A/N: Chapter two! I hope you enjoy it! I do not own Tenchi or Indiana Jones. Or UC Stanford for that matter.
Thinking
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Ch. 2 The Ark of the disks of Tokimi
"Now, History is the search for fact, not truth. If you want truth, Dr. Ericsson's philosophy class is just down the hall." A few of class laughed at the last statement made by their professor, Dr. Ayeka "Indiana" Jurai, who had just returned from an expedition in Costa Rica. Many of the students, mainly boys, took the class for the professor herself. Right now she stood with the words 'FACT' and 'TRUTH' written on opposite sides of her Blackboard. Indiana still had her hair up in the intricate, but functional hairstyle that she had worn on the expedition, and the fedora was on the hat rack by the door with her bomber jacket. She was dressed in a nice black pantsuit and jacket with a tailored maroon shirt, now slightly smudged with chalk. Turning to face the class, she plowed on, "We must not take myth at face value, but look for the logic behind the belief. We do not follow maps to find buried treasure and X doesn't mark the spot. However Myth and tales of treasure can aid in an excavation. Now for example…" She paused for a minute as she saw a male student in the front row blink. The blinking wasn't so much of a shocker, after all everyone does it at some point or another, but his eyelids read, "Love you".
Shaking her head, she turned back to the board and began drawing diagrams of a site, "This particular site was mentioned in several myths, both Grecian and Roman as the location of a temple. However, there was no visible evidence, which would support this claim. Once excavation occurred at the site, though, it was found to have been a large structure, honeycombed with smaller temples dedicated to different members of the Pantheon of Greco-Roman gods. Now in the room of Artemis they found-" Indiana paused again, this time because she noticed a blonde woman in a blue suit waving at her from the door. "Ahem, class is dismissed. Be sure to read chapters 24 and 25 before the next class!"
As the classroom emptied the blonde woman entered. She was half of an inch taller than Indiana, with dark skin, blonde hair and blue eyes. She watched patiently as Indiana dug around in her bag, while talking excitedly, "I had it Mihoshi…it was in my hand! It was fantastic!" Mihoshi grinned, "I'm sure it was, Indiana." She came up, holding a dozen or so clay idols still in very good condition. She began carefully laying them out on the desk. "If Kagato hadn't show up, I'd have it here." "Yes I heard about your little run-in with our mutual friend, you really should do something about him." "I didn't exactly have the luxury of taking him out, I was kind of looking down the business end of about twenty spears. I've got these pieces and they're good pieces, but if I'd just had that idol…" "Yes, yes they're fine pieces, the museum will give you a fair price for them of course, but there are some people I'd like you to meet before we talk shop okay?"
Indiana looked up from putting her papers in her bag, "What?" The museum curator was carefully examining the artifacts, said, "Well, a group of two men and a woman came to the museum this morning and asked if was a friend of yours, I said yes. Then they said that they needed to speak with you on a matter of national security." Indiana got up and put on her bomber jacket and fedora, "What matter of national security could use a professor of Archaeology from Stanford? Oh, well I guess we'd better go meet them." She then picked up the clay idols, carefully placed them into her bag and headed out the door with Mihoshi in tow.
Walking across the courtyard, Mihoshi took the lead and entered a small building. Inside were two women with teal hair and blue eyes wearing a grey suit, the other with spiky Cyan hair and yellow, catlike eyes. The teal haired woman stood up and shook Indiana's outstretched hand, "Pleased to meet you Dr. Jurai. I'm Kiyone Makibi and I'm a C.I.A. agent. This is-" Indiana turned, "Ryoko Habuki a C.I.A. agent who posed as a Kawazi official early last year until she was found out. I'm surprised to see that you survived." Ryoko snorted, "The same to you. Last I saw of you, you were tied to a chair with your mother in a Kawazi held castle. How'd you survive?" "I believe that was my line, but to answer the question, sheer dumb luck really. My mother accidentally started a fire and whe found the secret door while tried to avoid becoming barbeque." Ryoko smiled, "Is Tenchi alive?" "Yes." "That's it, yes? You a couple or something?" "If we were it is certainly none of your business!" Kiyone coughed, "I hate to interrupt this reunion, but we need to talk business."
Kiyone explained, " We've intercepted some information from the Kawazis. They mentioned something about the Staff of Ra. So you know anything about it?" Indiana walked over to a blackboard fairly close to the table, "Yes, it's supposed to be a staff with a large gem embedded in it." Drawing what she was describing, she continued, "It was supposed to be set in a model of Jerhtara (A/N: Made-up city, so don't go looking for it on a map) and the focused light from the gem would illuminate the location of the Ark of the Disks of Tokimi." Ryoko scoffed, "The disks of Tokimi? That's just an old myth isn't it?"
Indiana pulled a large book out of her bag, opening to a page with an illustration on it. The illustration depicted an army falling before the ark, which was shooting out some kind of energy, and the four pallbearers carrying it. "It's believed to be able to take out any force that could be mustered on the planet." Ryoko pointed to the beams coming from the Ark, "What's that?" Indiana shrugged, "Light, lightning, fire, power of god…whatever you want to call it." Kiyone looked pointedly at Indiana, "Then you understand why we cannot let this fall into Kawazi hands, we're willing to pay you if you'll find it and bring it to us. The Kawazis have started excavation east of Jehtara in Jordan." Indiana nodded, "If it is out there…it needs to be in a museum, not used as some kind of weapon. I'll do it." Kiyone smiled again, "Good, now by tomorrow there should be a ticket in your mailbox to Jordan, along with some money to cover your expenses while there. Good luck." "Hm, I hope you won't mind, but I'll need another ticket to Moscow, there's someone I need to pick up before this expedition can begin…."
Thus ends chapter two. I'm sorry that I'm kind of reintroducing characters in roles that readers who read "Indiana Jurai and the Holy Sword of Tsunami" are familiar with. This is for newcomers, so bear with it please. Comments are welcomed and appreciated.