(Quentin's POV)

“What are you doing here?!”

“I followed the hall. What are you doing here?”

I took a deep breath to calm myself down. Raging at Seto was not the best option I had for the team right now. “Look, let's just find the squids and do whatever it is we need to do.” Seto's eyes narrowed but he nodded and stepped in front of me, leading the way. I felt anger rise up inside of me. The fact that because I wanted to get Dakota impeached to protect the town and now I was here, walking behind an infamous robber... life was a very twisted creature.

We continued down a long hallway in silence, looking sideways through doors to see if we could see anyone. However, nobody was there, and we kept going until we reached a large room. There was a hall on the other side, and Seto barely even glanced around before entering it. I took a little more time, scanning the room. However, there wasn't anything anybody could have hidden behind, and I followed him.

The second I did so, I heard somebody say, “Hey! The person to rescue is back here, ya know!”

Seto turned around and raised an eyebrow at me, asking if I had said that. I shook my head and he walked past me, going back into the room. “Who's there?”

Part of the wall slid open, and out stepped somebody. I would have said 'a person', but this guy was definitely not human. However, apparently he could talk.

“What are you even doing here? Last I checked, you weren't part of the crew,” he said. He was covered in thick, brown fur, and then I realized what he was: a chewbacca.

“Trying to rescue you,” Seto said. “Look, apparently squids have decided to take control of this ship, and—”

“I know,” the bacca interrupted. “We were told to hide. Everybody else went down this hallway, but I stayed here.”

“And where did the squids go?” I asked. He shrugged.

“I've been in there since we got the warning.”

“Well look,” Seto said quickly. “We need to get you out of here, and then Quentin and I will keep looking for the rest of the people and the squids.” I nodded.

The bacca shook his head. “There is no way I'm leaving the ship without the others. I'll come with you,” he said, already going down the hall. As he went, I noticed for the first time that he was wearing a suit. Was there supposed to be a party or something? I shrugged it off. After all, I had joined this crazy group with a suit on as well.

We continued down the hallway at what I felt like was a mad dash. Apparently this bacca knew exactly where everybody was. He threw open a door at the end and, lo and behold, there were several people and even a few more chewbaccas in the room.

However, there also happened to be squids in there as well.

They weren't just plain squids; they had on protective suits with tanks of water in the glass chests, so the squids could operate them without dying. The suits were basically giant metal robots, with metallic graspers and weird glowing buttons all along the sides.

They all had grabbed the crew members by the ankles or wrists, and when we came in quickly exchanged some words. To me it just sounded like a babble of extremely derpy noises, but apparently the baccas could understand it, because they all cringed.

Next thing I knew, all the squids who already were holding somebody had shoved us out of the way and were running down the hall, probably trying to get out of the ship. Seto tried to pull one back and I tried squeezing through, but all they did was slam the door shut as the remaining squid in a suit shoved all three of us to the other side of the room and stood in front of the door.

I desperately tried to remember what Ty had said once about the best way to take them out—he had said to crack the glass so their water supply would drain out, giving them nothing to breathe. However, all we had were our fists, and no matter how hard the bacca could punch, I was pretty sure that the squid could throw him back before he even got a hit in, and neither Seto nor I were strong enough to just punch it. It looked reinforced, too, so our chances were slim. Check that, we had no chance.

The squid made some extremely derpy noises, which I assumed that if could understand would be really threatening as the bacca winced not once, but twice. He turned to us. “Um... this squid says that the others are taking the rest of the crew to their base for testing, whatever that means. He says that they'll come back eventually for us.”

Seto bit his lip, and I took a deep breath. Stay calm, Quentin, stay calm. “The testing part is simple,” I said. But how was I going to put this delicately? “Basically the squids are working on morphing technology that turns humans into squids.”

Seto blinked, and I realized that none of us had told him exactly why squids were evil. Well, now he knew.

The bacca's eyes widened. I didn't have to say anything more, he believed me. Well, that was a good thing. Sort of.

“So...” Seto said, shifting uncomfortably. “As long as we're trapped in here with a squid who wants to turn all of us into squids and we have no clue where the others are, mind doing introductions?”

“Oh. Right,” the bacca said, blinking. “My name's Jerome.” He extended a fuzzy paw.

I took it and was surprised that despite how coarse it had looked, it was actually quite soft. “Quentin,” I said. “And this is Seto,” I added, tilting my head towards him.

Jerome dropped his paw. “What kind of name is Seto for a human?”

“What kind of name is Jerome for a chewbacca?” he retaliated. Jerome, despite the fact that this wasn't said in good humor, smiled.

“My name,” he responded. Seto's face softened, if only slightly. I decided to let my complete sternness slip away for a while, too. If we were going to be trapped in a room together for who knew how long, we might as well be nice to each other.

But the thing was, when we got out we'd be going straight to the bottom of the ocean.

Rawr peeps, its Cookieh, AND IM SO SORRY I HAVEN'T UPDATED! I know most of you want my blood... uh... *grabs Lox from RotV* PROTECT ME DEADLOX!

Lox: WTF am I doing here? This isn't even my story!

Me: Oh. Right. Sorry.

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