I know, I know - blast from the past!

Agent 3 had just gotten back from the Deepsea Metro. By then, she’d had enough reputation with Captain Cuttlefish that he started giving her more leadership roles. Her first: training *me.* The rookie. The new squid on the block.

She was merciless. The Octarians were literally doing nothing of significance, but that didn’t stop her from sending me to their base anyway. My mission was literally to steal some of Octavio’s food and bring it back to base.

The mission was hard nonetheless, me going up against a small Octarian base with no prior training. I was splatted multiple times, even.

Somehow, I made it out with Octavio’s meal…only for 3 to then toss it into the trash.

its-sango-time:

5th Day of Squidmas!

Five golden rings
Four calling squids

cutest artist eva

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Day 1 of working with Inkadia’s new research facility, and this is my first project: creating a clone of the Captain.

The President was quite fascinated by the Captain’s abilities and asked that we recreate them in the form of a clone.

Never mind that everyone else in my chain of command agreed that it was a) impossible and b) unethical.

Hope this doesn’t go south…

It was a cold, wintry morning. I’d just snuck into an Octarian Advanced Weapons Research facility. A facility so secret, most of the Octarian Army would’ve thought it was a weather station.

The NSS had just learned this facility was developing a new kind of weapon few could even conceive of: a bomb that could evade the NSS’s detection capabilities and destroy half a city.

I’d found the computer where the plans were kept and was prepared to sneak out with it, when in walked the Octarian chief science officer, talking to who I presumed to be the officer in charge of the project.

From their conversation, I gleaned that the weapon was in its final stages and that Octavio himself was coming to personally oversee those stages. I relayed this information to the Captain, who then issued a new order she’d never issued before nor since: snipe Octavio.

With my E-Liter equipped, I searched the base for an ideal hideout - one that would give me a direct line of sight to the boss himself. I found it, hid, and waited…waited…waited…

Then Octavio came. I readied my weapon, waited for him to stop - even for a brief moment. I had my chance. My trigger finger was one millimeter away from activating the weapon and ending Octavio’s life.

Then…SPLAT. I was dead. I respawned, only to find out an eager Octoling man with ninja-like moves was on my tail; he had snuck up behind me while I was in hiding and was the one who splatted me.

He’d also pulled the base alarm. Immediately, I was facing down some of the most elite Octolings in their army, Octavio himself behind them, looking me in the eye, laughing and saying: “So…you thought you could kill me?”

After weighing my options, I pressed on, facing the most intense battle of my life. Somehow, every time I’d gained an advantage, this Octoling guy from before made me lose it.

That is, until Agents 1 and 2 arrived. Together, we were able to out-think the lad, escape the army, and destroy Octavio’s weapon and its plans.

its-sango-time:

5th Day of Squidmas!

Five golden rings
Four calling squids

Well, we had our annual Holiday Party last night and it went off without a hitch.

The Captain was playfully disappointed by the Splatnog’s lack of…erm…fun (thank you, New Agent 3, for the recipe) but ultimately agreed we were all better off this way.

To summarize, Agent 4 is fine; she was never in any danger.

She lives in an undisclosed location and since we brought myself and New Agent 4 on board, with Agent 8 appearing for the occasional mission, we simply have not had any need for her and this is why she’s never appeared publicly.

Regarding the “incident:”

The night before, Inkadia Police responded to an alarm call from Agent 4’s residence, and found a few items missing, one of which was a tentacle comb. Police discovered 4’s back room window was broken, consistent with the alarm company’s report that a glassbreak sensor had been triggered. Once the police discovered Agent 4 was NSS, they turned the investigation over to us. Due to the lack of identifying markers, the case almost went cold.

Until we heard from Agent 8, who had by then learned Agent 4’s data had been transferred to the Memverse from some computerized entity named “Order.”

With this information, as well as surveillance footage from the premises, we deduced that Order used a robot to break into 4’s home and steal her comb to scan her genetic blueprint and clone her.

While the NSS has unfortunately been unable to recover the comb, all evidence we have on this case continues to support this belief.

honestly it’d be cool to become an actual Inkling

With the Squidbeak Splatoon largely gutted, I have begun an unofficial recruitment process.

Eight and I are forming an all-volunteer offshoot to assist with any lingering…Octarians.

As such, our primary target demographic for recruitment is Octolings who are not currently with the Splatoon.

It’s unpaid labor, but could be a great opportunity to strike back at what’s left of the Octarian Army.