The Octolings and Octo-troopers got ready to excavate the ancient underwater ruins. Maggie was the leading scientist of the whole excavation. She was checking off the list of supplies and food that everyone on board would have needed. She had a team of twenty. Everybody scrambled around to get his or her tools and gear ready. Mary had just finished contacting the king of the current plans for the dive. She gave Maggie the thumbs up and they quickly set out in the submarine into the sea caves below Octo valley. Mary had been quietly watching people.

"Hey are you okay?" Maggie asked Mary, "you haven't said a word since we set out."

"Oh, it's just that, the king isn't really happy with our progress" Mary rubbed the bridge of her nose, "It's getting harder and harder to keep him on our side to go out on these excavations."

"Well it's not like we have much of a choice. I mean, it's not like the Ink-rings would just hand over their electricity."

"Well, duh, they don't really care for Octarians. But that's not the issue here. If we find nothing today, he may just shut us down."

"WHAT?! But we got so far and found so much down here!"

"Yes, but sadly none of it was of any use to any of us."

"That's not true… We could have found it. It's just that translations are a bit time consuming…"

"Time isn't anything that we have very much of, Maggie. How am I going to keep convincing him? I'm telling you, I don't think I can keep doing this..."

"It will be different this time, I swear."

"I really hope you are right…"

The team finally arrived at the site and the team all put on their gear. Mary set up the communications links between all the units. She stayed in the submarine, to connect everyone to the Octarians back at Octo Valley. The team split up and swam out into the ruins.

The ruin had several buildings and walls taken over by the sea life. Team one swan into a laboratory and began their search. Maggie swam into the deepest part of the laboratory with five other Octo troopers. She began digging through all the rubble, collecting books, and various interesting aged technology.

"WHOA!" one of the Octo troopers accidentally dropped a round object and chased after it.

She chuckled and rolled her eyes. She continued her current task. The trooper suddenly swam back in a rush and bump right into her.

"OW! Watch it!" Maggie rubbed her head.

"M-m-mam! T-t-there in there Mam!" the trooper grabbed her and pulled her into a dark room.

The trooper swam over to a strange machine and shakily pointed to it. Maggie looked at the machine's fogged up glass where the trooper rubbed a bit of it off. She peered into it and saw a figure inside. She screamed and jumped away from the window.

"Maggie! What's wrong?!" Mary called from the earpiece.

She regained her composure and fully cleaned off the fog to reveal a frozen kid. Her fright turned into joy and excitement. She swam over and hugged the Octo trooper.

"Mary! Mary! I found something! Come quick!" she gleefully twirled around and release the trooper, "Quickly, get everyone over here!"

"Yes, mam!" the trooper swam off.

Mary quickly swam to Maggie followed by the rest of the team. Maggie swam to Mary and gleefully hugged her.

"We did it, Mary!" She pulled her to the strange machine and showed her the kid.

"Oh, my- Is that an Inkling?! What is that thing?" Mary put her hands on the glass.

"Who cares?! Just contact the King!"

"Understood, give me a couple of minutes. In the meantime, everyone see if you can clean it up and find more of them. Here Maggie, please take pictures to send to the king."

They talked for a long time until Mary came back. She had a big smile on her face.

"Everyone, the King has allowed the excavation to continue!" she beamed and everyone cheered, "For now, we'll be taking this machine and this thing to the king. So everyone keep digging here. Maggie and I will be taking this to the king. You are in charge."

"Mam!"

The team was able to connect the machine to the small generator and loaded it up into mini UFO. The UFO started up and slowly made it's way back to the Octo Valley's submerged cave. The two flew for a while until they nearly reached Octo Valley. Alarms blared as the UFO lost altitude.

"What's going on?!" Maggie started to freak out as she tried to stabilize the UFO.

"That machine has drained all of our energy! The ship doesn't have enough energy to hold us up!" Mary checked the screen.

"Disconnect it! Hurry!"

"What?! If we do that it may die!"

"IF YOU DON'T WE'LL ALL DIE HERE!"

Mary bit her lip and ripped out all the wires and the ship stabilized for a while, but in the end they still crushed. Luckily, nobody was really hurt and they crashed in Octo Valley, not too far from the King's Palace. The only problem was this area was where Agent 3 defeated Octavio and their troops.

"OWW… Everything is just hurting me today, isn't it?" Maggie whined as she rubbed her head.

Mary went to check on the kid and dropped her clipboard as she stared at a now streaming machine. The machine hissed and started glowing red.

"Maggie?" Mary called out, "is it normal for ancient machines to do this?"

"No, I pretty sure it's not… What is happening to it?"

They cautiously examined the kid and the machine. The kid was skin was no longer blue and the machine was very hot. Red liquid was filling into wires and injected into the kid. The kid suddenly jolted, and his chest started gently moving up and down. The two Octolings stared in awe as the kid was returned from the dead. The machine hissed for a final time and open the window between them.

"It's… alive…" the two looked at each other.

Maggie reached in and touched the kid's arm.

"It's so warm… " She pulled her hand back.

"It's warm?" Mary touched the kid's face.

The kid suddenly opened their eyes and looked at her. Mary jumped back, screaming followed by Maggie. The kid pushed back in their seat, frighten by the sudden outburst. Maggie pulled out her Octoshot and pointed it at them. Kid held their arms out in defense. They noticed the blanket wrapped around its body and took hold of it. Maggie and Mary slowly got closer. The kid quickly threw the blanket at them and ran. Maggie shot at the blanket and tossed it aside. The two chased after them. The kid struggled to run as their weak body ached and stumbled along.

"HELP! SOMEBODY HELP!" They looked back at their chasers and tried to quicken their pace.

Maggie shot at their feet, and they jumped over it. They felt a sharp pain in their chest. They slowed down a bit as their vision blurred. Suddenly, Their ankle rolled and sent them tumbling to the side of the cliff. They tried to get back up, only to have Maggie's Octoshot pointing at their head. The kid curled up and tightly shut their eyes.

-Author's Notes-

So what do you think so far? I only changed names here. Should I fix anything? Critism is welcome, but hate will be ignore. I can learn nothing from hate.