The song for this chapter is: Vienna by Billy Joel (I prefer the Ariana Grande cover).

Sky POV

Another dark three hours passed. Bashur finally gave up attempting to shake his way out of the cell and Preston's eyes begun to fade from lack of sleep. I, on the other hand, stared out of the tiny window of my cell. It looked on into the main area of the base. Surprisingly there were no evil blue creatures watching over us. Once I noticed a piece of long silver metal lying on the ground next to Preston's cell, I created an idea.

"Preston," I whispered.

"Ugh…" he groaned, opening his eyes, "What is it?"

"See that?" I pointed to the metal.

"Yeah. What about it?"

"Unlock your door."

Preston widened his eyes, bounded up, grabbed the metal, and slowly was able to unlock the door to his cell. He rushed over to me and unlocked my door as well.

"Don't forget about me!" Bashur cried.

I shushed him, "Not so loud, Bash."

"Sorry."

"Okay so now we just have to get out the base and then we'll be all good."

"How are we gonna do that, you cactus? There's a bajillion squids," Preston asked.

"Uh… I don't know… but we will."

"So we're winging it?" Bashur questioned, a smile on his face.

"Yeah, I suppose so."

"YES!"

"Bash!" Preston and I loudly whispered at the same time.

"Oops."

We heard loud stomps coming from outside of the prisons. Preston, Bashur, and I turned to look at each other before bursting through the doors, rushing past several groups of armored squids. Only a few followed us, mainly because we were running so fast.

My eye caught the figure of two boys being pulled by a few squid generals in obsidian helmets. One of the squids I recognized. He was the one who caught me. Derpus. I would never forget that name. And the boy he held onto was none other than my nephew Adam.

I paused and tugged on Preston's shirt, "It's Adam and Tristan. They're here."

"What? How'd they get Tristan?!" Preston gasped for air.

"I'll get them out of here. You two, go!"

"Not without my son!"

"Preston! Please! Bash, help me out here!" I yelled, forcing them towards the portal.

"Frags, I trust Sky! Come on, let's get out of here before any of those douches catch us!" Bashur cried.

"Tristan!" Preston tried escaping Bashur's grasp to run over to the boys, but was tugged into the portal, leaving me in the Squid HQ. I inhaled and did my best to sneak into an empty hallway.

"Not so fast Budder King," Derpus spotted me in the hallway and handed me off to another squid general. The general dragged me back into the prisons, followed by Adam, Tristan, Derpus, and another squid.

They threw us into separate cells: mine in my old one, Adam in Preston's old one, and Tristan in Bashur's old one.

"Budder King, you were able to get out your friends, but now I've got your nephews. Somehow your daughter has managed to escape, but we're on that. You'll see her very soon," the squid smirked, "My name is Derpity, the best of the best of the squid generals. Even better than Derpus."

Derpus groaned and stared at Derpity with his wide black eyes. A few seconds later, his attention turned to a figure standing at the door. Giant blue tentacles, a giant obsidian crown. I knew this squid anywhere. It was the Master of the Squids himself: Derpollous.

"Nice to see you again, Sky," Derpollous told me, "I was told that you made a deal with my soldiers, then turned around and striked them in the back. Now it's not only the heir we're searching for, it's two to six other Sky Army generals. How does that feel?"

"Pretty good." I smiled at my worst enemy.

Derpollous growled and immediately changed his mood when he spotted something in the distance, "But we have Adam!" He casually walked over to Adam, who desperately glanced over from a chair in his cell to Tristan in the opposite cell for help. His blonde hair was matted to his head and I could see the fear in his black eyes.

"Now…" Derpollous continued, "I will be on my way, but not before I remind Sky that his last day on this world will be on live television in only a few days. Goodbye for now." Derpollous exited, followed by Derpity, Derpus, and the other general.

"Adam," I whispered as soon as they were gone. He faced me.

"Yeah?" he asked, nervously shaking.

"I have to tell you something before I leave…"

"What are you talking about? You don't really think that Derpollous will kill you?"

"He's tried to for the past twenty years. Now he has someone who I will actually die for, not like I wouldn't for your fathers or the generals."

"What do you wanna tell me though?"

"I love Marley. I really do. But do you honestly think that she's strong enough to run a whole Army?"

"I don't know…"

"That's why you're the heir."

Adam POV

My heart beat so fast I thought it would explode. I was both frightened and shocked. One, I had been kidnapped by squids, and two Sky had just told me that I was the heir of the Sky Army.

"I'm the… heir?"

"You can't let anyone but us three know this. Not even Marley," Sky reminded me.

"Okay. Yeah." I quickly nodded.

Tristan motioned for me to attract my attention to a key lying right in front of my cell. Sky noticed it too.

"Doesn't surprise me that they're so stupid these days," Sky chuckled. I giggled along and picked up the key. I hurriedly unlocked my cell and rushed over to Tristan's.

"Adam," Tristan whispered, "You don't have time. They'll catch you. Just get out of here and warn the others."

"Tris…"

"Don't make me call you Addy."

I exhaled and nodded. Glancing over my shoulder to look at Sky, he nodded as well.

"Goodbye." I sneaked out of the prisons, past groups of squids, and ran into the Overworld portal.

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