A/N: Welcome back, spring has truly sprung, and with it comes another chapter! Congratulations to anyone who discovered my Easter Egg, and thanks for playing the game. I know, bad Ready Player One joke. But why should I care? I'm here to write, not monologue. Anyways, let's get going!

Disclaimer: I don't own Splatoon or anything in this story except my OC's, the roller mods, and something special that gets added in this chapter…

Chapter 8: The Devils Within The Walls

I was playing some Leagues with Logan for fun, and the day was very fun. That was, until we got a text in our NSS group chat.

AlphaEngineer: We've got a massive crisis on our hands

SaltSister: He's right, u need to get to the cabin right now

Logan and I stared at the texts before rushing to the cabin. We got out of the sewer, then rushed to the Cabin. Marie was in her kimono, but I assumed that she was out for action.

"Agents Omega and Gamma, I apologize for the short notice." Marie began. "We intercepted a genuine Octarian transmission, stating that agents within the city were planning on kidnapping or killing a large number of inklings."

"What?!" We exclaimed.

"It's true." Alex answers with an extremely grim face. "It's called psychological warfare. If they strike like this, it will cause an uproar, and if they strike in similar ways, taking hostages or attacking randomly, it will put the population to unrest and make them easier to invade."

"I knew that it was a good idea to make you a member." I said. "But seriously, we were called to 'dispatch' the agents?"

"From what I'm piecing together, yes." Logan noted. "I assume that we'll be using codenames?"

"Right on it. We have no time to waste, so Sheldon, can you bring out the new suits?"

"My pleasure, Marie." I heard Sheldon. He walked in with these combat suits that looked like our Hero Suits, except that their primary color was black, and they had thin lime stripes, but the one that was given to me looked like it had mod slots. "This is it, the Techno Suit! For the versatile Agent Omega, I created a special version of your new suit, the Techno Suit Deluxe!"

"Nice design!" Logan complimented. "It feels so much more stronger!"

"It is, because I used some of the engine parts that I was given." Sheldon explained. "Agent Omega, your suit can use mods in certain areas. The pink mod increases your speed at the cost of your ink tank slowly being drained, while the purple mod causes ink to flow through your suit, warming it up while creating stronger resistance to enemy ink." He paused, before pointing to a small black slot on my suit. "You place the mods in here." He then pointed to small boxes on the waist of my suit. I was wondering what they were before he explained them.

"You now have better storage for your mods, so keep them in mind if you need to hold your mods." Sheldon explained. "Also, one last mod for you to keep." He then handed me a grey band that seemed to go into a slot by my wrist.

"Last but certainly not least, the grey mod." He explained. "This one is my favorite, as you can charge and release a powerful ink blast!"

"With that, I think we should suit up." Marie said. "After all, those agents won't take themselves out!"

[Scene Change, Area near New Albacore Hotel]

I had taken the green and yellow mods for my roller, as well as the pink, purple, and grey mods for my suit. The other mods were in my mod compartments, as I had no need for them.

"Everyone, prepare to engage, I see enemies in the area!" Logan hissed.

We saw some Octolings on a building, looking around the crowded, bright city. Alex pulled out some kind of mini-radar gun, and we began hearing their voices.

"Wow, this city is so nice compared to our city." One of them said.

"Quiet down!" Another said. "For all we know, their army could be after us!"

Wait, I thought that the Inklings didn't have an army ever since the Great Turf War.

Hold up. I began. What if they don't know that we don't have an army?

"Well, we should begin our mission. Kidnap those Inklings, and we might get a great promotion!" Yet another squealed.

"Wait, couldn't we get splatted by those inklings?" Another asked.

"Whatever!" One of the Octolings barked. "Give the signal to start the operation!"

"R-roger that, Captain!" Another stuttered.

Alex put his device and put it away in his suit. "I think that's our cue to start chasing them?"

"Spot on, Agent Alpha." Marie nodded. "Remember, I'm Agent 2, Antonio's Agent Omega, Logan's Agent Gamma, and Alex is Agent Alpha. Code names, everyone!"

"Yes ma'am!" We all exclaimed. I jumped to a nearby building and searched for Octolings. I activated my purple mod to increase my resistance, then jumped to attack them. They fired a lot of ink at me, yet my suit was taking the most of it. I began jumping and slamming my roller at the Octolings, taking out most of them. I then noticed that about four of them were trying to get away, so I began pursuing them with my pink mod activated, catching me up to the Octolings. I splated them, then began watching the turf battle at New Albacore Hotel. The Octolings were watching in confusion, wondering why they were trying to cover the ground in blue and pink.

"Tch, what a waste of time." One lazily said. "How do they even train soldiers like this?"

The answer came in the form of a blaster shot from Logan. I saw them breaking formation and running as Logan shot them down. One of them managed to escape the onslaught, only to get hit by a snipe from Marie. Alex and I jumped to another point, and we caught three Octolings with an Ink Canon in position to fire on some civilians. We literally walked right behind them, placed a Splat Bomb between the three of them, and watched as they all got splatted.

"Hey, think we can load this thing?" Alex asked. "We've got a missile to fire."

I then saw two blue super jump markers appear behind us.

"Wait, Mariano? Matt?" I asked in confusion. "Why are you guys here?"

"Well, we saw some kind of conflict, and we decided to help some of the green Inklings." Matthew explained. "Now, what are you guys doing? And who's next to you?"

I sighed. "It's a very long story. Do you guys know about the Great Turf War?"

"Yeah, the war against the Octarians?" Mariano replied.

"Well, we're trying to take back the Zapfish from the Octarian Menace." Alex explained.

"We're in." Matthew said with a tone of steel.

"Wait, seriously?" I asked. "It's really risky, not to mention that if you get splatted, you might die."

"My grandfather was a veteran in the Great Turf War." Matthew said. "I don't want his work to be put to nothing."

"I'm in it to make sure that I have somewhere to live." Mariano answered. "Besides, I'm not gonna stand by and do nothing."

"Well, switch your ink colors." Alex replied. "We don't want to splat you, so prepare for battle!"

We loaded and fired the cannon at some Octolings that were prepared to attack inklings below. I saw that we had four other shells to fire with, so we began loading and firing at the next squads. We managed to take some more enemies out, only to run out of shells. We jumped to a blockade, where five inklings were getting tied up to a wall, crying and screaming things like 'don't kill us!' or 'we'll give you anything you want!'

"The nerve of those…" Matthew muttered. He began to give us cover fire, which allowed Marie to snipe them down, which let us untie the prisoners.

"Thank you, whoever you are." One of the inklings said. We promptly jumped to another building before they could take a photo of us.

"Okay, Omega, Alpha, why do you have two inklings with you?" Marie asked. "Didn't we have this talk before?"

"I'll fill you in later." I replied. "Now heads up!"

We then dodged some more blasts from cannons, and managed see a helicopter escaping.

Catch that helicopter, quick! We can't afford to let them get away.

I activated my pink mod and began jumping rooftops. They were heading past Inkopolis Bay, the largest body of water that was near the city. When they saw me, they began moving faster. I super jumped to a tall building that they couldn't see me from, and activated the grey mod, charging a massive blast. When they came by, I jumped and returned to chasing them. They were also trying to shoot at me, yet most of their shots missed. My blast was fully charged, and I was almost going to jump into the bay, only to dodge-roll backwards, and blast them right in the rotors. Their heli crashed into the bay, sinking with a massive crash. I sighed.

"Marie, I got them, but are we truly doing the right thing?" I asked. "I feel guilty for having to take them down. They could all be looking to just get home!"

"I honestly don't know, Antonio." Marie answered. "I just hope that this is for the greater good in the end."

"Now pull out fast!" Alex exclaimed. "The city's gonna be on lockdown soon!"

We jumped and flew through the skies back to the cabin. Normally I would feel filled with energy doing this, yet the pain of the helicopter crashing was weighing me down far too much.

[Scene Change, Cuttlefish Cabin]

"So, I take it that the mission was a success?" Sheldon asked.

"Yeah, we managed to take everyone out. The city's on lockdown, so we probably won't be able to make it back in soon." Marie said.

"Well, what's next?" Matthew asked, leaning on his Kensa Splatterscope. "We obviously won't be able to ignore the Octarian crisis."

"Well, maybe we can give you some kind of mission." Marie answered. "I actually have the perfect job in mind for you guys."

"What is it?" Mariano asked. "I just hope that it's not too much to do."

"No, the idea is that we can have you two acting as spies." Marie explained.

"Wait, in the Octarian city?" Matthew asked.

"No, in Inkopolis. We need some people who could never be guessed as our agents, and the new kids are really unpredictable." Marie said. "We need you guys to keep an eye on any sketchy behavior that could lead to the Octarians. Besides, we don't have an army, so you guys are our best bet for a defense."

"Gotcha." Matthew said. "We'll do our best."

"So, what's the plan now?" I asked. "Are we going to raid Slimeskin Garrison?"

"Alex is working on the security, but he said that he just found the security files and is hacking them right now."

"I'm actually pretty good at hacking." Mariano announced. "Alex, would it be a problem for me to look at the defenses?"

"Well, just note that the Octarians have impressive defensive measures." Alex explained. "But I know of some exploits that are good for breaking Octarian firewalls. You know what a DDoS hack is?"

"Wait, I thought that you couldn't DDoS a firewall!" Sheldon exclaimed. "That's possible?"

"If you send a DDoS through ports 80, 53, 25 and 443, yes it is." Alex replied.

"So, while the tech geeks do their work over there, how about I grab some equipment for you and Mariano?" Asked Marie.

"Thanks, let's just hope that the other half can get things done quickly." Matthew said.

[30 Minutes Later…]

"We managed to break through the firewalls, annnd BINGO!" Alex exclaimed. "The gate has overloaded, and we've gained access to the Garrison."

"So, we should raid now?" Matthew asked.

"Sure, we have the element of surprise on our hands." Marie replied.

"Alright." I said boldly. "New Squidbeak Splatoon, move out!"

A/N: So, I wanted to write more, but I really couldn't come up with more to say.

In case you're wondering about the DDoS hacking, that's actually true. Google "Can a firewall stop a DDoS?" and it will give you the exact answer in the text. If you check my profile, I now have a list of my mods. In case you're wondering, the idea for Techno Suit DX mods comes from the "Powers" feature from Kid Icarus: Uprising, so check that game out if you want to know the powers. Lastly, I'm asking for some reviews, so don't be afraid to tell me what you like or think I could improve on. Remember, if you leave anything hateful or like "kinda weird, but ok", it will get taken off within five minutes. Apologies if I sound rude or anything, but that's how I can be sometimes. I think that covers everything I wanted to say, so see y'all 'round!

Fight for all Fiction,

ZygardeFusion

P.S: 10k words achieved! Begins flossing

P.P.S: Look, I know I made a terrible EarthBound joke by having Marie ask if she was Agent Beta. I won't do it again.

P.P.P.S: Yes, I'm wasting your time, but if you could possibly drop a review with possible codenames for Matthew and Mariano, that would be a huge help.