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The Deep Sea Brawl area is basically one big paintball arena,spanning a good chunk right off the coast of Starr park.

In this place where bright,dry paint on every wall is just a marker of a missed shot,or fallen soldier-

I mean defeated player!

Deep into the area,one will find a strange building,stranger than usual,it was littered with paint,like any other building in the deep sea brawl,but sounds could be heard from it,the sounds of what seemed like people chattering amongst themselves.

And the clattering of paint cans...

On closer inspection,one would see...

The Deep sea trio!

They are a complete group of three brawlers:

Hank,the shrimp who is simply prawn ready, seemingly commander of this commotion,...and resident of his customized,fish shaped,tank

Clancy,the possibly schizophrenic h̶u̶m̶a̶n̶ lobster,who has been seen more in some tunnel,mumbling to himself,than actually being in battle

These two take the "sacred" game of paintball,FAR too seriously for their own good,other brawlers have tried getting them out of the battlefield for a bit to just..hang out,but,to them,duty is more important,their duty to avenge their fallen brothers and sisters who had died to a certain samurai...

But then,there is Otis,a mysterious squid with a starfish friend called Cil,it was actually forcefully conscripted into their excuse of an army,it is absolutely sick of them and their tomfoolery,it actually does not associate with Hank and Clancy
because of this.

Though every time it tries to escape,they always find a way to bring him back into the army...

Otis has had enough of this back and forth,he is going to try to escape the deep sea for a bit,explore starr park outside of brawls and maybe even find this Samurai that his triomates hate so much.

One night,when Hank and Clancy were sleeping,Otis snuck out the building with the idea of freedom,of no longer being forcefully conscripted,even if it was for a short while,he really just wanted to be out of their vicinity for once.

Soon,Otis was on the shores of Super City,it was empty as it was night time,it took a second to take in the breeze,allowing Cil to embrace it with it before moving on.

Otis and Cil wandered the Park before finding a bush,near the Katana kingdom,it was practically empty so it decided to go sleep in the bush while Cil kept watch.The squid fell asleep almost instantly into Dreamland...
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Early,the next morning,waking up to the relatively tight grasp of her husband,Kenji,was Kaze,the humble geisha with movements as graceful if not more as a swan,her husband's snores ringed in her ear as she woke up but she didn't mind,she didn't even mind the grasp he had on her,she knew he was just scared of losing her again,she found it rather cute,actually.

She wriggled herself out of the samurai's grasp as she got out of bed,she then did her regular morning routine before taking her daily morning walk.
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Cil wakes Otis up,Cil noticed something coming towards the two and it got scared so it woke Otis up.

Otis stumbles awake before looking to the figure Cil saw

It was a rather tall figure(to it,at least),the details couldn't really be seen as the sun was barely up,but slowly started appearing as it approached closer.

Otis panics as the figure comes,riffing the leaves of the bush and attracting the figure's attention
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Kaze,as she walks through the kingdom,slowly feels the suffocating thoughts of her being a deadly assassin during her youth coming back yet again,she's been feeling that a part of her life has felt empty,and it was obvious why.

Just as she was about think further into it,she hears ruffling from a bush,she didn't think too much of it at first,but it was too sudden,she decides to check it out.

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Otis and Cil try their absolute hardest to hide from the geisha's gaze,but her eyes were too sharp,even at her age where she is married.

Otis was ready for a slash to the helmet or tug on the painting pipe,but was met with a gentle,graceful gaze from what could probably be the most beautiful human Otis had ever seen

"Oh,you poor thing,where did you come from now? You must be hungry..." She basically whispers,trying not to scare the squid away.

Despite Otis not being able to speak,it can still understand what most people said,answering back was the real challenge,it just had a lot of trouble communicating.

So...it,awkwardly danced side to side,it really did not have an answer to a beautiful lady staring at it with weirdly soft eyes.

The geisha giggled softly while subtlety dancing with the squid,after a bit,she picked it up with her warm,soft,graceful hands,Otis couldn't help but be at least a bit flustered at the kindness.

Kaze took Otis back to her and kenji's house(with consent,of course)like those traditional Japanese houses,she sat it and cil down on the mats before going to prepare it a small,yet delicious meal
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Back down at the deep sea brawl,at the headquarters of the deep sea trio,the shrimp and lobster were fast asleep in their excuse of a base of operations,snores ringed in the room

This went on for a couple of hours until Hank woke up choking and coughing on his saliva

"AE-AEHUH-MMHPH,ughhh,goddammit,did we seriously let our guard down"

He sighs,kicking on a bucket on which Otis was supposed to be,but it was not

"Hey,private squid ink,get up" Hank mumbles,he was still half asleep,rubbing his dots for eyeballs,"we're training today-WHAT?!"

"hm,sir?" Clancy was still like,90% asleep on a broken couch,his drool dripped to the floor in one straight stream.

"WAKE UP, LOBSTER BOY" Clancy felt himself being rocked back and forth by a...shrimp,shaking him awake

"SQUID INK IS GONE,PRIVATE,IT'S BEEN TAKEN...BY OUR WORST ENEMY..."

"YOU MEAN...OTIS?! WORST ENEMY?! YOU MEAN WE'LL HAVE TO GO UP AND FIND EM! "

"CORRECT,BUT ARE YOU READY FOR THE TASK,PRIVATE?"

"Y-YES SIR! "

The two lunatics go up to the surface and march to the Katana kingdom,their..messy attempt at looking like a powerful army had everyone looking at them funny,Clancy was a bit unsettled,probably because they could tell he was a human in a lobster suit from a mile away,but he didn't believe that so he kept going.

After shuffling in a bush forest for a couple of minutes,they had found the serene Katana kingdom.

"It's..."

"Trashy? Yeah, thought so. " Hank stated

"...yeah" Clancy "agrees"

Hank pulled some binoculars to his face and looked around,he saw something red in one of the houses,on closer inspection,it was Otis and Cil!...sitting on a mat?

"Hmmmmmmmm" Hank hums

He looked closer, he gasped at he saw,it could could probably be his worst nightmare ever,one he wouldn't even wish on his s̶e̶c̶o̶n̶d̶ worst enemy

A tall figure walked to Otis,with a smooth wooden board with what seemed like sushi,it was set down on the floor with him.

"Oh no... " Hank said with a hint of PTSD

"W-What..sir?" Clancy stuttered,antennae shooting up to the sky indicating his surprise.

"LOOK! AT HER!" Hank hands the binoculars to him

Clancy throws them to his face and was immediately met with confusion,all he saw was a person with Otis in a traditional Japanese house

"I dunno,boss,looks normal to me."

"OH FOR-" Hank snatched the binoculars away in bloody red rage.

"SHE,IS THE WIFE OF OUR WORST ENEMY,THAT SWORD WIELDING IDIOT"

"WAIT HIM?!"

"YES,HIM,NOW HE PROBABLY WANTS HIS WIFE TO POISON SQUID INK AND KIDNAP IT TO EXTRACT INFORMATION,WE NEED TO MOVE! "

"OH THAT MAKES SENSE,WHATEVER YOU SAY,BOSS"

"YEAHAHHAHHHHHHHHH" They shout in unison,not realizing people nearby who were staring at them who  had heard everything

"...i think people are looking at us-"

"DONT EVEN GIVE A CARE IN THE WORLD FOR THAT,YOU'RE NOT A HUMAN,ARE YOU?" Hank's words ringed in Clancy's ear,only triggering his "I'm not a human" mentality

"hehe, yeahah,lets snap to it!"
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Kaze set down the wooden board with a singular sushi roll,in front of Otis.

"I...dont know how you can eat,though..."

Otis took a chunk,turned around and...consumed it before turning back around.

"Oh-" the geisha chuckled

"I guess some secrets aren't meant to be revealed! Eat up,it's yours." She smiled

After taking a few more bites,Otis heard faint shouts from outside,it was about to take a look before kaze slid the sliding door closed.

She sighed,saying

"Some people just have no respect..." With a hint of anger,that probably internally scared the squid and starfish,they both are pretty weak willed

Just then,Kenji walked in,still yawning as he likely just woke up from his deep sleep,he went over to hug his wife before seeing the squid and starfish on the floor,happily eating a sushi roll.

"I found it earlier today,it looked scared so,I took it inside." The geisha explained

"I've seen it before..."

"Yes,it's name is Otis,if I recall from the recent brawls I've been in."

"But I have never seen it with it's triomates,those uh-crazy seafood people,I don't think it likes to be around them"

"I see,they're outside causing trouble...ill deal with them-" kaze insists,significantly angrier

"No no,Ill go,you are looking more and more distressed,please,relax with the squid,okay?"

"...alright" kaze sighs

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Kenji walked outside to the commotion, he didn't expect to see those two out of the ocean, they were sea creatures, but he remembered they were brawlers and this was Starr Park, of course they could stay on land.

He walked up to the two lunatics, one could clearly tell he was tired of these guys and their antics, he thought they were just bothering him and his wife for the sake of it as well as forcefully conscripting an innocent squid...

He cleared his throat and spoke, trying not make his heavy Japanese accent apparent but failing,

"Uh-hey...can you please stop bothering me and my wife...and even your friend who just came here" he says, clearly trying to be kind

But the two lunatics are also stubborn ones, the don't budge,

"YOU THINK WE'LL LET YOU OFF THAT EASILY? YOU KNOW WHAT? CUSTOM BRAWL, TOMORROW, SOLO SHOWDOWN, 1V1, YOU LOSE, YOU HAVE TO LET US IN." Hank challenges Kenji, like it's some sort of game or something

"No...hey, lobster..man, are you actually with this..thing? Are you not a human is this not...childish?"

Clancy was shocked at what the samurai said but was also angry, he hated when his "I'm not a human" mentality was questioned, he had left his human life years ago, he is now a lobster...right?

"Well I'll have you know, I...am a warrior of the sea(o̶n̶e̶ p̶i̶e̶c̶e̶ r̶e̶f̶e̶r̶e̶n̶c̶e̶ k̶i̶n̶d̶a̶)̶...." He paused, the way he said "human" bothered him, it reminded him of a past he couldn't remember no matter how hard he tried, he scurried off, leaving Hank behind

"HEY, PRIVATE, GET YOUR ASS BACK HERE" Hank ordered, but Clancy was long gone by then

"...ill have a chat with him later, ANYWAYS" Hank pressed a button in his tank, activating his super, fish torpedoes shot out, Kenji narrowly dodged by jumping over them

"Hey! Can we at least take this to an arena-"

"NO." Hank turned with a growing bubble facing toward Kenji

The samurai managed to get behind the tank, Hank tried turning around to attack but the bubble abruptly burst, Hank had a plan B though, he gained some distance away from Kenji before he could attack and started charging another bubble, hank managed to get two shots in, getting Kenji low
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Back inside the house, Kaze was admiring the squid as it ate, it just looked adorable seeing it and it's starfish friend, like they were finally happy not being around two loud mouths and instead, being in the serene, m̶o̶s̶t̶l̶y̶ peaceful Katana Kingdom.

The noise from outside was still ringing on, that bothered her, she had always been a bit of a perfectionist so anything that was just a bit out of place would just gnaw at her

But looking at Otis and Cil, she noticed they would move as if they were ragdolls, they didn't seem to mind, if anything, they seemed to enjoy it, this imperfection actually sort of fit them, perhaps flaws weren't so bad, maybe she wouldn't hide them so much...
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Kenji went in, slashed Hank a few times, healing up a fair bit and knocking the tank to a wall

"WOAH, WOAH, WOAH, HEY MAN..! UHHH, I WILL BE BACK WITH REINFORCEMENTS, YOU'LL SEE! IF THAT GUY WAS STILL HERE HE'D BEAT YOUR ASS" Hank blurted out before flooring it and zooming off into the woods.

The samurai sighed before walking back to the house
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The door slid open, revealing the tired Kenji, drenched in sweat and panting, he smiled

"...see? I took care of it! You don't have to concern yourself with them..they were some..."enemies" I gained while you were gone"

"...What happened to you?" Kaze worriedly scanned his body for any injuries

"Ehhhh, one of them tried challenging me to a brawl, my guard was down for a while but I mad e him surrender, don't worry, I'm just tired, I'll go take a nap" He walked away to the bedroom, he fell asleep almost instantly as Kenji was a heavy sleeper.

Kaze, relieved went back to Otis

"Besides that, you've helped me realize something...though you probably didn't know you did, I would like to give you a little something to take home with you!"

The squid jumped in anticipation as the geisha walked to the kitchen and returned with a small sushi roll of the type the squid and it's friend liked the most, Otis looked like it was tearing up...though it wasn't too visible, at the sentiment.

"Just know you can come back anytime, our little secret." Kaze whispered to it's ear, like the wind telling of a future encounter.

Otis replied in blubs and messy movement, cute.