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A drone is flying all the way towards a building in the middle of snow as the snow unusually starts in summer, which means the weather is forecasting a cold one in July.
There's a thing called 'snowing in summer.'
As a drone enters a building that appears to be a church, a cross is where it places the box in front of as the one in a black cloak is sitting where the audience sits at.
This caught the cloak's attention.
Approaching the box in front of a crucifix, a cloak opens the box out of curiosity and then is caught by surprise as the cloak witnesses new gear.
A headset that is more advanced than the current one, a device that is used as a watch to create a hologram, a new phone and a device that makes a hologram that acts as a phone.
"You never fail to impress me, Sheldon." The cloak giggles.
Dropping the old headset on the ground, a cloak tries on the new headphones as it's showing a lot of things on screen.
"Ooh.~ I feel like a robot." The cloak is glad to see how far Sheldon has gotten.
Until a roaring sound is coming from a distance.
"So you're here to kill me. Then come at me, Octostomp."
CRASH! Smashing the entrance of a church, the Mighty Octostomp returns, except he's unusually green instead of magenta, leading the cloak to believe that he too has been sanitised.
A large cube of an octoweapon's entrance has caused the cloak to blow away as it reveals a magenta hippie tentacle haircut and her hero gear that is a black jacket with a yellow high visibility vest and black shorts.
Holding her old model called 'Hero Shot ZER0,' the survivor glares her empty cyan eyes towards Octostomp as he's closer to the survivor herself.
Then CRASH!
Standing outside of the church, an eel mask is covering a dark skinned inkling girl's face while giggling.
"Still on a hunt for me, huh? Honestly, youth today is so dull… Hehe, if she's willing to survive, then maybe we'll have a splatdown." The eel masked inkling chuckles.
"Maybe she will." An octoling's voice called.
"Hm? Ayo what?" The masked inkling leaps backwards after seeing an 'Octo Charger ZER0' pointing at her.
"You're the reason why this inkling is nearly jaded. So I'll make sure to have you crippled, murderer." An octoling cloak hissed in inkling language.
"Oh? So you're siding with her? That's funny, because you two are not only rivals, but enemies as well!" The masked inkling laughs and then smashes the spawn point with a weapon she holds and points a bow at the cloaked octoling. "Like it? It was created by the Ammo Knights. Now, octarian! Prepare to be splatted!"
"You sure about that?" An inkling girl's voice called as a Hero Shot 0 points behind the masked inkling. "Looks like I finally found you, murderer. You'll pay for what you did to my friends!"
The masked inkling sighs as she raises her arms.
"Okay, you got me. I allegedly did kill your friends."
"Allegedly!? Your tentacles and eels are the reason our octoweapons are out of control, even murdering our families!" The cloaked octoling snaps.
"Not only that, but it nearly killed Takowasa as well." Said the survivor. "Oh, and guess who destroyed the spawn points? The very points that can save our lives."
"Hehehe… AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! STUPID INKLING! I am the dancing gangster! Now, I must be off! Come my eels!" The masked inkling yells as she holds out a pungi and blows it by summoning a storm of yellow eels.
This causes both cloaked girls to block as a yellow storm leads the masked inkling to vanish into thin air.
"Tch!" The survivor pulls her hood up and moves back towards a damaged church as Octostomp left as he got away.
"Hey. Remember our promise?" The octoling reveals to have a tentacurl haircut and her skin appears to be darker.
"Our promise can wait. The sanitised are everywhere and you have a family to save." The survivor called out.
"Hm. What about you?"
"I got business to take care of. I'm not finished with that inkling." The survivor super jumps away from the church as it leaves the octoling to approach a green inkstained cross and stare at the face mark of Octostomp on the ground.
"Why…"
Finally, the octoling pulls up her hood and runs out of the entrance and morphs herself into an octopus by swimming through magenta ink.
Inkopolis City, Square
"Settle down! We'll get to the bottom of what's going on! Let the experts handle it!"
A crowd of inklings are rioting as they're called out on a closure to a love hotel by the inkling cops.
"Listen! We get it, but there's something that's dangerous for those who aren't the officials!" The cop shouted.
"I've been through so many fishing turf wars! I can take 'em!" One of the inklings yelled.
While the riot is happening, Agent 4 and Hotaru are at the back door as Hotaru changes from her kimono to another eastern fashion, a revealing qipao.
"Trust me, I don't have a choice…" Hotaru sighed.
"I dunno. You look kinda hot." Agent 4 points with a smugly smile.
"Oh please, you're making me blush." Hotaru turns away while closing her eyes.
"Is the New Squidbeak Splatoon Unit a part of the government officials?" Agent 4 asked.
"No. We're a private vigilante organisation that's sole purpose is to patrol Inkopolis and take down any threat." Hotaru answers while opening the exit door.
"Oh! Now I get it."
"Good."
As the duo enter the love hotel, Hotaru holds out a fake ID in order to hide their faces and march inside the reception hall.
After they went through, Agent 4 is pulling her hood up while hiding and Hotaru is standing with an inkling boy who sports a yellow slick haircut and holding out his money.
"Hello, I would like to rent a room please."
"Why certainly, come with me, mister." Hotaru appears as an inkling boy's jaw drops with shock and excitement.
"JACKPOT!"
Agent 4 is puzzled to see why an inkling like that entered a place that is crawling with 'keep out' signs, especially when there's sanitised nearby.
5 minutes later in a single room, Hotaru and the inkling boy are sitting next to each other on a single bed while the inkling boy blushes.
"So… Are you gonna seduce me or…"
"Why are you here?" Hotaru asked as the inkling boy tensed up.
"Well, I was bored so I thought getting a first time with a hot chick that'll satisfy me."
"Do you have a girlfriend?" Hotaru asks while getting closer.
"N- No… I thought I did, but some inkstain took her from me…" The inkling boy answered as he's losing confidence.
Patting his shoulder and putting her hand onto his face, Hotaru whispers to the inkling boy's pointed ear and slides her finger on to his arm.
"Why are you in a building that is crawling with sanitised?"
"Eh!? Sanitised?" The boy pushes Hotaru about a few words he has no understanding about.
"These zombielike creatures. There's one right here." Hotaru changes her ink from green to yellow while pointing her Hero Charger 0 through the inkling boy's shoulder.
"What?"
"̶D̶e̶s̶…̶ ̶T̶r̶o̶y̶!̶ ̶U̶u̶u̶h̶…̶" The octoling girl's stance is raggedy as she uses her own strength to hold her Octo Shot.
As sanitised, her skin is green and her tentacle hair is blue as her body acts as if it's disfigured.
BANG! SPLAT!
That's one in Hotaru's bestiary.
"Wh- What the hell!?" The inkling boy whimpers before more are dropping through the ceiling as they land on their hands and legs.
Now there's more.
A door bangs open as a bob cut inkling girl pants.
"Hotaru! The sanitised are-..." Stopping her warning, Agent 4 encounters more sanitised as they're in front of Hotaru and the inkling boy. "Are you kidding me!?"
The inkling boy shrieks as he's behind Hotaru while Hotaru holds her Hero Charger 0 and instantly changes into her kimono while putting her mouth mask on.
"Four, you know what to do." Hotaru nods as she's charging her Hero Charger to protect the inkling boy.
"Wait! Who are you!?" The inkling exclaims.
"We're just ordinary inklings that's training for turf war and Splatfests." Hotaru answers as she and Agent 4 reluctantly nod.
Before a room door opens… SPLAT!
Kicking the door, Agent 4 and Hotaru have finally entered as they're raising their weapons, leaving the inkling boy to pass out on an ink covered room and bed.
"Are we going to leave him there?" Agent 4 asked.
"For his safety, yes." Hotaru answers and then presses her speaker which shows Sheldon on her vision. "Sheldon, we're in." Hotaru called as Agent 4 spins her Hero Dualies with confidence.
[Good! Time to seaweed those inside this building!] Sheldon cheers.
[Four, Hotaru, I found an unidentified individual inside the hotel. It's an octoling girl and she's carrying a Splatana Wiper.] Agent 3.4 calls as footage of an octoling girl broke through the window.
[What!? Oh no! My shop! I'm being robbed!] Sheldon panics as if something Dreaded happened to him.
"An octoling? Four, scout the hotel." Hotaru orders.
"Yes, ma'am!" Agent 4 salutes and dashes her way through a horde by firing her dualies at them with haste.
With so much splatting, Agent 4 scouts from room to room and most of them are empty.
That is until room 03.
"Aha! Huh?" Agent 4's smile instantly drops.
What's in front of Agent 4 is blue ink all over the walls and floors and a masked figure holding a Splatana Wiper.
"Inkling. Ufufu." The octoling with a shark mask giggles.
"What's so funny?" Agent 4 asked while pointing her Hero Dualies at said blue octoling.
"Oh nothing. So, what brings you here? Are you here to kill me?" A masked octoling speaking proper inkling is something that spooked Agent 4 as the octolings are known for poorly yet understandably speaking inkling.
"Um…"
"Take your time. I'm waiting." Said the octoling as her voice is sending chills on Agent 4's back.
"Wh- Why are you here?"
"Really? That's it? That's lame. I was expecting something colder, but to be honest, I'm more cold-blooded." The masked octoling sighs.
Then the octoling girl puts her Splatana Wiper near Agent 4's neck as Agent 4 gasps.
"Not going to fire? Figures. Your captain is too scared after what happened to a certain someone, your ally refuses to take all the credit he deserves and you? Why did you join their cause?" The masked octoling asks.
"It's because my brother worked there…" Agent 4 clenches her Hero Dualies while keeping her confidence.
"Oh? Your brother? Oh dear… It's a shame."
"Huh?"
"Hehehe… I'm afraid you won't be seeing him again. Why? Because-"
BANG!
Instantly dodging a shot from a Hero Charger 0, the masked octoling is now facing 2 inklings from a certain organisation as it led her to laugh.
"Oh how amusing! And I thought the sanitised were putting up a fight!"
"What are you talking about?" Hotaru asked.
"I can tell by those eyes of yours, you're missing someone." The masked octoling answered.
Agent 4 gasps as she slowly turns towards Hotaru, leading her to assume who Hotaru actually was.
"Don't listen to her. She's trying to toy with us." Hotaru warned.
"Toy with you? I'm just stating facts."
"Also, why did you break into the Ammo Knights earlier?" Hotaru catches the octoling with a Splatana Wiper which surprises her.
"Oh? You saw a weapon that is just working in progress? Good eye, idol." Before the masked octoling swings her Splatana Wiper, a phone rings which led her to lower her weapon. "Hold on. Hello?"
"She's off guard, take her out." Hotaru signals as Agent 4 prepares herself.
Finally, Agent 4 dashes and leaps by swinging her leg and successfully booting the masked octoling's head.
"Haha! Gotcha! Eh?" Agent 4 stops as she witnesses the unordinary.
"What the!? You're not normal!" Hotaru gasped.
What they see is a twisted neck as if the octoling is some sort of a monster as she twists it back to normal.
"Oh? It's nothing, just a bunch of nuisances trying to splat me. Oh? You're being targeted? Hmph! I'll go get you." The masked octoling hangs up and then moves her neck to see if nothing is ripped. "That hurts."
As Agent 4 charges towards the masked octoling, the octoling swings her Splatana Wiper horizontally as both Agent 4 and Hotaru dodges before the inkling cops arrive.
"Free-" SPLAT!
Luckily, they're still alive after placing their own spawn point outside the hotel.
Jumping out of the window, the masked octoling is being chased down by Agent 4 as the octoling keep dropping Burst Bombs as Agent 4 fires the ground in order to not slow down.
The weather is snowing and Agent 4 pulls up a hood to cover herself.
Inside a car, a manta ray appears in an onion mask as a masked octoling enters inside and orders him to "Step on it."
"Ay!" The masked manta ray responds as he's hitting the pedal and moves the car forward at high speed.
Luckily, Agent 4 grabs the back end of the car which causes her to be dragged along with the octoling and the manta ray.
Hotaru presses the speaker by the window after witnessing what's going on.
"3.4, the octoling is getting away with Four. You need to stop the car from leaving inkopolis."
[Alright.] Agent 3.4 sighs.
[Hotaru, Agent 3.4, we have updates! An unidentified inkling is found outside of Inkopolis. Maybe she could be related to the manta ray and the octoling we saw. Another update here says that 94% of those invaders are exterminated!] Sheldon reported.
Hotaru turns behind her as more sanitised are incoming, leading her to hold out a Splat Bomb and glare at them.
"Sheldon, what's the chance of surviving this situation?"
[I dunno, but I'll tell you two that it all started with the Deepsea Metro.] Sheldon answers.
"So that's where the source went?"
[Yeah. The octarians including your cousin went in there, knowing how dangerous the underground is.]
"Thanks for letting me know, Sheldon."
Beep.
Hotaru sighs and tosses a horde of bombs out of her kimono sleeves while attempting to charge through.
SPLAT!