What is it with me and stories like this? Anyways, this idea sort of gripped me and wouldn't let go. It's really a side project, so updates aren't likely to appear on a consistent basis.

A team isn't a team until they've had to save Deadlox from the squids together. Sky looked over his friends as they raced towards the ocean, water breathing potions in hand and swords strapped to their sides. They had no armor, to keep them from being weighed down when returning to the surface. "Okay, everybody know the plan?" A chorus of "Yes!" responded to Sky, with one "No!" coming a second later. Not slowing pace, everybody turned to glare at Jerome, who smiled sheepishly. Sky sighed, rolling his eyes. "One more time then. Ty's being kept not too far from shore, so we dive in, fight off the squids guarding him, and go back to the surface. I've done this a million times, shouldn't take more than half an hour."

With that, they reached the ocean. Quickly guzzling down the potion, they all leaped into the surf. Sky jumped the farthest, and he plunged right into water deep enough to swim in. He smirked to himself at the thought of his teammates landing to close to shore and having to awkwardly wade deeper before they could swim. Husky was ahead of the group quickly, Sky following behind with powerful strokes pulling him deeper into the water.

Before long, they reached a small underwater structure. It was practically abandoned, save for a few bored-looking squid guards who were easily chased away. The squids captured Ty a lot, but they never seemed to put much effort into making sure they kept him. This was a lot lighter security than Sky expected though, and it made him uneasy. It was almost as if they wanted Vision Squad to get Ty back…

Nah. What reason would the squids have to do that? It made no sense. A minute later, he came across an air filled cell with Ty locked inside. He was filing his nails, looking up briefly when Sky approached. "You know, you could have broken free without me." Sky said, gesturing to the nail file Ty was holding.

"That trick only works in the movies. Besides, the door is unlocked; I just needed a water breathing potion, and I knew you would bring one." Ty said with a casual smirk, acting like he was relaxing at home rather than in an underwater cell. Snorting, Sky tossed a spare potion to Ty, who guzzled it down and pushed open the door.

After getting everybody back together, which took longer than the whole rescuing Ty portion of the mission, they all swam back up to the surface. Sky's head popped out of the surf just as his potion ran out, and he waded to the shore. He was soaked, his dripping wet clothes clinging to him. Everybody else was dealing with the same problem, except for Barney, who was the only one with no clothes or hair to get wet. Ross tried to fluff out his fur to dry it. "Sometimes I miss being a narwhal." he muttered as he squeezed water out of his tail.

"Ty, have you been looking away this whole time?" Jason asked. Ty turned his head to the astronaut. His visible eye was looking up and to the right, not moving from its position when Ty turned towards Jason.

"What are you talking about? I'm looking right at you." Ty frowned, tilting his head slightly.

"Very funny Ty."

"No, I'm serious." Overhearing, Sky pushed his way past Jason.

"Here, how many fingers am I holding up?" Sky asked, carefully watching Ty's eyes.

"Two, if you don't count the thumb." Ty was right, and his eyes hadn't flickered towards Sky's hand for a fraction of a second. There was no way Ty could have guessed that. But how could he be looking? It was impossible. Unless…

"Ty? Could I move your hair to the side for a second?"

"Um, sure." Sky pushed aside the curtain of hair on Ty's face, revealing his left eye. Almost as soon as he did, Sky let go of the hair, allowing it to swing back into place as he yelped and quickly backpedaled. Ty raised an eyebrow. "Okay, I'll just look at my eyes myself." Ty walked over to the water, pulling his hair out of his face and looking down at his reflection. He froze, before spinning around to face the rest of Vision Squad.

His hair was still pulled back, and his eyes were wide, revealing that they were now facing two different directions. Everybody stepped back a little bit, staring at Ty with a mixture of horror and curiosity. "How… how did this happen?" Sky asked, flinching a little when Ty turned to look at him with those derpy eyes.

"I don't know," Ty said, pulling his hair back onto his face in an subconscious attempt to hide. "The squids injected something into me before you came to rescue me, but nothing happened until now, so I thought that it didn't work."

Sky took a few deep breaths to calm himself before approaching Ty and gently putting a hand on his shoulder. "Well, there's no need to panic yet. Maybe this all temporary. It probably doesn't mean anything significant."

Ross flicked his tail, stepping forwards to comfort Ty. "Yeah, look at me! I've got derpy eyes too, and I'm doing fine! You've got nothing to worry about." Sky really doubted that Ross was completely right. Ross's eyes faced opposite directions, and Ty's eyes pointed up and to the right, and up and to the left, a form of derpiness Sky had only ever seen on one species in Minecraft. Despite this, everybody was nodding their heads in agreement. Maybe Sky should stop worrying about it.

"Well, c'mon, we've got to be headed back to base." Sky said. He started walking, and the rest of Vision Squad trailed behind, chattering and trying not to mention Ty's eyes. Sky looked ahead into the sun, which was hanging low in his namesake, about to set. Ty would be fine, right? Yeah. His eyes should go back to normal in a few days, no longer than a week, and before long everybody would forget about it.

Oh, how wrong he was.