Grina, Bars and Mirii were running for a while, but finally they reached the Headquarters! As the trio catches their breathes right near the main door, the tall girl opens her mouth.

"Wh-why you stopped?!" She said to Mirii.

"Because we can't get inside without this." Mirii shows a plastic card.

The girl passes the item inside a hole.

Click.

They pushed the door and entered inside. Bars was the one closing the door. The first thing Grina saw was an Inkling woman standing still, clasping her hands.

"You must be Grina…" She squeezes her eyes.

"Oh… apparently I'm famous!" The girl grins. "Sorry, but autographs will be signed later!"

"They told me that the taller girl brings this name with her." The woman looks at Mirii and Bars. "You are all Hun's friends…"

"Correct." Mirii walks in front of Grina. "Where is he?"

"On the bed, resting…" Her face became serious.

Mirii starts worrying.

"C-can we see him?" She gulped.

"You are not allow to enter inside his room… however, you can stay near its door." She turns over. "Please, follow me."

The woman walks away: after a quick look, the trio nods at each other and follow the adult.

"At least, i-is he alright?" Mirii walks closer.

"I can't answer this question… no one can, at the moment." The woman didn't even turn to look.

Mirii's eyes appear watery, as her hand stands in front of her mouth. Grina notices this: she walks near her and whispers on her ear.

"Don't worry, Mirii… I'm sure Hunry is fine." Grina shakes Mirii gently, for a short time.

She nods, rubbing her eyes.

"Yeah, girl…! Hunter will not like that blue face you are making… so please be strong." Bars hugs Mirii for a moment.

She lies her hand on his arm.

"… thank you, friends." She smiles.

Her friends smiled too.

"By the way" The woman speaks, capturing the attention. "My name is Tonna. I'm a Supportive Agent, ready to give assistance to other agents in missions."

"Supportive Agent?" Grina asks. "I thought that Agents had the same job role!"

"No, Rangers are." She curves to the right, followed by the others. "Before Rangers become Agents, they must choose their career path."

"Seems interesting." Mirii speaks. "Is there a Leader role?"

"No." Tonna shakes her head. "The choice is wide, but for now you must focus on your jobs."

"And man, what job they handed to us!" Bars points at the Inkinators trio. "Defeating Octodudes and Octodudettes in their psychedelic city!"

"Don't forget the captain inside the can!" Grina winks.

"And Lisa! Poor little thing…! Her wings are like, getting rustier!" He looks up, thinking about it.

"Ah ah! Naaaah, those Octarians don't have that heart of cold! I think she's allowed to hit a quick gym or something!" She glances at a photo with a group of Agents: under it was written Agents - Generation 5.

After turning a corner, Mirii quickly sees Fara leaning against the door. The little girl raises her head, tracking down everyone else. She groaned, while taking a step in the middle of the hallway.

"Go awa'!" Fara shows her teeth.

Tonna and Mirii stopped, with eyes full of questions.

"Not ya!" She walks sideways, seeing Grina and Bars. "'hem!"

"Oh hi, Fara!" Grina waves her hand, while a smile grew on her face.

Fara puffs her cheeks, snorting.

"Wh-why are you acting like this…?" Tonna walks closer.

"Thos' ar' meani'!" She frowns even more. "'hey tretd Hun bad!"

One of Tonna's eyebrows raises, as she looks at Grina and Bars.

"Is that true…?"

Grina lowers her head.

"Sigh… I'm very sorry, Fara… I-I don't know what happened to me…"

"Yeah, me too…" Bars raises his eyebrows.

Fara didn't change her expression. Suddenly the door slowly opens: Hun come out with his eyes closed.

"BIG BRO?!" She asked in shock.

"Fara…?" Hun tries to open his eyes.

The little girl dives on her brother, with a hug. Hun smiled, as he caressed his sister's head.

"Hunley…"

The boy opened his eyes even more, noticing the other 4 Inklings.

"How are you…?" Mirii's eyebrows were raised.

"I'm fine. A bit tired though…" His legs were slightly bended down.

"Stay on the bed, Hun." Tonna grips his arm, lightly pulling him inside the room.

Fara followed Hun first, then all the rest. The woman let go the young farmer: he dived carefully on his bed. All the eyes were pointed on him.

"Ehm… is everything all right?" He asked slowly.

"Yes, Hunley." Mirii grew faintly a smile. "We were a little worried about you…"

"Oh… why?" The boy looks at everyone.

Mirii looks away, sighing.

"I… I don't know how to explain this…" She grabbed her arm.

"Come on, Mirii." Grina pats her shoulder. "I'm sure Hunry will not be scared."

Mirii inhales with her nose, loudly… then she looks at the boy, once more.

"Mr. Tarfo called us before… he said that you were battling to become an agent." She lays her hand on her chest. "But suddenly… you… you transformed into a monster."

Hun left his mouth open.

"P-please, don't cry now…" Mirii bites her lips.

The other Inklings were making a downturned mouth.

"You are n-not a monster! You are a person, just like us…!" She points at everyone.

"… I'm sure I'm not a monster now." He stands up, looking at a square-shaped mirror.

"It all happened earlier, Hun." Tonna steps forward. "While you were fighting Giulius, suddenly you were becoming as dark as the night. Even your own ink."

The boy trembled.

"Ya fintd afte' winnin' aghinst 'hat guy…" Fara walks closer to Hun, hugging his stomach. "Ya 'urnd back as yoself, too."

"Really? I was still colored dark…?" He caressed his sister's head.

"If she's referring to your Inkling transformation… yes, you were." Tonna sighs. "But that wasn't the only thing different from you."

Hun gulped.

"You were much paler than now. Your eyes were black and you were saying incomprehensive words." The woman rubs her hands, looking away for a moment.

"Wha'? But I undirsto' his 'ords!" Fara stood up, frowning at her.

"You did?!" Tonna's jaw dropped.

"Ye'! He was callin' mi!" She points to herself multiple times.

"Well… honestly, if I just turned black and that's it, I don't think I would be anything closer to a real monster." He frowned with a smile.

"You behaved like one, though… you were growling like a wild animal." Tonna sank on a chair. "Everyone was left speechless and one of the agents almost ran away!"

His smile disappeared.

"He must have been a coward!" Mirii shouts, looking at me. "Hunley, as I said before, you are not a monster! I'm sure you have more abilities, than it meets the eyes…!"

"I wish I could help… but I don't remember anything." Hun sighed.

"Not even the fight?" Tonna asked.

The boy looks up on the ceiling.

"I… I remember a race… and then… … nothing. Nothing else." He shook his head.

Grina walks slowly near Hun, but Fara quickly steps ahead. The light girl growled at her.

"Fara, leave her alone." He said slowly.

She spins towards her brother, with her eyes expanded. She stood like that for a while, before jumping on the bed and covering his stomach. She was frowning at Grina, showing her small fangs at her. The girl did a slight smile, then she looks at her friend.

"Hunry, listen… I know this is not really an easy moment for you… and I'm sure that after our talk, you'll be brought to the medical room again."

"THE MEDICAL ROOM?!" He screamed, crawling backwards.

"Hun, no!" Fara holds his stomach with even more strength. "'hey 'ill not 'urt ya!"

"I promise they will not use a syringe on you!" Tonna stands up.

"Whoa, woman! Why they should use one of them?!" Bars covers his arms.

"They will not!" Tonna looks at him. "It's just a complete check-up: they assured that a reason of your sudden transformation will be found!"

Hun breathes normally and slid on his bed, almost wanting to cover under the sheet. Grina was biting her hand.

"I'm so sorry, Hunry…! I-I couldn't know all this!"

"That's ok… really." He smiled.

She smiled too. Fara frowned even more than before, as she growled once again.

"Anyway… Hunry, you must know something!"

Grina took his hand.

"No matter what they will found on you… remember that Inkinators will always help you! Always!"

The boy tilts his head, staring at Grina's smile and thinking about her words. Bars lays his hand on the top of Grina's hand. Mirii lays her hand on his hand.

"Wh-what's this?!" Hun looks at each face rapidly.

"Just a confirmation of my speech…" She winks. "We truly reformed the Squad now!"

Everyone was smiling. Hun watches his sister hiding her fangs.

"Wait a minute! You… you aren't angry anymore? I-I mean, we are friends again?"

Grina nodded.

"Hey man…!" Bars raises his hand, grinning. "Sorry for the insults shouted last time!"

POW!

Bars slammed his hand on Hun's shoulder: he screamed and quickly started massaging it. Grina, Mirii and Fara look at Bars each with a frown. He chuckles, while scratching the back of his head.

"We'll talk about this… later." Mirii was throwing lightning bolts at him, from her eyes.

He gulped loudly.

"It's better we go now…" Grina turns towards her farmer friend, with a smile. "We'll see each other tomorrow, Hunry! Get back in shape, because we are going to eat some cheeseburgers!"

He smiled even more, as he thinks about a cheeseburger ready to eat!

"He can't, Grina." Mirii speaks to her. "He ate one yesterday."

"Then we'll watch a movie!" Grina grins widely, raising her forefinger.

"What's a movie?" He asked, a bit puzzled.

"It's a story! I'm sure you'll like it!" She kept nodding. "But we'll see one tomorrow evening, ok?"

"Uh… ok?" He shrugged, forgetting that last statement.

"Now we must go." Mirii walks near him.

Her hand was slightly move towards his right hand… but she retreated that, blushing a lot.

"S-see you tomorrow!" She bowed down.

Hun blushed too, as confusedly trying to use some logic on those small but quick events.

"See ya!" Grina waved her hand.

Bars did the same.

"Bye…!" Hun waves his hand too.

The trio walked away from the room. Mirii closed the door, quickly tracking Bars walking in tiptoes but still doing some loud step noises.

"Bars." She stands completely emotionless.

He turns over her, jumping a bit as his face was covered in fear.

"I didn't like what you did to Hunley." She walks near him, as she cracks her knuckles.

Grina stretches her arm forward, as her eyes were closed and a big sweat drop appeared on her head.

"Ehm… Mirii, could you just please"

"I don't want to hurt him, Grina…" She takes his hand.

Bars starts sweating, as his eyes were glued on Mirii's soft hand.

"I wanted to show him, what pain is." She slightly twists his palm, pressing on it with her thumb.

Bars starts yelping, breathing as rapidly as he could. Grina covers her mouth with her hands, almost yelling.

"You see how little strength you need to use, in order to cause pain?" She kept her emotionless look.

The boy nodded fast, still yelping and breathing heavily. Mirii leaves his palm: he grasps it, gritting his teeth.

"I could have done worse, Bars." She walks past him. "Don't give me other reasons to use more painful examples on you."

Grina walks near him, as she frowns and followed Mirii with her eyes. Then the two Inklings look at each other: Grina wraps her arm around his shoulders, but her expression didn't change. Together they follow their friend, turning a corner.