Upon arrival the warehouse crew met with Donnie and Vian in Fishy-burger, a weird surf+turf restaurant where you can get seaweed fries and fish, as they shopped around the mall they eventually got bored and while Ocho and San snuck away to be alone, The kids decided they wanted to go for a walk and as they passed an alleyway and two figures, as they took a step back to see better the figures had disappeared, as they ventured into the alley, they looked around and saw only some pipes and a storm grate, then as they turned around they heard a grunt from the storm grate and Heavy footfalls after taking a minute to stop and discuss amongst themselves then they slipped into the grate.
As they entered the grate they were greeted with a dry pipe and a row of lockers, 6 of them had locks, they found that one direction of the pipe had been blocked off, and hurriedly went the other way, as they crept along the pipe it got Darker so Donnie turned his phone's flashlight on, as he was the only one who had thought to bring his phone fully charged, everyone else's phones had died or been left at home.
Around twenty minutes later, three things happened at once, The tunnel turned left sharply, Donnie's phone died, and Vian, Kelpi and Gleam, screamed in terror at the sudden darkness, they readjusted to the pich darkness and continued, along the tunnel, as they limped sorely forward, the tunnel seemed to brighten with every step, as they rounded a right turn, the tunnel ended, but they didn't care because set into the ceiling was a grate, almost the same as the one they had used to enter this realm of darkness, as they pushed it open, sunlight poured through the hole and they were momentarily blinded, as the stepped out into the sunset, they blinked and rubbed their eyes, as they looked around Vian was the one to say what they were all thinking, "where the fuck are we?" He looked around and Harber's eyes flashed with recognition, "Hollll up!" They demanded, "are you that cheap-ass sniper from yesterday?"
Harber had to be restrained by Gadget and Gleam, while Vian was held back by Donnie and Kelpi, who was surprisingly strong for someone with such a quaint stature "hey, Vian whined, you're the spiteful one that set up that awful trap!" "Yeah, so what if I was?" They replied snarkily, "GUYS!" Gadget raised his voice for the first time in a week, so they knew he was serious, "there's something moving, in there!" He pointed to a large ramshackle hut, and sure enough, the shadows within shifted quickly and a bright set of pink lights was extinguished along with a green set a second later, then before they knew what was happening five figures jumped out of the hut with their weapons raised, the kids all dropped to the ground and put their hands over their heads, but the figures charged through them taking care not to step on the cowering children, as they uncovered their heads and turned around they saw that the figures were fixated on a squadron of elite Octolings, and as they Battled the hypnotized servants it became clear the figures were losing, so as Vian kept to his feet he pulled out his custom tinkered Bento splat charger -an outdated and discontinued model he'd found in the dumpster one day- and in a swift movement he fired at the Octolings then booyah bombed the rest of the squadron, as the figures breathed a sigh of relief and got up to greet their rescuers, as they neared Gleam noticed something, "Dad? Pops?" As the figures stepped into the light it was clear, two of the figures were Ocho and San, two of them were none other than the Squid Sisters, the legendary cousins from calamari county, Vian immediately fanboyed over Marie, (his personal favorite) and Kelpi hugged Callie, "Hiya Kelp Cake!" Callie giggled, "hi Mom, Kelpi smiled grandly, Vian asked who the other dude was, and the boy (probably only a year or two older than them) introduced himself as Iro Konice (Eye-Row Con-ays) alter ego, Agent four!
As the introductions continued, Ocho and San called for Gleam, "hey Gleamy, honey?" "Whaaaat?" She replied, flushing with embarrassment, Harber and Vian snorted in unison, "Gleamy?!?" Vian snickered. "the hell kinda nickname is that?!?" Harber giggled. The two instantly shut up when Gleam flashed them a look that said "if you continue laughing at my fathers' pet name for me I will kill you slowly and painfully then burn the pieces." The two whimpered and Harber hid behind Kelpi while Vian hid behind Donnie, and an old man emerged from the hut, come inside he beckoned, as the entered he introduced himself as Craig cuttlefish.
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The kids were outfitted in hero suits, (pictured above) with Vian having diamonds emblazoned on his left breast and shoes, Kelpi had hearts, Donnie had clubs, Gleam had stars, Harber had Spades, and Gadget had hexes, as they were outfitted with weapons, Gadget with a new model of aerospray, Vian with his bento splat charger, Donnie with a brush, Gleam with a slosher, Kelpi with a roller, and Harber with some dualies, Ocho had a blaster, San had a Brella, Cuttlefish had a bamboozler cane, Marie had a charger scope, and Callie had a dynamo roller. With everyone properly equipped the kids made to head out the door and Cuttlefish stopped them, Equipping them each with a large hourglass shaped ink tank, with chains on the side, that had varying armor, canned extra weapons, subs, and specials. Now that everyone was properly Equipped for real, they set out to explore the forested area around them.
