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Anomaly

The three ran out of the anomaly, returning to the scene just before Helen's anomaly opened.

"That was horrible." Jenny said, as their past selves flashed to join them.

Lester and the others turned to them looking ashen.

"I take it by the fact that only you three returned, things don't go that well." he said dryly.

"No they don't. All of you die. But we can stop it, change it." Nick said.

He dashed forward to where Helen's anomaly would appear.

"It's the predators. We need to kill all of them first. If we do that, they cant decimate the rest of our creatures." he explained.

"So we need to hit the predators?" Becker asked.

"Yes. If not, you all die, and what's more, the predators will escape and destroy humanity. This is it, this is where they get loose. You lot are the first deaths they cause. If we stop them as they arrive, they cant evolve, and no evolution, no predators." Nick said.

They all nodded and readied their weapons.

"So…we all die?" Connor asked worriedly.

"Yep. It isn't pretty." Danny admitted.

"Connor, you get squashed by a Mer to save Abby, so stay away from them." Jenny warned.

Abby looked at Connor.

"You die to save me? How romantic." she sighed, and Danny rolled his eyes.

"Sarah, stay away from both Smilodons, or you get ripped apart." Nick cautioned.

"Stay away from the tigers. Got it." Sarah said.

"Lester, while you do kill it in the process, you get eaten by the Giganotosaurus." Danny added.

Lester looked pleased with himself.

"Befits a man of my stature killing the biggest dinosaur she has as I go." he said musingly.

"Becker, you get killed by those nasty bird things." Danny said, and Becker winced.

"And Johnson, you get ripped up by predators." Jenny told her.

Johnson paled at the thought.

"What about me?" Abby asked, taking her eyes off Connor.

"You get killed by the worst creature imaginable. Helen." Nick warned as the anomaly flared to life.

"Good luck everyone. Survive." Nick urged, and they readied their weapons.

There was a flare from the other side of the room, and the real Helen stepped through, just as her past self did. Her past self vanished as she stepped through, and Helen cursed.

"No! Kill them!" Helen yelled, as she started firing.

"Get them!" Lester ordered, and bullets thundered out from their guns, catching many of the snarling predators in the head.

The predators clicked and fell to the floor, while Helen screamed orders at her advancing creature army. She dashed forward to join them, and Jenny started trying to shoot her, but Helen was too fast and darted among the clones to escape her competition's wrath.

"Take it to them!" Becker yelled as he blasted apart the head of another predator, and the creatures, ARC team and soldiers all surged forward, bullets and claws flying as they smashed into Helen's army.

"Take down those last predators!" Danny yelled, shooting one of the worms that were slithering forwards.

Johnson then rushed at the five remaining predators, screaming a battle cry and letting loose with her machine gun. The creatures couldn't save themselves quickly enough, and she cut them down.

"Johnson, you're amazing!" Danny cried happily as she kicked the head of her dead opponent.

"You've just saved the future." Nick said kindly, patting her shoulder.

"Yeah, I'm cool." Johnson said, giving Jenny a high five before the two of them entered the throng of clones.

The battle raged around them. Without the predators to harm them, the Embolethriums roared and charged forward, their massive weight and strength adding a great amount to the ARC offensive. The matriarch Brachiosaurus gave an enraged cry and charged onwards, slamming her head into the Giganotosaurus' belly, sending it staggering. She then swung her tail around and knocked the massive beast of it's feet. It slammed to the ground, roaring in fury as she crushed it's head, and roared no more.

"Score for our side!" Connor cried, shooting down one of the Mer from a safe distance.

Without the predators, one of the largest killers in Helen's army was incredibly lacking. Her army was clearly suffering due to their defeat.

"You haven't won Nick!" she cried, shooting at him.

Nick jumped out of the way and fired back, skimming her shoulder.

"Yes we have! Once we finish your things it'll be over!" he warned, wincing as a bullet sizzled his hair.

"Dream on! The predators will still evolve!" she yelled, barely missing him.

Nick snarled and dove to the ground as she pumped off another couple of bullets.

Lester saw the three Deinonychus come towards him menacingly.

"Right. I obviously cant kill the big beastie, so you three bums will have to do. AHH!"

Bullets sang out, and the creatures retreated in shock. However, while some had hit, it only made them angrier, so he stopped firing. They ran towards him, and Lester started firing again, taking one down, and it slid to a halt at his feet. The other two leapt forwards, cutting him with their claws. Lester fell, and they turned snarling at him, preparing for the kill. He grabbed his gun and poured more rounds into one raptor, which keeled over. The other backed off slightly, and Lester rolled to his feet and brought that one down too.

The two Smilodons were locked in combat, and the ARC one was losing. Helen's one ripped apart their's face, and it staggered back, bleeding heavily, roaring in pain. Sarah raised her gun and blasted Helen's in the eye, dropping it to the ground. The Smilodon mewed a thanks at her and retreated for a bit, while Sarah went after more clones.

The Torvosaurs were charging at the two mammoths, however Mickey and Minnie wouldn't fall so easily. Trumpeting a challenge they stampeded at the two dinosaurs, and Mickey stabbed through his one with one of his tusks, leaving the animal dead on its tusk. Minnie wrapped her trunk around her one and slammed it to the ground vigorously, breaking it's skeleton.

"That's it! Her biggest dinosaurs are down!" Becker yelled happily, shooting at the snake.

The snake reared its ugly head, and struck at Becker, who barely avoided it. There was a braying, and the Scutosaurus then trampled the snake to the ground.

"Good dinosaur." Becker said, then shot down another couple of clones.

The dodos were crowding the worms, pecking away at them and the parasites. One punctured the parasite and the thing gave a wheeze and died. Inspired, the other dodos started pecking away, finishing off the parasites. However, the worms then advanced and killed a couple of dodos. There was a cry and the orang-utans swung in and started pummelling the worms with their firsts. Helen was losing the battle, as without the predators her main method of murder was gone.

Helen cursed as she watched the worms get decimated by the orang-utans. She was losing creatures, and fast. While the ARC had sustained losses, they weren't nearly as severe as her own. Her clones were being cut down as well, especially by the Embolethriums, which were trampling many. She bared her teeth and was about to move forward when a bullet ripped through her shoulder.

Ignoring the pain, she turned to see Jenny, glaring at her.

"Helen." she hissed.

Helen smiled widely.

"Jenny. Or Claudia? I get confused." she said, raising her own gun.

Jenny ignored this, glaring at her nemesis.

"You've caused Nick so much heartache over the years." Jenny scowled.

Helen feigned innocence.

"Me? It was you who got changed in the timeline. You caused him heartache and confused him." Helen sneered.

Jenny raised her rifle.

"I'm going to make you pay for what you've done." she promised, and fired.

Helen screeched and threw herself to the floor, as Jenny's bullets punctured the wall above her. Helen fired a string of bullets, and Jenny went to the ground to avoid them, before letting loose with another round. Helen crawled to her feet and tackled Jenny as she started to rise. Both guns skidded across the floor, and Jenny punched Helen in the mouth. Helen backed off, before jumping to her feet and kicking Jenny in the jaw. Jenny crashed to the floor, and kicked upwards, catching Helen in the stomach. Helen rocked backwards, and Jenny's foot swept out, taking Helen's legs out from under here. Jenny then leapt onto Helen and started scratching at her face.

"Bitch!" Jenny cried, losing all control.

"Whore!" Helen screamed back and poked Jenny in the eye.

Jenny yelped in pain, and Helen head butted her, throwing her off. She stood on her feet and slammed her foot into Jenny's chest, who wheezed. Helen then kicked Jenny in the head, and Jenny grabbed the foot and sunk her teeth into it. Helen yelled in pain as Jenny pulled her down and smacked her in the mouth and in the nose.

Heedless of the battle going on around them, Becker, Danny, Nick, Connor and Lester were all staring at the fight between Jenny and Helen, transfixed.

"Wow." Connor said as Helen punched Jenny in the nose.

"Should we be fighting?" Becker asked half heartedly, while Jenny sunk her teeth into Helen's hand.

"Probably." Danny conceded, as Helen punched Jenny in the gut.

"Speak for yourself, I'd rather watch this." Nick said, as Jenny kicked Helen in the stomach, making her double over.

"I should offer her a raise." Lester commented as Jenny then kneed Helen again before kicking her to the ground.

"Hey! Are we the only ones fighting here?" Johnson demanded irritably as she took down the mantis.

"Oh alright." Lester conceded, and they went back into the throng.

Jenny snarled and leapt at Helen, trying to gouge out her eyes. Helen did the same, and began scratching at her face. Nick decided it was time to intervene before the two ripped each other to shreds. He grabbed Jenny, and pulled her back.

"No! Let me go! Let me at her!" she screeched, trying to wriggle out of his grip and get to Helen.

Helen, who was standing back and panting, looked thankfully at Nick.

"Thank you Nick." she said, wiping blood from her face.

"I didn't do it for your sake." he snapped, and pulled Jenny back, who was still trying to get back to Helen.

"Let me at her! I'll kill her! She goes we can all go home! Let me go!" she screamed as Nick took her towards the Brachiosaurs.

The Pristichampus was squashing the spider sand was making a meal out of some of the cockroaches as the battle entered it's final stages. Rex and his kind were swarming the others, allowing the Pteranodons to pick them off. The Anurognathus were being decimated by the orang-utans, and the Australopithecus were battering into the Mer. The Dracorex worked with their Smilodon, who had recovered slightly, to bring down the Hesperonis. The Scutosaurus dealt with the Mer Queen, crushing her under it's weight. The Pterosaurs were decimating the megopterans too.

Danny fired the last of that reel of bullets, finishing off the last of the terror birds. The herds were crushing most of what remained, forcing them up the wall. Becker and his soldiers were killing the Arthropleura, and Abby blasted the camo beast. Connor gunned down more Mer, while Lester and Johnson went back to back, shooting the swarming spiders, aided by the mammoths and the Brachiosaurs. Jenny and Nick had re-entered the battle and were blasting down the clones, while Sarah brought down a Gorgonospid. The other then saw her and charged. Sarah went pale and wondered if she was going to die in this timeline too, until the baby Brachiosaur crashed his full bulk into it and killed it by flattening it against the wall. Sarah patted the creature thankfully.

Lester watched as their monkey friend ripped apart another two Anurognathus, and threw the bits to the ground. Rex, Sid and Nancy led their species in dealing with the remaining spiders, and Nick smiled in satisfaction. They had won.

They finally spotted Helen, and Nick motioned for the others to surround her while the creatures finished off her army and the last of her clones. They all ran forward, determined to stop her. She looked at them in surprise and attempted to run, but was cut off by Lester and Becker. She tired the ramp but Johnson and Danny blocked her way. She retreated, to be faced with Connor, Abby and Sarah, and then Nick and Jenny encircled her completely in the middle of the battle-strewn wreck.

The last cry of her final clone ended as the Smilodon ripped him apart, and they all levelled their guns at Helen.

"It's over Helen." Nick stated.

Helen looked around. All her creatures had been killed. While the ARC creatures had endured some losses, it was nothing compared to the massive rout they had suffered earlier. The creatures still stood mostly proud, the Brachiosaurs, mammoths and Embolethriums all having helped save the day. She had lost.

"I preferred the last timeline better." she growled.

Jenny smiled smugly.

"It's over Helen. You've lost. We've beaten your army, and stopped the evolution of the predators." she said, raising her gun to point at Helen's head.

Helen spat on the ground in disgust.

"You're wrong. You may have delayed them, but they will still evolve and will destroy this planet! Nothing can stop it!" Helen screamed certainly, her eyes rolling.

Nick shook his head.

"Then if they do evolve, they do it naturally, rather than slipping through time to appear before they're ready. Nature will allow them to exist if they do, not anything we do." he said.

Helen stood there gaping, and they knew the threat was over.

"Wonderful. It's all over. Now, perhaps we can go home, get her stuck in a padded cell and live out our days in peace." Lester said, sounding quite relieved at the option.

They all nodded eagerly, while Helen shook her head.

"No. We cant allow them to evolve naturally Nick. We just cant. We need to stop them. We can do it, together, you and me. We can save the world, control the anomalies…" Helen said.

Johnson rolled her eyes.

"You've lost you stupid old bat. Give it up!" she urged.

"Well said Christine." Abby complimented.

"Thank you."

Helen was still shaking her head.

"No. We can control the anomalies Nick, save the future! All of us together! We cant lose the anomalies!" she cried pleadingly.

Nick sighed.

"Helen, I loved you once. But you changed. And then you started losing it. And besides, the anomalies are through. The super anomalies are closed, so there's no more anyway. I agree with Lester. We'll get you help, get you better again…"

"Then stick her into prison if she's ever deemed fit enough to stand trial." Connor growled, to Becker's nods.

Helen growled.

"No Nick! Only we can control the anomalies! We can control time, do things our way!" she pleaded desperately.

Danny walked up to her.

"No Helen. It's over. No more anomalies for you. You've had enough as it is." he said, and took her opener from her, and handed it to Nick, before going back to his place, while the creatures observed curiously.

Helen looked in despair at the openers in Nick's hands.

"No, we can control time, make things right!" she wailed.

"No Helen. After these are gone, the threat's over, once and for all." Nick said, and leaned forward to put them on the ground.

Helen then moved like a snake, swiping the openers and the Artifact from Nick's hand, and holding them triumphantly over her head.

"We cant lose them Nick! I wont let you destroy the anomalies! I wont let you destroy our only chance of saving the world! I wont let you destroy my future!" she proclaimed, and the openers flashed through the anomaly, as before, but something had changed.

The two openers shone light straight through the Artifact, and the anomaly map appeared above them. However, this time, the reports weren't reports, they were actual anomalies.

"Cutter, if I built them to work in conjunction with that…" Connor said worriedly.

"Then she can open all the known anomalies." Nick finished grimly.

The Artifact shone, and the super anomaly in the centre of the Artifact flared up into existence. Around them, high above in the rafters, in offices, all around them, hundreds and hundreds of anomalies began to open. Metal started to streak away from them, computers and things flew into the anomalies as they all increased in size.

"Nick, the super anomalies!" Jenny cried, pointing as the pull increased.

The other two super anomalies appeared at either end of the ARC, with the other in the middle. It was as if a great cyclone of wind had entered the building, and everything was being blown into the anomalies. The railing was torn from the wall and was sent spinning into the air. The anomaly detector, miraculously unharmed by the battle, went flying into the air, and formed a whirlpool with the rest of the debris. Metal crates, dead clones' guns, sheets of metal, the rafters and many more items started to swirl into the massive vortex. The anomalies were growing larger, and more and more things were flying into them or into the air as things went from bad to worse.

"Nick!" Jenny cried as she was pulled off her feet.

Nick grabbed her wrist, as he tried to keep his hold on the wall of the office they'd been outside of. Becker was holding onto Lester, who was about to be sucked into the present super anomaly floating above them. Mickey then trumpeted and caught Lester, and held the two in place with his trunk. The matriarch put her foot in front of Sarah, and she held onto the leg of her dinosaur friend for deal life, as the dead bodies flew up into the air and added to the vortex. Spyro stood in front of Johnson and Danny, and dug his claws into the floor, and they held onto him for dear life as the sucking feeling they were experiencing got stronger and the pull of the anomalies increased. The vortex of debris was growing as they all held on for dear life, and the three super anomalies were expanding, swallowing other anomalies in the process. There was a great crash, and the roof was suddenly sucked in by the vortex, exposing them to the cool air of the outside world. The walls of the ARC then started to be pulled apart and swirled into the air, launching more dust and rubble into the vortex spiralling over the anomalies. Some of the smaller creatures were then sucked up, headed for the anomalies, but the larger creatures tried to stop them, and the little ones held on for dear life. Johnson caught her monkey friend, who clung tightly to her, as more creatures screeched as they were wrenched into the air. Danny caught a couple of dodos, while Connor caught Sid and Nancy in his arms before they too were sucked in. Abby caught Rex, who dug his claws into her arm in fear of being lost. Nick caught some of the monkeys, while Jenny caught some more of Rex's kin.

The entire ARC was being ripped apart as the anomalies expanded, hundreds of them growing in size and strength as the time passed. The team were holding onto their mounts for life, as if they were sucked into the vortex with the junk, they'd surely be killed, and if they went into any of the anomalies there was no telling what could happen. The floor of the ARC started to be ripped apart as more and more was sucked into the vortex of anomalies.

"Helen!" Nick yelled, clinging to the wall.

Helen was below all this, still holding the openers and the Artifact, generating the massive vortex that was ripping apart the ARC. The Arc team was holding on for dear life, and the soldiers were struggling to stay on their feet as even the floor ripped up. Some of the dinosaurs even began to quiver as though they too were being sucked in.

Helen, in the eye of the storm, looked at him mournfully.

"I'm sorry Nick! But I have no choice! Saving the world is my mission, and I will do anything to accomplish it! The future is too important to lose!" she cried.

"You bloody lunatic!" Sarah, Abby, Johnson and Jenny screamed in unison.

"Madwoman!" Becker, Lester, Danny and Connor agreed.

"Helen, there's more at stake here! You've ripped apart the ARC, this could rip apart the entire world!" Nick hollered, just as a large chunk of metal zoomed past him.

More metal, and now the trees and cars outside the ARC travelled into the vortex. Grass was ripped up in clumps and joined the vortex, as the wall then joined it, swirling above them as more and more combined to the vortex.

"I'm sorry Nick!" Helen yelled.

"Nick!" Abby yelled, pointing.

Creatures were starting to appear from the anomalies, and none of them were tamed or friendly.

"Cutter!" Lester yelled as future predators left one anomaly.

Dozens of creatures started struggling against the pull of the cyclone, but many were dragged up into the air. The predators however were not. The four of them were advancing on Helen, who hadn't seen them.

"Helen!" Nick yelled.

She ignored him, laughing gloatingly at the massive effect she had created in the sky above her. The pull was getting stronger, and even the matriarch was now losing touch with the ground. They all exchanged frightened looks. Had they come so far to be sucked up in this massive tornado of debris and time-rips?

Helen still hadn't seen the predators, which were now also in the eye of the storm. The first she knew of them was a clicking she heard from behind her. She turned, and one predators smacked her, sending the Artifact and the openers spiralling from her hand.

"No! If we don't get them...!" Connor yelled.

Danny kept a tight hold of the Dracorex's tail while fighting the great pull of the cyclone. He grabbed them and gave a cheer of victory, as the vortex intensified, picking them all up.

"Deactivate it!" Johnson yelled, still holding onto Spyro.

"Look!" Sarah said in horror.

The predators were all around Helen, who was looking mortally afraid.

"NOOOOOOOO!" she screamed, as the first one grabbed her and the feeding frenzy began, and Helen was ripped to shreds by the very creatures who'd she'd been trying to stop existing.

Nick winced slightly as he observed the grizzly fate of his wife. The vortex was growing, and they were all going to be sucked in if they didn't stop it.

"Pull out the openers!" Connor yelled.

Danny did so, and suddenly the pull stopped and they all thudded to the ground once again. There was a cascade of noise as everything else slammed to the floor, and the anomalies stayed where they are. The anomalies were above them, like massive stars, and the debris cloud had landed at all of their feet. Becker and Lester quickly shot the predators that had emerged, and sat down, all panting from exhaustion.

"What now?" Abby asked, looking up at the shining anomalies.

Nick sighed.

"We need to go back." he said.

Lester nodded.

"I figured you'd say that. Why?"

Nick pointed at the swarm of anomalies, including the three super anomalies stationary above them.

"Because of them. Like this, like they were, there's still a chance the predators can escape. We have to stop that. If we can lock all the anomalies, then the threat will be over once and for all." he explained.

"We need to lock all of them?" Sarah asked incredulously.

"Yes. It's the only way to ensure the safety of the future. We have to do it." he said.

Jenny closed her eyes.

"And that will be it?"

"Yes. Without the three super anomalies, there shouldn't be any more appearing. We'll save the day, the world and the future."

"But how can we do it without being sucked in?" Johnson demanded.

"We go to when she just activates it. There isnt enough pull then to suck us in. We'll be safe."

It was Danny who broke the news.

"Helen wont give them up, and she wont let go of them. The only way to do it is…to kill her." he said gently.

Nick closed his eyes in sadness. He had suspected, at the back of his mind, since he'd been taken from the past where he was still alive, that he would eventually have to kill Helen. It had been a nagging voice, saying that he knew, deep down, that to save everyone he cared about, the world and the future, he would have to kill his wife.

"I know." he said grimly.

"You don't have to do it." Lester said.

"Yeah, I do. She's my wife, my responsibility." he said, arming his gun.

"Well, just in case…" Jenny whispered, arming her own gun.

Silence reigned.

"So, if we go back and shut all those anomalies, the predators will never evolve?" Connor asked.

"No. They'll be trapped in the alternate timelines, and everything that transpires will do so in the proper timeline. What will be will be. No more Helen mucking things about." Nick said.

Sarah got to her feet.

"To do that, we need the locker." she said.

They all got up and started to search among the debris.

"Hey, found it! It's still in one piece too!" Becker said in surprise.

"Course it is, I built it." Connor said, affronted, while Abby grinned.

"Why don't we just shut these ones?" Lester asked.

"Because we don't know if any escaped while we were holding on for dear life." Jenny pointed out, patting the baby Brachiosaurus.

"Fair enough."

Danny looked thoughtful.

"What?" Abby asked.

"I was wondering why we didn't just shoot her in the first place." he said.

Nick snorted.

"Could have saved ourselves a lot of trouble couldn't we?" he asked them, smiling slightly.

Jenny squeezed his arm.

"You ready?" she asked him.

He nodded grimly.

"Here goes everyone. Let's go and save the world." he said, and took one of the openers and entered the time.

The anomaly flared, and the team, combined with their pet animals, entered.

They entered the ARC just as the vortex was building, and the anomalies were spreading and growing in size. Their past selves flashed into them, and the future openers went into the present ones.

"Weird." Abby commented, struggling against the sucking wind.

"Maybe it's because she's in the eye." Becker theorised.

"Now?" Sarah cried over the rush of wind.

Helen then saw them and hissed as she held up the generator she had so crudely made.

"Not until the super anomalies appear!"

A second later they did, and the roof and the rest of the building started to be sucked in. The tug was growing, and they had little time left as the creatures started to get picked up by the torrent.

"You can't win Nick! Even if you keep rewinding time, you wont win!" Helen cried, laughing madly.

Nick then aimed his gun at her.

"Yes we can, and we will. I'm sorry Helen." he said, and fired.

He was not the only one to do so. Nine bullets had gone off, and Helen was looking at them all in terrified shock. She dropped the Artifact and the two openers, which promptly deactivated. The tug stopped and the ruins tumbled to the floor, crashing as they went. The cyclone deactivated and the anomalies stopped growing and moving, and everything was calm aside from Helen's gasps.

Nick walked over and knelt down beside her. She turned to him, her face ashen as small rivulets of blood seeped from her.

"You're…a fool Nick. You've…doomed…everything…." she gasped out, and then finally went still.

Nick sighed, relieved and saddened that Helen, the greatest threat to time and to the anomalies themselves, and indeed to the future, was finally gone.

"No. We haven't. That's why we're here." Nick said, and nodded to Connor.

Connor, who was white faced, nodded, and fired the locker.

The beam shot onto the present anomaly, and Connor rotated the gun like device, creating a bubble around all the anomalies, trapping them all in one gigantic lock.

"That's them all." Danny called, and the locker deactivated.

The massive ball sat shimmering above them, containing every anomaly that there ever had been or ever would be, including all three super anomalies.

There was a pulsing flash, and the anomalies expanded within the ball, filling it with shining light, before the light retracted to a tiny point in the centre, and was finally gone.

The threat of the anomalies was at long last, over.

Silence reigned as the creatures settled down or dozed off to sleep, exhausted by the battle and other events. The ruined ARC, looking akin to the Roman coliseum now, was quiet as the night air blew gently through the ruined walls as the team sat down, totally drained.

"I told you I would do it myself." Nick admonished slightly.

"It was just in case you missed. Didn't want her escaping and causing all this trouble all over again." Jenny soothed as she leant her head tiredly against his shoulder.

Nick looked over at his wife's body, and sighed. She had a point.

They all sat there together, in silence, musing on their own thoughts, all fo them totally exhausted by the fight for time.

Nick put his arm around Jenny, while Connor hugged Abby to him. Sarah was being hugged by Becker, and Danny had his arm around Johnson.

"So, did we save the world?" Connor asked eventually.

Nick smiled.

"Yes Connor. We saved the world. And the future. And everything else in between. We probably saved the world from being ripped apart too, and form being wrecked by Helen's mad schemes. Yes, we saved the world."

Connor grinned, as did the others. They had struggled and had beaten the odds, achieving victory even when the odds were so against them.

"Feels quite good to be the good guy for a change." Johnson commented.

They smiled slightly. She had certainly become a fast friend during this crisis.

Lester looked around the ruined building he had called work for so long, and made a thoughtful sound.

"Hmm. Christine?" he asked.

"Yes James?" she asked, admitting defeat and resting her head against Danny's shoulder.

"I've just thought: this will be a bastard to fix with the insurance." he stated.

Silence reigned slightly, and then Johnson started to laugh. Her entire body started to go as the hilarity of what he had said hit her. After all, which company would believe them?

Danny then started to laugh with her, and Sarah and Becker joined, and soon all of them were laughing, forgetting all that had happened over the last week as they did so.

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An hour alter, the ruins of the ARC were swarming with government agents, and the team was reporting to Gordon Brown.

"So the threat's over?" he asked them.

"Yep. All done and dusted. Ad we checked the Artifact: there's no anomalies marked on it. They're all gone. It's over." Nick said.

Brown nodded.

"Excellent. Well, what do we do with this lot?" he asked, gesturing, as a dodo ran across his foot and the Scutosaurus sniffed him.

Johnson stepped forward.

"If I may be so bold Prime Minister, it seems to me that, as the threat is over, we don't need this area anymore. We can set it up as a sanctuary for all these animals. Minus a few." she said, eyeing her monkey adoringly.

Brown looked at her incredulously.

"But how do we explain it to the public?" he demanded.

"Tell them the truth. Tell them everything. The threat's over. The openers are the only things left of the entire operation. So tell them the truth: these are all creatures from the past, or the future, and we're seeing if we can allow them to live again. The ARC's grounds are large enough to fit in both the herds, and a herd of mammoths if James has his way." Abby said.

Brown looked at her, and nodded.

"I suppose so. I don't see any reason we should keep this from the public. Besides, the rather impressive light show of the shiny anomalies would have needed a lot of explaining. Well, why not? I'll ask the other members of the G8, the ones that are left anyway, the Queen and Parliament, and see what they say. But I agree: this should be told to the public." he said, as the matriarch Brachiosaurus nuzzled his head.

They all grinned.

"Well, you all look dead on your feet. I'll let you all know in the morning. Go home, get a well deserved rest, a well deserved bath, and a thoroughly well earned glass of wine." he advised.

They smiled, and turned to leave.

"Goodbye Mickey, Minnie. I will see you soon." Lester cooed, patting their trunks.

They made hooting noises and ruffled his hair with their trunks affectionately.

"Yes I like you too." he cooed.

The rest of them laughed.

"Come on monkey!" Johnson called.

The monkey walked up to her, complete with her baby, and held her hand.

"I shall call you Louise, the female version of King Louis from the Jungle Book." she declared and scooped the monkey up in her arms.

Sarah and Becker patted the matriarch and the baby, along with Spyro.

"Bye Bertha. We'll see you in the morning." Becker said, clapping the matriarch.

"See you Bertie." Sarah said, patting the baby.

They both patted Spyro and headed off also.

Connor picked up Sid and Nancy.

"Lt's go home guys." he said.

"Come on Rex!" Abby called.

Rex landed on her shoulder, and then chirped as another dinosaur like him flew up to him. It landed on Abby's other shoulder and the two nuzzled each other.

"Is that a Mrs Rex?" Connor asked.

"Looks like it. Come on then Mrs Rex." Abby said, and they left.

Nick and Jenny watched as they all said goodbye or left with their pets. Then, two dodos came up to them and started cawing. Nick looked at Jenny, who rolled her eyes in amusement.

"We have to take them. Come on. I shall call you Bonnie and Clyde." he declared, and the two of them also headed home complete with their dodos.

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A year later, everything was known to the public, even if some had been toned down so an ordinary Joe Bloggs could understand all that had happened. The ARC had been demolished and in it's place was the Stephen Hart Zoo for Extinct Animals, which did a roaring trade as people came from all over the world to see the various animals, which were allowed to roam mainly free.

Bertha and Bertie ruled the roost, and had many adoring fans. Spyro was also very popular, and Mickey and Minnie were already expecting a baby mammoth. All the befriended creatures had the names of their patrons, such as Lester for the mammoths, mentioned on their name plates, to encourage investments from far and wide in the welfare of these animals.

The creatures they had taken home were also very well cared for. Bonnie and Clyde were fantastic pets, and Bonnie stayed with Nick as he did research and Clyde would help Jenny around the house. Rex and Rexette had had babies, and there were now three baby Rexes running around too. Sid and Nancy had also had children, so Connor and Abby's apartment was a dinosaur playground. And Louise, along with her son Mowgli, were delightful to live with, and Louise helped Christine with the ironing and cooking while Mowgli played with Danny.

Nick and Jenny were living together and were getting married in a year. Abby and Connor were also considering marriage. Sarah and Becker were living with one another and Becker was working up the nerve to propose. And, most amazingly, Christine and Danny had discovered that they liked one another, and were dating.

There had been no anomalies, the Artifact was in the British Museum, as was the shell of one opener, donated after it had been thoroughly studied. Nick had kept the other one in case of emergencies.

Nick had returned to teach at the University, and actually bothered to show up for his seminars now. Jenny was now a spin doctor for the government, while Christine was head of MI6. Danny was also an agent in the organisation. Lester had become the Home Minister, while Connor had returned to university with Abby so both could finish their courses. Sarah had returned to the museum and was now the lead curator and Becker had started his own private security firm.

It was on a sunny afternoon that they all met in Nick's back garden.

"What's the crisis?" Danny asked as they arrived.

"I wanted to show you proof." Nick said smugly, taking out the last opener.

"Of what?" Abby asked curiously.

"Of our success." he said.

He entered the same date they entered to get to the future predator world, and, curious, they all followed.

It was vastly different from what it had been. Massive buildings surrounded them, and cars shot by with no wheels. Flying objects travelled around in the sky, and flashing boards proclaimed messages to the busy streets, which were full of people with some bizarre looking clothes and hairstyles.

"This is the future predator world?" Connor asked in amazement.

"Yep. We did it. And this is proof. We've stopped the evolution of the predators." Nick said, holding Jenny to him as she looked around in wonder.

They all smiled.

"And this means we get to shout 'told you so' to Helen down in hell too." Christine said with a smile.

"Exactly." Jenny said with relish.

They all laughed, earning them glances from passing people.

"Now, what do you all say to that barbecue we promised?" Nick asked.

"Amen to that!" Lester said, and Nick opened the anomaly to take them home.

They flashed through, and while Jenny got out drinks, Nick slipped the opener into the safebox within the safe. It wouldn't hurt to have it around for emergencies.

And with that, he locked the door on his time with the anomalies and went down to join the anniversary celebrations.

They had defeated Helen, beaten the anomalies and saved the future. Now it was time to enjoy the present with the people who'd helped him fight for it.

He smiled as he went outside and joined his family.

The end at last! This would have been up days ago, but the site went ons trike.

Hope you enjoyed Priemval, and now that it is done, we can focus on other matters: ie X Men. But first my latest Anakin/Ahsoka has to be finished off, and then I want to do some of Dark Leader

Thank you for reading this all the way through, and I hope you liked it! Please read and review and give me your thoughts! Bye for now!