AI Hunter Chronicles: Energized (Season 1)

Episode 67: The Puzzle Machine (Finale)

Splatoon Universe 10

The Concept Commandos arrive at one of the major cities in the Splatoon Section of the collided world. Each one of them are confident in what they plan to do against Mr. Puzzles. The only person who is worried in the slightest is Kiki, who is serving as their guide to the area. She is beyond terrified at this point. She was a native to this place once, not this city in particular, but to the universe period. She had witnessed herself these Puzzle copies swarming the cities one by one until only hers remained. In fact, she would have probably been captured alongside the billions of others, but then the collision happened, and she was saved. Saved from what, she didn't know; no one saw what happened to the ones who were taken. Only where, and they were standing right in the city where it was happening, only...

Kiki: <It's quiet. When they took over, you couldn't not hear the screams over the televisions.>

Epsilon: It is most likely quiet because, as Era mentioned, Mr. Puzzles is expecting us.

Era: Yeah...probably.

Coja: Still, keep your guard up. If he sees that we are becoming too relaxed, he might ambush us and capture us for the finale.

Everyone nods and moves forward. Kiki eventually leads them to a factory looking building. It is where everyone seemed to be taken, at least according to the televisions. They always seemed to have been broadcasting those things to the inklings. It's like they were purposefully torturing them with sight, wanting them to see what was on the other side of those factory doors. One thing that she never seemed to have noticed is that there was a signal tower built on top of it.

C4rry: That explains what was happening in Nevada the other day. Dude was planning something from the very beginning!

Ruby: Should we-

Era: As much as I would like to get Cain back right now, no. It's like Mr. Puzzles said, he doesn't need the Resurgents anymore, so destroying it now wouldn't serve a purpose.

Coja: If he didn't just throw a world on top of us two days ago, I would have said it could have been a bluff.

The seven of them approach the doors of the factory. From inside, they can all hear the sounds of heavy machinery, and the faint cries of inklings.

Ruby: Someone's in danger. Let's get them out of here.

Ruby kicks down the door of the factory, opening up the interiors of factory to everyone. They soon wish they didn't know what the sounds were. In the factory, thousands of heavy machines were at work, all illuminated by a bright white light, leading all the way down into a giant pit which a grated catwalk had been constructed over. These machines delivered inklings into a glass container, alive and begging to be released from their demise, until they are silenced by their bodies being blended into a thick, ink-like goop. This goop is then pumped out of the containers and taken deeper in the factory. It becomes clear what Mr. Puzzles is doing to the inklings of Splatoon Universe 10: He is harvesting them, all of them.

Everyone is left in horror in what they are beholding, especially Kiki. To see hundreds if not thousands of inklings being ground up like cattle right before her eyes, to see her entire civilization being turned into ink for whatever this madman wants, it's too much for her to bear. She stumbles away from the factory, before collapsing onto the ground and vomiting up indigo. C4rry quickly runs over to Kiki's side as the others can't bear to look away from the mass killings. 

C4rry: Kiki! I'm so, so, so, so, so sorry that this is happening to you! This b#stard is not just a maniac, he's a monster! I swear to you, we will bring this guy to justice! I swear!