A/N This is the first chapter to be told from the first person. I'm sorry if this change is a jarring but I wanted to try something new. Not every chapter will be written like this and the story may occasionally alternate perspectives.

Note: this chapter begins directly after the ending of chapter 5

Marcus's Point of view

Shortly after landing we gave the map to the captain who seemed to be a bit nervous about what we would say. "Did you get the map?" The old man yelled as he ran to greet us.

"Oh of course I have it right here" Eve replies as she handed the map to the captain who's mood instantly changed."You did great out their! Keep this up and we just might win this!" The old man seemed quite happy after that. Although I didn't know the man very well I could tell he genuinely meant what he said.

"Now don't get cocky agents, we still have a lot of work to do come back tomorrow night!" We all nodded in agreement. After this we changed our clothes then jumped back into the manhole.

9:00 PM

We all emerged from the manhole exhausted and began to walk towards the bus stop.

As we walked away I noticed that Damien looked visibly irritated as we walked.

"Something on your mind?" He paused then began to speak. " Its just that we went down to easily during that last fight."

I thought back to fight against that Octarian who almost killed us. I felt completely helpless and if weren't for that mysterious sniper we probably would have died.

Eve looked away briefly then began to speak "You don't need to worry! I know the perfect place to train!" We immediately looked at here when she said this. "The Inkopolis training facility is your best bet if you wanna succeed.

"Let's go first thing tomorrow! there's no school after all!I shouted clearly exited by what I was hearing. Eve and Damien smiled as they heard this. I guess they just admired my enthusiasm I'm not sure.

Damien clapped his hands then began to shout. "Sounds like a plan well meet tomorrow morning at 7 got that!" We all nodded watched a the bus arrived. I let out a sigh of relief for after a long day I was finally heading home.

Marcus's house

11:35 PM

It was quiet when I arrived back home and met with a note on the door from my parents. They had left wouldn't be back before midnight. I sighed as this had become a common occurrence.I just walked to my room and collapsed onto my bed and immediately fell asleep..

That night in a dream I found myself outside in an area that was unfamiliar to me. While I was there I heard a voice."Do not return to return to Octo Valley".I looked around the room but know one was there."Where are you"? There was no response just silence until I gained the courage to speak again.

"And why shouldn't I"! It waited for a while but the voice never responded. Suddenly I heard footsteps behind my back. I turned around to see and Octoling girl staring at me."Who the hell are you?"

She looked away from me and then walked away not saying anything to me. I can't remember what happened after that.

The next day

I woke up startled by the sound of my own alarm. I checked the time, it was four forty five in the morning. I got dressed threw on a coat and quickly left. In retrospect I don't think this was such a good idea. After all this was the third day in a row i had rushed out my house so early. And as much as I enjoyed the quietness it was it came at the price of being tired all the time. Hell i didn't even eat anything so that only made it worse.I put on some headphones thinking that music could keep me awake. "Shit I should have drank some coffee before I left".

After several minutes of walking I had finally arrived and approached the building. However when I approached the door I could see the lights were off it wasn't open to the fact that I arrived a so early I just leaned against the wall and read messages on my phone. I looked at my watch it was five thirty and it wouldn't open until seven I would be there for quit a while.

Eventually a while I noticed two other inklings standing across the street. A girl that looked to be around my age and and older guy. I didn't think much of them until I was approached by the girl."Hello is your name Marcus?" I stared at her and quickly became suspicious of them.

"Yes I am, why'd you ask?" She smiled then continued. "Eve sent us to join you." This confused me as I couldn't think of any reason why she would send someone else to join us. After all we were training to fight the Octarians."That doesn't make any sense,she didn't say anything about this last night."

"I know you're confused but we have to be won't let anyone in unless they come in a group of five, so she called her friends but I'm the only one who came."After that I turned my attention from her and onto the guy with her. He was leaning against the wall of the building with his arms folded."Hey what about you are you?" He stared at me then shook his head."No I've never met her." I decided not to push further as he seem to want to talk.

After that we all stood at the door awkwardly until the girl looked back at me."By the way what's your name,mine name is Marcus?" She looked at me with a wide smile on her face.."My name is Coral and this is my brother Jason." Jason said nothing but cracked a small smile. Man I must have warmed up to them pretty quickly because after that because we talked for quite a long time.

6:35 PM

After about an hour later I could finally see Eve and Damien slowly approaching us."It's about time you showed up. Where the hell where you anyway."

At this Damien nervously scratched his head. "Well I forgot to set my alarm." He paused to wipe sweat of his face."And I didn't wake up until Eve started to." She glared at him causing him to sweat ferociously."Well if you didn't forget I wouldn't have had to do that!" Things weren't looking good for him as he'd managed to piss her off again.Well that was until coral stepped in."He made a mistake but were all here now so can we please just move on!"

Eve looked away from us in embarrassment and lead us to the door."I guess your right let's just go in I've been dying to show you all this place.

When we got inside I was surprised by how spacious it was. It wall a huge room filled with doors and at the front of the room was a counter for registration. Once we approached it we were greeted by a woman sitting in a desk being it. "If your here to register sign this." And as we were signing the papers we had I noticed that she and others in the room were staring at Jason. He just frowned and nervously signed his papers.And as soon as we were done he quickly ushered us out the room leaving us confused and Coral concerned.

"Why did you do that? Are they making you feel uncomfortable?" He looked back at her."I just don't like all this attention I've been getting lately." She looked as confused as we were and Jason recognized this."You see I participated in the global test fire a while back and we great and received a lot of attention for it. I had never had this many people paying attention to me and I'm just not able to handle it." And just by the tone of his voice I could tell he was being honest about this."You don't have go in if you don't want too." He looked back at me and frowned.

I just don't like leaving my sister alone with people I don't know." Damien seemed somewhat offended by this and Coral looked away from him. Jason recognized this and quickly apologized."I'm sorry it's just I don't know you guys and I couldn't forgive myself if something bad happened." We understood what he meant but that didn't make the situation any less awkward. Eve regognized this and quickly changed the conversation opening a door as she did this.

"Let's just go in already I've been dying to show you this place." We all sighed then followed her in. I thought that things wouldn't get more awkward than they were now. But in retrospect i couldn't have been any more wrong.

A/N

I hope you've all enjoyed this chapter despite it being written from a different perspective then the previous chapters. I wanted to try something new and see if it works. Please feel free to leave a review and I'll try to get the next one out soon!