One Night - Night at the Museum

Fourteen: Too Late?

SMASH! Their plane flew right through the castle's stained-glass window. They were right on time.

The plane landed and skidded across the floor. Larry was sent flying from the wing, rolling across the ground. Since he and Nat had been holding hands she went with him.

They didn't have long to recover for the plane went crashing into a large glass case.

Amelia! They stumbled to their feet and moved to check if she was alright.

"STOP!" roared Kahmunrah from behind them. "Stop right there, Mr. Daley, Miss Bentley." They two stopped, but not before they saw Amelia peek her head around the wing to give them a signal that she was okay.

Kahmunrah approached, the hourglass with Jed still inside in his hand. The poor cowboy was nearly drowning in sand by now, just his head with his hat peeking out. "Well, well, well, you certainly know how to make an entrance. Let us hope for your little friend's sake here that you also figured out the combination."

"Give me Jed-" Larry reached for the hourglass, but Kahmunrah snatched it away.

"Oh, no, no, no. First you give me the combination. And hand over that tablet." He reached for it.

This time it was Larry who snatched the sought-after item away. "I'll give you the tablet and the combination when you release our friends."

"And I will release what I want to release, when I want to release it."

"Great, and I'll release what I want to release when I want to release it," Larry shot back.

"Give me the combination and the tablet right now, or I shall kill all of your friends, starting with your shaggy-headed little cowboy here."

"I ain't shaggy-headed!" hollered Jed. "Gigantor let me take this guy!"

"Don't worry Jed, I've got this handled. You don't want to release my friends, fine, then you don't get the combination or the tablet."

"Do you know, Mr. Daley, what they called me? They called me Kahmunrah the Bloodthirsty, who kills whoever doesn't give him whatever he wants when he wants it, which is right now, when I had also better get the combination and the tablet!"

"That's what they called you?" He looked to Nat for confirmation, who nodded.

"It was shorter in Egyptian."

"Great, well I'll give you the combination and the tablet when you give me Jed-" Larry reached for the hourglass, only to have it snatched away yet again.

"How dare you!"

They proceeded to have an argument about who should give over what they owe first, Larry really angering Kahmunrah by continually trying to reach for the hourglass. By the end, Kahmunrah was practically roaring.

"If you do that again, I shall kill all of your friends! And on second thought, I'll start with your fair-haired little girlfriend here-" He seized Nat's arm in an iron grip, causing her to grit her teeth.

"Get off me-" She squirmed as he dragged her away from Larry and to his side.

"Now, tell me the combination."

There was a tense silence. Larry and Nat met eyes. He looked conflicted. She shook her head. Don't give it to him!

The silence was broken moments later by a call of, "We already got the combination!" The group turned to see Capone, Ivan, Napoleon, and their guards marching into the room, Capone holding one of the Einstein bobble-heads by the hair. "It's pi! 3.14159265." He tossed the Einstein up in the air and caught him again. "Little Crazy Hair here, he sang, oh did he sing! Like a canary!"