Splatoon: Fight for Freedom
Disclaimer: Nintendo owns splatoon and the ocs are mine.
Chapter 1. The not so great escape.
The seaside town always took on a different feel every time the sun set, streets once bustling with activity emptied quickly, the inhabitants racing to get home before they got caught outdoors past curfew .
As one young couple quickly raced home, they failed to notice a figure hiding in the shadows of the alleyway they passed, not that they could stop to investigate anyways as the mysterious figure crouched down to try and blend into the shadows, the only noise to be heard was the ocean in the distance, after awhile the lights along the street flickered on, cautiously, the figure stepped out of the dark alleyway and onto the street, the light revealed the figure to be a young boy, possibly not much older than fourteen or fifteen, with peach colored skin, brown hair and green eyes that darted left and right.
After a quick look to see if the coast was clear, the young boy quickly ran down the road, only one thought going through his head, the docks, he had to get to the docks to avoid getting caught.
As the boy ran, he stopped when a strange chopping noise filled the air, his eyes widened in horrified realization and he quickly looked for cover, spotting an old car, the young boy dove behind the car and held his breath as whatever made the strange, it was a strange airborne creature, almost comical in appearance, it looked like a tentacle with green eyes, red lips, small legs and a large helmet with a nozzle and a large propeller on top that allowed it to fly like some strange living helicopter.
The teenage boy was terrified, if that creature spotted him, it would all be over, this creature was part of a race called Octarians who enslaved his own race, Humans, the creature itself was called an octocopter and though it looked silly thanks to those gun nozzles on their helmets, a group of them could mean serious trouble.
As the strange creature looked around, it began to move closer to the young boy's hiding place, he realized if he didn't act quickly he'd be discovered.
When the octocopter reached the car it rose higher allowing it to see on the other side… nothing, giving a quick look around, the octocopter then continued on its way, flying over some houses until it was out of sight.
After a few minutes, the teenage boy crawled his way out from under the car, he breathed a sigh of relief at his narrow escape, then made a face at the state his clothes, figures the car he hid under was leaking oil
" C'mon Tony," the teenager muttered to himself, " the docks are a few blocks away, you can do this, ".
As he took off towards the docks, only one thing went through tony 's mind, he had to escape and free his people from the octarians, there had to be others out there who were willing to help.
For awhile, Tony felt relieved that he didn't that he didn't run into anymore octarian patrols when he reached the docks, only to have his relief turn to dread when he saw how many guards were stationed there, tony quickly hid behind some crates, narrowly avoiding being spotted by some octocopters flying by, the noise of their propellors were deafening.
From the shadows of his hiding place, tony surveyed the area, though the place had a lot of guards, he could get past them if he timed it right, as for the octarian guards tony could see every type his race encountered, octocopters, octotroopers, octobombers, and such, Tony could also see groups of his fellow humans as well, loading crates onto the octarian saucer ships, each human looked haggard and Tony could see around their necks devices called shock-collars, which the octarians used to control the humans, one human, an elderly male, stopped to rest after loading a particularly heavy crate, a shout caught the humans' attention and he turned to face an approaching octotrooper.
Tony was too far away to hear their conversation, but it was obvious that the human was desperate, the octotrooper gave a smug expression and pulled out some sort of remote and pointed it at the human, pressing a button, seconds later the poor human's collar glowed and the human dropped to the ground, screaming in pain, it was all Tony could do to keep from rushing out there to help the poor man or smack that arrogant look off the octarians' face, after awhile, the octotrooper pressed another button and the man's collar stopped glowing, the helpless human lied there, breathing hard and moaning in pain.
The octotrooper turned towards two other male humans and pointed towards the one on the ground, quickly the two humans rushed over towards their friend, scooped him up, left quickly before trooper's patience wore out.
Tony shook with rage, his people were nothing more than slaves, forced to build things for the octarians and suffering because of it, after the disaster that nearly wiped humanity out and flooded most of the planet, the surviving humans vowed never to let greed or war rule over them again, to the point of using technology for peace, sadly this left the humans vulnerable to outside forces like the octarians.
Some humans still trained for combat in secret, but against the octarians these human warriors were too few in numbers, tony and his friends were the youngest to be trained thus far before the octarians invaded, outnumbered these warriors sent tony to find help, somewhere.
And Tony was determined to succeed, while his friends held down the fort, he volunteered to search for help and right now the only option open to him was to steal an octarian saucer ( why the octarians designed their ships to look like old, beat-up flying saucers confused tony to no end). A quick look around to make sure he wasn't seen, tony quickly made his way to the nearest saucer, one of the smaller ones as taking a larger saucer would draw too much attention, when he finally reached the craft, Tony breathed a sigh of relief, he wasn't spotted, or so he thought.
While Tony was making his way to the saucer, he failed to notice or hear two figures walking towards him, both figures looked nearly human, save for the pointed ears, instead of hair these figures had tentacles with two pieces of seaweed growing out of either side of their heads, both figures wore sinister black armor that covered every inch of their bodies except their stomachs, combat boots, and goggles over their eyes, these two figures, female in appearance, were octolings , high ranking warriors in the octarian army and deadly opponents,
" I'm so glad our shift is over, " the first octoling said as she stretched, the second octoling nodded in agreement, " I've had enough of these hairless apes for today ," the second octoling replied with a scowl, the first octoling turned towards her partner,
" True ," she said, " but some of the teenage males are kinda cute," then a lust filled gaze appeared on the octoling's face, " maybe the boss will let us keep a couple of them, you know as playthings, " she actually started to drool at that thought.
The second octoling turned towards the first to question her sanity and noticed a figure heading for one of the smaller saucers, a figure that wasn't an octarian.
Tony couldn't believe his luck, he had made it to the saucer and he hadn't been spotted,
" Stop right there, " a female voice shouted, tony almost ducked as a blast of purple ink nearly hit his head, a second female voice shouted,
" you idiot, use the electro-gun, ink doesn't affect humans, remember ?,"
Tony looked back at the source of the two voices and his eyes widened in fear, octolings, two of them, knowing how tough such opponents were, tony quickly climbed into the saucer's open hatch, ignoring the disgust he felt when he landed in purple ink up to his chest, Tony desperately looked for the button that started the saucer.
Outside, the troubles were doubling, while one octoling went to sound the alarm, her partner made a path of ink straight towards the saucer, quickly turning in an octopus , she swam towards the saucer using the ink, but before she could climb up the saucer's hatch, the ship roared to life and took off, the force of the take-off had knocked the octoling into some nearby crates.
Tony breathed a sigh of relief as he felt the saucer take off, it was pure luck that he pressed the start-up while frantically pressing the buttons left and right, he even turned on the view screen so he could see where he was going, sadly tony never turned on the rear view screen as well, otherwise he would've seen he was being followed by the second saucer.
As the second saucer gained on the first, its pilots, the two female octolings from before, wore grim smiles, " sorry partner, " the first octoling said, " there's about to be one less cute male human in the world," the second octoling merely shrugged, " plenty more where he came from, so I'm okay with that," laughing at her response, the first octoling pressed a button that fired an ink missile .
It was at that moment Tony learned the hard way that octarians don't put radars in their saucer crafts, when the ink missile hit, it took the young human completely by surprise, tony began to panic, the impact had severely damaged the saucer and he could feel the saucer begin to plummet, everything was down, even the view screen was down, tony was flying (falling) blind, as far as he knew, Tony was gonna crash in the sea, miles away from land. The two female octolings watched as Tony 's saucer disappeared into the clouds below, trailing smoke behind it, they laughed, satisfied with their handiwork and turned back to return to their base.
Back on his saucer, Tony tried desperately to bring the ship back on line, but to no avail, everything was shot, in the end all he could do was brace for impact, if he landed in the ocean, he could only hope he was close enough to land to swim for it.
The jarring impact was the only clue tony got that he hit land, but the ship began to tumble end over end and tony was thrown around the cock-pit, he hit his head on something and began to see stars, the purple ink swirled with the impact of the crash completely covering Tony head to toe.
Finally, feeling the ship sliding to a stop, Tony made his way to the ship's hatch, his head ached and his body was in pain from the crash, but he was determined to escape from the downed saucer, when he reached the hatch, he found that it was stuck, it must have been damaged in the crash, in desperation Tony rammed his shoulder into the hatch, ignoring the pain in his shoulder.
Finally after what felt like his hundredth attempted, Tony forced the door open and he tumbled out of the saucer along with a gallon's worth of purple ink, tony landed in a pool of the purple ink, just before he blacked out, he could barely see several figures approaching him, figures who had tentacles on their heads, had he escaped only to be recaptured ?
Author's note; this is my first fanfic so please be honest…or at least gentle.