Black Ink

NO. 2

     "Here goes nothing..."

     Almost immediately after I went into my squid form, I seeped threw the manhole. A bunch of my ink-black ink-spewed out of the manhole. I was blinded by a splash of light- and I felt like I was falling- I didn't know where I was going. It felt like I went through a lot of covers, as I kept getting hit with stuff.

     Before I knew it, I was practically thrown up and out of the manhole. I looked around- I was in a totally different place- 11 inklings and octolings stood in front of me. I was somehow holding a gun, and wearing different clothing, and my hair was put up into low pigtails. I had strange white cone-shaped earphones on my ears, with little white lights. I was wearing a neon- yellow shirt with a hood, but it was gigantic, it practically looked like a dress, but at the same time, it didn't. On my feet were high top white and neon yellow sneakers- I don't know if I'll be able to take them off. My legs were bundled in black hole-y tights. I probably looked strange- it was almost like exercise clothing. I put my hand on my face- something's missing... wait- my mask! Where's my mask?!

     "Who the fuck are you people?! What have you done to me?! Where's my mask?!" I shouted, putting my hand over my face and dropping the gun.

     "Hey! Hey! It's okay! You don't need your mask around us! We know your secret- well- now we do... But- that's not the point! You're really pretty! You don't have to hide!" The girl with the black and pink hair from before said, stepping closer to me and holding her hand out.

     My eyes went wide, and I stepped back, without saying a word. She tilted her head, and smiled, her eyes changed and looked sympathetic.

     "It's okay- I'm Callie! We're not gonna hurt you!" She said, and smiled bigger. I slowly took my hand down, and walked closer, shaking hers cautiously. She smiled. "Now you introduce yourself!"

     "Uh... well... I'm Fiona..." I said, looking away from everyone. "See? That wasn't so hard!" Callie said, and pulled me back to the sewer I was before, standing next to me.

     "Marie! Introduce yourself! All of you!" The beauty from before lowered her umbrella. Marie... so that's her name... Wait a minute- Callie? Marie?

     "Holy shit! You guys are the Squid Sisters! Cod- I can't believe I was so stupid! I knew I recognized you from somewhere."

     Callie giggled, and Marie rolled her eyes. "Yes, yes- they're the Squid Sisters, but they're also known as Agent's 1 and 2. I'm former Cap'n Cuttlefish- it's just Cuttlefish now though, I'm retired. I'm still the leader of the New Squidbeak Splatoon. Well- kind of. Anyways, your here because you're our new Agent 7, Agent 7." The old man said, enthusiastically. He took a step forward.

     "Sorry- don't mind Gramps. But he's right- we need your help. We want you to become Agent 7. These here are all of the other agents, and our captain. And Gramps, of course. I'm Marie, Agent 2, and you've met Callie and Gramps. Next to me here is The Captain, and the old Agent 3." Marie introduced herself, and explained a few things. She pointed to a squid with a patchwork hat on, yellow eyes, and yellow hair. The girl had resting bitch face- but seemed like a good captain.

     The Captain smirked and nodded at me. She didn't say anything. I didn't know what to do back exactly, so I just nodded too.

"Hi! I'm Agent 4! You can call me 4 though! It's so nice to meet a new Agent! I'm so excited to work with you, Sev! Wait- can I call you that?" An ecstatic girl with short, yellow hair, light orange eyes, and a suit similar, but also very different to mine jumped up and introduced herself. "Uhh... sure?" "Cool! I can't wait to get to know you then, Sev!"

Another inkling with yellow hair that has a braid in it, and bright yellow eyes walked up to me next, and held their hand out. They had another hero suit, again, similar to mine, but different. It seemed a lot older, but had headphones a lot newer than the rest of the suit. "Agent 3- the new one... I guess it's just Agent 3 now though- 3 for short. Also- I use they/them pronouns- just thought you should know." 3 said, and smiled at me. "It's nice to meet you, 3. You already know my name- and I use she/her." I shook their hand, and before they could walk off, a little salmonoid-looking creature popped out of 3's bag. "Oh- and this is Smallfry." I giggled. "Well, it's nice to meet you too, Smallfry." I said, and petted him.

After Agent 3 and Smallfry, a pink haired and eyed octoling walked up to me. She seemed kinda shy, but at the same time, brave. I couldn't tell. She was wearing an awesome black suit with a skirt and cool black boots- I envied her costume- except the skirt. "Agent 8- you can call me 8 though." She said, and smiled sweetly. I like her. "Hello, 8." I said, and smiled back.

     Another octoling walked up to me, this one was much faster, and was already smiling. She was wearing a pretty aqua strapless dress, and black tights. She had short black hair that faded into aqua, and what looked to be hair sticking up to look like antennas. A purple headband tied it all together. "Hello! I'm Agent 5, my real name's Bede though! It's really nice to finally meet you! I know your going to do great!" She said, and shook my hand. "Bede here is kind of like a hacker- she can use her tech skills to get into any software- she helps us map out everything, and tells us all we need to know." Marie added. Bede just smiled and walked off.

     Next up came a small inkling, she was smaller than me, and about the same size as Pearl, which is saying something, as I'm pretty short too. She had tan hair and golden eyes, and wore a black crown, crop top, spiked color, and ripped jeans. Her sense of style was similar to mine, just more revealing. "Agent 6- aka Pipilo- I look forward to working with you." The inkling stretched her hand out upwards and straight, and I shook it. She then nodded and walked back professionally. "Our usual weapons guy decided to stay in Splatsville, but we found Pipilo, and she's kinda like killing two fish with one stone! Not only is she an expert on weapons, but she supplies them too, not to mention she's an amazing inventor! She makes a lot of the gadgets we use today!" Callie added, exited. Pipilo's face turned red, and she looked down. "Well, it's great to meet you, Pipilo. I can't wait to work with you too." "Call me Pip." She said. I smiled. "Okay, Pip."

     "Milo. Also known as Agent 9. I'm supposed to keep you guys safe, and get background information and shit on people." Said an inkling with red hair that faded into yellow, and green eyes. She was chewing on bubble gum, and was wearing a big blue jacket with paint stains on it, and awesome boots to go with it. I loved their outfit.

A beautiful inkling with teal hair and yellow eyes walked over to me. She was wearing what looked to be a black hero-bodysuit with a teal life jacket on top of it. Her suit contained pink accents. "I'm Marnie, or Agent 10. We're going to be working together a lot, so I hope we can be friends." She said. I smiled. "Yeah, of course. It's great to meet you, Marnie."

"Okay, I hope you're ready." Marie stated before I could meet the last inkling there, a girl with white hair with purple and orange dots on the end and curtain bangs, wearing a purple dress, poncho, and sunglasses. Marie then got out what looked to be a button from out of her pocket. "For what?" I questioned. "Your first mission." "What? But I don't even-" "We spent to long on introductions. Sorry for such a big task for your first one, but we're on a schedule. Good luck, Agent 7." Marie interrupted.

"Wait- but I don't even know why I'm here ye- WOOAAH-!"

And just like that, the ground opened from under me.