World Of Ink (A Splatoon Story)

Getting The Hang Of It

We all cheered as we saw Honey and Lavender return back safely. "Nice job getting the zap fish, but this is only 1 of many that needs to be collected." Marie broke out. Kill the mood would ya I reaWe looked around. It wasn't hard to find the kettles, for all you had to do was to shoot aimlessly at the ground. Plus the platform wasn't big at all, and they were quite easy to figure out. We had already unlocked the other 2 while Honey and Lavender were getting the zap fish. "Alright, can we all agree that the longer we wait for each other the more power gets drained from the city?" I asked. We all nodded. "Alright then,  everyone go to a kettle and we'll talk through the headset!" "Alright, cmon Honey!" Lavender cheered as she grabbed her hand. "Everyone, but you guys... You've just got done completing the previous level. Your on break." Lavender groaned. At least Honey seemed to be ok with the deal! Olive and Misty must have gone down by now, so I wasn't about to waste time. I waved Maya to cmon, and jumped inside the kettle. The map seemed nice enough, with a bridge leading us towards a single octo torpedo to take care of. Maya shot it down and started to ink the wall infront of us. "Gotta admit it's pretty nice here." I said looking up at Maya. "Yeah, but It'd be a bit better if we weren't on a mission." I laughed a bit and super jumped to the next platform. A tower was surrounded by a few octo troopers. Pretty simple. The Zap fish was just up head. Let's get this over with...
(Olives view)
"HELP!" "WELL MAYBE YOU SHOULD TRY PULLING THE TRIGGER!" Misty yelled back. I waved my gun in the air trying to shoo the beast away. It was a smaller version of an octo trooper, but with a tiny helicopter hat that was equipped with a small cannon that was big enough to fire at you. I kept screaming. "JUST PULL THE TRIGGER!" I just gave up and threw my gun at the beast. It didn't seem to help the situation at any means, since it only made it mad. I stared as it hovered higher above me, and I screamed louder. There was no reply. I was about to just accept my fate, until Misty finally shot the beast dead. "Thank you!" I cried, hugging her leg like a child. "A little space please!" I let go. She had this annoyed look on her face, the one that you know your in trouble. "Get up, and start actually trying to help! You've shot a gun before, so why don't you start doing it now!" Misty yelled in anger. Thinking about it, I couldn't manage a reason why I didn't shoot. She's right that I've had shot it before, but I didn't. Why? "Well, why do you have to be so mean all the time?" This probably wasn't the best idea, as Misty turn around, and gave the biggest death stare you could imagine. She marched right towards me. "Olive, the whole city's power is at risk, this isn't a time to be playing around! Now get up, we're already behind." Misty holds out her hand to help me up. I grabbed hold of her arm as she lifted me up. She may not have looked it but she's strong for an inkling! I must've weighed the same as a doll to compared to her by the looks of it! "Woah! Your strong for an inkling!" I laughed. "Uh, I'm about average when compared to strength." Everything about me froze. I really need too hit a gym if she's really average! Misty ran off past the enemies taking a few of them out, while leaving an ink trail for me to swim through. She probably didn't wanna waste anymore time after lecturing me. Swimming past everything, the zap fish was in plan sight now! All that was left was a single dash track (a pad that gives you a small boost, with a bit of speed.) and a butt ton of ink pistons (gushers that are filled with ink that fling out at you dealing lots of damage). Misty walks over to the ledge and starts to think. I watched
the pistons ahead, blast ink at the wall. "Looks like we're gonna have to time our jumps." "And if we fail?" I turned around to see Misty. "Well Olive, we fail the jump." She laughed nervously. "Get ready to be splatted." I looked expectantly at Misty, as in saying to go first. She looked down into the endless void, then the pistons, then me, and sighed. She backed up, and right when the pistons were heading back, she swam onto the dash track, getting another boost from the running start, and made her way across to the zap fish. Surprised to be alive and checking herself just to be sure, Misty give the thumbs up and waits for me to cross. Watching the pistons for awhile, I think I got the pattered figured out, and backed up ready to take the leap. I ran up to the dash track and jumped boosted my way through. For a second there, I thought I was about to fall off but misty pulled me onto the platform, and together we shot the barrier around the zap fish and claimed our prize!
(Back to Ashley's view)
After shooting the final enemy, Maya ran ahead and grabbed the zap fish. Everything just kinda seemed to disappear, and of course I ran up to my friend and congratulated our victory. We both smiled as we jumped back to base. "We got it!" I yelled out coming from the pipes as Maya held up the zap fish! "Mission complete!" Misty chanted right after with Olive behind her. 4, Honey, and Lavender all got up and celebrated with us. Right in the middle of partying, a kettle in the middle had lifted up showing us another pipe. Everyone stared for a second at the kettle. "Another stage? But why couldn't we go in it sooner?" Lavender turned to Marie, expecting an answer. Marie looked at the kettle herself. "It's because you needed the mini zap fish to power it so the lid could come off." I walked onto the pipe and stared down, I'm not sure what I was expected, since it was just like the rest. I would've gone in then in there but from behind me, Misty pulled out some drink- and food tickets and said "So, anyone wanna get a lunch break? Foods on me." Our eyes lit up and we all dashed back to the food truck. Tomorrow's a new day!