After it all (Agent 8 x 3)

13. How the turn tables

Art credit: the base for the marina costume drawing shown above is from Alexis Pflaum, the creator of the Project Splatoon 3 concept art. Be sure to check them out, as they are one of my biggest inspos for this story. I added the turn table set and tartar ooze in a separate art app. 

POV: Remi

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Me and Iris stare in semi shock, semi confusion, and semi panic. Right before our eyes, we see Marina, but not our Marina. Her usual turn tables hover in front of her, except with extra speakers and a whole lot of goo. And on her face rests that same goo as around her turntables.

Iris is the one who manages to break the silence.

"Where are the rest of them?" Marina chuckles. "You mean the 'Idols'? They're right here". She presses a button on her tables, and a large orb floats to her side, containing Pearl, Callie, and Marie.

Upon seeing this, I snap.

"LET GO OF THEM" I rush in guns blazing, as the octolings behind Marina charge straight towards me. Even though my head feels like it's on fire, I'm not going to let her hurt them, or worse, hand them over to Tartar.

Wait, my head feels like it's on fire.

Shit. Not again. I gotta get a hold of myself, otherwise I won't be attacking Marina much longer.

I'll be attacking iris instead.

Slowly but surely, we take several of the octolings down. I'm so focused on the fight however, that I don't notice that we're backing up, closer and closer to the wall behind us.

I didn't notice until It was too late.

An octoling lunges at Iris, shoving the back of her head into the lockers behind us.

Then all I hear is a soft thud, and all I see is Iris' unconscious body hitting the ground, right in front of an open locker, a small bit of something leaking from the back of her head.

Blood.

All I can do for a second is stare in shock, panic, and fear. Another octoling charges at me this time, and my fear quickly turns to anger. I shoot the charging octoling in the head without even turning around, and then I face Marina and her entourage, with only one thought in mind.

Kill

that

octoling

POV: Milos

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So things didn't exactly go as planned.

There is no one there. No one except a small radio, in what looks like a seagull cage. Mr. Grizz himself.

Excepttt the radio is offline. And overturned.

"I guess no one's here". I turn to Ashe. "Should we look around?" She nods, and we start searching the area.

About midway through our search while I'm inspecting what appears to be a moldy schwaffle, Ashe grabs me and pulls me behind a table.

"What the-" But I don't get to finish, as she slaps her hand over my mouth and gestures in front of us. There we see a group of 4 inklings and octolings.

Better Yet, sanitized inklings and octolings.

Me and Ashe grin at each other, pull out our weapons, and charge.

Needless to say, the fight didn't last long. Ashe has the final inkling backed up in a corner, gun still pointed at her head.

"I won't splat you, as long as you tell me where the hideout is". All she manages to squeak out is "The wasteland". Ashe removes the gun. "Ok Remi, let's go".

I start to follow her out, but I notice a small glow out of the corner of my eye. I turn around to see the inkling grinning and...

Oh carp.

"ASHE LOOK OU-"

And then the booyah bomb detonates.

(A/N: HA YOU THOUGHT IT WAS OVER? THE FUN'S JUST BEGUN)

POV: Iris

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"Ugh" I rub my head and get up.

Wait, where am I?

This isn't the metro.

I take a step, and I'm not kidding a single step forward, and then I see a ball of orange ink heading at me.

I quickly dodge out of the way of the splashdown, to see..

"REMI???"

He looks at me like he's ready to kill.

"You're going down Tavio!"

WHA- WHO'S TAVIO???

And then he starts shooting. And throwing autobombs. And he has an inkjet. And he gained a splat on me.

I guess I respawn somehow, cause there's Remi, on his UFO. "Oh come on Tavio, is that all you got?"

Then it hits me. This is the fight. Right before we get dragged down to the metro.

But this time, I'll walk away victorious.

With a spark of newfound confidence, I Toss a bomb up to him, and then quickly relocate for the splashdown. From there, I get him down off the inkjet

Then the Bubbles. That part was easy.

The autobombs were annoying

The sting ray? 2 consecutive bombs isn't THAT hard.

And then the splashdown phase.

Autobombs are now my worst enemy.

Not gonna lie, I almost died in the last part. WHY WASN'T I SUPPLIED WITH ANY SPECIALS.

After I'm sure Remi's down, I start trying to find a way out of wherever I am.

That's until everything goes white.

AN: OK OK OK so I finally finished the chapter lmao. I've been in the process of graduating and moving for the past few weeks, and now I'm finally able to sit down and write lmao. Well, I hope you enjoyed, leave any comments or suggestions as they are always appreciated, and as always, stayyyyy fresh!