User blog:Headaches/Lara Croft: Stranded - Part 1

Somewhere on a deserted beach, two figures lie still in the sand. One is obviously the world-famous Lara Croft. The second, is also a female, but she has long, golden, flowing hair. Her face is unrecogniseable as it is covered with sand.

Suddenly, Lara bursts to life. She splutters water all over the sand, turning it a dark shade of brown. Lara sits up and examines her surroundings. She sits on a small beach, surrounded by rocks. There is a mountain to her left and straight ahead is what looks like a forest. Sea cuts off the beaches other exits.

As soon as she sees the other woman, Lara quickly crawls across to her. Lara wipes the sand from the blonde’s face but she doesn’t recognise her. Lara quickly checks the blonde’s pulse to realise that she is still alive.

“Can you hear me?” Lara calls to the girl.

A moan elicits from the girls mouth as her eyes flutter open. She takes in her surroundings before speaking and moving away from Lara, “Where am I?” She asks.

“I don’t know. I can’t remember a thing.” Lara looks around once again as she speaks. “What’s your name?

“Tess... Tess McKay...” Tess scoots a bit further away from Lara as she speaks. “And you?”

“I’m Lara Croft.” Lara lets out a small smiled.

“You mean, the world-famous archaeologist Lara Croft?” Tess suddenly feels more comfortable next to her.

“Yeah.” Lara blushed.

“Then you must be able to tell me what happened and why we’re here!” Tess says.

Lara squeezes her eyes shut and tries to remember what happened, “Sorry.” She sighed. “I got nothing... Just take a look around, there might be some clues.”

The two stand up and walk to seperate sides of the beach. Tess approaches a small, wooden paddle-boat. One of the paddles lay inside and the other is in two pieces next to the boat. Inside the boat are two blankets which look like they are covering an oddly-shaped object.

“Lara!” Tess shouts. Lara drops the rock she was examining and runs over. “Look!” Tess slowly bends down and pulls the blanket back, dropping it to the side. What looks like a gas canister is connected to a clock, it reads 0:05.

“What is this?” Lara asks. “It can’t be five minutes past midnight.”

All of a sudden, the clock changes to 0:04.

“It’s a bomb!” Lara screams. She grabs Tess’ hand and sprints into the forest. The two only just get far enough when the bomb explodes. A fireball engulfs the beach and the trees blow back in the wind, knocking Lara and Tess to the floor.

“What the hell was that?” Tess shrieks.

“I don’t know. But whoever set that bomb wants us dead and my best guess is that they’ll be back to check soon.” Lara explains. “We need to get out of here.”

Tess nods and the two run off into the forest together.

Main Cast

 * Camilla Ludington as Lara Croft
 * Amber Heard as Tess McKay, a young woman who somehow got stuck on the island.
 * Josh Hutcherson as Felix Hart, an young man in the same situation as Lara, Tess and Felix.~
 * Robert LaSardo as Morgan Olde, an insane, schizophrenic who got struck with jealously over Lara and her aclomplishments.~

Reccuring Cast
~Does not appear in this episode.
 * Jennifer Lawrence as Ellie, a broken down young woman who was forced into marriage with Morgan.~
 * Justin Timberlake as Sgt Bryan, the second-in-command of the gang after Morgan.~
 * Zachary Quinto as Sam, Ellie's real love who is only part of Morgan's gang to try and free her.~