Snippets of Tales (Multifandom)

Splatoon Splatroad: How the Cuttlebone Crew formed

Story: SplatRoad/IceBound

Creator: Olivewaffles6 (SR)/Me (IB)
(Base story, prone to editing in later times)

A group of friends sat at a table.

"So...what are they up to now?" Headphones asked.

"This time they've left for some arctic place in order to stop a villain threatening to freeze this whole world over, I believe" Specs replied.

"Wowee!!" Bobble exclaimed.

"Dang, that sounds fun!"

Eging smacked the table surface with his hand on "fun".

"Well I mean. It would be cold, but I suppose the adventure would be fun" N-Pacer said quietly, but loud enough for everyone to hear her.

"We never really get to do anything here, huh. Just watch over inkopolis and make sure it's alright?" Eging asked to nobody in particular.

"Yeah, the last few times we've been involved, it was really only assistance...or we were the ones being rescued" Headphones said, sighing after.

"Sitting around isn't really fun, eh?" Specs grumbled.

"Nope" Eging replied.

"I know!" Bobble said suddenly.

"What?" N-Pacer turned to look at her.

"Let's form our OWN group to help them!"

Eging stood up out of his chair, raising his fist to the air.
"Yeah!"
He suddenly remembered.
"Wait we only have 5 people, don't we need 8?"

"Hm. You're right. We could ask the S4?" Headphones suggested.

"But...then we'd have 9..." Specs said.

"Oh come on, does ONE extra matter?" Eging groaned. He just wanted a dang team, didn't matter if they were over or under the person count, really.

"Alright, alright...let's go ask them." N-Pacer said, not wanting this to escalate any further.

Bobble also stood up out of her chair.
"Okay!"

And so, the group walked. They had gotten out to the square, and eventually found the S4 hanging around the lobby. They walked up to them.

"Heya!" Bobble called out to them.

"Heeeey..." Mask said as the other S4 turned to see who it was.

"What's up?" Aloha asked.

"Well, we were going to make our own team to help the squidbeak splatoon!" Bobble explained.

"Nice! I'm in!" Aloha said. Adventure could be fun! Turf war DID get boring after a while...

"Me too!" Army added. More manual material!

"I supooooose..." Mask sighed, putting away his phone.

"Sure, I'm in as well" Skul said with a nod.

"But every good team needs a name, so...what do we call ourselves?" Eging asked.

The group thought. They needed something catchy, something that would stick in others's minds. Something cool, with a nice ring to it.

"I know!" Headphones said.

Everyone turned to her.

"Since we're helping the squidbeak, we can be the cuttlebones!"

"Why that?" Specs asked.

"It doesn't...sound too good?" Eging added.

"Because captain cuttlefish!"

Goggles had accidentally let that leak in a conversation once, and Headphones had heard about it from another room...

"Well, I suppose it's not a bad start. Could use some improvement, but I guess if we find a better one we could use that."
Skull shrugged.

"Sooooo this is a placeholder then?" Aloha asked.

"I suppose." Army said.

"Alright! From now on, we're gonna be the Cuttlebone Crew!" Bobble exclaimed, as everyone put their hands in a circle and brought them up together.

"YEAH!"