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Part Thirteen

Warning: This part mentions swear words.

[One hour later]

Sophia walked far enough from the evil octopus lair in case Boss regained consciousness and tried to sniff her out again. It was about two in the morning now, but it was still dark, so Sophia was using the lamp posts to guide her through the night.

She decided it was safe and pulled out her phone. She dialed a number. "Hey."

"Hey," the other voice responded.

"So, uh," Sophia said, "you know how you dropped me into a hole with intentions for me to suffer and die a miserable death and then I sold you to DUCK then you sold me to the octopuses whom I hate with a passion?"

"Yeah," Emily said.

"Let's just forget about that," Sophia said.

"Yeah okay," Emily replied.

"Yup," Sophia said.

"Okay," Emily replied.

"Okay so," Sophia began, "I think the octopus boss is dead."

"That's cool," Emily replied. "Is that it?"

"Pretty much," Sophia told her.

"Uhhh. Do you wanna join me on my private cruise in Hawaii?" Emily asked.

"Yes yes yes!" Sophia responded. "When is it? Now?"

"Not now. At like. Nine," Emily replied. "Funny thing is that I teleported here at twelve and then when I got there it was nine at night yesterday. Or today. And now it's eleven from yesterday. Or today."

"Wait, I'm confused," Sophia said.

"Can you teleport here?" Emily asked.

"I don't think I have that ability," Sophia replied.

"Uhh okay then just buy a ticket," Emily said.

"But I don't have that money—"

"Sorry, I have to go count my cash," Emily said. "Goodbye!" She hung up.

"Dang it," Sophia said.

[In Hawaii, ten hours later]

Sophia had spent the last ten hours robbing a bank, sleeping, buying a ticket, eating, sleeping, and finally flying to Hawaii. It was not a joy ride, but she supposed maybe it was worth it for a private cruise.

Then she had to travel to Emily's very private and isolated beach house right by the beach (who woulda thunk). It was not a short journey, that's all I can say.

"Hey, you're finally here. The boat was about to leave," Emily called to Sophia from upon her yacht.

"Yeah, uh, there was a little setback," Sophia said. "A money situation."

"Oh, how did you fix it?"

"I robbed a bank."

"Nice. Now get on the yacht."

Sophia climbed onto the strangely oversized yacht. Must be nice to be rich, Sophia thought to herself.

"Where exactly is this cruise gonna go?" she asked Emily.

"Uh. I don't know. Somewhere, hopefully," Emily replied. "I guess it's a mystery. That's fun."

Then the yacht started moving.

[Two minutes later]

"Er," Sophia stammered.

"Want some lobster?" Emily asked. "There's an all-you-can-eat buffet."

"Uhh no," Sophia replied.

"Okay then," Emily said as she plopped herself into a lawn chair sitting on the deck.

"Y'know, we can't sell each other on the dark web anymore since nobody's simping for us and we have no enemies," Sophia said to Emily.

"Woah," Emily said. "I mean. Unless—"

And then a rabid rabbit emerged from the waters and climbed onto deck.

"Hello Emily," the bunny said.

"Ew you're ugly," Emily said.

"Rude," the bunny said.

"No ragrats," Emily replied and tossed the rabbit overboard.

"AHHH!!" the bunny screeched. "I'll get you next time, you piece of shart!" The bunny slowly moved out of sight.

"Gosh, I hate ugly things," Emily said as she watched the water to make sure the bunny was actually gone.

"Uh, you were saying?" Sophia said to Emily.

"Oh, yeah. I was saying unless some sort of other enemy or simp comes along, we can't sell each other," Emily replied.

They stood in silence, the only sounds being the waves of the ocean gently hitting the deck.

"Y'know, that bunny could be an enemy," Sophia said.

"Hmm," Emily mumbled.

"They would probably pay a lot to have you dead," Sophia said.

"Hmmm."

"Maybe like a million dollars."

"Hmmm."

"Hypothetically, though."

"Too bad it's dead," Emily said and shrugged.

"You never know. . .," Sophia said suspiciously.

Emily turned to look at Sophia. "Are you tryna hint something?" Emily asked her.

"Nahhhh," Sophia replied.

Emily frowned and gave Sophia a hard stare. She was suspicious that what Sophia was suggesting was not going to be just a hypothetical situation.

"If you sell me to that stupid rabbit, I won't hesitate to sell you to Octopus Two," Emily told Sophia.

Sophia paused before she finally said, "Well. Shit."

"I mean. I probably would sell you to him anyhow. . .," Emily said while holding up her phone. "It really all depends on how much I can get him to pay me."

Now Sophia got nervous. She stared at Emily with worried eyes and looked at the device in her hand. She clenched her fists with frustration. This only made Emily grin more, which made Sophia angrier.

Emily typed on her phone and sent a message to Octopus Two.

"NO!" Sophia screeched. She lunged at Emily and pushed her off her lawn chair and threw her phone off deck.

"NOO!" Emily shrieked as she watched her phone fly into the deep dark sea. "MY PRECIOUS!"

Then Sophia socked her in the face.