Marie's POV ~

I took a deep breath and continued facing forwards towards the neon-lit wall. The inkling would be here any minute. I tried my best not to be nervous. This was the defining moment for us. It felt like the whole octarian population was watching me and Callie, hoping, no, expecting us to bring them to victory.

Okay, yeah. I was nervous.

This could mean big things for them. What we could finally do for them. We could help them become better troopers and even improve their personal wellbeing.I have to win this for them. For Turquoise October. For Octavio. Even for our lame ex-roommates.

It was quiet. No sounds except for creaking metal and the slight murmur of octarian voices in the crowd. It was quiet until the noise of the inkling superjump flooded in and broke the silence. This caused an uproar of booing and aggressive growling. A painfully familiar voice was heard through an intercom-like headset on the inkling's

"Let's do this, Agent 4!" It called.

I didn't turn around. For one, dramatic effect, and two, I wanted to hear more of the familiar inkling's voice.

"Wait...is that...CALLIE? MARIE?" It's voice exploded through the headset. We finally decided to interact.

Well well well. Looks like you finally showed up. "WE TOLD YOU TO LEAVE!"

"C-callie...Marie...why?" The voice on the other side of the phone said sorrowfully.

Callie struck a pose with one arm across her stomach and one over her head.

"Now you leave us no choice" she said strongly. "Prepare to be rocked! Hey, DJ!"

On cue, Octavio flipped a switch under the ink, and the Octobot rose intimidatingly out of the puddle, taking the Great Zapfish, and sucking it into the machine, causing a loud explosion of noise and the neon lights to intensify. All the octarians in the audience frantically waved pink and purple glow sticks in our favor.

"Octavio in da houuuuuuuuuuse!" He said excitedly. He laughed maliciously. "Guess what, Y/N?! I remixed both Callie's AND Marie's brains! And now we're going to take you two down!"

"Haha! Time for our first song of the night: Bomb Rush Blush!" Callie added, also laughing at the puny inkling below. She looked scared, yet still determined.

"Time to drop the beatdown!" Octavio said again, and the fight had begun.

"Spin it DJ!" I called, and begun performing my choreography as the music began to play.

Unfortunately we were not off to a good start.

Immediately, Octavio threw one of his metal fists at the inkling, but she dodged it and splatted it, causing it to change directions and hit us instead. I could feel myself loosing balance as the robot jerked back and forth.

"That's it, 4 show him NO MERCY!" The voice who was apparently named Y/N called.

Octavio directed both of the metal fists at the inkling at the same time, hoping to confuse her, but it didn't effect her at all, she swam away, and inked one of them, punching us in the face again.

I was really dizzy, but Callie and I continued to sing.

"Blushing faces covered in pink! Rushing bombs, exploding ink."

Another voice came through her headset, that I could barely make out through the noises around me. It told the inkling to watch out for our secret weapon.

"The spinning punched can't be deflected! Dodge them!"

I can't believe that they predicted that! That was supposed to be a secret weapon that will disorient the inkling.

The fight continued on. We're lucky that there was a shield across where I stood, because I would have fallen off by now. But it was taking major damage and could break apart and be useless at any minute.

Callie's POV~

"Hnnng! Come on Octavio! We can't loose this!" I called down to him.

"I'm working on it!" He snapped, frustratedly.

"Snap out of it you two! Please!" Y/N's voice rang. Why was he so upset? What did we matter to him?

The inkling deflected one more of his punches, and his shield broke, and he fell out. He squirmed in frustration, but he was stuck in a slick of enemy ink, and couldn't move. The inkling Girl Swam up and splatted him, until he freed himself and jumped back into the machine. He quickly put on a new shield, and the fight continued.

"Hmph!" I said.

"Callie! Marie! It's me! Y/N! The brother that you two built! Please try to remember!" Y/N called desperately.

"Shut it, Rust bucket! DJ! Drop that spicy wasabi beat!" I said, and the fight continued.

"Gyahaha! Right away with that spicy hotness!" He called, and threw a quick spinning punch at Agent 4. It came dangerously close to hitting her, but it missed, and she swam away in her neon green ink.

I started getting bad feelings about this fight. It was as if all the prideful energy from the room started to drain, and I could feel some of the octolings giving up.

No. I couldn't let them loose hope. They needed this win, they needed this. Desperately. I have to press on, for the tribe.

"Don't hold back! Give them all you got agent 4!" Y/N called.

Octavio was frustrated, and decided to kick things into high gear. He raised the machine up, and we were up even higher. A fall from this heigh would cause someone to break a bone. Lucky we don't have any.

"Stay alert, 4! He's raising up!" Y'N's voice said nervously.

"I can't believe it with these two! Grrrr!" Octavio said frustratedly. He pressed a button and launched a fleet of steaming hot calamari bombs. Thinking about where those even came from was slightly unsettling.

"Whoa! Somethings coming! Do you think you can shoot it down?" Y/N advised the inkling agent. And as expected, she shot almost all of them before they exploded into columns of octarian ink. They didn't stop her, but they slowed her speedy swimming process down.

"ARGH! It's like he knows my every move!" Octavio said and angrily threw another spinning punch.

"It would help if that robot Y/N wasn't shouting every single thing you do to that agent of his!" I called down.

"Shut your trap and keep singing" Octavio said. He was just mad that I was right.

He sent out another fleet of larger than life suction bombs, all attached in a circle around the agent. I watched intently as the exploded and shattered the inklings armor.

"Octavio! She's vulnerable! Hit her with a punch!"

He did as I commanded and sent two fists after the girl, who shook in fear as her boots were stuck in the purple ink. She was like a deer in headlights as the punch came and splatted her. The silhouette of her squid flew away, and moments later, she superjumped back into the ring.

"Back for more I see? Well. We'll just have to teach you again. You only have two chances left!" Octavio said triumphantly.

The girl didn't give up. She splatted and deflected more and more punches until Y/N's worried voice came through her headset again.

"I'll be there soon, Agent 4! Just try and hold out a little longer!"

Octavio was fed up with the inkling duo. He raised us up suddenly, and pressed forward with determined aggression. Spewing purple ink from below.

"4! Be careful! He's going to hit you with some kind of shower attack! Dodge to the side, there's no way to stop that attack" Y/N Warned. The inkling did as told and dodged as we sped forwards.

"COD DAMMIT!" Octavio shouted. "THIS SLIMY LITTLE HIPSTER"

One last punch was deflected yet again. The shield was completely shattered. Octavio fell out again.

The inkling took advantage over his vulnerability, and splatted him once again. Once he was soaked in green ink, he hopped back on the machine. He tried to press the button to put the shield back on, but he was distracted. He, Marie and I all saw him. Even the inkling had a look of disbelief on her face.

Y/N was here.