This chapter contains so much feels

At dawn, Rex is shivering from intense nightmares. He starts to see himself as an immobilized rhino trying to reach a child that wanted emotional support, no matter how he tries, he gets sucked into the shadows. Rex woke up and he sees bloody tears on his face but Steven is in horror when he spotted blood coming out of his back. 'Rex your bleeding, What kind of demon lord would do this? I'm wondering if the one that attacks DS [flashback himself attacking a mammoth mech until a demon knocks him off with his horns, Steven got up but realized he got gored before the demon attacked him with venomous bite] Can a crest leave a massive scar on his…', Steven tightened his side of his stomach where he got gored. Shaymin noticed that Rex is getting weaker and tired, 'umm Steven I think he's still losing blood, is this hemophilia or anemia.'

Steven checks on him for diagnosis until he realized that in-between his massive scales contained large metallic cracks,' Oh my Shaymin, he has to take him, this is an emergency, Agrron has a protective armor but it leaves him variable if armor gets damaged because it is part of his body and have issues healing it.' Steven got his medical herbs and mix them to make a bandage-like paste before inserting his healing spit. He inserts it to the crack beneath the scales,' My powers and witch-doctor healing studies might fix he injures but the consequences are dire- iron deficiency from anemia. Despite this, this pokemon contains large amounts of iron in its system and for good reason for armor development.' Steven carries Rex to the sleigh before Link notched Rex's condition. 'What's going on Steven, why is Rex?' Shaymin replies,' Link that demon might hurt DS long ago. Because look at all the blood that he shed earlier,' it left DS with a thousand-yard stare. The Heroes warped away to get help.

While on their way DS starts to have flashbacks, [Dark Steven is bleeding out after attacked by a demon lord the has a crew but closing is moron red and magma coming out. DS is too week to move from blood loss, he's being resuscitated multiple times, defibrillator sounds are heard before sending to shrine while in a coma]. The flashback end but it left DS in a catatonic state, Zamazenta realized DS is being frozen from his trauma so he decides to carry him. Connie that riding on the red wolf is worried about her Steven, while Steven and Link are going to look for something to aid Aggron. While in the European plains, a flock of pidgeot and farrow hovers through the sky until a herd of glowing crest brickets and Edmontoguanodon stamped around the place.

Link makes sure Steven is alright but Steven seems to cling at Rex, then a Gryphon Raider returns while Link got surprised. The Gryphon rider looks at Agrrons in bad shape,' what happened to him.' DS responded,' that demon in a form of a dilopho attacked him.' The rider responded,' I knew this would happen, you see….he is an EVO.' Links confused,' what's an EVO?' She replies,' an EVO is a vector of a bio-mechanical pathogen known as nanites that mutate or grow bio-mechs on the host. You see Rex was an EVO vaccine, a healer like you Steven.' Link asked her,' so all the mech that we fought are actually victims of the pathogens.' the rider replies,' Yes but no, those are actually stalfoes that just happened to be contaminated.' Link starts to worry about Rex,' So all this time Rex is actually an EVO healer, that explains statues as a Hero but what about terrible fate.' The rider stayed silent before responding,' I warned him but he didn't listen before he becomes the one the fought the monsters.' Steven is confused,' That never happened to me when I fought gem monsters back then.' The rider sends Rex to her yurt, she mixed mineral-rich clay with dust made of iron ore before feeding to Rex. Later Steven enters the Yurt to look after Rex before Rex wrapped an arm around Steven for emotional support,' Awww Rex, no matter what I'll take good care of you.'

Link starts to see a large harpy eagle,' ma, what are you doing here.' His eagle mother responded,' Link I was looking all over for you since you left the village a while ago after a therapeutic appointment.' Connie asked Link,' wait, she's your mother.' Link responded,' yea she gives me so much emotional support but she does not like the idea of me on her side.' Connie is confused about it so Link explains,' according to words of armadillo shaman, she lost her chick or something centuries ago in her past life or something so that explains she's very clingy.' The harpy eagle trigged Link before brooding him underneath. When the Gryphon rider got near, the eagle starts to feel intense remorse so she decides to give her space. Her griffin starts to sniff at her before screeching and fly off. Link is confused about their behavior,' mom, what's going on outside.' The rider has to explain to Link about his mother's past life,' you see…her past life is my great grandmother.' Link is buffered while the rider tries to explain,' she acting strange around me because she knows that as my great-grandma was an awful person. She responsible for my grandma being emotionally ill because of her emotional negligence when she was a teen.' The link was stagnated that her mother becomes an eagle because of her past life sins, then Steven goes to Link. 'Link I need your help,' Link comes in with a sorrowful look.

Steven and the rider have a plan to help Rex,' The griffin rider is going to use her telepathic power to read his mind while I go to his mind.' The rider sends her griffin to use telepathic powers to talk or us empathic powers if something goes wrong.' Steven meditates to enter his mind and he finds Bio-Wulf.'

The wolf mistook Steven as a threat,' what are you, are you a meat armor of Giratina.' Steven replies, 'No I want to help Rex I know he's suffering from a fate.' The wolf mech back sassed at Steven,' Really, all I know that fate preferred you as the Hero you potato face.' Then DS came as a bloody semi-corrupted self shoves shards made of light into his back,' Don't ever accuse our artiste gust because you have edges.' Beowulf is surprised to see DS,' You must be the fallen person of this hero wannabe.' Then right behind him, he was punched by Rex in his former human self,' Don't scare away my healers you threat.' DS is surprised to see him while Steven hugs him,' Rex thank goodness that your mind is alright. Seriously dude what happened to you.'

Rex laughs while he is happy to tell him his past,' Well it all started that I was lockup by the province but I escape to meet Noah but other people call me a freak and Van explains the nanoties pandemic. Then I went to the beach to relax and met a girl with hypersonic powers but want to leave me behind because she's with that wolf (getting picked on for being a freak). Got trap at the province during lockdown because my doc's stator escape with ostrich croc evos and I realized that my friend was a spy. Visit hidden village promos bit the AI wants to whip out EVOS but people is ver nice that called me a miracle. Went to the arctic facility because I was overloading but got a break-in by that wolf to get my nanites samples for Van and trap my agent. Maybe we weren't so nice to rhino, chameleons, tusked horses, indoraptors, and turret EVOS while finding a way to escape Kieve but is like they have a reason to live or be cured but that's nofaces' problem that wants to take me down. Then there was this some vigilante wants me to look bad like some freak. Then wolf sends me to Abyss to revive Van to stabilized the corrupted area. My agent was bamboozled by a gang of skull kids while I was having a road trip with Noah. Then Van took my abilities so he could use it to turn people into EVOS during a break in but at least I got new abilities.'

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Then little does he know that he states to grow scutes on his back while his body starts to get swollen while this skin becomes thickened,' what….What's going on, not again.' Steven is horrified,' what's going on.' Rex insists, 'This is nothing, you making a deal out of nothing.' Then painfully gawking large horns on his face while he feeling bones growing all over his body,'auuuughhh, what's going on. I thought I could heal.' Then a voice spoke to him, no your not, remember that you did heal the animal victims in Kyiv.' Rex responds,' that's because is Nofaces problem.' Then Steven understood the first clue of his corruption,' Wait you missing the point, he was used as a weapon at the province and he's insecure because he doesn't want to see himself as a freak just because of some disease a decade ago.' Then a fog reveals to be Giratina,' Then I am the vengeance of those poor critters, what do have to say you freak.' Rex got triggered and summoned a whipe from his right arm to whip Giratina,' remember Rex who are you really fight for hero?'

Then everyone wakes up while Rex woke up exactly his half corrupted form like earlier. Then Steven tearfully hugs him,' Rex, I'm sorry that what happened to you. You didn't really mean to slay them because I know you are seen as a freak show.' Rex star to weep that he just half-corrupted, 'why I'm still cursed.' Link contents Rex,' No you not, don't let the stigma get to you. I know you hit someone but is not your fault.' The rider starts to shear tears that it wasn't his fault. The legendary wolf start sniffing him then DS starts to sense something,' the wolfs toss me that she needs to be stabilized.' They biowulf came for Rex.' Gave me that weapon you chinches wannabes, then DS bushed his shield,' what the matter with you.' the wolf responded,' I reprogramed him to take you lazy heroes for teasing his spotlight for being legend you cal…', get shoved into the air.' Then DS looks at Steven,' DS what's going on in there.' DS responded, 'we need to fuse.' Link is hesitant,' Steven wait one of your zodiacs.' Then they fused but little that Steven knew is that the Demonlord of Envy wants Steven and DS is the vessel, 'DS why…..why would you betrayed use.' DS responded,' I'm tired of my show of being called crappy no thank to the antimatter intoxicated humans (barbarians).' Link is confused about it, Then Steven grows a sail on his back, a crocodile tail and horns growing around Steven. Link goes to Steven,' Steven are you alright.' Steven doesn't respond and goes to Rex, Link and Connie are starting to worry about Steven.

Then Rex is hesitated to explain more about his past,' Then Noah got infected by van so we have to capture him and cure him while he's in a rampage. Then my genuine and I went underwater to get the nuclear reactor while we visited a society of krill people, maybe I wasn't so nice to their orcas that's basically the krill's transport but they were attacking Doc. Then I infiltrated into a party that sees EVOS as a sight to be seen until one of them got out of control until the EVOS help me. Then Van joined forces with Faceless to release the mutated animals so I have to reboot the shield, I meant….Circe and she felt that she was used. Then my agent- Six meant his old crew of mercenaries to help his mentor-Uno…..and I tried to cure him….and…he left this world and realized that Six left the team to…become my father figure. Then I was reunited with mi hermano...since the lab research….gone wrong. Then Van (he's cocky and back sassed about my brother) and I end up in nanite free zone after being separated from booth teams while surrounded by scorpions, was worst is that my life was being sapped away. Then there was hope to cure my Doc's sister…..that's still corrupted my nanites uncle some doctors are….bunch of quacks that use for weapons…uncle I cured Rebecca….it was worth it. Then Van gives enhances a four-armed girl- Breach- teleportation powers (she enhance was time-based), I…have to send her to province…the good guys…..so…I have to befriend her.

Then Rex stood silent that he needs a moment. Shaymin asked Rex,' Is there something wrong.' Rex is hesitated to respond,' I miss my family at….the province. I know their morals are shady but they treat me like I was there….son and mi hermano.' Semi-corrupted Steven regain his good side to confront Rex,' I….understand what is….like to lose your family.' Rex hug Steven to cool down,' Is okay buddy I got you, so how did you got separated.' Rex responded,' Giratina because of…..malice took over him and myself.' Steven remembers the same corrosive that took his friends away,' Same here, the same malice took my friend KO from me.' Rex asked him,' Who's KO?' Link looks down and hesitates to respond,' my…..my….past life.' Rex is horrified of what malice did, 'does malice…..gives the corrupted victim…murderous thoughts?' Link looks down,' I'm afraid so….whats worst is that is incurable through antimatter origin.' Rex is skeptical,' that's strange, I seem to be immune to it when Giratina attacked me and for some reason, I didn't die unless…..' Rex starts to remember his encounter with Giratina and his undead army of EVO animals, then another flashback where he was sent to aether plane…..'

Then Rex starts to have a massive meltdown.' No….I can't…..is too much.' Then Rex amour starts to cover him and starts to glow red, a dragon futures start to appear with two cannon. The horrifying look on Link's face as the very Hero that he was supposed to heal become deficit as his viral nanites began to over-simulate his system to appear in a form of a viral Digimon- machinedramon. That moment Link was speechless but his shadow (dark link) began to shout,' wait mi amigo, respira para calmate.' Then Link is surprised that his counterpart and Rex are friends.' Then Snip came but she was too late since her friend has been corrupted from intense emotions that he was bottling up for a decade. Then Steven's sanity starts to slip since DS has been corrupted by a Demonlord that he didn't know about, Steven collapse and start the shifted into a form of a pink gavial. Link starts to panic since two great heroes with a promise of a savior as been corrupted from a terrible fate. Then two monsters began to wreck the local ranch filled with edmontoguanodons, Link doesn't what to do as he thinks he failed to save them. Then Gryphon Rider mounts on her griffin to round up the animals on stamped. Link stood quiet before Zamazenta licks him,' what is it, buddy,' Connie gives Link advice,' Link get your act together, there must be a way to heal them.' Link members the Song of Healing to heal the victims of impurity,' Connie your right I must submit them than I play the Song of healing.' Link mounts on Zacain, Snips becomes chirinmon while Zedus just stood there quietly.

Then a blood moon arose- reviving the watchers, stalkers, ravager, and scrapper mechs. Then Zedus is determined to fight the mechs to defend the glowing chested brickets with his shooting spikes. Meanwhile corrupted Steven mows with his tail strike attack while corrupted Rex-machindramon uses his Giga cannon attack from sheer fear. Shaymin tries to calm them down while carrying DS's mink who is in sheer horror, 'take easy you guys, take deep breathes….DEEP BREATHES.' Then Connie and zamazenta go for Steven while Link Snips goes with Rex. Connie informs the red wolf,' I know this would happen, Steven is in sheer pain since he got out from his coma. Since he was awakened, he must have been so scared and confused since…..he almost…..died.' Zamazenta uses behemoth bash at the leviathan while Connie talks to Steven,' Steven I know you must be in a lot of pain from the demon attack from 200 years ago and ambushed by one just recently.' The pink-colored gharial is hesitated before starting to attack Connie and Zamazenta before being saved by the Gryphon rider. The Gryphon sense something inside the pink corrupted gem,' I sense something that's causing Steven a lot of pain, his triforce is blinking from interference from a demon of envy.' Connie is confused about,' is he jealous about something or did stutter from fear.' The rider responded,' The demon lord got into him because Steven from another timeline secretly has….face some backlash from haters from the barbarians because they believe he's part of the Red Lotus, Equelist, or something. Since he was poisoned, the envy demon corrupted his mind. What makes things worst is that Dark Steven corrodes him with the Terrible Fate he had, which made him a barren of a lot of suffering.'

The Gryphon rider knows what's going on, 'I know this because my zodiac is a Bricket of kindness like Steven so we have link connection to one another.' The rider sends out her toropiamon to heal Steven while Connie is confused,' what is going to do with him exactly.' Then toropiamon got on Steven, while Steven tries to do a duo-tail strike attack but the plant-like dino Digimon lassoed it with vines,' Don't make me regret this.' Toropiamon bites him in the neck to release topical antivenin into his system, while Steven unleashes a large roar from sheer surprise. Connie calm him down. 'is okay Steven I'm here, she going to heal you.' Then the aura of a Bricket coming to of her Digimon and starts to extract something from Steven's body- a gharial looking Digimon. Leviamon hisses at them.'Do you have any idea what this boy is facing, he was hated by those barbarians from seer jealousy that a mere child is remembered and not Rex?' Connie back sassed at him,' that's because those barbarians have no idea what are they talking about since there are under influence of leaking antimatter that makes them feel they are better than him.' Levianmon is ready to attack Connie but got attack and sealed by toropiamon's petal carnage attack before sealing him. The Digimon feel so tired that it turns back into pomumon,' Is alright you could sleep at my favorite pillow.' Then Steven turns back to normal as singular- booth himself and DS before falling unconscious,' Steven…STEVEN, are you alright. Steven's feeling cold, what happened.' The rider carried him,' he'll be alright, he just knocks out from the pain extracted from Leviamon and DS's trauma. I'll take him to my yurt to give him some medicine. My name's Belle, sorry for not properly introducing myself.' Connie follows Belle to aid Steve, while Link is facing with corrupted Rex- machindramon.

The corrupted Digimon is on a rampage from sheer terror,' Rex, I understand you must be scared because you miss your family, please Rex calm down and figure this out.' Rex is about to use Giga blast and infinity blast, Zacain got in the way but is unaffected. The corrupted monster thought it might hurt Link's wolf,' I'm sorry is just…..I need space.' Link shouted at him,' No you don't need support, just look at you are suffering from the pain that corrupted Giratina caused you. I doubt the real Giratina real hurt you, he's made of anti-matter.' those words might come out wrong, the ranging metallic beast decides to claw Link before deflecting by his shield. Link continues to fight for real Rex,' Rex you don't have to run away from you problems just because Steven got more attention than you, is it ironic that you don't want to be draft away from people who really cares,' Then Dark Link took over Link- he's eyes turning golden-red,' Rexy is me….we made a promise.' Then Rex remembers Link (dark link) ten years ago as friends, he looks after Link since he has so much distress. 'Link are you alright buddy.' Link responded, 'I don't think the samurai council really cares, they accused my padawan without a defensive thought.' Rex replies next to him,' Is okay buddy I was tracked by Giratina. If I face him, I'll promise that I'm going to be alright mi amigo. Even number of champions is running so short ever since the calamity broke out by we are going to be okay mi amigo.' Flashback ends with Machindramon weeping while revealing Dark Link's real name,' Ani….is that you?' Then Snips uses the holy wave as an attempt to purify Rex. Then Rex and Link's eyes turned blue from innocence.

Rex sees a vision of Link and himself with Steven before falling fainted then Link goes to the fallen Hero of what Rex has become. Link apologies to him that whet Giratina did to him,' No wonder earlier you dislike Steven because corrupted Giratina made everyone forget about you.' Link just stood there taking his moment to think while Shaymin has to look after Steven.

Zamazenta protects my DS baby at all costs. I called Dark Steven or Dark Future Steven DS because it got stuck cognitively. Steven has his blue shirt from the movie while DS has his black shirt from the Future. DS I the biggest wobbie because at some moment he was traveling the world after his meltdown until he was attacked by a demon. One of the demon lords that attack Steven is cocky in nature that does seem to care about others, narcissistic in nature. After Rex's demon arc is over, the rest of the saga will have a plot about corruption leads to no good because instead, it feeds one of two demon lords. Rex backstory is actually a retelling of the entire series. Poor Rex baby, he really misses his family ta the Provence, what did fate did you to deserve this-it may not be Giratina's fault (corrupted by malice). This chapter is emotionally drained.

Legend of Steven- Link of the Wild dates back to summer 2019 as an idea of OK KO cross-over fanfic collection, which explains the visits of multiple Heroes from other works like Lion-o, Mao Mao, Generator Rex, Ashoka Tano (later recycled into OC with her references) with most prominent Hero is Link that gives KO sage advice of becoming a great hero. The legend of Steven part is a reference to the title Legend of Zelda which where Link comes from as well as the Story of Steven from the SU movie, Steven was going to have a Shinto-Buddhist monk/Sadhu-like role as KO's guide. After the realization that OK KO cancelation, the dark nature of Steven's mentally and even read dark/death fanfics caused me to recycled the entire concept. Instead of KO's walk yer earth journey, it became death/dark fic about the aftermath of his demise that later reincarnated into a Linksona. Steven still has the role but with aliments from SU F and is traumatized by KO's death. Instead of KO visiting other heroes, it becomes Link's task to do it. Steven guides Link instead of KO as well includes trauma on other Heroes.