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Even alter these days… I can't believe this has happened again…. Just on that day I sealed him a year ago….

2 days before those last 2 meteorites fell to Hyrule, announcing more probable arrivals; I was alongside Zelda, heading to the Temple of Time in order to return the 3 spiritual stones…. Both of us still trying to figure out why had such shadow taken them from there… why… everyone knows that the MasterSword could not be touched by evil and it would be no use for him. Also…why take the stones in the first place?...

"...Well... I'll protect you anyways Princess..."

Link riding Epona was alongside Zelda, heading towards the Temple of Time in the Town square at Hyrule.

It was just like any regular day, with the exception of those 2 strange warriors they had met before some hours ago back in Kakariko. He was still wondering who they where and their reason to be. Would they be aliased with those who raided for food on that night 2 days ago? With those big armored beasts he was unable to combat with?

Such thought made his brows frown: that would be maybe harder challenge than with Ganondorf himself.

Zelda looked at Link smiled at him, coming out of her own thoughts: that had also put her to think on all the possibilities. It was as if both swordsman and princess where connected. Maybe the fact that they had a piece of the Triforce? Maybe not.

She looked away from Link, becoming a bit distant.

"You'll really leave..?" she asked softly, a feeble attempt at changing his mind.

"Zelda..." Link quietly said, looking towards the ground "I have to... but... I promise! I promise I'll come back..."

The shadow of the hero watched them from a tree afar, smirking mischievously

'Humph... and I'll make sure you'll never keep that promise...'

The Legend of Zelda – The Metroid's Shadow

Mission 6 – The Dark King rises again: the battle gets doubled

The repairs upon the strange, offworld girl have been slow to even begin.

Contrary to former belief, she is not, in fact, an android. Instead, she appears to be some kind of fusion between organic and mechanical components, much like the final observed form of Metroid Prime (though, according to reports, there was another version which was made almost entirely of pure phazon, and some factions of the Zebesian Space Pirate organization have even put forth theories that the Dark Hunter is actually Metroid Prime using the basis of the phazon-infused Powersuit to generate a body).

This is an area which the Pirates have been experimenting in, as the latest generations of Commandos, not to mention the Elites' artillery cannons, have demonstrated. Unfortunately, healing beings in of this kind is not something that generally is necessary. Most of the time, they either die or have to be euthanized.
Horathee, the only qualified medic of the thoroughly surprised trio of commandos, takes in his hand a globule of Blue Goo, the regenerative substance which the Space Pirates developed for the Commando squads, and slaps it down on the table next to the girl.

He then proceeds to distribute it in very carefully determined amounts in the areas which are damaged, healing them as best he can beforehand.

If one were to simply apply Blue Goo to, for example, a broken bone, the bone would immediately knit and everything would be fine. Except for the fact that the bone in question would heal in the wrong way.

All Blue Goo really does is cause instantaneous healing as the body would naturally do it. Some degree of treatment is required beforehand.

"Damn if you're going to die while on my table!" Horathee says as he works, not particularly happy about his current situation, which he was very much unprepared for.

While the squad leader does that, Melothee and Encarathee set about working on the mechanical components of the girl. Melothee goes about finding compatible parts which the damaged areas can be replaced with and modifying them to fit and work just like the old parts (another reason the healing is going so slowly).

"For some reason, I'm not feeling so unhappy about using up half of my part collection, and I couldn't imagine what it could be" Melothee says, discarding a piece of scrap with the wrong dimensions.

Encarathee, being the master (or is it mistress?) hacker of the team and an expert with software, is attempting to find a method to connect her suit with the girl's neural unit in order to communicate with her despite her unconscious state, plus to reestablish consciousness. That would probably help healing a great deal.
Galamee sweeps into the room, moving to Horathee's side and taking up the task of helping without a word from either party. While he is extraordinarily powerful, the Leader is a bit prone to attack. As such, he very often sees light injury, plus the fact that he has been killed by the Hunter any number of times. Healing is something that the armsman is very much accustomed to.

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"Hero of Time..."

He was so persistent...

"Humph... if you're such a hero then why didn't you finish Ganon when you had the chance?" A dark voice said from behind Link.

"Wha?" he said turning around, behind him, the dark copy of himself "You again!" He jumped off Epona and drew his sword "What do you want?!"

The shadow started to laugh

"You think you'll come back, you'll think you'll protect Zelda!" A shadow sword and shield materialized in his hands "You'll be saving no one! Those meteors! Caused more damage than you'd ever imagine!"
"What?" Link said, he put his shield in front of himself "What the heck are you talking about?"
"When your precious Zelda returns home! She'll find it quite different!" The shadow said with a laugh.

Seeing that Link hadn't attempted to follow her, Zelda slowed her horse to a walk and sighed. She hated to fight with Link, he was her best friend. Maybe he didn't realize how special he was to her?

She looked down at her pale legs and pink slippers wondering...something felt…different, and she didn't think it was just the meteors. Something really was different. As she passed the sign that pointed towards town or Lon Lon Ranch, Zelda looked around to find this eerie feeling.

However… I never thought….

"What are you talking about!!?" Link yelled getting angry.

A dark smirk appeared on the face of the dark swordsman, one that would crackle in a mad laughter.

"You mean you haven't felt it... the Triforce of Power once again walks this world!" The shadow yelled, "The King of Evil lives!" He said, the shadow charged at Link, "And I, Dark Link will make sure you never are able to defeat him!"

I never thought that would happen…

A sudden explosion in Hyrule town rocked the ground as Zelda came near, it could be heard from where Link was.

"Wha! What was that?!" Link yelled as he blocked Dark Link's attack with his shield.
"It's starting!" Dark Link said as he laughed, he slashed at Link once more, but was repelled by a shield once again.

"Darn... he's not trying to kill me... just pre-occupy me... and its working!"

Zelda screamed as her horse bucked and threw her a few feet from where she was. With a moan she watched her horse galloped towards Lon Lon Ranch. She stared wide-eyed at the tall wall, slowly getting up and making sure she was ok. The stones lay a few paces away and she gingerly picked them up and prayed everything was alright in the town, that the explosion was just the result of a tinker working. She knew in her heart it wasn't, though. Oh how she wished Link was here! She thought as she stepped into Castle Town. However, the town was overrun with monsters, Stalfos and Moblins everywhere, almost every building was on fire, it seemed the only place left untouched was the temple of time itself, guards laid in the ground, lifeless, and a single man stood in the middle of the carnage.

"Hmm..." He said as he raised his head, his back turned to Zelda, "...Princess Zelda... we meet again." The man said as he turned to her, his red eyes locked onto hers "It's been so long..."

Zelda gasped, clutching the black bag behind her back.

"G-Gannon" she stuttered. Surely it couldn't be him! "Bu-but..." she began to try to see reason to any of this.

She took a daring step forward, feeling the soft swish of her dress just above her knees. She stopped, her cheeks burning, immediately wishing that she was in armor. Surely a man like Gannon would take notice of her attire. Clearing her throat, she raised her chin, raising herself to her full height.

"What brings your unwelcomed visit?" she asked, trying to keep her voice steady, hoping against all hopes he wouldn't turn around.

"Revenge! Against you... then against the Hero and the Six Sages..." Ganondorf yelled "For too long I have been sealed away within the realm of my own creation...!"

He raised a hand, pointing towards the.

"Get the Princess!" He yelled out, the monsters immediately stopped what they were doing and slowly turned to Zelda "This time I'll seal you and that Link away in the Dark World!" He said as the monsters started to surround Zelda.

Zelda stared at the back of Gannon, mouth agape. Her cheeks began to burn with anger.

"You can't win that easily!" she yelled at him, stomping her foot. And the monsters neared, she threw up her hand and swung it back down to the ground

"Din's Fire!" she yelled, watching the flames engulf the re-dead's highly flammable bodies and the little fat, slimy moblins. Her hair whipped around her as she glared at the oncoming monsters and the back of Gannon. Holding her hands together and whispering a few quick words, a blue shield surrounded her.

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"I have to end this! Zelda needs my help!" Link yelled out, still trying to defend himself from Dark Link's assault.
"You'll never help her!" Dark Link yelled out, repeatedly slashing at Link

Link repelled his shadow's attacks skillfully, but also the doppelganger did as well. Both where as powerful as skillful, however that smirk on the shadow's face wouldn't wash away from his pallid face.

"You'll never stop me Link!" Dark Link yelled as he charged at Link again.

"I've got to end this fight... I can sense it... Zelda needs my help!" The Hero of Time thought

"Triforce of Courage! Lend your energies to me!" He yelled out as he knocked away Dark Link's blade with his shield and lunged at him with his blade.
"Gah..." the Shadow cried out, Link's blade imbedded in his shoulder "Impossible..." He yelled out as he sank into the ground, disappearing.

Link stood there for a while, waiting. Hoping that shadow had gone for good or unleast for the enough time to aid the princess.

At no other response, he quickly dashed to his horse.

"I have to get to Zelda!" he yelled, withdrawing his sword and jumping onto the back of Epona, he clicked the sides of her with his boots and she took off at full speed towards Hyrule Town.

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Zelda kept the kicks high and flying as she slowly worked her way through the crowd of evil.

Her head was swarming with so many auras. She slowly made her way towards the Temple of Time, she was sure she'd be safe there. Maybe she could get Gannon alone and find a way to keep him busy 'till Link got here, or realized something was wrong.

As she passed through the crowd of monsters, she began to run to the Temple, turning to look back at Gannon with a grin as if to say 'come catch me'.

The monsters stopped as she got close to the temple of time

"What are you waiting for fools! Get her!" Ganondorf yelled out

But the monsters stood there, knowing the holy powers that harnessed within the temple.

"Fine... If you want something done right, do it yourself..." He said as he took off after her, seeming to be an inch above the ground at all times.

Zelda gaped at Gannon's speed, then raced into the Temple, going as far as she could go. He didn't know she had the stones, so that was good. If only she could keep him busy... she thought. Up against a dark corner, she waited silently for Gannon.

With a big 'boom' on the door, both opened up widely, leaving for the King of Darkness to enter.

"Come out now princess..." he said with a smile.

Link had finally made it to the town, only to see it in ruin

"Damn... Ganon..." He said as he turned to the Temple of Time

"Ganon you bastard!" He yelled as he ran towards the temple, slicing down any monster stupid enough to get in his way, conjuring the Sun's song with the Ocarina to stop any Re-dead on they way and slicing even more as more monsters seem to sprout from nowhere.

The race had begun now… one he was hoping not to take again for a long time…

Inside the Temple, the princess stepped out to sight, seemingly from no where.

"So, no minions brave enough to come after me?" she questioned, grinning wickedly. "What's revenge, but a piece of the pie?" she asked, walking towards him, throwing back her long golden hair. "What will you do when you rule Hyrule, anyway?"

"Rule Hyrule..." He said with a smile, "Hyrule won't be the only kingdom to become mine when I obtain the complete Triforce! This entire world will be mine!"

"But what will you do? Won't you be lonely, all by yourself? Surely moblins aren't much company" she reasoned with a grin

"I've already been alone for what seems to be an eternity!" He yelled, the entire temple seemed to shake with his anger "You could say I've grown used to it..."

Zelda placed a hand on her hip.

"No need to shout, Ganny." she laughed, trying to shake off her fear of the man at least two times taller than her, much stronger, and better equipped. "What's after ruling the lands?"

Ganondorf laughed, "Why utter Chaos of course!" He said as he walked closer to Zelda, "But first I need to get rid of you..."
"Well save it for another time! Link's coming!" Dark Link yelled out before materializing from out of the floor behind Zelda.

Zelda gave a look of disgust as she stepped back, immediately feeling the sharp cold of an inhuman body, Dark Link. She shivered, now sandwiched in between the two men.

"You were supposed to stop him!" Ganondorf yelled out.
"Well that was before he figured out how to do damaged to me!" Dark Link yelled out in anger.
"Did I interrupt anything..." Link said calmly as he entered the temple, he had cuts and bruises all over him "Your monsters managed to hold me back for this long... too bad there's nothing left of any of them now..."

Though he was here, Zelda knew she wasn't safe; being smooched between two dangerous guys was very risky. What if he held her at ransom or something?

"Damn... Dark!" Ganondorf yelled out.
A black blade moved infront of Zelda's neck, "I wouldn't move I were you Link... which... I kind of am..."

Zelda gasped and let a cry of alarm out as she was pushed further against the cold shadow. She gulped, feeling the knife digging into her neck. She looked at Link desperately, then called from across the temple

"You cowards!" Link yelled out, "Let her go!"

"Do what you need to do, forget about me!"

"It's not like you ever cared much…" She thought to herself

"Drop your weapons Hero and I'll let her go..." Ganondorf said with a laugh.

Link tightened the grip on his sword "Damn you Ganon, I'll never forgive you for this..."

He said as he let his sword and shield slip to the ground.
Ganon raised his hand, a signal to Dark Link to let Zelda go.
The blade moved away from her neck and Dark Link stepped back.

"Now you can see your Hero die before your eyes princess..." Ganondorf said before charging at Link, he elbowed him, sending Link into a wall, "This will be easy..."

"Stop!" Zelda cried, running forward, leaping over Link as a shield, clutching him in her arms. "Stop it!" she cried, glaring at the two evil men. "Go away; can't you see we've had enough? Leave him alone!"

"And why would I do that?" Ganondorf said looking down on Zelda and Link with a sinister look on his face "You two have caused me great pain... and now you want me to show you mercy? Give me one good reason not to destroy you right here and now!"

Zelda looked up into Gannon's face with terrified eyes.

"The Goddesses would come to you threefold," she said wisely. "You would be destroyed along with us. Two pieces of the Triforce would part to the ends of this earth, and then what would you be? If you weren't such a cold- hearted beast, maybe you'd be forgiven, but now, never!" she yelled at him.

Grabbing Link's bow and arrow, she lighted it with her light magic and aimed it at Gannon.

"Step back," she ordered him.

"Cold... heartless... beast... no... you wouldn't know..." He said as he stepped back, "The desert... where I was born... you didn't have to go through it's torment everyday! The sun burned our village... and the cold winds at night killed our people... But Hyrule... no... no such thing... you live in peace, while the Gerudos live in fear... and tell me! Who's the cold heartless beast! IT IS THE GODS!"

Zelda lowered her arrow slightly, feeling for this desert man Gannon spoke of.

"Why want to cause that destruction for others, then?" she asked, brows furrowed. "Gerudos didn't live in fear, they robbed and stole! They're sneakers, those women!" she said, shaking her head. "I'm sorry you had a bad life growing up, but you're still the beast that's killed so many!"

"The Gerudos rob and steal because they have to, to survive!" He yelled, he seemed to teleport in front of Zelda, he swung his hand to knock the bow from hers.

Zelda's hands stung and her ears rung from Gannon's loud voice. She flinched as he yelled at her.

"Then why not move?" she questioned sharply. She shouldn't have been talking like that without a weapon, but what was a girl to do?

He frowned at her "You think your so smart... you know... after all these years trapped inside the Dark World, I've always thought when this time came... that I would kill you!"

He yelled into her face, he then stood back; he stepped on the bow and crushed it

"But now that I think about it... that would be too good for you!" He turned to Dark Link standing in the corner, "The spiritual stones..."
"Heh... yah... I kind of dropped them when I was sneak-attacked by some weird creature..." Dark Link said scratching his head, "So... he must have them..."
"AHHH! YOU IDIOT!" He yelled, his hand glowed with energy and he threw an orb at the shadow, forcing him into the wall, "Now we have to look for this creature!"

He then turned back to Zelda

"I guess it's your lucky day... Dark Link!" He yelled as he turned to the exit, he left the temple and Dark Link followed...

The temple was left quiet, as it was supposed to be.

Suddenly, a small moan: Link had recovered himself.

"Uhnnn..."

Zelda heard Link's feeble moan. She quickly turned to aid him.

"Oh Link, you shouldn't have dropped your sword, and now your bow is crushed!" she cried, pulling him from the rubble left from she push.

She gently laid her head over his heart and listened. His heart was beating, though lazily. She closed her eyes and rested against him, placing her hand in various places to heal him. Soon, his color was coming back to him and the wounds closing.

"I'm sorry..." she whispered to him again

"I-It's ok... it wasn't your fault... Gannon is just a coward..." Link weakly said, He slowly stood up his strength returned to him, "...Zelda... I need the spiritual stones..."

Zelda's brows furrowed as she stroked Link's hair from his face. As he got up, so did her. She tittered dangerously, touching a hand to her head. Her energies were drained from healing him so many times and everything that happened that day.

"Sorry," she apologized as she regained her composure, pulling the black bag from her cloak. "What are you going to do with them...?" she asked watching Link.

He took the bag from her with a smile

"Returning them to where they belong... and getting something I should have gotten since I saw that shadow..." He said walking towards the door of time...

.and yet again…. Hyrule's fate is in my hands….. But…. These last days... it's nothing to what it usually happens ever….

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------ Body analyze starting ------
Unit 001 life scans are at 60 and growing
Emergency procedures are unnecessary

---- Warning-----
Hacking system detected
Detecting compatibility...

System's hacking system not compatible
Hacking granted only to CB003's system
Begin counterattack

Some whirring was heard, coming from Yoshiko's head.
She opened her eyes all of a sudden, yet, there where completely blank.

"Hacking is not tolerated in my system" she said coldly, in a pace that would make her sound mechanic

At the same time, it seemed that it was now Yoshiko who was hacking Encarathee

Every other Zebesian in the room looks at Encarathee, and the commando looks up.

"No, it's not my fault, why do you ask?" she says, engaging her own firewall. The program is of her own design, and she herself 'travels' around in cyberspace, 'swatting' away attempted intrusions.

"Pht. The drones on Aether were worse than this."
"That could be" Melothee says, continuing on her repairwork, "because you are the single most qualified hacker on the face of our galaxy."
"No time for flattery, Melothee, I'm working on a program to mimic this 'CG003' the system is saying I need to be in order to get in...Okay, here's the first draft. Cross your fingers, boys and girls" the hacker says, initializing the program with the half of her attention not being used to fill in the minute gaps in the firewall.

Ahh, multitasking. One of this commando's most useful talents. She rarely has the right program for a given situation, so she quite often does things like this.

--- Warning-----
Hacking system detected
Detecting compatibility...

Within her position, laid down, she seemed to struggle the new hacking attempt coming from the Commando

"Hacking cannot be tolerated…"she repeated with the same voice tone

The struggling continued for some time, until she finally stopped moving.

Entry completed successfully...

Her eyes closed slowly and remained like that for some minutes.

... Access granted

Her eyes opened widely again, yet, they remained blank.

"Master, what are your orders?"

"Master...? Right...uh..." Encarathee says, looking around at the others present in hopes that one of them could possibly help her out.
"See if you can't get something that'll help us with fixing her," Horathee whispers.

The hacker then speaks with authority. "CG001, run diagnostic and report damage assessment. Verify areas with greatest damage. Scan memory, flag any files are damage, corrupted or missing. Create directory containing all flagged files."
"I hope you know what you're doing, woman," Galamee says, neither he nor Horathee stopping work on healing the organic sections of the girl's body.

"Understood..."

A small wiring sound started, like the ones you hear when you do a scandisk.
At the same moment, a thin line passed by her eyes, flashing by some time.

"Commence scanning"

Some minutes passed, some of her body shook by some random moment.

Bio scan complete.
Damage calculated to 65 and lowering
Highest damage located in the back and chest areas.
Other minor damage are located on legs and wrists.

"Secondary scan starting"

Again, that whirring sound began, with the same effect seen in her eyes.
This took more time to finish.

Memory scan complete
Cyber Project files are intact
Advanced technincs and tactics files are intact
Other related files are intact.

The whirring sound seemed to stop, but it began again, a bit more loudly.
When it stopped, it took more time to report

Biological memories are damaged and/or corrupted due last battle, begin flagging.

Flagging complete, commence new directory...
Directory created, setting flagged file...

After another silent moment, she started talking again, in that cold voice

"Tasks completed, would you like to execute another task?"

"Yes. Is there a backup of memories to be found? How far into the past does the corruption spread? Also, is there anything which can be done to ease repair in chest cavity? If there is, do it immediately. Also, do you have any auto-repair capabilities?" Encarathee asks the computer as Horathee and Galamee move upward to treat the indicated area.

"Begin scan..."

The usual whirring sound started.

"Backup memory found dating 1 and half hours before battle. Corrupted memory data has spread to the last 24 hours

She stopped for a moment, then she spoke up again.

"Damage to both chest and back area are already in repair, terminating such repair in more- less 8 hours.
Yet, this unit shouldn't return to battle unless it had passed more less 16 hours.
Another task you require to execute?"

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Samus stood there just looking at Ark.

"What are you gonna do? Shoot me?"

"...Perhaps..." Ark said as his cannon started to charge, he jumped back a bit and fired a charged shot towards her, he also locks on to her and fires the three remaining missiles he has left

Samus simply sidestepped the charged shot and aimed her cannon firing three power beam shots into the missiles.

"...I expected nothing less from the famed Samus Aran..." Ark said as he slowly started to move around her in a circle, he turned off his energy blade and placed it back into its slot on his cannon...

Samus did the same as Ark. Starting to circle him as well, keeping equal pace. But had no place to re-attach the grapple beam since the program had not yet reloaded.

"What ever..."

"...Hmph... it's a shame you're working for those GF monsters... You and that Ridley could make a formidable team..." Ark said readjusting his cannon, the tip of the cannon narrowed and dark energy once again charged into the cannon...

"Don't make me laugh... I don't even want to point out how many things wrong about that one sentence..."

Samus's arm cannon began to hum and charge, an orb of yellow energy forming at the barrel.

Ark chuckled as he began to pick up speed. His cannon shacked violently as he caused the energy to overcharge beyond safe levels...

Samus quickened her pace. Placing her cannon over his.

"Careful, don't want that cheap copy overloading or blowing up on ya..."

"...Cheap copy..." Ark's helm twitched as he aimed his cannon towards her chest "...I'll show you what this cheap copy can do!" he yelled as he fired, instead of a normal charged shot coming out a thin black beam shot forth that quickly tore through the air towards Samus...

"Wow..."

Samus lunged to the side firing shots into his hoping to disrupt it. The charge could go into one of the villager's houses. That would not be too good.

Ark jumped to the side, the beam still firing from the end of his cannon as he continued to trying and hit Samus with it, a warning appeared on his HUD

WARNING! Dark Energy Levels Reaching Critical! Safety Systems Have Been Disengaged, Further use of Cannon could lead t-

He mentally turned off the warning, the cannon shook even more violent then before as the beam continued to fire, the ammo depleting fast...

Samus seeing the beam still arching her way ran backwards away from it, heading for a house. Her HUD alerted her of the structure and she jumped up and back into the wall feet first. Her momentum caused her to crouch back and she kicked off from the wall, and into the air. She aimed down at Ark and fired the charged shot.

Ark moves out of the way in time, the beam faded, but Ark's whole arm twitched as the cannon still gave off dark energy, seeping from cracks made in the cannon by Ark's last attack. He growls as he pulls out his energy saber again, pointing it Samus

"...I don't need my cannon to beat you..." he inhales sharply and groans, his right arm was in great pain due to the stress caused by his attack...

Samus lands in a crouch to the ground and turned her head to face him.

"Oh, what's this? The cheap copy craped out on ya huh?"

A window on her HUD came up.

-Left arm system repaired and coming back online.-

Her bare arm flashed white then faded as armor plating had re-appeared on her arm. White holographic symbols span in the air around the arm and faded from view.

"Thats better…. Shall we continue?"

Mission 6 – End

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Oh cr…. How much can Link handle?

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