After half an hour, Koni glanced behind them. "I....think....I think we've lost him....guys..." she said, breathing heavily. The Trio stopped to catch their breaths. "We need to find a place to hide," Emmy said after a minute. The others nodded, glancing around. "This way," LeAnn whispered. "And keep your voices low. I know of an excellent place where we can hide from his Glitterness and create a little chaos as well," she said, motioning for her companions to follow her.
LeAnn led the Trio to a wall and, running her hand along it until she found what she was looking for, opened up a small goblin-sized door. She then waited for Emmy and Koni to crawl inside before she slipped in herself, closing the door behind her. Emmy held her camera at the ready as they all sat in the small space. "This," LeAnn whispered, "is the security room. We can monitor movement in the entire castle from here, as well as control quite a few things. We can work on phase three of Operation CD Liberation in here."
"Operation CD Liberation? Is that what you're calling it now? Can we have badges?" Koni asked, keeping her voice low. "If we survive this," LeAnn whispered back. "Yay!" Koni whisper-squealed. "You said phase three. What were phases one and two?" Emmy asked. "Phase one was find his Glitterness. Phase 2 was run. Phase 3 is, of course, find a way to rescue the CD," LeAnn answered. "Now, as I said, we can control a lot of stuff from here and cause quite a bit of chaos, as well as monitor the goings on of the entire castle."
"So how'd you know this was here?" Emmy asked. "Yeah," Koni said. "This is really cool." LeAnn shrugged. "Norma, Mel, Sara, and I found it during the Villian's Ball last year. There were vamps all over the place, and half the list was half-vampireized, and there were lots of little vampiric pouches running around." She paused, and Koni and Emmy shuddered at the thought of little vampiric goblin pouches. It wasn't a pleasant thought at all.
"Anyway," LeAnn continued, "we discovered that we could control stuff and sit back and watch the chaos. So we set off the sprinklers all over the castle makeing sure they spewed holy water. The vamps got real pissed and I almost got turned into a vamp's happy meal, but after the chaos we caused it was well worth it. So, I thought we could use my knowledge of how this little room works to our advantage in rescuing the CD."
"I think I know where you're going with this," Emmy said. "Let me guess. One of us stays here, one of us rescues the CD, and one of us distracts His Glitterness?" she asked. LeAnn nodded. "We'll need walkie-talkies or something so we can stay in sync and warn eachother if Jareth's going to be around," Koni said. "That's no problem," LeAnn said and, with a wave of her hand, produce a set of three-way radios. "These should work. Now, since I know how this place works, I'll stay here. Emmy, it's your CD, so you go after it. Koni, you distract Tights."
"Oh, and Emmy? While you're in Tights' room, take a look around for some multi-colored socks. Riddler's lost about six pairs, and I promised I'd retrieve them for him," LeAnn said. Emmy nodded and grabbed a radio. Koni did the same. LeAnn glanced at the screens. "Alright. His Glitterness is looking for us in the throneroom, so Koni, you head there, and take some dungbombs and wet-start firecrackers with you. Looks like you can make a straight break for his chambers," LeAnn said, grinning. With that, her friends darted out of the control room.
Phase three of Operation CD Liberation was in effect.