Could This Change Anything?: Not sure if this is classified information or something, but recently I was invited by another author to join the Splatoon Shared Universe group. I don't know if this'll change anything, not 100% sure if I'm involved in anything. Let's wait and see, shall we?
Splatoon: The Bate Bros.
Tower Out Of Control
Sharq rose up from his bed groggily. He yawned, stretching his arms, eyes blinking to in an attempt to perceive his enviornment. Sharq looked to his brother's bed to greet him, but found that it was empty save for his laptop. This freaked him out, expecting the worst to have happened. Standing up quickly, he rushed out of bed to search, even if it took him hours, only to be stopped by a calm voice.
"Dude, don't freak out. I'm just making breakfast."
Sharq turned around, and spotted Splin cooking up a batch pancake in a skillet, Salty and the Tele-Cube sitting on the counter nearby. Sharq sighed in relief, and jumped at the counter immediately, sliding into a seat.
"One pancake!" Sharq requested.
Splin deadpanned at this. "Good to see not much has changed."
Another yawn could be heard, and a certain Octoling rose up from her slumber, a cheeky grin on her face. She sat down by Sharq, each eagerly awaiting a cake, plates and utensils at the ready. Splin shook his head, and added another serving of pancake batter.
"You two need to learn how to cook, I get the feeling if I leave for a day, you'll starve." Splin remarked, flipping a pancake.
"Nah, I know how to cook." Tai said, stretching her arms. "I just happen to like other peoples' food more."
"I can cook!" Sharq exclaimed.
Everyone else in the room stared at Sharq. Splin had to keep himself from uttering a single retort by biting his lip, which as you can imagine hurt significantly due to the squid beak teeth.
"Says the guy who ate an egg, shell pieces and all." Tai blurted out, barely preventing herself from bursting out in laughter.
Sharq frowned. "Wha- Come on guys! I'm not that bad at cooking! Salty, Tele-Cube, back me up on this!"
The two small, normally motionless objects answered with a silence.
"Splin, you've gotta have my back on this!" Sharq begged his brother.
Splin shook his head. "She's got a point Sharq, you've never been the most gifted in the cooking arts. There was that one time you tried to add spices to a salad that one time. I'm still surprised the sneezing lasted that long."
"Lemme get a pan, I'll show you!" Sharq said, leaping over the counter, taking a pan and adding a pancake mixture. The resulting batch of pancakes Sharq would make didn't win any awards, to say the least.
While our protagonists were off practicing cooking skills, something was awry in a certain set of towers. Moray Towers, Turf War and Ranked Battle map, was now specced for a game of Tower Control, or so the populace of Inkopolis think. A shady appearing figure was off, altering the tower platform Inklings ride on during the games. The figure tampered with the bottom of the tower, multiple tools of sabotage lying on the ground beside it.
"...Alright. The tower has been sabotaged, going back to base camp." The hooded figure stated in a quiet, feminine voice, cutting out the wires on a panel underneath, sparks flying out the bottom. She reached for another tool, grabbing a small box with toggles, switches, a wire, and some sort of dial and gauge, and jammed it into the tower.
The tower began to sink, and the figure retreated, the platform hitting the the ground with a thud. Lights from the tower flickered on and off, before shutting down completely.
Garbled speech was heard from the figure's hood. "Of course I'll be careful, that didn't count." The mysterious saboteur ran off, but tripped and fell off the tower's edge.
"CURSE THESE INKLING ARCHITEEEEEECCCHHS!" She screamed, falling blindly to what appeared to be her doom, landing harshly. She opened her eyes, dizziness clouding her sight "...Ugh… Is this... Shell?" She groaned.
"No, but that's what your life will be in you make any sudden moves."
The unidentifiable female looked up, into the goggles of an Octoling soldier, carrying her in her hands. She didn't look friendly, however. Accompanying her were other Octolings, three of them holding Octoshots menacingly. She put her hand to her goggles, clearing her throat.
"4U55-13 to Base, we've apprehended the rogue. Escorting her back, over." Aussie stated.
The figure scoffed. "Back to that scrap heap with those pansies? Heh, in your dreams Auss, I'd rather be splatted here and now."
"As much as I'd love to do that, I'd have to keep you alive for information, now wouldn't I?" Aussie scowled, tapping her goggles again, the sound in them diminishing. "Ugh, what is it with you and T-41? Always with that stupid nickname."
"What can I say…" The figure said, fingering her pockets very lightly, grasping a device with multiple holes hollow holes lightly dug into it. "We have a lot in common." She threw the device on the floor.
Aussie went wide-eyed. "Cover your eyes!" All of the other Octolings shielded their eyes to protect from a potential flash, only to hear the sound of an Octoshot being fired in an odd pattern.
Looking down at the ground, they realized that the device thrown down was merely a decoy making noises and spitting out minuscule blots of ink. They stood there, and watched the hooded figure completely disappear out of sight.
"Oh my Cod, I can't believe you fell for that!" The mystery girl laughed, sprinting.
The other members of the squad slowly turned to Aussie with a gulp, then backed up in fear at the sight of steam rising from her head.
"GRRRRAAAAAHH!" Aussie took her goggles and threw it to the ground in frustration. The other Octolings were dumbfounded at first, so they followed her lead, falling to the ground, grieving their loss. This didn't bode well with Aussie, who shouted, "DON'T JUST STAND THERE, AFTER HER!"
The other Octoling's jumped up, saluted, and followed the path the currently unknown enemy to them. While they ran and tried to find the sneaky culprit, Aussie sat on the ground, face in her palms.
"I can't believe I let C-H1 get away AGAIN. Octavio's totally gonna demote me…" Aussie shivered at the thought. She picked up her Octoshot, and sprinted to catch up with her comrades, a grimace ever present on her face. "Move!" She barked angrily.
A rustling noise could be heard, and the rogue figure, hood now removed, chuckled. "Too easy." Walking out in the streets, light from the morning sun revealed Octoling features. She stood, breathing in the air, and snuck away. She switched to octopus form, and slid away from her pursuers and the rising Inklings, waking up to start the day.
Back at the Bate household, the entire house was a complete mess. It only took a tiny confrontation scene's worth of time, but the house was coated in so much pancake batter, you'd think that they had tried to paint with it.
"Congrats Sharq." Tai couldn't suppress any more laughs, yukking it up on the counter seat. "You managed to create ONE edible pancake!"
True to what she said, in the middle of the entire coating of delicious batter was a solitary pancake on a discarded plate. Sharq picked it up, and raised it to the sky from under the numerous holes in the roof.
"Yeah! Told you I could make food!" Sharq exclaimed with delight, which diminished quite quickly when the plate shattered and the pancake dropped on his face, Sharq didn't seem to mind much and decided to eat it anyways. "Works for me."
Tai rolled her eyes. "Well Splin, for the security of everyone's stomach, you're gonna have to teach him how to cook later." Tai awaited some sort of answer, but was answered with silence. "Splin?"
Sharq and Tai panicked, looking around for a sign of the other Inkling. From a wall on the side of the kitchen, an Inkling covered in batter fell and landed on the floor, wiping off his covered face. "...How do you manage to spill over twenty bowls of batter in a row and keep on going?!" Splin shouted. "Seriously, if we were in a Turf War, I'm sure the other team would've completely given up!"
Sharq shrugged with a sheepish grin on his face, Splin groaned softly, and Tai giggled lightly. Probably not in that order.
A voice was heard, and it wasn't because the fourth wall had the day off. "T-41! We require your assistance tracking a rogue! Over!"
Tai groaned, and reached into her shorts pockets, carelessly tossing her Octoling goggles onto her head. "Yeah, what's up Auss? What, did you need me to do some, perimeter patrols or some ship?"
Aussie's voice on the other end could be heard quietly grumbling. "CH-1's back."
Tai grimaced, and wore her goggles around her face.
"We've been tracing her steps for a while, and we've finally spotted her. Considering you're… Cough… You know much about her, we figured we could use your expertise on this. ...Over"
"Ugh… Right, whatever. I'll be there, over and out." Tai spoke up to her goggles. They crackled a bit, then went silent. She turned to face her Inkling companions, waving nonchalantly. "See you guys later."
Splin stood up, the aftermath of Sharq's cooking attempt still sticking to him. "You know what's happening?"
Tai began to speak, but hesitated, hand on her hip. She reluctantly said, "...Not exactly. Let's just say, a threat's roaming around Inkopolis freely. Lucky."
"So, wouldn't the Octarians rather have the Inkling agents deal with this issue?" Splin questioned. Sharq on the other hand, was playing around in the batter as if it were a snow day in the park.
"Normally, we'd leave those pieces of ships to fend for themselves, but this is slightly more personal. The agents don't know about it yet, so I need you two-"
Sharq skidded to a halt, kicking up the goop.
"...To keep it on the down low, got it?" Tai stared the two in the eyes, who nodded in response.
"Sure! We weren't really official agents anyways, we just kinda got caught in this situation by accident." Sharq reminded her.
The normally lazy Octoling smiled, and saluted the two. "Great, I'll be back here later, see you two." Tai transformed into an octopus and slid over by the openings in the roof, and Super Jumped through them.
Splin watched her launch away, then kicked away at the mixture under his feet. "Uh, Sharq, I'm gonna need your help on this."
Sharq smiled widely. "Can do."
With a trash bin overflowing with breakfast, and multiple stacks of pancakes stored away from usable batter left over, the brothers had successfully cleaned up the house, although it would come to smell like the food for quite some time afterwards. They spent about half an hour lying on their beds, exhausted. Splin still was peeved that the ceiling wasn't fixed up yet.
"...Sharq." Splin spoke.
"What's up?" Sharq asked.
Splin pointed at the destroyed ceiling, sunlight streaming through.
"Oh." Sharq blinked. "Hmm, we keep missing that."
"Hope you rested well," Splin hopped off the bed, "Because we're going to earn some money to fix that."
"Aw man, grinding for money in Turf Wars again? That's gonna take forever!" Sharq moaned in agony and boredom. "Splin, let's just sell the alarm clock or something!"
The alarm clock angrily chimed its alarm, startling the bored brother.
"We're not selling the alarm clock, Sharq." Splin told him, calming the clock down. "And we're not playing in Turf Wars either. I think I have an idea that could speed things up a little…"
The pair of brothers, each donning their ever present headgear, were walking into the Inkopolis Tower, each geared up with an Inkbrush. Sharq with a standard Inkbrush, with a large odometer just sticking out the side.
"I still don't see why you keep adding those to your weapons." Splin said, poking the odometer with the blunt end of his Inkbrush Nouveau.
Sharq pat the side of the brush. "It looks nice to me. Feels like an accomplishment when I score enough splats, you know?"
Splin shrugged. "Whatever floats your boat."
The two walked into the inside of the tower, other Inklings looking at the them with condescending sneers and slight laughter at their odd choice of weaponry. Splin and Sharq rolled their eyes.
"Hey guys look, the cleaning crew stopped by!" A rather decked out male Inkling laughed.
"Match ends soon on Camp Triggerfish, might wanna get on that!" A female Inkling joined in.
The brothers seemed to ignore the all of the stabs at their, "un-freshness", patiently waiting at the entrance to the Turf War/Ranked Battle equip screen. The door opened slowly, revealing the flashy inside, Ranked Battle logos moving around the walls of the room. The two entered, still cutting out the rather rude remarks sent after them. Once inside, the both of them sat on the polished floor, waiting for the option to join a match.
Sharq breathed a sigh of relief. "This always happens whenever we try to play Ranked. I can see why the Octolings weren't exactly happy to meet us at first."
"Don't worry about it Sharq, we're just participating in a handful of matches, enough to get us the funds for the roof. Also, think of it as exercise to burn off those pancakes you ate." Splin pat Sharq on the back.
Sharq groaned, wrapping his arms around his stomach. "Don't remind me…"
A mix between a click and a beep was heard, and soon the brothers began to vanish.
"See you on the battlefield, bro." Sharq said, shaking Splin's hand.
"Alright, see you there." Splin nodded, as the two began to vanish from the room, off to the map awaiting them.
The pair of them rematerialized on a metallic spawn point, Sharq's hat dropping down on his head a little later. The map they had arrived on was revealed to be Moray Towers, a large set of… towers suspended far above the ground level of Inkopolis. Unless you had Vertigo, this map's probably one of the more thrilling areas to take place in a match. Or if the other team was entirely comprised of Splat Chargers, but that's not the point.
Splin surveyed the map, even looking down at his Gamepad for a better view. "Um… Huh." He looked up from the screen, turning around repeatedly, trying to find something.
"What is it?" Sharq tilted his head.
"Do you happen to see anyone else here? Have we entered a match where everyone disconnected?" Splin squinted his eyes, attempting to spot any other Inklings.
"Maybe… Think we should go look for them?" Sharq suggested.
Splin swung his Inkbrush rapidly, covering the area in front of them. "You lead the way."
Sharq grinned, jumping into the spread of ink. The brothers jumped down the towers, each taking turns covering the ground below, each following with a splash. After a few more hops down at least 25 feet drops (7.62 meters I believe, not sure if the conversion is accurate) mostly unscathed.
"Oof!" Splin landed at the middle of the map, Sharq hitting the ground next to him, neglecting to provide a safe shade of blue to land on.
Sharq looked up, straight towards the little Tower Control platform. Normally, both sides would be clashing if only to be splatted as soon as they reached the tower, of course, the lack of any teammates or enemies made the whole center feel oddly peaceful. Too peaceful.
Sharq's eyebrows… Eye tentacles? I dunno, they furrowed. "...Yeah. I don't get it, why isn't there anyone else here?"
"Hold onto your tentacles…" Callie began, in the Squid Sisters studio.
"It's Inkopolis News time!" Marie added in as always.
"Before we begin, we have some important news!" Callie stated.
"What is it?" Marie asked.
"Sorry to all you Ranked Battlers out there, but a few of you might not be able to participate in a Tower Control match today! We've been having some problems with the tower, and our spares our mysteriously unavailable." Callie pouted to emphasize it. "We've heard reports of an, 'Inkopolis Intruder' who may have been sabotaging us! Please report this to the authorities if you see any suspicious people!"
"Too bad, I was hoping on beating you and your car loving followers." Marie grinned. "Planes are gonna leave you in the dusty grounds, while we live the high life."
Callie's eye… You know what, let's just say eyebrows, were raised in amusement and a mock offended look. "Oh, really? In your dreams, we're just gonna run you all down, cars rule."
Marie winked at the camera. "We'll see at tonight's Splatfest, stay fresh."
The two cousins could be seen briefly walking towards each other, adopting a fighting stance, before the camera violently cut off, static clouding the screen.
"Hmm." Splin muttered, sitting on top of the tower platform.
He and Sharq had attempted to get the tower to move out of an attempt of boredom, but to no avail. No matter how hard Sharq swished the Inkbrush around or towards it, the floating block wouldn't budge. Sharq had just about given up trying to get the tower to move, when he spotted a spark fly out from the bottom.
"Huh? Hey Splin, check this out!" Sharq gestured to his brother, who dropped down by him.
"Sparks…?" Splin changed into his squid form, eyes pointing at the bottom. "Sharq, I'm gonna need a little help with this."
Sharq squinted at the bottom edge of the block, and stuck the Inkbrush underneath, acting as a bit of a wedge. Splin slid inside, inspecting the damage.
"Weird." Splin gently felt a wire, which slightly shocked him. He shook it off, tapping it again, now assured that it was broken after the second shock. "The wire's cut. How could this have happened…?"
A new hissing noise was heard, and Splin could see a suspicious looking box inserted among the parts of the tower. Splin reached for it, pulling it out, and inspected it. Suddenly, the tower began to rumble, and the wires began to spark.
"S-Splin, what did you do?!" Sharq frantically asked from outside. The tower began to rise.
"I don't know, I've never worked on the mechanical parts of a tower before!" Splin yelled out, the tower beginning to generate unpleasantly jumbled music.
Sharq pulled him out, as well as the Inkbrush, and looked at the tower. Colors flooded the screens, and the tower lifted up, bottom still open. The music changed to a pattern of quick, metallic beeps, dots on the screens popping up with every sound.
"We need to stop this thing." Splin remarked.
Sharq adjusted his cap, looking up. "How? It's going up pretty fast!"
True to what Sharq said, the tower was rising quickly, rivets and bolts coming loose and leaving the interior of the tower. Splin looked around for anything they could use, a light bulb flashing in his head.
He took out the Gamepad, and clicked by the spawn point.
"Get ready to Super Jump Sharq!" Splin said, reverting back to a squid.
Sharq nodded, and did the same. The two leaned back, positioning themselves, and launched themselves up by the tower, just barely catching the ledge of it and pulling themselves up.
"Whoo!" Sharq laughed in triumph, but was cut short when the tower began to rumble again. "What's going on?!"
"...S-Sharq. You remember how the tower moves in this gamemode, right?" Splin said, the tower shaking beneath them.
"...Oh." Sharq mumbled.
You guys might wanna hang onto something.
Both of them hugged the middle spire sticking out of the tower, and were whisked off, wind whistling by their ears as they dropped down from Moray Towers, grasping for dear life.
"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!" The two of them screamed in unison, being dragged across the business districts of Inkopolis, spinning around like a top as they went.
"This is stupid." Tai stated simply.
She and the other Octolings were perched on top of a medium-sized skyscraper, all but Tai looking out for the so called, 'Inkopolis Intruder'. Tai was soaking in the rays of the sun, but was rudely interrupted by another Octoling Elite, who kept poking her with her kelp.
"Come on, T-41, get to work. I don't see why you get to be a fat lazy slob all day while we-"
Tai growled, stood up, and threw that Octoling off the top of the skyscraper, and tossed a few Splat Bombs down below after her. The other Octolings' eyes widened, and went back to searching, nervously sweating. Aussie just looked at her disapprovingly.
Tai rolled her eyes, smugly saying, "What? Oh come on, she was asking for it."
Aussie shook her head, tapping the side of her goggles. "UK-4, just Super Jump back to base."
The sound of screaming and air rushing past could be heard on the other end.
Tai whistled innocently, lying back on the building top. Aussie went back to surveying the city using her advanced goggle binocular technology, (that should be a thing in Splatoon at least) when she spotted a certain pair of Inklings flying around on a tower.
"Uh, Tai? Remember our Inkling allies?" Aussie said.
"Splin and Sharq? What about them?" Tai tipped her goggles so that her eyes were visible, a dull look in them.
"...I think they could use some assistance." Aussie gestured at Tai to take a look.
Tai blinked, and walked over, using her own goggles' built in binoculars. After about thirty seconds of just looking at them uncontrollably spinning around, Tai removed her goggles, and chuckled.
"Those two always know how to chase away boredom. Alright, let's get down there and-"
"I've spotted CH-1!" A voice rang out through all of the Octoling's goggles. "She's approximately 1.6 kilometers west away from the survey spot! Over!"
All of the Octolings, except for Tai who groaned loudly, cheered, and Super Jumped off the building.
Aussie smiled. "Understood, moving in to apprehend. Over and out." Aussie turned to Tai, who was frowning and shaking her head. "...Then we'll help them out. Tai, look, I don't like doing this either, but we have to find her and bring her to justice."
Tai reluctantly reached behind her, taking out her Octoshot. "Fine."
Aussie smiled again, Super Jumping away in octopus form. Tai looked over at the two Inkling brothers still spiraling out of control on the tower, sighing, then Super Jumped as well, down to the ground floor.
Meanwhile, the two Bates were doing surprisingly well gripping and sticking to the platform, for the most part. The tower stopped being the fastest vehicle on the planet, slowing down to that of a zipliner.
"You know, if we weren't so high up on this thing, this would be pretty fun to ride on!" Sharq yelled. The tower slammed into the side of the building, shards of glass and other debris just missing them. "J-Just need to know how to control it!"
Splin nearly slid off the front of the platform, which apparently weighed down the tower enough to move in that direction. "Oh."
Well, there's your answer.
Splin blinked, then sat back up at the center. He pulled Sharq to the center spire as well, pressing their backs against it, and suddenly the tower slowed to a halt. Splin moved his head a little to the left, and sure enough, the platform followed. Sharq did the same, and the platform sped up in that direction. The two of them stared at each other with a smile, and leaned forwards towards the ground.
"Stop right there!" Aussie yelled.
The Octoling Splatoon followed after the so called, C-H1, pursuing her through the streets of Inkopolis. They received multiple strange looks from bystanders, who Tai mostly threw out of the way or shot at if they posed a threat. None of them really did though, Tai was beating up innocents.
"Shut up voice!" Tai yelled at the sky, tossing Splat Bombs towards the rogue Octoling.
"Tai we can talk about this!" C-H1 yelped, narrowly dodging each bomb.
"Not interested, unless you plan on talking with your weapon! I'm taking you down Chi, even if it kills me!" Tai yelled, firing after Chi with rapid blasts.
"Tai…" Chi shot behind her, tripping up the Octolings following her.
"Rrgh!" Tai struggled with the rogue ink, trying to move out.
"I thought you didn't care about catching Chi!" Aussie yelled after her.
Tai fumed. "That was before I found out you actually meant her! Seriously, a year of inactivity?!"
Unfortunately for her, Chi had walked back, and was aiming her Octoshot directly into her face. Tai pulled her goggles down slowly, her face features defiant yet melancholy.
"I'm sorry it had to come to this, old friend." Chi stated, about to pull the trigger.
Until she got blindsided by a flying tower. Chi was knocked back, her Octoshot suspended in the air, and landed backwards on her ink unconscious. Tai blinked, a smile creeping up her face.
"Thanks guys." Tai stood up, hoisting Chi up and lifting her over her back.
Splin and Sharq dizzily walked off the tower, which was now a crackling, half functional mess smashed into the ground. They shook it off, Splin giving a confused yet glad thumbs up, and Sharq pumping his fist in the air victoriously.
"Victory! Us: 1, Tower: 0!" Sharq jumped up.
"Ugh… You're… Welcome, I suppose." Splin spotted Chi slung over Tai's back. "Who's the knocked out one?"
Tai looked over at the unconscious Octoling. "...She's my student."
"Wait, what?!" Sharq exclaimed. "How does even-"
"I'll explain later. Right now we gotta get her back to the Octarian base, we need to interrogate her."
"Hmm… This'll be a challenge, other Inklings will be roaming the streets, Splatfest is still going strong." Splin put a hand to his chin. "Unless…"
The entire Octoling squad had been put in boxes, and Splin and Sharq were making the extremely tedious journey to the manhole. No longer did Inklings take this as a regular occurrence, they began asking them what was inside, and if they could have anything in there.
Splin simply told the crowd, "Uh, sorry. No time to explain, right Sharq?"
Sharq nodded. "Yep, follow me Splin-" He was about to finish, but nearly tripped with a box in his hands. A resulting, but barely audible, "Ow!", was heard from inside, prompting Sharq to run, Splin pushing the pile of boxes after him.
"Lemme get this straight." Sharq started, "So, you're one of the best members of your Octoling Splatoon? Like, THE best?"
"Pretty much." Tai replied.
The entire group had converged into the Rec Room of the Octarian's Underground Awesome- Okay Tai this description won't work, it's way too long.
"Gah, what would you know about descriptions?" Tai asked.
…They were sitting down at a table inside, speaking about what had just happened, there you happy?
"Uh, so, anyways…" Splin began.
"So, I bet you want to know what happened between us?" Tai cut in.
Sharq's eyes lightened up, and he nodded. "Yeah!"
"Sharq…" Splin scolded him.
Tai raised her hand. "Nah, it's fine Splin. I figured you two might wanna know anyways." She took a deep breath. "So, most Octolings are trained together, in units. The higher ups figured this would be easier than just training us all individually, but they allowed better ranked troops to train the lower ranks, as a bit of a mentorship program. I was fifteen I think, when I first met Chi over there…"
Chi was restrained with a pair of handcuffs, sitting nearby. She raised her hands and flicked two fingers in their direction. "Hi."
Tai waved back. "Anyways, long story short, one year later, Chi and I were an unstoppable force, beating back Inkling after Inkling that dared to come across us."
"What happened next?" Sharq asked eagerly.
"...We had a difference in opinions. Octavio is pretty cool, but the way he treats some of our people as a whole was… Troublesome. We both agreed that we should ask him to stop being such a control freak…"
"I heard that!" Octavio's voice boomed across the room.
"...And this is where the problem starts. I wanted to keep on serving in the army, chill out, mostly get him to fix things peacefully. Chi wanted change right then and there, so she screwed around with as many things as possible just to ink Octavio off. He kicked her out of the Splatoon, and from then on she began to mess with us some more. I thought it was flipping hilarious at first, pranks just left and right, until a prank cost my mother a leg. Bombs were thrown, insults were launched, and we weren't as par on the same terms as before." Tai explained. "...I wanted nothing more to do with her, straying away from some of the Zapfish protection missions for awhile. Until you guys came along, showed me around, and finally, I ended up here."
Sharq's eyebrows rose in interest. "Gee. Um… Sorry about what happened…"
"You're not the one who has to apologize." Tai hissed in Chi's direction. "Yeah, but that's my story at the least."
"...Interesting." Splin yawned.
Tai swooned back. "Oh no... Was my story not interesting enough for you?"
"Sorry Tai... I'm just slightly wiped out from that tower accident..." Splin laid his head on the table.
"...Mission accomplished?" Chi smirked.
Tai muttered in disgust, then hopped off her chair. "I'll come with you two."
"Uh… Don't you have a bunk here?" Sharq asked.
Tai shrugged. "I'm lending it to Chi over here while the others interrogate her. Besides, Octavio thinks it's a good idea for me to stay up there and be the, 'eye-in-the-sky' for the other Octarians in case something huge happens."
"...Well, we really need to buy another bed." Splin said, walking off. Sharq and Tai followed, each ready for bed.
"...I think we should get back home a little stealthily." Splin said.
"Don't we always?" Tai jabbed Splin with her elbow.
"More than just stealthy. We destroyed an expensive tower, you beat up a bunch of people, and I'm sure paranoia is just bursting from everyone who spotted a squad of Octarians march through the entire city." Splin said.
"Eh, good point. Box?" Tai offered, taking out her usual cloaking/transportation device.
"Alright, let's go back home." Sharq smiled, joining Splin in a duet of yawns, Tai leaping into the box and Sharq carrying it home. ...Of course, missing out on most of Splatfest wouldn't go very well with their fully awake minds once they wake up tomorrow morning.
AN: Not MVP This Time: I tried guys, I really did. I was torn between finishing up this chapter, or securing Plane Champion for victory and glory during this Splatfest in October. But dang, I missed out. I only managed half points for Plane Defender, if I remember correctly, and I'm sorry. Future gg, or regular gg, to all once I find out the results. Thanks again to Anon360 for reviewing! This chapter was a direct result of the writing technique you were talking about, I actually had a decent Splatoon idea this time! I'll try to make more chapters like these, and have them come out a little quicker too. Anyways, this is ThePizzaLovingTurtle, I don't know if I can rest knowing I cost Planes some points, but oh well, more for Cars! See ya later!