Roger doesn't say anything at first, he just watches. Eventually, he clear his throat and says, "Makin' tattoos, eh..? With a moltened rock... Doesn't that hurt?" He sits back down in the chair, crossing his legs like before.

Lucielle curled up in her bed with Frodo for the night. She yawned and turned over on her side. Before she closed her eyes, she heard heavy footsteps coming from the wall. She didn't know it was really coming from the vents above.

"The hell...?" Lucielle sits up, tracking the sound as it made it to the middle of her room and settled down there. She doesn't stay for long, grabbing her blanket and pillow and went to Cyan and Natasha's room, dragging her feet loudly as she slouched. She was tired.

When she realized they weren't there, she still barged into the room and slept in the middle of the bed. Frodo joined her, curling up onto Natasha's pillow, and the ten year old was out in two seconds.

"Like a b!tch, but I'm bored and well... what else is there to do? Lena doesn't trust me and I doubt you trust me 100 percent too. There's not much to do in here and the main medbay TV doesn't work."
*Cyan continued the tattoo as she responded to Roger. Her sight never leaving her shoulder.*

"Ok, I was just asking...." Roger says, going back to his magazine. His eyes scroll across the page for about two seconds before he looks up at Cyan.

"If you don't mind me askin', how long have you been doing tattooing... It looks great..." He places the magazine down on the counter next to him and sits foward.

"4 years..."
*Cyan responded. Her eyes still focused on her shoulder as she dragged the needle in strides*

"Four years? I'm guessing you didn't stop after they banned it in some areas for the organization...." He gets up from the chair and stretches.

"Nope... Why should I have? It was the only fun thing to do during the time I wasn't killing thing..."

"Eh, good point..." Roger shrugged. He knew the conversation wasn't going nowhere. Small talk wasn't exactly his forte. He kept quiet for the rest of the time, letting Cyan continue on what she was doing. He was bored our of his skull

*Cyan kept on with her tattoo. Eventually finishing it. it read "It takes a broken perfect smile to hide an injured soul, but only afew words of care to lure an injured soul to love."*

((Sorry, that's the best quote I could come up with rn XD))

((r/im14andthisisdeep))

((Lol, it's fine))

Roger looked down at his radio. It had no signal . No games. He started missing phones, and their apps and call features. They were a thing of a past in his life, besides, he never used his that much anyway. Always too bsuy.

"I'ma go check the systems..."He got up. He was referring to the failing alarms.
"I'll be back soon." He left the room. Honestly, he just wanted to find something to do.

*Cyan looked around then sighed, bored out of her mind again. She just wanted to cuddle with Natasha and then exterminate whatever was in the vents.*

(Fast fowsrd?)

Sure))

It was nearly the end of the day when Natasha returned back to Cyan in the medical room. Dhe looked drained. She shuffled into the room, dragging he feet on the ground. She slowly got into the side of the bes, kisses Cyan's forehead and lays her head on her lap.
"I'm back... How are you feeling?"

Roger was sitting in the corner. His head was tilted back onto the wall. He had fallen asleep from pure boredom.

"I'm okay I guess, I missed you... How's Lena?"

"She's doing... Ok..." Natasha sighs, thinking about their conversation. She wasn't in the modd to talk about it.

"I've missed you too." She kisses Cyan, pulling her in for a gentle hug.

"Can I be freed from the medbay now?"
*Cyan asked with a blank look of depressing boredom on her face*

Natasha nods. "I think you're well enough now..." She gets up from the bed and pushes her hair back behind her ear. Natasha looks over at Roger and calls out his name. Her voice was gentle. His eyes opened slowly and he looked at his surroundings before muttering, "Hm?"

"You can go now, Cyan's leaving the medbay."

Roger nods and gets up, leaving the room. He couldn't be anymore happier. He felt like he had been watching paint dry, especially after reading the same magazines three times in a row.

*Cyan plucked out her IV's and unhooked everything then stood up. She kissed Natasha with a somewhat violently passionate love before quickly stopping herself and walking back to the couples room... Cyan got in bed then realized Luci was snoozing in the middle and sigh, just rolling over and immediately falling asleep*

Natasha followed behind Cyan, slightly thinking about the unexpected kiss until she spotted Lucielle. Natasha stood in the doorway with her hands on her hips, watching the two of them sleep. She then walked over and picks up Lucielle. Before she could lift Lucielle off the ground, Luci began to whine, hitting and kicking Nat.
Natasha places her back down and rolls her over a bit so she wasn't taking up the whole bed. She lays down on the other side, not falling asleep, but thinking about Lena and her discussion.

There was a knock on her door. Lena eyes shot up from the floor when she heard the knob turn and in came Roger. She watched as he stepped halfway in. She was on her bed, her knees tucked into her chest just like before.

"Lena--" Roger began, but he stopped while Lena just stared at him. He notices she now had a beanie hat on her head. She pulled it foward to hide near bare scalp.

"I never said 'come in'.... What do you want?" Her voice was harsh, not that she meant it.
"I was just checkin' on you after seeing how mad you were earlier..." He explained. Lena said nothing, she only stared at the wall, slightly annoyed with his presence.
"I checked the satellites, the systems function, updates, and everything if you wanted to know. The program had a glitch and was missing a file...." Roger added. There was an awkward silence.
"Thanks..." Lena whispers and buries her head into her knees. "You may go now..." she dismissed him.

Roger closes the door, but not before adding, "my door is always opened y'know, in case you wanna talk..."

He took one step out and looked to his right to see the blonde woman again. She shocking her head and disappeared behind the corner. Roger shakes the vision our of his head and makes it back to his room.

Lucielle kicks Cyan a couple of times in her sleep, and then clung onto Natasha, who stayes wide awake. The child muttered something in her sleep, sleeping in between the two.
Eventually, Nat gets up and slips out their room and into the kitchen.

*Cyan got kicked in the face somehow by Lucielle. She got tired of it and picked lucielle up gently with her tendrils since her tendrils couldn't be felt. She took Luci to her own room and tucked her in with Frodo in Cyan's arms, she set frodo down on top of Luci and the left the room, ckosing the door gently... sighing, Cyan joined Natasha in the kitchen*

"What are you doing up so late?"

"Oh!" She was startled when Cyan came into the room. Natasha turns her head to face away from Cyan and dries away her tears.
"Hi Cy. I was just thinking about something." She smiled tiredly. "I'll come back to the bedroom some time soon..." her voice was low

*Cyan saw her wiping something from her eyes and sighed.*
"Natasha, go sit in the livingroom and I'll join you in a minute..."
*With that, Cyan left the kitchen and went off to find something special...*

"O-ok....?" Natasha watched Cyan leave, pondering. She gets up and walks to the kitchen, staring glumly at the floor. She twirled her hair as she did so, subconscious of the action.

*Cyan came back with a bottle of wine and two wine-glasses, she poured them both a glass and gave one to Natasha before sitting down next to her.*
"Drink it, it'll calm your thoughts."
*Cyan took a sip of her wine*

Natasha stared at the glass of wine hard. "I don't drink." She puts the glass of wine on the table and sides it away from her. "Even if it's for a small occasion, I just don't, especially after the last times."

Lucielle snored loudly in her bed, loud enough to wake herself up. The girl shot up, disoriented when she realized she was not in Cyan and Natasha's room. She shurgs and went back to sleep

Lena was in her room, on her bed. She kicked her legs back and forth, staring at the ceiling until she heard something creak. The groaning of the sub was normal, but this was different and familiar to her dismay.

Lena gets up slowly from the bes, eyeing the ceiling at the creaking continues, slow careful steps being carried above her.

"Natasha, you need to relax and I doubt that'll happen without drinking the wine. I'm not gonna let anything like 'last time' happen, whatever it was that happened 'last time'..."
*Cyan's voice was serious and slightly worried*

She thought about it, considering it for another second before she shook her head once more.

Natasha leans over and hugs Cyan. "I know you're trying to help, but my answer is still 'no'." She looked slightly uncomfortable now that she had something else on her mind.

The footsteps continued on through the her room, going back and forth as she watched anxiously, trying to track where it was exactly going.
She expected Quippip to comment on her increasing heart rate, but that wasn't the case. Guilt ran down her spine.

*Cyan sighed and drank down both glasses like they were shots and then put all the stuff back, yeeting the wine glasses into the sink.*

(("/Yeeting/ the wine glasses..."XD))

After Cyan threw the wine glasses into thesink, Natasha threw her arms around Cyan without warning. She hugs her tightly, not wanting to let go for a bit.

There was a particular section of the ceiling that appeared to dip towards the floor. There was a rattling sound, and it stopped.

*Cyan looked up as her eyes widened... She unhooked her deagle from her thigh holster as she watched the ceiling carefully and quietly, completely forgetting about the hug she was recieving*

"What, what's wrong?" Natasha asks, slowly pulling away from Cyan. She glances up at the ceiling aloft their heads to see the ceiling dipping low-- just as it was for Lena.
"What the hell is that?" Natasha asks, not expecting to Cyan answer. It was the vent monster, obviously, but /what/ exactly was it?
"Pa!" Lucielle dashing into Roger's room without knocking. She was holding Frodo in her arms. The pet clung onto her reluctantly, clawing at the sleeves of her robe without hurting her.
Lucielle looks at the ceiling.
"Luci, get out--"

Roger was cut off by the metallic ceiling ceiling ripped apart and came crashing down on the floor. He had lunged himself out the way of damage before it fell.

"Luci, are you okay!?" He called. There pipes on the floor screaming, spewing out liquids and oils.

"I'm fine..." Lucielle calls back through the smoke. She coughs, letting go of Frodo to cover her mouth. The cat-like creature jumped out of her arms and sprinted into the wreckage.
Like a domino effect, once the ceiling fell, the rest came down. Lena ran out her room, water was flowing in. The slams herself onto the wall our in the hallway, yelling the names of the crew.
The ceiling above Cyan and Natasha's dipped lower, but it didn't come down. Natasha heard her sister's voice along with the sound of her clanking metal feet hitting the metal floor.

*Cyan got cracked over the head with a pipe that broke through the ceiling and fell to the ground holding her head in pain and anger. Her red eye began to glow...*
"MY FVCKING SUBMARINE?! WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING?!"

"Well, it's definitely sinking!" Lena answered, completely aware that it was a rhetorical question.
"Wait, what do you mean it's sinking?"Natasha asked, alarmed by the news.
"There's water coming out from my room.

"It couldn be coming from a pipe though. I didn't exactly check."

There was a stench in the air, causing Natasha to gag. Lena had no reaction. She just looked up at he ceiling, fearing it might come down just like the rest.
"Where's Lucielle and Roger?" Natasha asks. Lena shrugs, guessing they were in their rooms.

*Cyan walked to the control room... there was a creature standing in it before her... She walked in and shut the door, locking it behind her.*

The creature growls when it sees her. It bubbles up and breaks down into smaller versions of itself. One lunges at Cyan while the other turns into a liquid form and heads towards a nearby vent and drainage.

Natasha would have went after Cyan, but she had Roger and his daughter on her mind at the moment. She rushes to Lucielle's room and knocked on the door. When she did, the door swung open without resilience.

"Luci?" She called, making her way to Roger's room. All she saw was smoke coming our, and in the mist of it all, two shadows emerging to the doorway.
"Are you two alright?" Natasha taking a crying Luciellle from Roger.

"Does anyone wanna explain what's going on? Why is everything breaking down?" Natasha explains about the "vent monster". Roger sighs.

Lena knocked on the door of control room. She had followed Cyan instead of Natasha. "Cy, what's going on in there?"

*Cyan grabbed off her arm and then blocked the vents and drains by shooting panels of HEAVY metal off the ceiling*

(("Cyan grabbed the creature off her arm*"))

It's flung to the side, quickly getting up. The other version of it starts to eat through the metal, just as it had done go the vents.

"Cyan?" Lena heard what was happening inside, but she could only guess. "What's going on in there?!" She banged on the door a bit, stepping back.

"Luci, what's wrong?" Natasha says. Lucielle shakes her head, burying her face into Natasha's shirt.
"She's just scared..." Roger answered for her. Lucielle clings onto Natasha, and she doesn't put her down.
"I left Lena and Cyan back in the kitchen." Nat started, walking back to the room with them. "We should group of there."
"Okay, great, but what are supposed with that 'thing' eating the whole sub?" Roger asks. They both stop. Down the hall, the walls looked as if something had ripped the metal sidings off. The walls looked like they were keyed, scratched and ruined. There was a ear-piercing sound, one that caused them to cover their ears. Natasha felt a headache coming on.
When the looked back down the hallway, they saw a figure fall crawl out of a nearby grate in the ground. It was standing there with long nails. It was staring off into the distance, turning its head ever do alowly to them. Roger and Natasha backed up and Luciellenpeers over her shoulder to see it. There were no words exchanged from the moment they saw it, stared, and started to run when the figure towards them.

*Cyan busted the CTRL room open and ran out, tackleing the beast out of the vents by ripping on piece of the shaft down*
"THE LAST THING THAT YOU ARE GONNA DO IS SINK MY WATERCRAFT AND KILL MY 'FAMILY' YOU MANGY OILED MONSTROSITY OF NATURE"
*Cyan wrapped her tentacles all around it, forming a full sphere around the creature, but Cyan's tentrils only existed on the planes that Cyan wanted to exist in. so the monster was imprisoned but there was NO WAY to escape whatsoever.*

((Sh!t, forget about the shaft-ripping. imagine her judt tackling the monster))

((And then the line and the tendril-sh!t))

The creature bumps around in the tentacle sphere, trying to find a way out. When it can't, it starts to push on the side of it's spherical prison hard, slamming Cyan into the walls and desk in the control room before throwing itself into the door with a loud thud. The door fell back, and Lena has just moved put of the way just in time before it did.

Lena just started at Cyan was dragged down the hall, the monster was still, oddly, pulling her around.

"O...k...?" Lena mumbles. She wasn't expecting for the battle to unravel into some weird chase, but that was what it was. She followed behind them.

Natasha and Roger dash down the hall, heading towards Lena's room they ship when they see water powering out through the door, it was filling up the hallway.
"Wait, is the sub sinking too?" Roger said aloud the question. they were all thinking.
The two continue down with Lucielle be held in Natasha's arms. They rush into the couple's room. Roger motioned rhr girls in first, then went in himself. He slams the door shut and they all stand back.
There's a scratching noise, but no growl as they had expected.
"Honeslty, I thought staying in a sub nearly fifty feet under water wouldn't be this eventful, but here we are..."Natasha nervously chuckles.

*Cyan started an inferno withing the Tendril sphere, lighting the creature ablaze and slowly desintigrating it down to nothing. Once the monster was non-existent, she let the tendril sphere go and ran around to the couples room, knocking the door open and diving in.*
"Holy fncking sh!t... What just happened?"

"Well, there's a monster on the loose." Natasha answets.s she looked unnerved.
"And there's the water." Lena pipes up, looking at the water that was seeping in from under the door.

"Is that from a pipe?" Roger said.
"Possibly."

"From a sewage pipe?"

"Possibly..." Lrna heard Natasha shudder in disgust behind her.
The sound of scrapping metal was heard in the hallways. The monster was nowhere near them, sauntering about.

((I completely incinerated the oil monster))

((Then ignore the part about the monster and pretend they were just talking about the pipes. Misread that part earlier)

"Well, lets take a vote... Should we try to fix the pipes or escape into the middle of the ocean?"
*Cyan said, she had a dull look on her face and she was about to get up, but then she realized she had a white tank-top on and it was soaking wet, which meant that if she stood up her breasts would be exposed to them all since she didn't really find bras comfortable, she decided to stay laying in the water on her stomach*

"Wait a sec..."
*She heard a meow from on top of the couples bed*
"... oh okay, nevermind. Frodo's safe."

"Well, I guess we're fixing the pipes. I'll go have a look at it," Roger offers, walking through the door. The water level was up to his ankles, increasing bur steadily. That was thing he could think of as proof that was luck was on their side. Well, besides dying of course.
He glances back to see Lucielle still in Natasha's arms, and Frodo eunjung over to the two.

Natasha coaxed Luci as best as she could. She heard Frodo meow as he leaped onto a nearby dresser. His fue was drenched and heavy. Clearly, he was bother by the circumstances.
"Lena, are you alright?" Natasha checked on her sister, who was back and forth. Lena stops and nods. "I'm f-fine," still looking down at the water. She felt her legs go numb, like she couldn't take another step. Nat raises a brow.

"Okay, I need you 3 to look away so I can change my shirt unless y'all wanna some tig ol' bitties."
*She blushed as she finished her sentence, not really caring either way though.*

"EWWW!" Lucielle's comment was drawn out and loud. She covers her eyes with her hands and shifts in Natasha's arms, away from Cyan's direction completely.
Natasha eyes fell on the wall behind her and so did Lena's. She felt Lena tap her shoulder, whispering something in another language. Natasha shrugged, replied, and went back to look away.

*Cyan got up, her shirt soaked and see-through as she thought, she walked over to the dresser and put on a pitch-black skin-tight stretchy tank top amd threw her soaked white one into the hamper in the bathroom*
"Alright, I'm done. You can look again"
*Cyan looked at her souked camo-safari shorts, though there wasn't any point in changing them since they weren't see-through plus the fact that Cyan was just gonna get wet again if she walked out of the room.*

((Might be time to make the 18th continuation))