Here's the third chapter! Not much to say here.
Chapter 3
"Ah crap, uh SMG4 what the hell are we going to do?" Toad began to freak out; his pupils are darting side to side like a ping pong ball. The gathered up Inklings are standing around them looking with various looks of curiosity and confusion on their faces, others are whispering among themselves. SMG4 has the same reaction as Toad "Um...don't get tentacled if you know what I mean"
"Where did they come from?" Asked a purple male Inkling
"Are they the new Inklings? Weird looking ones, especially that blocky thing" said a dark green one
"The one in red doesn't look very fresh…" commented a minty green female. This made Mario upset as he grunted angrily at that "That's-a because imma too sexy to be fresh!" he yelped
"M-Mario, can we-a go somewhere please?" Luigi was being creeped out by two female Inklings staring at him so he slowly backed away step by step.
"Hey there" Steve said, he didn't seem to mind them as he's pretty much used to weird things back in his blocky universe. He waved at them which they waved back.
Joey and his friends happened to be in the front of the crowd and they're very concern about Steve, they examined him from his blocky head to his feet to which to their surprise he doesn't seem to have feet but yet he can still walk around.
"Just what is he?" Joey wanted to know, looking at his friends who all shrugged. He then turned to his yellow colored friend "What about you Kevin? You're the smart one here"
"But that doesn't mean I know everything you know" he said
"Jessica?" Joey turned to the orange female
"No idea" she assured "Maybe a living square creature I guess"
Another female emerged from the crowd, this one has pink colored tentacles and wearing a leather biker outfit "Excuse me, sorry" she stood beside Kevin.
"Hey Becky, you arrived just in time where were you?" Joey wondered
Becky was catching her breath before she exhaled "I was in the Turf Wars, inking stuff up which we won by the way and I want to know why…." She trailed off as soon she set her eyes were set on Mario and his friends who were looking anxious. She was lost for words for a moment "Uhh, who the heck are those guys?"
"That's what we want to know" said Jessica
"I wonder where that blocky thing came from"
At this moment, Agent 3 just happened to step out of the lobby, she seems to be very happy and her face was filled with confidence and she was pumping her fists into the air "Yes! Another win for me and my team! A bunch of noobs trying to ink my turf? Yeah right! I-" She boasted, but then she noticed the crowd over in the plaza.
"Hmm why are the Inklings gathered around for? Someone showing off some fresh new clothes?" She began walking down the ramp, passing by a sleeping fat cat. Then she felt her headset buzzing, someone is calling her which she answered it by pressing a button.
"Hello?"
"Come in Agent 3, can you hear us?" It was Callie on the other line, sounding a bit paranoid
"Yes, I can hear you...what's going on with everyone gathered up in the plaza?" Agent 3 requested "And why do you sound paranoid? Did you secretly bought outfits with Judd on them without Marie knowing?"
"What? No... I uh...uh, we have some rather strange visitors in the plaza, Marie and I don't think they're from around here at all and they don't look like Inklings" Callie changed the subject rather quickly
"Okay then, what do they look like?"
"Uh one has a red hat, one blue, one green, one white with red dots and some odd square creature thing" Callie answered. Agent 3 knows exactly who she's talking about, but she hasn't told Callie or Marie about them yet.
"What do you want me to do then?"
"Just take them and meet us at Spkye's alleyway, the others won't follow you there" Callie suggested
"Ok then if you say so I'll take them to the alleyway, Agent 3 out" She hanged up and let out an exhale "Oh boy...they're gonna be mad at me for ditching them too" She muttered, then she walked towards to the crowd and began to squirm her way through. "Excuse me, coming through!" She kept repeating over and over "Outta the way!"
Mario and his friends are starting to get more impatient by the minute, especially Toad
"Great, looks like they're not going away anytime soon" Toad sighed of frustration, he turned to Mario standing next to him "Where the hell is that agent squid girl?"
"I don't-a know, she needs to get here fast!" He answered
"Luigi, don't worry they looks harmless" SMG4 tried to calm the shaking green plumber behind him, his legs were like noodles "Uh uh, no way" He said, cowering behind the blue plumber.
Agent 3 finally reached the heroes, they look pretty angry which made her felt nervous inside "How am I gonna break it to them? No matter, I'll do it later...gotta take em to Spkye's alleyway" She gathered some courage and went up to them, ended up being spotted by Mario first.
"Hey! Where were-a you?" Mario demanded "We're about to become-a fish food with these things trying to surround us!"
"You left us and now Luigi is freaking out except for Steve he's pretty chill with them" SMG4 said
"I know, I know I'm sorry about that but let me get you guys out of here first and then we can talk"
"Better have a good explanation then" Toad suggested
The Inkling looked around for a possible easy route through the crowd to the alleyway until she saw one part not covered by them "Bingo" she whispered, then looked back "Alright guys, follow me" she began to walk towards to the alleyway with Mario and his friends trailing behind. The Inklings gave them space by backing up to let them through.
"Where are we-a going?" Mario wondered
"We're going to that alleyway, just follow along" Agent 3 answered
SMG4 inspect the place they're going as they passed by a closed down cafe shop. It's a simple, short alleyway that goes around the shop with some graffiti on the walls and a vending machine "That alleyway seems sketchy" SMG4 said
"Yeah, it's where people usually get robbed or play really cheap bowling" Toad joked
"Or get attacked by a monster" Steve butted in
"Yeah that too"
The Inklings in the plaza broke off into different directions and went back to their business as they know to try to avoid that place. Joey and the gang still haven't moved from their position as they've been watching Agent 3 taking Mario and company to the alleyway. They still want to know who are the newcomers and get to know them better, Joey put his hand under his chin, pondering.
Jessica, Kevin and Becky knows what he's thinking "Well guys, guess we'll find out about them later" Kevin said, then he walked off to the lobby tower "C'mon, let's pawn some noobs in Turf War"
"Hmm might as well" Joey agreed and they all left to the lobby.
Spyke's Alleyway
"Would you-a mind telling why you left us?" Mario wondered, still following along "We almost got-a tentacled by those squid people!"
"Because I couldn't resist trying out a fresh batch of stages to battle in Turf War, they chose some good ones so I couldn't help it" Agent 3 answered. They kept on going until they finally reached the end of the alleyway which was pretty short, then suddenly Toad started to yell
"Woah! Dude, what the hell are you?!" he screamed when he lay sights on Spyke, who is the dealer in the alleyway, sitting on a rug.
"Ah it burns!" Mario shield his eyes
"Woah…"
Wearing some rather multi colored hippy-looking clothing, purple ring around his eye, a huge spiky urchin spikes on his head, large bracelets that hangs from his wrists and has pale tan-orange skin, he scrunched his face from Toad's yelling.
"Can you not do that 'mate?" He spoke in a British accent "Hurts my blimey ears"
"Oh my bad, but seriously what are you supposed to be?" Toad asked again
"I'm a sea urchin, can't ya tell?" Spyke said, pointing at his large spikes coming from his head. The way he has only one eye covered with his spiky hair reminds them of a certain princess from outer space.
"Wait, a living sea urchin?" Mario asked "How is that-a possible?" Spyke then glared at Agent 3 who smiled nervously "Ya mind tellin' me who they are?"
"Some weird beings I found when I was out taking a stroll, they were almost splatted by the Octolings" She explained
"Hmm I see… and I assume you're not here to re-roll your abilities again"
"Probably not, because last time you did it, all of my abilities ended up being the same and I don't have any more sea snails either"
"Aint that a bummer love?"
As they kept chatting up a storm, Toad was staring at the sea snails next to Spyke. On one side the colorful spiked shells are pretty much empty but when he looked at the other side, he was slightly disturbed…whatever creature is it are living in the shells, trembling and shivering.
The face and the color of it looks oddly similar to the mushrooms Mario and Luigi consume, especially the eyes, made Toad feel uncomfortable about it. He looked at the others who were too busy having a conservation with Agent 3 and Spyke, which gave him the perfect timing to leave.
"Well don't know about you guys, but I'm getting the hell outta here" Toad spun around and began to walk, but ended up bumping into someone and fell back to the ground
"Oof! What the?" Toad looked up and saw a familiar face, slanted eyes upwards, gold eyes, ninja pupils…
"Hey Callie, hey Marie" Agent 3 greeted
Toad shot up and went back to the group to get a better view, yep it's the Squid Sisters in the flesh.
"Hey" They both said
"So are these the guys you're talking about?" Agent 3 looked at the heroes who stood in silence
"Yep, see told ya Marie, they are the strange visitors" Callie said, looking at Marie who looked indifferent, crossing her arms. "Especially that square creature thing"
"Yeah I know they're standing right there" she spoke
"I'm guessing you two are the Squid Sisters huh?" SMG4 wondered "We saw your announcement thing on that big TV"
"Oh you saw that? This one over here wasn't following the script again…" Marie referred to Callie as she drifted her eyes on her
"I was too, I wanted to do something a little different" Callie said
"Opening up a spa on an oil rig?" Marie reminded her
Callie just shrugged her shoulders in response, Marie sighed quietly and looked at Mario and his crew. "Callie was right, they're pretty strange…" she thought, but she snapped out of it.
"Anyway, let's go to our studio so we can have a talk…this is not the spot to do so and hey Spyke" She looked at him
"Hey love" He responded
"Let's get a move on then shall we?" Callie said smirking before she spun and walking off
Squid Sister's Studio
Within a couple of minutes, The Mario bros, Toad, SMG4 and Steve are in Callie's and Marie's studio sitting in chairs while Callie and Marie sat in their usual spots. Agent 3 went back to continue battling in the Turf War.
The heroes all looked around, the studio seems quite small, there's only a table and chair where the Sisters are sitting, the floor and walls are decorated with arrows going in opposite directions, some camera equipment and a large TV hanging from the ceiling and their logo on the glass window created purple and lime green colored light as it went through. "This place seems cozy" SMG4 spoke "It's like one of the small rooms back in Peach's castle except bigger"
"I remember visiting a cave this size before" Steve said
"It's quite-a nice place got you here" Luigi complimented
"Thanks" Marie welcomed him "We had this place for quite a while…but right now since you guys are here, who are you and where did you guys come from?"
"Yeah, we have never seen any beings like you before" Callie said
SMG4 was about to speak but Mario went first "We came from-a land of spaghetti that has nothing but spaghetti, I own a castle and these nitwits are my personal chefs"
The rest looked at him like he's out of his mind. "Land of spaghetti Mario? What are you retarded?" Toad asked
"You guys came from a land filled with spaghetti?" Marie scratched her head with confusion
"No, we did not…we came from a kingdom called the Mushroom Kingdom" said SMG4
This perked up the Sisters, starting to gain their interest "Mushroom Kingdom? We never heard of that place" Callie admitted
"Except for Steve over there, he came from a blocky universe" the blue plumber pointed at the cubed human
"Oh, the Mushroom Kingdom is an awesome place! We go go-kart racing, play sports, and we go partying too!" Toad exclaimed "But then again, it gets really boring when's there nothing to do"
"Partying huh? So do we" Marie assumed
"Yeah what he said, it's pretty much our universe but we didn't mean to come here though" SMG4 continued
"How come?" Callie wondered, as she crossed her arms and putting it on her lap.
"Well it all started out like this…" Toad began
Flashback at Peach's Castle
Toad came in through the front door , walked a narrow hallway till he reached the main area of the castle "Hey you fat nerds, it's boring around here let's do something fun!" Toad suggested. Mario is too busy eating spaghetti, Steve was derping around singing to himself, SMG4 was nowhere to be seen and Luigi is sleeping
"Hmm what to do…what to do" Toad began to pace back and forth until an idea popped up in his head
"Oh! How about we all go to Koopa Park? They're having a spaghetti, burrito competition and a pig race!" he asked, this got everyone's attention as they all gasped and looked at him, SMG4 came out of nowhere, also gasping.
"Yes, let's-a go!" Mario yelled, flipping the plate with some spaghetti left on it onto the floor
"Yes, we should!" SMG4 agreed
They all ran to the door and busted through it, then they encountered into two different colored pipes sitting in front of the bridge: One was green and the other was dark blue but they didn't care so they went through the dark blue one.
Despite the fact there's a sign that says "KOOPA PARK" on the green one and the other said "SHORTCUT TO KOOPA PARK" but it fell off, indicating that it's not really a shortcut.
Flashback ended
"And that's how we ended up here in this weird place" Toad wrapped up the seemingly un-believable story. Mario was unsure of it but SMG4 became very annoyed of how much of it is very untrue
"No, none of that is true…well some of it but yeah we were going to Koopa Park for the competitions and the entertainment they have but we ended up taking a pipe that we thought it was a shortcut and we ended up here for some reason…but we were not complete dumbasses at that part"
"Oh" The Squid Sisters said in unison
"Sounds like an ink-credible mess up" Callie slipped in a pun, which made Marie looked at her in an irritated way. They didn't catch the pun unfortunately.
"Yep, all thanks to SMG4" The mushroom humanoid blamed him which he received a glare in return.
Marie decided to go back to the first question "Well that kind of settles it but we didn't get your names still"
"I'm SMG4, and that's Toad, Mario, Luigi and Steve" The blue plumber introduced
"Well nice to meet ya" Callie greeted "I'm Callie and that's Marie, I guess you already know that"
"Earlier you two mentioned that you haven't seen beings like us…why is that?" SMG4 wondered
"Well...the thing is that it's been over 10,000 years and every single land creature is dead including humans" Marie answered with an uneasy tone. The heroes couldn't believe what she said, their mouths hanged open
"Over 10,000 years?!" Mario shouted
"Did we-a time travel to the future?" Luigi was looking afraid
"Bruh, where the flying cars at?" Toad asked
"That's impossible" SMG4 denied "How did that happen?"
Steve just sat there, frowning.
"Because the Earth flooded a really long time ago…why does that surprise you? Besides, your tentacles under your noses look all fuzzy…and square" Callie looked at Steve's flat brown hair
"Tentacles? We don't-a have any" said Luigi
"Really…hmm wait a second…can you take off your hat Mario?" Marie requested
"Uh sure" Mario took off his hat, revealing his brown hair. Marie went up to him and started ruffling his hair and was shocked "Those are definitely not tentacles…are you guys humans?" she asked which made Callie gasped
"That is a great question Marie…yes we are-a humans but I don't know about-a Steve so he counts" said the red plumber
"How could this be?" Marie whispered to herself
"Crazy huh? How did the Earth become flooded and what's up these octopus things that tried to kill us?" Toad recalled "What's your deal?"
"Octolings? It's a rather long story but we'll make it short, so you guys prepare yourselves" Callie warned, she cleared her throat and started
"It all began with our ancestors dragging themselves on the land…then they evolved…...the Great Turf War…. the Octarians….the Earth became flooded…
3 Hours later…
"That's how we came to be, how our ancestors won the Great Turf War and why our culture came to be and why the Octarians became our enemies…that's the end of it…so what you guys think of our history?" Callie finished the story. They both widen their eyes; the heroes had slept through story telling but they quickly woke up as soon she said it "Were you guys even listening?" She asked and they all nodded yes. "Okay just making sure, I told you the short version of our history…so what do you guys think?"
"Pretty interesting so far" Toad answered, with a hint of sarcasm
They realize that the sun was setting, when they see pale orange sunlight shining through the window. "Well Marie, time to close up the studio"
"That time huh? Don't worry, I will tell you where to get a cheap apartment…it's in Flounder Heights" Marie claimed "I'll write down the directions"
Later that evening…
"Are you sure this the cheap apartment that Marie chick was talking about?" Toad was making sure as he and the Mario Bros. stepped in a rather decent and clean looking apartment and looks big enough for four people to live. Steve and SMG4 are staying across from them. The apartment has a small kitchen, a large living room and two bedrooms. The living room has two couches, a large plasma TV and some cables hooked up to it.
"Ehh the small room back at the castle is-a much better" said Mario, looking unimpressed
"Looks like we're-a going to be here for a while huh?" Luigi asked
"Looks like it…but hey at least it's better than dealing with the Princess and Bowser" Toad admitted, and he walked in and looked at the kitchen "Hey guys look, it's a kitchen we probably never going to use!"
"Make me-a spaghetti since you're there!" Mario demanded
"I don't know if they even have that stuff!"
Luigi sighed, he looked back out into the hallway and saw four Inklings in the hallway, they all looked at him, two of them murmured among themselves while the other two waved at him. He went back into the room, closed the door and plopped on the couch.
"Oh, well I'mma check out the bedrooms" Mario announced and started exploring the bedrooms that are right beside the living room.
This is to going to be a pretty long night.
That was chapter 3 hope you enjoyed it! Wonder will have happen next? Oh by the way Splatoon is getting another update and it will be released next week. So if you want to battle online on Splatoon with me, just ask.