Splatoon: Under Inkopolis

Another Squid Bites the Ink

      "Ready, steady, START", yelled Coach Shoal.  Most of the inklings, including the feisty orange girl, proceeded to yeet themselves off the tower in order to reach the base of the one they were supposed to climb up, but Tide and a couple others made the fatal mistake of looking down.  It was a long way down.  The other inklings turned to hurry down the tower via long zig zagging slopes, but Tide hesitated.  Going down via slopes would take far too much time; he had to risk the jump.  Closing his eyes to avoid the vertigo inducing view Tide leapt of the tower flailing his arms in wide circles.  

      As it turns out, jumping off the cliff like towers was quite the dangerous move, but jumping off with your eyes closed is just plain stupid.  Tide awkwardly hit one of the slopes below, tripped on a puddle of ink, and skidded straight off the tower and slopes altogether.  By the time he respawned at the top of the starting tower he was practically eons behind everyone else.  Even stone faced Shoal seemed embarrassed by his performance.
      "Gee Squido, maybe try the slopes this time", she cringed.
     When Tide finally reached the opposite tower after carefully picking his way up and down the slopes Lime was already announcing the next step of tryouts.
     "Okay inklings, for the final task you will be competing in an all out turf war: no teams.  Once your splatted you are out of the game.  For a little extra encouragement the squids who show the most potential will become the team leaders of their respective teams.  Shoal and I will be judging you based off your number of splats and amount of area turfed.  Now everyone has five minutes to go to a starting position on the towers.  Then I'll set off this airhorn"-- Lime inexplicably pulls one out of her pocket--" and the games will begin!".

     The squids dispersed quickly; all were eager to find a defensible position before the air horn sounded and chaos ensued.  I have to do well thought Tide.  After abysmally failing the last task this was literally his last fighting chance at making a team.  Luckily after spending all that extra time climbing the slopes Tide had spotted a relatively hidden divot in the towers where he'd be safe from ambushes.  He dived into his cover just in time; Lime's airhorn sounded and ink started raining from all corners of the course.  Unwilling to join the fray while so many inklings were charging head on towards each other Tide watched and waited on the sidelines. 

       Unsurprisingly the orange ink girl took an aggressive stance simultaneously inking turf and splatting foes with her splattershot pro's superior range, but even she had to take cover when a quirky almost bald kid perched on a sniper's tower started picking off inklings with his charger.  Eventually the kid backed down in order to beat a hasty retreat; a inkling girl with pigtail tentacles was rapidly zig zagging to his tower using her ink brush.  Tide shook himself out of his awe inspired trance; between these three inklings soon there would be no squid kids left for him to splat.  Slowly he crept out towards center stage where an unsuspecting inkling was turfing. 

    Adrenaline pulsed through Tide's fingertips as he pulled the trigger.  Unfortunately he miscalculated his aim and the jet of ink only partially hit his target.  The surprised inkling rounded on Tide to return fire.  Tide quickly adjusted his aim.  Let's finished this he thought grimly, but before he could finish the job the squid he was attacking splatted sending orange ink everywhere.  The orange girl stood confidently surveying the turfing ground with her blazing blue eyes. 
    "You totally stole my splat", was the last thing Tide uttered.  The girl silently added another hit to her splat list and turned towards other victims.  She was determined to be the last inkling standing.