Splatoon: The Bate Bros.

Splin and Sharq Play The Game: Part 1

After the completely unrealistic turn of events that happened the night before, the sun now shined once again on Inkopolis Plaza, Inklings woke up, the shopkeepers started to open the Booyah Base, and Callie and Marie were seen entering their studio, albeit the former looked agitated and tired whereas the latter had a bit of a scratch and a smirk on her face. Even the alleyway between the Squid Sister studio and the Battle Dojo lit up slightly, a certain street urchin stretched and sat, waiting for any potential buyers. The only two people in the plaza who seemed to get up on the wrong side of the bed was our two heroes themselves, still passed out sitting by the vending machine due to last chapter's misadventures. Excuse me for a moment.

Snoring peacefully, Splin and Sharq laid at the bottom of the vending machine, as if nothing went wrong.

...Okay, this is going nowhere. HEY, WAKE UP! THE STORY'S ABOUT TO START!

Splin stirred somewhat but continued to ignore the plot with his loud snores.

Hmm… Aha! Lemme just give them a little incentive…

BWWWOOOOOOOOO!

"AAUGH!"

"WHAT THE-"

The two sprang up and immediately tripped over each other. Airhorns work every time.

"Aw, come on!" Splin complained as he got up shakily.

"...Uh, morning already?" Sharq asked, still half-asleep.

Here, lemme help you with that.

A Slosher bucket was then tossed at Sharq out of nowhere, splashing him with cold ink.

"GAH OKAY I'M GOOD I'M AWAKE!" Sharq yelled.

There's my enthusiastic guy! Ahem, anyway.

"Dude, we almost got splatted thrice yesterday, I think we deserve this rest!" Splin said, as he stooped to sit down before he stopped and stood back up. "Wait, why would I go back to sleep here? Ah, that's beside the point! The point is, Sharq and I should be at home! Yesterday was freaking insane, and I want no part of any more of this stuff!"

Splin opened his mouth to ramble on more, but paused and looked around. Inklings were flooding into the plaza, giving him and Sharq weird looks as they passed by. One girl had her phone out, ready to call emergency services. Standing straight, he coughed and waved. The passerby simply walked away with weird looks or went back to their business.

Splin simply sighed again and sat back down next to Sharq, who was staring at the Inkopolis News monitor.

"Sharq, what are you doing?" Splin asked, eyes half-shut.

"Waiting for the news to start," Sharq stated, turning back to the huge screen. Splin did the same. "Hmm… Wonder if people still remember the incident? Wait, what am I saying, of course they do! It was a whole ink park!" Splin stared at the screen, still pondering his thoughts.

"Hey, did you hear about what happened on the news yesterday?" A Blue Inkling girl asked her friend as she walked past.

"Shoot." Splin buried his head in his lap, took his headphones off his head and around his neck, and put his hands around his head, waiting for them to notice him and call the authorities. "Man, I had so many plans. A huge house to buy, maybe even become a musician, oh boy, here it comes-"

"Yeah, Callie got completely owned!" A Cyan Inkling boy said, laughing. "Man, that was awesome!"

Splin facepalmed so hard you could hear it throughout the plaza. "Ouch," Splin stated simply. "Didya hear that Splin?" Sharq sat up. "No one remembers us! Hah, all thanks to Marie and her sassiness!"

"I suppose that's good and all," Splin said, "But now what do we do? What happened yesterday was crazy, I'm not willing to walk all the way back to home, and we don't have any coins left for the train or bus! I should've brought some. Wait a second…" Splin turned to Sharq. "You brought money, right?"

"Hmm?" Sharq was currently chugging down a bottle of Gator-Cola, quench your thirst with the mighty power of the river gators! (This is not at all a paid message.)

"..." Splin turned back to the vending machine. A bottle of Gator-Cola was missing. "Great, just great. Now, what do we do?"

"Meow. (You could always play in a Turf War.)"

"Huh?" Splin looked up, and spotted Judd, lazily pointing to the Inkopolis Tower. "Oh. Right, forgot about that. ...Hey, why do they give us free money for that anyway?" Judd simply shrugged, "Meooow. (Go ahead, they're announcing the stages right nyao.)" Judd stated, before falling asleep again.

Splin looked back at the monitor, and it showed the Squid Sisters showcasing the different stages.

"Let's unveil the current regular battle stages!" Callie said cheerfully, seemingly ignorant of the events yesterday.

"All right!" Marie added, rubbing her cheek where a scratch was.

"Uh, skip!" Sharq yawned, pulling Splin with him into the Inkopolis Tower, much to the chagrin of Splin, who was trying to strategize. "Less thinking, more splatting dude!" Sharq smiled broadly, running into the tower. "At least let me change out my gear first!" Splin protested. Sharq stopped and let go of Splin, saying, "Oh, right! We meet back here in a couple minutes," With that being said, Sharq ran off to who knows where. Picking himself up, he walked over to a changing area and began preparing.

-3 Minutes Later-

I'm not making this stuff up, I mean all it takes on the equip screen is a click of a button so of course, they would get done in like three minutes. Anyways, when Splin came out of the changing room, he swapped out his Black Anchor Tee with a Fami- I mean, Retro Gamer Jersey, and was holding a Tentatek Splattershot.

"Hey Splin, I'm back!" Upon hearing Sharq, Splin swerved his head towards the entrance of the tower. Sharq now wore a Camo Zip Hoodie instead of his White Anchor Tee and lifted a Krak-On Splat Roller.

"Alright, you ready?" Splin asked, sizing up his teammate. "We're gonna need more than Kraken specials if we're gonna earn enough to get home."

"One second… Here we go!" Sharq said, attaching a counter to the roller.

"What's the counter for?" Splin asked.

"Just recording how many people I'm gonna completely flatten!" Sharq exclaimed proudly.

"That seems a little Strange, doesn't it?" Splin said.

Yep, I went there.

"Hmm… I don't know why, but I feel really irritated right now." Callie said, her hand on her cheek. She was sitting across a small table from her cousin, overlooking the plaza. Marie just stared at her in silence awkwardly, until she sighed. "...Sorry."

"Huh?" Callie turned to face her co-star. "O-Oh, no I didn't mean what happened earlier. It's just, you know that feeling when something just feels…"

"Off?" Marie suggested, looking at the plaza, bored.

"...Something like that." She said, looking out at the plaza. "Marie?"

"Yeah?" The white-haired Inkling asked.

"Thanks." She said, turning back to face the outside.

"...Why?"

"Even if you did completely embarrass me on T.V…" Callie chuckled, "I'm just glad you're still my friend."

Confused, Marie asked, "What brought this up? Are you feeling alright Callie?"

Smiling, Callie responded, "Just fine, sis."

Marie smiled slightly too. "I'm glad, then."

They looked out on the plaza together.

I think so! Find out the exciting (hopefully) conclusion to this chapter of the Bate Brothers' Adventures!

AN: I really hoped I got down Callie and Marie's personalities, I'm not great at writing about other characters other than my own. Also, thank you NSPFan and Anon360 for reviewing my story, even if it was just little comments about the sick burn. Thank you all for reading my story so far, this is ThePizzaLovingTurtle, off to bed for me!

Edit: Fixed a reference out of the story. I thought it was a little odd!