Marie's POV

"Experiments?! What does that mean?!" I shouted. All the sadness shrunk away, and all I could feel was anger. What was he going to do to us?

"Oh... All you are to me are two mere squids who have no purpose on this planet! I'm going to make you two mine" the creep slithered up onto the bars of our cage and pressed a sweaty tentacle to my forehead. "All we gotta do is change what happens up here" he gestured to our brains.

I wanted to shout at him, but I knew it wouldn't do anything. So I kept my mouth shut.

"First we'll need a little...wardrobe change..."To my surprise, he unlocked the cage with a key that I now see fit snugly into the overly exaggerated crown on his head.

And they all say Pearl's Head is big! Wait till they see the noggin on this guy!

As I examined what other little objects could possibly fit in the little nooks and crannies of his crown, I heard a little *click*. My eyes turned down to see a shackle chained to Callie's and my ankles.

Great. Now we're his pets, too.

"Where are you taking us?" Callie said, trying to say the nicest things she could. not wanting to make him anymore upset than he already looks.

"We're replacing those outfits. The more you look like octolings, the more convincing it'll be. Plus, it'll give Y/N more motivation to get here and save both of you, if he really believes you both switched over"

"Wouldn't that benefit us though?" I snapped.

"Not exactly. We'll be ready for him. he can't play that amazingly catchy song without you girls."

Our hearts snapped in two when he said that. I remember when Callie, Y/N and I first defeated him, Along with Agent 3 of course, and Callie and I sung Calamari Inkantation and Y/N Played the beats until Octavio was done for. But he was right.

Y/N couldn't play our songs beats without us. There's something about that song. It's like, magical or something. But it causes magenta pink, sapphire blue and lime green auras to surround every corner of the room we're in when it plays. But it only works if the three of us sing in harmony.

"Here we are! Jodie, their here!" Octavio said, and snapped me out of my daydream.

"Oh hello! I'm Jodie! The octarian armor and costume designer! Our lovely king here has sent me the plans for your new and improved outfit!"

I didn't like the way this lady talked. She rolled her "R's" and such. I also didn't like how much emphasis was put on "improved" either.

"I'd rather stay in the clothes I have now, thank y-OW!" I rubbed my upper arm. I turned to Octavio, and he had a baby zapfish in his tentacle. It occurred to me that he tased me with the fish.

"Fine" I grumbled. "We'll wear the stupid outfits" I pivoted back around to Jodie. She beamed and handed me a tote bag full of garbage. What was all this?

crop tops? Booty shorts? Skirts? Platform shoes?

"Excuse me! neither of us are Marina! And dressing us like her WON'T bring her back!" Callie couldn't contain her anger anymore. This was getting ridiculous to her.

She should have kept her mouth shut.

He tased her this time, only this time, longer than mine. She rubbed the area still buzzing with electrical surges, and we went behind small booths with curtain Jodie was gesturing to.

Behind the curtain, I struggled to take off my current clothes. Callie loved them so much, and she says they looked like gold mines compared to what was in this tote bag. But, another shock sounded a lot less appealing than a crop top.

Octavio's POV ~

After those stupid girls finally went behind the curtain, I left to go see the progress on the Hypnoshades. The sooner the old Callie was gone, the better. I was so sick of her bullcarp attitude.

Down the long corridor from the armory to the lab, I looked down over the gates, to see sparks flying from my slaves welding parts together. My masterpiece. The one thing I can finally wipe out the inkling race with.

And I'm starting with their stupid robot *looks at the camera* you.

"STOP FOOLING AROUND AND GET TO WORK, SLACKERS!" I shouted, just because.

At the end of the long bridge, i opened the door to the lab. The door was large, heavy and silver, with the green X ironically slashed through.

All the scientists and doctors scrambled to their feet, saluting me as I walked in.

"I think you all know why I'm here. So. WHERE ARE THEY?"

The octopus from earlier ran forward, and bowed down to me, while raising a small black box over her head. Across the lid were arrows engraved in, each pointing right. They were holographic, and each separate arrow was a different neon color.

"H-here you go s-Sir"

Callie's POV ~

I don't remember being so humiliated in all my life. This was probably the ugliest outfit I had ever worn. The top was too tight, and it kept coming up. I had to feverishly yank it down to try and cover myself up.

The one thing I did like was the leggings. A shimmery purple color, with little glimmerey Squids and octos printed on.

Weird. Why would he put Squids on my leggings?

I looked at myself in the dusty mirror one more time. This time, was more painful. Because I couldn't help myself but think:

Y/N will be so disappointed when he sees me and Marie like this.

Nevermind that now. We have to at least show Octavio that we tried our new clothes.

Marie and I stepped out from behind the booths, and strutted awkwardly to Jodie. Her eyes lit up when she saw me in the clothes.

"Oh, you two look so good! So cute! So spicy! Octavio will faint when he sees you two"

Kill me now

Speaking of Octavio, the fat octopus slammed open the doors, barely acknowledged the fact Marie and I changed our outfit, grabbed our wrists, and yanked us away. We walked down a long bridge, that clanked under our feet as the king pulled us along the platforms.

His Octobot was being fixed, bigger and better than before. I couldn't tell because of how fast we were moving, but I could have sworn I saw a second platform above his turntables.

Then we were waltzing right in to another room, this one guarded by a big metal door, with two green slashes in the shape of an X engraved in the sides.

As we made our grand entrance, all of the lab workers turned to us, and we blushed bright pink as some started to look us up and down.

"Time to brainwash these two!" Shouted Octavio, raising our wrists to the ceiling like we had just won a wrestling match.

Brainwashed? No way this is happening. We can not lose memories of our brother.

As tears filled my eyes, and Marie and I stared off in to the distance, trying to keep as many memories of Y/N in our heads, Cherry blossom wishes, the contest, the first and the last Splatfest, we didn't noticed more shackles were being tied to us, some around our ankles, and others on my wrists.

we were trapped. No escaping now.

"WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO TO US?!" I shout hopelessly.

"It will all be over soon, honey. Just try to relax, and watch the film onscreen" a nice sounding octo boy said to me. And I did. There was some sort of documentary playing.

As Marie and I tuned in, we saw Y/N. She stood there looking smug. Weird, he was never smug like this. Just then, microphones fly into his face.

"Y/N! Y/N! How do you feel about Callie and Marie going missing!" Shouted Squids.

"Oh, them? Psh! I wouldn't care if they were gone for the rest of their life! Hah. Mecha Squid siblings. Yeah. We're through. It's all about Y/N now! Tidal rush is my new band name. And it's all me! So that's that Callie and Marie! Sorry not sorry" boasted Y/N.

Marie's POV~

We couldn't believe it. My own brother that we built. Talking about us like we were last week's garbage. Our hearts split in to thousands of shards, the pieces scattering into the deepest, darkest corners of our souls, never going to see the rays of sunshine again.

Maybe we should have paid more attention to the fact that the paint on his chest and left shoulder were still wet. Because before it was to get our full attention off the screen, we could have seen it was an actor, trying to get our full attention so their plan would work.

And it did.

As Callie and I stood there in the shackles, silent tears rolled down our cheeks, Octavio approached us. He opened a small black box, and pulled out two pairs of sunglasses.

"Goodbye, Squid sisters" he said, and unfolded the shades and placed them on our faces.

Callie and I stood blankly staring for a second, and we both quickly mumbled;

Y/N...please save us...

Burning. Burning burning pain. Searing, scarring, tearing each cord of our brains slowly apart, melting everything inside. Wake us up, please!

*•*•*•*

We stand up. For some reason our hands are in shackles.

I look around. Everyone is staring at us.

"What?" I said.

"How...how do you feel" Octavio said, a little shakiness in his voice.

"Ugh...my head hurts a bit" Callie said with a slight groan in her voice.