As usual, Candy arrived at the plaza early. It was early afternoon and the map rotation just changed. Splat Zones were scheduled for ranked matches for the next few hours, twin squads only. A perfect opportunity for her to stay in training.
As she walked towards the tower, she already spotted a familiar face joining her from the other side of the plaza, smiling and waving at her.

"Hey Candy, you're on time as ever", called the male inkling.
He was in his mid-twenties, with blue tentacles, wearing a Jet Cap, Shirt and Tie and Squink Wingtips.
"You too, Robyn", she answered, also smiling at him, hugging him briefly as he stopped in front of her.
He returned the hug.
"Glad you made it. We haven't played twin squad in a few days, how's your job going?"
"Good", she answered, smiling. "I was a bit busy during the last few days, think a few matches are a nice change for now"
"Exactly what I thought" Robyn let go of her, slowly walking towards the tower again.

They logged in at the counter for ranked matches, before grabbing their weapons and joining the still empty lobby.
"Oh, looks like we're the first", Robyn said, still smiling.
"Yeah", Candy replied. "By the way, you mentioned you may have found a sniper for our team?"
He nodded.
"Met a nice girl in a turf war match a few days ago. Kelp Splatterscope player, she's pretty good, although her set was a bit strange for a sniper..."
He giggled.
"Don't know if she is an option, probably have to ask her about that soon, I've added her to my friend list."

Candy nodded, speaking quieter.
"I may have another option as well, still need to clarify some things about that."
"Oh?" Robyn looked at her a bit surprised.
"Yeah", she answered, "Someone I met at the camp. But still not sure about it, I'll tell you more as soon as I know if it's an option or not."
"Okay", he said, smiling again, looking up as he noticed two other Inklings joining them, a female wearing a Squid Nordic, carrying a Berry Splattershot Pro and a male with a Gas Mask and a L-3 Nozzlenose.
"Looks like the lobby is filling up", he said, watching the two.

The female was patting the males back, quietly talking to him, before she looked up, noticing Candy and Robyn.
"Oh look, another couple is already here!"
Robyn smiled. "Oh, you're here for twin squad?"
The girl nodded. "Yes. We're going to do a few matches. Don't worry about grumpy squid here, he just had a bad day. His name is Dason, I'm Valentina"
"Yeah, a few good matches probably will help then", Robyn answered, still smiling. "I'm Robyn and there's my squad partner, Candy"
Candy also looked up, noticing a few other players joining from a previous match.
"Guess the match schould start soon."

They all stepped on the transporting points, spawning at the map just a few moments later.
It was Blackbelly Skatepark and their ink color was green.
Robyn held his Custom Splattershot Junior close, looking around, spotting the two Inklings they just talked to next to them.
"Oh nice, we're even on the same team"
"We should work out a plan", Candy suggested, looking at them. "You want to go for the close or the far zone first?"

Valentina looked at them with a confident face: "You two go for the zones, me and Dason will take care of the opponents"
Dason nodded.
Robin grinned. "Good. Tell us if you need any help, I'll give you a few echolocators during the match."
Then he turned towards Candy: "You're focusing on the far zone?"
She also nodded.

As the match started, they all headed to the center using different paths to make it harder for the enemy team to splat them. The other team – with a purple ink color - was already in position, inking both zones at the same time, an E-liter camping on the center tower, aiming for the incoming Inklings.
Robyn ducked behind a wall as soon as he noticed the sniper, avoiding the shot, Candy getting splatted pretty easily. While the other two were heading to the center, he waited for her to return, inking some turf and filling up his special attack, activating it about the same time Candy superjumped back to him. He gave her a questioning look as she returned, then continued moving closer to the center.

Thanks to the echolocator, Valentina and Dason managed to take out two players fo the enemy team pretty easily, cornering the E-liter and getting him off his position, before splatting him as well.
"They're not bad", Robyn mumbled, nodding to the zones and jumping down on the closer one, throwing a disruptor at a suspicious spot of enemy ink, instantly hitting the last hiding enemy player with it, splatting him a second later.
"Wipeout! The zones, Candy!", he called out for her, inking his own zone as fast as possible.
Candy nodded, running towards the other zone, flicking her roller to cover a good part of it, followed by two burst bombs, which took the zone for their team, the counter starting to tick down.