This is such a boring lecture. Charlie sighed as she looked up from the table and at the lecturer. No, I've got to focus! She thought staring at his face and tuning back into the lecture.
"And that leads us on to marsupials…." She caught him saying.
Wait, what? Marsupials? what is this guy talking about…. great… I zoned out again…. I wonder…. She looked up and saw Sashy slumped over on the table, slowly slipping into unconsciousness. Oh great… can't even ask her…. now what…. Charlie looked up again, staring around the room, there were plenty of other students sat in their seats paying attention and furiously scribbling. Who are all these people…. I've not seen many of them before…. I'm sure I'm in the right room… She looked at her diary that was laid out on the desk in front of her, it was covered in half-hearted notes and scribbles but clearly noted was the room and time of the lecture. Yeah, right room…. but…. what is this guy on about? She shook her head and looked around the room again. It was like looking at robots, the way they all sat there, scribbling away. There was only one other person not writing away, he was sat at the back of the room, playing on his phone, as per usual…. Don't even know how he got in here…. Okay, let's try one more time to pay attention. I can at least write some notes, then it won't be a total waste being here! Charlie thought looking back to the lecturer.
"The system to which the…." the lecturer continued when suddenly there was a sound similar to that of an earthquake, a rumbling, groaning sound, the fire alarm started blaring. "Okay everyone, leave in an orderly manner." The lecturer said, grabbing his things and sprinting from the room. Clearly he doesn't want to be in here. Charlie thought, shaking Sasha awake, whilst haphazardly shoving her stuff in her bag.
"Sasha, wake up." Charlie sighed, giving Sasha one last shove. "We need to go."
Sasha jumped and tensed a little, realising she had indeed closed her eyes and possibly for the entire lecture. Wait...is that an earthquake?... She thought as she realised there was a different reason as to why they should be leaving the room.
"...Huh? We don't get earthquakes in Wales..." With a raised eyebrow she glanced to Charlie before shrugging and shoving her stuff in her bag. She was never one to be without her stuff, the building could be burning but she'd still make sure to grab everything rather than just leaving.
"Did I miss anything important?" She asked as she joined the end of the crowd of people leaving the lecture hall.
"If you did, I did too… any idea what would cause an earthquake?" Charlie asked, hastily throwing her jacket on whilst moving through the crowd. "Though, I think I recognise that noise…" Charlie frowned to herself and glanced over to Sasha who shrugged. "Oh well, let's just get out of here" Charlie added.
"What noise?" Sasha left the classroom and headed for the stair that everyone seemed to forget about. She took the steps two by two before leaving the fire exit.
"Where the heck are you going?" Charlie questioned, realising that Sasha was not following her and heading back towards where she last saw Sasha. Not again, seriously, would it kill her to not run off? Charlie sighed to herself, catching up with Sasha as she raced down the stairs.
"I have no idea why we'd have an earthquake...it just doesn't make se-…." Notices Charlie behind her. "Come on Coffee, keep up."
"Fine, okay, I'm here!" Charlie sighed. Not like I'm not used to having to find you.. She added mentally with a sigh, still walking up to Sasha.
"What do you thin- ahhhhhh! Omf." As the stairs seemed to vanish since Sasha wasn't paying attention to the gaping hole where the end of the stairwell used to be. Luckily the drop was only about 10ft to the next level which happened to be the basement, where all the old lab equipment was usually stored.
"Sasha…" Charlie called, going to the edge and looking down into the hole. "You dead?"
"...Owwwwwwwww…." Sasha groaned and winced as she tried to move, gritting her teeth in pain.
"Oh, not dead…. okay then!" Charlie said brightly, smiling to herself.
"I think I broke my leg...shit."
"Well, at least it's not your ankle!" Charlie stated whilst untying the tassels on her jacket and knotting them together, making a short and yet very unsafe rope. Sasha pulled her lips tight together with a displeased grimace and grumbled to herself. She shifted to sitting up position with a lot of effort and looked to her leg.
"Actually, I don't see any blood...and I'm not screaming in pain. I don't think I broke my leg maybe just badly bruised." Sasha lifted up her trouser leg to get a better look, just seeing a lot of bruising on her calf. Suddenly a body dropped from the floor above and landed right on top of Sasha with an audible crack. Sasha screamed and ended up flat on her back, tears welling up from the sheer amount of pain. Charlie shook her head, a bit dazed from the fall… Damn it, my rope broke…. Oh wait… Shit…. What did I land on? Charlie thought and realised the source of the screaming.
"Shit!" Charlie scrambled away from Sasha. When Charlie got off Sasha slowly curled in on herself with a hiss of pain.
"Are you….trying to kill me…?" She strained through grit teeth, cradling her stomach with her hands.
"..." Charlie replied, looking sheepish. "Sorry…" she added and glanced around the room, there was a door a few feet away and opposite the hole in the wall, there was a large ring about the size of the room. "I recognise that… but where from?" She muttered to herself.
"Recognise what?" Sasha asked with a growl.
"Never mind… I'm going to try and find a way out of here." Charlie said and walked through the door that she had seen earlier. Inside the room, there was strangely what looked like an egyptian sarcophagus. Charlie frowned and walked towards it, she touched one of the hieroglyphs…. the thing sprang open and she jumped back with a squeak.
"Coffee? You okay?" Sasha called from her place in the other room, the pain was still bad, but she was coping… sort of… she shifted and hissed as she tried to look through the door with no avail.
"I'm okay… but I think I've found a way to fix you up!" Charlie called back, staring at the sarcophagus for a second before returning to Sasha.
"How are you going to help?" Sasha asked suspiciously. While Coffee was learning Biology it wasn't quite the same as Human Biology or Medicine...
"I found a sarcophagus, they have healing properties. I knew that I recognised the noise… it's a freaking stargate." She added helping Sasha up, Sasha cried in pain but managed to get up on her feet and used Charlie for support.
"A...sarcophagus…? Like dead people…and mummification…?" Sasha asked confusedly.
"Just let me get you in the sarcophagus." Charlie sighed and helped her into the sarcophagus.
"Wait what?! No no no no. I'm not sleeping with the dead people!" She pulled away only to fall on her butt with a yelp. She looked between Coffee and the sarcophagus with a worried glance.
"Once you get out of there, you'll be good as new, trust me!" Charlie said with a smile as she helped Sasha back to her feet.
Sasha glances cautiously inside the sarcophagus, relieved to find no mummies inside, then she blinked.
"Wait….did you say stargate?..." She looked back to Coffee questioningly.
"Ugh… yeah?... I did… you actually recognise that?" Coffee asked staring at Sasha in a bit of shock…. Sasha rarely understood any Sci Fi references… ever….
"I've heard the name...Sci Fi isn't it?" Names of Sci Fi's she knew mainly because people whined at her to go watch them, she never did though.
"Yup, should watch it sometime, it's really good…. wait… you're just distracting me!" Charlie growled and gave Sasha a shove which made her yelp in reply.
~With Sasha~
It was surprisingly bright in the sarcophagus as if it was lit from the inside. Sasha blinked to adjust her eyes to the change of light intensity, her aches and pains were slowly going away.
~With Charlie~
Charlie waited… the sarcophagus in the series always took forever she thought with a sigh. Sasha would be fine once the sarcophagus did its work. Suddenly there was a noise behind her. She whirled around and caught a glimpse of gold… with a gasp she slipped behind the sarcophagus and hid. Shit! Shit! Shit!... a Goa'uld…. shit…. she thought looking behind her, there was one other way out…. away from the goa'uld…. but she would have to leave Sasha…
~With Sasha~
Sasha grimaced as she felt her body healing, it wasn't a pleasant process. She felt her bones moulding back together slowly.
"How long is this thing going to take Charlie?" She spoke through gritted teeth. The silence that hung in the air wasn't promising so she banged under the lid. "Hey Charlie! You still there?" There were noises coming from outside the sarcophagus and Sasha banged harder. "Hey! What's going on?!"
~With Charlie~
If Charlie heard Sasha in the sarcophagus, the Goa'uld would surely hear her banging too. Seeing no other way out Charlie scampered across the floor and out of the chamber, praying that the Goa'uld didn't notice as she skidded across the tiles. She picked up speed and started running, sliding once or twice as she turned the corners. She didn't know where she was going or even which way she was running all she knew was that she just had to get out of there. At the last corner her legs slid out from under her and she came to a stop, smack bang into something solid. "Ouch." She groaned, trying to sit up and rubbing her sore side.
~~~~~~Meanwhile, back in the sarcophagus chamber.~~~~~~
"Hey! what's going on?!" Sasha shouted a second time and the sarcophagus cracked open. She squinted at the change in light intensity and blinked to see a fairly regal looking man wearing what looked like an old Egyption style armour. His eyes shone gold as he spoke.
"You have desecrated the sarcophagus!" Fury in his eyes as he glared down at the human.
"...Uhh...sorry?" She raised her eyebrow when she noticed his unusual clothing, then glanced to the two humanoid people that stepped out behind him. Two more armoured men stalked up either side of the angry man, stopping behind their lord. One of them had what looked to be a recreation of a golden serpent head, while the other simply had a golden symbol in the middle of his four had.
"My lord?" One of them asked noticing the human within the sacred sarcophagus. Sasha slowly raised to her elbows. There was no pain, surprisingly, but she didn't question it. She looked between the figures and they stared back at her in silence.
"...So...what-.."
"Take her." Said the 'Lord'.
"...Wait, what?!" Sasha sat up fully as the one that spoke stepped back for the other two to step closer. They reached out and she growled, slapping their hands away. "I don't think so, ass hats." The Jaffa hesitated but then persisted, they would not fail their lord, they both grabbed Sasha and struggled to get her out of the sarcophagus. "Hey! Let go! Don't make me bite you!" The Jaffa shared a look with each other, sighed and followed their Lord out of the room. They continued down the corridor with Sasha's struggling before she lowered her head to a hand wrapped around her wrist and bit down hard.
The Jaffa yelled out and let go, Sasha used this to rip her wrist out of the other's hand and make a run for it. Only to be whacked hard across the back of the head with a Jaffa staff, knocking her out cold. The unconscious body hit the floor with a thud before being lifted up over on of the Jaffa's shoulders to continue on down the corridor.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Back with Coffee~~~~~~~~~~~~
Charlie started to move, slowly standing from her position on the floor where she hit the wall. It was a dead end corridor with only one door and the main corridor back where she came from. She could hear footsteps coming from the corridor behind her and scrambled up to try the door next to her. She slipped through it trying not to make any noise, knowing the university they wouldn't have oiled the doors down there in forever. She pulled the door but it wouldn't shut fully without making a loud noise so she left it slightly ajar, hoping that whoever or whatever was coming wouldn't notice it. The footsteps drew closer and she held her breath watching as the Goa'uld and two armour clad Jaffa walked past carrying what looked like an unconscious Sasha.
"Shit." She cursed under her breath.
~~~End chapter 1~~~