The Resurgence AU

Test A02

...Here it was. Test A02. Far Out Station.

The Rainmaker Test. The worst test Everest ever had thrown at her.

Everest stepped into the chamber and quickly equipped the splatroller, abandoning her golf club right behind the chamber. CQ followed her out of the train and gave her the same tips as usual. Everest's body was already shaking. Though, chances are, that was from the encounter she had with Operator as how torn up and messy Everest felt inside from it.

As Everest swiped her new CQ Card and entered the battle zone, about 3 of the 8 octolings instantly turned into their octopus forms and super jumped, landing right before Everest. One of them was an elite...

This elite no doubt had a number like everyone else, 1,342 if Everest remembered correctly. She was never sure though. Numbers were stupid anyways! Everest just preferred to call him Elite. Much easier to remember than 9,997 or whatever number Elite was.

Elite sneered, leaning onto his hip with a smirk, his seaweed swayed behind him confidently, "Everest! Lil' Snowflake, Tartar's little polar cub," He placed a finger on her chest before sweeping up, making Everest stumble back with the force of it. Everest rubbed her chin with a sigh.

"Ya here to retry the test that your papa had to help you with before? Do ya want us to go eassyyyy~?" Everest didn't react to his sneers and rudeness. Another octoling, no doubt 202, didn't join in on the laughter. She was mute. Everest had just hoped that 202 didn't join in because it wasn't right and not because she was mute since birth.

"No," The coldness in Everest's voice seemed to confuse Elite.

"...Excuse me?" Elite raised a brow.

"I want you to go hard. As hard as you can. Make me suffer. Do not go easy on me for even a second," Everest was staring at the ground way more than the octolings. She tightened her grip on the splatroller, just shaking. Elite gave one of his lackeys a confused look. They only shrugged in return.

"...Everest, are you doing okay?" Everest could see as Elite grew concerned as tears started to well up in Everest's eyes. Everest could still see that Elite disliked her but underneath all that anger and distrust was the slightest hint of worry.

"D-Don't ask-, f**k, don't make me remember- just fight me!" Everest jumped into the air and swung the splatroller downwards, covering Elite in a vertical line of white ink. Elite stumbled back and covered his eyes with a sharp hiss. Just like that, CQ's voice came over the loudspeaker, "Carry the Rainmaker to the goal!" He shouted.

101, or as Everest called them, 1, aimed his splattershot jr. quickly and started to coat Everest in sanitized ink. Everest slammed the splatroller into the ground and ran forward, running over 1 quickly.

202, or just 2 for simplicity's sake, panicked and struggled to activate her inkjet. The string was not working and Everest almost was able to blow her up with one of her curling bombs before she could take off. Right before the bomb exploded, 2's inkjet finally activated and she soared up into the air. The speed of which clearly scared her.

Everest growled, glaring at 2 before swinging her splatroller back to hit Elite across the face, instantly splatting him when he tried to attack Everest from behind. Everest watched his soul fly up and back to spawn. Everest snagged a thing of extra ink right before grabbing the Rainmaker.

Stepping in the sanitized ink wouldn't have much of an effect on her except for making her slip and fall back more than she was supposed to. Personally, Everest's tactic was to never lift up her feet. Treat the ink like it's ice.

Everest saw one of the other octolings spawn right near the start. Poor thing didn't even get a chance to aim before Everest shot at them with the Rainmaker and instantly splatted them too. By this point, Everest knew exactly where octolings would spawn. Right as another spawned in a small alleyway on her right, Everest spun towards it and shot it once, twice and splatted it with a third shot.