Chapter Four: A Jumble of Things
"Wake up." an unfamiliar said. It was rough, scratchy, and harsh. Jet blinked a few times.
Ugh… what happened? he thought. Jet Lag realized that he was sitting up, and that alarmed him. He tried to move off the wall, but that was pointless, as he was tied to it. He looked left and right, but only saw Octolings with pointed guns at him. Right in front of him was an inkling boy, probably 21, with the Cool Squid hairstyle. He had yellow ink and- you know who it is. It's Boss.
"WAKE UP!" Jet felt a slap to his face. Now his confusion turned into adrenaline. His eyes went wide with shock, disgust and fear.
"Who are you?" Jet asked, slight anger in his tone.
"Me? Well, I'm no one! Yes, just the person who has squidnapped you!"
"Um… why…?" Jet questioned, starting to run his mouth. "I mean, it's kinda pointless, don't ya' thin-"
"SHUT UP!" Boss screamed. "Never in my life have I had this annoying of a hostage!" He took out an Octo Shot and placed it against Jet's forehead.
He gritted his teeth in disgust. "Grrr…" Jet muttered under his breath.
"Now, tell me what you saw in the file. My fool of a Hunter destroyed it!"
"Hunter…? What's that?"
"Those former inkling creatures. Now answer the question!"
"I don't know… I didn't see anything." Jet replied.
"You better tell me now." Boss put pressure on the trigger.
"I'm serious! I only went in the room to check on my sister, not to investigate the room!"
"And you have no information on the whereabouts of Agent 3?"
"WHAT!? NO!" Jet screamed, shocked HE was the one chosen for interrogation.
"Then it was the girl who read the file."
"Huh… Where's Keys?" Jet asked. "WHERE'S KEYS!?"
"Oh, she's here, and her interrogation will start as soon as she wakes up."
"You let go of my sister right now!" Jet screamed.
"Sorry I gotta do this, kid." Boss raised his Octo Shot once more, and clearly gave one easy shot to Jet's head.
BOOM!
Jet was out cold. "Take him to the Great Zapfish hotspot, how 'bout?" Boss ordered.
A Hunter walked in the room and put Jet in a bag, which it slung over it's shoulder. Then the Hunter teleported to the square. It was midnight and Splatfest had continued. It dropped him on the Zapfish, and then teleported away.
"Ugh…" Jet muttered, opening his eyes. "Where am- AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!" The Zapfish had curled his tail around Jet, so he was hanging upside down in midair. He struggled and wiggled and waggled and – you get the idea.
Why am I up here? he thought. How in the world do I get down?!
As much as Jet tried to wiggle free from the Zapfish, it wouldn't even think about letting go. The blood was starting to get to his head, which was making it hurt.
"Ow… I can't… get… down…" Jet bellowed. "Let go of me you stupid Zapfish!" He kicked and screamed and squirmed.
Nothing.
"Seriously? Lemme down! Please!" The Zapfish brought Jet over to his face and sniffed him. It then dropped Jet…
…right into a dumpster.
"Eeew! GROSS!" Jet screamed. The Zapfish almost seemed to be laughing. "GRR!" Jet grumbled. He crawled out of the dumpster and out into the plaza. Yuck… he really smelled!
Everyone in plaza cringed around him, and Jet slumped back to the apartment complex. He checked in and walked upstairs, seeing the security tape on the door next him. Wait, security tape?! HIS SISTER!
"Um, police! Police!" Jet called. A man walked over to him.
"Uh, can I help you?" He asked.
"Yeah, is my sister in there- Oh hey! Ray Blast? Is that you?"
"Yeah." Ray answered. "Long time no see, huh?"
"Yeah. Now listen: is Keys Lime in there?"
"Nope. Not here. Sorry Jet." He started to walk away.
"Wait, but can I come in and check?"
"I'm not supposed to do this pal, but for an old friend like you, sure!" Ray agreed.
Jet walked past the security tape and ran into the bedroom. He saw their weapons on the floor in there. He walked around, and then into the closet.
But when the nyges came out, he wasn't in the apartment anymore.
HUH?!
He was in the… the… the…
"I'm in Cephalon HQ!" he cried. Jet then put his hands over his mouth. He started tip-toeing somewhere. To be sneakier, he went into squid form and swam, uh, squirmed, whatever you call a squid moving in no ink.
Jet didn't have a weapon or an ink tank for that matter, so fighting would not be an option.
Man… he thought. I wish I would've brought my weapon with me AT LEAST.
Jet kept going. He didn't really know how he got here or when (if) he'd get out. So, steady did it, he swam (ink-less) forward.
Eventually, Jet Lag saw a bunch of kettles. Reading about it in school, he knew that Octarians lived down there. But apparently Agent 4 had defeated them and-
WAIT!
THAT'S IT!
AGENT 4!
I need to find Agent 4. he thought. And fast… my sister is in BIG trouble. Jet Lag thought he'd probably be somewhere in here.
Jet looked for about another fifteen minutes, and still there was no sight of anyone or anything. The moving ground didn't even work anymore, which told him this place was abandoned. He decided right then and there, he needed to get out of there.
"Hello?" Jet called out. His voice just echoed across this bare wasteland. Making his way to the middle of the map, there was a launch pad. Excitedly he got in it, but where it might go never quite reached his mind.
Jet Lag flew over to another launch pad. Apparently he was in another Octarian base. He went into the launch pad again, then the next one, then the next one. He eventually came to a kettle, and Callie and Marie were chatting away.
Shocked, Marie screamed, "Who are you?"
"It was an accident! I was only trying to- I- AHH!" he jumped down the big kettle, and surprisingly ended up in Inkopolis. Wait… Inkopolis PLAZA?
Nope.
Square.
(Just squidding with ya' guys!)
Jet Lag hopped out and looked around. He was getting no where! Ugh! That's when he felt something wrap around him. It was the Great Zapfish's tail.
Jet felt stupid doing this, but he shouted, "Please! I need you, Zappy. Can I call you that? Anyways, my sister has been taken hostage by Octo Corp. (Yeah, I saw it on Boss' white coat). Please take me there! Please!"
The Great Zapfish just stared at him. Jet bit his lip and felt close to tears. He wanted to be tough- he didn't want to cry! At least, not in public, while being held by a giant electric eel-catfish type creature.
Then, the Zapfish uncurled around the tower. It flew out into the sky, and went west from there. Jet took out his cell and recorded this.
"I'm riding the Great Zapfish." he said in his video. Then he showed it's head. But he went back to recording where it went. After it was done recording, he accidently posted it out on Squidstagram, but he didn't know even yet.
Jet Lag hopped off Zappy, and onto the mushy mud ground. The Great Zapfish somehow shrunk itself down, and squeezed into a quarter sized hole in the ground. Jet turned into a squid and squeezed down, too. They came out into a large room where there were weapons, ink tanks, bombs and specials all waiting in cans. They were all hero version though. Oh well. It meant they'd have extra power.
Jet grabbed his best weapon, the Splat Dualies. Or the 'Hero Dualies', then grabbed these new developed bombs, 'Hero Suction Bombs'. They exploded as fast a Splat Bomb, and you could throw them two at a time with the 'Hero Tank'. He grabbed every special but didn't open them.
Then Jet found just a spare 'Hero Suit' laying on the ground. Like what Agent 4 had worn! He also had the older version of a Hero Suit, the one like what Agent 3 had worn.
He threw on Agent 3's suit and noticed just then the Great Zapfish was gone. He was on his own for this. Journeying down the halls, Jet heard a scream. He'd recognize that scream anywhere.
Keys!
Author's Notes
Woomy~
Hi there, woomies and nyges! Obliviblur checking in. This chapter was, as the title states, a jumble of things, following up on Jet's big misadventure to find his sister.
(NOTE: SORRY I HAVE NOT UPDATED VERY OFTEN, BUT WITH SCHOOL AND ALL, IT IS BECOMING HARDER AND HARDER... I CERTAINLY WILL NOT BE ABLE TO UPDATE OFTEN. SORRY! I HOPE YOU WOOMIES UNDERSTAND...)
Welp, looks like that's it.
Obliviblur, out!