DO NOT SCROLL DOWN YET READ THIS
So, returning readers, I'm back! I actually wrote this after the prologue and the first chapter, so I can say that I really prefer first person.
And to new readers, this particular story takes place after another which I have up. There's a shortened summary of its plot below, but if you'd rather read it in its entirety, go ahead. The periods separating everything are there because spoilers, of course. The first five chapters or so aren't that great, but it gets better afterwards.
And now, the obligatory "I don't own Splatoon, credit to OG makers" and spoiler warning for Splatoon 1, 2 and Octo Expansion.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Two days after Callie's rescue from DJ Octavio, Rose, or Agent 4, was called to Octo Canyon by Cap'n Cuttlefish with Agents 1 and 2. He revealed that his long disappearance was due to an underground investigation of Grizzco. He, along with Agent 3, discovered that it was run by Octarians, but since Agent 3 was captured, the remaining three Agents entered Grizzco to find more information.
Mr. Grizz recognized Agents 1 and 2, so he sent the boat to a desolate area where no Salmon Run took place. The three took over the boat before it could return and found two documents inside. One revealed a name: Akash Octrope. It also detailed how Golden Eggs could be converted to electricity and how Grizzco's purpose was to collect the power and take over Inkopolis.
The other, however, was coded.
Callie's faint memories of getting captured herself led the three to the Lab, an Octarian facility in the middle of Inkopolis.
From what they gathered from the area, they could decode any coded documents and found more details of Agent 3's kidnapping. Octavio was the one who ordered it, but a last-minute decision gave Callie the Hypno-Shades instead of him because of morale reasons. Akash used this to his advantage and used Agent 3 to form Grizzco as a stand-in.
Left with no other leads, Cap'n Cuttlefish suggested they explore Octo Valley. It hadn't been touched in a while — the entrance from Inkopolis was sealed.
Sheldon drove the flying truck assisted with Octocopter helmets. It was filled with each of the Hero Weapons as backup, but the Dualies for Agent 4, Roller for Agent 1, and the Charger for Agent 2 were all kept.
After a fight with a group of flying Octarians, a caw was heard in the distance. A giant, mechanical bird was flying directly at them. It had glowing orange spots at the joints, which could be shot to break them off of the main body.
They managed to break off a leg before Sheldon's made a last-ditch effort as the truck was about to run out of fuel. He reached Octo Valley, and the bird flew away.
However, before it soared away, Agent 2 grabbed on to it and waited in its main hull for it to land somewhere.
Agents 1 and 4, no matter how distraught, still pressed on. They found another kettle, and inside was yet another document. Upon exiting, they found that the Lab could be explored further. Problem was, they were surrounded by Octarians and Octolings, all preparing to shoot.
The UFO from Octo Valley came flying down holding a cloaked figure standing on top of it. He spoke a few words of triumph, and the two realized that's his voice was the same one as Mr. Grizz. It was Akash.
After he flew off, the group surrounding them prepared to fire, but was promptly cut off by the same metal bird that attacked them earlier. Agent 2 stole it and was piloting the Eagle with a newly repaired leg. She brought the other two Agents and Sheldon, who was hiding nearby, back to Tentakeel Outpost. Since the truck was gone, all of their weapons other than the three they kept were gone.
The Eagle was kept there.
The next day, the three again invaded the lab. They found another portion that went even deeper underground. Upon finding an arena-like platform, another huge mechanical machine fell from above. This one was in the shape of an Inkling.
It turned around, and they found Agent 3 in the head of the vehicle, wearing the very same pair of Hypno-Shades that Callie wore.
He was holding a weapon they had never seen before. It was called an Inkwhip, a ten-foot long, thin stream of ink that could pass through anything and instantly splatted or shattered an armor piece of an enemy.
Whenever he did something in the machine's head, it would follow, meaning it also had a terrifyingly massive Inkwhip of its own.
The Agents did the same thing they did with the Eagle: attack the obvious glowing orange spots. They stripped the machine of its limbs bottom-up, and once only the head was left, the wall opened and it flew through.
As they gave pursuit, they found themselves in another, smaller room. The head sputtered out of fuel and came crashing down.
Agent 3 fell and broke the Shades, but also fell unconscious. Agent 2 carried him.
The next room held several Inkling prisoners. With the push of a button, they were freed, but it also set off an alarm.
They escaped with all of the prisoners, but Agent 4 recognized one of them. Her name was Morgan, a childhood friend of hers. She interrogated her, finding that she, along with the rest of the prisoners, were researched to develop a pair of Hypno-Shades that could function perfectly on either an Inkling or an Octoling. So far, they have been developed seperately, but their mechanics have never been combined.
Simon, or Agent 3, woke up in Callie's room. After a little bit of updating, he decided to go out. Rose and Morgan were also in the area, and they found each other. Simon and Morgan recognized each other as siblings.
Later that night, Rose's mother called her, worried after hearing the news of kidnapped Inklings. Rose explained to her her position in the New Squidbeak Splatoon, then heard news of ships disappearing at sea.
Once again, they had to find more on Grizzco, but none of them could do so much as walk in without security going off.
They recruited Sid, a former staff member that worked backstage during concerts for the Squid Sisters. He was found, caught, and taken deeper into Grizzco.
The Agents gave chase and split into pairs. Agents 1 and 3 found Sid and escaped from the facility.
Agents 2 and 4 found the same place where Agent 2 stole the Eagle, and Agent 4 found a paper detailing how Octarians had access to Salmonid coolers.
They also found the Hero Splatling in the barracks.
They couldn't turn back, so they rushed through a forest separating the camp and Inkopolis. Within the trees, a three-tentacled Octarian attacked them. Since it was immune to ink, they could only run. Fortunately, it refused to go further when in the sunlight.
When's questioning Octavio for any more information, he said that the three tentacles they found probably once belonged to Akash, but were cut off and never grew back due to a failed experiment.
Without anything happening, Rose tried something in the training room of Ammo Knights. She knew that dodge-rolling with the Dualies midair caused falling much quicker than normal, so she tried it in conjunction with a Splashdown.
A torrent of Ink surrounded her, and once it cleared,the whole room was covered other than the section protected with a wall. She showed Simon the technique, then they recieved a message from Cap'n Cuttlefish. Octo Valley and Tentakeel Outpost were taken over as well.
Callie was stuck in a meeting, so she couldn't come.
They used the other flying truck to get there since they didn't have access to the Eagle. Once again, Sheldon drove it.
Rose used her newly-discovered Splashdown to clear the area, then Octavio, who was previously imprisoned there, appeared manning the original Octobot King.
Agent 2 piloted the Eagle, but neither machine could even scratch the other. The Octobot King had a barrier protecting Octavio, but the punches it threw were badly aimed, as if he didn't want to fight.
After a time, a timer counting down appeared on the Octobot King's top. Octavio suddenly stopped fighting; he said it was a bomb and told them to leave, but a ring of ink spraying down appeared, entirely isolating the Outpost.
The Agents helped Octavio escape the Octobot King, and they all sped out of the Outpost on the Eagle while protecting the its weak points.
Tentakeel Outpost blew up. A rod from the explosion nearly impaled Agent 3, but it was stopped by the wooden shield he was holding to protect the glowing orange joint. He pulled it out and discovered it was the Hero Brella, giving them five out of the nine weapons. Without any other place to keep the Eagle, Agent 2 landed in a small clearing of the forest. Before they returned to Inkopolis, they forced Octavio to change to his humanoid form to not rouse any suspicion.
He had to be watched, so they took him to Cap'n Cuttlefish's house in the suburbs. For one night, he was kept in the basement, but the next morning, he escaped.
One lead was left: the disappearing ships near the Restricted Zone. Rose's father was going to travel near the area by boat, so the Agents took the Eagle and used it to search for anything.
When the boat was close to the area, a third giant metal beast surfaced. This one was of a fish. Agent 2 picked up the small boat with the Eagle's talons while the rest entered the fish through its mouth. Inside, there were three of Akash's own children's waiting to fight them. The one that seemed like the leader was named Eileen.
In the end, the Agents succeeded, and they took their weapons. They got the Hero Shot, Brush, and Blaster back. In addition, Rose figured out how to control the Piranha, which was what the giant fish was called, since it's controls were intuitive and suspiciously easy to master.
A few days after, Callie and Marie took a brief walk in a quiet area. They heard noises coming from an alley. Sid was unconscious on the ground while two hypnotized Octolings stood over him.
Octavio had explained earlier that The shades were mostly for identity-protection for the soldiers, but Akash and activated all of them, meaning the entire Octarian race was under his command.
Callie and Marie removed the shades on the pair, knocking them out, and took them all to Cap'n Cuttlefish's house. They theorized that Sid specifically was targeted because of his recent affiliations with the NSS.
Rose and Simon joined them, and Rose gave Sid the Hero Brush so he could stand a chance against any more attackers. Once he left and the soldiers woke up, one reluctantly explained how Akash originally tried to use a speech to win over the Octolings, but once that failed, he used the Hypno-Shades.
Afterwards, they bolted for the door.
The four Agents of the NSS went to an underwater facility that they found from a paper in the camp past the forest. Agent 4 drove the Piranha, but it almost drove itself. They found the facility and infiltrated it. Inside was the three-tentacled Octarian that lingered in the forest. They lured it to the moon pool the Piranha was docked in, and Agent 3 pushed it into the water.
Once they went deeper inside the construction, Akash appeared from above, but he looked taller than usual. Finally, he cast off his purple cloak, revealing his new robotic legs and arm.
The lights cut out, and he forced a pair of Hypno-Shades on each of them.
They all blacked out, but there was one last hope.
Octavio had a group of free Octolings wearing fake Hypno-Shades called the OATH, or Octarians Againt Tyranny and Hatred. It was centered in the Sky Base, an airborne Octarian construction suspended over the ocean that served as the center of the race. The Sky Base was largely run by Akash at this point, but a series of secret rooms was where the OATH operated.
Octavio heard news of an attack on Inkopolis and rushed out. He found Callie, ripped the Shades off her head, and returned to the Sky Base via a Kettle in the forest.
Callie woke up and remembered everything she saw as Octavio carried her to where she was. She saw a plethora of Inkwhip and exact replicas of every Hero Weapon except for Rollers, Chargers, and Dualies. She dropped hers, so that one could be copied too. She saw hundreds of Inkopolis citizens being hypnotized, but she was too exhausted to get up.
Later, with Octavio, Callie reluctantly agreed to search for the other three Agents. She was given the original Hero Slosher.
Simon, or Agent 3, was in the Restricted Zone farming Salmonid eggs. Using a boat, she and a group of OATH members swept in and rescued the ones there.
Marie was deep into the Sky Base. Callie and Simon infiltrated it and found Marie, alone in the dark. Her Charger was nowhere nearby, so it was probably being replicated as well.
Rose was in Inkopolis rounding up the stragglers left in the city. She and a group of ten were ambushed by Callie, Simon, Marie, and Barry, one of the Octolings that unknowingly attacked Simon in an alley.
When they were all free, the four Agents received a message from Cap'n Cuttlefish telling them to return to the original Ammo Knights in Inkopolis Plaza. There was a hidden basement where Cap'n Cuttlefish, Sheldon, Pearl, and Marina all hid.
When leaving the basement, Barry round them and told them of a training camp to resist Akash underneath Inkopolis Plaza. Not many were there due to the inability to broadcast a wide message anywhere, so they had to clear the city of any remaining soldiers. Marie, Rose, and Barry we're preparing to clear one of the ten clumps of soldiers, but Sid ran in from one side, ready to attack.
Then Rose stopped him. They couldn't splat them, or they would just notify Akash. Their plan was to break the shades and leave them on the ground where the ten were standing because each had a tracking mechanism built in to them.
The group was rescued, and one of the soldiers was Morgan, Simon's sister.
Once the rest were off the map, Marina broadcasted a message to every radio and screen possible, telling anyone left that Inkopolis Square was a rendezvous point.
Several hundred more found the training camp that night.
Rose and Pearl led the Dualie division, the most important because of a simple reason: Skydive. Rose noticed a suspicious character in the division. She called herself Sky, and was, according to the OATH, a master of every weapon class.
After weeks of training, Eileen appeared again with her two brothers. They blocked the enterance to the training camp, so Callie and Simon had to fend them off on their own.
Since they knew where they were now, they had to retaliate now. Sky, who had left just to admire the scenery nearby, saw, in the distance, a last metal beast.
It was called the Widow, and it was a huge spider-like creature the drilled a hole up from below.
Now in a panic, the entire training camp was evacuated and sent to a bullet train farther in the city. Clouds were also coming in, signaling a storm's arrival. Rose, Marie, and Sky fended off the Widow for a short time, but it quickly turned into a chase with the three running from it. Sky's super jumped and landed on top of it, searching for a weakness. She broke through a thin metal sheet near the top with her heel, but then she was thrown off.
Once the three reached the train station, the rain started pouring. The Widow nearly impaled the caboose with one of its sharp legs, but the hole Sky made in the top let water in to short-circuit it.
The bullet train was going to Sharktown, Simon and Morgan's hometown to the south. They set up camp for an attack, then Skydive proved extremely useful. The one advantage that the OATH army had was the ability to respawn, since Simon found a way to cut them off from returning to the battlefield and instead be stuck where they respawned.
The Eagle appeared again, screeching loudly and quickly turning the tides of battle. Marie, holding the completed Rainmaker prototype that Rose used against Octavio, set up a diversion for it to fly over the nearby drawbridge crossing a bay. She shot off one of its wings and weakened the other. She super jumped across the entire bay, and, at the height of her jump, flung the Rainmaker down, using its explosion to force the Eagle and its remains into the bay.
The army started to jump away, but Rose stopped Akash's pedestal, the same arena on which she fought Octavio, with a Skydive. The four Agents stood on it, but Akash then prevented anyone else from following,
Akash started to use the same trick he did underwater, but in broad daylight, they could react, break off his arm,and force him to the center. Using four more mechanical arms, he kept them away using his personal Grizzco weapons. Marie shot of one, then he protected the rest. Rose charged a Skydive and rose up, but Akash then rose up himself using some thrusters on his arms. He grabbed Rose out of the air, then she threw her Dualies down.
Callie got them and jumped up, right above Akash. Rose held on to one of his arms, Simon to another, and Marie butting one back.
Callie came hurling downwards with a twister of swirling color enveloping her.
Akash had no more limbs left except for his real arm. The last thing he said was a name. "Annabelle." It was his fourth child, missing for some unknown reason. Octavio killed him with a burst of electricity to the neck, then ground the murder weapon into the pavement. He ran off holding Akash's body.
The four flew back to Inkopolis on the now-controllable floating platform. Since then, nobody has found them.
Octavio's octopus and humanoid forms are like separate entities. Nobody except for Sky, Barry, and the NSS know that it was him who've carried off the body.
Marina disabled the Hypno-Shades and explained to Inkopolis' denizens what happened.
Octavio agreed to merge the underground with Inkopolis, but he was in his octopus form, so nobody recognized him as the old man who left with Akash.
A new age dawned for Inkopolis.
—
Whew, that was long, wasn't it? That one summary was longer than any one of the chapters in the last story. Sheesh.