Before reading this chapter, make sure you have read Inkinators: Halloween 2015. You can find that story in my profile: the following chapter will contain spoiler elements regarding the special story.
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Speeding through the road, surrounded by trees, a hummer with its front damaged and leafs spread around the seats and the floors. Mirii, sitting on the bottom-middle seat, had her face staring at her smartphone as her right thumb was sliding on its screen.
"… the smartphone seems working fine… I can scroll the screen, go to the Inknet, take photos… phew!" Her eyes closed. "I'm glad that I had the possibility to retrieve my smartphone, yesterday: not only that means they didn't found anything related to that videogame I was forced to play… but I can finally use its gadgets when the time is appropriate."
She smiles a bit.
"Hey, gang…" Grina, sitting on the middle-front seat, rested her head on the top side as her eyes looked up. "I do have a question about yesterday…" Her arms rested above the seats.
"What?" Mirii's head rose.
"Isn't it weird… that our ancestors were friends?" Grina's shoulders turned to her left, with her eyebrows up.
"… I think that might have been a coincidence." Mirii's eyes closed. "No reason to justify one… it leads nowhere, after all."
"Girl, like the dude did called your ancestor with the Inkol last name!" Bars' hands were grasping the steering wheel. "I thought your last name was Inkolina…"
"Why, that's because Inkol is also the older surname my family had." Grina turns towards Bars, while nodding and smiling. "They changed it to Inkolina for the females and Inkolino for the males."
"Eh eh, like… talk about having creative surnames!" Bars chuckles, as his head turned towards Grina for a short moment.
Grina giggles a bit. Mirii's eyes returned down, resting on her smartphone.
"I have no time to think about yesterday's events: so many things happened in one night, I couldn't possibly remember ever single detail of it. I don't think the others will, anyway…"
Her eyelids lowered to the middle.
"For now, I have to talk with Tonna and explain to her about the situation back at the Shrine: she can help me with my plan of covering my position in front of the other Agents, so I can throw all the suspicion away from me."
"I have to say… I really wanted to stay for a bit in our dear treehouse…" Grina sighed loudly. "I miss that little house so much…"
Suddenly, Grina bended forward: sweat starts jumping out from her head.
"Oh-oh… I-I almost forgot!" Her hands grabbed her head, as her back tilted even more forward. "Oh nooooo, I'm deep trouble! I'M CHOKING IN SALT!"
"Whoooaaaa there, girl!" Bars' turned the steering wheel a bit to the left. "Like, what's the deal?"
"… you said it, big boy." Grina let out a faint sob. "THE HOUSE! THE HOUSE IS A PILE OF WOOD!"
"Oh… ooooh ship!" Bars chuckles a bit. "Like… I-I have games to beat in my room, sooo"
"And you want to leave me all alone?!" Grina frowned, while turning over the boy and opening her arms. "So much for being a friend! Hiding in ink, while I'm disarmed against the enemy!"
"W-wait, wh-what I can do about it?!" Sweat jumps out from Bars' head. "Liiike… my mind isn't made for tactical puzzles or something."
"I-I just need standing in front of that dealer…!" Grina's arm wrapped around his shoulders. "You know… in case said dealer might start thinking to caress my throat or something!"
"Well… like, I could potentially play that role, girl… I mean, I could send Squids down for the count and all!" He chuckles. "But, when we are talking about economic affairs… that's where we are sent in front of the law world: like, I prefer staying away from a court since I'm so terrible delivering one…"
Grina's teeth gritted, as her eyebrows rose: suddenly, her mouth opened a bit as a light bulb appears above her head. Immediately, she turned her head behind while smiling.
"Mirii!" Grina's hands start rubbing together. "Definitively one of my best friends!" She nodded while closing her eyes.
Slowly, Mirii's head rose.
"… you want me to call my brother, so he can defend you in front of a judge?" Her eyes squeezed.
"Wow, your intuition is as good as always!" Grina's left thumb rose. "So?! What do you say…?" Sweat covered her forehead. "Do you want to help a friend?"
"No." Mirii frowns a bit.
Grina's irises shrunk, as her mouth opened wide.
"Not only my brother would lose his incredible reputation, after he mentions a story who seems coming from a movie…" Mirii's eyes squeezed. "But it would be impossible to prove that another person caused all that damage towards the house…"
"N-no!" Grina's mouth was waving, as her eyes were getting a bit watery. "Bu-but"
"Unfortunately, your best choice would be to indemnify the dealer: not only you would spare the story not everyone will believe, but you will prevent the dealer from getting too curious about the situation happened yesterday." Mirii's head lowered, as her face was facing the smartphone screen.
"Hey, actually this morning we didn't found that game…" Hun turned towards Mirii. "Did the ancestors took it?"
"Maybe… although, it's better to ignore those questions for now… only the ancestors would answer them, anyway." Mirii's right thumb was scrolling on the screen.
Hun lowered his head, as his eyes were staring at Mirii's sportive shoes, colored in black and white.
"I wonder if the city is alright…" His eyebrows rose. "I heard that the Shrine Legend managed to cover the tower into a weird material…"
"I'm reading through said news, Hunley." She nodded. "It appears that the monster indeed created a barrier around the tower… no one is inside, since the workers escaped in time."
Hun tilted over Mirii, as his eyes looked at the words filling the screen.
"Oh… the liquid left on the road and buildings, from the Shrine Legend, was completely removed by special forces!" His irises were moving left and right, slowly. "Except that greenish material covering the tower."
"It appears that such barrier repels any kind of attacks…" Mirii smiled. "Such wonderful news: not only no one will attack the station any time sooner… no official Turf War matches will be held, thus no Inkling is forced to take those dangerous experiments!"
"What about the Great Zapfish?!" Grina turns behind with her hands grasping her seat.
"About the Great Zapfish… according to the news article, the head is sticking out of the barrier: electrical energy is still running smooth and the creature seems fine." Mirii's head rose. "Although, it has been reported that the Great Zapfish almost ran away, when the monster appeared…"
"Phew!" Grina grins, while closing her eyes. "Without Zap, Inkopolis really falls back into the No-TV era…" Her arms bended on the top seat, as her head rested on her left wrist. "Really, can you imagine how things will go around the city without electricity?"
Her irises looked up.
"For example, let's say that some bonehead captures Zap… not sure how they will do it, but in such despicable case… the situation really would be drastic, wouldn't it?!"
"Hmpf, nothing would change." Mirii's eyelids were lowered in the middle. "The city can count on an army of healthy Zapfish, capable of sending plenty of electricity throughout all the city."
"Aaaawwww, but life wouldn't be the same without Zap…" Grina's eyebrows downturned, as she sighed. "I hope no one will ever harm poor Zappie…" Her eyes squeezed. "That cutie is as harmless as a little fly!"
"Girl, like that beast would flat down Squids like flies with a single belly-slam!" He chuckles. "Just imagine that idea… who can even capture da beast?! Like, maybe a giant…"
Grina's eyes expanded, sparkling, as her fists were resting in front of her mouth.
"Ooooh… if I was a giantess… Zappie would become even cuter!" Her arms hugged herself. "I would hug and pet the cutie all day long!" She giggles. "Aaawww… sometimes it's not so bad being a giantess… many creatures do turn into cuties to pet!"
"In return you would terrorize everyone, including the Great Zapfish…" Mirii frowned, as her eyes squeezed. "It's better for you to remain in normal size, so you will not cause any accidental damage and terror throughout the city." Mirii's head lowered, staring at the smartphone screen.
Grina snorted, as her cheeks puffed: she turned forward, sitting down.
"… anyway, it appears that the Turf War Station problem is solved… for now." Mirii's eyelids lowered to the middle. "However, I fear the Headquarters might start a counterattack soon: they do possess an arsenal of different tools for letting Inklings taking over the station."
Mirii's eyes squeezed.
"Therefore, before I depart for the Shrine… I must talk with Tonna: she will surely know every operation the Headquarters will take… as well as any other plan conceived by the people working behind Project Neo."
Her eyes closed for a moment: they opened fully.
"I hope to finish this special course fast enough to resume immediately my search for stopping Project Neo… before it will continue causing problem to the whole society."