Tartar laid defeated on the ground it's final memories going to the professor. Tartar knew that there threats bigger then it, down below the deep sea metro. It made its peace as it had the last laugh because before Pearl had delivered the final blow it had used the last of its power to awaken that threat. It came to terms with its death as it knew that even after it ceased to live inkopolis would soon perish.

Deep underground far below the inkling and farther below the octolings brewed a wicked force. An old world machine activating, it began to run through programs and began deciding what to do.

"Institute A.I ALI is online, initiating protocol 7.1-B." It said as began powering up.

Elsewhere, Piper Wright woke up in a trash heap, she looked around and felt her head pound as she woke up.

"Ugh, was my drink spiked again or was Vadim's drink too strong." She thought aloud as she looked around. Once she got her bearing together she finally noticed that this wasn't the Commonwealth anymore. Piper couldn't fathom where she was and she knew the commonwealth like that back of her hand, however there she was in was big dimly lit room, it looks like a trash compactor or something. She then took notice of a buzzing sound, like the white noise of a radio.

When Piper investigated the origin of the sound she found a Pip-Boy 3000 lying on the ground. She picked it up and looked it over.

"Who'd just dump a perfectly working Pip-Boy?" She mumbled to herself as she put it on. It then reminded her of Blue, Blue used to wear the Pip-Boy all the time, it was how Piper figured out Blue was a vault dweller.

She began scrolling through it maybe something in here would tell her where she was. She checked the map and figure it out where she was but this pip-boy must be glitching because it couldn't connect with the Robco Global Positioning Satellite, this made her a little more anxious.

"No, this is an error…" Piper said as she kept fiddling with the pip-boy, her thoughts trailed to her younger sister Nat and this made her worried. She then found some radio stations and to her surprise she found many.

"There's a lot…" She said to herself as and found one sation for her. It was labeled for Piper Wright. She played the station and found an automated message from Blue.

"Piper if you're hea...ring this then you pro...bably survived the at...tack, I have Nat with me so don't w...orry abou...t her… we'll be fine just find somew...ay to survive until we figure som...ething out, Codsworth p...ut this message on lo...op." Piper heard from her Pip-Boy, she felt some of her anxiety ease but now the second question was where to go.

She began making her way through the piles of trash and looked up to see a ladder reaching up and heading of this trash dump. She began to climb the ladder reaching the top an opening a manhole. She was not ready for what she saw.

"Holy mother of Teresa…" Piper gasped as she looked at the society before her. It was something straight out of a dream heck you could even believe what she was looking at. The city that laid before her was clean, no crumbling buildings, no ugly sky, heck the air felt cool and crisp, she could breathe easily... Well she kind of didn't want to, since she did just wake up in a landfill.

Pepper dusted off her red trench coat and adjusted her news cap. She headed into the city, making sure to stay out of sight. She needs to figure out if the community would be friendly enough to communicate with her.

"Hmm?" She hummed as she heard music. She went to investigate and found a bustling community of… what were they?

Piper had no idea what she had been staring at. These people looked mutated, they had tentacles on top of their hair that acted life hair. Then there were some weird looking characters that Piper couldn't make heads or tails of.

The reporter checked her 10 millimeter pistol. While she didn't have any malicious intentions nor thought the community had any, she wanted to insure her own safety in case things go awry.

She stepped out of the shadows and into the light. One of those squid things saw her and it's jaw immediately dropped. He started speaking but didn't say anything that Piper could understand. The squid looking boy ran off, to what Piper assumed it was calling for help.

"Aww c'mon…" The reporter gritted through her teeth as she went back into the Alleyway. She didn't know what was up with that thing or what it even was. She just didn't want to tangle with something she didn't understand.

The reporter could hear sirens wail off in the distance. She needed to find cover and fast so she got a pry bar that someone left lying in the streets of the alley and began to pry open a manhole. Piper grunted as she managed to get it open, all while more of that weird language could be heard echoing down the alleyway. Piper lowered herself down into the manhole while pulling the manhole cover over her.

She looked up and heard boots clamber over the manhole cover and more of that language she didn't understand. She began to make her way down the pipe and lucky for her it was a storm drain. She sat down for a bit and decided to think this through. She obviously started the commotion just by her sight, so that could mean that smooth skins like her aren't, around these parts, maybe if she just waited till night she could actually explore this place. Piper continued going down the drain pipe until it led to this opening towards the harbor. She heard her Pipboy go off and she tuned into the radio station that was labeled as "Piper read this now". The signal was weak but there was a message.

"Piper, if you're hearing this, then... hope you're okay, I m...anaged to pi...ck up the sign...al on the pipb...oy you have on yo...u, it's faint but still there. I ne...ed you to build a radio dish so I can esta...blish a bett...er connection, I'm sen...ding you the blueprint." Her Pipboy said and Piper viewed the schematics.

"Oh great, I need to place this as high as I can." Piper said as she looked toward the ocean. This place was alien to her and she didn't have the slightest clue how she got here, this place would be great if it wasn't for those mutants being so jumpy. Piper let out a sigh as she watched the clouds roll by, she just needed to wait until nightfall

Okay this idea came to me as I was getting into Splatoon lore, and playing fallout, if you play fallout 4 you might get an idea on what is happening, if there are typos, well oops, I'll post more in the future.