Hope you all liked the first chapter. I know it was short. They'll probably stay short for quite a while, but when I get more confident they should become a bit longer.

I think this is in an A/U as I think Becker will be in it as I really wanted to put him in.

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Nick, Stephen, Connor and Abby were in the first SUV that left the ARC. Lester and Jenny followed them with 4 members of the alpha team and a third SUV brought up the rear with the rest of the armed men.

"Oh my God, I can't believe we're actually going to Buckingham Palace!" Connor said excitedly, his infectious grin plastered on his face. Abby couldn't help but grin at her friends' enthusiasm

"I'm still amazed that Lester managed to get us access." Stephen marvelled.

"He did say he was good," Connor pointed out.

"Yeah, modest chap isn't he?" grinned Cutter. The occupants smiled in return but soon fell silent again as they thought about what could happen. What if something big and dangerous came through the anomaly? What if something already had? Would the team turn up only to find the place a massacre? Lester had already made sure the Queen and the rest of the Royal Family had been taken to secure bunkers, but for all they knew the anomaly was in one of them.

In the second car of the convoy, Jenny Lewis sat with a laptop in front of her. She had to get a cover story prepared to explain why armed men were about to go storming into Buckingham Palace and why the tourists had to be evacuated.

"I was thinking some sort of terrorist threat." Lester suggested as they drove through the congested streets of London.

"No, that could cause mass panic and other countries would want to know what was happening. They'd start worrying that someone from their country was in there or something," replied Jenny, brow furrowed as she tried to think of some other excuse they hadn't used before. "The best bet would probably be to say some sort of security testing is going on. We could create other stories that suggest security at Buckingham Palace has not been as good as it should and that the soldiers are just a precaution to make sure nobody gets in whilst the security cameras are off."

"That'll have to do. We'd need to get the PM to confirm this in a news report of course. No matter how little people trust the PM, they always seem comforted by him confirming other peoples' statements."

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As the cars first pulled up at the gates of Buckingham Palace, a crowd of one hundred or so people turned to stare at the new comers, curious of their arrival. News crews turned their cameras to film them or to take photos, whilst tourists stared on at this latest change, hoping to see something exciting to tell family and friends when they returned home.

Lester got out of the SUV and approached one of the guards that stood by the grand, black metal gates. He started explaining who they were and the guard had the gates opened so that the three cars could enter the fore court to unload their weaponry and other devices without being seen.

Once ready, Lester spoke to Captain Becker. "I know you usually let Cutter and the team go gallivanting off on their own, but I'd appreciate it if you didn't let them out of your site this time. If word got out that somebody died in what they believe is a routine operation we'd all lose our jobs. Is that understood?"

"Yes sir, I'll make sure nobody is harmed," Becker promised, ignoring Lester's rudeness toward him.

"That'll make a change," muttered Lester before he got into one of the cars with Jenny. Becker watched them leave before he gathered everybody up to enter one of the most famous buildings in the world.

That's my second chapter finished. Again, it's very short and sorry about that, but if I make them too long then I just start going on about nothing.

Thank you to everyone who reviewed my first chapter, and I hope you review this one. Still not sure when I'm going with this story so any suggestions would be good (:

Thanks

Alys