The group rode along the ride rails in the park, Desti was having a little trouble keeping balance on the rail that she was on. Sam jumped from an adjacent rail onto hers to help her keep her balance. He looked back at her and smiled. Desti giggled and turned into an octopus, earning a confused look from him as he hit the back of his head on a low hanging bar and fell off of the rail. She turned back into her humanoid form and looked at Sam. She shrugged at him but soon fell off of her rail as she took the turn too quickly and landed hard on her back.
“You’re supposed to pay attention and lean into the turns you know,” Sam chuckled. His face turned to one of worry once he saw that Desti wasn’t moving. “Desti?” The octoling continued to lay motionless on the ground. “O-Okay Desti, you can get up now.” Meggy, Azalea, and Bridgett got off of their ride rails and stood behind Sam. He went over to her and knelt down beside her only to hear her giggling.
“You should’ve seen your face,” Desti said while giggling.
“That wasn’t funny Des.”
“Oh come on, I’m just teasing ya. Hey, at least I didn’t fall on my bad arm.”
“Oh, so you like teasing people huh? Well how's this for ya?” Sam asked as he started tickling Desti.
“Sam! Stop it!” Desti laughed as Sam continued to tickle her. “You’re gonna make me laugh so hard that I pee myself.”
“Alright.” Sam stopped tickling Desti and allowed her to get up. “Just don’t do that to me again.”
“I won’t… If you can catch me that is.
Desti ran and hopped onto a ride rail with Sam chasing after her.
“Don’t those two just look cute together?” Anthony asked Azalea.
“Yeah,” Azalea replied before realizing who asked her. “When did you get here?”
“Just now,” Anthony answered. “I decided to take a break from my game and join you guys.”
“Well zip up your coat.”
“Why? I’m not on duty. Besides, I’m not a little kid Azalea, so you can’t boss me around like one.”
“Yeah yeah, I know. Wear it however you want because I don’t give a fu-”
A gunshot was heard and Azalea’s face went from one of discomfort to one of shock.
“Z-Zaly?” Bridgett said worryingly.
Azalea looked down and saw a dark red stain starting to appear on her coat.
“Well well well, lookie what we have here.”
Anthony, Bridgett, and Meggy turned around as Sam and Desti hopped off of the ride rail and saw an octoling wielding a shotgun approach them.
“I figured I would find some of you squiddies here, but I guess I found a couple of the traitors here as well. Heh. Hello sister.”
“S-Stacy?” Desti said in shock.
“Duh, who else would it be? The tooth fairy?”
“If you want Desti you're gonna have to get through me first,” Sam said as he stood in front of Desti.
“Whatever you say squid breath.” Stacy smiled as she pointed her shotgun at Sam. Before she could fire a round at him, Azalea grabbed the gun and tried to force it away from her. During the struggle, Stacy aimed the barrel at Azalea’s left arm and fired off a round, severing the inkling’s arm. She then pulled it away from her and shot another round into her stomach. Azalea staggered a bit but still stood on her feet. “How? How the fuck are you not dead yet?”
Azalea unzipped her coat, revealing the armor she wore underneath. The armor was shattered in two places where the bullets had penetrated through to her skin. Anthony and Bridgett stood by her side and prepared to fight.
“So, it’s a fight you want? Heh, I’ll give it to you then.” Stacy dropped her shotgun and reached behind her back, unsheathing her katana. “So, who wants to die first?”
“Azalea,” Anthony said quietly, “What do we do?”
“Spread out,” Azalea ordered.
Anthony and Bridgett circled around Stacy from opposite sides and looked towards Azalea. Azalea nodded and grabbed a discarded bar before charging towards her enemy with the other agents. Stacy swung her katana at Agent Three only for it to clash with the bar as agents Eight and Four attacked her from the sides. She then kicked Azalea away from her and swung her katana at Anthony, cutting into his shoulder and leg and kicked his legs out from under him. She then kicked Bridgett around and swung her blade up the young octoling’s back.
“Hmph, you three are pathetic,” Stacy said as she turned to look at Desti. Sam and Meggy stood between them. She sheathed her katana and picked up her shotgun as Roland walked over to her.
“I see you’ve been busy,” Roland said as he looked at the three wounded agents.
“I have,” Stacy replied. “I was just about to finish the job when you showed up.”
Roland looked at the two inklings in front of them and saw Desti standing behind them. “Don’t tell me you were trying to kill your sister.”
“What? No,” Stacy said with a chuckle, “I am going to kill her.”
Stacy aimed her shotgun between Meggy and Sam and prepared to fire off a shot, but Roland grabbed at it.
“STACY! Remember, you’re only supposed to turn her in, not kill her.”
“I don’t give a fuck Roland, so let go of the shotgun!”
As Roland and Stacy were fighting for control of the shotgun, Meggy, Sam, and Desti went over to the agents and helped them to their feet. The group left the park as they heard a gunshot come from behind them. They continued on their way and didn’t look back as octolings started to enter. The octolings went over to where Roland and Stacy were, only to see Roland lying dead on the ground with a hole in his chest.
“What happened here?” One of the octolings asked.
“Roland was murdered,” Stacy answered. “Desti killed him! Find her and hunt her down! Dead or alive!”
“Yes commander.”
The octoling troops marched out of the park to hunt down Desti as Stacy looked to Roland.
“Oh Roland, how I loved you. Too bad things didn’t work out between us.”
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An Octoling's Tale
FanfictionAn inkling was running down an alleyway as she was being chased by two octolings. Her feet splashed in the puddles as she tried to escape from her pursuers. She came to a dead end and turned around to find that she had nowhere to run. She pressed he...
