We talked for a bit while practicing the chargers that we held. For me, it was great picking up something that forces me to be tactical and less defensive as the E-liter. It was also great getting to know Marie outside of her usual, sassy self. we've talked a lot, minus the occasional deja vu of Bianca flooding my head. I've also noticed that Marie has occasionally gotten a little too close for comfort so I would usually step aside to give us both some space. Before we knew it, the sun has settled down and we were already panting from all the practice that we did. "So did you two finally decide to give the three words yet?" We turned around to find Callie snickering by the door with sheldon giving a small smile. I puffed my cheeks, "Not yet Callie. Not yet.." "suuuure…. I can tell Marie is just DYING to kiss you now!" Right as she said that, Marie and I looked at how close we were and our faces went beet red in embarrassment as we separated the distance from each other. We both instinctively said "sorry" while Callie was pulling out her phone and recording the whole ordeal. "PUT THAT PHONE AWAY!" Marie yelled as Callie snickered, "nope, this is going on squidstagram!"
Meanwhile, I was hiding my face in complete embarrassment. Oh boy… what if someone found out about this?! I'm going to be in a zapfish amount of trouble! Callie then came up to me in a fake reporter kind of way and asked me a barrage of questions while her phone was up. "So how's it like dating Marie?" "Do you two plan to make squishes someday?" "Callie! Stop!" As I hid my face even more and ran to the opposing side, trying to hide my embarrassment. What made matters worse was that Marie went to the same side seeing me hiding my face while sitting down. "David?" I raised my palm almost asking her to give me some space to breathe. "Alright.." I heard her say as I heard her walking away. Her vanilla scent growing faint.
A Few moments later, I stood up to see sheldon standing in front of me. "You alright bud? You were blushing really, really hard. Like I am talking E-liter after fully charged kind of blushed, and speaking of which." My eyes lit up and my blush disappeared as Sheldon presented my baby, the E-liter. "You fixed my baby! Thank you!" As I took the e-liter from sheldon, set it aside and gave the horseshoe crab a quick hug. "That's what friends are for aren't they?" He said as we released from our hug. "Think you remember how to use it David?" I gave a incredulous look, "I should remember how to use it, if not, I would lose my title and my status." As I picked up the gun and charged it up at the moving balloons, Shooting all three and hearing the pops coming out of them. "You still got it" Sheldon said as he walked up to me. "Thanks Sheldon." As I gave the horse shoe crab a friendly pound it. "Well, the E-liter king is back!" I turned and saw Marie holding her E-liter in her hand. "So I guess the salt queen wants a quick match with me?" "No, I want a match with you!" Callie yelled as she pulled out the splat roller. Oh zapfish…. "David.. I challenge you to a match, see what you can do on a moving target that can fire back." I sweatdropped "sheldon.. prepare for one more fix." He laughed a little.
"Remember David, she's a roller user, her range isn't as great as yours. So use that to your benefit." I regained the confidence "so… one more fix?"
"Hm…. i would, but it would force you to be lacking in the finance department…"
we all chuckled with sheldon before walking out, the squid sisters changing into their disguises. As we walked back to the lobby we all suddenly heard a yell from Callie and before we could even do anything, she was gone. "Joanne!" Marie yelled, I immediately ran to the direction of where we last heard her voice to find her not there.. "octarians…" I turned around in confusion. "Say what?" Marie looks at me before gesturing to a sewer. I hesitantly followed her into the sewer. Once we got there, she handed me what looked like some clothes. "Here, it's a hero suit. Gonna need it… Agent 4." I took the clothes in my hands. "So where do we-" I was stopped with marie pointing to a certain area. I walked over and changed. The clothes barely fitting me as I walked back out "so how do they fit?" Marie asked. I looked down at my clothes and gave a slight twist before looking at Marie "it looks a little.. snug.." Marie sighed as she came out with a kimono dress. Few moments later, she handed me a weapon. "This is the hero shot. Helps with all the splatting." I held it and fired a few rounds, almost getting marie. She put her umbrella in front of me. "Be careful where you aim that… you almost splatted me!" I realised my mistake and put the automatic gun down. "My bad." She smiled "so… shall we get started?"