On the way back the exploration party missed a turning and ended up in a high ceilinged room with a flat sheath of water in front of them.
"A False floor" Skye informed them.
"A what?"
"There is only one way to get over that. Underneath the water there is a path." Kain went over and was about to put his foot down on the water when he heard Skye continue.
"Not all of it is covered, there is one path, and unless you have the original architect's specs you can bet we won't find it."
"What do you think will be in the water?"
"If the research I've done is right, it could be anything from boiling acid to flesh eating bacteria."
"Let's turn around and go back then." Fitz recommended.
May made herself comfortable in the sunshine. If they decided to explore the tomb then she would have an hour or so to herself with her thoughts. She was over the fact that Ward and Skye were together and was actually starting to warm up to her. What scared her most was a brief feeling she had experienced a few months ago. Something she hadn't felt for a long time. As she lay pondering this, the door closed. She positioned herself at the base of the stairway to the tomb and was about to start jumping the mechanism to open it when she felt a gun trained on her. She spun around and came face to face with rebels.
They forced her to her knees and held a gun to the back of head, execution style. They were asking her what she was doing there. There was just one problem. May didn't speak Arabic. She tried telling them in the languages she knew, English, French, Italian, even poor Russian, that she didn't understand them.
There was a loud bang and the man holding the gun to May's head collapsed to the floor in a heap.
"I swear this isn't the way we came in" Amber complained. They had been wandering around in circles for hours.
"We shouldn't have left May out there. She would have got us out of here by now!" Fitz moaned.
"I see light!" Simmons exclaimed hoping that it was their door. They made it to the source of light. It wasn't their door but a hole in the ceiling.
"A priest hole I expect" Skye told them. They all looked at her like she was talking in gibberish. "The Ancient Egyptians usually left secret entrances to tombs for priests to come and go as they pleased to tend to the tombs and make the necessary sacrifices to their gods, I expect it would be Anubis in a tomb like this, to look after the dead in the afterlife." She told them.
"So this leads outside to the cliff edge?"
"I expect so" Skye replied.
Coulson took the chance to get out of there. It was becoming unbearably hot. No wonder May didn't want to repeat the experience. He climbed out of the hole and was about to help Simmons up when he saw it.
May had been captured. There was an executioner stood behind her about to pull the trigger. Coulson was quicker. He saw May react to the shot and she took the opportunity to release the hidden ninja within. By the time Coulson had helped everyone out of the hole the rebels were all on the floor, nursing different injuries.
Together they tied the rebels up and Coulson, who spoke broken Arabic started questioning them.
He found out that they weren't rebels at all, but a small group who dedicated their lives to protecting the history of their country. Coulson showed them his badge and introduced his team, while untying them.
It was getting late and instead of the length journey back to the 'bus the team decided to light a fire and get something to eat. They invited the Egyptian Historical Guard (EHG) to join them. All they had were camping food packets. It was food that had been dried and placed into sealed sachets that you then had to place in boiling water to cook and eat. This was the first meal the members of the EHG had eaten in days, so they were more than receptive of the invitation.
During the meal, Coulson managed to learn that a black SUV with tinted windows arrived just after nightfall the previous day, unloaded, what Coulson understood as 'giant ray gun' and fired it into the sky from the door of the tomb. As the EHG had approached, the group, deciding that whatever they had done hadn't worked, packed up and left. After they had gone there was a bright flash of light from the sky and it hit the ground in the spot where the craters were. The EHG told Coulson that they felt the ground was going to open up and swallow them because they had let strangers desecrate the tomb of their beloved boy king.
With this new information the team, having left some food packets for the EHG as a thank you for their help, were travelling back to the 'bus in a pretty sombre mood. They now knew exactly what had caused the craters, but what the Covenant were trying to achieve shooting electromagnetic pulses into the sky like that was worrying them.