Chapter 16

Cass's POV

I scrambled to get back to Sharp. What was wrong with those two? I could swear they'd come for the Zapfish and want nothing to do with me, but instead they came here exclusively to find me? Oh no. What do they want with me? What are they gonna do to me? Wait, Sharp!

"Sharp," I got his attention. "Would you be a dear and splat those agents?!"

Sharp nodded, grabbed his charger, and headed off.

Sarah's POV

More down, six Mini Zapfish, still no Cass.

"Hey br-" I was cut off by charger shots.

We quickly took cover.

"I'll ink the walls, you run up the ramps." Otis said. "He can only aim at one of us."

I nodded at him.

"Alright, when I say 'break'." He told me. "3-2-1, break!"

I put my brush down and made my way up the ramps while Otis splashed ink on the walls to swim up. As I was running, I could see the sniper was an Octoling boy (So they do exist…).He had black hair with blue rings and was wearing goggles with seaweed like Cass, but he was also wearing a black bandanna over his face that had a white smile on it. He also seemed to be a bit younger than Cass, around my age probably.

Before I knew it, he took aim at me. One of his shots grazed my cheek as I barely dodged the blast. He was good. He then turned around to fire on Otis, who was starting to get close.

*Splat*

Otis went flying back to the entrance. I was alone…

He then turned to face me. I went in a zig-zag kind of pattern, breaking it every now and then. I avoided getting Splatted, but several shots did hit me. I got behind cover again, needing to refill my ink tank.

A few moments later, I could see Otis swimming up in my ink trail. Alright, we have a-

*Splat*

Otis went flying back again. Clam-it!

I needed to think of something.

After a few more moments, Otis returned in his own trail this time. Maybe if-

*Splat*

Otis flew off again. He keeps getting splatted before he can get to me.

…As much as I hate to admit it, that gave me an idea…

I waited a little longer, watching Otis swim back. As he started to get close, I immediately got out of cover and ran up. I inked the wall beneath the sniper, and then turned to run up the ramps. He then took aim at me as I got hit in the shoulder, but kept running. He turned his attention away from me to splat Otis again when I got close enough to throw an Autobomb his way. He dodged the blast, but by the time he did, Otis made it up the wall to his level with me closing in.

He quickly inked a trail up the next incline, but I cut him off. Otis came in from behind when the sniper used a Splashdown. We both got knocked to the ground. He inked another trail past me. He transformed and swam up, but as soon as he got to me, I flipped over and grabbed him by the tentacle. He transformed back and tried aiming his charger at me, but I kicked his charger out of his hands and it flew down to the bottom of the stage, breaking.

He suddenly shot back up scrambled down the stage. He looked panicked. I looked over the side to see him struggling to put his charger back together to no avail. He must've really liked that weapon.

"Guess he's out of commission." Otis noted.

"Guess so." I agreed.

"And you'll be too soon enough!" We could hear Cass's voice.

We looked up to see her standing at the top with four other Octolings.

"Hey, Cass!" I called out. "We've been looking for ya!"

"I noticed!" She shot back. "And it's creepy!"

"Look, just come quietly and this won't have to get messy." Otis suggested.

"I'm not coming with you to Octo knows where to do Octo knows what!" She declined our offer. "Alright girls, whip 'em out!"

Then she and the other Octolings pulled out Sting Rays aimed right at us.

Cass's POV

Yes! I finally have them right where I want them. I aimed my Sting Ray right at their stupid faces.

"Fiiiiiirrrrreee!" I ordered as we all took widespread shots to cover more ground. I could see them throw some ink around before we fired, but like it would help them.

The entire floor they were standing on was covered in Sting Ray beams. We were too widespread for them to dodge to the sides and they couldn't go down the wall since they'd be hit anyway. Then, the Rays stopped firing. Not an Inkling in sight.

"Hah…Ha…hahaha" I started laughing "Fffahahahaha! I got you! I finally got you! Well, you know what they say; the simplest solution is the best one!"

"Captain?" One of the subordinates asked.

"What is it?" I wondered.

"I didn't see their ghosts fly off…" She said.

"…What?"

Update: I updated the Characters section of my profile. If you didn't know I had one either because you didn't check my profile or because I'm just now mentioning it, I have a Characters section on my profile. It has characters that appeared so far as well as some that will appear in the future.