Disclaimer: Characters below do not belong to me but to SciFi Channel, Gekko Productions, etc.
The only one that I own at the moment is Phyllis Clair Ballard, Thomas Billard and Andrea Thompson (no connection to the actress) are mine.
A/N: Some of the things that are written in this piece is from Noah's Ark Publication (like the sight and such). Stuff from Noah's Ark Publications do not belong to me either but using it as a reference point.
Prologue
Turkey Present Day
When I was flown in for this project, I never imagined that I would be able to see the shape of Noah's Ark sticking out of the ground. I glanced back at my team of friends and colleagues, they were excited as I was, all except Thomas Billard. Thomas is my partner in this archaeological dig, but is very skeptical when it comes to finding something God had in mind when he instructed Noah to build the Ark in the first place.
Here we all are standing around getting ready to go on a hike to see the shape that we will be escavating in about 3 days. On this first trek we had escorts of the Turkish military with us just in case something did not go right, even though that I am a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the Marines and that I could handle myself, the Turkish Military still did not want to risk anything happening to our group, so I let them lead us to the site.
It took us three days to get to the site but being the leader of the group I wanted to go at right away but Thomas took over and the Turkish Military soldiers agreed that we would start tomorrow so that they would have the rest. I could not argue with that, being career military for so many years, it made sense.
We started the hike on Monday and arrived on Thursday, so now it is Friday morning. So after breakfast I had the team start escavating around the edges of the ark so it could be well in tact when we asked Turkish government to take some of the pieces back. I did not pay any attention to Thomas when we started because sometimes he could be such a jerk. Then all of a sudden I heard him gasp at what he found and brought it over to me.
"Phil, I think you need to look at this. This is great!" Thomas exclaimed with enough enthusiasm to wake the dead.
I raised my head in what I was doing and looked at the urn and just about had a cow when I saw what it was. My cousin had sent me some Ancient Egyptian writings that he wanted me to look out for and this urn had Ancient Egyptian all over it.
"Thomas be careful with that" I exclaimed. I was cautious when it come to new stuff but Thomas picked up what he thought was great.
"Thomas your as bad as Daniel when it comes to touching things!" I exclaim frustration edging my voice.
"Phil let's open it!" He said
"NO!" Thomas jumped back at my vehement exclamation. Then realized what I did and put my head down then looked back up and said "Sorry, but I want to make a call about this." Thomas new when I said something like this that I always carry a sat phone with me at all times because one, being ex-military you have connections and the other is that I still had a high clearance with a few people until the end of the year.
I turned back to bag that was sitting on the ground next to our dig site and pulled out my sat phone and started to dial the number.
Thomas' POV
"May I speak to Major Davis of the Pentagon please." Phil said in her sat phone.
I keep wondering what was so important to being calling the Pentagon over an urn, my curiosity was getting the better of me but I respected Phil too much to doubt it and she was always right when it came to these things and it just irked me but I knew if I was going to survive on these digs that I had to rely on her judgment to get us to where we wanted to go and back home again.
"Major Davis, this is Phyllis Ballard I need to get a hold of Dr. Daniel Jackson in Colorado Springs,CO. It is very important...Would you please tell him that I found a certain item that would probably kill someone if opened... No Major, I am retired Marine Lieutenant Colonel who is cousin to Dr.Daniel Jackson...Major... Major...Please tell him I found an urn with Ancient Egyptian writing and he will know what that means... Thank you...Good-Bye"
"Well, when I are they getting here?" I asked
"If I am right, in the next 20 hours or less" Phil answered with trepidation.
I knew that she had not seen her cousin since he was discredited for his work but being the cousin that she was, she was always supportive and let him know if he needed anything, and so now she was letting him know that she needed him. I also knew that he worked on something highly classified. So he decided to wait it out.
