A new day arrived in Inkopolis! Near the plaza, there's a public school full of age and history. Many Inklings are around it, either talking with each other or improvising some games. The farmer boy approaches into the area, with the same awkward movements of yesterday.
He looks around his surroundings, watching Inklings doing plenty of activities to keep themselves from getting bored. He wishes to go near a group of Inklings and start having fun, but he feels that approaching with full liberties, means other troubles will rise and the boy had enough of them.
So, he decided to look for a place to sit and stay there without doing any harm, until the bell rings. He notice how many kids sit on the barriers, just chilling out or listening to music. The barriers look pretty comfy for the boy, so he sneaks near them and with a big jump, he sits on it.
The boy felt great to being able to do something, that other Inklings could. However, he lost his balance and fell backwards, hitting the ground with his head. Luckily, Inklings notice that and rush quickly to help the kid out.
The day passes and everything proceed at normal pace. School was over for today and the Inklings quickly rush away from it, so they can come back to their favourite hobbies. The boy walks away from the entrance, with a bump on his head.
He didn't find any friends yet, but that wasn't something that concern him too much. You could tell, he still suffers from that bonk of before!
However, something interesting was happening near him: a weird-looking robot was inking the ground while three other kids jump on it, in squid form. One of them dropped their school bag, while jumping!
If there was something that the kid didn't accept, is to not help someone retrieving back their things.
And that's what he decided to do! He took that bag and chased that group using the same tactic he saw before. Little did he know, that the ink was disappearing behind him. When he finally notices, he started to swim faster, following the path that the robot created.
It's a prodigious robot: it can run up on walls, it can jump and it can also sense danger around, while doing everything at blazing speed! The three other kids were pretty good at following the robot, while the boy was having many lucky maneuvers.
Eventually the robot climbs up a tree and disappears inside the leafs. The kid proceed without fear and he ended up in front of a treehouse. What he found was an Inkling boy looking around him nervously.
"Oh man, oh man! Where is it?!" he mumbled with himself.
The kid knew what he was looking for and he doesn't hesitate at all, showing his school bag to him.
"Did you lost this?" he asked.
"Wha-! My bag! You found it!"
The kid gives the bag to his respectful owner.
"That was slick, dude! If I lost that, I'd have been a roasted squid, tomorrow!" he replied grateful.
The kid scratched his head.
"Oh, that was nothing. I'm happy that I did a good deed to the others."
"What about you come inside, so we can play Squid Jump co-op?"
"Now? Well… I wish, but I have to get back into my house, so I can write a letter to my parents."
"That's a cool idea, dude. I should do that too!"
"Ok…" the kid looked down, noticing how he was way too far from the ground "There's a way to go down?"
"Down? Do a Super Jump on that panel over there." he indicates a panel covered with ink.
"Oh… but where it'll send me then?"
"To the plaza! Trust me, with that baby you're gonna touch the stars and land in the middle of the attention."
"But there aren't any stars now."
"Uh… I know that, dude. Do you have anything against stars or something?"
The kid replies with a shook of his head.
"Then, get on that panel and be a star! You already have a fan!" he grins when he said that.
With a little sigh, the kid stood on the inking panel and he execute a Super Jump with success. Meanwhile, the other boy entered in the treehouse. A decent house full of the most essential things a young Inkling needs.
There were two girls inside: one was sitting on a couch in pure young fashion, while watching TV. The other girl was looking outside the window.
"You took your sweet time, Bars. Did you find that bag yet?" the sitting girl speaks up.
"Yeah! I can't believe how lucky I was this time!" Bars said.
"Well said: usually you drag out the entire team, with your gimmicks."
"Come on, Grina. I didn't even move an inch this time: a cool boy gave it to me, in front of the treehouse!"
"Yep, I kinda knew that someone else helped your butt ou-"
All the sudden, Grina turns her head towards Bars.
"HE DID WHAT?!" she asked panicked.
"Uh?! W-what's wrong now?!" Bars replied.
Grina jumped quickly near Bars.
"What's wrong now, you asked?! You substitute your brain with a sponge!" Grina replied.
"Oh… uh, didn't they say that our brain is similar to a sponge, in school?"
Grina slaped Bars, after his statement.
"You idiot! What we always say about our treehouse?!"
"That it needs more videogames!"
Grina slaped Bars, again.
"No! What it makes so special, about our secret base?!"
"Oh… oh! That nobody could reach us, since it's very hard to follow Robbo."
"Exactly! Now, try to calculate everything with the events happened before…"
Bars started to think.
"Well, there was a boy near the entrance and… h-hey, wait a minute!"
"You catched on ten years later, huh?!"
"Oh no! They found us! W-what we're gonna do now?!"
"Pretty easy: we'll intimidate him. We can't let any bozos ruin our projects!"
"B-but I don't even know who he was!"
All the sudden, the girl watching from the window speaks up.
"Bars, did he wear boring clothes?"
Bars thought about that, for a while.
"Uhm… yes, Mirii. I think he wears something traditional."
"Then, there's no need to intimidate him." Mirii said.
"W-what?! Why you say that?" Grina asked curious.
"I got my eyes on him, from yesterday. It made Mr. Shrumk… mad." Mirii explained.
"Really? That's awesome! No one got the nerves, to make him red!" Bars said amused.
"He's a newbie, Bars. You know that Mr. Shrumk can't boss around newbies." Mirii answered.
"A newbie got all the way up here…?" Grina asked. "Are you sure that was him?"
"I'm not sure about it… I'm positive about it. No one forgets the taste of other people in the trend world, no matter how imbecile they are." Mirii turns her head towards Bars.
"W-well, uhm… so, this means we'll not scare the kid to death, right? I kinda feel bad doing that, to a newbie!" Bars proposed.
"No… we can do even better than that!" Grina said with a grin slowly increasing.
"Oh… don't tell me… n-not another Special Operation!" Bars trembled.
"Oooh yes, Bars. Another Special Operation. This time, it's going to be very important too!" Grina explains. "That Inkling may has alien clothes on him, but reaching this place as a newbie is something very prodigious."
"S-so? What are we are going to do?" Bars asked more panicked than before.
"You see, we need to be a squad. An official squad. I waited too much for an occasion like this to appear and nothing is going to stop us, this time!" Grina discuss with ambition.
"In other words, she wants to recruit him." Mirii said in less words.
"Exactly! This is going to be our plan! We'll find this Inkling and trying everything to recruit him into our lovely squad. No ifs and no butts!" Grina ordered to her members.
"Understood." Mirii replied seriously.
"Oh, shucks. I really wanted to try out, this new strategy I got for Squid Jump…" Bars moans.
"I'll make YOU jump, if you don't move out! Now, let's go!" Grina intimidate.
The three kids leave the treehouse, in their search of the farmer boy that, while getting back to the plaza with a Super Jump, he landed on a nearby trash can.