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Wow. That break was exactly what I needed XD, but I'm glad to be back!
Anyways, the story will not be getting updated as quickly as before, but it won't be multiple days between them like this break unless something happens inbetween, anyways, it's good to be back here!
Thank you for all the support you have given me, and I hope you enjoy the coming chapters as well!
Now, please enjoy!
Sara woke up on a couch, a blanket over her, she woke up slowly as she scanned her surroundings, it seemed like a nice apartment, nicer than her and Sam's she was forced to admit.
Then she remembered why she was here, Sam.
The thought really woke her up, in a flash she was off the couch and standing up, she was incredibly worried, last she saw Sam, she was in incredible pain, memories of the incident were returning to her, they found Coral, Coral threw a dart, Sam suffered, and then she...
Oh god she did... she just... oh god.
Just like that, she was back on the couch, burying her face into a pillow, and blushing furiously, she did the thing.
She wasn't ready for the thing yet, but she remembered she had no choice, while at first she was filled with embarrassment, it was mostly replaced with uncertainty, and sadness, it was an incredible moment, but under the circumstances at which she had to do it... she didn't want it that way, she wanted her first kiss with Sam to be happy, but this was just stressful, and now here she was, no clue where she was, and honestly confused as to why she was in such a nice room.
All of a sudden, the door opened, and in walked Coral. "Oh!" she said surprised, "your awake! That's good" she said, setting a tray of food down on a table in the middle of the room, "where am I?" Sam said, her guard up, she wasn't going to have her guard down for a second around this octoling, "oh this?" she said calmly, "this is just a room I had made, your not going in some cold prison cell like a prisoner!" she said laughing, "but I am a prisoner!" Sara said angrily, "what!? No your not!" Coral said in response, Sara then pointed to a picture of a window on the wall, "That's a picture and you know it!" She said to the octoling, there were indeed, no windows in the room, giving it an almost suffocating feel, "and I have a bomb strapped to my back!" She yelled, pointing to the ink tank on her back, it was almost exactly like the one she used underground, and it had a white packet attached to the back, "What! How did you know!?" She said surprised, Sara scoffed, the amount of times an 8-ball fell off the testing grounds during her time in the subways were too prominent in her memory.
"Anyways..." she started to say, "why am I here?" She said cautiously, "you're here..." she started, "because I'm going to make you remember who you are" she said, taking out the necklace, except for some reason, her head didn't hurt this time.
"You gave me this!" She said desperately, "Please Clara!" She said holding it up, but Sara just gave her a cold look.
Sara walked forward and took the necklace in her hands, she looked at it for a second before giving it back.
"It doesn't matter anymore Coral" She said coldly, "even if I remembered anything about you, I wouldn't be friends with you anymore" she said, Coral's face turning into a look of shock, "b-but why?!" She said desperately, a glint appearing in her eye.
Sara walked away, then looked back and said, "because of what you've done to me, and Sam" she said, Coral began to protest, but Sara cut her off, her tone changing to an angry one, "you HURT her Coral," she said angrily, "you hurt me! You put Sam through so much pain, I don't think I could ever forgive you!" She yelled.
Coral began to defend herself, "I had too! How else would I have gotten you!" She said, the glint turning to a tear, Sam didn't back down, "it doesn't matter!" She yelled angrily, "you hurt her, and I was forced to do something I wasn't ready for yet!" She said, "You two were dating for like a month already!" Coral yelled, "in a way I just gave you the push!" She said trying to defend herself.
"Oh yeah, putting my girlfriend through HORRIBLE SUFFERING, was the EXACT push I needed!" Sara yelled back, "you don't get it do you!? I kissed her because I HAD to, it should have been a good time when we did it, but now, our first time is because SOMEONE threw a SUFFERING DART AT HER" she yelled even louder, "the truth is Coral, if I could go back in time" she started to say, lowering her voice, "I would have shot you on sight, and not go through that with Sam" she said angrily.
Coral was speechless, she didn't know what to say, she was obviously on the verge of tears, but Sara honestly didn't care, for once she didn't care about another person's sadness, "leave me alone..." she said softly, before turning her back to the Octoling, Coral wiped her eyes, and angrily said, "fine" before leaving, and as she was leaving, 8 Said, "oh and by the way, call me Sara" she said, as the girl left. Sara went back to the couch, laying down, trying to ease the worry she felt for Sam.
But rewind a bit, to right when Coral was leaving, the door was locked by passcode, and across from the room was a mirror, pretty bad choice of design if you asked Sara, but she wasn't complaining.
She had seen the passcode Coral typed to unlock the passcode.
"0318... 0138... 0138..." she repeated in her head repeatedly.
Her plan to escape was in development.
~meanwhile, in Inkopolis~
Sam woke up suddenly, startling everyone, she was in her bed, the entire Squidbeak Splatoon around her.
"Whoa! You okay?" Pearl said as Sam looked around her, everyone was looking worried as they converged on her, Sam felt like she had just been hit by a plane, not a bus, a plane, "Callie and Marie found you out in Octo Valley, yours and 8's stuff a little distance away" Kelly said, "What happened?" She said giving Sam a caring look, Sam shook her head and tried to remember what had happened, she was out in Octo Valley with Sara, then Coral showed up, she was hit by a dart, she had the worst few minutes of her entire damn life, and Sara ki-
Sam's face turned beet red, prompting Marina to panic and yell "oh god is she sick!?" before Sam reassured her she felt (mostly) fine.
Details were returning to her, she remembered Coral taking Sara away while she could barely move, Sam gritted her teeth, she let her guard down too much, and now this was the price, "We found Coral..." she started to say, as she began explaining what had happened while leaving the ki-*ahem, the thing out of it, saying Sara had just given her the cure and she managed to drink it.
"That's terrible!" Marie said shocked, "to think they had made something like that..." she started to say, before trailing off, "well, we had already gotten the gist of Sara being taken when we found you" Callie said, "You were kind of unconscious but not really, you were saying "They took her! They Took her!" a lot" she said, giving a sad look at Sam, "There was also the fact both your weapons were there but not Sara" said Sheldon, holding up their weapons and ink tanks, Sam was just getting more and more depressed.
"Well, it seems we have an Octonapping on our hands!" Said Cuttlefish, pointing his cane into the air, "the only thing to do now is to get her back!" He said enthusiastically, being squidnapped multiple times at this point, this didn't seem like such a big deal to him.
"I wish we could" Marina started, "but we have no idea where she is" she said holding up a computer, on her MS Paint software again, "I already hacked into the Cephalopod HQ database, she isn't there" she said showing a quickly made picture of a UFO with an octopus above it, and an X over a picture of Sara.
"Marina's been hacking for a while now, trying to figure out which base she's ended up in" Pearl said smiling, a picture of marina shooting hyperbombs at a little octopus, likely symbolizing the octarians. "They upgraded their security since I was last with them so it may take a while" Marina said sadly, a picture of a clock showing up in front of everything, "but I promise, we will find her, and soon" Marina said, placing a hand on 3's shoulder, a heart showing up on the computer screen.
Everyone stared at her for a moment.
"What?" She said, confusion in her voice, "Seriously what!?" She repeated, "I'm sorry I'm just too amazed by the fact you explained that in MS Paint to remember anything you just said" Kelly said, bewildered, Marina sighed and began her explanation again, this time without her laptop.
~later~
Kelly walked out of the building, still really worried about Sam, they all agreed to let Marina do the hacking so they could find 8 as soon as possible, but she was still worried about how 3 was taking it. Callie and Marie both told her to rest up, since there was nothing else they could do, which Sam openly disagreed with, but was forced to accept it when she collapsed on her bed, she was still recovering from what she had experienced.
"What's with the glum face?" Said a voice from behind, surprising her, she turned around quickly, and leaning against the wall of the building were Ian and Orion, though Orion looked half asleep.
"You look like someone just died" Ian said, grinning, "w-what are you guys doing here?" She said nervously, she got nervous around this guy for some reason, the only other people she's gotten nervous around were Callie and Marie, now this guy?
"Well me and Orion here were chilling at the Crust Bucket" He said placing a hand on Orion's head, earning a "stop that" from him, "when we saw you and a bunch of other guys carrying a girl into that building" he said, taking a bite out of a Seanwich from the food truck.
Kelly winced, they probably should have been a little more sneaky when they were taking 3 to her apartment, "o-oh! That..." she started to say, trying to think of a white lie, "we uhhh found my friend passed out nearby..." she started to say, not exactly lying, "we were just taking her home" she said, finishing up the lie-that-isn't-a-lie-and-is-really-just-the-truth-while-leaving-out-multiple-details.
"Ohhhh" Ian said, apparently buying all of it, but Orion who was actually listening squinted at her, as if he didn't really believe her, making her sweat up a storm in nervousness.
All of a sudden, Callie and Marie walked out, chatting away before stopping in front of them, Ian and Orion stared at the idols.
There was a moment of awkward silence, before the following was yelled out.
"Oh car-"
"Are you the squid sis-!?"
Both were cut off by Kelly placing a hand on both Marie and Ian's mouths, preventing Ian from alerting the whole square, and Marie because she was also yelling.
After they calmed down, the cousins laughed nervously as Ian and Orion stared at them, jaws dropped, Ian began saying "a-are you... f-friends with..." before succumbing to shock, and staying silent, Orion's mouth hung open as he stared wide-eyed at the girls, it was no surprise, all of the Octolings in inkopolis were big fans of the Squid Sisters, their Inkantation freeing them from the Octarians.
While Ian began introducing himself excitedly, Orion placed a hand on Kelly's shoulder.
"We need to talk" he said to her, before walking a short distance away, Kelly shrugged and followed, "what's up?" She said to the Octoling Boy, he turned around and said to her, "your part of the New Squidbeak Splatoon aren't you" He said, giving her a look she couldn't read, she didn't say anything, she didn't know what to say actually, so a moment of awkward silence passed.
~meanwhile with Ian and the Sisters~
Ian began shaking their hands multiple times, saying things like "I love your songs!" And "it's so nice to meet you!" To them, they exchanged glances, they both knew what the other thought of this boy.
Competition
Ian gave his signature grin as he took a selfie with the two girls, they would all get along fine together, though they would be competing for a long time to come over something that Kelly wouldn't know about for a long time.
~meanwhile, back to Sam~
Sam was upset, the amount of how upset she was was unfathomable, even if a supercomputer, with Marina using it, could calculate for a million years, and never come close to how upset she was.
The other emotion she was feeling was worry, she was upset because her body wouldn't do what she wanted, and what she wanted was to jump out of bed, and storm every damn base the octarians might have, until she found 8, instead however, her body seemed keen on staying in bed.
Then put in the worry she felt for Sara, which was off the charts, and you have a very depressed inkling girl.
Marina was typing away at her computer, fingers flying faster than any of them could type combined, Captain Cuttlefish observed from behind her, muttering something about how advanced things were these days, while Pearl gave her moral support as bags began to form under Marina's eyes.
Sheldon had to go back to the Ammo Knights shop, but he had given Sam her weapons and ink tank, along with Sara's, and was told that they were now in perfect condition, Sheldon gave said he hoped she recovered soon, and left the building.
Sam held up her phone, going to a folder in her pictures labeled "Sara and me!"
Inside were a month and a half's worth of pictures with her and Sara in it, she scrolled down to the bottom, starting a slideshow from the first picture, it showed a selfie taken by Sara while they were on the helicopter, Sam smiling while rubbing her bandages head behind Pearl and Marina who were closer to Sara, Cuttlefish popping up above their heads at the top of the photo, waving his hands in the air.
The next we're a trip down memory lane, there was Sam in her first set of clothing, her and Sara after her first Turf War, the party, everyone in the pool, Sara and Sam both blushing and avoiding eachothers gaze after what had happened before the picture was taken, Kelly being the one taking the selfie, her and everyone else smiling, she chuckled a bit at her and Sara's attitude towards eachother after the "incident".
There was their first date, their second, the time the group went to the beach, all in the shallow parts of the water.
As more recent photos started popping up, a thought she had been keeping out of her head finally made it in.
What if she never saw her again?
"Oh my god SAM ARE YOU OKAY!?" Yelled Pearl as Marina who was still in hyperfocus mode kept typing, "huh?" Sam said, confused at what the problem was, then she put her hand to her face, realizing it was wet.
She was crying.
"H-huh?!" She said, startled, she began trying to wipe the tears away, but they kept coming, the waterworks coming through full force. Marina actually stopped typing, noticing what was happening and starting to panic.
"W-why am I... why am I..." Sam started to say, her voice cracking and breaking down, in a flash, everyone was around her, and she was embraced by Cuttlefish, Marina, and Pearl at once.
Then she broke down.
All of the fear, her worry, her despair, it all cams flooding out, as she started wailing, clutching everyone tight, she had kept all of this within herself, trying to stay as strong as she could during the events unfolding.
But if you think of people as tea cups, it's like this, everyone is different, some hold more water than others, some hold very little, some hold a lot.
But eventually, if you keep adding more and more to a single cup, it eventually overflows, Sam's cup had finally run out of room, and everything she was holding back finally came out in a storm of emotions.
Everyone held her tightly between them, as tears and snot and blubbers for words came crashing out.
It felt better this way, was a thought that entered her mind during this, to finally let it all out.
And that moment, while it only lasted around 8 minutes, felt like it had lasted an eternity.
HOOOOOOOOOO BABY I DID IT.
I honestly love writing this story, I love it and the characters that I've molded, if I actually had any talent with art, I would be making a twitter account or something and posting fanfics and updates on there, in fact I might actually do the updates thing, hmm, thoughts for later.
Anyways, I'm glad you all supported me in this story and that you were understanding of my break, and it's good to finally be back!
I hope you enjoyed this chapter! Please share with other people, and review actually, because I love hearing all of your feedback!
Till next time! Stay Fresh!
(Oh and one last thing, I've made a forum, and I'm not exactly sure how to exactly tell people about it or invite people to come and talk in it, if someone could explain how forums work in detail that would be great, but I've made one, so, check out my account and check it out then? I only have one so it should be easy to spot XD)