Sorry I took so long to upload this one, but I'm gonna try doing this thing where I kind of summarize the chapter at the beginning. It's just an optional read if you feel like it. I got back from my vacation, had no wifi for about 2 days and then finished K-On... Which honestly wasn't all that good, but I like the music parts of it, I recommend watching it. Anyway, I wrote a lot and I'm not going to post it all right away so here is a short chapter I wrote the morning we left.

~The trios plan fails with a lack of knowledge of different species. The team then goes to a cheap splat weapon shop located just North of Inkopolis with Aiko~

"What do you mean you can't swim in ink?!" Zinshu's jaw plummeted towards the floor staring at Feneo and Jahki. He glanced at Reiji, changing his expression into an angry look. "Why do you tell us, smartie?"

"I had no idea!" Reiji put his hands up, "I'm good with math... Not science".

"Well our plan..." Shiro put a thumbs up, then pointed it down and made a raspberry noise, "Just got ruined, so what are we gonna do now?"

BRRRRRRIING!

"We'll find more people, we just have to put the posters up around school we're running out of time." Reiji reminded. The six left to go to their homerooms.

After school...

Shiro plopped down on his bed and started undressing himself. "Ugh, I hate this uniform it's too tight on my neck!", he pulled out some shorts from his dresser and then looked in his closet for one of his favorite pieces of clothing, his maroon Zekko hoodie. He was going to meet with Zinshu, Reiji, and Aiko at the skatepark, a common hangout place for all inklings. He closed his door on the way out but soon opened it again, "I'm going to be so late!" and grabbed his 5-panel hat.

"Whoa whoa, where are you going mister?" Marie stopped Shiro in his tracks.

"I'm gonna hang out with some friends!" Shiro kept on reaching for his cream basics but his bigger sister was in the way "P-please let me go!". His parents weren't home and Marie was always put in charge.

"On one condition.."

"Huh?"

"You have to- Hey!"

After great amounts of struggle Shiro blasted past his sister and grabbed his shoes on the way out, hopping as he put them on. "Gotta go! See ya!"

Shiro ran down the sidewalk, glancing pack at Marie peering out the door at him with a grin on her face, she was shaking her head at him.

Shiro was very bad at physical activity besides skating, although he wasn't as bad as Reiji. Running to the skatepark felt like a marathon.

After what seemed like around 2 minutes of pure running, (and one look at the high school girls at the diner) Shiro dragged himself over to the group all under the shade with slushies.

"What happened, we've been waiting forever," Zinshu gave a dirty look and took a sip.

"I-I totally forgot we we're, guhh, gonna meet up, haaah, so I, visited the neighbors before, ah, I went home," Shiro was gasping for his breath, sweat dripping down his face. "Gimme that," he stole Aiko's slushie and pressed it against his face to cool down, "Ahh-ah-ahhhh...", he took a sip before handing it back and sitting down next to his friends.

Zinshu had his dark blue tentacles in dreads, something not all Inklings could pull off.

"That's a new look," Shiro pointed out.

"Yeah, my dad said it suited me."

"Well, are we ready?" Reiji clapped his hands.

Aiko and Zinshu gave a big loud 'Yeah', Shiro only said, 'okay..'.

"Shiro you'll have to ride with me, you didn't bring your bike and theirs aren't big enough for two," Aiko unlocked her bike from the rack and jumped on it.

Shiro hopped on behind her and wrapped his arms around her torso. Zinshu gave them an 'aww' before Aiko took off, Reiji following close behind. Zinshu threw his empty cup into the trash can, and the team was officially on their way to a cheap weapons vendor.

Shiro grew tired and more tired, eventually laying his head on Aiko's shoulder and sleeping the whole way there.

A bit later...

"Shiro we're here," Aiko poked his head, Shiro shook as a reflex and lifted his head to look right at the store, it looked fairly new so he had high expectations.

The door opened for them, revealing a store that had an ink flooring so squids could quickly travel the store, it was a hot pink color, so the whole team hopped into an ink pool near the entrance before walking in.

Splattershots, Chargers, Rollers, Gatlings, and all sorts of weapons were on the walls, ready to be purchased, there were about seven other inklings in the store.

"Look at that bad boy!" Zinshu pointed to a Dynamo Roller in a glass case.

"Yeah, okay bud, we don't got that much money," Reiji reminded him, Zinshu stomped the ground in frustration.

The four headed to items that were on sale, which seemed to be a whole stash of Sloshers, Blasters, Inkbrushes, and Squiffers the absolute cheapest items on the market.

"Man, this is just a pile o' junk, what are we gonna do with this stuff?" Shiro picked up a blaster observing the quality of it.

"Actually last year the Torpedos won the Summer Splash with these types of weapons," Aiko told him.

"So what are you guys getting?" Reiji asked.

Zinshu held up a Blaster, "I think this guy..."

Aiko responded, "I wanna try this Squiffer..."

Shiro had to pick last, originally he wanted a Tentatek Splattershot but that certainly wasn't an option, the closest thing would be the bucket looking thing or Blaster, and Zinshu already had a blaster.

"I'll take the bucket," Shiro grinned.

The rest sighed, "That's a Slosher, Shiro" they said in unison.