Waves [Discontinued?]

But what could I say, you had to go away

It's been three weeks since specs was captured

(Specs' POV)

The training went well. I was once again one of the top soldiers. However, I didn't like the way other soldiers were looking at me. It was like a mix of anger, disgust and... jealousy? But why would they be jealous of me? Is it because I'm a guy? Or because I was inkling?

"That's enough. You're all dismissed."

I was lucky to have Tar Tar on my side. Without him, those weirdly colored octolings might have killed me already.

"10,009. I want to see you in my office in 20 minutes." (Let's just pretend telephone has his own office)

{Huh? Was I in trouble?}

As I made my way to Tar Tar's office, I was wondering, what I've done this time. Apparently I was too deep in my thoughts, since I was 15 minutes too early.

The door was unlocked

{He probably won't mind if I wait him there}

I've never been if his office before. It was all white, silver, grey blue and teal. Some could say it looked creepy, but to me, it looked perfect.

I noticed a blue phone on the desk. Strange.

{Why would a telephone need a phone?}

I picked it up and tried to turn it on with my fingerprint. It worked.

In order to kill some time, I decided to see if there was anything interesting.

There wasn't much. No apps, no contacts. I wanted to see if there was anything valuable in the gallery.

{I wonder whose phone this is. And why did my fingerprint worked? I don't remember owning a phone like this.}

When I looked through the gallery, I found a strange picture of four blue squids surrounded by many different colored ones. Pink, orange, cyan, purple, green you name it.

That one picture made my blood boil.

I took a closer look at the blue squids. They were smiling and laughing while holding a cup that said Square King Cup.

It was disgusting. Not only to see those three blue bastards that had replaced me the second they found someone better and cooler, but also because my replacement was also in there. He and his stupid golden tentacles.

Pretending to be friends with someone only to stab them in the back when the right moment strikes is just shitty thing to do.

Before I could delete the photo, a voice interrupted me.

"You're here early"

I turn around quickly and see Commander himself.

He looks at the phone in my hand and for a second there was a bit of emotion on his face that vanished as in a blink of an eye. Was it... fear?

He walked next to me to see what I was looking.

(can I say walk? tar tar's a telephone after all)

"How did you find me back then?" I asked after a long silence.

"I had one of my soldiers to keep an eye on you."

"But why?"

the telephone pondered his answer for a while

"Because you're important to me. Because I care about you, and I honestly thought your decision to go to the surface was a bad idea from the start."

Those words really touched me. At least someone cared about me.

I looked back at the picture. I made my decision.

And pressed delete button.

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Okay first of all, sorry, if this chapter is very bad. I just wanted to practice how to write someone manipulating others. (I really need to work on that.)😅

And second, congratulations team treat! I can't believe we won! 🍬

congrats to you too team trick. You put up a good fight.👍