This one is going to be long.
Ryoko stared, mortified, at the seemingly dead Arin. "You.. killed your own kind! You're no better than we are!" He shouted. The lead Blanket started to pull a wrench from the back. "I have a few questions for you. Everytime you say something I don't like, I beat you with this wrench. I'm not going to kill you.. But I am going to hurt you." She grinned. "Why were you trespassing?" She asked him. "I fell from a small building." He answered the Blanket. She stepped towards him with a sadistic grin and hit his leg with the wrench. The indescribable pain ached in his leg and blood started to leak from the wound. "Wrong answer." She smiled. He looked at Arin in desperation. Wake up, wake up.. He thought in his head, as if she could hear him. "Next question… how did you almost escape? How did you break her hypnotism?" She inquired towards Ryoko. He paused for a moment." "Hypnotism?" What hypnotism, and what did it have to do with the Octolings? She sighed. "You Inklings don't know much. All Octolings and Elite Octolings are hypnotised with their goggles." The Blanket revealed. Another fact he'd never heard about. But the Blankets wore goggles, and the lead one was aware of their hypnotism. How was she allowed to know? Who knows? He thought to himself. Then, he remembered the question. "Oh right. Um.. I'm not sure, actually." He braced himself for pain. He knew that the Blanket wouldn't like that answer. Before he knew it, the Blanket hit him with the wrench, but this time in the stomach. He coughed out blood and his eyes narrowed. He felt as if he were about to pass out. He started to vomit blood. "Hey. That's disgusting." She sneered. He saw the light around him start to fade, but before he could pass out, the Blanket lifted his head up. "Count from 1000 backwards in sevens, and say it out loud." She grinned. He was confused by her command, but he did it anyways. "993, 986, 979…" He recited. "..How'd you even FIND this section of Octo Valley?" He wasn't going to tell a lie, so he told the truth, and nothing but the truth. "I stumbled upon it while studying Octoville." She was about to beat him with the wrench again, but she could tell he was telling the truth. She didn't know what to do, so she just asked him the next question. "Did you break or remove her goggles?" She read from the list. "No, not at all." He replied to her. "Huh, must've been a defective pair. Doesn't matter, we just released new ones, so.." She walked over to the closet. This was his chance! He wanted to wake Arin up, but he couldn't speak or move. He gave up and just waited. The Blanket pulled out some shades and walked towards Arin. She removed her goggles and threw then in the trash. For the first time, he could see her eyes with purple shade outlining them. He only got to see them for a short time before the Blanket put the shades on her and pressed a few buttons. She started to awake, but not like anytime before. She was stiff and strict, and looked up at the guard. "Yes, Rin?" She asked her. He was scared of her, for the first time. His eyes widened. But something opened up in his mind. If he took off her shades, wouldn't that bring her back? Also, how could she remember the Blanket's name but couldn't remember how she had helped him? His mind was spinning, but he remembered that Octoling tech was about 15 years ahead of Inkling technology. All that power.. That's why they needed the Great Zapfish. It was all clear. But they would work so much better if they were a team…" He sat in silence, hoping, hanging on to any bit of hope.. Then Arin lifted her shades for a split second and winked.