[Splatoon] The secret that lays in our hearts

Chapter 5: Lair of the Octoballs - Splat Your Way to the Top! -

It's the next morning, and Abbie is fast asleep in her bed. The door opens,
"Abbie, wake up darling! It's 10:00am!" Said her mother,
"mmnn....nooo...." Abbie mumbled back, her mother walked up to her and tickled Abbie until she got out of bed,
"Stop!!" She laughed, pushing away her mother, her mother stopped,
"Now come on! The shower is running for you, quick quick!!" She gently pushed Abbie to hurry her up as she groaned. Abbie went inside the bathroom to new brands of things to wash her "hair" with. She picked two and a body wash, and went into the ink shower.

Later on, she was out of the shower drying off in her bedroom. She was getting her clothes out of her wardrobe until her SquidPhone suddenly vibrated, it was a text from Duncan,
'Yo, wanna go and help the Cap'n again? Hopefully we can sneak past everyone and get there...we don't want everyone looking for us.' It read, Abbie replied, 'Sure, where are you?' she text back, she put her clothes on waiting for a reply, her SquidPhone vibrated again, she read the text, 'Mind telling me where you live? I can come to yours and we can go together?' Abbie blushed a bit and texted back her adress. She went downstairs to have breakfast with her parents, she quickly ate her food before Duncan got to her house,
"Why are you in a rush Abbie?" Asked her father, Abbie turned and blushes,
"N-No reason!" She hesitated, she washed up her plate and ran outside the house, accordantly bumping into Duncan,
"Aah!" She screamed as she fell on top of him, her parents ran to the door at the scream, seeing her on top of her friend, they stared and said nothing,
"Hi." Duncan sat up a bit and waved, blushing and trying to ignore that Abbie was on top of him.

Abbie quickly got up and grabbed Duncan's hand, she ran, dragging him across the ground, Abbie quickly turned at the closest alley way,
"Sorry!!!" Abbie whimpered, helping Duncan up,
"It's fine.." Duncan replied dusting off the pebbles embedded on the back of his body-suit,

They were alone...

Just the two of them...

"We better get out of here..." Sighed Duncan, as Abbie followed him out of the alley way. They sneakily went to the drain they last met Cap'n at, they dived in.

"Hey, Cap'n!" Smiled Duncan, it made him jump,
"Oh hello you two!" He replied in surprise,
"You better get looking for that other kettle. The Zapfish is in danger!"
"Right!" They both said, splatting ink for the next kettle, they found it and dived in.

Abbie and Duncan saw themselves in an area of Octo Valley, it seemed...weird. They walked forwards to see a purple-bomb-looking thing. It started to chase them both as they ran away, yet nowhere to run, the thing exploded, luckily not hurting the two. They walked to some sort of dead end,
"Splat the wall with ink and climb up it in your squid form!" Cap'n advised through the headset, Abbie and Duncan splatted the wall and swam up it, they instantly stopped at the sight of five purple-bombs. They looked around for a way around it, then they saw a balloon with a tad of ink on it. Duncan rapidly fired his gun but it didn't reach, then he threw an ink-bomb and it defused the lot. They inked the the wall ahead and swam up it. A bomb instantly noticed them and charged, Abbie fired her gun and it exploded,
"I feel bad for doing this..." Abbie sighed,
"You'll ged used to it." Cap'n said through the mic, they inked and swam to another bomb charging towards them. They shot a seeker and it exploded,
"The bombs are annoying." Duncan groaned. They inked up the next few walls to another dead end,
"To your left." Said Cap'n,
"Oh..." They both said, and threw a burst bomb at the balloon. It exploded and the wall was covered in green ink, they swam up it to another launchpad. They flew to the next section of the area.

All they could see were crates. They walked forwards and a ball suddenly appeared,
"You have to submerge the Octoballs in ink to defeat them!" Cap'n advised. They jumped down to the octoball and it was chasing them,
"Running in circles is more fun than launchpads." Laughed Duncan, as he was shooting ink behind him, the Octoball fell into their ink and they shot it,
"Okay now I'm starting to feel bad.." Duncan said, as he stared to the ground, Abbie inked the ramp and swam up it,
"C'mon." She said, whilst walking foward, she looked next to her to see a slope she took a step forwards and Octoballs appeared, and rolled down the slope, Abbie quietly screamed in fear and hid behind Duncan,
"Why are you hiding?" He said calmly,
"I don't know what to do!!" Abbie replied blushing and shaking a little bit, the Octoballs rolled down, and they were fast,
"Baddies, stay alive Inklings!" Shouted Cuttlefish through his mic, Duncan rapidly fired his Splattershot as the Octoballs rolled into the ink, and then shot the Octoballs,
"There." Duncan smiled,
"Thanks..." Abbie got up from behind Duncan. They both walked up the slope and they were on a large, rectangle like parking area, they looked to their left and saw a building with a mechanical fish-like thing on the wall,
"It's a suckerfish, you can't damage those fellas." Said Cap'n, Duncan walked over to it and poked it. He splatted ink on the wall and it started to take the ink off the wall,
"Oh." Duncan said,
"Abbie c'mere I need your help." Duncan indicated for her to come over,
"Splat ink on the wall there whilst I do it here." Duncan chuckled, in a bit of an evil tone as he had figured it out,
"Okay...?" Abbie said as she started to splat the wall, Duncan started splatting the other side, the Suckerfish started focusing on Duncan's ink,
"Swim up the wall quickly!" Duncan said, as he ran towards the ink Abbie splatted, they both quickly swam up it to a platform. They both walked up the platform until Abbie tripped over, Duncan turned back to help her up,
"Wait, there's a box down here..." Abbie said, as she turned into her squid form to splat the box, a scroll was inside,
"Another one?" Said Duncan,
"We better look out for these boxes," Abbie said as she glanced at the Sunken Scroll,
"Thing is how do I get back up--oh." Abbie said as she noticed a launch pad and sighed. She launched back up as Duncan held his arms out to catch her, she landed perfectly positioned in his arms,
"Um...thanks...." Abbie said, blushing.
"You're welcome." Duncan smiled, with a small blush. He put Abbie down carefully as they got to the end of the metal path,
"Another dead-end?" Questioned Abbie,
"No, look up." Duncan answered, he painted the wall green and swam up it, Abbie followed,
"I got this one." Abbie giggled, she painted the wall up to the launchpad.

They landed in an area with three Octoballs and three Suckerfish, one with armour placed on top, then there was a wall with two balloons. Duncan stepped a step forward and one of the Octoballs rolled down and tried to attack, but bounced all over the place instead with trails of purple ink. Duncan jumped down and charged in covering the place in green and was attempting to splat the Octoballs, Abbie quickly jumped down to help and together they shot them down. Duncan stared at the wall,
"What is it?" Asked Abbie,
"I don't think I can reach those balloons." Said Duncan, trying to think of something. An idea popped in his head. He ran to the mountain-like slope and splatted it so he could swim up it, and aimed to hit the balloons from there. He just about reached and the walls exploded green. Abbie started to ink the bottom of the wall and swam up it. A launchpad awaited at the top. They flew to the box filled area.

They landed on a pile of boxes, squashed together,
"I don't think this was designed for two.." Sighed Abbie. Octoballs suddenly rolled down, and started to destroy the boxes they were standing on, Abbie was scared,
"What do I do?" She stuttered, Duncan put his hand on Abbie's shoulder, she blushed,
"Don't worry, I got this." He jumped off the stack of boxes and started to splat the Octoballs. After a lot of ink consumption, the Octoballs finally went. Duncan walked up to the small tower of boxes as Abbie sat there,
"I can't get down..." Abbie blushed, embaressed,
"It's alright, it wont hurt." Duncan replied, Abbie took a deep breath and closed her eyes, she jumped off and landed in-front of Duncan,
"See? You made it." Duncan smiled, Abbie opened one eye,
"I did!" She laughed,
"I don't like having a fear of heights..." Sighed Abbie, Duncan looked at her,
"It's okay." Duncan smiled, somewhat comforting Abbie, they walked up to the launchpad and flew. They felt the air brush past their cheeks.

They landed on a small platform that leaded up to another small platform. Duncan inked the ramp and swam up it. He jumped up and the platform was thin, he nearly fell off. Duncan walked forward until three Octoballs appeared. Duncan immediately splatted them with his Hero-Shot. Abbie swam up and carefully landed on the platform. Duncan walked to the edge and jumped off. Abbie ran quickly to see him at another platform. To her, it was very high up, she looked down to Duncan as Duncan looked up to her,
"You can do it, i'll catch you if you want. Or you can dive in the pool of ink right here." Duncan said, Abbie was shaking, she was too scared. Duncan looked around but there was nothing to help her down, Abbie turned into her squid form and dived into the ink. Duncan kneeled down at the pool,
"You'll have to face it, and I'll be helping you." He smiled, Abbie got out of the ink with a tinted red face.

Duncan got up and looked around, he saw a square of boxes, he looked over the boxes to see them actually surrounding a launch pad. Abbie walked up to it and moved a box out of the way. She went into her squid form and flew, Duncan soon did the same.

They landed,
"To use the Ink Cannon go into your squid form and fire!" Explained Cap'n through the mic, Duncan started to shoot the wall ahead from the cannon, and soon completely covered it in green ink. The suckerfish on the wall immediately started to get it off,
"Cmon Abbie, hurry!" He said as he jumped off of the platform running to the wall, he left a pool for Abbie to jump into,
"Take a deep breath Abbie and then jump!" He shouted so she could hear. Abbie looked down and took a deep breath, and jumped into the pool of ink. She got out and ran to the wall with Duncan, they started to swim up it,
"A moving platform?! On a wall?!" Abbie said, confused,
"Just swim!" Duncan said as he rushed up the wall, he got to the top with to Octarians awaiting. Quickly shooting them down, he stood in front of the Zapfish, he waited for Abbie.

Abbie hopped up to see Duncan staring at the Zapfish in it's barrier, Abbie held up her gun and shot it down, she grabbed the Zapfish and sat down,
"That...was....quite scary..." She stuttered, Duncan sat on his knees in front of her,
"You did great. Now c'mon we gotta get the Zapfish back to Cap'n." He said, smiling with a little laugh, Abbie started to laugh a bit too, and they went back to Cap'n.

[Back at Octo Valley]
"Thank you for grabbing the Zapfish," smiled Cap'n,
"Just one more to go." He said,
"What's the time?" Asked Abbie, Duncan looked at his phone,
"1:47pm" replied Duncan,
"We can do one more, can't we?" said Abbie,
"Yeah, we have enough time." Duncan said as he walked off splatting ink everywhere, Abbie joined in too as they looked for the next kettle.