Garrett drove back to the dock and awaited everyone's return there. He arrived back at the village at five. There, he handed Paul a scoped rifle from the gun locker in one of the buildings and told him to stay back as cover just in case anything happened. Garrett himself took his AK-47 and placed it into a cabinet on the boat. Garrett told Paul to walk upstream from the village for a half mile and then track Garrett through the rifle's scope. Garrett then got onto the boat and left upriver. He arrived one mile upriver of the stream at five thirty and anchored. Soon another boat approached his. This one was an old, beaten up speedboat. There were several patches where Garrett assumed that it had been struck by gunfire. The boat pulled up near Garrett's and idled. The man at the helm threw a rope to Garrett and Garrett pulled up the slack and tied the rope to his own boat.
"What have you got?"
"What do you need?"
"Do you have any HE rocket propelled grenades?"
"Yes."
The man went into the cabin and produced a rocket launcher and several rockets.
"Let me see your money."
"How much do you want for the launcher and eight rockets?"
"Three thousand US dollars."
"Make it two and a half and we've got a deal."
Garrett handed several bills to the man. He began to take the rockets from the man and put them in his own boat when the two heard a helicopter in the distance. The man drew a handgun and pointed it at Garrett's throat.
"This is a trap isn't it?"
"I don't know who's in that helicopter but they aren't with me."
"How do I know that?"
"Are you going to flee or fight?"
"It depends on whether the helicopter is armed. Is it?"
"I don't know. But if it starts firing at these boats I'm taking it out with a rocket."
The man holstered his gun and began to untie the rope connecting the two boats. Garrett reached over and took the rest of the rockets and the launcher. He loaded one of the rockets into the RPG-2 and set it on the floor of the boat.
"I think this would work better."
Garrett looked over and saw that the other man had finished untying his boat and had taken out a Stinger launcher.
"Fine. I'll just watch for ground forces then."
The helicopter approached the two boats. It became apparent that it was a military helicopter. Garrett motioned for the man to cover in the cabin of the boat until the helicopter was at a close range. Once the helicopter was nearby and a man with a megaphone in the helicopter began to shout down at the boats the insurgent swung back the cabin door and stood up. He fired the missile, which streaked upward into the helicopter. The helicopter exploded, the rotor flying up high above it before plunging down into the river with the rest of the helicopter. Garrett started up his boat's motor.
"It was good doing business with you!"
Garrett turned around his boat and headed downstream, watching the other boat head to the helicopter wreck to salvage items from it. He headed downstream past Paul and into camp. There, he transferred the RPG-2 and all of the rockets into his room for save keeping. The next morning, Garrett loaded these back onto the boat and went back upstream once everyone had boarded the boat. Garrett took the bulldozer to the site of the main pyramid again. He reloaded a rocket into the launcher and aimed at the hillside. He pulled the trigger, and the rocket flew out of the tube. It hit the hillside and exploded. The smoke cleared and the hillside was still mostly intact. Garrett loaded another rocket and fired again. This time, Garrett could feel the ground shaking under him as one side of the hill sloughed away, revealing the bare side of the pyramid.
This pyramid was unusual at least on this one side. Instead of having the usual stepped design, it was of a smooth nature instead. It was similar to the stereotypical Old Egyptian pyramids, but the rock was encrusted with dirt after having been buried for hundreds of years in it. Garrett felt that he would work with this one side of the pyramid before uncovering the other sides of it. The side was flat and uniform, but several feet above ground level there was what appeared to be a chip in the surface of the pyramid. Garrett took a shovel from the bulldozer and went over to this feature. He scraped the side of the shovel against the surface and the shovel dug into soil. Garrett scraped away until he realized that this was not a superficial feature. He dug in with the shovel and began tunneling into the side of the pyramid. Garrett dug for two hours and reached ten feet into the pyramid. Concluding that he had found an entrance to the pyramid, he got onto the bulldozer's radio.
"Hey, can you get some people out here."
Chris picked up the radio. "Why?"
"I've uncovered a pyramid. And this one's different from the others."