The father and daughter made their way towards the restricted area and, after using Brundon's ID to open the door, easily made their way inside. They began to make their way down
hallway, constantly checking for any signs of other guards behind them, when they saw a guard in front of them and Larry ducked into the first room he saw pulling Bambi behind him, and the room happened to be the locker room. Turning around, the older Daley was met with an open locker holding security uniforms.
Larry quickly she his suit jacket and pulled on the blue smithsonian security uniform jacket.
"It looks good on you." Bambi said smiling gently. Unfortunately there were only men's uniforms in the locker room so Bambi was stuck in her black jeans, green cold shoulder top and matching green booties. The booties in her outfit that quickly got her reprimanded by her father.
"Samantha, I told you not to wear heels." Larry said as they went out into the hallway once again.
"But dad, I need them." she argued.
"You need- for what?"
"I need the height, I'm small."
"Whatever." He groaned not wanting to argue with her as he took out his phone and dialed Nicky's number. "Okay, buddy, we're in." He said into the phone.
"Great. Where are you?" Nicky asked.
"The northeast corner of the Castle, just off the Commons." Larry answered. "I need you to talk me to the Archives."
"Okay. At the end of the hall, turn right, and there should be a stairwell coming up on your left."
"Got it."
"Now, it's kind of a maze down there." Nicky explained, "Those underground tunnels connect a bunch of different buildings. It could get complicated."
"We'd better hurry, we only got 28 minutes until sundown." Larry said looking at his watch again.
"When you get down to B level, you want to take another left…" Nicky continued to direct before static cut him off.
"Nick? Hello? Nick?" Larry called.
"What's wrong?" Bambi questioned
"There's no reception down here. Nick, you're…Nick!" Larry called when the door on the next level opened and two guards came out. Quickly Larry ushered Bambi down the steps and they had no choice but to find B-Level on their own.
The two walked up to a gate and Larry held up Brundon's ID while Bambi hid out of sight.
"ID, Brundon." A bored voice said.
"Hey." Larry greeted, impersonating the Smithsonian guard's voice.
"Later dude." The voice said excited suddenly.
"Alright. Yeah." Larry mumbled before he opened the door and quickly ushered Bambi through, him followed behind. As they entered the archives, Larry turned on his borrowed flashlight and began to look around. "Alright. Where are you guys?" He whispered. "Bam, stay close." He said motioning for her to stand behind.
After finding a giant squid which they had to work hard to shove back into it's crate, General George Armstrong Custer and Amelia Earhart were amoung the figures they saw as they entered an area that had several Egyptian warriors and a man who looked like he was directing them into a container.
"Oh my God." Larry whispered.
"Kahmunrah." Bambi whispered as Larry led her around the Egyptian to the container, they both peeked inside, and saw everyone from the Natural History Museum.
"It's them. Ahk." She whispered staring at the way the pharaoh was at the front of the group with his arms out keeping everyone behind him
"You little troublemaker. I'm gonna deal with you later." Larry snapped at Dexter who was holding the tablet at the back of the group.
"Dad." Bambi hissed.
"Alright, I got it." Larry whispered before he tried to open the container only to fail. Looking around, the ex-security guard turned the lights on and, using a spear, reached out and grabbed
the tablet pulling it out. Just as Larry held it in his hands, it began to glow as the sun outside went down. "No. No! No, no, no!" Larry cried.
"Dad?" Bambi said in shock and fear as Kahmunrah came to life, yelling in Egyptian. His soldiers closed the container and surrounded the Daleys. Kahmunrah said some things in a few different languages before he realized the father and daughter didn't understand what he was saying.
"No, English. English perhaps." Kahmunrah questioned politely and they nodded.
"I'm sorry, who are you?" Larry asked.
"I am Kahmunrah, the great king of the great kings, and from the darkest depths of ancient history, I have come back to life!" Kahmunrah said puffing out his chest.
"Uh huh." Larry nodded unimpressed.
"Perhaps you did not hear what I just said." Kahmunrah stated as he noticed the lack of reaction from either Daley. "I am a centuries old Egyptian Pharaoh. I was dead, but now I have come back to life!"
"Yeah, no. I heard that. I got that. Welcome back." Larry said.
"Yeah, this is kind of a normal day for us, sorry." Bambi said shrugging.
At the sound of her voice Ahkmenrah dove towards the opening of the container and peered out.
"I don't understand. Who are you?" The older pharaoh questioned confused at their less than stellar reactions.
"Larry Daley and this is my daughter, Samantha Daley. Daley Devices?" Larry introduced. "It's up in New York. It's funny, we know your brother, Ahkmenrah."
"Do you?" Kahmunrah asked. "They know baby brother. The favorite son." Kahmunrah said.
"Yeah, good kid." Larry commented.
"Isn't he just?" Kahmunrah asked rhetorically. "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 which was rightfully mine!"
"He never mentioned that." Bambi said awkwardly .
"I'll just bet he didn't." Kahmunrah spat. "Well, now begins the era of Kahmunrah, because I have come back to…Never mind, just hand me the Tablet."
"Don't give it to him, Gigantor!" Jed cried.
"Keep him away!"
"Silence! Silence in there, please!" Kahmunrah said as the rest of the Natural History Museum cried out in protest. The older Pharaoh hit the container. "Don't make me come in there."
"No! I won't be muzzled!" Jed cried.
"Look, that Tablet is more powerful than you, Larry and Samantha Daley of Daley Devices, can possibly imagine." Kahmunrah stated. "Bringing things back to life is just a parlor trick. With it, I shall unlock the Gate to the Underworld and bring forth my army from the Land of the Dead. So, if it's not too much trouble," Kahmunrah gave an order in Egyptian and all the soldiers raised their spears. "Hand it over."
"Okay, here you go." Larry agreed as he handed the Tablet over.
"Wise decision." Kahmunrah commented. The older Pharaoh gave another order and the spears dropped. As Kahmunrah began to walk away, Larry began to speak again.
"Yeah, I know. I'm sorry, I thought you wanted the Cube, but…" Larry lied. Kahmunrah took the bait, giving another order and turning to face the ex-guard.
"The Cube?" He questioned
"The Cube of Rubik." Larry elaborated, making a Rubix Cube sound much more special than it actually was.
"Alright, what is this Cube of Rubik, then?" Kahmunrah asked as he walked back towards them.
"The Cube. You know, the one that turns all who oppose you to dust." Bambi picked up on what her dad was doing and finished the lie..
"That one? Whatever. I thought…it was my bad, cause…You know what? By the way, your brother didn't want to mess with it either. Yeah, he wanted to play it safe too. Just, you
struck me as a next level kind of guy, so I was…" Larry stammered. Kahmunrah gave an order and the spears were pointed towards them again..
"I am not my brother, Larry." Kahmunrah said, "I will kill you, your daughter and your friends in the blink of an eye." Another order in Egyptian and the spears were down. "Now take me to this Cube of Rubik."
As they left the container Ahkmenrah carefully squeezed his way through the opening and told the others to stay put and that he needed to take care of his brother himself.
Larry led the Egyptians back to the crate that held the giant squid.
"Here it is." Larry stated.
"Open it." Kahmunrah ordered.
Larry and Bambi stepped forward and went to either side of the crate and began unlatching the latches along the top, once they go to the last one of both sides Larry gave his daughter an encouraging nod and with one flip, the squid flew out and began to attack the Egyptians, flinging them around and into other crates releasing some dinosaurs. As Kahmunrah was hit, the Tablet flew in the air and Larry ran for it, sliding under the squid's leg, Larry caught the tablet and stood looking at his daughter across the room.
"Bam, run!" He shouted and Bambi did as she was told running off in one direction, Larry in the other.
"Come back here! Come back here with my Tablet! I still have your friends!" Kahmunrah yelled at them as they ran away.
Bambi ran and was being chased by three of Kahmunrah soldiers, and had wished she'd listened to her father and removed her heels, because now they were slowing her down.
She turned a corner and was pulled into a slot in between two of the crates and a hand was slapped over her mouth before she could so much as gasp.
Bambi looked up into familiar warm green eyes that were staring down at her with comfort as Ahkmenrah kept his hand clasped over her mouth as they heard the soldiers run past their hiding spot.
Slowly his hand slid off her mouth, and he used that hand to brush her hand behind her ear. "You came." He whispered almost reverently.
"If course I did." Bambi said running her hand up his side.
His lip quirked as he placed his fingers under her chin and brought his lips down to hers, but before they could touch there was the loud clearing of a throat next to them. They both snapped their heads over to see Larry standing there holding the tablet with a woman beside him.
"You've ruined their moment." She snapped to Larry.
"Dad," Bambi breathed as she stepped out from the small space.
"You okay?" he questioned her.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Thanks to. . ." she trailed off as Ahkmenrah stepped out from the spot next.
"Ahk," Larry said nodding to him. "So uh, what's going on here? Were you two just?"
"No." Both Bambi and Ahkmenrah responded at the same time.
"It's, not. We're not-" Bambi babbled trying to explain something she didn't really understand.
"We're not?" Ahkmenrah echoed.
"No we are." She was quick to placate him, placing her hand on his arm.
"You are?" Larry said in shock.
"You know what?" Bambi said finally. "Now is really not the time to talk about this."
Everyone agreed and Larry gave the tablet back to its rightful owner as he led them all back up to the museum.
