"Whoa, man, I can make all four stones spin at the same time!" Lee had suddenly remembered what Zed of the Skaters had said a while back.
"Guys, the Skaters were playing with some of the stones from the pyramid, remember? They must not have put them back! Just gotta remember now... oh yeah, they were over there!", Lee shouted as he ran to the location he had indicated.
There they were... four stones from the pyramid, just as Zed had said. "Okay, we need to use the cipher to match these up and finish building the pyramid.", Lee said.
"Wait... but where do we put them?", Jenny asked.
"We'll need to take turns using the cipher. First, let's get the numbers off the stones. Then we can use the cipher to find the spots on the pyramid where these stones are missing from," Lee responded.
"Sounds like a plan! Let's do this!", Biffy exclaimed.
It took them some time, but they finally found the places where the stones were supposed to go, and fit them in.
"Okay," Lee said. "Are you ready to do it again?", he asked his brother.
"Let's go," Li responded.
They walked up to the pyramid entrance and places the keys in the keyholes, just as before. "Okay... now! Turn the key!", Lee yelled again.
"Manifestum! No!", a voice suddenly cried out, but slightly too late: the keys had already been turned. The pyramid emitted a bright light, and the Ping brothers felt a sharp pain where their marks were located - or rather, were previously located, as Li looked at his arm and realized the mark was no longer there. For his part, Lee guessed the same had happened to his mark, although he could not exactly see whether that was the case through his tattoo.
Lee turned towards the source of the latest yell in the room. "Finnwich," he breathed, but he had little time to dwell on the wizard's return: the pyramid was opening! Inside the pyramid, Lee saw the council member who had requested rescue slowly appear as the entrance opened wider and wider. "Are you okay?", Lee asked.
"Oh, I'm quite a bit better than okay... but I suppose I should thank you lot for opening it. You see, while I was in here, I made some new friends..." It was then that Lee saw them. The same species of giant lizard monster - there were many more of them!
"No!", Lee yelled.
"Manifestum, what have you done?", Finnwich exclaimed.
"No," Lee repeated quietly.
"Ah, but I think yes," the council member said. "Round 'em up, boys! I think it's time for a little managerial change, don't you agree?" He laughed at his little joke as the monsters came out of the pyramid and began to surround the group of people. Just after they had all exited the structure, Lee watched as the entrance shut once more, seemingly of its own accord. Was it because the pyramid knew none of the creatures were inside any longer?
"Oh, and I think we'll be taking these, yes?" The council member reached out to take the keys to the pyramid. He first grabbed the one Li was holding, and then turned to his brother.
"Don't give it to him, Lee!" Lee was surprised to hear Tina, of all the people in their group, yell this. Jenny seemed to support her in this ambition: "Yeah! Get your grubby paws off it, buster! It's ours!" He knew, however, that the safety of their group could quite possibly depend on him handing over the key.
Suddenly, smoke and rays of light filled the air: Finnwich was battling the monsters with his magic! "No!", Lee yelled, as he saw the wizard get caught and taken to their group.
"Looks like your little escape plan has failed - or should I say, been foiled," the council member said, laughing again.
That was when the real chaos started. "ATTACK!", a voice somehow familiar to Lee yelled from somewhere behind him, and he turned to see a huge number of robots of various types - but all recognizable as types Lee had seen before - charged at the monsters. Crystallizer rays flew seemingly everywhere, and Finnwich managed to free himself as the lizard creatures were distracted by these new arrivals. Joining the fray, Finnwich shot magical rays of light seemingly every which way.
Their little group scattered as the monsters attacked them. While he seemed to spot most of them managing to get away from the heated action safely, Finnwich seemed to have disappeared. Lee saw something shiny on the floor - it was one of the keys! Where was the other one?
Out of the corner of his eye, Lee thought he saw some employees he recognized from Coral Grove! Could it be? Just as he had spotted the leader of the group, a massive explosion rocked the room. Someone had thrown exploding Green Apple Splat gas right in the middle of the fight. It seemed to have little effect on the fighting monsters and robots, but Lee was not nearly as unaffected. Cassandra... helping us... it can't be... Lee blacked out.