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Series 5 Episode 11
"School's Out"
Guest Starring: Lloyd Daniels
“Helen, I demand answers!”, James Lester shouted. Helen Cutter had kidnapped him, Claudia Brown and Jess Parker as part of her massive master plan-type thing. Helen clicked her fingers, and two soldiers brought the Minister in. He was dirty and looked rather ragged.
“We’ve placed people in positions of power. The team are helpless. There are only a few members left now”, Helen explained.
“What, people have died?”, Claudia asked. She was concerned for the team, as they were like her second family.
“No-one is dead yet. Danny, Lloyd, Sarah and Harriet are locked up. The rest will be dealt with”
Danny and Lloyd tried to budge open the classroom door. They had been sent to a fake anomaly site, and now they were trapped. Sarah and Harry were out cold still.
“I’ll phone Cutter”, Lloyd decided. He went to his pocket, but his phone had gone. Danny searched for his, but it had gone aswell.
“Right, whoever trapped us in here clearly doesn’t want us escaping”, Danny stated.
“Well done”, Lloyd replied, sarcastically.
“What about the windows? If we can get them open, we could get out”, suggested Danny.
“It’s worth a shot. Just count ourselves lucky we’re not on the first floor”
They wandered over to the other side of the room, but the windows were locked. The boys raided the teacher’s desk drawers, but there were no keys for either the windows or the doors. They sat down, exhausted and out of ideas.
“Hang on! Does Sarah have an Anomaly Opener?”, Lloyd thought.
“Possibly. I’ll check her bag”, Danny decided. He felt a bit rude doing so, as a gentleman should never go through a woman’s bag, but desperate times call for desperate measures.
“Found it!”, Danny grinned, “Now how do you work it?”
Cutter had rapidly finished the meeting with the headteacher. As far as he was concerned, the team were more important, and he knew Danny was in trouble. Was it a creature? Regardless, he and the others followed the (fake) anomaly signal on the Detectors.
Bleep bleep. Bleep bleep. Bleep bleep.
They strolled through the corridors, admiring the displays on their way through.
Bleep bleep. Bleep bleep. Bleep bleep.
“Ah, I see Nick’s trying to rescue Danny. Isn’t that lovely”, Helen noticed. She had hacked into the ARC systems, and was viewing exactly what Jess would be seeing.
The signal cut off. Cutter and the team were lost. They had no idea where Danny was, and couldn’t help him. The phone kept ringing and had no answer.
“I think we need to split up”, Cutter decided.
“No, something fishy is going on. We need to stay together”, Jenny suggested.
“She has a point”, Connor added.
“OK then. But we need to be quick. Danny could be in serious danger”, Cutter agreed.
Danny and Lloyd were fiddling around with the Opener. In all fairness, it wasn’t hard to operate. Danny finally pressed the button, and there was an anomaly.
“Right, we need to get one to the ARC”, Lloyd mentioned. The new style Opener was able to accept addresses, so they put in the address of the ARC.
DING DING! DING DING! DING DING!
An alarm (not the Detector) went off in Helen’s base. The anomaly was interfering.
“Oh, they think they can get away that easily?”, Helen smirked.
The fire bell rang, and children were evacuated out of the school. Little did the headteacher know, and Cutter for that matter, that the original anomaly signal was fake…
Cutter’s team’s Detectors started beeping again, and they followed the sound. The only difference this time - they ran.
The anomaly was right there in the classroom, all ready to go.
”Ready?”, Danny smiled. He picked up Sarah, and Lloyd picked up Harry, and they carried them through the anomaly….just as Cutter and the others reached the classroom. They walked up to the anomaly, but before they could go through, it closed.
Danny and the rest of them didn’t see Cutter, but things went from bad to worse as they found themselves in the Late Cretaceous era, but of course neither Danny nor Lloyd knew that.
“This isn’t the ARC”, Lloyd stated the obvious. The anomaly automatically closed behind them.
“Well, let’s get out of here”, Danny said, but when he held up the Opener, it had died. They had no way back, and no way out.
Helen had diverted the signal, and had drained the power from the Opener. She had everyone out of her way, and now her mission was to get to Cutter.
“Nick - he created the future world. I’ve never been more sure of it. And I know that it’s my duty to sort this out”, Helen spoke. Claudia, Lester and Jess were extremely worried.
“We’ve placed people in positions of power. The team are helpless. There are only a few members left now”, Helen explained.
“What, people have died?”, Claudia asked. She was concerned for the team, as they were like her second family.
“No-one is dead yet. Danny, Lloyd, Sarah and Harriet are locked up. The rest will be dealt with”
Danny and Lloyd tried to budge open the classroom door. They had been sent to a fake anomaly site, and now they were trapped. Sarah and Harry were out cold still.
“I’ll phone Cutter”, Lloyd decided. He went to his pocket, but his phone had gone. Danny searched for his, but it had gone aswell.
“Right, whoever trapped us in here clearly doesn’t want us escaping”, Danny stated.
“Well done”, Lloyd replied, sarcastically.
“What about the windows? If we can get them open, we could get out”, suggested Danny.
“It’s worth a shot. Just count ourselves lucky we’re not on the first floor”
They wandered over to the other side of the room, but the windows were locked. The boys raided the teacher’s desk drawers, but there were no keys for either the windows or the doors. They sat down, exhausted and out of ideas.
“Hang on! Does Sarah have an Anomaly Opener?”, Lloyd thought.
“Possibly. I’ll check her bag”, Danny decided. He felt a bit rude doing so, as a gentleman should never go through a woman’s bag, but desperate times call for desperate measures.
“Found it!”, Danny grinned, “Now how do you work it?”
Cutter had rapidly finished the meeting with the headteacher. As far as he was concerned, the team were more important, and he knew Danny was in trouble. Was it a creature? Regardless, he and the others followed the (fake) anomaly signal on the Detectors.
Bleep bleep. Bleep bleep. Bleep bleep.
They strolled through the corridors, admiring the displays on their way through.
Bleep bleep. Bleep bleep. Bleep bleep.
“Ah, I see Nick’s trying to rescue Danny. Isn’t that lovely”, Helen noticed. She had hacked into the ARC systems, and was viewing exactly what Jess would be seeing.
The signal cut off. Cutter and the team were lost. They had no idea where Danny was, and couldn’t help him. The phone kept ringing and had no answer.
“I think we need to split up”, Cutter decided.
“No, something fishy is going on. We need to stay together”, Jenny suggested.
“She has a point”, Connor added.
“OK then. But we need to be quick. Danny could be in serious danger”, Cutter agreed.
Danny and Lloyd were fiddling around with the Opener. In all fairness, it wasn’t hard to operate. Danny finally pressed the button, and there was an anomaly.
“Right, we need to get one to the ARC”, Lloyd mentioned. The new style Opener was able to accept addresses, so they put in the address of the ARC.
DING DING! DING DING! DING DING!
An alarm (not the Detector) went off in Helen’s base. The anomaly was interfering.
“Oh, they think they can get away that easily?”, Helen smirked.
The fire bell rang, and children were evacuated out of the school. Little did the headteacher know, and Cutter for that matter, that the original anomaly signal was fake…
Cutter’s team’s Detectors started beeping again, and they followed the sound. The only difference this time - they ran.
The anomaly was right there in the classroom, all ready to go.
”Ready?”, Danny smiled. He picked up Sarah, and Lloyd picked up Harry, and they carried them through the anomaly….just as Cutter and the others reached the classroom. They walked up to the anomaly, but before they could go through, it closed.
Danny and the rest of them didn’t see Cutter, but things went from bad to worse as they found themselves in the Late Cretaceous era, but of course neither Danny nor Lloyd knew that.
“This isn’t the ARC”, Lloyd stated the obvious. The anomaly automatically closed behind them.
“Well, let’s get out of here”, Danny said, but when he held up the Opener, it had died. They had no way back, and no way out.
Helen had diverted the signal, and had drained the power from the Opener. She had everyone out of her way, and now her mission was to get to Cutter.
“Nick - he created the future world. I’ve never been more sure of it. And I know that it’s my duty to sort this out”, Helen spoke. Claudia, Lester and Jess were extremely worried.
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