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Name: DJ Octavio
Date: No clue.
Subject: I've been captured
An Octoling who said she was Eileen broke me out of the snow globe. Oddly, she had no shades. She put me in the original Octobot King and made me fight the NSS. I didn't try because they were my only chance at escape and revenge on Octrope. The Octobot King blew up, but they got me out of there in time. They stuck me in a basement, where I'm typing this on my tablet they didn't bother to look or ask for. I'm currently hiding in a box, where I will wait until morning.
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Name: DJ Octavio
Date: Still no clue.
Subject: I'm watching from the city.
I'm still on the lookout for anything that could be a threat. I stole an unsupervised Blaster. It's weak, but it's better than nothing. I'm watching for anything on the outskirts of the city. So far I have only seen the Eagle take off for the ocean. I do not know what it is doing.
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Name: DJ Octavio
Date:
Subject:
The secret rooms in the Sky Base should be safe. I can watch and gather information from there. I'll head to the forest and find the camouflaged Kettle.
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"Sir," the Octoling addressed him in Octarian. "You wrote these?"
"Yeah. You needed to know. How'd you get here?" Octavio asked.
"Four random Inklings saved us from the Hypno-Shades," said the female one. "Barry and I, both of us."
"Linda's right, sir," the other one confirmed. "They said we mugged a fifth in an alley. We don't know why." They were the two that the Squid Sisters rescued. Their names were Barry and Linda.
"Don't know why what?" Octavio responded
"Why they saved us."
"Listen," he said, "while I was down there, I learned that almost none of the Inklings know of our condition down here. Most didn't even know we existed until some of us escaped to the surface. So drop the prejudice and help me with Akash."
"General Octavio, you should see this, I just found it," another one said.
There was a structure suspended high above the ocean, too far up to cast a notable shadow and too far from land to be seen. It was aptly named the Sky Base, the true center of Octarians. Between the labyrinth of rooms hid many rooms that were only accessible by a few Octolings.
There are multiple ways to reach the Base. The top of it doubles as a platform for any flying craft to land on. There are many Kettles arranged throughout Inkopolis and beyond. All are hidden in various ways, whether it be through camouflage, a rotating wall, or anything in between. Each require a password to activate. It then flew to the Base and returned once the occupant left.
There is one Kettle, however, hidden and camouflaged in the forest. This one was the Kettle only Octavio and his most trusted subordinates knew of. It lead straight to the hidden chambers of the base.
Barry and Linda were found and captured before they could reach a secret entrance.
"Alright, let me see."
"It looks like an audio file of the speech Akash gave after you were captured."
The nearby floor opened to allow the secret Kettle through.
"General Octavio!" exclaimed the Octoling who jumped out.
"What is it?"
"Inkopolis is being attacked!"
Almost all of the resistance was out, blending in with the army. That meant they were out attacking Inkopolis as well.
"Get everyone here to find any way to disable the knockout when the Shades are broken." He grabbed a nearby weapon, which was stronger than the ones in Inkopolis. "I'm heading out."
"General, are you sure?"
Before he could respond, the Kettle was gone.
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Callie was at the Research Center. She was still behind her mask. His speech was... She didn't realize the true position of the Octarians.
"And you four will be the first," he said.
She saw Akash jump off of the balcony high above. The lights went out.
She realized he didn't emit a faint glow, like they did.
The lights flickered. He was there, no behind you, no, in front of you.
She felt her glasses pulled off of her face, then, in an instant, replaced with something else.
Then, she was aware of that something being pulled off. Or was it broken? She squinted in the sudden sunlight.
She was pushing her Roller, something that she didn't remember doing.
Inkopolis. The outskirts. That's where she was. But why? What happened?
She remembered Akash, pulling out the Hypno-Shades.
Realization struck her. Her limbs grew heavy, but whether it was from that realization or fatigue, she didn't know.
She was hypnotized. Again.
It was like a jump in time, without awareness of what happened during the time the shades were on.
The first thing she saw was a figure pulling her arm, trying to get her to go somewhere. She was too tired to resist, or even walk. The figure picked her up, and she dropped her Roller.
She lifted her head, despite the difficulty, and saw fighting.
Octolings, each with their own pair of shades, pushed against the tide of the citizens, squids and octopi alike. No Octoling with a pair of Shades was defeated. She saw a respawn pad, where three stood guard. She saw someone respawn, where one of the three forced yet another pair of Shades on him.
She heard the familiar sounds of ink being shot, flung, or otherwise propelled, but without knowing from where. Or was it everywhere?
She saw weapons of every class. Shooters, Sloshers, Splatlings, Blasters, Brushes, Brella, even Inkwhips.
Wait. No. There were three missing. Throughout the entirety of where she could see, there were no Rollers, Dualies, or Chargers, save for the one she dropped.
The three that they didn't lose. They did replicate them!
All of this, she saw in an instant. The figure took off, running faster than she had ever seen before.
It was too muck work to raise her limbs, and her mouth went dry. She forgot how to speak, drowning in sorrow.
What would Inkopolis be like once she returns?
She hoped for what she saw before. The glowing lights, the cheerful faces, the life in the city.
Surely there was some defense? They must have just been caught off guard. They should be able to push back eventually with little casualties.
But... that hope... she knew...
It was useless.
Moreover, what happened to the rest of them?
Rose...
Marie...
Simon...
Were they hypnotized too?
What about Cap'n Cuttlefish? Sid? Sheldon?
By this time, she recovered her energy, but she lacked the will to move. She dropped her weapon; nothing could be done.
She looked at the face of the one carrying her, something she didn't think to do before.
Octavio... he saved her?
She was shocked into silence by the reveal.
Then she became aware of no more. A sleep, perhaps, but with eyes open, scared into nothing by seeing things none should have.
All was accompanied by the yells and screams of a falling city.
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Another question, does going into hyper detail in thoughts work? I did it for quite a while on this chapter's second half, so how is it?