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Eight and Superior peacefully eat breakfast. “I have never broken a car before, is it really that fun?” Asks Eight.
Superior finishes his grilled cheese sandviches before he responds to her. “It’s not for everyone, but given the fact that I'm technically you and I love hitting things with bats, I think you will probably also like destroying abandoned cars.”
Eight finishes eating her grilled cheese sandviches as well, just in time to glance to her left to see Pearl & Marina arriving. “You two already had breakfast before us!? I smell grilled cheese, not fair!” Complaints Pearl.
“Soup has been awake for hours, he is hungry!” Excuses Eight.
Marina shoves Pearl to one of the chairs at the kitchen table. “Don’t worry Pearlie, I will make some more grilled cheese for us. Let the siblings prepare us for… The park! Yes! The park!” She grins a little too wide.
“Rina… I love going around the park with you, but I won't forget about breaking cars.” She crosses her arms.
Eight guides Superior go to the storage room where the metal bats are located, with at least a hundred of them, (no one knows why there are so many metal bats in the storage room, they just have always been there) Eight and Superior pick up five bats. Five?
“Why did we pick up five?”
Superior points one of the bats at her. “Because someone might want to join us and we might want to let them.”
Eight puts one of the bats against her chin. “Huh. That doesn’t make sense.”
“It does make sense, you just don’t have the adult brain to understand.”
“Drop one of them Soup, we won’t play with strangers.”
The siblings decide to not argue anymore and instead to go back to Pearl & Marina with bats in hand. The idols have finished eating breakfast and are sitting in the living room, noticing Eight and Superior there's a smirk for Pearl and a grimace for Marina. Eight throws a bat to each of the idols, who catch their bat with no problems.
Pearl stands up and poses with her bat. “Y’all ready for some fun!”
Superior starts nodding. “You bet I am!”
Marina shrinks on the couch.
Eight runs to the front door. “Let’s go already!”
The four of them go to the outskirts of Inkopolis, to a junkyard filled with broken and unwanted stuff, perfect for what they are planning to do. After some scouting, Superior spots a rusty car that doesn’t have an engine, therefore won't explode. Before they can get to work however, someone calls them out.
“Marina? Eight!? Pearl!?!? What are you all doing here?”
The four of them turn around to see Four running up to them, he immediately speaks before anyone else can respond. “How are you stranger? You kinda look like Eight’s older brother.”
“It looks like she’s my sis because she is!” He puffs up his chest and puts his hands on his hips.
Four whips his head to Eight. “Eight! Sense when did you have a big bro!?”
“I have talked to Superior for a month, but only yesterday were we certain that we were siblings! I was going to tell you, you just beat me to it!”
Pearl cuts in to shorten the conversion. “Let me explain why we're here. Me, Rina, Eight, and Eight’s bro, we are here to smash in some cars! That’s why we are here! Then why are you here Four?”
Four clears his throat. “I wanted to collect stuff to tinker with. However, uh, is it ok if I join you guys in hitting cars with those metal bats you all have?”
“I’m so sorry Four, but I told Soup to not bring an extra bat thinking that no one else would join us, but i was wron-” Marina interrupts Eight. “You can have my bat Four. I never wanted to hit cars, just wanted to make sure that Eight and Pearlie didn’t hurt themselves.”
Four starts shaking. “Thank you Mo-Rina!” He quickly grabs Marina’s bat and runs towards the abandoned car before she can notice what he almost said.
Eight, Superior, and Pearl look at each other, having a mental conversion. They silently decide to finally get to work. While Marina watches from a distance, Eight, Four, Pearl, and Superior ready their bats, lift them upwards, and swing at the car in front of them. Eight is the most reserved, doing swings that leave a powerful and satisfying impact. Pearl is the opposite, showing no mercy as she swings as fast as she can. Four is in between, a perfect balance of being reserved and aggressive. Superior meanwhile, wrecks the abandoned car with an efficiency that shows just how many times he has done this before. The car still had its basic structure at the beginning, now its complete mush.
Superior stretches his back. “As you can see Pearl, I have completed your condition, which means I get to live in you three form now on.
Four tilts his head. “You’re letting Superior live in the mansion if he helped you break one car?”
“Multiple cars.” Currents Pearl as she walks off to look for more abandoned cars. Everyone else follows her and when she finds a few other cars, they help her pull them to a more open spot. Superior, Pearl, Four, and Eight unholster their bats and start swinging at the cars one by one. The first car becomes mush like the previous one, the second car is completely destroyed at the front, the third car is totally crippled in the back, the fifth car begins smoking shortly after they start attacking it.
Superior’s eyes widened. “Stop! Everyone get away from the car!” Four, Eight, and Pearl look at him confused, and then surprised when he pulls them away from the car. Marina soon runs towards them and helps Superior pull them safely from the car.
Pearl is the first to ask, “Why did you pull us from the car? We were having fun!”
Marina grabs Pearl and hugs her tightly. “The car still had its engine, that’s why it was smoking. If Superior didn’t force you away then my Pearlie might have been really hurt.”
Four exhales. “Oh cod, that could’ve ended terribly! …We need the car to explode.”
“What?”
Four breathes in. “If the car doesn’t explode now then it will still be close to exploding when someone else comes here. Someone who might not know the dangers of getting too close to that car.”
Pearl breaks from Marina’s hug. “I know what to do.” She steps away from everyone else, having a clear line of sight of the volatile car. She activates her special, killerwhale. Pearl aims the killerwhale at the car and shouts. The noise makes the car explode, almost as loud as Pearl. “Done! Now it's safe here at the junkyard!”
The four other cephalopods stop covering their ears. “Good job Pearlie! You did hurt our ears, but you did also make the junkyard safe!” Says Marina
Four turns his attention to Superior. “So. Superior. Can we hang out again?”
Superior sighs with a sad look. “I’m sorry, but I'm going to dematerialize any second now, hope that just hanging out with my sis is enough for you.”
“What!?"
“Hahaha! I’m just kidding, yes I will hang out with you. You're differently cool, can see why Eight is best buds with you.”
Four grins and gives him a high five. “Shell yeah!” he then sighs and looks at Eight. “I’m kinda jealous that you have a sibling Eight.” He murmurs to himself. “My stupid family couldn’t even get me a sister.”