This takes place after the main ending with references to the hidden ending.

After the fall of Calamity Ganon, the Yiga couldn't be doing better. Alliances with both the Gerudo and the Sheikah had been profitable and raked in the rupees and bananas for the past year. It left Kohga with little to do with his lackeys doing much of the work. He leaned back in his chair, his feet on the table. Being lazy was great but there was something very important missing.

Sooga and half of his clan.

He was still feeling the pains of loss from Astor's betrayal. It felt good to take that traitorous prophet down, but it still left him somewhat empty. He'd nearly called for Sooga several times since then, each time reminding himself that Sooga wasn't there to answer the call. He never had found closure either, no remains or swords or even a mask turning up anywhere in Hyrule. Sooga was just gone.

He leaned back in his chair, reading over the latest report. Busywork but without a right hand, he had to do the work himself. At least even with the reduced number of Yiga, they were still doing well. The last trade of ancient technology with Sheikah scientists had brought in a large stash of vegetables that didn't grow in this region. Sheikah builders helped reconstruct the front gates of the hideout. Trade with the Gerudo brought in a large supply of bananas, voltfruit, and hydromelons. Hyleans taught them new recipes and offered them work as protection detail against monsters that remained even after Ganon's defeat.

Things were going well and it still felt weird. But perhaps that was a good thing. They had served Calamity Ganon and fought against Hyrule for so long that the thought of other paths felt strange. But however strange they seemed to be, it did allow him to be rather lazy. He barely had to do much more than draft some agreements then let the footsoldiers do all the work. He'd become allies with his greatest enemies after Astor's betrayal, which made trade all the more easier. Something beneficial had actually come out of a terrible tragedy.

It still felt weird at times not to fight with their neighbors and to actually get along with them, but in a world without Calamity Ganon, change seemed necessary. Speaking of allies...

He looked up as Impa entered the room.

"It looks like repairs to the hideout are going well," Impa said. "There is a front door now."

He pulled his feet off the table, tossing the papers onto it. With all the visitors he'd gotten since Ganon's defeat, he'd have to consider changing the name of the hideout to something not so hidey. "Faster than expected. They're doing all the work for me."

Impa glanced at the papers on the table. Numbers, charts, diagrams. There was a large flow of trade now happening within several regions, and likely Kohga didn't have an accountant. He was doing all the work himself, but at least his lackeys were surprisingly good at documentation. "They're quite adept at building. There are some good at accounting, if you need it."

Kohga peered at her for a moment. While the offer was tempting, the Sheikah Slate in her hand said she was here on business. "I get the feeling you're not here to talk about my paperwork."

Impa frowned a bit. "Well you caught me. I thought a bit of small talk would be good but right to business." She pulled a chair out, sitting down at the table as she poked at the Slate's screen. "I've actually come to ask for your help with something strange. Partially an unofficial request from Princess Zelda and partially from me personally."

He leaned forward on the table. This wasn't quite what he was expecting. "What kind of request?"

"You see for a few days now, we've noticed something odd on the Sheikah Slate," Impa explained. "It seems to be quiet right now, but every so often, blips would appear on the Slate. It seemed to mark a location, but as soon as we'd get there, the blip would disappear."

"You sure that thing isn't broken?" Kohga leaned on his hand. "It's pretty ancient."

"I thought that too, especially with how extensively we used it during our fight with Calamity Ganon," Impa said. "Battle, activating towers, teleportation. I tried to tell Purah and Robbie that something could be wrong but they just shoved me out of the lab before I had a chance to object." She tapped at the screen a few times.

Kohga glanced over at the screen. Impa was pulling up some functionality that could take perfect captures of locations across Hyrule. Flowers, pictures of Zelda and Impa together, buildings at a sideways slant, a horse. The contents didn't really interest him as much as the fact that there was something like this. It was part of their shared history, their shared technology before the Yiga splintered off to fight against Hyrule for its hatred. To think something ancient was so detailed and they were using it to capture flowers. Seemed like something that would entertain Zelda, now that he'd gotten to know her as something more than a target.

"Purah and Robbie looked everything over and were certain without a doubt, as Purah put it, that there is absolutely nothing wrong with the Slate," Impa continued. "Something is causing these blips to appear randomly." She tapped on the Slate some more. "Robbie managed to capture a video of this happening."

He stared at the screen confused. "A what?"

"I'm not really sure," Impa replied. "I asked what it was and he just started rattling off too many weird terms. Something about moving drawings or something. Just watch."

Impa tapped on the screen and the images started moving and shifting, Sheikah runes changing along the edges. Kohga stood up, leaning on the table to get a better view of this 'video'whatever thing. A rather large blip appeared in the Gerudo Desert, flashing like an alert for a moment before disappearing off the screen.

"They're all like this," Impa informed him. "Ever since the princess started watching them, they pop up like this and then disappear. We've gone to investigate but each time, there's nothing there."

"So what do you want me to do?" Kohga questioned. "Chase phantom blips?"

"Not exactly," Impa shook her head. "Chasing them hasn't gotten anywhere. Something was there, but it's not by the time we get there, even with our fast travel. The princess is certain we could preemptively find whatever it is as the blips have been very specific in the regions where they appear. Problem is? We Sheikah just don't have the numbers to spread out. The Yiga do."

Kohga slumped back in the chair, folding his arms and pushing it backwards with his foot. Even at half capacity, the Yiga did have more members than the Sheikah. "So the princess wants us to preemptively chase mysterious blips?"

"Well that's more my request," Impa confessed. "When we started spreading out to try to locate the source, they would appear in new locations and we just didn't have enough people to cover everything. I would try to spread out our forces even more but given that the Sheikah Slate detects very specific things, getting help from our allies better versed in dark arts could help us track this down faster."

He had to admit she had a point. The Yiga did still practice the darker arts from ancient times, and their loyalty to Ganon did seem to make it even darker. And that Slate did have a tendency to track down anything that qualified as darkness. Guardian attacks, malice, even their own hideout. It wasn't perfect as Astor evaded the tracking mechanism, but it was pretty damn good regardless.

He rocked the chair backwards a bit. He wanted to be lazy, not make decisions right now. But if something was out there appearing even as close as the Gerudo Desert, it was worth looking into. Curiosity did ask what the blip was doing that far out in the desert. The location had him concerned.

Impa frowned a bit. She couldn't see his face but the rocking was enough to tell her he was debating on what to do. She couldn't blame him. It was asking a lot of him to chase the unknown, especially with the possibility of putting his own at risk. Though she knew from experience fighting them that the Yiga were no slouch in battle. "I wouldn't ask if I didn't think-"

"-where are the blips?" he interrupted, flopping the chair back even on the ground.

"Wait, so you'll help?" Impa questioned, surprised.

"Yeah, this is our new Hyrule now after all," he replied. "I rather like being lazy and raking in the supplies. So I want to squash whatever this blip is and get on with doing nothing."

Impa laughed. "I see." Well whatever worked for him. "The blips have been most prevalent in Central Hyrule with a number of them popping up in Akkala and Hateno. Some in Necluda as well but not as frequently. There's only one we've caught in the Gerudo region, and only on the video. We can certainly cover Necluda pretty easily but the other regions not so much. We'll need some help covering Central Hyrule with how spread out it is."

"Done." He stood up.

"Easy as that?"

"Easy as that. Beats paperwork any day." He glanced at the table filled with documents. Boring, and not the good kind of boring. "Once this blip is gone, you owe me an accountant."

"I'll make it happen," she nodded. With the two clans working together, surely they could find the source of this blip. Hopefully it wasn't anything serious, but that pit in the back of her heart made her worry something was truly wrong.