The night did not go how Ike had anticipated. Not at all.

He had planned on bursting into the old factory building surrounded by armed police officers, Ganondorf being forced to surrender. He had his words to the press all planned out, hell he even had a spot to hang a medal for his heroism picked out in his apartment. He had wanted a picture of him and Link on the front page, walking Ganondorf to a car in cuffs.

He had not wanted to be the one with his hands bound behind his back, on his knees in the factory, with a gun muzzle firmly planted against the back of his skull. He hadn't wanted to be looking up at Ganondorf, his life in the notorious psycho's hands.

"And who do we have here?" Ganondorf asked as he folded his hands in front of his expensive suit, looking completely calm with a man about to die right in front of him.

"I'm Detective Ike Greil," Ike answered honestly, the badge from his hip in one of the many goons surrounding him hands, his bulletproof vest in the other.

"Detective Greil... wasn't there an Officer of the same name a few years back?" Ganondorf asked with a wicked smile coming to his lips. "I do believe I see a familial resemblance here... your father perhaps?"

"Perhaps," Ike said, keeping calm as he kept his eyes set on Ganondorf's. He would not be intimidated, he refused to let this situation crack his calm exterior.

"Where's your backup Detective?" Ganondorf asked, eyes sizing Ike up.

"I don't have any," he said, brain flitting to Link who had stepped from the car to grab a quick cup of coffee from the corner store. He hoped that the blonde would realize what had happened and wait for backup.

"Come now Detective," Ganondorf let out a humorless chuckle that chilled Ike's blood, "don't insult my intelligence with obvious lies. The police never send out one detective, and my associates here told me you were sitting in the passenger seat." Ike felt the color drain from his face.

"Just thought about catching some much needed shut eye on the force's dime," he lied smoothly, proud of himself a little.

"Oh my dear Detective..." Ganondorf shook his head and Ike heard the hammer cock on the gun pressing a hole in his skull, "I asked you to not insult my intelli-"

"NPPD!" a dozen SWAT members and seven detectives burst through the doors of the factory, the shop doors groaning in protest as they rolled up. "EVERYBODY DOWN ON THE GROUND NOW!" Ganondorf whirled and Ike took the opportunity. He lunged forward on his knees, catching the druglord in the thighs with his shoulder and knocking him to the hard concrete floor. Shots rang out, pain as sharp and hot as the sun felt like it was about to split Ike's shoulder from his body. He yelled out in pain and shock, trying to fight his hands free from the rough rope binding them behind his back.

"Ike!" Link came into view as the gathered goons dropped their guns in surrender. "You alright?"

"Yeah," he lied as he felt Ganondorf shifting under him. Ike rolled off of him, landing on the concrete with a soft moan.

"Fuck he hit you," Link crouched beside him, a hand reaching towards the wound Ike realized was gushing quite an alarming bit of blood. A hiss escaped Ike's lips as Link touched at the wound, his friend muttering an apology.

Bang.

One shot.

One shot was all it took for the world to go sideways for Ike. Link fell back, body hitting the dirty floor and Ike roared, whirling to face Ganondorf who held a small revolver in his hands. The world went red for Ike, all he could see was the bastard's smug face as he clamored to him, somehow breaking the rope in his rage. His left hand knocked the gun from the manicured fingers, the right met the hooked nose. Ike felt the cartilage give and shatter, blood gushing forth from the wound as his left hand made contact with one eye. He was going to kill this bastard. The fucker was going to die.

"Ike!" Samus' voice cut through his murderous rage, her hand gripping his collar and pulling him roughly off the drug dealer he had pummeled to the ground. "Jesus man you-" her words died on her lips as Ike fell to the ground, the wound in his shoulder agitated more by his attack. He watched in a haze as she screamed out to the men around her, "OFFICERS DOWN! I NEED MEDICS HERE NOW!" Ike looked to Link, he looked too pale, too still.

"Link," he rolled to his stomach, ignoring his own pain as he pulled himself along to his partner, "Link talk to me!" he made it to Link's side, heart falling at the sight of the wound. It was too close to his heart. Way too close. Ike slapped his hand over the wound, putting pressure on it. He was rewarded with a pained whimper from Link. "Link say something dammit!"

"..hurts.." Link mumbled, blue eyes fluttering open. They were hazy, not quite able to focus on Ike.

"Stay awake man, come on!" he begged his partner, glad when the blue eyes locked with his and the fog seemed to clear a little. "That's it man, stay with me."

"You... promised me," Link winced and squinted at Ike, "that you'd take care of them..."

"Take care of who?" he asked, panic filling his chest.

"Zelda... Toon..."

"No no no," Ike shook his head, oblivious to Samus trying to kneel beside him. "You're gonna get through this man, we're gonna do more barbeques, I'm gonna watch the kiddo for you two and-"

"I'm not Ike," Link gave him a small twitch of his lips, a faint smile on the slightly chapped lips.

"Yes you are you fucking stubborn son of a bitch," Ike growled and shook off the hand Samus put on his shoulder. EMTs arrived, Link and Ike getting loaded onto separate ambulances as they were rushed to the hospital. In the back of the ambulance Ike couldn't answer the questions they were asking. All he could manage was to ask about Link, would he be okay? Would he survive?

"You've lost a lot of blood Detective, lay still!" an EMT tech snapped at him and Ike shot him a withering glare as the world went black around him.

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Mwahahahahaha! End of the chapter because... I want it to be? Perhaps that makes me evil... Perhaps. Thanks for reading! And a special shout out to all my badass reviewers last chapter: FireEmblemNerd0909, TranscendentalNerd, concisponci, and the two guests gucci and Oh my gosh. You guys= awesome. Anyway, let me know what you think, much love, Leigh