A/N: OK, firstly, I want to apologize for the massive delay and for the bad news. The bad news is that I've lost the spark for this story, everything I write for it looks like crap. Pro tip: if you're the kind of writer that gets really attached to one show and writes about it because of that attachment, don't watch another show. So, I'm putting up what I have done now with the promise that I will finish this last chapter; it just might take a while. If you'd rather I put it up in outline form, I can do that, just let me know. Again, I'm so sorry for leaving it like this; I just can't write anything else for Primeval right now. Thank you to those who've read everything so far, I really appreciate it.

Chapter 8

Ben stood back with the other members of the New ARC team and watched Steve warily as he paced back and forth in front of the still unconscious captain. As the man began to stir, Ben kept his eye on the pistol in Steve's hand.

Steve, who'd seemed to be getting better, looked completely insane by this point. He was still pacing in front of the captain and kept looking at the gun in his hand, as if debating whether or not he'd use it. The captain groaned and looked around blearily. Steve walked forward and crouched down to the level of the man tied against the tree.

"The only reason you're still alive is because we need information." Steve told the man calmly. "Otherwise, I'd have killed you on the path. So if you want to live long enough to go home again, you'd better start talking." The man sneered at Steve.

"I'm a trained professional, kid." He scoffed. "It'll take more than you having a hissy fit to break me." Steve seemed undaunted.

"Who do you work for?" He asked. The captain laughed.

"The Dark Lord of the Sith." He replied tauntingly. "Darth Vader gave me this-" Without warning, Steve pistol whipped the captain, cutting him off mid-sentence.

"Last chance." Steve warned. "My best friend is dead because of whoever you work for. I will kill you if you don't start telling me what I want to hear."

"You're gonna have to kill me." The captain said defiantly. Steve shrugged and pointed his pistol at the captured man.

As Ben jumped forward, trying to stop his teammate, Steve pulled the trigger. Ben stared in shock at the captain who, instead of slumping forward in death, jumped and flinched away. Ben could see now that Steve had moved his pistol at the last instant. Steve leaned down and put the still warm barrel under the man's chin.

"You know where the next one will go." He said in a low, gravelly, tone. "Now, are you gonna talk, or am I wasting my time?" The captain looked noticeably paler and shaken.

"Wha- what do you want to know?" He asked shakily. Steve stood up and handed the gun to Danny.

"He's all yours." Steve said, walking past the others. Ben motioned for Emily to go after him and stood next to Danny. Danny kneeled down to the captain's level.

"We'll start from the top." Danny said. "What's your name and who do you work for?" The captain still looked shaken, but seemed to compose himself.

"M-my name is Captain Tom Reynolds." The man stammered. "And I'm, I'm a British soldier."

"You're a what?" Lucien asked angrily, stepping forward. "I'm a British soldier and I don't hunt down people who haven't done anything wrong. I don't kill innocent people in their homes." By the end of his question Lucien's voice had raised to a yell and his face was inches away from the captain. The man, who'd been cocky and brave before, cowered away from Lucien.

"I-I was transferred to a secret agency as security." Reynolds told them hastily. "This group works with anomalies. B-but I think they do it under the radar, whenever the director has meetings with the Prime Minister, they're never discussed. I think the Minister believes we're researching renewable energy."

"And you're researching anomalies instead?" Danny asked.

"It's gotta be bigger than that." Steve reasoned, rejoining the group. "They wouldn't need all the cloak and dagger if they were just researching anomalies. So what do you do at this agency, captain?" Ben glanced at Steve, but he seemed to be calm and in control again.

"There's a generator, at the base." Reynolds said. He looked down. Ben was still confused and looked at the others.

"What kind of generator?" He asked the captain.

"An anomaly generator." Emily said quietly, "They're creating the anomalies." Captain Reynolds nodded.

"The generator creates the disturbance needed for anomalies to appear. But the agency didn't know it worked for months. That's how your group went undetected for so long." Danny nodded.

"So we need to get to your headquarters and destroy that generator." He said in a strangely upbeat tone.

"You sound pretty happy about storming a building full of armed soldiers and trying to disable a machine we know nothing about." Lucien pointed out. Danny shrugged.

"When I was with the ARC, we didn't even know we could stop the anomalies. Now you're telling me all I have to do is break a generator. It's easy stuff."

"There's something else." Reynolds added, looking concerned. "The agency has taken prisoners." Danny's eyes widened.

"Who?" He demanded. "Who do they have?"

"James Lester, Major Becker, and Jess Becker." The captain replied quietly. Danny stood up and walked away from the tree. The others followed behind him.

"What're you thinking?" Ben asked Danny as the group huddled away from Reynolds.

"We've got to get the ARC members out and we've got to destroy that generator." Danny stated.

"Well, obviously," Taylor replied, "But how? We don't have a plan; we don't even know where the generator is."

"Reynolds will tell us." Ben said, "And we could take the vehicles he used to get here."

"There are plenty of firearms around here." Lucien noted. "We wouldn't be short on ammunition." Emily looked terrified.

"Hold on," She said frantically. "You're talking about storming a highly guarded facility, killing our way through, mounting a rescue mission, and disabling an anomaly generator with no knowledge of how it works." She looked around at the others in fear. Steve shrugged.

"When you put it like that, it sounds much easier." He replied nonchalantly.

"It's insane." She said angrily, "We'll all be killed."

"You don't have to go." Danny said gently. "No one will fault you for wanting to leave; or anyone for that matter. I'm going, and anyone else is welcome to join me." He looked around at the others

"I'm in." Steve replied immediately.

"And me." Lucien added. Ben sighed.

"I'm coming too." He said resolutely. They looked at the two women.

"I'm not walking away from this." Taylor stated firmly.

"You're not all going in without me." Emily said finally. "If you all go in and I don't, I'll never be able to live with myself. I just want to make sure I go on record as saying that this is insane."

"Noted." Danny said with a small grin. "Now, let's go ask the Captain where the party is."