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The Story of Tomb Raider Anniversary tells of Lara's quest for the Scion.

Los Alamos, New Mexico

During nuclear tests near Los Alamos, New Mexico, in 1945 a mushroom cloud engulfs an abandoned town, uncovering a crystalline structure, sending an unidentified winged creature, Atlantean Ruler Jacqueline Natla as we discover later, flying out.

Calcutta, India

Magazine

Fifty-one years later, in the year 1996, Lara Croft is sitting in the lobby of the Imperial Hotel in Calcutta, India reading her fathers diary, when her long-time adversary Larson Conway enters the scene. He places a magazine on the table. The headline reads Croft bags... Bigfoot?.

• Larson: What's a man got to do to get that sort of attention from you?
• Lara: If that's the sort of attention you want, Larson, you're well on your way.
• Larson: Sounds like fun, but I'm only here to make an introduction.

Larson places a large hand-held device on the table on which a blonde woman appears.

• Larson: Lara Croft, meet Jacqueline Natla, of Natla Technologies.
• Natla: Good afternoon, Miss Croft. My research department has recently turned its focus to the study of ancient artifacts. And I'm led to believe that, with the right incentive, you're just the woman to find them for me.
• Lara: I'm afraid you've been misled. I only play for sport.
• Natla: Which is precisely why I've come to you, Miss Croft. This is a game you've played before; with your Father. You both spent years searching for the Scion of Atlantis. All you needed was the location of Qualopec's Tomb.
• Lara: You've found Vilcabamba?
• Natla: How quickly can you get to Peru?

Mountain Caves, Peru

Lara stands at the edge of a cliff in the Andes in Peru, reading her fathers diary.

Vilcabamba continues to elude us, and my insistence that we press on in spite of these failures has morale low... I suspect Jenkins to be the author of this sedition; he simply refuses to accept the possibility that Atlantis is the foundation upon which all known civilizations were built. Increasingly, I find it is Lara alone who remains untainted by academic dogma and open-minded enough to see this truth.

Meanwhile her guide is looking for a path up to the big gate into the caverns. He manages to climb a ladder which crumbles under his weight. He himself reaches the ledge above but the ladder is gone. He looks down to Lara.

• Guide: I'm sorry; I didn't bring enough rope.
• Lara: Not to worry. I'll find another way up.

Lara manages to find a way up to the gate which the find tightly shut. After some climbing Lara reaches a ledge high above the gate where she discovers a trigger that opens the gates. From above she sees a pack of wolves coming from inside, attacking the guide who tries to flee screaming.

• Guide: Aaahhhhh!

Lara jumps down, guns blazing and manages to kill the four wolves, but it's too late for the guide. He lies dead on the ground. Lara heads into the caves alone.

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