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Chapter 5
1 hour later
"Hey" Sarah smiled as she walked into the Hub. The ARC hasn't changed since Connor and Abby returned from the Cretaceous, the only differences are the computers and the colour of Jess' chair, which had gone from red to bright-cheery yellow.
"Hi, are you feeling alright?" Nick asked, as he noticed Sarah's sling.
"Yeah, the arms fine" Sarah replied.
"I'm glad" Nick smiled.
"And thank you" Sarah smiled as she kissed Nick on the cheek.
"Umm…What for?" Nick asked, sounding confused.
"You saved my life, I'll never forget that" Sarah smiled.
"It was nothing" Nick replied, trying to sound modest, but after seeing Sarah's amused face he said, "Your welcome."
"Hey" Max smiled as he and Thomas entered the Hub.
"Hi" Sarah smiled back.
"Do you two know why we are here?" Thomas asked.
"Lester wants to talk to us; apparently Kieran has been debriefing him and the others" Nick replied.
"Brilliant" Max sighed, "We'll never be able to work for the ARC now."
"So are we all agreed?" Matt asked. He and Emily, Connor and Abby, Jess and Becker, were all sat around Lester's office, where Kieran had just finished debriefing them and Lester, as well as Evan and Dylan who were included via Skype.
"Yeah, it's worth a try at least" Jess beamed.
"They'll need proper military training" Becker added.
"Absolutely" Connor agreed, "We can't leave them to fight, unprepared."
"Like us you mean?" Dylan asked.
"Yeah, sorry about that" Connor replied.
"If we can have them trained properly, they should be fine" Emily added.
"Abby? Evan? You two are being quiet" Lester sighed, who since 2015, had been put in charge of all the ARC branches around the world, the first of these being the VARC.
"Just…give them the training they need… The reason Mac died was because we didn't have the training we have now…don't put them in that position" Evan struggled to say. Dylan placed her hand on Evan's shoulder.
"I agree with Evan, we lost both Cutter and Stephan, because they weren't military trained. We can't let that happen again, they need fire arms training, hand-to-hand combat, and strong safety rules" Abby interjected.
"Oh and…" Evan started to say as an alarm sounded through the VARC.
"Dylan? Terry's escaped…again" Toby's voice explained over the com system.
"Let's go" Dylan laughed.
"Over and out" Evan sighed as the Skype screen went dark.
"So again, are we agreed?" Lester asked.
"Yeah" the six of them said.
"I mean we're not getting any younger are we?" Connor smiled, but the joke wasn't taken very well, judging by the glares Becker and Abby gave him.
"Right, get out then. I'll talk to them" Lester retorted, breaking the silence, as he leaned back in his chair.
"Yep" Jess beamed as they all left.
"Connor?" Lester asked, just as Connor reached the door.
"Yup?" Connor asked as he spun back around.
"Send Kieran up here" Lester replied.
"Sure" Connor replied as he headed to the armoury.
"You four need to go in now" Becker instructed.
"Oh dear" Nick sighed, as he opened Lester's door leading the way, he could see Lester sat at his desk, with Kieran stood next to him.
"Take a seat" Lester requested as Nick, Sarah, Thomas and Max sat down, "Right, let's begin shall we?"
"Uncle James, can I start by saying that while we shouldn't have gone through, we had no choice" Nick interrupted
"I wasn't going to say anything like that. Kieran has told me that the four of you have shown bravery in a difficult situation" Lester started to say.
"Sorry?" Sarah asked.
"Nick, you showed excellent leadership skills. Max, you stayed cool under pressure. Thomas, you knowledge on Anomalies, is excellent, I doubt anyone else could have remembered to check the detector and know that we need to get home. Sarah, while you were attacked, you presented a strong calm attitude to the attack, many people would have broken down in tears" Kieran replied, he was stood behind Lester's desk.
"Taking all that into consideration, and the fact that the team are getting older, we have decided to have two-part time field teams, instead of the one full-time" Lester smiled, "You are the other team."
"What?" Sarah asked in shock as she looked at Nick, Max and Thomas, "us?"
"Yeah" Kieran replied.
"Wow!" Max cheered.
"Kieran will give you all the appropriate training, but you should be on the field in a month, give or take a week or so." Lester added his expression returning to its usual difficult to read state.
"That's all in hand, I am going to talk to the school and then I'll get the Minister of Education to grant you your predicted, but until then you will still have your lessons here" Lester replied, "That way you can still be on call, whenever you need to be."
"Seems fair" Max replied.
"Kieran, take them down to the armoury, get start their training" Lester instructed.
"Let's go" Kieran smiled as he opened the door, before leading the way.
"Yes!" Thomas shouted as he punched the air, as they followed Kieran.
"Thanks Uncle James" Nick smiled, as he closed the door.
Lester stood up, before walking to the glass wall, the side that looks over the hub. He could see the original team, Jess was working on the detector, with Emily talking to her, Becker and Matt were checking the new security systems on one of the tablets… and Abby was whacking Connor around the head- obviously he had made a bad joke. He laughed to himself, before saying, "maybe it's time to hand the burden down to the younger generation."
So, what did you think?
I hope you could keep up with the character changes, fewer characters will appear in the next episode.
Please review, I'd appreciate your views on what should happen next.
Keep an eye out, I'll be uploading Primeval: The Next Generation - Episode 2 - Clash of the Titans soon.