{ Splatoon } My Colorful Life

The Third Mission...?

{Isabelle's POV}
"How is this kettle different from the others here?" I asked. Cap'n replied, "You'll see, squiddo. Just take my word for it." Ellie cheered, "The last Zapfish is in there! I know you guys can do it!" Max grinned. "Be careful, okay? We need y'all back here in one piece." Orlaith said, "Get in there and JUST DO IT ALREADY!" I shrieked, "Okay! Okay! We're going in!"

"What... In... The..." Nathan stuttered. "We're in... Bluefin Depot?" I replied, "Seems like it. The Zapfish could be anywhere... We should split up." Nathan nodded and headed one way. I searched almost every nook and cranny of the Depot and couldn't find any trace of the Zapfish. I pressed a button on my headset. "Nathan, can you hear me?" I asked. "Loud and clear," he replied. "Find anything yet?" I said, "Nothing. How about you?" Nathan answered, "Nothing. We should check the middle area. Meet you there."

{Nathan's POV}
We searched the middle area for almost twenty minutes, and there was still no sign of the third Zapfish. "You know what's kinda weird?" I said. "What is it?" Isabelle replied. "There hasn't been a single Octarian here..." There was a weird noise in the air as an Inkstrike seemingly fell from nowhere. "WHOA!" I looked up and saw something flying in the air above us. I couldn't quite make out what it was, but there was a faint light emitting from it. "The Zapfish's up there!" I yelled. "Let's go!"
There was a jump pad on the other side of the Depot. "This probably leads up to that... Thing!" Isabelle and I hopped in and jumped up to the top of the thing. What I saw was unbelievable. It was a gargantuan Octarian, swimming in a pool of magenta ink. It had the Zapfish in one hand, and an Inkstrike in the other. It saw us and flew out of the pool, launching an Inkstrike at us in the process. "Try to hide in ink!" I told Isabelle. Isabelle nodded, but from out of nowhere, Nami super jumped over to us. "Now then, let's make this a fair fight, shall we?" Isabelle angrily yelled, "Why, you smug little-" I shouted, "Be careful, Isabelle!" Orlaith's voice told me, "It's too dangerous to try to take both Nami and an Octostriker down! Just try to get the Zapfish and run!" I couldn't have agreed more! "You heard her! Just try and snag the Zapfish!" Isabelle nodded and tried to get to the Octostriker from behind, but Nami cut her off. "I don't think so," She said sweetly. "Hey, Lady!" I yelled. Nami turned her head to see me super jumping away with the Zapfish tucked beneath my arm, narrowly escaping an Inkstrike. "I don't think you did a very good job protecting the Zapfish!" Nami grinned. "Don't you get it, you Blue Brat?"

"You can't tell the difference between fantasy and reality."

I looked at the Zapfish. It was a fake. I was holding a plush replica with something poking out the back. It was a bomb. And before I could react, the bomb exploded, halting my super jump and causing me to plummet into the endless ocean below.

My eyes slowly opened. Everything around me was blue. I was falling through an endless, blue void. The water was burning my skin, and I started to slowly dissolve. There was someone coming towards me, her hand outstretched. With a muffled voice, she shouted my name. "Nathan! Take my hand!" I reached up to grab her hand. She pulled me closer, my body continuing to slowly disappear in the water. I couldn't feel my legs. I couldn't feel my body. Her grip eventually loosened and her hand began to dissolve. We sank down deeper into the abyss, my head growing fuzzier and fuzzier.

Before I knew it, I was gone.