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Sara stepped out of the elevator, she honestly expected the worse until she realized glass is immune to ink, whoever stopped her elevator must have given up and had her move again because their plan obviously wasn't working.
She saw a large computer with a map of the area on it, it read on top of the map, "Octarian Main HQ", meaning she was in a bad freaking place.
She was sure she was could find a place that could get her back to somewhere familiar, Cephalopod HQ was a place where she could get to Inkopolis from, but from the distance she was at, she couldn't tell.
Then she noticed Coral standing by it.
Coral turned around to face her, "well" she started to say, "you're here..." she continued, "I see you got rid of the Ink tank I gave you..." she said, looking at the standard Octoling Ink Tank on her back.
"Yeah, it's nice not having a bomb strapped to my back" Sara replied, a hint of spite in her voice, "only thing I needed then was a giant 8-Ball and I would be set" she said, earning a confused look from Coral, "it's an inside joke..." she said softly, before pointing her weapon at her, "you hurt the person I love Coral" she said angrily, "don't think I'm going to just forgive you for that..." she said angrily.
Coral sighed, she took out a purple needle, Sara recognized it as the weapon that could deal so much damage, and stepped back, reach to dodge if she had to, but to her surprise, Coral dropped it on the ground and crushed it with her heel, "I'm not going to use it again if you want..." she said sadly, "we've stopped production even..." she said, as if she was trying to lighten the mood.
It didn't work.
Sara's anger had been boiling up just looking at the girl, what Coral had just done didn't help in the slightest, "what! You think I'm going to believe that!?" She yelled angrily, "that's such an obvious lie it pisses me off more!" She yelled again, her mental profanity filter breaking, Coral sighed, Sara could have sworn she saw a small tear in her eye, but she ignored it.
"Well Clara, or should I say now, Sara..." she said calmly, looking her dead in the eye, "even if you don't remember me, I can't let you leave without a fight" she said, pointing her Octo Shot Pro at her.
Sara's instincts kicked in the second the weapon was pointed at her, she threw a bomb at her opponent and inked a small path to her right, swimming to the end of it before popping out and firing at her opponent.
Coral had already dodged and went out of her range, though Sara was still in Coral's longer range, she got hit a few times by the essential ink laser before ducking being some computer equipment, she inked some area and hid in it, refilling her ink, only to then hear the sound of a special being activated.
Next thing she knew it, she was running from a series of auto bombs, something she had grown to hate after a certain mental battle she had in the subway, if she had to scale this fight from Agent 3 level hard to her Inner Agent 3 hard, this girl was somewhere in the middle.
Luckily for her, that meant that she could still win this, she heard the bomb rush stop and charged straight at the Octoling, ducking to (mostly) avoid the light-blue ink that was being fired at her, before Coral knew it, Sara's knee ended up straight in her stomach, causing her to fall to the floor, with Sara standing above her, foot on her weapon, and an Octo Shot pointed at her face.
Coral stared at the determined face above her, she was panting, hard, sweat was visible on her face as she stared single-mindedly at her opponent, and for some reason, Coral smiled before bursting into laughter, not maniacal laughter or anything else, just pure, genuine, laughter.
This of course, both suprised and confused Sara.
Her enemy, the one who hurt her, and Sam, so badly, was giving off a laugh as though she had just heard the most hilarious of jokes, and it... actually made her feel better, by all means, she should be furious that she was laughing right now, but for some reason, hearing her laugh just soothed her.
As she stared at the Octoling's face, she went into a trance, from Coral's point of view, after she stopped laughing, Sara was staring at her, but at the same time, seeing something else.
All of a sudden, Sara shook her head, blinked a few times, and looked at her, dead in the eye.
"I can't forgive you for what you've done" she said calmly, "but given time, maybe j will" she said, giving a cute little grin, before pulling the trigger, splatting her.
Sara watched as the little octo ghost flew through the roof, looking for a respawn pad, she smiled, she remembered one of her Mem Cakes, one that was shaped like an Octoling.
Though parted by the ocean deep,
My oldest friend, we meet again.
I touch your face; you rouse from sleep.
She smiled wider now, "see you later, my oldest friend" she said, her thoughts however, were interrupted by the sound of an elevator coming closer, she quickly looked around a spotted a button that was labeled "stop elevators", even covered in ink, the white letter were visible, she pressed the button frantically, the elevator, holding a series of Octoling soldiers, which she saw in the camera screen next to her, beginning to bang on the door.
She let out a sigh of relief, looking around at the panels in front of her, she pressed a button that read "return elevators to ground floor", a button that Coral likely didn't press on purpose, and pressed it, returning all of the octolings in the elevators back down to the ground floor.
Agent 8 moved to the main computer, looking at the map of the area, only to end up severely disappointed, there was a jump pad area that could take her to Cephalopod HQ, where she could get back to Inkopolis from, but it was too far away, and the entire facility was already alerted to her position.
"Welp, I don't have any better ideas..." she said to herself, and with that, she opened a door to the stairs, and went up to the roof.
5 minutes later
"THIS WAS A HORRIBLE IDEA" she yelled as she super jumped from area to area, she had left without actually confirming the direction to the building she was looking for, and was now just super jumping from area to area trying to get a birds-eye view of the place, trying to figure out WHERE SHE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE GOING.
Then DJ Octavio showed up.
He started to yell something that 8 could kind of hear, but not entirely, though it sounded like he was yelling something similar to "IM GONNA DUBSTOMP YOUR FACE IN", something entirely possible, since he seemed to be in an upgraded Octobot King.
She was about to jump again, only to stop because she ended up surrounded, and a jump would take too much time, and now she was jumping rooftops, dodging ink balls, and running from a series of Octolings chasing her.
Oh and there was also the Killer Wails, the flying fists, and giant bombs from Octavio, along with his music, which was starting to annoy her.
By all means she should have been splatted by now, but she was getting incredibly lucky.
Then she found a conveniently placed, inactivated grind rail, Octarians seemed to always have those.
And now, she was grinding around the entire area, jumping from rail to rail, avoiding rails working with enemy ink, and all in all, just having a REALLY STRESSFUL DAY.
Ink was flying everywhere, Sara saw the building that could get her out of the area, but it was freaking surrounded, meaning her only escape, was cut off.
She cursed, though nobody heard it over the noise of the music, in any case, it seemed that the only thing she could do now, was fight, and stay alive.
Meanwhile, back to Agent 3
"Done!" Yelled Marina, everyone celebrated as the jump pad activated, "come on!" Said Sam, adjusting her ragged cape, "let's go!" She said, running to the pad, "we'll see you later gramps!" Said Marie as she followed Agent 3, while Cuttlefish got in the truck with Sheldon and C.Q Cumber.
"Ready?" Asked Ian, looking at Kelly as Orion went towards the pad, "ready!" Kelly said, determined, then the sound of Sam jumping was heard, then Callie, then Marie, so they quickly followed.
Mission Rescue Agent 8, was underway.
Ahhh cliffhangers, gotta love em, or hate em, or love hate em, either way, next chapter is the big fight! Hope you all enjoyed this chapter, and I'll see you next time!