A.N. I just think this music fits well with this chapter, I don't know. 😂
Agent 3's (Sarah's) P.O.V:
Mike joined the battle awfully excited.
Super jumping in the sky, he came down faster than expected with his Splashdown activated.
"Fallback!" I yelled at the close combat fighters. There were simply too many for them to handle. They would surely get splatted if they weren't careful. Not only that, but because of the incoming Splashdown that Mike had brought upon us.
He landed in the center of the battlefield, but luckily missed everyone.
Callie, Marina and Isabel super jumped to Jake's and I's location, also aware they couldn't take too many on. Jake, Marie and I were doing our best to provide support from behind, trying to lower the burden of the close combat fighters. Not long after, Marie gained her special behind us, hovering over us while shooting the blaster and taking out groups of Octarians.
"This is bad," I thought to myself as I heard even more inkoming Octarians. My head turned up abruptly seeing Mike had leaped into the sky, getting ready to swing his roller.
Callie's and Mike's roller collided, a huge splash of both ink colors covering the surrounding area.
"I'm sorry, Sarah. But we have to help Callie." Isabel said apologetically, heading towards and sloshing over the enemy Octarians, who were still shooting at all of us. They were certainly persistent about splatting us. Marina tagged along, the pair sprinting into the chaos of ink occurring right before my eyes.
Callie and Mike were still in their fight, though she seemed to be struggling. Yet Mike had a confident grin on his face. Agent 1, stepping aside, took another swing at him, though it was another failed attempt. Mike successfully blocked it, shoved with enough force for her lose her grip on her roller, and took a swing himself.
A direct hit to the side.
Callie yelped in pain as the sound of her Hero armor shattering echoed in the battlefield, alongside all the swinging and shooting. However, the power of his swing had sent her flying to the metal walls surrounding the facility, abruptly knocking her out.
I continued to take down as many Octarians as I could as quickly as possible. Not wanting anyone else to get hurt. Isabel used her Tenta Missiles once again, luckily getting more than
5 splats with it. Jake used his Splashdown again, taking another huge group out. Pearl and Marina were holding their own, mainly 1 versus 3's.
However it seemed as if Mike had planned this all out.
Almost too quickly, he had shattered Marina's, Isabel's and Pearl's armor with direct hits, while also sending them to the surrounding walls. Luckily none of them blacked out, but were still too injured and fatigued to move anymore. His moves were quick, full of power, and unexpected. To me, it looked like those goggles have made him even faster and stronger than he was in Inkopolis.
~ "I could've done better, I'm a bit rusty." ~
Is that what he meant by those words? Mike just single handedly took out three elite agents with such ease, it was unnatural. But...why hasn't he splatted any of the immobilized agents..? I'm glad that he hasn't, but it was raising my suspicion.
Isabel was laying down on her stomach, her long tentacle hair hiding her face from view. Pearl's body was slouched against the wall, her dualies slipping out of her hand. Marina was trying to get up, but was too fatigued to even lift herself off of the ground. Meanwhile, Marie had stopped shooting, and went to aid her cousin.
My body was beginning to feel tired and I wasn't sure how much longer I can keep up before I get injured myself. I stared down at the gun in hand and looked over at the S+M designed onto it.
"I have to do this to save Mike." I told myself, making sure that I didn't lose sight of what my goal was. I wasn't going to give up anytime soon.
While disarming an Octarian of his Octoshot, and quickly splatting another one with my Splattershot, Jake and I heard another sound that of a super jump. As if it were on instinct, I had splatted the now disarmed Octarian and made myself a path of my own ink to go in the direction he was going. "I'm leaving the rest to you Jake! There aren't many left!" I yelled before turning into my squid form and swimming as fast as I can.
Marie had Callie's head resting on her lap as she tried to wake up the knocked out Squid Sister. "Callie! Wake up!" She had yelled, scared that she was seriously injured.
Mike landed right behind her, holding his roller up high, getting ready to swing at the unaware inkling there in front of him. Marie turned around in surprise and fear, yelping. The brainwashed Octoling had a small smirk plastered on his face as he prepared to swing.
"Marie! Watch out!" I yelled.
Before he could bring his roller in contact with her, I tackled him out of the way using my gun as support. "Mike! Snap out of it!" I yelled at him angrily and worryingly as I pinned him to the floor, the both of us struggling for dominance. Even if he was brainwashed, I still didn't want to hurt him and wanted to keep the damage at a minimum.
I could still hear Jake's blaster going off in the background.
"Hmph." He grunted, bringing a splat bomb under my body and sent me flying away in the opposite direction of Marie. Before I landed, I had turned into my squid form and made it into a pull of my ink color.
"Hey are you ok?!" Jake exclaimed coming up to me after I landed. "Your armor is broken.."
I grunted in response with an ache on my stomach. I got up, held my Splattershot Pro in hand, and watched helplessly as Mike broke Marie's hero armor and making her hit the outer walls. He didn't touch her this time, it was just the ink's impact from a vertical swing up close. Mike stared for a moment at her before turning to us. "He didn't splat her...?" Jake asked, just as confused as I was. It certainly was strange, but right now we're the only two able to fight against him now. Yet, we still had to find a way to bring him back.
Mike approached us, doing what any roller user would do when they try to travel as fast as they can. He flung vertically, making himself long ink paths that he could swim through easily and get close to us fast. However, Mike did it in a way that made it hard for us to aim. He took random directions so it wasn't easy to land many shots on him.
"Hey! Over here!" Jake yelled, running away from me and trying to attract Mike's attention. I looked over at him surprised and shocked at what he was doing. As Mike continued to approach him, Jake managed to throw a toxic mist at him, making Mike slower than usual.
But he pushed through with ease, much to Jake's surprise.
He ended up getting launched with some injury. But it was all up to me.
Mike stood there menacingly, roller in hand before turning to me. His goggles glowed a brighter red as he super jumped towards me, but instead of landing in front of me and attacking, Mike approached me as fast as he could and tried to hit me from the sky.
Out of fear, I held my weapon out horizontally, blocking the huge roller hit. The purple ink splashed a bit on my face and on my body, it felt like it was starting to sting. However, the impact of the blow caused me to lose my balance, making me fall and land on my knees. I even noticed that my Splattershot Pro began to crack a bit from the impact. Tears were swelling up in my eyes, scared that we failed to save him, scared that we would all get splatted here, but Mike swung at me again.
"I'll splat you here and now.."
I blocked it again, even more ink on me began to cause even more pain, and even caused my weapon to crack more. I was helpless at the moment. I stared into his goggles intensely as my eyes filled with tears wanting to be let out.
Agent 8's (Mike's) P.O.V:
After I had gained my confidence, I lost a couple more times as the brainwashed me gained more and more control. I watched helplessly how he attacked those inklings, almost completely mercilessly. And how he now had the green haired agent cornered.
I was on the floor, supporting myself with my two arms, trying to catch my breath. I could barely hold my weapon. His chuckles mocked me:
"How about we splat that inkling girl you considered as your partner right before your very eyes..."
"N-NO! She must have meant a ton to me if I considered her that! You can't- you can't JUST SPLAT HER!"
I got up and ran towards the brainwashed me, getting ready to punch with a right hook. He countered quickly and punched me to the floor, his laughing getting louder.
"No..!" I yelled to myself.
Agent 3's (Sarah's) P.O.V:
I watched as he lifted his arm slowly, his roller getting ready to attack. Tears were flowing at this point, watching how his serious expression turned into an evil, small smile.
This is it..
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A.N. Yikes, that was a long chapter! It took me several hours of my sleep to complete... Sorry for any spelling or grammar mistakes, I write these chapters late at night.. 😅
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