Tomb Raider 2013 (Story)
The Story of Tomb Raider (2013) strands Lara Croft on a deserted island near the coast of Japan.
Lara Croft is aboard the research vessel Endurance, on route to search for the Lost Fleet of Kublai Khan in the Pacific Ocean. When Lara suggests to closer examine a seemingly uninhabited island[1], the ship is hit by a storm and split in two. Lara, trying to reach the rest of the crew, falls into the ocean and is separated from the ship.
When Lara regains conciousness, she finds herself tied in a bundle suspended upside-down from the ceiling inside a cavern. Swinging the bundle to and fro she manages to set it on fire. Lara falls down and is hurt, when falling onto a metal pin. Badly hurt Lara sets out to explore the caves she's in. She is shocked to find one of her crewmates, Steph, tied up above an altar, the victim of some strange kind of ritual. During her escape, she is attacked by a Scavenger twice. The second time the guy is flattened beneath a falling rock.
Emerging atop shipwreck bay Lara sets out to follow the only path leading away from the Scavenger's Den. Looking down she spots one of the life boats of the Endurance. "The Lifeboat. Where are they?" She makes searching for the rest of the crew ("Search for traces of other survivors") her new goal. She discovers several obstacles in her path and is forced to balance across a fallen tree and jump over gaps. Further up the path she has to do her first serious climbing, up the remains of an old B-52[2] bomber which comes loose under her weight. She can barely escape in time. Finally Lara comes across an abandoned fire place where she finds the pack of her friend Sam, a radio, a video camera, and a box with a single match inside. When she is caught in the rain she seeks shelter at a Base Camp underneath a cliff overhang. Exhausted, badly hurt, thirsty and shivering Lara tries to get comfortable. She captures water from the waterfall with her fingers and sips it to quench her thirst, before she lights up the camp fire with the one remaining match she found.
After taking shelter from the thunderstorm, Lara finds herself hungry and sets out to find food. She stumbles across the body of a dead hunter with bow who's hanging upside down from a tree. Her climbing skills allow Lara to grab the bow and continue onwards with it. In this open area she discovers a lot of wildlife, bunnies, birds, and deer, the latter of which she has to hunt and kill for food. Once she has killed a deer, Lara cuts it open with the spearhead to gather the meat. She then returns to the base camp once more to consume her food.
After eating, Lara finally manages to get through to Roth, using the radio. After Lara tells him she was captured by the Scavengers and that their colleague Steph was killed down in the den, he gives her a pep talk and tells her to find him at his location. Lara sets off again. When she hears eerie music, she follows it through a now open bunker door. The door closes behind her and she has no other choice but to go down a ladder and into the caverns underneath the bunker. She notices strange markings that make no sense to her. When a door blocks her path, she has to go searching for something she can use as a crowbar. Utilizing her burning torch she can open another path and find an Old Pry Tool with which she can then open the door and continue. She goes up the ladder and ends up back outside.
Lara follows voices and finds Sam talking to a strange man. She tries to stay hidden from view to assess the situation before getting into it, but Sam calls out to her. The man tells her that his name is Mathias, that he is "a teacher by trade" and that he is afraid of "the savages who live here". When Lara suggests to go find Roth the situation gets out of hand and Sam is taken captive by Mathias, who holds a knife to her throat. Lara tries to get her freed by threatening the man with her bow but he can get away with Sam when Lara's foot gets stuck in a bear trap.
While she is trapped, she hears wolves howling. When they finally attack, with lightning striking all around them, Lara is forced to act quickly and shoot three wolves, one after the other, when they jump out from the bushes.
Four of the Endurance crew (Dr. Whitman, Jonah, Alex and Reyes) arrive shortly after Lara has disposed of the wolves and help her out of the trap. She tells them that Sam has been captured and they plan to set out after them to attempt a rescue. However it is decided that Lara should rest and then return to Captain Roth to inform him of the situation. Doctor Whitman decides to accompany Lara. While she rests at a camp site, he scouts ahead. When he finds a closed gate with an opening mechanism, he calls out to Lara to come over.
At the gate she discovers that there are two turning mechanisms that open it. Doctor Whitman is manning one, the other is unfortunately missing a handle. Lara thinks about using her pry tool as handle but it turns out to be too weak. She then sets out to find equipment to strengthen it. With enough salvage she can then return to the base camp and upgrade.
With the upgraded axe Lara then returns to the waiting Doctor Whitman and inserts it into the mechanism on her side. Together they turn their wheels and open the gate. Once through the gate, in the forest on the other side, they are suddenly surrounded by a group of the savages. While Whitman immediately surrenders the gun he is carrying, Lara - remembering her personal experience with the scavengers - is not willing to disarm and aims her arrow at the attackers. She is tackled and disarmed from behind. The bow is taken from her and her hands are tied behind her back before she is knocked out cold.
Later, when awaking in a camp of the scavengers, Lara witnesses how another captive is shot when trying to escape. Nevertheless she uses the confusion to try and escape herself. Moving in the shadows, sneaking along a wall, she evades the patrolling men with flashlights and manages to hide in a shack. Unfortunately one of the scavengers, with Russian background, finds her and drags her from her hiding place. He starts harassing her, but Lara fights him off, kneeing him in his soft parts and biting him. When she is roughly thrown to the ground, she manages to grab his handgun and pull the trigger, killing the man with a shot to his head. Lara is shocked by what has happened, looking at the man horrified. But finally she picks up the gun to continue her fight for survival.
