Splatoon: Old Hatreds

To Octo Valley

Nautilus base, Octo Valley

Another day as usual, getting up, making breakfast, small talk with Violet, heading to Nautilus base, a day of training, random conversations in the mess hall....

"Hey guys!" loud mouthed Kevin the Octostriker plopped himself between a bunch of his squadmates, Victoria included.

"Alright big guy, you look like you got something to say." came the voice of an Octosniper

"Well indeed I do, you're going to like this."

"Oh great it's one of those stories, everyone plug your ears, otherwise you'll fall asleep." Victoria joked

"No seriously you want to hear this, a prisoner died yesterday."

A chill went down Victoria's back as if those words became icicles and stabbed her in the back.

"Say what?"

"A prisoner, you know, an Inkling."

"Which one!" Victoria nearly shouted at the large Octostriker.

"What's up with you all of a sudden, I don't know which one, I just wanted to let you all know that we aren't just taking prisoners anymore, oh right, and the second wave of Elites in Inkopolis are going to return today."

"Before you get to that, tell me in detail what happened at the prison."

"Yeah I want to know too." and Octotrooper added

Feeling happy to have an audience, Kevin happily told his story.

"Well you see what happened was...."

Melanin prison, eight hours ago

Kalus was trying his best to sleep, a task not made easy with Bogs punching the door.

"Haven't you lot heard of a fair fight!"

Kal wanted to get him to stop, but it was obvious that he wasn't the type to listen....

So instead Kal stayed quiet and hoped that he could fall asleep eventually.

Kal heard the cell door opening, he and the other captured Inkling got up to see who was coming in.

It was the captain of the guards, followed by four Octolings.

Bogs was silent all of a sudden, as if the captain's presence had drained all his strength to speak.

"You" the captain pointed at Bogs "you are the first one."

"First one for what?"

Nobody replied, instead Bogs was quickly bounded and gagged by four Octolings, once they were done he was left squirming.

"Take him to the boiling pit!" the captain ordered

'The WHAT?!' Kal wondered

Both he and the purple Inkling watched as two Octolings carried Bogs away, off to someplace called the "boiling pit".

The captain noticed the two Inklings watching, she smiled at them and left the cell.

"You two" the captain addressed two Octoling guards "Keep that cell open just a bit, I want them to hear this."

The captain then walked off to another room, leaving doors open behind her.

When she reached the boiling pit Bogs was in a panic, he struggled and with all his might tried to break free, but to no avail.