Chapter 20
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"I'm gonna check on Captain. See how's he's doing." I said as I was putting the last button on my suit. Onlee was changing into some new gear, it looked great on her. I was at the patio now to jump off. The air was windy but it was no problem. Before I left Onlee grabbed my hand. "wait!" She said. I turned to her as she gave me a long kiss. She tapped my cheek. "Go get em' tuff guy." I nodded to her and jumped off the patio. Landing to the ground and scared a couple inklings on the side. I ran up the block and gave one last look to Onlee. She blew a kiss to me. I grabbed it and put it in my pocket. She gave a thumb's up and went inside. I turned toward inkopolis and squid jumped into the air.
Landing at the sewer pipe was a good idea my jump signal couldn't be seen. I swam through the pipe and poped out to the octovalley. I head some noise coming from Capn's home. I knocked near the doorway. The voice stopped speaking and out came the familiar old face. "Hey Captain Cuttlefish!" I said to him. He pulled me in for a hug. "Oh my lands. Agent 3 you're okay!" I said back to him "Yeah I'm fine. Just a little dizzy that's all." He chuckled "Okay. Since you are fine I have news for you. You can quit now." I looked at him and laughed "Capn your joking." He poked me in the stomach. "I'm not Agent 3. The other agents are fine. They are at the next kennel boss now. Fighting the Octowhril." I looked up to the other kennels. "They did all of that?!" Captain Cuttlefish looked at me. "Yes." He looked up into the fog sky and said. "Russell do you know why I recruited you." I have never told Captain Cuttlefish my name. I guess it must have been from the others. I said to him. "Yeah you said it back at the first book chapter 7. You said I was a promising battler and that what I did to Marian and didn't swim away. Oh and that I'm awesome." He chuckled at the last part and but then said firmly. "That's not the reason why I recruited you." He turned to me with a stare. "I was told to take you in to watch you. To care for you." I looked at him and said "Who?"
"Your mother." He said. I thought of my mom back at Sardine Island. Why would she do that? Why couldn't she trust me? I felt anger rising up inside me feeling the Krak-Octokens power emerging from with in. He then said something that made me stop feeling angry and now confused. He said, "It was about 82 years ago, when you were born."
I stuttered back. "C-Captain that cant be true. I'm 18 years old. If I was born 82 years ago that would make me born before the great turf war ended." He nodded his head. "It's true Russell. You were born the day the turf war ended." I said back to him "H-How?" He said to me "We used Judd's cryogenic stasis chamber. You are the last one of a rare race." I looked down to the ground having all this information processed in my head. No wonder why I was a different from mom and dad. No body in our family history had four tentacles. I said back "what do you mean 'We'?" He looked a bit scared a bit. I guess he wouldn't notice that I would notice that he said we. He stammered back. "I-I…. I knew your father and mother." He continued, "Your parents were great people. Your father was my trusted friend Poseidon. He carried his favorite golden paintbrush. He was a fine solider of the squidbeak splatoon. Almost good as my son and daughter. Your mother on the other hand was named Atlantis. They both loved each other very much. Octavio was jealous of Poseidon taking his love. So what he did was he gathered octolings and started a war. He ordered Atlantis to marry him but she denied. So Octavio pulled out a weapon that would kill you for good. He shot Oil at your father. As your mother began to care for him I took action and shot my old friend sending him back to his resurrection platform away from us inklings." Captain started to cry. "He was dying in Atlantis arms. The oil was on his chest a fatal kill with oil. There was nothing that we could to do. There was no cure, not even now. But Atlantis told him one thing that surprised me." I pointed at myself "Me?" He nodded.
"You also had a sister. But she is missing." I nodded but the anger filled me "You knew about this? You never told me?! I'm not good to fight Octarians. I can't quit now I came so far." He was about to say something but I turned away from him I had enough. First he never told me and now he decided to tell me NOW! I turned squid to prepare to squid jump to the others.
"Wait Russell, please I have more to say." I closed my eyes and jumped to my agents. As I landed on the kennel I was about to jump down then I heard Cuttlefish yell. "NOOOOOO!"
I looked back to him and there was purple ink on the floor. "Captain Cuttlefish!" I yelled jumping down. I swam down some ink line and jumped out nearly landing off the ledge. I stood still do I won't lose balance. Then as soon as I got to the base camp Cuttlefish was gone from the stop I left him in. I ran into his shack. "Capn!" I yelled. He was gone. The one person that knew about me. Gone in the next. Then I heard footsteps behind me as I knelt picked up the Captain's cane. I heard Blue "Russell? How are you-" He stopped speaking. I guess they are looking at the mess. Agent 2 came up to me as I was getting up. "What happened?" I turned to the agents showing the cane. Sally gasped as Agent 2 looked down. L.L. took off his hat, while Orange hugged Blue crying. Agent 1 came up to me giving me a hug and then taking the cane. I said while hugging Agent 1 "It was Octarians they came by and took the Capn. I knew I shouldn't have left him." Agent 2 moved Agent 1 away from me "What you saw this and you did nothing?!" I whimpered "I wasn't he told me somethings that he should've told me. But now he is gone." Agent 2 pulled up her charger and aim at me. "He's gone because of you. You were here. You could've done something!" I felt the charger's point at my chest I closed my eyes to accept the shot but L.L. stepped up. "Agent 2, It's not his fault. It was never his fault I saw his ink trail when we jumped out of the kennel." Agent 2 looked and saw the trail. She lowered her weapon. She turned and walked away to the next stage. The others followed while L.L. stood by me. He said "Nice to have you back. What happened to you?" I chuckled a bit nervously "It's way to much to say for now." Then I got serious "Lets get the Capn' back."