Splatoon: Squidbeak Style!
By: Daniel Terres
Disclaimer: I do not own Splatoon or any characters associated with the franchise. Everyone else is mine though. I will say, Clementine and Whinter are inspired by the characters from Heroes of Inkopolis by TamarinFrog. They are not the same however, and will be side characters. This is to stop any confusion from arising. I hope you all enjoy!
Prologue
Deep underground, the continuous clink of a pickaxe is heard quite clearly. The user, a young inkling, was swinging it hard, trying to break into a new set of ruins.
Behind him was a much older inkling, around his mid 40s. He was looking at the progress the younger inkling was making with rapt attention, and a lot of expectancy. The older inkling shifts on his feet and says "Come on Vince, go faster!"
Vince grunts as he chips at the rock barricade once more. "I'm going as fast as I can Kelorn!" Kelorn grumbles quietly, going back to his shifting.
I can see you are confused. Let me explain. These two are well known archaeologists. They have uncovered many different artifacts, many from the old land dweller race. The humans.
Now, these two have found a lead to a big discovery. An old tablet, hidden within the cavern they were in, that held information of the global flood that happened 12,000 years ago.
Vince grunts as he hits the rock wall again. His eyes widen when he feels a sudden lack of resistance in the swing. He gasps, then grins widely. He begins to hit the wall with a renewed vigor, a sudden burst of adrenaline filling his body.
Kelorn notices the increase in energy and says "What is it boy? Did you find something?!"
Vince nods eagerly as he sees a chip of rock falling away, leaving a hole behind, showing the secret beyond. "I did! Something really is here!"
Kelorn grins widely, then grabs his own pickaxe. "Well then, let's get to it!" Vince nods in excitement, and the two begin hitting the rock wall with well-placed and hard hits.
After a good twenty minutes, the hole was big enough for them both to squeeze. They grunts slightly as they push themselves through the hole, popping out the other side.
Kelorn looks around the dark room with interest. It was a bland cavern, with no manmade structuring of any kind. He sighs in disappointment when he realizes it's just another cavern. He turns to the hole with a depressed motion. "Come on Vince, there's nothing here."
Kelorn begins walking to the hole, when he notices the footsteps behind him receding, not coming closer. He turns around with a raised eyebrow. "Vince?"
His helmet's light hits the younger inkling, and he sees him kneeling on the ground, brushing dust off of something. Kelorn frowns and goes over silently. He didn't see anything there before.
Vince brushes the last bit of dust off of the object he found. He grabs the edges and picks it up, looking at it in disbelief. It was a large, rectangular stone. There were words carved into it, but not in their language.
Kelorn peers over Vince's shoulder in curiosity. When he sees the stone, his eyes widen in disbelief. "The tablet…"
Vince's eyes squint slightly as he begins to read the tablet's message. "When people think of an apocalypse, most think of a nuclear war. Or some might think of global warming or asteroids. The more crazy ones think of aliens and invasions. No one, not a single person of billions of people, would've predicted the real apocalypse.
In the year 3054, people are starting to see the apocalypse. All around the globe the sea levels are rising. The sea has already reached 100 ft above sea level and is rising rapidly. Within the next year or so, the whole world will be completely submerged.
The remaining humans, those not caught off guard by the sea levels and reached higher ground, sought a way to survive this disaster. But the sea wasn't their only problem. No, something far more dangerous was also coming into being.
Something with the rising sea was causing squids and octopi all over the world to begin rapidly evolving. They have begun converting their body mass into ink, allowing themselves to submerge in ink puddles. Along with this strange phenomenon, the squids and octopi are gaining more and more humanoid features. Some of them even look like humans now.
These newly evolved creatures are much more adept then the humans are to the environment, and soon the humans are pushed into secluded areas of the remaining land, far from these new humanoids.
The humanoids, or Inklings and Octolings as they call themselves, have begun developing their own technology, even taking some of the human technology as their own. Combining the human technology and their own, they soon develop devices far above what the humans could do.
Using their new technology, the Inklings and Octolings take refuge in a floating continent, torn from the Earth's crust by violent volcanic explosions under the rising sea. How the continent floats, however, is beyond anyone's guess.
The Inklings and Octolings weren't the only ones to take refuge on the floating island, however. A small group of humans, ones much more in contact with the Inklings and Octolings than their brethren, followed the sea creatures up to the continent. There they hide, all 10 humans, up until this day."
After reading the message, Vince turns to Kelorn with wide eyes. "This tablet… it's really the one!"
Kelorn grins widely, his energy renewed. "Yes it is! We finally found it!"
Vince grins widely as well. He turns back to the tablet and says "What do we do with it?"
Kelorn looks at the tablet as well, frowning in consideration. "With the information it said, I believe the Squid Sisters would like to look at this."
He nods and says "Yes, first we must go to the Squid Sisters."
He pats Vince on the back and says "Come on boy, up, let's go!"
Vince chuckles at the obvious impatience of his leader. Once he gets on his feet, the two archaeologists turn to the hole and run over quickly. They squeeze through, taking extra care of the tablet.
Once they get back in the cave, they run out of it quickly. It was the middle of the day, and now they had to get back to Inkopolis. The two turn into squids, then super jump away.