Link unraveled the sports tape on his hands as he watched Sheik hit the punching bag with his bare hand. Link focused on his partner's hands, and wondering how they were able to take so much abuse.

"Sheik, how are you punching that thing?" Link asked, a bit too much curiosity.

"Haha, because of my Sheikah training, I can numb my hands on command." Sheik stopped punching, and walked away and wiped his sweat off, and grabbed his water bottle.

"Sometimes I forget you're from the Sheikah tribe." Link stretched his arms, making his bones create a cracking sound.

"...Dude, it's in my name." Sheik gave him a blank stare.

"I know. That's what makes this more stupidly ridiculous." Link smirked at his partner and friend. He then looked at his back. "I still don't know why you have that huge braid of hair going down to your waist."

"I live in a family known for long hair. I can't just betray the legacy, can I?"

"I guess not, anyhow, we better get back to the main floor of the HQ before we get chewed at by commander." Link said as he replaced the muscle shirt he was wearing with a normal white t-shirt, and grabbed his black denim jacket (which matched his black jeans) and whipped it onto his back.

Sheik replaced his black muscle shirt with a dark blue long sleeved shirt, and put on a black denim jacket, which also matched his black jeans, like Link. "C'mon! Let's hurry and get a new mission!" Sheik walked into the elevator, with Link trailing behind. Link tapped the button to send them to the first floor, and waited for the doors to close, and then to open.

"Hey, Commander, do you have a mission for us?" Link asked politely.

"Ah, Link and… Sheik. I have something for you to do. I need you to go to Death Mountain City. Midna will be waiting there to give you debriefing." The commander crossed his arms. "Don't forget your sunglasses, Sheik."

"Huh?" Sheik looked at his neck, where his sunglasses usually hung by a chain, and to his surprise, it wasn't there. "Oh! Uh… Hehe. I'll just go grab'em from the gym." Sheik ran into the elevator.

The commander sighed. "I'll never understand that kid… Link."

Link turned his head to face his superior. "Yes sir?"

"Keep an eye on him… and here." The commander handed him a green pendant. "Take this, Midna will explain as to why you'll need it when you get there."

"Um… Why did you hand it to me instead of Shei- Never mind." Link stopped himself since he just realized what he was about to say.

"Hey! I'm back, and I have my sunglasses." Sheik smirked.

"…Don't lose those. They hold ultimate power you will never understand." The commander's voice boomed, as the pair walked outside HQ.

"C'mon! We gotta get to Death Mountain!" Sheik said as he hurried up and rushed to the car.

"Heh, the only reason you wanna get there in a heartbeat is cuz a person there MAKES your heart beat." Link got in the car. "Did you just see that word play bro?"

"Don't act so cool, Linky. I see the way you always wanna rush over to Capital Castle City whenever we get a mission there. I only have to assume that you have somethin' going on with Princess Zelda…"

Link's hands suddenly gripped the steering wheel hard. "…Forget I even brought it up."

"Brought what up?" Sheik smirked.

"Exactly." Link smiled as he started the car and exited the parking lot. It wasn't a very long drive, maybe two minutes with Link's driving skill. They found a place to park in Death Mountain City.

Link got out the car, and saw Sheik immediately running into the deep end of the city. Link took out his phone and called up Midna. "Hey, where are you, Midna?"

"Finally. Took you guys long enough. I'm on top of the roof of the highest skyscraper here."

"Alright. I'll phone up Sheik real quick, and we'll get up to your location." Link hung up the phone, and did what he promised. Both Link and Sheik put on their sunglasses, and then suddenly, everything brightened up. Link brought his hand up to the skyscraper, and closed his eyes. He imagined himself on the building, and muttered the word: "Teleport…" And suddenly he teleported next to Midna, with Sheik not far behind.

"Cool, you guys finally made it." Midna smirked.

"Sorry, Linky and I were working out." Sheik smiled.

"Sure. I totally believe you. Anyways, I assume the commander already told you that I would debrief you, right?" Midna sighed as she already knew the answer.

"Yup. So, what's going on?" Link asked.

"One quick to action, as if I would assume otherwise from you, Green boy." Midna smirked at Link as he blushed. "Okay, we've located the criminal gang who had been dealing heavy amounts of drugs. They're hiding out here in this city."

"So we're gonna take them down?" Link readjusted his sunglasses.

"Yup. We can approach two ways. We could go inside the volcano and scale down from the inside down to their base that is under the ground and take'em by surprise, or, we could go in hard and tough through the secret entrance in the diner a few blocks away." Midna switched her view between the two partners. Her sight landed upon Link. "So, which way, Link?"

"What?! What about me?!" Sheik exclaimed.

"Sorry. I was doing Ini-Mini-Miny-moe in my head, and it stopped on Link." Midna smirked at the distraught 'hero.'

"Uh… I think we should take them by surprise. Into the mountain we go." Link decided.

"Ugh, great choice Link. Must be another one of those revelations you have, no?" Sheik said with sarcasm written all over it.

"Hurry up, you two." Midna had already teleported to the mountain's tip. Soon enough, both heroes appeared beside her. "C'mon, it'll get dangerous."


Link unhooked his harpoon from the wall first, and landed on a crevice in the wall that had boxes sitting right besides an opening to a mechanical area. He looked up the volcano and saw Sheik and Midna struggling to get down.

"How did Link do it so quick?!" Sheik exclaimed.

"How should I know?" Midna answered.

Link heard a bit of crumbling to his right. He looked towards the direction of the sound, and saw Sheik's harpoon slipping off the wall. "Sheik! Stop!"

"Huh?" Sheik muttered, just before his harpoon fell into the lava, with him following it. "AH!" Unfortunately, Sheik's legs smacked Midna and sent her flying alongside him. Somehow, Sheik ended up in her arms bridal style as they fell together. The only thing Midna could muster is to give him a straight face, just before Link grabbed her leg. Now she was dangling by her leg, holding an idiot who didn't secure his harpoon well enough.

"Well, it was nice knowing you two." Midna nonchalantly said.

"Midna, you gotta know something before we die… I love you!" Sheik yelled.

"What?!" Midna yelled in surprise, just as Link mustered up all his strength to pull both of them up.

"Whew! That was close!" Sheik said, purposely forgetting that he admitted his love.

"…Right." Midna walked ahead of him, trying to forget that thing that slipped out of his mouth earlier. "Link, you lead the way."

"Okay." He pulled out his pistol, and walked into the doorway, and saw that he was on the bottom floor of a storage house. He saw that there was a small building to his left of his cover, and saw that there was a crane to the right. And straight, was a stairway to the diner they were talking about earlier. "I see three guards to the crane, and two inside the building. Midna, you go check out the building and take out the two. Try not to kill them. Sheik, you're with me." Link gave his orders, and Midna, being one with the twili, turned into a shadow and went into one of the passing guard's shadow.

"Let's go Sheik." The two sneaked over to another cover right behind the crane. "Get your silencer on." Link twisted the silencer onto his pistol, and Sheik followed suit. "Okay, let's take them all out, alright?"

Sheik looked over Link's shoulder. "Wait, a few guards might see us them out."

"Hm?" Link looked to the same location. "Good eye… Any plans?"

"I thought Midna made you leader…" Sheik turned away.

"Don't gimme that crap Sheik. You always have a plan."

"…Your right. I'll go invisible with my training and take out those guys over there while you take out these guys, got it?"

"Yeah. Ready… Go!"

"Wait on my signal!" Sheik whispered as he went invisible and he ran over to the other guards. One of the guards fell over violently.

"Knowing him, that has to be the signal." Link raised from his cover and shot each of the guards in his way in the leg, and then quickly knocked them out as they fell to one knee. He looked over at Sheik, and saw that he was perfectly fine. Link then looked at the small building, and saw Midna kick the leader out of the door.

"Even faced by people like us, you still try to make a move on me. That's just like you, Vaati." Midna held her foot on Vaati's neck.

"Hehe, saying that is just like you, beautiful." Vaati smirked, annoying the hell out of Midna. Vaati grabbed her leg, and flipped his attacker backwards, allowing him to make an escape out of the diner. Sheik quickly blocked him from exiting, and tried to attack him, but every blow he threw at him, Vaati grabbed his foot or fist. Getting tired of this game, Vaati backed away and ran towards the crane.

Link took notice and tried to block his path, but, with Link being a normal Hylian, and Vaati being some sort of superhuman, he barely tapped Link with his arm, yet still sent him flying. "Weakling." Vaati ran up the arm of the crane hoping to gain enough height to take out Sheik from such a height.

Link, being sore from Vaati's strength, just laid there against the wall, tired. But pulling up all of his man pride together, he got up, and followed Vaati up the arm of the crane. "V-Vaati! Don't t-try to escape!" Link point his gun at Vaati, but he couldn't keep his aim straight, still being sore.

"Silly life form. You think you can take me down?" Vaati merely walked towards him slowly. "Put the gun down and walk away, and I'll let you go. If you choose otherwise…"

"You'll try and kill me, right?" Link looked Vaati straight in the eye. Vaati seeing a flame building in his opponents eyes, he decided to end this poor boy's dreams. He sent his arm towards Link's stomach, but to his surprise, Link stepped back to dodge it.

"Hmph. You have sealed your fate, boy."

"Heh, bring it on!" Link threw his gun to the floor and then rammed Vaati, holding him in a rugby tackle. Link ran so far with Vaati in his arms, as Vaati tried to escape from Link's arms. As they both reached the peak of the crane, Link jumped off and made sure that Vaati was below him, with his elbow at his opponent's chest. Midna and Sheik screamed at Link's plan, and soon, both Link and Vaati landed on the floor with a loud thud.

"Ugh…" Vaati groaned in pain, and tried picking himself up, and noticed that he couldn't. Vaati touched his chest and felt quite the dip in his chest, and he figured that his ribs were broken.

Link picked himself up from Vaati and walked away, falling into the arms of both Sheik and Midna. "Link!" They yelled his name.

"…How did I do…?" Link mumbled.

"…I seemed to underestimate you, you stupid Hylian!" Vaati got up quickly, and so did Link. He ran at Link, then, Link turned around and punched Vaati in the face, knocking him out.

"Nice job Link!" Midna praised him, but he didn't respond. "…Link?" His limp body fell down, unconscious.

"…Link!..." He heard their voice echo away as he fell into sleep. A needed rest.