LE MORTE D'INKMAN
Inkman walked down the hall, guided by the possessed Tori's voice.
"A little closer, Inky!" Lodestar taunted her partner, "You're almost there!"
"Hmm..." Inkman mumbled in pain as he could do nothing to help his beloved, only to stop when he entered a large room with a hole in it.
"There he his!" some goons aimed their weapons at him.
"Hmph!" Inkman grunted as he grabbed his cape, aiming to deflect all their shots.
However, some of the goons were splatted, causing the others to turn behind them.
Inka Splett walked in, his customized black L-3 Nozzlenose and Armor striking fear into the goons and causing The Inkman to enter the highest amount alert.
"Inka- GAH!" an urchinian goon was splatted by the Anemonite, causing the other goons to enter absolute fear.
"Don't get in my way." Inka Splett hoarsely said as he aimed his Nozzlenose at the Inkman, "You have a price on your head, Inkman... And I intend to Collect."
"I'm not your regular bounty, Splett!" Inkman pointed at him, "You may have escaped me once, but your villanous streak ends h- DWAH!" he was shot by Inka.
Inka used an airpack similar to Volta's to rush Inkman, then threw some bolas at our hero.
"Wah!" Inkman rolled under the projectiles, then ran to punch Inka.
Inka avoided the punch and picked up The Inkman, then threw him at some goons.
"Ha!" the goons sprung into action and pelted our fallen hero with black ink.
"AGH! AGH AGH!" Inkman grunted as he felt assaulted, then rolled to gain footing and activated his spring slinkies to escape.
Inka jetpacked to intercept our hero, then grabbed him midair and slammed him down.
"Let go- OOF!" Innkman grunted as he hit the ground, then looked at some goons near him, "Uh oh!" he yelled but was shot in the visor by one of them, "AGH!" he groaned and mule kicked, activating his Spring Slinkies.
Inka Fett, who was behind him, was struck by the kick and the slinkies in the airpack, which caused it to malfunction and launch the anemonite into a column where he slid down and fell down the dark hole.
"AHHHHHHHHHHH!" Inka Fett screamed until his screams died down.
The goons looked at the blinded Inkman, the man who had defeated the feared Anemonite, then dropped their weapons.
"Ooh..." Inkman regained vision, then saw the goons surrender and looked down the hole, "Oh... Well... That was easy..." he shrugged and chuckled a bit.
After capturing the goons, our hero continued his quest.
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Our hero finally reached the room that held Verrücka, and saw the Inkling sitting on her makeshift throne surrounded by goons.
"At last you join me... Inky." Verrücka grinned and pointed at him, "Welcome."
"You are the villain who has taken over Volta and Lodestar!" Inkman yelled, "You will pay for your evil deeds!" he shook his fist.
"Relax, Inky... You're here for the surprise party!" Verrücka giggled and pointed to a large mechanical portal, "I will finally have my lover with me... At long last the man I love will be at my side... and we will rule the world!"
"Who.. Who are you?" Inkman mumbled as he saw Verrücka stand.
"I am Verrücka..." Verrücka responded and smirked, "And my lover is... Dagon." she smiled, causing Inkman to gasp.
"Why would you bring him b-" Inkman was gagged by Verrücka's PSY powers, "GAH!"
"Don't say anything bad about my pookie!" Verrücka giggled as she tightened her grip, "Kill him." she told the goons, who started to fire at the suspended hero.
"AGH!" Inkman groaned in pain as he was choked and shot, "AHHHHH!"
"You will fall to Dagon's feet." Verrucka let him go and walked to the portal, then started to activate it.
"Ha... HA!" Inkman used this opportunity to spin and take out a majority of the goons with his cape deflection, "Hyah Hyah!" he backflipped and threw his bolas to snag another foe.
TLONG! Inkman stepped back and hit the door of the freezer, then opened it to protect himself from an incoming black ink assault.
Inside, Mikoto was frozen solid in a block.
"Mikoto!" Inkman ran to her, then took out a little pick from his utility belt, "HYAH!" he struck the ice, cracking it entirely rapidly.
"Ha!" Mikoto gasped, then looked as a goon aimed his rifle, "HYAH!" she pulled out her katana and deflected the ink blasts, then karate chopped the villain in the neck.
"Come on!" Inkman said and ran outside, "We need to s- DOY!" he was hit on the head by a large brute of an Inkling.
"Ha!" Mikoto backflipped to avoid the Heavy, who aimed his Hydra Splatling at her, "Unskilled brute!" she jumped on a table to avoid the barrage, then swooped down and cut the splatling tank in half, causing the pressurized black ink to backfire and knock out the Heavy.
"I guess I have to kill you all myself." Verrücka let the machine do its thing and saw all the downed goons, "This will be fun." she picked up Inkman with her PSY powers and threw him at Mikoto.
"AGH!" the two heroes groaned as they struck a wall.
"I WILL DESTROY YOU!" Verrücka giggled and glared at the two, then snatched Mikoto's katana out of her clutches, "CHOP YOU!" she swung it with PSY power.
"Woah!" Inkman barely avoided a hack, "Watch out!" he pushed Mikoto aside.
"Dishonorable..." Mikoto tried to regain her katana, looking for an opportunity to grab it amidst of all the swings.
"What's wrong, Mikoto!? Catch!" Verrücka laughed and launched it at the woman.
"AGH!" Mikoto gasped as the katana penetrated her stomach, but due to her armor, not much further, "Ah..." she groaned as she pulled it out.
"Take this!" Inkman threw his Boom Boom sticks at Verrücka, but she launched them out the window with PSY power.
"Don't try to stop her!" Lodestar giggled, continuing her taunts against our hero.
"Stop it! Tori!" Inkman cried, "You're better than this! Don't let her get to you, my love!"
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Tori snapped back to reality with those words, her love for Eli releasing her, "Inkman..." she mumbled and started to type away.
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"WAH!" Mikoto was launched into the wall and smashed by a brick.
"I got you, Mikoto- DWAH!" Inkman, whilst trying to attack Verrücka, was instead slammed with a chair, "Argh..."
"Inkman... Let me... concentrate..." Mikoto stood and focused on Verrücka, "Give me a few seconds, please..." she clenched her katana and tried to lock on to the foe.
"Ok." Inkman stood but received a brick to the face, "Ouch... OOF!" he was slammed by a large desk.
"Ready for more..." Verrücka giggled, then noticed Mikoto was unattended, "Not today." she focused a PSY wave that knocked the swordswoman back.
"AGH!" Mikoto hit the wall, but stood back up and focused.
DROOOOOO! The portal roared as a red and black vortex started to be birthed by the device.
"Ha..." Verrücka grinned as she saw a dark figure starting to materialize, "Dagon! My love!" she grinned and waved at it.
"Mikoto!" Inkman said, "We need to stop that!" he told her, "If we don't, Dagon will be released into the world!" he warned.
"Not again!" Mikoto grumbled, "Ok... Inkman..." she nodded, "I will help you stop it..."
"HAHAHAHA!" Dagon's premature body roared and aimed its mystic arm and Inkman, charging a blast of evil energy that soon blasted away Verrücka's entire building, exposing it to Inkopolis.
"Ooh!" Verrücka clapped and looked at the police lines surrounding them, "Look, pookie!" she hovered up and looked at the police forces, "Can I have fun!?" she grinned and looked at Proto-Dagon.
Dagon chuckled evilly and charged another blast.
"OK!" Verrücka giggled and extended her arm around her, then used her immense PSY power to blast all of the police force back.
A helicopter swooped low, noticed by the Inkling.
"Bye..." Verrücka glared at the vehicle, then controlled it and slammed it into Inkopolis Tower, causing a large explosion.
"AHAHAHAHAAH!" Dagon roared and set his first step into the real world, "INK... MAAN..." he growled and blasted the police force, instantly decimating them all with one brilliant flash.
"GAH!" Mikoto was blown back by the explosion and ducked for cover.
"Dagon!" Inkman yelled in zealous anger as he looked at the fiend, "Hrrh..." he gnashed his teeth, then looked at Mikoto.
"Inkma-"
"I have to stop him..." Inkman muttered, "I have to knock him back in..." he gulped, "Mikoto... If I don't make it... Well... My life has amounted to this moment..." he smiled, "I will protect the innocent until my dying breath."
"Inkman?" Mikoto stood and saw Proto-Dagon charge another devastating blast, "What are you-"
"The Evil exuding through that portal is great... it may hurt me greatly upon contact." Inkman shone white and glared at Dagon, who was taunting.
"Inkman! Don't do-" Lodestar was cut off by our hero.
"Tell Tori I love her..." Inkman sighed, "Tell her to take care of our daughter.."
"Inkman! You won't die!" Mikoto said, "Look at all you've sur-"
"This is different..." Inkman muttered, then saw Verrücka land near Volta, "Stop her.. please... And tell Volta that I did this for all the good people in Inkopolis." he grinned and gave a thumbs up.
"Inkman... no..." Mikoto shook her head, then saw Verrücka start to choke Volta, "I- Uh... Very well..." she sighed and ran to protect Volta.
"See you later, Chirpington." Inkman saw the bird swoop in, "And Father.. thank you for the life you have given me... If I don't live, well, your will be done... I only serve and Serve Good." he smiled peacefully, then charged at the portal.
"Wait!" Verrücka screamed and tried to stop Inkman, but was struck by Mikoto before she could do anything.
"DAGON! EVIL SHALL BE FINISHED!" Inkman pounced and raised his fist against his arch-nemesis.
"COME TO ME, INKMAN!" Dagon, now 90% materialized, grinned and raised his fist as well, "HRA!"
"HYAHHHH!" Both struck each other through the chest and into the heart.
"Ah..." Inkman groaned and kicked Dagon back into the portal with his final efforts.
"No..." Dagon dissipated into evil energy, and the vortex closed.
"Ha..." Inkman smiled as he fell to the ground, then looked up to the sky and closed his eyes...
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A large procession traversed Inkopolis's Main Street, all of Inkopolis was somber as the lone coffin of Inkman was taken down by an open hearse.
Air Force Inkjets roared overhead and sprayed clouds of Inkman's signature colors: Blue, Yellow, and White.
Tori and Ellie were walking by the hearse, accompanied by The Arbiter, Mikoto, and Titen.
"He can't be... Mom..." a young Inkling boy muttered as he saw the coffin ahead of him, "Is Inkman..."
The mother looked sadly ahead, then held back tears.
"I'm sorry for your loss..." The Arbiter told Tori as they joined up, "I'm sorry for this... I shouldn't have b-"
"It wasn't your fault." Tori smiled weakly, "Eli... I always knew if he was to go... this would be the way he would do so." she held her child close.
"He saved Inkopolis..." Mikoto muttered, then saw her child and his babysitter in the masses next to them and painfully waved back.
A flock of birds flew over head by the hundreds, and by the multitudes those who served in the armed and police forces saluted the coffin.
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"Inkman has showed us that heroes do not need superpowers." The Mayor of Inkopolis spoke at the cemetery, "He has showed us that even one of us lowly civilians can uphold good and justice. He showed us how to give it all and expect nothing back... Such an unconditional love was his."
Tori and Volta wept, as did Mikoto. The Arbiter and Titen payed respect to a once foe now personal ally.
"We come here today not to celebrate the life of a man of wondrous exploits, but celebrate a citizen who believed that life is not about seeking vainglory, but upholding good." The Mayor continued, "And with that... I say that Inkman is not dead, he is alive in all of us... He lives in the good people do, and I hope we take this to heart."
The bagpipes played as the coffin was lowered into the ground...
SM'S Time-
This is the end of a saga... Inkman has finally met his allotted time but has gone out in the way he's lived his whole life for.
Inkman's deeds and exploits will not be recorded like those of superheroes like the League of the Shared Universe- though will fade away from the memories of the common people, they will still be performed by all those who seek them.
Inkman does not need the intelligence of Ty to find the wisdom of Good.
Inkman does not need the strength of Rem to find the power of upholding what is right.
Inkman does not need the speed of Ix to reach trouble where it could be found.
Inkman needs what Inkman is... He is a hero, a true down to Earth hero...
Thank you for joining him, and please, uphold good and righteousness and you shall surely be blessed.
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