CHAPTER 3 NEW ALLIES, NEW CONFLICTS


Amber shook her head, did she dream all of that? No, she could still feel the
tingling of Emily's magic through her body. "I wish you would tell me when you are
going to zone out like that!" Kathy nearly yelled in Amber's ear. "But noooo, I'm just a
computer program, don't worry about me."
"Well its not like I'm choosing to do it ya know." Amber replied crossly. "So
how long was I out this time?"
"Close to four minutes. I thought Carl was a pain to look after....." 'Kathy
certainly has been grouchy lately.' Amber thought just before the doorbell rang.
"You think it could be them?" Amber asked aloud, walking to the door. She
looked through the peep hole and her breath caught as she saw two police officers. 'Oh
no! they've come to arrest me again!' The bell rang again.
"You better get that." Kathy whispered. With a nod Amber opened the door,
hiding the left side of her body, of course.
"Hello?" She said sheepishly.
The officer replied as he took off his hat. "Good afternoon Miss. We've been
assigned to this area for the day and we picked the number of your house to go up and
personally ask if there was something we could help you with."
"O-oh n-no, nothing wrong here." Amber stammered out.
The officer smiled, somewhat flirtatiously. The second one however was looking
at her very closely. "Well, you know our number if you need anything." Amber crooked
her head in confusion. "Eh, heh...911." The officer said, a bit embarrassed.
"Oh, I see." Amber cracked a smile.
"Nice talking to you." The speaking officer said as they put on their hats. Amber
replied in the same and shut the door. "She was pretty cute, eh Keith?"
"Yea, but she looked real familiar." Officer Keith said with a thoughtful frown.
"Just can't place where I've seen her before."
"You worry too much. You need some time off." The other officer said, walking
up to the next door.
"Yea, maybe."

Amber shut the door and leaned her back to it. "Phew, close one."
"I think the quiet one suspected something."
"Me too, hope he doesn't put two and two together." Amber leaned off the door
and returned to her position on the couch. "That holding cell smelled like piss." She
scrunched her nose in disgust as the memory came to her head.
"Not to mention the fact that Carl won't be able to save your butt this time."
"Oh, shut up Kathy." Amber said angrily.
Kathy was silent for a moment. "Sorry,"
Amber huffed. "Uh huh," She frowned and slumped down in the couch again.
This time she turned the TV on herself and just stared at the pictures on the screen, not
really paying attention.
She was in the same state of mind for an hour and a half until the doorbell
sounded again. Amber snapped out of it and said, "Oh no, they did recognize me!"
Panicking, she just looked toward the direction of the door. The bell rang again. "Eep!"
Amber jumped in the couch.
"Answer it Amber, if it is the police again, they will think something is wrong."
The closer Amber got to the door, the harder her heart pounded, her hand wet with sweat
and shaking as it gripped the door knob. Before she could, whoever was at the door rang
the bell a third time and knocked. Amber jumped back, hand on chest. "By Din." She
cursed under her breath and began opening the door again, shielding her left side once
more.
"H-hello?" Amber said as she was greeted by two sets of tired eyes looking at
hers.
The one with the green hair spoke first. "Hello, my name is Jilleana."
"And I'm Mahrea." She bit her lip. "Umm, can I use the bathroom?" She asked
urgently. Jilleana shook her head and closed her eyes in embarrassment.
"Uh, sure." Amber said, still hiding her left side. "Right down that hall and to
the right."
"Thank you!" Marhea said pushing her way past her sister and rushed into the
house.
"So, are you gonna make her stand out there all day?" Kathy asked.
"Oh yea! ha! Won't you come in?"
"Why thank you." Jilleana said as Amber moved aside. Amber looked both ways
down the street cautiously before closing the door. "So, how is your a-." Jilleana began
to ask before she turned around. "By Din." She breathed and put her hands to her mouth
in shock. "What happened to your arm?"

***

"Whew." A fireman sighed, taking off his helmet and wiping his soot covered
face. "Seems like we're never gonna get this mess cleaned up."
"Hey Bob." Another fireman greeted, tossing him a sandwich, "Break time, eh?"
"Mmhm" Bob unwrapped the hamburger and took a bite. After swallowing, he
asked, "What you think did all this?" He looked up at a hollowed out building.
"Well, they say it was an earthquake." The other looked up at the same wreckage.
"Somehow, I doubt it."
"Howsat?"
"Well, I figure that it if was an earthquake, then it would have affected a helluva
lot more of the city than what it did. Might have been terrorists or and underground
explosion from a gas leak maybe."
"But the ground shook for such a long time."
"Fine, so it was a big explosion!" The other said finishing his lunch.
Bob chuckled and did the same "Hey, did you feel that?"
"Yea, the ground is rumbling...." The hollowed sky scraper began to crumble.
"Oh, shit shit shit!!!" The two, along with other rescue workers, army personnel,
firefighters, and police officers began running as fast as they could. Billows of concrete
and dust engulfed them, making it night as they ran.
After a few moments of silence people began coming out of their hiding places.
"Good Goddesses." The other fireman breathed. "Hope no-one was in that mess when it
went."
"No doubt." Bob said. The ruble flew up into the air like an eruption of a
volcano and a tremendous roar filled their ears.
"What the hell is that?!" All eyes filled with terror as King Dodongo began to
crawl from the wreckage and roared again, flames shooting out of his mouth. The flames
hit a nearby burned out building and blew it apart.
"We need some heavy artillery down at ground zero! You won't believe this, but
we've got well, we've got some kind of fire breathing monster down here!"
"We read you Lieutenant and are tracking its movements. Fighters are being
scrambled."

"Amber! Amber!" Kathy said insanely in her ear. "You won't believe this but
there is a monster in the destruction zone downtown!"
"You've got to be kidding." Amber mouthed. "What do you want me to do about
it? Thera isn't in any condition to fight."
"Umm, excuse me?" Jilleana asked.
"Oh, I'm terribly sorry, I forgot I have to go and pick up something. You and your
sister can make yourselves at home." Amber said nearly running out the door.
"What was that about?" Mahrea asked coming from the hall.

"Give me enough power to jump to the roof Kathy." Amber instructed. She felt
the flow of added power to her legs and with a grunt of exertion leaped to the top of the
building and landed a bit awkward, "Wooh." The secret door that led to the pit opened
up and Amber jumped in and was lowered by the small platform provided.
The pit door opened. "Kathy, we got footage of this thing?" Amber asked as she
began striping out of her clothes."
"Yea, an ugly one too." Monitors flashed on and Amber saw what she was up
against.
"You want me to fight that!?" Amber stood there with her panties at her knees.
"There's no way in hell I could ever do anything to it! Even if I had both arms!" Sliding
on the skin tight body suit was quite harder than the last time. "Damn it get on!" Amber
cursed hopping around as she tried pulling the suit up her left leg.
"This would be humorous if the city wasn't in such danger." Kathy said
nonchalant.
"Oh shut up, and bring up Thera." After finally sliding the suit up around her
neck, Amber asked. "Is it any shape to fight?"
"Power is at 100%. However, life support systems are at 80% and there is
damage to the visuals. Also, some readings may be off, such as distancing and
targeting."
"Well, I guess it could be worse.....alright." She stepped into the armor. "OOO,
cold, think you could do something about it being so cold when I first get in?"
"Nope." Came the simple reply as the suit closed its seals around her body. "You
know the drill."
"Yea, yea." Amber tucked her hair into the suit and put on her helmet. The
visuals kicked on and were blurred by static a bit. ~This is going to be a pain.~ Tapping
on the side of the helmet to see if it helped (it didn't), Amber made her way to the
launcher. Stepping in, the tunnel began to glow ant the high pitched squeal started up,
blue electricity dancing up and down the tunnel and over her body.
"Launch in 5, 4...." The platform fell away from Amber's feet 'Oh, I hate this
part!' Amber thought as her stomach began to get queasy. "....3,2,1." Her armored body
shot up through the tunnel and out over the city's skyline.
'Okay, how do I do this again?' Amber landed on a roof top and tripped up and
skidded along the concrete. ~Ung.~ She slowly stood back up.
"You alright?" Kathy asked.
~Yea, any damage?~
Her computer companion ran a quick analysis of the armor. "None found in any
systems from the impact."
~Well, at least my klutziness didn't screw it up.~ Amber jumped up and landed
on the nearest building. 'Much better landing.' ~Wheeee!!!~ She shouted joyfully as she
flipped in the air and landed again. ~Got it now!~
"Good, now start heading a bit more to the west."
~Alright.~

***

"Fall back, the heavy artillery is heading this way!" A radio officer said.
"What? heavy artillery?!"
"You heard him, now get your people out of here!" A sergeant shouted.
A few seconds later, streaks of light went through the air and slammed into the
ground surrounding the monster, kicking up clouds of dust and concrete. King Dodongo
roared in anger and spewed forth fire form his mouth, vaporizing a fire truck and its crew.
"I think we're just making it angry!" Someone shouted.
"Shut up and keep running!" A soldier yelled. "Damn it!" He shouted again
when more artillery fire rained down around the beast once more.
Just then, Amber got her first look at her opposition ~Goddesses help me…~ She
landed on a rooftop and crouched down to make herself a little less visible. ~How the
hell am I even supposed to hurt it?~
"Well, I don't think that your rail gun will do much to it." Kathy said.
~Gee, really, you think?~ Amber asked sarcastically. ~Maybe if I shoot it in the
eye?~
"Might work. Activating targeting systems." King Dodongo and buildings where
outlined in white as ranges to each target were highlighted whatever her irises focused
on. "Range 1,700 feet, locking on." Amber raised her right arm and let the guidance
system move it to just the right spot. "Magnifying." King Dodongo was isolated in the
field of vision and magnified until only his head remained. "Whenever you're ready."
Amber nodded and exhaled slowly before firing. The white hot rails hummed
through the air, getting closer and closer. But, the beast moved his head and the attack
sunk into its hardened skin. It stopped and growled. ~Oh Damn.~ She could hear the
beast's huge nostrils taking in air as it sniffed around. He turned his head in her direction
and smelled the air again. ~Eep, I think it knows I'm here!~ Amber said, ducking down
again. ~Please don't let it see me! Please don't let it see me!~ She repeated in a
whisper. She peaked up and saw the beast eyeing the building on which she was perched.
A screech went through the air as two HRAF jets passed over head and spotted their
target.

"Target confirmed, damn what a nasty one! Locking on." The lead pilot said as
the targeting system zeroed in. "Fire!" The two jets fired a pair of missiles at the
dinosaur. It inhaled deeply and shot out fire from its mouth and blew up the missiles in
mid flight. "Damn! Fire again!" They fired another pair with the same effect.
"Fire your guns!" The automatic guns from the jets hit their target, but causing
little harm. "We aren't even scratching the darn thing! We're pulling out!"
"Roger that." The other pilot said with a bit of thankfulness in his voice. The
planes banked and retreated over the city and back to base.

~Great, not even the HRAF can hurt it.~ The lumbering monster turned it's
attention back to the damaged structure where Amber was, ~Uh, oh.~ The black
monster inhaled deeply again.
"Amber watch out! He's going to breathe fire at you!" A stream of flame
bellowed from his mouth right at Amber.
~Time to be moving!~ She said quickly, jumping off the now burning high-rise.
The flames followed her down to the ground. Amber closer her eyes and held up her
hand as she screamed in terror.
The Power Triforce glowed on her hand, and her body began glowing blue.
Water gushed up from the ground and shielded Amber from the fire. After a second, she
opened her eyes and blinked as when she saw a wall of water in front of her, steam
hissing and vapor gently caressing Thera and the air. Tentively reaching out, her armored
hand touched the wall of water. ~Weird.~ She felt that she could will the water as she
chose. Pushing the water wall forward, she shaped it into a stream and shot it at her
enemy. He opened his gaping jaws to shoot fire again, but the water shot into his mouth
and extinguished the eternal flames in the belly of the beast. The King of the Dodongos
roared in rage as it tried over and over again to fry the woman in black armor and
collapsed a building with its tail.

"What the heck?" Mahrea leaned in closer to the TV screen as the scene played
out from the angle of the helicopters that flew over the area. She saw the stream of water
shoot out from a point in front of a pile of rubble and slammed into the monster's mouth.
"Looks like a monster is on the loose." Jilleana said calmly. "I'm sure the army
can handle it."
"Please, they tried already, it did squat." Marhea said laughing. "I bet if Catalia's
army had to take care of it, that thing would be dust."
"Heh, true." Jilleana saw the monster eradicate a building with its tail. "Damn,
it's pissed!"
Mahrea smirked and got up and leaped on her sister's lap and roared. Jilleana
screamed. "Get off of me!" As she shoved her sister off onto the floor. "You and your
boney butt." Jilleana frowned and looked back to the TV.
"Oh come on Jilleana don't get mad. Braid my hair?" Mahrea smiled a bit and
sat down on the floor in between Jilleana's legs.
"So, where did Amber go?" Mahrea asked. "Ouch! Don't pull so hard!"
"Oops, sorry. Anyway, she only said that she had to get something, don't know
what." Jilleana concentrated on braiding for a moment. "But she better get back soon,
there are some things I need to ask her."
"Huh, like what?"
"Come on, you didn't notice?"
Mahrea crooked her eyebrow a bit as the camera panned over the scene of
destruction. "Notice what?"
Jilleana sighed and rolled her eyes. "She was missing her arm!"
"Eewww." Mahrea said as she laughed, "Nuh uh."
"Yes huh, you know, the one that Carl and I reconstructed?"
"Oh, well I guess that's not as bad right?"
"Heh, I don't think she would agree with that statement."
"Oh wow!" Mahrea exclaimed as she leaned forward quickly, yelping as
Jilleana's hands still held her hair and jerked her head back. "Ouch!" King Dodongo
was being electrocuted.
"It's your own fault, doing that!" Jilleana said defensively.

~Wow.~ Amber breathed as she looked at her hand. Beads of water slowly slid
down her forearm. 'Is this one of the spells?' She wondered. An alarm sounding from
her helmet took from her thoughts. Her opponent had curled itself in a ball and was
rolling right at her!! Amber's face was fearful and pale but quickly turned to grim
determination and she balled up her fist.
"Amber why the hell are you just standing there!? Move!" Kathy screamed.
~I'm light on power, I have to do something.~ Her black armor began to glow
yellow and she shot her fist forward. Electricity flew from her closed fist and surrounded
the monster, but it kept coming at her. ~Oh, think you're tough eh?!~ Amber snarled and
the Triforce glowed through her armor again. ~Let's see if you can take...~ She grew
brighter. ~this!!~ A huge push of electricity bolted from her hand with a bwoosh and
slammed onto King Dodongo. He flew off onto the side of a building and began kicking
and screaming until his massive heart exploded from the electricity. Pleased with herself
Amber started to run across the rubble and leap atop an undamaged building, the streaks
of her jets following out behind her.

"Did all that just really happen?"
"I think so."
"It looked like The Trezen."
"Oh, there's no such thing!"
"There is!"
"Go and touch it."
"I ain't gonna touch it!"
"Private! get a crane to get that thing out of here!"
"Yes sir!" All over the site and country conversations like this were taking place.
In the royal court, one such conversation was going on. "Tell me Lenard, just
what is going on in my kingdom?"
"I'm not quite sure Sire," He replied thoughtfully. "Strange things like this
haven't happened since the time of-"
"And what of this Trezen fellow?" The prince interrupted his adviser.
Lenard furrowed his brow for a moment. "You know as much about him as I do."
"Hmm, I see...I would like to meet this person who thinks he is some vigilante
knight." The prince looked at the ring on his right hand that signified his royal birth and
right to the thrown of Hyrule for a moment in thought. "Make it so."
"Yes Your Highness." Lenard gave a slight bow and turned around and headed
out of the thrown room, his cape fluttering out slightly behind him. The large doors
closed behind him hollowly as a frown crossed his lips. 'Little bastard.' He thought,
walking down the white polished marble floor. 'All the years serving these royal brats.'
He came to a door and went inside. "And for what? this little room."
"You sound unhappy in your work, Lenard." He turned to see a curvaceous
figure in the door way.
"Hmf," Lenard sneered and turned to his computer. "What do you want Tanya?"
The middle aged man said with a sigh.
The slim woman let her hair fall over her left shoulder and a small smirk crossed
her lips. "Oh, nothing." Lenard rolled his dark eyes and slid his hand over his pointed
goatee. "His royal highness wants me to find The Trezen." He said sarcastically and sat
down to his consol. Lenard stiffened as he felt Tanya's hands caressing his shoulders.
"Not now." He said aggravated, swatting away her hands. Turning on the screen, a
sunken face appeared. Tanya pouted and went over to Lenard's bed and let herself fall,
her hair spreading out on the sheets. "I need your assistance." He told the face on the
screen.
"Yes M'lord?"
"The prince would like to meet The Trezen. Dig up all you can and report to me."
"Yes, sir." The screen went blank.
Lenard smiled evilly, his eyes glowing red. "I will succeed where Ganon failed."

***

Amber landed on the roof of Carl's building. "Ah, home sweet home." She
touched the panel and the hidden door slid open.
"Amber, what are you going to tell our two guests when you walk into the house
with nothing?" Kathy asked as Amber descended into the pit.
A shrug. "I'll just say something like they didn't have any." The armor clanked
in the metal floor as Amber walked over to the port for the damaged Thera. The legs
were clasped in place and a clamp came down and took off her helmet. The seams in the
armor opened up with a hiss and Amber stepped out. The armor sunk down in the floor
and was covered up with a sliding sheet of metal.
Amber looked at her clothes on the floor. "This is going to be a pain in the ass."
After ten minutes of trying to pull off the black body suit and a lot of cursing she finally
got it off. "Whew! That was a hell of a fight."
"Are you referring to the fight with that beast or the fight with your clothing?"
Kathy asked jokingly from a nearby monitor. Amber looked up at her from the floor and
stuck out her tongue. "Well, I'm glad to see that you are mature."
"How am I gonna get back with out those two knowing?"
"Easy." Kathy explained while Amber pulled on her sweatpants with some
difficulty. "Just climb up the launcher tube and hop down off the building like Carl did.
Amber crooked her eyebrow. "When did he do that?"
"Remember the mobile that went rouge a few days ago, down by the
construction?"
"Mmm, yea." A light clicked on in her head. "Oh, he killed the mobile, cut
himself on the head," she shivered. "before coming in. Anything to keep his identity
secret to me." She chuckled. "Even slicing his head open."
"Exactly, now if you are ready," Amber nodded as her head poked through the top
of her shirt. "Good." The launcher door slid open with a whir and Amber stepped in.
"Seems awfully different with out wearing a half-ton suit of armor." She said
looking up the long shaft that was now lighted only by the sun. Taking hold of the first
rung, Amber began climbing up. By the time she reached the top her arm ached badly.
Rotating it slowly around, she made her way to the ledge of the building. "I must be
insane."
"Just let the leg cybernetics do the work." Kathy said softly.
"Right." Amber said nervously and took a deep breath, closed her eyes and
leaped from the top of Carl's building. She could feel her knee and ankle cybernetics
kick in as soon as she was airborne. She grit her teeth, bracing herself for the hard
landing and closed her eyes, but with raised eyebrows she landed quite softly, her
cybernetics taking the full force of the landing. She opened her eyes and let out a sound
of approval and a short nod. "Well, that was easy enough." Kathy let out a snort.
"What?"
"Nothing Amber," Kathy replied testily.
Amber smirked as she walked through the door and saw the twins sitting around
the TV. Jilleana's green hair slipped off the back of the couch as she turned around to
see Amber exhaling from a deep sigh. "Ah, so you're back." Mahrea looked up with a
chip half in and half out of her mouth. "So, where is the thing you so desperately
needed?" She asked suspiciously. "Where they sold out?"
"Uh, yea." Amber said cautiously then looked at the TV. "Oh, I heard something
happened down there." She said quickly changing the subject as a red headed woman
interviewed a fire fighter.
"Yea, they are saying that The Trezen came and killed a monster. Heh, but we all
know that The Trezen doesn't exist." Jilleana's eyes drilled right through Amber.
Mahrea took a quick look at her sister with a raised eyebrow.
'That's right Amber, dig a deeper one.' "Oh, of course," 'Sorry Carl, I have to
play along for now. Guess I'm getting as bad as you huh?' "Everyone knows there is no
such thing as The Trezen." Kathy made an angry noise in her right ear.
Seemingly satisfied, Jilleana turned back around to the TV. Making her way to
the kitchen for a drink of water (monster busting takes a lot out of you!) and caught
Mahrea saying, "Don't be so mean to her. She's being nice to us."
'Well, at least I have one person on my side. Seems so anyway.' Amber thought,
getting a glass and filling it with water from the tap. The sink started getting blurry
rapidly. "Oh crap, she's falling Jill!" Was the last thing Amber heard before everything
went black.