COTD Chapter IX

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Chapter IX
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 grasped 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 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 jacket, boots, hat, and pants, off of the man. 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 grating which they easily pushed to the side and began crawling on inside 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 on the door across the room: “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 C.O.T.D., 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. NXT CYDR. 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 to spend the night temporarily.

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 sea 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
“No, would that be a 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 asked, 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, he wore a large overcoat 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 underwater 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 reluctantly followed afterwards.

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: Chapter IX 
: 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 grasped 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 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 jacket, boots, hat, and pants, off of the man. 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 grating which they easily pushed to the side and began crawling on inside 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 on the door across the room: “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 C.O.T.D., 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. NXT CYDR. 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 to spend the night temporarily.

: 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 sea 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
: “No, would that be a 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 asked, 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, he wore a large overcoat 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 underwater 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 reluctantly followed afterwards.

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