"She... she didn't get out..." Kimmie was the first to say anything after the shock of seeing the entire underwater structure disintegrate right before their eyes - and nothing come out of it.
"No... that can't be...", Lee said, his eyes wide in shock.
"Of course not!" Biffy tried to assuage their fears. "They must have escaped on another sub... out the back! Yeah! That's it! They escaped from the other side... so that's why we didn't see it!"
Then Jenny had an idea. "Wait... you guys have been around here, haven't you? Where would this place have a second sub?"
"Don't look at us...", Mr. Goldstein said. "We don't know anything about this place, really. They just brought us here for our work."
Everyone had turned to look at Li. After a long silence, he said: "Well, I've been around here and I've never seen another submarine. In fact, I'm not quite sure why you all thought there should have been another..."
Everyone gasped as Kimmie lunged at him. "You... it's... all... your... fault!" They weren't sure whether to be more shocked at the fact that she was repeatedly punching him - although her punches had scarce more impact than those she had delivered when Li had attacked her mom not long ago - or that she was crying, something that none of them could recall ever having seen before. "You... wanted... her... dead!"
"Wait! Stop!" Biffy tried to stop the confrontation. "Look, we don't know what happened. If those robots were unfreezing people, there probably was some sort of escape plan. Don't assume the worst!", he continued, trying to comfort Kimmie, who had now stopped attacking Li and simply looked empty.
Then Kimmie said, wiping away her tears: "Wait, maybe you're right. Barrage's command included 'rescue forces', after all..."
"Barrage's command!? What?", Biffy said, startled at this revelation.
"Ugh... you are so... insensitive! Jerks, that's what all of you are! All you want is information, information, information!", Kimmie said, looking ready to cry again, although some of her former haughtiness had now returned.
"No... Kimmie...", Lee began, but then turned to his brother with a realization: "You just got on here with us knowing that? You just abandoned everyone else knowing that? Just whose side are you really on!?" Lee's voice rose as he became suspicious of his brother once more.
"No.", Li said simply, then elaborated. "First, we didn't have enough time to get everyone here. Second, even if we did... there's no way all of us could fit in here with all this cargo, and there definitely wasn't enough time to get it out. Third - are you forgetting they were trying to crystallize us!?"
"Well, I suppose..." Lee trailed off. He was now more unsure of what to do - what to say - than ever. "Look, Kimmie, I'm not sure how to say this but... you're right. We do need information. We need information to stop something like that from ever happening again."
Kimmie sighed deeply. "Fine. When my mom" - here she sniffled briefly - "finished telling me the story about the pyramid, Barrage suddenly appeared on the screen. He said - but not in his normal voice, it sounded like he was under mind control or something - that the place was going to explode, and that emergency rescue forces had been activated. Wait... of course!", Kimmie said, suddenly realizing something. "It was my mom... she must have added that to his instruction when she sent that message to shut him down... when she was talking to our other principal on her phone." Kimmie paused, then continued. "As for the pyramid, well... as far as I can tell, you just replace the eclipse with two marks from the pyramid or something like that."
Li chose to chime in at what was quite possibly the most inopportune moment to say something like this. "You're a lot smarter than I thought."
Kimmie glared at him, but it was Jenny's turn to attack him - verbally, though, in her case: "You know... you really are an insensitive jerk. I can't believe we almost dated!"
"Jenny, now really isn't the time...", Lee said through gritted teeth.
Biffy, however, wasn't on the same page. "Whoa, hold the phone: you guys almost dated!?"