After sometime Marina and Callie made back to Inkopolis to see a monstrous view. Buildings were on fire, things in shambles, cannons were firing, missiles being launched and soon a giant robot on the blue Octoling side came and Marina instantly pressed a button. Another robot came from behind of Inkopolis Plaza and launched punching away the robot. The robot then started fighting the other one crushing inklings, Octolings, and even buildings. Callie looked around to see a plane that seemed to have crashed.
"Guys!" Callie shouted flying over to the plane.
Marina followed her to see the damage. At the plane, Callie sees Marcus knocked out with cuts and bruises all over his body, Kitty with a big purple bump on her forehead, Jewel laying down on her stomach with dust and blood covering her, Blitz with his glasses broken and a piece of metal in his leg lying there knocked out, Marlee was on top of the plane with a needle in her should with blood dripping out of her, and Mike seemed to be dead but was still breathing. Mike was the worst of them. He had been cut everywhere, clothes all ripped up, a huge slash on his fore head, and a needle on his left hand. Callie was about to burst into tears on this happening.
"G-guys... I-I've f-failed to protect you. Please forgive me." Callie said shaking.
"Callie, there's no reason to apologize."
Callie looked over to see General Woomy also wounded. The General had her left hand covering the hole in her right arm, cuts all over the legs and seemed to be ready faint at any moment. Callie rushed over to her hugged her.
"Callie, I need you to go help the other agents. You need to beat Inknetta for us." General Woomy said.
"No. I need to help you guys quickly." Callie said.
"There's no time. You have to go in there and fight."
"Marina, we need to get everyone healed up and fast. Is there anything we can do?"
"Yes. There's a hot spring near here. If it isn't gone then you just need to lay them in there for a few moments and they should heal up." Marina said.
"Will it cure Mike's burn?" Callie asked.
"No. I will have to diagnose him to see which one he has to get."
"Ok, then let's get to that hot spring. How far is it?"
"It isn't far. Just two or three miles away. So we just need to drag them there."
"Exactly."
Callie picked up Mike, Marcus, Jewel, and Kitty while Marina carried Blitz, Marlee, and General Woomy to the hot springs to aid them quickly.
"Marina, how far is the hot springs from here?" Callie asked
"It's only four blocks down. Just prepare to fight." Marina replied.
Just as Marina finished saying that, Callie looked up to see two people falling down from the sky. They both landed revealing to be Lucian and Nightmare.
"Nightmare!? How did you live after my attacks?" Marina asked.
"That's none of your concern. I was sent to stop you with Lucian here. Now it's time to finish you." Nightmare said getting out a huge black sword.
Mike was getting up slowly to see Lucian. He had ink coming out of his mouth and grabbed his weapon and started casting. Lucian saw him in the back and jumped into the air. He got his red arm glowed up, his hand into a fist, and came down very fast. Marina saw this and started casting quickly. Callie went up to Nightmare to fight him. Lucian almost made it to Mike when suddenly a force field formed around him. Marina cast the shield and went up in front of Nightmare. Lucian tried to break the shield but wasn't working.
Meanwhile, Callie and Marina were giving all they got to fight Nightmare. Marina was a distance away for Nightmare throwing spears at him. Callie use her axe and sping it around to send ice at Nightmare. Nightmare was blocking all their shots and decided to use his sword and send a black blob at Marina. The blob hit her and caused her to get stuck on the ground glued. Marina was trying her best to get out of it but no avail.
Eventually, General Woomy was on one knee watching him and knew what he was doing. The result of the spell he was casting was a devastating spell that could possibly kill him. Ink was coming out of his forehead and body and finished casting. He cast Judgement of Dusty Ashes. The spell made a circle around Lucian and had a huge X on the ground having him in between. Then a huge pillar of fire, wind, ashes, and dust were hitting him with a final hit of giant light exploding in front of him causing to launch. Mike dropped a sword on to the ground and fell to one knee. He looked up to see that Lucian was no more and it was just Dan in his regular outfit of glasses, a shirt and tie, classic pants, and black shoes.
"Heh, looks like it worked." Mike said falling to ground dead.
Nightmare saw that Lucian was gone and decided to warp away. Callie and Marina stopped fighting and went over to Mike. Callie picked him up and started to cry.
"M-Mike! No! You...you... You idiot why would you sacrifice yourself like that?" Callie asked.
"He did it for a reason." Marina said pointing at Dan.
"Can the hot springs bring people back to life?"
"Unfortunately, no. He was a great friend to have and will always be in your heart."
Callie wiped away the rest of her tears and started to believe that Mike would wanted her to move on.
"That spell he just performed. He's been practicing and studying it. It was just before the war, he learned how to do when he came by his studies; he learned that it would kill him when used. There is no known way to resurrect him from the dead. Even if we cast spell, he will not wake up." General Woomy explained
"I have no words to say, but Mike. Thank you for sacrificing your life to save us." Callie said hugging him close to her. The cemetery was conveniently right next to them and decided to bury him. Everyone was awake and Callie explained everything. Jewel started to sob and everyone else just frowned. Marlee then felt something in her pockets. A card of her came out an had a picture of Mike on it.
"Callie, let me see Mike." Marlee said.
Callie had no objections and gave Mike to Marlee. Marlee listened for a pulse or heartbeat and heard a heart beat.
"Oh my Cod! He's... alive." Marlee said.
"What? How?" Blitz asked.
"My weapon... My cards has a picture of Mike on it."
"So what is that suppose to mean?" Callie asked.
"I don't know but if I had to guess." Marlee said getting the card with Mike on it.
She put the car him and the card disappeared. Mike opened his eyes and had a massive headache.
"Ugh my head... What even happened?" Mike asked.
"MIKE!" Everyone shouted.
They all gave him a hug and he was very confused. Eventually, Dan got up and started to walk towards Mike. Everyone stopped hugging him and Dan was face to face with him.
"Mike, I'm sorry what I did to you," Dan said having tears come out," I couldn't control myself and hurt you in the process. I'm..."
Dan was interrupted by Mike with a hug.
"I forgive you. So don't worry about it. I'm just glad you are back with us." Mike said.
Dan stopped having tears come out and smiled.
"Now that's over with," Callie said, "Let's get those hot springs and get you guys healed up."
Dan and Mike broke out of the hug and started to walk to the hot springs.
End of Part 8
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