He smiled and laughed, relieved and adrenaline pumping. Dian looked at him and he smiled wide at her. Her face was completely serious, and then she striked him across the face with her hand. Alex yelled in pain. "What did you do that for?"

"Did you see all those people being killed, Alex?" she wailed at him, her face a mix of anger and mourn. "You killed them! What the hell were you thinking! Your own sister was in there! Alex, they are all dead! How could you do that?" Cutter grabbed her, holding her as she sobbed and kept her from hitting Alex again.

Alex blinked, taken aback. He hadn't thought about it. He stuttered a few times. He couldn't say anything, really. Then he looked at the building, the reality of everything hitting him like a rock. He staggered backwards and fell onto his knees. "Lauren," he whispered.

Screaming came from the building and then the front doors opened, a few people running from the building; some of them carrying injured people. Some of them were injured themselves.

The three of them ran over to the survivors. One of them grabbed Cutter's shoulders and quickly explained. "The doors are all on automatic lockdown. Those things shouldn't be able to get out, sir." He was breathing heavily. "I shot as many as I could, sir. I saved as people as I could. Please forgive me, sir; I couldn't save many of them. I-I'm sorry, sir." This soldier was only a kid; he was a trainee and he was only 18 and he'd just risked his life to save these people.

"It's alright, soldier. You did well," Cutter assured him, patting him on the shoulder and moving to the others. One of the injured people was another young soldier, about 19 years old. Both legs had been torn off and his face was ripped up badly. He'd lost so much blood and was barely still alive. Cutter kneeled next to him. "Can you hear me, kid?"

The soldier twitched and shook uncontrollably. He looked at cutter, blood coming from his mouth. "I don't wanna die, sir. I don't want to die!" was all he said.

Cutter swallowed hard. "It's okay, soldier. You're not going to die. I won't let you die. I promise you're going to be okay." The two medical staff that had survived were working on his wounds and the ambulance drove up, carrying out a stretcher for the wounded. Cutter looked at the kid and smiled. "See, you're gonna be alright, soldier. Don't worry."

"Please… I don't want to die!" he yelled, crying. He coughed, blood spurting from his mouth.

"Hey! Hey, stay with me, kid!" Cutter yelled at him. But, it was too late… The kid's eyes rolled back and he laid there, limp and lifeless. Cutter stuck his fingers on his neck, but got no pulse. He clenched his jaw and hung his head. Then he regarded the others. "Did anyone know his name?"

Everyone was silent… no one even knew the soldier's name, and he died working for Area 51. Cutter nodded at the ambulance, indicating for them to take away the body. He slowly stood up and watched as the ambulance was taking care of all the injured people.

But, this wasn't over; they still had to somehow get rid of all the anomalies and the creatures that were trapped in the building. 'How?' was the question.

"Nick?" Cutter turned around and saw Jason, aside from bleeding a little bit on his arm from a scratch, he was fine.

"Oh, Jason! You're okay." He smiled and shook his hand. "I thought they'd gotten you."

Jason's face was solemn. "Nick, this is it… the end of the human race."

"What are you talking about?"

"I saw the future one time. The end of the world. Where nothing but the future predators and other future creatures survived. They all took over the world and we were all killed. And, this is how it starts, Nick. This is the beginning of the end of the human race. We caused it…"

Cutter didn't say anything; he just turned around, immediately noticing that Dian was gone. He looked around but she wasn't there. "Dian? Dian!" he searched frantically but there was no sign of her.

He ran to one of the survivors. "When does that automatic lockdown happen?"

"It should have already locked down about two minutes ago, sir."

"Someone could have gone back in before that though?"

"Well, yes sir, but why would anyone do that?"

"Dammit!" he swore, running back to the front of the building and pulled on the doors, but they were sealed tight and made of metal. He banged desperately on the doors.

Alex ran up to him. "Why would she go back in? That's suicide."

"Because she wouldn't care if she died! She would try to go through one of those anomalies just to see if it led her back to that alternate reality!"

"But, why!"

"Because she was in love with that idiot! She would rather die than not try to go back to him!" He continued to bang on the doors frantically.

Connor was still working with the device when he heard a loud scream from outside. He put the last pieces of the device back together and ran out of the room. "What's going on?" he asked Becker.

"I don't know. Someone's in trouble."

"Yeah, I got that," Connor said. They ran down the hall and carefully opened the door to the main room, where the anomalies were. Immediately they spotted a person on the ground and a future predator about to attack them.

Becker and the other soldiers shot at the creature, quickly and swiftly killing it. They covered Connor as he ran over to the person on the ground. When he got closer, he realised it was a woman. Then he stopped dead in his tracks when he saw who it was… "Dian!" he yelled kneeling next to her. She was bleeding, but never-the-less okay.

She smiled at him, unable to move because of her wounds. "Connor… I've missed you."

He laughed and looked at her wounded arm and leg. "Must we keep meeting like this?" They both laughed.

"Come on, we've got to get her out of here!" Becker said.

Connor didn't notice him, he just stared at Dian. Then his face fell when he heard the familiar clicking sound of a future predator. His heart stopped and he swallowed hard, looking up from Dian and seeing the creature nearly 3 feet away from them. He tried to control his heartbeat, which did some good; the creature didn't go for him, it unexpectedly jumped at one of the ARC soldiers, the others shooting at it frantically, but unsuccessfully. It killed two of the soldiers, and one of them ran away, leaving only Becker who was slung across the room by the creature. It started moving towards where it'd flung Becker.

Connor stood up quickly, and not thinking, he threw a large metal plate at the future predator, hitting it in the head. It clicked angrily at him. "Oh no," he stated and ran the opposite direction as fast as he could, the creature gaining on him. He reached the ADD, thinking on his feet. He stood there and waited for the creature to be within inches of him… he then jumped straight to the side and the creature plundered into the ADD, screeching as it was electrocuted with immense electricity.

Connor's eyes were wide and his heart was thudding so hard against his ribs that it hurt. The creature was dead though. But he was frozen where he stood.

"Connor!" Dian yelled, limping towards him. "Connor we have to shut the anomalies!" She was almost pleading.

He reached into his vest and pulled out the device. He held his breath and pushed the buttons, closing his eyes.

It suddenly got quieter. He peeled one eye open and saw nothing… nothing but the destroyed ARC. He laughed threw a hand into the air. "WHOO! Ha-ha!" he exclaimed. "We did it!"

Dian hugged him. "You did it, Connor." The moment didn't last long.

A familiar voice came from behind them. "Dian, what were you thinking coming here?" The voice wasn't so much angry as worried.

Connor froze when he heard the man speak. He turned around, eyes wider than before. He almost flinched when he saw the man's face. To Dian, it was one of the soldiers from Area 51; one of their best soldiers and the brother to the young 18 year old soldier who'd saved most of those people. But, to Connor… he was someone completely different. "Oh my God… Stephen!"

Alex sat in the grass outside Area 51, thinking Dian was defiantly dead. Cutter came up to him, defeated. Alex saw a tear roll down his eye, but he didn't care about Cutter; he cared about Dian. He laughed a single humourless laugh. "She was pregnant, you know…" He nodded his head to himself. "I got a call from the doctor yesterday. She'd apparently gone without telling me, and he told me she was pregnant." He started sobbing.

What he didn't know, was that the baby Dian was carrying… wasn't his. It was Connor's…

TBC in Chapter 4!

So, yeah... very exciting stuff! :D

Next chapter, we will figure out what this "thing" is about Mike.

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