The young "hero" was thrown back, with the pirate's hook grabbing his collar. He began to spin it, whirling Link around like a pinwheel. He was tossed from the deck, and over the railing. Grasping the rail, he nearly lost his hand when the pirate came down with his sword. But Link grabbed the rail with his other hand, and let go. The pirate's sword cut clean through, and the railing began to bend downwards. Link climbed back up to the top, and took a swing with his own sword, sending the pirate backwards. His sword went flying, sticking to the wall. The pirate scoffed, and pulled out his other sword.

"Come on, bucket brain!" Link screamed.

"Twenty three percent downloaded… Twenty four percent downloaded…"

"Yargh, I don't be seein' me crew yet…" the Skipper thought to himself. He crawled through another doorway strung with sharp barbwire. Why had his ship been vandalized so? Could those renegades have predicted this? As he turned the corner, he was met with a hallway full of scorpions. He shrugged, and swiftly glided by them. At last, he reached the brig, and waiting inside were his crew! Or at least, what was left of them. They had returned to their present states, and the Skipper realized that to rescue them, the Timeshift Stone on the deck would have to be activated.

"Skipper!" Fi screamed at him through the connection.

"Yargh, what ye' be wantin', lass? Alert me next time you' be wantin' to chat!"

"Do you have any idea how to shut this down?"

"Shut what down?"

"This!"

Skipper wired his signal back to the monitor, where he could get a full view of the room. Fi was frantically fiddling with some controls, and there were stripped wires overhead, shooting sparks down onto the ground. A large red light was flashing on the wall.

"What've you done to me' ship, lassie?!"

"I found it like this when I got here! There's a little counter in the corner that says 29:34! What does it mean?!"

"Somebody activated the emergency self destruct function, by the looks of it."

"How do you shut it off!?"

"Just wait for me, lass. I just need to be freein' me crew."

"Fine, make it quick."

"Thirty nine percent downloaded… Forty percent downloaded… "

"Hey, Groose? Groose!" Fi called out to him through her telepathic powers. He didn't hear her, because his brain was preoccupied trying to take the map file into memory. Unfortunately, this meant she had no idea about his progress on the mission. She knew the file was still sending because her brain indicated it. Well, this meant that all she could really do was wait. Oh, she could always contact Link. Yeah, what was he doing?

Link was tired of this. He swung again at the pirate. The robot leapt back onto the bowsprit. This battle had gone on long enough.

"Hey, Link! Link!"

"Not now!" Link screamed aloud as the pirate came sprinting towards him. Link used his sword to vault over him, and the pirate ran into the wall. Link ran towards him, and pulled off an amazing spin attack. The pirate captain was sliced clean in half.

"Oh no… I'm not finished with you, you creepy metallic piece of shit." Link said. The pirate, in response, began to crawl towards him on his hands. Link began bashing his faceplate in with his foot.

"Fifty percent downloaded… Fourty nine percent downloaded… "

"Hey!"

"Just kidding… Fifty two percent downloaded… "

Skipper began to tug at the bars. They didn't budge. He knew he needed to find another way in, and he knew that there was one that lead into the brig thorugh the engine room. He knew that going the long way would take too long, and that robot flying fairy lady needed him, so he decided to take the shortcut. Using his laser vision, he cut a hole into the ground below him, and dropped down. As he did this, he pondered why he didn't use his laser vision more often.

"Seventy seven percent downloaded… Seventy eight percent downloaded… "

Link smacked the robot, and kicked it over. Grabbing both arms and placing his foot on its back, he pulled. Both arms were torn off, leaving a mangled mess of wires behind where the arms used to connect.

"your MAKING THIS HAPEN." the robot said. Link almost felt bad for it and its poor grasp on the Skyloftian language.

But, instead, he continued beating it mercilessly. After about fifteen more minutes of this crap, the robot's eyes began to flicker.

"That's right, go on and die, you mechanical bastard. I'll see you in hell." Link said through clenched teeth. It rolled over, and began sputtering something.

"Excuse me, what was that?" Link grinned, and knealt down to hear his last words.

"It was… a… distaction!" the robot screamed, and its eyes began to glow bright once more. The arms the Link held in his hands grabbed him by his legs, and forced him to the ground. As the robotic torso began laughing, a pair of disembodied legs began kicking him. Link was getting real tired of this guy.

"Ninety five percent downloaded… Ninety six percent downloaded."

Groose still sat on the deck, against the mast, waiting for this stupid voice to get out of his head. It had been counting slowly for a long time, and Groose thought that it had to be done by now.

"One hundred percent downloaded. File transfer complete. Now loading "

"Finally, I can see what this thing has been trying to show me, I think." Groose said out loud. Suddenly, a map popped into his head.

"This is it?" Groose said to himself. He thought it was helpful that he got this map, but why did it take so long? Then, he noticed some notes off to the side.

"Dear Groose, please hit the shiny blue stone on the top of the big stick on the boat. Thanks, Fi."

That's what it read, and that's what Groose needed to do. The question was, how was he going to get up there?

Fi frantically began fiddling with more buttons. Where the heck was the Skipper? The clock now read 11:42. It was getting closer to hitting zero, and Fi needed to shut it down. But she was helpless. She didn't know how to work a pirate ship.

"Get off!" Link screamed, and began violently thrashing. The arms flew off of his legs, and one was sent overboard into the sand sea. The other slammed into the wall, cracking at the wrist. Link noticed his sword a couple feet away, and reached for it. A foot stomped down on his hand, crushing it before he could reach it. Link swung his legs around, kicking the foot overboard too. He got up, and grabbed his sword. The pirate's hand was slowly crawling towards him, hook still slightly attached. Link kicked it over board, and then turned to the other leg. It stepped on his toes, but Link hacked at it anyway. It split down the middle, and Link kicked them off the ship, too.

All that was left was the pirate captain's head, which was still emitting high pitched robotic screeches at him. Link picked it up and spit in its eye. Then, using all his strength, tossed it high into the sky. When it came down, Link hit it with his sword, and sent it sailing towards the mast of the ship. It smashed into the big timeshift stone in the center, then bounced off into the sea.

"Link: one. Pirates: zero." Link happily muttered to himself. "Looks like I'm ahead."