Rolling on the good news!

"Why do you want to join our squad? I thought you and those other kids were going to begin ranked turf wars together next year after you guys felt more prepared?" Viktor asks softly, "well those guys didn't feel like they were ready to fully commit to being a true squad as some of them didn't even have weapons of their own yet" Alice says recalling the memory of the conversation she had with her friends

Alice POV 2 weeks ago

It was lunch time currently at Splacademic Academy the 6th graders are currently inside of the cafeteria enjoying their lunch or they're on the football field enjoying their meals. We find our little Alice sitting inside of the café with some of her friends a conversation seems to brewing causing the young faces of these children scrunched up in thought…

"Jake I'm telling you we should go for ranked I think we can do it!" says Terry shifting his glasses while checking his InkPhone, "Dude I don't even have a weapon of my own, I've been borrowing my parents stuff only that because my grades are good" Jake replies taking a bite of his sandwich, "well why don't we pool our allowances together and by weapons then?" explains Bianca shifting her purple tentacles covering her left eye, "sounds like a plan we don't even have to get the expensive ones, all we need to get are the cheap guns then we can play until we can afford the better ones" reaching into my wallet only to see about 2500 credits

"that's easy for you to say Alice your brother is high leveled and he does really good in battles so he gets paid a lot my sister is high leveled but she doesn't share her money with me" Terry says holding up his empty wallet "I can ask my parents for the cash I think" Bianca states, "well I have a weapon already!" Jake exclaims "you do?!" we all exclaim "course I do! It's my Hydra Splatling, I can't really use it cuz I'm not strong enough to hold it properly" a sweat drop droops down Jake's head the remainder of us sigh in unison

"so that makes one of us who actually has a weapon, right Alice?" terry asks me to which I nod, "yeah I have my Krak-on my brother gave me, wait how about this: I ask my brother to lend us weapons? Then when we make enough to buy weapons of our own then we can give them back how about that?" my questions seems to fall on deaf ears as my friends seem like they aren't really on board with the idea

"the plan sounds good on paper, but I don't really know if I can really go through with it you know, midterms are coming up and soon it'll be summer and that's when all the really good squids play I don't know it just seems unlikely" Terry says rubbing his arms the others seem to agree with him,

"Sounds to me like you guys are chicken, so what if a few-" "a lot of good players compete in the summer" "-okay so what if a lot of good players compete in the summer we can't let that stop us from being the best, actually it would be better because if we do beat them and rise to the top it'll show that they have been beaten by 6th graders!" once again my attempt at motivation falls on deaf ears "really you guys weren't really serious about becoming one of the best squads on earth?" they shake their heads no "well then I guess I can find some other people who would want to be" the bell rings signaling that lunch is over

Alice POV current time

"Since my friends didn't really want to do turf wars I've been wanting to find some people who really wanted to, but I couldn't really find them or they were already a group so I wanted to ask Coral if I can join you guys" finishing her tale "I can see why she would have asked me for my opinion her friends made a plan, but they didn't follow through, but you could have talked to Viktor first then me" "Alice you know you can tell me anything it's not like we don't live together or anything" Alice agree but she looks a little sad

"hmmm I don't know after all of that I only have one question for you" catching her attention Alice's eyes light up "yeah what is it?"

"How good have you gotten with that roller of yours?" I ask her she almost jumped through the roof out of excitement, "I think you would be a great edition to the squad, but that decision isn't up to me" Alice looks at viktor with starry, anticipating eyes,

"Well.. I don't really know… but I guess if it'll keep you out of trouble you little squirt… come here!" grabbing and rubbing her head Alice bursts into a fit of laughter "oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh! I've gotten so much better with my roller Coral I've practiced so much since that battle we had a couple of weeks ago" jumping from viktor she runs into me hugging me and jumping up and down frantically

"hey now don't get excited yet you still have to show us the progress you've made Alice, but until then consider yourself a junior member, a week from now you will have to face me, viktor, and maybe even Cyan if she's back in a one on one if you beat both of us or if you beat two out of the three of us then you'll be in, if not we'll let you try again another week from now and so forth until you beat us" "ok so a week from now we'll fight?" "Yes" "I need to prepare see you later Coral I won't let you down! Come on Viktor!"