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"Agent Scully, you should know there is a chance that we won't find your partner alive. It'll take us over a week search all of these & but the time we find him, it may be too late." Turner said as they came upon the catacomb of caves at the Rockies' foothills. "I appreciate your honesty, Mr. Turner, but I'm not giving up hope." Scully replied. "Okay, we'll all split off into teams of two & I want each of you carrying a satellite phone at all times!" Turner instructed as they broke off. "This is amazing!" Scully said as she panned her flashlight around one of the caves, the rock has a strange metallic sheen to it. "That's the zircon; these caves are fully of precious metals, that's why navigational equipment doesn't work around here. You should see it when the light from the full moon shines through in summer, it'll take your breath away." Turner said as they came upon several small tunnels at the back of the cave's mouth. "Don't bother with those, after about a mile, nothing larger then a fox can get through them." Turner said.
Mulder slowly sat up & gingerly rubbed the growing knot on his head, he looked around him, & found himself in the middle of a meadow of rippling, lavender grass; above him the sky was bluer then any he had every seen. "It's about time you got here." Mulder spun around on the grass & came face to face with a centaur. "E-excuse me?" Mulder stammered. "We've been expecting you, man. Now get on all ready, I don't have the time to let you sit around & gawk at me all day long." He said as he grabbed Mulder by the scruff of his neck & threw him onboard. "Hold on." He said as they were off.
Mulder was surprised to find a community that looked much like a nineteenth century mining community nestled in the valley of a magnificent snow-capped mountain range. "What did you expect, a castle with kings & knights & such?" The centaur said as he bowed to allow Mulder an easy dismount. "So, you've finally arrived & not a moment too soon." A woman said as she walked up to greet them, she wore a faded blue T-shirt that had 'I hear voices & they don't like you' captioned in bold white letters on the front & had an honest to goodness pegged leg, which was just visible under her baggy shorts "Thanks for bringing him, Toby." She said. "You owe me; the guy's a terrible rider." He said as he walked off. "Don't mind him, my name is Angie… we all know who you are. We have been watching your world ever since the dinosaurs ruled it & they did a much better job." "I know, we're ruining our planet." Mulder said. "Ruining is an understatement, but that's another story." "So, where are all the cars?" Mulder asked as she led him down a path over the gentle, sloping hills of the valley to a simple stone cottage at the edge of the small town. "We have no use for such devices, we use alchemy here." She replied. "What, like turning lead into gold?" Mulder asked. "I could, but it's forbidden by our laws; imagine the chaos it would cause if everyone went around creating gold whenever they wanted?" Angie replied as she opened the heavy wooden door to the cottage for him.
Scully & Turner came upon an area where the cave branched off in two directions. "I guess I'll go this way." Scully said." "No need, the left side dead-ends into one of those fox-holes." "I still want to check it out." Scully said stubbornly ('fox' being the operative word in this case). "Okay, just keep your satellite phone handy." He called after her. The tunnel became smaller & smaller until Scully was forced wiggle through on her stomach, the tunnel was barely large enough for her petite frame & she doubted that Mulder's lanky physique could squirm its way through here, but now she was curious as to just what was on the other side of this tunnel. She suddenly withdrew her hand sharply, something had pricked it, it was an uneaten sunflower seed, & they must have leaked out of Mulder's pocket as he crawled. Scully wriggled through the last few feet of the narrow tunnel & found that it opened into a cavern about the size of their basement office. At the rear of the cavern was a pool of shimmering metallic liquid, being the scientist she was, she dug a collection tube out of her bag, she dipped it into the liquid & found the surface strangely hard to penetrate. Before she knew what was happening, the world lurched forward & she fell (or was pulled, she wasn't sure which) into the pool of liquid.