AN: I noticed that there was a lack of ZeldaXSnake so I decided to help boost the count.

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Chapter 1

They say appearance isn't everything and I have a firm belief in that saying. However 'they' tend to say a lot of things and sometimes these things that 'they' say aren't correct. So when I first saw the subspace army I thought 'stupid' and as usual, I was correct.

The primids were idiots.

It is well known that I'm a very powerful mage and that I'm very capable of using the powerful magic that I have. It also well known –particularly throughout Hyrule- that if you have a mage and you have captured said mage then you want their cell to be nothing less than completely magic proof. As in they can not use their magic however hard they try.

It's amazing what a mage can do when they have the magic, the skill and the will to do something, like escaping a cell.

So as soon as I woke up in a lone cell in the middle of a particularly metal hallway I figured escaping was a decent idea. So as I was a mage with the magic, the skill and the will to do something, I simply escaped my cell by teleporting to the other side of the bars. I hate it when magic makes everything too easy. Then again I love it when it also allows me to easily escape my prisons.

Once on the other side of my cage I made a snap decision and went left. I continued walking down that hall until I met up with a lone primid. I stared at it and it stared at me. Raising a brown eye brow I approached it until I stood a few feet a way.

Clenching my hand into a fist I enveloped it in flames. Then I punched the primid, it went flying away in a fit of arms legs and those black bugs they leak out. That was easy. I unclench my fist and the flames instantly put themselves out.

I continued on my way down the halls lightly whistling a random tune. All the while I was shedding unnecessary articles of clothing from my torn, muddied and otherwise ruined dress. They only got in the way. I continued doing this until I was only in my shift.

I checked the length it reached just below my knees and the sleeves were elbow length. Happy with that I continued on.

Whether the primids were on a patrol or if they came to check out to see exactly where their buddy went I met up with two more of the ugly critters. I raised an impatient eyebrow as they both charged at me.

Grabbing one around the throat I electrocuted it and threw it at its friend. primid 2 went down underneath the weight of primid 1. I cupped my hands over my mouth and exhaled. Freezing the water vapor that I breathed out I froze primid 1 and 2 into a primid shaped ice-cube. I then punted the primid Popsicle against the wall shattering it into a million tiny little pieces. I smiled, that was way too easy.

I continued on and it took me a few minutes to admit it but I was completely lost. I frowned as I made it to a cross road in the halls. In a moment of true wisdom I decided left was the way to go.

Left turned out to not be the way to go. As I ran smack dab into a trap of at least ten primids.

"Oh, uh," I muttered.

Din's fire formed in my hands and quickly I released it to burn the primid's. As one attempted to punch me I gripped it's wrist and in quick movement I snapped it's arm like a twig. Electrocuted sparkles shone around my hand as twirled to halt the attack of three more primids.

Large hands grabbed my wrist and I twisted it to break the grip as I turned and shoved the heel of my hand underneath the primid that had grabbed me chin. Forcing the head back I used a quick strike to the chest to kill it. I leapt back and breathed in deeply.

Stretching out my arms I continued on my way and was very disappointed when my hall led to a dead end. Well it wasn't really a dead end –I'm sure the end was living a very happy life in fact- but there was a door and that door happened to be locked.

I really didn't feel like walking all the way back so I had to figure out a way to unlock the door. I didn't see any key hole so I couldn't pick it, even if I had something to pick it with. I bit my lip and thought for a moment, I have an idea.

Clasping my hands together I leaned back on one foot, and then slowly I drew my hands to my side. Breathing in deeply, I threw my hands forward twisting them so the palms hit the door, while I exhaled quickly.

The door was knocked off it's first two hinges and dangled precariously on the bottom. I very carefully stretched out my hand and pushed the door open, only for it to fall flat down with a loud 'whumph'. So much for a quite entrance. Stepping around the door I entered the room and was severely disappointed to discover it was empty.

Except... for a cardboard box, I scowled at the box and seriously considered punting it across the room in my frustration until I remembered that the box has done nothing to me. So I ignored the box and looked for a way to get out of this room without having to go back the way I came. I found none and decided that I would indeed have to back. All the energy to 'unlock' the door for nothing.

I scowled at the box again "I bet this your fault."

As it was indeed a box it didn't reply to my accusation. I sighed and left the room.

Back at the hall intersection I decided that right was actually the way to go. Right, did turn out to be the way to go as I didn't run into anymore primids and I even ran into some stairs.

I walked up to the top of the stairs and opened the door at the top. I blinked against the bright light as I stepped outside. I now knew about where I was.

I was on the outside of a large flying ship. And it gets better, I know this ship as I've been on it before with Kirby. We landed on it after we had flown away from the stadium after the subspace bomb blew it up.

The ships was huge and it flew by even bigger bat like wings. The front of the ship had a large metal mask that seemed to serve no purpose than as aesthetics. I wondered if the ship flew by use of magic or by some science that Samus could explain to me, and I still wouldn't understand. But what concerned me most was the huge red clouds that surrounded it, the clouds did not look like a good sign.

A strong wind fluttered the edges of my shift. I looked around the deck of the ship and then I headed towards the middle of it. Standing there I wondered just what I should do, I doubted I could get from the ground from here as the ship was quite a distance in the air and I highly doubted I could find a friendly face here on this primid infested ship. Perhaps I should find some place to hide and wait for them to land, I can't fight primids forever.

A small movement at the corner of my eye caught my attention and I turned to see a large group of primids come from the same stair case I did. I bet they were looking for me and -as I had serious doubts about their intelligence- had lucked out.

I scowled at the primids. I couldn't even count how many there were but there was definitely a lot. In one hand I formed a ball of lightning and in the other a ball of fire. I shot the lightning at a large group of primids and fire at another. I spun and slammed the side of my hand into a head of a primid.

There's so many! I growled and roundhouse kicked a fire primid. Nayru's love created a diamond around me deflecting several hits and I then made the diamond explode around me killing many of the primids closest to me. Faore's wind wrapped itself around my body and I teleported away from the thickest of the primids. It took the primids a few seconds for them to figure out where I was and then finally continue their attack. Din's fire floated away from my fingers and exploded in the thick of the primids catching almost all of them on fire. The final few were defeated by a quick burst of lightning.

I exhaled and inhaled deeply cooling down my mind and body. I smiled at the remains of the primids.

I really should-

WHACK!

Something yellow ran head long into my face and an extreme pain ran into the left side of my skull. I fell to the ground and as the last bits of my consciousness whisked away the last thing I remember seeing was a boomerang primid receiving his yellow boomerang.

Oops, I forgot one…

"Zelda! Wake up!"

You know those unusually high voices that grate against your ears? The kinds that you just want to I don't know… strangle? Well Peach has one of those voices when she tries to go anywhere above 80 decibels. And she was currently fast approaching 85. Hyrulians have really sensitive ears, I should tell you.

I groaned and tried to speak but something blocked that, a cloth. They gagged me and cuffed. Apparently the primids were smarter than they looked and had this time magic proofed my cell, which by the way was hanging ten feet in the air. Not to mention this huge knot sitting on the side of my head.

Peach who was in a similar situation –except not bound or gagged- held the bars of her cage and looked across at me worriedly, "Zelda, are you alright?"

In capable of speech I just nodded as I sat up. The entire left side of my head felt like hell and I could almost feel the large bump forming. She sighed in relief "I was worried when they put me in this cage and you weren't here. "They brought you in unconscious, what happened?"

I just cocked my head to the side and gave her an angry look.

"Ah, gotcha," she giggled. "Silly, me. Were you knocked out?"

No shit I thought and did my best to convey the thought through my body language. Peach giggled again, how can she stay so happy?

I laid back down pressing my left side of my head into the floor cool. It hurt, a lot. Coupled with the constant suppression on my magic I felt like a piece of crap.

"All you alright, Zel?" Peach asked trying hard to appear across the gap that separated our cages. I did my best to give her a thumbs up so she didn't worry too much.

I rolled over on my back and then quickly revised that so I was leaning against the bars of the cage. I thought slowly and methodically to try to figure out a way to get us out of here.

I looked over at Peach, she wouldn't be much of a help. The cage wouldn't let me use my magic, so that was a moot option. With the cuffs on I couldn't pick the lock, even if I had something to pick the lock anyway. In my anger I kicked a bar of the cage and my sudden movement caused it to swing in the air by it's chain, disorienting me. I heard Peach giggle.

Well, this is just great. How am I supposed to get out of here?

The door to the room unlocked and Peach turned in her cage, her dress swirling with her. I felt a moment of apprehension, her dress was almost clean! While I stamped out my stupid jealousy I very carefully -so as not to swing the cage again- turned to look. There were three people standing in the door way and I don't think they were primids of any sort.

Well, they didn't look like primids. But you know primids they come in all shapes, colors and sizes. Although I highly doubted these people were apart of the subspace army as one of them was actually human (another human!) and I don't think they're recruiting humans, yet. But the other two…

One was a giant ball that had a mask, a cape, a sword, shoes and gloves. He kind of reminded me of Kirby, except a dark blue, and he wore clothes.

The other looked like a bipedal blue dog that seemed to have an aura of calm around him. But in the aura I could sense a very strong magical power that rivaled my own. And then there was the human.

He was maybe six feet tall? He had brown hair, blue eyes and he was actually rather handsome. However the presence of a beard told me he didn't know how to properly wield a razor blade, or chose not to. Years in experience in reading people told me he was the one in charge and he was the one to pay attention to. However, the skin tight clothes he wore made me wonder if he had any weapons on him other than the pistol on his thigh, and if so, where?

Out of our cages came those dark bugs that made up the subspace army. They made shadow duplicates of me and Peach, and then proceeded to attack the ball, the dog and the man.

Oh crap, not again I thought as I began to turn into a trophy.

I've been blacking out a lot here recently. I'm sure the number of times I've been knocked out is going to affect my mental health and stability. In fact it may be a wise (hey! I have the triforce of wisdom, imagine that…) decision to avoid being knocked out. Just thinking out loud here, don't mind me. No really don't mind me. See, insanity!

I blinked as reality hit me. The door to my cage was open and on the ground. I couldn't see Peach but the man and the blue dog stared at me as I carefully removed myself from the cage. I stumbled and the man kindly placed a hand on my arm, steadying me.

I stepped away from him as my magic returned. I shattered my hand cuffs in a powerful blast of magical energy. Removing my gag I happily breathed in fresher air.

"I didn't know you could do that," Peach said. "Why didn't you use that on your cage?"

"It suppressed my magic," I said. "And it was a boomerang."

"That's what knocked you out?" She asked, "How did that happen?"

"Yes, I um, forget one."

I turned to the rescuers "Thank you for saving us, my name is Zelda and this Peach" I said and then muttered to myself "I was actually doing pretty good until that damn boomerang…"

"Snake, he's Meta Knight and that's Lucario," the man said pointing to each of the respective person, he then turned to his comrades. "We need to keep on moving."

"Yes" the masked ball agreed.

The dog and the masked ball left but Snake turned back to us and motioned with two fingers at us "Stay."

He then left.

Peach looked at me and I looked at Peach.

"So a boomerang, huh?" She smirked.

"Shut up." I muttered crossing my arms and against my will my lips twisted into a pout.

Peach laughed, "I love you too, Zellie."

Peach walked over to the side of the room and sat down "So how long should we wait?"

I looked at her and smiled. "About eight more seconds."

Peach cocked her head to the side, "What do you mean?"

I smiled and began wrapping myself in a white colored magic. I changed my hair color to blond, my eyes to a bright red and darkened my pale skin to a light tan. My clothes warped around me and changed to a tight jump suit. The ability to place on the mask of Sheik is passed down generation to generation to the oldest child.

Sheik is a mask that I wear, it doesn't have a gender as some would assume, I do however.

As the magic died off around me, Peach's eyes widened, "Zelda?"

"Don't worry" I said lowering the cowl "It's me. I've just changed my appearance for simplicities sake and the weapons."

"Oh!" Peach said. "You had me worried there! What now?"

"We leave," I said pointing at the door. "I'm not sighting here like a good girl, never really was one."

"But Snake told us to stay," Peach said lightly twisting her hands together. "I think we should do as he says."

"If you think I'm going to sit here and wait for some man who I barely know to come back" I said "Think again. I am twenty-one years old and I am perfectly capable of taking care of myself, Peach. you can stay here but something is going on out there and I need to know what. And they probably know more then we do. I should not have left them left, but I did. Are you coming."

"I'm going with you" Peach said "But if you get us killed I'm going to kill you."

I laughed as we stepped out into the hall. I thought hard for a moment which way should we go?

"This way!" Peach sang-song pointing with her umbrella, while smiling happily and then began walking to the right. And to believe she was hesitating earlier!

I obediently followed; I lost trust in my navigational abilities when I found a room with a cardboard box in it. I had to admit it was a very nice looking cardboard box, for a cardboard box at least.

Peach led me down the halls to a metal door she then smacked a button beside the door and it opened to reveal a sky full of the red clouds. I peered out the door, "How did you know this was here?"

"I didn't" she said."I just guessed."

"So you just pressed a random button without even knowing what it did?" I asked, "That's probably one of the smartest things you've ever done."

"Really! Thanks Zel." She smiled, "Hey, we can go across those guns."

Sarcasm just flies over that girl's head.

I peered farther out the door, several guns went across the side of the ships. There were large boxes that encased the guns and before I could object Peach leaped out the ship and onto the first gun. Without looking down at the long, long fall I followed Peach across the guns, where does she get these ideas?

We ended up on the same deck where I had the dual with the primids, and lost to a boomerang primid. There was no sign of Snake and co. and I was afraid this was all for nothing. Why didn't I stop them from leaving? The first three friendly faces other than Peach and I let them just leave. Then we leave the only commonly known spot we both have. Maybe, this wasn't such a good idea.

Perhaps we should go back to out past prison and wait. But, I wouldn't be doing anything really productive there, and I hate doing nothing and just waiting.

I looked over to Peach to discuss this and then mentally panicked when she wasn't there. I scanned the deck for her and primids. However my worrying was for nothing as she was on the opposite of the deck with her parasol and was observing the horizon.

I myself looked up to the sky and quietly observed the red clouds. I didn't like the clouds at all. I mean I didn't like what the clouds implied on what might be happening I actually rather liked the appearance of them. They were a very pretty shade of red.

"Peach," I yelled at her. "Get back over here!"

"Okay!" She shouted back and was starting to lightly walk over to me.

But then, a thousand green lasers collided into the wood and the guns that we had just been walking on began firing themselves a the attacker. A much, much smaller ship that zoomed in and out. The entire show was set firmly in-between me and Peach.

Commonsense told me that being on the deck currently was a very good way to get caught in the crossfire. One of the lasers hit their mark and caused one of the guns right behind Peach to explode.

We need to get off the deck now! I thought.

I looked up to the sky for a chance where I could go grab Peach and get us off of the deck. Wait a minute! The ship that had been firing on the ship we were on suddenly did a dive at the main gun. The same main gun that Peach was standing right beside, I didn't like the look of this. In fact if I didn't move right now then Peach was dead meat.

Not trusting Peach to move fast enough if I yelled at her to do so I ran forward and leapt as high as I could in the air. Disappearing in a puff of smoke I reappeared right on the nose of the offensive ship. I saw the pilot was a man with a vulpine like head.

I slammed my fist into the window of the ship and with the other hand dragged the fox man out as I leapt away. I fell back down onto the deck of the larger ship and landed gracefully into a crouch. I looked up to see fox head had managed to survive the fall too. I frowned and spared a quick look at Peach, she was fine.

I charged fox head and he copied my attack. I blocked his roundhouse kick with my forearm and was about to continue my attack.

"Ahem."

I stopped dead and looked at Peach who handed me a cup of tea. Then fox head was handed a cup of tea he looked up me and I looked at him, I shrugged "Don't ask how she does it." I have learned long ago to just not question Peach's antics.

"My name's Fox," he said accepting the cup of tea.

What an original name.

"Sheik." I said.

"Peach" Peach smiled "It's nice to meet you Fox."

"What are you her bodyguard?" Fox said to me. "I don't think it was entirely necessary to drag me out of my own ship."

"You would have killed Peach" I shrugged "It was the first thing that came to mind."

"I wish you thought of something else first," he muttered.

"Sorry," I gruffly offered.

I don't think he accepted my apology and I didn't get a reply. Small crashes behind us brought us out of our conversations and tea.

I turned around to see three black objects that were faintly humanoid like land on the deck. I frowned as they turned into the dark-purplish bugs and lumped into a large mass. Then they turned into a much larger machine. It had two side's one blue and one pink. The blue side had two large swords on each side and the pink side had a two large cannons. One hit from any of those weapons would fell us easily.

"Great goddesses above," I muttered. "How are we supposed to fight that thing?"

"Scatter!" Fox yelled as several orbs bright glowing orbs from the canon on the pink side fired at us.

I leapt to the right while Fox and Peach went to the left "I'll handle the blue side" I yelled to Fox "You take the pink side!"

Fox nodded and ran off to flank the machine. I looked at Peach "Flank it on the sides."

"Right," she said and ran off to do as I said.

I pulled out my short sword not entirely sure what I'm going to do,"Alright let's see what you got."

It began stabbing at me with both swords at an amazingly fast speed. I leapt side to side to avoid the blades. I skidded to the right only to have to back track to avoid another stab. I realized the blades were starting to box me in. Each stab was a little closer to where I just was and if I didn't think fast then I was going to be skewered.

Just after the blade flew by me I rolled forward just barely avoiding the other blade. I scarcely had time to stand up and scramble out of the way before the swords began their onslaught again. Leaping to the side of it the I danced across the deck avoiding the swords with practiced skill.

I narrowly dodged a sword, I leapt and teleported onto the shoulder of the machine. I held on tightly to the smooth metal that gave me little purchase and then leapt forward to stab one of the eyes of the machine. I barely managed to push off from the head of the machine to avoid a blade that attempted to bat me off.

I landed back onto the deck fifty feet away from the machine. Its wheels started to spin and it charged forward. I dived out of the way just in time to avoid being crushed. I looked for Fox he was holding onto one of the machine's guns and was screwing around with the wiring. Where's Peach? She was now facing the blunt force of the blades

She was doing an excellent job of avoiding the swords but I realized she was getting boxed in just like me. I don't know if she would realize this in time but from what I was seeing, she wouldn't.

At the same time Peach seemed to realize the boxing trick I disappeared in a cloud of smoke. I reappeared besides her grabbed her waist and fell backwards creating a blue shield in-between us and the sword.

The sword pushed into my shield and then the second sword fell into my shield. I just barely held on against the blunt force of the blades, I grunted.

"Run," I growled to Peach.

Peach scrambled to her feet and ran out of my line of sight. Meanwhile I was now having a full blown war of strength with the machine. Every ounce of pressure put on my shield was being pushed into me. I added my other arm to help support the shield. I very slowly and with great difficulty, stood.

I locked my right legs knee and bent my left leg at a nearly ninety degree angle. My thighs were murdering me at that point.

The amount of magic that it to sustain such a large shield against such pressure pretty much canceled out all accurate brain function from just having to concentrate on the magic. I feared taking my mind from it for a moment, therefore I couldn't make a good plan to get myself out of the situation. All I could think was don't stop using magic!

But I was running out of magic and my shield was going to fail any second now. I began removing the magic that it required to hold my disguise as Sheik.

My trousers changed into my shift, my hair went from blond to brown and my eyes went from red to blue. From its braid my long hair untangled and fell annoyingly around my shoulders. I ignored the chocolate colored strands for now.

From releasing the magic to hold Sheik I received about forty more seconds that I could hold the shield.

Twenty-one, twenty-two… I go into a crouch hoping I could leap out of the way in time to avoid the blades, the first plan I could think of. Thirty-three, thirty-four, thirty-five, every muscle hurt from holding the machine at bay for so long and my breathes were long ragged. Thirty-nine, forty.

Within the second my shield shattered into a thousand blue pieces and the blast knocked me aside destroying any hope of leaping out of the way. I landed heavily on my back, briefly winding me. The swords attacked at a brutal pace and I barely managed to roll to the side to avoid the first hit. I roll to the side again to avoid another sword. It gave me little time to move out of the way, not to mention time to stand.

I all out flop my entire body to the right to avoid the bite of the blade. But it wasn't enough and the sword takes a decent size chunk out of my right side. I scream in pain and I clutched at my side with my hand as tears spring into my eyes.

The machine raises one of the blades high in the air and my tunneling vision sees it only as grey glint. It aims the tip at my chest and I knew even if it scratches me I would be dead. My sluggish mind barely managed to think.

As the blade comes down I draw on a spark, a magic that let's mages use their magic again at the cost of their physical energy. Throwing a weak arm I use it to make a shield that barely subverted the blade enough to avoid hitting me. Just that almost knocked me unconscious and it felt my chest and side was being crushed in the most painful way possible.

Using magic again would kill me by itself, but the sword was coming back down.

Arms suddenly grab a hold of me. They pick me up in a bridal style carry and leapt away just as the blade comes down. I hear my rescuer grunt and I silently remind myself that I am almost six feet tall. A little part of me comprehends things I'm seeing and I notice my rescuer is Snake. How embarrassing.

Snake puts me down at a safe distance and I barely mutter a "thanks" before I blacked out.