Professor Nick Cutter

"Exactly, theres at least a chance we're dealing with a natural anomaly then" Connor said before turning his attention to the handheld as he studied the readings. "Strange... it looks like we should be right on the anomaly but... but there's nothing here?"

"Well it should be working" Becker said as he leaned over Connor's shoulder to study the readings. "Lester had us do system checks of all the gear while you guys were in Fandom. The handhelds were checked out just a week ago."

"Well then if the reading is right then....that means the anomaly might be..." Connor looked at Cutter then Becker then looked down at his feet. "There's a basement area isn't there?"

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"Then that has to be where it is," Cutter nodded, "if the readings are correct, did Lester arrange for us to have complete access to the museum while we were here?" he looked over at Becker

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Becker nodded. "We should be good to go wherever we need. Basement area is likely the storage so hopefully we will be less likely to run into anyone down there."

Connor nodded and then looked around. "Probably best to take the stairs. A big enough anomaly might start affecting some of the electronics around here."

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"Stairs it is then," Cutter nodded, "I think I saw a sign back there that said the stairs to the basement were further up this way, we should be at the basement in no time and hopefully we'll have a clearer understanding of the anomaly then,"

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Well, the basement area was mostly empty... but a place like the British Museum was never actually empty, not really.

And Sarah was there working on some research related to one of the Egyptian exhibits. And as usual she was so caught up in her work she wasn't aware of much else.

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"Well this is looking promising, it seems to be empty," Cutter said as they entered the basement and began to look around, he hadn't noticed Sarah still working, "hopefully we can contain the anomaly without any further incident,"

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Connor was busy looking at the readings on his handled ADD and then looked up as they turned a corner.

"Found it" he said staring at the anomaly in awe. Even after everything there was no denying the things were very beautiful... until something scary came through. "I'm trying to get a reading for what time period it might be connected to and..."

Connor's voice trailed off and he pointed, mouth gaping open somewhat. There was the anomaly and right beside it was a large shelf of rather old and important looking artifacts and such. And on the other side of the shelves, there was a woman who seemed to be examining one of the items from the shelves. Her back was to them and the anomaly.

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"Oh this could complicate things," Cutter groaned as he noticed the woman and he looked at Becker, "what to do we do? Do you think she's noticed the anomaly yet?"

If she had, she didn't seem to be particularly bothered by it.

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"Well I doubt we can get her out without her seeing it..." Becker said with a sigh. Why couldn't they have one easy mission, just once? "Maybe we can get her away without too much commotion and..."

Beckerk didn't get to finish as the sound of something dropping to the floor and shattering.

At that moment the woman had turned around to put something back on the shelf. It was then she caught sight of the anomaly and the vase in her hands had fallen to the floor.

"What is that!?" she cried out in surprise.

"Well this just isn't going our way..." Becker sighed rubbing his head.

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"It's um ..." Cutter tilted his head at Becker, now wondering how they were supposed to get this woman away from the anomaly and without blowing their cover as well, "er ... it's rather complicated, but um ... we need you to leave the area, it's not safe for you here,"

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"Wait... who are you?" Sarah asked, finally registering the three strangers who had shown up. "No one is supposed to be down here expect staff or those with special permission! What are you doing down here?"

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"Well we have special permission ... er..." Cutter tried to see if she was wearing a name tag, "Dr....Page?" he tried as he looked back up at her.

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"That's right" Connor said, trying to think of what to say. "There's been some concern about... security... for the exhibits and all" Connor glanced at Becker. "We're here to check for safety concerns and other issues. like... this" he said reluctantly with a nod towards the anomaly that was impossible to pretend wasn't there.

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"Yes that's right," Cutter nodded, "so if you could please leave now and let us make sure everything is up to ...uh ...code?" he tried to think of something that sounded like they were there to check the safety of the site.

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"Awful lot of firepower for a random security check isn't it?" Sarah asked eyeing Becker's weapon in particular. "What exactly is this thing?"

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"It's ...uh ...," Cutter tried and realised he didn't have a good cover story for this, they really should have brought Jenny with them for this, "would you believe us if we said that it was a new piece for the museum?"

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Sarah just crossed her arms and gave Cutter a look that clearly said "no".

Connor rubbed the back of his head. "Would you believe it is a portal to another time and location in earth's history?"

Becker gave him a quick slap on the back of his head and a look.

"What? Shes probably not going to believe that one either!" he said as he rubbed the back of his head harder this time.

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Sarah gave them an incredulous look, "okay I'm going to give you to the count of three to really tell me what's going on, or I'm going to call my boss and have you arrested,"

Cutter sighed, raising his hands slightly in an 'I surrender' position, "look, we have authorisation to be here, we're here because your boss asked us to be here"

"I ..." Sarah began to count, not impressed with that answer.

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"Look, Connor was telling the truth... oddly enough" Becker said with a sigh. "The anomaly," he said with a nod, "it is a doorway to another point in time. And this is not the first one we have dealt with either. We're here with the ARC, to keep the anomaly from causing any damage to the museum or anyone here."

"The Ark?" Sarah asked looking even more confused.

"Not that one" Connor said with a small smirk. "A.R.C. Anomaly Research Center."

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"Look this might sound rather strange but have you noticed any strange creatures that don't belong in this time period?" Cutter looked at Sarah and then realised how that sounded, "trust me, we don't actually have an Ark," he added.

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"N-No... I haven't...." Sarah said still trying to figure out how much of this, if anything, she actually believed. "So what, this is all a big government coverup or something?"

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"Er ..." Cutter looked over at Becker and then back at Sarah, "well, we can't actually talk about specific details, we've signed the Official Secrets Act ... which I suppose to answer your question, does make it a government coverup?"

He was really bad at this, "uh ..Connor?" he tried, looking over at Connor since Connor was better about explaining conspiracy theories than he was.

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Connor nodded and launched into an overly complicated and long- winded explanation that did sound more conspiracy theory than anything else. At the end, Sarah still looked confused but maybe a little less likely to find the nearest phone and call the police or the press. So, mission accomplished? Maybe?

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Cutter relaxed just slightly when it seemed like Sarah wasn't going to report them, "please, trust us ..." he said softly, "I know how this all sounds, we are here to help you,"

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