Hi! Lee Ping here. Don't get that confused with Li Ping, my older brother. We're nothing alike - or at least we used to be nothing alike until he sort of switched sides. Anyways... after beating the most powerful company ever, we found out that one of the bad guys is trapped inside the pyramid, and we still haven't quite figured out a way to get him out. Why get him out, you ask? Well, one of the reasons is that - as Tina would say - we're the good guys, and good guys aren't really supposed to leave people trapped in pyramids. The other thing is that all of this has pointed to some huge stuff about the past that my pals and I had no clue about. Finnwich did, though, and though he didn't want to at first, he eventually filled us in - not entirely, though, since he was sort of interrupted. Oh, and by the way, when I said he filled "us" in, I meant myself and Kimmie - who seemed a bit shocked over Finnwich's revelations. Could she know something I don't?

Finnwich continued mulling over past events to himself as he dusted off his old belongings. Never had he thought that this was how he would once again be in his quarters of old. Indeed, he had thought it very likely he would never see the inside of this room again. Everything in it seemed pristine, as if he had left it yesterday. Even the writing on the door still shone with the same quality as it had when first engraved in its gold lettering: "Maxwell Finnwich", with a smaller "Co-Founder" underneath.

He knew, however, that this could be his only chance to get what he had come for. Unfortunately, as with many things, his memory did not serve him very well, and even this one room posed a challenge in terms of finding things. Suddenly, he exclaimed: "Aha!" There it was - the object he needed right now more than ever. He picked it up, and as with the rest of the room, once dusted off, it looked as if it were just made yesterday - or gleamed, in its case.

Lee ran, but he wasn't quite sure where. All he knew was that his mother needed to be kept safe, especially after MWF had kidnapped and cloned her. Right now, though, he knew it wasn't really safe at all here, particularly with that traitor Lynch on the loose. Surely this was the way to the main hall, he thought to himself - he had, after all, gotten off at the corresponding floor. Then he saw them. "Mom? Tina? Holger? Jenny? Lynch!?"

"You're okay," Lee said, hugging his mom. "What happened? There was a security breach and you got taken away!"

"Oh, it was nothing - your friends were trying to keep us all safe," his mom replied.

"Wait," Lee said, "that was you!?"

"Yeah," Jenny responded. "And it worked, didn't it? We caught the creep!"

Lee sighed. "Well, since everything seems to be under control now," he said, glancing at Lynch, whose expression was uncharacteristically unreadable, "let's find Biffy and get back to the sub. It's time to go home."

Biffy ran too, but he had a bit more certainty in his direction than Lee had had. He came to the spot where he had last seen his parents - the spot where he and Holger had inadvertently broken Cassandra's supersuit. He had seen them go through a passage, one that had previously been blocked off for security. Now that security seemed disabled, though, and he went through it. At the end of the passage was a door, seemingly of the kind that led to a laboratory. He tried the doorknob, but it was locked. Then he heard a voice: "Who is it?" It was his mom's voice!

"It's me, Biffy!"

"Biffy? What are you doing here?"

The door opened, revealing his parents and a spacious scientific room. "Well, I wanted to ask you the same thing, but..."

"Oh, we're just working on a newer prototype for the company," his mom began to reply; then his dad interjected: "but it's all top secret, so they sent us here."

"Oh, well," Biffy began sheepishly, "you don't know that the company's been... well... taken over?"

"Taken over? By whom?", his dad asked.

"You didn't hear it? Or did the music not affect you guys either? Wait... do you even have intercom here?", Biffy continued, realizing that this was likely a closed-off area.

"No, not at all," his dad said, "we are working without distractions here - highest priority."

"Oh, well," Biffy said again, and then sighed. "It's a bit of a long story..."

Kimmie had been content to merely observe - but what Finnwich had said had shocked her. She knew quite well, of course, who the founders of the company were, and even a bit of their history - but nothing about the pyramid, nor of the Ping family's ancestral involvement with the company. Neither of things were what bothered her now, though. Something just didn't add up, and she knew that there was only one person who she knew could give her the answers she needed.

Kimmie grabbed one of the crystallizers that was still lying around the room. She noticed that, conveniently enough, the screen had not come back on after the lockdown had ended. Perfect, she thought - privacy was just what she needed now. She set the weapon to decrystallize mode and aimed at her target - but very precisely, as she knew she needed to be now - and fired. "Kimberly," a voice then said, almost hissing, "you betrayed me. How could you?"

"Mom, I don't have time for this right now. You know I needed to help my friends. Look, what I need to know now is: what have you been hiding from me?"