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Okay, so we are going to continue further into Octo Valley, where Cap'n Cuttlefish just wants to get things done, Jax is trying not to die from being near Callie, Sammy and Marie are being shippers and Callie is confused.

Once they had reached the second area in Octo Valley, Jax got right to work, taking him into a level infested with Gushers. He found the kettle quickly, but not before giving a finger point to Callie in an attempt to look cool.

"So Callie, what do you think about Jax?" Marie asked coyly.

"Gramps totally made the right choice! He is so fresh!" Callie gushed.

"Do you like him?" Sammy asked.

"Yeah! Like I said, he's super fresh and he is so sweet to me!" Callie replied obliviously. Marie and Sammy burst into laughter. "What? What's so funny?"

"He has the biggest crush on you!" Sammy exclaimed through laughter.

"Even Gramps had an idea about it!" Marie added in. Callie had always been the one who was most oblivious to things like love. Callie started blushing.

"Oh wow! I had no idea!" Callie replied, besides the fact it was rather obvious. "But...I don't know how I feel about him,"

"Seeing as we barely know him, that would make sense," Marie pointed out.

"Hey, why don't you wait until the end of the adventure to tell him how you feel?" Sammy said. "It could give you a chance to get to know him a bit better,"

"Sounds good to me!" Callie said. Jax then jumped out of the kettle, causing the girls to drop the conversation.

"What are these things?" Jax asked as he looked over a small sponge.

"I think if you shoot that, you can swim up it," Callie said. Jax did what he was told and sure enough, the sponge grew to a larger size, letting him swim up it and reach a higher platform.

"How come there are so many weird obstacles in this place?" Jax asked as he splatted another Octotrooper.

"Must be how those blasted Octarians get around," Cuttlefish chimed in.

"Ya know, those would be kinda cool to see in Turf War," Marie said. "Of course it would just make the matches harder,"

"And more fun to watch," Sammy piped up, drawing laughter.

"Why the heck would the Octarians invest in kamaize bombs?" Jax asked as he shot down another Octopod.

"Beats us," Marie replied. "I wouldn't sacrifice myself for a cause like this,"

"Would you sacrifice yourself for me or Callie?" Sammy asked in a false innocent voice.

"Low blow," Marie replied bluntly. Jax chuckled a little but kept moving. He was quickly able to figure out how the Propellers worked.

"Nice work Jax!" Callie gushed. "Took me forever to figure those out!"

"That's because you tried to blow on them to make them move!" Marie pointed out.

"That's how fans normally work!" Callie fired back. Jax had to bite his tongue to keep from bursting into laughter.

"So Agent 2 is helping me this time?" Jax said when he saw Marie join him. He did curse his luck a little that it wasn't Callie, but he could live with Marie.

"Sorry you don't get Agent 1," Agent 2 fired back. Jax blushed again, only to stop when he got a better look at his surroundings.

"Hey, this place looks just like the Kelp Dome!" Jax realized.

"Hey, it kinda does!" Sammy piped up. A Superjump circle then appeared. "Wait, who's that superjumper?" Someone landed and Jax got a good look at them. They looked a lot like an inkling, only with armor, weird looking glasses, and octopus tentacles.

"Looks like you guys have company!" Callie called out.

"Who is that?" Jax asked as he dodged out of the way of her ink blasts.

"That's an Octoling, bucko!" Cuttlefish explained. "These scallywags can turn into octopuses and swim in ink too! Be alert!" Finally, Jax managed to splat her.

"Looks like the Octarians are breaking out the big guns," Marie said as she sniped another Octoling.

"You're pretty good with that Charger," Jax said.

"Save the flirting for Cal-er Agent 1," Marie snarked. Jax was left stumbling over his words for a few seconds, although the arrivals of more Octolings snapped him out of that.

"Hey, this is a lot like a Turf War!" Jax said cockily.

"THE GREAT TURF WAR IS UPON US AGAIN!" Cuttlefish screamed, causing Marie and Jax to wince from the feedback on their headsets.

"Gramps...it's this sport that all the kids play now," Sammy explained.

"Trust us, it's just for fun!" Callie chimed in.

"...Oh," Cuttlefish said. Again, Marie and Jax had to fight back laughter as they made their way to the Zapfish.

"Thank cod!" Jax thought to himself when Callie said she wanted to partner up with Jax this time. The only thing he was worried about was that he would stumble over him and screw something up.

"Hey, this looks just like the first place you went to!" Callie noticed. Jax noticed that too, but he also spotted the UFO with an Octarian that was launching an inkstrike right at Callie.

"Callie! Watch out!" Jax cried as he tackled her out of the way right as the inkstrike blew up. They were just out of range. Thankfully, Jax managed to tackle them behind cover.

Which gave him and Callie time to realize that they were on top of each other.

Jax was fighting every nerve in his body to not start blushing. Unbeknownst to him, Callie was doing the same. Not everybody was willing to shove someone else out of the way of an active inkstrike.

"Er...should we get moving?" Jax finally said, trying to break the silence.

"S-s-sounds good," Callie agreed as they climbed off each other.

"Get a room, lovebirds," Marie teased, causing both to start blushing.

"What the heck was that thing?" Jax asked.

"That's an Octostriker!" Cuttlefish exclaimed "Hide in your ink so the rascal can't target you!"

"You don't have to tell me twice!" Jax said. Callie was much faster with her roller, so she would ink most of the path, while Jax would swim along and deal with any enemies they dealt with.

"Say! You two make a great team!" Sammy noted once Jax and Callie had reached a safe zone.

"Thanks Sam," Callie replied. "Um! I mean Agent 3!"

"She isn't wrong," Jax pointed out.

"True," Callie said. "Hey check it out!" She pointed at a wall. "If we can ink that up, we can reach that stupid Octostriker!"

"Hang on," Jax said as he quickly inked up the wall, letting him and Callie swim up. The Octostriker barely knew what hit it. Jax collected the Zapfish and the duo Superjumped away.

"Um, guys?" Jax asked. He had found the boss kettle, but he wanted to talk to the Squid Sisters first.

"Yeah?" Sammy replied.

"I uh think I know why the Octarians are stealing the Zapfish," Jax said as he pulled out a secret scroll. It looked like a news report. It was talking about how they were running out of electricity to power their domes.

"If they had just asked, we could have spared some," Marie said, pointing out the clear solution.

"Clearly, someone doesn't want to share," Sammy noted.

"I just hope we can do something. I don't want another war," Callie said nervously.

"Let's just get them back before we can think more about that," Marie pointed out. With a nod, Jax jumped into the kettle.

"That will never stop startling me," Jax grumbled as a tentacle appeared out of the boss, activating it. It had googly eyes, a large nozzle and little feet.

"What's with the tiny feet?" Sammy asked.

"That's the Octonozzle!" Cuttlefish exclaimed.

"And I think I can see how to stop it!" Jax said. He waited for the Octonozzle to turn around, then blasted away at a little suction cup. Once he destroyed it, the Octonozzle turned around, letting Jax climb up and blast away. Despite Octonozzle's best attempts to hit Jax with it's ink balls, he quickly triumphed.

"...Scritchy...scraaaatch…"

"What's the sound?" Cuttlefish asked.

"I don't know, but I don't like it," Sammy said.

"Cut...tle...fishhhh…,"

"Dumb thing must be broken!" Marie said.

"Keep up the good work Agent 4!" Callie cheered.

"Um...thanks," Jax said.

So Jax and Callie share a moment or two, Sammy and Marie are both enjoying Callie's squirming and Cuttlefish has no idea what is coming. See you soon!