Levi was still laughing as he stood in the waiting room of the battle lobby. The black electronic doors had long since shut, cutting him off from the ever so fearful gazes he had forced onto himself moments prior. That still did nothing to stop his laughter though, as it continued to echo in the empty space. The frequent flash of neon light making sure that the room was never tossed into pitch blackness.

'They are unreasonably scared of me...' He mused, all the while trying to stifle his chuckles.

He honestly had tried to cover his mouth in an attempt to stopping his laughter or, at least, quiet the noise. Just In case someone had randomly decided to join him in this room.

Levi let out a few more breathless chuckles before stopping, his seemingly endless attack of laughter now had come to a stop. Allowing him to fully take in his surroundings.

Which in reality, wasn't much.

It was a cylinder room. Obviously made to fit more than one person comfortably but, not being too overly large. The walls had colors yes, but, those colors made up constantly changing images. Ranging from the Inklings squid form to, shapes, and food.

Why they thought that putting food on the walls was necessary, Levi would never figure out. Especially since it didn't look appetizing at all.

"Yes, because I would just love an eye killing yellow lobster for dinner." He spoke. "Right next to some pink fries. Sounds delicious!" His eyes deadpanned with the ending of the sentence.

Well then, why did he deadpan? I hear you asking.

That would be for one simple reason of course!

It's that obvious sarcasm is obvious.

Shivering in disgust at even thinking about such a meal, he quickly tried to moved on to other thoughts. Trying to find ways to distract himself while he waited for other players to join.

A few silent seconds passed as Levi did nothing but try to divert his thought process away from the nasty sounding food. The key word being try here, because.

It didn't work.

"Arghhh! I can even taste it on my tongue now!"

Levi rapidly shook his head, thinking that if he did so fast enough. It would (somehow) make him stop thinking about this certain subject. That also didn't work.

Yeah. Shocker, I know.

Levi thought so too.

After much time spent trying to forget anything to do with bright colored food. Levi decided to go over everything he had, doing one more final check up before he were to go out and battle.

First of course was the object he was currently and had been for awhile now, had been holding in his hand. The one thing that had caught his eye in the sea of weapons that was in Ammo Knights.

The Undercover umbrella!

Levi didn't know why he was so drawn to the thing because, in all honesty, was really no different than most of the umbrellas that they had back down in Octo-Canyon, but.

It just called out to him and he felt that call so, without a moments notice, he picked it off the shelf and bought it.

This thing that had only been made with a stick, metal, and, some tarp. Was his first Ink weapon on the surface. It made him...

'Happy?' he confusedly thought? Standing there for another few quite moments before nodding to himself.

Yes, that seems about right.

Letting a small smile spread across his face, Levi rubbed the smooth wooden handle of the umbrella. All the while letting the grin get even wider, You see to Levi, this wasn't just some weapon, or something to keep him dry if earth suddenly decided to be a dick and, start raining.

No. no.

This. This umbrella, truly. Was the start of something great, because. It was proving that although yes there will be some common differences and arguments. As every race commonly has. They as Octarians. Could live in peace and prosper with Inklings and all the other surface dwellers.

They wouldn't have to be without electricity. They all could enjoy the warmth of the sun and drink constant clean water.

And that truly... it truly did give him a little more hope to grasp onto and, if he were to be frankly speaking?

That's all the hope he needed to keep moving forwards.

Levi closed his eyes, smiling to himself. Yes. It's all he needed to bring about happiness for all the other Octarians and, he would do it alone if he had to.

He nodded to himself in determination. Ready to make a new world where Octarians can live in peace with all the other races.

Yet, Levi was so busy thinking of his home that he had failed to notice the doors behind him swish open. Almost failing a second time to notice the three individuals that had quickly entered afterwards. The door closing behind them, just as quickly as it had opened.

Levi being himself(and an idiot), quickly tried to blending in with a rather dark spot in the room.

The group of Inklings had already taken residence in the middle of the cylinder room. They themselves failing to notice that Levi was in the very same room along side them.

The silence that Levi used to have had before the group entered the lobby was destroyed, leaving these three talking Inklings in it's place.

The inkling on the left was the first to speak in the group but, she wouldn't be the last.

No matter how much he wished she were so.

"Kana, cmon.. we've been at this almost all morning. We're hungry." The Left Inkling spoke up, In obvious discomfort, further proving the Inklings point, the entire group of three had their stomachs growl.

Levi's reaction towards this was to raise an eyebrow in unamusement.

"Seriously K. You've been running us ragged these past few days and it's really starting to exhaust me." This time it was the one on the right that spoke.

And standing directly in front of both of those Inklings was Kana(he guessed), she spoke immediately after the right Inkling

"I'm doing this so we're ready for the tournaments that are coming up. Do you think I like doing this too?."

The left and right Inkling looked at each other after listening to Kana, both staring at each other for a uncounted amount of time before nodding once. They then, both looked back at Kana and spoke at the exact same time.

"Yeah."

"Yep."

Kana growled at Left and Right, quickly swiveling her body around to where it was facing towards me, all while letting out a "Hmph."

"Well fine, if you don't want to take this seriously th-"

Kana froze mid sentence, her eyes snapping open from original sloped stance as if she had just seen something. Left and Right taking notice that Kana's body had gone incredibly tense in the span of a millisecond, slowly walked up behind her, carefully peering over their side of Kana's shoulders just to see what had gotten her like this.

But.

There was nothing.

Left and Right leaned back from Kana's body, confusion written on their faces as they started to stare at each other once again. Their mouths not moving as neither were their bodies.

Everything was quite once again. No sound, no music, no talking. Just utter silence.

Levi didn't know how long it was until Left and Right seemed to snap out of their trance but, they did. He did take notice that Left had nodded when they stopped staring though.

Left leaned back up towards Kana's shoulder. Raised up on her tippie toes, to get closer to her face. (since she was shorter than Kana).

Then proceeded to yell directly into her ear.

"KANA!"

Which got the most foreseen response you would get from yelling directly into someones eardrum.

WHAM

A direct punch straight into the gut courtesy of Kana. Which sent Left curling into a ball onto the ground, groaning while holding their stomach.

"O-ow"

"WHAT HAVE I TOLD YOU ABOUT SCREAMING IN MY EARS?"

"Ti nefvr ... " Left now being on the ground had her voice muffled by the floor, her voice becoming quieter the more she spoke.

"What? I couldn't hear you."

Left raised their head. "To never do it!" saying it once more, before slamming their face back onto the ground.

"Aaaand?" Kana egged on. Seemingly not done.

Left grunted as they shifted on floor, they began to mumble something into the ground. Only to get the same angry response as before.

Which made her continue once more with even more 'enthusiasm.'

"That I'm terribly sorry for hurting your ear, I'll never do it again." Left repeated

Kana stood over Left, locked in a thinking pose. Before she nodded seemingly satisfied with that answer. "Good." She paused to look down at the curled up Left before turning her eyes back to where she was staring before being ear raped. "You may get up now." she spoke

And that's exactly what Left did, all while Right silently laughed in the back ground, apparently they were enjoying the show just as much as Levi was.

He watched as Left proceeded to walk over to Right and Left, upon seeing Right's smirk. Walked up to them.

WHAM

Right was then punched by Left, which made an immediate reaction take place on Rights face as she became bent over Left's fist. Left kinda just... stood there with their fist embedded in Right's gut for a few minutes, making it as painful as possible.

Before, they removed their fist from Right's stomach and quickly took a couple steps back. Allowing Right to fold over and massage their gut.

Not quite falling onto the ground like Left but, folded nonetheless. After gathering their bearings Right sent Left a a very heated glare. Only getting a response of Left starting to whistle innocently, which that seemed to end that little scuffle just as soon as it started...

For whatever reason?

Shaking his head, Levi went back to focusing on the Inklings.

Levi watched as Left, now done antagonizing Right (from what it seems), began to make a trek towards Kana once more. Left still seemed confused on why she was so transfixed on that spot, which she was about to voice.

Kana beat her to the punch though.

"I.. when I had turned around earlier th-there was someone there. I don't know who but... they were there." Kana stared at my previous with what looked like scrutiny, until she shook her head, facing Left once again. "Well whoever they were they're gone now, so I think we'll be fine." "Anyways. Enough of that! Right now, we have have a match to win!"

It was then that left had suddenly realized something.

So she spoke. "Hey, we've only been in here for 3 minutes but, it say's that we have a full group and yet, nobody has walked in here besides us."

Both Kana and Right looked at Left with confused faces before they saw to where Left was pointing at. Which was the battle screen.

(Which really only told you who your team is and who your up against)

"Hey you're right. It does say that!" Kana paused then spoke after a few tense moments. "Wait... then who's our te-"

Kana's question was stopped mid-sentence. The battle screen announcing that we had a match ready to go.

With that announcement, all 4 of us suddenly found ourselves on the battle arena, shaking the excessive ink off of our bodies.

And now I was suddenly the staring point of the other Inklings that were just in the room with me a few seconds ago.

A couple seconds of silence. Before all of Kana, right, and left, screamed at the same time.

"You?!"

Levi let out a annoyed grunt, his emotionless gaze setting upon the three Inklings.

"Yes. Me." He responded. His eyes already setting forth onto the arena again.

"You were our invisible teammate then?" Right asked, their voice finally escaping their mouth after such a long time of not talking.

"No." He stated sarcastically. "I just happen to be here, with 3 other Inklings, about to do a turf war."

The silence that followed was filled with an annoyed glint, as the looks they probably gave him ranged from a deadpan to an angry glare. That glare being courtesy of Kana.

Levi made sure the silence didn't last long.

"Hey, I need you guys to focus on getting turf. I'll get the enemy team." He spoke.

That got even more silence in response.

Kana responded back, quickly destroying the tense atmosphere.

"Uh... No. Look I don't know who you think are but, that's not how it works around here." She said "Also do you really think you're so good that you could take on the entire enemy team?" She questioned, her voice full of doubt and sarcasm.

Levi only shrugged. Not taking the time to actually respond to her question.

"Just follow my orders and trust me." He glanced at the three Inklings that were supposed to be his team, before grinning. "I can do it, I just need you guys to do the job I assigned you and we'll do fine." Levi finished.

"Look, like i said th-"

Kana was once again cut off from finishing her sentence as the countdown for the match begun.

"Thanks, I'm counting on you guys to get all the turf." He grinned slightly before continuing "Don't get in my way. You'll just be a nuisance" He finished.

She probably responded to that purposeful jab, but he couldn't hear her. His eyes and ears already focusing on the battle ahead. Levi slightly tensed his msucles as he got ready to take off from the spawn point.

"Hey! I asked who even put you in charge?! You may be an Octoling, but that still doesn't make you experienced!" Kana expressed angrily.

Is it bad that he was trying not to laugh right now?

...

Eh, who cares?

"I don't know but." Levi looked back at the three Inklings for a final time. "I wouldn't be a general if I didn't know how to adapt to any situation" He quipped on last time because, as soon as he finished that speech, he took off into battle. The timer just reaching zero, instigating the match had started.

Well, Now he just had to beat 4 Inklings into submission while his team did everything else.

Shouldn't be to hard.

~~~END~~~

Ah, this chapter was two days late. I do sincerely apologize for that, I had gone on a gaming spree and forgot to finish up this chapter.

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