Black Shadow and Deathborn are fighting before the gigantic steel gate. They charge at each other and throw a powerful punch. Deathborn's attack is stronger and the force makes BS fly back a few steps.
BS then gathers a ball of black energy in his hand and hurls it at Deathborn, but he simply stretches out his hand and grabs the energy ball, and makes it disintegrate. "Humph! You would've gotten greater power than this if you joined me back then!" says Deathborn.
"I can still defeat you without joining you!" says BS. He charges at Deathborn and throws a powerful punch where his fist is covered by black energy.
Deathborn quickly flies into the air to avoid it and somehow levitates in air. "I will show you the power I have!" he says. He raises both hands into the air and creates a large energy ball, and then he hurls it at BS. The energy ball hits him and explodes, and BS is sent flying backwards and hitting the wall.
"Ugh!" he cries as he drops to the floor.
"You see the power I have?" asks Deathborn. "Don't you wish you have the same power as I?"
"Grrrr!"
"However, it is too late. I have decided I will not give any to you!"
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Meanwhile…
Link and Pico are engaged in a furious combat. Link swings his sword vertically downwards at Pico, who blocks it by holding all 6 knives in front of his face, acting like a shield. Using his strength, he pushes Link off and then charges forward with all knives pointing forward. "Knife Gun!"
Link quickly brings up his shield to block it, and though he blocked it, the force pushes him backwards. "Incredible strength he's got!" exclaims Link. Pico keeps on pushing Link until he pushed him against a wall behind. Pico continues to push him against it and soon his strength proved too much for the wall behind Link, and so the wall breaks open and Link falls backwards through it, flipping Pico over him in the process.
Link quickly gets up to confront Pico again. Pico throws 3 of the knives at him, but Link easily ducked under them. "Ha! Throwing your knives was a silly idea!" says Link. "You are down to fewer weapons." But Pico simply smiles.
Suddenly, the 3 knives automatically fly back to Pico and they scrape through Link's shoulders and the waist in the process.
"YA!"
Pico grabs the homecoming knives and says, "The knives are installed with a special device that allow them to return to their owner when thrown!"
""Well, surely I didn't see that coming," says Link, getting back up.
"You will die for offending me!" Pico charges at Link and begins clashing weapons with him. Link desperately blocks all those blows and didn't even have the chance to fight back at all.
"Boy! He's tougher than I thought!" thought Link. "I must not take him too lightly!" While using one hand to hold up the shield and blocking the attacks, he uses his other hand (the one with the sword) and reaches to a small bag behind his waist, and magically pulls out a bomb (that's so Link-like), and places it in between him and Pico.
"Huh? A bomb!" gasps Pico. They both quickly jump back to avoid the explosion just in time.
BOOM!
"Missed!" says Link.
"You sure got some surprising tricks there," says Pico. "But you should also see what kind of tricks I have! Surely nobody has seen it before, and even if they have, they have never lived to tell the tale! I tell you the truth: These knives are also installed with homing devices that allow them to track down the opponent. Wherever you try to go, they will automatically aim themselves at you!"
"Show me an example if you dare!"
"If you dare! Knife Rain!" Pico throws all 6 knives into the air. The knives spin around in the air before positioning themselves so that the pointed edge is facing Link. Then the knives shoot down at him like raindrops falling from the sky. Link quickly holds up his shield to block it, but the force of the knives manages to knock him onto his back.
"Whoa! So much power for small knives!" exclaims Link.
The knives automatically fly back to Pico. "Buzz Saw!" Pico then throws the knives again, and this time the handles get together and form themselves into a circular formation and spins along the floor like a wheel.
Link quickly jumps out of the cutting 'wheel' way and the wheel keeps on moving through the room and also up the wall and the ceiling, leaving behind a long slash trail. Finally it goes back Pico. Link takes a look at the room and sees that the knives have made an entire cut around the room! "I say, they sure are sharp!" says Link.
"All the better to cut you into pieces with!" says Pico. Pico then jumps into the air and throws the knives in every direction while spinning around. "Impaling Firework!" All the knives shoot out in random direction and even bounce around the room randomly!
Link tries his best to avoid them, but he still got quite a few cuts on his skin. "Damn! Their movements are too unpredictable to dodge!" Strangely enough, the knives never hit Pico as he continues to spin in air.
Finally, the knives return to their owner and Pico drops to the floor, and he sees Link kneeled on the floor from the painful cuts. "Heh heh! Now you know my true power!" says Pico.
"It's not over yet!" says Link.
"Oh yeah? Knife Gun!" Pico points all 6 knives at him and charges forward. Link didn't have time to dodge and the knives stab into his right shoulder.
"GAAAAAAH!"
"If you move, then the knives will cut deeper into your body!" says Pico.
"But I'm not letting you stick next to me forever either…" says Link. He surprisingly whips out a bomb in front of Pico.
"Not again!" cries Pico as he quickly hops back just in time to avoid it.
BOOM!
But Link was unlucky enough to get blasted by his own bomb.
"Ha! You're not as smart as you look to get hit by your own trick!" laughs Pico, but then he is surprised to see Link still standing.
"Congratulations… You are one of the few people out there to hurt me to this extent," says Link, and then he looks up and glares at Pico. "I must reward your for this."
"Bring it on! I'm not afraid of you!"
Link charges at Pico and begins swinging his sword wildly at him, but Pico amazingly manages to block them all using his knives as a shield.
Pico quickly hops back and throws his knives again. "Butterfly of Death!" 2 of the knives align themselves in the middle while 2 knives go their side and another 2 on the other side. Though it's hard to explain using words, the knives arranged themselves to resemble some sort of a butterfly. Please use your imagination, or try arranging knives yourself if you want.
The 'butterfly' flies at Link and tries to impale him using the front knife, but Link manages to dodge it. However, the butterfly turns around and goes for the second attempt. Link swings his sword at it hard and smashes the butterfly into pieces, and the knives fly into the air before returning to Pico's hand automatically. "I have enough of your crazy knife tricks!" says Link angrily.
"Then let me kill you fast!" says Pico. "Knife Gun!" He uses that same move again and charges at Link, who also charges at him. Both their weapons clash together and they begin using all their strength to overpower each other in the push. But because of the wounds on Link, he didn't have as much power as before and was pushed onto his back and Pico runs over him.
"Yeow!"
"Ha! Looks like you're losing strength!" says Pico.
"That can be dealt with!" Link takes out a bottle of red potion and drinks it, and he feels better than before. "Now let's continue!"
"Knife Gun!" Pico uses that same old move again and clashes weapon with Link, and once again going into that pushing 'competition'. However, Link got more power this time, and with a sudden burst of power, he triumphs over Pico and sends him flying backwards.
CRASH!
"You're too proud of your own power," Link says to him. "Looks like you won't acknowledge someone else until you're defeated."
Pico gets up and glares at him. "The same goes to you! Even if you took steroid just now, you cannot defeat me!" He jumps up into the air and drops down towards Link with his knives pointing downwards. "Spike Crush!" Link quickly gets out of his way and Pico hits the floor, making a huge crack appearing on the floor.
"You sure got some insane strength there, huh?" says Link.
"Die!" Pico quickly got up and swings his knives violently at Link. Link parries his attack and then slashes him in the waist. "GA!" And then Link performs his trademark Whirling Blade Technique and knocks Pico away, and not to mention making a gash on his body too. "YAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
CRASH!
Link stops spinning and looks at him. "Still proud of yourself?"
Pico still got back up and says, "I'm not done yet! Knife Gun!" He charges forward very fast, but when he stepped on the crack he made, the floor below him crumples and he falls through it. "YAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
"That was stupid," says Link. "But I can't just waste time fighting him here. I must take him out fast! He's quite a hardy person. I must come up with something new and defeat him." Link then looks at the Triforce symbol on his hand. "Hmmm… Ganondorf used the power of the Triforce and transformed into a large demon named Ganon. Come to think of it, I have never used the power of the Triforce yet. Should I give it a try?" Link places his hand against his chest and goes into deep concentration. "Goddess Din, Nayru, and Farore... Please lend me your strength." At this, the Triforce symbol begins to glow.
Pico bursts out through the floor and lands back onto where Link is. "Argh! I'll kill you! You're… Huh?" Pico sees a golden aura coming out from Link, and not to mention an image of a Triforce behind him! "What's that? It's as if he's projecting an image behind him! And that looks like the Golden Triforce passed down through Hylian Legends!"
Link got into fighting stance and says, "The goddesses are with me! Your chances of winning are now zero!"
"Oh yeah? You're too full of yourself!" says Pico.
"Holy Triforce Slash!" Then Link charges at Pico at a very fast speed.
"Knife Shot!" shouts Pico as he throws all 6 knives at Link.
Link amazingly dodges by them as he runs towards Pico.
"What!"
And Link is near enough; he proceeds to slash Pico several times with seemingly light-speed slashes. And for dramatic effect, imagine the scene to be dark with the Triforce glowing the background.
SLAAAASH! HACK! CHOP! SLAAAAAAAAAAASH! SLAAAAAAAASH! CHOP! CHOP! HACK! SLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH!
"GYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" screams Pico as he got slashed multiple times in the body.
Finally Link stops the onslaught and Pico falls backwards onto the floor, with bloody cuts all over his body. Link takes a deep breath and sits down onto the floor. "Phew… That was worth it… Never knew I had such power to begin with… But it sure made me tired… I wonder if Ganondorf has this kind of feeling too. But I can't sit here; I must go find the others." And he gets up and leaves the room to search for the others.
TO BE CONTINUED…
Zoda is the only henchmen left of Deathborn now! Will Captain Falcon defeat him in time to meet up with Deathborn? And will Black Shadow to hold himself up against Deathborn? And will Luigi and Fox be able to deliver the Holy Weapon to Falcon in time? And what about the others? You'll have to see!
Coming up next week: Time is Running Out! The Epic Battle of Sedan HQ!