TW- Self-harm implications
Steven is wonder where there heading, DS responded 'we need to reach the clan of mystic wolves, they will guide us to defeat the demon lords.' Snips start to worry about Link while Daxter rests at his chest, Link seems depressed 'Steven, I'm sorry that Link is given in to emotion. I'm worried he might end up….like master since he suffered a terrible fate.' DS corrects her,' Snips I don't want to be intimate but…what happened to your freind Rex again?' Snips sadly responded,' I don't know, is weird because we were close friends a decade ago.' Link is wondering,' Who's Rex?' DS looks down,' he's….uhh, Snips best friend I guess. That's odd... I keep forgetting….since he had a terrible fate.' Link curiously asked a question,' what does terrible fate mean?' DS responded,' Is very different than corruption by malice since self-induce. Is basicity hurting yourself by letting despair gets to you intel your infested with darkness from negativity from emotional and physical harm? The CG thinks I have a terrible fate just because I was harmed by a Demon Lord. Dark Link indeed has it because of realization of flaws in both light and dark until he…and for Rex…..I don't remember.'
The Heroes entered an area that's part of Great Plains at the west of Rocky Mountains, is consisted of a large ranch being reclaimed by nature. Zacain smells something and sees some wild tusked horse bellowing at him, Zacain rush as he realized that he should not mess with them so he walks away. Steven asked Snips,' what happened to this place?' Snips responded, 'uhhh long chronicles of occupation of tuskers against a ranching community unleashed they succeeded. You don't want any details to trust me, *whispers* They smell fear'. Link wonders off despite some possible dangers, 'Link is careful when you go hunt for mushrooms, these tuskers have a hard time with humans.' Link gets too close to the tuskers until he gets run over by a strider (horse mech), Link clings on the back that the tribe-force os courage brights up until the strider stops. Zacains coms to Link,' Link are you alright.' Snips is surprised about the triforce of courage, 'So your the chosen one like my master, that's interesting.' DS hides his marking from anyone, 'nice to see anyone taming that horse mech, it took me an entire horse whispering section of how to tame that thing.' The mink starts to panic before went to safety on DS side.
The strider leads the group to a path where doesn't draw attention to the tuskers. Zedus in his massive defective mode starts to sift to prickly attack mode after seeing a glimpse of pronghorns with some lance horns (antelope-like mech). This indicates that his instincts are kicking in, he starts to stalk at them until lance horns sense something and running away that triggers Zedus to chase after the mech. Link wonders where is Zedus until he sees a stamped of both organic and mechanical antelopes. 'guys lookout.' They start to get on Zacain to run away from the antelopes until they are mysteriously stoped after hearing a howl that's coming from a large maned wolf in the distance. Steven is confused about it,' was that a maned wolf?' Link found a very fluffy spot but wonders why Stevens and Snips look terrified, 'Hey guys I found a fluffy spot to sleep, why you guys look terrified?' Link realized that he's sitting on a bison, alongside the herd. 'oh, that's why'. The bison just look at Link and sniffing at him and starts to bellow, have no interest in ramming him but he herds a massive Trampler named Maxotaur (bison-like mech).
Maxotaur has no tolerance against trespassers, especially humans. He starts to ram at Link but Link deflects with his shield. Rex the aggron is just looking, he finds it impressive at Link's willing to fight a mech but looks hasty when he saw Steven. 'My Lords Link, why you let this soy gem go with you.' Link tries to use helm splitter but his master sword got stuck, 'what the, guys a little help.' Zacain goes for an attack with his dark blade but got hit by iron head attack. Zedus just to action and start to shoot prickly spines with his fries, fails, and gets hit. The Okapi gets in the middle but Steven starts panicking,' Snips wait!' Snips defects it with her plasma horns coming out of her head, 'guys now is the time to use your defends to use as an offense.' Link starts to shoots with ice arrows to freeze the legs,' now, Zedus use your defensive mode.' Zeduse becomes a buff armored and bits the maxotaur before rolling it to pieces.' 'wait, Zedus we need some mech parts for studies.' Aggron got slight praise, 'not bad but you need to prove that you're better than Steven.'
Link sense something until he saw an aggron in the distance, 'uh guys.' Steven responded to Link,' what is it Link,' Link responded,' I saw a pokemon in the distance.' Snips explain to Link,' Pokemon are common. I saw some fearow and tauros when we are trespassing the plains.' Link turns pack but Aggron is gone, Link is confused about it.
Steven is curious about mechanical creatures,' um DS where these machines come from.' DS looks down with sorrow from his traumatic experience, 'When I was out, the gems don't know how to heal the earth without me. So they work with humans to terraform the dying earth by releasing mechanical creatures to preserve remaining life. Know I'm here, I don't know how long to restore the planet because a kiss may not fix all.' Steven confers DS,' Don't worry me, we will find a way to heal the planet before the emerging happens.'
DS smiles until his mink heard the ground rumbling until Rex the aggron pops out to attack both Stevens, 'you not going to do Link's betting.' Rex uses Iron tail to push Steven out of the way, 'hey what the heck man.' Link yelled at him. Aggron is surprised about, 'So you dared to care for both Stevens, talk about double trouble for those potato face.' Link defended then, 'there's no reason to be judged.' Aggron defended, 'well explained the Thundercats, I expect them to be revived but instead we got a bean mouth because go him.' Zedus bites down Aggron and rolls around, he manages to escape by mega-evolving into mega-aggron and shoved aside. They both use iron defense until chesnaught get in the way and used hammer arm, 'auggh, I'll never let get beaten by someone that like that living marshmallow.' Aggron attempt to beat both of Link's partners with Iron tail, even causing small damages until Redfire gets blasted him with pyro blaster. 'so you have a secret weapon Steven that has advances to stay as a man child.' The very words snapped DS to the point he turns pink and yes barrage of punches in the air after DS uppercut him, he crashes land in the ground before turning back to normal. Defeated Rex looks at Snips tears coming out of his face like she vaguely remembers him. ' you may have won Steven but just remember, Steel-type don't give up until they get all supporters.' Rex digs himself to escape.
DS confers crying Snips, 'are you okay, Snips?' She replied, 'I don't know why but I start to feel Rex's presence when he's around. Is 'funny' because I have trouble remembering him but not my master that has a terrible fate unless he has it too.' DS gives her a warm hug, 'there, there. If we find a zodiac spirit, we will sort things out.' Steven asked DS,' DS what happen to your Redfire?' DS responded,' they took them away from me.' Steven looks down,' they tried to do it mine but I manage to save him by using a curse on him but I didn't mean to restrict his freedom. Other than that my Charizard sacrificed himself to…..' Snips comfort Steven,' I understand scheball what is like to lose someone even restrict their freedom.'
They continue to wonder until a pack of watchers (raptor like mech). Zacian activates his dark saber, Chesnaught fisting his hands to prepare hammer arm, Toucanon is ready to use beak blast, Link charges while they attack. Snips warn Link, 'Link wait!' Link's team barrage the wachters until a t-rex sized one named Trox,'ROOOOOOAAAARR'. Snips warn them, 'guys get out of the way.' Vox fused some watchers while absorbing the surrounding energy to become hyper Trox; resembles himself but draconic with golden croc-like coverings and arms himself with hip canons prepare to unleash plasma attack. Link team runs to safety while hyper Vox is about to shoot Link until Rex (as mega aggron saves him, 'Rex what are you doing?' Rex deflects plasma blast back Trox, Trox is ready to use a steelhead attack. Rex's horns locked Trox, 'Link, get everyone out of here.' Link is confused,' what of it.' Snips corrected Rex, 'Rex, this is not Link that you remember.' Rex got confused, Trox got the upper hand and use bites him and shoves in the side.' Rex looks at Link' Who even are you.' Link responded adorkable, 'I'm just an ordinary mushroom hunting traveler that just happened got involved with destiny, he no begging.' Rex felt concerned, 'did he forgot about me or is he from the rumors that I heard from a time rift.' Link pulls out his ocarina of time, 'I brought here by this ocarina from Dialga.' Rex responded, 'interesting, I heard stories from Yusei about you despite Link suffered a terrible fate.' When Link is not looking Trox gets near at Link and is about to strike him at the blank point, 'LINK LOOK OUT.' Link turns around and pulls out his shield to deflect the attack but the explosion threw him like a rag doll. 'NOOOOO, YOU BASTERED.' Aggron uses iron defense before use iron head, 'listen to her you monster, we might a champion in the past but we are individuals.' Rex uses crunch at his battle armor and uses flash cannon at plant point. The watchers that are distracted by the others, saw what happened to the leader, they run away. Trox turns to normal and he decides to run away. DS, Zacain, Gamayun spotted unconscious Link, DS picks him up and uses his harp to warp him somewhere.
Song of unsealing is played
Link wakes up in the same area where horned kaijus just stands there, 'here again, did I..' Sees a burn on his right arm after inflected from a blast,' OUCH that burns.' A swarm of butterflies overs around him and sees Ornismon looking extremely terrified at Link,' what's going on, did my burn scared you or something?' The Digimon is too terrified to respond and whimpered, Link looks himself at the pond and sees Dark Link in the reflection. Link freaks out, 'what's happing, is this what fate is. Is fate so cruel that the darkness of malic can't go near?' A voice corrects him,' no it means balance within you, Hero of the chosen.' Link asked the voice, 'who are you?' Then he sees the redead Steven again before turning pink and starts to look like DS,' Link…..Link…..cab you hear me.' Steven's eyes start to shed bloody tears at Link, 'don't give in to fate Link.' Then a massive shivatheruim kaiju appears before Steven,' Link, you seal all seven demon lords to prevent the arrival of Fox by the yiga.' Link is confused, 'what do you mean, who are you?' DS comes to Link before healing his burned arm with his healing powers before waking up next to a red panda, at Steven's house 'you healed me.' the Red panda hugs at Link while starting to see DS heading blood while being pink. 'Link…thank goodness that you're alright.' DS gives Link an adorable hug. Lin wonders why there is a red panda next to your pet mink. DS explained that Snips tuns into one once under extreme amounts of stress like how I turn pink or…becoming Dark Link. Link is surprises
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Horizon zero dawn is an inspiration for this saga
Snips need therapy, she totally has repressed memories of Rex
Don't make fuchsia/Dark Steven snap because is avenger level threat, top 10 characters that defeat thanks with infinity stones combined.
Dark Steven doesn't know the true origins of the mechs, he made it up because of his trauma
Aggron/Rex is not what he seems despite his arrogant nature, some champions/ Heroes have fair treatment at the get-go. Sadly, not all champions are treated like equal or an individual according to the messed up caste system, Rex is s a borderline Hero-champion. The caste system could be the reason why rangers are wiped out by the barbarians, some or few rangers took it for granted with no sense of humility like Greyson. Rex/Aggron has the exact opposite, he loves the lower class despite being close to the elite.