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Series 2 Episode 6
"Race Against Time"
Guest Starring: Lucy Brown, Lloyd Daniels, Jason Flemyng, Douglas Henshall, Andrew-Lee Potts, Annabel Scholey, Hannah Spearritt, Laila Rouass, Lenora Crichlow and Ben Miller
“What’s happened?!”, cried Alex in despair. The Detector had given in, and so had all the lights. Suddenly, they heard a roar from down the corridor…
“I know that roar”, quivered Sasha, “It’s a…”. She was cut off by the creature bashing through the doors.
”GORGONOPSID!!!”, screamed Jenny. The team ran as fast as they could in all directions, confusing the Gorgonopsid. They ran out the doors behind it.
“How did it get here?”, Mike asked as they were running.
“I don’t know”, Alex was confused, “We need to go to the park, that’s the weakpoint”.
Down in London, the other ARC team faced the same dilemma. The Detector broke down and all lights and electrical goods stopped working.
”What’s happened now?!”, moaned James Lester, head of this ARC.
“I don’t know!”, Connor Temple, the brainbox of the team, replied.
“We need to find out, it could just be a loose circuit”, Danny Quinn, the joint team leader with Nick Cutter, thought fast.
The Lincoln team arrived at the park. They had to run over a Raptor or two on the way there. The park was ridden with creatures of all sorts, but there was something, or someone, else there, hiding behind a tree. Katie. The team ran over there, with Mike and Jimmy tranquillising a Raptor on the way. Katie was terrified.
“The faultlines collapsed. I’m actually here, and so are they”, Katie explained.
“Can’t we just tranquillise them all and send them back through the right anomaly to their respective time periods?”, Lloyd suggested.
“And travel all around the world to do it?”, Katie added.
“You mean it’s global? No way!”, Georgia was shell-shocked.
“Yeah, the electricity, the creatures, everything. All around the world”, said Katie. The team were worried.
“I’m going to give Cutter a call”, Claudia decided.
“Hello”, Nick Cutter answered his mobile phone.
“Cutter, it’s me. This thing with the creatures, it’s worldwide”, Claudia explained really fast.
“Calm down. So, it’s all over the world. How?”, Cutter was confused.
“I’ll pass you over to my sister”, Claudia passed the phone to Katie.
“Hi Cutter, it’s Katie. I got trapped in the past a few weeks ago. I woke up one morning after my sleep and found I was in a park up here in Lincoln, in the present day. I looked at myself and I was like a ghost. No-one noticed me. Then I re-appeared back in the Cretaceous era. It happened at awkward times. The problem was, I was still visible in the Creataceous era, which meant Raptors could kill me and I would not be able to fend against them. But I survived. I realised that the Raptors sometimes did the same. I came to conclusion that the faultlines between times were collapsing around our time, and they have now collapsed. Creatures from all eras have spilled into the world, and this has caused the electricity to cut”, Katie gave a long explanation.
”Wow”, Cutter was surprised, “But what can we do to fight against it?”.
“We need to find an anomaly, any anomaly, and basically “shock” it”, Katie told him.
“How did you know that?”, Alex asked.
“I…don’t know”, Katie was confused, “Bye Cutter”, Katie finished her conversation with Cutter and threw Claudia her phone.
Cutter explained what happened to Katie and how they could stop this catastrophe.
“I can build something that can omit an electrical pulse into something”, Connor suggested.
“Good man Connor!”, Cutter was impressed.
“Alex, can you build some sort of device quickly to send an electrical pulse into something?”, Lucie asked Alex.
“Yeah, I think so”, Alex wasn’t confident, but Katie was confident for him. She smiled at him, and he smiled back. There were about 8 sleeping Raptors surrounding the team thanks to Mike and Jimmy. They all ran back to the cars and drove back to the ARC.
It was three hours later and both teams’ device was ready.
“All we need now is an anomaly”, Jimmy thought.
“I’ve got this”, Lloyd brought out an Anomaly Opener. He pressed a button and an anomaly opened in the middle of the ARC. Claudia got out her phone, making sure it didn’t get sucked into the anomaly.
“Hi Mia, it’s Claudia. Has Connor finished?”, Claudia asked.
”Hi. Yeah, Connor’s finished, but have you seen the news? It says thousands of people have died already”, Mia told Claudia.
“That’s why we need to do this now”, Claudia hurried Mia. She flipped down the phone.
“Connor, let’s do it now!”, Mia shouted. Connor ran to the device.
“Abby, open the anomaly!”, Connor ordered. Abby Maitland did so. This time, Sarah Page called Claudia as Mia and Cutter were behind Connor.
“Hi, it’s Sarah. We’re ready”, Sarah updated Claudia.
“OK, put me on speaker”, Claudia commanded. Sarah did that, “Right, on my command, we’ll both do it together. After the count of three…one…”.
Alex was nervous. If he didn’t do this, he could be responsible for a lot more deaths.
“…two…”
Connor was excited. He really wanted to be a hero.
“…three!”. Both Connor and Alex pressed the button and an electrical pulse was sent through the anomaly. The anomaly closed in on itself in both locations. The lights went back on, the Detector rebooted and, when they looked outside, all creatures had gone.
One thing the Lincoln team had noticed: Katie was fading away.
“It seems to know I was in the past before this, and it looks like I’m going back”, Katie was starting to cry. So were Alex and Claudia.
“Wait!”, Louise suddenly said. She had been pretty quiet since Katie came back, “Can we switch places?”.
“Maybe”, Katie thought, “Hold on to my hand, if it’s still here”. Louise held Katie’s hand. She had a tear running down her face.
“Are you sure you want to do this?”, Katie asked. Louise nodded, “They love you Katie. They prefer you to me, and that would’ve always been the case”.
“OK. Now concentrate really hard”, Katie commanded. Katie and Louise closed their eyes, and eventually, a light appeared that covered the whole room.
Alex woke up, “Katie?!”. He looked to see if the process worked. The light had gone. The process had worked, for Katie was lying on the floor.
”KATIE!!”, Alex smiled. He went and kneeled next to her. Georgia put her hand on his shoulder.
“Wake up Katie”, Alex hoped. He started to worry afterwards. He checked her pulse. There was no pulse. She wasn’t breathing aswell. Alex and Georgia hugged.
“It can’t be”, Alex couldn’t believe his eyes. Katie started coughing. Alex smiled again.
“Why am I down here?”, Katie was confused. Claudia got up and hugged her.
“Woah, what are you doing here?”, Katie had so many questions. She had forgotten it all.
It was two days later when Alex had a brainwave. Claudia, Jenny and Lloyd had all returned home.
“Hang on, can’t we open an anomaly and rescue Louise aswell?”, Alex felt pleased with himself.
”Who’s Louise?”, Katie asked.
”Brilliant idea!”, Sasha praised Alex’s brainwave. Lloyd left his Anomaly Opener for the Lincoln team, so Alex picked it up and got the co-ordinates for the era from the Detector. They all stepped through the now-open anomaly. They instantly saw the body of a blonde woman in the sand, with blood all over.
”That’s horrible”, Georgia cried.
“The Raptors got her”, Lucie stated.
They all stepped back through the anomaly.
“Why don’t you all go home and rest?”, Ben suggested after the team told him what had happened. They all did. Alex and Georgia decided to go out together for lunch. Neither really felt like eating though. Katie and the others went home to relax. Katie was still confused. She just shrugged it all off, despite remembering nothing of the last few weeks.
“I know that roar”, quivered Sasha, “It’s a…”. She was cut off by the creature bashing through the doors.
”GORGONOPSID!!!”, screamed Jenny. The team ran as fast as they could in all directions, confusing the Gorgonopsid. They ran out the doors behind it.
“How did it get here?”, Mike asked as they were running.
“I don’t know”, Alex was confused, “We need to go to the park, that’s the weakpoint”.
Down in London, the other ARC team faced the same dilemma. The Detector broke down and all lights and electrical goods stopped working.
”What’s happened now?!”, moaned James Lester, head of this ARC.
“I don’t know!”, Connor Temple, the brainbox of the team, replied.
“We need to find out, it could just be a loose circuit”, Danny Quinn, the joint team leader with Nick Cutter, thought fast.
The Lincoln team arrived at the park. They had to run over a Raptor or two on the way there. The park was ridden with creatures of all sorts, but there was something, or someone, else there, hiding behind a tree. Katie. The team ran over there, with Mike and Jimmy tranquillising a Raptor on the way. Katie was terrified.
“The faultlines collapsed. I’m actually here, and so are they”, Katie explained.
“Can’t we just tranquillise them all and send them back through the right anomaly to their respective time periods?”, Lloyd suggested.
“And travel all around the world to do it?”, Katie added.
“You mean it’s global? No way!”, Georgia was shell-shocked.
“Yeah, the electricity, the creatures, everything. All around the world”, said Katie. The team were worried.
“I’m going to give Cutter a call”, Claudia decided.
“Hello”, Nick Cutter answered his mobile phone.
“Cutter, it’s me. This thing with the creatures, it’s worldwide”, Claudia explained really fast.
“Calm down. So, it’s all over the world. How?”, Cutter was confused.
“I’ll pass you over to my sister”, Claudia passed the phone to Katie.
“Hi Cutter, it’s Katie. I got trapped in the past a few weeks ago. I woke up one morning after my sleep and found I was in a park up here in Lincoln, in the present day. I looked at myself and I was like a ghost. No-one noticed me. Then I re-appeared back in the Cretaceous era. It happened at awkward times. The problem was, I was still visible in the Creataceous era, which meant Raptors could kill me and I would not be able to fend against them. But I survived. I realised that the Raptors sometimes did the same. I came to conclusion that the faultlines between times were collapsing around our time, and they have now collapsed. Creatures from all eras have spilled into the world, and this has caused the electricity to cut”, Katie gave a long explanation.
”Wow”, Cutter was surprised, “But what can we do to fight against it?”.
“We need to find an anomaly, any anomaly, and basically “shock” it”, Katie told him.
“How did you know that?”, Alex asked.
“I…don’t know”, Katie was confused, “Bye Cutter”, Katie finished her conversation with Cutter and threw Claudia her phone.
Cutter explained what happened to Katie and how they could stop this catastrophe.
“I can build something that can omit an electrical pulse into something”, Connor suggested.
“Good man Connor!”, Cutter was impressed.
“Alex, can you build some sort of device quickly to send an electrical pulse into something?”, Lucie asked Alex.
“Yeah, I think so”, Alex wasn’t confident, but Katie was confident for him. She smiled at him, and he smiled back. There were about 8 sleeping Raptors surrounding the team thanks to Mike and Jimmy. They all ran back to the cars and drove back to the ARC.
It was three hours later and both teams’ device was ready.
“All we need now is an anomaly”, Jimmy thought.
“I’ve got this”, Lloyd brought out an Anomaly Opener. He pressed a button and an anomaly opened in the middle of the ARC. Claudia got out her phone, making sure it didn’t get sucked into the anomaly.
“Hi Mia, it’s Claudia. Has Connor finished?”, Claudia asked.
”Hi. Yeah, Connor’s finished, but have you seen the news? It says thousands of people have died already”, Mia told Claudia.
“That’s why we need to do this now”, Claudia hurried Mia. She flipped down the phone.
“Connor, let’s do it now!”, Mia shouted. Connor ran to the device.
“Abby, open the anomaly!”, Connor ordered. Abby Maitland did so. This time, Sarah Page called Claudia as Mia and Cutter were behind Connor.
“Hi, it’s Sarah. We’re ready”, Sarah updated Claudia.
“OK, put me on speaker”, Claudia commanded. Sarah did that, “Right, on my command, we’ll both do it together. After the count of three…one…”.
Alex was nervous. If he didn’t do this, he could be responsible for a lot more deaths.
“…two…”
Connor was excited. He really wanted to be a hero.
“…three!”. Both Connor and Alex pressed the button and an electrical pulse was sent through the anomaly. The anomaly closed in on itself in both locations. The lights went back on, the Detector rebooted and, when they looked outside, all creatures had gone.
One thing the Lincoln team had noticed: Katie was fading away.
“It seems to know I was in the past before this, and it looks like I’m going back”, Katie was starting to cry. So were Alex and Claudia.
“Wait!”, Louise suddenly said. She had been pretty quiet since Katie came back, “Can we switch places?”.
“Maybe”, Katie thought, “Hold on to my hand, if it’s still here”. Louise held Katie’s hand. She had a tear running down her face.
“Are you sure you want to do this?”, Katie asked. Louise nodded, “They love you Katie. They prefer you to me, and that would’ve always been the case”.
“OK. Now concentrate really hard”, Katie commanded. Katie and Louise closed their eyes, and eventually, a light appeared that covered the whole room.
Alex woke up, “Katie?!”. He looked to see if the process worked. The light had gone. The process had worked, for Katie was lying on the floor.
”KATIE!!”, Alex smiled. He went and kneeled next to her. Georgia put her hand on his shoulder.
“Wake up Katie”, Alex hoped. He started to worry afterwards. He checked her pulse. There was no pulse. She wasn’t breathing aswell. Alex and Georgia hugged.
“It can’t be”, Alex couldn’t believe his eyes. Katie started coughing. Alex smiled again.
“Why am I down here?”, Katie was confused. Claudia got up and hugged her.
“Woah, what are you doing here?”, Katie had so many questions. She had forgotten it all.
It was two days later when Alex had a brainwave. Claudia, Jenny and Lloyd had all returned home.
“Hang on, can’t we open an anomaly and rescue Louise aswell?”, Alex felt pleased with himself.
”Who’s Louise?”, Katie asked.
”Brilliant idea!”, Sasha praised Alex’s brainwave. Lloyd left his Anomaly Opener for the Lincoln team, so Alex picked it up and got the co-ordinates for the era from the Detector. They all stepped through the now-open anomaly. They instantly saw the body of a blonde woman in the sand, with blood all over.
”That’s horrible”, Georgia cried.
“The Raptors got her”, Lucie stated.
They all stepped back through the anomaly.
“Why don’t you all go home and rest?”, Ben suggested after the team told him what had happened. They all did. Alex and Georgia decided to go out together for lunch. Neither really felt like eating though. Katie and the others went home to relax. Katie was still confused. She just shrugged it all off, despite remembering nothing of the last few weeks.
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