Away and above Octo Valley sits Inkopolis, the bright and bustling city of inklings and other assorted creatures. Among the individuals of this city are the famous Squid Sisters, Callie and Marie, also known as Agents 1 and 2 of the New Squidbeak Splatoon.

It was late evening, and the cousins finally had some time to themselves after all their regular interviews and sudden meetings to talk about the newly returned zapfish. Retreating to their shared (somewhat luxurious) apartment, Callie went to the kitchen counter, while Marie sat at the table and opened her laptop.

It was Callie's turn to cook. She was preparing a seafood soup, cutting up the meats and veggies in silence as she waited for the pot to boil when Marie suddenly slammed her laptop shut and spoke, "So are we just not gonna talk about it?"

Callie put down the knife and turned to Marie, "I don't even know! It's so weird!"

"Urgh… I mean I get what grandpa was talking about, we are really busy, and an agent that's not in the spotlight is good, I just really think he could've picked someone a little better!"

Callie let out a sigh and grimaced at the ceiling, "I just wish we could help! We could totally blast through Octo Valley! Agents 1 and 2, roller and charger, ready to go! Blam blam!"

Marie opened up her laptop again and spoke, "Gramps is right though… like I'm literally working on the outline for our next interview about the zapfish right now!"

"The one for SeaScape?"

It was Marie's turn to let out a sigh, "Of course it's SeaScape. Who else makes us plan and script out interviews so thoroughly? I can't even be mad either, with how much effort they put into fact-checking."

Callie smirked at her and said, "Hey, at least they've got good snacks on set."

"Hey, at least you're not writing this", At Marie's words Callie quickly turned back to preparing the food. She certainly didn't want to to have to write out all those details.

She didn't have to worry though, because Marie changed the subject, "But anyways, back to the new agent."

Not pausing with her chopping, Callie replied, "Even if we think it's a bad idea, grandpa usually knows what he's doing, you know? Like, he recruited me only after he saw how good I was with the roller. And gramps only let me recruit you after he saw you snipe 14 people in one turf war. He wouldn't choose someone with no potential."

"Not unless he was desperate! Didn't he say that she was the only one who followed him?"

Pausing in her chopping again, Callie looked back at Marie before speaking, "Yeah I guess… It's pretty lucky that she turned out to be good then. But Marie, don't forget that he is personally training her. Plus she did actually defeat an Octoweapon. Like, we would have trouble taking on one of those. Together."

Sighing again, Marie put her head in her hands, "That's true. All this is just covering up my real issue though."

"What is it?"

Marie turned her laptop screen towards Callie, she exclaimed, "We know absolutely nothing about her!", she tapped on the keyboard a couple time and brought up one of the many profiles they had access to as secret agents, "Her turf profile was made 3 weeks ago," she tapped another key, "Her personal file has no hometown or year of birth," she pointed at the name in the file, "There isn't even a last name! It just says Etta K!"

What? Callie made a face, "How did you even find her profile if you didn't know her name?"

Turning her laptop back around Marie replied, "Etta isn't exactly a common name. All other Etta's currently in Inkopolis have either lived here long enough that they'd be completely fluent, or they come from somewhere that speaks pretty much exclusively inkling. Speaking of which, we don't even know what language she speaks!"

Turning back to the food, Callie sighed, "Ok, I guess that's a little weird. Grandpa knows enough languages that him not even recognizing her language is kindaaa… weird."

Marie grumbled again, "This is like, important. We need to know about our agents, and we don't know the first thing about her! Like, I would never just recruit an agent off the street!"

Wow. Marie's really bothered by this.

"If it's that big a deal we can get grandpa to, I dunno, talk to her or something. Or if we find the time we can talk to her ourselves."

Callie could hear Marie slump on the table as she grumbled some more.

Callie finished chopping all the food and dumped it into the now boiling pot. After washing her hands she went over to sit at the table with Marie.

She placed her elbows on the table, rested her chin in her hands, and said, "Hey, lemme see that profile. I didn't get a reel good look at it before."

Marie grumbled again, this time at Callie's pun, and turned the laptop towards her cousin once again.

Callie narrowed her eyes as she looked at the incredibly sparse profile. Marie really wasn't kidding when she said there was nothing.

It was like someone had started writing, given up after a minute, and forgotten to go back to it. Pointing to the screen Callie commented, "Wow. There isn't even an age."

They would definitely have to talk to grandpa about this.

Callie turned the laptop back to Marie and leaned back, "Alright, you're right, it is pretty bad. But y'know, it's not like there's anything we can do right now."

With her laptop back in her hands, Marie started typing again. Probably working on the SeaScape interview again.

"Ok, Callie. First chance we get, we ask grandpa to ask Agent 3 about just who she is. Or visit her in person if we can."

"Deal. Now let's talk about tomorrow's stage rotation. Blackbelly Skatepark and Moray Towers will make for some interesting matches don't you think?"

She and Marie ended up talking about which weapon was best for the skatepark for the rest of the evening and into dinner. Callie loved her cousin like a sister, but rollers were clearly superior to chargers, especially in the skatepark.

Eventually they both went to bed, knowing they had a busy few days ahead of them.


From AO3:

I have no beta reader so if you see any mistake just point 'em out.

I thought that having Marie be really resistant to recruiting a random inkling to join the Splatoon would be funny considering that she, y'know does the same thing in Splatoon 2.

Anyways, the first real tidbits of info on Etta appear. Just who is she?

I've never written the squid sisters before so leave a comment to tell me how I'm doing so far. Or talk to me on tumblr!