Splat Force II: Allegiance; Chapter 10

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W E L C O M E ! ! !

This is Nomad! I'm here with the last chapter of the first half of Splat Force II: Allegiance!

It is hard to believe that I'm already halfway through this story, it's all gone by so fast! Thank you all for the continuous over these past ten weeks!

The overall plot of the story will be advancing in this story as the two storylines (The Splat Force and Bolton's) are going to clash in this one.

So without further ado, let's get into this!

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C H A P T E R 1 0 : F A K E R E L A T I O N S

Like any other day, Inkopolis Mall was filled with excitement and just an overall positive atmosphere. The area was massive with multiple floors, many restaurants, clothing shops, arcades. This place had it all. It was like nothing could go wrong...except something did go wrong.

In the centre of the mall, a flame portal was formed. Shortly after, Bolton emerged, followed by both Led and Melissa. The flame portal closed behind him. His very presence caused many to scream in fear and run away from the area.

"You two stay on guard, I'll only be a few minutes."

He instructed as he walked to his left towards a small library.

When Bolton was gone, Led turned to face Melissa and saw her looking rather uneasy.

"Focus! There is no going back now!"

He exclaimed. This only made Melissa feel even more uneasy.

M E A N W H I L E W I T H T H E S P L A T F O R C E . . .

Both Alyssa and Drift raced into the warehouse and began to put on their own respective Splat Force gear as quickly as they could. Time was of the essence.

"Bolton has just been spotted at Inkopolis Mall, Drift. We need to get there as soon as possible!"

Alyssa told him.

Drift gasped and a worried expression landed on his face.

"Bolton..."

He whispered. This would've been the first time he had seen him since the incident at the Once Great Symbol. He armed himself with several Splat Bombs and a Splattershot.

"I'm ready!"

Alyssa nodded at him. The two of them ran out of the warehouse and entered their Squid and Octo forms and super jumped away.

2 M I N U T E S L A T E R . . .

Both of them landed outside of the Mall. Without any hesitation, they both ran inside the huge building. It was tough trying to get through the screaming crowds that ran in the opposite direction to them but eventually, they made it past them and entered the centre.

The only two in the centre was Led and Melissa. Strangely enough, Bolton was nowhere to be seen, which surprised the pair of them since surely he must've been here in order to cause that bad of a reaction from the crowd of people that had just run away screaming.

Alyssa got out two Splat Bombs and pushed a button, making them grow into their actual size and threw them towards the two of them. Led was unable to detect them but the same couldn't be said for Melissa.

"Behind you!"

She called out. Led quickly turned around and saw two Splat Bombs heading their way.

Z A P ! ! !

Without a moment to lose, Led shot at the two Bombs using electricity from his hands. The lightning managed to hit both of the Bombs.

B O O M , B O O M ! ! !

Both of the Splat Bombs were detonated within a split second of the lightning making .

"Did you really think that trick was going to work again!"

Led yelled as his fists began to charge with electricity.

"You don't want to be a part of this!"

Alyssa told him. She was clearly showing her optimism.

"I've been following him for two years. Of course, I would want to be a part of the great salvation!"

He yelled as he stroke once more. Neither Alyssa nor Drift were harmed. The two ran towards them, engaging the battle. Melissa had mysteriously disappeared after the attack from Led.

Led tried to strike at Alyssa once more but his shot was blocked by Alyssa using her energy to create a small barrier that blocked Led's lightning until he couldn't shoot at her anymore.

B A N G , B A N G , B A N G ! ! !

Drift open fired at Led using his Splattershot. Unfortunately for him, Led deflected shots with electricity. He then zapped the Splattershot out of Drift's hands and began to charge up another attack.

Z A P ! ! !

Lightning was struck at Drift, hitting his chest which was protected by his Splat Force gears resistance. However, the impact knocked him a few feet away from him.

Drift barely managed to land on his feet, which was already challenging for him due to the pain the impact had caused. He grunted in pain and took out two Splat Bombs from his pockets. However, before he even had a chance to activate them, Melissa reappeared on the scene and snuck up behind him. She stood behind him and placed two fingers on his forehead.

Drift gasped out in shock and got on his knees. Everything went black. Not long after, everything started to light up again. But things were different. Was he dreaming?

I N D R I F T ' S V I S I O N S ' . . .

Drift sat in a small, squared room with a chrome floor and white walls. There was one window with its light entering the room between the gaps on the blue blinds. He sat on a silver chair next to a bed. On the bed rested his mother.

All of a sudden, she woke up and started to breathe heavily.

"Mom! Thank cod you are awake!"

He exclaimed as he gasped in shock and sighed in relief.

"M-My beautiful s-son..."

She whispered. Her voice was collapsing and sounded croaky.

"Y-Your dad c-came earlier. H-He was sad b-because I'm..."

Just as she mentioned his father, she started to cry.

"Mom, it's okay! I-I'm here!"

He assured her as he too started to stumble.

"D-Drift...I-l...l-lo-"

She muttered before the struggle of breathing started once again. Shortly afterwards, she stopped moving.

"Mom...M-Mom...MOM!"

Drift yelled in panic as her eyes closed.

"Mom..."

As he heard was a long, dragged on beep. It was then he knew that she was gone. He quickly burst into tears and hid his faces in her blankets. Everything suddenly cut to black.

A few seconds later, another vision had begun. This time he was back at the Rainmaker Temple. Drift fired at Bolton with a Splatterscope but to no prevail duo to his blade deflecting every attack.

"Drift you need to leave. Now!"

His father begged. This alarmed Drift as this sounded strange to him.

"Dad, I'm not leaving without you!"

He replied. Little did he know that what he said was unfortunately not going to happen.

"If that's the case then I guess you aren't leaving at all!"

Frederick replied to him. All the firing in the room stopped. Bolton stood still and watched.

"W-What?!"

Drift asked as he walked down the stairs to his father.

"I'm not leaving, you have to leave. You need to live out your life! You have to right all the wrongs I have made!"

Frederick said to him in a normal tone of voice.

"No! No, no, no, please no!"

Drift said to his father. He couldn't take it, he knew right there what was going to happen.

"If I keep running away, he'll keep coming after us. And eventually, you will either get badly hurt or die! You have to leave!"

Frederick said softly. He knew that Drift wouldn't take this lightly.

"No Dad! Please...DON'T GO!"

Drift begged as he burst into tears.

Frederick didn't say anything. He wrapped his arms around Drift and gave him one last hug. His son cried into his arms.

"I love you...Son."

He whispered as he gets a syringe from his pocket and injects Drift with it, putting him to sleep. Everything went black once more.

A few seconds later, one last vision started. This one was different from the other two that he had endured. He was crying in a small crib with another baby. Sounds of battle were heard: gunfire, explosions, screaming, crying.

An Inkling with dark hair and green highlights stood over the crib. She too was crying.

"M-My beautiful babies...I-I love you s-so much...Your father d-does too...I-I don't know how long this will l-last but, I'll do what it takes to make sure that you are s-safe, my babies!"

She muttered with a large sense of fear and sadness in her voice. Instead of turning black like the other visions, this one ended suddenly as the walls of water looked like a stone house was blown apart...

B O O M ! ! !

B A C K I N R E A L I T Y . . .

Drift fell forward, both hands managed to save him from flopping to the ground. Melissa looked down at Drift and started to feel bad about what she had just done. She quickly backed from him.

"Drift!"

Alyssa called out. She was slowly being overpowered by Led. Her attention went back to Led, who was about to break through her barrier and attack.

She focused all of her power onto the barrier. Suddenly, her eyes started to glow a light blue. She kept one hand focused on the barrier, which only got weaker. Just as the barrier was broken through, Alyssa screamed as she used her right hand to blast a beam at Led, knocking him back. He groaned in pain and started to feel a little intimidated by that power.

Alyssa knew that she had to calm herself down, otherwise who knows what would happen to her. She closed her eyes and took in several deep breaths before opening her eyes, now back to normal.

W H O O S H ! ! !

A blade raced past Alyssa's face, only barely missing her. She had time to feel the heat of it her. Just as the blade was mere seconds away from hitting Drift, it stopped in its tracks and flew back to where it came from, Bolton's grasp.

Alyssa turned to her right and saw him emerge, holding a book.

"I'm impressed, Alyssa. But Led Volteer and Melissa Sabrina were only a distraction!"

He told her. Led slowly got back up and ran over to Bolton, Melissa also walked towards him.

Bolton opened up a flame portal and gave Melissa the book. She looked back at Drift and Alyssa, her face filled with guilt as she walked through, followed by Led as it closed behind him.

"You turned them into criminals, Bolton! Did you not see the look on her face?"

Alyssa asked, thinking back to Melissa's face.

"They chose this life. They knew that the quest for salvation was the one worth fighting for. All they want is to live a normal life. I am giving them an opportunity to change things. Why can't you see that?!"

Bolton yelled as he charged at Alyssa, starting yet another fight. Drift still felt powerless from the visions' that he had received.

M E A N W H I L E W I T H R E X . . .

Rex sat in the living room watching the news footage of the fight from the perspective of a new helicopter. He knew that if someone didn't go down and help then his wife could die.

He thought heavily to himself. He knew what the cost of it would be if he did what he thought of doing but he also knew what would happen if he didn't do it, it was something that he could never possibly live with.

He got up from the sofa and rushed up the stairs, turned left and entered his and Alyssa's room. He got on the ground and looked under the bed and grabbed a rectangular brown box. He placed it on his bed and opened it. Inside was his old Splat Force gear, two unused Splat Bombs and his old N-Zap.

B A C K A T I N K O P O L I S M A L L . . .

Bolton swiped his blade at Alyssa several times but only barely missing. She was incredibly fast on her feet. His open hand ignited with flames and blasted a fireball at her. It hit her stomach and knocked her to the ground.

She groaned at the pain that the fireball and given her before she looked up to see Bolton about to attack with his blade. In a flash, she fired two beams at Bolton with both fists only for him to block them with his blade. She knew that firing at the blade wouldn't do anything so she lowered her left arm and fire at Bolton's occupied hand and forced the blade out of his hand. This caused him to be knocked back by the beam from her right arm.

Alyssa got out two more Splat Bombs and threw them at him. Quickly managing to shrug off the pain, Bolton formed a flame barrier with both hands to block the two Splat Bombs.

B O O M , B O O M ! ! !

Bolton was quick to realize that they were only a distraction. Alyssa ran towards him, both fists glowing with light blue energy. She threw her fist forward at his face...He grabbed the fist and burned it.

"AH!"

She yelped as she forced her fist out of Bolton's grasp.

He stood back up and got on Alyssa's level, both of his fists were being consumed with flames. He clenched both of them before he threw his right fist at Alyssa's face.

S L A M ! ! !

The impact of the punch caused her to spit out blood. She fell to the ground and tried desperately to take in the immense pain. She slowly managed to get back on her knees and back on her feet. This didn't stop Bolton from landing several more hits on her.

S L A M , S L A M , S L A M ! ! !

S L A M , S L A M , S L A M ! ! !

He repeatedly punched her stomach. Each punch was dealing more and more damage than the last and they were too fast to try and block. Alyssa fell to her knees and was almost in tears by the pain. Nevertheless, she stayed strong.

S L A M ! ! !

Bolton managed to uppercut her. She was sent flying in the air and back on the ground a few feet away. Drift saw all of this from afar and finally found enough willpower to stand up and run at him. Bolton took notice of Drift and sighed.

S L A M ! ! !

Drift and backhanded away from them. With him out of the way, Bolton raised his open hand and his blade flew back into his grasp. He stood over Alyssa about to deal the finishing blow until...

S M A S H ! ! !

B A N G , B A N G , B A N G ! ! !

An Inkling came crashing through the glass ceiling and started to open fire against Bolton. Although none of the shots did any real damage to him, they managed to stop him from killing Alyssa.

The Inkling landed a few feet away from them. It was none other than Rex Allen himself, wearing his Splat Force gear.

"Enough, Bolton! this ends now!"

"Rex Allen, after all this time you finally come out of your shell."

He said to him.

Rex didn't feel opposed

"I should've come out a long time ago."

"Yes you should've."

Bolton said as he started to walk over to him.

"If it wasn't for you cowering away maybe Frederick Evans would still be alive!"

As soon as he said that, Rex started to feel angry with Bolton mentioning Frederick in vain.

"You have no right to bring Fred up-"

"And you didn't have any right to live the simple life when Frederick was still alive. Because of your absence, your friend died."

He said in a mocking tone. He wasn't wrong, however.

"Shut up!"

Rex yelled. He felt angry at not just Bolton but also himself.

"Not just Frederick. Henry Spense as well, and all those men who died when going after me because you weren't there to order them that night."

Bolton remarked.

"If you were there throughout any of those moments then maybe, just maybe they would still be alive. But no, all you wanted was to play famil-"

Rex clenched his fists tight, holding on to the Splat Bombs in his hands.

"Shut up, shut up...SHUT UP!"

He yelled as he threw the Bombs at him.

B O O M , B O O M ! ! !

Bolton barely managed to block the attack. It knocked him off guard. Rex charged towards him and threw his fists at his face.

S L A M , S L A M , S L A M ! ! !

Bolton was hit by attacks but managed to take them well, after all, they were nowhere knew as strong as his or Alyssa's. Rex then pulled out his N-Zap once more and aimed it at Bolton's head.

B A N G , B A N G , B A N G ! ! !

Bolton quickly managed to block the attack surprisingly fast considering that he was getting punched a few seconds ago. He slowly approached Rex and slashed the weapon out of his hand.

S L I C E ! ! !

"ARGH!"

Rex yelped as his arm was cut by the tip of Bolton's blade. Rex fell on his knees and held his arm tightly to stop the bleeding.

Bolton took advantage of this and kicked him to the ground. It all went as Bolton predicted it would go, he knew that Rex would react the way he did and he knew that his rage would lead to his downfall.

"Pathetic..."

He whispered as he raised the blade, about to deal the final blow.

"NO!"

Drift yelled as he stood up. Both of his fists ignited with flames and blasted at Bolton.

Instead of a simple fireball, it was a flame thrower. Bolton tried to block the attack but unfortunately for him, he didn't see the attack coming. He was hit and knocked back.

After the attack had ended, Bolton quickly stood back up. For the first time in a while, he was shocked. Drift stared back at Bolton, his hair and eyes now slowly becoming redder than they did before.

"I-It can't be..."

Bolton whispered to himself. He looked Drift in his eyes before forming a flame portal and leaving the area.

Drift was concerned after seeing Bolton's shocked expression. He knew something wasn't right: he had never acted like this before, from all the times they've seen each other that is.

He turned around and ran towards Alyssa and helped her up.

"Thank you...Gah!"

She whispered before groaning out in pain.

"I'm okay, just in a lot of pain, that's all!"

The two walk over to Rex and help him. He seemed uneasy.

"He's right...About Fred..."

"No, no, no! Not this song again!"

Alyssa exclaimed as she walked closer to him.

"He's right tho...Fred would still be with us if I had just..."

He whispered on the verge of tears. Alyssa wrapped her arms around him and hugged him tightly.

"Alyssa..."

"It's not your fault about what happened to Frederick, it was Bolton's: he was the one who killed him, not you!"

She assured him as she pulled out of the hug and gave him a small kiss.

"The important thing is that you've come out now, Frederick would be proud!"

Rex closed his eyes and breathed in and out before looking back at his wife.

"Thank you, Alyssa."

He whispered. Alyssa smiled back at him. Rex quickly took one notice of Drift.

"And thank you for saving my life."

Drift nodded at him and gave him a small smile. This smile was also used to hide his feels ing his gifts in public again.

"We should probably head to your place. Can I stay over for the night?"

"Of course you can!"

Alyssa said with a smile and a wink. The three of them went into their Squid and Octo forms super jumped away.

L A T E R A T N I G H T . . .

It was nine o'clock at night, Platinum was already in her room, leaving the adults in the kitchen and Drift and Ami outside in the garden.

"How's your nose doing, darling?"

Rex asked.

"It's stopped bleeding finally!"

She said in a more joyful tone of voice.

"It still aches but it's better than how it was during the fight. How are you doing?"

"I'm feeling odd."

He answered and sighed.

"Now that the world knows I'm alive, everything is going to change for us. For me, for you and even Platinum. I can't imagine how it would be for her to go to school every day and have someone ask her about me..."

"Well people at College are aware of Drift's heritage and they haven't caused him enough trouble so I'm hoping the same could be said for Platinum."

She assured him as she put the tissues in the bin.

"I know but...Drift's disguise name was Drift Tanner and people would've been used to it before College."

Rex replied. He sounded incredibly worried.

"Same with Platinum but instead of using her double-barrel name she just uses my surname."

She said to him as she placed her none injured hand on his shoulder.

"Rex, Platinum will be fine, I promise!"

Rex sighed in both stress and a tiny bit of relief. He ired his wife's optimistic outlook but still had his own worries.

"Thanks, Alyssa...I guess I needed that."

He muttered. The two smiled at each other before kissing each other on the lips.

Meanwhile, both Drift and Ami were outside stargazing.

"So you said Bolton had a book?"

"Yeah he did until he gave it to that Inkling who looked frightened to be with him."

Drift answered.

"I don't know what his plans have to do with a language book but then again, it is Bolton we are talking about."

Ami gave Drift a concerned look.

"Wait, you said something about a scared Inkling?"

She asked.

"Yeah...She looked like she was with him out of fear. Then again she put me through mental torture. I think it was her anyway."

He said with a shiver down his back.

"Mental torture?!"

She said with a nervous sounding voice.

"When she made with my head I had three visions. My first was my mother's death, my second was my father's dad and my last...I don't know what my last one was about but from how it ended, I don't think it was a good one either..."

He muttered. He sounded nervous and sad about the visions.

"I'm sorry you had to relive that!"

Ami exclaimed as she quickly pulled him in for a hug to comfort him.

"Thanks, Ami! I'm so glad that I have you to rely on!"

Drift said as the two cuddled.

"Hey Drift! Can I quickly tell you something?"

Rex asked as he walked out into the garden.

"Uh, sure!"

He replied.

"Fred's old house has just been sold a few hours ago and they are doing storage clean ups tomorrow and Friday. I suggest maybe going over and seeing if there is anything that you would want to take for yourself. How does that sound?"

He asked. Rex knew how much the house must've meant to Drift and he knew that there must've been one or two things that he would've wanted to keep.

"Oh...right."

Drift whispered to himself. He felt sad that the house was going but he knew that it was inevitably going to happen.

"Alright then, I'll go! I'll be back in a minute!"

Drift stood up and super jumped away from the house and towards his old home, leaving Rex and Ami behind in the garden.

5 M I N U T E S L A T E R . . .

Drift landed in front of his father's old bungalow house. He looked at the front of it and took a deep breath as he started to reminisce about his childhood and the time spent with both of his parents, which was what he needed after what happened at Inkopolis Mall.

After almost half a minute of reminiscing, Drift finally entered the house and started to walk around the place. He first looked in the living room and thought back to all the shows and movies that he and his father used to watch. He smiled at the nostalgic feeling. He began to look in every drawer that was in the room to see if there was anything that he could take with him. For the most part, there was nothing that intrigued him: only school equipment and lose sheets of paper.

He walked out of the living room and into the kitchen and thought back to all the songs that his mother would play whilst she was cooking. He smiled again at the nostalgic feeling. As he did with the living room, he looked in each drawer and cupboard to see if there was anything worthwhile. All he found was old cooking equipment and a recipe book. Drift gladly took the book with him, even though he already had one back at his apartment.

He then made one last stop to his parent's old bedroom. He didn't find much use in his old room because everything from that room was now in his apartment. In his parent's room, he checked both drawers and although his mothers didn't have anything useful, his fathers contained a letter which had his name on it.

He gazed at the letter in both shock and confusion. He wondered why he wasn't ever given the letter. He hesitantly opened up the letter and pulled out an old sheet of paper. The date of the letter went all the way back to when he was four:

'Dear Drift,

I know that you are too young to understand what any of this means, which is why I'm saving it until your old enough to know. I want you to promise me that whatever happens, you'll always be my boy.

-Dad'

Drift almost teared up reading the letter, could you blame him? It was the first time Drift had found anything from his father that he hadn't seen before.

He felt something else in the envelope, he pulled it out to see a small key. His eyes widened at a realisation. He ed that the bottom drawer was always locked and had a keyhole. He looked at the key and then looked back at the keyhole before placing the key in and turned it sideways.

He slowly opened up the drawer and saw a certificate. It was too dark to read what it said. He took the certificate out of the drawer and turned on a light and was left shocked and in disbelief.

'Certificate of Adoption:

This is to clarify that:

Drift Evans

Has been formally adopted by:

Frederick Evans, Abbie Evans'

T O B E C O N T I N U E D . . .

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T H X F O R R E A D I N G ! ! !

Thx for reading this chapter of Splat Force II: Allegiance! What an ending that was folks, I guess the time for possible theories and predictions has officially begun! We've now reached mid-story folks. There won't be a chapter next week but instead, it'll be like what I had last year (except it's gonna be slightly different than what it was). I promise that the remaining ten chapters will be as thrilling and as impactful as the first ten, so stay tuned for that! Until next time, stay safe out there! ^^

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