The Legacy Of Humanity - A Splatoon Fanfiction

2.2 - Squid Squads and Octo Tears

"Are you two ready?" Marie asked. The squid sisters, along with Kirk and Neptune, were about to start their rematch. The other team was ready, and the transport lobby had selected Saltspray Rig as the arena. While Kirk was still feeling nervous, his practice with Neptune gave him enough confidence to keep his cool.

"We're ready to get splattin!" He said. "I just know we'll win this time! We have to!"

Neptune looked at him and smirked. "Just don't go headbutting me if we see any hydra users."

"You're going to keep reminding me about that until the day I die, aren't you?" Kirk responded.

"You expected otherwise?"

"Okay, that's enough," Marie said, trying to get their attention. "I'll be lone sharking today, so you three should probably stick together."

Kirk looked at her, surprised, "Are you sure that's a good idea? A charger with out cover tends to be an easy target."

"That's why I brought this," she responded, and held up a scoped E-Liter. "I'll be fine."

"Just let her do what she wants," Callie said. "Marie has her own way of doing turf war. If you two want to stay with me, we should have no problem inking territory. We already know we can work together, right Kirk?."

"O-of course!" Kirk noticed Callie wink at him, and he became nervous again. Neptune just rolled her eyes.

"Down, boy! And don't forget to land correctly this time!"

"Neptune, you-mgmf!" Kirk wasn't able to finish his retort, as the transport lobby forced the inklings into squid form, and launched them to the arena. The four inklings came down, and reverted to bipedal. The starting signal blew, and Marie immediately took off in a fresh ink trail to the back of the rig.

"Follow me, guys!" Callie shouted, and the trio jumped down to the lower platform. Callie went to work inking, while Kirk and Neptune took position on the stack of crates. Hoping to catch them off guard, 3 enemy Inklings jumped down from their side. Kirk, who already charged his splatling, unloaded on the tentatek, and splatted him in the air. Neptune took out the aerospray, not even bothering to dodge his shots due to her power advantage. As for the blaster, she was rolled over by Callie before she even got a shot off. All three Inklings were sent back to the S.P.A.W.N. Pad.

"That's synergy!" The trio shouted, and high-fived with their weapons.

"Wow, you two have gotten a lot better!" Said Callie.

"Thanks!" Kirk responded. "We spent all night- wait, I saw a charger on their team. Did he go after Marie?"

"Haven't seen anything back here," Marie said over the communicator. "Nice work on that triple, but leave some for me, alright?"

"We should get back to covering turf. I'll lead, but keep an eye out for that charger." Callie started rolling a trail to the center platform, while the other two covered her. When they reached the main ramp, Neptune signaled them to stop.

"Hold up. That charger has clearly been busy, but it bothers me that we haven't seen him yet. Kirk, ink me a trail to the top of those pipes, and I'll-" Neptune was unable to finish her sentence, as a Kraken form came down on her from above. Splatted before she even knew what hit her, Neptune was pulled back to her pad. The Kraken turned it's attention to Kirk, as he tried to slow it down by unloading on it. Unfortunately, his efforts were in vein, and he soon found him self back at his pad for de-splatting. The Kraken form followed the ink trail Callie made, hoping to get a triple splat of his own. Just before turning the corner, a pink Kraken came out, and caught him by surprise. As he was forcefully reverted to his Inkling form, all he could do was wait for the pink Kraken to take him out.