"We'll need to find where the conversion machine is again. I don't remember what happened between then and now." Michael said to the team. "We need to get rid of that. Then, I guess we'll need to face sis."
The team was being tracked, hidden cameras peppered the walls, their only option at this point was to try and win through brute force.
"I'm thinking the thing's gotta be further in, but it shouldn't be too close." Michael was cut short when an alarm started blaring, ringing throughout the facility. A voice came up on an intercom system. It was Micheline.
"Attention, this is not a drill. All guards are to leave their posts and enter Sector E. There has been a break-in that must be remedied as soon as possible. You are permitted to use lethal force once you find the culprits. I repeat, this is not a drill."
"Damn, I knew this would happen sooner or later!" Angela said.
"We have to find that thing, and quick!" Michael said. The team picked up their walk into a run, rushing further into the Presidio.
Octarians of all types were now running through the halls. A few Twintacle troopers intercepted the group and started firing. Angela and Michael returned their fire, splatting them both.
The group ran into a narrow hall when they heard something land behind them. An oversized Octoball was rolling towards them. There were Snorkel Octotroopers behind it.
The group ran, with the huge Octoball picking up speed as it continued rolling. It covered up the floor, walls, and ceiling of the hall with ink. The group now desperately ran as fast as they could. They reached the end of the hall and Angela immediately threw down a Splash Wall. The Octoball absorbed all of the wall's ink and burst, splatting the Octotroopers hiding in its ink with the resulting blast.
The team moved on, running through the facility.
They were chased by countless guards. They got past all.
"Guys, we need to stay on our guard, I know they have guards that are better than this somewhere, and we can't get too confident!" Michael said to the group.
"Speak of the devil!" Randy said in response. Michael looked ahead to see a large Octotrooper had jumped in, apparently from a vent in the ceiling. He blocked their way and pulled out his weapon. It looked to be a modified Blaster.
"Here I was thinking all the Octotroopers were just tentacles with legs." Callie said.
"It must be the result of mutations. Experimenting with DNA isn't above the Octarians here, apparently." Shelly said.
The Octotrooper roared and barreled towards them. The team jumped out of his way, half to the right and half to the left. The Octotrooper whipped around and began firing. The globs of ink fired were massive and blew up in even bigger blasts. The team scattered, dodging the explosions.
Michael, Shelly, and Randy found cover and hid behind it. Angela was firing. When a shot came her way she threw down a Splash Wall to cancel it out. The blast hit and burst, destroying the wall's ink supply nearly instantly.
The Octotrooper stopped firing and ran forward, he grabbed the Splash Wall by the stand and began swinging it, nearly hitting Angela. He fired a shot. She dodged to her left, and was caught off-guard when he swung the wall again, hitting her side and flinging her into a wall.
The Octotrooper took notice to Michael, Shelly, and Randy hiding behind cover and ran towards them, ready to strike with the empty Splash Wall. He was stopped when he was shot in the back by Marie. He tripped up and while trying to steady himself Shelly took aim and fired at his chest, knocking him back.
Randy had revved up his Splatling and began firing, Michael jumped out from cover and pulled out a newly acquired Suction Bomb. He filled it with ink and chucked it. It attached to the Octotrooper's arm. Randy's fire from his Splatling distracted the Octotrooper long enough for the bomb to detonate, splatting the Octotrooper's arm. His Blaster dropped to the floor.
The Octotrooper grew angry and began dashing towards the group. They tried firing at him, but their shots didn't slow him down in any way. He swung the Splash Wall at them, catching all three of them in one hit and flinging them away.
He turned to Callie and Marie. Marie took an eye to her scope and started charging. Callie slapped her roller on the ground. The two ran for each other, with Callie raising her roller in time to block an incoming swipe. Her arms quivered as she tried holding the roller against the Octotrooper's immense strength.
"M… Marie! Now would be a good time to shoot!" Callie called out.
"I'm low on ink! It's taking too long to charge!" Marie yelled back.
'If I can't beat him in strength… Then I'll just have to outplay him!' Callie thought, she then lifted her feet off the ground, throwing off the balance and sending the Octotrooper towards her.
She took her roller out from under the Splash Wall and ran it against the Octotrooper's legs as she slid under him, sending him crashing to the ground.
Marie's Splatterscope beeped and she fired. The shot hit the Octotrooper right in the head, finally splatting him.
The rest of the group had recovered by then and stood back up.
"You guys are ok!?" Callie said, shocked.
"Yeah, we're fine. Even if he was strong he wasn't that smart, using something made of plastic as a weapon." Michael said, stretching his back.
"But you all went flying after he hit you!"
"Like I said, he was strong but the Splash Wall isn't exactly made of the toughest stuff out there." Michael walked over and grabbed the Splash Wall off the ground, at which point it immediately crumpled apart into hundreds of pieces.
Marie strapped a refilled ink tank back onto her shoulders. "Let's keep going, guys. It's only a matter of time before they send another one of those freaks at us."
The team moved on.
"No, you idiot! Don't use the Splash Wall, use your Blaster!" Micheline was spectating the fight, her voice furious.
When the Octotrooper got splatted she slammed her fists into her desk, sending a recently filled cup of coffee falling to the floor.
She sighed and slid back into her chair, a hand covering her face. "I need to get better troops."
She looked at the camera feeds again. The group was making their way towards her.
"They'll be here soon." She stood up out of her chair. "Never send a measly guard to do the boss' job." She turned off her computer and walked behind her desk. A pair of doors resting there opened automatically. She walked through a short hallway and inputted a passcode on a keypad. The door opened to a massive room. In the center stood the Octarian's last source of energy.
The Replica Great Zapfish.
She walked up to the containment bubble's control unit and deactivated it. The Zapfish stared at her intently as she walked past it and moved towards another control panel. She input a few settings. Gears whirred as the control panel receded back into the floor.
Metal slid against metal as most of the floor surrounding her receded into the walls. A massive elevator slid up from the depths, carrying Micheline's last resort.
She began to laugh.