Inkopolis, Inkopolis Bay

The city is deserted as the beach is left abandoned and no brand is showing.

In the middle of the night, sitting on the food stand while eating some sardines, Callie groans while watching DJ Octavio watching the sea alone with his machine parked next to him.

"Yo, DJ, you seemed down. I know you're upset about squidnapping a mother like me. Wait, does that make me a milf?" Callie asks in octoling language.

"No, Callie, I told you before, you raised Rei through adoption. How many times do I have to let you know?" DJ Octavio sighs in his own language.

"Gee, sorry about that." Callie then approaches DJ Octavio out of curiosity. "So, why so under the sea?"

"Well, young one, I was just reminiscing about the moment where me and my enemy, Atarime Yoshio, as well as his wife had our times at the beach and watched the ocean together. The three of us are just adults playin' like children. Yoshio's wife is such a fine woman, but it's a shame she had to pass away after one of your parents was born." DJ Octavio closes his eyes and sinks his tentacles down with relaxation.

He came to a conclusion that brainwashing Callie was a mistake, but was a tool to use it as a revenge plan against the New Squidbeak Splatoon.

Callie sits down next to DJ Octavio, proceeding to watch the sea with him.

"Why do I feel strange?"

"Hm? Ya horny? If so, then use my wasabi instead because my tentacles are off limits!" DJ Octavio gestures a cross as he's refusing to do anything vulgar.

"It's not that, dumbass! It's that dreaded song that feels so nostalgic… It's like I remember some things that's related to Rei and Hotaru… Hotaru… Is she telling the truth?" Callie questions the things that's happening earlier.

DJ Octavio has no comment while holding his phone out of his baseball cap and pokes his tentacles on the screen.

"Tell ya what, maybe I can sing that song for you. Will it help?" DJ Octavio asks, despite his gravelly voice, will not make the song perfect in his opinion.

Callie stops, raising her head with surprise after hearing what DJ Octavio said.

"Fine…"

Finally, DJ Octavio is singing the very song that is Calamari Inkantation, leading Callie to close her eyes as more voices are singing inside her head.

Her ancestors, Marie, Rei, Cap'n Cuttlefish, DJ Octavio and finally, herself.

"This song… It's nostalgic and beautiful, yet horrible at the same time. What's going on with me?" Callie holds her head as if her memories are flashing which makes her grunt.

What Callie sees is her other self humming to that tune while crouching in a foetal position, naked, which leads her to recognise what she's been missing for a long time.

"Aori?"

"So you heard. Don't take him the wrong way, he's a cool guy, but I guess I'm the inner demon like Rei used to have." The real Callie, Aori, laughs after she stops humming.

"But why? Why are you intruding in my head?"

"I wasn't." Aori sounds serious all of the sudden, leading Callie to gasp. "Those memories are who we are. Hotaru missed us, even Rei is trying to stop us from hurting other inklings."

Slowly, Callie had come to a conclusion that she's been denying Marie all this time, even though her memories are both true and false.

"While I understand you speaking octarian, I can't. But please let Rei and Hotaru talk to you." Callie pleads.

As the music ends, Callie has realised that Aori's eyes are dead and her eyelids are bagged, meaning she's been trapped in a nightmare as Callie herself is guilty for unintentionally giving the original host nothing but grief and dread.

"I'll do so." Callie mutters under her breath.

Callie then sits down next to DJ Octavio after knowing the truth of a false octoling like her.

Hotaru is Marie's real name.

"DJ… Why am I here? Why am I manifested by the real Aori and those hypnoshades?"

"Hmm… Originally, it's going to be just you being remixed in the brain, but considering some inksquirt sabotaged our work, you showed up, acting like you have no memories." DJ Octavio answers Callie's question.

"So that's why I can feel her pain… And what'll you do if you win?"

"Hm… Good question. If I win, maybe we can peacefully move on and live alongside the inklings, despite hatin' 'em." DJ Octavio has no idea what to do when he beats Cap'n Cuttlefish and the NSS crew.

With DJ Octavio and Callie sitting by the beach together like father and daughter, footsteps are coming from the beach as the duo turn towards a familiar.

"Huh!? Shiver!?" Callie exclaims before DJ Octavio wraps his tentacles around her mouth and her arms.

"Be quiet! What is that traitor doing here? Doesn't she know that Inkopolis Bay is closed and abandoned?" DJ Octavio growled.

Standing alone, Shiver is holding salt water with the palm of her hands and splashes it on an open wound on her arm, leading her to realise that water is unaffected to an octoling girl like her.

"Tch. You should've been dead when touching something like this." Shiver sighs in octoling language, expressionless.

"Considering I'm born a half octoling shark. Then yeah, I would've been diluted if I wasn't a half-breed." Fuuka said in octoling as her tone is monotonous.

"Heh. You still think I would join this faker's cause?" Shiver giggles.

"You accepted."

"I did, but knowing how that thing took Utsuho, I'll never forgive that telephone. So let me take over for a while, my little Fuuka."

"I don't think that's going to happen, traitor!" DJ Octavio booms as he starts his machine with Callie riding on it and points her Octo Roller 0 at Shiver.

"Oh? Still going after me? Fun fact: Callie, or Aori, doesn't even belong here. She's never an octarian soldier." Shiver calls out, leading Callie to laugh in a haughty tone.

"I know." Callie responded.

"Hm?"

"DJ is telling me who I really am and Aori is safe inside me. So, shark girl, what's it gonna be? Leave quietly or splat to death?" Callie is pulling a sadistic grin as DJ Octavio laughs.

"GYAHAHAHA! Your choice, Deep Cut?" DJ Octavio commands his machine to crack their knuckles and prepare to end her if she doesn't retreat.

"Ufufu, how foolish. Calling me a traitor when I had Fuuka under my command. Pathetic. You octarians are too weak to handle Agent 3, that is that little brat." Shiver spats in disgust, and then raises her Splatana Wiper at Callie with a piercing glare.

"You mean Rei? You see, I'm visiting her when she's ready with Hotaru. Now come at us, Shiver!" Callie's tone changes from being a cheerful haughty to a bitter rage. "DJ! DROP THE WASABI BEAT!"

"Ya got that! Splash dunk!" DJ Octavio booms while swinging his machine's fist at a machine speed.

Shiver closed her eyes while clenching her fist on her Splatana Wiper and then.

BANG!

"What!?" DJ Octavio exclaimed as he struggled to keep his machine on balance after Shiver's invisible counterattack.

"SHIVER!" Callie roared.

"Come at me, Callie! Let us face to see who you really are, Agent 2!" Shiver cackles while waiting for the moment to face Agent 2, despite looking too revealing to be Agent 2.

A magenta inkling vs a blue octoling, facing a close combat with their ink weapons that can be used for swordplay of death.

As Callie dives onto Shiver, DJ Octavio's giant fists are charging alongside Callie as they're about to end Shiver.

"When it snows, the salt water washes away the snow and returns the sand in this cold weather… That's why you fell into my trap!" Shiver's eyes widens as she blows the sand all over her and Callie, parrying the fists by making DJ Octavio hit himself and creates a large splash of blue ink as DJ Octavio dodges.

"Callie!" DJ Octavio shouts. "Curse you! I'm not letting Callie die before she pays a visit to her old friends!"

As the sand clears, the hypnoshades are left on the sand as it reveals Callie's magenta eyes, behind Callie, who has her ribbon tentacle hair pulled upwards, is Shiver, pulling a Splatana Wiper on her neck and wait for Callie to get herself up.

"Poor little squid. You're not up to your prime. I should've known the real Callie is still in deep despair. How disgusting…" Shiver frowns as Callie grunts with her neck hissing by making contact with Shiver's blue ink. "One move, DJ, or this inkling gets her wish. Such a shame that little girl wouldn't be able to see her beloved mama again."

"You leave Rei out of this! Hotaru and I raised her because she needs care! You're the reason why she's chasing you down for murdering her friends!" Callie snaps.

"These brats? Hehe… Fuuka did tell me to stop, but I couldn't help myself. I wanted to stain the world with ink. And the New Squidbeak Splatoon are at the top of my to kill list." Shiver widens her grin as she makes a slasher smile.

Letting go of Callie, Shiver stomps Callie's head to the sand as hard as she could.

"How sad. Although, this Mirai girl should've joined us a few days ago if it weren't for Marie and the boy in a beanie." Shiver bites her thumb and pulls a part of a chest sarashi with her other thumb.

Inklings… Should've splayed them if she had the chance.

"Tell me, DJ, eye spy something that is no longer with you." Shiver giggles.

"Huh? WHAT!?" DJ Octavio had witnessed a black item that was on Shiver's hand.

"That's right. One of the four thangs. Ahaha! Two down, two to go!" Shiver laughs maniacally, dancing while forgetting that Callie is picking herself up and putting her shades back on.

"You piece of squit! DIE!" Callie screams while swinging her Octo Roller 0.

SPLAT!

After Callie swings her roller, Shiver is now reduced to nothing but magenta ink.

"Holy carp, ya killed her!" DJ Octavio gasped with awe.

"Oh squit, you're right." Callie had came to a realisation that Shiver is tough but stupid.

Afterwards, Callie approaches one thang and pushes it towards DJ Octavio, making Octavio's machine pick up the very thing he holds.

"Hey, DJ, what do you think her end goal was?" Callie asked.

"I dunno."

A sound is coming from the sea as a voice is laughing in the background.

"What the shell!?" Callie exclaimed.

"Are you fishing with me!?" DJ Octavio growls.

"How unfortunate. Do you think I could die like this?" Shiver's voice laughs as a body is walking out of the sea with her Splatana Wiper sliding on the sand.

"Damn you!" Callie growled and then swung her roller again by splatting Shiver again.

"It's no use." Another Shiver arrives behind the building at Inkopolis Bay, leading Octavio to fire his fist and SPLAT!

"What's the matter?" Splat behind the rock.

"Don't tell me you wanted to reject your fate." Splat above the sign.

Finally Shiver stands in front of Callie face to face as they're too close to each other.

"Face it, you'll never be the Callie that Hotaru and her little brat knows. That's why you and DJ are my perfect chance to play with you." Shiver then licks Callie's face as Callie shrieks. "This taste… Haanh~… It's the taste of fear! Delicious." Shiver then licks her lips while grabbing Callie's chin.

What Shiver was doing is not hot, but disturbing which Octavio had a problem with. He knew his former soldier would make a great assassin if it weren't for the inner demon. That means he views her as a threat, even worse than what he did.

"Shiver! I appreciate your passion for ending inklings' lives, but this is ridiculous! Also, this place ain't big enough for both villains and you know I don't like it when they steal my thunder!" DJ Octavio yells as Shiver yawns.

"Don't care. Now, the fact that I don't fight much and lose easily comes to show Fuuka's flawed logic of being cold-blooded. If she really is that strong, then she should stop clinging onto her superiority complex. It's bad enough that she developed some inferiority complex due to Mantaro's existence and Utsuho's forehead being more popular than her and we're just underground band singers." Shiver sighs and then clicks her fingers.

After a click, a shark was summoned as he snatched the piece from DJ Octavio from behind, leading DJ Octavio to gasp and growl.

"HEY! Give that back you thievin' fish!"

̶"̶L̶e̶t̶ ̶u̶s̶ ̶g̶o̶,̶ ̶M̶a̶s̶t̶e̶r̶.̶ ̶W̶e̶ ̶g̶o̶t̶ ̶o̶t̶h̶e̶r̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶n̶g̶s̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶s̶e̶a̶r̶c̶h̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶.̶" Shiver calls in shark language as she leaps onto Master Mega and rides him like a bike by leaving Inkopolis Bay.

Shiver has got away with one of the four thangs.

Callie on the other hand was standing while shocked and was fearing of her family's fate before DJ Octavio lowered his machine towards her.

"Callie… Sorry about the thang."

"It's okay. We only have the other two to find, so let's not give up." Callie shakes her head and then clenches her fist with determination.

"Hmph! Bold of you to say that. According to this map, it's located at… A Houzuki mansion?" DJ Octavio halts while reading the map.

"Houzuki? Isn't that the name of Pearl's family?"

"Yup. And she's working with that other traitor, Marina Iida, yet not as bad as Fuuka."

Callie pulls up her shades and leaps onto DJ Octavio's flying machine and points her roller towards a mansion.

"Onwards! To Houzuki's manor!" Callie called.

"Aye! Let's play some music there!" DJ Octavio laughs while flying to a certain location.

Even though Callie is worried, she'll never stop until she gets her answer and serves DJ Octavio to the fullest.

Tomorrow, they'll get the thang before Shiver does.