I Have a Bad Feeling About This...

Unending BE - episode 30343

Donna shook off her fears as mere nerves and confidently set one foot through the threshold of the temple.
That's when most of Hell broke loose.
That grinding sound as of machinery she'd heard before got even louder, now mixed in with some horrendous CLANKING sounds, so loud she dropped her flashlight on the floor in her haste to put her hands over her ears. This caused the flashlight to roll behind something and therefore plunged the rest of what happened into total darkness. But that didn't matter--she could FEEL it. The whole temple started descending into the earth, like it was a gigantic elevator or something, and with a huge, booming, hollow THUD, two massive slabs of stone locked into place overhead...
...and the temple was now deep underground.
So that's how come no-one has seen this place before, thought Donna as soon as her ears stopped ringing. She groped around for the flashlight for a few minutes, but soon gave up as she realised it had rolled too far for her to grab it by standing where she was, and on an ancient and most likely unstable floor full of holes and weak spots, she didn't DARE try walking on it in the dark. She decided to ponder the temple's machinery for a moment instead, since she had nothing better to do. I wonder what made it go ABOVE ground in the first place, then, she thought to herself. She stood up carefully, and just as she was steeling herself to go after the flashlight anyway, her problem was solved for her as a light came up and fluttered right next to her cheek.
Startled, she fell back a step, but heard a reassuring voice in her mind. Do not be afraid, future-child. I am only the spirit of what was. I am the Guardian of this temple. I will show you safely through it, if you let me. The voice was also speaking in a foreign language that Donna couldn't begin to identify, but the telepathy-words were in English, or at least seemed to be, anyway.
"Who are you?" Donna asked of the strange small fluttering pinkish ball of light, never having believed in fairies or angels or ghosts or whatever this "Guardian" claimed to be. "I mean, what are you REALLY?"
My name is Tikal, and I am the spirit of the last priestess of this temple. The last priestess of the last hours of our great civilisation, before The Disaster came and wiped out us all...Come. I will show you the wonders of this place.
Donna stared cynically at this strange special effect called "Tikal." She was not a superstitious person and this struck her as very phony. She was sure there must be some other archaelogist in here who was playing a funny little game with special effects or something.
Then again...

  1. *Donna decides to take "Tikal" at her word and lets her show her the grand tour of the temple.
  2. *Donna believes that "Tikal" is a mere hoax and continues looking for her flashlight, steadily ignoring the little pink light.
  3. Donna decides to take aside the HTML monster and pound the living tar out of him.
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Mello

Wed Jul 7 00:06:33 1999

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