A Sanitized Heart (Male!Agent 8 X Female!Agent 3)

Ch. 3 - 8 finds his rage

A/N: Welp, we can pretty much confirm that I suck at sticking to a schedule.

~Eight's POV~

I wake up with something metallic feeling against my back. Holy shit how am i not dead! I sit up and find myself in the middle of an ocean. "Well this is a surprise! You aren't dead!" I turn and see another octoling with me. "My name is Marina. What's your name?" I stay silent. "Well, given the fact that you aren't talking, you've either lost your memory, or are mute," Marina says. "I-I don't remember..." I stop there, not being able to form words.

All of a sudden, a statue rises from the ocean. It didn't look like any creature I have seen before. All of a sudden, I here a familiar voice. (A/N: Im not sticking to the original script for what tartar said because 1 i don't remember and 2 its not worth it to go through the entire escape again just to get what tartar says) "10008. It looks like you managed to escape. Not bad for an Octoling with no memory. Too bad your world as we know it is going to be destroyed for the greater good. A greater good known as the most intelligent species ever created. You might be able to join me if you disconnect from these TRAITORS." Tartar signals toward Marina. What am I gonna do? I don't want this world blown up, and Marina seems like a nice Octoling, but am I really gonna fight THAT?! All of a sudden, Marina interrupts Eight's train of thought, saying "Nah, I think Eight will be going with us." An Inkling jumps down with white & pink tipped tentacles. "Hey, I'm Pearl." Tartar responds to Marina, "Very well then, may your deaths be filled with agonizing pain." A panel on the bottom of the head opens up to show a giant tube slowly filling up with sanitized ink, with other tiny tubes connecting to it. I suddenly get a huge pain in my head, with a voice getting louder and louder. "10008, you are the first who has completed the tests and made it out of the blender alive. You are special. Why waste your time with this plague of a species and join me? You can be my right hand man, help me shape the new world." It was becoming hard to resist the sanitized ink. I had been fighting it ever since I was infected. Suddenly a feeling washed over me. My eyes started glowing that sanitized color. My fists started clenching. And by some miracle, wind started blowing his hair around.
"No."
"I'm sorry?"
"I said NO! I won't have you destroy my only chance at a new life. My only chance at fitting in."
Suddenly, a memory came back to me.

————Memory-During splatoon 1————
As he walked into Commander Octavio's chamber a shiver crawled down his spine. There were a pair of normal troops that saluted at me, and both said, "Sir," as I walked by.
"Agent Kai. How are you feeling today?"
This wasn't like the emperor to just talk idle chat, I thought. Being apart of the emperors special team, dubbed Alpha-1 (A/N: This is a nod to SCP and the MTF squadron Alpha-1) he was apart of an elite group that directly served Octavio. I, being in a branch like Alpha-1 meant that he, like all leaders of the respective branches, were saluted at. "Uh, feeling good sir, why?" I responded. "Its time I talked with you." He then did something I've never seen him do ever before. He changed into his octoling form. "When I selected you for Alpha-1 I had high hopes that you would excell. Unfortunately, those hopes have been smashed. Not only have you failed, you failed so badly that i've thought about removing you entirely." I trembled with fear. "Uh, uh, s-sorry s-sir. If you give m-me more time to ad-adjust I can do it." I stammered out. "Fine. 3 more days. If you fail, i will make sure you remember it for the rest of your life." Still shaking with fear I barely replied, "Th-thank you sir." and walked out of the chamber back into Alpha-1's bunks. "Agent Kai, how did the talk with Octavio go?" the leader said. "Good, if not a little rough," I partly lied.

—Present time—
That memory only fueled my pseudo-speech. "I was constantly put under pressure because of my 'skill as an octoling trooper'. I was almost executed by Octavio himself. I was worked until I could die and then I was worked even harder. You think that with the chance I have, i'm going to give it up? You are dead fucking wrong." Fueled by my rage, I felt ready to take him down. "Send me down," I said. Marina went over the battle plan with us and I jumped down to the starting point.

~Time skip because I dont feel like writing out that entire battle~

As my rage subsided and tartar was destroyed, I curled up into a ball and started crying. Not sad tears, but tears of joy. Tears of joy that the pain and suffering was finally over. That I could live a life without constant pressure. It was small at first but then it devolved into large heaping sobs. Marina walked over to me. "You ok agent 8?" they asked. I hugged them. "Thank you so much." I managed to say as I cried into her shoulder. "Your welcome." Was all she said back as she comforted me.

A/N: HOOO BOY THAT TOOK ME A LONG TIME TO WRITE! Hope it was worth the wait! I put a ton of effort into getting it to 1k words. Not the 2k that i wanted to do, and because of that im going to do 1k next chapter and even it out. As always, if you like this part vote for it, if you have any suggestions put them in the comments, and Ill see you next chapter!