Mikel's POV:

Mikel woke up, with his head spinning and still feeling groggy from the night before.

"Urks, my head....... I feel like a Scrapper drove over me multiple times.", he held his forehead with his right hand, while pushing himself up with his left one.

*squish*

"Mmmmmmmmh~", a sweet moan came from his side.

Startled, Mikel quickly sat up straight and looked where the moan came from. To his right rested a naked Octoling which was drooling onto her pillow.

"Skarlet?!", his head started to spin as his heartbeat went up. "What by the holy Mothership is she doing here?" Then his view shifted towards his lower half: "Why am I naked and what's with this smell?"

While he tried his best to remember what happened last night, his left arm suddenly was grabbed.

Still fast asleep, Skarlet clinged to his arm and pressed it between her breasts, all while a lewd smile appeared on her face: "Mmmh..... I want more~."

A Goldie appeared on Mikel's head when he finally remembered what happened last night after Skarlet's birthday.

His face immediately turned into a red mess and steam came out of his ears, while he looked at the sleeping beauty clinging on to him. "By the shining Goldie..... We really did it last night?!"

A feeling of happiness appeared inside his chest and with a live-filled look in his eyes, he bent over and placed a soft kiss on her cheek, upon which her smile grew even wider.

Mikel then turned into his squid-form and carefully started to wiggle himself out of her grip. "C'mon, please let me go. I'm huuuuuuungryyy.", he silently complained as is stomach growled a little.

*flop*

With a last wiggle, he finally slipped out of her grip and landed on the floor.

"Ouch!"

While cursing silently he turned around, checking if the Octoling was still asleep. Well, she was asleep and drooled right onto his pillow.

"This girl........", he murmured while shaking his head. After his successful stealth action Mikel grabbed a pair of fresh underpants and hurried into the shower. "As unforgettable as this night was, I really wanna get this smell off before I eat something."

Skarlet's POV:

Skarlet just had the wildest dream in her entire life. When her birthday-party was already over, she assaulted Mikel after pretending to be asleep. Then it only took a little more and it finally happened. Afterwards she was finally able to comfortably rest in his arm till she passed out.

It was like she could still feel him kissing her, so she snuggled closer to him. But slowly the bed became colder.

Her eyes shot wide open, as the busty Octoling rose her upper body straight up, while her large breasts bounced around due to the sudden movement.

"Hey handsome, how about we do it aga...............in?", she looked to her side where Mikel should be but till now she had just hugged a pillow. "Was it just a dream?"

Skarlet then shifted her eyes down to her lower half and noticed some ink stains on the blanket. "Wait a second.... *sniff*" An intense odor was in the room and when she looked down to her legs, a stinging pain came from her lower half.

Just as the pain eased, Skarlet struck her fist into the air and shouted at the top of her lungs: "Veeeeeeeeeemooo!"

She then octo-jumped out of the bed, still a bit wobbly on her legs and started dancing around the room while striking one pose after another.

"Who's the sexiest Octoling? I am the sexiest Octoling!"

"Who's got the best seduction skills? I got them!"

"Ha, take that Marie you old grandma! I got my own squid now."

Yet just as she finished her thoughts a delicious smell came towards her nose from outside the room, along with an all too familiar voice: "Skaaaaarlet! Stop screaming and get your big ass over here. Breakfast is ready."

"Ah, just when I was thinking of him~"

Following his call, Skarlet headed towards the kitchen: "Oooooh, worried that I get too hungry and eat you up again? My aren't you a Hot......H....H....o...t....stuff......"

Her eyes widened and her long tongue hung out as she stared at the spectacle in front of her. A tall inkling stood there in the kitchen wearing only a pair of underpants along with an apron, while cooking some porridge in a pot.

His gaze shifted towards her: "What are you looking at?"

"You and me, right here, right now!", shouted the Octoling, all horny again and jumped on the table starting to spread her legs.

Mikel's POV:

Normally Mikel would've start getting excited upon seeing Skarlet like this, but after that night he was more than statisfied. On top of it came also that they needed to hurry up as they had an important appointment in Inkopolis today.

"Skarlet please...... I'm not in the mood right now and please get a shower before we eat. I can smell you from over here."

"And not in a good way."

Skarlet jumped down from the table, bended over and put her hands at her sides: "What the squid is wrong with you? Did your little tentacle fall off last night? And what do you mean with I smell?" She started to sniff on herself.

Mikel just sighted "Haaaah ..... This is going nowhere." While watching over their meal he spoke: "Look Skarlet, I promised you a Turf war back when we went shopping and thanks to two old tickets, I once got from Grizzlo, I've been able to reserve us a special stage for today."

"Oh!", the Octoling stopped sniffing and had an excited look in her yellow eyes.

"Also, - ", he continued: "-if you wash yourself quickly and put some clothes on, I'll feed you the porridge as I am now. So, hurry .... – " *WHAM* the bathroom door fell shut with a loud noise "- ... up."

"Ups?!"

Narrator's POV:

In the big city of Inkopolis, the members from Off the Hook were dressing themselves up, as they will soon have a special gig going on.

"Hey there Reena, are you finished preparing your stuff?", Pearl jumped around her friend in her MC-Princess clothes.

Marina let out a deep sigh: "You know Pearlie, I'm not so sure about this stage anymore. What if I mess up the controls with the helicopter and you drop down into the ocean? What if I made a mistake in calculating the Super Suction bombs? What if ......"

Her lips were sealed by a finger of Pearl, who was standing on her toes to reach up there.

"First, calm down ok?", and after Marina took a deep breath she continued: "I know you think it's your fault that we lost Skarlet, but how often do I need to repeat myself? It was not your fault."

The eyes of Marina widened as she heard her friend encouraging her.

"And besides.", a big smile appeared on Pearl's face. "It seems like the couple that is going to play the test match on your stage is a special one. The guy was all flustered and nervous about asking if an Octoling could join him on the Turf-War."

"Another Octoling? For eel?", Marina got really excited by those words.

Pearl was glad she could lift her friend's bad mood, so she added: "Yeah, and who knows? We might find some clues about our missing Agent 9."

"*sniff* Oooooh Pearlie~", Marina fell over her the neck, nearly knocking the small Inkling over.

"Woooah!"

"Thanks so much, I feel much better now. I will make sure we deliver an awesome show.", the voice of Marina was filled with enthusiasm.

"Right! Let's show them how cool Off the Hook is!"

----- Timeskip with Mikel jogging towards Inkopolis while Skarlet rests in his hood -----

Skarlet's POV:

Skarlet was now standing on a respawn point in the middle of the sea. In front of her was a huge stage, filled with many slopes and along with a smaller platform on top of it. At her side, the upper body of an enormous statue stood out of the green water.

"Wow, ya really went overboard this time, didn't ya?" Skarlet looked over to the statue: *Isn't that the statue which Ava told me about? ...... Oh, Ava.*

Her thoughts shifted towards the adorable and heartwarming Agent 8, which had been like a little sister for her. *I wonder how all of them are right now? Argh, pull yourself together!*, she quickly scolded herself. *You don't want to lose this.*

Flashback Narrator's POV:

Previously Skarlet and Mikel were in a training area, where he explained her the rules of a Turf-War match and how everything with getting splatted towards the respawn points worked.

Of course he let her splat him first, because well..... Ladies first. But afterwards he splatted her the whole time with his Tri-slosher in that small areal.

Afterwards, just before they went on the stage, he told her: "Let's have a great match Skarlet and afterwards-...", his voice quiet down a bit at this point: "- I've got something important to tell you."

Skarlet's POV:

"Trying to be sadistic, heh?", Skarlet said with a sinister voice. A devilish smile appeared on her face, as she let her hand slide along her trusty Hydra: "I'll show you what happens to someone that tries to splat me without my permission! No one messes with Skarlet Rose!"

The countdown began....

3.....

2.....

1.....

GO

https://youtu.be/h1c6JlGiRVg

Narrator's POV:

Mikel quickly got off his spawn and started inking the slopes, as he jumped down, to build up is special before he would engage into combat.

Skarlet on the other side quickly advanced towards the edge of her side, so she had a better overview of the stage to sniff out the opposing Inkling before he could get her.

All while a wonderful song came from a helicopter far up in the air, that filled the hearts of the combatants with determination and an urge to give it their all.

The tall Inkling tried his best to carefully ink his path forward, while being on alert state, ready to pull out his special and rush towards the enemy.

On her viewpoint Skarlet had hidden herself inside one of the ink puddles she spreaded around to not give her location away.

Then the moment came! Mikel just inked his way around the corner of the middle platform, as Skarlet unleashed a storm of ink towards him.

"Damnit!", being not able to see the see the attack early enough, Mikel took a hit but quickly swam back into cover while activating his armor for a quick attack.

"Hmmmm, not so fast sugar~", Skarlet licked around her lips.

With full armor, Mikel went on the attack but as soon as he moved a sound came from behind. (Insert auto-bomb explosion) The explosion shredded his fresh Ink armor and knocked him out of cover "GAH!", and just as he set a step, his eyes saw a fully loaded hydra in front of him. ".... Oh Shi—"

*SPLAT*

"Is that all the best employee at Grizzco has to offer? Damn, that Griz really needs reorganize his staff.", Skarlet taunted while enjoying her small victory.

Staying at the spawn point, Mikel was steaming red with anger: "I swear, you'll regret that!" He jumped off and ran around towards the middle.

Knowing of his poor eyesight Skarlet grinned: "Let's make things a bit more interesting~", and placed herself quite unfavorable near the ramp Mikel was heading to.

"Got ya!", he screamed while throwing a burst bomb and jumping towards the Octoling.

But Skarlet just pointed her Hydra up: "Hng, well hello there Hotstuff." She took the hit of the burst bomb and splatted Mikel in mid air.

Thus, their match continued quite one sided with Skarlet dominating due to her experience and the range of her weapon. Till the music started to change.

Pearl's POV:

"She fights just as recklessly as her.", Marina said in a bit of a sad tone.

Pearl looked up into her eyes: "Yeah, maybe they were related?"

A nervous look appeared on Marina's face: "You think so?"

"Probably as she is fighting very similar to that maniac. But there's only one way to find out. Ready Reena?", Pearl gave a thumbs up towards her friend.

"Yes, all set."

"Alright here we go!", the short Inkling jumped down into the middle of the platform.

Skarlet's POV:

Skarlet noticed a beam of light coming from the helicopter that threw all those huge bombs she was blowing up along with the poor Inkling. "Ah, so that must be what Mikel meant with this stage has a surprise." As Mikel was still respawning from a splat, she quickly made her way up towards the platform as an Inkling descended.

"Häh, that small figure..... I know that from somewhere!", her thoughts went wild as the inkling landed.

Eager to set of her Killer Whale, Pearl jumped around: "Yo, yo, hey there Pearl takes over from here! Just tell me where to blast this o...ff.....wait."

Skarlet's jaw dropped, as well as Pearls.

Skarlet: "PEARL????"

Pearl: "SKARLET????"

Just a moment later Skarlet was nearly thrown over by the Inkling jumping at her with full speed: "Skarlet! We thought you were dead" Tears were flowing down her cheeks.

"Ha, who do you think I am? Nothing is able to stop me!", Skarlet boasted as she returned the hug while also having wet eyes.

From the helicopter a loud voice shouted: "Skarlet, is that you?!"

Skarlet looked up and could make out Marina waving from up there: "Heck yeah it's me!"

"Where have you been? What happened? How did you survive?", the questions just blew out of Pearl as she got herself together.

"Ooooh, that's a long story~", Skarlet playfully answered.

Pearl then seemed to notice someone standing next to the Platform: "And who is that?"

"Well, that's.........."

*10 SECONDS*

Skarlet: "What was that?"

"Oh, it just means that your round is nearly over. C'mon everyone needs to know you are still alive!", Pearl answered while still being eager to hear everything from her reappeared friend.

"Over? Awwwww I still wanted to splat Mikel a bit more.........", her eyes fell onto Pearl's Killer whale. "Wait, that's it!" "Hey Pearl I just need a tiny favor right now."

"Uh, ok?", Pearl got on her toes so Skarlet could whisper into her ear.

Mikel's POV:

"By all the salmons! She told me she wanted to keep the names of her friends a secret, but I would've never thought that she would be best buddies with Off the Hook!" Mikel stood there next to the platform, watching the wonderful reunion between Skarlet and her friends, while keeping a respectful distance.

"Still I am so happy for her.", just then the *10 SECONDS* timer echoed through the stage. "Ah good, this torture is finally over."

But something felt off as Skarlet started whispering towards Pearl, who then looked between that massive Killer whale and him. "What are they doing?"

Pearl then jumped behind her insane special weapon and Mikel realized what was about to happen.

"ARE YOU SERIOUS?!"

He started to sprint away but Pearl was already inhaling.

"I swear by the holy Mothership! SKAAAAAAAA-!"

"BOOOOOOOOOOOOOYAH!"

*Splat*

(A/N: Hmmmmmmmm who will appear in the next chapter? Well stay tuned for the Finale of this story! Rhybgaro out.)