"It was hard to understand, but he said that Dexter stole the tablet. What I thought was real strange was he said Kamenrah was trying to take it." I shrugged my shoulders,
"Who's that?" Larry sighed,
"It is Akmenrah's older brother. That's all I could get from him before he hung up. I don't even know how he managed to dial the phone." I groaned. This is going to get even worse now. We have to get the tablet out of their.
We walked to all the many building they had. So far my favorite was the Air and Space Center. They had so many machines from didn't parts of the time period. I've always wanted to ride in an old-timey airplane, but they don't have those around anymore. We walked into a main part of the museum and I was shocked. They had paintings that some of the world's greatest artists have painted, were hanging on the walls filling them up with their spectacular vision.
We walked into a room that had the lights turned off. I was shocked to see an exact double of Akmenrah's tablet holder.
"It says this is Kamenrah's. I guess this is why he wants it." As Larry reached over and touched it, a light shown on us.
"That's ITT bro," A guard said. I guess he was the day time watchmen. It looked like he didn't have a life, so that's why he had the job.
"ITT?" Larry asked.
"Intent to touch, homey." I groaned again. Looks like here's another one of these guys who tries to come up with their own jokes. LAME! I almost laughed out loud when he said his name was Brunden.
"I will rent a camper and we will drive cross country with my flashlight on your chest." When he said that, I bust out laughing. He stared at me.
"I'm sorry, but that's the gayest thing I have ever heard. Did you come up with that in your Gayest Book of World Records?" I started to walk off but turned around when I heard rustling. I laughed when I saw that Larry had Brunden in a headlock type hold, and Brunden looked scared. When he let him go, Larry showed off his moves with the flashlight, and handed it back to Brunden. Then they started to apologize to one another like kids getting caught at school. I rolled my eyes. Men.
Larry flashed me a smile and showed me Brunden's I.D. I shook my head as we headed to the basement stairs. Unlike the museum at New York, you had to show your I.D. just to get inside the basement. This basement was HUGE! They had boxes stacked up on one another. I couldn't imagine how much history they have stored away. As we were walking, I noticed Larry staring at a manikin standing up in a corner. Even for wax, I thought she was beautiful.
We kept on walking until we came to a shocking discovery. Egyptian guards were frozen in an attack position. They were positioned in front of a slightly open container where a hand was sticking out of it. Larry shined his flashlight at the guy in the middle which appeared to be their leader. We walked over to the container, and Larry stuck his head inside it. I could hear him mumbling something about I'll deal with you later.
"Dexter," I mumbled. Larry stuck his head out of the container and said,
"I have to get the tablet. Can you hand me a spear?" I nodded my head and pulled one out of a guard's hand. I handed it to Larry, who stuck his head back into the container. I could hear some groans and a minute later he pulled it out. I smiled when he grabbed it, but it soon faded. When he grabbed it, the tablet burst into a bright light.
"No, no, no, nooo," Larry screamed. I took a step toward Larry when I saw spears moving.
"Mah!" The man without the spear exclaimed. Larry and I were packed in by the spears wanting to cut through us. The man who appeared to be their leader, shouted at Larry in what appeared to be Egyptian. Then he spoke in French. When neither Larry nor I said anything, he said,
"Eh, English. English perhaps?" I gave Larry a funny look, who just shrugged his shoulders,
"I'm sorry. Who are you?" Larry asked.
"I am Kamenrah. The great king of the great kings, and from the darkest depths of ancient history. I have come back to life!"
Wow! I thought. This was a real nut case.
"Uh huh," Larry said. I gave him the cuckoo sign with my hand, which Larry then told me to hush.
"Perhaps you didn't hear what I just said. I am a centuries old Egyptian Pharaoh. I was dead, but I have come back to life!" I was really annoyed.
"Alright we get it!" I screamed.
"Yeah, we already got that. Welcome back," Larry informed. I rolled my eyes. I didn't care that he was back. Kamenrah stared at the both of us,
"Uh, who, who are the two of you?" He babbled.
"Ah, Larry, Larry Daley of Daley Devices. You know the one up in New York. And this is Dakota. She's also from New York. You know it's funny. We actually know your brother, Akmenrah" I nodded.
"Do you?" Kamenrah questioned.
"Yeah," Larry said.
"They know baby brother, who was the favorite son,"
"Yeah, great kid," Larry complimented. I gave Larry a strange look. 'That's really going to help us in our situation. You're giving props to a guy that Kamenrah apparently hates.' I thought.
"Oh, isn't he just. You know mother and father always gave him the best of everything. And I do mean everything. They even gave him the throne. The throne that was rightfully mine!" He shouted.
"If the throne was really yours, wouldn't your parents have given it to you then?" I asked blankly. Larry slapped me on the arm,
"Shh…You're going to make it worse. Uh…you know he never mentioned that." I rolled my eyes. He's talking about me. I'm just being honest.
"Oh, I just bet he didn't. Well, now begins the era of Kamenrah, because I have come back to…Oh never mind. Just hand me the tablet," Kamenrah commanded. The hell if he thought we were going to give him the tablet.
"Don't give it to him gigantor. You too Pip Squeak," Jedidiah yelled. I could hear everyone shouting inside the container.
"Oh hush now…Be quiet. Don't make me come in there!" Kamenrah shouted. "I won't be muzzled!"
I smiled at him. He never lets his size get in the way of telling people off. Kamenrah turned to us, and started to explain to us how the tablet was so powerful and we didn't even know everything it could do. He even told us he was going to bring his army back from the underworld. He had us backing up until Larry hit a spear. Did he really think we would give it to him?
"So if it's not too much trouble, Mah," The guards raised their spears to our heads,
"Hand it over." I laughed,
"Fat chance." Kamenrah was really annoying me because he was ignoring me. Even when I say something, he still acts like I'm not here.
"O.k. here you go," Larry said handing Kamenrah the tablet. I gasped. What the hell was he doing?
"Wise decision. Ah!" The spears moved away from our faces and Kamenrah started to leave. I wanted to kill Larry so bad. Then Larry started talking about a cube. When Kamenrah questioned it, Larry said it was the cube of Rubik.
"What are you talk…?" I didn't get to finish before Larry was giving me the look to be quiet.
"But it's ok if you don't want to mess with it. Even Akmenrah stayed away from it. I didn't take you as the kind of guy to play it safe, but who am I to tell…" The spears were raised back up to our heads,
"I am not like my brother, Mr. Daley. I will kill you and your friends in the blink of an eye…Now take me to this cube of Rubik." Larry nodded and I walked with him out of the part of the basement. I didn't know what he had planned, but I soon figured out what he had in mind when we walked up to a crate. Kamenrah commanded Larry to open it, so he walked over and started to open it. Larry winked at me so I knew that meant to get out of the way.
Everything seemed to be a blur when he opened the crate. It burst into shards and a giant octopus started to attack everyone. The only thing I could do was dodge the tentacles. I saw the tablet go flying into the air, and a second later, Larry slid and caught it. I ran over to him and we both started to run. I could hear Kamenrah yell at his guards to follow us, but we just kept on running.
I didn't know what we were going to do because eventually they would catch us. We turned a corner and came face to face with the octopus. It slapped us both and we flew back into a crate, breaking it.
"Yeehaw!" I didn't have time to think when a man in a bike flew over our heads. The guy got out of the bike, and told Larry to take the wheel. We were both confused.
"Take the wheel, Oh, were in it now. Love it. I love it! Just keep her straight and now do the rest." He got into the side car while Larry got the driver's seat. He stayed standing up while I climbed in behind him. The guards were starting to run towards us.
"Now CHARGE!" the guy screamed. Larry floored it, and with me nearly falling off the back, we rode forward. Larry asked him what our plans were.
"Were Americans. We don't plan. We do." I nodded my head, and said,
"You got that right." He winked back at me and said hold on as we rammed right threw the guards.
"See act first, think later. Works every time. You're in good hands. General George A. Custer, fighting U.S. captain. At your service. Yeehaw…Ow…" He had stood up and whacked his head on a support beam, and landed on the ground. He told us to keep on going. I moved over to the side car as we turned more corners. All of a sudden Larry had to slam on the brakes when a lady stepped out in front of us. I wasn't sitting all the way down so I flew out of the car and landed on my back.
"Oww…How many times am I going to fall today?" Larry ignored me and looked at the lady. She looked really familiar to me.
"What's the rumpus, ace?" She asked.
"Look Lady, Can you move out of our way?" She looked mad.
"Lady? Who you calling Lady? The name's Amelia." I knew she looked familiar. A spear punctured the front tire, so the bike was useless now. I stood up and walked with Larry. I noticed Amelia following us.
"Amelia Earhart, perhaps you've heard of me?" I could tell Larry wasn't paying to much attention so I talked in favor of him.
"Oh, aren't you a famous pilot. I think you were the first female to fly across the…Atlantic?" I asked. She nodded her head.
"Well aren't you smart. What might your name be?" I smiled.
"I'm Dakota. It's a pleasure to meet you," I said as we shook hands. Larry hid behind a crate, and with cat-like fury she was beside him.
"What's your name, flyboy?" It looked like she was hitting on him.
"Uh, my name is Larry. Larry Daley."
"Well, Larry Daley, incase you weren't listening, I'm not one to shy away from danger," Just then, spears flew right past here, and into the wall,
"Holy crap!" I shouted. They were so close to hitting her.
"How about spears? Are you one to shy away from spears?" Larry said. I shook my head. I started to walk with Larry when I heard Amelia say,
"Now I can have some fun," I thought it would be cool to have her along. We bolted out a door, trying to outrun the guards.
We had gone up the stairs and came out into the art gallery. Everything was so much more alive because well everything was alive. Larry explained to Amelia how we had to get back downstairs because our friends were done their. I laughed when Larry was pelted with a snowball. He leaned up close to the painting to where you could actually see his breath. You saw the little child shy away, and when Larry said he wasn't going to hurt them, Amelia said,
"I don't think it's you their afraid of Mr. Daley." We turned to see the guards ready to spear us. We backed up into a wall where the old farmer was with his wife. Larry grabbed the pitchfork and gave the farmer the tablet. I thought Larry was just going to stab them, but instead, he was twirling it around like a botanist.
"Well are you going to do something?" I hollered at him. Amelia sighed,
"Never send a boy to do a woman's job." I smiled when she grabbed the spear and readied it.
"I spent time spear hunting with the tribe in Micronesia." She threw the spear, but unfortunately one guard caught it.
"The Micronesian's had much slower reflexes." Larry grabbed the tablet and told us to come on. He grabbed Amelia and we ran into a painting. It was a black and white of the end of the war. Amelia and I looked interested, but Larry was too worried about the guards.
"Well, this is one humdinger of a hootenanny!" Amelia said.
"Uh, Yeah. What you said." I replied. We saw the guards starting to enter the painting, so we fled deeper into it. Things turned into chaos while we were their. Nicky had called Larry, and while they were talking, Amelia went off with some guy. Then Larry dropped his phone when he bumped into a guy. Now, don't get me wrong. He was cute. He even helped us by holding off the guards with his buddies. I rolled my eyes when Larry had to start kissing that girl when the guards were near us. But, so they wouldn't spot me, I started dancing like the rest of the people. Talk about embarrassing.
I almost laughed when Amelia saw Larry kissing that girl. I even think she was jealous. I hopped out of the painting along with Amelia who was dragging Larry. I thought we were in the clear until we saw the guards rushing towards us. Amelia and Larry rushed to each side of the painting and flipped it over. It actually held them in.
"What's next?" Amelia asked. We started to walk.
"Look, nothing personal, but Dakota and I are in the middle of something and it's not exactly your flight." Amelia looked over at me and I shrugged my shoulders and mouthed 'Don't look at me.'
"It's because I'm a woman isn't it?" She asked.
"No, it's because we have this ancient race from the dead evil pharaoh guy, who's willing to kill me and anyone around me to get this tablet, so he can rule the world." They started going back and forth between each other, but I knew that Amelia would win. Larry told her she could come as long as she didn't blame him if something happened to her. She looked at me and we high-fived each other.
"I should be so lucky," She said as walked off.