Project Octopolis

Project Octopolis is the name of both the general project relating to my characters, as well as the official name of the 'hero mode' plot.

## Plot

In 2022 of the Mollusk Era, parallel to the events of Splatoon 3, on the outskirts of Octopolis, the biggest Octarian dome and center of Octarian culture and life, many residents living in the area started noticing strange Octarian-like creatures. They reported:

* Blue skin that was extremely cold to the touch.
* Blue and green tentacles that didn't seem to have the ability to change ink color
* Orderly, robot-like movements
* Extremely agressive when provoked
* Muffled and chiptune-ish voice

When the news got out about these creatures, the Octarian news programs tried their best to keep the situation under wraps, not disclosing information to the citizens. For this reason, most people living underground in Octopolis never knew about the strange Octarians that were roaming the outskirts of the city.

Newscasters Maxine and Max Echina heard about the strange creatures from a producer, who helped in relaying information, such as the stages in rotation, to the stars.

### Chapter 1: The Outskirts

A curious teenager living in Octopolis inspects the outskirts alone. They heard about the invasion of Sanitized Octolings through the grapevine, and had decided to investigate out of curiosity.

The teenager spots two hooded figures speaking quietly. In order to hear their conversation, the child follows them down their path. When a sanitized octoling attacks the unarmed duo, the child comes to the rescue, splatting them with an Octoshot that they had been carrying with them. The hooded figures reveal they are apart of a top-secret research mission, dubbed Project Octopolis, and recruited the teenager, dubbed Scout 5, the hooded figures introducing themselves as Scouts 1 and 2. They get a call from Scouts 3 and 4, telling 1 and 2 that they will be at the site soon and are tracking their location through their devices in order to get to where they are.

### Chapter 2: The Ruins of Kamabo Co.

Scouts 1, 2, and 5 make their way through the smaller outskirt domes of Octopolis, which slowly start to transform into futuristic metro stations. Scouts 3 and 4 soon catch up with them, introducing themselves to Scout 5. When they arrive in the Deepsea Metro central station, the room is completely vacant, which even deep-sea Jellies having vanished. Scout 3 notices a water leak in the corner, and gets the team to investigate with them.

Crashing through the already-broken ceiling, the members of salmonid/octoling band FATTY ACIDS appear in the metro. They talk about "strange creatures" having invaded the edges of their swim zones, the traits lining up with the Sanitized Octarians seen in Octopolis. They agree to help the team of scouts find where the creatures are coming from.

During this chapter, Alice and Ushisha start to bond with each other. Scout 2 reports hearing distorted wailing when the metro gets quiet.

### Chapter 3: The Final Battle

After Scout 5 looks through the last station, they realize they cannot retreat to the entrance from which they came in. The walls around them start to collapse, sanitized ink leaking in from every corner.

When Scout 5 turns their back, they are met with an Octoling, quietly crying. Scout 5's confusion is met with instant fear when the Octoling glitches out, reforming into a mass of Octoling-shaped sanitization goop. She repeatedly tries to splat Scout 5, who sends a distress signal to the rest of the scouts. When the rest of the scouts show up, the creature is on their final form and phase, spawning santized Octarians from her hair while shrieking at 5. Scouts 1 and 2 tend to the spawing enemies, 3 tries to distract the creature, while 5 and the Salmonids of FATTY ACIDS apply ink weaponry and blunt force to the creature.

Ushisha jumps from a high platform, Scout 4 on her back. They apply the final hit to the creature, stabbing the creature's head with a blender blade and shard of glass, defeating the ink creature once and for all. The creature glitches out, switching between forms rapidly before exploding.