Octavio and Cuttlefish continued to throw punches at each other as the other agents fought hard against the Octarian forces. Only 90 seconds remained until the weapon could fire, and with every second that passed, the pressure of the Inklings' incoming doom grew.
"Fall like your brethren soon will!" said Octavio.
"You'll have to make me!" Cuttlefish replied.
"Hurry!" yelled Titan, "Get that Spark into the Ultimate Weapon RIGHT NOW!"
Nero was on top of the weapon, not paying attention to what was going on around him. "Just a little longer now..." he said to himself, "The war is almost over. Victory for us is certain!" Other agents went to help Cuttlefish as the battle progressed, which Octavio noticed.
"Y'all want some too?!" he said tauntingly. He tossed Cuttlefish aside. Abigail, Leo, Callie, Marie, and Smith all charged at Octavio. But each time before they could even do anything, Octavio struck them hard. Using simply his own hands and feet, he countered their futile attempts to defeat him.
"We gotta move!" said Diana.
"I'm almost at full speed!" said Nathan, "Diana, can ya take over?"
"Huh?!"
"Trust me!"
"Okay!" Diana and Nathan quickly swapped positions. "Alright, when I say so, pop a front wheel wheelie!"
"WHAT?! Why?!"
"I need a boost for my Super Jump to get to that orange plate on the weapon up there! It'll drain the weapon faster if it's put there!"
"How do you know?"
"Titan. Duh."
"Oh...Of course."
"20 seconds!" yelled Titan.
"Got it!" yelled Nathan, "Okay..." Nathan silenced for a few seconds. "NOW!" Diana popped a front wheelie, Nathan super-jumped as this happened, giving him a tremendous boost upwards and forwards. Taking out the Power Spark, he landed right where he wanted to, and drove the Power Spark into the machine, causing sparks to fly from around the Spark as the device drained power from the Ultimate Weapon.
Nathan let go of the Power Spark as it drained power, landing on the ground below him. He quickly ran away to avoid harm in case the device caused the weapon to explode or something of that nature. Nero, not noticing, grinned.
"Fully charged..." said Nero. He turned around, but was immediately alerted by the sparks flying out of the weapon. He didn't see the Power Spark, though. "Huh?! D-Did I overcharge it?" He ran to the control panel. It flashed "ERROR" on the screen. "What the hell? Did we do something wrong?!"
"HUH?!" yelled Octavio, noticing the sparks flying but also the weapon starting to slowly fall apart as it lost power. "NO! Impossible! They're ruining EVERYTHING!" He rushed over to the weapon's control panel next to Nero. "NERO! WHAT'S GOING ON?!"
"I don't know, sire! Something's gone wrong! VERY wrong!" Nero then noticed the Power Spark in through the thousands of sparks flying around it. "What the hell is that?!"
"Impossible! They've ruined it! IT'S RUINED! RUINED!" Octavio grabbed Nero by the back of his shirt and ran off, "C'mon! Get away before it blows up!" Nathan looked back at the weapon, and saw the Power Spark flash.
"It's done!" said Titan. He used a super long grappling hook to grab hold of the Spark and yank it out of the Ultimate Weapon. A pillar of fire shot out of the newly-made hole in the weapon, and a huge portion of the weapon collapsed, releasing hundreds of containers and freeing the Inklings inside. Agents escorted them to safety.
Nathan grabbed hold of the Power Spark. Looking at it, he said, "The duty is done." The Ultimate Weapon fell apart before the eyes of everyone. Reduced to nothing more than a pile of metal parts, it sat there almost completely destroyed. There was a long silence, with the wind being the only thing able to be heard.
"No..." said a voice, Octavio, "Not yet!"
"Give it up, Octavio! You're done! Your Ultimate Weapon is destroyed! ...You have lost. Again."
"Ultimate Weapon? Which one?" Suddenly, all Inklings stopped what they were doing and looked at Octavio with wide eyes, including Nathan.
"Wh-What do you mean by 'which one'?!" Diana exclaimed.
"Foolish children...Did you really think I wouldn't have a backup plan? I'm smarter than most other villains! And now...you're going to die!" Octavio took out a small remote, pressing its only button. The ground behind him opened up, and something huge made of titanium emerged from the ground. It was a giant set of armor, a much bigger version of his previous mech, standing at nearly 100 feet tall. Anyone, including the Octarians, looked at it wide-eyed, backing away slowly. "Better say your farewells, heroes!...'Cause they're about to be your last!"
Octavio backed up towards the mega mech, and a platform appeared to escort him into it. "I hope you're ready." The mech instantly powered up once Octavio was sealed inside. Its multiple tubes and wires glowed dark purple as the mech came to life. Its two eyes glowed bright red, and four tentacle-like limbs sprouted from its back.
"This is...Octotron!" said Octavio through the machine, "And you...are fresh meat!" The Octotron lifted its foot. It then stomped the ground, not crushing anyone but creating a strong shockwave that blew away the surrounding Inklings and Octarians. "Ha! And that was just a tap compared to what this thing is truly capable of!"
"You've gotta be kidding me!" yelled Leo.
"Abigail, did you know about this?!" asked Smith.
"No! I didn't! Neither did anyone else!" Abigail replied, "He told none of us! Look, even the Octarian Army is shocked!"
"...She's right," said Nathan, "None us seemed to have expected that!"
"Expect me!" said Nero as he appeared by the Octotron's foot, "Me and Octavio developed this thing in secret. We told Octarians us deliver us parts for something, but they were never told what for. With this, we will destroy Inkopolis, and all of the Inklings in it!"
"Not on my watch!" Nathan pointed his weapon at the mech.
"Child's play," said Octavio, "Get lost!" He fired a huge Blaster-like missile at Nathan. He and the others retreated, but Nathan didn't make it far enough and was blown very far away from the missile's impact.
"NATHAN!" yelled Diana as Nathan flew away. After some time, he landed hard in seemingly the middle of nowhere. He rolled around, eventually stopping. He tried to get up, but passed out. The area he landed in was like a desert almost, but it wasn't hot. Inkopolis was still visible in the distance, but it was further away. It was also quite far from where the Ultimate Weapon's site was located.
"Urgh!" said Cuttlefish, "I should've expected that from a bastard like you, Octavio!"
"I'd love to stay and chat with you guys," said Octavio, "But I've got a city to take over! Oh, but...just to keep you informed on what your city's fall will be like..." The Octotron used two of its back tentacles to grab a large chunk of the Ultimate Weapon's remains that still remained intact. It then ripped the chunk into two pieces without effort and slammed them to the ground, killing multiple agents but mostly Octarian soldiers, causing a loud rumble and the ground to shake for a little bit. "Oh...shit..."
"Forget it, master!" said Nero, "At least they weren't elites."
"Good point, my son. We don't have time to fool around here! Sorry, Cuttlefish! But I've gotta go! Octarians! Time to go!"
"All Octarians head to the airship!" Nero lead the remaining members of the Octarian Army retreated, heading onto the Octarian Airship, which flew in moments later.
"See you there." Octavio activated the Octotron's jet thrusters in its feet, and it flew towards the city like a rocket. Octavio laughed as the machine took off.
"NO!" said Diana, "Urgh!"
"I can't-" said Smith, "How- This is insane!"
"HOW?!" yelled an agent in a panic, "HOW ARE WE GONNA GO AGAINST THAT BIG-ASS MACHINE WITHOUT SOME KIND OF SUPER WEAPON?! We lose! Game over!"
"Not yet!" said Abigail, "There has to be a way to take it down...there HAS to be! But it won't be easy."
"Not easy? NOT EASY?! IT'S IMPOSSIBLE WITHOUT A SUPER WEAPON!"
"Forget super weapons!" said Diana, "What we need is NATHAN! He's lead not just us, but me and himself, through lots of dangerous situations! The Great Fire! The ambush! The Octoweapons! He was the one who made it past 'em all...except the Octomaw, but that one doesn't matter! If WE can make it through all we've done so far, then we can surely make it past the Octotron! But we can't do it without Nathan! He's the very reason we made it here! Without him, that first Ultimate Weapon would've fired and killed thousands right now long before we could get here!"
"D-Diana?!" said Smith.
"I'm going to find him! I know he's alive! And together, we will all make it through this! Whether it means finding a weapon to use or taking it on with our bare hands, we WILL succeed!"
"Wow..." said Abigail, "Those words alone make ya wanna die for the girl!"
"Makes me wanna die for Nathan!" said Cuttlefish, "And that's saying something!"
"I'd die for both 'em!" said Titan, "They're true heroes! And if you just wanna die for someone, that's true leadership!"
"Not just that," said Smith, "That's the aura of true determination!"
"I'm heading out now!" said Diana as she turned on Nathan's motorcycle, "I ain't coming back until I find him!"
"I'm heading with you!" said Titan as he jumped into his aircraft, "Gotta have some kind of protection."
"...Yeah. Alright!" Diana and Titan rushed in the direction Nathan was thrown in, reaching speeds of nearly 90 mph.
"Let's just hope they make it back in time," said Leo. Meanwhile, Nathan woke up. He looked around, but his eyesight was blurry at the moment. As his eyesight cleared up and regained focus, Nathan looked around. He show nothing in front of him expect for the Octotron headed for Inkopolis.
"No!" Nathan said. His eyesight had fully recovered. He stepped back a bit, but something made of metal against his back. He turned around to see what he had bumped into, a large metal object. He looked beyond the object to see what appeared to be more metal parts, and they seemed connected. Nathan was next to what liked kind of like a wall.
"What the-?" Nathan examined his surroundings. He noticed one especially large part, more like a chunk of metal, and climbed up onto it. With a better view, he saw what it was - a mech, an ancient mech, one that could be about 95 feet tall. "Whoa! What in the name of-!"
Nathan realized he was standing on the torso of the machine. Realizing he had just found a vital tool to defeat Octavio, he immediately took out the Power Spark, but hesitated. What would happen? Would it even work or would one of its final two charges go to waste? But despite these risks, they were some that Nathan had to take. It could mean the difference between the death of the world and victory.
Nathan raised the Power Spark skyward. Looking at the massive machine, he plunged the Spark into it. Suddenly, the machine shook a little bit. Around him, the machine's exterior slowly went from dull and cracked to shiny and new. The Spark was designing the machine as well, as it was originally built by a different race entirely nearly 12,000 years ago, and fitting it for an Inkling.
Nathan was surprised that the Power Spark had the ability to not just repair, repair, and empower machines, but also redesign them based on what the user wanted or needed the machine to do. Weapons that were like giant lethal weapons were turned into ink weapons and ink tanks were added to the back, though Nathan could not see this, and tubes were placed throughout the mech.
The cockpit in the center was shrunken to an Inkling's size, as the previous was much too big for an Inkling to work in correctly or efficiently. Once the Spark was finished, Nathan took it out and looked at the newly revived mech, astonished. "No way!" he said, "Octavio...you're about to meet your match!"
