Author Note: Soooooooo I did one more chapter in the submarine, I only had one thing I had to throw in while they were underwater though so this chapter is just... badly written :/ I apologize now for that xD.

I also apologize for not updating for a few days. Been busy/ not really working on this anyway lol...

Don't own anything

6am. Somewhere in the ocean.

I threw myself up. Gasping for air after the horrible dream. I shook my head, trying to rid myself of the memory of the hall maze and the man, mostly the sinking floor though.

I rubbed my head and sighed, blinking my eyes a few times before I realized where I was. We were still under water in the sub. The lights were dimmed in the sleeping cabin still and the clock above the door frame flashed 6:25 am. I moaned at the early hour but stood up anyway.

I passed a glance over at the bed I had fallen asleep on the ground next to. Where the person I had been trying to save in my dream had been sleeping. Noodle was no longer in the bed. The blankets were twisted together and thrown towards the wall. She must have just recently woken up.

I stretched out, popping my sore back. The floor had been hard and cold. Leaving me in slight pain now. I was extremely tempted to crawl into the bed and fall back asleep, but after that nightmare I didn't want to risk the chance of falling back into a similar dream.

I also really wanted to stop dreaming about Noodle. This was the second time I woke up after a dream with her in it and felt really weird. It was really beginning to get on my nerves, I couldn't think of or look at Noodle without feeling bad about it or getting that weird feeling in the pit of my stomach.

I glanced around the dim lit room then opened the hatch and entered the front of the sub. The radio was on a CD, our own. I had walked in at the very end of On Melancholy Hill and Murdoc and Noodle were sitting in the seats. Murdoc had a thoughtful look on his face, with his fingers curled under his chin. Noodle had a shocked look on her face.

They both looked back as me as I neared them. Murdoc looked at me then smirked evilly. Noodle's face was blank and expectant as she looked up at me. She was still wearing my sweater but had changed back into jeans and a t-shirt.

"Mornin' face ache. I was just giving Noodle an… explanation.. of On Melancholy Hill." Murdoc cocked his eyebrow in a knowing way, looking at Noodle with a smirk.

"Tha one I can't 'member wha it was bout'?" I said, blankly

Murdoc laughed lightly but still sounded evil. "Yeah, that one." He looked at Noodle again. She glanced down, face tinting red slightly.

I frowned. "Wha's goin on?"

Again with the laughing from Murdoc, this time Noodle completely turned around in her chair. My heart dropped to my stomach and my eyebrows creased into a worried line. I was sure my eyes were white now.

"Nothing 2D." Noodle mumbled, not looking at me.

I grabbed my arm behind my back, looking away too. "Okay."

"What are you doing up so early 2D. You only slept for three hours." Murdoc said.

"Had a nightmare." I said.

Noodle span back around in the chair, "What about?"

She kept spinning slightly till she was facing the front again, then turned slower so she was facing me again. Resting her head on her hand as she looked at me. Her arm completely lost inside my jacket sleeve.

"Well, I was lost inside tha sub but it was twenty times bigger in the back and it was a huge maze of hallways that had a ton a trap doors that if ya stepped on em' they'd drop you inta tha ocean." I said, leaving out the part of the crazy shadow man and saving Noodle.

"Whoa. What made you dream about that?" She asked, confusion twisting her features.

"I dun know." I said.

"Well did you at least sleep… comfortably?" She waved her hand out, trying to find the right words.

"Not really." I laughed.

She stood up and walked passed me, grabbing my arm to drag me back into the back. I stumbled backwards before turning around to follow her. She directed me to the bed and shoved me down on it. I fell back with a 'thunk' that made the bed squeak. I looked up at her in shock.

"You need sleep." Her voice was strict.

"I don't wanna have anotha nightmare tho."

"Just try, 2D." She moaned, "I know you, and you get really out of it when your tired. Just sleep for a while, please."

I frowned, "I'll try." I looked down before actually laying down on the bed.

"Thank you." Noodle sighed, then left the room, closing the hatch behind her.

I laid down and stared at the ceiling. Although the bed was much more comfortable then the hard cold floor I really didn't want to go to sleep and I wasn't sure I could. I turned myself on the bed so I could reach for the ground and try to find my iPad which I had placed next to the bed the night before.

When I couldn't find it with my hands I sat up and looked down to see if it had slid further away during the night. But as I looked around the entire room I realized it wasn't in there.

"Where'd it go?" I scratched my head. Upset that I couldn't find it.

I sighed and fell back onto the bed again. I shut my eyes hoping that I would actually be able to fall asleep. I was tired, but the idea of dreaming again was horrible.

Despite the thought. I slowly drifted back asleep, but not before realizing that there was a reason Murdoc had been snickering so much when I saw him and Noodle. Just what it was though, I would have to find out myself.

11am somewhere in the ocean

I woke up this time to yelling and loud laughing. Then the hatch swung open and admitted a bright light. Making my eyes burn at the sudden change from dark to light. Noodle's silhouette was lost in the light as she shouted my name reputedly.

"2D! 2D wake up!"

I forced myself to sit up, rubbing the sleep from my eyes and looking at her shocked. "I'm up, wha's goin on?"

She swung herself around the door and grabbed my arm, pulling me up and out into the cock pit. I stumbled and nearly fell as she did so, falling over stairs and the doorway. When we got out Murdoc nearly fell out of his chair with laughter.

"What?" I yelled.

Noodle pointed out the huge windows, in the distance there was a gray dot.

"Wha's that?" I asked.

Then the dot turned, my jaw dropped and I backed away. "Wh-wh-wha-whale.. WHALE!" I screamed, then threw myself backwards, hitting the ground and immediately curling into a ball in fear.

Murdoc's laughter grew, "I… I think.. I think that could be the… the whale… I bribed.. To watch ya!" His words were broken up by laughter.

"No! That blasted whale!" I yelled.

"What?" Noodle said, a blank look on her face.

"I hate whales! There too big! Way… too.. Big…" I laced my arms behind my neck and tucked my head down.

"Your afraid of whales?" Noodle said.

"He has cetaphobia." Murdoc laughed.

"What?" Both Noodle and I said.

"Fear of whales." He finally fell off his chair, hitting the ground with from-the-gut laughter.

"Then yes! I have that ceta.. Cetapho.. phobia." I snapped.

"I didn't know that." Noodle said quietly, "Murdoc told me to go get you and show you the whale."

I glared over at Murdoc. "He knows I hate whales."

Noodle glared at him too, "You could have told me that!" She snapped.

"I wanted to see what he'd do." He continued to laugh loudly.

I screamed, realizing the whale had gotten closer. "Get that beast away from me!"

Noodle looked out the windows, noticing that the whale wasn't too far anymore. "That is pretty big." She mumbled.

"It's goin at eat me blud." I said, quivering in my spot.

"No it won't. It can't get us in here." Noodle said.

"We could always throw 2D out to sea, let that whale get a good hunk of him." Murdoc said.

"NO!" I yelled.

"Don't Murdoc, you've already got him shaking on the ground." Noodle sounded mad.

"Let's make it worse." Murdoc said, I heard him stand up and his footsteps coming towards me. Then he picked me up under my arms, once I was standing he twisted them behind my back so I couldn't move away.

"Lemme go!" I screamed.

"Murdoc! Leave him alone!" Noodle snapped, but didn't make any move to help me. What was stopping her this time?

I squirmed, trying to get away but he only twisted my arms more. Making me yelp in pain, then he shoved me against the glass of the sub. The whale was close enough to us now for my legs to buckle under me in fear. I stared at the whale, my eyes wide. I could see in the reflection on the window that they were white.

"Murdoc! Stop tormenting him!" Noodle snapped, I was too focused on the hundred ton creature in front of me to realize that she had grabbed my arm and was pulling me away from the glass. All I could see was the whale.

"What kind of whale is that Murdoc! It's huge!" Noodle yelled.

"Blue whale. 120 tons." I could hear the smirk in his voice. But I couldn't peel my eyes off the glass.

A sigh escaped Noodle from behind me. I could see her kneel down next to me in my peripheral vision. Then she put her hand on my shoulder, shaking me slightly.

"2D. Snap out of it. It's not going to hurt you." She said.

I just shook my head in a dazed matter, "Get rid of it."

"I can't! 2D stop shaking! There's glass between you and it!"

"That never stopped him from being scared before!" Murdoc said with a laugh.

I was pretty sure she was glaring at Murdoc now, but I still couldn't look away. The whale was passing by the sub now. Too close for comfort even for those crazy sods who loved whales. I was waiting for it to hit the sub and kill us all.

Noodle slipped around me, sitting in my line of view. I blinked finally and shook my head out.

"There. Now just look at me, don't look behind me until I say you can okay?" She said.

I nodded.

"I don't get why you find those things so scary. There just big fish." Noodle said.

"Exactly." I murmured.

Noodle twisted her head to the side in confusion. "Okay then."

It took forever for the whale to pass but eventually it did. Allowing me to relax and turn away from Noodle. Staring at her like that had been awkward. The weird feeling stirring violently in my gut.

"There. Is everything okay now?" She said.

I nodded quietly.

She stood up, holding her hand out to me to help me up. I shook my head and stood up on my own. Rubbing my arm behind my back.

Murdoc had stopped laughing and was back to driving the sub. Yet he still had a smirk on his face. "That was great." He said.

"No it wasn't!" Noodle snapped, "I'd beat you right now if you weren't driving the sub."

"Of course you wouldn't find amusement in scaring that dullard." He said.

She shot him a glare. "Shut it Murdoc. I'm sure I could find a way to wake up that robot copy of me to drive."

I just watched them with a blank look on my face. I could tell I was missing something. I had no doubt in my mind that they had been talking about me while I was forced to sleep more

Murdoc went quiet and Noodle came over by me where I was seated on the floor. She looked at me worriedly. Then her eyes lit up, remembering something and she span around and went to grab something from the chair. When she came back she was holding my iPad.

"Ya have it!" I said happily as I took it from her.

"Yeah, I was playing with it after I woke up this morning. Sorry." She said, sitting down next to me.

"Nah, tis' fine. I was jus' wonderin where it had gone." I said.

"Oh, well I had it." She laughed.

I nodded. "So wha'd I miss while I was sleepin?"

"Nothing." She said.

I nodded again, starting up a game on my iPad.

"I really hope this trip doesn't take too long. I don't know how much time I can spend down here with Murdoc." She said.

"I agree." I mumbled, not dropping the thought that Noodle and him had been talking about me.

Blah.. nothing really to say xD crappy filler chapter, sorry :P Main plot of story coming up though! :DD SOON! I promise this IS going somewhere xD

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