Chapter 2: 7-12-9-20-3-8-5-19
As me and my character entered the Inkopolis Subway Station, we saw that the place looked and felt a bit barren in contrast to it having been filled with inklings in Nintendo's update video that I saw on YouTube along with echoing sounds in the tunnels. The whole place just felt a bit creepy to me, until I saw the Squid Sisters sitting by one of the tables as I moved my inkling towards them, the two noticing him and waving happily at my inkling.
"Hey, Agent 3! How did the Turf Wars go?" She smiles happily at my inkling, as a notification pops up that I can even use the microphone to interact with the Squid Sisters outside of the phone calls, so I do just as the game tells me to do and tell Callie what happened. "It was just strange! The inklings that I splatted just kept disappearing from the games, and I don't know what even happened during the matches!" I say to the microphone, to which Callie only responds with... jumbled letters. Not actual dialogue, but jumbled letters as Marie just looks at me with a confused expression. I see that Callie begins glitching out, as I tried backing away with my character. Nothing happened. I was afraid of what was going to happen, until the game seemed to freeze up. I sighed and got up, about to reset the Wii U console until I heard something from my television. I looked up, and saw that Marie was talking now while Callie seemed to be frozen to her seat by the glitches surrounding her while Marie is standing up with a concerned look.
"Inklings that you splatted kept disappearing? What happened?" She asks, not looking at my character, but at the camera. I was confused as to why she is looking at another direction instead of looking my inkling, which began creeping me out as I try to say something.
"W-what's even going on!? I thought this was going to be a new and normal update!" I shouted at the microphone, to which the glitches just became worse as the map around me began to disappear and Callie's model began to distort and glitch out. Marie begins sweating in visible fear, as she says this piece of dialogue that took me completely by surprise. "Stop mentioning anything that Callie or the other characters won't understand! It will only make these glitches worse! Say something that the Squid Sisters will understand!" Her voice began changing from her usual inkling voice to a young human female adult's voice. I recognize this voice now, but I couldn't put my finger at who it belonged to as I said something that would make more sense to Callie to stop the game from becoming corrupted.
"The Turf Wars went great, Callie! Are you two ready to go to the Calamari Region?" I said, trying not to sound nervous or freaked out as the glitches just suddenly stopped. Callie became completely normal, and the map was returned back to its original state before the glitches happened. "Of course I am excited, Agent 3! No, both of us are!" She fist pumps the air, as Marie half-smiles at my inkling and Callie, the duo not even seeming to remember what has just happened. I couldn't shrug the fact that something was wrong with this new update, but something inside of me just urged me to keep on going as I kept the conversation rolling without trying to break or corrupt the game. We waited for a while, and as we did, the Squid Sisters asked me questions regarding about how it felt to save the Great Zapfish and how it felt to splat the octarians there.
"Well, I had fun blasting those octarians and saving the Great Zapfish from there! What do you two think?" I said with a somewhat cool attitude, as the Squid Sisters respond by placing their hands behind their over in a relaxed manner while their eyes are closed as they respond to my question.
"It's obvious, Agent 3. Me and Marie had a lot of fun watching you splat those octarians!" The dark tentacled Squid Sister jumps up from her seat, punching the air in a playful manner as she looks at my inkling with a cocky smile. "Like, we were literally screaming in excitement while you were fighting Octavio in his giant, awesome mech, right Marie!?" She says with joy in her voice, to which Marie begins talking after hearing everything Callie said.
"Well, I wasn't really "screaming" in excitement, Callie. I was just rooting for Agent 3 while he was trying to take down Octavio." She looks at my inkling, smiling at him as she asks my inkling something. "Besides, what is your name, Agent 3? That's what me and Callie have been wanting to know for a while!" She smiles happily at my inkling. As I am about to say my name until I pause, thinking about if I should tell them my name or not. After a while of waiting, I respond to Marie's question.
"Well, my name is Sam! You two happy to know my name now?" I say to the microphone with a somewhat cocky attitude. Callie happily acknowledges my name, but what grabs my attention is Marie's expression. She seems a bit happy, but at the same time, seems to be wondering about something as she places her hand under her chin. And before you ask, yes. Sam is my real name. I won't be giving my last name, since I want to keep my parents and siblings safe.
"Well, it's nice to know your name now, Sam. Listen, when we get on the train, I want to talk to you about something." Marie says with a happy voice along with a hint of confusion as I just shrug off Marie's confusion. I then hear something over the intercom in the subway station, a voice of a female inkling adult talking.
"Attention, all inklings! The train to the Calamari City will be arriving shortly, please get your tickets and luggage ready! This will be the last chance for inklings to go to the Calamari Region before the Rainstorm begins! Thank you all for your time, and have a safe journey!" The voice says as I turn the camera to the ticket station, seeing several inklings walking down the stairs to the subway station to buy some tickets for themselves. I see them turn toward the Squid Sisters and my inkling, and expect them to rush over to the two. But I'm surprised, as soon as they notice my inkling, they seem to stop looking at the Squid Sisters and my inkling as I just stare in confusion. "Why are all of the inklings so afraid of me? What did I do to them?" I wonder as I proceed to ask the Squid Sisters if they have tickets to the Calamari Region.
"Of course we do, Sam!" She pulls out 3 tickets, the tickets having the names of: "Callie" "Marie" and "Agent 3" on it. She gives one to my inkling and Marie, as I hear the sound of a train come from the left side of the station. It soon arrives, and multiple inkling boys and girls step out, fascinated by the sight of the Inkopolis Town as some of them turn to look at the Squid Sisters whom they are fans of, only to immediately look away as they spot my character. I so badly want to ask the two cousins why the inklings that see me are afraid of my character, but that would probably make the whole game start to glitch out again, so I avoid doing that. Upon stepping inside of the train and finding some seats, one of the Squid Sisters asks a question that makes me ask the question that I didn't want to ask earlier.
"Hey, Sam? Why were the inklings avoiding eye contact with us?" Marie asks, to which I proceed to answer her question. "I don't know, Marie. Ever since the Turf Wars, all of the inklings have stopped looking at me or acknowledged me in a nervous or fearful manner!" I say to the microphone, to which I notice a flicker on Callie's model and the world around my inkling and Marie. "Heh, they must be a bit afraid of you since you're so good at Turf Wars, that's all!" The Squid Sister optimistically skips onto the train, to which I want to say something, but avoid doing so as I move my inkling to the train Callie and Marie entered.
Then a cutscene happens. I was kind of expecting this to happen, since this is a singleplayer campaign, but I was caught by surprise as I saw the cutscenes having actual dialogue instead of silence.
"So, who's excited to see Cap'n Cuttlefish and Octavio after the Great Zapfish Incident?" Marie says with a smirk as my inkling and Marie sit together while Callie sits on the other end. "I know that I've said this so many times, but I am so excited to see how our grandfather is doing along with Octavio!" Callie says, to which Marie nods and looks at the inkling that I control. "And what about you, Sam? Are you excited as well?" She says, as I respond to her with my microphone. "Of course I am, been a while since I played the singlepla-" I was about to cut that off and replace it, only for the world around me to flicker into static twice as Callie looks confused as to what I just said.
"What were you about to say, Sam?" She asks, looking curious like a cat as if she didn't notice the world flickering around her. I try to readdress my line, and say something else.
"Oh, I was about to say, that I am excited to see them both after the events at Octo Valley!" And thank god, there was no flickering this time as Callie responds and begins relaxing. Looking to the left of my inkling, it seems as though Marie sighs in relief, as if she knows what's going on. She soon grabs my inkling's hand, as she asks for me to follow her, to which I do much to Callie's confusion.
Recommended Music: Gaster's Theme Reversed
The scene switches to Marie and my character inside of the bathroom, the white tentacled Squid Sister looking at me with a stern expression as she puts her two hands onto her sides.
"Sam, we need to talk. Now." She says, Marie locking the door behind her so no one can get inside to hear the conversation.
"What do we need to talk about? The flickering and the glitches that I've seen?" As soon as I finish that sentence, I see the world starting to glitch out and flicker with static for about 3 times, but Marie isn't phased by it as her expression becomes somewhat angry as she sees the flickers and distortions around and inside the train.
"This is serious, Sam! Stop mentioning anything about flickering or glitches! It'll destroy this universe that me and the others live in!" Marie's voice changes to that same female human adult voice I heard from earlier as I ask one question to the Squid Sister that peaked my curiosity. "That you live in? Are you a real person, or something?" I say, not sure whether or not to believe the Squid Sister who just proceeds to sigh and looks at my inkling with a tired look.
"Look, let's just go back to Callie before this "game" gets fully corrupted, alright? Quit mentioning about "glitches" "games" or whatever before it's too late!" She says hastily as she unlocks the door as my inkling and Marie walk toward Callie and take a seat, Marie wearing a happy expression again as if nothing has happened.
Recommended to stop the music.
"Hey, were you two doing something in there that everyone else shouldn't know about?" She winks with one of her eyes teasingly, to which Marie just rolls her eyes while forming a half-smile as her inkling voice returns. "Callie, you goofball! Of course we didn't! We were just talking about how we should be treating Octavio and Cuttlefish while we'll be staying there!" She obviously lies to her sister as I could tell, but it was for my safety and hers as she begins relaxing again on her seat while Callie makes a sound of acknowledgement to her cousin, and proceeds to fall asleep as the train starts moving. The camera pans outward afterward, as I am able to control my inkling once more. As I grab the left joystick on my Gamepad, Marie makes a "hm" sound, as my inkling turns to look at her.
"Hey, Sam? Where are you going?" She asks me as my inkling turns to look at her. "Oh, I'm just going to explore the rest of this train out of curiosity. I'll be back in a moment!" I say to her with the microphone, to which Marie nods, and rests on her seat while closing her eyes. I move my inkling to where the bathroom is, wanting to explore the rest of the train. I look out the windows, and see that the train is going through forests and fields as I see the inklings around my character sleeping and some talking with each other. I buy some sandwiches for my character and the Squid Sisters, but besides that, nothing interesting to see on the train. So I just proceed move my inkling back to where the Squid Sisters are, and make him sit there and have him give the sandwiches to Callie and Marie as the screen fades to black. It doesn't take long, until some words appear on the screen to establish the location of this singleplayer campaign.
"2 hours later, Calamari City, 2:38 PM"
Author's Note: Alright, so this chapter was VERY hard for me to write, to be honest. I was originally going to introduce a new character, but I figured it wouldn't be time yet to introduce him. It'll have to wait, and I'll possibly introduce the new character in Chapter 3.
Anyways, I had some trouble with writing this, considering that this isn't really into Genocide territory yet. But it will come eventually... 23-8-5-14 3-1-12-12-9-5 4-9-5-19 =)
Until then, it's time to work on Chapter 24 now for the normal version!
-Lord Apoplexy
(P.S.: Use the alphabet to find out what the numbers say. You'll find some... disturbing clues as to what will happen. =))