The Submerged Factory

Fears

It was the meeting. Except this time, Mama Squid already sat on her chair. All of the time, she got inside with Squid, but after everything... You understand why.

"Are you okay?" Blocky asked. He was guilty for not checking Mama Squid while she was sick. Well, he was also sick but he didn't want to take the spotlight.

"I'm fine. Just a little bit in pain, that's all." Mama Squid responded. She was able to walk properly after her third day, so she could attend the meeting.

Everything was quiet. All of them just stared at each other. Guess the meeting couldn't start without the guy who started it all.

Squid finally arrived, coming from the soundproof room. Everyone seemed confused because he never appeared from there before. Dronelly was with him, being a casual jetpack of Squid.

"Like I said, I will explain everything. Just... You decide where I should start." Squid landed in his chair. He prepared himself to answer the question, since these main consciousness could be brutal at times.

"Dronelly. Just why?" Mr. Dance asked. He hid his arms under the table, so Squid wouldn't see his cracks. He always asked Squid personally, but he was sure the rest of them were curious too.

"Dronelly, or more specifically, 'Dronelly Squid', is a safety mode I installed to myself. There are things I wouldn't dare to do, but Dronelly can." Squid told a half lie. Dronelly invented the mode of his own. They didn't need to know the truth.

"So, your so-called safety mode is an immediate murder?" Blocky tried to piss off Squid again. Even with the slight of truth.

Squid rolled his eyes. Blocky was being annoying again. "I was quite surprised to see all of you managed to go to the Upper Server on your own. That server is extremely hidden, only I got access to it."

Everyone turned to Mr. Dance. Mr. Dance smiled, like he saw this coming. "I saw it on the map and memorized it. I knew it would come in handy sooner or later."

Mama Squid was completely uncomfortable. This whole situation really made her feel like jumping out of the window, despite there being none of those in the factory.

"If the heart is so important, why don't you put extra security on it? Why forced Mama Squid?" Bartender tried to justify Squid reasoning behind protecting the heart. He wasn't saying she wasn't capable of protecting it, but the heart had been a complete trouble since Squid introduced it to her.

"Mama Squid is always in the factory, so I assume she will be able to take care of it. I suppose the heart disappears because of my mistake. I updated the server at The Archive, causing the server to have a huge lag. The heart teleported somewhere else." Squid finally admitted it. He hated that his failures were the reason everything went wrong in the first place.

"Squid... Can I... Quit? I don't want to be reset again...." Mama Squid said in the most quiet voice possible. She knew Squid said he trusted her the most, but this was just too much.

"I will consider it. Maybe after I put in more security as Bartender suggested." Squid spoke uncertainty. The Dronelly Squid mode activated on its own, he couldn't control it and Dronelly would go straight to Mama Squid. Squid would find a solution to stop Dronelly for doing that.

Blocky was unsatisfied by Squid's answers. He felt like Squid deserved to be punished. Punishing him for his mistakes, and causing chaos with Dronelly. He saw Dronelly as a cover up for Squid. He thought Squid always wanted to reset and harm Mama Squid.