Chapter 1 – Into Hyrule City
It had been three weeks since Link was discovered by the Hyrule Guard bleeding in the back alleyway of the building where the Gerudo Cartel and he hit up. He had worked with the Cartel as their 'blade man' as they liked to call him. He and Catalina had hooked up and he got benefits that the normal members of the gang didn't get. Now she was gone. Link had spent three days in the dungeon infirmary before he went on trial. During his stay in the small dungeon before and after he was declared guilty by a unanimous vote he had shared his cell with two cellmates he had become friends with. The first one was an old mute Hylian gentleman who ran a narcotics lab at Lake Hylia and the Guard busted him for it. The other one was a Goron demolition expert by the name of 8-ball. 8-ball was busted for planting bombs on the bridge linking the seedy industrial area of Hyrule City to the Main City. During the arrest, 8-ball's hands got second degree burns from the flaming potions he used.
After Link was declared guilty by the court all three of them were loaded up and were on their way to the dungeon of the smaller seedy industrial part of Hyrule City called Portland. Link felt the wound from Catalina's arrow and he winced, not from the dull pain, but from the recent sting of betrayal. All of a sudden the carriage stopped. The two guards, who were with them; after telling the prisoners to keep quiet, opened the door to see what was stopping them. Two Gerudo women aimed arrows at the guards who immediately put their hands up. "Hylian dickhead, it's no problem to kill you." One said curtly as two more women emerged to take the old Hylian away. "A'ight, A'ight, get lost." The woman spat before walking away with the three others.
As the guard began to turn 8-ball who unhooked his hands from the bonding cable from his hands grabbed the unfortunate man's head and twisted it backwards with his Goron strength, Link tripped the other guard and wrapped his cable around the other man's neck and choked him to death. Link then made his way out of the carriage where 8-ball undid the cable around his hands. They both looked around and saw that the Cartel had placed an explosive keg on the bridge. "Oh shit, I still have my fireworks on this bridge; we gotta get outta here now." 8-ball screamed as Link grabbed the horse on the carriage of the Hyrule Guard and sped off with 8-ball as the keg exploded and the bridge collapsed into the water. Link and 8-ball, were facing life in incarceration, but now they are free inside the twisted underbelly of Hyrule City.
