The four unannounced guests sat there in the pool of ink as the three residences of the home were looking right at them, "ha ha, sorry we were looking for the bathroom and we seemed to have taken a wrong turn, we'll just show ourselves out," Alice lied hoping to tip-toe around her and her friends' situation and so her and her friends tried to swim back up the pipe they've came in, but Bruce splashed down in the pool with his tail, washing the four of them back down.
"Aaaaah! ahh! eh?" the four friends were quite confused as why the ink used to stop them from leaving didn't make them go splat, "relax, white ink is completely harmless," Marie assured them. The four then calmed down, then were dragged out of the pool by Bruce, and were placed on the couch, "what are you gonna do with us?" Ray dared asked, "we're gonna feed you to Bruce," Callie chuckled darkly, frightening the four, but then Bruce muted the T.V. she was displayed on.
"Yeah... I'm not gonna do that?" Bruce explained, "how can we trust you?" Alice demanded, "he could've ratted you out and got you suspended for shits and giggles, but no he gave you knit wits the phone back," Callie explained after being unmuted. "Indeed, so be greatfull," Marie told them, "huh, but who are you?" Evie asked for the two squid girls' identity, "what? seriously? we're the Squid Sisters. You know, those Squid Sisters," Marie explained while doing the pose, but it didn't ring any bells for the four.
Seeing the four just tilting their heads to the right, Callie rolled her eyes, "ugh, forget Marie we're hasbeens," Callie told her cousin, "fine," Maire admitted, crossing her arms while pouting. While Cuttlefish, Marie, and Callie discuss what to do the four wondered on about the dwelling that is Bruce's home, Ray and Billy noticed an old pinball machine off in the corner and both were drawn by its looks and charm. Evie fiddled with the pool of white ink finding it very interesting on how she can move about in it without harm, "how come this ink doesn't do anying thing to me? I'm not the same color as it," Evie asked.
"Because the color white is the presences of all color," Bruce explained, "any color can mix with it without any trouble, it's basically a blank slate," he added, but then he noticed that they're one Inkling short. Alice was in Bruce's room digging through his things, there was a work bench with varies tools, parts, and blueprints laying around with a wheeled stool. She even saw many mix tapes, CDs, and even records organized neatly on a shelf, Alice ran though the tapes, and discs, but she didn't know what the cover said, it was in a different langue, but then she found a CD case with an old photo of human.
Alice gasps in surprise to what she is seeing, she heard of the speices plenty of times in her high school biology class, but seeing a photo of a live one. Amazed by the finding she didn't notice Bruce coming up and snatching the case away from her, "Hey, didn't your parents teach you it's rude to go through someone else's belongings?" Bruce asked putting the case back in its place. "Th-th-that was a picture of a human, is all of this human music? how did you get these?" Alice asked excitingly.
"We Sharklings know a lot about humans, given if we don't eat them first," Bruce explained, "so what kinda music do you listen to?" Alice continued, scanning though the songs, "mostly punk rock, metal, shit like that," "care to play me one?" Bruce shrugged, pulling out a CD case from the shelf with the cover being a face of a male human with long, dark, and wet hair and blood running straight down his nose, mouth, and neck, Bruce walks up to a boom box of his making, and pops the CD in.
Bruce pressed play and Alice listened closely to the lyrics.
"We're not gonna die, and you can never kill us"
"We're not gonna die, and you can never hurt us"
"What song is this?" Alice asked, shaking her head to the beat, "it's "Party Til You Puke" by Andrew W.K." "gross, BUT I LOVE IT!" Bruce than stops the track and puts it back with the others. Bruce escorted Alice out of his room, but there on the couch he saw Marie showing a photo album of him when he was younger to Ray, Evie, and Billy all huddled around her, "and this him making a mess at the dinner table," Marie showed a photo of Bruce sitting in a high chair with spaghetti all over his face and the three were giggling at sight of the cute shark pup.
"... So not cool," Bruce pouted, "and this is him when he was teething," Marie showed a photo of Bruce standing next to Cap'n Cuttlefish's boat which he took a huge bite out of it. The three glanced to one another upon seeing how just a small pup can take huge chunks off a boat, "you done embarrassing me?" Bruce asked, a bit pissed off, Marie closed the photo album, and joined her uncle and Bruce. Alice sat down with her friends, "so what are gonna do with us?" Evie asked.
Bruce stepped forward seeing that it was his fault that they got dragged into this, "I'm gonna let go," he bluntly said, "you're letting us go? why?" Ray asked and Bruce put on a soft smile instead of his toothy grin. "Because I believe I can trust you four to keep this our secrect, remember I could've humiliated all of you on live television, but I didn't, but hey kid can I see your phone for a sec?" Billy handed his phone over and they all wonder what he was gonna do.
The moment the phone was in his palm, Bruce crushed the device with his bear hands, and before Billy did anything Bruce handed him his phone. it was rectangular and had a wide smooth screen like there phones, but the top was flat and a bit bulky and it even had a small plastic antenna. "It's not one of those trendy Inkling phones, but it does anything those phones can, expect it's ugly as hell, but you can pretty much call anyone anywhere you want, but the best part that it's free," Bruce explain and Billy immediately forgave him and accepted his offer.
"So. Can I trust you?" Bruce asked again, Alice, Evie, and Ray glanced at one another and all agreed to keep their mouths shut, after that Bruce escorted them back to the surface. "Hey, thanks again for keeping this a secret," Bruce thanked, "don't mention," Alice noted giving him a thumbs up, "but hey, how did you get my phone in the first place?" "it fell out of your pocket when I was chasing ya," "oh, and thanks for not ratting us out even though we've just missed our tournament, but hey there's always next year."
Bruce retreated back into the sewer and the four Inkling head back before- "I was waiting for you guys," there stood in front of the Inklings was Marlon with a displeasing look on his face, "so you guys went in the Skaterpark after hours even after I told you not to?" The three more grown Inklings smiled nervously seeing that the most mature member of the group caught them red-handed. Marlon just pinch the bridge of his nose seeing that thay already missed this years Splatfest they've been punished enough already, so they spend the rest of their day at the plaza.