After so long in the past, the present was now like a strange and exciting place. Mac looked around at his new surroundings. No longer were there tall trees that grew into the sky, or the dinosaurs that always seemed to think he looked like a delicious snack.

Instead the only things that grew into the sky were the skyscrapers and the only dinosaurs that were in this day were the ones that came through the anomalies and Evan of course, after all he was a few years older than Mac.

Instead the present was a place full of beautiful things; one of them had her arm wrapped around his side. But the present was also a place where there were things that Mac had taken for granted like the shower, or the toilet. Not so much at even but the toilet paper. The little luxuries that he had grown used too had been the things that he had sorely missed. But even though he had missed his bed, and his fridge and the internet there was nothing he missed more than Toby.

As they walked away from the anomaly Mac took a glance behind him and noticed that the Anomaly had turned into a small ball, enclosed in itself. He made a mental note to ask Evan to go through all the advanced with him later, for now he wanted to get as far away as possible because he never wanted to go camping again.

There would be time to get up to speed on just how far in a advance things had become, but before any of that he had a date with his shower.

Later when Mac was feeling all refreshed, like a new person again he walked into what used to be the special projects group, but what was now known as the 'VARC'. Since he left a year ago, not a lot had changed in terms of the way it looked, but everything that they did was different, everything that they used was different. It was an overwhelming experience, something hard to undertake but at the same time Mac felt like he was a little kid walking into a sweet shop, with everything in it to keep him occupied for a long time, now all he had to so was find his way to the guns.

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UK ARC:

Lester looked out into the Hub where he was certain he could see all of his employees slacking off. Over the years he had gotten to someone always slacking off, after all Connor had been on the team since the beginning.

But this was something different. Jess as usual was sitting in her red chair, her boyfriend, and Captain of security Becker was standing behind her. Team Leader Matt Anderson was standing with Emily. Ever since they both learned that neither were from the present they had instantly clicked, and as time went by they got closer still. It was a similar story with Abby and Connor. Now married, it had seemed so unlikely when they first met, but now they were hard to separate, and it was rare to find them on their own.

So Lester watched as they all stood, there and finally his curiosity got the better of him and he walked out of his office to see what the members of the ARC were looking at, what was catching their eye so much that they had all stopped their urgent work.

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VARC:

Evan walked into the VARC, papers in one hand; his other was scratching his head. Not watching where he was going he quickly bumped into Ange one of his longest friends.

'There used to be a time Evan where your head was not stuck in papers as much as it is now.' Her husky voice said.

'My head has always been stuck in papers, just not as much as it is now.' Evan rebutted and Ange could not help but nod in agreement.

'So what's so important that you bumped into me.' Is there some kind of a problem?' She asked, him her face suddenly paling, as she realised what she was asking.

There were always problems, but Evan had always had an answer to the problems that presented themselves to him. He had a way of making sure things all went into their proper place at the end of the day, but maybe this was getting to be too much.

'Yes, Ange, I think we have a problem.' He said, as Ange sucked in a gulp of air.

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