"You okay?" Keiko asked.

"Yeah," Eight said. "I just have no idea what we're doing."

"I'll explain," Keiko said. "So, at Grizzco, we work to collect golden eggs."

"Golden eggs?" Eight asked. "I know about power eggs, but what are golden eggs?"

"Well, in the many places where we work a shift, creatures called salmonids crawl ashore," Keiko said. "Most are chums, the normal size, smallfry, the tiny ones, and the cohocks, the giant ones. These ones all drop power eggs. However, there are some other salmonids called Boss Salmonids. These ones are bigger and each does something different, and will drop three golden eggs each upon defeat."

"Don't forget the important part," Niika commented. "You have to put the golden eggs in the egg basket, or they won't count."

"Some salmonids will try and steal the golden eggs if they're left out too long," Keiko said.

"Why do the ink tanks look like life rings?" Eight asked.

"If you get splatted or fall into the water, instead of respawning at the spawn point, you're trapped in the life ring," Rider said. "You have to wait for a teammate to splat you, and then you return to normal."

"Oh," Eight said.

"And there are three waves," Niika said. "Each one is about two minutes."

"Okay, I think I got it," Eight said. "Thanks."

"No problem," Keiko said. "Oh, and if all four players are splatted, then the whole thing ends.

"Ok," The voice of Mr. Grizz said through a radio sitting nearby. "Get out there and collect those eggs."

Rider and Niika super jumped into the air, toward a small collection of islands on the horizon.

"Where do I super jump?" Eight asked.

"I'll jump, and then you jump to me," Keiko said. She blasted skyward before falling down and dropping onto the island. Eight sensed her presence and super jumped to her. She landed with a splat into a puddle of purple ink.

"Purple?" Rider was saying. "Come on, really?"

"Hey, don't diss purple," Eight said. "It's a really cool color."

"Well, it's your natural color," Rider said. "Lime green is better."

"Grizzco never sets our color to lime green," Niika said. "It's too close to the color of the salmonid's ink."

"They have ink?" Eight asked.

"Yeah, I know, it's weird," Keiko said. "But yeah, they do."

"The wave will start in ten seconds!" Mr. Grizz said over the radio. "Gather those golden eggs! The quota is five eggs for this wave! Ready, Go!"

"Let's do this!" Niika and Keiko said at the exact same time.