Yawn "Man, X Rank can get pretty boring when the only mode available to play is clam blitz, huh?" I say out loud, while sitting in Deca Tower, Seeing nobody even walk towards the ranked area. "Might as well play some turf war, Tenta Brella can paint good, and I'm never making the mistake of using Hydra with random people again." I say, before starting to head over there.
"H-Hey Mister" I hear, before looking around myself, the voice clearly coming from right next to me. "I-I'm down here sir." The voice, which I can now tell is feminine says, before I now look down, seeing a young female Inkling, Holding a shirt out in front of her. "C-Can you p-please sign my shirt?" She says, clearly embarrassed about this whole ordeal.
"Sorry kiddo, but I can't, don't really do autographs, and I don't think someone as young as you should be trying to get into turf war." I say to her, before walking away, hopefully getting 1 less person, Inkling or not, Into Turf Wars.
"B-But Sir, I'm your biggest fan!" I hear her say, while running up behind me.
"Listen, I said I'm not going to sign it, can you please leave me alone?" I say to her. I didn't know X Rank Would give me people obsessed over me, but here we are.
"F-Fine, but I'm not gonna be happy about it." She says back to me, before turning around and walking outside of Deca Tower.
"Now that that's over with, I can finally play some Turf War." I say out loud, before walking to the Turf war section, and Choosing Kelp Dome.
Hopping into the match, I see 3 aerosprays... "Are you all trying to lose?" I say in Genuine Bewilderment.
"No, It's just this is the only weapon we know how to play." One of them responds back.
"Well fine, it wont be easy, but I can play an assassin while you 3 turf." I say to them.
Just before the round starts, we all give each other a "BOOYAH!," Before running off into the fray, They all take the ground route, while I head up to the top, using the grated platforms. As I head towards the center platform, I'm making sure to turf as much ink as possible, as Bubble Blower can really change the tides of a battle. Soon, I Encounter a lone splattershot on the center platform. I sigh, and tell him "Nothing personal, Kid." Before blasting him point blank, immediately splatting him.
After this, I notice an E-Liter 4k with his sights right on me! I quickly rush towards him, putting up my shield whenever I suspect him to shoot at me. My strategy works, and soon I'm right in front of him. "Just as I said to the splattershot, it's nothing personal, kid." I say, before firing, splatting him instantly.
I look down and see my 3 teammates turfing their side of the map. "Geez, was I too harsh on them?" I say, before hopping down and running with them, giving them a quick "BOOYAH!," Which they promptly return. At this point we're just spawn camping them, as soon as someone spawns their ink armor is immediately broken by an aerospray, and then I just shoot them, splatting them instantly. Soon, the match is over, with an absolute landslide for us, with 82% to just their measly 8%.
Back in the post game lobby, I walk over to my teammates. "Well, that was easy, I didn't even see 2 of their team members." I tell them, Laughing afterwards.
"heh, Yeah, they were some pretty big pushovers, weren't they." Said the only aerospray that talked during the match.
"Well, this match was fun, but I think I'm gonna go enter ranked, just hope its changed off of Clam Blitz. Anyways, bye." I tell them, before heading off to the ranked section.
And when I get there, it's not clam blitz, but Tower Control. "Nice, its finally not Clam Blitz" I say, before choosing The Reef to play on. It's a map that'll make tower control last longer then normal, I don't want a stomp like what happened yesterday with clam blitz.
As we wait to be released into the map, I take a look at my teammates. One of my teammates is using the undercover brella, another is using the splattershot and the third one is using the Light Tetra Dualies, While I'm using the Custom Hydra Splatling, good coverage for the tower via ink mines, good defense so I can charge out of sight, and giving my teammates a view of everyone is strong.
As the round starts, the Dualies immediately rush towards the tower, while me, the brella and the splattershot are lagging behind, due to having heavier weapons and worse mobility. When we get there, the dualies are already shooting down a few of the enemies, while I get on the tower and start placing ink mines. The Light tetra dualies have already splatted the enemies custom splattershot jr. and their own Custom Hydra, while their Splattershot pro and Splatterscope are nowhere to be seen. As I start charging, I turn around and see their splattershot pro coming right for the tower, swimming in squid form. I immediately turn around and start firing at him, splatting him before he knew what hit him.
I go into my octo form quickly, to stop the firing and to regain ink, before turning around, already having reached checkpoint 2. Soon, the Splatterscope manages to take down the Light Tetra Dualies, So the rest of us go on high alert, especially because we just got past checkpoint 3, and we're slowly moving up, making us sitting ducks for them. Soon I see the Custom Splattershot Jr. and Splattershot Pro rushing towards the tower, so i shoot them down, Don't know why they aren't trying to flank, but- And I've been splatted. That Splatterscope is really good, a Formidable enemy. Luckily, the undercover brella and Splattershot were able to ride the tower to the end.
In the post game lobby, I take a good look at the Splatterscope, and it's actually the same guy who was using the Kensa Glooga Dualies yesterday. "Hey man, that was a good game, and you were really good." I say while walking up to him.
"Oh, hey, aren't you the Tenta brella from yesterday?" He responds, looking up from his splatterscope.
"Yeah, I am. Hey, do you want to be friends? I know we can't do ranked together, but Turf War might be fun." I respond, Holding out a hand.
"Sorry, but I'll pass. I don't usually team up with anyone, and I work better alone." He responds.
"Well, can I at least have your name? Mine is Derek, By the way." I respond, while pulling my hand back.
"Sure, mine is Tyler." he responds.
"Well, I might see ya later, bye Tyler." I respond, before walking out of Deca Tower.
"Geez, Today has been a long day, had a really intense match, Figured out I have an obsessed fan, and I made a new.. acquaintance? He said he didn't want to be my friend, but there's no bad blood, so I guess acquaintance would work." I say out loud, before I start heading home, Tired from all the events of today. However, on my way back, I notice that girl from earlier today is following me, so I take a wrong turn into an alleyway, just to see if she was. Lo and behold, she was, as she turned into the alleyway a few seconds later.
Before she tries to slink out of sight, I grab her by the back of her shirt. "Why are you following me? I told you, I'm not giving you an autograph, and I know how to get a restraining order." I say to her, making sure to voice my anger.
"U-Uh I uh- I just really want your autograph?" She says, with a really forced smile.
"Did someone send you to follow me?" I ask her, still not letting go.
"M-Maybe?" She says, with a defeated look in her eyes.
"Look, just tell whoever hired you that the deal is off, I don't wanna have to harm a kid." I say, while dropping her to the ground.
"O-Ok, B-Bye." She says, before scurrying off to who knows where.
"Finally, now that she's out of my tentacles, I can finally go home." I say, before getting back into the street, and continuing my stroll home.
When I actually do get home, I quickly unlock the front door and rush in, closing it and locking it. I make sure all the windows are closed, and then close all the blinds. "Now that everything's closed, I can take this off." I say, before slowly taking off my suit, letting my afro bounce up, and my arms and legs to breathe. As I walk through the house, I pass through the kitchen to grab a bag of Sea Salted kelp chips, one of my favorite snacks.
After that I go to the living room, turning on the tv before hopping onto the couch, and turning on my gaming console, the Splatendo Flip. My favorite game, SquidBeatz 2 already put in. "Man, it's been a couple days since I've played, let's hope I haven't gotten TOO rusty." I say, before picking up my controller, and putting down my dance pad in front of me. "Hmm, what to play, play to play..." I say, while scrolling through all the songs. "Spicy Calamari Inkantation seems good, it IS a remix of what saved me from that... Nightmare I used to live." I say, before choosing the song, and getting ready to dance. 2 Minutes later, I got only fresh, a full combo, and a perfect score. "Well, this IS the song I used to play every time until I perfected it, so I guess it makes sense, but maybe I should try Fly Octo Fly this time?" I say, before scrolling over to that song, and selecting it. 3 minutes later and I've gotten a perfect score, my first time getting it on this song as well. "Man, I'm getting tired already, must've spent a while walking, huh." I say, before finishing my Kelp Chips, Turning off my tv and console, putting away my dance pad, and turning off the lights. As I walk into my bedroom, I immediately hop into bed, get under covers, and fall asleep, Hoping for a dreamless night.
clank, clank "Hey! Get to work! No slacking off on the job, You have a project to build!" The General shouts at me.
"Sir yes Sir!" I quickly respond, before getting back to what we were building. "Cant even rest for a minute..." I mumble under my breath, Before walking back over to the machine we were building. Its a giant mech suit, bigger then the Octobot King, and It would require 5 Octolings just to operate it. Its right arm has a pressurized water canon, while its left arm has a hand that can turn into a splat bomb launcher. It has a giant ink tank on the back, holding 100x the ink of a normal ink container, although it's divided in half by metal, the top half holding water, the bottom half holding ink. "When this is finally finished, the Inklings wont stand a chance." I say, Proud of my, and all of the other engineers, accomplishments.
"They really wont, we'll be invincible." Another engineer says to the left of me.
"Hey guys, I'm going to use the bathroom, I'll be back in a few minutes." I say, before going to do just that. As soon as I open the door and step inside, I realize what exactly is going on. "This... This is a lucid nightmare, Octavio's music playing everywhere, this is even the last project I was working on, before the Inkling reached Octavio, and they had their fight. That's... How I broke free" I say out loud, knowing nobody can hear me. "I should probably wake up, Octavio's music, along with everything else is just... too much for me right now." I say, while closing my eyes shut, ending the nightmare before it gets too bad. "Huh, its 1:15 AM, best get back to sleep. My nightmares are slowly getting better, so that's a good sign." As I'm saying that, I'm already laying back down, getting ready to go back to sleep, wishing for a dreamless rest.
