Chapter 17


Corpses started dropping to the ground as the sanitized were completely caught off guard. Tenta let out another screech and all the mobile salmons and dark cephalopods ran down into the gorge to fight, while the chargers all fired from above, and picking their enemies off one by one. Akari followed suit and Mint stayed hidden to watch for any fallen soldiers. Cherry Bomb was up and personal in TarTar's grill and knocked him off his horse by kicking a splatbomb into his chest.

"You!" He snarled.

"Missed me Tary~?" She sneered. "Because I didn't!"

He looked baffled. "How did you live?! The dark energy should have killed you!"

Cherry smiled. "I have my ways." She summoned her weapon; a flaming scythe and sliced his horse's body in half, revealing a mechanical/cyborg like creature's parts spilled onto the pathway. "You fuckin' nasty." She commented as she tried swinging at him. He dodged her swings miraculously and he grinned as he kicked her back, making Cherry yelp and toss a bomb opposite to where she thought he was running, it exploded on him and he roared in pain.

"You fool!" He snarled and went to zap her using the scepter, but she dodged by flying up using her flaming wings and rained bombs from above using her bomb rush.

"This'll be great!" She yelped as she was knocked out of the air by a blast and groaned. "Ow..."

TarTar made his escape to the mountains, making Cherry snarl. "Fuck... Okay, new plan." Cherry defused and the two inklings stood side by side.

"What are you doing?" Chili wondered.

Kira turned into her dark form and raised her wings. "Help the others with the sanitized! I have a bone to pick with that phone!" She raced after him in the sky and locked her vision onto him. She nose-dived out of the air and tackled him from where he stood and immediately threw some punches. "You. rat. bastard!" She yelped as she was thrown off and immediately countered his strike with her scythe. "It's just you and me! Let's dance!"


The sanitized were all taken care of and the salmon cheered and the cephalopods cheered.

"We did it!" Mint cheered. "We won the war!"

Layette shook her head. "We're not out of the woods yet, we have to wait for Kira to kill TarTar."

Everybody gasped.

"She's fighting him alone?!" One yelped.

"She's fish food!"

"What do we do?!"

Layette raised her hands. "No one panic! She's got this! For now, secure yourselves in case we need to help her out!"


Kira and TarTar fought for thirty minutes. Neither side relenting. Kira released heavy amounts of magic while TarTar slowly drained his scepter of it's power. Both of them were bleeding from the various cuts on their faces, arms, and bodies. Bearing scars, burns, and bruises. The dark hero heaved as she glared into her opponent's eyes. "Getting tired?" He commented with a smirk.

She snarled. "Not even... close!" She rushed at him again and was easily overpowered by TarTar, thrown to the side and her weapon tossed from her hands. "No..!"

He placed a foot on her chest and she immediately threw him off, rushing for her scythe, but was tripped and kicked in the face by the commander, coughing blood as she raised her wings, watching him approach.

"You've always been a formidable foe, Kira Yoru. I've never met any subject quite like yourself who's went so far as to start a war with me."

She grunted. "What other choice did I have? If I let you win, I'd already be dead."

"And under my guidance~"

"Shut up you stupid piece of scrap-metal!" Kira roared and kicked him back one final time, before trying once again to grab her weapon. While she was successful this time, she was blasted in the chest by TarTar and let out a pained howl as she fell to the ground, clutching her chest. Yelping, she saw green energy chains wrapping around her wrists and neck, pulling against them and watching TarTar approach.

"It's time I end this war. Say goodbye to Inkopolis!" He raised his scepter to strike her.

Kira closed her eyes and accepted her fate to die. Well, this is it... I did my best to win and I failed... I'm sorry Chili... Mint... Kari... Misery... Tenta... I failed you...

She heard the noise of piercing skin. But felt no pain. She opened her eyes and gasped in terror as she saw someone standing in front of her. The brittle form of a cuttlefish before her. Dropping his bamboozler cane and blood dripping from the scepter's tip that pierced his skin. Hot, fresh tears poured down Kira's face as she screeched as loud as she could. His pained groaning as he was thrown to the side like a rag-doll.

"CAPTAIN!"


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