A/N: Sorry about not posting this last week. I unfortunately got busy doing other things and never got around to writing this chapter till it was to late. Also credit to 'Ree' for a couple of the artifacts in this chapter. And were it not for the fact that I don't want to use up all the artifacts in a single chapter I'm going to start spreading them out. So other suggested artifacts will appear in later chapters.
A/N 2nd: Oh one last thing before this story begins a plate of warm oven baked chocolate chip cookies and recognition in the next chapter to anyone who can correctly ID the owner of the artifact featured in Claudia's flashback.
Disclaimer: According to unnamed sources there is an artifact located in Warehouse 13 that will give me the rights to the show. So until I manage to break into the warehouse and escape with the artifact unharmed I will continue to own nothing but the idea for this story.
Outside of Warehouse 13 the storm started by Thor's Hammer continued to rage. Every few seconds a bolt of lightning would shoot out of the clouds and pummel the landscape. Unbeknownst to the warehouse agents a secondary side effect of the artifact would kick in every so often. Somehow several bolts of lightning found there way to a nearby prison striking down several of the prisons worst inmates. All of whom were in for life having committed several heinous crimes and were now being struck down by the artifacts wrath.
Inside the warehouse Claudia and Pete continued wandering in their search of entertaining artifacts. Both were utterly unaware of the fast approaching Myka. Entering the warehouse Myka was unsurprised to see no one in the office. Going out through the open office door she stood on the walkway overlooking the warehouse. As her eyes continually scanned the warehouse's interior for some sign of her two wayward friends she remained absolutely motionless not making a sound. Although she couldn't see them every so often she heard the sound of voices.
As Pete idly looked over one of the very few non dusty warehouse shelves he noticed a standard Marine Corp knife that despite its age looked like a relatively new comer to the warehouse. The only problem was he had no recollection of ever seeing that knife before. As he looked at the screen detailing the information about the knife he saw that it had been checked in by Claudia. Looking over his shoulder he noticed the resident tech geek idly sorting through a couple items on a nearby shelf.
"Hey Claudia where did this come from?" Pete asked as he held the knife up for Claudia to examine.
"Huh…PETE PUT THAT THING DOWN THIS INSTANT!" Claudia screamed out her eyes widening in fright. Moving forward she snatched the knife from Pete's hands and slammed it hard down on the shelf.
"Jeez chill out. It's probably a dud anyway." Pete rolled his eyes at Claudia's reaction wandering why it was such a big deal to her.
"Trust me Pete. That is a legitimate artifact."
"How do you know?"
"Um…" At Pete's question Claudia's thoughts went flying back to her encounter with that particular artifact a week ago.
Flashback
The sun was just beginning to break over the horizon and had yet to illuminate the entrance to Warehouse 13. It was the type of morning where the entire world was still and people allowed themselves a few extra minutes in bed even if it was Tuesday. Sadly for Claudia Donovan she didn't have the luxury of staying in bed this morning. Artie had ordered her last night to do a complete inventorying of Section K of the warehouse due to an unfortunate incident where she had used Circe's Wand to change Pete into a ferret.
"But he ate the last cookie." Claudia had protested unsuccessfully to explain her actions. Though it had fallen on deaf ears. Now she was stuck getting up before the crack of dawn for the next two days doing stupid inventorying.
Entering into Artie's office Claudia shook her head at the pile of mail that lay unopened on his desk. Deciding that opening mail was preferable to the tedious task of going through all of Section K's artifacts, which would all be accounted for just like they were the last time she did inventorying a month ago.
Setting her jacket down on a chair she started going through the mail she came across an unmarked packaged addressed to the warehouse from Washington D.C. of all places. Her curiosity raised Claudia decided to open that package first. Opening it she observed what appeared to be a knife wrapped in paper. Upon opening it she discovered it was a note.
'Needed this to get my boat out of the basement.
Don't need it anymore so it's yours.
Enjoy.
G'
"I honestly don't know whether I should be impressed or creped out. The guy can write a cool note, though how he knew to send this here is a mystery. I wonder if this is an artifact or if it's just a hoax. Wouldn't be the first time Doug tried to prank me." Turning the knife over in her hands Claudia hit the release button causing the knife's blade to flip out of the hilt.
As the blade freed itself from its holder it glowed with an eerie blue light before firing off a blast of energy directly at the techno girl.
With a cry of shock and surprise Claudia dropped the knife. In a panic she hurried over to the suit of armor guarding the warehouse door intently examining her reflection to ensure nothing untoward had occurred. Satisfied that she still looked the same Claudia gave a sigh of relief before wincing in pain.
Looking down she was scared to see her favorite T-shirt and the rest of her wardrobe rapidly shrinking. "No, no, no don't do this. Not now." She cried out as she desperately tried to pull her shirt back down to cover her now bared midriff. "Ow…to tight, way to tight." Claudia cried out as her jeans became more suitable for a child.
With several loud tears and rips Claudia's clothing finally failed and lay on the floor in pieces. Leaving the redheaded teen with nothing to cover herself with. With an annoyed groan she picked up a piece of her former favorite T-shirt, now more suited for a Barbie doll, had it not been in pieces, with a huff she threw it back down on the ground. As she racked her brain trying to decide how best to handle this new situation the tell tale sounds of the warehouse's door unlocking drifted to her ear.
In a blind panic Claudia's eyes roved over the empty office trying to locate something with which to cover herself. Her eyes settling on her favorite jean jacket she grabbed hold of it and just managed to cover herself with it just as the door opened admitting Artie.
"Artie I know what this looks like, but I have a perfectly good excuse." Claudia began, her face as bright red as her hair, as she held her jacket closed tight on her upper body and hid behind the table to cover her lower half.
End Flashback
"I'd rather not talk about it." Claudia stated her face slightly less red than it had been when she'd almost flashed poor Artie.
Shrugging Pete continued to look through the shelves and spotted an artifact that made him smile. Grinning he picked the small camera up off the shelf and turned to face Claudia. "Hey Claudia say cheese."
"Huh?" Turning she was somewhat blinded by the camera's flash.
"Oh now this is an interesting photo." Smiling broadly Pete held up the camera displaying a picture of Claudia biting her thumb while fast asleep. The extra humiliation for the teen coming from the fact that it was readily apparent that the picture was not to old since her room at the bed and breakfast was easily visible in the photo.
"Give me that or else!" Claudia cried out as she tried to snatch the camera from Pete's hands.
A/N: Yeah I know lousy place to stop, but please understand that my back has been killing me all day and I need to rest it a bit. Plus I need to make plans and do some work on the Claudia/Fargo stories that I have in the works. Anyway please review and feel free to give suggestions for artifacts and I'll be glad to put them in. Oh and before I forget I have a new poll up so feel free to vote on who your favorite Warehouse 13 character is. And remember reviews make authors happy, and happy authors are productive authors.