AN: Hi there everyone. We are close to end. Hope you like this chapter. Things are going to flare up soon.

P.S. For those who watch Splatoon Gmod Videos, do any of you find the first part of this story familiar? ;3


Chapter 7 – I Don't Deserve It

Octolings Ahoy, 4:50 am

Cadet arrived at Octoling Ahoy. Moving his front tentacle bang to the side, he looked around — the place he was in resembled Moray Towers; one Turf War stages he conquered. It was an excellent map for snipers.

"Hmm…" thought Cadet. "This should be easy."

He looked down at his spawn point.

"Great," he thought grimly. "It's nearly out of power. Not enough to revive me! Oh well. At least I know this place before."

He was on the highest building. He went towards the edge and started to aim for the zapfishes.

"Cadet," said Sheldon. "I think it would be best for you to get down there and fight."

"No thanks," said the Skull Sniper gruffly. "I prefer being far away."

"You wouldn't be able to shoot those zapfishes from here!"

Cadet ignored Sheldon. Within moments, he was able to shoot the zapfish cages far away, freeing the zapfishes. And when he couldn't reach of them, he would use his unique Sting Ray to fire at the zapfishes. He was down to one, but something was bothering him.

Cadet was aiming at the zapfish cage that was in the middle of the map when he heard something coming from his east. Without his eyes off the zapfish, he turned his charger to the east.

"Whoo-OWW!" said a female octoling (in a pop star way) as she ran towards Cadet only to be shot by him.

Cadet turned his charger to the zapfish, but he heard the noise again. He turned his charger to east.

"Yeaaaaaaaaaah-AHH!" said a male octoling.

"Yeah boiiiiiiii-OH!" said another male octoling.

"Alright baby-OOF!" said a female octoling.

Cadet groaned in frustration. He was trying to shoot the zapfish, but he was distracted by some stupid octoling soldiers as he has to keep moving his charger from left to right.

"This is going to be a looooooong day," he grumbled as another idiot soldier ran towards him.

"Yaaaaaaaaaaaaay-YEET!"


Behind the other side of the map...

The Octoling group watched as a fresh-shot group of soldiers were re-spawned at their spawn point.

Commander Fuchsia – the leader of the group – sighed in annoyance. She looked back at the map. She saw more idiot soldiers running towards Agent 4, but since they weren't using their weapons and just ran forward, they got shot.

"This is ridiculous," she thought. "I nearly got the chance to kill that inkling, but he was able to shoot me with that stupid Sting Ray. Now I have a bunch of useless rookies who are just doing nothing, but run around in their underwear and get shot."

"Commander Fuchsia," said Co-General Fury. "What should we do now?"

"Well," said Commander Fuchsia with a dark smile. "That agent is just standing there, sniping anything out. I could say that he's TOO scared to come down. If he doesn't come down, then WE will make him come down."

"And how do you propose to do?"

Commander Fuchsia grinned evilly as she got out an Inkstrike.

"This," she said.


Cadet sighed as he shot the last idiot soldier. This was getting ridiculous. The octolings were driving him CRAZY. He thought that the Octarian Army would take their mission seriously, but he never thought that they would stoop to this level.

Noticing that they weren't any more soldiers, he sighed in relief.

"Finally!" he thought. "Now I can finish this."

He was about to shoot when he saw a LARGE SHADOW LOOMING OVER HIM. And it was getting bigger.

BOOM!

Screaming, Cadet fell from the building. The world was spinning around him. He didn't know what was going on. All he knew was that he was falling. He landed in the broader building with a sickening thud. It was so painful (although no bones in both inklings and octolings). Cadet was trying to hold back tears from his fall, but his body was in pain. Fortunately, he heard a thud from behind him. It was his charger! UNFORTUNATELY, it was too far away from him.

"Well, well, well," said a familiar voice.

Cadet looked up. In front of him was a group of octolings, pointing their weapons at him. In the front was a familiar looking octoling.

Cadet gasped. It was the Octoling General he first encountered! He remembered how she put her foot on his chest. She was a reckless soldier and won't show mercy to anyone. And here she was about to finish what she started.

"Remember me?" said the Octoling General. "It was a fun time when we first met each other."

Cadet tried to move, but he wasn't able to convince himself to do so. He was too scared to move, and all he could tremble.

The Octoling General laughed in mockingly. "Aw…are you scared, baby. Don't worry." She put her finger on the trigger. "Before you know it, you will feel no more…COWARD."

At this, Cadet turned into squid form and tried to swim to his charger.

"FIRE!" screamed the Octoling General.

The octolings shot dark fuchsia ink at the small lime squid. The Skull Sniper tried to dodge the flying balls, but he was relentlessly got shot. He was covered in dark fuchsia ink, making his body ache in blazing pain. He couldn't move. He was slowing down. He felt the Octoling General's foot pressed down on him.

Cadet tried to turn back into human form, but the Octoling General was too strong. She pointed her Octo Shot in front of Cadet's eyes.

"I got to say, I am impressed that you could snipe from far away," said the Octoling General. "But you think you could play safe by just being far away? You think you could be a hero by just running away from everything? I can't believe that old Agent 2 sent a stupid kid to war…against the Octarian Army! We will rise against the Inklings, destroy their kind and have our revenge! Ha, ha, ha! I can taste it. Well, you won't be there to see your family fall. I wonder why you choose to fight…a coward who chooses to fight, who is weak and doesn't know how to fight."

She laughed. Cadet felt having tears in his eyes. He closed his eyes.

"Help me," thought Cadet as the Octoling General pressed the trigger.

BANG!

But that wasn't the Octoling General. Cadet didn't feel any pain. He opened his eyes. All he saw was the Octoling General looking around in shock. Where the octoling soldiers were supposed to be were replaced with puddles of lime ink.

"Hey," said Marie's voice.

The Octoling General looked behind in confusion…before being shot in the face. Cadet watched as her ghost flew through the air – cursing – going back to the re-spawn point. He looked at Marie. It looked like she ran out of breath. She got a zapfish flying above her.

"I…," said Marie panting. "…came…here…as soon as possible. I got the zapfish."

Cadet turned back into human form. He picked up his charger. For some reason, he heard voices in his head.

"What a coward."

"Did you see what happened to that sniper?"

"Yeah! He fell off because he was oblivious to that squid jumping to him!"

"What a coward!"

"If you are so brave, why are you trying to run away? I bet it's because you're trying to get to your mummy."

"I wonder why you choose to fight…a coward who chooses to fight, who is weak and doesn't know how to fight."

Cadet felt something. It was painful. More painful than the last splats, shots and smashes he suffered through. He kept hearing those words and he had one thing in his mind

They were right.

Marie noticed Cadet looking upset.

"Cadet?" she said. "Is everything OK…?"

She was cut off when Cadet spun around and used his charger to shoot. The long line of ink narrowly missed Marie by a millimeter.

Marie stared Cadet shocked. Before she could say why he did that, Cadet ran off back to their spawn point. Marie noticed that he was sniffing and wiping his eyes with his free arm.

Marie saw something; something was NOT right with Cadet.


As Marie came to the Boss Kettle, she saw Cadet there.

"Cadet," she said. "Is there something wrong?"

Cadet looked away, wanting to avoid the question. "It's…it's nothing."

"Well you nearly shot me with your charger," said Marie matter-of-factly. "You cried off. Better tell me."

"J…Let's just go to the boss-kettle," said Cadet.

Before Marie could say another word, Cadet turned into squid form and jumped into the kettle. Marie – without sighing – joined him.

They found themselves in a platform with many small buildings and the environment looked like a system of sewer pipes.

"There's the zapfish!" said Marie pointing to it.

"And here comes Boss 4," said Cadet as the zapfish was pulled into the ink by an octopus tentacle.

A shining light appeared from the ink. After a long dramatic entrance, the Octoweapon revealed itself; an enormous robot shaped like a clam with three Octocopters carrying it.

"It's targeting you!" said Sheldon as an aiming beam appeared on Cadet's chest. "RUN!"

At this, the Octo Shower used a charger and shot a dangerous red laser beam at them. Luckily, Cadet and Marie quickly swam away and took cover behind one of the small buildings.

"Carp," said Marie.

"Oh well," said Cadet. "Can't seem to miss."

He quickly let his charger be shown and shot a long line of ink at one of the Octocopters. The Octo Shower now had two Octocopters.

"We are not down yet!" said Marie.

Out of the blue, the Octocopter used one of its hands to reveal a box-shaped weapon.

"Is that the…" said Cadet.

"Yeah…" said Marie. "It's the Sloshing Machine…except that it's HIGH-TECH."

The Octo Shower fired its weapon, letting out huge balls of dark fuchsia ink.

"Watch out!" said Cadet as they ducked.

The Skull Sniper quickly spun around and shot, hitting another Octocopter. Now with only one Octocopter, the Octo Shower was struggling to fly in a stable condition. It's going too fast, tilting to both sides.

"There's one more!" said Sheldon. "Take it down!"

The Octo Shower started to shoot missiles at them. At Cadet, to be precise.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Cadet screamed as the force of the explosion caused him to fly in the air. He saw the edge of the platform. HE'S GOING TO FALL OVER THE PLATFORM.

Not on the level of the platform, Cadet started to descend downwards, screaming.

"GOTCHA!" said Marie quickly grabbing his left foot.

Cadet looked up seeing Marie pulling him back up on the platform.

"Don't worry," she said as she pulled him up. "I won't let you go."

As Cadet got up onto the platform, the Octo Shower came in for another attack. Thinking quickly, Cadet shot a long line of ink and it hit the Octocopter. This caused the Octo Shower to collapsed. A tentacle appeared on top of it.

"Burst it!" said Marie.

At the same time, they shot at the tentacle. It burst and let out a geyser of dark fuchsia ink before laid there inactive. It started to shake; black steam came out. Electricity and lime green lights were coming out of it. And then, it exploded.

BOOM!

Ignoring the ink covering them, Marie went up and grabbed the zapfish.


As Cadet and Marie came out from the kettle, they were able to get enough power to power up the next zipline.

"Phew," said Marie. "That was rough there. I wonder if we are close to the Great Zapfish and C…"

Suddenly, a mysterious voice started yelling through their headsets. Sure it was loud and clear, but Cadet and Marie couldn't make sense of what the voice was saying.

"Uh…" said Marie. "Are you holding the phone upside down?"

"Ugh…" said the mysterious voice. "I totally was."

For some reason, that voice sounded familiar. It seemed young, female, lively and surprisingly, it sounded like…

"CALLIE?!" screamed Marie. Could it be her?!

"Um…" said the mysterious voice. "Nope, this is DEFINITELY NOT Callie! So just…leave. It's dangerous here and it's not safe at all!"

"Um…" said Marie unconvinced. "Don't these mean the same thing?"

"WHATEVER! JUST GET OUT OF HERE! I'm not calling again!"

"W-wait! Don't go! Callie? CALLIE?!"

But there was no response. Marie stood there, shocked.

"I…I can't believe it," said Marie. "Could Callie be working with the Octarians?"

That couldn't be possible. Marie knew that Callie was Agent 2 of the New Squidbeak Splatoon. Of course, she fought the Octarians to defend her people. She never turned her back on the Inklings. It might not be her who made the call. Possibly, some fraud. But Callie has been missing and there's probably one reason why she was missing.

SHE MUST HAVE JOINED THE OCTARAINS.

With that thought in her head, Marie felt fear. Her cousin gone mad and now betrayed her.

"Cadet!" she said to him. "I need your help now more than ever!"

Cadet just stood there, silently.

"Cadet?" said Marie. "Do you hear me?"

Cadet wasn't listening. He was looking down with a blank expression.

"Earth to Cadet?" said Marie. "Can you hear me?"

Cadet wasn't listening. The whole time, he was lost in his thoughts. Right after they got out of the kettle, he remembered what Marie said back there.

"I won't let you go."

Then, he remembered what Marie said to him throughout all the missions he went through.

"Great work, Agent 4."

"I'm pretty impressed of you."

"Cadet, I want to thank you again for all the help you did so far."

And all of a sudden, Oro's voice came to him.

"If you're feeling low, you could come to me for help. I'm available when you need the time to."

Cadet remembered. He remembered all the time, Marie and Sheldon looked out for him. Even though Marie's a celebrity, Cadet started to find her more than just an idol. He saw her as a…a…a friend. He remembered what Oro said. He was willing to look out for Cadet just in case he needed. But these things were wiped out by a new batch of voices.

"What a coward."

"Did you see what happened to that sniper?"

"Yeah! He fell off because he was oblivious to that squid jumping to him!"

"What a coward!"

"If you are so brave, why are you trying to run away? I bet it's because you're trying to get to your mummy."

"I wonder why you choose to fight…a coward who chooses to fight, who is weak and doesn't know how to fight."

Cadet bit his lips. His fanged teeth were touching his lips making it hurt again. Many people still make fun of him for being a coward. Nobody would love a coward. Nobody. His father was going away — the only person he looked up too. And here Cadet was; all alone. Cadet started to see the truth; he was a coward and he would ALWAYS be one. Nobody would love a coward. Nobody. He has tried his best, but yet nobody saw the good in that. He didn't have what it took to save Inkopolis.

Marie saw tears forming in his eyes.

"Cadet?" said Marie. "Are you ok?"

"I…," said Cadet. "I…"

"You what?"

"I'm…tired. Tired of all of this. Tired of fighting…I'm…tired of going through BLOODY hell!"

Marie was shocked. "What did you say?"

"…you know what? What does it matter? It doesn't matter to you."

"So you're saying…" said Marie trying to make sense of what Cadet was saying. "…you're giving up already?"

"No," said Cadet finally riled up. "I'm tired of being an agent!"

Cadet turned around.

"But YOU'RE an agent," said Marie. "Agents don't quit!"

"I'm…not an agent. And I never will be. You even said it yourself!"

Marie's face went red. "I did? When did I ever say so?"

"You said that I was a soft kitty," snapped Cadet. "Did you?"

"…I…I did. But I didn't mean that. And by the way, that was like a million years ago."

"Cadet," said Sheldon wanting to cool down the conversation. "Marie…"

"But you're right," said Cadet grimly. "I'm not an agent and you know it. I get killed in almost every mission!"

"Well, what did you expect?" said Marie. "You think you could join in to learn a few tricks and quit at the second we're close to finishing. You know that you're still making mistakes. I do as well!"

"Well, you said that agents couldn't make mistakes," said Cadet. "And that's what every agent should be!"

"I…," Marie hesitated before finding her voice. "What makes you think that?"

"If you are so smart, why don't you tell me?" said Cadet.

"I…I don't know…"

Cadet curled up his fists. "You know what? Didn't you hear what Inklings say about each other?! 'Oh I'm so perfect. Oh, that squid isn't good'. And THAT'S what I have been through in everyday life! I've tried to do my best, but I ended up failing, letting those jerks get the best of me. Most of the people always make fun of me and I didn't do any crud to them! Oh, but that doesn't concern you? Did you expect me always to be perfect? FINE! LET IT BE THAT WAY! If you are perfect, then do it YOURSELF!"

He spun around and went off.

"Cadet," said Marie. "Don't throw it all away."

"I…I deserve it," said Cadet. "And YOU don't care. I don't have exactly what it takes."

"You've got exactly what it takes, Mr Classy," said Marie getting mad. She couldn't believe that Cadet wouldn't listen to her side of the story. "But you give up too easily! And you don't listen! You're a quitter!"

"Well what a ripper. At least I'm good at something."

Cadet started to walk away. Marie was angry as well. She didn't mean to call Cadet weak, but she didn't say that he will ALWAYS be weak. And she was accused of thinking that she was always perfect.

"You know what?" yelled Marie. "Inkopolis DOES hate you!"

That was the last thing she said before being shot in the eye.

When Cadet came back to his senses, he found himself holding his charger in the attack position. He saw Marie holding her right eye. The lime ink didn't mean to scratch her nor hurt her. But the fast force of the shot caused Marie's eye to swell. Even worse, when he shot her, she flung her charger in the air and over the edge of the platform.

"Ow…" said Marie.

Tears started to show in Marie's eyes. Cadet was shocked. What has he done? He was so angry that he let Marie knew it. But this wasn't what he wanted. Like how it happened on the surface, he wanted to smack those who hurt him. He was laughed at for being a coward. Now he already did it, but this wasn't what he wanted. He didn't want…to make people feel sad.

Cadet was speechless. His mouth went dry. He couldn't say anything. Marie glared at him. She curled up her fists. She stomped towards the zip line and before she could use it, she looked back at Cadet and said, "I wish I didn't hire you."

She went off. Cadet felt hurt inside again. This wasn't what he wanted.

"Cadet?" said Sheldon. "Are you OK?"

Cadet just screamed in agony before shooting at a random direction. He threw the charger to the ground. He felt tears coming down from his eyes and started to drench his bandanna.

He dropped to his knees and put his hands over his eyes.


Cadet used the zip line to get to the next stage. He looked around. He was in an area of futuristic floating islands above a lake of dark fuchsia ink. There was barely any daylight. It was already night time.

Cadet couldn't find Marie. She's probably in one of the missions. A pain of guilt entered his body. He wished he didn't lash out on Marie. He hoped he could say his problems softly. He wished that he could say sorry to her. But he knew that Marie won't.

"I deserve this," he thought.

Feeling tired, he decided to sleep on the hard floor for tonight. He looked up at the sky. He saw many stars in the night sky. This was the first time he ever has seen so many stars in real life.

A lot had happened. What was surprising was that he forgot to find a home and his dad was waiting for an answer. Cadet thought that his father would be worried. The Skull Sniper hasn't been seen in a day. He missed his father. The previous hours had taken up the toll and before Cadet could think of any more negative thoughts, he closed his eyes.


Deepsea Metro Facility, Ink It Station

"NOPE, NOPE, NOPE, NOPE, NOPE," said Agent 8 as she was chased by a flooder.

She came to a large wall and the flooder was coming in. She quickly inked the wall and used to swim up. When she got through the grate floor and onto the building, she found Agent 9 waiting at the goal.

"What took you so long?" he asked.

"Sorry," said 8.

They touched the goal and completed the test.

"Yes!" said Agent 8.

They went back to the station where C.Q Cumber met them.

"Congratulations for passing this test," he said. "I believe you're near the last thang."

"The last thang?!" said Agent 8 and 9 in unison.

Sure it was. On the next station, they found the last thang.

"Yes!" said Agent 8 when they arrived. "We found it!"

They looked at the thang. It seemed to resemble some bottle lid.

"It doesn't look like a prize," said Agent 9. "But at least we could get ourselves out of here."

They both picked it up and carried it to the train. As the train started to go back to the central station, Agent 8 looked at the thang.

"I can't believe it," she thought. "We've finally got the last thang. The last thing we need to be free."

Her smile turned into a frown. "Still, I feel like something horrible will happen. Also, I wonder how we were able to survive the tests. I felt like we still couldn't face them. I think that's just luck. Are my skills good? Am I strong?"

She looked at Agent 9. He was staring at the window seeing his reflection. He was looking at his eyes. The right eye was red and the left eye was purple.

"He still hates his heterochromia, does he?" thought Agent 8. "I'm worried about my brother now. He's pretty upset about how his eyes are."

Meanwhile, Agent 9 lost in his thoughts.

"Why must I have those different eyes?" he thought. "Why must I look different? It's like, when back at home; I couldn't seem to fit in properly. I've been laughed and punched. What did I do wrong that makes me look like a freak?"

The two agents were silent. They were lost in their thoughts. They were back in the present when the train stopped. Knowing what to do, they took the sealing thang and went out.

"You guys!" said Cuttlefish as they stepped out. "You found the last thang! I'm so proud of you."

Agent 8 smiled. As they put the sealing thang down, the telephone started yapping.

"WHOOMP!" said the telephone. "THERE IT IS! You have found the final thang! I am like, TOTES impressed. I was not sure you had the…ERROR…to pull it off!"

Agent 8, 9 and Cuttlefish noticed that the telephone seemed to be very excited about all the thangs found.

"Are you ready to visit the promised land?" said the telephone.

"Yes," said Agent 8. "Let's go!"

"This is it," said the telephone. "Are you…ERROR…ready to ascend to the higher plane?"

"For sure!" said Cuttlefish.

"The promised land awaits," said the telephone. "Are you ready to join something BIGGER than yourself?"

"Yes!" said Agent 9 who was already losing patience.

"Congratulations, number 10,008 and 10,009!" said the telephone. "The door to the promised land will now open!"

Something was happening to the telephone. It was sparkling out electricity and its handle was moving fast. It was making a high-pitched screech.

Agent 9 put his hands in front of Agent 8 and Cuttlefish in case something terrible was going to happen.

The telephone started to make the thangs fly. It then jumped on the sealing thang and begun to form the thangs into a large shape. The door of the way started to open. Random noises were heard from it.

"Please," said the telephone charmingly on the top of the shape. "Step right inside! Here we go! Do not be shy!"

"Wahoo!" said Cuttlefish. "Home sweet home – here we come!"

"This doesn't look safe," said Agent 8 looking at it.

"Yeah," said Agent 9 worriedly. "I'm not sure of it."

"C'mon, you two! We got no time!" said Cuttlefish grabbing the agents' hand and dragging them into the shape. He was getting impatient and he wanted to get back to Inkopolis.

"W-wait a second!" said Marina through their headsets. "Is it just me, or...uh…"

"Does that kinda look EXACTLY like a BLENDER?!" exclaimed Oro.

"WHOA! WHOA! WHOA! YEAH, HOLD UP!" said Pearl. "This just got seriously sketchy!"

"BLENDER?!" said Agent 8, 9 and Cuttlefish in unison.

It was too late. The door closed. 8, 9 and Cuttlefish felt the platform beneath them starting to rise. They appeared in the jug part.

"I KNEW IT!" screamed Agent 8. "It's a trap!"

"What?!" said Cuttlefish.

Agent 9 groaned. "All these tests and 'finding the thangs' are all for NOTHING, but DEATH ITSELF!"

"But why does that telephone want to kill us?"

"I don't know, but this isn't the time to think about it!" said Agent 9 as he started kicking the jug.

"INGREDIENT ACQUISITION COMPLETE," said the telephone as the blender started to shake, powering on. "REFORMATTING MATTER…"

"OH NO!" screamed Agent 8.

"You let us out of here, you stupid phone!" said Cuttlefish as he started banging on the jug.


Inkopolis

Pearl, Marina and Oro watched on their computer monitor as Agent 8, 9 and Cuttlefish struggled to get out – looking from the security cameras. Agent 9 was making a success of kicking the jug – making a small crack – but it wasn't enough to break free.

"Marina!" screamed Pearl in panic. "They're gonna get smoothied! YOU GOTTA DO SOMETHING!"

"I'm trying!" said Marina as she rapidly tapped on her laptop, but made no effect to stop the blender. "None of my hacks are working…I CAN'T GET IN!"

"That does it," said Oro pushing Marina aside and tapping on the laptop. "I'm going to activate the distress signal on Agent 8's CQ-80. Hopefully, someone nearby will pick it up. Cross your fingers!"


"So," said Agent 3. "Are you feeling better already?"

"I still feel unsafe without my helmet," grumbled General Jus.

"You know you have to do it. It's better than letting yourself being killed by that bloody shredder! It could've been worse."

"What else is worse than having NO safety equipment? We are in an unidentified facility. We don't know what danger is lurking around here!"

"Calm down, we are just going through a maze. Sure it's dark, but there's no danger in here for the last few minutes. We just need to know where…"

Suddenly, Agent 3's employee-model CQ-80 started to ring.

"What's this?" said Agent 3 taking it out.

She pressed the button and a hologram map. On the map, near them, was a large red dot.

"Somebody made a distress signal," said General Jus. "It must be Captain Cuttlefish!"

"And he's around here!" said Agent 3.


Agent 8 looked at her CQ-80 as it roared to life. It was making a ringing noise.

"What's going on with that?" she said.

She looked up…and screamed.

She saw the precision thang above them. It started to spin. This means one thing.

THE BLADE OF THE BLENDER!

Agent 8's mouth went dry.

If that blade lowered itself onto them, they would be cut up and smoothied to death.

And if they weren't killed by the blade, maybe they could escape through the hole Agent 9 made.

And if they were really lucky – Agent 8 figured – maybe both would happen at the same time!

At least they didn't have to suffer the most painful part that would lead them to death. The most painful part right now was waiting for it to HAPPEN.

"Oh #$%," swore Agent 9 [1]. The hole he made was pathetically small. It was not as wide as a catflap nor a chocolate chip.

"We are going to die," whimpered Agent 8.

"Yeah, I think we get the picture, thanks," said Cuttlefish gloomily as the blade started to lower slowly. "Any last words?"

"Yes," said Agent 9. "HOW CAN WE BE SO DUMB?!"

There was a loud smash from the glass ceiling. As if in slow motion, Agent 8, 9 and Cuttlefish looked around to see two inklings flying through the glass ceiling and towards the blender.

In the front was a female 18-year old inkling with dark brown skin and turquoise eyes. Her hair is styled with a one, long, wavy tentacle hanging on the right side of the face and a small one in the back. The hair is lime with dark purple tips. Her eyes are turquoise. She wears the Hero Headset, Hero Jacket and Hero Snowboots.

Behind her was a male 17-year old inkling with tan skin and red eyes. His hair is tied up in a ponytail that is lime and has crimson pink tips. He has army face paint stripes on his cheeks. He wears the same clothes as the girl.

Both of them are wearing a dark grey cape.

Agent 8 recognized those two. It's Agent 3 and General Jus!

Quickly, Agent 3 kicked the telephone off the blender, causing the blender to power down. Meanwhile, General Jus hit the blender's jug causing the entire blender to tip over. The jug smashed into many pieces but left Agent 8, 9 and Cuttlefish unharmed.

They watched – still in slow motion – as General Jus hit his head on the floor with his arms out. They looked up to see Agent 3 falling. She winked at them…before hitting the ground head-first.

THWACK!


AN: And that's how you end a chapter! Look who appear; Agent 3 and General Jus! But the danger is not far yet.

[1] Please excuse the words replaced by various symbols as the letters for that word were caught in traffic and unable to make it here on time for the chapter. :3

In the next chapter, we will see our heroes escaping the facility. However, they are going to face obstacles which may lead the two octolings back to their sad backstory. Is there anyone to help them? Also, keep an eye out for Cadet because I got something special for him.

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