TOM POV
"Knock knock."I said, looking over at Scotty, who was examining a control panel, he didn't say anything, still looking at the panel. "Knock knock." I said again, Scotty reached over and pressed a button on his boombox. The song was an old human song that was discovered and translated to inklish, the part it was on was some guy saying he 'just killed a man' and that he 'didn't mean to make you cry' and that if he 'wasn't back this time tomorrow, carry on'. He turned up the music, trying to drown me out. "Knock knock!" I yelled over it. He finally gave in.
"Who's there?" He said, sighing.
"To." I said, trying to avoid snickering.
"To who?" He said, looking down at the panel, he pressed a few buttons
"No, it's to whom!" I said, busting out into laughter. The engineer looked over at me, rolled his eyes, then returned to his work. The music was on some part about how some guy called 'Beelzebub' had a devil put aside for him. Then it changed to an awesome guitar solo.
Oh, I should probably introduce myself, I'm Tom, the medic of the Skyforge, I have some short orange tentacles that I keep nice and neat, the only reason I signed onto here was because they had options for the outfits that were sweaters. And that was what I was wearing, a nice red sweater with a patch on the top right that had my rank on it, and on the left was a patch of a smiley face. Everybody else on this ship was very serious compared to me, the only other guy that really listened to me was Scotty and the Janitor, Christopher. The only thing me and him really talked about was video games and comic books.
YEVGENIYA POV
I fucking hate inklings.
Why? Stole all our zapfish, and two, locked me up in this stupid medbay, could've at least put a TV in here, I wasn't gonna be in here any longer. I ripped the tube connecting my arm to a bag of clear liquid out of my arm. I stood up and opened the window to the medbay, I looked out. Wow that is a long drop, good thing we octolings have our cool changing suits, I jumped out the window.
"Long fall boots." I said into the screen on the breastplate, no response. "Activate long fall boots." I said again, no response. Those inklings must have jamm-
I hit the ground painfully, I swear I could feel my feet disconnecting. I crumpled to the ground, biting on my fist to avoid screaming so I didn't attract attention. I laid there for what must've been fifteen minutes, although it felt like days. I eventually got up and started limping away, I'll catch a ride on the next ship.
Well speak of the devil, a ship was just preparing to leave. I hid behind some and bushes and looked down at the screen on my breastplate, it was back on, I must be out of the range of the jammer, "Activate grapple." I said into the screen, it responded with a beep before a miniature grappling hook came out. I aimed my arm at the ship as it was lifting off and pressed the button. A hook shot out and attached itself to the ship, I pressed the button again, the hook started pulling me towards it. I wish I could yell out a 'woo-hoo,' but that would alert the inklings. I kicked out my legs to soften the landing on the ship, I eventually hit against the ship and pulled myself in through a window.
I examined my surroundings, no inklings around. I ducked into a room next to where I landed, a small room with some control panels, a boombox was left on one of the panels. It was playing a translated human song about how 'Girls just wanna have fun.' I liked the song, but I couldn't risk staying here, a closet would be a better hiding place. I stepped out of the room and looked into another room. Shit, inklings. I quickly slammed the door and ran down the hall, I could hear somebody asking who that was. I ducked into a room labeled 'Broom closet'. I closed the door and sat in the corner. I heard somebody walking down the hall asking if anybody had wanted to use the bathroom. I closed my eyes, trying to get some sleep.