We're back! And it's gooooood, this is gonna be a longer chapter than usual, so buckle your seatbelts! Though I can't guarantee they'll work...

I currently have a plan for what's gonna happen after this story reaches its conclusion, I just have to think of a creative name unlike the first thought to come into my head (which the name of this fic is, and was, the first thing into my head)

Also since someone asked via PM, in the game my name is GamerJosh, playing as the Octoling Girl with Neo Octoling Armor and Boots, and either the toothpick or the hero headphones.

Now, let's get right into the story!

Sam landed first, a series of super jump markings appearing next to her, she looked around, everything seemed to be calm, though she quickly realized she was only in a calm area, they had landed in a bit of a remote part of wherever-they-are, but she could hear the sound of ink-explosions and DJ Octavio's music, in the distance, as everyone began to arrive, Sam noticed that the sounds were getting... closer

"Hey Marina?" Kelly asked, "where are we?" She said, "we're in Octarian HQ!" She said, "I decided to jump us to a more remote part of the area so we could collect ourselves" she answered helpfully, "well I have a feeling we won't be remote for long" Orion said, as he said it, the sound of someone grind railing above them was heard, and a series of octocopters and Octolings were heard running past them as they squeezed themselves against the wall to avoid detection.

"Was... was that her?" Ian asked as he looked up at the grind rail above them, "I... I think so..." replied Kelly, "Hey Sam did you see-" she began to ask before realizing that Agent 3 was gone.

"Wait where's 3?" Asked Callie, who was answered by the PA system which yelled out, "an inkling has been sighted in the area!", Marie groaned, "welp, subtlety has gone out the window" she said, prepping her charger, "who's ready to go in guns-blazing without any sort of plan?"

Meanwhile...

"Wait..." Sara said out loud, "an Inkling!?" She yelled this time, she looked around frantically, her hopes at an all time high, until she saw the inkling, wearing a ragged cape, tentacles pink, and shooting like crazy, tears began to gush as she smiled wide, "SAAAAAAAM!!!" She yelled, but she was too far away, and the rail was taking her in an essential circle, meaning she had to wait, it tortured her, but she wiped away the tears and focused on dodging a spinning fist from Octavio.

She also noticed another group colored pink like her coming out and fighting, she recognized them immediately, well, two of them she didn't, but she recognized everyone else, Marie, Callie, Pearl, Marina, and Kelly we're here! There was also a male inkling and a male Octoling with them, new friends? She wasn't sure, but she was glad either way, Marie was on a roof, dispatching enemies rapidly, Callie ran around with her Roller while everyone else shot with either Dualies or a shooter, except for Marina, who held an Octobrush.

No matter how much she wiped, the tears would just keep coming, she couldn't stop it, all of her restrained emotions were coming full force, but she kept focused, and so, despite the tears, kept going.

Meanwhile...

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" yelled Sam as she ran at full speed, shooting and dodging the entire way, "GIMME BACK MY SARAAAAAAAAA!!" She yelled angrily, "maybe calm down a bit 3!!" Yelled Marie from the roof, earning a "NO WAY!!" From the caped agent, she had seen Sara, and she was not losing her, perhaps she should have made an actual plan first, but she didn't care, she just had to get to Sara, that is the only goal on her mind right now, and no Octarian is going to stop her, as she thought this, an Octoling tried to sneak up on her, only to get splatted almost immediately.

"Is that Octavio!?" Ian yelled, pointing at the giant flying weapon, "yup!" Kelly yelled back, "seems like he got an upgrade!" She yelled again, earning a "well duh!" From Callie, "I wanna ride in that!" She yelled, "you were brainwashed Callie!" Yelled Marie, "IT WAS STILL COOL!!" Callie yelled back.

"Hey!" Yelled Orion, "Agent 8 is about halfway around!" He yelled, this grabbed Sam's attention as she looked at where Sara was, she was a little past halfway now, and Octavio was focusing on her, "HEY OCTAVIO!!" She yelled, though Octavio didn't hear it, she cursed, she was trying to grab his attention away from Sara, but to no avail.

"Hey! Try this!" Yelled Pearl, tossing a giant can at her, she grabbed it, it disappeared and her tentacles started to glow, she had just been given some Tenta Missiles, "thanks!!" She yelled back, activating the special, she locked onto the Octobot King, and fired, the missiles didn't damage the giant weapon much, but it grabbed his attention well enough.

"Agent 3!" He yelled, "PREPARE TO BE DUBSTOMPED!!" Sam then realized that maybe it would have been better if his attention was on someone other than her and Sara, as she thought that, he was hit by more Tenta Missiles, this time coming from Kelly, "welp!" She said, tossing the Tenta Missiles to the ground, "that was our last Tenta Missiles can, HEY OCTAVIO!!" She yelled, "BRING IT ONNNNNN!!", she yelled again, grabbing Octavio's attention instead.

As 8 got closer, and Kelly began dodging, people could hear Ian yelling "DO YOU GUYS EVER HAVE A PLAN!?", which was given a response from Marie, who yelled, "USUALLY!!"

Sam ran towards Sara while Sara grinded towards her, as they got closer Sara jumped off, landing near her, "SAM!!" She yelled, tears in her eyes, she charged at the girl as fast as she could, as did Sam, until they finally connected, Sara ended up tackling Sam to the ground in a bear hug, Sam hugging back just as hard, tears were unrestricted, and the only thing they could do was laugh as they held eachother as tightly as they could.

"Oh my god, are you okay!?" Sam said, tears gushing, "who cares!? Are you okay?" She said, crying just as much, they laughed, and embraced eachother as tightly as they could.

"Don't wanna ruin moment..." Said Orion, walking next to them, "but we're kind of in the middle of something big" he said calmly, snapping the two girls out of their moment, "umm, who are you?" Sara asked, "Orion" he said calmly, "the other inkling you don't know is Ian" he said as the sound of an explosion happened nearby, "we should probably help Kelly" he said, as a Killer Wail shot behind him, not even fazing the boy.

"O-oh! Right!" Said Sam, pushing Sara off her (earning a cute little "nuuuuuu!" From the Octoling), "still in battle, right..." she said, helping the Octoling to her feet, "BY THE WAY!!" Yelled Ian who was helping Kelly not get splatted, "HOW ARE WE GETTING OUT!?", He yelled again, Marie groaned and yelled back, "USE THE COMMS!" As she handed Sara an earpiece, which she put in her ear.

"Hello? This thing on?" She asked into the comms, which was responded with the celebrating screams from Marina and Pearl, who were the only ones who didn't see her get back to Sam, "8!! Welcome back!" Said Pearl, "we were so worried!" Said Marina, joining in on it, "it's nice to see you too guys!" Said Sara, wiping away a tear that was still on her face.

"So... anyone wanna answer my question?" Asked Ian through the comlink, which was answered by Kelly, amidst the sounds of her fighting, "did you not...! Ugh! Haha! Eat fist Octavio! Ugh, did you not listen to the plan!?" She scolded, annoyed at the boy, "we hold out until Sheldon gets here, he sets up a squid beacon, and we super jump to the van!" She said, before being cut off by having to dodge a spinning punch, "though... if DJ Octavio has a new weapon, maybe we should take it out first..." she said, trailing off.

"She's right, "Said Marie, "we need to take down Octavio before we go, I'll contact Gramps and let him know the situation" she said, taking out a phone and tapping the screen quickly, "are you sure you can tell him that fast by texti-" Sara tried to say, before getting cut off by a "done!" From Marie, who went back to dispatching Octarians.

"Okay then!" Sam said, grabbing Sara's hand, "Sara stays with me, let's kick some Octo butt" she said confidently, "oh I'm not leaving your side until we get home!" Sara said, gripping Sam's hand harder, she smiled, Sam smiled back, "let's do this!" Sara yelled, earning a loud "BOOYAH!!" From everyone else.

Literally 2 minutes later...

"DODGE THE SPINNING PUNCHES!!"

"THATS LIKE THE ONLY THING HE'S USING THOUGH!!"

"THERE ARE TOO MANY OCTOLINGS SHOOTING AT ME!!"

"WHERE'S GRAMPS!?"

"This plan sucks..."

The amount of things that didn't go according to plan matches that of the chaos that ensues on the tower in a match of Tower Control, Sara sticked next to Sam the entire time, but it seemed that Octavio had upgraded to the point where 75% of the time, his punches were spinning, he used Killer Wails, octo missiles, Bomb Rushes, and the giant bombs Agent 3 had to deal with when she first fought him, then there were the Octarians as well, who were making things much, much harder.

"Agh!" Yelled Kelly as a spinning fist hit her, breaking her armor, "Kelly!" Yelled Ian, running towards her, "you okay?" He asked, "yeah I'm fine..." she said, rubbing her head, "HEY!! Watch out!!" She yelled as a series of Octo Missiles were fired at the two, "Okay time to go!" Ian yelled, picking up Kelly and tossing her over his shoulder despite her protests to the situation, and running towards Orion.

"Hey! Any idea where the captain is?" He said, Kelly flailing her arms behind him, "I dunno, he should have been here alread-" he started to say before being cut off by the sound of Marina yelling, "THEY'RE HEEEEEEEEEEREEEEE!!"

They whipped their heads around to look at Marina, she was pointing at the flying truck in the sky, something they had been waiting for, they heard Captain Cuttlefish in the comms, "Haha! Sorry we're late!!" He yelled, laughing, "I see you've got Agent 8! Good work team!" He said again, sporting the Octoling standing with Agent 3.

"Gramps!! Set up the beacon!" Yelled Marie, prompting Sheldon to activate a squid beacon, "alright let's go!!" Yelled Pearl, before being grabbed by Marina, "wait everyone! I have an idea!" She said to everyone over the comms.

"There are a lot of Octolings here right?" She asked, earning a "Duh!!" From Kelly, "well, what if we got Callie and Marie to sing the Inkantation here?" She said, flipping the switch on the mental lightbulbs in everyone's heads, "we can liberate them just like you and me!" Said Sara, smiling, "good plan! I'll get the jukebox ready!" Said Cuttlefish, his excitement obvious.

Callie and Marie nodded to eachother, and in an instant, used the squid beakon to super jump to the truck, "alright everyone! ARE YOU READY??" Callie yelled, earning a loud "YEAH!!" From everyone down below, "then let's get this party started!!" Marie yelled, and then, the music began to play.

I'm done!! Finally!! Carp that took longer than originally planned, unpacking a giant container full of cardboard boxes can take a while, and even when your done for the day on that, your too tired to write.

I hope you all enjoyed this chapter, I for one can breathe easy for a day as I brainstorm the next chapter, the final fight shall end soon though, so enjoy this while you can!

A got a single PM asking whether I would continue using these characters after this story ends, and I might as well answer, yes, I love these characters too much XD, I'll leave it at that for now, but more details will be included in the next chapter.

Anyways, I'll see you next time, Stay Fresh!