Chapter 8

Posted by Kent Allard from B105-48.JOBO.splitrock.net on September 02, 2000 at 21:50:05:

Well I haven't had time to spot check so I don't know how good this will be, but remember this is sort of a comedy so don't expect anything great from this story, also I'll try checking it later if noone minds but I thought I should post this, tell me what you think!

Chapter VIII The Lions Den
Berlin

Indiana lifted his head above the water he could see several feet ahead of him, the air was cold and the sky grew darker, he scanned the area, there was a forest nearby, if they could get to the road they could find their way. He realized where he was now; it was probably a park of some sort. He scanned the area and slowly swam on. He slowly breathed out, he could see his breath through the crisp air. He then continued to swim.
“What are you thinking about” Goodsport whispered.
“I don’t know, but we should be careful. Let me go first” Indiana whispered back.
They began swimming forward again, the water was freezing cold, and one could easily catch pneumonia. They then pulled them selves onto the ground; they surveyed the land before them, it was covered in dense forest. Nothing but green forest they also saw near the edges small picnic tables and other items, and a walking trail. Indiana cocked his head to the side; he heard the howl of a dog he looked to his left and right. ‘It was the patrol’, he thought to himself. If they find them here they could be tortured, or killed; he turned around to see Goodsport getting over the chill from the water.
He whispered to Goodsport, “We had better hurry I heard one of the patrol’s dog’s howl”
Goodsport shivered and then gave a weak reply “Yes I heard them too, we may be able to dodge them, only problem is we may get lost and as you see its very large and dark, possibly dangerous” Goodsport looked around then motioned for Indy to lead
Indiana walked carefully forward, he could see nothing, and there were no lights or anything to guide him, which he knew was good because he may be seen, the howls began growing louder,
Goodsport pulled out his knife, he held it in front of him if anything came he would be ready.
Now the howls grew louder and he could hear German speech, Indiana began taking deeper breaths. The sound grew louder, until he was able to make out
“You there, halt” It was a German, he and the other Germans proceeded, the snarling dogs leaped at the end ropes tugging to get away. “What are you doing here, no one is allowed out at this time of night” The German said.
“Sorry we had to take a walk… uh our wives kicked us out” Goodsport lied. Then started trying to walk away
“Stop, hold on you’re coming with us,” The German said.
The man at the back pocketed a piece of paper he looked down at it, his eyes bulged, he walked to the head patrolman, then whispered in German “You may want to take a look at this.”
The German looked down; he saw the face of Indy, Goodsport, and Meagan. “You are the enemies, kill them” He began to draw his gun
As the German was drawing his gun with one quick thrust Indy clutched the fierce man’s arm. With his other hand he wrenched the gun to the ground, then just as quickly his fist shot forward knocking the man to the ground.
“RUN!” Indy shouted toward Goodsport!
The Nazi’s let the dogs loose they growled and snarled then ran after their prey already tasting the blood. Indiana and Goodsport kept running despite the dogs and shots behind them, then the Nazi’s began running too with their guns blazing for only momentarily would the gun fire would illuminate the images ahead of them. The brush swept across Indy’s face. Goodsport, trying to bush away the branches and leaves, tripped over a large log, he flew several feet to the ground landing on his back, Indiana glanced back and then turned to go help his friend to his feet, by then the Germans had caught up. One dog began biting at Goodsports ribs tearing away at his flesh, Goodsport took his knife and thrust it into the dog’s leg, and he didn’t want to kill it, just injure it. Indiana uncoiled his whip, the Germans got closer not seeing the snakelike weapon ready to strike. Their guns were pointed at Indy and Goodsport, Indiana cracked the whip in the air, which got the Nazi’s attention, which had them all pointing their guns at Indy they were lined in single file. Indy smiled and hoped it worked he thrust his whip, which grabbed the last Germans rifle, gave a quick tug, twisting that gun knocking the other guns to their side just as the trigger was pulled and one by one each other murdered each other. Indy then gave another thrust, which sent the rifle flying towards him. He grabbed it then shot the last living man.
Goodsport was still fighting the dogs off him, Indiana gave another loud crack then whipped the leg of the dog and one by one sent the dog’s whimpering away. By then Indiana heard a whistle, “shit” Indy thought to himself “they must have heard the gun shots, c’mon Goodsport were getting ya outta here”. He pulled Goodsport up and began running deeper into the forest, he pulled out his gun ready for a shoot out. “All right he thought, you sun of a bitches will have to kill me to catch me.” He ran onwards. Finally he could see a clearing, it was the road, and he surveyed the area, nothing, not a single hiding spot.
Then he saw it up ahead he saw a small bait shop. He ran up to it, he saw that it was locked, he ran around back and busted in one of the windows. He then pulled Goodsport inside; he closed the curtain hoping no one would notice the broken glass. The Germans ran past the shop, Indiana smiled then waited for them to go on down the road, then he pulled Goodsport outside, Goodsport was bleeding badly they would have to wait before they could complete their mission. He waited a while making sure it was safe. He dragged Goodsport across the street. He waited for a car to drive by then proceeded to help Goodsport stagger to the other side, clutching him by the soldier walking him around. He found a bench. He laid Goodsport across the bench. He ripped up Goodsports jacket into shreds and then tightly bound it across Goodsports chest to stop the bleeding. He then helped Goodsport walk across the sidewalk of the barren street. He saw what looked to be, a hospital, he dragged Goodsport inside. The doctor immediately took him in.
“Sir, We will need to take him to a Hospital in London, but don’t worry we will treat him as best we can here, and as soon as the helicopter arrives we will take him in. Was it the Nazi’s?” The Doctor asked Indiana
“Yeah sure, take extra careful care of him, he was my partner. Yes it was the Nazi’s, why how did you know?” Indiana replied.
“Oh they’ve been terrorizing everyone, I am totally against them, and if you’re a spy I support you.” The Doctor said. “We will take utmost care of your partner.”
“Uh yeah, sure” Indy stuttered “I gotta go,” Indiana walked down the stairs of the hospital and out the door. He then walked down the street. As he was walking he saw a group of German Soldiers walking down the street, he took another look. Indiana saw to his surprise, they were drunk, Indiana stood there motionless as they walked by paying him no attention. Indiana then proceeded to walk through the deserted street.
He kept walking; he didn’t know what to look for. Finally an arm clutched his shoulder and dragged him into a back alley. Surprised Indiana unholstered his gun and took aim, “Woah Jones, I wouldn’t get trigger happy,” then out of the shadows stepped Indy’s female partner.
“Meagan!” Indiana said stunned “Why, how, where did you come from, what happened,” Indiana said bringing her into his arms, “Oh I thought I lost you for good,”
Stunned she griped Indy and said, “I think when we jumped we landed in different spots, once I couldn’t find Goodsport or you I swam on. Since I’ve been walking around, I think I know where we should go next. By the way, where is Goodsport.” Meagan said starting to speak in whispers.
“Oh he was badly injured, but we need to finish what we started, now you said you think you know where to go next.” Indiana said to the woman.
“Yes follow me. Be careful though.” Meagan said walking out of the alley.

She led him to a large stone building. They walked up to it and tried opening the doors, they found that it was locked. They began to turn around and leave when they saw a two Germans walking up the path. Indiana took Meagan by the arm and pushed her into a bush, once the Soldiers got close enough Indy lunged out knocking one to his feet and the other stood reaching for his pistol.
Meagan saw this and lunged out at him, strangled him and took his knife and stabbed the other in the neck. Indiana took the mans jacket, boots, hat, and pants. The pants he found were too small, so he took the others and gave the smaller one’s to Meagan. Then slipped on the clothes and waited for Meagan to change into her uniform.
“Keep you face hidden, and don’t utter a word” Indiana growled.
“Okay,” she whispered.

Indiana took the keys and proceeded into the dark hallway. He saw several signs; he looked at them studying them waiting to choose the best one.
He saw one that said “EXTRACTIONS,” like all the doors in the building it was opened with a key, he wondered what was in there but instead decided not to bother.

He saw one that said: “VORSICHT VERMEIDEN TERATOGENE FRAUEN DER SUBSTANZEN PERGNANT AUSSETZUNG ZU DIESEM BEREICH: CAUTION TERATOGENIC SUBSTANCES PREGNANT WOMEN AVOID EXPOSURE TO THIS AREA”
He didn’t bother with this one either, immediately following it was: “RADIOACTIVE ISOTOPE DER GEFAHR IM KREBSERZEUGENDEN POTENTIAL DES GEBRAUCHES: DANGER RADIOACTIVE ISOTOPES IN USE CARCINOGENIC POTENTIAL.”
He ignored that one as well, although he was curious what they meant. He turned a corner, and jerked back just as quickly. He saw two Nazi’s one of them was the Roger that had been on his last archaeological dig. The other was a General of some sort, he would have waited for them to pass but there were also two guards, standing at the door watching every move. He thought it would be wiser to leave it all alone.
“Meagan quickly,” He lifted her on his shoulders, luckily the ceiling of the building was made of metal which they easily pushed to the side and began crawling on the top of the ceiling. They made small clicking sounds as they moved through the area. Indiana found a small pipe like thing, which he crawled on through. He found the room they were going through, he slid the metal ceiling part across and saw the letters: “CLOSED AREA AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY BEYOND THIS POINT.”
He also saw that it was wired he slowly and quietly dropped down into the room. He was able to pick open some desk files and drawers and sorted through it, he saw a manila file marked COTD, and he curiously opened it. He read about previous exhibitions, myths and tales, he turned the page, he looked up in surprise then exclaimed, “that’s my dig” he went through it reading about some of the other locations and destinations. He read one in particular: AUSTRALIA LOC. OF NXT CYLNDR. He read over it and then took the manila folder and placed it inside his jacket. He then began searching through the others files and things, taking what he thought might be useful later on. He then spotted in a dark corner of the room a cylindrical shaped metal tubing which was extremely large. He saw engraved on it was: “#7 CYLINDER 4-907 CAUTION – HAZARDOUS REQUIRES EXTREME CARE DO NOT OPEN CLASS 4”
He then began looking over the large cylindrical shaped thing. As he was looking he found a keyhole. He remembered seeing one in one of the desks, he opened the desk and pulled out the key. He rushed back over to the cylinder shaped thing and stuck the key inside, it fit. He twisted the key and with a loud swoosh the metal tube like thing came open, it let out a small amount of smoke and showed one glowing cylinder. This is it, Indiana thought a bit puzzled by it all. Never the less, he grabbed the bars surrounding it, he yanked his hand back and stifled a scream. The thing was burning hot. He ripped up two pieces of cloth and put his hand around it and quickly moved the bar off the top and to the floor. He then rubbed his chin and looked at the glowing cylinder. He figured it was rigged, so he took extra care when trying to remove it, he slowly pulled the cylinder from it’s source, nothing happened, Indiana let out a sigh of relief. He slowly put the bars back over and closed the metal tube taking the key and putting everything in its proper places. Then he put the small cylinder into his pocket, by then it had stopped glowing and looked like a small brownish green stone.
He pulled himself back up through the ceiling motioning for Meagan to get out of here. They crawled back through the metal ceiling and dropped to the floor, left the building and got back into their ‘gear’, heading for a nearby hotel or someplace to reside and contemplate.

Jefferson hotel:
Inside the hotel Meagan sat in her chair. She began reading over a few magazines, she threw them down and stood up, “what is it you keep looking at,”
“Just a few things about the upcoming trip, I need to know whether we should go by air or plane. It says here that their next departure is somewhere in Australia. But I have been looking through something and I think they are going to the wrong spot. They’re leaving on their exhibition tomorrow; it doesn’t list the exact name of the Jungle. Oh well that doesn’t matter, I read through a few things and I think we should explore some of the waters near Germany,” Indiana said, flipping through the pages of the files. He laid them to the side.
“Wait, aren’t some of those areas shark infested?” Meagan said
“Yes, is that problem,” Indiana said rubbing his chin sitting himself on the bed.
“I hate sharks, I have had a strong fear of them for a long time,” Meagan said walking away sitting herself on the chair beside the table.
“Don’t worry, I’ll protect you” He gave a lopsided grin.
“Good let’s get some sleep,” she said picking up the phone. “Konnten Sie uns ein Ersatzcot bitte ja schicken... vielen Dank” She said into the receiver end.
“Why are you ordering a cot,” He said staring at her.
“For you,” Meagan said, “I’m not going to sleep with you.”
“Oh,” he frowned at her statement.

The next morning Indiana was the very first to awake, he took his time and loaded his pistol and other accessories. He didn’t bother shaving he just slapped his fedora on top of his head. He shook Meagan awake, “Megan we need to get out of here now.”
“Oh yeah,” she opened her eyes lazily.

“Indiana hailed a cab in German, he had a overcoat wrapped around himself so as not to be noticeable in his beaten clothes. He pulled up to a small seaplane.

The flight took a long time and Meagan sat attentively at the front watching the controls as she flew. Finally the plane reached their location; Meagan landed the plane on the water. Indiana tossed an air mask to Meagan. “We’ve got to dive, when we were flying overhead I had seen a dark shape I think it could be possibly an underground cave or something. We’ll have to check it out. C’mon it’ll be safe.” Indiana said climbing to the side and jumping into the water. Meagan a soon nervously followed afterwards.

Indiana signaled for Meagan to follow as they went deeper, past coral and other things, he was able to push himself through a small dark hole, he swam onward into the darker area. Meagan also followed timidly. They kept going deeper and darker, Indiana pushed himself through another hole, and he found a small barrier that he was able to heave to the side, he pushed Meagan through and he followed. Indiana fell several feet to the ground, he found that it was only slightly damp, and the whole room was lavishly decorated with golden jewels. Around the sides he could see the same ‘bodies’ that were in his dig. Meagan grimaced and shut her eyes; Indy tried to comfort her. Finally she looked around the entire area was covered with algae and mildew and other things, most of the gold was destroyed because of the seawater.

He looked around and at the top he was able to see what he was looking for. At the very top of the room, on a small ledge he saw the brownish green cylinder. Using his whip he wrapped it onto a long slender rock. He pulled himself upward and onto the top of the ledge; he quickly grabbed the small cylinder and placed it into his pouch. Then descended the platform and got to the moist ground. He smelled the horrid stench, which lay in the air. He also rubbed his arms trying to get as much of his body heat as possible; the air was cold, too cold to stay much longer.
Indiana walked around, and then he saw it, a hole in the ground. It was pressurized so that the area would not flood. He looked down into the murky water, it was dark and gruesome, and he saw sharks swimming underneath.
“Meagan were going down this way.” Indy whispered.
“Okay,” she paused and looked down at what Indiana was staring at, “Oh, no we can’t, why can’t we leave the way we came?”
“No, the pressure from the water pounding down on us, we would never be able to get out, besides there are probably sharks on that side too.”
“But I can’t I hate sharks,” Meagan stuttered, “Isn’t there another way out.”
“No, look I’ll go first and you follow,” Indy grabbed her arm “We can’t wait long or we’ll freeze to death.”
“Okay I’ll go.” She said reluctantly

Indiana jumped into the water, following him was Meagan. They easily swam past most of the sharks. They tried to avoid them as best they could, not bothering their area
Indiana was trying to swim close to the side of the building like structure so as not to attract the sharks. H wasn’t watching what he was doing, Meagan also swam very close behind him, and he kept close attention to the sharks and their activities he never watched where he was because of the sharks. Finally his carelessness caught up to him. He swam up next to a jagged piece of metal it tore through his skin of his arm; the blood spread through the water, Indy clutched his arm keeping inside his scream, the area around him was soon completely red. Meagan had gotten next to Indy, he was holding onto the side of the fungus eaten mound. Her eyes shot out wide, she had realized the sharks would be there soon, his eyes looked tired as if he was about to give up life, he had a look of horror spread across his face as three of the many sharks came swimming close. Slowly yet quickly and gracefully as these creatures came to their prey.
Meagan began pulling Indy up, she knew his oxygen wouldn’t last, either that or he would die from chill. She kept pulling but his body was limp, finally a shark came close. Indy reached his arm out and gave the best struggle he could give, while Meagan was banging against the sharp metal edge, the one Indy tore his arm on, the repeatedly scraped at it with her knife, hoping that the metal was rusted over enough it would come loose soon. She looked back at Indy; he was using both hands to slowly push the sharks away. The sharks were closing in he would reach one arm up and knock the shark away, he had a lot of strength but it wouldn’t last, his face began going blue, his eyes grew heavier. Finally he reached inside of his pouch, knowing his gun wouldn’t be of use he tried hitting the sharks with it. After finding it wasn’t useful he tried his knife although it too wouldn’t hold the sharks back, now he was cut up and scarped his body ached, he wasn’t holding out much longer.
Finally she pried the metal loose stabbing the shark till it finally went dead, and drifted to the bottom. But there were still many more sharks coming, after regaining some of his muscular strength Indy began swimming to the top, he had hoped the blood from the other shark would send the others after it. He was wrong, the other sharks came, swimming closer and closer with each second, Meagan was also becoming tired, Indy looked back at the sharks, they were still coming; he brought out all his strength and slammed his fist into the shark. Then he grabbed the shark by the snout. He signaled with his arm for Meagan to go ahead and swim on up to the plane and get it started. She obeyed as Indy fought the shark. The fight eventually ended with Indy low on oxygen and freezing. He barely could bring him self to swim up to the top with Meagan, he climbed into the seaplane and Meagan took out the first aid kit and was helping Indy bandage his wounded arm. His eyes flinched with every move and shake, she looked at his arm in disgust, it was swollen and blue and purple, it was bleeding badly. His arm was limp and tired, he couldn’t move it that well; Meagan took control as he sat back flinching with the pain shutting his eyes although he never could fall asleep, he just had a struggle with death, and barely won.

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: Well I haven't had time to spot check so I don't know how good this will be, but remember this is sort of a comedy so don't expect anything great from this story, also I'll try checking it later if noone minds but I thought I should post this, tell me what you think!

:  Chapter VIII The Lions Den
:  Berlin 
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:                 Indiana lifted his head above the water he could see several feet ahead of him, the air was cold and the sky grew darker, he scanned the area, there was a forest nearby, if they could get to the road they could find their way. He realized where he was now; it was probably a park of some sort. He scanned the area and slowly swam on. He slowly breathed out, he could see his breath through the crisp air. He then continued to swim.
:                 “What are you thinking about” Goodsport whispered.
:                 “I don’t know, but we should be careful. Let me go first” Indiana whispered back. 
:                  They began swimming forward again, the water was freezing cold, and one could easily catch pneumonia. They then pulled them selves onto the ground; they surveyed the land before them, it was covered in dense forest. Nothing but green forest they also saw near the edges small picnic tables and other items, and a walking trail. Indiana cocked his head to the side; he heard the howl of a dog he looked to his left and right. ‘It was the patrol’, he thought to himself. If they find them here they could be tortured, or killed; he turned around to see Goodsport getting over the chill from the water. 
:                  He whispered to Goodsport, “We had better hurry I heard one of the patrol’s dog’s howl”
:                  Goodsport shivered and then gave a weak reply “Yes I heard them too, we may be able to dodge them, only problem is we may get lost and as you see its very large and dark, possibly dangerous” Goodsport looked around then motioned for Indy to lead
:                   Indiana walked carefully forward, he could see nothing, and there were no lights or anything to guide him, which he knew was good because he may be seen, the howls began growing louder, 
:                  Goodsport pulled out his knife, he held it in front of him if anything came he would be ready.
:                  Now the howls grew louder and he could hear German speech, Indiana began taking deeper breaths. The sound grew louder, until he was able to make out 
:                   “You there, halt” It was a German, he and the other Germans proceeded, the snarling dogs leaped at the end ropes tugging to get away. “What are you doing here, no one is allowed out at this time of night” The German said.
:                   “Sorry we had to take a walk… uh our wives kicked us out” Goodsport lied. Then started trying to walk away
:                    “Stop, hold on you’re coming with us,” The German said.
:                    The man at the back pocketed a piece of paper he looked down at it, his eyes bulged, he walked to the head patrolman, then whispered in German “You may want to take a look at this.”
:                     The German looked down; he saw the face of Indy, Goodsport, and Meagan. “You are the enemies, kill them” He began to draw his gun
:                      As the German was drawing his gun with one quick thrust Indy clutched the fierce man’s arm. With his other hand he wrenched the gun to the ground, then just as quickly his fist shot forward knocking the man to the ground.
:                      “RUN!” Indy shouted toward Goodsport!
:                       The Nazi’s let the dogs loose they growled and snarled then ran after their prey already tasting the blood. Indiana and Goodsport kept running despite the dogs and shots behind them, then the Nazi’s began running too with their guns blazing for only momentarily would the gun fire would illuminate the images ahead of them. The brush swept across Indy’s face. Goodsport, trying to bush away the branches and leaves, tripped over a large log, he flew several feet to the ground landing on his back, Indiana glanced back and then turned to go help his friend to his feet, by then the Germans had caught up. One dog began biting at Goodsports ribs tearing away at his flesh, Goodsport took his knife and thrust it into the dog’s leg, and he didn’t want to kill it, just injure it. Indiana uncoiled his whip, the Germans got closer not seeing the snakelike weapon ready to strike. Their guns were pointed at Indy and Goodsport, Indiana cracked the whip in the air, which got the Nazi’s attention, which had them all pointing their guns at Indy they were lined in single file. Indy smiled and hoped it worked he thrust his whip, which grabbed the last Germans rifle, gave a quick tug, twisting that gun knocking the other guns to their side just as the trigger was pulled and one by one each other murdered each other. Indy then gave another thrust, which sent the rifle flying towards him. He grabbed it then shot the last living man. 
:            Goodsport was still fighting the dogs off him, Indiana gave another loud crack then whipped the leg of the dog and one by one sent the dog’s whimpering away. By then Indiana heard a whistle, “shit” Indy thought to himself “they must have heard the gun shots, c’mon Goodsport were getting ya outta here”. He pulled Goodsport up and began running deeper into the forest, he pulled out his gun ready for a shoot out. “All right he thought, you sun of a bitches will have to kill me to catch me.” He ran onwards. Finally he could see a clearing, it was the road, and he surveyed the area, nothing, not a single hiding spot. 
:            Then he saw it up ahead he saw a small bait shop. He ran up to it, he saw that it was locked, he ran around back and busted in one of the windows. He then pulled Goodsport inside; he closed the curtain hoping no one would notice the broken glass. The Germans ran past the shop, Indiana smiled then waited for them to go on down the road, then he pulled Goodsport outside, Goodsport was bleeding badly they would have to wait before they could complete their mission. He waited a while making sure it was safe. He dragged Goodsport across the street. He waited for a car to drive by then proceeded to help Goodsport stagger to the other side, clutching him by the soldier walking him around. He found a bench. He laid Goodsport across the bench. He ripped up Goodsports jacket into shreds and then tightly bound it across Goodsports chest to stop the bleeding. He then helped Goodsport walk across the sidewalk of the barren street. He saw what looked to be, a hospital, he dragged Goodsport inside. The doctor immediately took him in.
:            “Sir, We will need to take him to a Hospital in London, but don’t worry we will treat him as best we can here, and as soon as the helicopter arrives we will take him in. Was it the Nazi’s?” The Doctor asked Indiana
:             “Yeah sure, take extra careful care of him, he was my partner. Yes it was the Nazi’s, why how did you know?” Indiana replied.
:            “Oh they’ve been terrorizing everyone, I am totally against them, and if you’re a spy I support you.” The Doctor said. “We will take utmost care of your partner.”
:            “Uh yeah, sure” Indy stuttered “I gotta go,” Indiana walked down the stairs of the hospital and out the door. He then walked down the street. As he was walking he saw a group of German Soldiers walking down the street, he took another look. Indiana saw to his surprise, they were drunk, Indiana stood there motionless as they walked by paying him no attention. Indiana then proceeded to walk through the deserted street.     
:              He kept walking; he didn’t know what to look for. Finally an arm clutched his shoulder and dragged him into a back alley. Surprised Indiana unholstered his gun and took aim, “Woah Jones, I wouldn’t get trigger happy,” then out of the shadows stepped Indy’s female partner.
:              “Meagan!” Indiana said stunned “Why, how, where did you come from, what happened,” Indiana said bringing her into his arms, “Oh I thought I lost you for good,”
:               Stunned she griped Indy and said, “I think when we jumped we landed in different spots, once I couldn’t find Goodsport or you I swam on. Since I’ve been walking around, I think I know where we should go next. By the way, where is Goodsport.” Meagan said starting to speak in whispers.
:               “Oh he was badly injured, but we need to finish what we started, now you said you think you know where to go next.” Indiana said to the woman.
:              “Yes follow me. Be careful though.” Meagan said walking out of the alley.            
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:              She led him to a large stone building. They walked up to it and tried opening the doors, they found that it was locked. They began to turn around and leave when they saw a two Germans walking up the path. Indiana took Meagan by the arm and pushed her into a bush, once the Soldiers got close enough Indy lunged out knocking one to his feet and the other stood reaching for his pistol. 
:            Meagan saw this and lunged out at him, strangled him and took his knife and stabbed the other in the neck. Indiana took the mans jacket, boots, hat, and pants. The pants he found were too small, so he took the others and gave the smaller one’s to Meagan. Then slipped on the clothes and waited for Meagan to change into her uniform.
:            “Keep you face hidden, and don’t utter a word” Indiana growled.
:            “Okay,” she whispered.
:  
:            Indiana took the keys and proceeded into the dark hallway. He saw several signs; he looked at them studying them waiting to choose the best one.
:            He saw one that said “EXTRACTIONS,” like all the doors in the building it was opened with a key, he wondered what was in there but instead decided not to bother.
:  
:           He saw one that said: “VORSICHT VERMEIDEN TERATOGENE FRAUEN DER SUBSTANZEN PERGNANT AUSSETZUNG ZU DIESEM BEREICH: CAUTION TERATOGENIC SUBSTANCES PREGNANT WOMEN AVOID EXPOSURE TO THIS AREA” 
:          He didn’t bother with this one either, immediately following it was: “RADIOACTIVE ISOTOPE DER GEFAHR IM KREBSERZEUGENDEN POTENTIAL DES GEBRAUCHES: DANGER RADIOACTIVE ISOTOPES IN USE CARCINOGENIC POTENTIAL.”
:          He ignored that one as well, although he was curious what they meant. He turned a corner, and jerked back just as quickly. He saw two Nazi’s one of them was the Roger that had been on his last archaeological dig. The other was a General of some sort, he would have waited for them to pass but there were also two guards, standing at the door watching every move. He thought it would be wiser to leave it all alone.
:           “Meagan quickly,” He lifted her on his shoulders, luckily the ceiling of the building was made of metal which they easily pushed to the side and began crawling on the top of the ceiling. They made small clicking sounds as they moved through the area. Indiana found a small pipe like thing, which he crawled on through. He found the room they were going through, he slid the metal ceiling part across and saw the letters: “CLOSED AREA AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY BEYOND THIS POINT.”
:          He also saw that it was wired he slowly and quietly dropped down into the room. He was able to pick open some desk files and drawers and sorted through it, he saw a manila file marked COTD, and he curiously opened it. He read about previous exhibitions, myths and tales, he turned the page, he looked up in surprise then exclaimed, “that’s my dig” he went through it reading about some of the other locations and destinations. He read one in particular: AUSTRALIA LOC. OF NXT CYLNDR. He read over it and then took the manila folder and placed it inside his jacket. He then began searching through the others files and things, taking what he thought might be useful later on. He then spotted in a dark corner of the room a cylindrical shaped metal tubing which was extremely large. He saw engraved on it was: “#7 CYLINDER 4-907 CAUTION – HAZARDOUS REQUIRES EXTREME CARE DO NOT OPEN CLASS 4”
:         He then began looking over the large cylindrical shaped thing. As he was looking he found a keyhole. He remembered seeing one in one of the desks, he opened the desk and pulled out the key. He rushed back over to the cylinder shaped thing and stuck the key inside, it fit. He twisted the key and with a loud swoosh the metal tube like thing came open, it let out a small amount of smoke and showed one glowing cylinder. This is it, Indiana thought a bit puzzled by it all. Never the less, he grabbed the bars surrounding it, he yanked his hand back and stifled a scream. The thing was burning hot. He ripped up two pieces of cloth and put his hand around it and quickly moved the bar off the top and to the floor. He then rubbed his chin and looked at the glowing cylinder. He figured it was rigged, so he took extra care when trying to remove it, he slowly pulled the cylinder from it’s source, nothing happened, Indiana let out a sigh of relief. He slowly put the bars back over and closed the metal tube taking the key and putting everything in its proper places. Then he put the small cylinder into his pocket, by then it had stopped glowing and looked like a small brownish green stone.
:             He pulled himself back up through the ceiling motioning for Meagan to get out of here. They crawled back through the metal ceiling and dropped to the floor, left the building and got back into their ‘gear’, heading for a nearby hotel or someplace to reside and contemplate.
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:  Jefferson hotel:     
:              Inside the hotel Meagan sat in her chair. She began reading over a few magazines, she threw them down and stood up, “what is it you keep looking at,”
:             “Just a few things about the upcoming trip, I need to know whether we should go by air or plane. It says here that their next departure is somewhere in Australia. But I have been looking through something and I think they are going to the wrong spot. They’re leaving on their exhibition tomorrow; it doesn’t list the exact name of the Jungle. Oh well that doesn’t matter, I read through a few things and I think we should explore some of the waters near Germany,” Indiana said, flipping through the pages of the files. He laid them to the side.
:           “Wait, aren’t some of those areas shark infested?” Meagan said
:           “Yes, is that problem,” Indiana said rubbing his chin sitting himself on the bed.
:          “I hate sharks, I have had a strong fear of them for a long time,” Meagan said walking away sitting herself on the chair beside the table.
:          “Don’t worry, I’ll protect you” He gave a lopsided grin.
:                      “Good let’s get some sleep,” she said picking up the phone. “Konnten Sie uns ein Ersatzcot bitte ja schicken... vielen Dank” She said into the receiver end.
:                     “Why are you ordering a cot,” He said staring at her.
:                     “For you,” Meagan said, “I’m not going to sleep with you.”
:                     “Oh,” he frowned at her statement.
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:                     The next morning Indiana was the very first to awake, he took his time and loaded his pistol and other accessories. He didn’t bother shaving he just slapped his fedora on top of his head. He shook Meagan awake, “Megan we need to get out of here now.”
:                     “Oh yeah,” she opened her eyes lazily.
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:                    “Indiana hailed a cab in German, he had a overcoat wrapped around himself so as not to be noticeable in his beaten clothes. He pulled up to a small seaplane. 
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:                   The flight took a long time and Meagan sat attentively at the front watching the controls as she flew. Finally the plane reached their location; Meagan landed the plane on the water. Indiana tossed an air mask to Meagan. “We’ve got to dive, when we were flying overhead I had seen a dark shape I think it could be possibly an underground cave or something. We’ll have to check it out. C’mon it’ll be safe.” Indiana said climbing to the side and jumping into the water. Meagan a soon nervously followed afterwards.
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:                     Indiana signaled for Meagan to follow as they went deeper, past coral and other things, he was able to push himself through a small dark hole, he swam onward into the darker area. Meagan also followed timidly. They kept going deeper and darker, Indiana pushed himself through another hole, and he found a small barrier that he was able to heave to the side, he pushed Meagan through and he followed. Indiana fell several feet to the ground, he found that it was only slightly damp, and the whole room was lavishly decorated with golden jewels. Around the sides he could see the same ‘bodies’ that were in his dig. Meagan grimaced and shut her eyes; Indy tried to comfort her. Finally she looked around the entire area was covered with algae and mildew and other things, most of the gold was destroyed because of the seawater.
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:                      He looked around and at the top he was able to see what he was looking for. At the very top of the room, on a small ledge he saw the brownish green cylinder. Using his whip he wrapped it onto a long slender rock. He pulled himself upward and onto the top of the ledge; he quickly grabbed the small cylinder and placed it into his pouch. Then descended the platform and got to the moist ground. He smelled the horrid stench, which lay in the air. He also rubbed his arms trying to get as much of his body heat as possible; the air was cold, too cold to stay much longer.
:                     Indiana walked around, and then he saw it, a hole in the ground. It was pressurized so that the area would not flood. He looked down into the murky water, it was dark and gruesome, and he saw sharks swimming underneath. 
:                     “Meagan were going down this way.” Indy whispered.
:                     “Okay,” she paused and looked down at what Indiana was staring at, “Oh, no we can’t, why can’t we leave the way we came?”
:                    “No, the pressure from the water pounding down on us, we would never be able to get out, besides there are probably sharks on that side too.”
:                    “But I can’t I hate sharks,” Meagan stuttered, “Isn’t there another way out.”
:                    “No, look I’ll go first and you follow,” Indy grabbed her arm “We can’t wait long or we’ll freeze to death.”
:                     “Okay I’ll go.” She said reluctantly
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:                    Indiana jumped into the water, following him was Meagan. They easily swam past most of the sharks. They tried to avoid them as best they could, not bothering their area 
:                    Indiana was trying to swim close to the side of the building like structure so as not to attract the sharks. H wasn’t watching what he was doing, Meagan also swam very close behind him, and he kept close attention to the sharks and their activities he never watched where he was because of the sharks. Finally his carelessness caught up to him. He swam up next to a jagged piece of metal it tore through his skin of his arm; the blood spread through the water, Indy clutched his arm keeping inside his scream, the area around him was soon completely red. Meagan had gotten next to Indy, he was holding onto the side of the fungus eaten mound. Her eyes shot out wide, she had realized the sharks would be there soon, his eyes looked tired as if he was about to give up life, he had a look of horror spread across his face as three of the many sharks came swimming close. Slowly yet quickly and gracefully as these creatures came to their prey.
:                    Meagan began pulling Indy up, she knew his oxygen wouldn’t last, either that or he would die from chill. She kept pulling but his body was limp, finally a shark came close. Indy reached his arm out and gave the best struggle he could give, while Meagan was banging against the sharp metal edge, the one Indy tore his arm on, the repeatedly scraped at it with her knife, hoping that the metal was rusted over enough it would come loose soon. She looked back at Indy; he was using both hands to slowly push the sharks away. The sharks were closing in he would reach one arm up and knock the shark away, he had a lot of strength but it wouldn’t last, his face began going blue, his eyes grew heavier. Finally he reached inside of his pouch, knowing his gun wouldn’t be of use he tried hitting the sharks with it. After finding it wasn’t useful he tried his knife although it too wouldn’t hold the sharks back, now he was cut up and scarped his body ached, he wasn’t holding out much longer. 
:                    Finally she pried the metal loose stabbing the shark till it finally went dead, and drifted to the bottom. But there were still many more sharks coming, after regaining some of his muscular strength Indy began swimming to the top, he had hoped the blood from the other shark would send the others after it. He was wrong, the other sharks came, swimming closer and closer with each second, Meagan was also becoming tired, Indy looked back at the sharks, they were still coming; he brought out all his strength and slammed his fist into the shark. Then he grabbed the shark by the snout. He signaled with his arm for Meagan to go ahead and swim on up to the plane and get it started. She obeyed as Indy fought the shark. The fight eventually ended with Indy low on oxygen and freezing. He barely could bring him self to swim up to the top with Meagan, he climbed into the seaplane and Meagan took out the first aid kit and was helping Indy bandage his wounded arm. His eyes flinched with every move and shake, she looked at his arm in disgust, it was swollen and blue and purple, it was bleeding badly. His arm was limp and tired, he couldn’t move it that well; Meagan took control as he sat back flinching with the pain shutting his eyes although he never could fall asleep, he just had a struggle with death, and barely won.
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