"ACRILIC!" Pastelli knocked away him just in time.

The arms went after her instead. They began crushing her, as she frantically struggled to get loose. She changed into her squid form hoping she could slip away. Her screams echoed off the wall. She flailed her tentacles about, trying to escape. He ripped as many mechanical arms as he possibly could, but more kept coming. Her pink ink trickled from the arms wrapping her. She fought with everything she had. The ink soon became a puddle. He saw how weak she was becoming. He started to get frantic, and ripped more and more arms. She couldn't move anymore. She was finally freed, but she was bleeding out so bad. He held her, begging her to stay awake. She rested her head on his chest, and closed her eyes. He held her body tightly as she became limp.

Acrilic just started laughing. His laughter turned into cackling. His body started discharging sparks everywhere. His body began changing as his right arm doubled in size and spikes grow out from his broken skin. Ink ran down his left arm and dried into sharp claws around his fingers. His spikes on his tentacles grew sharper and electricity ran through them.

He gently placed Pastelli onto the floor. He creepily grinned, showing his new shark like teeth, at the blacken inklings and Sluggers.

"You… hurt Pastelli… heheheheheh… That's funny… because…" His laughter intensified, "Nobody does…. ANYONE WHO DOES WILL DIE! KYAHAHAHAHHAHHAH!"

He charged at a wave blackened Inklings, pounding every single one back into a sickly black puddle of ooze. He laughed at the metal arms that tried to restrain him. He grabbed them and ripped them out. He sliced through the incoming arms. More Inklings tried to attack them. They managed to stick a sword through his side. Acrilic stumbled back a bit.

"Heheheheh… Did you think that would do anything?" He grabbed the Inkling by the head, "You're just adding fuel to the burning rage! …heheheh… KYAHAHAHHAHHA!"

He slammed the poor inkling into the ground repeatedly until it looked like soup. He pulled out the sword and more spikes grew out from the wound, but it was sealed. He threw the sword and pierced several of inklings before sticking into the ground. They splatted into black puddles. The Slugger started blasting him with everything they had. Acrilic would just shrug off their attacks, cackling. He slammed his large fist through the glass and made a dent into the cement wall with the slugger's shell. He grabbed that shell and bashed at it until it toppled over. He used his claws to plunge through the Slugger's door and ripped out a slugger. The tainted Inklings jumped at him. All of them just rushed at him. He dropped the wounded slugger and fought back. As Acrilic rampaged against the tainted inkling, some Slugger began shooting at the ship making it unstable.

"If this keeps up… I'm going to lose control of the ship!" Vector struggled keep the steering wheel steady.

"We need to get out of here! What are we going to do?!" Jet shouted.

I looked over at Corol's body and I had to do something. I jumped back down and shot at Acrilic to get his attention. He turned around and went after me. I quickly dodged his punch as it slammed into a wall.

"ACRILIC STOP! I'M NOT HERE TO FIGHT!" I screamed at him.

I dodged his incoming claw arm. I shot the ground and dove into my ink. He tried to punch and slash me again. I kept dodging his attacks. I kept shouting at him, in hope that he will stop. He sent an electric pulse into ground. All the sluggers scattered away. I yelled from the painful shock. He grabbed my stunned body and brought his claws to my neck.

"ANY LAST WORDS?" His became tighter.

"I-if Pastelli dies… it will be- because of you. Corol will die too… if we stay here… Every...one's going to die... Aren't they? Go on, kill me then…"

"Pas- Pastelli… NO! No, this isn't right… No… NONONONONO!" Acrilic dropped me and clutched his head.

He smashed his head into the wall and clawed his face. He reverted to his normal self and ran over to Pastelli. He gently touched her face and then checked for a pulse. He held her close as his tears fell onto her body. He slowly stood up with her. He grabbed the back of my shirt, and leaped straight into the ship. Vector quickly flew everyone away from Inkopolis.

"Whoa! How'd you-" Acrilic just shoved Jet out of the way

He gently placed her on the stretcher. He walked to Connie and got on his hands and knees.

"Please… save her… I can't be without her…" He begged, "I'll lose myself again. I-I l-love her… We finally were brought together… I was whole again… PLEASE SAVE PASTELLI!"

"I-I… O-of course!" Connie quickly went to work,

"Please, allow me to aid you, young witch doctor." The winged slugger followed her,

"You should go too." Rabbit pulled at my shirt

"Huh? Oh, okay sure…" I followed Rabbit into the Medical wing,

I lay down on the bed trying to not look over at anyone. With every beep from the heart monitor, my anxiety grew and gripped at me heart. Finally, I rolled over and looked at Corol. He was connected to so many things. His body lost every other color, besides a sickly deep gray blue. It was like a bruise covering his whole body. My heart shattered more and more the longer I looked at him. I couldn't take it anymore. I hid my face into the pillow and started to madly sob.

"We'll eat those fish bread you like so much again…right?" Acrilic gently held Pastelli's hand, "I buy you as many as you want. You just, need, *shakily took a breath and released it* need to come back to me. I-I need you... I love you... Please don't leave me..."

-Author's Notes-

Okay 2nd chapter is up! One more to reach my goal for my spring break. Thank you guys so much for your support! I hope you guys like them. If you have any ideas for the next chapter let me know.

Bri, of course I'll draw Ari and Cauldern in their inkling forms. But do you want Ari's ink color to be pink or blue his birth color?

Same as always, and thanks for reading!