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Okay, time to begin our trek through the second area. Nicole is going to start poking her head where it doesn't belong.

Nicole was ready to kick Octo butt. That was for sure. What she was not ready for was for Sheldon to force a stupid Roller onto her!

"Ok, take this with you. It'll help me gather some practical battle data," Sheldon said as his drone flew off. "This is the Hero Roller! You can fling a big wall of ink while on the ground or a narrower, longer stream in mid air. And of course, you can use it to roll over enemies,"

"I know how to use a lame Roller, Sheldon," Nicole groaned.

"Better not let Callie catch you saying that, Agent 5," Sammy warned.

"Where is Callie, by the way?" Nicole asked. "I mean, I know you guys don't appear together as much anymore, but I thought she would at least help with this,"

"She's...busy with other issues," Marie lied. Nicole was suspicious, but chose to shrug it off. She found bundles of...something nearby.

"What is this?" Nicole asked.

"Huh. There are Rolonium bundles here," Marie noted.

"Rolo-whatium?" Nicole asked. She had never heard of that before.

"Hit the Rolonium bundles to charge them with your ink!" Sheldon explained. Nicole did just that, causing the Rolonium to roll away and ink more of the ground for her. With a smirk, Nicole headed across.

"I wish I could spit up stuff like that!" Nicole said as she watched an Octarian barf up a large bundle of Rolonium. Sammy, on the other hand, wasn't as pleased at the display.

"Ew! How do we kill that thing!?" She demanded.

"If you time it just right, you can hit the Rolonium back at the Octohurler," Marie said, sounding seconds away from gagging herself.

"Lightweights," Nicole mocked as she did just that, splatting the Octohurler with little trouble. She continued on, wondering if there were any friendly Octohurlers.

When Nicole saw that Sheldon was going to force another weapon on her, she wasn't happy. That is, until she saw the weapon. Namely, a set of Dualies!

"Ok, take these with you. They'll help me gather some practical battle data. These are the hottest weapons in the game right now - the Hero Dualies!" Sheldon revealed, but before he could start explaining, Nicole started kissing them.

"I know how to use my babies, Sheldon," Nicole said as she set off.

"You sure are an interesting one, Agent 5," Marie said, bemused.

"How do you think Agent 4 would react to her?" Sammy asked.

"As long as she doesn't steal Callie, I'm sure he'll be fine with her," Marie said.

"Would now be a good time to say that Callie is my gay celebrity crush?" Nicole joked, causing everyone to laugh as she continued to blast away with her dualies.

"Sheldon you are dead to me," Nicole said in the most stone cold voice she could muster. After giving her a taste with the dualies, Sheldon had the nerve to settle her with a charger!

"I'd watch your mouth, Agent 5," Marie said, armed with her own charger and dressed in her battle clothes. "Chargers can be very practical weapons,"

"Thanks for the support, Marie-er I mean Agent 2!" Sheldon said before continuing his weapon monologue. "This is the Hero Charger! Charge up, then splat the enemies from afar! You can also swim around a bit without losing your charge. Cool, huh?! I call that storing your charge. Get good at it and you'll be cooking in no time!" Nicole, however, had basically tuned him out as she stared at Marie.

"Don't look so shocked, Agent 5," Marie said, when she saw the younger Inkling giving her confused looks. "Sammy, Callie and I didn't get as far as we did if he couldn't fend off boys."

"Right! Just didn't expect you to want to fight," Nicole admitted.

"I'd go on more missions if I could get around easier!" Sammy admitted.

"So, let's take down these Octo Zeppelins," Marie said with a grin. It was then when Nicole noticed the main foe of this area. Giant zeppelins. She returned Marie's grin.

"I agree, 100 percent," Nicole replied. While splatting giant evil blimps wasn't Nicole's first choice for how she wanted to spend time with one of her idols, she wasn't complaining.

"WHOA!" Sammy exclaimed.

"That's the biggest Squee-G I've ever seen!" Marie exclaimed.

"The bigger they are, the harder they fall!" Nicole declared as she rushed towards the Squee-G.

Five seconds later

"Stupid overgrown vaccum cleaner!" Nicole huffed as she was sent back to the respawn.

"We tried to warn you, Agent 5!" Sammy reprimanded. "Squee-Gs are invincible!"

"That would have been helpful before!" Nicole snapped.

"We did! YOU didn't listen!" Sammy fired back.

"Next time you see something new, let us tell you about it before you do something stupid," Marie condescendingly said. Nicole huffed, but continued on.

While Nicole was still annoyed that Sheldon insisted on forcing weapons on her, the hero shot was the most common and she could live with that.

Those Inkfurlers unfurl when you hit them with ink!" Sammy revealed. Nicole did just that and sure enough, they unfurled, creating a platform for her. From there it was standard stuff, Nicole dealt with bad guys, and everyone else gave commentary.

"Don't get cooked! (Our catchphrase was better…)" Marie said at one point.

"I like Off The Hook's catchphrase," Sheldon said.

"So do I, but ours is better," Marie replied.

"Hey Marie, maybe when this is over, we should steal these and open an amusement park!" Sammy said as Nicole went down a giant Inkslide.

"How would we move that?" Marie asked.

"Hard work and determination?" Sheldon offered.

"Hey, this is The Reef!" Nicole noted when she arrived at her next location.

"Which means we have to move quick," Sammy said as she appeared, armed with her hero shot and battle clothes. "Glad I can fight here. No walls are no high!"

"Betcha a human can't fight as well as me!" Nicole taunted.

"Oh you are so on!" Sammy said. "But before I start, I should warn you. Since we are near Inkopolis, these guys are going to be all Octolings,"

"So just like a Turf War," Nicole said with confidence. Because Sheldon didn't force a weapon on her, she grabbed the Dualies with glee.

"Sort of, only this isn't fun and games to them. They will shoot to kill," Sammy warned.

"I have a second warning for you two," Marie chimed in. "This time, you are looking for Mini Zapfish! There are eight total because reasons,"

"It's because eight of them equal one big one!" Sheldon explained.

"Didn't ask, don't care," Nicole said as she and Sammy rushed forwards.

"And that makes seven Mini Zapfish, me and one, you," Sammy said with a laugh.

"Yeah, well I went easy on you!" Nicole lied. Sammy had also splatted more Octolings.

"Just get back before people see you," Marie said with an eye roll that both girls could swear they heard.

"What am I looking at?" Nicole asked as she readied her Roller to deal with the next Octoboss. A large Octoling with a long Ponytail, holding a Roller of his own and riding a unicycle was waiting.

"That's the Octo Samurai!" Sammy exclaimed.

"Smoke this clown, Agent 4. For the honor of your family…or something!" Marie encouraged her. To the surprise of no one, the Octo Samurai used a lot of Roller attacks. He could swing it both vertically and horizontally, combine it with his unicycle to turn it into an Octo Cycle and rush towards her and could jump away with ease. However, it was easy for Nicole to deal with him, with the duel.

"You were an honorable opponent," Nicole said as she grabbed the Zapfish. "NOT!"

"Whew, that was kind of insane," Marie said, sounding out of breath even though she didn't fight.

"Great work, Agent 5!" Sammy cheered.

"Nothing to it!" Nicole replied.

"Maybe it's just me, but the Octarian bases feel like they've been given a femeine touch. Maybe they got a new decorator?" Marie wondered.

"I mean, they are most likely girls from what I've seen," Sammy noted.

"...Ruh...Lea...No…"

"Huh? This radio's on the fritz. I swear I just changed the batteries!" Sammy huffed.

"Aaaactually that is likely radio interference in Octo Canyon! All the junk around there is probably giving off electro-static!" Sheldon explained. "See, a lot of consumer products use a frequency called the CPOD brand! Microwave ovens are prime culprits. In fact, my mirco-"

"Kshhhhh! You're breaking up Sheldon! Kshhhhh!" Marie lied.

"Kshhhhh! We're going through a tunnel in an elevator. Kshhhhh!" Sammy added in. Nicole burst out laughing as she headed back into Octo Canyon so she could get some rest

Before I forget, Nicole's hairstyle is the Banger. If you don't know which one that is, it's the one with two tentacles in the front with the ends cut off and longer "hair" in the back. Anyways, see you next time!