Holar Tower
Link's POV
"Daedalus?" I said. This was the being Saria said I needed to find to get Ganondorf.
Malikov then said, "Yes, an unexpected outcome to trying to find a cure for the virus. Why do you need to know about him?"
"I talked to the Sage of the Forest from Hyrule, we share a mind link, and she said Daedalus freed Ganondorf from his prison. If we kill Daedalus and Ganondorf, we will win this war and I can find a way home." Malikov was looking at me with concern.
Thirteen hours later
We are in a locus, heading to this Holar Tower, when Warner approached Hale and said, "Sir, you don't have to do this." A pause and then, "If we can get you to Grand Rapids, they might be able to do something. Plasma transfusion, stage 8 inhibitors, something. There might still be time." I looked at Hale and saw him getting more monstrous as the seconds go by.
"What happened to Shepherd could have happened to any one of us." Hale said, "It could have been me down there, he would have wanted me to stop him, no matter what it took." He got up, looked at me, and said, "Come on, Link." I got up and followed him out of the locus. I looked back and saw Capelli and Warner still in the locus. I followed Hale along a broken path. We walked up some stairs and around a broken structure when I saw a weird, pointed structure. Hale mentioned something about AAG's, whatever those are. "Link, go on ahead and clear a path. I'll provide cover." Hale said.
I said, "The last person who said that got killed themselves." I walked on ahead when I got ambushed by hybrids. I immediately took cover behind a rock and saw one vault the rock I was hiding behind. I stabbed it with the Piercer and flung it over the rock. I heard shots and the sound of chimera dying. I got out and saw hybrids, which I then reduced to blood with my primary fire. With all the hybrids dead, I motioned Hale to advance. We advanced. We went up some stairs when a ravager with a shield came towards us. I pumped chaingun rounds into the shield and busted it. It ran towards me and was about to whack me when its head blew up, covering the stairs in blood. I looked to Hale and saw him with his gun pointing where its head was.
Hale approached the weird structure, put a box on one of its "legs" and said, "Target one, charge is set."
His radio cackled, "Target one confirmed, proceed to next target." We went down some pipes, killed some chimera and drones, and came to a landing area with a stalker. I ran out there and it started shooting at me. I ran to the side and took cover. I looked through my bag for some bombchus and got out some. I readied one of them, aimed, and sent it towards the stalker. I saw it go to it and then disappear. The floor then exploded up. I scanned the area and saw Hale come out of a hole in the floor with what looked like a LAARK. He then shot explosions at the stalker. Pink bolts started flying around and I saw weird things literally clinging to the side of the building.
They kind of looked like the hybrids but they are more streamlined. They also had weapons kind of similar to Hale's magnum. Their claws were digging into the side of the building. I got my Piercer ready to fire at one of them when it hopped off the building and landed right in front of me. I heard a big whining sound nearby and knew the stalker was down. I got out from behind cover and saw dozens of these things, narrowly missing the thing's fire. I tried to shoot one on the building when it hopped to another spot. I thought well two can play this game. I readied my hookshot and Piercer and shot my hook at another one. I fired, it dodged, I hooked, and felt myself being drawn up to where it once was. I saw Hale fire little buzzing things at the other creatures and annihilated them. There was only one left that I was chasing. I continued this game with the new chimera. I fire, it jumps, I hook, and get drawn. I did this with it about 10 times when it landed near Hale. He then whacked it with the LAARK. It stumbled and I fired my hook from my Piercer and finally hit it. I dragged it toward me and it started flailing. I ripped my hookshot out of the wall and both the thing and I started to fall. The thing hit the ground first, bones shattering. I landed and broke my leg.
Hale came over and said, "If the situation wasn't so serious, I would be laughing. Watching you chase that slipskull was entertaining."
I said "Slipskulls?"
"A variation of chimera," Hale said, "used for recon and sneaky guards. I last saw them in Britain. This makes me wonder what else we'll see." He looked at my leg and said, "That looks bad. You gonna be alright?"
"Yeah, I'm fine." I said as I healed my leg. "We gotta move on." Hale picked up both of its guns. We pushed forward, painting the walls blood red with chimera, and we grouped up with Capelli and Warner.
Hale said "All charges are a-go"
A voice said, "OK, detonate on my mark. 3...2...1...Mark." When the voice said that, Warner did something and there were explosions in the distance. Then there was a low, humming sound and someone yelled, "DRONES!" there was the sound of gunfire and then the same voice said, "Damn, we got incoming!" there was the unmistakable growl of hybrids. I used a gun nearby with a circular thing like the Wraith attached to it. I shot it at them and a small explosion rocked them. I instantly liked this gun. I started using it against the ones with the shields and it busted them. I accidentally hit the lower trigger and it sent a fireball out. It started to flare, causing the chimera to burn and making the place smelled surprisingly like cured cucoo.
I used that quite alot and then I said, "Wow, look at 'em run." We chased after them and I switched to my Piercer and started deploying my hook and grabbing them. They would be dragged toward me; I would decapitate them, and then repeat. I continued like that until this big drone came out. I switched to the fireball launcher and started shooting explosions after it. I ran out of stuff for the launcher and then the others got it. I ditched the fireball launcher and then we advanced. We came to a room with redead eggs around and then they started to hatch. The redeads came charging at us. I grabbed a nearby splicer and hooked my way up out of there reach. I used the splicer to shoot the blades at the redeads. The blades would gore them up, sever their limbs, and shoot blood everywhere. This lasted for 5 minutes and then the doors shut. We then went down a lift and Daedalus talked to me. Look through my eyes, Nathan. This is the future their kind will see. And soon, Link, all will be revealed. I assumed that was said to Hale also.
There were stalkers and titans everywhere. We pushed our way through the wreckage and the carnage. Finally we had a reprieve and then one of the soldiers got ravaged by an unseen force. I immediately got out and used my lens of truth and saw chameleons. I unloaded chaingun rounds into them. We rounded the corner and saw a titan. There was also chimera lining the rocks around the titan. The team pulled back, not wanting to be reduced to a bloody pulp. I said, "I'm going to go around and take out the hybrids. While the titan is distracted, take it out." I said this while giving Hale my stuff.
Capelli then said, "How are you going to take them out without us distracting the titan?" I told him I would be too fast. I got my Piercer, hookshot, and sword ready. I started to traverse up the rocks and started toward the hybrids, barely avoiding titan fire. I started avoiding their fire along with the titan's. I started decapitating hybrids and the ones I didn't chop; I would whack them off the cliffside and hear them scream as they imploded on the rocks below. I finally got all of them dead and then I readied my Piercer and hooked the titan. As soon as I hooked the titan, it caught aflame. I guessed the others did their job and I would pay the price for ordering them around. It exploded 5 feet away from me. I got sent flying into the rocks, charring my skin and nearly breaking all my bones. I was barely able to keep conscious. I finally lost consciousness when Hale and the others came toward me.
Hale's POV
"I'll be too fast." said Link as he used his Piercer to hook on the cliff side. The titan then turned its fire toward Link, traversing around the rocks. My group then went out and started blazing away at the titan. About 3 minutes later, all the hybrids dotting the rocks were eliminated. I saw Link aiming his Piercer to hook the titan. He hooked it just as Capelli's Wraith fire ignited the titan. I knew what was going to happen as soon as the titan's flesh was hooked. Link got pulled to the titan, it blew up, and Link went flying to the rocks. My team went rushing to him. His legs were reduced to sacs of flesh and his whole front was charred. He slumped to the ground and I saw he was holding a bottle with what looked like a big firefly inside. When Link fell into unconsciousness, the bottle struck a rock, shattering it, and letting the bug fly out.
It started to speak to me like Daedalus, but this voice didn't sound foreboding like his, it had the sweet innocence of a child. Where am I? Who are you people?
I was taken aback by this strange bug and answered, "What are you?" It spoke into my mind again. I am a fairy. Who am I supposed to heal? I gestured over to Link and it brightened a little, as in surprise. It went over to him and said I can heal his bones, but not his burns and if I try to eliminate the infection inside him also, I'll die. I hope he can deal with them himself. It then started to fly around Link, putting structure back in his flesh.
Capelli said, "What is the bug doing?" I relayed what the fairy said to me. He would have retorted but Link started to stir. He finally opened his eyes and scanned the area. The fairy then flew south and said to me: There is another fairy in the structure somewhere if one of you needs her.
Link then murmured, "What about the Great Fairy? You need to see her, right?" The fairy made some motions and then left. Link then drew his sword, made a circle around him, and started chanting. He got surrounded by sparkling light and I saw his burns healing. When the burns were gone, as far as I can tell, the light dissipated and Link appeared better. He said, "We should get moving. The mission is Daedalus." We pressed to the tower and came across a big hole in our way. There was a screeching noise coming up out of the hole and I said, "Oh shit." We got back just as a drake came out of the hole. This one looked like a more heavily armored version of the one in station Genesis. When that one had no weapon, this one had what looked like arc chargers, two of them. It flew at us, spraying electricity around us, almost frying Capelli. I backed up to a LAARK ammo dump and refilled my LAARK. I kept firing rockets at it and it dodged them. This was pissing me right the fuck off. I launched some shredders and those decimated its armor. I launched a rocket at the stunned chimera and it got blown to bits, showering the team in guts and bones. I ran over and picked up an arc charger and so did Capelli. There was a humming sound near the hole and we all approached it.
Link looked down into the hole and saw something. It must have freaked him out because he ran back. I looked down into the hole and saw dozens upon dozens of hybrids and ravagers. I heard a big "look out!" and then a big ball of rock zoomed right past us and into the hole with the chimera. With the spikes coming out of him, he gored up the hybrids. Then there were only ravagers left. He transformed back to his former self and brought out what looked like big mice and set them on the ground. The mice ran forward and exploded upon contact with the shields. He kept on doing this until all the shields were busted. By this time, the elevator reached the top and Link said to us, "And you guys can't shoot them?" this made me bring out the arc charger that I picked up earlier and started shooting at the remaining ravagers. Capelli and Warner did the same and we killed them all.
I said, "Ok, everyone on the elevator." Link was looking around and I said, "Link, you're on the elevator." He acknowledged me as the others were getting on the elevator. The lift then started going down and I said, "I want fresh clips on every weapon. No one breaks off without authorization. Got it?" Everyone nodded.
Link's POV
Hale said, "Ok, everyone on the elevator." I was looking around and he said, "Link, you're on the elevator." I acknowledged him as the others were getting on the elevator. The lift then started going down and he said, "I want fresh clips on every weapon. No one breaks off without authorization. Got it?" The others and I nodded. I refilled my Piercer and checked the Splicer I had: 12 blades. The elevator finally stopped and we entered a hallway.
Suddenly, a mark appeared on my hand. It was the Triforce of Courage. I stopped everyone, "Stop!" Everyone did.
Warner said, "What's wrong." I looked at my hand; the Triforce kept glowing brighter.
"Ganondorf is nearby, the Triforce is telling me." They looked at me ludicrously. "Ganondorf posses a very powerful artifact called the Triforce of Power. I have the Triforce of Courage. Someone else in my homeland has the Triforce of Wisdom. Each piece glows in resonance to another. He's nearby." We entered an atrium and Daedalus said you're half right. I moved forward and I screamed, spinning slowly around so I was saying this everywhere, "YOU COWARD, GANONDORF. COMEOUT AND FACE ME!" I heard Hale muttering something and I turned around, just as a tentacle stabbed me. It was painful; hot, searing pain pulsing through my body. I saw a large, brown, mass of flesh with a face sticking out of it. It had 5 tentacles, plus the one going through me. I could just barely see a scorpion tail. "What are you?" I said to the monster. It spoke to me in my mind my name is Daedalus, the architect of the human race's evolution. My only thought for a split-second was WHAT THE FUCK! I thought Daedalus would be like an old, wise man; not this monster.
It raised its other tentacle to strike me when there was the sound of gunfire and Daedalus screamed. It sounded very high-pitched, much like the skull kid's. Daedalus threw me to the group and I shot the Piercer hook in its flesh. This was a bad idea because Daedalus started flying away from the group.
I heard them scream various names at me. Hale said, "Link!" Capelli and Warner said, "Kid!" I was soaring on Daedalus, up and up with a hole in my gut. After another 30 seconds, we came to a spot with stairs leading to a familiar room, a room that looked a lot like Ganondorf's room at the top of his castle. He went inside and a door shut, preventing my escape if I survived. The room had an organ, stained glassed windows, and something trapped in a purple force field. He entered and I looked deeper and I saw the one girl I thought I would never see again.
Navi.
I let go of my Piercer and dropped in the center of the room. Ganondorf was playing that foreboding tune again. Did he think I could fight him with a hole in my gut?
I heard him say, "Daedalus, you weren't supposed to harm him. I need to take it from him alive. If he dies, it goes to the next worthy individual." He turned around and waved his hand. I felt the searing pain going away. I didn't realize that I was blocking it until it was removed. I looked at my wound and saw it heal before my eyes. He turned to Daedalus and said, "Eliminate the others, they will come for Link." Daedalus then left. Ganondorf approached me and said, "Now we can do this two ways: 1) You can give me the Triforce of Courage; 2) I'll chain you up and I'll take it from your body."
I got up and drew my sword, saying "Never! I'll kill you, free Navi, and return home with the Triforces of Power and Courage."
Ganondorf smirked, "A fight you want is a fight you'll get." He floated up in the air, laughing the same laugh he laughed when he killed Hawthorne. I backed up, thinking he was going to punch the ground and make a drop-off. Instead, he balled his hands together and made a scythe with a chimeran skull on the bottom. "Now, we fight blade to blade." He said as he charged at me. I rolled forward and blocked the downward slice he made. The blade missed me by inches as I put all the strength I can muster into pushing the scythe back. I got the scythe away from me and I spun around lightning quick and tried to decapitate Ganondorf. I thought a mortal spin, gotta remember that. He made the scythe glow again and the blade end swiveled and stuck straight. He charged forward again and jumped above me. I saw Ganondorf coming down at me, blade forward. I jumped out of the way and the scythe imbedded itself in the floor. I smiled in victory and charged at him. I would have sliced him in half but I was stopped by another scythe, the first one still in the floor. I strained to kill him but he kicked me and I got sent towards the organ, smashing it. He pulled his other scythe out of the floor and started wielding it. I thought oh fuck.
Ganondorf started spinning, pulling pieces of the organ into a vortex forming above him. I tried to not get sucked in, which failed. I got bombarded by pieces of organ. He finally stopped spinning and everything in the vortex settled in the middle of the room. I got buried under crushing rubble. Ganondorf pulled me out and stabbed me with the straight-pointed scythe. There's that searing pain in my shoulder again. I stared into those brimstone eyes and knew I was screwed.
There was thudding against the door and I heard a muffled voice, "Link, you in there? This is Hale." Ganondorf yelled and threw me against the wall, hitting my head. My vision was blacking out for the second time today. There was the sound of an explosion and the door exploded. I saw Hale wielding what I think was a Wraith and Capelli. I saw Ganondorf brandishing those scythes of his and then I blacked out.
A/N: F**k it, I'm uploading these chapters without a beta. Sorry for gramatical errors. I also wrote these next chapters a couple years ago, so this series may be discontinued.
