After a few hours of flying and riding night begin to fall on the Jeff Splatoon and the mysterious Hog rider.
"Beautiful! I've never seen a sky so clear and full of stars. The air is also so clean here.", remarks Marie.
"Why are there so many rocks here. When we started there were just a few jutting rocks but now it's all rocks. What the carp?", asks Jeff.
"Oh, you're in Hog country now. We Hogs love rock crawling. In fact, you must be able to ride on these rocks with a modified bike. This one is a half Hog but a full Hog, like you'll see in Dome City is the real deal. Those can crawl on anything - even over logs!", explains Hillbilly Jim.
"...interesting. So you know a little bit about us... I mean our species.", inquires Marie.
"Yeah, you're Inklings - from earth. Ink Dogg goes to earth and he comes here too. He told me all about you people!", replies Hillbilly Jim.
"We're not on earth, right?", asks Marie.
"No, earth is another universe. This universe if called... well, I don't know what it's called... but this island is called Dinosaur Land.", replies Hillbilly Jim.
"Are you humans?", asks Marie.
"No, we heard about them. We're called Hogs. Well, at least that's what we call ourselves. Before that we were called cave people. Yeah, heard about humans in your world. They're really... tall... and extinct.", remarks Hillbilly Jim.
"What can you tell us about Ink Dogg.", asks Marie.
"Ink Dogg is generally a good guy, but, lately, I think he's been going after a somewhat far-fetched dream. See, he as a dream of becoming the Dogg Father.", explains Hillbilly Jim.
"The Dogg Father? What is that?", asks Jeff.
"The Dogg Father is a person who rules the Dogg Empire. Basically, the Dogg Empire is the Dogg World plus other universes, well, it expands laterally into other universes.", explains Hillbilly Jim.
"Well, the Dogg Father is a crazy idea but, lately, from what I've heard Ink Dogg wants to take control of Dogg World and other universes as well. My guess is that y'all came from the Dogg World. Yeah, there are many pipes leading here but I've never had the courage to take them.", explains Hillbilly Jim.
"If he can open portals, which those pipes clearly are, he must know some magic!", exclaims Marie.
"Oh, yes, I've seen him bend pipes only with his mind. He can open portals to different universes through them and he's the only one who can do that but his powers end there. His other power is that he is very intelligent as are the Dogg people in general.", explains Hillbilly Jim.
"Wow! Fascinating. How do we defeat him?", asks Jeff.
"Jeff! That's not an appropriate question to ask. Be mindful!", says Marie.
"Hmm... defeat him. Well, he knows magic but he's no stronger than anyone else, physically. His real strength is his ability to think quick but the main issue is he can pick up on technology real quick - anything he sees he can build.", replies Hillbilly Jim.
"So, he's that smart? And calculating...", remarks Jeff.
"Yeah, he's a huge nerd. Recently, from what I heard. He learned programming just by watching a guy through the window of a place called... what was the name... oh yeah, Archo V Games... man, what a weird name. He said the guy had just started and was build a game called Squid Jump-", explains Hillbilly Jim.
"Squid Jump! Hey! That was me but I met Ink Dogg years after that! How the heck?", exclaims Jeff.
"Yeah, he can travel through time to any time but in the Dogg World you can do that. There is no time there and if you can open a portal you can travel not only where but when... it's weird.", explains Hillbilly Jim.
"Hillbilly, can we call you that?", asks Marie.
"Sure. I like it!", replies Hillbilly Jim.
"How do you know Inklish. How can you speak our language?", asks Marie.
"Ink Dogg taught it to me and the rest of us Hogs. He told us to keep the knowledge in our back pockets in case we meet Inklings... well, I'm glad I did. You are lovely people!", remarks Hillbilly Jim.
"How does your language sound?", asks Jeff.
"Oh... like this - Oooga Booga Oooga Oooga - I said, Hi Jeff, what are you doing today?", remarks Hillbilly Jim.
"You said all that sounding like a caveman?", laughs Jeff.
"Yep.", replies Hillbilly Jim.
"Wow! Ok, so can you tell us about Salmonids? Do you know what they are?", asks Marie.
"Oh yeah! They're sentient fish but I think they're pretty low in intelligence. Whatever you've been told about them in the Dogg World is wrong. They're from here. And I MEAN here! Like Dinosaur Land.", explains Hillbilly Jim.
"Really... how did they get to our world, then?", asks Marie.
"I can't answer that one but what I can tell you is that Ink Dogg recruits them to go to the Dogg World. From there they are sent out to steal stuff for the Dogg people. Dogg people love trinkets and other jewelry. I mean the bikes they ride there came from us... well, we're transitioning to the newer models so they took our older ones.", explains Hillbilly Jim.
"That's fascinating. So they're used by the Dogg people as thieves.", inquires Marie.
"Yeah, pretty much. The reason is that there are many of them, and I mean MANY! You should see Soda Lake. Well, I'll take you there when we go to the city.", explains Hillbilly Jim.
"Squawk! Inkopolis is were I'm from.", remarks Kalamari Keith.
"Oh... he can talk.", remarks Marie.
"Yes, and he understands conversation. And, yes, Kalamari Keith is from your world. He was originally brown but he turned blue after eating some of the berries here.", explains Hillbilly Jim.
"Wow! These past days have been... really... intense. I'm just trying to plan the next move. See, we came to the Dogg World after following Ink Dogg, then he sucked us into his world.", explains Marie.
"Whoa! You must have angered him for him to do that!", exclaims Hillbilly Jim.
"Yeah... we sure did... the real reason we went after him was our suspicion that he is connected with the Salmonids. We wanted to see where the Salmonids were coming from so we went to the pier of our city, Splatsville. Well, we found him coming out of a pipe with Salmonids.", explains Marie.
"Yep, he leads some of the big ones over there - the Cohocks. They're big fellas.", remarks Hillbilly Jim.
"But then he disappeared into the pipe with the Salmonids.", explains Marie.
'Yep, he probably saw you people.", remarks Hillbilly Jim.
"So we went to fight him and ended up in Dogg World. We then talked to a few of the residents there and they told us to look for lights because that's were he parties but then we went inside these strange buildings and went thought a pipe and ended up here!", explains Marie.
"Hmm... a house... there is a strange house in Dinosaur Land. It's supposedly haunted but my friend, Bootlegger Johnson, said it's a portal to the Dogg World.", explains Hillbilly Jim.
"Wait! Marie, did you tell him that we saw the pipe disappear?", adds Jeff.
"Oh, yes, Ink Dogg does usually close up portals, so, yes, pipes do disappear!", explains Hillbilly Jim.
"Thanks for all the info on Ink Dogg. We're trying to save our city from the Salmonid invasion. We know Ink Dogg is behind it and we need to do something.", explains Marie.
"He's basically, trying to take over - good luck stopping that because you can't! He's too intelligent and resourceful to be defeated.", explains Hillbilly Jim.
"Really? No, we can't be wasting our time! No... we just can't!", cries Marie.
"Yeah, I hear ya but the best thing in life is just to negotiate peacefully if you can.", suggests Hillbilly Jim.
"Man, that sucks! We can't give up like that. I mean Mr. Nogami and I are geeks. We can come up with something!", exclaims Jeff.
"Huh, geeks! Well, if you can fight you may stand a chance. It would be your intelligence that would prevail.", says Hillbilly Jim.
"Very true! Anyways, we should all get some sleep. By the way, why is it taking us so long to get to Dome City?", asks Marie.
"Oh, we had to go around Soda Lake - it's behind the mountains.", explains Hillbilly Jim.
"Ah, I see. Ok, y'all good night!", remarks Marie.
"Sleep well, y'all.", remarks Hillbilly Jim.
"Mr. Nogami! Quit playing video games and get some sleep!", commands Marie.