Hello everyone! I've wanted to do this story for a long time and I finally gathered up the guts to do it. This is a crossover of Disney's Atlantis and everyone's favorite whip-cracking adventurer Indiana Jones! When I thought about how to integrate these two together, I realized I had to change the timeline because there's a twenty year time period between the two. So I resorted to setting my fic in the mid-1930s which I think will still work what with all the technology in the movie Atlantis. So instead of 1914, the story will begin in the year 1934, two years before Raiders of the Lost Ark. If I had stayed with Atlantis's timeframe, Indy would have only been like 16. I hope you enjoy this fanfic!
This story is rated T (basically PG-13) for some language and brief adult situations
I own nothing. Everything belongs to Disney and Steven Spielberg.
INDIANA JONES AND THE LOST EMPIRE
Prologue
Thousands of years ago
Atlantean Continent
"...in a single day and night of misfortune,
the island of Atlantis disappeared
into the depths of the sea."
- Plato, 360 B.C.
The City of Atlantis was prosperous. A civilization more powerful then Babylon herself, with technological advances thousands of years ahead of its time. For the proud Atlantean people, who stood out from other human families with their tall stature, dark skin, snow-white hair, and intricate tattoos; their vast island was a paradise, a force to be reckoned with should other civilizations try to undermine or take control. The immense powers of the crystal made all of this possible. The crystal was their protection, their beacon, their lifeforce...
It was also their doom.
Many who survived the cataclysmic event, remembered the day started like any other day... deep blue skies adrift with soft white clouds, above gentle aquamarine waters... until a burst of electrical blue light blinded the eyes of those watching the horizon, sending a deafening clap of loud thunderous noise crackling across the sky above their heads.
Partially blinded by the blast, the leading border patrol officer depended on his crystal-powered Katak, a flying vehicle resembling a stone fish, to get him back to Atlantis. Clinging on for dear life, he could hear the immense tidal wave of rushing water closing in behind him. Hearing another Katak fly past him, he turned his head and recognized the blurred figure through half-closed eyes as the Kataks picked up speed.
"You fool!" He screamed in Atlantean, all his anger and fear showed through his speech as he berated the younger soldier. "You've destroyed us all!" As his vision cleared, he could see the guilt and terror on the young man's face.
Another voice rose above the roar of the huge torrent of water. "The wave is gaining! We have to warn Atlantis!" The officer turned back and shouted in alarm as the wave wiped out more than half of his force within seconds.
"Too late!" He screamed, pressing his hand to the glowing blue control pad on his right side. His burst of speed was futile as the water enveloped him, silencing him forever. For as fast as the Kataks were, they couldn't outfly a crystal-powered tidal wave. Only a few made it into the inner city, their warnings too late for the outer parts of the island that had been washed away by the rising water. The crystal that floated above the highest point of the kingdom had turned a blood red in color, as if the crystal sensed that Atlantis's end was near.
One of the lookouts outside the city walls added his own late warnings through a sound device that carried his frantic voice through different parts of the city.
"Everyone to the shelters! Everyone to the shelters!" He shouted repeatedly, constantly looking behind him as the tidal wave approached, having already wiped out the outer settlements and steadily moving towards the great city.
As the lookouts' cries and the pounding of alarm bells echoed throughout the streets and buildings of Atlantis, along with the terrified screams of their fellow Atlanteans, the royal family joined their people in a race for their lives. King Kashekim Nedakh, a tall figure with a long white beard and dressed in long robes, pushed his wife and daughter towards a circle of royal guards waiting for them to descend the steps of the palace.
One of the guards motioned for them to follow. "This way your Highness. Quickly!" He pleaded, glancing up at the darkening sky as the wall of water had blocked out the sun. Holding tight to her mother's hand, Princess Kidagakash gripped her small toy in her other hand, her heart thumping violently against her chest as she and her parents were forced to run across the courtyard in front of the palace, surrounded by guards. A loud crack caused her to cry out, lessening her grip around her toy. Looking back and seeing that her toy had been left behind, she pulled out of the Queen's grip and rushed to retrieve it.
The Queen chased her down and grasped her daughter's tiny hand. "Kida. Come on!" She began to drag her away but the little girl kept desperately reaching for her fallen toy. Exasperated, the Queen knelt down to the princess's eye level and gently shook her, gripping the girl's wrists, her movements shaking the elaborate feathers on her crown. "Kida! Just leave it! There's no time!" She pleaded with her before standing up to resume their flight.
Above their heads, the crystal's red light flashed and changed, becoming the cool blue hue once more. The bright light had caught the Queen's eye and she couldn't help but stare up at it in wonder.
Which was a fatal mistake as looking directly at the center of the crystal allowed it to bond to her soul.
Unaware of the sudden change in her mother, Kida looked around her at the frightened people rushing in all directions in states of panic, oblivious as her mother's crystal pendant around her neck flashed and her eyes began to glow in the same blue shade as the crystal.
King Nedakh turned back, just in time to see his cherished wife's feet leave the ground and slowly rise towards the blazing crystal above the city. Ignoring the surprised guards, he began to fight his way through the mass of people to reach them.
Feeling her mother's hand slip from hers, taking her bracelet with it, Kida turned and cried out in terror as her beloved mother began to float away, beyond her reach.
"Mother!" She reached up with her little arms, tripping and falling to her knees when the crystal flashed its blinding light, her long white hair whipping about her head as the crystal began to spin. "Mother!" She screamed out again as the Atlantean Queen's form disappeared inside the crystal.
Above Atlantis, the crystal containing the Queen began to spin rapidly until it was just a blue blur, making an ear-splitting whirring sound. Lightning forces blasted from it, shooting into different directions, forming blue shields that spread in a circular shape, combining together to surround the inner city, blocking out those still running for the inner shelters. Unfortunately, they were left to the destructive tidal wave, too late to save themselves.
They could only pound in vain on the impassable borders, unable to get inside to safety as their world crumbled around them. Men held their wives and children clung to their parents as the tidal wave engulfed and destroyed everything in its path.
Kida tried once more to reach her mother, though she knew she was long gone, consumed by the crystal above her head. "Mother!"
She jumped in fright when her father appeared and wrapped her up in his large, muscular, robe-clad arms, shielding her eyes from the blinding rays of the crystal.
"Close your eyes, Kida! Look away!" He ordered her, watching in a mix of terror, wonder and grief as the crystal's force field enveloped the inner city. He had tried vainly to reach his wife before the crystal took her away, but fighting his way through the panicked crowd had made him too late to save her. The only thing he could protect now was his little daughter who was now mother-less.
With a loud blast and an ethereal hiss, the city beneath their feet began to sink, enveloped by the tidal wave that now encased them in its watery depths, taking Atlantis, its people, and the powerful crystal with it, never to be seen again.
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