An Octoling's Tale

Chapter 5

"Well well well. Look at what we have here," Stacy said as she stood in the doorway. She motioned to some troopers and had them take the trio out to the execution room. In the room were the other members, unmasked. Desti looked at the octolings that were part of her rebellion. They were all kneeling on the ground with a gun pointed at their heads.

"Now then, it's time to see who you two really are," Stacy said as she pulled off Ben's mask and wig. "Well if it isn't the octoling that killed my sister."

"I didn't kill no one," Ben replied.

"I know. But you placed harmful thoughts into her brain," Stacy spat out. She then looked at Desti. "Now it's time to see who you really are." Stacy reached for Desti's mask only to get stopped by an explosion. "What the hell?"

Stacy looked up at the ceiling as dust particles fell from it. "So, there are more of you." She turned to look at some octo-snipers. "Go find those rebel traitors and kill them all!" The octo-snipers complied and left the room. She turned to look at Desti only to receive a punch to the face.

Desti grabbed Stacy's gun and pointed it at her forehead. The Octarian troopers retaliated and aimed their weapons at their prisoners. "Release her, and we'll let your friends live," one of the octolings said. "Drop your weapon traitor."

Desti dropped the gun and backed away from Stacy. The troopers opened fire and killed the rebellion members. Ben looked at Desti.

"There was nothing you could do."

The troopers forced Desti, Ben, and the inkling to their knees and aimed their weapons at their heads. "Fire on my command," Stacy ordered as she got up off of the floor and walked towards Desti. "Let's see who you really are." She reached down and removed Desti's mask and wig. "Desti?"

"Surprised?"

Stacy's face turned from a worried one to a scowl. "Kill them." Stacy said as she backed away.

The trio closed their eyes as they heard gunshots, expecting to get shot in the head, but nothing happened. They looked up and saw two inklings and an octoling pointing their weapons at Stacy. They looked behind themselves and saw three dead bodies. They got up.

"It's over sis," Desti said. "You have lost."

"Well, you can't win them all," Stacy said. She dropped a smoke bomb and fled the scene.

"Come on, let's get out of here!" One of the new arrivals ordered. The trio followed them through the city and to the kettle. As they were running, Ben tripped and fell, so Desti went back and helped him up. They looked over and saw that they lost the others.

"Well what now?" Desti asked.

They looked behind them and saw octarian troopers approaching them.

"Go, I'll hold them off," Ben said while pulling out his gun.

"Ben, wait!" Desti said, but was too late. He was already running towards the troopers and fired upon them, killing some. He took a couple hits and continued firing, killing more of them. It wasn't until a direct hit to the head that he fell. "NOOOOO!" Desti got up and started running away from the attackers as blaster fire flew through the air. One of the blasts hit her in the arm, causing her to scream in pain. One of the rounds hit a nearby building, causing a chunk of debris to fall onto her head. She continued running as her vision started to blur until she reached the kettle. She entered it and came out on the surface in an alley way as it rained.

She walked through the alley and collapsed at the entrance as blood flowed out of her wounds. She looked up and saw inklings rushing to get out of the rain and into their dry homes. She reached a hand behind her head and felt blood from a concussion. Her vision slowly faded to black as she was forced to accept her fate. She reached a hand out in an attempt to get help only to fall limp in the rain.