Chapter 5


Kira, Chili, Mint, Akari and the rest of the camp came upon the city being wrecked and chaos running amuck. The sanitized were slaughtering people and holding some hostage, and buildings were crumbling and falling apart due to the fires running ablaze inside them.

"Start rounding up civilians and get them back to the camp! Leave no one behind!" Kira yelled and summoned her dark form. The rest followed suit and ran into the chaos, getting people away from the chaos. Aero and Aurora were saved by Mint by pulling them out of the studio and getting two others named Chiffon and Claret and getting them out of the area.

Chili was on the prowl, escorting kids and other inklings and octolings away, but keeping his eyes peeled for TarTar. "Is that everyone?!"

Mint was flying above and nodded. "All the shops had been cleared out and it looks like there's-"

"HELP!" A little kid screamed.

Everyone looked up and saw Julie and her friends all huddled together

"Julie!" Mint and Chili cried out.

Kira got a bright idea. "Mint! We need to fuse!"

"Kira-"

"Trust me on this!" Kira yelled. She extended her hands outwards and grabbed Mint's hands and both spun around to create a new entity that zoomed up towards the children.


Julie was crying as she was hanging on for dear life, her friends holding onto her.

"H-Hang on Julie!" A xeno boy named Shark cried out, a fearful look in his eyes.

"I-I can't hold on much longer Shark!" She whimpered and yelped as she felt herself slipping. "I-I'm Shlipping!"

Her friends accidentally let go and screamed in terror as Julie fell. As Julie watched her friends get farther and father from her view, she felt herself stop. Opening her eyes, she looked up and saw an elegant figure holding her in their arms, a warm smile on their lips as they brought her down to the ground where Chili was.

"Are you alright?" Their soft, sweet voice wondered, wiping the tears off of Julie's cheek.

Julie nodded and looked at the figure in awe and amazement. They had long, light purple and blue hair with sparkles in their hair, a bejeweled headband made of gold and amethyst gems. Their dress was made out of starry fabrics that seemed to move all on their own and her eyes were violet with stars. Her wings were radiating with celestial energy, as they glowed a soft gold with stars.

"Stay low." They advised and flew back up to the other children, bringing them down to where Chili and Julie were. "I believe that was everyone. We must get them to safety before we deal with the threat of TarTar."

Chili looked at them funny. "How do you suggest we do that... uh... Who are you, exactly?"

"I am Solstice." They replied. "And I suggest by creating a diversion to save what is left of the city."

He nodded. "I'll be back soon. Don't have too much fun without me." He ushered the kids towards the camp grounds and Solstice let out an irritated sigh.

"I see your shenanigans haven't changed one bit." Sneered a voice. They turned around to see TarTar standing on his death machine, applauding them. "I applaud your efforts for getting everyone out of my killing range. But I have unfinished business with you!"

Solstice shook their head. "I'm afraid your business needs to be taken elsewhere. You do not need to destroy a city."

"You cannot say that!" Boomed the commander. "I am doing this place a favor by getting rid of it and its inhabitants!"

They sighed, "Then you leave me no choice." They summoned the scythe and the scepter and both merged together to create a larger scepter, the rod black and the orb that sat atop it had glowing crescent moons and shining stars, with gold rimming surrounding the orb, securing it in it's place.

"How ornate." TarTar chuckled. "But you are no match for my power!" He threw some switches and the large mech he was sitting on threw a punch towards them and they raised the scepter, a large galaxy petaled rose blooming in front of it, rebounding the punch and making it hit the mech, damaging it greatly.

"I wouldn't be too sure of that." They commented.

TarTar snarled and tried hitting them again, but the same thing happened; His punches and attacks were rebound, damaging him and his mechanized contraption.

"Green is such an ugly color on you." Solstice noted. "You'd look much better in black." Raising the scepter. a blast of black, purple, blue and white emerged from the orb and rained down on TarTar with a huge amount of pain. He screeched in pain as the blast kept going. The fusion winced a bit as they felt their nose bleeding and their side hurting.

A raging conversation started going on in their head between Kira and Mint.

There's no way we can keep going! Mint cried. We need to unfuse!

Are you kidding Mint?! We almost got him! Kira shouted. Just...A little more...

KIRA NO! You're going to kill us! Stop it! Mint tried getting them to unfuse midway through the attack and Kira panicked.

Mint! What the fuck are you doing?! We're destabilizing! Stop!

Solstice stopped their attack, huffing and wheezing as they unfused into Kira and Mint, their weapons returning to their original state and TarTar, severely wounded and the mech destroyed, ran off into hiding.

Kira rubbed her head and looked at Mint, who shot her a dirty look. "What the hell Mint?!" Kira wondered. "We almost killed him! Why did you unfuse?!"

"Kira, you do realize we were injured, right?! You could have killed us with that kind of thinking!" They shouted. "I don't care if we were close!"

Kira growled. "I just want this war to be over, okay?! I never wanted to drag any of you into this mess and look where that got me!" Her fists shook and tears rolled down her face, her voice trembling and whimpering. "We've already had so many casualties and its just getting started! Julie almost died and the city is in ruins! I-I just wanted him dead so we could go and enjoy our lives before all of this... Before all the carnage... Just..."

Mint placed a hand on Kira's shoulder and they gasped as they felt Kira latch herself onto their body, sobbing into their shoulder.

"Oh sweetie... I-We should get you back to camp... okay?"

She nodded and was walked back to camp with Mint. Her heart hurting and her mind racing. Knowing she couldn't stop TarTar the first time made her question herself.

Will I have to die to save them?


The camp was bustling with all the survivors from the siege on Inkopolis. They were huddled together and worried as their murmurs echoed throughout the area.

Kira sighed in a worried manner as Captain Cuttlefish approached her. "Agent 4, I have some terrible news to bring..."

"How many dead?" She wondered.

Captain sighed. "Three hundred twenty five dead."

Kira's heart stopped briefly and she felt it drop. Her ears lowered and tears rolled down her face. "And...How many injured?"

"Currently there are fifty six in the infirmary being treated. We have a few of the survivors offer their services." He looked up and gently cupped her cheek. "Kira, you've been so brave throughout this entire ordeal. Bearing powers unimaginable to the normal inkling, going to save and protect your friends from the crazy phone, and making new ones. If anything, your strength deuring this trauma shows you're the leader people need."

Kira sniffled. "B-But I couldn't save those people... Cod... I-"

"Wars will always have blood and death that can't be prevented, no matter how much you to prevent it or even plead to Cod above." Captain told her. "The only thing you can do is lead these people to the future they need and deserve."

"He's right, y'know." Chili commented as he walked up next to them.

"Chili..." Kira's voice quietly yelped.

He sighed and shoved his hands in his pockets. "War will have people dying. War will have blood. We can try and try to prevent it, but in this case, we can't prevent it. The most we can do is march through this and try to win it." He huffed and looked annoyed. "Thanks to dipshit, we've got to house these people and try to get some of them ready for fucking war. Fucking hell, I hate that piece of shit."

Kira sighed. "Me too, Chili. Me too..."


End of Chapter

Sorry this took so long, I was enjoying my winter break and I'll be going back to working a lot more very soon.