Chapter 27

Can Goggles and Eight save their captive friends and bring partially sanitized Rider back to their side? And what's the deal with the Phone?!

## Characters

### Returning

Goggles
Specs
Headphones
Bobble Hat
Eight
Rider
Seven

## Plot

Rider is partially sanitized and Goggles’ friends are captured, He’s lost his mind and Goggles thinks he’s asleep, Eight realizes that the Octolings and the Octarians were being controlled too! They hear a voice and that voice was coming from somewhere, It was the Phone and he was doing all this for his “ultimate goal.” Goggles thinks that Rider will turn back if he eats some Pickled Plum, but his friends told him it’s not going to work.

Rider attacks Goggles and Eight with Splashdown and they barely dodged the attack! It’s super powerful and Rider didn’t even hesitate to attack… which meant that Rider’s mind really has been highjacked!! Cuttlefish tells the agents to remove the sludge from his head for Rider to regain his consciousness! Goggles and Eight attacks Rider but Rider fights back with Curling Bomb Launcher! Apparently the Phone has removed his limiter, and Rider can now use everything as much as he wants. Goggles and Eight are struggling and the Octoling Girl decides to help them by navigating them, With her help, they dodged the Curling Bombs, They thank her and Goggles calls her Seven because she looks like Eight! and Eight tells her that’s the name that Goggles gave him, and she likes that name!

Rider is ready to attack again and Goggles and Eight aren’t scared of his Curling Bomb Launcher! But Rider uses Baller which was Specs’ Inkbrush Nouveau’s special! To get away from him, Goggles and Eight hide but Rider jumps onto the UFO… and attacks back with… Sting Ray which means they can’t approach him! Eight attacks Rider with Splat Bombs and Goggles throws rice balls and his pickled plum jar at him! Then Rider vanishes and retaliates with a successive splashdown which meant trouble! Eight decides to get close to him as he sought a chance to do so, but Goggles warns him and tells him not to… because Rider attacks with Splashdown again! and Goggles pulls Eight away just in time!

The phone mocks Goggles and Eight because he thinks they were influenced by such losers! And Eight gets mad at him because he mocked them and because Team Blue were his friends! He tells him that Goggles’ stories about the Turf Wars were dazzling. He met everyone, went through the tests with them and he dreamed of staying with them and he wants to go up to the Surface… and enjoy Turf Wars with everyone at Inkopolis Square! At that moment Goggles pulls down Eight’s pants and the Phone was traumatized! and Eight wasn’t phased! Rider looks traumatized and Goggles and Eight have their chance! The get rid of the sludge on his head and Goggles pulls down his pants! Rider falls to the ground and wakes up in a groggy and confused state. Rider is awake! and sees Goggles pulling his pants down so he smashes him with his Dynamo and thanks him! Eight and Seven thinks that Inklings are fun! and they climb up the ladder.

At the top, they see the surface and Inkopolis Square! They all made it out and Pearl’s convoy of helicopters were ready to pick them up, As they headed off to Inkopolis Square. something is rising out of the sea, a form that was said to have been destroyed long ago. It’s no other than **HUMAN?!** It can’t be right!

The Phone tells them that this is the NILS Statue. an image of what the Human life-form looked like… As he talks, Goggles’ stomach interrupts him. The phone continues talking about that he cannot allow to is ridiculousness…, He plans to destroy everything and start all over again… The statues’ mouth opens and he plans to use this NILS Cannon, which has been loaded with sludge…

**“…TO DESTROY THIS WORLD AND EVERYTHING IN IT!!”**

**WILL GOGGLES AND HIS FRIENDS SAVE INKOPOLIS SQUARE FROM A SLUDGY GRAVE?!**

## Characters

### Team Blue

* Goggles
* Specs
* Headphones
* Bobble Hat

### Octolings

* Eight
* Seven

### Others

* Rider
* Cap’n Cuttlefish
* Pearl
* Marina
* Tartar

## Trivia

* The fight between Goggles, Eight and Rider actually took place inside the head of the NILS Statue