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The ride was dusty, hot and dull. It took hours to get to the site from the nearest town, and after about two you had to leave the roads. Alexandria looked out over the scenery. Dust, sand, more dust, and some sand for flavoring. It was not what she'd signed up for. If you were to ask her, the reason she signed up was to be an action movie hero. Which wasn't that far from the truth.

The caravan of trucks that they had been a part of made a few turns before coming upon a camp in what passed for a valley in the desert. They stopped, and soldiers like her got out of the jeeps, along with almost twice their number in lawyers. Work was funny like that. They certainly didn't look like a force, since there were only about ten of them and no uniforms. But they were still the ones for the job. The leader of the group, a rather small girl, broke off and went to speak with the dig's leaders about the matter. The lawyers followed her.

Alex and the others gathered up some chairs in the tents to sit in. The sun started to sink behind the horizon behind them, and the archaeologists in the area stayed back from the group with a bit of caution. Yes, they had definitely found something.

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Roy walked into a conference room and set down a stack of papers.
"Right everyone, I would like to call this first meeting of the evil council of evil to order." He pulled out one sheet of paper in particular, and passed out copies of it to the other people in the meeting room.
"Now then, a device in egypt has just reactivated. From what the library has on it, it's capable of the level of destruction that we're after. It's incredibly likely that section 5 of the orginization has already secured the area, so instead of capturing the device, I figure we should just comb the area for some backup plans and get to work assembling it here. Any questions?"

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Under the shifting sands, the device whirred.
Seal Broken.....
Defence subroutine 1 Activated.....
Trap Mode Initiated.

((I'm assuming that the good guys are with Alexandria and the villains are with Roy. Correct me if I'm wrong))

Chris removed his large, cowl-like hood from his face, showing himself for what he really was, a lizard fur. "Well this seems a lot more interesting than the ride here. Wouldn't you guys agree?"

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Anne and Brittany both cackled evily at the same time. It was a twin thing.
Anne, the one with the white top on, raised her hand "Why can't we cause more destruction? Wouldn't that be more fun?"

Fenrir grunted in what seemed like approval though it could've just been disapproval. He then spoke in a gruff, deep voice "The destruction is fine how it has been planned. That way we still have something left to rule over."

"Chris, you know you're supposed to be all secretive and such...like why I'm supposed to wear these bandages, and why we didn't bring more people. Look, you're scaring the scientists."

One of the scientists came up to the group.
"So, you're here about the body, yes?"
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"Well, there's six of us. We aren't an army."

Chris sighed and replaced the hood over his head "Can't a guy show his face and not scare peope any more. Jeez, treated like a hero but still can't show my face."

Daniel walks towards one of the archaeologists, followed by Shadow (both of whom are in human form). The archaeologist was talking to the leader in a fast, excited manor of someone who'd found something of tremendous worth. Turns out he wasn't too far off, as it had some importance or another, judging by the bits of conversation he had caught. "So, whatcha find?" asked Shadow curiously.

"Shadow, don't get him-"
"Well, first we mapped out a vast structure using some explosives, a rather standard manuever. It's big, and I mean Big. After that we got to digging, and then things started to get odd. We started excavation with some more unwieldy tool than normal, but later we-"
"Get to the part where you called us."
"...Fine. After we tunneled in through the roof of the building and a bit of exploration, we found a body. The weird part is that it had been dead no more than a few hours when we found it, and this thing's been sealed for a couple thousand years at least. But that still doesn't explain why you guys are-"
"We're used to this kinda stuff. Trust me."
"Yeah, but it's not like there is any danger from an empty tomb."
"..Which is exactly why your government called in us. Shadow, we'll be going in whenever the rest of the team wants."

Kanda was listening to the conversation with minor interest. "Tombs are usually trapped or/and guarded by a holy beast of some sorts. So they can be pretty dangerous."

Chris caught the talk of the tomb and the traps or guardians "Even more reason to go in there then. Traps and guarians mean something important inside."

Fenrir was getting impatient, he began to throw a fire ball from one hand to the other to try to calm himself down. "So when do we start our plan? Or at least why are we even here right now? I hope this wasn't something simply for fun. This better have a reason to us all meeting and it better be good."