Trouble In Inkopolis

new friend

"sorry to bother ya, but were you the one calling?" The voice popped out from behind one of the barrels "Carter?!" "That's right! Luckily I'm alive!" Carter says, tipping his hat at all of them "but..h-how did you get here..?" "I dunno, something just grabbed me and then I was knocked out!" Carter seemed aloof at the fact he had been missing for at least 8 hours, maybe he hadn't connected the dots yet or he's too careless to do so "Carter, do you know how long you've been here?" "Not at all! I was probably asleep for half of the time anyways!" "Y-you uhm..you've been down here for 8 h-hours.." Carter turned to Mumu with a surprised expression "8 hours?!" "Y-yeah.." "you've literally been missing for 8 hours" "gee..well, I've gotta get back up to the surface! I don't want people thinking I'm dead!" "Actually..would you mind joining us while we try finding an escape? It's risky to go solo.." "not at all! I was actually waiting here for someone to come find me anyways!"

The group continued walking with Carter now with them, who the hell even knows how long they've been down there already, someone probably already reported it and now they're missing having a search team look for them, but that's unlikely since nobody had searched for a single inkling since they started disapearing. "Up ahead! Looks like there's a couple of inklings!" "Stay cautious, it might be some enemies tricking us.." cautiously, the group slowly walked into the next room, in there was a blue inkling all by themselves "s'cuse me? Are you the only one here?" "..no, there was others but...all of them landed in the water.." Mumu shivered "e-explains the clothes floating in the water..." Carter walked up to the inkling "hey, if you just stick with us, I can promise you you'll make it out of here, k?" "O-okay.." Carter had already decided for everyone that if there's an inkling/inklings in a room, they should join the group to prevent the risk of getting killed if they're trying to go solo leaving this mysterious place

"(These idiots...got themselves into a mess, Carter thinks he's the leader eh? Well...I, an inkling who doesn't mess around, will kill all of them..even if I die in the process...and I'm gonna make sure that son of a bitch Penny is gone by the time we get to the last room..)" this inkling wore a hoodie, covering their face so nobody can find out the identity of who they were, nobody spared a passing glance at what they were thinking and didn't know that at the last room..

Could cost their lives..