After being left alone at the park Ryuji walks to the plaza reading a message on his cellphone.

" Meet at southeastern Inkopolis to come meet us at our newbase "

"So they left me alone sleep the park to sneak away and get to the base first...thats cold they could've at least woke me up."

(Alright I better get over there before they penalize be for be la...Bonk!)"

At the corner of his eye he notices a grated hole that just snapped just in an instant.

(What the heck was that, hmm well I got time it wouldn't hurt to take a look.)

He carefully walks over to the grate and looks through he couldn't see a thing.

(Ugh I probably shouldnt be doing this but I wanna see whwt that was, hop!)

He turns into squid form and jumps through the grate with ease.

" WHERE THE HECK AM I GOING?!"

After a few seconds of freefalling he plops on the other side of the grated hole and lands on his feet.

"WOAH! What is this place?"

He notices he standing on a flying street platform along with others hanging high steet road with various buildings and roads on top.

"WHEREVER THE HECK I AM THIS PLACE IS SO CO..."

"HELLO THERE WELCOME TO OCTO VALLEY MATTIE!"

"AHH! WHAT THE?!"

Ryuji falls on his back and looks up at an old man with long white beard and cane.

"Oh sorry hehehe did this old man scare ye?" The old man grins.

"Who-who are you?!" Ryuji points his finger at him.

"Well if ye must know Im CAPTAIN CUDDLEFISH! I once led a squad in the Great Turf War" He says with pride.

"Oh w-well hello Capn Cuddlefish im Ryuji nice to meet ya."

(What the heck? Did I fall into some nightmare? Also the Great Turf War, that was like 100 years ago? How old is this guy?)

"Well Capn I'd love to play 20 questions with you but I gotta be somewhere aaaaand your not listening are you? Ryuji notices Capn is rusting through a sack.

"AHA! HERE IT IS!" He pulls out a set of weird and a shooter weapon and hands it to Ryuji.

"Huh?! What am I supposed to do with these things?"

"They're hero clothes! Put em on! Put em on! Hurry and come with me!"

Ryuji rushes to put on the clothes and then Capn drags him over to a dead end spot.

"Um okay now what am I supposed to do?" Ryuji gets confused.

" Ink the ground my boy with that hero shot you got there!" Capn points at his weapon.

(Okay now how do you use this things I've seen it on iTV before so it shouldn't be so hard.)

He does exactly what the Capn say's and ink the ground, and out comes a kettle pot!

"Woah what is this thing?" Ryuji jumps back surprised.

"It's the entrance to their lair my boy now hurry up in to squid form and get down there! And get that zapfish!"

"Ugh alright(Transforms into squid form)Wait! Who's lair and what zapfish?"

"NO TIME MATTIE GET DOWN THERE!" The Capn kicks Ryuji into the kettle.

"NOT AGAIN!"