A/n: Okay, so no one's told me whether or not I should go with my original again, so I am! As always, if you don't like it, you don't have to read it.
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Military Base, Nevada, 1957
The cars shook as they moved quickly down the dirt roadways. Indiana, Eva, and George "Mac" McHale were shoved uncomfortably in the trunk of one of the cars. "Whoever's on my leg needs to get off," Eva groaned as her left leg throbbed in pain. "I can't feel my toes."
Mac moved as well as he could in the cramped space and Eva pulled her twisted ankle out from under him. "Where are they taking us, Jonesey?"
"I don't know, Mac," Indiana replied from underneath his hat. "We've been in this trunk for about two hours since we got off the plane."
The car stopped and the three became silent. After a few moments there was the sound of gunfire and bodies hitting the ground. The cars began to move again and the three remained silent, each of them on high alert. The cars began moving and Eva used the sound of the engines to predict how far they were going before they stopped again. "One mile, sir," she said in military fashion.
"Thank you, Lieutenant," Indiana murmured, taking his hat off, before the hood of the trunk was lifted. Three men pulled Mac and Eva out and threw them towards the warehouse the convoy had stopped at. Indiana's hat was thrown to the ground followed by Indiana himself. Indiana pulled himself up and placed his hat firmly back on his head. "Russians," he said scornfully as he held Eva in his arms to help her stand off her twisted ankle.
"This ain't gonna be easy," Mac said as he was pushed over to them, his arms raised in surrender.
"Not as easy as it used to be."
"Well, we've been through worse."
"Yeah? When?"
"Flensburg. There were twice as many."
"We were younger then," Eva chimed in remembering the sound of gunshots in the streets as the three of them and a handful of others prepared themselves for the final attack on enemy soldiers.
"I still am young," Mac exclaimed indignantly.
"We had guns," Indiana said looking back to Mac who still had his arms raised. "Put your hands down, will you? You're embarrassing us."
Mac put his arms down and tapped Indiana on the arm. "Bet you $500 we get out of this." A jeep pulled up and stopped quickly in front of them a bit and a Russian Colonel walked up to them menacingly. Mac grunted in dismay. "Let's call it 100."
The Colonel pushed Mac and Eva away and pointed to the warehouse behind Indiana. "You recognize building, yes?"
Indiana turned and saw a few Russian soldiers dragging the bodies of American soldiers across the front doors of the warehouse. Indiana turned to the Colonel and said, "Drop dead." The Colonel was not pleased with this answer and backhanded Indiana across the face, causing both Eva and Mac to jump. Indiana rearranged his jaw and turned back to the Colonel. "I'm sorry," Indiana ground our sarcastically. "I meant drop dead, comrade."
The Colonel said something in Russian and two men restrained Indiana from behind. The Colonel handed his hat to a soldier behind him and pulled his fist back to strike Indiana for his insolence. Before a punch could be thrown a female voice cut through the air, demanding to be obeyed.
A woman exited a new car that had pulled up and walked to the group, meeting the Colonel half way. "Where was he found?"
"In Mexico," the Colonel said reaching into the open trunk to pull out a wrapped object. "They were digging in the dirt, looking for this stuff." He unwrapped the object and let it fall to the ground, causing it to break.
The woman crossed over to Indiana who was released from his restraint. "You're not from around here, are you," Indiana asked before he pulled Eva back to him.
"Where is it you would imagine I am from, Doctor Jones," she questioned, taking off her sunglasses.
"Well, the way you're sinking your teeth into those wubble-u's, I should think maybe Eastern Ukraine," Eva said when Indiana looked down at her for the answer.
"Highest marks," the woman said taking a glove off her hand and offering it to the couple. "Colonel Doctor Irina Spalko." When neither of them took it she continued, "Three times I have received Order of Lenin. Also medal as Hero of Socialist Labor." She walked over to where Mac was standing and then back again. "And why? Because I know things. I know them before anyone else. And what I do not know, I find out." She stopped in front of Indiana again. "Now, what I need to know now is in here," she said pointing to his forehead.
She pulled her hand back and looked deeply into him as if she were trying to read his mind. She closed her eyes as if to get a clearer picture. Indiana only chuckled lightly and pulled Eva back a bit. Spalko opened her eyes and tapped Indiana's face hard. "You are a hard man to read, Doctor Jones."
"Ouch," Eva snickered quietly.
"So, we will do this, what is expression, old-fashioned way," she said, turning away and putting her glove back on. "You will tell us. You will help us find what we seek." She walked past them and ordered the doors opened. As she walked in, Spalko continued, "This warehouse is where you and your government have hidden all your secrets, yes?"
"This is a military warehouse," Indiana argued as the three of them were forced to follow Spalko inside. "I've never been here before in my life."
Spalko looked at him skeptically and then walked back to and around him. "Object we seek, rectangular storage container, dimensions 2 meters by .5 meters by 66 centimeters. Contents of box, mummified remains. This is no doubt familiar to you."
"What makes you think I've got any idea what box you're talking about?"
"Because, ten years ago you were part of the team that examined it." She walked back towards him.
He took a few steps towards her. "Look…" Spalko unsheathed her rapier and pointed it to Indiana's neck as the Russians behind them cocked their weapons. "Even if I knew what you were talking about…"
"You will help us find it," Spalko said forcefully and another gun was cocked. Indiana turned around and saw Eva was surrounded by Russians, each one pointing a gun at her. One of them had a gun to her head and was staring her down, unsuccessfully.
Indiana sighed and nodded to Spalko. Her words released Eva back to Indiana and they both led the KGB party further into the warehouse. Indiana stopped a little further in and turned around. "Compass. I need a compass. You know, north, south, east…"
"West," Mac added as he walked closer to the pair.
Indiana smirked at him. "No compass?" He walked up to the Colonel. "I need your bullets." The Colonel laughed and repeated it in Russian making the KGB party laugh as well. Indiana walked past the Colonel to Spalko. "The contents of that box are highly magnetized. I need gunpowder. You want my help or not?"
In no time a grenade was emptied into Indiana's open hand and he climbed the nearest tower of boxes. "Don't toy with me, Doctor Jones. What is the point of all this," Spalko questioned from below.
"If it's still magnetic, the metal in this gunpowder should point the way." Indiana threw the powder into the air and the group watched as it floated away, hitting the lights. Indiana quickly made his way down and led the group to follow the direction of the gunpowder as grenades were emptied into a hat in his hands.
The group stopped at an intersection and Indiana threw the powder up into the air. The powder flew into a stack of boxes. "Shells. Give me some shotgun shells." He held the hat to the side and a Russian gave him three. "Pliers." He was handed the tool and he threw the hat behind him before climbing the boxes. Once at the top he emptied the shotgun shells over the boxes.
Spalko ordered the boxes removed until one of the boxes was spotted as the one they wanted. The Russians pocked up the box and carried it to the back end of a truck that had been driven in while other took care of the boxes. Indiana was pressed to get onto ground level.
From their place at the back of the group, Indiana, Eva, and Mac couldn't see what was in the box, or what was happening to it after it had been opened. Spalko handed a knife back to one of the soldiers and a ripping sound filled the air, followed by silent awe. Indiana used this distraction to knock out the soldier in front of them with his own weapon. Quickly grabbing his whip from around the soldiers arm, he used it to disarm another soldier and arm Mac.
He reached down for the fallen gun and pointed it at Spalko while the soldiers in front of her pointed theirs at him. "Drop the guns, or Colonel Doctor Spalko is dead," Indiana ordered as Mac and Eva stepped closer to him. The soldiers lowered their guns. The Colonel, who was at the head of the group, smirked at them a moment later and raised his gun to Indiana again.
There was a cocking sound beside Indiana and he looked to see Mac pointing his gun at Indiana. "Why, Mac?" Eva was stunned.
"Well, What can I say, Evangeline? I'm a capitalist, and they pay," Mac said pointing to the Russians.
"After all those years we spent spying on the Reds?" Indiana turned to look at him and continued, "I thought we were friends, Mac."
Mac began to walk toward the Russians with his gun still pointed at Indiana. "I've had a run of bad luck with the cards lately, mate. Awful. Bloody awful. I can't go home empty-handed again."
"No defiant last words, Doctor Jones," Spalko asked from her position on top of the truck.
Indiana looked at her for a moment and then said, "I like Ike."
Spalko said nothing. The Colonel stepped forward. "Put down gun."
"You got it, pal," Indiana said allowing the gun to fall to the floor. The gun misfired and the bullet hit a soldier in the foot. The soldier jumped in surprise and pain, gripping his gun so tightly it went off. The resulting confusion allowed Indiana and Eva to escape into the mass sea of towered boxes.
With adrenaline coursing through her body, Eva forgot about her twisted ankle. She climbed a set of boxes with Indiana and ran after Spalko, who had taken the box of magnetic mummified remains. Indiana used his whip as a swinging rope and tried to swing onto Spalko's car. Eva saw that he was going to miss and simply continued to run. He missed and swung backwards, crashing through the window of the truck behind him.
"Damn I thought that was closer." Indiana knocked the driver out of his seat before turning to the passenger to find Eva sitting calmly next to him.
"You might want to take the wheel."
Indiana nodded and did so, ramming Spalko's car with the front of the truck. Indiana and Eva took the closeness of the two vehicles and jumped the distance onto the bed of the car. Indiana scrambled up to the passenger seat and pushed Spalko out, allowing Eva to take the wheel. They blasted through a pile of boxes and quickly turned before they could hit another stack.
A truck turned a corner and sped towards them. As the two trucks got closer they could here Mac yelling, "You don't know 'em! You don't know 'em!"
Indiana and Eva jumped for a light fixture seconds before their truck hit Macs'. They climbed onto the rafters and started running across the beams as soldiers shot at them from below. Indiana spotted a chain and pulley and jumped for it, Eva not far behind. When they reached the ground, Eva immediately ran while Indiana paused for a moment.
Indiana saw the Colonel and turned to follow Eva. The Colonel pushed both Indiana and Eva through a set of doors and onto a circular piece of glass in the floor. The glass cracked beneath their combined weight and sent the scuffling trio downward.
They landed on a suspended scaffolding platform. Eva was the first to roll off, grabbing onto a chain so she didn't fall to the ground. Indiana kicked the Colonel off next before following Eva. Eva dropped to the ground while Indiana swung and knocked the Colonel through a glass pane, into a control area. As the Colonel exited the control room, a thirty second countdown started. The Colonel used a chain as a heavy whip and threw it at Indiana, who had landed on an engine platform.
Indiana rolled off the side as the engine came to life beside Eva. She hurried to the control room to see if there was an emergency off switch. Indiana attempted to follow her but was tripped by the Colonel. The Colonel threw aside his chain whip in favor of a chain that hung from the ceiling and wrapped it around Indiana's neck. He hoisted him up and began to beat him. Eva scrambled over the control safety window and climbed up onto the engine platform to assist Indiana.
As Eva kidney punched the Colonel, Indiana kicked him in the neck, sending both men down. Eva knelt next to Indiana and helped him remove the chain from around his neck before the three of them were pushed back against the grate separating the platform from the engine.
The engine pushed them along for a good five miles before it stopped at the end of its runway in a water landing. The Colonel had passed out and his head now rested on Indiana's shoulder. Indiana pushed him off the platform and stumbled off the other side. Eva had passed out as well, and was sprawled out on the deck of the platform. Indiana picked his hat from its stuck place on the grate and returned it to his head before picking Eva up as best as he could and dragging her over a small hill where they could hide from the oncoming cars.
"Henry?" Eva's voice was light and airy as she regained consciousness.
"Shhh, Reds are just over the embankment." He pushed her down further. "We're gonna have to crawl for now, can you do it?"
She only nodded and he led the way. A few minutes after sunrise they stood over a cliff edge and spotted a small town not far away. "Can you make it on your ankle?"
"It's close to fine now; I'll be able to get there, but I'll need to ice it."
Indiana nodded and the duo made their way down the cliff. The town was quiet and seemed empty. A military car made its way through the streets, causing the pair to hop over a fence and dash into a nearby house. After knocking Indiana opened the door. "Hello? Hello?" The house was almost as silent as the rest of the town, with a television playing a reasonable level. Indiana attempted to turn on a faucet next to the door but no water came out. "Hello?" He made his way further into the house, with Eva behind him. They walked into the living room where the family was watching Howdy Doty.
Indiana walked over to the couch. "Hey. We knocked. You guys got a…" He stopped when he placed his hands on the parents' shoulders and found they were made of plastic. "Wait a minute."
The pair made their way out to the front door and onto the main street where they got a good look at the entire town. All of the people were made of plastic. There were few water pumps going but other than that there was no movement. Indiana walked over to a plastic girl and patted her head fondly accidently knocking the wagon handle from her hand. He reached down to pick it up but stumbled back into the "paper boy" behind him, knocking him over as well.
Eva was allowed a second to laugh at her employer before an alarm sounded through the valley. "That can't be good."
"All personnel, it is now one minute to zero time. Put on goggles or turn away. Do not remove goggles or face burst until 10 seconds after first light."
"That can't be good at all."
The army car sped past them and Indiana ran after them. "Sure! Great! Don't wait for us!"
"Henry! The refrigerators are lead lined!" Eva ran into a house, leaving him outside.
"Minus 15 seconds."
Indiana hurried inside and cleared out a fridge and closed the door holding it shut. He waited in claustrophobic silence a few minutes before he landed some distance away. He regained his senses and pushed open the door before spilling out.
"Henry?" Eva voice rang out in the distance.
"Evangeline!" Indiana ran towards her voice as she coughed and crawled out of the fridge she had climbed into. "There you are! Are you alright?"
"I'm fine," she said as he helped her up. They looked up at the mushroom cloud that hung in the sky. "We'll be found before long, but I don't recommend staying here."
Indiana nodded and the pair made their way out of the remains of the valley.
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A/n: Woohoo! I'm done with chapter one! Again… -_-;; My muse has left me as to what to do about Mary. I don't know if I want her in like I did the last one or not. Review and let me know?