Grina walks down the road, looking around the surroundings: young Inklings, Jellyfishes and other sea creatures, with bags on their back, are all walking in the same direction, away from the girl.
"Aaaah, the simple job of the youth! That sure brings back some memories…" She closes her eyes, while smiling.
Grina lifts up her glasses, by pushing the middle of them with her right forefinger. A little away from the girl, there is a group composed by 2 girls: one is an green-colored Inkling and the other one is a Jellyfish wearing a purple shirt. The green girl was pointing at Grina with her left forefinger and talking in a low voice to the Jellyfish, while covering her mouth with the upper-side of her right hand.
Grina turns to her right, looking at the two girls: the green one quickly holds both her hands, behind her back and starts looking around, as she walks in a different direction. The Jellyfish quickly follows her, without saying a word.
Grina watches them for a while, then she turns ahead, taking longer steps than before.
"Shoot, I shouldn't waste my time now: the captain absolute needs my assistance!" She frowns a bit.
In no time, the girl reached the main plaza: around there aren't too many people. Judd the cat was looking at a male blue Inkling, while drinking soda with a straw and sitting on his red cushion: the boy was talking loudly about Squids and the Inknet.
"Hey, what a luck: those two aren't paying attention to me! Sneaking in that manhole is going to be a piece of crabby cake!" The girl smiles, while frowning and lowering her eyelids.
Grina takes long steps, going much slower and touching the ground with her toes, reaching the top of the manhole. With a small jump, she becomes a Squid and passes right through the grate. She was unaware that a female Inkling took a glance of her actions, while walking.
Grina crawled through the pipe, in Squid form, getting to the other side without any problems. She jumps out from the manhole, transforming into her humanoid-self in midair. As she lands, the girl bends down while touching the ground with her right hand.
Looking at her right, Grina saw the cottage: there was nothing but a pile of broken woods everywhere in its area. The girl frowns a lot, with a downturn mouth.
"L-look what the Octarians did to us…!" She starts shaking her fists. "I-I'm going to toast those baddies!"
Suddenly, a weird splashing noise was heard in the distance. Grina turns quickly to her left, seeing the cause of such ruckus: an odd creature, resembling a giant red tentacle was riding a metallic hovercraft, covering the ground with purple ink, using a megaphone-like device positioned on the front.
The girl runs behind a tree and looks at the being, while exposing and tilting her head to her left.
"He really looks just like an ordinary Octotrooper. Uhm… what an Inkling would do, in a situation like this?"
The Octotrooper keeps covering the ground around, looking down, while getting near the girl. He raises his body and suddenly, he jumps slightly. Grina covers behind the tree, with agility.
"Aaah! W-who's there?!" The boy tilts his body to the left, then to the right, staring at the tree. "Oh no… don't tell me, they did it again!"
The creature lowers his eyelids, resembling a frown.
"But this time, I'm going to outsmart them!" The hovercraft does a 180° turn. "There, you see?! Now you can't"
The girl quickly jumps on her left side and throws a Burst Bomb on him, leaning forward.
SPLASH!
The Octotrooper exploded in yellow ink and his machine sank in it. Grina looks a little tentacle flying away.
"… I wonder if I can find their hideou"
All the sudden, the girl screams with her eyes closed, as she bends down and holding her stomach with her arms. Her Splattershot falls from her hands, bouncing to her right.
"Aaaaah! A-argh… uff… uuurrrggghhh!" She gritted her teeth and frowns a lot. "N-nnggghhh…! Th-the pain… i-is too much to bear…"
Her vision starts to get more blurry and Grina lies down on the Yellow ink.
"No… n-not now… I-I have to save the cap… … w-wait… are those…?"
The girl crawls very slowly through the yellow path, with both her arms and legs: she was breathing heavily, shaking her head twice and lifting her eyelids as much as she could. She stops, looking at those weird yellow blobs sticking out from the ink. With her right hand, she took one and looks at it: she opens wide her mouth and puts the unidentified thing inside it.
Grina chews it slowly, but loudly: she snorted, while closing her eyes and frowning a lot.
"Yuck!" She shakes her head, opening wide her eyes and catching out her tongue. "D-disgusting!"
She stood there, for a while: then she gets up, looking down towards the ink.
"Power eggs… they really give me the power I need, to sustain myself!" She smiles. "I'm so lucky, that the Octarian had some of those with him!"
The girl bends down, picking up every single Power egg covered in Yellow ink: she got 3 in total. Grina stands up and puts the eggs into her left pocket.
"They may taste like dark-green seaweeds, but the sacrifice is totally worth it!" She rotates her body left and right, moving her head along, while smiling and closing her eyes.
The girl kicks her weapon upwards and catches it, with her right hand.
"W-wow, how did I do that?!" She expanded her eyes.
"THERE SHE IS!"
"GET HER! GET HER!"
Grina looks ahead: a group composed by 3 Octotroopers were going full speed towards her, aboard their unique hovercrafts. While charging, they shoot a big Ink shot in her direction. The girl becomes a Squid and hides in her own ink: the shots passed ahead.
She reappears quickly in her human-like form and starts shooting around the ground, with her Splattershot: all those actions were made with very fast movements. The ground was mostly yellow now and Grina quickly dives inside it, as a Squid.
"W-where is she?!" One Octotrooper was looking around the yellow ink.
"I don't know! Maybe she melted?" Another one said, while covering a chunk of ink with their own.
"Yeah, sure! And I'm the octing wiz"
Grina emerged and shot all 3 Octarians, with her Splattershot: none of the tentacle-creature could react fast enough, to avoid the ink projectiles.
SPLA-SPLA-SPLASH!
They exploded in yellow ink and leave the field as flying little tentacles.
"Aaaawwww, yeah!" The girl jumped up, bending her knees in the air. "Totally slick! Going through the enemies, like a boss!"
Grina looks down, seeing Power eggs covered in ink: she goes near one and picks it up. The girl eats one, chewing it loudly. She squeezed her eyes and coughs, while catching out her tongue.
"Puah! Yuck…! S-so awful!" She snorted. "But the control is real… and so is the chance, to save the captain!"
Grina shoots the ground, covering it with her own ink.
Let the action, truly begin!
