I felt there's to little Deep Cut content here, so I'm writing my very first story about them! Because of that, criticisms are highly wanted, even though I'm a little baby. Characters are also altered from my own personal interpretation, but I will still strive to keep the in-line(haha) with canon. (P.S. Big Man's "Ay!"s are translated already for convenience.)
-Dondondooby
A blazing sun was scorching down on massive apartment complexes, colored white as though bleached by the very sun they were privy to dealing with every single day. These apartments, however, were more lively then they had ever been in several years, stickers colored and shaped in thousands of different styles were plastered around every single crack on a wall or corner you could see. House plants, growing inside little pots hung by many makeshift wire containers of...dubious...quality, gorging on plentiful sunlight like they would die the very next day. Many signs and flashing screens decorated around the rustic town, advertising a plethora of shiny, irresistible, and plenty expensive articles of clothing and strange weapons for the masses, conveniently all located right next to each other by a huge flight of stairs, leading to another flashy building. A train suddenly zips by on a towering railway, full to the brim with passengers of many differing origins a-Ooh! Here they come now! The train comes to a screeching stop as it enters the train station, passengers getting ready to start a brand new life in-hold on. D-does that girl...have tentacles in her hair?! Hey, wait, a tuna fish just walked by! With arms and legs and clothes on! And is that a GIANT CAT FISH ENCIRCLING A TOWER!? WHAT THE F-
KABLOOEY!!! *Smashy and crashy sounds*
OCTAVIO IN DA HOOOOOUSE!!! What the-Can it ya yellow bellied bottom feeder! This is a hostile radio takeova'! Your the most borin' narrator I've eva' had the DISpleasure of listening to! Ya'll almost put me to SLEEP with how long your taking to start this damn story, so I'm abotta switch up the sets real quick! What does tha-I'm replacing ya barnacle head! Imma throw you out like a crappy cassette player and burn the trash! Now geeeeeet GOING!!!(AAAAAAAAH!~)
Phew! I really am gettin' old...Yo girls, keep watch of the door so ain't nobody gettin' rid of this hotness like that last chump! (Aye aye DJ, sir!) Anyway folks, I'm taking over this track now, so ya'll better be appreciative! Time to give this story the good ol' DJ Takowasa Octavio treatment! GYAHAHAHAHA!!! Ahem! Anyway, as that lame-o was sayin...
A buncha random people hopped of the train into the freshest spot in this funky little world! SPLATSVILLE, CITY OF CHAOS! Everywhere ya looked you could see brainless pre-teens running around with their buddies, doing whatever the hell they want, drinking, playing card games, doin' stupid "challenges" for equally brain-dead losers on the internet! And in case ya STILL haven't figured it out(you bunch a' nematodes), everybody's a sea animal! Humanoid squids and octopi as far as the eye could see, jellyfish wanderin' about living in their own little worlds, a GIANT Coconut Crab was stepping outside his shop to broom the stairs to his place! Yours truly is a Giant Pacific Octopus(The freshest one around too!). But before I get even more hypocritical, let's actually go meet the main characters of this here story, eh? (Wanna know what's up with the world? PLAY THE DANG GAME YOU BROKE CHUMPS!!!)
Anyway, despite the sun still bringin' the heat, it was actually well past 7:00 PM. The well-received closing time for the Anarchy Splatcast, the local news station, run by the OTHER freshest group a' sea creatures of my own admission, Deep Cut! A blue, squishy jellyfish with a black hat and white shirt holdin' a tick(the black an' white clappy thing) said, "Cut! Show's over everybody! You all did a GREAT job today, I'll be sure to put this on your review forms for the higher ups! You can all go home now! Oh, and remember, no work tomorrow! Iiiiit's Veterans Day!" With that said, everybody started packing their stuff an' clamored on out of the station, talkin' and grabbing some box lunches on the way out, but most importantly to this story, were the 3 members of Deep Cut, Frye, Shiver, and Big Man.
"AAAALRIGHT! Finally! I was about to explode from sitting there lookin' at the clock all day! Now it's finally time to head home, and put our epic plan into motion!" ,said Frye, probably a bit to loud, pumping her fist in the air...The little bombshell there is Frye, she's a dark skinned Inkling with eyelashes longer than a freakin' football. Her equally as big forehead shone brightly from the inside fluorescent light. Her top fangs protruding down like a vampire, smiling like a Devilfish. Her hair was a bright yellow color, ending in a weird...blueish-purple(?), slopping down to her left side and tied up in a ponytail on the back of 'er head. For some reason her eyebrows were both cut into triangle shapes fer some reason, here ears were ALSO shaped like triangles, but more acute and longer, with her right with 3 earrings made of Eel teeth. She wore a weird sorta orange ring like hat that kinda looked like fried squid chunks...She always wore a dangerously small yellow crop top that accentuated her, uh, chest, barely covering her stomach, covered in a shiny yellow, see-through shawl that covered her upper arms, which are surprisingly buff, like JEEZ I feel sorry for the fool who messes with her. She also always wore these super mega baggy pants with more holes than Swiss cheese, outlined by purple circles, also revealing her black tights(Don't look at me like that! I'm just doin' a detailed character description, shut up!!!), with a squid-like ornament hanging on her left. She had 0 amount of shoes, but always wore these socks with the ends cut off, leaving the toes free(SHUT UP!!!!!), which had a purplish blush like her fingers(Good COD this was long...).
"Well yes, that is our schedule, but I personally think the whole thing will go A LOT easier if we DON'T yell it to everyone in the damned building! Anyway, 20, 40, 60...", replied Shiver with more sass than a salsa filled with lava while counting everybody's pay check, with Frye responding by stickin' her tongue out at her(pfft). Shiver there is a cool-lookin' Octoling with equally as cool blue hair draping over her right eye(which works fine by the way, she thinks it makes her look all "edgy" and crud.)((Oh! Also her eyes constantly look like she's squinting, with blood red pupils!)) to her shoulder. Her eyebrows are also triangles for some reason, but her ears were all oval shaped instead, with her right having 3 Shark tooth earrings. She also always wears a white hachimaki on her head, and a blue shawl a lot longer than Frye's with an octopus ornament hanging on her right. Underneath the shawl is sarashi wrapping tape, covering her entire chest(not big), but not the stomach again(seriously get a shirt or something!). She wears Black leggings similar to Frye to, but with a few cuts in 'em along the sides like shark gills(giga cringe alert), which ends at her feet which then wear black socks made with the same legging material and red tabi shoes to look taller than she actually is.
"Aww, come on you 2, this isn't the time to be fighting! We gotta all work together to pull this off, and it's for a good cause too! Everyone benefits if we pull this thing off!", gently interrupted Big Man, causing the other 2 ta' instantly chill out. And finally, Big Man is actually a huge dark-grey colored Manta Ray(Even though he looks way more like an Eagle Ray) with a Buncha white markings on his body, giving his fins a sort of bubble pattern and highlighting his face and middle section all the way to his tail, which is super pointy. His eyes always looked like they're asleep, with his pupils drooping down most of the time like a cartoon character's eyes, and has a big mouth in sorta cat-like fashion. He wears this really weird white headpiece that looked like a rolled up newspaper with a big red "M" on it attached to a red string that goes under his eyes, but not the mouth, and connects to the other side of the newspaper. How it stays on is clearly beyond science. Oh, and he stands on his pectoral fins!(COD this was long! Let's start the dang story, yeah?)
"That...is true...", Shiver sighed defeatedly. "I ...apologize for the outburst Frye, as you know I spent MANY sleepless nights putting the plan together, but I still...overreacted to your outburst earlier. Iiiiiii'm...ssssorryy." Shiver finally let go of her breath and sighed in immediate relief, "admitting to my misgivings is NOT all it's cracked up to be!" Frye though, ever the fair sport, only chuckled to Shiver's attempt at a apology. "Awww don't worry Shiv! I know your just stressed, I just wanted to mess around a bit! But hey, I get. You put a whole lot of effort into this, and I honestly didn't mean ta' undermine that. We're doing this together!" Frye happily replied with a morale boosting fist bump to her team, making ol' Shiver give a surprisingly genuine smile. "Yeah, Shiver! We're a team! We'll always help each other out! And doesn't expressing your feelings feel a whole lot better than just resentfully bottling them up like usual?" Chimed Big Man, as full of heart as he is tall(honestly, I respect him for that a lot). Shiver gave a warm giggle in response. Deep Cut always seem to be fighting about somethin', but beliiiive me! They're tighter than a vacuum packed jar of honey(that's something Cuttlefish would say...)!
"Alright, alright, I admit, I DO feel a bit better now." Shiver humbly relented, making Big Man give a shining smile in response. "But you know what'll really make me feel better?" "Ay?" "Getting some of those LIMITED TIME, HALF-PRICED ice cream cones around the corner!" AAAAAAY!!!" And so our protagonists start to rapidly exit the news station like a banshee was gettin' ready to sing her latest track, bumping through other employees with very little care, but you could still her a faint apologetic "Ay~!" after getting your lights knocked out(though how Shiver's able to run in those shoes I'll never know.).
Right around the corner, like that blue brat said, a small, cute little ice cream stand was set up. The owner, a portly old Haddock with a blue, pink, and white colored apron(*winks*), just finished handing some delicious lookin' vanilla ice cream with sprinkles, candy, and even one of those fancy umbrellas on a drink, to some snot nosed little Inklings(you can tell because they're fully green, hehe.). "You all stay safe now! Have a LOVEly day!", the vendor called out with vigor. But even though it was time to head on home, the Haddock knew to stay open juuuuust a little longer, cause right on cue..."YO, MILO, WE'RE HERE!!!" Oh that's his name, but, uh, the 3 stooges came running up from the corner looking like they just ran a marathon, but with goofy lookin' grins plastered an their face! "Well if it isn't my favorite little group a' trouble makers! You all sure are lucky I like ya, cause I was just about to close on up!" Said the vender Milo, with a smile all the way to his gills, not even a hint of mockery in his voice. Apparently he used to babysit all 3 members of Deep Cut when they were little kiddies, and even gave them some free ice cream(Man, I'm makin' myself hungry!)! He's also one of the only few people in the Splatlands to know about Deep Cut's "double life", but is so trusted with it, it's like trying to talk to an iceberg! Frye gave a toothy grin while grabbing the teams paycheck, "Well there's NO way in Davey Jones's locker we'd miss out on your awesome ice cream Milo! Not ta' mention that your the only one who bothers to hang around in this heat! Oh, and the regulars, please.", Frye responded while handing over the cash excitedly. "Alrighty then, 3 separate cones of strawberry, vanilla, and mint, comin' right up!" Then, in a blink an' ya miss moment, old Milo had 3 large ice cream cones with strawberry, vanilla, and mint, all ready to hand over(seriously, that guy is GOOD.) to some starstruck stars.
Deep Cut quickly handed over the cash and started to greedily dig into their ice creams, quickly getting a startling brain freeze(always eat you ice cream slowly, ya hear?), causing Milo to chuckle over his stand. Frye was the 1st to recover, "Aw yeah! That always hits the spot! Now I'm even more pumped for tonight than I was earlier! I could punch through a building!", said Frye, definitely not thinking of trying to prove her statement, no sir. "Ooooh, ya'll got some plans tonight? Care to let this old coot in on it? I need a little excitement right now!", asked Milo, which the 3 were more than happy to do. "Oh yeah! We're...uhhhh...actually, I forgot. Could you please go over the plan again Shiver?", said Big Man, embarrassed. Shiver gave a slight groan, but still went over the plan for the 15th time today. "Really, it's nothing to big, the plan isn't a big heist like usual. You see, there's this BIG new action figure being stocked inside Hotlantis for tomorrow, the ultra-rare platinum Sea Snail Man figure just got rereleased into the public again!!", said Shiver, practically drooling at the thought of owning on of those weird figures, I really don't see the hype. "It's so rare, that when you see one in an auction, it usually goes for a whole 100,000 coins, and people STILL try to buy it!", remarked Frye, explaining how apparently important this whole thing was, also drooling(Eeeyeck...). "Anyone can see the prime opportunity at hand, even a blind Salmonid knows that the figure holds ABSOLUTE value, key word: everyone. Every single anybody who's a somebody(Screw you!!!) will definitely be at Hotlantis the SECOND they open up the store, which is where my absolutely genius plan comes to fruition...", explained Shiver OH SO matter-of-factly(*grumbling octopus noises*).
Milo, somehow engrossed in Shiver's lame acting, awaited with baited(hehe) breath. "We simply go to the store at night and camp outside the store so we're the very 1st in line!!! This plan will go down in thief history!!!" Exclaimed Shiver, then doing the "noble woman" laugh with her hand arched by her mouth(you know the one). Frye was lookin' proud while Big Man responded with,"Oh yeah! Now I remember it totally now, you really pulled out all the stops for this Shiver! Great job!" "O-oh, well, I-I'm sure either of you could've helped think of it too.." Shiver said mainly to Big Man(Rizz god) with more red than a tomato on her face. Despite the sheer "no crap Sherlock!" energy of her plan, Old Milo was clapping his fins together with a certain smile, "Heheheheheh~! Genius, total genius! Though I sure wouldn't expect any less from you 3 go getters! But ya'll better get moving zippidy-zip, or ya might just get some competition!" Said Milo all encouraging like. "Oh please, old timer, Deep Cut doesn't need any sort of luck. Besides, my plan is foolproof, nobody with a life would be at Hotlantis so early." Said Shiver(can you guess where this is going?).
As it turns out, Milo gave Shiver an extremely knowing smile, because her plan was so damn obvious, there was already over 33 dozens of nerds camping outside the store in a surprisingly neat line like a sleeping sea snake(If you guessed this scenario, you win! You get nothing!). Shiver could only stand still like a broken record with utter disbelief plastered over her smug, round face(it's like a football, seriously!). "Foolproof plan, huh?", remarked Frye with the same knowing smile as Milo had. She was currently carry most of the camping supplies over her head without a sweat, with 2 of her creepy Eels carrying the rest, though one of them gave Frye some coins with a annoyed look in its eyes(they're staring at my soul...). Big Man though, was more empathetic, placing a fin on Shiver's shoulder and saying, "Aw, it's ok Shiver, you'll get 'em next time. Come on, let's all get in line before anymore people show up, alright?" But poor widdle Shiver was still standing like a distraught statue, so Big Man just sighed and carried her over his non-existent shoulders, with Shiver still making the same face. Luckily for him, trusty Frye had already finished setting up the Deep Cut branded, red, blue, and yellow tent, and was already sound asleep with her Eels in the same yellow, Deep Cut branded sleeping bag(*shudders while giving a sound of displeasure*), so Big Man scooted on in and slid Shiver inside her own blue, Deep Cut branded bag, while Big Man just used himself a blanket, but had this tiny red, and yes, it was branded, pillow under his head. Quickly, he was already falling asleep for tomorrow, until Shiver finally shouted, "FISH PASTE!!!", in despair fueled indignation(I feel ya there kid...), making the other weirdos respond with "SHHHHHHHHH!!!", so Shiver smartly decided to go to sleep to.
