She swam up the waterfall of slowly oozing ink and into the tunnel. As she went, it became darker and darker, and probably would have appeared pitch black to the others. She knew, from the two years she'd been living with Pearl, Marina, and Misuno that she could basically see in complete darkness.

She encountered a grate, but she passed right through it.

Then she emerged into a room. It was just a simple station, but the doors to the actual station were shattered. And flowing from the door was sanitized ink. Ahato waded through the ink to find that, inside the testing station, hundreds of sprinklers were creating the river of ink.

Ahato left the testing station and looked for the sign that told the station's letter/number.

There it was. Scrawled on the sign was B13.

Knowing what the station was, She swam back out of the tunnel. When she emerged, Callie brought the boat close to her so she wouldn't touch the pinkish-purple ink.

"It's B13," Ahato said. "The doors to the testing station are broken, and there are a ton of sprinklers right inside the door."

"Sprinklers, huh?" Misuno said. "We'd need to shut them off."

"I can't break them," Ahato said. "They're my ink color."

"What if one of us made our own sprinkler?" Eight said. "We can make it here and then Ahato can bring it inside to destroy the other sprinklers, and then destroy ours so we don't get the same thing happening with our ink."

"There are hundreds of sprinklers," Ahato said. "That won't work." They thought in silence some more.

"Hold on," Keiko said. "I have some old canned specials. What if one of us uses a Kraken Special to get through and then destroy the sprinklers?"

"Hmm," Marina said. "That would work. . ."

"Let's try!" Niika said. "But who'll do it?"

"I'll do it," Eight said.

"Alright then," Keiko said. "Here." She handed Eight a small can with a pull lid. Eight pulled the lid open, and it disappeared. A small remote with a singular button on it appeared in her hand. She pressed it and turned into a massive octopus-like form. She moved forward across the sanitized ink, with Ahato in front of her. The two swam through the tunnel, into the station, and through the flood of ink that was going through the door. She barely made it through the door before the special ran out.

"Alright, let's do this," She said. She pulled out the shrunken-down version of her weapon, which enlarged in her hands. She charged up the splatling and fired upon the blanket of sprinklers, decimating enough that she could go higher to eliminate the rest.

Once all of them were gone, the flood of ink was gone.

Eight and Ahato simply walked down the tunnel and waved to the others.

"You did it?" Keiko asked.

"I did it!" Eight said.

"Great," Marie said. "So, now that this is all fixed, I guess we can just go home."

"Yeah. . ." They all agreed.