Splatoon: Old Hatreds

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Melanin prison, Octo Valley

Having missed the battle, the only thing that the reinforcements could do now was help with the clean up or search for the Inklings.

The Octocopters and Octobombers who could fly took care of this task, thus the Octotroopers, Octosnipers and Octolings spent their time piling together the equipment left behind by those who fell in battle.

This was standard procedure for the Octarian army, they needed to retrieve all the equipment they could so that they can estimate how many troops they lost.

Inside Melanin prison, where clean up crews were busy putting sets of equipment together, Lynn and Claire were summoned to their captain's office.

They greeted the Octotroopers guarding the office before heading inside to see the captain of the guard.

As soon as the door was closed, the captain of the guard spoke.

"Do any of you know why you are here?"

"No ma'am" both of them replied, however both could already guess why they were summoned here.

The captain of the guard picked up a pair of octoling goggles off her desk.

"One of your fellow guards brought me this, I assume you know the standard clean up procedure following battles?"

Both Claire and Lynn nodded

The clean up procedure included cleaning up the ink splattered everywhere, as well as recovering the equipment left behind by those who had been splatted.

There was also the task of identifying the recently deceased, Octotroopers could be identified by their hovercrafts, Octocopters and Octobombers always engraved their names inside their helmets to prevent mixing them up with others, as for the Octosnipers and Octolings, the goggles they wore recorded everything they saw and heard and it would save footage whenever it was removed for over an hour, or in this case, if the owner was splatted while wearing it.

So it was no surprise that some would be told to watch the recorded footage to determine the owner of the gear left behind.

The pair of goggles that the captain of the guard held belonged to Madison.

"Your comrade here was outside when the Inklings attacked, these goggles recorded the whole battle, however it also recorded something else."

Octoling goggles could store up to 72 hours of footage, and would automatically record whenever someone was wearing it.

"I know what the three of you did, but I don't know why, so i'm giving you one chance to explain."

Claire and Lynn looked at each other.

No wonder they couldn't find Madison after the attack, if only they knew what happened, then they could have tried to hide her goggles.

Living beings die every day, the Octarians had long accepted this and often weren't phased when someone died in any way, the only ones who would mourn would be the family of the deceased or someone who loved them deeply, everyone else would probably just say "that's too bad" and move on.

Thus Madison being splatted was only an inconvenience for these two.

With a clam expression Lynn explained their motive to the captain.

"We didn't mean any harm, we just thought that Agent 3 would get here sooner or later, so the best thing to do would be to get him to leave as soon as he could."

"Aside from that, our families already struggle to live on everyday so we figured we could also ask the red Inkling to keep Agent 3 away from them should he ever attack the Undercity directly." Claire added.