A screech is heard directly outside the south wall of the Inkopolis Plaza.

"Ugh… I felt like I rode a Killer Wail that doesn't kill…" Celia complained.

"Uuu… my first train ride… so uncomfortable…" Nanami pouted. Shortly after, a soft, smooth ditty rings inside the train.

"A quick reminder: The Inkopolis Metropolis will undergo maintenance from 8:45PM to 4AM of tomorrow. Thank you for your understanding; Have a splatacular day in Inkopolis!"

After the conductor's announcement, the train left, still annoying the passengers – in and out of the train. The two sisters continued walking.

"I wonder if Ethel-nee will like this new me!" Nanami wondered out loud, twirling herself on her path with Celia, as if showing off her new clothes to the other inklings.

"Even Nanami has a nickname for Ethel…" Celia thought awkwardly. "You and Ethel will get along!" she told Nanami out loud.

"I heard you have a sniper named… what's his name? Ballie?"

"Oh, you mean Orbee…" Celia said, remembering the fight from the day before. "Forget him. He's my teammate but he's certainly not gonna want to get along with you…"

"Hmm…" Nanami hummed, feeling scared from just the description of Orbee towards herself. "Well…" Nanami shrugged. "I can forget about him for a while."

"Good." Celia said quite sternly yet still kindly.

"Now, how do I enter the Plaza?" Nanami exclaimed, jumping up and down in excitement.

"Oh, easy." Celia walks over to a certain sewer directly outside the south wall. In it was a flood of mint green ink. "Just turn yourself into a squid and swim through this sewer! I won't be in that sewer though, because I'm pink."

"I-is it scary there?"

"Not at all!" Celia winked. "I'll meet you inside the plaza, okay?" she continued, walking away from the mint sewer towards the pink sewer.

"O-okay, nee-san!"

Nanami turned herself into a squid, and hopped onto the sewer. Her semi-flaccid body slips through the tiny holes of the sewer, and into a long stream of mint green ink. She follows the current of the stream. Her squid night vision kicks in inside the sewer and sees a bunch of eyes peeking out the ink. Not long after, she shot out the Central Spawn Point and lands next to Celia, waiting below the Battle Dojo bridge. The mint-green ink blurred Nanami's vision, causing her to wipe it off. As it clears, her eyes were filled again with wonder, seeing the beauty of Inkopolis Plaza in its entirety.

Celia patted Nanami's head. "Welcome to Inkopolis."

After six minutes of waiting under the bridge, two inklings walked out of the Battle Dojo. They were Ethel and Orbee.

"O-Orbee…" Ethel muttered softly. "S-stop taking battles so seriously… even at the Battle Dojo you're as tough as ever!"

"Hmph. Get good." Orbee grumpily and laconically responded.

"Ethel-nee!" a high-pitched voice screeched from below the bridge, interrupting the short argument and catching Ethel's attention.

"Nana-chan?" Ethel wondered, looking around herself like a jellyfish lost in Urchin Underpass. Orbee, knowing his own hatred towards Nanami, shoved Ethel a few inches.

"Ethel-nee! I'm here!" Nanami's high-pitched voice called. She was literally beside Ethel right now.

"N-nana-chan!" she replied, shoving Orbee who nearly gave her another shove. "I can't find you!"

Celia, who was still below the bridge, started giggling as she hears the immense awkwardness between the three. Ethel jumped down the bridge to root the trashcans of the back alley. Spyke just stared at Ethel, and shrugged a few moments later. Celia started to laugh harder.

"Ethel-nee!" Nanami called out again, sounding a bit annoyed and tired considering Ethel's incredible stupidity. "I'm up here!"

The still puzzled Ethel looked back up and saw Nanami, who waved at her. "Where? All I see is Orbee and some other mint green inkling with short tentacles!" Seriously. Ethel said that.

Upon hearing this, Celia gave a laugh so loud it was as if she was being Echolocated. Ethel went towards her in slight rage.

"This isn't funny, Celia!" she said, growing mad at Nanami being hidden in literal plain sight. "Where's your little sister hiding?"

"Maybe she's an inkling now. Maybe even Hanz's replacement?" Orbee smirked as he walked down the stairs of the bridge. Celia smirks back as he grins, straightening his newly fixed 18K Aviators.

Nanami then sneaks up behind Ethel in squid form, and returns to her humanoid form. "Ethel-nee…" she called once more, and tapped on her shoulder.

"Nanami. Please just show up! I'm tired of looking for you!" Ethel then turns around, and does eye contact. She looked at Nanami for a few moments.

"Uh… excuse me, but could you please stop following me? Or at least help me find some ten-year-old squid, same as your color."

Seriously. She said that. In front of Nanami. And Celia, who burst out with laughter. "Oh my Judd… I can't even… hahaha…" she muttered, catching her breath, and being flicked on the ear by Orbee.

Within a few seconds, Orbee stopped flicking her ear. A visible mixed expression of rage, shock, and confusion hit his face. "That inkling…" he whispers loudly. "she can't possibly be…" he growled under his fury.

Ethel saw Orbee's face, then an idea also struck hers. "Wait…" she turns her face to Nanami. "This… this is a dream…" she says as if she was frightened by lightning, pushing her index and middle fingers towards her other palm.

Holding so much rage, Orbee gave a powerful punch to Celia in the ink sac. Celia started to cough up pink liquid from her mouth. After recovering, Celia relinquished and explained the act to the two.

"This inkling…" she says, walking towards Nanami and holding her shoulder. "is Nanami herself." She continues. "She gained full control of her humanoid shifting powers two nights ago." She proclaimed.

"She's gonna be Hanz's replacement. It's all thanks to Orbee's big mou–" a seemingly ironic slap in the mouth was given. The look on Orbee's face gave the very obvious feeling to everyone that he was filled with rage, about to explode any second like a Suction Bomb.

"Orbee…"

Chapter 3: Older and Superior

Two hours passed since the trouble.

"I still can't trust you with Nanami."

"Relax…" Orbee said, placing his hand over Nanami's shoulder. An uncomfortable feeling struck both of them. "W-we can get along juuuuust fine."

"Okay then. Behave, Nanami." Celia said.

"Bye, nee-san!" she called out, waving goodbye to Celia and Ethel who walked inside the Battle Dojo. "So… Orbee-kun. W–"

"'O-orbee-kun!?' Wh…" Orbee shouted. He became very uncomfortable with this nickname. "Ugh, whatever… what were you gonna say?"

"What will we do first?" Nanami said in a tone very different from her usually active extrovert voice; she talked like an introvert instead.

"Well…" Orbee wondered when an idea struck him. "I'm gonna train you for Turf Wars. Your level is too low for Ranked Battles." He suggested. The two walked over to Ammo Knights.

"Hello, hello! What kind of weapon are you in the market for?" Sheldon said, coming out of his shell behind the counter, taking Nanami by surprise. "Oh, if it isn't Orbee from the Invisible Ink Team! What do you need today?"

"I don't wanna buy something, but I came to test weapons again and train this little noob." He faces towards Nanami, who gets slightly shocked and turns to Sheldon.

"N-nice to meet you… you must be Mr. Sheld–"

"Ooh, sorry little girl, but I'm not sure you could handle my firepower at lowly Level 1. No, I simply can't let you adopt any of my beautiful children until Level 2... at the very least! Go raise your level in some regular battles, and then come see me again, yes?" Sheldon responded lengthily and quickly. Nanami looked puzzled.

"But I–"

"No, it's okay, Sheldon." Orbee said. "We're just training anyway."

"Oh, if that's the case, then why don't knock yourselves out? The testing area is just out this door." Sheldon shows the two the Testing Chamber.

"Th-thank you Mr. Sheldon Sir!" Nanami said.

The two walk through the door and arrive at an enclosed space with three dummies, and a stairway that leads to a chamber with eight more.

"So, if you wanna get good at Turf Wa–" before Orbee could even finish, Nanami let out a scream as she fired a huge spray of mint ink from her Jr.. Its recoil threw her aim off guard and within seconds the ink bullets managed to shoot behind her. Orbee did come from Celia's team and thus he evaded nearly all of them.

That was when an evil idea struck his head. "If Nanami's this bad, she could get kicked out of Invisible Ink by me, Judd, or even her 'Celia-nee-san'!" he thought.

"Sorry, Orbee-kun…" she said feeling ashamed, yet somehow relieved. Orbee felt uncomfortable at that nickname again."

"Okay. If you wanna be part of Invisible Ink, which is, ahem, my team in terms of skill, you have to follow my rules." Orbee proclaimed, walking around in front of the farthest dummy in the first chamber.

"First. Stay behind me at all times.
"Second, don't super jump to me.
"Lastly, don't ever, ever call me by that stupid nickname."

Nanami shot another spray of ink without warning after Orbee's "pep talk". Within ten seconds all the dummies in the first chamber were splatted, and Orbee happened to have a burnt arm from the mint ink.

"AGH!" Orbee screamed, wiping off the mint ink from his arm. He quickly grabbed his Kelp Splatterscope from his backpack, shot at the ground and swam at the newly formed dark blue ink as a squid to recover his arm. He came out a few seconds later.

"Ok… fourth." Orbee continued, as if an E-Liter 3K Scope barely missed him. "If you're gonna shoot, do it far away from me…"

Nanami immediately followed up with another series of shots, keeping her arms steady as she fires her Jr.. Around three of the twenty shots hit the dummy before splatting it.

"I-is my aim getting better Orbee-ku–"

"I'm sorry, who?" Orbee said, irritated.

"Uh… Orbee…?" Nanami followed in fear.

"A tiny bit. Seriously. So tiny a 6900x magnification setting on a microscope couldn't see it." He followed with sardonicism. "It could be better though."

Orbee then keeps his Kelp Splatterscope in his backpack, and takes out another weapon. It was an old, worn-out Splattershot Jr. "After all, I am the best sniper."

While facing Nanami, he held his arm out, aiming at the dummy behind him and splatted it in a New York second. All three shots hit it and his arm was as steady as Bluefin Depot 84 years ago.

"Next is your swimming test…" Orbee grabs Nanami's Jr. and inks the first and second chambers unthoroughly. "How fast can you swim a lap arou–"

Before he could even finish, the once again overconfident Nanami swam the uneven puddles of mint green ink around the Testing Area. She finished the lap in nearly half a minute.

"I was an athletic squid." Nanami bragged. "Can I go back to nee-san and Ethel-nee now…?"

"Ugh… fine…" Orbee responded. "She couldn't be disqualified… she looks really good even as a ten-year-old annoying hunk of junk… Maybe it's time for Plan B… Plan BD. Bluefin Depot."

"Where are they? They've been training for three hours… I think…"

"Yeah, it's 8:30. Train maintenance is gonna leave us having to walk home." Celia leaned on the wall, daydreaming about kicking the butts of the Vivid Squids, their rival team. She grew impatient. That was when something clicked inside her mind.

"Oh… no."

"What?"

"Oh… no. No, no, no. NO NO NO!" Celia started to panic. Without warning she grabbed Ethel and her Luna Blaster and tightened her ink tank.

"Nanami is in danger!" she shouted, running out of the back alley towards the Booyah Base. "I never should've trusted Orbee…"

"Hey, C-Celia! Calm down! I-I'm sure that Or–"

"Have you not met this new Orbee!? Ever since…" her loud ranting slowly became softer. "…that Autobots vs Decepticons Splatfest…" Celia came to a stop for a while. Flashbacks of happy faces of her and Orbee together showed up in her mind. "Forget that, Celia…" she thought. She continued running and barged into Ammo Knights like a Carbon Roller bumping into a squid in the ink. This surprised Sheldon so much he messed up his H-3 Nozzlenose D modifications and hid in his own shell. A few moments later his eyes peeked out to see Celia and Ethel.

"Oh, Celia, my girl!" Sheldon said, trying to hide the fear in his face. "What in the Shell Hell has gotten into yo–"

"Have you seen a dark blue inkling and a mint inkling enter the training area!?"

"Why, of course I have!" Sheldon popped out of his shell. "Orbee and your sister, right? They left a few minues ago." A bolt of fear struck Celia as she heard that story.

"Where… Wh-where did they go!?" Celia shouted, slamming on the counter to get a quick response.

"Orbee said they were going to Bluefin Depot. Pretty shellptical?" the mollusk explained, fixing his shellmet and picking up the H-3 Nozzlenose D to continue his work.

"It didn't even show up in any of today's rotations…" Celia muttered softly, yet angrily. She couldn't help but shed a tear like a squid through the gratings of Hammerhead Bridge. Without a word, but full of sobs and whimpers, the devastated inklings dashed out to find Nanami.

"Bluefin Depot, huh? Celia-nee-san said this was her favorite map…" Nanami said, peering through the bottom of the grated bridge to the bottom and left of the mint green spawn.

Invisible to her, a prediction line pointed at the curious inkling.

"I'm sure it is her favorite…" Orbee muttered quietly. "I wonder… how blue can Bluefin Depot get?"

Author's Notes

This is so late Dx I had a fever and I wasn't allowed to touch the PC.

By the way sorry if this chapter seems rushed. Also Chapter 4 might suck xD

Shoutouts to Reversion Primavera who still didn't read Chapter 4 of Secrets of the Inklings, my favorite fanfic. I guess that's a shoutout to KitkattAttack too.

Invisible Ink. Deal with it.

- o.O