"Y'know, doing this every day can get boring once in a while, even if the thrill of battle makes everything intense, it's just the same thing, over and over." I mumble under my breath, while walking to Deca Tower. "And I don't wanna do salmon run, we shouldn't be stealing what equates to their babies." I continue mumbling to myself, before making it to Deca tower, and checking out the ranked modes. "Huh, splat zones, don't play it all that much, but hey, why not?" I say, before choosing MakoMart, as it's a solid choice with a zone right in the middle.

As me and my teammates get teleported in, I look around and see a splattershot pro, the Zink mini splatling, and a carbon roller. "So, you all came prepared to turf, huh?" I ask them, pleasantly surprised this combination could work.

"Yeah, I'm not certain everyone here was thinking this, none of us are friends, but I'm pretty sure we were all thinking that we would have at least 1 damage, and we did." The Zink mini splatling says.

"Well then, let's go win this." I say, before the round starts, immediately rushing behind the others, who start making multiple trails to the middle. As we reach the middle, the enemy team has a dark tetra dualies, a heavy splatling, a splattershot jr. and "Brian..." I say, with anger in my voice, hands shaking a bit.

"Brian? Who's Brian?" The Zink mini splatling asks me.

"Just someone who refused to pick up the rainmaker with the very same weapon he's using now, the aerospray MG, don't even know why he uses it." I respond, still very much mad i have to fight him.

"Ouch, what else did he do to make you hate him this much?" The Zink mini splatling continues.

"Well, he didn't pick it up twice, and the first time, he ran into a group with curling bomb launcher, instead of picking up the rainmaker when I was covering him." I continue, my rage building as I talk more about him.

"Well, he seems like a horrible teammate, good thing we're against him." The Zink responds.

"Yeah, good thing, now I can splat him as much as I want." I respond, getting a murderous glint in my eyes.

"Alright, well, you do you, let's go get that Splat zone." The Zinc responds, before we all rush in. I immediately go for high ground, charging my splatling, before blasting it all at the enemies, but making sure to splat Brian first, then their dark tetra dualies, as they're a threat to me. Soon, my team has the point, and we're starting to spawn camp a little, as we have the power to. As I head back to the middle, I notice Brian trying to head to the middle. "Not on my watch, you wont." I say under my breath, before going back and shooting him down before he can get to the Splat zone. After I splat him, I head back to my teammates. "Hey guys, how's the spawn camping going?" I ask them, a smile on my face. "After all, we only have 20 points left." I continue, while starting to charge up my hydra splatling.

"It's going good. They can't seem to leave spawn, except Brian that one time, but it seems you got him." The Zinc mini splatling responds.

"Yeah, he's pretty obvious once you know how to see him." I respond, just before the game ends.

After the round ends, I walk up to the zinc mini splatling, not before gloating to Brian a bit. "So, do ya wanna be friends, you're pretty good, and we make a nice team." I ask him, while extending my hand out.

"Sure, the names Jeremiah by the way, what's yours?" He responds, while taking my hand and standing up.

"Mine is Derek, it's been fun playing, but I think 10 games is enough for one day." I respond to Jeremiah.

"Well then, I'll see you around." Jeremiah says, before I walk out Deca Tower, and start heading home. When I look behind myself to see if anyone is following me, I don't see anyone. "Phew, that kid isn't following me anymore, I don't wanna hurt them." I say, before continuing my stroll home. Soon I reach an alleyway I pass through, but that's when I hear someone running up behind me, but before I can turn around, I get punched in the head. "Gah!" I scream in pain, before feeling my head and realizing... my helmet isn't there. "You don't know what you've done... do you?" I say while looking at my cracked helmet, with tears starting to form in my eyes.

"What... what ARE you?" I hear a feminine voice behind me, instantly recognizing it as HER.

"You... why did you do this? I told you to stop following me, to leave me alone, and now LOOK AT WHAT YOU'VE DONE!" I yell at her, turning around and slowly getting up, my fists shaking with rage. "SHE might go after me, l can't stay here anymore, I have to run..." I continue, looking downwards, not wanting to meet her gaze.

"What... what are you? You don't even have tentacles." She says, before I rush at her, swinging a fist towards her head. My fist connects, and she gets sent into a wall, before slumping over against it.

"WHY! WHY! WHY!" I scream, while bashing her skull into the wall, not caring that she's a kid, I just want her to feel pain, I can see my vision going red, The wall is turning red as well, but I can tell it's not from my eyes. Suddenly I drop her, realizing what I've just done. "Oh... oh cod..." I mutter under my breath, the gravity of this situation finally taking hold of me. "I... I really just killed her, d-didn't I..." I mumble, before covering my eyes, starting to sob into them. Soon, I'm at my home, packing up a new change of clothes, a bunch of food, and a bunch of water, before quickly stuffing it all in a backpack. "I need to go, they're gonna find out soon, and.. and.." I quickly mutter, before quickly running out the front door, not bothering to lock it, and running into the wild.

After a few hours of non stop running, I can see the entrance of octo valley far in the distance, before my body collapses from exhaustion, having ran for hours straight in the middle of the night, it needed some rest. As I drift off into sleep, I don't think anything, as it's nearly instant.

"Hey, HEY! Wake up, sleepyhead!" A mysterious voice calls out to me.

"5... 5 more minutes." I lazily respond still tired, and comfy under the covers.

"C'mon Derek, do you WANT to be late to work?" The voice responds, getting irritated.

"Alright Lucile, I'll get up." I respond.

"Great! Now you just have to get dressed and reporting for duty in 5 minutes!" Lucile happily responds, before I hear her skipping away.

"Oh carp!" I quickly shout, before hopping out of bed, changing into clothes, and running to work, barely clocking in on time.

"Hey Derek! Glad you made it on time." I hear Tyler call to me.

"Thanks Tyler, let's get to work, the OctoGiga mech should be complete soon." I respond, while going over to a stand, and grabbing a wrench, hammer, and toolbox.

"Yeah, it'll be-" "THIS IS NOT A DRILL. THERE IS AN INKLING INSIDE OF OCTO CANYON, ALL OCTOLINGS REPORT TO YOUR BATTLE STATIONS, IMMEDIATELY!" A voice blares out on the intercom.

'SIR YES SIR!" Rings out all around me, before everyone drops what they're doing. The soldiers run over to the octoshots, and run to the frontlines, while us engineers head to the control rooms, to try and stop their progress. When we look at the cameras, we see... "A KID! A LITERAL KID IS TEARING THROUGH OUR FORCES LIKE THEY'RE PAPER!" Our general shouts, in complete distress.

"D-Don't worry! We can make the platforms move!" I respond, before quickly pressing some buttons, causing multiple platforms to start moving, but it's too late, as the inkling has already reached the zapfish, grabbing it before super jumping out.

"Oh cod, they cleared it so fast, the elites got shredded instantly..." The General continues on, getting into a really bad mood, when suddenly...

"GAH!" I say out loud, having woken up during the middle of the day, evident from the sun shining bright in the sky. "So... Thirty..." I say, before taking out one of the bottles of water i stored and quickly chugging it down. "Well, today is a new day, let's hope I have more time to get as far away as possible before they realize what I've done...