Chapter 29: Robot
This thing that was trying to attack us was some sort of giant, sentient robot that had been overtaken by a virus! There was nowhere to hide because its arms stretched all of the way to the walls and then some. I at least managed to yell at the other two Links for them to run and they certainly didn't need to be told twice as the three of us split up. Thankfully, this confused it for a short while. It gained its bearings again, though, when knight Link made a run at it with his sword out!
As he tried to slice the robot's giant hand off, his sword bounced off fruitlessly and he was grabbed by the robot. At this, the robot began shaking him around! Slave Link watched with a pained look on his face. That was one point that I absolutely had to agree with: that looked like it hurt. I then took out the sword that knight Link had handed to me earlier and tried to get the robot's attention via hitting it. It certainly worked as I felt myself getting grabbed and lifted off of the ground like a ragdoll!
Now with it resembling a robotic King Kong rip-off, I was beginning to lose my lunch as it swung me around. All of sudden, I heard the familiar click and whir of the hookshot! The hook hit the robot right in the back of the flatscreen monitor that was its head (face?) in what I assumed to be an attempt to get its attention. Well, it worked! The unfortunate part was that at this, it began to try crushing slave Link with the hands that were holding knight Link and me.
Suddenly, it paused for a moment and I realized that this thing apparently had enough software to attempt to fight off a virus! The monitor that was its face began to show more words as it attempted this.
"FILE NOT FOUND. SELF OVERRIDE ATTEMPT NUMBER 1… 2… 3… 4… 5… SELF OVERRIDE FAILED. MANUAL OVERRIDE REQUIRED. COCKPIT CLEAR. PLEASE PROC-ALSDNFMLSDVNKZXRSDMKL;GJZS.D,HXGJKDGUMJ KL'HSDGLIHDGCSLHDASLGMDVA;LTAVEJJGKXMLD,.ZJVGUK,OKR;IAEVML;TKXH,;HSBMLXVMGJHBJ,SRK[VLYU,ASEY,OKJLGH;,VFMSL;C,YHSJ,R' ,;ZL… INTRUDERS MUST BE PURGED! "
At this, I began to wonder about if it really had a cockpit and if so, where it would be. I looked all around the robot from where I could at the time and surmised that if it was anywhere, it would have to be in its 'chest'. However, it would never allow slave Link to get up there unless he dropped down from above, and just as that thought passed through my head, I saw a hookshot target above the robot! I immediately called out to slave Link. While this got slave Link's attention, it also got the robot's attention at the same time.
After a good shaking (ouch), I quickly explained my thoughts to slave Link. He nodded and shot the hook towards the target. This pulled him up to it and out of harm's way. Afterward, he jumped down on top of the robot and started searching for an entry. He eventually managed to find one on the robot's 'back' and, after prying it open, went inside!
As soon as this was done, the robot stopped paying attention to him and turned its focus back to knight Link and me. As it bashed us around, I wondered how we were still alive. Then, it dawned on me! The robot was fighting the virus just hard enough for it to not kill us. As I realized this, however, I also saw the floor crack around the robot's base! The crack grew and grew until the floor broke away and everyone, the robot included, fell.
