In that moment, two things happened at almost the exact same time. The first was me, yelling at Stella to "RUN!", and the second, was the worst thing I had heard all day. Yes, even worse than the Killer Wail.

"RELEASE THE KRAKEN!"

She screamed these fateful words as she jumped high into the air,transforming into a gigantic purple squid as she did so. It looked really cool, and I would've loved to be able to enjoy the moment, but unfortunately there was now a bloodthirsty Kraken chasing me. Stella and I swam as fast as we could, but the Kraken was catching up quick. We jumped over a platform to get to the other side of mid. I didn't see the Kraken anywhere, but I just knew she was somewhere. Suddenly, a shadow blocked out the sun. A Kraken shaped shadow. She had jumped off the top of the tower, and was falling right on top of us. I had no time to react, and was instantly crushed, exploding into purple ink. I felt a sharp pinch all throughout my body, but then it was over, and all I felt was numbness. I opened my eyes to see that I was floating higher and higher above the Skatepark. I saw Stella's little ghost squid next to me. She must have died as well. My eyes followed our killer to see she was back to normal and had climbed back up onto the tower. Suddenly everything went black.

When I opened my eyes again, I was back to normal, standing on the Spawn Point. "Well, that sucked," Stella grumbled, standing beside me.

"Yep." I looked at the timer on my Gamepad. "We still have a minute and a half left, and it's pretty much tied." I looked back at my Gamepad, and saw a streak of purple running down the right path into our base. "Hold on."

"What?"

"We're being invaded." I stated quickly. "Ok, let's split up. You distract him, I'll attack from above."

"Rodger." She said, and took off. I swam over to the grate I had used earlier. I hopped up onto it and saw Stella expertly dodging the Luna Blaster, luring him farther into our base. "What's the matter," She taunted, "Can't hit a Noob?"

The Luna Blaster growled and lunged at Stella. I jumped down, landing behind him and opened fire. It was over pretty quickly, leaving only a fresh puddle of yellow ink. I probably should have felt bad, but I knew he was just going to respawn anyway. "We should probably go this way again, cover up this guy's trail," I suggested. Stella nodded, and we continued down the path. We made it to the entrance to mid, and saw our E-leiter on top of a short wall near the entrance to the enemy base. He seemed to be holding mid pretty well, but most of it was still covered in purple. "So… How about we go up on the tower? We can get better coverage from there, I bet." Stella suggested.

"I was about to say that,"I complained.

"Oh sure." Stella smiled, rolling her eyes.

"No, really! Never mind…" I said as I swam up the side of the tower after her.