The ARC - London

[itsananomaly]

It had been another week since everything had happened with Danny and the house, Cutter and Connor had been working away at their anomaly prediction model, with Sarah continuing to get more and more research done. She was settling in well to the team, even though Becker seemed to be a little wary around her still.

“I never realised just how many myths and legends they’re actually were until we began to put the anomaly prediction model together,” Cutter remarked as they sat in the break room, going over the latest mythology books that Sarah had checked out of the library.

[for Connor and NFB for distance!]

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[thearcfamily]

Sarah was going over all the controls of the device Connor had given her, she gave a small shy smile at Becker as he looked over at her, "don't worry I'll be ready," she told him, "I've memorised how the controls work," she added confidently.

[anomaly_research_nerd]

Connor looked over at Cutter and nodded. "We'll be ready Becker. We'll have this done in no time and we can be back at the ARC and have a relaxing rest of the day."

And that was not at all going to come back and bite them all.

[itsananomaly]

Cutter nodded, "I mean we've already got the advantage of it being in a fairly isolated location right? We shouldn't have too much to do to get it secured and Sarah gets to experience her first field assignment," he smiled over at her.

[thearcfamily]

Becker nodded as he pulled into the airport and proceeded to follow the route to where the anomaly was supposed to be located.

"Alright guys... and gal..." he said glancing at Sarah. "Look sharp and no goofing off. Let's get this taken care of with limited incident ok?"

[itsananomaly]

"No incident, got it," Cutter gave Becker a grin that probably wasn't as reassuring as he thought it was, "Sarah let's go to the anomaly and start the data collection, Connor will you be alright setting up here?"

[thearcfamily]

"Yeah, I'll get everything set up and bring over the set up when we are ready to try and lock the anomaly. Connor and I got the prototype ready and if you want, we can test it out and see how it works?"

Becker considered it a moment and nodded. "Alright, we'll give it a try if you can get it set up and working." Becker nodded to a couple of his men to stay with Connor and then he started heading off with Cutter an Sarah towards the anomaly.

[itsananomaly]

"Okay according to the readings, the anomaly should be just a bit further up ahead," Cutter remarked as he stared down at his device while they walked, "and so far I don't see anyone around so it should just be a matter of containing the anomaly," he said hopefully.

[thearcfamily]

"Good. Then lets go get this taken care of. Before anything goes wrong and we end up with a bigger mess on our hands" Becker said casting a quick glance at Sarah before heading off ahead of her and Cutter to start securing the anomaly as it came into view.

"He really doesn't like me doe she?" Sarah said watching Becker as he went. "Is he like this with everyone?' she asked looking over at Cutter.

[itsananomaly]

"I wouldn't take it to personally," Cutter assured her, "he'll come round, he just takes his job very seriously, actually we had a bit of a rough introduction as well," he told her.

"Really?" Sarah's eyes were wide, "I don't believe that,"

"Aye, well it's a bit of a long story but basically when we first met, I tried to headbutt him and kick him, so ...really after that, you've got nothing to worry about," he added with a grin.

[thearcfamily]

Sarah's eyes went wide at that and she gave a small laugh as she stared at Cutter. "Well I don't plan on throwing any punches so, that is good to know. He seems like a good guy really" she said with a fond smile. "I... is.... is he seeing anyone? I mean... if you know or if he's mentioned anything?"

[itsananomaly]

Even for someone who could be quite oblivious, Cutter had noticed the occasional looks Becker and Sarah had given each other, "I don't think he's seeing anyone at the moment," he said thoughtfully, "he mentioned a girlfriend once but that sounds like it was a while ago, before I met him," he told her.

[thearcfamily]

Sarah couldnt keep the small grin off her face at that. "Thats... thast good to know..."

"So.... this anomaly then" she said trying to get the grin off her face as she turned her attention to the task at hand. "We'll get some new readings and we can load this to the data we already have right?"

[itsananomaly]

"That's right," Cutter told her, "in theory we should be able to take the data we've collected and add it to the anomaly prediction model, we'll be able to get more accurate predictions this way,"

[thearcfamily]

"So.... what was it about.... creature incursions? Or something like that" Sarah asked trying to remember the exact wording. "What... what is that all about?"

[itsananomaly]

"So that's when a creature will come through an anomaly, depending on the time period that the anomaly links back to," Cutter told her, "its our job to secure the site and make sure the creature goes back to the anomaly, if we can't send it back to the anomaly than we have to secure the creature and bring it back to the ARC but if its too dangerous, then we put the creature down," he told her, "but that last one is only as a last resort," he added quickly.

[thearcfamily]

"And what kind of creatures are we talking about? I mean, bugs or anything like that?" Sarah asked giving a small shiver. "I really really don't like bugs and creepy crawlies."

[itsananomaly]

"Uh ... bugs have been known to come through," Cutter looked at Sarah sympathetically, "we had a giant centipede as our second case and we've had parasites as well," he admitted, "but we have had raptors and even a mammoth come through," he added, he tried to not think about everything that had happened after that mammoth. "and Rex, he's a Coelurosauravus, I don't know if you've had a chance to meet him yet but he stays with Abby and Connor,"

[thearcfamily]

"The flying dragon that's always hanging around with Connor? Hes adorable!" Sarah gushed.

"He is and we will be lucky to have something so easy come through," Becker said as he joined them. "Keep your eyes open you two."

[itsananomaly]

Cutter grinned at that, "have you noticed any sign of there being a creature incursion yet?" he looked over to Becker, he held up his device to see what readings he could get off it.

[thearcfamily]

"Actually....." Becker said as he completed his first sweep of the area, his focus on an area in the corner of the hangar that evidently was being used as a catch-all storage area. He nodded his head towards the pile of boxes and slowly crept closer his weapon ready.

After a few tentative steps, there was a noise that sounded something between a screech and a chirp. A moment later what looked like a small juvenile dinosaur of some kind jumped out.

Becker jumped back with a startle. "Okay that is a yes, yes there is a creature incursion!"

[itsananomaly]

"Oh wow," Cutter breathed as he took in the small dinosaur, "it's beautiful," he said as he tried to get in closer to look at it.

Sarah looked at the creature to Cutter and then to the others, "how can he think that the creature is beautiful?" she asked incredulously, "what is it?"

[anomaly_research_nerd]

"Juvenile raptor it looks like" Connor said as he approached slowly, carrying the locking mechanism they were going to try and test. " Small but still really dangerous. So watch yourselves.

The dino gave an angry hiss and jumped at Connor snapping its jaws. connor looked over at Cutter with a "Really? Beauitful?" kind of look.

[itsananomaly]

Cutter looked a little sheepish, “I said beautiful not friendly,” he pointed out as he stepped even closer to the raptor.

Sarah hung back fascinated, “This is a raptor like out of meta for Jurassic Park?”

[anomaly_research_nerd]

"Aye, basically a teenager" Connor said with a grin despite himself as he watched the raptor. "So we at least have an idea of the time period for the anomaly now" he said as he nodded for Sarah to get the device out and get the data recording started.

[itsananomaly]

“And this will definitely help us with the anomaly mapping, at least this is a link to a past anomaly and we’ll have more data to work with,” he added as he held up his own device to start getting that information.