Koral was ecstatic to say the least, at least that's what it looked like. He couldn't blame her, he remembered his excitement from when he first started Turf-Warring back in Inkopolis Plaza all that time ago.

She was making some sort of squealing noise as she smiled, jumping up and down and shoving the I.D in his face, "Okay okay! Geez!" He said, taking the I.D and looking at the information on it.

It was a black card with an I.D number he wasn't gonna remember anytime soon, it had a nice picture of Koral with a smile on her face right at the top left, and it had her Nickname right next to it, listing "Agent 8".

"Agent 8? Really?" He said jokingly, Koral puffed her cheeks in a sort of cute anger, "Hey I'm kidding, my nickname is Agent 3 you know." He said, pulling out his I.D, Koral quickly snatched it to take a look.

Max looked at the image on the card he was holding, his face reddened a bit, but he quickly blocked those thoughts out of his head.

"So whaddya wanna do now?" He said, handing her I.D back to Koral and taking his back, she didn't even think about the answer, "Turf War! Turf War!" She said, jumping up and down like an excited child.

"I can't read her..." he thought to himself, her personality had so many layers it was hard to say exactly what she was like, she was mischievous, playful, sensitive, and a bit shy (unconfirmed), but it still seemed like he had just tapped the first layer that is "Koral"

"Alsoshescuteasfu-NOPE" he thought, once again banishing those thoughts straight to the shadow realm.

"Well I guess we're decided then!" Said Pearl, taking out some Splat Dualies from her bag, "here, I forgot to give you these in the care-package." She said, placing the weapons in her hands, Koral's eyes seemed to light up as she started examining the weapon from every angle, before immediately tinkering with it.

"Haha wow! You really are like Marina!" Said Pearl, laughing out loud as Koral adjusted things like sensitivity and what-not.

"Anyways, let's register ourselves as a team for today and get started!" Said Marina, clapping her hands together.

Max smiled, it had been a while since he had done a turf war simply for the fun of it.

~later~

"So yeah that's basically it." Said Pearl, finishing a quick explanation of the rules of turf war. "Just ink more than your opponent, and if you see an enemy, splat em."

Koral nodded, though she was visibly fidgeting, it looked like the nervousness finally caught up to her, one minute she's raring to go, filled to the brim with excitement, next minute, her nerve abandons firsther.

As the match began to start, she froze up and bit her lip, Max sighed, "I really can't read this girl..." he thought.

He placed a hand on her head, making her jump in surprise with a little "eek!" She turned around quickly, Max grinned. "Don't worry about it..." he said calmly, "I was like this too when I first started..." he said, rubbing the top of her head. "just focus on the moment, and you can't go wrong okay?" He said kindly, still rubbing the top of her head.

Koral stopped fidgeting, Max didn't know it at the time, but that simple action of patting her head was much more significant than it seemed, Koral's cheeks flushed as she smiled at the boy, "...thanks..." she said softly, smiling.

"Alright everybody, battle time!" Yelled Pearl as the words "battle time" flashed on the screen on the wall. "Trust me," Said Max, "you'll do great." He said, grinning.

Koral took a deep breath, before breathing out again, she held her dualies up and got ready to go.

~Mode: Turf War, Stage: Moray Towers~

Koral emerged from the spawn pad first, and the first thing that went through her head wasn't exactly the best one, it was something along the lines of "Oh god this is high up".

Max appeared next, he placed a hand on her shoulder and gave her a reassuring look, the nervousness went away instantly, "Just play your best and have fun okay?" Said Marina, holding up an Octobrush, Koral nodded, and she turned to look at the stage in front of her, quickly analyzing it, she noticed the alternate paths to the bottom and the inkrails near the center, she grinned, she now had confidence since Max was there, and now, she was determined.

GO!

"Alright everyone, split up and cover some gr-" Max started to say before he was interrupted by his sheer surprise at how fast Koral was with dualies, in an instant she was halfway to the center area. "Ah, so Koral is an aggressive player huh?" Said Pearl as she jumped down to the next level of the towers, though not as fast. "Oh boy, this is gonna go fine..." he said, sighing, quickly inking the areas that Marina had just run past with her Octobrush.

"Alright, lets see who the other team is..." he said, taking a look at the center, however nobody was there except for Koral, and there was... also a lot of their ink color.

"No freaking way..." he thought as he looked at the lone figure in the center, before it was interrupted by all four enemies jumping from above.

"DAMN IT!" One of them yelled, holding an inkbrush, "stay still!" He yelled, swinging rapidly at the octoling, Koral just grinned, using her dualies to dodge roll straight behind the inkbrusher before splatting him, next came two Tri-Sloshers, both were just as easily avoided and disposed of, "damn it..." said the last inkling, holding a Gold Dynamo Roller, "Eat ink!" He yelled, raising his roller up to fling ink at the octoling.

What happened to him? Well, what usually happens if a dynamo roller attempts to fling ink at close range against a shooter, with said dynamo in shooting range, with said shooter having enough ink left?

"Well he tried." Said Max out loud as he was splatted.

"Whoa!" Said Pearl, "I knew Eight was a badass, but this is something else!" She said as Koral ran up the pathway to the enemy's side of the stage, already the enemy team was closing in on her, "Crap I gotta help...!" Said Max, quickly super jumping to her position, before suddenly realizing his mistake.

"Wait, isn't super-jumping to where there's a lot of enemies is a bad ide-" he said before being cut off by his own jump, "CARP NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" he yelled as he flew through the air, "how'd I make such an amateur mistake!" He thought to himself, "I know I haven't played Turf War in a while but this is ridiculous!"

As he neared the ground, he braced for a splat as he would inevitably end up feeling when he ends up landing right where someone can splat him.

Except it didn't happen.

Max opened his eyes, everywhere around him was inked fully in pink, and Koral was just dashing up the towers, "Did... did she? No way..." He said out loud in disbelief, "Two times in a row is pushing it, but its still believable," he said as he watched the octoling move up, "but three times!?" He said, completely dumbfounded.

As Agent 3, he had his fair share of full-team wipes before, but his record for full-team wipes in a row on a single match was 2, and the record holder only happened once, a long time ago.

"I vaguely remember being a challenge to Koral when I was brainwashed..." he thought to himself, "How is it that she's already increased the gap in our skills!?" He thought, bewildered, as he was thinking this, the enemy made it to Koral again.

Koral jumped past them onto a crate in the middle of the platform, turning into an octopus and swimming on the wall, before popping out above the enemy team and splatting them simultaneously, and then sticking the landing after doing a backflip.

"Damn..." said Pearl, "she just had to be a little extra eh?" She said, grinning.

The match was spent entirely like this, Max, Marina, and Pearl inked areas Koral missed while Koral took care of the full team of cannon-fodder.

GAME!

"Alright!" Yelled Pearl, "We won!" Yelled Marina, Max was still attempting to process the full on success that was Koral's first match, Koral walked up to him, snapping him out of his trance, quietly, twirling one of her tentacles in her finger, she said, "Did I good?" She said, still twirling her hair.

If metaphors were real, Max would be dead, because a heart-shaped arrow just pierced straight through his heart.

"I... I... what?" He said, staring at the girl, the octoling had transcended the puppy-eyes with the face she was giving him, clearly looking for recognition of what happened during the game.

"O-oh yeah!" He said, quickly recovering his composure, "You did better than I could have ever imagined!" He said, earning a wide smile from the octoling, her childish side showing.

"Alright everyone, lets see who won!" Said Marina, looking over at Judd and Lil' Judd, "They should be starting the judging no-" She said before stopping abruptly at the sight in front of her.

Judd stood with a blank face, holding up a pink flag, Lil' Judd laying defeated next to him, as well as the enemy team, all laid on top of eachother in a pile, the Dynamo user lifted up his head, visibly struggling. "I-It usually takes longer... for the Judd's to decide... a winner... bleh..." he said before passing out.

Indeed, as they looked over at the pink stage, if that image wasn't the pure definition of "dominated", nobody knew what else was.

"Wow Koral!" Said Pearl, the first one to regain her composure, "You're awesome!" She said, causing the octoling to blush as she looked away, "Just nothing..." she said quietly.

Those words woke Max up, "wait, 'Just nothing'?" He said, "what does that mean?" He asked, though Koral didn't answer, as she was too busy looking away, blushing as he asked about what she said.

Marina placed a hand on his shoulder, "it's her dialect, Max," she said kindly, "I was the same, it takes a bit of time for us Octoling's to get used to speaking like Inklings." She said, looking at Koral, now causing Koral to blush even more, "Seems Eight is a little more sensitive about her dialect." She said, smiling, while Koral, now crouched down to hide, blushed more.

"Anyways..." Said Pearl, "now that we've done that, lets get some grub!" She said, grinning like an idiot, "I'm starved!" She said as she walked ahead of everyone.

"Excuse me!" Yelled a voice as they stepped outside, a jellyfish wearing a black tuxedo came up to them, "Which one of you is the player 'Agent 8'?" He asked, Koral looked at Marina, Marina nodded to give her reassurance, Koral kneeled down and handed the jellyfish her I.D, the Jellyfish read the card before handing it back, he pulled out a business card, "My name is Jelio, I'm from the Toni Kensa company." He said, handing the business card to the octoling, "I was told to find skilled players to hire for a part-time job." He said, "If you are interested, please call the number on that card." He said before walking away.

A moment of silence passed.

"NO WAY!" Yelled Pearl, attracting stares, "Your first match and you're already being SPONSORED!?" She yelled out, earning murmurs from the people nearby, "Hush Pearlie!" Said Marina quickly, she grabbed the card and inspected it.

"Oh wow... it's true!" She said, handing the card back to Koral, "Kensa really is thinking of hiring her!" She said, excitedly, "it took me and Pearlie FOREVER to get a sponsor from Grizzco!" She said happily.

"Hold on, sponsored?" Said Max, clueless, "He just said Part-Time Job!" He said, pointing out one little tidbit of information, "They say that, but with a job like that, you usually get sponsored, and they'll ask you to go into turf war matches using their weapons to advertise things and whatnot, then if you're with them for enough of a time, they'll ask you to model... then appear on commercials..." Said Pearl, going on and on.

Marina placed both hands on Koral's shoulders, "I would take this, you may not get another chance," She said, smiling, "but in the end, it's your choice, so you go with what you think you should do." She said, supportively, "anyways, you guys can think about that later, in the meantime, lets find something to eat!" She said, dragging the octoling with her as they went around the Square.

Meanwhile Max was bewildered, once again.

"...Sponsors?" He said out loud, "How come nobody sponsored me when I was younger!" He said out loud to nobody in particular.

HOOOOOOOOOOO ITS DONE!

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