You know the kind of guy who does bad things and then wonders why his life sucks?

Well, that was me.

Every time something good happened to me, something bad was always waiting around the corner.

Karma.

That's when I realized I had to change.

So I made a list of everything bad I've ever done, and one by one, I'm gonna make up for all my mistakes. I'm just trying to be a better person.

My name is Pearl.

"Hey, Pearl, after we're done bein' police-squids, you think they'll let me keep the badge? It's a really shiny badge, and I bet we could get away with a lot of stuff if people think we're cops!"

"No can do Sandy. Pretty sure that would be stealing, and I don't feel like we should be adding "Stole a badge from a police officer" to my list if we're already pretending to be cops. I'd probably have to arrest you."

"Well, if you do arrest me, do you think you could be gentle with the cuffs? I still have the scar from last time, and the squids at the motel would keep asking me weird questions. I don't wanna get asked weird questions Pearl."

And the squid sitting right next to me with his uniform on backwards is my brother, Sandy. He wasn't the brightest zapfish of the bunch, but he still had his heart in the right place. Today, we were filling out number 127 on my list. "Didn't Respect Authority".

You see, just a couple hours ago, I heard that a bunch of outsiders were causing a bit of an uproar. They even took over my radio while I was listening to one of the Squid Sister's earlier hit singles. I won't lie, for a bunch of songs that weren't from the squid sisters, that 'Jet Squid Radio' or whatever had some pretty good music. We were listening to it now actually, since no other channel was up right now.

But I wasn't doing this to bust down the door on those squids. I was just trying to get into the shoes of an officer of the law so I could learn to respect the job they do for us.

And after having sat down in the same bench in the same park, I decided it was time to do our third patrol in the seven or so hours we were hanging around said park.

That was around the time that I saw it.

Now I'm not exactly the smartest squid I knew, but I did know a lot about crime, being that I wasn't exactly the purist squid either. I could see vandalism a mile away. And so could Sandy. He held the record for being the best spray inker this side of Inkuya. Maybe it was the smell and the pretty colors combined, but you had to hand it to him, he had a talent. We found a squid wearing a bright blue jumpsuit and tried not to look at his covered up legs while he spray painted in a bunch of differently colored green inks to spray the words "Jet Squid Radio" in a way that made even Sandy jealous of their skill.

"Uh, excuse me?" I said casually, as I walked up to the small time criminal. "Do you mind not doing that?"

The blue inkling stopped in his tracks, and gave me a bit of an odd stare. "Uh, yeah. I do mind." as slowly as he turned around, he turned back and set off to finish what he started.

"Well, I'm gonna have to arrest you then. Don't worry, I know cuffs can cut, so I'll be gentle..." I said, as I got closer to him. I dunno how he did it, but he started to slide away when I tried to grab him. I tried again and he slid away again. There wasn't ink on the ground behind him, which made this hard for me to understand. "Now just hold still so I can do my j- HEY!"

Before I knew it, this guy was sliding all around me like a slippery eel on a floor made of oil, and I just couldn't nab him for anything! Turns out skipping out on most of my police training was finally taking it's toll. This was Karma's way of telling me I should have just paid attention.

Sandy, on the other hand, was currently too busy making his own art on the wall to help me.

I dunno how long I tried to tackle this guy so I could cuff him and mark 127 off my list, but it didn't take either of us long to see what Sandy was doing.

"Hey, what the heck biggie? That's my tag!" The sliding blue inkling said, as he slid into Sandy, only to fall on his butt.

"Sandy! Come on! We talked about this."

Sandy was currently spraying his name in bold, intricate letters over 'Jet Squid Radio'. Now, it said 'Jet Squid Sandy' instead. "You didn't say anything about spray inking Pearl. And you know I like spray inking."

"Yeah Sandy but if you're gonna spray ink, at least try not to plaster your name over someone else's spray. Ask permission first."

The blue inkling was staring up at the elaborate spray. That's when he smiled. "Actually, I don't mind."

I raised an eyebrow at that. "You don't? But Sandy just-"

"Hey, your partner there's actually got a pretty good talent. Shame he's a cop though. Would have been cool to ask you guys to join JSR."

For the weirdest time, I thought this squid looked familiar. That was when it hit me. He was familiar because I'd seen his name all over Inkuya's 'Most Wanted' papers. "Oh hey, aren't you that 'Tab' guy?"

"Yep..." He said as he got up. "That's me. You aren't gonna try and arrest me again, are ya? Because I'm a pretty good skater ya know."

"I'm thinking I'll try again when I catch up on my police training. Besides, you're not really hurting anyone. Sandy actually really likes you guys."

Sandy was currently humming some weird tune called 'Baseline.' At least that's what I think it's called... Now that I remembered, I was starting to remember another song and that started to get stuck in my head. I didn't even notice when that Tab guy started to slide away as I started to hum another song. Something about a dealer. I dunno what it was called but it was pretty funky.

When I realized what had happened, I got a little mad. "Ah, son of a bitch. Sandy, clean that up. We're gonna head back and finish training."

"Do you think they'll let me pet the police shark again? I really like the way it's skin had that little roughness to it that was still smooth. Do you think Sharks have that little fin on top because they used to swim in water or something?"

"Don't be ridiculous Sandy. Sharks can't swim, but they can walk backwards, and I always thought that was a little weird for some reason."

"You're right Pearl, that is weird..."


-=Chapter 1, Part 3: Complete?=-


DJ Mushoo's Author's Note (Now with slightly more importance)
Hey guys. I wanna start off with saying that I'm sorry for this chapter. I know all two of y-
(What's that?)
(There's five of them now?)

I know that all five of you following this story won't appreciate this too much, but I just wanted to make sure you guys had something before I finish the real chapter sometime tomorrow. It's just been hard because I thought I had a really good idea going into it, but whenever I started to write it up, I started to have some big issues concerning the kind of story I wanted to tell, and I found that I was revealing too much too soon to the audience, and it was just... Ugh.

But yeah, after having done three different kinds of storylines, I decided halfway through that chapter to make this little fun thing to reference a favorite show that I'd recently picked up.

Anyway, I'll see ya in the next REAL chapter! Keep on rebellin', rudies!