Sup guys, Kimmie here. Surprised to see me instead of Lee? Well, I would be too - except that I just found out I'm smack-dab in the middle of this huge conspiracy. See, my great-grandmother Elizabeth Mann helped found Mann, Wurst, and Finnwich, the company that basically owns the world. My mom Cassandra runs it these days, or rather she did until very recently, when Lee and his friends stopped her world domination plans - with a bit of help from me. Now, though, my mom told me a huge secret about our past. Apparently, there was this kid at our school many years ago who somehow figured out a way to open the pyramid without needing an eclipse - and apparently, trying this out involved me and my mom. This is all so weird... I really miss the good old days when I could just enjoy being a Glamazon, cream of the crop in high school social terms - oh and teasing Biffy, of course. Wait... don't tell him I said that! Ever!
Kimmie couldn't believe it. All her life she had remembered a flash and searing pain from some early experience that she just couldn't explain - until now. It all made so much sense now! "But wait...", she asked her mom, "why did it fail to open it then? Was the method wrong then?"
"No, the method was not wrong. It was all..." Cassandra's response was cut short as the monitor suddenly came to life - metaphorically speaking, of course. Kimmie was shocked. It was Barrage!
"Message received. Remote signal sent. Coral Grove self-destruct override activated with t minus 5 minutes. Emergency rescue forces deployed."
Realizing something was amiss, Kimmie had got up from where she had been sitting while talking to her mother and had slowly backed away towards the stairs. This was a very good thing for her, for at that precise moment, several robots stormed in from the elevator. How was it possible?, Kimmie thought. They had defeated all of them! She had no time to ponder on this further, however, as while one of the robots was busy freeing her mother from the crystal, and another seemed to be aiming a crystallizer somewhere else, though Kimmie didn't notice where, yet another one of them had just fired crystal at her! She had only just barely dodged the ray and entered the stairwell when the opening to it closed and locked, just as it had not long before - and she thought she heard her mother yell loudly on the other side, "YOU INCOMPETENT!"
She ran as fast as she could, knowing that she had to inform the others before it was too late. However, the building was extremely high, and though the control room certainly wasn't on the highest floor (indeed, it seemed to be somewhere below ground floor, something Kimmie would have considered strange had she actually had time to evaluate it given the circumstances), it wasn't on the lowest either - and her high heels certainly didn't help. Kimmie quickly found herself out of breath, but she finally managed to reach the floor where she was headed - the same floor on which her mother had played the hypnotizing music and betrayed the Serpent. When she finally got to the control room where they had been, however, she thought it was empty at first. Then she spotted someone partly in crystal. "Where... did... they... go...?", Kimmie asked, in between taking deep breaths.
"Yeah, like I'm just going to tell you. You're with them, aren't you?"
"Whatever - I'll find them myself." Kimmie ran out into the main hallway - and there she spotted them. "Guys, we need to go now!" She saw the looks of shock on their faces, and heard Biffy ask something, but didn't pay much attention to it: "I'll explain on the sub! Just go!"