Chapter 4


"B-But how?!" Exclaimed TarTar.

The figure nonchalantly tossed a splat bomb up and down in the air, grinning. A toothy grin and the lust in their eyes to paint the walls with blood. Their hair was a bright neon blue with the ends fading to red. The tentacles long and the ends slightly zigzagged. Spiky black earrings in her left ear and a music note on the right. Her eyes were a mixture of fire red and purple, and the eyelids the black, tired color Chili was known for. Her figure lean and her dragon wings aflame.

Her outfit was a combination of Kira and Chili's outfits. A sleeveless black denim vest with a white, black and blue t-shirt, with a long pair of pants and accompanied by a pair of black knee high boots painted with blue and green flames.

"They call me Cherry Bomb." She said with a grin, as she held the splat bomb. "But don't get your tentacles in a curl, sweet-cheeks. I'm one-hundred percent the same bitch you've always known and loved."

"Unfuse right now or I'll fire!" He screamed.

The fire in her eyes grew bright. "Not before we tango."

"...Uh oh..."

Cherry yelled. "Hell yeah! BATTER UP FUCKER!" She threw the bomb and leaped up, doing a roundhouse kick and kicking the about to explode bomb into a group of sanitized Octolings and they turned into ink on the ground.

TarTar started to visibly sweat. This is unlike anything he has ever seen. The fusion began plowing through the enemies with fists ablaze and bombs going left and right. The soldiers were all down as she stood in the room surrounded by bodies and covered in enemy ink. She wore it as a symbol of pride.

"Your turn." She said and walked towards him and he fled, making her growl. "Oi! I ain't done with you! C'mere you little bitch!" Cherry Bomb bolted. But then immediately stopped upon seeing Misery again.

"Looks like I missed one." She pulled out another splat-bomb and approached her.

Misery removed her costume and looked scared. "W-Wait... Please! I-I can help you!"

Cherry looked genuinely confused. "Now what in blazes are you going on about?"

"You see, the reason he brought you here was to create a diversion! He's almost ready to attack the city!"

Her tired eyes seemed to widen in fear. "I have to get back to that campsite. We gotta get moving!" As she ran, both Kira and Chili split from Cherry Bomb and fell to the ground, groaning and rubbing their eyes. Cherry Bomb was gone.

"Geeze, That felt rough..." Chili commented.

Kira nodded. "It felt like we were a part of each other."

"Guys, we have a major problem. Due to you guys fusing, TarTar is moving his plans from two week prep to three days!"

"THREE DAYS?!"

Kira looked concerned as she hoisted Chili to his feet and looked as Misery. "You mean to tell me we have three days to get things together before the big siege!?"

"We can't wait any longer. We have to teach the others about fusion before things get out of hand."


The camp was buzzing with worry. Kira and Chili had been gone for a long while without notice of return.

"What do we do? They have to be here somewhere!" Mint cried out.

Akari turned into her electric form and grabbed her whip. "Send a search party!"

"Right away!"

"On it!"

A familiar voice rang out throughout the camp. "Don't bother with it. We're here."

All heads turned towards the voice and ran towards them, embracing the two squids in question who supposedly went missing.

"We were so worried about you!" Mint cried out. "Where have you been?"

"No time to explain." Kira inquired. "TarTar is about to make his seige on the city and we need to stop him before it gets destroyed."

Captain Cuttlefish stumbled towards them. "How are you supposed to do that, little whippersnappers?"

Chili and Kira looked at each other. They nodded to each other before Misery spoke up. "I'll explain it.


The two stood on the battlefield with everyone watching. Kira looked at Chili with uncertainty.

Misery began explaining to Mint and Akari about the fusion process. "So since you guys have powers, you'll be able to fuse with each other. Chili and Kira can do it, and-"

"...Are you sure we did it right the first time? I think there's more to the fusion thing than just holding hands." Kira wondered as Misery rambled on.

Chili let out an annoyed sigh. "I ain't dancing for them. No way."

"We have to show them somehow." She urged.

He huffed. "Then have Akari fuse with you. The parasite over there did explain that as long as we have powers, we can fuse with each other, right?"

"I believe that's the gist of it."

"Good. Then get Kari."

Akari perked up at the sound of her name and went over. "You called?"

"You and I are going to try fusing together to create a more powerful being."

The purple haired octoling raised an eyebrow. "But... How?"

"Through dance?" Kira said with a hint of uncertainty in her voice.

She sighed. "Okay... We can try."

As Kira began warming up to dance, her hair began shimmering and she began dancing. Demonstrating her dance in a modern way by showing off an array of leg kicks and spins, while moving in sync to her style of dance. Akari's hair began to glow as she danced eloquently, gliding across the ground and span as well.

Once the two made contact with each other, Kira lead Akari through the dance as one would lead the waltz; with grace and style. She tossed her partner in the air and caught her, the blinding aura surrounding the girls like it did with the two squids. The remaining members all watched in awe as the glow faded away, a new figure emerged.

Laughing, she spun around before striking a pose. "Gadget here! Ready to make her mark!"

"Now that's what I call power!" Captain Cuttlefish exclaimed.

"Greetings one and all, newcomers and previous fans alike, I was brought here to demonstrate the wonders of fusion!" Gadget was very energetic, almost like a ring-master or an announcer. She had longer, pastel blue hair that was styled similar to Kira's, but with more wave and the goggles Akari wore sat atop her hair. Her outfit was also very similar to Kira's; the sleeveless shirt with the medallion and knee high boots, she even had a bright purple jacket with fur around the collar as she tossed it aside. Her eyes shimmered a bright magenta color and with no sign of wings, but a backpack on her back.

"So what all is there to fusion?" Chili wondered, his arms crossed and his face bearing a bored, tired look.

Gadget booped his nose. "I'll be delighted to tell you all about it, my chunky fellow!" She ran over and threw two weapons into the air; The Sword and the Whip, both combining to make an long sword with hooks on the blade, and when extended, it turned into a grappling weapon.

"Your counterpart's weapon and your weapon can fuse together to become a much more powerful, in this case: The whip and the sword became the Latcher, or a sword that can grapple enemies. For example," She pointed in the direction of a dummy. "See that training dummy over there? I cannot reach it when I'm standing here. But if I use the Latcher-" Gadget made a swinging motion with the sword, like one would do with a fishing rod, and the sword had three long lines of black rope with hooks quickly fly out of the sword and wrap around the dummy, throwing it up into the air and slapping it onto the ground for a satisfying THUD noise against the ground.

"I am allowed to reach my enemies from a distance with the potential of not engaging in combat."

Everyone clapped and looked impressed. Awe-stricken from the display.

Mint walked up to Gadget, "What else is there that fusions can do?" They wondered.

"They can do all sorts of things that all vary upon the combined powers of the fusers. Since I fused with Darkness and Electricity, I can create electrifying crystals that can do some heavy damage, or bring some dark bolts of electricity down from the sky. Really, it all depends on both user's skills."

All nodded in understanding as Gadget unfused to reveal Akari and Kira.

"Oh damn, I don't think I'll EVER be able to get used to that..." Kira groaned.

Akari stumbled a bit, having Kira catch her before she fell. "I feel incredibly dizzy..."

A loud shriek snapped them out from their dizzy spell and all ran to the main camp where Aero and Aurora stood.

"What's wrong? What is it?!" Kira yelled.

Aurora looked fearful. "There are green figures! Attacking the city!"

"A-A-And they got huge weapons that will destroy the buildings!" Aero stuttered.

Kira and Chili looked at each other. "We're too late..." Kira whispered. "He made his move and we're not prepared.."

"There's no way we're letting him win! Everybody move into the city and start saving civilians!" Chili yelled. "Make sure to get as many as you can! Now let's go!"


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