sᴘɪᴅᴇʏ!//ʏ!ᴅsᴍᴘ

19. ᴀʟʟʏ ʙᴜᴛ ɴᴏᴛ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ɢᴀʏ ᴡᴀʏ

Sam the warden sits across from you, in the employees only little break room. It's only him. The other wardens seemed to have stopped showing up.

You bounce your leg nervously. "So..... We gonna come up with a game plan or..?"

He shakes his head. "Kid, I think you need some sleep. It's almost midnight and.. I need to think."

"Oh." You freeze. "I guess I didn't- im- I'm sorry for breaking in and like expecting you to help."

He sighs and pinches the bridge of his eyebrows. "No it's not like that. I'm a trained professional, and this isn't well.." he gestures to the building your in, "legal. I've got to figure out if this is worth any paperwork or-"

"No please!" You screech. "This is my only opportunity to get info on the eggpire, maybe even take them down! I can't-..." You falter back into the chair. Leaning back. "I can't fail. I have to get them and a few others so I can go back home. I'm worrying my aunt right now man. I've missed several days of school because of this. I need to-"

He places a hand on your shoulder. "It's okay. I'll help you. But you need some sleep. You look like you haven't slept in days."

You laugh awkwardly, "I haven't." You sniffle.

He smiles and grabs your bags. "I don't have any more cots in my room, but we have plenty of cells, if that's okay."

"Yeah." You nod up at him. "Just don't lock me in."

He tosses you the keys, "wouldn't dream of it kid."

He leads you to a cell and gestures for the keys. You toss them over and he unlocks it. You follow him in and he places down your stuff and hands you back the key.

"I'll see you in the morning with breakfast. Sleep tight kid." He smiles and ruffles your hair/pats your shoulder. "Night." He exits

You sit on the gross bed. It's not the best but it'll do. And you have someone to work with now.

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Sam scratch's his neck nervously. He paces in circles until getting annoyed and ripping off his pendant. He shifts back into his creeper form. Much more comfortable.

His phone rings and he jumps in shock. Sparks light his fingertips but luckily, no explosion. He picks up the phone and immediately gets hit with the ear rape from the other side.

"SAM. YOU USELESS- look. [Name] escaped. I know you have some fucked up obsession with them so if you see them, tell me." The man on the other line screams.

"I'm obsessed? You have a wall of pictures of them quackity. I'll tell you if I see them but uh.." his voice falters," I'll let you know."

"Good. Good. Make yourself useful Sam. You did let the puppeteer or should I say, dream, escape. You better not be useless this time." Quackity seethes. "You lost me that book, and I'll be damned if you lose me [Name]."

"Yeah. I won't." Sam hangs up the line.

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The next morning.

Sam walks into your cell with a tray. It's got some things from the vending machine and a few raw potatoes. He sets down the tray and wakes you up.

"Morning kid. Rise and shine." Sam smiles brighty. His gold armor clashing against the green uniform. The pin on his lanyard shining.

You groan and sit up. Wiping sweat and grime from your forehead. Sam hands you the tray. You quickly eat up the prison slop, potatoes and vending machine chips.

"Do you have a shower in this place?" You ask, still eating.

"Mhm. Down the hall to the right."

"First shower in days.. God that sounds so nice." You smile and finish eating.

You place the empty tray down and grab your clothing bag. "I'll meet you in the uhm..."

"Employees room. 15 minutes or I'll start to get worried."

You nod and rush off.

After your shower and fresh change of clothes you meet Sam in the employees room.

"So samernio, what's our whole plan for the whole eggpire thingy tomorrow?"

"Well first, we need someone else."

"Hm? Who?"

✩

"Sam what do you need this ti-" a pirate women stops in her tracks. Her long brown and white hair pinned in a ponytail. Her ears are long, and... sheep like. "[Name]..?"

"Im sorry..? Do you know me?"

"uh. Sam told me, uh, about the situation." She scratches her neck nervously. "A-anyways! Im captain puffy! Pleasure to meet your acquaintance!" She holds her hand out.

You awkwardly shake it. "Yeah... Man you seem.. familiar."

"Uh.." she nods awkwardly. "Yeah uh people say that. Maybe I'm just... Motherly."

"Motherly... yeah okay." You scoff. "Cause I have such a great experience with mothers."

Sam coughs and you all divert your attention over to him. "So here what we do..."