Current Location: Flounder Heights
Light blue team rose up, shaking their heads to get rid of excess ink. Light pink team rose up, doing the same. The countdown began.
3...
2...
1...
GO!
"Holy fuck this place is huge!" one inkling gasped, holding his contact pad to glance at the map. Another inkling looked over as well, eyes widening in surprise.
It was the first match ever held in this place, and rather than battle, the inklings just wanted to tour the place for the first time...Despite there being a recon mode.
"Look at all of those apartments! I wonder who lives in them..." an inkling girl bemused, putting a finger to her lips in wonder.
"I wonder how the other team is taking this new stage..." an inkling boy said, looking around at the battlefield.
"I'M LOST. I NEED AN ADULT." An inkling boy cried, wandering around the field a bit too far from his teammates. It was one of his first matches too, so the poor guy had no idea how to super jump to his teammates nor spawn yet.
Everything he saw was apartments, apartments apartments apartments. Same color, same dirt, same sky. It was all pretty confusing to him, in a map this big. Speaking of maps...
"Maybe I should check that thing that lady gave me?" he wondered, pulling out the contact pad and glancing down at the map. "Oh."
Feeling pretty silly, he blushed a bright pink and looked down at the map, trying to find the way back to his teammates. Sure enough, they were on the map...all the way on the other side. They were bunched together in one group moving around the place, occasionally using their weapons to get to places they can't reach in humanoid form.
The inkling sighed, and started walking to back to his team, wondering to himself how he got into this mess. His head was down, and he wasn't really paying attention to anything, before he heard a whooping and hollering come from somewhere. Confused, he looked around and tried to find the source of the noise. It ended up being two jellyfish having some weird dance off, to where the inkling watched for about a minute before continuing to look for his teammates.
"Hey where did that one kid go? What's his name...Caden! He was here a couple of seconds ago I swear." a girl with her hair in a ponytail asked, looking around in search of the inkling boy.
Another girl shrugged, "Who knows, I heard he was a clutz and easily got lost, so it would make sense if he was already in the middle of the map looking for a way out."
"Even more clutzy than a level 1?"
"Yep, and he's a level 4 too. Kid probably doesn't even know how to super jump yet."
"Should we go get him? I'm kinda worried."
"Nah, he'll find out as he levels up. I mean, that's what we had to do."
"Heh, true. Remember when you first tried super jumping? Wow that was the loudest far-"
"We. Agreed. Not. To speak of that. Ever. Again."
"Whatever you say, miss loudy mcloud pants. Or should I say, FARTY MCFART PAN-" cue ponytail girl being shoved off the map, bursting into a cloud of color below.
"You're lucky that's not permanent." the second inkling girl grumbled, ear twitching in annoyance as she heard the loud laughter coming from the spawn point.
"Hoooly shit there's a playground down there." A light blue inkling boy noticed.
An inkling girl frowned. "Why are you pointing that out? We're too old for those playgrounds anyway-"
"I want. To go on it." he whispered, eyes twinkling in anticipation.
"You can't go, we're in the middle of a bat-"
"I'M GOING ON IT!"
"No wait! Stop! You'll just-" the inkling girl winced as she heard the painful sounding whimpers coming from the squid spirit floating from what was an ink cloud. "Told ya."
With a dancing jellyfish buddy on his head, Caden peered around the area, looking for any teammates as well as being wary of enemies. With a relieved sigh, he stepped out of his hiding spot and pulled himself up a ledge. Despite being a beginner, he was already athletic as he enjoyed running around the house when he was bored and nobody was home.
He suddenly heard an alarm come from somewhere, making him jump and look around for any danger. After noticing it was his contact pad, he pulled it out and looked at the source of the alarm, finding out that one of his teammates was splatted.
But...How so? Caden wondered, looking at the map in confusion. Not even one fourth of it was covered in any ink, the teams probably just looking around the area instead of actually participating in battle. There was a pink X on the map, which was connected to one of his teammates, Mikayla. It showed the X off the map, implying that she fell out of boundaries somewhere.
Must've slipped, Caden decided before putting away the pad. He headed in the direction of an arrow he saw on his map, belonging to another girl named Mia, who seemed rather stuck up when he first met her.
...(tiny little time break that doesn't deserve a line)
Right after Caden met up with his teammates, time was called and the match was over. Judd slowly padded over to the supervision booth, which held a map of the place and how much was splatted. To his surprise, the place was barely covered in ink, almost completely bare. Well, this is going to be easier than I expected, Judd thought as he looked over the map before coming up with the calculations in his head.
He walked out of the booth, and found that both teams were there waiting for his judgement, an amused expression upon most of their faces. Judd sighed, then facepawed. "You kids are unbelievable." he meowed, tail swishing slightly.
Some kids just stood there, others shrugged, and a few giggled. Judd stood up on his two hind legs, and started his dramatic little dance, closing his eyes in concentration.
Who won...
Who won...
Who won...
Judd's eyes snapped open and out from nowhere popped two flags. Not one, but two, pink and light blue. "Well, looks like you both are winners. Managing to ink just enough to match each other you all get a 300 point bonus. Nick, congrats on leveling up."
The inkling boy from earlier who wanted to play in the playground now dubbed Nick, cheered and spun around in happiness.
"Maybe next time you lot will actually battle? Many inklings want to try out actually turfing here y'know." Judd chided, idly licking his paw as his tail flicked a bug.
The inklings grumbled before walking to the nearby inkline, all of them converting their tentacles to one color before shooting the inkline and diving into it, on the way back to inkopolis.
"Yes! Yes yes yes yes!-" Nick whooped, riding on one of the sea lions that rocked back and forth. "I am so glad I spotted this park today!" many inkling children stared at him as he did so, but Nick seemed not to care in the slightest.
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The "I'M LOST. I NEED AN ADULT." part is something I have said when I first played the map okay.
I have gotten lost in there.
Next chapter: I never plan these but I always got ideas ok