Nonet Studied The Ink With A Confused Expression. "This.. Isnt Standard Yellow Ink.. And It.. Smells

Nonet studied the ink with a confused expression. "This.. Isnt standard yellow ink.. And it.. Smells of lemonade..? What the shell is this stuff..??" Being too caught up in Tabitha's odd ink, she didn't realize the inkling had found her until she heard her voice. A startled squeal left the octoling as she whipped around to face Tabitha. "Waugh! Hi!?" Her clawed fingers trembled in shock as she held onto her weapon. She was tense, ready to run away if Tabitha tried anything to splat her. A shooter against a slosher wasnt exactly the best match up at close range, after all.

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Nonet sighed as she prepared herself for the turf match that was about to begin. “Starfish Mainstage, huh? This reminds me of that one tower control station back in the metro..” She murmured. Her teammates, all inklings, gave her shocked looks, as they weren’t used to seeing a sanitized octoling in a turf match. The young octoling kept a tight grip on her slosher as she watched one inkling start inking before the match had even begun.

She stared in utter shock and confusion as she saw enemy ink being spread everywhere. And FAST. “How in the world..?!” She yelped, swinging her slosher and making herself a pathway. Once she had spotted Tabitha, she narrowed her eyes and swallowed hard. Was this inkling a hacker?? How was she doing this so easily? She immediately headed towards the middle, using a combination of her main and sub weapons to ink as much as possible, and tried to avoid Tabitha’s teammates at the same time, which wasn’t exactly the easiest task in the world when your main weapon was just a bucket.

Two of Tabitha’s teammates had started to squid party while another one was going in to deal with the purple team as well, mainly going for kills since Tabitha was handling the inking very well. There was a strong scent of lemonade on the battleground for some unexplained reason, the source was seemingly due to the strange ink Tabitha was spraying. It had an odd sheen to it, it wasn’t quite sanitized ink nor salmonid ink… what was this stuff? Finally she had made her way over to where Nonet was.

“Hey~”

That made the two flinch. They shared a shocked look, before they saw Nonet just standing there, her smile still present. She seemed to be deep in thought.. She was completely zoned out. "I..is she okay??" The roller asked, motioning to the sanitized octoling. Nonet was quietly reliving some of her memories from her time as a test subject. Her eyes seemed to faintly glow as she just stared absently at a wall infront of her. Two blue dots on the wall were the only way someone could tell they were glowing. "They..so familiar..why do..deja vu.." Her speech was slightly slurred and broken, as if she had forgotten how to speak Inklish properly.

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The two shared a glance, and the sploosh grinned. “An eye for an eye!” They chuckled “they splatted us, we splatted them.”

When Nonet and her teamate respawned, Nonet didnt even respond to her teammates insults as she headed for the middle. She was calm. Unnervingly calm. She had a soft smile on her face, and her lower eyelid twitched ever so slightly from irritation. “Im sorry about my teammate. Apparently they’re the “splat litterally anybody who crosses my path” type.“ Behind her, said teammate got taken out again, and Nonet’s smile only grew at the sound. There was something seriously wrong in this octolings head.

“Seriously?! All of you are terrible! I’m leaving this lobby after this!”

The two shared a glance, and the sploosh grinned. "An eye for an eye!" They chuckled "they splatted us, we splatted them." When Nonet and her teamate respawned, Nonet didnt even respond to her teammates insults as she headed for the middle. She was calm. Unnervingly calm. She had a soft smile on her face, and her lower eyelid twitched ever so slightly from irritation. "Im sorry about my teammate. Apparently they're the "splat litterally anybody who crosses my path" type." Behind her, said teammate got taken out again, and Nonet's smile only grew at the sound. There was something seriously wrong in this octolings head.

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Nonet raised an eyebrow. “I..didn’t though..? They weren’t trying to stop us..” A confused expression crossed the octolings face, before she noticed her teammate, an inkbrush user, give a sheepish grin. “YOU splatted them?! They were just partying!” “Yes but they were in our way!” “And?! They were not interfering with our inking! Don’t splat someone if they aren’t trying to splat you! And leave squid partiers alone!” And so the two got into a huge argument.

Eventually, the two that had been splatted came back, and Nonet let out a shriek, cut short as she felt a roller come crashing down on her head. Her teammate was taken out by a sploosh-o-matic. Tabitha’s teammates gave her two thumbs up, before they began to cover up the purple ink around their base.

Tabitha shrugs.

“Look, I didn’t see who splatted who. All I heard was them being splatted and saying ouch in response.” Noticing Nonet and her teammate get splat she couldn’t help but speak up on the matter.

“Really you two? I could’ve taken care of that!”  

Nonet nodded, humming softly. "That makes more sense then.. I need to experiment with alternate universe travel when I have the chance.. I was the head technician of the metro for a while after all.." Noticing Tabitha throwing burst bombs, she sighed and threw out a suction bomb, and then used her slosher some to ink a bit more turf around them. When her tank ran dry, she set her weapon back down. There wasnt any doubt. This inkling was hacking. Even if her entire team was working overtime, Tabitha could erase all their progress in a second with a single burst bomb barrage. "Yeah, theres no doubt im gonna lose this match." She laughed. Even in the face of an impossible victory, she kept her spirits high. How? Who knows.

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Nonet blinked in mild confusion. How on earth did she know so much about the NSS? And there was another Agent Eight?! “I..hm. So your agent eight is a female with the tentacurl style.. My agent eight is a male with the mohawk style.. Maybe we’re from alternate universes..? I dont know..Surely if we had another sister we would know her.. I mean, we have our older brother Ten but..”

She furrowed her eyebrows together in bewilderment. She racked her mind for any possible explanation as to why there could be two agent eights. “How could there be two different Agent Eights..? That doesnt make any sense unless my alternate universe theory holds any water.”

Tabitha shrugs.

“Well, it wouldn’t be the first time I’ve ended up in another universe so that could be an explanation.” Remembering she of course was still in a turf war match she threw a load of oversized burst bombs all over the turf war stage, turning all the land yellow once again in a matter of seconds.

Nonet blinked in mild confusion. How on earth did she know so much about the NSS? And there was another Agent Eight?! "I..hm. So your agent eight is a female with the tentacurl style.. My agent eight is a male with the mohawk style.. Maybe we're from alternate universes..? I dont know..Surely if we had another sister we would know her.. I mean, we have our older brother Ten but.." She furrowed her eyebrows together in bewilderment. She racked her mind for any possible explanation as to why there could be two agent eights. "How could there be two different Agent Eights..? That doesnt make any sense unless my alternate universe theory holds any water."

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“Yeah, that makes sense.” She chuckled. “Hmm?..Not exactly. I didn’t just leave. No sanitized soldier can simply leave the metro as they please. We’re forbidden to leave the metro.. Actually i don’t think we even have the mindset to even consider leaving, or anything other than obeying orders.. Most sanitized are mindless zombie..slave..THINGS, if i’m being frank.”

Nonet shuddered. “It wasn’t until my baby brother saved inkopolis from an inky sanitized doom at the hands of the commanders genocide cannon that i was able to leave, as my mind control was somehow broken the moment Pearl blew up the statue with her killer wail. After that, I joined up with Marina, Pearl and Eight as they traveled back to inkopolis, soo..”

“Hold the phone… that doesn’t sound right.”

“The agent 8 I know is a female octoling, dark skin, orange eyes and the tentacurl haircut. Not a male octoling, even assuming she’s trans that still doesn’t fix the issue as none of her siblings were ever reported missing…” Of course, it should probably be a red flag this random inkling knew so much about New Squidbeak Splatoon affairs but Tabitha would cross that bridge when she got to it.

"..Y-yea, i am an actual sanitized octoling. I used to be a test subject for the kamabo corporation with my baby brother, but i got taken out.." She scratched the back of her neck nervously and fooled with her ponytail. "I know its a shocker to see a sanitized octoling here, but i havent found a way to reverse the effects of the sanitization serum yet and turn myself back to normal.." Nonet sighed and set her slosher by her feet. Seems she wouldnt need to use it right this minute. "I have to ask though. How on earth did you manage to ink so much turf so quickly? Surely a modified weapon of that caliber wouldn't go unnoticed by the judges!"

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Nonet studied the ink with a confused expression. “This.. Isn’t standard yellow ink.. And it.. Smells of lemonade..? What the shell is this stuff..??” Being too caught up in Tabitha’s odd ink, she didn’t realize the inkling had found her until she heard her voice.

A startled squeal left the octoling as she whipped around to face Tabitha. “Waugh! Hi!?” Her clawed fingers trembled in shock as she held onto her weapon. She was tense, ready to run away if Tabitha tried anything to splat her. A shooter against a slosher wasn’t exactly the best match up at close range, after all.

Tabitha examined the sanitized. Yep, that’s a sanitized alright. Seeing how pathetic she was acting she was having some doubts but she wasn’t detecting the normal tech used to fake having no vitals.

“So… you’re an actual sanitized huh?” Tabitha seemed unphased by the octoling’s slosher, not even looking at it.