Ryan followed Leo, rolling to cover up turf while Leo sprinted forward and started to climb the rope bridge thing to the opponent's gates. Ryan ran as fast as he could, the roller seeming to weigh as much as him.

Ryan heard a sploosh of ink bursting. A light focused in on his back. He dove onto the ground behind the wall of the ramp heading to the middle. His splatwatch read 'Leo has been splatted.' The charger still aimed at his spot, keeping him from moving.

"Frick!" Ryan quietly screamed.

Ashley spotted the light focusing in on Ryan's position. What to do? What to do?! She screamed in her head. Only a split second passed when the light almost snapped right towards her. The stream of ink shot and Ashley somersaulted away, her tentatek splattershot jabbing her inksac. In that roll Ashley spotted her special meter. Gotta charge it! She thought. Ashley bolted before the light could touch her. Ryan was peeking out as the E-liter shot back towards him.

Pointer finger squeezing the trigger, Ashley covered the ground. A ding occurred and her ink tank started to make what looked like flames. Activating her inkzooka took her by surprise, even though she'd used the tentatek twice already. The large portable ink cannon formed from her gun. She quickly spun to the charger and shot, hoping the skinny ink tornado would hit him. A large burst of ink came from his position and Ashley cheered.

Ryan looked at his sister cheering and gave her a thumbs up. She gave him two, dropping her weapon.

Meanwhile Minky had retreated and was running back to spawn. Purple ink was being spread out on their base, according to her watch. The two jet squelchers were spraying ink, back to back. Minky took a deep breath and charged them, doing her best to dodge their shots. She jumped behind an inflatable barrier as she noticed Leo respawning.

Leaping out, she tossed a splatbomb, getting both their attention. They split up, shots coming from both sides of her, the only way was back to middle.

Minky smiled as she called, "Look out behind you!"

They turned around as Leo took one out. The other focused him, completely forgetting about Minky. She ran up behind them and was quickly splatted.

"Nice!" Leo exclaimed to her.

"Figured they'd not notice you and you'd take 'em." Minky replied, her glasses gleaming in the sun.

"THE GATES ARE DOWN!" an electronic voice came from everywhere. The red door things fell down and gave them a path up.

"Shall we?" Leo asked.

"You don't need to ask," Minky said, seeming more and more confident.

They inked and swam up the gates and jumped down instead of walking on the rope bridge.

Ryan and Ashley heard the electronic voice as they sprinted up the ropes. Sticking together they pushed to the gates, splatting the splattershot pro who was just swimming up. Ryan noticed the E-liter making their way back up to a sniping perch.

Ashley saw him look, "I got him," she quickly said.

Ryan nodded as he jumped down with her and went right towards their middle, speeding up when he noticed two of the purple inklings respawning. At the ramp just going to the center where you could see the other person's side, he turned on his heels.

The squelchers smiled, thinking this would be an easy kill. Ryan smiled back, knowing he'd kick their butts. They charged him and he ran forward, jumping. Their slow fire didn't hit him and he landed, barely, in a tiny patch of lime green there. He raised his roller and swung it down on one them.

The roller seemed to slide right through the purple inkling, a bump almost unnoticeable. The other was taken aback by shock of the move. Ryan flicked his roller over the hesitating inkling. Ryan then went back to rolling for a few moments until the splattershot pro tried to fight him.

Ashley bolted straight past the gates, well slightly at an angle, to the large area that people liked to use inkstrikes on. Ashley stealthily walked up to the wall covered in purple ink. The charger was standing right on top, aiming at someone.

Pressing her sub weapon button, a suction bomb formed in her hand. Tossing the bomb, she smiled as the snipe turned back and saw it. Panicking, the charger slipped off the edge and ended up right in front of Ashley as lime green ink rained on him.

Ashley put her gun to his head but didn't shoot, "Why let you respawn and get an advantage again? I can just hold you here for the uh, about 20 seconds left."

The E-Liter user started to fumble to press his sub weapon button. Laughing, Ashley picked up the E-liter and placed it far out of his reach.

Leo was racing side by side with Minky down and back the large area. Their color was sprayed all over, almost no gaps of purple or wood left. While running forward Minky ducked and rolled to the right.

"Charger!" She screamed, warning Leo.

Leo saw the light appear on him. Almost reflexively, even though he'd never done it before, he activated his bubbler. The stream of ink propelled him back and his bubbler vanished. Leo saw the charger user turn around and fall. Looking on the map, he saw Ashley standing there with the sniper not moving, not splatted.

Shrugging it off, he ran forward, gesturing for Minky to follow him.

The last 15 seconds were uneventful. Ryan had kept the three purple inklings right next to their spawnpoint. He was too quick for them. Ashley walked out and looked at him, dragging the E-liter user by one hand and holding his E-liter with her other.

Ryan then saw Minky and Leo turn the corner and head towards him as the electronic voice then yelled, "Stop battling!"

Each inkling stopped and turned their head to the large screen, where Judd was padding up, two flags on his back, arrow shaped tail held high.

Everyone knew had won, it was obvious from the map. Judd waved his lime green flag and pointed his tail to the lime green spawn. The screen showed the percentages, Leo and his Friends 70.4% and the opponents 16.8%.

Ashley handed the charger back to the inkling, who snatched it from her like a baby with cookies. The other three yelled in rage.

At the lobby the other team came up to them.

"Cheaters!" One of the squelchers yelled.

"How did newbies win?!" The leader yelled slash asked.

"You can't hold an inkling hostage!" The E-liter screeched.

"There's no rule against it," The turf war match secretary said plainly, "We have no rules against that, just no one's been crazy enough to try it.

"That's my sister for ya. Crazy and insane," Ryan replied, putting his arm on her shoulders.

"We know you cheated, we just don't know how," the other squelcher stated.

"Beginner's luck is cheating?" Leo asked sarcastically.

The leader, barely containing his rage now, beckoned for his team to leave.

As they walked out Ashley spoke, "I could use a bite to eat. That was a long match."

"It was three minutes," Minky stated, not understanding what she meant.

"It felt long. Like hours, so much happening so quickly," Leo inputted.

"So food?" Ryan asked as his stomach grumbled.

They all chuckled and went to McSquidalds.

Thanks for reading. I wanted to get this out before my Christmas break. I write this in my study hall so there won't be an update for a while. Happy holidays, or have had happy holidays (I don't know the dates of all the holidays.)