A/N: There's a couple of things I want to clarify here real quick. Firstly, wronguser7, I know these first two chapters are pretty short and simple, just recently realized that after uploading them, don't know how long it really is till you finish :/. These first couple of chapters are more of getting to see the different agents' personalities or something, they aren't fully fleshed out yet, I don't want them to end up being too flat. Secondly, if you haven't noticed, this is the first fanfic I've ever written, as well as my first time uploading to . Finding my way around was hard at first, but eventually, I got the hang of it. Thirdly, if I get anything wrong at all (characters, places, mechanics, etc.), please don't beat me up over it. It's been a looooong time since I've ever come in contact with anything related to Splatoon, so I'm bound to be a little rusty or something idk. Also wronguser7, about the genre, yeah this was supposed to be an action/comedy, found humor but couldn't find action or anything like that so I went with adventure, might change that depending on where the story heads. Anyways, I'm actually working on yet another story atm, it's a one-shot, so that might end up being published before the next chapter of this story. Anyways, hope nothing bad happens? Idk, bye for now...ugh bad a/n. And crafteddinosaur778, you kinda right...
It was currently rainy and stormy outside of the city. No, more like strong gusts of wind and pummeling downpours of rain, the latter of which would prove fatal to anyone who tried to step foot out in the storm. Wait a minute, what city are we talking about? And why exactly was this storm hazardous for its inhabitants?
To answer that, we'll have to travel back in time...err...actually, more like travel forward in time? About +12,000 years ahead, to be exact. Fast forward through a worldwide nuclear war that ended with Antarctica melting entirely and humans becoming extinct due to rising sea levels, and a Mollusk uprising where sea creatures evolved and became anthropomorphic.
As for the city, it's ingeniously called Inkopolis, which is rife with cephalopods, crustaceans, echinoidea, and other marine life, save for two cats, Judd and Lil' Judd, who are-by a miracle called cryogenic freezing- the only living mammals on earth. The population is mostly overrun by Inklings, squids that can turn from humanoid to cephalopod forms of themselves.
One particular Inkling, by the name of Hisui, or better known as Agent 3, was napping in her bed in her apartment home alone. She usually neglected her hygiene habits, hence why she always stunk something fierce. Her uncle was nowhere to be seen for the seventh time this week, not that she cared anyways, being left home unattended meant time for fridge raids and pulling all-nighters playing video games. Somehow her uncle never noticed when the fridge was getting low on food and drinks, he just simply restocked it and didn't question it.
Hisui was suddenly woken from her slumber when a loud thud sounded from the other side of the wall, slightly rattling her bed. Her eyelids blinked open, and a pair of jade green irises glared up at the ceiling. Leaping out from under the covers from squid to humanoid form, she approached the wall and put a pointy ear against it to listen for any noise.
The neighbors were up to their usual antics again, whatever they were doing, Hisui believed none of the noise was necessary, and she was right, because nobody should be up at 3 in the morning making a ruckus, should they? Besides, what could they possibly be doing that required them to be this late?
Irritated that her catnap was cut short, she decided to give the neighbors a visit and investigate. Garbed in her usual attire-a Zekko hoodie, jogging headband, and lime Hi-Horses-she grabbed an umbrella and took a brisk walk out the front door of her apartment and next door to the neighbors'. With a glare still on her face, she raised her fist and knocked on the door, no answer. She banged harder on the door this time, still nothing. Before she was able to ready herself to kick the door in, it creaked open, and a short and petite orangish-purple urchin peered his head out.
"And who you would be...?"
"Mildly annoyed, thanks for asking." Three retorted.
"I asked 'who', not 'what'."
"I'm just the neighbor next door who got woke up by your stupid wall-thumping. Seriously, what is your problem dude?"
"What's my problem? What's your problem? I'm rearranging furniture in my living room, geez."
"Ah, the problem. The problem is that you've been making this noise every night, for five months now. There's no way in shell it'd take you that long to move some chairs around."
She posited that the urchin was lying to her face, since from craning over his shoulder, she could see that the living room wall was not actually positioned next to her bedroom, so she shoved him out of the doorway and walked into the room so she could see what was really going on.
"Ow! Hey, get out of my house or I'll call the police! You're basically breaking and entering my-"
"-Can it, thorn-head! You're a terrible liar, want to know how I know? First off, the living room wall isn't next to my bedroom wall, and second off, the room that is next to it is the laundry room. A-ha! The source of all the noise is coming from the washer. Fix your dumb washer or I'll break it."
"Thorn-head, whaa? I can't pay to have my washer fixed, you know how it is, things are way too expensive these days."
"Then I guess I'm gonna have to start breaking it then." The washer emitted an unbearable sound, similar to a dying duck, which quickly vexed Three even more than she was. Gripping her closed umbrella firmly in her hands, she began whacking it against the washer until it left a dent. The urchin stood in terror and disbelief, but did nothing physically to stop her since she had overpowered him coming through the doorway. He did however pull his phone out, probably to call the cops, so Hisui made a mad break for the door and flew back to her apartment.
Hisui flopped back on her bed in squid form, relieved of the annoying sound of the neighbor's malfunctioning washing machine. It had driven her nuts for a long time now, she would finally be able to get some peace and quiet, maybe even get a few hours of much-needed sleep.
Before she went to sleep, she had texted her Octoling friend Eight about the noisy washing machine and how she literally went into her neighbor's house and broke it. He replied with expected disappointment but little bit of amusement too.
Her stomach started growling however, and she soon grew bored from being idle. Trudging downstairs into the kitchen, she searched the fridge for a snack, only to find it unsurprisingly bare. She growled and went back to bed, forgetting that earlier she ensued a fridge raid on all junk food she could find. Plopping back on her bed as a squid, she seriously contemplated on how she would survive the night without her favorite snacks, when she began to fall asleep, only to be woken back up by the sound of her phone vibrating and a 'ding' sound, maybe she received a text?
Hisui paid no mind to it though, albeit a bit stirred, she quickly fell right back to sleep, deciding that sleep was more important at this time of night than checking a phone.
