Destiny Of A Hero 4
By: slickboy444
AN: Hello! Here is part 4 for this story. I hope you all have enjoyed it thus far. Some of the details in this story relate to my the last fic, so I suggest you all read that one before you start with this one. If you want to know the whole series to this point, the stories are "Xtra Member," "Matchmaker," and "Worse Than Death." Before I get started I wish to thank one of my reviewers, Krall, for helping me with this story. And don't forget to REVIEW! Please tell me what you all think by posting it on fanfiction.net or send it to me at slickboy444@aol.com. Remember, I don't own the X-men, Zelda, or any of the songs I may mention in this story so please don't sue. I have nothing. Thanks and I hope you enjoy this story.
All my x-men evolution fics are dedicated to Jen (aka: littlesortaredheadedgirl) the author of the x-men evolution fic "Snow." I highly recommend you all read it.
AN: 'These mean character thoughts.'
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As Jack Robinson ran along the road at superhuman speeds, he continued to think and worry. So much had happened to him in the last six months, it was almost too hard for him to process. He was once a faceless, homeless, orphan from many broken homes. Now he was a part of a team, a team that fought for the same things he had been taught to fight for his whole life. The X-men were more then just a team, however. They were the family he had never had. The professor was like his father, Scott was like his brother, and Rogue was...
Suddenly, Jack stopped cold in his tracks. He looked around the empty back-road. It was almost as if he sensed a presence, but couldn't put his finger on it. He looked down at the symbols of the triforce on the back of his hand and saw it glowing brightly.
"Link..."
Jack looked around and tried to find the source of that voice. He began to feel a nagging voice in the back of his head. It was as if he somehow knew that voice, but couldn't quite put his finger on it. Then suddenly, the ground began to shake violently. Feeling a new sense of danger near, Jack transformed in to Link and prepared himself for battle. Not long after the transformation completed, a familiar figure appeared before him. He appeared to be the one responsible for the sudden earthquake.
"It's payback time LINK!" said an angry voice.
Jack looked and recognized the figure before him. It was Lance Alvers from the Brotherhood, a.k.a. Avalanche. However, he looked different. It didn't take long before it dawned on Jack what this meant.
"Oh no."
"You got that right!" said Lance snidely as he unleashed two long whips.
Like lightning Lance sent his whips flying at Jack. Although these weapons were new to him, Lance felt like he had known how to use them his whole life. Jack began to dodge and block the whips as best as he could, but that didn't stop Lance from getting a few hits on him. Despite the heavy blows from the weapons, Jack remained undaunted.
"You're a dark warrior now. How?" said Jack through the fury of the fight.
"I've got a new boss," replied Lance as he unleashed another powerful blow with his whips.
However, Jack was ready for them this time. In a split second after dodging them, Jack used a powerful blast from his sword to send Lance flying back across the road. Before he could catch his breath, however, a mysterious force lifted him off the ground and flung him against a tree. He looked over to see a teenage girl appear to the side of him in a uniform similar to Lance's. No doubt that this was Wanda Maximoff, the Scarlet Witch. Jack was about to return fire, but then Pietro ran up to him at blinding speeds and slammed him back on to the road.
"Not so strong now are ya?" taunted the speedster as Wanda moved closer.
Jack got up a little slower after that last blow from Pietro. He didn't remember the Brotherhood being this strong, but somehow he knew there was more to it than that. Wanda attempted to blast him again as Pietro sped towards him for another shot, but this time Jack was ready. While dodging Wanda's hex beams he managed to see a window of opportunity. Just as Pietro was about to land another hit, Jack used the speedster's momentum to his advantage and tripped him with one leg. Pietro fell to the ground and was dragged by the force of his speed. Then, to take care of Wanda, Jack unleashed another triforce blast from his hands to knock the Scarlet Witch out.
No sooner after Wanda fell, three more enemies appeared. They were the Blob, Sabertooth, and Collosus. Jack was beginning to feel the strain of being outnumbered, but he knew he wasn't outgunned.
"CRUSH HIM!" yelled the Blob as he and the rest of his allies charged him from three directions. Just then Jack got an idea.
"Can't crush what you can't see," said Jack as he used his powers to instantaneously make himself invisible.
"What the?" said the bewildered Sabertooth as the three stopped cold in their tracks.
Suddenly, Sabertooth felt an unseen force unleash a barrage of punches and kicks upon him and then the cat-like mutant was sent flying. Collosus and Blob tried to get a fix on the location of Jack, but they easily succumbed to Jacks fighting skills and were taken out when Jack lifted Collosus and flung him at Blob.
Immediately after that, a mysterious firestorm erupted around him and Jack became engulfed in flames that seemed to have a mind of their own.
"Let's heat things up!" yelled Pryo from a distance. The fire-crazy mutant laughed as he relentlessly tried to cook the area where Jack was standing. Now that Pyro was a dark warrior, he no longer needed a source to create flames to control. He could do both now. Pyro kept the fires burning bright, but suddenly a figure began to walk out of the flames undaunted.
"What the hell?!" yelled Pyro as he tried to burn the figure to a crisp. However, it would not burn no matter how hot it got. Jack had reappeared, but this time he had a red tunic on and it seemed to be fire proof. As the Australian mutant began to panic, Jack ran up at superhuman speeds and delivered one forceful blow to take Pyro out.
For the moment, it seemed like Jack was gaining the upper hand against the new Brotherhood, but it was not over yet. Suddenly, out of nowhere, Jack was hit by a flying kick.
"That's for what happened last time!" yelled an angry Mystique upon sending Jack flying.
Jack got up and was about to fight back, but then he was hit with another kick from behind him. This time it was from Remy Lebaeu, a.k.a. Gambit.
"So you're the hero of time? I have to say I expected more," taunted Gambit.
"I have not yet begun to fight..." said Jack as he got up and drew the master sword.
"Then let's fight!" yelled Mystique as she and Gambit double-teamed Jack.
An immediate melee insured with Gambit and Mystique having similar weapons. They fought with great ferocity as Jack struggled to avoid being hit. Jack's skill was greater, but the power of the dark warrior had overtaken the two mutants as they fought with a new sense of power. As the vicious battle raged on, Jack was knocked down by a few well-placed hits on the part of his enemies. Before he could get up, however, they pinned him down with the tips of their weapons.
"You're good, but we're better," said Mystique.
"Hold that thought," said Jack as an idea finally came to him.
Like lightning, he kicked away Mystique's bow, dropkicked Gambit, and withdrew a different weapon from his arsenal. It was the magic bow that his master had used many years ago to slay evil and now it was Jack's turn. Drawing an arrow back, the tip began to glow in a bright, sparkling yellow color.
"You think a puny little arrow will hurt us?" said Mystique not feeling real threatened by the new weapon.
Jack then shot the arrow at the shape shifter, making her disappear in flash of light. Quickly he drew another arrow and did the same to a bewildered Gambit.
As Jack caught his breath briefly, he suddenly felt a surge of new pain hit him from behind. Jack turned around to see that there were small, baseball sized orbs of metal slamming against him from all directions. He looked up to see the source.
"I told you we'd meet again, Link," said Magneto as more metal orbs came down and began to assault the young hero. Jack tried to bat them away with his sword, but they were swarming everywhere around him.
"Magneto!?" said a shocked Jack, "You were enslaved too!"
"I'd like to think of it as recruited," said Magneto not wanting to upset the ill tempered Shadowmaster.
Jack received more hits to his body as the barraged continued. Then he noticed the orbs began to harbor a painful electric shock along with their hits. Jack decided it was time for a new strategy. From his item bag, he pulled out a blue crystal and soon it began to glow a bright blue color. Magneto watched in shock as a mysterious blue crystal formed a shell over Jack's body. The shell repelled and shattered each orb that hit him. With a grunt the master of magnetism sent more his way, but to no avail. Jack then lifted his sword and pointed it in Magneto's direction.
"This ends for now Magneto," said Jack.
Then, Jack sent a bright blast of energy via the master sword directly at Magneto. Upon impact, Magneto's form vanished in a poof of smoke.
"It ain't over yet yo!" said another voice appearing in front of him.
Jack recognized the voice of none other than Todd "Toad" Tolensky. Only this time he was wielding two ominous looking swords. Jack fired a few light arrows at young mutant, but the quick and nimble mutant easily dodged them.
"Is that the best you got?" yelled Toad as he leaped forth in to the air and began to fire some dark energy blasts at Jack.
"You've learned some new tricks," said Jack as he dodged the lethal blasts with relative ease.
"That's not all I've learned!" said Toad as he landed a few feet from Jack and began to unleash a barrage of sword slashes.
Jack drew the master sword once again and fought back. However, Toad had two swords to work with and on top of that, he was wielding them with great skill. It was as if he had known how to fight with them his whole life.
"Where...Did you learn...To sword fight?" asked Jack in between swipes.
Toad then got one lucky slash in and gave Jack a big cut on his upper left shoulder.
"In your nightmares, yo!" taunted Toad trying to instill fear in the young warrior. However, that didn't work. Jack lunged forth and began his assault with the legendary master sword. Toad countered like lighting, much to Jack's surprise. The nimble young mutant seemed to have gained great skill with a couple of swords overnight. Jack used his skill to try and bring the fight to a quick end, but Toad wasn't letting that happen. In conjunction with having an extra sword, Toad was putting up some fight. For a good 5 minutes, the two mutants fought it out.
"Not even breaking a sweat!" taunted Toad as he got ready to charge Jack with everything he had.
"Too much confidence and you shall fail," said Jack quoting his master in response.
"Well see about that!" yelled Toad as he lunged forth.
This proved to be a folly, however. With a calm, undaunted demeanor Jack did a quick spin move to dodged Toads lunge and before he could react, Jack had already slashed him with a death blow to the back, causing him to vanish in a poof of smoke. However, Jack knew that this act had not destroyed him or any of the warriors he had just faced. He had only stalled them. Jack took a deep breath, trying to get his head together after the fight he had just been in. He received numerous blows to his body and had numerous wounds, but he would heal. That didn't, however, decrease the pain. Suddenly, before he could even take another breath, he heard a sinister laugh from behind him.
"Ha ha ha...It's good to see the hero of time in action again."
Jack turned around to see the grinning Shadowmaster.
"Who are you? Why did you enslave the Brotherhood and the Acolytes?" demanded Jack.
The Shadowmaster just laughed in a sinister tone of amusement. "Guan zei khan!"
Suddenly, the Brotherhood and the Acolytes stood behind the Shadowmaster.
"As you can see, I have taken these mutant misfits and turned them in to quite a formidable force. Wouldn't you agree?" inquired the dark wizard.
Jack didn't say anything for a brief moment. "But I beat them all!"
"As I expected you to do," interrupted the Shadowmaster. "I never intended for them to actually destroy you. You're far to powerful, and they are far to weak."
Jack approached the old man cautiously, for there was something very strange about him. What that was, Jack couldn't quite put his finger on. The Shadowmaster continued to grin with a sick sense of satisfaction for some reason, as if he knew the confusion Jack was struggling with.
"Who are you?" stated Jack simply.
"Why Link...I'm surprised at you. After all we've been through, you have the nerve to forget about me?"
"What are you talking about?" said Jack.
"Don't I look familiar...Link? Isn't there a nagging feeling...Crawling up and down the back of your spine?" The grin on the wizard grew wider as he spoke these words.
Jack didn't respond, but there was something about this being that seemed familiar. He couldn't deny it.
"Don't you remember what happened all those centuries ago?" Suddenly, Jack noticed a change of tone in the old man's voice. It changed from an old raspy one, to a deep ominous one. This new tone only made Jack's mind race faster as that tone once again sounded eerily familiar. "Can you feel it...Link? Well, maybe not looking like this..."
Suddenly the old man's eyes began to glow an ominous red color. Jack took a step back as a dark purple haze engulfed the Shadowmaster and lifted him up off the ground. With a loud roar in to the air the shape of the old man began to change right before his eyes. The Brotherhood and the Acolytes watched with equal amazement as the figure began to grow in size. It grew until it was a tall, dark looking man with mysterious red hair and a deep skin tone. His robe was replaced with an array of black armor plating so as to look like a knight. As the new figure floated back down to the ground, the staff the Shadowmaster had been carrying transformed in to a big, powerful sword. Jack immediately realized who this was and felt shock surge through him as he looked at him in disbelief.
"GANONDORF! BUT...HOW!?" yelled Jack.
"Ah so you do remember!" said the dark warrior with a laugh.
"It can't be! My master destroyed you eons ago!" yelled Jack.
"Indeed he did...He sealed me away forever in an eternal void that I have spent countless eons in. That was until...I found a new power. A power so grand...Even the triforce can't deny it."
Suddenly, new symbols appeared across Ganondorf's chest. They were an array of strange colors and on each side, two red eyes appeared. Jack recognized this instatnly.
"Majora's Mask...You...Merged with it."
"Indeed, and I have to say...We took quite a liking to each other. My magic was increased infinitely by the evil locked within. Now, I will finish what I started back in Hyrule ages ago!" shouted Ganondorf.
"No way! Not if I can help it!" yelled Jack as he readied his sword for battle.
"Have it your way..."
Jack lunged forth with the master sword in hand and began to ferociously fight the dark king. Ganondorf easily fought back with his oversized sword. Jack used every bit of skill learned from his master to fight this monstrosity. Jack fought of feelings of intimidation that brewed within him as looked in to the dark, putrid eyes of the evil king of thieves. Ganondorf and Majora's Mask were bad enough alone, but together they were many times worse. Both were supposedly destroyed eons ago, but now they stood before him. The titanic sword fight grew in intensity as both warriors fought to overcome one another. While Jack was at a disadvantage because of his earlier injuries, he still fought hard to overcome the pain and take this evil down once and for all. Ganondorf on the other hand, seemed to be enjoying the fight. A dark grin of satisfaction never left the madman's face.
"Ah you haven't lost your touch after all these years Link!" said Ganondorf as the two combatants knocked each other back.
"Spare me your witty banter! I WILL finish what my master began!"
"Well, I'm sorry to say I won't let that happen this time...Link," replied Ganondorf with a smirk.
"You've lost to the hero of time on several occasions, what makes you think you can win this time?" taunted Jack getting ready for another round.
Ganondorf began to show signs of annoyance as Jack spoke those words.
"Then let's kick it up a notch!" yelled the dark king as a purple haze engulfed his body and he flew up in to the sky.
Jack followed suite as a yellow glow engulfed him and he flew up after him. The Brotherhood and the Acolytes watched the spectacle in awe as they saw the two beings repeatedly slam in to each other in mid flight and blast each other with bright blasts of energy. Each passing moment bought repeated attacks that bellowed loud shock waves in to the distance. One blast after another, the two opposing forces kept fighting one another with growing fierceness. As the glow around them increased in size and brightness, Jack began to feel the sweat rolling down his face. Ganondorf was quick to pick up on that and launched another flying attack. Jack countered and the two seemed to become stuck and unable to push each other any farther.
"You won't win Ganondorf! Evil never wins...Even you should have figured that out by now," said Jack as his determination grew.
"As much as I hate to say it...Your right," said Ganondorf catching Jack off guard. "Evil never wins, but there's a good reason for that." Jack felt Ganondorf's power grow in intensity again and he struggled to match it. "You see, I tried for years to beat the hero of time. But I failed...And I know why now. I was fighting harder when I should have been fighting smarter." Jack continued to fight harder to overcome the evil king, but he continued to talk. "You see, this time I can't loose because I know exactly how to win this time. Link is nearly invincible...But Jack Robinson, well that's a different story."
Jack's eyes grew wide with astonishment, for those were the same words Morris had said. He knew what the evil king was getting at, but he tried to block it out.
"Feel the weakness within Jack...It's there, you know it. As powerful as you are you know it." Ganondorf's eyes began to glow a sickening red color.
Jack tried not to look in to them, but he couldn't fight it. Something was taking control...Something deep within him.
"NO!" yelled Jack as he struggled to resist a new power trying to overcome his mind.
"Yes..." said Ganondorf with a grin.
Suddenly, the golden aura around Jack shattered and was replaced with a dark red haze.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
Jack screamed out in pain as he felt like a bomb just went off in his head. Pictures, feelings, memories from his past bombarded his mind in an endless streak of torment. He couldn't fight it, he tried but it would not cease. Then, the hero of time fell towards the ground and slammed in to the pavement below.
"Pathetic," said Ganondorf as he floated down towards Jack. "A simple spell like that brought down someone of virtually limitless power. I take back what I said earlier, you are no hero of time...Jack."
Ganondorf stood before Jack in a state of triumph. He watched as the young warrior tried in vain to get up, but a quick burst of magic sent him back to the ground.
"I'm not even using half strength...You really are a weak soul. You think that Morris had some lingering effects on you? Well I hate to break it to you Jack, but no such luck." Jack's looked back up at the dark king through the pain upon hearing those words.
"What...Do...You...Mean?" said Jack slowly.
Ganondorf just laughed with a sinister grin. "Stop lying to yourself JACK! Morris was nothing but a second rate amateur when it came to magic! That spell he cast...Disappeared the second his heart stopped beating. There is no after effect of the spell Jack...It's just you...You're doing this to yourself!"
"NO!"
"It's the truth...And you know it!" bellowed Ganondorf as he kicked Jack across the street. The hero of time tried to get up and fight back, but the dark king easily fought past him and continued to beat Jack in to a bloody pulp. All the speed, skill, and power he had before seemingly vanished upon the pain that surged through his mind incessantly. As Jack felt more blows upon his body, he bled more profusely. His tunic was now torn and stained from the Ganondorf's wrath. Finally, Jack collapsed on to the street and his cloths reverted back to the ones he had before.
"I could kill you right now...Jack!" said Ganondorf pointing his sword at the barely conscious hero. "But I'm not gonna! And you know why? Because now...You're no longer a threat! My plans cannot be stopped this time. Even with your power...They cannot be stopped. To me...Letting you live is the worst punishment I can give you. Sorry...Hero. But this time...Darkness shall rule!"
With one more sinister laugh, Ganondorf vanished in a puff of smoke along with the Brotherhood and the Acolytes. The lingering words of the dark king kept replaying in Jack Robinson's head as if they were on instant replay. He had failed his master, and he knew the madman spoke the truth about Morris and the so called 'spell' and it's non-existent after effects. Jack felt the world spinning around him and fading in to darkness...But suddenly he heard a buzzing sound in the distance. It sounded like a motorcycle, but he didn't care. To him all was lost.
"Jack!" came a voice from afar.
It was Rogue; she had followed him. She immediately gasped at the sight of Jack's mangled body and ran up to his side. As she lifted his head off the ground she could heard him say one last thing; "He's back...The evil king is back." Then, blackness...
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AN: Well, there's part 4! What do you all think so far? How's the action? Please tell me what you think by posting reviews on fanfiction.net or by sending them to me at slickboy444@aol.com. Stay tuned if you want to know what happens next with Gannondorf! Thanks again and best wishes to you all.
By: slickboy444
AN: Hello! Here is part 4 for this story. I hope you all have enjoyed it thus far. Some of the details in this story relate to my the last fic, so I suggest you all read that one before you start with this one. If you want to know the whole series to this point, the stories are "Xtra Member," "Matchmaker," and "Worse Than Death." Before I get started I wish to thank one of my reviewers, Krall, for helping me with this story. And don't forget to REVIEW! Please tell me what you all think by posting it on fanfiction.net or send it to me at slickboy444@aol.com. Remember, I don't own the X-men, Zelda, or any of the songs I may mention in this story so please don't sue. I have nothing. Thanks and I hope you enjoy this story.
All my x-men evolution fics are dedicated to Jen (aka: littlesortaredheadedgirl) the author of the x-men evolution fic "Snow." I highly recommend you all read it.
AN: 'These mean character thoughts.'
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As Jack Robinson ran along the road at superhuman speeds, he continued to think and worry. So much had happened to him in the last six months, it was almost too hard for him to process. He was once a faceless, homeless, orphan from many broken homes. Now he was a part of a team, a team that fought for the same things he had been taught to fight for his whole life. The X-men were more then just a team, however. They were the family he had never had. The professor was like his father, Scott was like his brother, and Rogue was...
Suddenly, Jack stopped cold in his tracks. He looked around the empty back-road. It was almost as if he sensed a presence, but couldn't put his finger on it. He looked down at the symbols of the triforce on the back of his hand and saw it glowing brightly.
"Link..."
Jack looked around and tried to find the source of that voice. He began to feel a nagging voice in the back of his head. It was as if he somehow knew that voice, but couldn't quite put his finger on it. Then suddenly, the ground began to shake violently. Feeling a new sense of danger near, Jack transformed in to Link and prepared himself for battle. Not long after the transformation completed, a familiar figure appeared before him. He appeared to be the one responsible for the sudden earthquake.
"It's payback time LINK!" said an angry voice.
Jack looked and recognized the figure before him. It was Lance Alvers from the Brotherhood, a.k.a. Avalanche. However, he looked different. It didn't take long before it dawned on Jack what this meant.
"Oh no."
"You got that right!" said Lance snidely as he unleashed two long whips.
Like lightning Lance sent his whips flying at Jack. Although these weapons were new to him, Lance felt like he had known how to use them his whole life. Jack began to dodge and block the whips as best as he could, but that didn't stop Lance from getting a few hits on him. Despite the heavy blows from the weapons, Jack remained undaunted.
"You're a dark warrior now. How?" said Jack through the fury of the fight.
"I've got a new boss," replied Lance as he unleashed another powerful blow with his whips.
However, Jack was ready for them this time. In a split second after dodging them, Jack used a powerful blast from his sword to send Lance flying back across the road. Before he could catch his breath, however, a mysterious force lifted him off the ground and flung him against a tree. He looked over to see a teenage girl appear to the side of him in a uniform similar to Lance's. No doubt that this was Wanda Maximoff, the Scarlet Witch. Jack was about to return fire, but then Pietro ran up to him at blinding speeds and slammed him back on to the road.
"Not so strong now are ya?" taunted the speedster as Wanda moved closer.
Jack got up a little slower after that last blow from Pietro. He didn't remember the Brotherhood being this strong, but somehow he knew there was more to it than that. Wanda attempted to blast him again as Pietro sped towards him for another shot, but this time Jack was ready. While dodging Wanda's hex beams he managed to see a window of opportunity. Just as Pietro was about to land another hit, Jack used the speedster's momentum to his advantage and tripped him with one leg. Pietro fell to the ground and was dragged by the force of his speed. Then, to take care of Wanda, Jack unleashed another triforce blast from his hands to knock the Scarlet Witch out.
No sooner after Wanda fell, three more enemies appeared. They were the Blob, Sabertooth, and Collosus. Jack was beginning to feel the strain of being outnumbered, but he knew he wasn't outgunned.
"CRUSH HIM!" yelled the Blob as he and the rest of his allies charged him from three directions. Just then Jack got an idea.
"Can't crush what you can't see," said Jack as he used his powers to instantaneously make himself invisible.
"What the?" said the bewildered Sabertooth as the three stopped cold in their tracks.
Suddenly, Sabertooth felt an unseen force unleash a barrage of punches and kicks upon him and then the cat-like mutant was sent flying. Collosus and Blob tried to get a fix on the location of Jack, but they easily succumbed to Jacks fighting skills and were taken out when Jack lifted Collosus and flung him at Blob.
Immediately after that, a mysterious firestorm erupted around him and Jack became engulfed in flames that seemed to have a mind of their own.
"Let's heat things up!" yelled Pryo from a distance. The fire-crazy mutant laughed as he relentlessly tried to cook the area where Jack was standing. Now that Pyro was a dark warrior, he no longer needed a source to create flames to control. He could do both now. Pyro kept the fires burning bright, but suddenly a figure began to walk out of the flames undaunted.
"What the hell?!" yelled Pyro as he tried to burn the figure to a crisp. However, it would not burn no matter how hot it got. Jack had reappeared, but this time he had a red tunic on and it seemed to be fire proof. As the Australian mutant began to panic, Jack ran up at superhuman speeds and delivered one forceful blow to take Pyro out.
For the moment, it seemed like Jack was gaining the upper hand against the new Brotherhood, but it was not over yet. Suddenly, out of nowhere, Jack was hit by a flying kick.
"That's for what happened last time!" yelled an angry Mystique upon sending Jack flying.
Jack got up and was about to fight back, but then he was hit with another kick from behind him. This time it was from Remy Lebaeu, a.k.a. Gambit.
"So you're the hero of time? I have to say I expected more," taunted Gambit.
"I have not yet begun to fight..." said Jack as he got up and drew the master sword.
"Then let's fight!" yelled Mystique as she and Gambit double-teamed Jack.
An immediate melee insured with Gambit and Mystique having similar weapons. They fought with great ferocity as Jack struggled to avoid being hit. Jack's skill was greater, but the power of the dark warrior had overtaken the two mutants as they fought with a new sense of power. As the vicious battle raged on, Jack was knocked down by a few well-placed hits on the part of his enemies. Before he could get up, however, they pinned him down with the tips of their weapons.
"You're good, but we're better," said Mystique.
"Hold that thought," said Jack as an idea finally came to him.
Like lightning, he kicked away Mystique's bow, dropkicked Gambit, and withdrew a different weapon from his arsenal. It was the magic bow that his master had used many years ago to slay evil and now it was Jack's turn. Drawing an arrow back, the tip began to glow in a bright, sparkling yellow color.
"You think a puny little arrow will hurt us?" said Mystique not feeling real threatened by the new weapon.
Jack then shot the arrow at the shape shifter, making her disappear in flash of light. Quickly he drew another arrow and did the same to a bewildered Gambit.
As Jack caught his breath briefly, he suddenly felt a surge of new pain hit him from behind. Jack turned around to see that there were small, baseball sized orbs of metal slamming against him from all directions. He looked up to see the source.
"I told you we'd meet again, Link," said Magneto as more metal orbs came down and began to assault the young hero. Jack tried to bat them away with his sword, but they were swarming everywhere around him.
"Magneto!?" said a shocked Jack, "You were enslaved too!"
"I'd like to think of it as recruited," said Magneto not wanting to upset the ill tempered Shadowmaster.
Jack received more hits to his body as the barraged continued. Then he noticed the orbs began to harbor a painful electric shock along with their hits. Jack decided it was time for a new strategy. From his item bag, he pulled out a blue crystal and soon it began to glow a bright blue color. Magneto watched in shock as a mysterious blue crystal formed a shell over Jack's body. The shell repelled and shattered each orb that hit him. With a grunt the master of magnetism sent more his way, but to no avail. Jack then lifted his sword and pointed it in Magneto's direction.
"This ends for now Magneto," said Jack.
Then, Jack sent a bright blast of energy via the master sword directly at Magneto. Upon impact, Magneto's form vanished in a poof of smoke.
"It ain't over yet yo!" said another voice appearing in front of him.
Jack recognized the voice of none other than Todd "Toad" Tolensky. Only this time he was wielding two ominous looking swords. Jack fired a few light arrows at young mutant, but the quick and nimble mutant easily dodged them.
"Is that the best you got?" yelled Toad as he leaped forth in to the air and began to fire some dark energy blasts at Jack.
"You've learned some new tricks," said Jack as he dodged the lethal blasts with relative ease.
"That's not all I've learned!" said Toad as he landed a few feet from Jack and began to unleash a barrage of sword slashes.
Jack drew the master sword once again and fought back. However, Toad had two swords to work with and on top of that, he was wielding them with great skill. It was as if he had known how to fight with them his whole life.
"Where...Did you learn...To sword fight?" asked Jack in between swipes.
Toad then got one lucky slash in and gave Jack a big cut on his upper left shoulder.
"In your nightmares, yo!" taunted Toad trying to instill fear in the young warrior. However, that didn't work. Jack lunged forth and began his assault with the legendary master sword. Toad countered like lighting, much to Jack's surprise. The nimble young mutant seemed to have gained great skill with a couple of swords overnight. Jack used his skill to try and bring the fight to a quick end, but Toad wasn't letting that happen. In conjunction with having an extra sword, Toad was putting up some fight. For a good 5 minutes, the two mutants fought it out.
"Not even breaking a sweat!" taunted Toad as he got ready to charge Jack with everything he had.
"Too much confidence and you shall fail," said Jack quoting his master in response.
"Well see about that!" yelled Toad as he lunged forth.
This proved to be a folly, however. With a calm, undaunted demeanor Jack did a quick spin move to dodged Toads lunge and before he could react, Jack had already slashed him with a death blow to the back, causing him to vanish in a poof of smoke. However, Jack knew that this act had not destroyed him or any of the warriors he had just faced. He had only stalled them. Jack took a deep breath, trying to get his head together after the fight he had just been in. He received numerous blows to his body and had numerous wounds, but he would heal. That didn't, however, decrease the pain. Suddenly, before he could even take another breath, he heard a sinister laugh from behind him.
"Ha ha ha...It's good to see the hero of time in action again."
Jack turned around to see the grinning Shadowmaster.
"Who are you? Why did you enslave the Brotherhood and the Acolytes?" demanded Jack.
The Shadowmaster just laughed in a sinister tone of amusement. "Guan zei khan!"
Suddenly, the Brotherhood and the Acolytes stood behind the Shadowmaster.
"As you can see, I have taken these mutant misfits and turned them in to quite a formidable force. Wouldn't you agree?" inquired the dark wizard.
Jack didn't say anything for a brief moment. "But I beat them all!"
"As I expected you to do," interrupted the Shadowmaster. "I never intended for them to actually destroy you. You're far to powerful, and they are far to weak."
Jack approached the old man cautiously, for there was something very strange about him. What that was, Jack couldn't quite put his finger on. The Shadowmaster continued to grin with a sick sense of satisfaction for some reason, as if he knew the confusion Jack was struggling with.
"Who are you?" stated Jack simply.
"Why Link...I'm surprised at you. After all we've been through, you have the nerve to forget about me?"
"What are you talking about?" said Jack.
"Don't I look familiar...Link? Isn't there a nagging feeling...Crawling up and down the back of your spine?" The grin on the wizard grew wider as he spoke these words.
Jack didn't respond, but there was something about this being that seemed familiar. He couldn't deny it.
"Don't you remember what happened all those centuries ago?" Suddenly, Jack noticed a change of tone in the old man's voice. It changed from an old raspy one, to a deep ominous one. This new tone only made Jack's mind race faster as that tone once again sounded eerily familiar. "Can you feel it...Link? Well, maybe not looking like this..."
Suddenly the old man's eyes began to glow an ominous red color. Jack took a step back as a dark purple haze engulfed the Shadowmaster and lifted him up off the ground. With a loud roar in to the air the shape of the old man began to change right before his eyes. The Brotherhood and the Acolytes watched with equal amazement as the figure began to grow in size. It grew until it was a tall, dark looking man with mysterious red hair and a deep skin tone. His robe was replaced with an array of black armor plating so as to look like a knight. As the new figure floated back down to the ground, the staff the Shadowmaster had been carrying transformed in to a big, powerful sword. Jack immediately realized who this was and felt shock surge through him as he looked at him in disbelief.
"GANONDORF! BUT...HOW!?" yelled Jack.
"Ah so you do remember!" said the dark warrior with a laugh.
"It can't be! My master destroyed you eons ago!" yelled Jack.
"Indeed he did...He sealed me away forever in an eternal void that I have spent countless eons in. That was until...I found a new power. A power so grand...Even the triforce can't deny it."
Suddenly, new symbols appeared across Ganondorf's chest. They were an array of strange colors and on each side, two red eyes appeared. Jack recognized this instatnly.
"Majora's Mask...You...Merged with it."
"Indeed, and I have to say...We took quite a liking to each other. My magic was increased infinitely by the evil locked within. Now, I will finish what I started back in Hyrule ages ago!" shouted Ganondorf.
"No way! Not if I can help it!" yelled Jack as he readied his sword for battle.
"Have it your way..."
Jack lunged forth with the master sword in hand and began to ferociously fight the dark king. Ganondorf easily fought back with his oversized sword. Jack used every bit of skill learned from his master to fight this monstrosity. Jack fought of feelings of intimidation that brewed within him as looked in to the dark, putrid eyes of the evil king of thieves. Ganondorf and Majora's Mask were bad enough alone, but together they were many times worse. Both were supposedly destroyed eons ago, but now they stood before him. The titanic sword fight grew in intensity as both warriors fought to overcome one another. While Jack was at a disadvantage because of his earlier injuries, he still fought hard to overcome the pain and take this evil down once and for all. Ganondorf on the other hand, seemed to be enjoying the fight. A dark grin of satisfaction never left the madman's face.
"Ah you haven't lost your touch after all these years Link!" said Ganondorf as the two combatants knocked each other back.
"Spare me your witty banter! I WILL finish what my master began!"
"Well, I'm sorry to say I won't let that happen this time...Link," replied Ganondorf with a smirk.
"You've lost to the hero of time on several occasions, what makes you think you can win this time?" taunted Jack getting ready for another round.
Ganondorf began to show signs of annoyance as Jack spoke those words.
"Then let's kick it up a notch!" yelled the dark king as a purple haze engulfed his body and he flew up in to the sky.
Jack followed suite as a yellow glow engulfed him and he flew up after him. The Brotherhood and the Acolytes watched the spectacle in awe as they saw the two beings repeatedly slam in to each other in mid flight and blast each other with bright blasts of energy. Each passing moment bought repeated attacks that bellowed loud shock waves in to the distance. One blast after another, the two opposing forces kept fighting one another with growing fierceness. As the glow around them increased in size and brightness, Jack began to feel the sweat rolling down his face. Ganondorf was quick to pick up on that and launched another flying attack. Jack countered and the two seemed to become stuck and unable to push each other any farther.
"You won't win Ganondorf! Evil never wins...Even you should have figured that out by now," said Jack as his determination grew.
"As much as I hate to say it...Your right," said Ganondorf catching Jack off guard. "Evil never wins, but there's a good reason for that." Jack felt Ganondorf's power grow in intensity again and he struggled to match it. "You see, I tried for years to beat the hero of time. But I failed...And I know why now. I was fighting harder when I should have been fighting smarter." Jack continued to fight harder to overcome the evil king, but he continued to talk. "You see, this time I can't loose because I know exactly how to win this time. Link is nearly invincible...But Jack Robinson, well that's a different story."
Jack's eyes grew wide with astonishment, for those were the same words Morris had said. He knew what the evil king was getting at, but he tried to block it out.
"Feel the weakness within Jack...It's there, you know it. As powerful as you are you know it." Ganondorf's eyes began to glow a sickening red color.
Jack tried not to look in to them, but he couldn't fight it. Something was taking control...Something deep within him.
"NO!" yelled Jack as he struggled to resist a new power trying to overcome his mind.
"Yes..." said Ganondorf with a grin.
Suddenly, the golden aura around Jack shattered and was replaced with a dark red haze.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
Jack screamed out in pain as he felt like a bomb just went off in his head. Pictures, feelings, memories from his past bombarded his mind in an endless streak of torment. He couldn't fight it, he tried but it would not cease. Then, the hero of time fell towards the ground and slammed in to the pavement below.
"Pathetic," said Ganondorf as he floated down towards Jack. "A simple spell like that brought down someone of virtually limitless power. I take back what I said earlier, you are no hero of time...Jack."
Ganondorf stood before Jack in a state of triumph. He watched as the young warrior tried in vain to get up, but a quick burst of magic sent him back to the ground.
"I'm not even using half strength...You really are a weak soul. You think that Morris had some lingering effects on you? Well I hate to break it to you Jack, but no such luck." Jack's looked back up at the dark king through the pain upon hearing those words.
"What...Do...You...Mean?" said Jack slowly.
Ganondorf just laughed with a sinister grin. "Stop lying to yourself JACK! Morris was nothing but a second rate amateur when it came to magic! That spell he cast...Disappeared the second his heart stopped beating. There is no after effect of the spell Jack...It's just you...You're doing this to yourself!"
"NO!"
"It's the truth...And you know it!" bellowed Ganondorf as he kicked Jack across the street. The hero of time tried to get up and fight back, but the dark king easily fought past him and continued to beat Jack in to a bloody pulp. All the speed, skill, and power he had before seemingly vanished upon the pain that surged through his mind incessantly. As Jack felt more blows upon his body, he bled more profusely. His tunic was now torn and stained from the Ganondorf's wrath. Finally, Jack collapsed on to the street and his cloths reverted back to the ones he had before.
"I could kill you right now...Jack!" said Ganondorf pointing his sword at the barely conscious hero. "But I'm not gonna! And you know why? Because now...You're no longer a threat! My plans cannot be stopped this time. Even with your power...They cannot be stopped. To me...Letting you live is the worst punishment I can give you. Sorry...Hero. But this time...Darkness shall rule!"
With one more sinister laugh, Ganondorf vanished in a puff of smoke along with the Brotherhood and the Acolytes. The lingering words of the dark king kept replaying in Jack Robinson's head as if they were on instant replay. He had failed his master, and he knew the madman spoke the truth about Morris and the so called 'spell' and it's non-existent after effects. Jack felt the world spinning around him and fading in to darkness...But suddenly he heard a buzzing sound in the distance. It sounded like a motorcycle, but he didn't care. To him all was lost.
"Jack!" came a voice from afar.
It was Rogue; she had followed him. She immediately gasped at the sight of Jack's mangled body and ran up to his side. As she lifted his head off the ground she could heard him say one last thing; "He's back...The evil king is back." Then, blackness...
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AN: Well, there's part 4! What do you all think so far? How's the action? Please tell me what you think by posting reviews on fanfiction.net or by sending them to me at slickboy444@aol.com. Stay tuned if you want to know what happens next with Gannondorf! Thanks again and best wishes to you all.