Octo and Squid's Lost bet (Private for myself and CalmlyEccentric)

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"Alright two of the worlds best duelers and we're having a two on two duel with them because I couldn't shut my damn mouth. We got no movement so far, Killer Wail is at about fifty percent charge. Hows it going on your end." A red haired Inkling stood alone in the middle of a paint stained battlefield, a Dapple Dualie in each hand, both pointed in different directions. Thanks to her particularly big mouth,she had been standing like this the last five minutes, her head darting every which way. An earlier conversation and her yelling at one of the top splatting teams in the world had lead to a good old fashion two versus two splat off. Though instead of paining as much as possible, the goal had been simple, splat your opponent as much as you can in the time limit. So far she hadn't even seen the other team. Then again this whole thing had started about seven minutes ago. Though with a thirty minute time limit, seven minutes alone was pretty nice. Glancing upwards to the large scoreboard to the right, she smiled. Under her name, Emily, and her partners, there was still a zero death count, though the same went for the other team.

"Hey! Whats going on over there!?" She raised her voice, careful not to yell and give away where she was. Of course both teams had been given a headset to communicate to their teammates, something she had wished she had during some of the other matches she had been in the other day. "We have these things for a reason!"

[CalmlyEccentric]

To say that the situation was a little tense would be an understatement. One that would probably be recognized as being such by even the most dense of people out there. Tera, an Octoling with light skin and pale "purple" hair had been trying to make herself as hidden as possible. She had been so focused on mentally cursing her friend for dragging her into this mess that she failed to even notice Emily had said something to her. Hugging a 96 Gal somewhat close to her as she remained hidden behind a wall, Tera was a little startled when she heard Emily more or less hissing at her from the other side.

"I know, I know! Everything is clear over here. I was trying to stay quiet because I'm pretty sure one of them are close!" She exclaimed, albeit quietly. She had adjusted her headset slightly as if experiencing some nervous click, much like how someone would twiddle their fingers.

[ThePaddedAmby]

"Well i'm sure if any of them are even remotely close then we would have been splatted by now." Emily explained, keeping her weapons drawn as she slowly started to back up. "Im almost charged on the wail. Now I want to to listen to me here. I have a plan but it mostly involves you leading them to me so I can wail their tentacled asses back to where they came from. Actually that's the plan in a nut shell really." As she finished, something caught her attention, she could hear something moving to the left of her, be in very quiet. "Speaking of that, may need to call you back. also you may want to get here ASAP."

Emily pointed her dualie in the direction of the noise, trying to keep herself calm. "You know, this cat and mouse stuff is just annoying when the mouse has a high powered splatting machi-" She could barely finish her sentence as something landed at her feet, a triangular object. Said object now pulsing violently. "Oh you son of a-" this was also all Emily could get out before an explosion of ink hit her, her body immediately switching itself to squid form and launching back to the starting zone.

[CalmlyEccentric]

Tera could hear the distance sound of a large amount of paint splattering all over something. She had a feeling that that wasn't exactly a good sign. As a result, she immediately went back to staying behind her little hiding spot before muttering to herself. Her frustration was a bit on the rise here, so that muttering grew a little loud.

""Make a bet." She said, "Come help with this!" She said. Why didn't she at least put a little more thought into what she was doing before she made that damn-" Just then, she heard the sound of something up, and looking up from where she was she saw an Inkling carrying a rather menacing looking Heavy Splatling.

"Gun?" She finished quietly before ultimately finding herself getting sprayed down pretty quick. Shortly after, she too wound up back in the starting zone...

[ThePaddedAmby]

Of course the rest of the battle, that was for Emily, Hadn't gone as well as she had hopped. Yest she had gotten at least a single splat on one of them, she had received a massive amounts of slats of the course of a few minutes. This had included from sniper splat shots, being drenched in ink, hit point blank in the face and even having one of them sneak behind her and spray in down her pants before splatting her a few times in the chest. so for the match had just been going about as well as she figured. Though a highlight of her day was that she had been able to get a Killer Wail splat off on one of them, though it had also gotten her team mate somehow. Honestly she wasent a hundred perfect sure how that one happened.

The final seconds started to count down as she sat and the spawn base, covered in ink and looking tired out. "Next time I open my mouth, just shove something in there to shut me up will you?" She asked, looking slightly irritated at this point.

[CalmlyEccentric]

Tera hadn't been faring much better. Unlike Emily, she had been trying to play things a lot more defensively, and sure she got close several times with taking one of them down, but it just never went in her favor. On more than one occasion, they would manage to flank her and the next thing she knew, she would be back in the starting zone. Potentially one of the most embarrassing part that came of all of it was the time the other team's sniper had just popped one right into her backside and she wound up screaming because of it. That completely gave her away, and now she was there, sitting next to Emily, also tired.

"Yeah... I think I'm going to actually follow up on that next time." Tera said, remaining slumped against a wall. "What was the bet you had made with them anyways?" She asked.

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"If we won then they would buy us new weapons and gear. They said if they win we'll find out later. dont know what that meant and I dont care right now." Emily mumbled, leaning herself on the wall and sliding down to the floor. As she had sat down, a loud buzzer was heard, followed by an announcers voice reading off the scores. As she had figured, it was a three splats compared to the fifteen the other team pulled off. Meaning Emily and Tera had lost. Emily had sat in silence as she let that sink in, taking a few more deep breaths before looking to her friend. Wanna go back home, get cleaned up and eat before we have to find out what the pair from hell want us to do?" She asked.

[CalmlyEccentric]

Tera grimaced when she heard the score. It really was just that bad, huh? And here she thought that she had done far better, but apparently that just wasn't true. Not exactly wanting to deal with that being rubbed in, she agreed that they should probably get out of there before they found out. "Yeah... Lets go. I'm not going to sit through whatever they have planned." Tera said as she got to her feet. "Especially if it's going be in public." She had added with a quiet mutter.

[ThePaddedAmby]

Slowly raising herself to her feet, she let out a small groan, quickly finding the exit door and holding it open for Tera. Honestly at this point, she didn't care to much if she was called a sore loser or anything of the type just because she didn't stick around after the match. Plus, Tweedledee and Tweedledum said their part of the bet would come later. So for now she just wanted to be home in some pajamas watching highlights of the National Turf Wars. Watch the pros get covered in ink instead of them. Maybe order some pizza or something of the sort. The last thing she wanted to do was play nice and go shake the winners hand while trying to keep herself from yelling that they cheated. Wouldn't look too good from their career. Well whatever was left of it now. Then again, they didn't do this for a living so it was more of a reputation thing. Not that she had much of that either.

"Ill call a cab or something, I'd rather not walk back to the house with everyone in inkopolis square laughing." She mumbled, glancing around for a cab. Fortunately for the two, a cab had been close. Form there the two had started to make their way back home, most of the trip back in silence. Once they had finally arrived to their home, Emily paid the driver before making her way to the front door, spotting a medium size brown package on the front porch. "Tera, can you grab that? Just put it on the table and we'll open it in a few." she said, wasting no time opening the door and walking inside.

[CalmlyEccentric]

Tera had stepped out of the building with Emily as the door was held open for her. She actually wasn't too fond of just leaving right after a duel without shaking hands, but she wasn't exactly one who would appreciate having the lost rubbed in their faces either. Especially considering the few embarrassing moments that she, and she was pretty Tera did as well, suffered through. All the times they had made terrible mistakes almost made her thoughts manifest themselves in the form of a grimace and a grunt. However, since she didn't want to talk about it, she had remained quiet and kept her thoughts to herself as well on the way back home. She had some hopes that this would all be easily forgotten...

When they reached their place, and Tera saw the package, her suspicions were already on the rise. What if it was some dumb prank and they were going to get ink sprayed all over them or something. At the thought of that, she kind of wanted to tell Emily to get it instead, but she decided not to. Instead, with a bit of reluctance, she would grab the package and take it inside once the door had been opened. Once settled in a little bit, she would put it down on the kitchen counter.

"Did you order anything?" She asked Emily from a bathroom in the place as she was switching into more comfortable clothing.