[[Authors Note: This is set around a year after the events of the season five finale. I'm a huge loser, and also a huge Primeval addict. Thus, when the show was cancelled, my head began to make up its own new scenarios. I've tried to write others down, but this one came most naturally. There isn't much about the team in this chapter, as this is really an introduction to the plot, but the story will include Connor, Abby, Becker, Jess, Matt, Emily and Lester - as well as the various pairings that come with those names. I have a rather lengthy story to this plot, and it's all planned out in my head; I see no harm in writing this down for other fans craving new material for a finished show. Hope you all enjoy :) ]

CHAPTER {1} CONSPIRACY BUSTER OPERATION

"Your secret is out. No matter how many cover up stories you come up with, not matter how many news reports you wipe from existence, we will remember. You can't hide forever. One day you'll come out of the shadows. We'll be the ones dragging you out."

The convergence had burnt down the pedestal of secrecy that the ARC and it's work had been perched upon since its beginning; Lester had never had much of a problem with cleaning up a creature's mess with a vague yet believable story — the task getting done faster when Jenny Lewis had still been around — but there was no explanation to give to the public as to why there were 'strange orange and yellow lights' appearing around the globe simultaneously. Nor was there was a way to explain to families of incursion victims as to how their daughters, sons, brothers and sisters and others died. Scientists were still trying to depict the universal phenomenon, and with each passing day, there were individuals who began to crave answers. Those people soon banded together, finding comfort in having others in similar situations to speak to. They donned aliases on the internet, set up web pages, picketed outside government facilities: they formed what they came to call the Conspiracy Buster Operation.

As soon as their first blog post became public to the World Wide Web, Jess Parker traced the IP address, and surveillance was ensued on each member. From the frantic mother who had lost her husband and seventeen year old son to the andrewsarchus that appeared in her kitchen after emerging from the thing that the CBO had come to name 'time drifts', to the scuba diva who watched his best friend get eaten by some sort of aquatic theropod: each member of the group had their own reason for wanting to analyse and understand the events of the convergence. Of course, some motives were less complicated to others — the most common being that people wanted, needed someone to blame for their loss. Those were the people who ran the primarily online group.

With each new mission, it seemed the team always had a shadow. Abby Maitland was the first to notice: an anomaly to the Jurassic period had opened in the middle of an ice skating rink (of which Jess had shut down immediately after the anomaly's detection), thus opening a door for seven juramaia to enter, and landing them in the slippery 21st century. They weren't dangerous, though rather difficult to contain. Upon splitting up to search the building (it seemed stairs were no opponent to these eutherian mammals), Abby turned around to see a man in a black hoodie run in the opposite direction. Assuming he was chasing one of the escaped juramaia, she pursued after him, though lost his trail when she spotted the mammal in questioning hiding underneath the stalls in the arena. The man didn't enter her mind again, until Jess reported spotting two people in dark colours lurking around a closed anomaly area on the CCTV. It was then the team realized that perhaps the CBO had left the comforting anonymous perks of the internet, and instead decided to take their work closer to home.

They were determined and united by a common passion. But unlike the ARC, they weren't a private government facility. They didn't have a hotline to the Minister like Lester, nor military staff at their disposal. They didn't understand the anomalies as much as the team, who had members within it whom had been dealing with the incursions and the science behind the time rifts for five years, or has background knowledge due to not being from this time at all. They didn't have a menagerie of creatures that they could observe and grasp a better apprehension on the creatures than any fossilized bones could ever deliver.

But what they did have was a camera attached to their computers, internet access, and an account to a website which allowed you to host a live webcam stream. By the time Jess found such videos, the Conspiracy Buster Operation already had a vast audience. Whether there was strong factoids and truth behind their words didn't matter anymore: they had built up their image and made themselves well known. By raising awareness, they had made sure that it no longer mattered that they weren't the biggest bullies on the block. Power was in numbers, and they sure had them.

It wasn't until the break in at the ARC that the team realised that tracking the CBO members and blocking their websites wasn't enough to put them down. And by then, of course, their numbers were far too high for dissipation.