One hour later they arrived at the deserted warehouse. The warehouse was rotten and the place looked godforsaken. Everybody left the car and Cutter asked Connor "Any sight of an anomaly?" Connor looked at his small computer and answered "No nothing."
Jenny glanced around this place and in a disgusted way she complaint "It is really dirty and disgusting here. I am not going in there." Cutter chuckled and told her "Fine then stay here." Everybody started to move. Jenny looked around and decided that it would be better to be with the others. So she followed Cutter and the others. Jenny took a deep breath and explain "It smells in here." Cutter couldn't believe how grouching she was and replied "What did you expected?" Jenny just shrugged her shoulders and then they heard an unknown load groan. Connor moved closer to Abby and inquired "What was that?" Abby looked at him and said "Well it wasn't a kitty." She really liked to make fun of him. Connor was enraged by her conclusion.
Then they went downstairs and behind a wooden pallet Stephen could see something. He screamed for Cutter and together they moved the wooden pallet away. Now something came into view. A dead body of a seventeen-year-old-boy was ripped in two pieces. Abby could only whisper "Oh God". Everybody realised that this was the missing boy. Jenny placed her hand over her mouth to smother a scream. She turned away from the body and seconds later she found back her self-control and she decided " I have to call Lester." Without hesitation Stephen asked her in front of everybody "What are you telling his parents?" Jenny's eyes glinted with anger. That was not his concern and she didn't tolerated any interference by anyone. "Well Stephen I will tell his parents that their son had a deadly accident." Stephen couldn't let it go and so he had to asked her "Don't you think they deserve the truth." Now Jenny had enough. She moved closer to him and with a cold smile she said "No. It wouldn't help them. And besides you are stretching the truth also. Difference is…. I get paid for it." Then she turned around and called Lester to brief him. Some minutes later Connor almost screamed in a worried way "Guys….an anomaly is opening right in front of us." Then they all heard the groan again and before anybody could react a big grey creature with green spikes on its body ran directly towards the anomaly. Cutter was in his way. He was standing right in front of the anomaly. The creature would run over Cutter. There was no way out. So he jumped into the anomaly and the creature followed him. Everybody was in shock. No one knew what was going on inside the anomaly.
Stephen couldn't wait any longer and so he followed Cutter through the anomaly. Two minutes later Cutter and Stephen came back. Both of them fell down on the ground. Abby and Connor helped them up. Then the anomaly closed. Abby eyed Cutter and Stephen up and enquired "How was it there?" Both of them gasped for air till Stephen eventually said " Hot Very Hot! Everywhere were volcanoes and fire." After that Jenny sighted that Cutter had a wound right above his right eye. She stepped closer to him and told him "You are bleeding above your right eye Cutter." He touched the wound and clarified "Yeah I fell down. It is nothing." Some minutes later the cleaning team arrived and they removed the dead body and they cleared all traces of the creature.
Back at the ARC
Stephen clapped Cutter on the shoulder and inquired "Are you okay?" Cutter nodded and Stephen added "Don't you think that the people should know what's going on here?" Cutter shook his head and said " No….not until we know why they appear … and how we can contain them. I am sure that there is….. a pattern." "So you are with Jenny and Lester." "No Stephen…. At the moment this would cause just chaos. Besides we can't let anyone interfere. It is too dangerous." Stephen shook his head and went to Abby and Connor. He wanted to know on which side they are. "What about you Abby? Do you think like Cutter? He thinks it is okay that we lie to people." Abby looked him straight in the eyes and pronounced "I am with Cutter on that." Stephen sighed and in a questioning way he looked at Connor and Connor confirmed that he is with Cutter too. Stephen left the ARC for today and went home.
Jenny was in Lester office and she told him what happened. Then she went to the parents of the dead boy. She told them that their son was trespassing in an old warehouse and that he had a deadly accident there. She had to convince the parents not to bring any charges against the warehouse owner to protect the secret. After one hour she could leave them. She managed to make them believe that it was her sons fault that happened what happened. On her way home she reminisced about what happened today. For a moment she was really scared that Cutter was gone even if never believed that this would even bother her. Somehow she was in a really bad mood. She thought about the parents and what she told them. It was really hard for her to look at the mourned parents and lie to them. But that was her job. It was already half past midnight when Jenny arrived at home. She went into her bedroom and laid down into her bed. Marcus woke up and in drowsy way he started to kiss her neck. But Jenny wasn't in the moon for any endearment tonight and so she grumbled "I am exhausted Marcus. Not tonight." In an angry way Marcus turned around and fell asleep.
November 2010
Jenny, Marcus and their families were in an exquisite restaurant to celebrate Marcus birthday. Then Jenny's phone rang and her display showed that Lester was calling her.
She excused herself and went into the bathroom and answered her phone. "Hello James. Have you forgotten…." But she couldn't finished her sentences. Lester told her that an anomaly was in the Royal Opera House. The anomaly appeared right in the theatrical performance. A Megalosauridea was about to desolated the entire Opera House. Jenny told him that she was on her way. She did run her fingers through her hair and tried to figure out how she was going to explained a creature there. She went back to the table and pronounced "This was work. I have to go." So she left disappointed people behind and drove to the Royal Opera House.
Some minutes later
Jenny arrived at the Royal Opera House and called Cutter. He told her that two people were hurt and that she should come to the second theatre. Outside the second theatre the two hurt people were standing there. Both of them had just a laceration at the head. While there were running away they fell down. That's what the ARC medic told Jenny. One of the injured people a middle-aged man asked Jenny what this was. Jenny did make him understand that he wasn't allowed to talk about that. Otherwise he would end in the nut house. Jenny was sure that they understood her and she entered the second theatre. Stephen and Cutter had managed to lure the creature back through the anomaly. Jenny stepped to Cutter and asked "Is it gone?" "For now it is." "Okay I will take care of the press and try some damage control." Cutter looked at Abby and Connor and ordered "Connor, Abby you will help Jenny." Stephen and Cutter guarded the anomaly. Stephen waited till they left and said "So this is the way it should go…" But Cutter did cut Stephen short by saying "Let it go Stephen." Cutter had no intension to talk about that and one hour later the anomaly closed. Jenny, Connor and Abby explained that there was a technical defect. Most of the people believed it.