Operation: MASKED

by Gamewizard2008

The 9th story of the Viridi Saga and of the Nextgen Series. Cheren Uno has always done his best to help Miyuki Crystal enjoy life, but when an ancient mask returns and curses Miyuki, Cheren is willing to risk everything to save her. Even traveling to a parallel dimension as he pursues the evil that controls Miyuki.

21. Majora's Dream

Okay, guys. It's time for the seventh and final dungeon of this story. It's time to invade Majora's Moonbase and bring an end to the demon once and for all. (By the way, I am now adding One Piece-ish titles. ;3) Let's do it.

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Give Back Our Moonbase! Sector V's Great Assault on the Treehouse.

Closing in on KND Moonbase

The C.O.O.L.B.U.S. swiftly swerved and dodged all of the gunfire that came at them on their flight to Moonbase. Many 2x4 ships had been captured and redecorated by demon troops, who tried desperately to shoot the opposing operatives out of space. "Grrr, they aren't letting us get in very easy." Cheren grunted, holding onto his seat as the ship shook from several hits.

"How long until we reach the hangar? !" Harry yelled, also trying to keep a grip.

"They've got the hangar closed off!" Melissa yelled. "Using some kinda forcefield."

"If there's one technology that demons love, it's forcefields." Cheren remarked.

"I'm gonna try and breach through the audience chamber." Melissa announced. "I have it marked with the scanner."

Fi emerged from Cheren's sword and said, "Master, the odds of successfully surviving the impact are around 97%."

"Fi, this is no time for od-" Cheren stopped himself. "Oh, actually, those're good. Okay, Melissa, go for it."

"Okay. Here goes!" Melissa barrel-rolled and deflected a bit of laser fire as they shot away from the Moonbase, turning and taking aim at where the audience room sat.

"Didn't your dad do something like this?" Thomas asked Harry.

"Well, we don't have 97% for nothin'."

"But didn't he-"

"BRACE FOR IMPACT!" Melissa screamed as the C.O.O.L.B.U.S. launched straight toward the Moonbase.

"WHOOOOOAAAA!"

The scrappy school bus came bursting through the wall with incredible force, crash-landing along the many rows of chairs. Cheren and the Sector V team came stumbling out of the burning ship, holding onto some of the still-standing chairs to regain their balance. "Well guys, you succeeded in mimicking your parents' bad example precisely..." Celeste remarked dizzily.

"You don't think that hole will do too much damage, do you?" Thomas asked.

"Naaah, the air stays in here pretty good." Harry answered.

"Heeeelp!" The looked to the stage and saw a group of Fatblin wearing blindfolds as they knocked Decommissioning Troops, hanging upside-down from the ceiling by their legs, around like piñatas.

"I hope one of these has horCHATaaaa!" a Fatblin exclaimed.

"They're in trouble!" Cheren exclaimed as the operatives charged over. Kellie wore her ballerina dress as she spun around the first Fatblin, making him dizzy. During his dizziness, Celeste latched her rope around its leg and pulled, making the Fatblin trip. Melissa shrunk herself with her shrink ray and zoomed around in her toy car, catching the attention of the second Fatblin as he tried to chase her, failing because of his slow speed. Melissa drove behind Thomas's foot, and the Fatblin was too late to notice before Thomas bashed his hammer into the monster's face. The last Fatblin was trying to approach Harry, but the Sector V Leader kept shooting slingshot pellets in his eyes, until Cheren Uno sliced up the Fatblin from behind.

Cheren used his Bananarang to cut the Decom. Troops free, but the moment he did so- "Stop! Enough!" Miyuki/Majora's image appeared on the massive TV screen. "That's as far as you go, Cheren. I know... you couldn't forgive yourself if this poor operative lost his soul." He reached offscreen and pulled over the Supreme Leader, Jeremy himself, tied up as Miyuki softly stroked his hair, signifying she was going to maskify him (that's what they called it now). The operatives just decided to drop their guard and look at him. "Now how does it feel, Cheren? All your courage… all your hard work to make it here, all gone to waste. Imagine how I felt, Cheren, when Link defeated me many centuries ago, after yeeeaars of waiting."

They glanced to both ways to see demon soldiers pouring in from all exits, quickly surrounding them. "Oh well. It doesn't matter now. At last, all my plans can into order. At long last, I will be able to return home. It pains me… greatly… that you will not be able to join me. You have proven yourself a formidable adversary, Cheren. Just as your ancestor, Link. And now, this is where our long, drawn-out rivalry comes to an end. Do not worry. I promise to take Miyuki with me, as we enter the next world. Good-bye, Cheren… and thank you… for the battle. Now… DESTROY them."

The TV switched off, and the demons began to close in on the operatives. There were so many of them, and not even Cheren thought he could defeat them all. However, a bolt of lightning struck down and wiped out some of the monsters. They looked up, and their eyes widened at who was standing on the upper audience balcony. "Lowering your guard THAT easy?" Nerehc smirked. The Mexican boy, Pablo stood behind him as he strummed a dramatic tune on his guitar.

The Bulblin Archers began to shoot arrows at the Negative, but Nerehc swiftly flew around using rocket feet and launched more lightning bolts. With a good chunk of demons defeated, Cheren and Sector V did away with the rest of them while they were focused on Nerehc.

The Negative boy took land on the stage as Cheren approached him, giving a thankful smile. "Hey, Nerehc! What made you decide to join us?"

"Getting the heck out of this dimension." Nerehc smirked. "And something tells me, only you know the way back. But as soon as we're back, we're picking up our fight."

"Deal. We'll need all the help we can get."

"Come on! We gotta get up to the leader's office!" Celeste yelled. "Majora's probably holding him there!"

"Right!" Cheren nodded, his expression serious. "Let's go, team!" The kids charged out the audience chamber's exit, while Nerehc flew out, and began their siege on the conquered Moonbase. (Play the "Moon Base 1" theme from Ape Escape 2.)

Dungeon 7: Majora's Moonbase

Mission: Get to the Supreme Leader's office and defeat Majora!

Cheren dashed down the hall between the audience room and the main bridge, and arrived to find many rebelling operatives at battle with the demons. Cheren was amazed at how much the Moonbase changed in this short amount of time. Demons were swarming everywhere, and they had set up decorations that honored Majora, such as statues of Miyuki in Majora's Mask, balloons with Majora's Mask, and several crystal shards growing from the structure that brimmed with the purple glow.

A few operatives were at battle with Bokoblin among the bridge. Cheren ran from behind the first bit and easily did away with them with his sword, and the troops shot the Bokoblin while they were down. A couple female troops were trying to hold back Bulblin, but Celeste tossed her rope and grabbed the two monsters by the neck. She yanked them back, and as they fell on their rears, Harry fired his S.P.I.C.E.R. and burned their rears, making them cry as they shot into the air and came down on a couple Moblin.

Melissa did like before and drove around the Fatblin in her tiny toy car, keeping them distracted so Thomas could bash them forcefully with his hammer. As they finished wiping out the demons on this floor, Cheren noticed an assortment of barrels, in which some were shaking. Cheren ran and Youth Rolled at the first one, saving a kid who was apparently trapped (or cowering) inside. He turned into Captain Slag and used his superior strength to smash all of the other barrels, saving kids. He broke the last one, but to his surprise, a purple Stray Fairy came out.

Cheren looked at it curiously before changing back to a human and catching it in his bottle. He was still confused by the appearance of the fairy as Sector V hurried over to him. "Why would a Stray Fairy be here? There aren't any Fairy Fountains on the moon, are there?"

"It'd be the first we heard about it." Melissa said.

"I guess we'll just collect them then. Let's move on!"

"They blocked all the ways to the upper levels." Thomas mentioned, indicating a metal debris clogging a hallway. "But now that I think about it, I think the scientists recently invented the new S.U.P.E.R.M.A.R.B.L.E.. If we brought one of those things, we could blow the way open."

"Only problem is, they're on the upper floors." Harry followed. "What do we do about that?"

As Cheren tried to think of a plan, Fi emerged from his sword. "Master Cheren. Due to the enhanced security Majora has added throughout the Moonbase, there is an 80% chance you will need to put to use, not only your own, but the skills of your teammates as well. Memorize all of your techniques acquired on this journey as you make your way to your final showdown."

"Or I could just have Nerehc blow through everything." Cheren stated in a dull tone. "Where'd he go, anyway?"

"Flew ahead, probably." Celeste said.

"Siiigh. Alright, then. We'll just find another way up." Cheren looked at all the Majora balloons above them, and noticed the particular blue one that was bigger than the others. It was relatively low, so he launched his Hookshot to grab it, but the device was apparently too strong as it popped the balloon into nothingness. "Whoops…" They looked to what appeared to be a balloon machine, watching as it pumped an equally-big Majora balloon and released it to the air. Since his Hookshot didn't work, he looked to Celeste and ordered, "Celeste, grab it!"

"Mmm!" she nodded with a serious look, using her lasso to catch the balloon around the bottom and pull it down. Cheren threw on his Kateenian Mask and became a Kateenian, jumping and grabbing hold of the bottom of the balloon. Celeste released it, and Cheren's body was light enough for it to lift him upward, but only a short way. There were plenty of smaller balloons floating around him, each at different altitudes, so Cheren swung to the closest one, bounced off as it popped, then bounced his way around all the others until he was able to make it to the second bridge floor.

The floor seemed pretty empty, but when Cheren took a few steps forward, a swarm of Red and Green Chuchu dropped down. Cheren ran around and sliced all the one-hit kill enemies, but he was suddenly bombarded by arrows from above. He looked to the third floor bridge and saw some Armored Bulblin shooting arrows. Cheren held up his Mirror Shield and blocked the arrows, thinking of a way to take them out, since he couldn't directly shoot them. Along one of the walls, a round stairway led up to the next bridge, but at the top, there was a yeti rolling boulders down, making it impossible to go up. Cheren noticed a tiny tunnel in the wall that led up beside the stairs, so he would've had to come back here with Melissa.

Cheren saw an operative tugging hard on the lock of a door, failing to yank the tight chains off. "Come OON! ! Stupid door, let me back in!"

Cheren walked over, looking disbelieved, and asked, "Something wrong?"

"These monsters locked me outta my bomb room, and I wanted to try out my new S.U.P.E.R.M.A.R.B.L.E.! When did we even GET these locks?"

"Hmmm. I'll try and look around." With that, Cheren launched his Remote Control Bananarang and began to skim around the first bridge. He flew by the Miyuki statue, in which her right arm was raised and pointing her index finger, and the key happened to be hanging on the finger. The Bananarang grabbed the key, and Cheren had it bring it back. He smiled as he used the key to open the bomb room, and the operative smiled excitedly as they hurried in.

"All right!" the kid exclaimed. "Let me show you my S.U.P.E.R.M.A.R.B.L.E.!" However, ahead of them was a hallway of laser beams sliding left and right along the walls, and also a small pit of lava. "Oh yeah. I added new security." The kid said sheepishly.

Cheren rolled his eyes as the new of them jumped the first laser, simply walked under the second laser since it was too high, and made another jump over the third one. As for the pit of lava, there were three crystal switches lined up like a triangle, and Cheren stood in the middle and spin-attacked them all, making two small platforms rise up from the lava. The kids jumped across the platforms and reached a giant machine, which looked like a gumball machine slot.

"A-halright! Thanks, Man! 'kay, let me get one started up." The kid began typing on a computer, and a huge, round, enhanced M.A.R.B.L.E. came down the slot.

Kids Next Door: S.U.P.E.R.M.A.R.B.L.E.

Super Ultra Powerful Explosion Really Makes Absolute Ruin Bombing Losers Endlessly

There was also a timer on the M.A.R.B.L.E., and it began to count down. "Uh-oh. I forgot, the timer automatically sets." The kid spoke, embarrassed, again. "Hehehe. Still has a few bugs to work out."

"Ugh." Cheren turned into Captain Slag and began to carry the huge M.A.R.B.L.E.. However, the platforms that led across the lava were gone, as the switched deactivated (ugh, this guy's security). Cheren quickly set the M.A.R.B.L.E. down and became human. He tried to hit the switches in a combo with the Bananarang, but they went off too fast. His only other option was to use Elegy of Emptiness. Cheren quickly strummed the song, then waited a few seconds before shooting the first switch with an arrow.

Cheren played the song again and waited a few seconds before shooting the second one. He played it one more time and waited the equal amount of time before shooting the third crystal at the same time as the others. The platforms reappeared, and Cheren became Captain Slag to throw the M.A.R.B.L.E. onto each platform. He got the bomb across, and the next hazards were the three lasers. Cheren threw it over the spot where the first laser would come back, then became human and jumped over the laser. He could lift it again because the second laser went as high as Slag's arms, but it thankfully passed over them, allowing Cheren to carry it forward (as Slag) and throw it over the third laser before either would come back.

Cheren carried it through the door (thankfully it was automated) to the bridge outside. Unfortunately, the bridge was suddenly filled with Holemasters, the Floormasters in holes of darkness. And to add to the situation, the Bulblin Archers were still shooting from above. Cheren just pressed forward, carefully navigating around the Holemasters while evading the (bad shot) Bulblin Archers. One of the Holemasters ended up swiping the S.U.P.E.R.M.A.R.B.L.E., and Cheren was about to throw a rampage if it got away. To his extreme relief, a Bulblin Archer shot the Holemaster by accident, and Cheren took this moment to grab the dropped M.A.R.B.L.E. and hurry forward.

The timer began to tick faster as Cheren dropped to the lower floor. The pirate-boy hurriedly threw it to the scrap rubble, and the hall was blown open.

A few minutes ago, however, the Sector V team had entered the hangar ('cause they ain't gonna do nothing while they wait for Cheren to come back and give player commands). "Alright, team, we've gotta take this room back and shut down the barrier." Harry announced. "Even if we can't take the base back now, we'll be able to leave if we want."

"Give Cheren a chance to do more sidequests?" Melissa asked.

"Eh. Let's go!" As they charged in, groups of Ninja Miniblin poofed out of nowhere and started to throw shurikens at the team. Three of them leaped at Harry, and the Uno boy shot his S.P.I.C.E.R. and burned the monsters, but they only poofed into logs. Kellie spun forward and kicked one across the head, but it poofed to a log and appeared behind her.

Kellie spun around and punched it, but he appeared behind her again. She punched it, but it poofed behind again. When the Ninjablin appeared the fourth time, Thomas simply bashed him with the hammer and knocked it clean out. "That's how it's done." He stated, twirling his weapon as Kellie grinned sheepishly.

Celeste roped one of the Ninjablin and swung it into other Ninjablin before sending it at Thomas, who punched it away with his S.L.U.G.G.U.H.. When the monsters were cleared, Harry went over to the barrier generator and flipped the switch, shutting off the barrier blocking the exit. "Okay. At least some operatives will be able to retreat."

At this time, Celeste and Kellie finished untying the hangar workers. "You all right, dudes?" the Stork girl asked.

"Yeah, we think so." The female hangar operative said. "Thanks. You think you can help everyone else? We have a Moonbase Map in case you get lost." She smiled, gladly handing them this dungeon's Dungeon Map.

"Thanks!" Melissa nodded. "We'll give it to Cheren!"

The five operatives hurried back to the bridge just in time to see Cheren blow open the hallway. The boy reverted from Slag to his human form as the team eagerly approached him. "Hey, you got the hallway open!" Thomas exclaimed.

"Heheh. It was a blast." Cheren smirked.

"Yo, we found a map." Celeste said, handing him the Dungeon Map.

"Thanks!"

You got a Map of Moonbase! Despite the fact it's got a different name, it still serves the same purpose of a regular map. Can't make anything new for this last dungeon. Ay...

"Wouldn't be a dungeon without one." Cheren said. "Anyway, let's move!"

They proceeded down the hall, finding one door along the left wall, and a locked door at the end. They entered the left door, labeled Pretzel Room, and came into the aptly named room where pretzels are stored. Their only room was a small area safely behind a glass wall, giving an overview of the large pit where pretzels were dumped and stored in a deep pit, coming from a glass tube on the right side of the room. In the back corner of that chamber, they could see another room, likely where they controlled this place, and on their right was a barred door that led around to there.

There were Fire Keese flying in from a hatch on the left side, and along the parallel wall, there was what looked to be long, oddly-shaped pretzels connected together to form a path to the back room. The pretzel tunnel started on their left side, and looked round enough for Sackboy's yarn string to fit through, so Cheren threw on the mask, became Sackboy, and began to slither through.

The group could vaguely see his string through the pretzel, but so could the Keese. The Keese were trying to penetrate the pretzel and damage him, but his worm-like form prevented him from defending himself. However, there was an opening in the glass wall, in which Harry was able to shoot the Keese with his slingshot, but they kept coming out of the hatch. He was able to defend Cheren until he made it safely to the control room. There was a simple Bokoblin, with a shield, working the controls, and he freaked when Cheren suddenly wrapped back together. As Cheren changed back, he noticed the Bokoblin wearing a key along his belt, and the Bokoblin cowered into what looked like a small panic room, sealing himself behind bars.

Cheren saw a boy in a red jumpsuit, and helmet with a pretzel on top tied up in the corner and went to cut him free. "Thanks." He said, going to the controls and unlocking the door that connected with the viewing room. When Sector V saw this door opened, they walked in to join Cheren, noticing the monster in the panic room.

"Mind opening his door?" Cheren asked, nudging toward the Bokoblin.

"Can't, you can only open or close it from inside. I don't suppose you know how to reason with them?"

Cheren shook 'no.' Since the Bokoblin was using a shield, his arrows probably wouldn't work, and his Bananarang or Hookshot wouldn't fit through the bars. However, he remembered Celeste's rope and had the Stork girl lash it through the bars and swipe the key from his belt. Cheren smirked as he took the key, waving cockily to the demon and saying, "Enjoy your stay in there.", as he began to walk around.

"Cheren, wait!" Melissa stopped him, looking out the window. "There's something in there." She indicated the hatch where the Fire Keese came from, and the others looked as well to catch a glimpse of the neon bubble whenever it opened up. Cheren knew it was a Stray Fairy, so he ran out to the viewing deck and tossed his Remote Bananarang through the opening. He ran down a few Fire Keese, then slowed his boomerang down to wait for the hatch to open. Cheren waited for the right timing before he was able to fly the boomerang in and pop the bubble, retrieving the Stray Fairy.

They hurried out of the room and used the key to open the locked door, entering the base's nacho room. A slot on the right wall poured the cheese into a large pot in the center, where a machine stirred it. Nachos poured in from the left wall, and they flowed down a river, where a lifting device hauled the nachos to the second-floor river. They noticed the Hidden Leaf symbols going around the top of the room. They also noticed the particular Warp Gate in the back of the room.

They saw the nachos looked big enough for Melissa's toy car to fit on, so the Sector V pilot minimized herself and got in her car. Cheren lifted her onto the edge of the pot, and she waited 'til a nacho floated by before driving onto it, careful not to fall into the boiling cheese (she liked nachos, but she wasn't ready to be served as part of the filling. Even if she was small enough :P).

The nacho she was on was about to sink due to her weight, so she quickly drove to a nacho that was touching, and she had to keep switching nachos as she floated her way to the lift. When she made it and was carried to the second-floor river, Cheren became a ninja and leapt to the Hidden Leaf symbol above. He watched as Melissa kept steadily making her way across, but along the way, some Cheese Toadpolis emerged from the cheese. Cheren had to quickly toss shurikens at them and get them out of the way for Melissa to keep going.

Eventually, Melissa made it to the safe foothold above the first-floor entrance, and was able to get off on the mini opening. Cheren leaped to where she was as she unshrunk herself, and he changed back. They went in the door to a deserted hallway with a barred door and a switch in front of it. Pressing the switch was all they had to do to open the door, allowing them entry to the second-floor bridge.

Since Melissa was with him this time, she was able to shrink herself and drive through the tiny tunnel alongside the rounding stairs, avoiding the giant boulders coming from the yeti. She came out of the opening at the top, driving around the third bridge and avoiding detection from the Bokoblin and Bulblin. She spotted the Warp Gate on one end and drove over, seeing the opening up on its side. She unshrunk herself for a brief moment beside the gate, then shrunk down again to fall onto its tiny slot. She began tinkering with the gate on the inside, eventually fixing it up.

The demons flinched and looked over when the Warp Gate suddenly activated, and the four Sector V members came charging in from the nacho room's gate. The Bulblin Archers tried to shoot them, but Kellie swiftly danced over and kicked them over the edge. The yeti picked up a boulder (they weren't sure where they're getting them) and was ready to smash Thomas, but the Drilovsky boy powerfully swung his hammer and sent the yeti bouncing down the stairs. Cheren watched as the yeti made several comical poses as he bounced perfectly down the rounded, rail less stairs, landing dizzy and knocked out at the bottom. Cheren gave a light chuckle before dashing up the stairs, reaching the third bridge just in time to see Harry setting fire to Bokoblins' rears with his S.P.I.C.E.R., the demons crying and running frantically in midair.

They found the next door, which brought them to a hallway with an electrified floor down below. A grabbable ledge along the left wall led across, so Cheren grabbed on and began to climb across. The kids looked down as mini, electrified snakes slithered up the wall aiming to shock him, but Harry shot them with his slingshot and was able to keep them down. As always, Cheren had to slice the usual Snapdragons that popped out of holes in the wall.

Cheren landed on the other side, giving him a view of a higher ledge with a Hookshot target. He launched the Hookshot and pulled himself up, going up a small staircase to a higher floor. An eye switch was mounted over a barred door, only it was frozen in ice. Cheren shot it with a Fire Arrow, and a small, square platform lowered down from his area, down to Sector V, and the team squeezed on as they were brought up to Cheren.

There was a Flower Pad turning slowly in the middle of this area, and on the left side was a small, unlit torch on top of a strange circular pedestal. Cheren lit the torch with a Fire Arrow, and Kellie got on the Flower Pad to do a ballet twirl, making the circle turn to reveal another torch on its right side. Cheren lit it with an arrow, and Kellie kept turning 'til Cheren lit up all four torches; however, when she made the full turn, the first torch was revealed to have been extinguished, and the rest of the torches followed shortly after.

This time, Cheren had Kellie keep spinning, and he rapidly tried to shoot the torches with Fire Arrows. But they moved too fast, and went out too quickly. Cheren was getting tired of the constant shooting, and figured there must be another way. Cheren remembered Harry's S.P.I.C.E.R. and how it, you know, made fire. He had the parallel Uno boy stand before the turnwheel and blow fire onto the torch, and keep blowing fire, so as Kellie spun it rapidly, the other torches were lit in mere seconds. This caused the barred door to open, and the kids jumped in victory as they hurried out.

They appeared upon a short bridge, stationed above the third floor of the central area. Up by their left, there was a net filled with cannonballs hung from the ceiling, and a little string handle beneath it. Celeste curiously threw her lasso and grabbed the handle, pulling the net open as the piles of cannonballs spilled out of there, along with a circus cannon, which aimed directly at a set of four spinning purple targets. Cheren shrugged at his teammates and jumped down to the third-floor bridge, and stuffed a cannonball into the cannon. He lit it with a Fire Arrow and shot a random target, but nothing happened. He put another ball in and fired at another target, and this one happened to have a Stray Fairy. Cheren called it over and caught it, then had to make his way up to rejoin his friends.

They entered the door on the other side of the crossing bridge, coming to a wide-open, circular room. Demons were roaming about, terrorizing nearby operatives. A duo of Moblin were grinning as they forced a bowl of tapioca down a kid's throat, but the first one was bashed in the back of the head by Thomas's hammer, which then flew to the face of the second one. A Bokoblin screamed and charged wildly at a worried female operative, but it suddenly tripped on Melissa's tiny toy car, sending the girl flying across the air and bonking another Bokoblin in the head. His dizziness wore off in time to see Kellie's foot come in his face.

A trio of Bulblin launched fire arrows at Celeste, but the Stork girl wrapped one in her bow and hurled it back, piercing the center Bulblin. She raised her hands up and let Harry hop off of them, flying above the Bulblin and throwing a blast of flames at the other Bulblin. A swarm of Miniblin tried to surround Cheren, but these low-level minions didn't stand a chance as he whirled a spin attack and sliced them all up. With the monsters cleared, the six headed up two parallel-sided stairways, reaching the second pathway of the room. On both opposite ends of this path were two more stairs that led higher. However, there was a door in the middle of this area, and they decided to enter this first.

They came out on a small area over a pit of lava, with the rest of the room on the other side. A Rearrangement Pad sat before the ledge, so Cheren became Sackboy and knelt down for an overview. There were small, square, spatula-like platforms inside the walls, which Cheren was able to pull out, leading around the left of the pit and toward the other side. However, Cheren could only hold on one at a time, and the ones he let go of went back in quickly. He decided to hold them one at a time, in order, allowing each Sector V member to get across carefully. When he was finished, they had a view of an eye switch, and when Harry shot it with the slingshot, the platforms all popped out simultaneously.

Cheren reverted to human and jumped across quickly before they all went back in. They came to another ledge, and all Cheren had to do was stand on a blue switch, which made a similar spatula-like platform come from the wall on the other side, turned vertically. Harry aimed and launched his G.R.A.P.P.L.U.H., pulling himself over. Afterwards, he shot another eye switch, making three spatula platforms come out along the left side. They were too far for Cheren to jump, so he had to become a wolf and leap across, making it safely.

There didn't appear to be any way for the rest of Sector V to cross, so Cheren and Harry entered the next door on their own. Immediately, the door sealed with metal bars, and they appeared to be in some kind of weapons room. Swords, grenades, guns, and other such devices were leaned along shelves against the wall. When they took a few steps forward, an old friend immediately surprised them. (Pause song.)

"YOOOOOUUU! ! ! !" came the familiar scream of Gekko as the crazy henchman dropped onto the floor. "Ya-sha make-a me look like a FOOL in front of Mashter Majora! Yush dinksh yush cansh makesh me baddie MINION. Well, Gekky show yooou! It'sh time Gekko showsh you who'sie baddie guy ONCE AND FOR ALL! HIGAAAAAAHHCK!" (Cue Mini-boss Theme from Majora's Mask.) With that, Gekko whipped out a machinegun, and his final fight with the operatives began.

Sub-boss: KILL 'EM, Gekko!

"NEEYAAAAAAHHHH!" The insane Gekko immediately unleashed a series of bullets, which pushed Cheren back a little as he blocked them with the Mirror Shield. Gekko ceased firing, and Cheren quickly ran at him, but the lizard hopped to his side and unleashed another round of bullets, forcing Cheren to defend. Not paying attention to Harry, the Alternate Uno boy leapt and kicked Gekko on the side of his cheek, sending the lizard flying across the room. Cheren ran over and tried to slash him, but the Gekko swiftly dodged his attacks before hopping to the center of the room. The lizard unleashed a storm of bullets at Harry, who frantically ran around the room in circles. When he ran by Cheren, the Hyrule Uno boy ducked the bullets and ran at Gekko, only for the lizard to hop away again.

Gekko was about to launch another wave of bullets, but Harry immediately shot slingshot pellets into the holes of his machinegun. Gekko was unable to fire; surprisingly, and while the lizard peeked confusedly at the little pellets, Cheren ran up and dealt a round of blows against the lizard. Gekko slipped away and tried to bash Cheren with the machinegun, but Cheren easily avoided and sliced the weapon in two before kicking Gekko upside the chin. Harry whipped out his S.P.I.C.E.R. and shot flames at the lizard, but Gekko hopped to the wall and leaped over to a belt loaded with grenades. Cheren tried to shoot him with an arrow, but Gekko jumped away quickly, climbed up the wall and onto the ceiling.

He pulled a grenade open and threw it down to Cheren, who jumped away quickly and kept trying to shoot the Gekko. The Gekko was quickly crawling around the ceiling, throwing rapid bombs down and filling the whole room with smoke. Cheren and Harry stood back-to-back with their weapons aimed, struggling to see through the thick smoke. "NEYAAAAH!" The lizard suddenly dropped down and slammed their heads together, knocking them down. "Not so fun NOW, HUH? ? Sidiqoop-sidiqoop!" The frantic lizard began to slam their heads one after the other against the floor, making the two's glasses bend a little. He then took both of their heads and pressed their faces together, as if they were kissing. "HICAAAAAAAHCK!" He raised their heads high and smash both faces powerfully against the floor.

The smoke had cleared as Gekko crawled to the ceiling, the operatives struggling to recover as Gekko threw a grenade beside them. The bomb exploded and sent them flying away. Cheren got back to his feet and tried to aim at Gekko, but the lizard moved to quick, throwing another bomb that Cheren dodged. Since the arrows wouldn't work, Cheren had another idea and whipped out his Bananarang, taking aim at Gekko and launching. The lightweight boomerang bonked Gekko in the head, and the monster dizzily fell to the ground. Harry approached the lizard and set him to fire with the S.P.I.C.E.R.. Gekko frantically bounced around as his grenades lit aflame, and immediately exploded. Gekko flew out of the smoke, totally covered in soot. In his weakened state, Cheren ran over and dealt a series of blows against him.

Gekko eventually hopped away and sucked in a deep breath. He pumped some air into his thumb and PUFFED, blowing the soot off his body. "NearrrrrrrrRRRRGGGH." Gekko angrily hopped over and grabbed a set of dual-swords, whipping them out of their sheathes and swinging them rapidly. "NAERRRRRRRR! ! ! !"

Cheren raised his shield and blocked the quick-swinging Gekko, but the lizard zipped behind and dealt an upward-slice, knocking him away. Cheren looked back, freezing with fear as Gekko rushed at him ready to strike, but Harry suddenly tackled the lizard from the side, holding his wrists in place, but Gekko pulled his arms free and flipped behind Harry, kicking him to the side. Cheren ran and dealt a strike against Gekko's rear, the monster leaping in pain and facing Cheren to throw another round of rapid strikes. Cheren blocked with his blade and struck at the quickest opening, getting another hit.

Gekko dodged to his side and gave another round of quick blows, which Cheren managed to dodge, having to jump to the side when Gekko stabbed both toward him. Cheren swung at his legs, but the Gekko jumped and pinned him down with his legs, aiming both swords at his head. "Yer time ish UP, Boyaaah! I-sha SHERVE Mashter Majora. You-sha bad boy who mushta DIE. NEAAAAAAHHH-" Gekko was ready to pierce both blades into Cheren's head when he felt a tap on his shoulder. He looked behind, and was immediately met with a blast of fire from Harry's S.P.I.C.E.R., a serious look on the boy's face as he set Gekko's face to flames. "BLOOORRAAAAAGGGHH." Gekko frantically flailed around the area, unable to shake the flames. By the time he finally put them out, he turned, only to be whacked upside the face by Cheren's sword, falling to his back. The Hyrule Uno boy leapt into the air, and brought his blade through Gekko's belly. (End song.)

"OOOOoohhh. Mah…mah belly'sh been speliched. I…I dink meh shpine been shpiced, too. I…Ish shorry, Majora. Ish…Ish a baaad baaad Gekko…"

Cheren didn't really feel sympathy for Gekko, like he did Slag. In fact, he didn't wanna heal his soul and be able to turn into him. However, Cheren felt a shaking in his pants, and he reached in and pulled out the Don Gero Mask. For some reason, the mask was glowing green, and seemed to be shaking toward Gekko. Cheren walked over and put the mask over Gekko's head. The Uno boy pulled out his Spirit Flute and calmly played the Song of Healing.

Doo-doo-dooo, doo-doo-dooo, doo-doo, do-do-dooooo.

Gekko felt a sense of relaxation overcome him. The Don Gero Mask fused into his body, and his body was swallowed in light. When the light cleared, the orange, psychotic lizard was long gone. In his place, a large, old, wise-looking green toad, with a white beard and big, bushy white eyebrows that nearly covered his wrinkled, squinted eyes. He also had a brown smoking pipe in his mouth.

"Mmm, I say…" The old toad spoke in deep, British-sounding voice. "Another moment as that ruffian, I might have gone berserk. Or rather… moderately more berserk, hmhmhmhmhmhm."

"Uhhhh… and you are?" Cheren asked.

"Don Gero, my good lad. I've been brainwashed into doing Majora's bidding for, I forget how long. My memory isn't what it used to be, kyu-kyuuu." With that, he blew a group of bubbles from his pipe. "But I am very grateful to you for freeing me. Still, the way you wielded your sword, reminds me of another gentlemen, whom I believe was the one who slain me long ago. It was unpleasant, but for all the better. Majora was forcing me to eat my own students. I saw, from the eyes of my mask, that you took the time to save their descendants. Your work is much appreciated to me, kyu-kyuuu." He looked over at Harry. "And how do you do, Sir?"

"Hey there." Harry said simply.

"Well then." Gero looked at Cheren. "I must try to find a way out of here, kyu-kyuuu." And with another blow of some bubbles, the ancient frog hopped his way to the barred door. He said to the door, "If you don't mind…", and the bars opened right away. The door also opened as Don Gero showed himself out. (Replay "Moon Base 1" theme.)

Right after he left, a giant treasure chest spawned in the center of the room. Cheren exchanged a curious glance with Harry. Was he about to get another new item? Cheren stepped to the front of the chest and slowly began to open it. Another lightshow began to play before his eyes, but this time, it seemed brighter than ever. Cheren had to shut his eyes tight as he reached in, feeling for and grabbing the item inside. It felt skinny and wooden, like an arrow. …Cheren gave a bright smile, immediately knowing what it was. He raised his lost Sacred Treasure up high.

You've got the Light Arrow! At last, the last of the Three Sacred Treasures is yours! With all three in your possession, you stand a chance against Majora! Use the sacred light from this arrow to pierce his darkness!

The two left the mini-boss room and returned to the lava pit passageway. Immediately, they realized there was a tiny opening in a wall, leading behind a glass area on the left side of the pit (the right from Sector V's view). Harry shot the eye switch again, and Cheren hopped across with his wolf form. He had Melissa shrink down, and he picked her up in his teeth before hopping back across. The shrunken Gilligan drove into the tiny hole and resized to open a treasure chest. She retrieved the Stray Fairy and brought it out to Cheren before they crossed over again. When Harry hit the eye switch, a spatula stuck out on the other side as well, and he held Melissa this time as he launched over, followed by Cheren, who jumped the footholds.

They repeated this process with the other pit and returned to the wide, round room, heading up the parallel stairways to reach another door. They appeared on a crossing bridge in the center room, above the one from earlier, and saw that this one was guarded by an Eyegore. This particular Eyegore was purple, and surrounded with a dark aura; it was a Darkgore. As expected, Cheren couldn't shoot it with a regular arrow when it came, launching beams of darkness at them. Cheren pushed the beam back with the Mirror Shield before pulling out the Light Arrow, and dealing a blow to the eye. The Darkgore squinted in pain, but failed to launch another laser in time before Cheren slew him with the Light Arrow, destroying his body with light.

They were allowed into the next door, which led to a room that was slightly large. On the right and front sides of the room, on the second level, were the entrances to two, massive tubes, which they recognized as the Moonbase's transportation tunnels. On the left side of the room was a Warp Gate. The tunnel on the parallel side was above a round ledge, which seemed to have no way to climb it, except for a small wooden peg stationed along its ledge. Celeste launched her rope up to grab it and pull herself up, where she stepped on a switch that made circular platform rise from the floor, and begin levitating up-and-down between floors. The five operatives got on and reached the round ledge, finding a group of two Bokoblin standing guard before the tunnel entrance. Cheren ran to the left one and leapt overhead, dealing a blow, while Thomas smashed the second one with his hammer, despite the monster raised his shield.

They couldn't quite enter the tube, yet, as it was protected by a huge barrier of darkness. There were three eye switches lined up around the center in a triangle fashion; except these eye switches were bigger, and designed like golden suns. Cheren already knew he had to use Light Arrows to shoot them. He shot the top eye, but it went off quickly, as did the following eyes. Cheren had to use the Elegy of Emptiness, playing the song three times and having each clone shoot an eye switch. All three eyes were soon struck at the same time, and the three combined forces of light caused the barrier to crack and shatter. They felt a gust of wind blowing up through the wide, long tunnel, but saw no means of transportation of which to carry them.

"These things normally have small trains or something." Harry mentioned. "Majora musta disabled them."

"Guess I'm goin' up." Cheren said, pulling out his Pirate Sail. "Anyone wanna come with?" The five operatives exchanged shrugs, so Cheren just did an "eenie-meenie-minie-moe" thing and ended up picking Kellie, the girl grinning cheerfully. In fact, Cheren remembered that she was able to glide, too. They both flipped open their sail/ballet dress and let the calm wind carry them upward. Inside the glass-made tunnel, they had a marvelous view of outer space, and could vaguely see the Giants still struggling to hold up the moon. Bulblin were waiting on small platforms, launching fire arrows at the kids, but they managed to avoid and keep a steady pace. The tunnel made several slight turns, but the wind carried them normally, until they suddenly spotted a group of footholds along a left side of the tunnel. The kids quickly dropped and landed, the wind still blowing them slightly, as they ran to battle a group of Moblins and Bokoblin.

A Moblin tried to bat Kellie with his spear, but the Beatles girl flipped overhead and kicked off his nose, landing perfectly behind him. Another Moblin charged and tried to poke her, but Kellie dodged and caused him to poke the first Moblin's rear. The big monster gripped his rear and began hopping around, weeping pain, while Kellie spun over and kicked him hard, sending him over the edge. The other Moblin hatefully stomped over and tried to bash her, but Kellie dodged, jumped and held down the spear, then leaped over to deal a round of kicks against his face. Meanwhile, a trio of Bokoblin had swords raised, ready to attack Cheren, but the boy pulled back a Light Arrow and launched at the middle one, destroying it in a burst of light. Cheren smirked at the terrified looks of the other Bokoblin, and the monsters cowered away quickly, jumping over the edge.

There was a Flower Pad on one side of the platform, so Kellie spun rapidly on it, turning over the shorter next-door platform, and revealing a small chest in a glass dome. A tiny opening led into the dome, and Cheren mentally cursed, figuring they should've brought Melissa (since he didn't need to carry Kellie). He was also starting to think Melissa had too many puzzles in this dungeon. With that, they jumped off the edge and continued to let the wind guide them. It felt like they made a loop around half the Moonbase when the tube finally dropped them off in another room. This room was on the opposite side of the tube's starting point on the map, but on a higher level. A lever was stationed beside a Warp Gate on the wall, so Cheren proceeded to pull it and activate the shortcut between the starting point and the ending point. Cheren and Kellie decided to step in themselves, meeting with Sector V.

They floated down the wind tube again, this time bringing Melissa with them, who held onto Cheren as he glided. They dropped on the footholds, and Kellie spun to turn the platform again, allowing Melissa to shrink down and enter the tiny hole. She re-expanded, opened the chest, and retrieved the Small Key before shrinking back down to come out. The three glided across the rest of the tunnel and landed on the other side, meeting Sector V as they came in through the Warp Gate. The kids stood on an elevator that took them to a slightly higher ledge, which had a locked door. Before they entered, however, across from the ledge was another wind tunnel; likely leading to the end of the other one they saw in that room.

Cheren jumped off and glided inside using his Pirates' Sail. As the tunnel passed, Cheren then had to avoid electrical barriers stationed in his path, just narrowly missing the electricity using his reduced aerial dodging. He was relatively high as he approached another turn, and saw a Stray Fairy trapped inside a bubble. Cheren tried to list downward and grab the fairy, but missed as Cheren was forced around the corner, soon coming for a land in the original starting room. Cheren decided to throw his Remote Bananarang up there and pop it, but the wind was strong enough to force it out. ...And yet, the bubble holding the Stray Fairy was able to float in place, despite being much lighter. Weird. Cheren aggravatingly stepped through the Warp Gate, and glided through the tunnel again. This time, he managed to pop the purple fairy's bubble and grab it. He returned to Sector V again as they entered the locked door.

They appeared in what was the second tower of bridge floors; regardless, they would refer to this first one as the fourth bridge floor and so on. This first area was rather cramped as they were blocked by a huge door with a worm maze, which has switches scattered throughout. Cheren turned into Sackboy and unraveled into a single strand as he began to slither through the maze. Just like he did before, he simply had to crawl around and flip all the switches throughout the maze, before the door would deactivate and open. Cheren raveled back together and reverted to human once it was open, and a small staircase took them to a second level of this bridge.

The door ahead of them was guarded by four simple Bokoblin. They wondered why Majora bothered with these monsters as they ran forward and attacked. Cheren upper-sliced one and sent him back, Harry punched and swiped the second one's Deku Stick before beating him with it, Kellie rapidly spun around the third one and dizzied it before kicking its head, and Thomas used his S.L.U.G.G.U.H. to punch the fourth in the crotch, and then punch its head to knock it back.

With that, they entered the new door, but Cheren could only get in by himself before the door sealed with metal bars. Cheren was in a small room with three Darknuts, who immediately took notice of him and marched over. Cheren held his sword ready as he faced the first, and when the monster swung its sword, Cheren leapt and knocked its helmet off. Once behind him, Cheren struck its weak spot and took out its armor. The second Darknut tried to strike him, but Cheren rolled behind it and sliced the armor off via its weak spot.

Cheren backed away as the unarmored beasts charged at him, but the boy only smirked and shot both of them with Light Arrows, destroying them in light. The remaining Darknut, who was still armored, wore a nervous look behind its helmet. Cheren gave him a smirk, and the Darknut immediately charged out of the room, unbarring the door. A giant treasure chest appeared in the center of the room. Since Cheren already had the Dungeon Map and the new item, he knew just what this was gonna be as he endured the giant-chest-lightshow for the umpteenth time.

You got the Compass! It's the last dungeon, so make sure you get those collectibles! Other wise, we wouldn't put this same exact item here when you already know what it does and what it's for. I'm sorry, but that's just it. Simple as that. Uh-huh. Okay, have fun, now.

Cheren went back out to his friends, studying the map to check for Stray Fairies. It turns out, he missed a Stray Fairy on the third bridge floor, apparently. Cheren sighed in aggravation and hurried back down. He couldn't find anything on the third bridge, so he went to the second bridge down below. He looked up and saw a purple balloon floating underneath the third bridge, so he shot an arrow to pop it. He used the Fairy Mask to call the little stray down, and with that, he hurried back to his friends.

They didn't see any clear way to the fifth bridge floor, but along the eastern wall (or rather, window), there was a set of small platforms, leading upward, that were slumped down. Above those platforms were a set of flip-switches, so Cheren aimed his Bananarang and launched, hitting each one in a row. The platforms got horizontal and made a staircase, but they were too high and too far to jump. Cheren had to become a wolf and hop his way up, reaching the fifth floor before they slumped again.

Cheren followed a path around the west side of the room to reach the floor above Sector V's. There was a door in the middle of that area; locked; and a door on the left side. Inevitably, Cheren entered the left door, coming to the Moonbase's botany room, as the sign read: Because some operatives like plants. The botany room looked nearly like Sprocket's room, except the plants were watered by Miniblin as Boko Babas rose from the pots. Cheren proceeded to slice the Miniblin, dodging just before a Baba gnashed on his head. All he had to do was slice the plants across their mouths, then had to find out what to do in the room.

Along the left wall, by the door, there were different-height shelves with a different colored plant on each of them, probably indicating the height that those plants grew. However, on the opposite end, Cheren noticed the closet door, and how it was shaking. Cheren walked over and opened it, finding a female operative bound and gagged to a chair. Cheren ripped the tape off her mouth and cut her free as she stood up and smiled. "Thanks for that! I don't know what's wrong with these demons." She said in a country accent.

"The simple fact that they're demons." Cheren stated.

"Anyway, if yer lookin' fer help, you c'n have this." She handed him a purple plant. "This makes a long beanstalk, so you might be able to climb up faster."

Cheren smiled. "Thanks." He then hurried out the room and dropped down to the fourth bridge floor. On the lower part of that floor, there was a convenient dirt patch. Cheren buried the seed underneath and watered it with the S.Q.W.I.R.T., causing a huge beanstalk with several footholds to sprout up to the fifth floor. Sector V grinned excitedly and began to climb their way up, followed by Cheren.

They returned to the botany room to find the Small Key that was likely in there. There was an opening up on the wall, and Cheren's map read there was a chest there. Cheren decided to randomly water all the plants that were in there, and to their shock, many of them grew tiny leaf platforms, as well as vine paths. Obviously, it would be another puzzle regarding Melissa. The Gilligan girl shrunk down and got in her car, and Cheren started her on the leaf platform at the start of the left side. She carefully began to drive across the tiny footholds, having to use the vine roads to cross to other plant tables. Some of the vines and leaves were actually in her way, so Cheren had to look for where those plants came from and shrink them with the S.Q.W.I.R.T.'s reverse setting.

Melissa made her way to the right side as the plants led her up higher. She reached the end of the path, but it was much too low below the ledge. They noticed there was a larger pot on the floor below the ledge, likely fit for one of the seeds. Cheren decided to grab the middle seed and plant it, afterwards giving it water. The plant grew to an equal height with the ledge, and a small vine path was wrapped around it, allowing Melissa to drive up and reach the ledge. She resized and opened the chest, pulling out the Small Key. She hopped off as the six of them left the botany room and entered the locked door.

As they sort of expected, the small room had three patches of dirt, lined up with the right one under a ledge above them. They went back and gathered each of the seeds from the botany room; and Cheren shrunk down the one they used just now. They lined the plants from left to right smallest to medium; as the shelves indicated. Cheren watered them to make a perfect stairway to the ledge, and they jumped up. There was a door on that area, stationed above the door they came in from, but they saw an opening high up along the left wall. Cheren dewatered the middle and left plants to shrink them, then tossed the second-biggest in the middle, and biggest in the left patch. Cheren watered them, and with the medium plant already stationed, they made another staircase to that opening. Cheren jumped up, opened the chest, and retrieved the Stray Fairy inside.

They entered the door and came on a floor above the one with the botany room's entrance. On the floor above them, the underside was frozen and filled with icicles. The jagged icicles dropped down, forcing the operatives to dodge quickly to avoid being pierced. A simple stairway along the big glass window, starting on their left, led up to the sixth bridge above them. However, there were multiple holes along the wall above those stairs, launching quick, mini arrows. Kellie recognized this, and she smiled as she shot teddybears from her T.H.U.M.P.E.R. and blocked the openings. They quickly hurried up the stairs before the arrows shot through, coming to the sixth bridge floor, which was covered in slippery ice.

A group of Icy Armos (they were the Freezards of Ocarina of Time) were stationed around the bridge, and a Red Freezard guarded the door ahead of them. Cheren simple shot the Ice Armos and melted them with Fire Arrows, but the flames had no effect against the Red Freezard. Thomas remembered this monster, and he walked forward and slammed the floor before the Freezard, making his mouth hang open. Cheren shot a M.A.R.B.L.E. inside and blew the ice being up, allowing them entry into the Moonbase Freezer.

The freezer was as dark and cold as Frosty Citadel, and Melissa and Kellie were already shivering tremendously. They trekked across the icy floor as Ice Armos emerged from the ice and slid over, but Cheren chopped one up with his sword while Thomas smooshed two of them with his hammer. There were Ice Keese flapping around the room, so Cheren went ahead and shot them all with arrows. "YEEP!" Kellie yelped when an icicle almost fell on her, jumping to the side just in time. Behind a stalagmitecicle (icicle on the ground) along the right side was a Majora block. Cheren pushed it forward, and as expected, it slid along the ground and stopped at a stalagmite.

Cheren then had to push it left, so it hit a stalagmite. He almost pushed it right next; going further down the room, but when he looked to both sides of that stalagmite, the block would've fallen into dark holes. Instead, Cheren pushed it left of the current stalagmite, hitting another one, then pushed it left to stop at another one. The block now had a clear path down the middle, but when he looked ahead at the wall it stopped at, the left and right sides of that center had holes. But a few feet from the wall, on the left, was a peculiar, large floor tile that looked like it would rise.

Cheren recalled a puzzle like this, and had Thomas stand across from the tile, a little to the right of where the block would slide. When Cheren shoved the block, Thomas raised his hammer and knocked it onto the platform, where it conveniently stopped on the wall. The kids took the slope on the right side of the room to reach the upper floor. Kellie stood on a Flower Pad and happily spun around to make the block's tile rise to their level. The tile was lined up with a narrow pathway, which would guide the block across a frozen treadmill that led into a closed hatch on the block's right side.

Cheren got behind the block and had Thomas stand facing the hatch, on the block's left, so when he pushed it, Thomas bashed it and sent it sliding toward the hatch door, which automatically opened and shut. The block landed on a switch on the other side, and a barred door on the left of the hatch opened. They entered and found a smaller, frozen office room, where a female doctor operative was frozen in the corner. Harry used his S.P.I.C.E.R. to unfreeze the girl, and she fell out, shivering greatly.

"Are you okay?" Harry asked.

"Y…Yeah-h." She quivered, trying to force a smile. "Th…Thanks." She reached under her coat and weakly pulled out a Small Key. "H-Here's the… key to the doo-or…"

Cheren took the key as the operatives smiled and nodded in thanks. Before they left, Cheren looked at his map, and saw a Stray Fairy was inside one of the frozen ceiling cabinets. He reached up and tried to pull the cabinet open, but it was stuck tight from the cold. So instead, Thomas slammed his hammer on the wall, and the cabinets slid open. The poor, purple fairy was shivering inside, so Cheren took it out gently and slide it in his bottle.

They used the key to open the locked door in the freezer room, coming to a floor above the frozen bridge below. A small staircase led to a slightly higher bridge, a much wider area where Beamos were gathered around. Kellie excitedly spun around the laser sentries and exploded them upon their dizziness. There was an elevator in the middle of the area that was locked, and two doors on the left and right sides. They decided to enter the left door first.

They were suddenly greeted with excited carnival music as they entered some kind of game room. A seesaw catapult faced directly at a set of giant, purple targets that moved upward, with a bottomless pit between them and the targets. On the right of the room was a "Ring the bell at the top" game, which Cheren and Thomas recognized from the Frosty Citadel. The Drilovsky boy proceeded to raise his hammer and smash the board, sending the ringer high upward and bashing the bell.

A boulder fell onto the catapult, and was ready to launch at the targets. Thomas slammed the catapult and sent the boulder flying over, breaking a target and revealing a secret place inside it, which apparently moved upward with the targets. Thomas had more boulders come down, and kept them flying and smashing targets until they were all destroyed. Inside each of the small rooms was a blue switch, but nothing was in there to hold it down. Cheren turned into Sackboy and had each Sector V member sit on the seesaw, so he could use Sackboy's hammer to send them flying into a room.

When all of the switches were pressed, a small chest dropped in the center of the room. Cheren found a Small Key inside, then used his Hookshot to pull each Sector V member back as they passed by. (Apparently when the targets vanished upward, they magically appear from the bottom like it was an infinite repeating stream.) Before they left the room, they noticed a high platform on the left side. Cheren used the Sail to fly to one of the openings, and let it take him up so he could glide over. Curiously, he found a Timeshift Orb, and proceeded to take it with him as they left.

They decided to set the Time Orb before the elevator door before heading into the parallel room on this bridge floor. They entered the Moonbase's arcade, and were filled with shock and fear at the sight of all the Redeads. The zombies made their usual "Yawn-yawn-yaaaaawn" noises as they stared blankly at the many bright screens, the consoles featuring a variety of games. There was Mario Bros., Sonic 3 & Knuckles, The Legend of Zelda, Kid Icarus, and Wreck-It Ralph.

"Cooool! Zombies!" Harry stared in amazement.

"Heh, you think that's cool." Cheren smirked, taking out his Garo Mask. The minute he put it on, a disco ball appeared from the ceiling, and the room full of Redeads burst into dance. The colorful disco lights rotated 'round the room, making the zombies seem full of life as they danced happily to the music. They were making all sorts of movements, like waving their boneless arms and spines, and shaking their zombie booties. The operatives snickered at the zombies' movements, and were able to move freely about the arcade because of their dancing trance.

They walked around to a left end of the room, finding a barred archway with a switch behind it. Above the archway, to the left, was an open vent that led behind it, but it was too high to reach. They explored the room a little, and found a monkey that was dancing in the corner near the entrance, on top of some arcade machines. Cheren used the Remote Control Bananarang to get the monkey's attention, leading him across the arcade as he jumped across the various machines. Cheren eventually led him inside the open vent, and the monkey jumped and crawled through. The Bananarang came out behind the barred gate, letting the monkey land on the switch.

The gate came open and the kids hurried inside. There was a sealed door with a kid's face icon mounted on it, and Cheren approached and spoke to it. "Hey, you know the rules, bub! NO getting in to play the special game unless you DANCE. And YOU don't look like you GOT the GUTS."

Cheren rolled his eyes and put on Slag's Mask, turning into the pirate captain. "Euuuhh! Now you're a fat OLD guy. …Ehh, but ya look good. Alright, dance to this, and you pass."

Disco music played again as three Moonbase soldiers appeared around Cheren, beginning to dance. The left soldier squatted and made a rock-and-roll sign, so Cheren mimicked this embarrassingly. The right operative thrusted his hip forward and made some air-guitar motions, so Cheren mimicked this. The middle operative raised his hands high, smiling excitedly as he shook his hip. Obviously Cheren looked silly doing this. The dancing trio finished their routine by hopping, rolling in midair, and landing on their heads and doing a breakdance that lasted for several seconds. The furthest Cheren got with that was making the jump, not having the strength to do anymore.

"PFFFBBBBTTTHH HAAAA Ha Ha Haaaa! Ohhh, it's good to make people dance for stuff! Alright, you can come in, hehe! Enjoy the special game, kid!"

The door opened, unveiling a room with a single arcade machine, which featured the 'special game', The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. In front of the console was a Timeshift Orb, which Cheren picked up. He was about to carry it out when the arcade floors suddenly filled with Holemasters. Cheren put on the Garo Mask to keep the zombies occupied with dancing, while Sector V defended Cheren from the dark hands. One of the Holemasters grabbed Celeste by her rope and was about to pull her in, but Harry immediately set it flames with his S.P.I.C.E.R..

They made it out of the room, going over to unlock the elevator door. Harry picked up the other Timeshift Orb as they entered and were lifted up to the seventh bridge floor. They went around a walkway to the actual bridge, finding it was guarded by Floormasters. Harry started pelting the first one with slingshot pellets while Thomas smashed another with his hammer as it came at him. Eventually, the two Floormasters broke into threes, and Harry wasn't quick to shoot his in time before they latched around his neck and began to strangle. Thomas's three mini Floormasters scampered up and attempted to jump at his neck, but he punched each of them away as they came with the S.L.U.G.G.U.H.. He then ran to carry and bashed him in the back with his hammer, knocking the Floormasters off, while Kellie spun and kicked the hands away. Cheren leapt and struck the third Floormaster with a jump attack, and when it broke in threes, he proceeded to finish them with a spin attack.

This bridge area had a door on its left side and right side, and a broken elevator in the middle. The right door was locked, so they decided to take the left one first. The sign outside the door read, Room with the really big, rusted safe that's been around since Medieval Days. We don't know what's inside, nor do we care. They entered the room, and indeed there was a giant, rusty safe, and a turntable that sat before it. There were two slots, so Cheren had to play the Elegy of Emptiness, sticking his sword in a slot and trying to turn it for a few moments. Of course, it wouldn't turn anywhere, but when he finished, he played the Elegy again, and a clone began to turn that side while Cheren turned the other side. The turntable was lifting out of the ground like the other broken tables, and it didn't need much turning before it popped out like a screw.

Inside the small hole was a key, so they grabbed it and crossed to the room on the parallel side of the bridge. They entered the locked door and found a small room with a Time Gate device. The sign read, Time Machine Room. Like we need an incident like THIS again. The operatives set the recovered Timeshift Orbs into the slots that connected to the portal, and Cheren proceeded to strike the orbs with his sword to make them alight. The bright blue portal spiraled to life, and Cheren entered the past, by himself.

KND Moonbase; 800 years in the past

Cheren came out of the portal, and saw the Moonbase now consisted of mostly wood. Cheren walked out the door, seeing the Moonbase run by operatives in old-timey outfits. Among them was Merida DunBroch, who took notice of Cheren almost instantly as she walked by. "Cheren? ? What are ye doin' here? ?"

"Nice to see you again!" he grinned. "Wanna help me out with some puzzles?"

"Uuugh." Merida rolled her eyes. "Do ya ever get tired of this stuff?"

The two headed into the safe's room, and saw the safe was clean and new. (But to Merida, it already was.) The two stuck their swords in the turntable's slots and began to turn it. The safe's center lock had two holes on opposite sides, and as they turned it, they saw two separate eye switches appear briefly on both sides. "So, how's this work?" Cheren asked.

"Ya have to shoot the eyes as they come. It sorta takes more than two people."

"In that case." Cheren and Merida released the slots as Cheren played the Elegy of Emptiness. He played it twice and had both clones turn from the opposite sides. As the wheel turned, Cheren and Merida took aim and shot the eye switches simultaneously when they showed. Two more eye switches appeared in random spots, and this pattern repeated 3 more times. For this last one, one of the switches was a holy eye switch, which threw them off as Merida hit it with a regular arrow. Because of messing up the combo, the lock immediately went back to its starting position. The turntable went back as well, causing the clones to disappear.

Cheren face-palmed in anger, having to make the clones again (he really hated this ability). Cheren and Merida restarted the combo, keeping a sharp eye when the holy eye would appear. When it showed, Cheren whipped out the Light Arrow and shot, and they hit both switches at the same time. The safe flew open, but nothing appeared to be inside. "Hmm… must've cleaned it out." Merida figured.

"In THIS time." Cheren reminded. "Listen, can you make sure they hold this open for the next 8 centuries?"

"Um… yes?-"

"Great, be right back!" Cheren ran to the Time Gate and returned to the present. The big, rusted safe was still left wide open, and in sat a Timeshift Orb. Cheren grabbed the orb and returned through the portal. In place of the elevator in Cheren's time, there was a wooden ladder. The sign beside the ladder read, Enjoy this ladder while you can before the lazy humans of the future make fancy up-down whozmawhatsits. Cheren set the orb down, climbed the short ladder, and pulled the orb up with the Hookshot.

A Time Block sat in the middle of the floor at the top, so Cheren set the orb inside, then played the Song of Time to warp back to the future. When he stepped out of the block, to his time, he was immediately surrounded by Bulblin Archers. His eyes widened as they all pulled, and loosed flaming arrows at the same time. Cheren ducked and rolled quickly, swinging his blade and slicing all the Bulblins quickly. Once they were out of the way, Cheren looked over the edge to pull Sector V up with his Hookshot.

They seemed to be at the highest point in the bridge tower, and the door ahead of them read, Aquarium Room. They went inside, coming to a huge room with a giant aquarium tank. Through the huge glass, they could see many aquatic creatures, 'course some of them were actually Majora's monsters. They went around the left side of the tank, having to take out a few simple Moblin.

Thomas swung his hammer as one stabbed its spear, smashing the simple wood and knocking the demon in the face. The second one raised its spear horizontally to defend from Kellie, but the girl leaped on the spear and spun around rapidly, kicking the demon across the face repeatedly before it knocked out. Melissa ran at the third Moblin, who was about to bat her, but she shrunk herself down, avoided the swing, and leapt to grab its crotch. The Moblin flinched slightly and immediately threw his fist down. Melissa released, and the monster's eyes widened as he punched his crotch hard. Celeste roped the monster around the neck, pulled him over, and kicked him away as Melissa unshrunk, the Gilligan girl shaking her hands in disgust.

The kids continued to the end of the path and climbed the ladder that led onto the tank. They crossed a small bridge, over a smaller part of the tank, to another foothold, overlooking the much larger tank. A locked door was on the left of that foothold. There were jellyfish floating around in the water, and some Froaks. From the left wall, a Security Beamos was aiming its laser in the water, but there looked to be plenty of room around it. Across the water was a foothold fenced behind bars, and there appeared to be a Leaf-Boat Plant there. Also, in the ceiling corner beside the Beamos was an Eye Guardian, its eye shut tight as it looked at them.

Cheren dove in the water and swam toward the right corner. There was a pile of boulders, so Cheren had to lure a Froak over, getting behind the puff-fish and Torpedo Spinning to knock it into the boulders, and explode. A tunnel was open for Cheren to swim to another area beyond the tank. He resurfaced in a shallow area of water, coming onto land and turning left as the path went. Two barrels were stationed between two parallel forks in the road, and along the left path, a Bulblin wielding a gun stood guard.

Cheren crouched behind the barrel, feeling the need to put on his Hidden Leaf Headband. He carefully peeked out as the Bulblin turned to look around the area. Cheren snuck over, his ninja form providing perfect silence as he raised a kunai, and impaled the monster from behind. He crawled quietly forward, reaching the end of long block that separated the paths, and saw another Bulblin guarded the end, facing the right side, so Cheren couldn't sneak around the right. However, since he was on the left, he was behind it, allowing him to stab the demon.

High on the left side of the room was a Hidden Leaf symbol, now in his view. He was able to jump and grab onto it, overlooking the large room, seeing a trio of soldiers held hostage on the lower floor, surrounded by three Bulblin wielding guns as the kids held hands behind their heads, and on their knees. "Man, why do all those other guys still use arrows? GUNS are the way to go, yo." A Bulblin said.

Cheren saw Bulblins patrolling the walkways, and knew if he got spotted, the Bulblins would slay them. He hopped to a Leaf symbol on a ceiling vent, getting directly above a standing Bulblin who turned in place quickly. Cheren dropped down while it was turned, stabbing it quickly. He hopped back to the symbols and leaped to the other side of the room. A Bulblin stood firmly with his back against the wall, so Cheren couldn't get behind him. However, he saw an air vent was behind the Bulblin, so Cheren hopped further downward and found another vent. He crawled inside as it went upward, and found the other end was behind the Bulblin. Cheren pushed it open and stabbed the monster quickly.

Sensing trouble, two of the three Bulblin guarding the kids began to patrol the room, leaving the middle one to guard them. Both Bulblin went up parallel stairs, and Cheren carefully dropped behind the first one to pierce it from behind. He quietly crawled to the second, and was able to take it out. Cheren leaped to the Leaf symbols around the room to overlook the last Bulblin, who stood under a ledge while he aimed his gun at the kids. Cheren saw a Leaf symbol just above the bottom of the ledge, and quietly as he could in his ninja form, he leaped over, and flipped to the underside of the ledge, where there was a grating that allowed him to hang on. He was able to drop behind the Bulblin, and stab it.

The kids stood up, panting in relief. "Thanks." A boy smiled.

"No problem." Cheren said in his gruff ninja voice. "But can you help a guy out?"

"We can open the door so you can get out." A kid pressed a remote, and the metal bars sealing a door along the lower left corner opened. Before he left, Cheren checked his map. A Stray Fairy was in the spot where the kids were kneeling, and when they moved away, he saw a vent underneath. Cheren pulled the vent open, and grabbed the Stray Fairy inside. With that, Cheren hurried to the door and entered, finding himself behind the bars that protected the foothold beside the fish tank.

Cheren pressed a switch and opened a part of the bars. He reverted to human and watered the Leaf-Boat Plant, allowing him to float around the water. He floated to the Security Beamos' laser, and found out it actually sealed the tunnel down below. There was a mirror on a small pole on the edge of the tank, and Cheren saw it could be angled at the Eye Guard. He reflected the beam with his Mirror Shield, bouncing it off the mirror and toward the eye. A treasure chest dropped on the foothold where Sector V waited, and bumped Harry in the head as it did so. The chest contained, as expected, a Small Key.

Before they left, Cheren saw there was another Stray Fairy marked in this room. They looked below the water of the smaller tank and saw a tiny drain, lightly sucking water in. Once again, this required Melissa's help. The girl shrunk down and drove her toy car into the water, so it turned into a submarine. She drove downward, and was immediately sucked into the drain, going fast down the pipe before a small waterfall dropped her in a pool.

A Moonbase janitor was using a fishnet to pull dirt out of the water, and he scooped Melissa's submarine in the process. The boy curiously pulled the submarine out and asked, "Man, how many times have I told those guys the fish tank is not a pool? ? Huh?" The tiny Melissa suddenly jumped to the floor, and re-expanded. "Whoa!"

"Sorry!" Melissa grinned, taking her car back. She found a small chest in the room and opened it to retrieve the fairy. With that, she shrunk down again and drove in the water. There was another pipe in the side of the wall, so she drove in and was sucked back into the larger tank.

She resurfaced and unshrunk, joining the others as they entered the locked door. They came out on a bridge over a deep chasm, with a Sumoblin guarding the other side. Cheren put on Slag's Mask as the sumo charged, and the two engaged in a shoving battle. Slag's superior strength was able to push the sumo, but there was no ledge of which to push him off, and Cheren couldn't throw sideways. However, as he pushed, they passed over a Flower Pad. Kellie skipped over and twirled rapidly on it, and Cheren saw a trapdoor opened ahead of them. Cheren smirked and kept shoving, and was able to shove him into the trap, and send him falling to the chasm.

They were free to enter the door, but Cheren checked the map and saw another Stray Fairy, along the left side. They saw a mini walkway within the window wall, and on the right of it, a happy monkey waited. Cheren threw his Remote Bananarang and lured the monkey along the path, though he was still behind glass. The monkey was led to a switch, opening a small hatch in the glass when he pressed it. A Stray Fairy floated behind it, so Cheren just had to call it with his Fairy Mask.

The six kids entered the doorway to the next part of the Moonbase. "The leader's room shouldn't be too far." Harry said as they strode forward confidently. (Pause song.)

Inside the leader's office

Supreme Leader Jeremy was bound and gagged in a corner of his office. Miyuki/Majora stood before the window and overlooked the endless space. A Zoni hovered beside the Masked Demon, glowing a red aura and red eyes, with seven pupils in its left eye. "Such a wide universe… we created. Isn't it, Vriska?"

"Ehh, it's alright. ;;;;)" The strange girl said through the Zoni.

"I can't believe the time has already come. I do not wish harm on Miyuki… but our bodies are a necessary sacrifice. And, my other body is safe where it needs to be, yes?"

"Yeah, yeah, don't worry. I'm still a girl of my word. :::;)"

"Then it is time to uphold our deal." The white-haired child helped herself/themself onto the cozy purple bed on the side of the room; the one that Booster had made for them. As the child lay on her back, Majora relaxingly felt her arms around the softness of the bed. "Mmmm… no bed could be better, as her final resting place. Ahhh… but for me, it is her very face. This will be such a relaxing death."

"Siiiigh, all this melodrama about death. I was hoping putting you to sleep would be a little more fun."

"Trust me, the fun will come before long. Now… fulfill your end of the bargain. Send us to the Dream World."

"Fine, fiiiine. 8ut if something 8ad happens, don't think I won't enjoy it! ;;;;D" With that, Vriska gave the two a jolt of electricity, and they fell into deep sleep.

With the others (Resume Moon Base 1 Theme.)

The kids reached what Cheren recognized as the main bridge area of the Moonbase. They started in a small area and went up a short staircase to the larger area. Before their very eyes, the bridge was overrun with Delightfulized operatives. "Majora's really been busy." Melissa observed.

"Careful not to hurt them, guys." Harry cautioned. "They're still operatives." The zombified kids wore blank expressions and gaping mouths as they stepped toward the operatives. They decided not to use their weapons and wipe the kids out with simple combat. Once all the kids were unconscious, they headed up a nearby staircase, to the part of the bridge where the leader's office was. The office door sat where it always has, except a huge, horned lock kept it sealed. It was the Boss Door.

Cheren glared hatefully. Majora was just inches away, Miyuki moments away from being rescued. But they couldn't, because they were safely behind a huge, locked door. Cheren hated how these villains were so cowardly. Near the left of the Boss Door was the set of mini terminals which the Global Command used to contact operatives, and monitor areas on Earth. The screens flicked with images of random people from the worlds, like Slithers, Lenny, Facilier, and Mikaela Corella. These were likely people who had masks to collect.

Further down the left was the door to the Decommissioning Chamber, but it was locked. Down on the lower floor was the entrance to the cafeteria, so they decided to head in there first. The cafeteria was overrun with hordes of Fatblin slobs, happily chowing down on the biggest piles of food imaginable, while Delightfulized kid waiters were bringing their food. There were way too many for them to fight, but Cheren did away with them easy by shooting Light Arrows. The Delightfulized operatives were surprised to see their masters vanished, and the heroes hurried over to knock them out.

They entered the kitchen and saw a single Delightful operative washing dishes. Cheren ran over and knocked him out, but that's when they were ambushed by Like-Likes that fell from the ceiling. Cheren and Harry were swallowed by the monsters as they happily sucked on the operatives, eventually spitting them out. Cheren's glasses and shield were sucked, and his blurry sight rendered him nearly helpless. Thomas smashed one of the Like-Likes with his hammer, while Celeste used her rope to catch the second one and squeeze its middle. She forced Harry's S.P.I.C.E.R. out of its mouth, which the Termina Uno boy grabbed to set the blob to flames.

Cheren recovered his stolen items as they entered a small closet, finding the Small Key. There weren't any Stray Fairies marked in the room, so they hurried back to the main bridge to open the locked door. However, they weren't able to get far past the Boss Door when… (End song.)

"That's as far as you go." Truman Kirman stood in their way, a smirk on his brainwashed face.

"Hm… I didn't think we'd have to fight you again, Truman." Harry stated.

From behind Truman stepped out Panini Drilovsky, the once-energetic girl baring mindless, brainwashed eyes. "Panini…" Cheren spoke lowly.

"You kids are impressive for making it this far," Truman spoke, "but I can't let you go any further. You see, Majora is resting right now after a hard day's work. I can't possibly let you disturb him."

"Well, Majora's getting an early wake up call." Cheren told him with a glare. "As soon as we get that Boss Key."

"It won't be long until the moon crashes to the Earth." Truman smirked. "You can never hope to stop him in time."

"I have plenty of time to kick your butt first-" Cheren stopped when Harry put a hand on his shoulder.

"Save your strength for the mini-boss, dude." He said. "We'll handle them."

"…" Cheren looked at him seriously and gave a nod. Immediately, Cheren dashed around the two, and before Truman could chase him, Celeste caught her rope around his wrists.

"Not so fast!" she yelled.

"Nnnnrr!" Truman tugged on the rope and yanked Celeste over, kicking her back and freeing himself. "Very well. I'll just let him deal with Cheren. Panini: attack them!"

With a quick nod, the firebender girl flipped and launched two waves of green fire, which Thomas and Kellie quickly dodged. Thomas raised his hammer, but Panini kicked the large tool away and punched Thomas back. Harry tried to burn Truman with the S.P.I.C.E.R., but the Delightful swiftly rolled behind and grabbed his head in a headlock. Melissa shrunk herself and crawled up Truman's pants leg, making the boy hop around trying to shake her out. Celeste tackled him from behind, smirking as she binded his arms together. "Not so fun the other way around, huh?"

Melissa excitedly hopped out of Truman's shirt collar and jumped on her car, driving away as Truman shot her a glare. "I've had about enough of her." Truman said, getting to his feet and throwing Celeste toward the tiny car.

"WHOA!" the mini Gilligan yelped as Celeste almost crushed her, her car nearly flipping over. "That was close. WAH!" Panini immediately threw a wall of fire in her path, and Melissa barely swerved around before Thomas tackled the Drilovsky girl.

With Cheren…

The locked door brought Cheren to the Decommissioning Chamber. The four chairs sat with their backs to each other on the small platform, just like his own universe. The room seemed rather empty as he walked around, studying the device. He eyes directed to the round window, showing a view of space. He could vaguely see the Earth down left, and knew the moon was getting closer. He had to stop Majora fast.

"Weeell, weeell, well…" Cheren whipped around with a start, weapon ready as the shadow man, Benedict Uno, stepped out from behind the Decommissioner. "I must say, Cheren… I pegged you all wrong. I thought you were just some weak little boy who couldn't go ANYWHERE without his mommy. But look at yoooouu!" Cheren glared hatefully at the half-demon, smirking behind his silhouette. "You came this far and haven't even hit PUBerty. You've officially taken my annoying nephew and his naggy girlfriend and mixed an UGLY combination."

Cheren stood up straight and brushed his sword aside for a second. "I had you pegged all wrong, too, Uncle Ben. I thought you were just some lazy old drunk that's lost all meaning with life. I didn't expect you to be up and at it again. Heheh! And if THAT weren't funny enough," Father's eyes furrowed as Cheren grew a smirk, "you're still signing up with powers that are higher than you as a means to achieve something that you could never do. You're weak, Uncle Ben."

"I see you have that smug tone, too." He said scoldingly. "I would hope your generation learned better manners, but it seems they just get worse. Once Majora is through with your world, though, that's ALL gonna CHANGE. Finally, I can reMAKE a world where ADULTS RULE."

"That's the part I DON'T get." Cheren stated. "What's all this remaking the world stuff about? You can't just REMAKE a world after it's been blown up."

"You really don't know the story behind Majora, do you?"

"Uhhhh, no?"

Father shook his head ashamed. "Poor, deluded boy. They can't teach them ANYTHING in school nowadays. Oh well… I suppose it wouldn't be good for me if you knew. I can't let you get anywhere near Majora now. It's time we settle this long, drawn-out battle ONCE and for all," both opponents readied a fighting position, "and END the unholy era that BELONGED to you KIDS. AAAAAUUUUGGGHH." Father exploded with flames, filled with anger. (Play Slag's Battle Theme from Ratchet: Tools of Destruction.)

Sub-boss: Benedict Uno

Cheren dodged as the shadowy half-demon threw punches with fiery fists, running behind the decommissioning chairs to strike his uncle in the back, but Father dodged and threw another fire punch, which Cheren blocked with his Mirror Shield. Cheren thrusted his shield forward and made the uncle wobble backward. Cheren leapt for a jump attack when- "Armament!" his sword came in contact, but didn't penetrate the silhouetted man at all. Cheren looked confused and kept swinging his sword, but he was unable to penetrate the man.

Father grabbed his great-nephew by the collar and tossed him over the edge, Cheren gripping tight as he could with his fingers. "Ha ha ha ha!" Father laughed, an evil smirk on his face as he approached the defenseless boy. "I wasn't JUST laying around doin' nothin'. I've been brushing up on my skills, too." Cheren gritted his teeth and flipped back to the platform, throwing his sword against Father as the man dodged. Father's hands caught aflame as he grabbed the sword, trying to push it back. Cheren swung his foot and kicked Father's shin, the man wincing from the pain as Cheren punched him upside and knocked him on his back.

Cheren jumped on Father's belly and glared as he raised his blade, about to stab down, but Father activated his "Armament"; whatever that was, Cheren didn't know. But rather than attack him, Cheren jumped off and sliced one of the walkways with his sword. He hopped over and sliced the second walkway, then sliced the third. "Whoooa!" Father wobbled a little as the platform shook. "What do you think you're doing, Boy?"

Cheren merely shot him a glare before slicing the fourth walkway, and the entire platform fell straight down through the chasm. "WHOOOAAAAAAHHHHH-UUH!" The two collided with the platform down below, and Father became dizzied. Cheren took this opportunity to deal him a round of blows, cutting up his silhouetted suit a little. Father glared as he flipped to his feet and threw fireballs at his great-nephew. Cheren bounced the flames back with his Mirror Shield, but his great-uncle ran forward and tried to pry the shield away from him.

Cheren did a shield thrust and tried to strike his uncle, but Father defended himself with this Armament again. Cheren backed away in thought before pulling out his Light Arrow to see if it would do something. Father apparently took a slight shock, leaving himself open to Cheren's blade. He took only a few hits before he got back up and flipped away. "Little boys shouldn't be playing with swords." He stated. Father launched a storm of fireballs at Cheren, but the boy did a spin attack and knocked them away, only for Father to zip behind him and punch him down.

Cheren raised his shield when Father tried to punch him, flipping to his feet to swing his sword, but Father defended with the Armament once again. Rather than strike him some more, Cheren pulled out his M.U.M.B.L.E.R. and shot M.A.R.B.L.E.s at the four bridges holding the platform. "HEEEY-" Father yelled to stop him, but was too late as the platform fell into the abyss once again.

They crashed powerfully against the floor on the bottom, ending up in an old office. The dust cleared as Benedict was seen sitting dizzy again, and Cheren ran forth to deal another round of blows. "THAAAT'S it." Father yelled angrily, getting back up. "If I can't teach you myself, I'll need a LITTLE help! Father BEEEEE!"

Cheren turned around, and saw the Termina Father behind him. "Why are YOU the Father A?" Father B questioned.

"Just turn dragon."

"Okay." The Termina Father began to shake tremendously as he got on all fours. His hands and feet turned into claws, wings appeared on his back, and he grew sharp teeth and a tail. Father B glared at Cheren, a fiery, demonic look in his dragon eyes.

"I STILL can't believe he can do that." Cheren commented, not really fazed by the dragon's appearance. Cheren raised his bow and was about to launch a Light Arrow, but Father A punched him away from the side. Cheren recovered and glared as Father A bore an evil look and flaming fist, while the Father B Dragon hissed with malice. Cheren got up and tried to shoot Father A with a Light Arrow, but the shadow dragon leapt forward and batted Cheren away with his tail. Cheren's glasses became crooked a little as he got up to face them. He raised his sword and ran at Father B, but the dragon easily smacked him away with his tail again.

Cheren was struggling to stand up this time, feeling he may be powerless against two Fathers. But just then, a bolt of lightning shot down and struck the area around Father B, and they all looked up as Nerehc came flying down, taking a land beside his Positive. "Nerehc!" Cheren exclaimed.

"I didn't think I could trust you with this." Nerehc smirked. "Now… let me handle the mopey guy. You get the dragon."

Cheren's look became serious as he nodded. Nerehc flew overhead and shot lightning at Father A while Cheren got back up and ran at the dragon. Father A used his Armament to defend from the lightning, but Nerehc landed behind him and stuck lightning in his back. "AAAAHHHCK!"

"Heh! You may've learned Haki, but you aren't very good at it, I see." Nerehc smirked.

Father B blasted fire breath at Cheren, but he dodge-rolled sideways and ran to strike at his belly. The dragon tried to stomp on him, but Cheren ran back and shot a Light Arrow at Father B's head. The dark dragon flinched with pain, shielding his eyes, as Cheren ran behind to do a jump strike on his tail. Father B screeched, attempting to bat Cheren away, only for the boy to dodge and roll away. He raised his bow and launched another Light Arrow, stunning Father B's face, and Cheren ran to strike the tail again.

Father A was desperately trying to burn the Negative, but Nerehc was fast as he flew around, launching more lightning strikes at the shadow man. The Hylian Father was panting tiredly, his body emitting electric sparks. "Heff… what am I doing… I SHOULD be able to handle this." Father A got up straight, holding two fingers together as he faced the smirking Negative. Nerehc charged another bolt of lightning in his fingertips, launching without hesitation.

Father A was able to catch the lightning in his fingers, letting it flow across his body. "Ha haaa! Now for a taste of your own MEDICINE." Father A was ready to launch the lightning back at his great-nephew's counterpart, but Nerehc kept flying around, still wearing his cocky smirk. "Grrr, hold still…" Father A was becoming frustrated, unable to get a perfect aim. "Aha!" Nerehc faced him eye-to-eye, floating perfectly still in one place. Finally, he shot the lightning straight ahead, but Nerehc dodged immediately, allowing him to strike the Father B Dragon.

"AAAAAAAAHHHH!" The shadowed dragon fell on his stomach, looking totally weary.

"Whoops." Father A looked embarrassed.

The Father Dragon sparked and shrunk down to his regular form as the Benedict B looked very dizzy. "Ooooh… I'm suddenly not in the mood for electric zap."

With the Terminan counterpart down, Cheren and Nerehc stood side-by-side at the terrified Benedict A, confident smirks on their identical faces. Father tried to throw fireballs at both of them, but Cheren jumped back and Nerehc shot upward, launching another lightning bolt at his form. In his weakened state, Cheren tried to strike him with his sword, but the electrical charge on Father's body gave him a shock. Father angrily grabbed his great-nephew and threw him against the wall, headfirst, and was about to go in for more. Once more, he didn't get the chance as Nerehc zipped in front of him and pelted him with lightning.

As Cheren got up, he drew his Light Arrow and launched, dealing another powerful shock through Father's stomach. Father fell to his knees, too weak to fight anymore, and Cheren finished him with an upward strike, sending him backwards. (End song.)

"Huff… yyooou…" Father gripped his stomach, weakly getting to his feet as he filled with more anger than ever. "All I wanted… was simple peace and HARMONY for you kids. And I wanted to accomplish that… by making a world we're you'll all POLITE and OBEDIENT… so you WOULDN'T get into trouble. But WOULD you let me? ? NOOOO. Instead… you insist on riding your bikes, busting your butts, and GETTING bruises. Well, I…I have had ENOUGH of you. Your parents… were the worst people that ever lived. You are… the worst thing that ever could've come from them. I will finish you…" Cheren's expression remained unchanged, glaring at the rage-filled uncle. "I will make you regret… EVER standing against me." Father's hands alit with flames that began to grow and grow. "All of you… when all this is done, I will make the New World. And everyone in that world will know the name of Benedict Un-NOOO! !" The flames immediately vanished as Nerehc's blade pierced his stomach from behind.

"Aaaah!" Cheren froze with shock and horror.

Nerehc wore a hateful look as he pulled the blood-covered blade out, the shadowed man falling to the ground. Nerehc wiped the blood off and said, "Well, that takes care of it."

Cheren filled with anger and hate, gritting his teeth as he approached his Negative. "Why'd you do that? ?"

"What, he was getting annoying."

"He was my UNCLE. He's family."

"So? It's not like anyone actually cares about him anymore."

"You don't get it…" Cheren sighed.

"Ahh, quit cryin', I stabbed his stomach, not his heart. See, he's still alive."

"Oooooh…" Father A held his hands over his stomach, feeling extremely sick. "Can I have some… rocky road, Mommy?..."

"Siiiigh." Cheren calmed down a little, but was still pretty peeved. "Nerehc… sometimes, I worry."

"Worry about yourself." Nerehc stated, walking over and bending down to search Father's suit. "But hey. At least we got this." Cheren looked up as Nerehc presented the Boss Key.

You've got the Boss Key! Even though it's the seventh time, it feels more rewarding than ever! This key will lead to the room where Majora waits! Get back up there and FINISH the job!

Cheren smiled and stuffed the key in his jacket. "It's a long way up." Nerehc mentioned. "You probably don't wanna get up normally. Let me help."

"Wait!" Cheren checked his map, and saw the last Stray Fairy. He checked behind the office desk and found a small chest. Inside was the final purple fairy of this dungeon. "There… but I still don't know where they go. Anyway. Let's go, Nerehc." With that, Nerehc wrapped his arms around Cheren's, and kicked on his rockets as they flew directly upwards.

With the others…

Harry and Truman's arms were locked in a shoving battle, in which the brainwashed operative was able to knock him away. He looked down and saw Melissa driving around his feet in circles, and Truman growled in anger before trying to squish her. Melissa laughed with excitement as she drove away, avoiding his feet as he chased her, but screamed when Panini's massive boot suddenly came down and stopped her car cold. Melissa tried to back up, but was stuck tight as Panini added more pressure and began to flatten the car, the windows cracking and bolts popping out. Melissa frantically climbed out the window before she was squished, but was immediately snapped in Truman's hands.

"Ahhh, the consequences of using a shrink ray." Truman smirked as Melissa struggled helplessly in his hands. "You become swifter to hit, but much more weak. I can crush you like a measly grape." Melissa desperately tried to reach her shrink ray, but Truman kept her arms from moving.

"Hold on, Dude!" Celeste tried to throw her rope and catch the Gilligan girl, but the minute she launched, Panini launched fire and burned the raggedy rope. "Awww… I didn't even get many puzzles." Celeste stared sadly at her burned rope. Immediately, Panini kicked fire and knocked the Stork girl back.

"That was disappointing." Truman said, adding more pressure between his hands. "No matter. After I'm done with you, the demons could use your squished organs for sustenance. It was nice knowing you, Lissa." Melissa's eyes widened, feeling an incredible amount of pressure flow into her head. Her skin turned blue, and she felt her head would explode at any minute. Ironic that her closest friend would be the death of her, she thought. It made her angry to never be able to take revenge on Majora for doing this to him. Not to mention, she would never see Jeremy again.

Still laying on his stomach, Harry weakly pulled out his slingshot, pulling a pellet back and launching at Truman's eye. "Ah!" the boy covered his eye, dropping Melissa, and the girl immediately took a huge breath, the hugest breath she's ever inhaled. Her skin reverted back to normal color, and as she quickly unshrunk herself, she never felt more like a balloon, never felt her organs squished so tightly together.

Melissa grabbed Truman by the shoulders and bashed her face against his, breaking his fake glasses in the process. Truman wobbled about, holding his dizzy head, as Harry ran and dealt a punch against his Delightfulized face, knocking him clean out. Meanwhile, Thomas swung his hammer at Panini, but the lifeless girl gripped its handle and pushed it back with equal strength. Kellie smiled gleefully as she skipped over, and tickled Panini's hips. Apparently the mindless girl felt the tickle and released her grip, Thomas pulling his hammer back. Kellie jumped away as Thomas swung the massive mallet, and bashed the side of Panini's head with great force, sending her sliding across the floor beside Truman.

At that time, Cheren and Nerehc returned, seeing their battle's concluded. "Hey! You guys okay?" Cheren called.

"Yeah, we're fine." Melissa said, brushing her shoulders casually. "Delightful guys were never this hard."

Cheren bent down over Panini and slipped her Bunny Hood on her head. The group also noticed a pair of glasses sticking from Panini's pocket, and Cheren pulled them out to see they were Truman's. "Quick, put those on!" Melissa yelled. Cheren quickly slipped the glasses onto Truman's bruised face, and played the Song of Healing.

Doo-doo-dooo, doo-doo-dooo, doo-doo, do-do-dooooo.

Panini's Bunny Hood fused into her body, and a mist of light flowed from Truman's glasses into his eyes. In seconds, the blond-haired boy woke up, his blue eyes back to normal. "Oh, I… What was I doing?"

"Heheh, he's back!" Melissa jumped as Celeste helped him up, with Kellie giving him a hug.

"Err!" Truman grunted in pain. "Why am I so… Ooow!"

"Well, dude, you were kinda brainwashed." Celeste answered.

"So we had to knock some sense into you." Thomas said with a playful smile.

"Oh, I… thought I felt hazy. Well, I'm sorry if I hurt you guys."

"Ehh, it's fine." Melissa said simply.

"We're glad you're back now!" Kellie smiled. "If your head still hurts, I'll let you have my Get Better From Booboos After You've Been Brainwashed Rainbow Monkey!"

The seven kids then approached Panini, the girl still peacefully asleep. "I hope we didn't hit her too hard." Thomas said.

"She'll pull through." Cheren told them. "If I know her… our next objective is taking down Majora."

"Ready when you are." Nerehc told him, already standing by the Boss Door. Cheren faced him and nodded, all operatives wearing serious looks as they joined the Negative. Cheren stuck the Boss Key into the horned lock, turning it as the chains fell loose. Without a moment's hesitation, the operatives charged in, remaining weapons ready.

"YOUR plan ends NOW, Major-…" Cheren stopped himself as they stared at the relaxed, sleeping form of Miyuki Crystal, her face snoring under her mask.

Melissa spotted the Supreme Leader, Jeremy in the corner, hurrying over to untie him. "Jeremy!" she exclaimed, embracing him in a relieved hug.

"Hehe…" he blushed.

Cheren, Nerehc, and Sector V stood over Miyuki curiously. She looked so peaceful on the soft, comfy purple bed, and the evil mask didn't look harmful at all. Cheren was about to pry the mask off her face, but was suddenly stopped by the Zoni.

"It's no use." They said in monotone.

"WHOA! !" Melissa jumped in surprise, and Sector V looked shocked, too.

"You… can see them?" Cheren questioned.

"He has fallen asleep, and escaped to the Dream World. The moon will fall here, while he is there. You must go in to stop him."

"You mean… fall asleep?" Cheren questioned. The Zoni nodded.

"Simple as that." Nerehc stated. "But I'm going, too."

"Fine by me." Cheren nodded. "The rest of you guys, stay here. Watch over our bodies."

"Are you sure?" Melissa asked. "Taking on Majora all by yourselves? I mean, what about needing at least a second person?"

"HellOOOOO? ?" Cheren gestured toward Nerehc, who looked annoyed. "Though I hate to say it, long as I got Nerehc, I'm all set. You guys are needed here at Moonbase. Find the masks that belonged to the other Delightfulized operatives. We can take Majora."

"If you say so." Harry said. "Just be careful, Bro."

"Bro?" Nerehc questioned.

"We're SORTA brothers." Harry shrugged.

"Hehehehe!" Cheren grinned and chuckled. "…Listen… thanks for all the help you've been to me, guys. I don't know what I would've done if I didn't meet you. I…I'm proud to have served alongside you guys."

"Man, is EVERYONE from his universal so sentimental?" Celeste eye-rolled.

"Dude, just forget about the cheesy crud and get goin'." Thomas demanded. "You gotta stop this guy before the moon squishifies the whole world!"

"But if you need help sleeping, I have pretty Help You Get To Sleep When You Have To Stop An Evil Demon In The Dream World Rainbow Monkey!" Kellie grinned.

"Heh…" Cheren smiled warmheartedly. "I'll keep that all in mind." With that said, both Cheren and Nerehc got on opposite sides of Miyuki in her bed, wrapping arms around her (and feeling silly in that position). The Zoni charged their energy and zapped the opposite operatives, and were immediately sent into sleep.

Majora's Dream World (Play "Nowhere to Run" from Rayman Origins.)

Final stage: Land of Living Dead

Mission: Find Majora and defeat him once and for all!

Of all the dream worlds the two have been two, this one was probably the ugliest. The sky was dark and filled with red, gloomy clouds. They stood on a beach area, surrounded by purplish-pink, gooey water. The only inhabitants of the beach were more of the Zombified Trolls which Cheren encountered earlier. He still wasn't sure what these creatures were. Regardless, the path ahead seemed relatively clear except for them.

Nerehc was already skiing across the beach using his rocket shoes, while Cheren had to follow him normally, slicing the Zombified Trolls that tried to grab him. There were a few gaps in the beach that were filled with the gooey water, so Cheren hopped across the sandy platforms; he didn't care to know what happened if he fell in. He then came to a spot where withered lilipads led the way across. Cheren turned into a Kateenian and jumped across quickly before the lilipads sank. More Zombified Trolls rose out of the beach ahead, so Cheren changed back into a human to slice them away. Cheren then entered a small forest area, making a few turns as the path went while dealing with more trolls.

He came to a gaping chasm, watching Nerehc slide down a slope on the other side. On Cheren's left, there was a Rearrangement Pad, so he turned into Sackboy and studied the area. There was a long, wooden plank on the other side, and a pointed stake sticking up from the ground below. Cheren lifted the board and fixed it onto the stake through the center, and it began tilting back and forth, both ends facing both cliffs. Cheren became a Kateenian again and jumped to it, carefully crossing and keeping a balance.

Cheren jumped to the other cliff and reverted to human, going down a golden staircase to a rather gold-lit town area. He saw Nerehc skiing around in circles in an open plaza, his way of 'impatiently' waiting for his slowpoke Positive to hurry up. When Cheren was coming, Nerehc swiftly skied sideways down the town street, wearing his usual cool-guy smirk. Cheren followed him, and more Zombified Trolls were coming around the corners. Cheren proceeded to beat them some more, watching Nerehc Wall Kick his way across several buildings, before going on top.

There were a few platforms that led upward, so Cheren turned into his wolf form to jump his way up. Cheren came to a large stone wall, covered in moss and leaves, with a gap that was blocked by a huge Majora block. Cheren turned into Slag and pushed the block forward, until it fell into a hole its exact size, allowing Cheren into a smaller, village area, where Troll Zombies casually roamed around. Cheren wanted to leave the lot alone, even though they slumped over to try and choke him (they moved slowly, of course), and followed Nerehc as he skied up some stairs.

The Negative boy Wall Kicked his way up some walls again, going to a ledge above. There was no other way up, except for the Hidden Leaf symbols around the walls. Cheren turned into a ninja and leaped his way up, going to join his Negative as they stood over a dusty abyss.

Before they went forward, however, they spotted a hidden path behind the wall to their left. They followed it curiously, finding a hidden door in a small enclosing. Inside this door was, to their surprise, a Fairy Fountain. The fountain was alit with purple aura, and purple Stray Fairies fluttered around it. Cheren quickly pulled out his bottle and let the Stray Fairies out. As they spiraled and joined their friends in the center, Cheren wondered what kind of fairy would show up here, and with what power?

The fairies fused in the fountain, and vanished in a purple flash. They uncovered their eyes, and nothing was there. A greyish-purple mist began to form in the center, and a pair of pitch-black, bare feet were the first to step out. Soon, the rest of the spirit's body stepped out slowly. She was shaped like the other fairies, the same long, white hair. But the rest of her was pitch-black, except there was a skeleton painted where her bones would be. Her face seemed to have no mouth, just a skull; or the upper portion of a skull, rather. They couldn't tell if it was her natural appearance, or just a jumpsuit. She had no color or life to her eyes. They were just big, white spots.

The skeleton-ish fairy stared at Cheren with its lifeless eyes. A sense of fear filled the boy's heart. With no pupils in her eyes, he couldn't tell what she was thinking. The fairy just stood there, completely silent and blank.

"…Um… do you have a name?" Cheren decided to ask.

The fairy approached him quickly, and Cheren flinched slightly. She stopped just inches in front of him, peeking her head over and observing his body. She still didn't speak or make a sound. Cheren became more creeped out by how she studied him. "…Are we going somewhere with this?"

The fairy perked, backing up as she reached behind her. She pulled out and presented Cheren a very strange mask. It looked like an Indian face; red whisker-like markings were painted on the side of its face, it had long, pointed ears, black eyes, and white hair. Cheren took the mask and studied it. No mask he's found on this journey peaked that much interest.

You've got the Fierce Deity's Mask! This mask holds the spirit of a fierce, powerful god. Could this mask's dark powers be as terrifying as Majora?

Cheren looked at the fairy again, who remained staring lifeless. She raised his right arm halfway, and gave a small, light wave before fading away. Nerehc walked beside his Positive and stared at the mask, too. "…You gonna try it?"

"I…I'm not sure." Cheren replied. Considering that fairy's creepy aura, he didn't know what the mask would do. It felt creepy just looking at it. Cheren stuffed it under his clothing and said, "Let's keep going."

With that, they walked out, and stood over the cliff above the endless chasm. There was nothing but darkness and despair below, it looked like, but a powerful gust of wind was blowing upward. There seemed to be nothing up above but dark clouds; however, they could hear the echoing roar of something metallic up above, like a ship. Nerehc kicked on his rockets and flew up first, while Cheren jumped over the edge, and threw open his Pirates' Sail. The wind caught in the sail sent Cheren flying way up high. He soon was at a level altitude, flying slowly straight as dark clouds fogged up his path.

The roaring of the ship grew louder and louder, and as Cheren cleared away from the dark-red fog, he gaped in awe at the roaring's source. Indeed, it was a ship, a giant, bright red battleship, that looked like something from the navy, only it was hovering in the sky. Cheren calmly allowed the breeze to carry him above the ship's deck, and he dropped down safely on top. The roaring could be heard across the heavens, and a dusty wind blew across the deck as blackish-red storm clouds spiraled around them, creating lightning that didn't make a sound.

Zombified Trolls walked about the deck, and didn't seem to bother Cheren or Nerehc as they walked by. They soon came to a stairway to a higher level of the ship, but it was guarded by three Zombie Trolls. The center zombie held a hand up gesturing to stop, and they did so as the zombie pulled out a notepad. He stared and skimmed down a list of people, searching intently until he reached 'Cheren Uno's name. It read 'Plus 1 guest' beside it, so the zombie humbly bowed to Cheren and Nerehc as they stepped aside.

Cheren and Nerehc stepped up the stairs, and a wide, clear path led directly to the huge door at the end. On both sides of the path, parallel rows of Zombie Trolls began to clap and dance, moaning echoey vocals as they gestured toward the door. Cheren and Nerehc merely glanced at the undead trolls confusedly. They weren't sure what they were cheering about, or what they could be leading them to. However, there were several blowing flags stationed around the deck, which bore Majora's symbol in white surrounded by red. The big, square door was bright red and had Majora's white symbol painted as well. They knew for sure, the Masked Demon was behind this door. They had no idea what to expect. Would Majora still be in Miyuki's body, or would he hold a new form, more terrifying than they ever expected? And why did Majora wish to lure them here of all places? Why the fancy entrance and location?

These questions loomed in their mind as they stood before the big square doorway. But one thing was sure in their mind: this was the final battle. They would face Majora beyond this door, and end his Operation Moonfall. The two exchanged serious looks and nodded. They gripped the huge door together and shoved it upward. The duo unhesitantly stepped into the darkness, and the door sealed them inside.

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Ahhhh… at last. Now WHAT could make for better pre-battle music than old Western whistles and vocals? (Nothin' makes an awesomer final stage. ;3) Anyhoo… this is done. With the final dungeon completed… and all ending chapters written long beforehand… this story is finally finished. Once I post the ending chapters, the Termina Arc will be done. (Also, I have the tendency to base Truman like Bakura, from Yu-Gi-Oh. X33) So next time… our final fight with Majora begins. ;I See you later.