Lee would recognize that voice practically anywhere - it was his best bud since childhood, Camilio, or Cam for short. Right now, though, that vocal familiarity didn't matter, as Cam's face had suddenly appeared up close on the monitor that was their link to the school from Coral Grove. He looked quite distressed as Lee asked: "Cam... what is it?"

"Dude, you are not gonna believe this... the pyramid is talking!"

Lee raised an eyebrow. "Dude, you okay? Did Holger rub off on you or something?"

"Hey! Holger now have superpowers - he could easily tell if the pyramid really was talking or not!", chimed in Lee's other longtime friend.

"Again with the superpowers? Ugh...", said a girl in a snarky voice. Jenny had been part of the Outcasts clique at school until Lee's adventures - and her deep involvement in them - had swept her away from the others in the clique and earned her her rightful spot in Lee's ragtag gang.

"You no question Holger's superpowers now, okay?", Holger responded with his now-trademark disapproval of having his claim of unusual abilities questioned.

"Well, he did know about the missing principal, and about the Serpent's background...", Lee started to say, before a cough emanating from the monitor turned their collective attention back to it - or rather Cam in this case.

"Uh, yeah... anyways, are you sure Cam?"

"Positive, bro. Tell him, Brandy!", Cam responded with a trace of irritation.

"Yeah, well, it's not really the pyramid I think, more like someone - or something - inside it.", the girl next to Cam responded - and with more than a mere trace of annoyance in her case, but then that was quite normal for her. After all, she had aspired to not just be part of the Glamazons, but actually lead them - until unfortunate circumstances caused her bid for leadership to actually get her ejected from the coveted group.

"What!? But nobody opened it - nobody released any of those...", Lee said, thinking back to what the lizard monster, now crystalized in the same room as them, had been trying to do.

"I know man, it's mucho, mucho weird."

"Cam, Brandy, can you get close to the pyramid and try to figure out what - uh - 'it' is saying?"

"Sure thing, bro." Cam's irritation seemed to have evaporated, and his trademark smoothness returned. "Bro... it gets even weirder."

"Don't tell me... I've had just about enough weirdness for, like, a decade, thank you very much. Okay - what is it?"

"Man if Holger was here he'd totally be like... 'Dun dun dun dun...'"

"But Holger is here!", Holger exclaimed in a surprised tone of voice.

"No, I meant like... never mind."

"Ugh, come on, what is it?" Lee asked impatiently.

"It's this guy! He's got this weird, whiny voice and..." "No... it can't be..."

"You should open it!" "Oh, I wasn't asking." "Come on kid, stop trying to stall!" Lee suddenly had vivid flashbacks of the council member in question; specifically, his own interactions with the person, which had not been exactly favourable. However, Lee did feel sorry for him after what he had seen happen when the man took his pursuit of knowledge (and likely the gains from it) a bit too far...

Lee snapped back to the present, still speaking his thoughts aloud: "Didn't he like... well..." His eyes widened in shock. "No way! How is that even possible? How could he have..."

"I don't know bro, but we can't quite hear what he's saying, right Brandy?" The girl nodded.

"Can you get any closer? It's kind of important..."

"Okay, man, we'll try, but..." Lee watched on the screen as Cam and Brandy got close to the presumed location of the speech as they tried to listen to it - and a bit closer to each other than strictly necessary, Lee thought to himself, though who could blame them? After all, Cam and Brandy had just had their first kiss quite recently, and now after their own defeat of the company's operatives at the school had celebrated with an even more passionate one. Suddenly, Cam yelled into the apparatus: "Dude, sounds like he's asking for help - he's asking to let him out!"