Cool story so far! :) (nm)

Posted by Goodsport from adsl-216-102-199-185.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net on June 12, 2000 at 01:08:22:

In Reply to: Indiana Jones and the Third World chapters 1-3 posted by Kent Allard on June 10, 2000 at 22:23:34:

: Here it is, email me with questions or comments or post them here. I hope someone enjoys it. Tell me what you think. And I don't know how to start this but would someone help me get this started. I guess who ever wants to do the chapter 4 I could let them do that and we go on like this. Or maybe I could stop and wait and not do it at all. But this is the first time I have ever tried to do it. (well second if you check the nim forum but that was just a mess).

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Indiana Jones

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And the Third World

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      Prologue : SIZE="4">The Daredevils: 1917 Palestine

:       Maya cursed Indiana Jones, as she rode off across
: the desert. She didn’t have water, a map, or compass, she was lost and hot. The
: bullet wound burned her flesh with each bobbing from the horse. She was lost and confused,
: she felt dizzy and sick. After departing from Indy, se had ran off trying to escape,
: before she had gotten away Indy had shot her in the arm. She saw a shadow cross over the
: sand, she looked up. She saw a man possibly a murderer; she drew her weapon keeping it
: from view of the man. She knew not to trust anyone, especially since she was in a place
: where there were thieves running rampant, she had heard stories of women, even women from
: the army, being beaten from her horse and raped. So she knew she should be cautious.

:      He dismounted, "Do you need help" he grinned slyly,
: "It seems your lost" He advanced to her. "Let me help you," he grinned
: evilly. He drew a dagger and lunged knocking her from her horse, he tried to stab her,
: luckily she had drawn her pistol, as the man lunged she fired the pistol firing it through
: his head. The lifeless body lying limply on her she cursed and pushed the body off her.
: She searched the man getting a canteen, map, compass, and knife, she searched the pockets.
: She looked up in surprise; "He is German" she said to herself, she then looked
: at the other note attached

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"Sir we think she has escaped and is out in the desert, you are to
: kill her and then search all documents, her files have been erased, she no longer exists
: we just need to dispense of the body, If she escapes it will be your life. She has failed
: and not met up to our needs."

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:       Those bastards she thought to herself. They are going to
: kill me. She got back to her horse and rode off. Not afraid just the opposite… she
: was planning her revenge, she knew she would have to get back to Germany. She used the map
: and compass to find her way out of the desert into and to the airport

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:       Palestine Airport:

:        Maya got off her horse and walked in she took a
: ticket to Germany paying in cash, because as she learned none of her credits were
: acceptable. As she flew to Germany she was planning what she was going to do. She knew she
: would have to take revenge. She would take her revenge on her killer.

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:      Germany:

:       She arrived in Germany; she walked into the local dress
: shop and bought a new skirt and blouse. She walked out with new clothes and walked into
: the secret office building unto which she was to report after she returned from her
: mission. She walked into the office, she saw General Grasso sitting behind a desk, smoking
: a cigar, the smoke puffed a ring around the top of his head. The office was dark except
: for the light emitting from the tiny lamp on his desk.

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:        He stood up "Maya" he said
: surprised "was sind Sie hier tuend: what are you doing
: here." His eyes were shocked; he looked at her intently.

:       "Vertiefung I dachte, daß ich innen berichten
: sollte: Well I thought I should report in." She said casually. "Warum Sie mich
: aufstellten, warum Sie versuchten, mich zu beenden: Why did you set me up, why did you try
: to kill me." She said quckly her manner abruptly changed.

:       He walked around his desk, "Amperestunde I wissen
: nicht an allem, was Sie sich befassen: Ah I do not know what you are talking about."
: He said puffing lightly on his cigar

:       Maya lifted her eyes, she glared at him.
: "Eintragfaden des oughtta I Sie im Augenblick. Sie wissen, mit daß was befasse ich,
: schickten Sie jemand heraus zum teödland, um mich zu beenden. Ich schoß ihn und stahl
: jene Papiere: I oughtta shoot you right now. You know what I'm talking about you sent
: someone out to the desert to kill me. I shot him and stole those papers."

:       "Höre ich bin traurig, aber wir die couldntgefahr,
: die Sie also hält, wir mußten Sie uns entledigen traurig. Aber, da Sie nicht noch tot
: ich sind, schätzen Sie, daß wir nur sie beenden müssen recht hier wir kippen lassen Sie
: weg erhalten können jetzt wir: Listen I'm sorry but we couldnt risk keeping you so we had
: to dispose of you sorry. But since you are not yet dead I guess we'll just have to finish
: it right here we cant let you get away now can we." He pushed a button underneath his
: desk. "Sie sind hier kurzzeitig zu kommen, Sie zu erhalten: They'll be here
: momentarily to come and get you."

:        She pulled a gun from her pocket. Aimed it
: directly at his head. "Ich denke nicht so, traurig, aber ich habe zu gehen: I don't
: think so, sorry but I've got to go." She fired the bullet. It blew through his head
: the blood spurted over his face and onto the desk. She then fired another bullet at the
: cabinet’s lock, she opened the file cabinet and pulled out every file on her and
: jumped through the window.

:        She was five floors up, as she was flying through
: the air she was able to make her body turn right side up, she twisted and was able to grab
: a ledge she was now about 2 floors up. Her hands were cut from grabbing at the concrete
: building. She climbed up, not very far down there was a fountain, it looked deep enough to
: jump, and she had only one choice. Stuffing the papers in her blouse she jumped and landed
: in the water, it was cold, she shivered with cold, shook it off, then she jumped out of
: the fountain and felt a chill streak over her body, the hairs on her neck stood up. Two
: men in black trench coats came out of the building they held guns in there hands. She ran
: out as fast as she could. Her heart was pounding, she turned a corner she knew exactly
: where she was going, it wasn’t far from where she was, and hopefully she could make
: it. A black car popped out from the far alley and began following her. She couldn’t
: make it on foot especially since they had a clear view of hear from where she ran. A
: trolley was coming down the street, she ran nearer and nearer to the trolley. Finally she
: got close enough, she hoped along, staying from gunshot view she watched intently making
: sure she couldn’t miss her departure. She was carefully watching the black car, she
: knew that they knew where she was but they couldn’t get a shot out from all the other
: people on the trolley. The people stared at her as she crawled down the trolley towards
: she front, as it neared her departure she jumped from the trolley and came face to face
: with a cargo plane. Hiding among the crates she hopped aboard the plane, she ducked when
: she saw the car drive by. She had carefully planned this, although it didn’t go
: exactly as planned. She never planned for this chase but as long as she made it to the
: plane, it was okay. She had checked this and had made sure that this plane was heading
: towards America, her defection worked she was about to become an American. Yet she still
: wasn’t happy, she still hadn’t got her revenge, although she had killed her
: murderer and his boss she would have to do something to the German army to be truly even.

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:       Chapter I Doing some research:

:        Barnette College 1933

:         Indiana tapped on the chalkboard and
: shouted over the class bell, "Test over Chapter thirty-two on Wednesday, I wont be in
: my office the rest of this week, and there will be a substitute the day of the test."
: Indiana walked over to his desk and stacked a few papers to the side; he then clicked on
: the lamp to the side and began reading over some texts.

:       One of the students remained next to the door
: "Doctor Jones," It was Margaret Hempson, she was one of the plainer of the
: students, she read a lot about history and had a large imagination. "I was just
: wanting to talk," she said walking to his desk. "You know I don’t have much
: time on my hands."

:       "Yes I know Margaret what is it you wanted to talk
: about," He said laying his glasses on his desk turning in his chair.

:        "Well since were both very interested in
: history, I just wanted to know what you thought of this ‘Time Travel idea’ I
: just read a book about it. I think it’s kind of interesting, don’t you. Oh yes I
: remember the author, I believe the time travel novel was written by H. G. Wells. Have you
: read it?" Margaret said laying her books on her desk.

:        "No I haven’t read it, but about this
: question you have on time travel. First of all it’s not incredibly new, for ages
: humans have wanted to go back in time and give themselves second chances, but
: unfortunately we all eventually figure out that in fact we can’t do that."
: Indiana said.

:       "And how is it that you know time travel is
: impossible?" Margaret asked.

:       "Well first of all the very concept of time travel
: makes no sense, since time doesn’t flow. The fact that we think time passes is just
: an accident of our nervous systems-of the way things look to us. In reality, time
: doesn’t pass; we pass. Time itself is invariant. It just is. Therefore, past
: and future aren’t separate locations; the way New York and Chicago are separate
: locations. And since the past isn’t a location, you can’t travel to it. You
: can’t just fly over to a separate past, if you will. What I mean is you cant travel
: to nineteen twenty of our world, because we flow on."

:       She stared in silence. She just stared.

:       "It is important to be clear about this, so as not
: to confuse you" Indiana said.

:       "I believe I already am confused," She
: giggled.

:       "Now if it’s going back to the past
: you’re wanting, there is a theory developed about a form of space travel. To be
: precise, its quantum theory, the theory to manipulate an orthogonal multiverse coordinate
: change. I have talked about this theory to the physicist who had ‘dreamed’ it
: up."

:       She looked at him blankly.

:       "It means," Indiana said, "that we travel
: to another place in the multiverse."

:       "And what’s the multiverse?" Margaret
: said.

:       "The multiverse I the world is the world defined by
: quantum mechanics. It, means that –"

:       "Quantum mechanics?" Margaret said.
: "What’s quantum mechanics?"

:       Indiana paused. "That’s fairly difficult. But
: I’ll try to explain it to you, now pay attention it’s fairly confusing."

:       "Well go on," Margaret said.

:       "Recently" Indiana said, "physicists
: understood that energy took the form of continuously flowing waves. We still refer to
: ‘radio waves’ and ‘light waves.’ In fact, the recognition that all
: forms of energy shared this wavelike nature is one of the great achievements of
: nineteenth-century physics.

:       But there was a small problem," he said. It turned
: out that if you shined light on a metal plate, you got an electric current." He went
: on, "The discovery that energy came in quanta was the start of quantum physics,"
: Indiana kept going. Stuttering trying to explain what he could recall what he had talked
: about from his brief chats with the physicist."

:       "And pretty soon, physicists began to realize that
: not only light, but all energy was composed of particles. In fact, all matter in the
: universe took the form of particles. Atoms were composed of heavy particles in the
: nucleus, light electrons buzzing around on the outside. So according to the new thinking,
: everything is particles. Okay?"

:       "Okay…." She didn’t really
: understand it but she was lying, what she called it was ‘flirting’ she liked
: Indiana and pretended to be paying attention and caring about what he had to say.

:       Indiana went on, "These particles are discrete
: units, or quanta. And the theory that describes how these particles behave is quantum
: theory.

:       She nodded. "But what does this have to do with
: multiple universes?" Margaret said.

:       "I’m getting there," Indiana said. The
: topic began to bore Indy, he knew that she couldn’t possibly understand what he was
: talking about either, or really wanting to explain it. But yet he even still went on.

:       "One scientist I’ve spoke with believes in a
: daring new explanation. He claims that our universe we see, the universe of rocks and
: trees and people and galaxies out in space – was just one of an infinite number of
: universes, existing side by side.

:       Each of these universes was constantly splitting, so
: there was a universe where Lincoln lived and one where he died. One where you combed your
: hair in the morning and one where you didn’t. And so forth on and on and on, many
: things such as that. An infinity number of worlds. He calls this the "many
: worlds" interpretation of quantum mechanics. His explanation was consistent with the
: quantum equations, but physicists found it very hard to accept. They didn’t like the
: idea of all these worlds constantly splitting all the time. They found it unbelievable
: that reality could take this form.

:       "Most physicists still refuse to accept it."
: Indiana went on. "Even though no one has ever shown it is wrong. But I
:          suppose it’s just the fact that it
: seems so impossible but that is one man’s theory"

:       Margaret interrupted him, "and do you believe any
: of this?"

:       "I don’t know whether or not to believe it,
: only time can tell though. I really need to get back to work. Hope I didn’t boar you
: too much, I know you probably didn’t understand much or any of it but the truth is I
: hardy understood any of it at all either, but I’m sure in about fifty years maybe it
: will all become understood and explained. Just like I don’t understand why some
: people believe in spirits and ghosts, when they know it is just something that comes from
: out of your imagination, maybe they ought to make a radio program called ‘unsolved
: mysteries’ that would be hilarious. I would just like to see them try and explain why
: some one would believe in that sort of thing. But it’s all a matter of time and
: change. Like how if you talked to a physicist from two hundred years ago about all the
: advances such as radios and things that can make men fly and hold over ten or twenty
: people, or that moving images could be cast to a large screen. Then if you told the
: physicist all of this then he would almost certainly proclaim you insane." Indiana
: said tiring himself from the conversation wanting to get back to his studies and
: documents.

:       "Okay, I’ll see you later then," Margaret
: says walking out of the classroom. Even though she was madly in love with Dr. Jones she
: couldn’t wait to get out of the classroom, sometimes he could get a little carried
: away with his studies.

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:       Maya looked over the area; she looked up at the large
: roof. And several cars parked out around the lot. She walked by some of the boys, they
: were shouting obscenities to her like "hey girl I’d love to get some of
: that", or "hey you new here I can teach you some excellent skills" she
: didn’t realize what they were doing. The ignorant fools she thought. Finally becoming
: fed up with what was going on she went over to one of the students, she kneed him then
: kicked him to his knees then with her right hand picked him up from the ground and punched
: him in the nose breaking it. The student ran off crying. "Men" she said to
: herself. The walked to the steps leading to the door

:       Yes she had the right address, and this was Barnette
: College. She walked in through the large double doors. She walked in to the secretaries
: office, she said "Where may I find Dr. Jones’ class."

:       She pushed the glasses down to the end tip of her nose
: and looked down across at the tall slender woman. "Down the hall, to the left, room
: number three oh two," she spoke dryly, then pushed the glasses back up. Then seemed
: to be studying the woman looking at her from head to toe "I guess that is true what
: they have said about him," she said grumbling. And then she went back to her
: typewriter. She wasn’t the most cheerful person Maya thought to herself. Maya then
: also gave a grunt and walked down the hall.

:       Maya walked down the hall, looking at the doors and
: watching the people walk from the hallway, one of the men came up behind her and patted
: her lightly on the butt. She then turned around and took him by the hair walked him next
: to a corner and punched him in the face giving him a black eye. What is wrong with men
: today she thought to herself. She saw a young plain looking girl walking from the room.
: The door was open "Well, well, well Dr. Jones it’s nice to finally meet you,
: what have you been up to lately." She said walking inside the room.

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:       Indiana turned, in his chair to see who was talking to
: him. He didn’t recognize her. "May I help you young lady." His laid his
: glasses down on the table. He too began staring at the woman but not exactly for the same
: reason that the secretary was looking at her.

:       "I’m sorry it’s been such a long time
: since we’ve seen each other, don’t you remember me. You probably wont be
: especially proud to see me, It’s me Maya we were spies together in Palestine. I am
: ashamed to admit it but I was a traitor." She looked down at the floor feeling
: embarrassed and foolish. "I feel bad about it, I would like to come to you with an
: offer to make up for what I did."

:       "You were a traitor to me and America." He
: looked at her disgustedly. " I shouldn’t even be sitting here and listening, but
: you are ashamed and willing to make up for it."

:       "Well I defected, they were going to kill me they
: also weren’t going to pay for my medical bills either. Also I have been researching
: some things I have found it requires us to go to Mongolia, we need to talk about it later
: tonight." Maya walked a little closer. "Listen come to my apartment tonight and
: we can talk about it. It’s only a few blocks from here. Hey in fact I can stay here
: until your ready to leave, and I can drive you down there."

:       "Okay I’m only be a few more minutes. We can
: discuss this later just sit outside on one of the benches." Indiana turned off the
: light and then stacked up his papers as she walked out of the room; he then placed them
: into a briefcase slipped it under his arm. He walked out of the room and into the hall
: placing his fedora on his head. "Okay lets go"

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:       Chapter II
: More studies:

:       "Okay, Jones
: here’s the story," She paused and looked down at her cup of coffee. She began
: searching for her next words, such as what to say and how to say it.

:       "Go on," Indy said as he took a sip of his
: coffee his eyes never turning from her face, he began studying her, surveying. He
: didn’t trust her, and he shouldn’t, but he decided to listen to the story.

:       She took a sip of the coffee, "Well, after you had
: shot me, of course you know I rode off with the horse out into the desert. Well I
: didn’t have food or water. While I was riding a man came up, he would have killed me
: but I shot him. He had some notes water and a picture of me, I suppose he needed a picture
: to see what I looked like. He was… ah sent to kill, after I was out of the desert I
: was able to make it to the airport where I boarded a flight to Germany, after a
: ‘mission’ we were to report in, I reported in. I had this all carefully planned
: out; after he called the guards to come kill me I shot him and stole my documents from his
: office. I had to jump out the window luckily I made it out with only a few scars. I had to
: run because I was being tailed. I was able to hop aboard a cargo plane and sneak my way
: into the United States I’ve been living here for a while and I had began researching
: through the papers I stole. There were many papers and documents finally I came across a
: sheet of paper about, a cave in Mongolia, anyone who had ever entered never came out.
: There have even been excavation teams searching the cave. But the weird thing is that all
: the teams’ members disappeared, there have even been reports of someone completely
: vanishing. One time a team tried to use a recorder and one person sitting outside the cave
: would listen in to everything that was happening, the trouble was that he kept talking
: then suddenly the whole thing crackled and then nothing but static. When they dragged the
: wire out of the cave they found that the wire end was completely snapped. There have not
: been any pictures made of neither the inside, nor any contact from the inside. But they do
: know there is in fact a treasure there, something called a phurba dagger." She paused
: and looked at Indy’s face, it then lit up.

:       "Wait I’ve heard about these phurba
: dagger’s. Yes but they aren’t believed to be real, I think it was a man named Maxwell
: Grant who came up with this phurba dagger thing, he writes a series of novels, called
: "The Shadow" yes I believe I’ve heard about these before. Believed to
: contain a power that could do thing’s from transform human beings to be able to
: destroy whole armies." He grunted, "Do you expect me to believe this."

:       "No trust me, the phurba dagger IS real,
: trust me, there are also many golden idols and other treasures in the cave." She set
: the cup of coffee on a table. "What you are talking about is a fictional novel, but
: the phurba dagger is real. If you come with me and help me, I will pay you thirty two
: thousand dollar’s. That ought to make up for the trip and what I’ve caused
: you." She began to ruffle through some paper’s "There will be, two more
: teams going on this excavation, one will be a team of Germans I do not know there names
: and the other will be led by an American, I believe his name is Forrestol. Oh I do know
: that the German exhibition team is funded and headed by the government. Also this
: exhibition has been being planned for quite some time." She pulled out the paper, and
: handed it to Jones, he then stuck it into his jacket pocket, then she added, "One
: thing though we absolutely must get there before the other two teams. If not they
: may beat us to our treasure."

:       Indiana’s face lit up, he thought about it for a
: moment then added "Okay I’ll do it, but I want sixteen thousand now and the rest
: later, after the trip. This will be a chance to show Forrestol up at his own game. You are
: sure of this, now then you need to tell me about this cave." Indiana went on. After
: about thirty minutes they had finished talking. "Oh, one more thing," he paused
: waiting to get her attention "Bring the money to my house tomorrow, we leave at noon.
: Indiana stood up put his fedora on top of his head and walked out of the room, through the
: hall and out the door. By the time they had finished talking it had started to rain, as he
: got to his car the rain picked up and became violent, fortunately he had brought his
: trench coat, he got in the car and began to drive home

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:       Indiana got inside the car. He began to review what was
: happening in his head. He knew he couldn’t trust her, people don’t just
: automatically change and decide to be a better person. Why would she even come back after
: all this time to see him, she claimed that she wanted to have help with the finding of an
: artifact. All this and more was running through his mind, he was trying to make sense of
: it all, oh well he thought to himself, even if she is trying to fool me I will also have
: the money that ought to hold me for a long time. "Fortune and Glory," he said to
: himself. He turned a corner and walked up to his house. The phone was ringing when he
: walked inside, "Hello" he said into the receiver "Jones residence."

:       "Hello, Indy this is Marcus I just wanted to call
: to remind you that you have to give a lecture at three-o-clock tomorrow."

:       "Oh Marcus I forgot, um okay cancel that lecture
: and schedule it a week from now okay, and get Peter to fill in for my classes." Indy
: spoke into the receiver.

:       "Why Indy, what’s going on. Are you going
: somewhere." Marcus’s voice crackled through the phone.

:       "Yes, tomorrow morning I’m leaving for
: Mongolia, Yeah I’m offered thirty two thousand, to bring in some old relic, yeah
: fortune and glory Marcus," he gave a sigh of contentment, "fortune and glory. I
: cant talk anymore, I have to pack" Indiana then hung up the phone, and began his
: packing. He tossed a leather jacket, shirt, pants, a bag, and bullwhip and then placed it
: all in a suitcase. He then placed his fedora on top and set all of the items on a chair.
: He then took a shower and lay down to bed.

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:       The next morning, Indiana was up and going to
: Maya’s apartment. He had the suitcase in the trunk of his car; he would change his
: clothes during the plane trip. Right now he was wearing worn khakis, and a plaid work
: shirt. The fedora tipped up on his head. He checked his watch. It was eleven forty five;
: he had plenty of time to get there. Indiana rounded a corner and pulled up to the side of
: the apartment building. He walked up and knocked. When the door opened Maya was already
: ready to go and had set her suitcase next to the door and was wearing a safari shirt, with
: a long skirt, she also was planning to change on the plane trip also.

:       "So do you know how were going to get down
: there." Maya asked bringing her items down the stairs and to the car.

: "Yes I have a private plane trip set aside, it will be a small plane though."
: Indiana said taking the few small packages.

:       Maya got inside the car and shut the door; she waited
: for Indiana to do the same, then she added, "I don’t care just as long as it is
: safe."

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:       As the car drove up the driveway to the small aircraft
: hanger, a small young man began walking toward the car. "Hello Jones, where is it you
: would like to go." The man asked holding a piece of a ham sandwich, "listen I
: cant accompany you on this trip, I can only drop you off and pick you up, okay"

:       "That’s okay, hey do you mind dropping us in
: Mongolia," Indiana said as he parked the car.

:       "Yeah sure no problem, hey we’ll have to leave
: today, listen I can only give you ninety six hours to do the job then I’ll come back
: to find you then It’ll be another week, so try not to be late, okay I’m sorry
: though but I’m booked up." The man said.

:       "Yeah sure that will probably be enough time,"
: he looked at Maya for assurance she nodded, "Yeah that will be okay, um she’ll
: have to help navigate," Indiana said walking into the hanger.

:       "Hello my name is Maya, It will be a pleasure
: working with you," Maya said, shaking his hand.

:       "Oh sorry, my name is Chris, Chris Hughes,
: I’ve been taking your ‘pal’ Indy around for a long time, he’s quite an
: adventurer." Chris said looking at Maya thoughtfully.

:       "Pleased to meet you, I hope this will be an
: enjoyable trip. We will also need to get going," Maya said as she stared at Chris,
: although not the way he was staring at her.

:       "Oh yeah sure, hey yeah I probably have the perfect
: plane for you," Chris said taking her to the small aircraft, as Indiana fell behind.

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:       Chris and Maya sat at the controls, and then Indiana sat
: in the back tipping his hat over his head as he began to drift to sleep. As the plane
: began to take off into the air, Maya walked to the back and was able to shift around some
: boxes and things to block the others view and began changing from her casual clothes to
: her ‘adventure gear’. She then took a large belt which had a gun holster
: attached and hooked it around her waist. She had long somewhat curly black hair, her hips
: swayed as she walked, and her eyes were thoughtful and dazzling, she had long tanned legs,
: which were strong since she had been working for the secret service, although that was
: something she was longing to forget.

:       Maya threw Indiana’s hat off his head and shook him
: awake, "Indiana you can go change now," she then walked back to the cockpit.

:       Indiana began changing into his ‘Indy gear. After
: changing he went back to sleep preparing his mind and body for what was awaiting.

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:       "Okay this is the area, I cant exactly tell
: though," Maya said, she was holding a small torn map.

:       "Okay look there isn’t a landing area anywhere
: near here, or a place we could even get close to landing there’s too much bush,
: you’ll have to jump,"

:       "Yeah, sure where are the packs," Maya said
: looking at Chris, she began to stuff the map into her pocket.

:       Chris looked back into the end of the plane then pointed
: "In the back the large compartment." He began pointing to a small steel
: compartment.

:       "Okay I’ll wake Jones" she bent over and
: kissed Chris goodbye. His eyes opened wide, and glowed. She picked the hat from
: Indy’s face, "Jones" she hit the side of his head with the hat, "Jones
: we have to jump," he jumped to his feet, shaking his head.

:       "What, what happened," Indiana jumped up
: clutching his whip.

:       "We have to jump" Maya said putting her pack
: on, and handing him his.

:       "Why," he asked, putting the pack on his back
: opening the door.

:       Chris shouted from the controls "Listen you’ll
: have to jump now or we’ll have missed our drop-off point" Chris shouted turning
: back to his plane.

:       Maya shouted "No time" and pushed Indiana
: Jones out the door, with her following behind.

:       The air beat against Indiana’s face as he was
: flying through the clouds. His arms were outstretched, he couldn’t tell if he was
: supposed to pull the string yet, he finally made the decision, he yanked the string. He
: suddenly felt himself falling lighter in the air, he was able to open his eyes, he looked
: to the side, and he could see Maya’s chute. He then hit the ground. His legs ached
: from the impact. A few minutes later he saw Maya land. He ran to her helping her to her
: feet.

:       "Okay now we" she took a deep breath,
: "now we need to get to the cave, you might want me to lead the way Jones. As I have
: been studying and examining this jungle for a long time preparing myself for this."
: She said as she took the map from her pocket and started walking off into the jungle. They
: walked for several minutes surveying the land around them, it was filled with trees and
: shrubbery and wild plants and animals, and they also encountered some skulls. And human
: remains, the skulls were laying there looking horrified as they slowly decomposed. Indiana
: didn’t have time to date or examine them, he just kept following Maya, and finally
: she led him to the entrance of the cave. The place was overgrown with mold and mildew. Its
: entrance was covered in spider webs, as they walked trough the cave they took extreme
: cautiousness. Watching every step they, took watching the walls for any cracks or holes,
: spiders scurried across the ground as they walked deeper into the cave, as they went
: deeper they saw skulls. Some had what looked to be extremely old robes and clothes.
: Indiana began looking at them; there was something he couldn’t figure out. "Hold
: it" Indiana whispered. He began looking at one of the skeletons. He began examining
: it; it was wearing modern clothes, boot’s hat and a shirt. Only there was one odd
: thing about it, as far as Indiana could tell it looked to be hundreds of years old, yet
: this had clothes of modern day. "There’s something wrong here" Indiana
: grumbled.

:       "Why, what’s wrong," Maya whispered to
: Indiana, as she proceeded into the cave

:       "Nothing let’s go on," Indiana said as he
: tried to conceal what he had seen, he began to lead through the cave not knowing what was
: about to happen.

:  

:  

:       Chapter III
: The Dagger

:  

:       They then came to a large room, with large statues
: largely decorated with golden jewelry and idols. Although when they began walking through
: the room it was as though the statues began watching them, cursing their movement. Indiana
: started walking to the back of the large room, "I’ll be damned" he said
: under his breath "it does exist" he looked down up at a mantle which had a
: golden dagger… a Phurba dagger. He reached down to pickup the golden jewel.

:       "Hold it Jones, don’t move," A voice
: shouted from the room.

:       Indiana looked up startled, he pulled out his whip, he
: shouted "Maya, is something wrong," Indiana started walking towards the front of
: the room. "Forrestal" he grunted.

:       "What’s wrong Jones, I would have thought you
: would be pleased to see me," he smiled "Oh if your wondering where your
: girlfriend is" He snapped his fingers, a large bulky man walked in, holding Maya as
: he came in "She’s in my care," he smiled again.

:       "Greedy basturd," he grunted under his breath,
: "Hey listen here you…"

:       He was cut off short, "No, no bargaining this time
: I’m here to take all" Forrestal walked closer to Jones showing his yellow teeth.

:       "Not this time" Indiana said as he pulled out
: his whip, cracking it in the air. He swung it in the air wrapping the hand of Maya’s
: capture; Indiana jerked on the whip knocking the man to the ground. "Maya over
: here," He shouted as he ran to the Phurba. Maya then ran across the room to Indiana.
: He took Maya by the arm, and then Indiana ran over to the dagger, he grabbed it.

:       It seemed to come alive; its eyes glowed a fiery red. It
: moved it’s head, then sunk it’s sharp teeth into Indiana’s hand, he grabbed
: his hand in pain, the dagger began flying off towards the ceiling, it then flew off and
: sunk it’s sharp end into one of Forrestall’s eight men’s chest. It
: immediately after flew from the chest and landed into Indiana Jones’ leg. He clutched
: it yelling with pain, the ceiling began to crumble rocks shifting from place. The statues
: fell over, Forrestall’s men gathered around each other; a light began to shine from
: the place of the dagger.

:       Then everything started to get bright white. They room
: began to become large, or was he getting smaller Indy thought to himself. Then everything
: began to cloud up, he felt his eyes began to sear with pain, he couldn’t see anyone
: else, he tried to yell out "Maya" but nothing came out he felt his body crumple
: to the ground. He felt everything become heavier.

:       Indiana opened his eyes; he saw bright daylight on an
: open field. He stood up, "I’ll be damned, it’s true, that damned theory is
: true, this is an actual multiverse" He said aloud.

:       "Jones where are we," Maya said standing up
: rubbing here eyes. "What happened."

:       "I think the Phurba dagger opened up the parallel
: dimension to the multiverse," Jones said walking around taking in the surroundings.
: "Where is Forrestal." He grunted.

:       "I’m right here you basturd, what the hell
: happened." Forrestal said grunting as he got to his feet.

:       "Do you hear that," Maya said

:       "What?" Forrestal said.

:       "Shh." Maya insisted.

:       It was horse galloping, soon they all heard the horse
: beating then saw it entering from the forest and come to the clearing. The horse came
: close to one of Forrestal’s men, the rider drew his sword, and it swung, chopping the
: mans head off, it rolled to Forrestall’s feet.

:       Forrestal shouted "Run," they all began
: scattering in different directions.

:       Indiana grabbed Maya by the arm and ran the horses
: galloped off. "Who was and what was that," Maya gasped

:       "Genghis Khan," Indiana mumbled

:       "How do you know?" she said looking at Indy.

:       "The markings on his horse, I have a feeling we
: have gone back to the time of Genghis Khan. This may be trouble. We’ll have to get
: back to the cave, unfortunately I don’t know where it is."

:       "Wait, do you mean we actually went back to the
: past. How is that possible?" Maya said.

:       "Well actually we didn’t go back in time from
: our universe, we went to a multiverse, It’s a little different and extremely
: complicated." Indiana said ducking in the bushes.

:       "But wait a minute, if we went back in time,"
: Maya said. "Won’t our presence here change the local history? Won’t we
: influence the outcome of events?"

:       "No. We won’t."

:       "How do you know?"

:       "Because we can’t."

:       "But what about the time paradoxes?"

:       "Time paradoxes?"

:       "That’s right," Maya said. "You
: know, like going back in time and killing your grandmother, so that you can’t be
: born."

:       "Oh, that." Indiana shook her head
: impatiently. "There are no time paradoxes."

:       "What do you mean? Of course there are."

:       "No, there aren’t," Indiana said firmly.
: "Time paradoxes do not occur."

:       "What do you mean." Maya said. She was feeling
: put out that her question had been so roughly treated. She looked at his stern face.

:       "The so-called time paradoxes," Indiana said,
: "do not really involve time. They involve ideas about history that are seductive but
: wrong. Seductive because they flatter you into thinking you can have an impact on the
: course of events. And wrong, because of course, you can’t."

:       "You can’t have an impact on events?"

:       "No."

:       "Of course you can."

:       "No. You can’t. A single person can do little
: to alter events in any meaningful way. Of course, great masses of people can ‘change
: the course of events.’ But one person? No."

:       "Maybe so," Maya said, "but I can
: kill my grandfather. And if he’s dead then I couldn’t be born, so I would not
: exist, and therefore I couldn’t have shot him. And that’s a paradox."

:       "Yes it is assuming you actually kill your
: grandfather. But there are many things that stand in the way such as, you accidentally get
: killed yourself on the way or when you do get there you discover you cant pull the
: trigger. You may kill him too late and your parent has already been conceived.

:       Indiana rubbed his hands together "Now then. Shall
: we end this speculation and be on our way. I have a feeling being here with Genghis Khan
: will be disastrous. Wait where the hell is Forrestal. We need to find him."
:
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