Sweet Dreams | Splatoon

Chapter Three - Octavio's Regret

I leave without ceremony.
Don't be too sore, I wanted more.
My sincerest apology.
- Mem cake E01/I03 No Whammy Station
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Agent 3's POV

I jumped out of the manhole and went over to Octavio's snow globe, he was still there. He noticed my presence and glared daggers at me.

"What do you want, Inkling scum?" he growled, narrowing his eyes.

"Where are they?" I gripped my hero shot.

Octavio blinked. "What? I don't know what you're talking about."

"Of course you do, now where are they?" Pearl interrupted.

"I don't know what you're talking about!" he repeated.

"Stop lying Octavio, just tell us where they are!" I shouted.

"I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT FOR COD'S SAKE!"

Everyone went silent.

"You don't?" I asked, still not believing him.

"NO! WHAT MAKES YOU THINK WHATEVER HAPPENED WAS MY FAULT? YOU ALWAYS BLAME EVERYTHING ON ME!" he bellowed.

"Your music played in the square and knocked all of the Octolings unconscious," Captain Cuttlefish explained. "They were all captured, every single one of them."

Octavio's eyes widened. "W-What?!"

I was shocked. He wasn't the one who ordered those sanitised Octolings to capture them, if it's not him then who's controlling them now?

"W-who took them?!" he asked, sounding worried.

"The sanitised Octolings from the metro," Captain Cuttlefish answered.

Octavio froze.

"Y-you don't mean those awful, green, zombie-like Octarians from Kamabo Co, do you?"

Captain Cuttlefish nodded. "Yep, those are the ones."

Octavio went silent for a while, after a few minutes we heard a sniffle coming from him. We all looked over in awe, Octavio was... crying?

"I'm sorry... I'm so, so sorry..." he said quietly. "I regret everything, I shouldn't have done what I did... I-I just tried to do what was best for my people, I didn't mean to make it t-this bad! We were desperate, we wouldn't have survived for much longer if I didn't do anything about it!" he sobbed. "And now look at what happened, I'm stuck in this snow globe and the Octolings are either on the surface, trapped, or dead..."

I looked at Captain Cuttlefish, he looked back at me with guilt. I took a deep breath.

"Hey, it's okay. There's still time to get some of them back." I tried to sound as comforting as possible. "That's why we need your help to find them. You know your way around and you might know where they were taken."

Octavio sighed. "Fine, I'll help. I don't know exactly where they might be, but since it's Kamabo Co. we're dealing with, my best guess would be the metro."