The whole mess was resolved surprisingly quickly. Before anyone quite knew what was happening, Team 3A had taken charge.
Those assigned to watch the suspects watched the suspects, and those assigned to night duty took their posts.
Only after they came back to their senses...
...did everyone realize that they were all combat squads, so why had they somehow ended up obeying every word Team 3A said??
They simply couldn't figure it out.
In the end, they concluded that 3A must just have too much charisma.
By the time all that was over...
...it was already the early hours of the morning. Crunching noises came from outside the base, where another wave of mutated sea snails and starfish had arrived and started gnawing on the perimeter wall.
The combat squads took one look and realized they weren't getting any sleep tonight. Resigned to their fate, they picked up their weapons and returned to the battlefield one after another.
"Holy shit, these things really never stop! How many more are going to crawl ashore?!"
"Heeeelp! Sea cockroaches!!"
"Why are these sea snails eating the wall too? I give up! What's so tasty about it?!"
"I'm so tired! I want a break, aaah!"
Everyone was on the verge of a breakdown.
Then the earthen perimeter wall suddenly gained a thick outer layer of reinforcement. Just as everyone realized something was different, electricity crackled through the air, blasting away a whole cluster of starfish and sea snails outside the wall.
A delicious aroma drifted out.
The combat squads practically drooled. "Oh my god, that smells amazing!"
The others noticed too. Was that 3A? They had come out as well?
"Everyone on the forum says the 3A Special Operations Squad are absolute beasts. I didn't believe it at first, but after today..."
"From today