Inkling life (1): The start of a change

Chapter 15: Escaping to their new future

A silence rose within the group around Chrissy, not knowing what to say until Spyke Finally spoke up

"Malcom did what to you?" He asked Chrissy, hoping what he heard wasn't what she said

"You heard me right, don't you dare ask me to repeat" Chrissy aggressively answered him

"Am honestly shook Chrissy, he was ordered directly by Cuddlefish to bring you here, what he did won't be ignored by him I can tell you that, Cuddlefish won't let something like that slide, inkling or octoling" He then told her, hoping to calm her down and himself from their anger towards Malcom

"He won't know what I did anyway," A mocking voice said from behind the group

Chrissy, Eric, Marc, and Spyke turned towards the source of the voice, only to see them standing in front of them, Malcom and Teck. Chrissy's mind suddenly got all blurry thinking of all the things the horrible person in front of her might've done

"What's wrong beauty? didn't enjoy what I did to you earlier?" Malcom told Chrissy with a dirty smirk

"How could you Malcom?!" Spyke shouted at him, filled with anger "Cuddlefish asked you to bring her here as soon as possible, are you crazy?!"

"Did you speak up to me Spyke? Should I inform our superior what relation you have with our prisoner?" Malcom reminded Spyke, trying to manipulate him

Spyke simply looked at the group, at the same time, Marc, who was getting annoyed by the situation, took his gun out and pointed it at Malcom's head, who then took his out and pointed it at him.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you!" He screamed at him

"Oh trust me, I will" Marc answered with confidence

As this situation kept advancing, Chrissy's flower was slightly giving off an aura of purple light, increasing with the tension. Curiously, a red aura was also doing the same thing from Malcom's back pocket He, while still holding his gun towards Chrissy, noticed Eric, standing next to her.

"Ohhh Eric, nice to see you are doing well!" He sarcastically told the octoling, who suddenly got anxious to see that Malcom recognized him

"What do you mean?" Chrissy asked Malcom, who noticed that it seemed like they knew one another

"Chrissy don't-" Eric started but quickly got interrupted by Chrissy

"No, you shut up!" She yelled at him "Am sick of whatever is going on right now and I want the truth, so Malcom, how do you know Eric?" She asked him in anger

That question brought a smile to his face.

"Eric right here is the one who helped us locate the undercover dome you have been living within for a couple of years you see!" He happily answered, hoping to create the biggest reaction out of Chrissy

Eric stared at Chrissy, waiting for a reaction until she turned in his direction, her face seemed like it was fading away

"How could you" She whispered to him

"I-I can explain I-" He started, until Chrissy, with all of her anger, pushed him back into the cell and closed the door, as he fell on his ass

"I wanted to live Chrissy, I had to do this for our survival!" He screamed at her from inside the cell, hoping for pity

"Our survival?" She repeated to him "OUR SURVIVAL?" She then screamed at him, kicking the metallic bars "YOU ARE THE WORST PERSON IV EVER MET!"

"Chrissy...." He cried out

"Don't dare claim you loved me..." She then whispered in an angry tone

As she said that, Malcom smiled, as he kept a look at Marc

"I don't have all day here," Malcom told Chrissy, who then quickly turned around and started to run towards him, surprising him

"Chrissy no!" Spyke loudly warned her

As his voice echoed into the prison, the sound of Malcom and Marc's weapon firing started to echo over the already loud voice of Spyke, as Teck and he was staring at the situation taking fold in front of them. Chrissy was still running towards Malcom, as the bullet was going right at her, same goes for Marc's bullet, who was near to hitting Malcom in the head, until...

"What?!" Malcom and Chrissy screamed as they both flew off in an opposite direction

Chrissy's flower and Malcom's pocket pulsated strong radiations of a mysterious purple and red light, which completely made the bullets vanish into nothing, as Spyke, Marc, and Teck had their eyes closed, scared to open them only to see their partners dead. As it happened, the elevator doors deep into the alley of the prison opened, only to reveal that Slappy and Jenny made it to the base.

"Chrissy!" Slappy and Jenny loudly shouted as all they could see is their friend laying on the ground, with her eyes close

They sadly couldn't reach her in time, as the ceiling above the prison exploded, scattering everyone in different parts of the basement of the building, the last thing Chrissy could remember is when she finally tried to open her eyes and heard someone whisper into her ears "It's ok Chrissy, we're bringing you back home", as all she could see is Eric crying in a ball within his cell...