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Scarlett was so mad she was mad she kept dying she was mad she sucked at being an agent she didn’t deserve to be an agent she wished she could die permanently. But after dying for a tenth time in a row it drove them off the edge and started hitting herself repeatedly in the head while crying. She was hiding, hiding away from Callie, Marie, and Mars. Pathetic. Pathetic. Pathetic. Smallfry was worried but all they could do was sit there as the agent broke down.
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Meanwhile with Mars, Callie, and Marie.
“Hey cap, have you seen three?” Marie asked concerned. “hm actually now that you say something I didn’t see em go into a kettle.” Mars recalls seeing the agent jump out a kettle but then disappeared somewhere. “I think we should look for them.” Marie crossed her arm.
“Me too, wanna come with mars?” Callie raised her eyebrow while looking at the younger agent. “eh why not.”
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Scarlett’s head hurt, she wouldn’t be surprised if she was bleeding. They really didn’t want to be alive, her thoughts started to wonder how many times she could jump into the water and before permanently dying. They could hear noises. Their ears were ringing and the voice in her head wouldn’t stop. Pathetic. Pathetic. Pathetic.
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“Wait, isn’t there like a camera on her gear or whatever?” Callie and Marie’s face dropped of any concerns for a moment. “oh yeah…why didn’t we think of that.” Marie mumbled before pulling out a screen only to see blank and the faint sound of sniffing. “I don’t see anything, wanna go check around alterna?” Marie turned to the other squids waiting for a response. “Sure.”
“I don’t see why not, should we all go to a different site?” Callies hands rested on her hips. “eh she couldn’t have gone that far.” Mars shrugged. “ok, well mars you go over there, callie you go over there, and I’ll go over there, ok?” Marie suggested.
“Ok” Callie and Mars said in unison and went off in the direction Marie told them. After some searching, Mars heard something but they didn’t know what and only assumed it was the lost agent. “Scarlett? That you?” She was startled and considered running but she was far too tired and weak to run. So all she could do is sniff and hope they would leave her alone.
“Scarlett! We’ve been looking every…" Mars trailed off as they got a good look at her. Her face looked like it was beaten and she was crying. She felt embarrassed and weak. She was crying in front of the captain three, the strongest inkling she knew and she was crying in front of them. She felt so pathetic .
“What the- What happened? You look like you’ve seen hell and back?” She felt like shit. She was so pathetic for crying over something so small. She didn’t reply. She felt too embarrassed to talk right now. Pathetic.
“Come on, let’s go meet up with the others” they sighed, picking up the agent and her hero shot. She shook her head and held back tears. Pathetic. Pathetic. Pathetic. “It’s ok, Scarlett.”
“Mars! There you…what happened to her?” Both the agent's eyes went wide as they put her down, she was shaking and her face was hurt badly and a little bit of ink was leaking out from the side of her head and arm, it had looked like she… Callie didn’t want to think about that “please” she was all she could say. She started shaking more trying not to cry.
“Marie, can you call sora? Me and Mars will take care of her.” Callie frowned at the shaky octoling “Mars can you go get a first aid kit please?” The inkling nodded and ran off “Scarlett, be honest did you.. did you shoot yourself in the arm with your hero shot?” She frowned as the younger octoling started tearing up. “I-I didn’t.” she stuttered it was true she didn’t shoot herself she knew it wouldn’t hurt like she wanted it too.
“Then what happened? There’s ink all over you!” she couldn’t stop herself from crying now. “I-I’m pathetic.” she started sobbing. She brought her legs to her chest. “No you're not, you're a very brave agent.” she held her while Mars ran back with a first aid kit.
“I got it!” they smiled proudly but frowning when they saw Scarlett sobbing in Callie’s arms. “what happened?” They handed Callie the first kit and held her hand. “They said they were pathetic and started sobbing.” she motioned to the sobbing octoling.
“I-Im s-sor-ry..” she apologized in a hiccup. They wanted nothing more than for Sora to come and take her home. “Please don’t apologize, you're not in the wrong here.'' they just sniff some more trying her best to calm down.
“good news! Sora here!” Marie runs over with Sora to the other agents. “I’ll take her home when you guys are done.” Sora watches as Mars bandages her up. “there you go!” she smiles for the first time in a while, “come on Scarlett, let’s go.” she grabs the octolings hand then looks at Marie. “you coming?” They ask the other agents. “yeah.” they both said before grabbing their stuff and following the others.
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Scarlett didn’t even realize but they were home. “you ok now?” Sora asked, concerned for the bandaged octoling. “y-yeah I just want to go to sleep.” she knew what she wanted to really do but didn’t want anyone to worry about her. “night!” Marie says as she walks into her room.
Sora sighed. “you ok babe?” Marie frowned and rubbed the back of her lover. “Yeah, it’s just I tried to get her to get therapy but she won’t listen.” she sighed again and leaned into her girlfriend. “Well, does she need it? Yes. But if she doesn’t want to go she doesn’t have to.” she could hear a door open then close but ignored it.
“I-I know, I just feel bad for her you know?” Marie brought her to her lap. “I think I know how to get your mind off it.” Marie smirked at the other. “Heh, you're always so eager.” they chuckled.
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They were finally home yet still felt bad. So she listened to the voices and went into her. “stash” and went to the bathroom. She couldn’t stop herself from crying as she mumbled apologies to nobody in particular. She wanted to punch herself so badly so she did he hit herself again and again and again until she got lightheaded.
“Hey, are you alright in there? You're making a lot of noise.” she wanted to stab herself but she had to reply. “Yeah, I’m ok.” She tried her hardest not to stutter. “Can I come in?” She wanted to die. She couldn’t help but start crying again. “N-no.” she managed to choke out. She wanted to go to sleep. “Want me to get mars?” There was silence then she replied. “Please.” she sighed and sat on the floor. “Scarlett? you alright in there?" Mars knocked on the door and waited for a response.
“Y-yeah, sorry for worrying you.” she sniffed and wiped the tears from her eyes. She hated showing emotion.“It's my job to worry about you kid.” she sighed and sat down. “Can you come out please? hachi’s sleep and sora and Marie are fucking. No one else is out here.” They could hear her laugh. She mumbled out ‘ok’ and sighed then got up and opened the door staring at the ground. “Come on kid.” they grab her hand and drag her to her room.
“So what’s up? You don’t have to tell me everything but at least tell me what’s wrong.” they sat her on her bed and picked up a small-fry plush and gave it to her. “I-I kept failing and it made me mad. ‘m sorry.” She couldn’t help but bite her arm. “hey, hey, it’s ok no need to apologize, but can you stop biting yourself please.” They frowned and pulled her arm away cringing slightly at the very visible bite mark.
“Right, sorry.” she mumbled and sighed. “You gotta stop apologizing, kid.” they frowned as she opened her mouth before closing it, turning to look at the wall. “Kid, do you wanna watch something?” They smiled as she perked up. “Oh my cod, yes yes yes! Have you ever heard of.. never mind, sorry.” she stopped herself from ranting and embarrassing herself.
“No, no, rant all you want. I’ll happily listen” they smiled at the octoling. “Ok well…” they gave her their full attention as she went off about shows she’s hyper fixated on.