A/U – Good freakin' gracious, Splatoon has so many complicated Stages, geez! I know I always get the maps wrong, but, damn, this might be the most complicated map I've ever tried to write yet.

It has way too many details in the Stage for me to write, like the fans and how they work, the areas they have to go through before they could even get to the centre of the Stage, and so many more miscellaneous details here and there. Let's go down to the path of "simplifying a map" and make this a map that goes through a beta stage before going through the final phase, with less fans, and a much wider centre. (seriously, who designs and makes a game studio like Ancho-V Games that has so many contraptions and elevated structures?)

Alright, I won't keep you any longer, and I'll let you read the chapter; Enjoy!

Chapter 7– Against the Rising Tides Pt. 2 (In the Eye of the Storm)

Oh, well, here we go…

I have to fight my own cousin, and also my friends for the second time ever…

This is gonna be fun…

…

I think…

A few seconds in, shite has hit the fan quickly when both teams reached the centre of the stage…

Kthulhu, his bandana up, eyes open, and hood up, has reached the centre with Raei, and they are already met with a big pool of Blue ink, two snipers from the Rising Tsunami stationed to a wall that can be accessible through the platforms powered by propeller lifts, and their ink haven't even touched any spec of the centre. They are certainly quick with inking turf. Raei started to brush his way to take the opposing enemies ink, but he bumped into something when he is about to brush his way into the Blue ink, and suddenly, the Roller of the Rising Tsunami, Rodhann, came out from the ink, right where Raei bumped into something.

The time he came out, his roller also formulated at the same time as Rodhann did, right below Raei's Inkbrush. Rodhann then swung his Roller horizontally upwards, with the Inkbrush along with it, making him vulnerable to being splatted by the Roller if he brings his roller down at him.

But Kthulhu has pretty quick reaction time, as before he could raise the Roller high enough, he sprints to Raei and pushed him out of the way before Rodhann could bring it down. The time he pushed him away from the Roller's range, Rodhann is about to bring down his roller at Kthulhu. Before he gets splatted, he quickly raises his Custom Range Blaster to protect himself.

He swung his Roller down at Kthulhu's Custom Range Blaster, successfully blocked the attack. But the swing is so strong, this made Kthulhu's left knee to hit the Orange Ink Raei has made with his Inkbrush. Damn, this Blaster is not for blocking big weapons, If he only had his Carbon Roller, he could splat this guy in a flash.

"Now that's what I call a bad decision, dumb bloke!" Rodhoann arrogantly mocked Kthulhu, as he puts more force onto his roller, pushing him down even more, to the point that he is forced to use his right arm for support, making it more difficult to hold his ground (literally).

But his mouth can still spit out words with no difficulty, "Better be careful what are you saying there." He warned as he struggles to block the Roller.

"Oh yeah? Tell that to the floor!" Rodhann then puts more force to his Roller once again, making it more difficult to hold back that damn Roller. If he continues to block it, he'll be splatted for sure…

… that is, until he already formed a way to break away from this hold…

"Then better look at the floor," Kthulhu dared, which Rodhann did look down at the floor, and his eyes widened by the sight; a Splat Bomb. This forces him to back off from Kthulhu, breaking him free from Rodhann's Roller. After broke free, he quickly grabs the trigger of his Range Blaster and in a flash, he aims it directly at the vulnerable Rodhann. He pushed the trigger of the Range Blaster, firing a guaranteed shot to Rodhann, and at the same time, the Splat Bomb exploded that did only a slight amount of damage to Rodhann, but soon turned to a puddle of Orange ink when the Range Blaster shot lands a hit on his stomach.

With Rodhann out of the way, he glances at Raei, who is now struggling to keep his ground as well as he is barely dodging sniper shots from both Tara and Yeran, all while attempting to get close to them. It's not going so well, though.

Kthulhu took this opportunity to take advantage of their focus on him and advance to the sniper. He takes aim to their direction and fired a Blaster shot, and swims through the created ink path. With the help of Ninja Squid, he goes through an entire line without getting detected by both snipers.

…an entire line…

As soon as he resurfaced to fire another Blaster shot towards the snipers, Yeran eyes are staring towards Kthulhu, and she started to redirect her aim to Kthulhu, her charger is fully charged. Well so much for being sneaky… He quickly turned to his squid form and strafes to the right to dodge the initial shot from Yeran's charger. He quickly resurfaced and quickly fired Blaster shot to their direction mid transformation, and quickly swam through it before Yeran could charge another shot.

Halfway through the third line he made, Yeran has a fully charged shot ready, and is about to fire at him, trying to predict where he is in the path he made. He then saw the laser is pointing in front of him, near the end of the path. I think it's time for me to jump, If he doesn't, he'll be eating that shot right in the face.

Before the laser points at him, he returned to his Inkling form and mid-transformation, he 360 jumped, and Yeran fired a fully charged shot at him a few milliseconds late, barely dodging it as she shoots him right below his feet. The time that he did a 360 spin and before he lands to the small puddle of Blue ink Yeran had left, his Blaster aims to the right, and quickly fired a Blaster shot at the same direction, creating another line of ink path. He transformed into is squid form before his feet touches his team ink.

As he completely submerged into his team's ink, he stayed still, hoping to fool Yeran from thinking that he went to the direction he made an ink path. It worked, as she started to aim to the ink path he made. Though, her aim averted back to Raei, who also barely dodged Yeran's charged shot. This guy's nimble with the Inkbrush, can survive even when gang up upon by two snipers.

After she fired the charged shot that was supposed to be for him, he was about to proceed towards the snipers again, until he saw a Splat Bomb landed right in front of him. Quickly as he can he swam away through the untouched ink path. As it exploded a second after it land, the ink path he swam through turned into a small puddle of Orange ink. Probably should've swam back instead of going to the ink path, but then again, the ink path behind him before he swam through the fresh ink path is cut off with Blue ink. Verique is that smart, and he was undetected by Trix when he got here… Screw you, Verique, you sneaky nerd…

As he resurfaced, Verique, who threw the splat bomb, started shooting at him. Before the ink started to hit him, he threw a Splat Bomb down to his feet, and shoots out a Blaster shot, not at the nerd, but at the incoming ink shots. The Blaster shot is powerful enough to absorb and deflect the Squelcher shots; all while damaging Verique for a little bit. He jumped to the sea of Blue ink, inside the blast radius of his Splat Bomb, and landed right after it exploded.

Verique continued to fire shots at him, and he tries to dodge them while trying to maneuvre around the ever so shrinking puddle of Orange ink, but soon escapes the puddle by creating another ink path, but this time, towards Raei, and swims through it. He needs some space to move on if he has to splat Verique. Raei notices this as he blocks an incoming shot with his Inkbrush, having covered his path with Orange ink, decides to assist Kthulhu by switching places with him, and recklessly charges to him, all while impressively dodging and blocking Verique's Squelcher shots, anime and samurai style. He really is the disciple of Ryoko, and she would be proud of him if she ever saw this.

In no time, he reached Verique, and thrusts his Inkbrush at Verique, which missed as Verique sidestepped to his left, but Raei successfully landed a hit as he swings his Inkbrush, a full ninety degree swing at Verique, damaging him with the Orange ink that flung off from his Inkbrush, "You thought you're slick dodging that, huh?! Come here and let me smack you with my Inkbrush Bob Ross style!"

"Oh cod, not 'ze Bob Ross Brush Smack Style! Scheisse!" Verique cussed, as he attempts to kite Raei while trying to back away from him, who seems to be genuinely scared. Apparently the 'Bob Brush Smack Style' is something to fear of when Raei's using an Inkbrush. Better note that…

He has no time to note anything though, as he is immediately getting fired upon by... Yeran? And he felt an aura that is looming to him. He has no time to think about it either, as he dodged a fully charge shot from Yeran by hopping sideways to his right. He dodged it, but he noticed another threat near him; a Suction Bomb placed right by where he landed.

He immediately sprints and fires a Blaster shot towards Yeran and submerges in the path and swam far away from the Suction Bomb. As he resurface, Yeran's Charger laser is pointing right in front of his that made him instinctively and quickly raises his Blaster up to the laser. She fired the shot, and he successfully blocks it, but not without getting pushed back and get a little damage from the ink that flew off from the impact and went through his Blaster. Even worse, he felt an aura that is right beside his left side. He glances to his left, and before he knows it, there is a Kraken that is lunging at him with murderous intent on their eyes.

Tangina, si Tarã! He cussed in his mind as the Kraken is about ram him, bracing for impact.

...that is until a big bubble formed on him, pushing him back instead.

He is pushed back for a bit and into the Rising Tsunami's ink. He looks up, and he saw Raei is by the left side of the Kraken who also has a Bubbler active in him, and Verique's nowhere to be seen. Maybe he got Bob Brushed to oblivion by Raei. Nice.

Kthulhu wasted no more time, as soon as he stopped getting pushed back, he started to create his path to Yeran, who will be a major threat if ignored. Raei then was pushed back by the Kraken Tarã and started to chase Kthulhu. After a few dodges from Yeran's Charger, his Bubble is about run out, and Kraken Tarã is just a few feet away from him. He decides to take her as far as possible from Yeran by doing something he have yet done before.

As Kraken Tarã got closer to him, he fires a shot at her, which only push her back a little, of course, but that is not what he is about to do. He now has a line of path to run on and Kraken Tarã is on that path. As she was about to swim through the path, Kthulhu sprints to Kraken Tarã, while running with the same speed when he was going to Yeran without any hesitation. This made Kraken Tarã to try and lunge at him again to push him back, but the speed he got gives him strength, and he proceeds to ram Kraken Tarã as soon as she jumps, bumping onto her belly instead of her head. It pushes Kthulhu a little, but the force he got from his speed is much more powerful than her Kraken strength, pushing both back, but Kraken Tarã was pushed back further from him, making her roll a few feet away from both Kthulhu and Yeran.

"Tarã!" Yeran shouted her name, shocked by the sight of her friend getting knocked away. She then glared at Kthulhu, not knowing it was him, and started aiming her charger at him, charging her shot.

His bubbler dissipated half a second later. What a very bad time for the bubbler to run out. He acted quickly, though, as the bubbler runs out he fires out another shot of his Custom Range Blaster diagonally to Yeran. He was about to jump to the path he created, but immediately pulls back as he correctly predicts Yeran as she shoots to the very start of the line, faking her. That is when he jumps and dives in to his own ink.

He is one more Blaster shot near Yeran's platform, as he resurfaced halfway through the ink path he created one more ink path that will lead to Yeran, barely missing another shot from Yeran, and he swam through it.

An act of desperation, Yeran takes out and throws a Sprinkler in the middle of the line Kthulhu created and she quickly submerge to refill ink. The Sprinkler did stall him, albeit just for a second, as he just shoot it with his Custom Range Blaster and it immediately breaks to pieces. With that out of the way, he proceeds to climb up the platform Yeran is standing on by shooting a Blaster shot vertically up the wall, which may or may not have damaged Yeran a little bit, and swims up the path.

As he got to the top of the platform, he saw Yeran has resurfaced with a Killer Wail on her hand, aimed for him. She's unintentionally giving him bad memories of a certain Private Match he wished he couldn't remember anymore. She then acticates it on Kthulhu, he is about to get splatted by the sounds of a screeching guitar riffs.

Luckily, his tentacle hair has been boiling up, his Special, Kraken, is now ready. Right before the Killer has been fired, he unleashed Krakenthulhu once again, and it negated the damage the Killer Wail. But he got continuously pushed back by the powerful sound waves of the Killer Wail, wasting at least two and a half seconds of Kraken time, but manages to get near her, albeit rather slowly. After the sound waves dissipate, Krakenthulhu lunges at Yeran, ready to splat.

With no other options viable to her advantage, she jumped down from the grate and to the centre on her squid form, narrowly dodging Krakenthulhu's attack. Damn, she really got the luck of the Lochish on her side...

But she can't escape from the Krakenthulhu, as soon as she landed at the centre, he also jumps down, but this time, he jumped a few feet away from her, but still caught her in his Kraken radius. As soon as he landed, he lunged at Yeran, who has nowhere to run, and he rammed his spinning head against Yeran, splatting her. And please, reader, don't take this out of context, as we have no intention on what body part he just hits, and I hope for the love cod don't think anything dirty about the way Krakenthulhu splat Yeran.

Not anymore, though, He then transforms back to his Inkling form, and then turned around to face his cousin. But the only he faced is a charged shot right into his left temple, splatting him as well.

Guess luck is not on his side either...

Damn, that was bad, I can still feel the smacks of his damn Inkbrush slapping my cheeks as I rub my left hand to my cheek. I hated that move, Raei always do that on me so that he could make fun of me whenever I got go against him in a Turf War.

Also, that Zhed... he looks rather familiar. Not by the looks of course, he has his hood on with a bandana on his face, but by the way he moves. It reminds of Kthulhu whenever he does those things.

Or maybe he is Kthulhu... I can't say for sure... I just have to observe a little bit more for now.

Ahh, what am I thinking? If I went into deep thought now, we'll certainly lose this battle. So before I go too deep into thinking, I shook my head and I begin to swim back to the splattlefield in an attempt to assist my captain and my comrades in this fight.

I'll deduce with Yeran later...

Kthulhu respawns after five seconds after getting splatted by Tarã, he is rubbing his left temple, where he got shot by Tarã's fully charged Squiffer shot. That freakin' hurt...

There he also meet up with Raei, who seem to got splatted as well, "You too?"

"Yeah, she got me," Raei said, as he shook his head to remove any excess ink that is left on him, "She knows how to take care of herself rather well. What happened to you?"

"Shot my head back to spawn, that's what happened."

"That's unusual for you to get splatted within the first minute."

"You couldn't even last thirty seconds."

"'Shaddap! Let's go before your mouth spits too many fire!" And there, the two bros swam their way to the centre, all while trying to ink turf that is left on their area. This will truly be a tough battle Kthulhu has to fight. Not on the level of The Duel, but it is around that level of difficulty, because he has to try not get his cover blown, and hope that they don't find out it was him, and nobody wants Tarã to break down in the middle of a Turf War Match. He can only hope that his friends are not as smart he think they are.

They were about to go to the centre, until Kthulhu stops for a moment and takes a look to his right, and he saw Rodhann coming in with his Roller down taking turf.

"Raei, we have company," He warned him, as he readies to fight Rodhann for the second time.

"Our sniper's in trouble too!" Raei called out as he looks at the direction where their sniper is positioned. Trix is getting ganged upon by Tarã and Verique, putting her in a tight spot and is forced to retreat.

Looks like they had to split, "You'll take care of Rodhann, I'll assist our sniper. You have a powerful inking tool, so after you splat him, take whatever turf too inked earlier." This way, they could multitask and take off some load off from their shoulders and to lessen the pressure for Kthulhu's team.

"Alright, Cap'n, good luck out there," He complied as he brushes his way to Rodhann. He better splat him, or things will go down rock bottom. Kthulhu proceeds to swim towards Trix as fast as he can, he needs her if he wants to win this match.

He is about to reach her as he goes up the ramp, but the sniper laser from Tarã is pointing at her that looks like a fully charged shot, ready to splat her. Nope, not gonna happen now, She's a vital part of this team, everyone is, but she is the second most important to be kept unharmed for long. So, to prevent her from being splatted by Tarã, he takes out a Splat Bomb, and throws it like a baseball towards the laser. Tarã then released her fully charged Squiffer shot...

...it was successfully blocked by Kthulhu's Splat Bomb!

But not without getting a little damaged by some of that flew off after the impact that hit the Splat Bomb. So much for keeping her unharmed… The Splat Bomb, due to the power of the impact from the fully charged shot, it changed trajectory and it bounces of the elevated platform that is similar to Yeran's and exploded that almost hit both Tarã and Verique, but not without backing off and flinch, and also take some damage.

Trix then glances towards Kthulhu with a face of relief, "Kth-" Shet! Kthulhu's hearts skipped three beats and almost choked when she is about to call out his name, in front of freakin' Verique, "Z-Zhed! You got here in time!" Phew… so close… He could feel a single sweat slithers down on his temple. If she ever calls out his name so loudly, he would've inked his pants by now, "Hurry, they won't be stunned for long!"

Kthulhu then goes by her side as he confronts both fighters, and whispered to her, "Geez, be careful with your words."

"I'm sorry, can't help but felt relieved you came in time," She whispers back, before pointing her E-Liter at Tarã, who just recovered and also pointed her weapon at Trix.

Almost at the same time, both fire their respective Chargers, and both shots hit each other instead of the snipers. Almost at the same time, Kthulhu and Verique charged into combat against each other, with both are on par with each other despite the former has a range advantage against the latter. They are all on par with each other, until someone from Kthulhu's team fired an Inkstrike at them, making both of them back off from Kthulhu and Trix, and Super Jumped to Trix, and puts a Splash Wall in between both her and on the Inkstrike's targeted location while Trix is refilling, and started to rain down ink at her, forcing Tarã to retreat back to their side of the centre.

This also made Verique to retreat, as he will be overwhelmed by Kthulhu's team after that Inkstrike explosion. Kthulhu didn't bother chasing Verique, and runs behind the Splash Wall, and started to refill. Now both teams are in their perspective side of the centre, both teams stopped.

"Good timing to arrive, Mika. What happened to Raei?" Kthulhu asks Mika as he refills.

"He's on his way; we splatted Rodh and he'll be sneaking up on them," Mika answered as she prepares her Heavy Splatling, "We need another plan, K- Zhed, if we continue this plan, this will get both teams nowhere."

"Oh, I have to disagree with you, Mika," Trix reemerged and said, "They are freakin' OP. If we continue to do this, they'll just wash us away to the shore of our spawn point."

"That's why we need another plan," Mika then turns to Kthulhu, "Any ideas?"

Kthulhu sadly shook his head, "None at the moment, we still need to improvise. It's hard because a few moments of stop, and there will be a wave of blue ink coming towards us."

"Well, we stopped and they stopped as well, so we have to think about something right now," Mika points out, as he saw Tarã and Verique is also talking to each other, hopefully not about Kthulhu, and Yeran just arrived who also joined them. They might be planning out for something.

Even if they stop and the Rising Tsunami lets them by the doing the same thing, Kthulhu couldn't think of any plan to break through their thick defense. If Tarã turned out to what Kthulhu thought she have been, they won't be able to formulate any fast plans, and might as well improvise again till the next minute. This is one of the only times that Kthulhu feels stumped creating any more plans, as his team doesn't have the greatest weapon line up for this kind of match; an all well-rounded weapon line-up against a defensive and assassin type one.

Crap, this is not going well for us, Yeah, no shite, Sherlock. If this keeps going, they'll be washed over to the shore like beached whales, like what Trix said earlier.

His train of thoughts was once again derailed when he saw Verique used Echolocator, his Special, and one of the black, spirit-like squid things goes to through the other elevated pathway that leads to the centre. Takte, they detected Raei! So much for being sneaky, too…

Yeran's lips formed a mischievous grin, as she points her Charger up to the elevated pathway where Raei comes out. She fired one fully charged shot, but her quick change of facial expression means that she either missed or her shot got blocked. He can't tell either way, but a second later, he came out of the elevated pathway, with his war face on, and he long jumped out of said pathway with a war cry, long and far enough to reach the three members of the Rising Tsunami.

"Ah, screw 'zis! I ain't gonna get Bob Brushed again!" Verique immediately and quickly backs off from the his range, scared that he might get repeatedly smacked on the face by a rampaging Bob Ross wannabe coming through and leave destruction on their wake.

Tarã tried to shoot him midair, but Raei did a Kthulhu and he does a spins attack with his Inkbrush, blocking the incoming shot, all while Orange ink flew off from his Inkbrush all over the place, inking the Rising Tsunami's turf with ease. It comes to their attention that they'll have to retreat before they get Bob Brushed or got hit by a random stray ink, and soon they get out of his radius before he could land, but even if they get out of his radius, they still got some Orange ink stuck in their body, and Raei immediately charged the nearest target, a.k.a. Tarã, and tries to smack her with the Inkbrush, all while trying to dodge incoming fire from both, and freaking succeed! Damn, I, the narrator, already said it again, but he truly is the disciple of Ryoko!

"Ok, now we have a plan; go all out," Kthulhu finally formulated a plan, "You two help out Raei, I'll take care of Verique."

Both nodded, as Mika started to charge up her Heavy Splatling and released it after a second later, releasing a barrage of ink at the Rising Tsunami' turf. Trix also charges her E-Liter and points it at Yeran, who just now glanced at Mika, and is about to charge a shot from her Charger and points it at Mika. Kthulhu is now charging to Verique who hasn't noticed him yet, but as soon as he is halfway, he finally noticed and points his Dual Squelcher at Kthulhu.

And there, the struggle has truly begun for both of the teams, as both started to fight an intense tug of war in an attempt to gain domination against each other.

Earlier

Through Tarã's Eyes

Looks like they stopped attacking us; we better prep up before they could attack, "Come here Verique, let's see what we can do," I called out to teammate and friend over to me.

"Have any plans in mind, Tarã?" He asked, while glancing at our opponents, who also refilling their ink in their Orange Ink, "If we continue doing 'zis, it will get us to nowhere, Tarã. Raei and Mika pretty much knows what we do, and they are now stranding us here in 'ze centre."

"I noticed, pretty much this strat we've been doing for at least two months now isn't working as it used to be," This is have been happening most of the time to us, but never knew that we will get stuck like this. They are pretty relentless I gotta say, especially that Zhed dude, he just pushed me off while I was on Kraken Mode like it was nothing. I have underestimated him when I was calculating their threat levels, and I have to pay the price by getting ourselves locked onto the centre without much progress.

Now, it's safe to say that he'll be in the second highest threat level; he's pretty agile, probably has a pretty good aim with that Range Blaster he got, and he works surprisingly well with Raei. Together they are the most dangerous duo that could set their feet in Turf Wars.

It's time to change up the strats; we can't afford to get stuck like this with a fifty-fifty chance of winning, and if they are trying to stall us, we have to be as relentless as we could get, "Alright, let's switch it up; we will go all-out offensive," On cue, Yeran Super Jumped to us, joining in.

"What happened? Why aren't they attacking?" Yeran wondered as he glances back and forth from our opponents to us, "Did I miss something?"

"Unless you mean by targets, no, you haven't missed anything yet," Verique answered as he goes to his phone and quickly texts Rodhann about the change of plans.

"You did miss one thing," I said as I raise up my Squiffer, "Change of plans, we'll go all out on them. If we just go defensive, we would be stuck in the same position as before. We can't let that happen and then lose at a game of fifty-fifty."

"That's unlike you; can't Rodhann do the job?"

"No, we have two friends in the opponent's team, and they know what we do and what we can do, so we have to change up so that it would be difficult for them to keep up with us. And besides, that Zhed guy over there is pretty damn agile and quick, and he pretty much knows what he's doing despite being only B+, and he may beat us even when he's alone. If he was ever paired with Raei, they can be an unstoppable force to reckon with, so we have to change up, and fight back with all our might." We are on a win streak, and we can't afford to break that streak by losing a stale, fifty-fifty win/lose chance match. Sticking to the same plan may only destroy us, so changing up some plans will be at utmost necessary in this kind of situation.

"Well, alright then," Yeran nodded, as she also prepares her Charger, "Guess we have no other choice. And also," She then glances to Verique, who just puts his phone to his pocket, and fires his Dual Squelcher at a random Orange ink puddle, which made his tentacle hair light up and flow with bubbles, "Does that 'Zhed' character, the guy with the red hoodie, remind you of Kthulhu a little bit?" Cthulhu? Who's she talking about, beside the one from that come from the stories?

"I thought about it after I respawned, he does somewhat remind me of him," Verique said as he activates his Special, Echolocator. Who's this Cthulhu-guy, really? Someone must've nicknamed himself as the one monster from the stories so they can scare children in Turf War. I'll find who that is later, gotta focus on our match, I then noticed that one of the Echolocator Squids goes pass me and went onto the elevated platform. Well, well, look who's sneaking up there; though, it is a waste of Echolocator just to find one hidden squid. Then again, it's Raei that we just detected, and if he manages to surprise attack us, it would be a game over for us.

"Well, well, look who's hiding over there," I hear Yeran say, as a mischievous grin formed on her lips, and aims her Charger at the elevated platform where Raei will come out, hopeful that she can splat him. When he did come out from where they can access that platform, Yeran immediately fired a fully charged shot at him. The shot did land…

…it landed on his Inkbrush… merde…

Before she could even get the chance to charge up again, he started to charge towards us with a war cry, ready for battle, "Ah, screw 'zis! I ain't gonna get Bob Brushed again!" I hear Verique yelled in distress, as I started to charge up my Squiffer in an attempt to splat him. Before I could finish charging up, he long jumped down from the platform, high and long enough to reach us. Argh, I have to splat him quickly! As soon as he long jumped, I finished charging, and I immediately released it against Raei. It landed as well, but on his cod damn brush again as he does a spin attack midair!

Dios freakin' mio, how many stupid moves did Ryoko taught him!? I swear, his moves are getting ridiculously OP as time goes on!

We wasted no time, to back away from where he'll land. He continues spinning even after blocking that shot, maybe in hopes of- wait… shite, it inked so many of our turf! Screw you, Ryoko, for teaching Raei such ridiculously powerful moves like this! "Everyone, back away from him!" And we did, but I still got some Orange stuck on my cheeks and on my shoulders. And worse, right after he landed, he charges towards me and he thrusts his Inkbrush at me. Dammit, why am I always the first one to be targeted…?

I barely dodged it when I sidestepped to the side, and I used my Squiffer to try and block it again when Raei swings his Inkbrush at me. It is successfully, but it pushed me a little to the side, a few feet away from Yeran, who is now fighting against Mika and Trix. I also saw Zhed in the corner of my eye, who is now charging at Verique. Damn, they are thinking the same thing, huh? This going to be fun…

No time to think, it's time for action; before Raei could do anything else, I take out a Suction Bomb, and I quickly throw it to the ground, just below Raei, which backs him off from me. Now that I got some space, I quickly grabbed the trigger of my Squiffer and I begin charging a shot for Raei, who is still backing off from the explosion of my Suction Bomb. Right when my Squiffer got a half-charged shot stored in, I pointed my Squiffer at Raei, and I fired the charged at him. It's a hit in the shoulders, but I'm not done yet, because one more shot, and he'll be shot back to his spawn point. I pushed the trigger of my Squiffer and I immediately released it, firing a tap shot at him.

But it didn't land on him; it landed on a Splash Wall instead, saving him from getting splatted. Heh, Mika's reflexes are getting better than last time; I'm proud of you.

Raei then submerged to his team's ink, to refill and avoid fire behind that Splash Wall. Yeran, who manages to survive backs off beside me, "They are getting more relentless, Tarã! Without Rodhann, we will be back in our spawn points within a few seconds!"

"Don't worry, Yeran," I reassured her with a whispering, as I submerged for a few seconds to refill, "I already have a plan laid down. We'll stand our ground until Rodhann arrives, and we will begin counterattack."

Yeran nodded, standing ready to fight, "I hope you know what you're doing, Tarã."

"Just hold em off of us." On cue, I heard Verique's grunt as he got splatted by Zhed. Damn, poor amigo didn't stand a chance… Zhed then glances towards us with his face obscured with darkness, and he immediately sprints his way towards us, "… especially that guy."

"Then I'll-"

"No, we'll do it together!" I've seen her trying to splat him, but then it has gone the other way around, and I ain't gonna let that happen this time. I take out another Suction Bomb that almost depleted my Ink Tank at Zhed's left. As expected, he just diagonally takes a big step to the right, avoiding the Suction Bomb before it even starts cooking and explodes. "Now, Yeran!"

Yeran then puts a Sprinkler down a few feet away in front of him, and it started to do its work, while I change my position, as I move myself back to my spot. This briefly halts Zhed from sprinting, and before I can even let him run up to me again, I shot out a fully charged at him, making him dodge to his right. I'm not gonna let you near us, but I'll force you where I want you to be, Zhed. Yeran also moved away from him, while she tries and attempts to dodge the attacks that came from both Trix and Mika, all while trying to attack at the same time, shooting out half charged shots above the Splash Wall.

The Splash Wall also dissipated, which gives an opening for an attack. This give Yeran an opportunity to shoot Trix, who didn't take account on the range of her own weapon, and is a few feet away behind Mika, and is on her sights. Yeran charges her shot, but she is getting upon by both Mika and Trix to the point of her almost getting splatted, and Raei is about to swat her away with his Inkbrush. But she manages to dodge most of their shots, and completely finished charging a shot, immediately releasing it right before she got splatted by Raei's Inkbrush, splatting Trix.

"What the-?" I didn't let him finish his sentence as I immediately splatted him with my Squiffer's fast fully charged shot. I will not let my friend's hard-earned splat be waste…

Mika and Zhed are the only ones left, and I got immediately bombarded with ink by both of them. I dodged a fully charged barrage from Mika, and I swim away from my current position to find another one. Zhed is getting near, firing a direct Blaster Shot at me. I dodged it, but I got hit by its blast, so I fire back at him with a half charged shot. I missed, he dodged to his left, but this gives me some time to and swim back to my original position, after I got them where I wanted them. It's time for a little payback…

As I resurfaced, my tentacle hair is now glowing blue and flowing with bubbles, my Special is ready for the second time. This made both of them back away a little, aware and cautious of my Tentacle Hair. Heh, they shouldn't be worry about just me, because they'll be in double trouble…

On cue, Rodhann landed beside me, from the elevated platform that Raei come out of, with a big grin on his face, his tentacle hair is also flowing with bubbles, his Special, Kraken, is also ready to be released. Time to take the tides with me and wipe them out!

"Heck yeah, baby! Let's-" I throw myself to Rodhann and quickly turn into my squid form, so that Rodhann can firmly grab me, and is winding up to a discus throw on me to them, "-do this!" He shouted in the top of his lungs, and with all his strength, he threw me at Mika who then places a Splash Wall, turns into her squid form and is about to retreat. Oh no, you don't, Rodhann threw me powerful enough to catch up with her, and as soon as I was about to hit the Splash Wall, I turned to the Kraken once again, destroying the Splash Wall and went through it. As soon as I went through it, I landed right on top of Mika thanks to the speed of Rodhann's throw, splatting her.

Now that she's down, I started to quickly turn around to Zhed, who just dodged a jump attack from Kraken Rodhann, and he is focused on dodging his jump attacks. There's my queue to move, as I quickly slide my to him so that we can splat him. One jump attack later, his back is turned to me. Ohohoho, perfect angle for you to- wait, wait, wait, wait, no, no, ok, I'll stop, that would sound wrong real fast… Moving on!

After he turned his back on me, I immediately try to move- slide faster towards Zhed while he has his back still turned on me. A second of sliding later, Zhed is in my jump range, as well as he is on Rodhann's jump range. He made a bad mistake by turning around and faces me, as I jumped as soon as he turned around to me. At the same time, Rodhann also jumped in unison with me, and together, we rammed into Zhed and we splatwiched the freakin' merde out of him!

"Yeeaah! We did it!" Rodhann cheered as we bumped each other's bellies for few seconds, until we turn back to our Inkling forms, giving each other victorious high fives, "That is freakin' awesome!"

"I know right!? Hahah! Double Kraken Trouble has worked once again!" The success of the tactic puts a big smile on my face. Thank cod, it worked the fourth time me and Rodhann did this, and it is all worth it thanks to the Fresh Squiffer. I would certainly use this again some other time.

"Alright, Rodhann, victory may still be on our side, now let's paint this centre blue before they get back!" I commanded him, in which he happily complied as he threw a Squid Beakon somewhere to his right, and he started to paint the centre with his Krak-On Roller, with me assisting him with it. After all of that, we may have a chance after all; Zhed is difficult to deal with because of his agility and quick thinking, as well as his strength, he just knocked me off with a Bubbler by just ramming into me. Raei is almost the same as ever, but just with weird new techniques that Ryoko may have thought of and are ridiculously effective. This session is getting… quite interesting as time goes on. And Cthulhu? Hmm, I wonder who that is. Verique and Yeran seem to know him, so I might as well ask after this match.

Ahh, I shouldn't be thinking about that. For now, I have to focus on winning this match. If I did, it would be a great addition to my list of achievements in my TW Career History. I never felt so… hyped for battle, or anything that would describe how I felt during that battle after the first minutes of the match.

And let's see if all of us can keep this up for the rest of the match…

A/U – And that's a wrap! It's not over yet! This just the first half of the match between Kthulhu's/Zhed's team against the ever so powerful Rising Tsunami/Tsunamink, and both are in a stalement, until the Tsunamink's Leader and Captain, Tarã, has made a special move that has wiped out Kthulhu's/Zhed's remaining teammates, as well as himself. Do you think Kthulhu/Zhed can formulate a plan for an epic comeback? I don't know. But you'll find out soon in the next chapter!

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