||chapter 2|| in hiding

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Mem cake #2

With tresses pink and eyes a blank 

A smile so faint, it hides your feint

You slip on passed—outfoxed! Outflanked!


Despite 0u's thoughts, she chose to not walk into her chamber an Wait. She pondered if it was for the best, and if she had made the right choice. She had no clue how she didn't think of this before, and how that girl must've really messed with her in order to make her functionality go down as an enemy. But nonetheless, she waited for the soldiers to pass, and could hear them through the wall she put herself behind. 

She counted the five soldiers as they walked past. But when she counted the last one, she noticed something.....odd on her. They had black hair, green seaweed like normal harder enemies, but they seemed to...flicker. Glitch. Since all 0u had seen was normal enemies in the bay section, she didn't realize others could glitch. She checked the data long one last time.

[an error has occurred in file fin_78.nmy]

[ fin_78.nmy added to :delete_once_caged]

She was surprised at those two texts. For one, that meant if she wasn't careful, she could be in that thing but never come out. And for two, that meant that even before those enemies die they could glitch out of existence. But suddenly, then and there, a code popped in front of her eyes. The kind of text that makes you read it three times in disbelief just to wrap your head around the message that you know exactly what is upon you.

[changed fin_enemy_file from /station to /search_party]

She knew what this meant. The system wanted her dead. Or, in her cryo-chamber, but she didn't want to let that happen. She frantically looked around as slow footsteps searched the rooms. She had one spot, and an idea, so she hoped it would work.

She silently squeezed herself behind the chambers and moved into a little crevice inside the large chunk of machinery powering the 14 cells. That way, her pale green skin blended in with the wires draping down her face. But her mind raced and danced around outcomes like it always did. She knew her sight was amazing, which meant no matter how well she could blend in, it would be useless. But there could be other outcomes from this. She could be glitched out because of no following the rules, but she crossed that off because if it wanted her dead, the system would just update and kill her. She more realized that they wanted to find her for a reason, she just had to find that part out. 

Footsteps came into the room, and went around searching corners and boxes that fit the dimensions of an enemy octoling. They were thorough, and it got harder to breath trying to get her voice down. They where looking at the third chamber when one walked in and re-checked everything that's when she saw one put down their octoshot three feet away from her. It was close to the corner, but she had to time it perfectly in order to grab it. Some enemy Octoshots have a built in ink gauge and a removed limiter on them so it isn't fair for test subjects. Just when both where checking a closet that was half opened, 0u got to work. 

The machines were loud, blaring in her ears, so she was easily able to walk behind the chambers  without people noticing they were there, she just had to have their backs turned in order to have the situation in her hands. She picked up the gun, and swam in the ink that the other soldiers already put down. When each octoling was in a room, she shot a trail into the vent, then turned and hid in a corner.

 At this point, all cryogenic rooms were covered, so without looking at her device, she knew the system would start getting more frantic. She heard marched footsteps away, knowing they would try other areas. She took the vent to find where they where. She never really had plans set up, because this was an unfamiliar area. She just watched a room and looked on as they opened bins and cabinets. Her face was really close to the vent, and it was comforting to watch them. It felt like home, or lack there of. Two were within earshot , one was two rooms away, and one stayed in the room she watched. She never thought of theses people as enemies, so they never stood as a "threat" in her book. 

Then the one looked up. 

And matched eyes with her.

And a fight broke between her and soon to be five octoling super-soldiers against one.

She shot at the octoling, but both realizing they couldn't shoot through normal means, they started a normal 1v1 fist fight.

Which turned to 1v3 quickly.

Then 1v4 thereafter.

Then all were surrounding 0u and her useless octoshot. She tackled one to escape, but others started grabbing her. After knocking out two soldiers, the other three took her down and injected her with something. She felt the shots in four areas before she passed out. The last thing she groggily saw was the octolings setting her back in her chamber, and standing there as the whirlpool of green sludge spiraled, swallowing her whole as she pressed her hand on the glass to the team of loyal octolings. 

She refused to lose consciousness

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She refused to lose consciousness. Those soldiers would lose their lives to be erased for no reason but to stop subjects. It was awful, it was a vicious cycle, it was cruel, it was cheating, it was....

It was mandatory.

It was hopeful for her.

This was her future, and she'd gladly accept that.

The green swirling almost held out a hand for her to take, and she smiled with open arms. She let it wipe her skin clean of her disgusting brown skin, and made it work it's way up. She would soon be pure, like all the rest, not this horrible looking..thing.. that made trouble throughout the facility. She felt guilty from the deeds she'd done, and would stop at nothing to repay her debts she caused. The faded brown was almost done, about 5% remained. Then she heard something. And the ooze depleted. And she was herself again. 

Lifeless at last.

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