- "Layla, look. We won. And the ushabti goes to us. I had to go digging down old Alexander the Great's gullet, but I found it."
- ―Steven Grant to Layla El-Faouly[src]
The Search for Ammit's Ushabti was an expedition into the Tomb of Alexander the Great by the Disciples of Ammit, as well as Marc Spector and Layla El-Faouly, with the goal of finding Ammit's ushabti.
Background[]
- "Senfu marked that tomb, like, 2,000 years ago. And stars drift over time. Not much as far as stars go, but it could mean the difference between us searching miles away from where we're supposed to be looking. So unless we know exactly what the sky looked like on that date, we're buggered."
"I remember that night. I remember every night." - ―Steven Grant and Khonshu[src]
Since the Ennead Council found Arthur Harrow innocent and did not punish him for trying to liberate Ammit, Yatzil informed Marc Spector about Senfu, whose sarcophagus had a map to the tomb where Ammit's ushabti was hidden, and even Ennead did not know its location. Layla El-Faouly informed Spector that the sarcophagus was stolen and sold on a black market to Anton Mogart to be in his collection. Spector and El-Faouly arrived at Mogart's estate to inspect the sarcophagus, but Spector had to ask Steven Grant for help.
Moon Knight fights Mogart and his men
However, Mogart grew suspicious of Spector and El-Faouly, thinking that they might want to tamper with the sarcophagus, and ordered his men to stop them. As Mogart's men were holding Spector and El-Faouly on a gunpoint, Harrow appeared at the estate and showed Mogart the power of Ammit by destroying the sarcophagus, so Spector and El-Faouly could not stop him. Spector then turned into the Moon Knight to fight Mogart and his men, while El-Faouly managed to steal the cartonnage from the sarcophagus, before they both escaped.
Khonshu and Mr. Knight turn the night sky
Arriving at the desert, they attempted to figure out how to read the catronnage, however, none of them had knowledge to do that, so Spector had no choice but to ask Grant for help again. Grant was able to piece together a map of constellations that was supposed to pinpoint the tomb's location, but it was in vain, since the stars' position had changed over the centuries. Khonshu, however, made a risky decision to turn the night sky to that exact night, although the Council forbidden him from doing so. Together with Grant, Khonshu succeeded, allowing El-Faouly to triangulate the location, but the Ennead punished Khonshu by trapping him inside the ushabti, stripping Grant from the Moon Knight powers.[3]
Search[]
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Steven Grant and Layla El-Faouly proceed inside the tomb
- "I can't save anyone who won't save themselves."
- ―Arthur Harrow to Marc Spector[src]
Steven Grant and Layla El-Faouly were briefly confronted by the Disciples of Ammit in the desert, but they managed to shake them off to follow the map, finding the Disciples' dig site at Siwa Oasis. Proceeding inside the tomb, Grant and El=Faouly found themselves in a maze, but Grant figured out the riddle with the Eye of Horus, and found the correct passage. Once they were inside, they heard the Disciples firing at the Heka Priests, who were entombed there to protect it, and tried to hide themselves. As the Priest killed Billy Fitzgerald, Grant and El-Faouly attempted to split and run away, as Spector managed to squish the priest from above.
Layla El-Faouly fights the Heka Priest
Grant explored the tomb and discovered that it Alexander the Great was entombed there, which meant that he was the Avatar of Ammit. Grant assumed that the ushabti was hidden inside his throat, due to being the voice of Ammit, and got it from there. Meanwhile, El-Faouly was attacked by the second Priest and managed to hit him with the flare stick and push it off the cliff. She was approached by Arthur Harrow who spoke to El-Faouly and implied that Marc Spector was responsible for the death of her father.
Marc Spector is shot by Arthur Harrow
Catching up to Grant, El-Faouly told him to switch back to Spector, confronting him about what Harrow told her. Spector confessed that he and Raul Bushman attacked the dig site near Khonshu's Temple, and Bushman decided to kill all archeologists there, including El-Faouly's father, although Spector was against it. While El-Faouly was still processing what Spector told her, Harrow and his disciples found their way into the tomb, so Spector told El-Faouly to hide, while he buys some time for her. Spector attacked the disciples, killing some of them with an axe, however, Harrow then shot him in the chest, killing him.[4]
Aftermath[]
Marc Spector tries to escape from Arthur Harrow
- "I'm sorry it had to be this way, Marc Spector, Steven Grant, whoever else might be in there. Sometimes we need the cold light of death before we can see reality."
- ―Arthur Harrow[src]
Killed by Arthur Harrow, Marc Spector was sent to the Duat, which took a form of the Putnam Psychiatric Hospital, where the recreation of Harrow tried to convince him that everything he knew was just a delusion. However, Spector realized that it was not true and attempted to escape from the hospital, before meeting Steven Grant face to face.[4] They were approached by Taweret who told them about the Duat and that they either enter the Aaru, or get lost in the sands, if their Scales of Justice are not balanced.[5]
Meanwhile, in the realm of living, Harrow and his disciples collected Ammit's ushabti from Spector's body and left the tomb to finish the ritual. While Layla El-Faouly followed them, the disciples arrived at the Chamber of the Gods inside the Great Pyramid of Giza. Although Selim and other Avatars of the Ennead Council tried to stop them, Harrow used Ammit's power to kill all of them and broke the ushabti, liberating Ammit. While Harrow swore his allegiance to her, El-Faouly liberated Khonshu from his imprisonment to stop their plans.[6]