Chapter one: Adorabilis
Transferring to platforms to platforms of this run-down Octarian base that I took down previously-…what was this place call again? Kelp dome or something called like that? You know what, never mind.
I'm just double checking this place if I miss something. I already defeated their DJ king, but I want to make DOUBLE sure that everything is check. Like those missing scrolls about boring history about us, although the walking land beings that once habitat this place sort of fascinates me…I'm not a nerd okay-and remind myself to make Moe to shut up and leave Annie's anemone head for once…but, there is a slight chance that a butterfly infestation is going to kill Annie by feasting on her head…I might reconsider my attitude to Moe since I'll be a murderer for letting poor O' Annie die from those butterfly flying creatures.
I cannot tell which I'll pick, be a murderer or strangling that damn clown fish!
I'm getting reel off topic here and the second possible reason I'm here. Well, to make sure there's no Octarians making funny business here of taking those zapfish or they'll get splatted with ma' good o' Splatter Shot!
Oh and name's Linky…yeah I know, I don't know why my mother name me after an old ancient device game character that those land walkers used to roam at the surface find it entertaining on playing those devices? Also my original, natural ink color is yellow and my skin is pretty darn pale to me…wait, is the word 'racist' that those old beings called for their skin tone or something like that? I don't know what these so called 'humans' are but I'm pretty sure think they're judgmental to their own kin. I'm just saying since I did Humanlogy 101 on them as they have bunch of weapons-I'm not kidding, they have bunch of weapons throughout their history and look pretty primitive since they only achieve modern civilization for hundreds of thousands of years that my teachers taught us about them. Which my Squiders told us they're always aggressive and slow thinkers…hey, its history, do I care?
Okay, I'm so really getting reel off topic and why I'm reciting my human history studies? Helix! Sometimes I feel careless at times since I'm little easy going-I'm not stupid or anything that some of my squid buds told me about!
And pretty much, that's it…just travelling and searching around this now dark dome since the zap fish is already…well, misplaced. So I got a flash light attached to my Hero Splatter so I can see where the kelp I am going.
Mmmmhhhhh…seems squided…too squided. But it is still close as clear enough anyways since I don't see any dangers around-
"HIYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAA!" What the-OH SPLAT ME!
Purple ink splatted everywhere on the ground but my foe's ink didn't hit me at all. By telling the feminine voice, high chances I'm dealing with an Octoling here.
Either she isn't wearing her night vision goggles thingy or she really sucked at her aiming because she didn't squidden hit me!
I still wonder where all those male octolings are? Is it some weird cultural or biological Octotarian thing that there is no male octolings fighting me?
"Give it up squid kid! (We prefer not to call ourselves that, we don't like to use that word because that term makes us really confuse of our existence if you think about it too long) You can't see cap' jack barnacles here while its dark!" Carefully trying to locate where her voice is, I turn my head slightly to the right to see a pair of glowing purple dots staring at me at afar distance away from me. Also her voice sounds pretty squeaky.
Pretending I didn't see here as I think she didn't notice of where she's at. I said something stupid that really boiled her ego and I may accidentally insulted her of how I worded to her.
"How about you come to my face ya' poor trash homeless Octopi!" Yup, that's really rude of me of what I said…really rude.
"I'LL KILL YOU MONSTER!" down to my luck, I really should shut up when coming up with friendly taunts-and why did she call me a monster?
Trying to aim at her direction, I didn't react fast enough and surprise when she ran straight at me in her humanoid form FAST along not holding her-wait a second, she's not holding a Splat-gun, she's carrying some sort harpoons behind her back that's filled with-
Before I can do anything to stop this speeding octopus and trying to snap out my curiosity of what's behind her back, I felt the weights of gravity pushing me down by a pair of arms holding my shoulders which she tackled me to the ground. Completely in a blood rage mood of that nasty taunt I gave her.
Trying to struggle to get her off of me while she's holding me down by my arms, I slightly see her in the dark as I saw a black boot about to land onto my-*OMPPPFF!*...my puffer fishes.
"Any last words before I'll beat up your pair of puffer fishes and rip out your eleventh appendage so you wouldn't have any more squid children you evil vile beast?" Evil beast? What did she-screw it; I'm getting tired with her mind tricks!
Using my head *literally* to get her off of me. I bash her skull with my own skull so she can let go of me even though it hurts like Dome's armpits squashing my head of doing that dirty trick. But she lost her grip on my arms as she's dazed out from the concussion which I can use my entire strength to push her off of me!
Touching her…ugh…soft chest, urh-I mean shoulders, she sent flying couple of inches away from me while she's stun from the head butt.
Lifting myself up off the ground and now standing to my feet. I still hold my Splatter gun in my right hand since I have a freaking iron anchor grip on this thing since I'm paranoid of losing my stuff since I have a terrible habit of losing my things back at the surface.
Pointing my flashlight to this mysterious Octoling who attacked me with my splatter shot pointing at her up close, I got a good look at her where her broken goggles lying on the floor since I head butted-….oh my Helix's tentacles-SHE'S CUTE!
Her tentacle hair is very glossy and silky gelatinous like-it's an illuminating web by my flash light and her eyes…like WOW they are gorgeous! Even though she's an Octoling, she hasn't have those cross black eyelid things across her eyes (which I forget about my squid or Octo anatomy/biology again) but those eyes are shiny, pure amethyst purple as well slightly big, cat like eyes if you think about it. I mean there's no green stuff in her eyes but there's PURE shiny brown twinkling at me of her iris with purple linings with most octarians I encounter as she's-oh no.
I see tears spilling out from eyes and look of despair in her eyes as she looks like she wanted to huddle up in a bubble ball and letting her emotions out of something bad to her.
"*Sob* what are you waiting!? SHOOT ME ALREADY!" Wait-SAY WHA?!
Why the heck she wants me to shoot her?! Why did she give up? Why does it feel so Rorschach up in the air with a blue dude?
Well…that is sort of fast? I guess? She looks very fragile and very innocent like. Including those cat ear mantle fins hovering above her head to make her even cuter! And it feels so wrong since that's sounds little bit cruel of me saying that I like to her hurt her.
She looks…so small, as her height reaches to my neck area.
"Um…why are you giving up so suddenly?" Like why? Like aren't you supposed to be aggressive or something because my biology and history teacher told me you guys are barbaric or something likely of that?
"*Sob* Why…WHY?! YOU FREAKING JUST DESTROYED MY AND MY ONLY HOME YOU MONSTER! THE ZAP YA' STOLE IS OUR ONLY ENERGY SOURCE IN ORDER FOR US TO LIVE DOWN IN THIS DARK PLACE!"
Oh…now I'm feeling guilty about it. This is getting depressing real fast.
How do I make her stop crying? How?
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I GOT IT!
*Hush* Look I'm sorry okay. I don't know much about Octolings or Octarians matter of fact. So I decided to compromise…how about you come with me back at Inkopolis? Reaching out my hand appendage to her, her head shot up in shock and skeptic look of what I told her.
"Wait…you suddenly took down my home, attack you savagely, and now you want to bring back at your nasty barbaric home at the surface?" Why did she say my home is barbaric? Lifting my squid brow in question of what she's saying.
"Why do you call my home barbaric exactly?" I question her and she explains to me why.
"Well my teacher and my friends told me that they harpooned our kind and eat their small squid children of calamari-" EW! EW! SQUIDLISHLY NO!
"EW! Why your people say that! That's plain disgusting what you said and Dome, Helix baby bird savior! No we don't eat our kind!" Like what bright they told you that we're savage? That's plain wrong my friend!
When I was about to vomit of hearing of how we're described, she tilted her head in confusion of what she meant…like reel confusion.
"Wait…so the things that are told to me are lies?" Let see the obvious, it is yes.
"Well hearing that I eat my kind, that would be false." Rolling my eyeballs to her, she tilted her head in curiosity of what I meant.
"Well, if I said wasn't true, how do I blend in your society because…you know, I'm a sub-octoling?" A sub-octling? Huh…I never heard of them but I know some sub-inklings in the surface and they're pretty much…odd.
By sub-inklings, they have vast special traits in them. I wonder sub-octolings have?
"Anyway, what's your name Ms. Adorable? The name's Linky." Wanting to know her name, she answered my question.
"The name's Ador…the name's Ador, my family and my friends call me that but I don't know why. Before we go, how do I blend in exactly?" That's a good question, let me think.
Let see…Oh yeah! I remember I have a jacket and shades in my room!
[Somewhere in Octo-Valley]
"Okay Octavio, your crimes against the inklings will not go unpunished and the theft of the zap-fish will punish you and-oh, hello agent 3." Turning back to see Octavio rolled his eyes- how dare he rolled at me like that! This is a serious conversation!
"Yeah, I saw you drag bunch of youngster Inklings down here and make them think they're the only person who's fighting against me which isn't true, and about that inkling's intelligence…well, let's say his not that bright when he fought me." Oh you sassy little octopus jerk!
Before I can berate this snow globe octopus, I saw Octavio is staring behind…what is he looking at?
Turning around again, I see Agent 3 and a small looking girl with him in a deep blue hoodie including black shades covering her eyes. What a nice thing to bring his sister or girlfriend here within the Octopus kettle domes.
Okay time to talk-wait, WHAT?!
Turning back at them again, they were not their again.
"Octavio! Who is the girl that he bring down here?" Questioning what Octavio saw, the octo-king just shrug his tentacles and doesn't know her as well.
"Don't know, probably her girlfriend or sister. Don't care what she is…although, she's a bit tad small to be an Octoling or whatever. So my guess she's a little sister about to reach her puberty?" Strange, why did he bring his sister down here?
Oh well, there's no consequence of bringing your sister down here will bring any trouble at all. What could go wrong?
[Somewhere deep within the depths of Octavian base]
"Mimic-octo check, Klepto-octo check. No one's out of line and checking-…wait a second, we are missing one octopus!" Hearing my assistant and calculating the causalities within the octo-bases including gathering all the sub-octos here, I question my assistance who is missing so we can evacuate and search for a new home.
"Who are we missing?!" Turning to my assistance, she answered me.
"Codename: adorabilis is not here, I repeat, codename adorabilis is not here!" Oh no…do you see any signs of where she could be?
"Where did she even go while we're setting up our exodus!?" Yelling at my assistant of where Ador could be. She checks the still functioning cameras within the ruins of our home. Searching through the decayed domes, we found her in our food production plant assembly known as Kelp Dome that used to be vegetation for kelps. Now it's dark and we saw-those creatures!
The menacing inkling persuading the poor little octo-girl to do malice acts upon her! We cannot allow that!
"Warning: we got a code: squid! I repeat! We have a code: squid that kidnapped Ador!" Signaling the rest of the scientist and engineers of what's happening, we all begin to panic!
"Send out agent Mimic and agent Klepto to rescue her!" Shouting everyone in the room, everyone nodded in agreement as we begin our rescue mission to save her against those menacing squids!
I know she's extremely an airhead and very gullible, but we need everyone in the voyage to leave our ruined home and we will not leave one Octopus behind!
Well part 1 is up, part 2 will come…eventual.
Man, everything feels awkward writing this. Not so bright Inkling and a very naive Sub-Octoling.