I was rereading some earlier chapter in my free time. So I apparently told my audience how to kidnap someone without your victim screaming calling for help. Is that illegal? OH CRAP- Back to the story!
"Callie wtf are you doing Callie stop"
"It's no use," giggled Broomhilda, who is by the way a dumb OC. "You see, I just read an article about bigfin reef squids on the internet to find their weaknesses, and they're apparently attracted to light."
"You damn bastard," Marie muttered.
"I don't wanna ruin the mood or anything, but I wrote that article," said Octavio.
"I didn't even know you could read."
"Gee thanks. You're acting like I intentionally made you suffer and go through as much pain as an eighteen-year-old possibly could totally no inspiration from the Tales od Earth series… Uhhh…"
The mention of the Tales of Earth series instantly made Callie ignore the laser pointer and go on a rant about how great the games are. Marie took mental note that that was very unhealthy, ignoring your natrual instinct to talk about video games.
"Now I think about it," said Callie. "The way in which you made Marie suffer by brainwashing me was really similar to the way Rainy is tortured after resisting the army comander, who happens to be a brainwashed version of his twin brother, Flicker. Another similarity I noticed is that in Tales of Earth, Rainy was shy and spoiled before his brother vanished. Afterwards, he was attentive, stressed, and cold hearted. According to Agent 4-"
"That's enough, Callie. Agent 4 is not a reliable sourse."
"Wait, so if I had accidentally mentioned a video game series you like, my whole plan would have been over?!" Octavio had had enough.
"Whatever I'm going to leave this place. Horseshoe crab blood is SUPER expensive, money money e e e"
"Not so fast," Marie shouted, but it was too late. The dumb OC had already superjumped away with a jar of crab blood in her arms. "Dammit."
"Wow," say Octavio. "You two are terrible at, like, everything."
"Stut up."
"I'm just sayin."
Marie was looking off into the distace like a Star Wars protagonist. "We need to tell the others about this sin."
"Right," Callie agreed. "I'll text them."
"They're probably sleeping. We need to tell them in person. Pearl, Marina, and Owen all live in the same appartment, so that will be easy. However, Toby shares a room with his brother, and Ash is staying with her parents right now. We can't let anyone else in on this."
"Yup," said Callie again, sounding a little dead inside.
"We should also get gramps."
"Okay."
"You get Ash and Toby. I'll get Pearl, Marina, their son, and also gramps."
"Sure."
"Wait hold up you're usually really hyper wtf is going on?"
"It's 1 AM and I need my blanky."
Callie looked around and grabbed a fluffy sky blue blanket, and then went back to talking.
"Callie you are NOT just going into public carrying a fluffy blanket."
"But we're wearing our pajamas."
Marie sighed. "You have a point. But let's change into out agent outfits."
The girls changed out of their PJs and into something cooler. Callie also charged her phone. It was dead, and she needed some form of map. When her phone finished charging, she put it in her pocket, and then the two parted ways.
Callie got out her phone and looked at a virual map everyone in the NSS had marked as a way to show where they lived, mainly so Cuttlefish could mail letters to the younger three agents. She zoomed in. Three lived in an apartment in Inkoplis Plaza with his brother. There were busses and trains that operated 24/7 that went between the different neighborhoods of Inkopolis, so getting there would be easy. All she had to do was figure out a way to wake him up without waking his brother up. Luckily, Three had just sent a really edgy meme on the NSS group chat. Just now. He was awake. This would be fine.
Callie waited for a bus, paid the money thingy, and got on. After ten minutes or so, she reached her stop and got off. She looked at the map again, and found which apartment building to go to. Three had added a note on the map saying which floor and room. Floor 2 room 14. Since Three was awake and his brother wasn't, Callie stood outside the room texting him and telling him about the murderer and whatnot.
Three left his brother a note and then went with Callie.
According to the map, Four grew up on a dairy farm, and that's where she was staying with her family. Also, because cows died off with humans, Inklings farm otters for dairy products. DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME.
"I admit I've never checked this map before," admitted Three. "I had no idea Ash grew up on a farm. Okay then."
"Should we try texting her?"
"You know her better than me, so I should be asking you."
Callie sighed. "Fine. She's a pretty good sleeper, I think. Calling her wouldn't do much. How do we get her to go with us without waking the otters and creating a bunch of noise?"
Three was struck with an idea. "Recently, Ash was telling me and Owen about how her family didn't understand when she said she had male friends. That means she's mentioned me to her parents before. If I knock and say I'm a friend, they'll likely wake her up and ask her if she knows me. She'll say yes, and everything will be good. Then she can go with us and catch the murderer when we all meet up."
"Okay you have way more braincells than me. Lets take the speedy train that goes to the rural area and do… your idea."
Meanwhile, Marie was able to get Cap'n Cuttlefish easily. All she had to do was go to the retirement home and ask to see him. He gladly went with her.
Next was to Pearl and Marina's appartment. She went to the building, got on the elevator, waited 30 seconds next to a moody teenager who was also up at 1 in the morning for some reason, and finally reached the appartment door. But then a problem occurred. How was she supposed to wake them up if their door was locked? She could just knock, because there was no way they would answer. There was a doorbell, so she took her chances and rung it anyway.
"Who is it?"
To her surprise, Eight answered the door.
"Uh, Owen? Why were you up?"
"I could ask the same for you," he politely roasted.
"Are your parents up?"
"No."
"What were you doing?"
Agent 8 looked serious. "The power of cat videos is in me."
"Great. Can you wake your parents up? I figured out who the murderer is."
"Oh, okay. I'll get them."
Eight went back into the apartment and into his parents' room. Marina was using Pearl as a blanket, or maybe Pearl just rolled ontop of her. Their son shook them a little until they woke up.
"wHaaat time is it?", Pearl groaned.
"It's one in the morning and Marie has found the murderer."
"Let her in," Pearl said, sounding like some sort of RPG villain or something.
Marie walked into the room.
"Who has done the sinful act of murder?", asked Marina.
"My ste-"
"That's it!", Pearl shouted. "I'm tired of your dumb childhood stories. You and your cousin aren't the only people on this planet to have interesting childhoods."
"Yeah, so? I NEED YOU TO HELP ME CATCH A KILLER!"
"Well," scoffed Pearl. "I refuse to go with you until I let YOU hear a story from ME."
"Mom, we should SERIOUSLY help," said Eight. "This isn't a story. It's the harsh reality the world suffers daily, and we need your help!"
"Not. Until. She hears. My story."
"Please don't make this the summer camp one," Marina whispered.
"It all started when I was eleven at sleepaway camp."
"Not this again," Marina sighed. She had head this story a million times since they became friends, then lovers, then a couple. She told it when they met, and at the time it was interesting. She told it later at a date, which seemed a little repetitive. She told it to the croud at their wedding, which was sort of dumb. She told Eight about when they adopted him, and even told some guys who they interviewed on the news.
"Basically, this is a scary story, so cover your ears if you don't want to hear it!"
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