And here we go again! This is gonna be fun!
I've decided that since I really want to respond to people's comments, questions will be answered here at the beginning, since I am taking more breaks recently in-between chapters.
Welp, here we go
To OctoReader's comment: I'm glad you appreciate this is still a romance! No matter what I'm not gonna stray from the fact that romance/comedy is the main thing about this fic, action and plot is gonna be you know, existent from here on, and that it's gonna still keep a lighthearted tone to it, because many other Splatoon fics I see, and while Splatoon does have a hidden dark side, their stories were too dark for a world where "fun" is given a large amount of power in the world.
And haha! Yeah I realize I'm writing faster than most, I considered making a certain time to publish, such as "publish a new chapter on Monday's and Friday's" or something, but I just really enjoy writing this fic and I'm honestly doing it as a thing to do at this point, especially since it's summer and school's out.
Anyways, let's get right into the story'
Sara was sleeping next to Sam, a few days had passed and her fever was finally over, after multiple days of having to sleep in another room, 3 was making up for it now with the amount of cuddles 8 was getting.
However Sara ended up waking up at 3 in the damn morning because her god damn phone kept vibrating, she turned off the ringer but it shook against the counter and was still annoying, groaning, she reached over and grabbed the octopus phone, turning it on and wincing against the bright light it gave off, when her eyes finally adjusted, she saw something strange.
There was like, a ton of messages from the chatroom, what were they doing at 3 IN THE DAMN MORNING.
Groaning she opened the chatroom and was about to type, "YO ITS 3 IN THE MORNING, GO TO SLEEP!!" Until she saw the messages.
It was a quick awakening.
~Marina's Chat Room~
Agent 2 has joined the chatroom
Agent 2: GUYS
Agent 2: GUYS
Agent 2: GUYS
Agent 2: GUYS
Agent 2: GUYS
Agent 2: GUYS
Agent 4 has joined the chatroom
DJ_Hyperfresh has joined the chatroom
MC.Princess has joined the chatroom
Agent 4: ITS LIKE 2 WTH
DJ_Hyperfresh: I have to agree wth
MC.Princess: LET ME SLEEEEEEEP
Agent 2: OCTARIANS ATTACKING HALP
Agent 4: wait what!?
DJ_Hyperfresh: yeah I'm with her, WAIT WHAT!?
Agent 2: there's like a TON of octarians coming out of the kettles here in Octo Valley, there are some regular troops, but it's mostly elite Octolings!
Agent 2: we can't hold em off forever!
DJ_Hyperfresh: But... elites are rare Marie! I was an elite because I was a prodigy in technical things, but there aren't many who get the well... honor, of blacking your hair and putting kelp in it
Agent 2: yeah well there's a ton of em now! GET OVER HERE
Agent 2 has left the chatroom
Agent 4: carp, okay I'm getting my hero stuff, let's go!!
Agent 4 has left the chatroom
DJ_Hyperfresh: urk... okay coming!
DJ_Hyperfresh has left the chatroom
MC.Princess has left the chatroom
"Carp!" Sara said aloud, stirring Sam from her sleep, "ughhh, Sara what time is it..." she said groggily, "read this and you'll understand!" She said practically throwing her phone at her as she jumped out of bed and started changing into her uniform, which was the suit she used in the subways, except without the yellow tags.
Agent 3 squinted as she read the messages before her eyes widened as she put the phone down and jumped out of bed, "grab your stuff!" She almost yelled as she grabbed her Hero outfit and Hero shot, "that's what I'm doing lazy head!" Said Sara, holding up her Octo Shot, once they were all ready, they went out to the patio and super jumped to the square, where they ran to the grate and slipped inside with their squid and octopus form.
When they got to the valley, it was LOUD.
They could hear the sounds of their friends yelling, the sound of ink flying and weapons firing, they popped out of the grate and ran to the Cuttle shack
"Oh hey your here!" Said Agent 4, partially covered in ink and taking a breather, "thought you were gonna miss all the fun" she said as she chucked an autobomb over the wall, where it landed and the sound of it chasing a target was heard before exploding, and the sound of splatted Octolings was heard.
"What's the situation?" Asked 8 as she brought out her octo shot and started spraying covering fire in the direction of the enemy, "Well there isn't a respawn station for them anywhere near here!" Said Callie, coming back from the chaos covered in ink with an empty roller, "so every Octoling you splat isn't coming back any time soon!" She said before ducking into the ink to refill.
"Oh well that's good" Said Sam as she stood up, "then this should be easy" she said as her hair lit up signaling a charged special, and before anyone could say anything, she had super jumped straight into the middle.
The sound of a splashdown and multiple splats were heard.
"Well if you think of it like a test" Sara said, standing up as well, "we just have to splat them all and don't let em past, and hey, I have help here as well" she said grinning, and I have help here as well, so piece of cake!" And she charged in guns blazing.
~like 30 minutes of shooting later~
It was a pretty stalemate battle, Agents 3 4 and 8 splatted Octolings as fast as they were popping up, and everyone else kept them from getting to the entrance to Inkopolis.
"Agents 8 and 3 were the furthest in, 4 being further back because she charged in later than they did, at one point an Octoling crept up on Sara only to get a heeled kick to the chest, causing Sam and a large amount of Octolings in the vicinity to wince.
It seemed that they were going to be victorious, Sheldon popped up right when Sara jumped back because an Octoling damaged it, he was about to start talking about the upgrades he also added to her Octo shot until Pearl put a hand over his mouth, though he kept talking and all that came out were muffled words.
But then, things kinda went bad.
Rising out of the boss kettle, was a black haired Octoling girl, who was taller than everyone else there, Sam was busy fighting off a hoard of Octolings so Sara charged straight at the taller Octoling, being as cocky as she had gotten essentially destroying Octolings left and right. Until she saw the face of the Octoling.
She had no clue who it was, but she felt like she did, and stopped just before the boss kettle, the Octoling smiled and said, "well well well, what do we have he-" before stopping suddenly and looking Sara in the eye, as their faces met, Sara's head started to hurt.
"...Clara!?" She said to her, bewildered.
Everyone on the battlefield stopped, even an Octoling who lost his weapon and was now resorting to biting Agent 4 stopped.
"...uhhhh, what?" Sara said to who seemed like the boss of the group.
The plot thickens even more! Like someone through some plot pulp into the drink... wait that implies I don't like this story since I hate pulp... but I love this story... argh! You guys get it.
Anyways, that took longer to write than usual since I'm actually moving to a different country like, tomorrow, and I'm busy helping out around the house getting ready to leave, since I'm leaving tomorrow, there might be a period of time I don't publish anything since I'm gonna be on a plane, but probably not since I'm gonna likely write on the plane to pass time, lol
Anyways, next chapter is gonna be the name reveal of the "woman in the darkness" that you've been seeing for a while, and who we just met in person today.
Also CHRIST ALMIGHTY, FINALLY, I finally beat Inner Agent 3 in the expansion! I was nearly tearing out my hair in my rage, but wow, got her in a corner and let loose, man, all that for a Golden toothpick.
Well, thanks for reading everyone! See you next time!