Becker and Connor both set out in the direction the kids said the Gorgonopsid went. They trailed through the forest searching for the creature but with no real luck. Abby was taking the kids to school whilst Matt overlooked the locking and guarding of the anomaly. Jess was checking traffic camera and listening in to police calls to try and locate the creature as she wasn't much help in the forest where there was no technology.
Becker upon finding a large fallen log smashed in half he bent down to inspect it and Connor followed behind.
"Something large has been through here. Recently" stated Becker.
Something clicked in Connors mind and the images started again. However this was more of a video, a flash back. Stephen was crouching down by the log, holding a map in his hand and scouting the forest. "Something large has been through here. Recently" Stephen said, not really addressing Connor but saying it out loud none the less. Then he stood up and began to walk further into the forest.
"Stephen…" whispered Connor as the image began to fade and he sunk to the floor, he knew of his death, wanted to warn him, but couldn't….
"Connor? Connor!"
"Huh?" He replied as he sluggishly looked at the solider standing in front of him, his mind trying to process what he had just seen.
"What are you doing?"
"I… I…"started Connor wanting to tell someone but didn't know how to explain it, especially to someone who hadn't been there, who hadn't lived it. "Hadn't lived it… Hadn't…Lived…..It." Thought Connor to himself, trying to remember why he would say something like that. The images felt like memories yes, but not his. It was like he was watching the life of someone else. He hadn't lived it himself…. "I… I just felt a little dizzy that's all. It has passed now. I'm all good" he lied, standing up and following Becker as he marched after the creature.
As they searched the forest Connor began to try and remember his own past but was struggling to think of anything definite. His own past, like the one he was seeing was murky and only a few flashes were clear enough to make out.
"Becker?"
"Yeh?"
"You have read the files on the past. On everything before you joined the A.R.C. Right?" Becker nodded in response.
"How did this all start? Tell me everything you can remember, the location of where we first discovered the anomalies, you know, everything."
"Why?"
"Just do it!" snapped Connor, becoming irritated that he himself couldn't remember and something was happening but he didn't know what.
"Okay. Well it was in the forest of Dean, the first Anomaly. You, Cutter and Stephen were there, investigating the disappearance of Helen Cutter when… You know what. I can't remember what it said happened next. Get Jess to bring up the file if you are so bothered." He replied, now puzzled by his lack of memory.
"I'm already on it" said Jess over the Comms.
A few seconds later and the file was loading up onto the ADD's screen. What Jess saw in front of her made her gasp. The file, it was re-writing it's self slowly. As the stated time passed, the description changed as if someone was selecting that part and retyping what had happened. After Jess had gotten over the shock she ran security scans and nothing indicated that there was someone interfering with their files. It was doing it its self.
"Guys, the file. It is changing. Like someone is retyping it. I can't make it stop." cried Jess, typing madly on the computer.