The Octoling known as Eight finds herself waking up in a strange virtual world, with her only companion being Pearl, one half of the musical duo Off The Hook, who is now a drone for some reason. But they aren't alone for long, as a strange creature resembling a long-extinct mammal approaches them, claiming to be a 'Digimon', and that Eight has her partner's 'Digivice', which Eight doesn't remember having before waking up. But it's quickly apparent that this meeting is not simply by chance...
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12,000 years in the future, in a world where mammals are mostly extinct and sea creatures have replaced them on land, the Inkling sibling duo Artemis and Orion (also known as Agents 5 & 6 of the New Squidbeak Splatoon), find a human laboratory being dug up by the Octarians in Octo Canyon. They are not remotely prepared for what they find.
Waking to a world he does not recognize, and a future without humanity, the robot known as 'X' has to find his own place in this...