I guess I never noticed it until now but have Inklings ever thought about the true meaning of turf war? Yeah, it's a fun game to play with our friends in a casual and competitive manner but it's the same process we use in serious fights and battles, those even as big like the great turf war. I'm not saying that this is some type of conspiracy to train solders to be ready for the next big war but the irony… no, not even the irony of it, just the distance in between the two is strange. They are the same exact, exact same thing just that one runs a much higher stake that could cost someone their life, yet everybody in turf war is like "But don't worry! We just respawn anyways" but no, in war, real war it could determine our races future. I never even thought it about that way myself. But now, I do. I have to, I'm not even sure if it was my choice or not anymore but none of that even matters now
Because now the games are over and the battle has sadly begun.
The air was fresh toady, that river water smell of camp Triggerfish filled my lungs as I transformed from a squid into inkling form, it was always so refreshing along with the sun that showered us from high above
"Turf War: Cover the most ground in your teams ink to win!" the instructing voice echoed through the camps speakers as my team stood up straight, ready to burst out of spawn the second 'go' was said
"Ready…" the whole team tensed up, I was sure we all felt it
"GO!" all of us sprung out, I felt my friendly roller already pelting me in the back of the head with heady globs of ink, they didn't hurt of course but I didn't want to have to dig dried ink out my ears later
We all spilt into our own sectors, I kept straight, covering the ground with my splash-o-matic as I went along the route, I knew mid was going to be a pain thought, we didn't have a sniper so I was expecting to get overpowered
I slowly approached it, not noticing a soul around "heh, maybe it's my lucky day!" I quickly dash through the middle, spraying only what I needed until I noticed a blue line in front of me
"Oh Crab!" I jumped back in a panic as a loud boom went off, I scrambled over the enemy ink in a rush, I hadn't realized they had a sniper of their own! I hadn't seen anyone else on the map!
I threw a suction bomb down on the spot I almost splatted at and moved on, I hoped that by the time I came back around they would have at least moved to a noticeable point that I could react at
Spraying down the corner and downhill parts were easy, I was glad the sniper wasn't too focused on that side, a poor mistake for him and his teammates would definitely get on him about it later
I decided to take my time and fill in the whole area, as I did I figured instead of letting the sniper shut down our team I would go in and take them down myself! It would require a little stealth and speed but anybody who knew me in turf wars definitely knew one thing
That was my type of battle style
I ran up on the supporting stitch floor after I was done, the whole area had been colored a burning orange ink and now it was time to take down that sniper, the only problem was when I got to the gates they were waiting for me
A rush of bombs came up from below the unlowered wall, I was glad I didn't get trapped in the swarm of them, I would have been splatted for sure. The first move must have been a fluke though, whoever I was facing wasn't too smart
They just shoot up string of Ink on my, trying to get me stuck long enough to hit me with a bomb barrage again but I would bob and weave, re spraying the ground
"2:00 Remaining." The voice announced to the teams, I was about done messing with whoever it was, I gathered up a tank full of ink and was ready to lunge down until…
"Woah! What in the world is that?" I heard an inkling say near the enemies spawn, at first I thought he was talking about me, I smirked thinking full of myself until I noticed the sniper stop shooting at me as well
I had no clue what they were looking at so I stayed still and listened in, they should stop reacting and notice if an inkling if they were talking about me
"Well whatever it is it's gonna crash! WATCH OUT ORANGE TEAM!" I knew it wasn't me anymore. A female inkling had yelled out the warning from from the other team, it was landing somewhere on our side. But what was landing somewhat on our side?! I had no clue what was going on, it had to be something big yet from my partially enclosed position I couldn't see it!
Then, out of the slightest part of my peripherals I saw something, I saw "it". A metallic flash flew straight down into the area I had just colored, I had no time to react as it made its crash landing
The ground shook horribly as metal screeched with wood as the two collided, when the shaking stopped I heard mumbling going on from the other team, I even bet a couple of them didn't even know something was happening because they were all the way on the other side of the course but when I heard the talking they all sounded concerned and worried at what had just happened, and considering the location of where it did it was my job to go find out.
I walked out without thinking, I wanted to know what this thing was to! I slowly came to a clearing, still on the mesh netting that supported me from the unstable and possibly cracked ground below me, somehow the thing hadn't snagged onto it in its landing
Now having a complete view on the whole model of the object it was obviously some type of missile, which makes since do to it making impact and impaling the ground. I just studied my surroundings, I wasn't sure how I hadn't noticed but where it had landed was no longer my teams raging orange…
But a cool, pinkish cherry like magenta ink
It didn't take me long to figure out what being had that type of ink color but the time I did two doors launched off of rocket as more of the ink started to flow out of the contained area and spill all over my hard work, then three figure came out and talked among each other
"Fang? Are you harmed from the failed landing?" a tall red haired female said to one of her allies
"Nope! Not a scratch on me! Actually, I'm feeling even better than as I was before we got here!" another girl replied, she sounded peppy and much younger than the first voice
"That's good to hear, how about you Talon? Are you holding up good as well" another girl appeared from the other side of the missile, she was taller than both of the other two yet she looked much more timid as she walked over to them
"Nothing too serious, I'll be fine. Thank you for asking by the way" the one that seemed to be the head of the group nodded and took their place in front of the other two
"Thank goodness neither of you are harmed, that could have cost us our lives… in more ways than one." she let off a long sigh "Anyways, you all should still have full recollection of our mission, correct?" both of them replied
"You bet'cha!" the small one said as she bounced up and down, opposed to the tallest who just said "Yes." And they stood there waiting for something to come out of the commander's mouth "I won't waste anymore of your time then, go do what you have to do and meet back here when you're done or the time is up, do I make clear?"
In unison the two girls saluted their major "Ma'am, yes, ma'am!" however as they put their hands down one of them brought up quite a good point "Just one question Rossie!" turning to her lackey she gave the young girl an annoyed look
"You know not to call me by that stupid nickname… but yes, Fang?" she giggled a bit and looked around "Aren't there supposed to be Inklings around here? I haven't heard or seen one yet!" she just looked up at her leader for guidance and that she provided "Why yes, I understand what you mean, however if you would look a little harder I'm sure you will find them…"
And then she turned to me perfectly, as if she knew I was there watching them the whole time, even the crude smile she gave me said it all "But since you're so egger then you wouldn't mind taking out that one over there, would you?" all three of them turned to me now, I had the height advantage sure, but I was outnumbered by 3 to 1 "Of course I wouldn't! Come here squidy!"
I wasn't sure what to do, I could drag them down into the others base but that would only cause more problems, I might need help though. My mind raced with all these different possibilities but I never got to choose one, she was already in front of me
"Hiya little squid! Sorry I got to do this to ya!" she pulled out a Octoshot, and with her being closer than ever I had no doubt that these guys were Octarians, not that I had any before
"But orders are orders…" she smiled as her fangs lit up "and you are now mine." I looked at her for a bit, I was glad they only sent one of them and at that the one who seemed to be the youngest of the trio. She called me little but she was definitely smaller than me "Who are you calling little? You look younger than me."
She didn't like hearing that much but she didn't open fire on me "Yeah? So what if I'm younger, that doesn't mean I can't take you down by myself!" I nearly chuckled at her answer, I didn't say anything about her battle skills yet she backed off attacking me to protect her own character, I wasn't sure if it was out of insecurity or just ignorance
"I never questioned your fighting abilities, I just know for sure that I'm older than you." She gritted her teeth, I couldn't understand why she was getting so offended but I knew by the way she looked at me that this time she was going in to attack
"And like I said: So what? If it really matters to you that much then I'll show what being older will do for you right now!" she started to shoot at me, I quickly jumped out of the way and reequipped my splash-o-matic, I was going to have to fight
I had to give it to her, she was quick, I was constantly on the defensive, she was covering the small amount of ground that was around us and if things kept up this way I was going to be down for the count in no time ~Darn, she's way too fast for me!~ an Idea popped into my head ~Or maybe she too fast here…~
Quickly, I darted off the small platform to where the rocket had crashed, I had to quickly spray the ground but I didn't have as much time as I thought, the small Octoling pounced on me before I knew it
"Got'cha!" she tried to pin me to the ground in my own ink but it was just what I needed, I transformed into a squid and tagged her with a couple shots of ink as I jumped out the ink, she scurried back over to her own ink before getting a chance to retaliate, the tides were starting to turn, and they were in my favor
I stood in my puddle waiting for her to counter attack, I had my own little section inked up now and I was ready for any attack she was going to throw at me "You, you want to do this the hard way squidy, huh?" I heard her voice but I didn't know where it came from
"I didn't want to kill you, I was just going to capture you and bring you home with us! But… it seems that you don't want to go home…"
I wasn't sure if the girl was being serious or just messing with me, her voice sounded sincere enough "Oh well, I'm sorry squidy" a splat bomb flew at me from the other side of the rocket, I quickly moved out the way "bye"
I dodged it but suddenly a plethora of them started to swarm from the air, it was a bomb rush! I was surprised I dodged as many as I did but there was no more orange ink left, and still dozens of bombs around me
It knew it was it for me if I couldn't escape, I tried my hardest to run…
"1:00 Remaining! The gates have been let down" but a bomb landed square next to me…
Everything was getting blurry and the explosions continued going off and off, over and over again, I wondered if I was actually going to die here…
And then the bomb went off. However, when it went off it didn't hurt, at all, the sounds turned into echo like fades and the space around me seemed to enclose, when I opened up my eyes I realized why…
"Bristle!?" A female inkling stood next to me with her blaster, she had activated her bubbler, but this inkling female wasn't any normal inkling, she was my turf war partner and my best friend.
She looked down at me "So, you gonna do that to me again?" I looked up at her and questioned what she was talking about
"The other Octolings are on the other side of the map, luckily, our team mates are holding them off there, however, there was no other way for me to get to you. I wouldn't have been able to make it through on the other side because the Octolings would just take me out and go back to fighting the others…"
I notice her clench her Blaster a little harder "All I could do is wait for the gates to fall… and watch you battle… "her" yourself, alone…" I felt guilty all of a sudden, though knew not a single bit of it was my fault.
"Sorry about that" I scratched my tentacles "I guess I should have just jumped down on your side, we could have dealt with her together" I said as I got up, she gave me a faint smile and replied "Yeah, you should have, speaking of which…"
Our bubblers still protected us, Bristle went onto the other side of the rocket and grabbed the Octoling by her armors, from the look on her face she didn't even seem to notice that Bristle had jumped down and join me
"H-Hey! Where did you come fro- AHH!" she threw her straight into her own ink, unlike me she didn't swim away and instead stayed in her Octoling form, face down
"Hey. What do you think you're doing here, huh?" Bristle's voice turned harsh, she glared at the Octoling as they turned back to face her, she must have smashed her really hard into the ground because her visor cracked "W-were… on a missi-"
Bristle pointed her blaster in the Octolings face "Rhetorical question. So basically, I. Don't. Care." The Octoling squirmed into a ball, she looked around fraticly but before she could swim away I covered the path leading to more of her ink
"This is a game, were not in the middle of some battle ground are we? So when you get back to wherever you came from go tell all your little friends to back off" I actually started to feel bad for the Octoling, she looked as if she was in complete fear by bristle, shivering and all, but still… It felt real good to put the girl in her place
"And if there is a next time…" Bristle grinned at her "Pick on someone your own size" she shot the blaster as the Octoling burst into blue, she gave off a small squeal before being splatted.
"Come on, Bris, we gotta go help the other too" she turned around and nodded at me as we went back up the met nesh flooring to go join the others to help fight off the rest of the Octarians
But something didn't feel right, turning back I caught my eye as we were about to jump down to the other side, the soul of the Octoling Bristle just splatted didn't fly back home, instead it circled right back around to the rocket, it must have thought we could no longer see her and she was in the clear
"…No… No way." Bristle turned around to me to see what up "Huh? What's up-" she didn't finish, we both watched as the Octoling soul went back down into the rocket and respawned right there, inside the missile
"…" I didn't say anything at first but I knew what we had to do "We have to get out of here, now!" Bristle turned back around and ran next to me, we jumped over to her teams spawning area, I had to clean it up a bit so I could stand
"A portable spawner? If that means what I think it means then every time we kill them they can just come back in no time, right?" I didn't know the answer, I think we were just taking shots and right now it was for the best
"That's what we have to assume right now, we have to go get the others. Do you know how much longer we have until the match ends?" she looked off in the others direction "It should be 30 seconds or so now but the speakers haven't said anything" I sucked my teeth, we should be able to hold them off
"Okay, and there is no other way we can currently leave?" Bristle shook her head "No, not unless they announce that an emergency is underway or something-" "Match discontinued: An emergency has occurred. Please super jump to your spawn and prepare for transport."
I gave the faint smile "We'll what do ya know? Just in the Knick of time, huh?" she did the same "You got that right" we listened to the faint cheers of our teammates from the other side of the map
"Let's get out of here before they try to hitch a ride, I'll see you on the flip side!" I quickly bobbed my head
"Alright, see you then!" we both super jumped into the sky, I noticed all my teammates doing the same as some of blue teams passed me as well
Suddenly, as I soared through the air I felt a sharp nip at my right arm along with a slap, when I turned to it I noticed the younger Octoling girl flying right above me, she smirked with her cracked visor nearly flying off her face
She just wasn't good at dealing the major blows, I rubbed my arm as I prepared to fall in but this unsettling feeling rose in me as I joined them, why was she smiling so much when she had barley hit me at all?
I wanted to blow it off as nothing, after all, it's not like my muscles tensed up or I suddenly went into major pain, the only thing that happened was a young, cocky, Octoling girl smiled at me
And most likely failed her mission as well
I was surprised, nearly all of our spawn ground was covered into the Octoling ink, I was just glad nobody on my team had gotten hurt since all of them were at least able to jump back to spawn
Nobody said anything as we landed and waited to be brought back home, we all just looked at each other, two of my team mates were hugging, the must have been scared out of their minds. Me and the other Inkling just stood there staring at them, quiet and waiting to go back home
But little did I know the impact of all that. What had happened today wasn't going to make history, it was going to change our future and world as we knew it, forever.
"All team members accounted for. Transporting back to Inkopolis Tower"
AN: Heyo guys and gals! I don't have too much to go over however I would like to have a small talk before anything else happens with this "Series" so to say. To begin, if you are reader from the Ink Activated series I would like to announce that Splatoon Ink Actiavted does still take high priority over this Fanfiction right here as of right now. second thing I would like to ask is if you all like the first person view of the character, I haven't tried this in Fanfiction previously so I gave it a shot and I want to see how you all react to it. Last and most important is if you all currently have interest in where the plot is going, believe it or not this was actually supposed to be a one shot but I decided to dig a little deeper and I found that it might be able to bloom into something much more, Well, I guess that all for now, if your from Ink Activated I'll see you in the next chapter but if you are new then I'll seeya next time!