Edward is now outside of the cabin, reluctant to enter.

"Why are you being such a pussy, just go inside and...do something to fix this shit." Edward says to himself. He looks back and notices that Callie's attention was now to Marina tinkering with the device. He smiles a bit, knowing that there won't be a witness in case he fucks up something. He knocks on the door and waits for a response. There is none. He knocks again, and says Marie's name.

"What." Marie responds.

"C-Can I come in." Edward says. "I need to talk to you." There is no response after that, in which Edward decides to let himself in. He slowly opens the door and peeks inside before going inside. Inside, Edward sees Marie sitting on a chair, quietly sobbing while using her umbrella to hide her teary face. Edward quietly approaches her, as if he were to scare her.

"W-Why are you h-here." Marie asks through her tears. "G-Get out. I want t-to be a-alone."

"Marie." Edward says. "I'm sorry for me not wanting to-" Edward gets interrupted by Marie's umbrella covering his lips.

"It's not that." She says. "It's the fact that you ran away and left me to explain the situation to 3."

"S-She saw me run away?" Edward asks.

"Yes." Marie responds. "And t-that made me realize how m-much you hate me."

"W-What?! No, no, I don't hate you." Edward hugged her afterward. Marie then pushed him away and got up.

"It's too late for that." She said. Marie began to walk to the door and left. Edward, now alone in the cabin, sat down on the chair that Marie was sitting, and began to reflect over himself.

"How am I going to fix this." Edward told himself. "I need to show her that I don't hate her. Something that shows how much I care about her."

Outside, Marie makes her way to Callie and Marina, wiping her tears off of her face in the process.

"How's the device going?" Marie asks them.

"It's ready." Marina answers. "I'm just seeing if this thing I added will help."

"What thing?" Marie asks.

"This." Marina enters some code onto her laptop, bringing the device to life. The location of Clay is shown, with the building he's in as well; A large building mostly underground. Marina types some more, showing bright red spots all over the image.

"What do the spots mean?" Callie asks.

"The red spots show energy readings." Marina responds. "The more red there is, the more energy is in that particular area."

"Well that looks like a lot of energy to me." Marie comments. "But what is it being used for?"

"It's probably needed to power heavy machinery." Marina responds. "But there has to be some very heavy machinery to need that much energy."

"Or maybe there's just a lot of heavy machinery that needs power." Marie says. "Either way, it must be something dangerous, and for Clay to be in all of it just makes it worse."

"It's also a very good thing that they're using a lot of energy." Marina says. "If they need that much energy to function, then if its gone, they won't be able to do much."

"And we have the Tesla gun, which can be used to do just that." Marie says.

"The only problem is that none of us can wield it without getting sick." Marina says. "Well except Sheldon."

"But he's not much of a fighter, and that's just what we'll need." Callie said. "There is only one person who could do this."

"Isn't Clay trapped though?" Marie said. "He's the only one who could do this, but we're rescuing him."

"Not him, it's Edward." Callie said, slightly smiling at Marie's disapproving smile. "It could've been Lela, but she might also be trapped with him, or worse."

"Can't Charles, 3, 4, 8, or Jane do it?" Marie said. "They're pretty bad-ass."

"They're vulnerable to the Tesla gun for long enough of exposure." Marina said. "And besides, Edward has more experience in fighting humans then we do." Marie still didn't want to send Edward to fight, but she then began to think why she didn't want Edward to go in the first place.

"Wait, why don't I want him to go?" Marie thought. "The bastard wouldn't bother me being far away, but can I live with myself if something happened to him? J-Just get him out of your head and stop worrying about him." Marie cleared her throat, getting Callie and Marina''s attention.

"Let's go send Edward in." Marie said. "Someone go get him."

"How about you get him while we think of the plan." Callie suggested. "And you can say anything to him if you need to." Marie put on a frown.

"Great, you know as well about what happened." Marie said. "Anyone else know?"

"M-Me!" Marina shyly said.

"This is just great." Marie said. "I'll go get him then." Marie begins to approach the cabin and opens the door.

"Hey Ed, we need you to-" Marie stops when she notices that he isn't in the cabin anymore. "Ed, stop hiding, where the hell are you?" No response came from inside. Marie began to look around the cabin, including the exterior. There was no sign of him.

"Hey Callie!" Marie yelled. "Have you seen Ed?"

"Marie, stop procrastinating." Callie said. "He's still in the cabin, he hasn't left."

"Ed isn't in the cabin anymore." Marie said. Callie got up in the concern and began to look around. "Great, where the hell could he be?" Marie asked herself.

In the outside of Inkopolis, a lonesome motorcycle is seen heading further away from Inkopolis. Edward, carrying a single rifle, communicator, and food/water, is seen riding the motorcycle. Edward begins to think to himself.

"Still can't believe that I stole someone's motorcycle." Edward thought to himself. "I'll give it back once I'm done rescuing Clay. After that, I'll ask him how I can fix this problem with Marie. Or maybe by me single-handedly doing the mission, she'll have different thoughts about me. Yeah, this plan is pretty shitty, hell, this isn't even a plan! I can't go back anymore without looking like an idiot." The motorcycle keeps going forward, eventually out of view.

From the hallway, soldiers appear, getting Clay to pull the trigger on his rifle. Bullets fly from the rifles of Clay, Lela, and Dustin, painting the wall behind the soldiers in deer red. Some soldiers fire aimlessly in fear, only hitting either other soldiers or the ceiling. Eventually, soldiers stop coming towards them.

"Holy shit." Clay said. "These soldiers are stupid as hell, walking straight into our bullets."

"Pretty convenient." Lela said. "Which is worrisome that these human soldiers are so stupid."

"Hey, you guys are almost extinct, right?" Dustin asked, getting nods from Clay and Lela in response. "Then why are you still killing your kind, instead of avoiding killing as much as possible."

"Well if they would try not to shoot us every five seconds, we might stop doing so." Clay answered, an answer Dustin wasn't expecting. "But what I do know is that those soldiers came from that hallway, which means that more people should be there." The all began going into the hallway and turning around the corner. They began to walk through many corridors and other hallways, eventually reaching two large metal doors. Clay approached them, causing them to open up automatically. To the other side of the doors lie a huge room below them, spanning thousands of feet to either side, all filled up with spider-like bots the size of a house. Directly in front of them, thousands of modified troopers, now looking like humanoid machines wielding Gatling guns, marched across.

"Holy...fucking...hell." Clay said, looking down at all the machinery. "They're actually going to invade Inkopolis. We need to find a way to warn everyone else." Dustin whimpered a bit at the height in which they were standing. "Don't be afraid." Clay said to Dustin. "We're only a couple hundred feet in the air."

"I ain't looking down." Dustin said.

"Whatever, but still, we need to communicate with Inkopolis." Clay said.

"But how?" Lela said. "We can't just ask someone to guide us to their communication room to warn Inkopolis about an invasion."

"Well if we can't warn them about an invasion." Clay said. "Then we'll just have to stop it."

"What?!" Lela yelled. "Us stop hundreds, possibly thousands of those things?!"

"The machines aren't armed yet, so they're vulnerable right now." Clay explained. "If we let them start the invasion, no one will be able to do much. And to be honest, I don't even think that Inkopolis has an actual army. All it would take to take over Inkopolis is but 12 of those spider-bots."

"Maybe Inkopolis is only part of their plan." Lela said. Suddenly, klaxon alarms started blaring across the large room. A voice began to relay a message, but was spoken in the unknown language.

"Clay, can't you use your cracker/translator thing?!" Lela said.

"It still needs more information!" Clay responded. "It's been gathering it since I woke up! It's almost done though, I just hope that whatever is being said isn't important!"

Actual Translation of the message:

Warning! Warning!

Entity X has Escaped Containment!

All In The Facility Are Recommended To Shelter In Place!

All Defense Personnel To The Armament Room ASAP!

The alarms kept on sounding for a while until they all suddenly stopped. The entire room was now oddly quiet. Crashes and gunfire was then heard in the distance, along with faint screams. They all stood there, as if a shotgun was aimed at their heads. Clay looked around once more.

"We better get the hell out of here." Clay said. "Don't know who shot or what they were shooting at, but I don't want to be the next target." Clay looks back from where they came from, and began to listen for anything that made noise.

"We should head back from where we came from." Lela suggested. Screams and gunfire was heard again, only this time it came from a distance behind them.

"No, whatever is happening, it's now behind us." Clay said. "It could be rescue, but they would've found a way to communicate with us by now. It's just too risky. I say we find a way to get down." Lela looks down and sees a long ladder reaching the bottom floor.

"Most of the building is underground." Lela said. "The exit must be on the surface, so heading down is just going back."

"These machines were built to attack on the surface." Clay said. "There has to be another exit on the bottom, otherwise, the machines would've been built near the surface. And once we get there, I'll hopefully have a plan to stop the invasion."

"I guess that makes sense." Lela says. "But isn't Dustin afraid of heights?" Lela then looks at Dustin and asks. "Why are you afraid pf heights? You have no bones, so falling down shouldn't be bad, right?"

"Just because they have no endoskeleton doesn't mean that they have no nervous system." Clay said. "Of course they can feel pain, especially from this height."

"How about we descend from the ladder with me being last." Dustin suggested, slightly shaky. "That way, I know that if I fall, one of you will catch me."

"Good thinking." Clay said. "Lets go then. No time to waste." Clay then motioned Lela to go first, making Lela step back a bit.

"Wait, why do I have to be first?" Lela said.

"Because you have always said "ladies first" and I have respected it every time, so ladies first." Lela punched him in his arm and began descending, followed by Clay. Dustin stood at the ledge, regretting every second of it.

"Looking down doesn't help you." Clay said. "Just look in front of you, and don't look back up or down. Trust me, I've been there." Dustin took a breath of air and began to climb down. They all climbed down and reached the floor after a few minutes. Clay looked in front of them and saw a wide ramp heading upwards.

"Aha!" Clay said. "There's the exit. We just need to head up there and we'll be out of-" Clay was suddenly interrupted by a mutilated body of a soldier falling in front of them.

"What the-" Clay said and looked up, seeing 3 soldiers fall to their death.

"RUN!" Clay yelled, picking up the corpse's pistol. They all ran to the exit, ignoring the gunshots and screams behind them. After 15 minutes, they took a pause, now being a few hundred feet from the closed gate.

"Why-are-w-we stopping." Dustin said through his panting. "W-We're not s-safe yet."

"We're safer right here." Clay answered, looking at 12 robotic guards at the gate, wielding a rifle in each hand and shoulder. From far behind them an ear-piercing, high-pitched screech was heard, getting the attention from the robotic guards. The robotic guards began to approach them. Clay, noticing the guards approaching, grabbed the pistol from his holster and held it to his chest. Lela looked around her and noticed a large, green box. Lela began to opened it as quickly and quietly as possible and found three hand grenades. She handed two to Clay. Clay took the pin out from one of them and threw it behind the guards, detonating and destroying five of them. The robotic guards began to blindly fire at the general direction of Clay. Lela took the pin of her grenade and threw it behind the remaining robotic guards, destroying all but one. The remaining one got in sight of them, but got shot in the head by Clay's pistol.

"Good thing these things were as stupid as their creators." Clay said. "Now we can continue." They walked for a bit until Clay's earpiece began to transmit a voice.

Cl-C-ay, I-I'ts me-E-Edw-rd. Clay began tapping on the earpiece.

Clay, can you hear me? It's me, Edward! I'm outside, please respond!

"Edward?!" Clay said to his earpiece, getting wide-eyes from Lela and Dustin. "How the hell are you alive and taking to me?!"

"I somehow survived a missile explosion." Edward said. "And you do remember that my earpiece is linked to yours? All I needed to do is to get in range. Good thing I increased the range and-"

"Edward, it's nice and all to see you, but there is an invasion inbound for Inkopolis, and we have to stop it now before it begins!" Clay said.

"Ed's alive?!" Lela said. "I thought he was gone."

"Wait, is that Lela?" Edward asked Clay. "Yes, and so is Dustin." Clay responded. "Now as I said, we need you to alert everyone in Inkopolis about the invasion."

"Wait, did you say and invasion?" Edward asked. "These assholes couldn't even take us out and-"

"Kari is alive and they have an army that can and will take out Inkopolis in minutes." Clay responded. "They have a few hundred goddamn spider-bots the size of houses, that look like they will be armed with missiles and heavy machine guns, along with thousands of robotic soldiers with Gatling guns. I don't know why they need that many troops, but it looks like Inkopolis isn't Kari's only goal."

"Just tell me the plan and I'll try my best to help."

"Well you're in luck Edward, because I just thought of one." Clay said. "Fires, we will-" Clay was then interrupted by an Inkling-like figure 20 feet behind him charging directly at him.

A/N: Happy late Thanksgiving and happy shopping!