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Captain sat at a table, the blue hadn’t faded from his left eye yet. His hand still shook from the adrenaline this body gave him. Order sipped from her squidberry banana smoothie cautiously. They always ordered their drink ahead of time. Pilot drilled her eyes into the ground. Both of them didn’t want to draw attention to Captain’s new eye. And if anyone else was smart, they wouldn’t ask either.
Swimmer smiled, coming to the table with his and Captain’s drink. He didn’t notice. “Cherry limeade for me, a starfruit melon for Pilot. A blueberry squidleg-grape for- Oh-” Swimmer looked at Captain’s blue eye. “Hi,” He mumbled, inching Captain’s drink closer to him. “Hi.” Captain stared at his drink. He stirred it with his straw in this limp, tired way.
Order was the first to speak, “You know them?”
Captain looked away from Order, mumbling something that might’ve been a yes? He loved avoiding honest answers, not like Captain who was more often truthful than lying.
“Not a fan of them. They’re childish and they don’t take things seriously. Not a fan. The random idiot with goggles especially,” Captain took a sip of his drink. Swimmer chuckled awkwardly. Things always got so tense when he was around. And it was usually Swimmer’s job to lighten the mood. Even though he sucked at it. “Is this him speaking or Captain? Cause I don’t think Captain’s ever seen Team Blue before.”
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Captain didn’t answer that one. The blue in his eye flickered painfully. He was quick to cover it, grunting. “Hhg- feels like a needle being threaded through my eye and in between the folds in my brain..”
Swimmer patted Captain’s back, “I’d be saying you need to learn to control him but I have a feeling at this point there’s no point to that?” Captain sighed, twirling his blue dapple in his hand, “If it were up to me, I wouldn’t even have him in me.”
Captain’s eye flickered blue, causing another bout of pain for him, “Ha! That’s a laugh. If it were up to you, you’d be a rotting corpse on top of those parking lots, idiot. Remember, Captain, I saved you.”
Swimmer caught Captain’s arm before he could argue, simply shaking his head at him. Captain stood from his seat, his drink only half empty. “Is everyone done with their drinks? We gotta go train. Right now. Especially with our strategy.”
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