There were two guards that walked around the perimeter of the corporate office; the office was many storey's high, with it seeming to be unending to the how many there were. Violet and Fuchsia didn't have to be too careful about their stealth since the building was a little secluded from the main road, but they both knew that there must be a couple workers in there that have no clue of their jobs.

Fuchsia stares at Violet's location, waiting for her to give the signal to go in; both of the guards were still circling the area and weren't staying in one place. Violet looks at her phone and saw the time, they had to hurry up-can't wait until Morazzo left the building in his fully armed and guarded squad car.

Violet decided that the best method might be to split up the guards, Fuchsia would lure one away and kill one while she snipes the other. Fuchsia hears the guard's boots pace the ground and throws a rock at his feet, alarming the guard. The guard walks over to where Fuchsia was hiding and inspects the bush from a short distance, his gun pointing at the bush in anticipation of something jumping out; there's a slight movement of the bush, and the guard fires at the bush rapidly-destroying the bush. He's relaxed as he saw that there was nothing there and lowers his guard; Fuchsia appears behind him and pulls a small dagger from the guards pocket and slits his throat with that small dagger, spilling the guard's blood across the grass. The guard moans in agony as he squirms on the ground with blood gushing from the open wound on his throat-coughing up blood too. Fuchsia pulls out a rag and wipes the blood off the dagger, putting the dagger in her pant pocket-"This will come in very handy…-she said, turning toward Violet's direction and giving her a thumbs up; Violet responds on the earpiece and notifies her that she'll take down her guard while Fuchsia sneaks through the side entrance.

"There are three entrances and routes to take, all three will take us to our destination…but each has their own risk." Violet said, looking through her scope on her sniper, observing the windows on each floor. "The first route is through the back, it's safe since you'll sneak through silently, but there is the risk that you might run into a guard over in the back who might signal for reinforcements. Taking the second route through the side vent is probably the safest since you'll travel through vents-problem is, you might exit through somewhere highly unlikely. The third route is straight through the main entrance, it's the riskiest since we'll be heading straight into a shootout because we will attract attention; luckily I can support you better in this option since you'll be in my range of vision."

Violet can hear Fuchsia's loud sigh through the earpiece, "All three sound really exciting, but I think I'll take the third option."

Violet raised an eyebrow, "Huh!? What!? Why!?"

Fuchsia giggled, "What's wrong? Time to see how strong our friendship is; make sure my head doesn't get blasted to smithereens."

Violets sighed and then gave her the "ok" to continue with their plan; they'll take the third option and start a shootout. Violet snipes the guard at the entrance, sniping him as he stepped away from the vision of the those inside; she spotted more guards that were heavily packed in the lobby, but none of them heard the gunshot since the sniper was finely tuned to go off silently. Fuchsia picks up the body and drags it over to the same bush that the other dead guard was placed; both dead guards left a bloody trail.

Fuchsia looks around to make sure she isn't spotted, and then she presses against the wall, listening to the voices speaking and determining what action to take next. Fuchsia peeks over and spots a bunch of guards dressed like mobsters, all armed with military splat weapons. Military splat weapons were weapons just like the weapons that inklings used in their turf wars, only these weapons operated on ink bullets and other lethal projectiles; the ones used in turf wars were heavily tuned to not ever harm inklings.

"I count about twenty of them, all of them are scattered…what should do?' Violet said, pointing her scope on Fuchsia's tan face.

"Take down a couple, I'll throw an Ink grenade and take down some numbers…"-Fuchsia said, pulling a grenade from her vest pocket.

"The military outfit suits you…maybe Azule will like you once I send him this picture…"-a snapshot is heard through Fuchsia's afterwards; Fuchsia covers herself, blushing.

"W-why would you bring his name up? And did you just take a picture of me!?"

"Duh, I'm sending it to Azule right now…"

"Please don't…and why are you doing this? You already have him!"

"It's fun and who knows, maybe I like a little competition…"

Fuchsia's face is red as she thinks about what Azule's reaction might be, aware of his unconscious attraction to Octoling girls. She takes a deep breath and listens for the guards and hears one of them approaching, asking his fellow friend what happened to the guard from earlier. Both men step outside and are immediately sniped in the position that they stand; the other guards are alerted as they see their comrade's drop on the floor with their heads blasted off and blood sprinkling from where the heads used to be.

The men point their weapons, slowly moving forward. A grenade is thrown to them and rolls on the floor, blinking; the guards look down and quickly realize what it is, but it's too late-the grenade goes off and kills a majority of the guards on impact with Fuchsia-colored smoke filling the room. Fuchsia quickly enters and jumps over a counter nearby and hides there, loading her weapon for the shootout; the remaining guards sent a pair to alert the guards on the upper floors and also ask for reinforcements. She looked over and saw a secretary, shaking frantically and pale-frightened by the sudden events; the secretary was probably one of the workers who were unaware of the dirty work going on behind the scenes.

"Miss…are you ok?" Fuchsia whispered, placing her hand gently on the woman's shoulder; the woman scoots away from her.

"Y-you're an Octoling!?" screamed the woman, calling attention to the guards; she continues this action and the guards begin to search for the voice.

Fuchsia snaps the woman's neck and gently rests her on the floor, her face full of regret for having to do that action. She moves her lips that looked like she was saying "I'm sorry" and slowly looks over the counter, realizing that the smoke was clearing up.

She stays calm, but she can feel the presence of the guards coming closer to her location. She holds her gun tightly, preparing to shoot, when she hears the faint sound of a gunshot. Violet comes on the earpiece and tells her "all clear"-Fuchsia looks over the counter and saw both guards got their heads blasted off clean with blood splattered across the white-tile floor.

"Your accuracy is truly terrifying…" Fuchsia said with a sweat drop falling.

"Thanks, I practice whenever I can." Violet said with a beaming smile, "I'll try to take down some guards on the upper levels, get to the elevator or the stairs."

"Roger that."

Fuchsia squats through the hallway, looking out for any stray guards. She reached the elevator and pressed the button, but once the elevator didn't open, she figured they cut the wire and the elevator was no longer useful. She bolts for the stairs, slamming the door open and hearing the footsteps of guards running down the steel steps. Fuchsia shot each of them down as they saw her, scattering their blood and bodies across the stairs. She stomps over their bodies and then ran up the stairs, opening the door slowly and allowing stray bullets to fly past her as she took cover behind the door. There were a good number of guards there, but they didn't last long as Violet disposed of them through the window.

"My mom is on her way, she'll follow you shortly…" Violet said as Fuchsia reached the fifteenth floor; the top floor was the seventeenth floor and the location of Linguini Morazzo-heavily guarded and armed with hit men.

Over in the hills at Sally's modern home, Sally is giving Hatsunika a tour of her home. She showed her all the fancy rooms and even gave Hatsunika a brief history of each room; they passed by Reice's room and entered Sally's room. Sally's room was surprisingly plain, unlike her personality; her room was filled with little anime figurines and poster from her favorite song artists like the Squid Sisters. A giant piano also filled a great space of the room, resting over in a corner. Sally headed over to the piano and began playing the song-Sinnerman while Hatsunika sat next to her bobbing her head and tapping her foot. The melody echoes through the empty house as she begins to immerse herself in the music, getting lost in the keys and playing automatically-smoothly shifting from the heavy jazzy blues to a slow and melancholy melody. She begins to play medley of her favorite show, Evan's Galaxy; a popular cartoon known for its progressive themes and strong sense of female power. She plays through a dozen songs, each song describing one of her friends-playing a strong and consistent melody for Azule and Cobalt, a faster pace for Tangie, and a slow and happy melody for Reice, Violet and Fuchsia. Her phone buzzed and interrupted her concentration; she takes out the phone from her pocket and she-along with Hatsunika- stare at the caller ID, it was a voice chat from Azule. She answers with a huge smile, tilting her head at Azule; Azule raised an eyebrow, spotting the background.

"Hey Sal, how's everything?" Azule said with a cheerful expression, as bright and full of hope as usual.

"Good…I was on the piano when you just happened to call."-Hatsunika's whispering to her asking if that was the Azule she was talking about, noticing his Royal Blue "hair"-"So what about you?"

"Oh, we're nearing the Island now. We had a rocky start with a couple monsters that we battled earlier, now we're on our way the Death Row Island."

"Ah, I can make a guess why…So the Islands, huh?"

"Yeah, unfortunately we're not near the Cepholodan or Maui Isles…but there is Mahi-Mahi Island for when we finish our mission."

"Hey, I have someone that you might want to meet…"

"Who…?"

Hatsunika jumps in the screen with Sally; Azule's mouth dropped. "Hatsunika Miku!? How!? "

"I met her a few days ago and since then, we've become great friends!"-Hatsunika said enthusiastically, hugging Sally-"I'll be looking to meet you and the other friends that she mentioned later this winter."

"Cool, I'll look forward to winter!" Azule said, nodding hs head.

They continued to talk for a few more minutes until Azule had to hang up because he was nearing his mission; Sally and Hatsunika resume the piano. Sally continues to play, her conscious filled with questions on how she'll save Reice and Violet-realizing that she spent too much time off task from her original plan, began to think of a way to get involved and stop the Sororia's and Galloway's from clashing.