The sea,

The sea feel nice to be in,

It’s vast and full of life yet so empty, so raw,

Maybe it would have been better if I had just stayed floating, because it feels like when I’m not in the sea I sink even quicker than I would in the water

Sinking…

My whole life has just been constantly sinking,

I don’t even know if half the things I remember are actually real anymore

That’s why I sent MF back to third ring in my stead

What if it never existed in the first place?

Nothing I remember happening, happened

I wonder….

…..

Thumd!

The shuttle firmly anchors itself in the undersea dock of the aquarium prison

(Never thought I’d come back to jail)

Level one of the Aquarium, is the shuttle dock and lockers for prisoners going in or out

The prisoners are kept on the levels below,

There are a total of six levels officially, with the deeper floors being unused,

Those deeper floors is where I’m heading actually…

“Official,” a robotic guard nods to me allowing me to pass

Because of the Second family, I am seen as person of high rank in any government run facility

(Now to the maintenance elevator)

“Oy quit yer bragging, yer got caught just like everyone else in here,”

“When the new regime takes over I’ll be released, I promise you,”

“And I live in a pineapple under the sea—shut the fack up would ya,”

“I swear you Madvillain boys got put in here it’s been insufferable,”

….

The prisoner recreational area, even though I didn’t spend a lot of time I still feel a faint familiarity being here

The place remains as noisy as ever from the constant bickering and foul speech from the inmates

“Aye, Kage?” Someone identifies before I could get to fully cut across the room,

“Did ya get your ass in trouble again ha-ha,

I was hoping you would,”

(The former captain of the trench pirates)

“….”

Instead of acknowledging the man I brush past him briskly

“Aye!

Aye bitch!

I’m talking to ya!”

“What?” I breathe out, turning to the man

“I clearly have no interest in speaking with you,”

“Oy oy oy, Mr. High-and-mighty over here,

Don’t forget where you are right now,”

“What, prison?

Does it look I’m an inmate like you,

Or is it a rematch from the last time we fought you want?” I taunt mockingly

“grrrr, things have changed since then,

I run this place now!”

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“Ok.”

BLOWM!

The entire room goes quiet at that sound,

A bullet goes through the former pirates skull, now a bleeding corpse on the steel floor

“Aye what the fack!?” some prisoners finally come their senses

The robotic guards give no reaction to what occurred,

(I can do what I want in here)

“Anybody else wants to try me today?” I flash a disturbing smile at my onlookers waving my gun for them all to see…

(Nothing)

The maintenance elevator is nowhere close to the prisoner area,

I only came here because I wanted someone to notice me

I wanted to be confronted

I wanted to kill someone

See how it makes me feel

I feel nothing

Stepping over the corpse I head back to my original destination…

…….

…….

…….

Ding.

Ding.

Ding.

Ding.

Ding.

The elevator slowly makes it’s way down the many levels of the aquarium,

Though it might be a prison on paper, I learned from Ms. Second that is also a testing facility

That’s why this is the only place that has robots as prison guards

The deeper levels of the aquarium is where all the ‘big’ stuff are held, like the mechanoid tanks we faced on the mountain,

The second ring’s most powerful arsenal of weapons, all being developed beneath a prison…

Dingg!

The elevator stops,

Bzzzzzttt

The sound of electricity sparking up com s through the moment the doors open,

I steps into a bitch black room with a barely any air,

(This better be the right floor)

*Click*

I hit a light switch but the power doesn’t come on,

Bzzzzzttt

(He must have cut it)

Clicking the switch a few more times causes the backup power to kick in, the room lights in a bleak red..

Nuclear Storage

I read from a warning sign,

Taking a good lol around I see that I’m in a circular room, around the walls are doors with warning signs of a what’s being kept there

Bzzzzztttt

(I’m not interested in the weapons however)

Following the sparking sound I go to an unlabeled door

Bzzzzzztttttt

Bzzzzzzttttt

Inside is an operation table with a severed head on it, wires outstretch from the head into a mainframe computer behind the table, the computer however is inactive, it constantly sparks and flashes

“So, this is where you were,” I say shutting the door behind me,

The severed head eyes power on and it begins to scan my face,

“You, are Kage?”

“Yes I am,

I’ve looking forward to speaking with you Danté.”