The Great Splat
Chapter 11
The Cuttlelings
"I can't see anyone!" Tinker yelled as he fired blindly into the air, only using the laughs of the taunting Cuttlelings as support,
"How can they disappear into thin air?!" Pacifica said as she kept and ink circle around them,
"They're cuttlefish!" Ink yelled, "Oh, I don't know!"
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"Shh..." Nautalia said as she and her hacker walked down a silent hallway, "They could be anywhere."
"I can't see anyone.." Calamia said, both were wearing their goggles,
"Ah..." a simple groan was heard, alerting the two,
"What was that?" Nautalia got a hit on her scanner, she then ran to confront.
However, this was no Cuttleling, it was Maria, who was severely injured,
"Maria!" Nautalia gasped as she saw the ink taking its toll on her body,
"They... got... me..." Maria groaned hoarsely, "I... didn't even see them.. coming..."
"Is she gonna be alright?" Calamia asked,
"I'm afraid not." Nautalia mumbled, "Your wound is too severe, they penetrated your ink sac."
"Is that... bad?" Maria muttered, she was sweating profusely,
"The ink your sac was converted to their ink upon impact." Nautalia told her, "Now it is coursing through every fiber of your body, destroying it."
"Ah... damn..." Maria grumbled, "AH!" she screamed, "It Hurts! It hurts! It... hurts..." she muttered and then disintegrated, leaving her gear behind and ascending as a little squid ghost.
"Ink's not gonna like this." Calamia said, "Look, we have to group up with him or we're sitting sea cucumbers!"
"You're right!" Nautalia responded, "Come on, I think I heard some fighting that-" she stopped when a drop of neon blue ink landed near them.
The two looked up, seeing a Cuttleling sniper on top of a steel girder,
"Calamia." Nautalia mumbled,
"Yes?" Calamia responded as they saw the Cuttleling sniper disappear,
"Run!" Nautalia yelled as the two bolted, a little laser following close behind.
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"AH!" a Cuttleling male was taken down by Pacifica, who had managed to ambush him in a corner.
"I don't know how long I can take this!" Tinker groaned as he avoided enemy inkshot,
"Maybe if we can get out of here..." Ink looked around, "There must be a door for the Cuttlelings! If we find it, maybe we can escape!"
"But where could it be?!" Pacifica regrouped,
"They said this is just like a turf war." Ink told them, "So where they come must be on the far extreme of where we came from!"
"So that way?" Tinker pointed ahead of them,
"Yes." Ink answered, "Have you been able to contact Maria and them yet?"
"No, still nothing." Pacifica held her radio, "Maybe I'll just tell them we're moving North!"
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"This way..." Nautalia brought Calamia to a small inlet in the concrete wall, "Shh..." she told her, and surely enough the small red laser dot of the sniper crept its way across.
The dot paused for a few seconds, moved left to right, then luckily continued on its way.
"Phew..." Calamia sighed as she saw the threat disappear,
"We can get him from here..." Nautalia tightened her gloves, "You stay here, I'll hunt him down!"
"Alright." Calamia complied, and then crouched down as Nautalia climbed up the wall.
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"Run!" Tinker screamed as they were being chased by the invisible Cuttlelings,
"We got him!" one of the female Cuttlelings yelled as she fired her Squelcher-type weapon.
"Wah!" Pacifica jumped out of reach,
"Swim!" Ink inked the way for them to turn into squids and gain more speed,
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"Let's see where you are... you bugger..." Nautilia muttered as she hid behind a box, she then heard a clatter of metal.
"Hm..." she grinned, "I got you now..." she aimed down her sights.
However, a slowly moving red dot crept up her thigh,
"Where are you?" Nautalia looked around, "Where could you-" she stopped when she saw the red dot on her shoulder, then looked to her right, seeing the sniper not even 20 feet away.
"He he..." the sniper grinned,
"Clever boy..." Nautalia muttered as the dot was now on her head...
POW! The blast was heard, but it was not Nautalia who was out, but the sniper.
"DWAH!" the Cuttleling sniper yelled as he ascended up as a ghost,
"Huh?" Nautalia looked down and saw Calamia with her sniper rifle,
"Booyah!" Calamia cheered,
"Thank you!" Nautalia sighed in relief, "I see Ink from here! Let's got meet up with him!"
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"Rats!" Ink yelled once he ran out of ink, "We have to run it!"
"I'm tired!" Tinker groaned,
"We'll die if we don't, Tinker!" Pacifica said, seeing the four Cuttlelings chasing them down,
"Look!" Ink pointed up ahead, where a large door lay, "That's the Cuttleling spawn!"
"Alright!" Tinker said in relief, "Let's go get-"
POOOM! There was a series of explosions behind them,
"AH!" the cuttlelings yelled in horror as little ghosts appeared,
"What in the-"
"Heyo!" Nautalia called from the top, holding a splat bomb, "What a lovely day!"
"Oh... Thank you!" Pacifica smiled, "Come on! We're getting out of here!"
"Don't mind if we do!" Calamia laughed as the two jumped down...
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"We just got word from the Genetics Department." a soldier came up to the commander, "There was team that defeated the Infiltrators."
"Hmm." The Commander looked up in surprise, "I'd like to see them for myself..."
"Very well.." the soldier saluted, "You will be surprised at what they're doing."
