Change of plans happened as I was brainstorming and taking advice, sorry if you were looking forward to some fluffy cotton candy, but I did say I would lessen on the predictable cliches and whatnot, (though this kinda is cliche if you think about it, eh everything dramatic is cliche, GO DRAMA!)

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Agent 8 was so excited about the party that she didn't pay attention to where she was going, and before she knew it, nothing was similar anymore.

She considered calling Sam and seeing if she could find her, but then decided that she needed to be strong and independent, "I can't have gone too far" she said out loud, "I'll just go backwards until I see something familiar!"

~5 minutes later~

"HOW DID I GET EVEN MORE LOST!?" She yelled at nobody in particular.

~later~

Oh god it's 12 already, it's 2 hours until the party!" Said 8, to nobody but herself, again, she continued wandering around (a bad idea, but staying in one place didn't solve anything) until she finally got a ding from Sam who harshly yelled in chat: "Where are you!?"

She replied by saying she was lost and sending her location to described her surroundings to her, such as stores, road names, and whatnot, it was then she realized, she was in a pretty sketchy looking part of Inkopolis, so she quickly typed "please hurry" to her roommate, and put away her phone.

She figured right about now staying in one place was the better idea, and crouched down next to a wall to pass time.

10 minutes passed, until she heard a voice.

"Well, who do we have here?" Said someone from somewhere.

Almost immediately, she jumped up and surveyed her surroundings, until all of a sudden, a blue light dot appeared on her forehead.

A Charger line.

She quickly held her hands up, as a group of 4 inklings emerged from the darkness of the alley, she kept her hands up, but kept her guard even higher.

"An octarian, I've been seeing more and more of you freaks around, of course, we never take any action but out here..." he said, looking around the surroundings, "nobody really cares, do they fellas" he said addressing his crew behind him, all of which pointing a weapon at her.

She didn't dare look up to where the charger line was coming from, she already knew by looking at it that it was from one of the roofs, she scanned her enemies, all of them were wearing headgear that covered their faces, gas masks, bandanas, bandanas and sunglasses, she couldn't tell who they were.

"What do you want?" She said firmly, she was scared out of her wits, but one thing she remembered of her past life, was this.

She was a great actor.

Also throw in the fact that she's brave and fought tougher people in tougher conditions, her bravery was shining through for her today.

"Well missy" the leader said, who was wearing a black skull bandana over his face, "we don't particularly want anything..." he said, "we just want to keep inkopolis an octarian free society, what's wrong with that?"

Agent 8 couldn't even begin with what was wrong with that, but she kept silent on the subject, "I have friends you know" she said, not lying, but making it seem more intense, "powerful friends, they will find you if you hurt me" she said staring the leader dead in the eye.

"Well missy" he said taking out an N-Zap, "we don't really care, so long as your gone" he said pointing his weapon at her.

Welp, talking was out the window, all of a sudden everything was a blur to her opponents, they all shot at once, 8 ducked and dodged the charger shot and the rapid fire of multiple blasters and n-zaps, she was still equipped with her Turf war Gear, time to use it.

She threw an autobomb at her sniper, she heard an explosion and the sound of an inkling being splatted, likely headed to a nearby respawn station, something they likely didn't think about, taking out her trusty Octo Shot, she charged at her opponents, the N-zaps were dodgeable, but the blasters got her a bit, tackling the leader in the stomach, she used him as an inkling shield and shot at the blaster users, splatting them both, the other N-zap user screamed and tried to run, which she countered with a well thrown autobomb, which exploded on her target.

Grabbing the arm of the leader, she twisted it around until he yelled out in pain, they shouldn't have messed with someone who saved the world in high heels.

"Don't ever come near me, or anyone else, again" she whispered in the male inkling's ear, before she splatted him as well, watching his little squid ghost thing float off towards a respawn point.

She took a moment to breathe and relax her nerves, before collapsing on the ground in a shaking, nervous wreck as she clutched her sides tightly, tears began to form in the corners of her eyes when all of a sudden, a super jump marker appeared next to her

"...huh?" Said the agent as the market started to blacken our, signs of the user reaching their destination.

Then she heard the screams of Sam.

"aaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!" She yelled as she crashed into the ground next to her, when the dust cleared, agent 3 was laying. Facefirst on the ground, grumbling before getting up and dusting herself off.

"Whew, wow, long distance jumping is hard, probably should have gotten a bit closer rather then just jump the second I sense you nearby, owwwwww" she said wincing.

"So, you okay 8?" Sam started to say before getting tackled into a bear hug by the Octoling, all of a sudden Agent 3 was bombarded with an extremely fast amount of explanations as to what happened full of stammering, crying, and hyperventilating until Sam finally calmed the scared cephalopod down.

Besides, all 3 needed to do to get the gist of the situation was look around at all the ink sprayed everywhere.

Sam soothed the girl and had her go into octopus form as she carried her back to her apartment, bought some candy on the way there so when they got home, 8 had cheered up.

But it wasn't enough.

~around 10 minutes before 2~

"Eight, we gotta go soon, you ready?" Said Sam, only to find the Octoling with all her things ready, but crouched in the corner depressed.

"Hey... 8... what's wrong?" Asked Sam, heart aching just seeing the usually peppy Octoling depressed like that, "it's just..." 8 started, "up until now, everyone has been so nice, heck most inklings don't even notice the fact I'm an Octoling, the ones that do just ask for a selfie or something and then we're good..." the Octoling was slowly getting more depressed, which sucked, considering they were about to go to a party.

"But... now, those inklings... they meant to hurt me, badly, and... I was scared..." she said, tears starting to form again, "crazy right? I saved all of inkopolis, I beat you while mind controlled, risked my life, and slept for who knows how long sitting up in a train... yet this... this scared me..." said 8, smiling but still crying, meaning her attempt to look happy was failing, miserably.

8 was about to say something else, but was cut off by a gentle hug from 3, "it's okay..." she said softly, causing the waterworks on 8 to start up at full speed, "some people... they are just afraid of change, and not ready to accept you yet..." she said softly, "but hey, even if there are those people, there are still us! Your friends, you have Off the Hook, the Squid Sisters, Captain... and you have me, and I'll always be someone who can give you a shoulder to cry on" said Sam kindly, while 8 cried full force onto her shoulder, they stayed there for a while, sitting there, quietly, until eventually 8 got it all out of her system.

8 sniffed and said, "thanks Sam, I don't know what I would do without you" she said finally smiling, though the tear marks were still fresh. "Hey, no problem" said Sam returning a toothy grin, "now, ready to go to that party?" She said enthusiastically, to which 8 smiled and said "yup!"

Then they saw the notifications on their phones asking where they were.

And the time, which was 2:30

They were late

"CARP WERE LATE!!"

"Aaaah I'm sorry! I cried to mu-"

"ITS FINE LETS JUST GO!!"

Whew, got that done, now I've actually thrown in some actual plot into this story XD (sweatdrops)

I'm hoping to always be brainstorming or writing when I have the chance so updates should come often, especially since it's summer right now.

I'm probably gonna also start on another fic based on an anime I watch, hopefully I find it in the topics section XD

Anyways, thanks for all the support you guys have given me, it really means a lot

Thanks for reading!