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There was a obvious...lack of ground in the meteorite field, where there was once infection, there was now huge smoldering crater, with a purple ink covered ship out there in a ocean of ooze. This would be the ship that Chase, Pac and the sudden Shovel Knight would be exploring today. While the bright purple was no doubt a hindrance, there wasn't actually much sign of resistance, though one could see little figures running through the glowing windows of the ship, soon replaced by splatting of purple ink as they were chased down. Seems the ship was still in the middle of take-over here. 

The ship was no doubt already dead, giving off little bursts of steam and loud creaks as it let out it's dieing breath's. As well as the color of the massive vessel, that wasn't orange at all, but copper! A space ship made out of copper, how about that. 

There was little way's into the ship, besides the one landing gear that has managed to be lucky enough to reach the clean ground, with a small ventilation shaft that would lead into the fray. Now go, heroes! Show those octo-losers who's boss!

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Though Shovel Knight had misunderstood the mission recruitment, Cap'n Cuttlefish was kind enough to allow him to come along as well, designating him 'Agent 6' for this mission. And so, here he was standing at the lip of the massive crater in the ground, with smoke rising from scattered points here and there within the expanse of earth. Shovel knight gazed down at the copper ship, and the very unusual and colorful battle going on within said ship. It was hard to see at the distance, but there were combatants attacking each other with what looked like paint. Truly, a strange means of warfare, but this was a strange land. At least the impact of this crashed airship scoured the plague of shadow from the immediate surroundings with fire, so there was a silver lining at least.

There were to be two other Agents he was to meet with here, in their mission to rescue the airship from capture. Chase and Pac-Man. Shovel Knight didn't know what manner of beings these two were, but no doubt the Cap'n would choose valiant warriors for this task. While seeking them out, Shovel Knight figured he could scout out the battlefield, and find a way onto the ship while searching out his comrades for this mission. Much of it rested upon what looked like a lake of purple and violet, and Shovel Knight had the hunch that attempting to wade through the colorful lake was a bad idea. Fortunately, it seemed one of the airship's struts rested upon untainted ground. Picking his way around the splashes of purple staining the land, he came to the strut and began scaling it, using his shovel to hook onto ledges above himself to haul himself up higher. “Tis reminiscent of Propeller Knight's airship. There art a connection, mayhap.” Shovel knight said to himself, as he climbed up.

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PAC-MAN came along to the edges of the crater, carrying a large over-sized cherry along with him. He looked down upon the split colored spaceship. Things here never ceased to amaze. Next thing you know he'll be fighting trees whilst atop a giant piece of Styrofoam with candle wicks. He took a bite from the cherry, swallowing one of the red bulbs while continuing to examine the wreck. Some other creatures had found their way to the ship though. This would make it a tough spot as he might get cross in the crossfire with whatever was in there. All he knew is that splotches of the color purple were appearing more and more. The rest of the fruit was tossed up in the air and into PAC-MAN's mouth. Mmm, now down to business!

Two others were apparently coming along for the mission. Best to get to high ground and see if he could scope them out. He did a quick leg stretch and then began to hop up along the rocks. Once at the top, he looked out along the purple war zone. It seemed someone in blue was headed towards the ship. The Shovel Knight, perhaps? It probably wouldn't be the best idea to go in alone as there was no telling what was in there. Well, there were the said Octolings but even with the somewhat clue in the name they were still an enigma. The crater looked rather smooth on the inside. A smile began to stretch across his face as an idea popped into his head.

A yellow blur was soon zipping through the crater. PAC-MAN thought it would be fun to try Rev Rolling on the sunken land. It worked rather well, gaining a lot of unexpected speed along the way. Dust was kicked up behind the speeding ball that could possibly even been seen at the top of the crater. His head was spinning. The ball hopped up off the ground and sprouted limbs while his face returned. He bumped down against the ground with his bottom with stars running around his head. A silent laugh was let loose as he held his head, trying to stop the dizziness. It was a good moment of fun. After that bit of silliness, he picked himself up and began to run up to the entrance with the knight, stumbling on his feet along the way.

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Chase arrived on scene to see that he was not the first arrival, but rather what appeared to be a shovel wielding knight. Using his superior Dexterity, he was able to catch up to him, meeting who he assumed to be Pac Man along the way. "You must be Shovel Knight," Chase said simply. "I'm Chase," the Mii introduced himself. It felt good to get a mission after a while.

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Climbing up the landing gear, the three would find a quite small mechanic room with rickety ladder, made out of copper pipe tied together by rubber wire, which appeared to lead up to a gun battle happening above, the sound's of robot's squeaking in fear, followed by some un-intelligible gibberish, spoken by a unknown race.

"_{I-i'm pinned!!!}" A large robot shouted, trying to shoot a shotgun blindly from behind the cover of a large copper barracade. And, he was firing real bullets, real, damaging and piercing beyond beleif bullets. What was he shooting against? Why, two inklings...Or...were those inklings??

These two tentacle haired ladies were aiming what appeared to be two big squirt guns, filled with purple ink, as they rittled the opposite side of the Crusher-bot's building with dark purple ink. Along the ink, the three hero's would be able to see some more robot's trying to get through it, but they were seemingly getting more and more stuck in this substance. No doubt, these were the cotolings Cap'n warned them about. The octolings spoke to themselves in a unknown squeaky and squishy language, then repeating it back to the crusher bot, Which the crusher bot was more concerned with shooting at the water creatures. 

Seems the battle field was set, a single robot without a helping hand in the world, 80 % of the field covered in ink that seems to slow characters down to a crawl, and two octarians with way too much ammo on there hands. In the words of Elton John, "Saturday Night's All-right for fighting!"

(Note: Characters can attempt to traverse the ink, but must succeed a 10 Dexterity roll. If you fail, your character will get stuck, and cant move again until a 10 Dex roll is succeeded! Its risky, but octarians may of never dealt with melee before...)

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Crusher-x1 (Ally!)

HP:25%

Items held: SteamWorld Shotgun

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Items held: Octoling Basic shooter.

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Well, this was some old rinky dink machinery. PAC-MAN looked about the brown metallic room. Much different than what he had seen. The yell of panic caught his attention and redirected his eyes. It looked like somebody had spilled a whole truck load of pink paint across the floor with two octopuses moving about in it. This was probably the octolings cuttlefish had spoken. He walked up to the paint to look at it closer. It seemed pretty thick and he wasn't wanting to ruin his good pair of boots. He made a rather upset face for a moment as he thought up a game plan. As if a bulb had lit up, a smile returned to his face. A burst of blue pixels spreaded out from his palm to then form a fire hydrant. He wasn't sure if the paint would come up but it was worth a shot. He let the tool spew forth some water before taking his foot and kicking it towards the marine gun-wielders.
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"Hmph." Chase thought about using his Gale Wind to clear a path, but ultimately decided it would just make things worse. Instead he attempted to cross the ink.
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The ink was indeed sticky, but not enough to hinder him as he ran. He then began charging up an Airborne Assault...

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...and launched himself at the first Octoling! Feeling as if he were on a roll, the moment he landed, he turned and swung his sword at the other!

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At this particular moment he wondered when the mods to his power suit would be finished. At least he wouldn't have to deal with ink again after this mission. ...Or so he thought before he tried the Mirage Portal much later.

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The first octoling noticed Pac-man's fire hydrant begin to spray the ink, causing it to lift from the ground a leave a clear path. Brains have been used, it seemed. But, due to this, the octoling immediately barrel rolled out of the way of pac-'s kick, looking confused for a moment. Not in an evil "How did he remove my ink?" Kind of way, but more in a, "Who is this guy and why'd he interrupt our fight?" Regardless, it seemed they meant harm, so, the octoladies would have to do something.

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Not quite so lucky, the second octoling was nicked by Chase's assault from the air, stumbling back for a moment before watching him try to attack the first, once again.

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It seems this first octoling was quite the dodger, as she avoided chase's attack again with relative ease by dunking into the ink below her, swimming back and coming back up. Both of them looked to each other, talking in there strange gibberish of a language once again, before looking at Pac and Chase, and starting to talk to them, lowering there weapons. It seemed the octolings were trying to explain something to Chase and Pac, trying there hardest to form genuine English.

"W-wwee...Arnt t-hee e-"

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"_{KILL'EM'AAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL}"

The crusher interrupted there plea's, aiming his shotgun at the wall, and firing a series of Ricochetting bullet's off of it, trying to shoot these octo-fiends without remorse!

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Needless to say, they all just hit the ink, as the octoling's just kinda stared at the robot behind cover in utter confusion. The first, undamaged octoling spoke up with an "E-exhhuse uussh..." Before they both started escaping toward the crusher bot by swimming away!

(If you want to try and stop the octolings while there swimming, you need to make yet another 10 dex roll for the ink.)

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Crusher-x1 (Ally!)

HP:25%

Items held: SteamWorld Shotgun



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Items held: Octoling Basic shooter.

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Haha! His plan of removing the ink had worked successfully. Now he had a way of getting through this mess. He joyfully ran down the clear path and ran as far as he could down the path. To his suprise, the things actually tried to speak. Atleast they had some use of the laungage. Shotgun Man cut them off though with his spraying of gunfire. He forgot what it was like to not be violent for a moment, everyone wanting to bash each other about. Maybe they would be willing to talk? It was a stretch but if it would save everyone from some more fighting he was willing to try.

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He tried to run after the two octopus woman but got stuck in the ink.  This was going to be real bothersome...

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Chase frowned when the octo girls were cut off by gunfire. He tried running through the ink once again...
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...And found himself running past Pac-Man. The ink was barely hindering his movement. He quickly ran in front of the Octolings path, cutting them off. "Hold it, all three of you!" he said, not just to the octo girls, but to the robot as well. "Would someone mind explaining just what exactly is going on?" he asked, speaking more than he normally did.1d20+2

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The octoling's stopped mid-swim, bumping into chase's leg and coming up from the ink, standing up as they sighed, crossing there arms as the Crusher robot peeked over the side of his cover, shotgun slowly peeking out with him. ^{"Well i'll tell you what these rejected sushi's are tryin' to do, there tryin' to TAKE OVAH!!!"} The...seemingly insane walking toaster said, shaking his shotgun like he was gonna smack someone over the head with it. This robot was a few bolts loose of a full bot.

The Octolings nodded to what the robot said, as if accepting full guilt for having tried to take over the ship. The first octoling then spoke out in there Octoling Language against the crusher-bot, while the second translated it back for Pac and Chase. "W-weee arree take over...b-ut, they diid first!" The second octoling said, at the end of the first's rant, which, caused a deafening silence for the current room, with sounds of gunfire and ink splashes in the other room's as the only sound.

"^{We don't invade ships unless they did something wrong! Cappin' Piper would never do that!}"

"Weere inocent!!!"

They were soon both escalating into rants of why the other's were wrong, spitting out robotic beeps, octoling words as well as poor English from both sides of the map, until suddenly the crusher said ^{"What does it matter to you?! You're supposed to be the mission guys, This is a mission where you save us from these creeps, so SAVE US!"} The crusher said, apparently being a Crusher of moral compasses.

The octoling's sighed, dawning there goggles once again as they now were sorta hiding behind chase for protection now. "Believe uss! They break sship!" The octoling 1 sputtered to both Pac and Chase...

Seems this was a battle of morality's, and which stories you find most believable here. But, hey, you managed a ceasefire for now!

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Pac tried to escape the ink again but this stuff really had him glued down.  He called upon another hydrant on speed-dial and let it wash him off so he could actually move.  Might be best to stay out of their territory when going for an attack plan.  After the purple liquid had been washed away, he made his way up with the group. 

Ack.  Now that he had heard both of them plea for help, he didn't feel right about attacking either one of them.  Him and Chase had came in looking to rid the place of the Octolings and now it seemed like they were in the right.  Ugh... He stopped and scratched his head as he thought over the situation.  He was instructed to come in and defeat the his original target.  He didn't feel right about what he was going to do but if orders were given, they must have a point.

Pac tapped Chase on the shoulder.  A quick hand swing gesture would be given towards Crusher and a thumbs up.  A quick gulp was all he did before he took a step back and braced himself for the upcoming war.
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"Now hold on a second," Chase objected in response to Pac's gesture. He had expected him not to imply to be on either side, but it appeared Chase was the only sane one. "I wish we had someone better at this with us," he muttered. Given that Pac seemed to be incapable of speech, it appeared he would have to do most of the talking. "Look, I can't speak for my ally here, but mission or no mission I can't be expected to help either of you unless I get the whole story, and I know I'm not the only one who smells something fishy here, and it isn't just them," he pointed out.

"The best way I know of is if you get me and Pac into the security system so we can get to the bottom of this. I'm sure there must be some security footage on everything that happened. In the meantime, maybe you could tell us all a little more about this Captain of yours?" he suggested. Of course if either side attacked, that could easily mean that they weren't meant to be trusted, and if anything was missing, it could easily suggest that one side or the other had something to hide.

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Upon seeing Pac-man give an approving thumbs up to him, the crusherbot let out a happy "_Yes!" in joy to see he was getting help, to which the two octolings followed it up with a louder "NO!!!", to show this was still an argument.

Then Chase stated that they needed to keep talking, to which the octolings said "Yes!", and in a state of deja vu, the Crusher robot suddenly let out an objecting "_NO!!!", to show that, yes, this was still an argument of words.

Chase brought up some form of idea, reach a security system to settle this argument. "_{Hah! As IF i'd show you back stabbin' fiend where our sec-...You wanna know about capp'n Piper?!}" The crusherbot was suddenly interrupted by the thought of his captain, as you could practically see light's shining in his head, Grabbing his beanie hat and putting it to his chest, as a music box opened out of his chest, playing a little song for his praises to the captain. "_{Why...Captain Piper Faraday is THE best steambot in the world! Why, once i saw her kill 8 men with one bullet, riccochetting through the whole ship! She is the heist master, the queen of the cosmos! She was once a pilot for the Royalist space force, and like the honorable lass she was, refused to drop bomb's upon a village of smallbots! And furthermore--}"

With the crusherbot stuck ranting and raving about his captain, The two octoling's tugged on chase's hand, pointing to an open door for them to go to. "Security termin..thingy in there...i think?" The octoling said, hoping to ditch with Chase, and perhaps pac-man.

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And there off again. You know, for a battle they seemed to do a lot of bickering back and forth. He didn't actually plan on starting any fighting, not unless he had to, and wanted to voice his opinion.

This Captain Piper person sure sounded like the marksman. Hopefully he wouldn't have to put up with someone that good here. He listened onto the robot's story and small tune. Hm, seemed like both were trying to put up a convincing story. He did like Chase's idea however, and was happy to go along with it. Giving a slight nod to the Mii, he followed along to where he presumed the supposed security room would be as stated by the Octolings. A guard was still kept up by him; he wasn't sure about either of them.