Sorui, Danwa, and Urusai rippled, and their tentacles turn cyan.
"We're an offensive team~!" She chirped. "We can handle the baddies if they start coming towards us~!"
Yutaka nodded. The whistle sounded, and backround music began playing. The match commenced.
Danwa and Urusai quickly rushed forward, and Urusai took the platform on top of the crate nearest the spawn. Danwa handled the platforms leading down to the center area.
"Let's go!" Yutaka snapped, and began rushing off down the pathway on the right.
Sorui was a bit dazed. It was really his first ever actual match, since he had started late on his actual first one.
"Sorui~!"
Urusai's voice snapped him back to reality.
"Take the path on the left, we need someone to cover turf~."
"R-right."
The path on the left led around a large wall, and it mirrored the path on the other side. Sorui threw ink towards the path and the center area came into view.
It was hard to tell what was going on; Danwa was loudly humming to the background music while firing off shot after shot. She never once looked behind her, and if someone tried to sneak up on her they were quickly picked off by Urusai. Yutaka was shooting anyone who tried to approach from the opposite side of the room.
Sorui looked down, the ground was covered completely with orange ink. The Inkling with the Octobrush stood looking proud of his work. Sorui emptied the contents of his Slosher on him through the grate. With an annoyed grunt, there was now a splotch of cyan among the orange.
Sorui slipped through the grate and landed in the splotch. He quickly began covering the area while hiding behind the large crate that sat midway between the side area and the center area. He slipped towards the ramp that led to the enemy spawn.
The Inkling with the Carbon Roller was charging through, followed closely by the one with the Ranged Blaster. Sorui threw his ink at the two in rapid succession, resulting in the two of them bursting in simultaneous squeaks.
Sorui then turned his attention to the center area. Danwa had positioned herself in front of the center crates while Urusai had moved to the left-center highpoint. Sorui swam behind the crates towards Yutaka.
"Hi" He peeped.
Yutaka let out an annoyed grunt. "You should be on the other side, covering th-LOOK OUT!"
Sorui pulled into his ink, then swam in a half-circle behind himself to find the enemy's charger, an E-Liter 3K. His maneuver made it possible for Yutaka to fire a half-charged round right into them.
"Geeze, you need to be more careful. We're battling now, no room for slip-ups."
Sorui gulped and nodded, but quickly pulled past Yutaka and threw his Slosher upward through the grate. The Ranged Blaster Inkling burst. Sorui grinned at Yutaka.
"Don't get cocky." She frowned. "This isn't the same as that time-"
"KRAKEN~!"
Her speech was interrupted by Urusai's shout. Lo and behold, the Octobrush user had actived the Kraken special. Urusai had abandoned his platform down the other side, while Danwa panicked and swam towards the left side area. The kraken, however, had a different target in mind, as it swam right towards Sorui and Yutaka.
The two dove to their sides and Yutaka landed in front of a large stack of crates.
The Inkling using the special, however, was actually fairly new to the kraken special, and he slammed into the wall full-force. The stack of crates began to shake.
The kraken was dazed, but turned itself around and rammed full-force into a second wall before popping back into humanoid form with a dizzy expression on his face. The crates swayed and creaked.
"Look out!" Sorui ran at Yutaka and with all his might he pushed her to the ground. Right as the large section of crates tumbled...right on top of him.
A loud whistle sounded and the background music cut off abruptly. Nobody moved. Nobody made a sound.
S...Sorui?"