A pair of brown and black combat hiking boots thud to an old dusty floor. As we move up we see the straps for gun holsters and pair of medium brown khaki shorts with two pistols on each hip; then a tight fitting light blue tank top with a dark brown braid hanging to the side of a small brown back pack with a shotgun slung across that. Suddenly light is cast across these stone walls, revealing a narrow passage, deep within an ancient Egyptian pyramid. Then the source of the light appears - two strong flashlights attached to the backpack straps of Lara. It's hot and humid in the room not to mention dark, even her flood lights barley light up part of the passageway. Lara studies her map then looks around her.
Lara: Not far now
Abdullah: I hope so, I'm getting tired.
Abdullah is a translator for any and all hieroglyphics she may encounter along the way. Lara continued forward into the muggy dank room in front of her, it was a dead end. She looks side to side then up to the ceiling not much more then five feet above her head.
Lara: Up it is…
Abdullah: What? How?
Lara drew the shotgun from her back. Abdullah gets quiet quickly then he turns and hides as Lara chambers a round, aims and fires diagonally up at the ceiling. The sound of the shot is deafening in suck an enclosed space. When the dust and debris finally settle, there is a hole about three feet in diameter in the ceiling. Lara turns towards Abdullah.
Lara: The sandstone is ancient here ceilings aren't that solid. The problem is neither is the floor.
Abdullah looks down; suddenly aware of the danger everywhere he steps. Lara slings her shotgun over her shoulder and leaps up, grabbing the edge of the hole and pulling herself up. She looks around the room and found a pillar to tie a rope to. When it was secured she threw the other end down the hole to Abdullah. Lara and Abdullah make their way through another dark, damp stone corridor. Lara moves quickly and with uncommon agility. Lara stops to check her map when finally she finds what she's been looking for.
Lara: This is it, it's right here.
Abdullah: What's right here?
Lara throws down her backpack and from it, she produces a small device no larger than a man's fist. A shaped plastic explosive charge. She attaches the charge to the wall and arms it. The device responds with an electronic bleep.
Lara: You'll see…
Lara grabs her backpack and ushers Abdullah back down the corridor and behind a small wall where they will be clear of the blast. Lara crouches down and covers her ears to see Abdullah simply cowering next to her.
Lara: You'd better cover your ears.
Abdullah does so as Lara throws the switch on a handheld remote. The device detonates with an almighty BOOM, which sends a ton of rubble exploding outwards. Once the explosion has died down, Lara walks out into the cloud of sandstone dust as we see that a hole around five feet in diameter has been blown through the wall. Cautiously, Lara steps through the hole and into the next room. It's extremely spooking in there the dust from the wall was still settling. Lara fumbles in her pack for a small but powerful portable arc light and fires it up. This lights up the room just enough to see the absolutely awesome sight. An ancient burial chamber, two gigantic stone pharaohs tower high above Lara, guarding the sealed entrance on the far wall. In the center of the chamber, two ornate stone tombs, and all around them, dozens of priceless artifacts - ancient pottery, jewelry, gold and silver. Both Lara and Abdullah stand in awe.
Abdullah: We could be rich for lifetimes…
Lara: We didn't come here to steal from the dead.
She walked towards the wall to her right. It had a picture of a statue of Re the priestess and the two guards and the iron box of Neb-er-tcher. Near the edge of the picture was an army and writing.
Lara: What does this say?
Abdullah: It says in the final hours the protectors of the amulet took it to a sacred place where it would be protected. Uh, the army killed the protectors and tried to take the amulet, in the end they all died. A curse of Re.
As he read the story Lara turned towards the other wall where there was a picture of a broken statue of Re and the army was dead, in the shadows all you could see were a pair of eyes.
Abdullah: After the curse took affect Re brought down the heaves to make sure the amulet would stay hidden forever. The curse also stayed for Re knew one day the Mumia would try to gain the power of the universe again.
As he finished the story Lara picked up a piece of parchment with a few lines drawn on it then she heard a crack. She looked around trying to pin point where the crack had come, as she put the paper in her back pocket. She circled the room ending next to Abdullah when another sounded and the ground beneath them jerked downwards slightly.
Abdullah: What was that?
Lara: Don't move.
Abdullah: What? Why?
Lara: Do you remember when I told you the floors weren't too strong?
Abdullah: Oh no, oh noooo…
Lara reached inside her backpack. After a few seconds of waiting she pulls out a state-of-the-art piton-firing pistol. She picks a spot on the nearest wall, about thirty feet away, and fires. The steel piton shoots out and into the wall, trailing a cord behind it. The line tightens and Lara pulls on the pistol to test the fixing - it holds fast. The floor creaks again and gives way a few more inches. Any moment now, the whole thing will collapse.
Lara: You'd better hold no tight to me.
Abdullah clamps his arms tight around Lara's waist and begins to pray for his safety.
Lara: Got me?
Abdullah nods in fear and begins to hold his breath.
Lara: Good, any second n…
The entire floor gives away beneath them. Tons of rubble crash down through the floors below, and Lara and Abdullah fall. Not straight down, but swinging towards the wall they're anchored to by Lara's piton gun. As they reach the wall, Lara kicks out with both feet and they smash through the fragile sandstone into the corridor beyond as the tons of rubble continue to crash through the levels below. It is a massive collapse that has affected much of the internal structure - the very walls around them are now rumbling.
Abdullah: I think we should leave…Now
Lara: Good idea.