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Shards of Glass

Chapter Two- Not Again!

At the ARC, the alarms suddenly blared out from the ADD. The team of Matt, Becker, Emily, Connor and Abby all suddenly appeared at the Hub from different locations, depending on where they were working. Matt and Emily had been looking at the plants in one of the labs; Becker had been supervising the cleaning of the weapons in the armoury; Connor had been working in his lab and Abby had been overseeing the animals in the menagerie when the klaxon sounded. They gathered around Jess at the controls, as she furiously punched keys on her keyboard as they arrived.

"What've we got, Jess?" asked Matt

"It's an anomaly just on the outskirts of the city. No details of creature incursion, though" Jess told the team. "Oh! - It's gone!" They all looked at each other, wondering why the anomaly had closed so quickly. Just as Jess finished speaking, Lester appeared from behind them.

"I've just had a call in from the police. A woman has been found screaming blue murder in the street about seeing a dinosaur through some floating glass! You'd best get a team down there and see what's happening. Jenny- you go too and make up some story to calm the woman down before the press get to hear about this!"

With that, Lester started to turn away. He turned back suddenly "Well, come on! Chop, chop! You're not paid to stand there gassing all day!"

"Yup!" said Connor, turning to hurry out of the room with the others on his heels. Matt leapt in the driver seat of the first SUV, and Emily got in beside him. Connor and Abby got in the back, leaving Becker to sort out a team of soldiers for backup and then jump into the second SUV with Jenny. Abby and Connor looked at each other. They always felt a little thrill of excitement at a new anomaly, although they had learnt the hard way that it wasn't all fun and games- people got hurt or even killed!

Abby smiled at Connor as she thought that it wasn't so long ago that he would have tried to get into the front seat of the car- keeping count of when he'd last ridden 'shotgun', causing the rest of the team to laugh at his childish antics in keeping tally. He'd really grown up since then in more ways than one. Her hand went to the finger where her engagement ring usually sat. She had a habit of touching it, and turning it around now and again- she still couldn't believe she was engaged! Of course the ring wasn't there, she realised, feeling a bit silly at how bereft she felt at its not being there. She'd left the ring safely at home- she couldn't wear it to work unfortunately.

Connor noticed the little action and sigh when she remembered she'd left the ring behind. He gave her one of his gorgeous huge grins. He always felt so happy when she did that- he felt it showed that she really wanted to be engaged to him- he was still a little unsure of himself, and couldn't believe someone like Abby could want to marry a 'geek' like him.

Abby loved Connor's smile, especially when his dimple came into play on his left cheek. He was so hot, she thought, especially as he didn't seem to know it! They looked at each other and got lost in the intensity of each others eyes.

"Hey, you two!" a voice suddenly penetrated their thoughts "C'mon, lovebirds" said Matt "We're here!" He said it indulgently and smiled at Emily, who smiled back at him. She thought Abby and Connor were really cute and always thought their little displays of affection towards each other as being very sweet. She could really relate to them, as she was just beginning her relationship with Matt, and had never had such a wondrous thing happen to her before. After all, she was from the Victorian era, and women there were cosseted and kept at home until their fathers made a 'match' for them, if they were from a good family. Love and affection just didn't come into it, so Emily felt really lucky with her new life, especially finding Matt.

They went to the anomaly site to see if they could find any signs of a creature incursion. They could see Jenny off at one side, talking to a tearful woman. Connor wondered how she was going to explain it to her. He'd love to go and listen, but had work to do here…

As he began to get out his scientific equipment with Abby's help, the anomaly suddenly burst open again, and the woman squawked in fear.

"There! There! What did I tell you!" she screamed.

"Good luck, Jenny" Connor thought as he set to work. He changed tack and started to get the equipment ready to seal the anomaly before anything came through. Too late! Just as Becker and Matt joined him, some small creatures about one foot long came running through. Connor laughed at the small vanilla fur balls as they zoomed in from the anomaly.

"Triconodons" he said "They usually like to spend most of their time up trees- I wonder what's made them run? They're really cute!"

"Aaah!" said Abby "Sweet!"

They all started rushing around trying to grab the little creatures, which seemed rather timid and ran from them. They had to move quickly before they lost them up in the trees, and Abby tried to count them as they came through to make sure they would be able to account for them all. Connor and Abby laughed, remembering the time a group of dodos came through an anomaly. They had led the team a merry dance- and it looked like this little bunch were going to do the same. Connor didn't let himself remember how it had ended -with Tom's death. They had a job to do!

"Here's one" said Becker, holding the little creature and trying to put it back through. It bit his finger before leaping back through the anomaly. "Ouch!" he said crossly, sucking his finger. "You're lucky I don't just shoot you!" he shouted after the animal, earning a death glare from Abby.

"We've got most of them" puffed Matt, a little out of breath as he put one of the creatures back through.

"We've got the last couple here" Abby and Connor laughed. The creatures seemed to like them and snuggled quietly in their arms. The anomaly suddenly started pulsing.

"Oh no!" cried Abby "It's about to close-quick, Connor let's get these last two through!" They were close to the anomaly and were just pushing the furry creatures through, when suddenly one that no-one had noticed jumped onto Connor's back, knocking him off balance. He bumped into Abby, who was just in front of him and the creature, Abby and Connor and their two bundles all fell in a heap through the anomaly.

They jumped up- just in time to see the anomaly close behind them. They looked at each other in consternation.

"Not again!"…..

To Be Continued…