Incineroar kept a steady balance on the giant roots, watching the violet crystals lead the way to the Great Deku Tree with their lights. The fighters all stopped at the base of the deceased tree, taking a good look at the blue portal in the guardian's mouth.

"Whatever's beyond this portal, we're ready," Mega Man told the team. PAC-MAN gave a thumbs up as a response, and Villager happily nodded.

"Let's do this," Red said, making sure his Pokémon were in his bag. "Lead the way, Incineroar."

"…Roar," Incineroar responded, walking through the portal to the sub-area. Link, Toon Link, and Sheik followed through, with Joker, Snake, the Luminary, Clementine, and all the other fighters in the team heading straight through the portal inside the Great Deku Tree. Once they crossed to the other side, they opened their eyes to a strange new world.

What they saw was the Sacred Land of Hyrule, the sky a bright gray. Trees covered the landscape, with several stone bridges connecting to the center. From what they could tell, the Smashers were in the center of a big area shaped like a Triforce, with the Lost Woods at the bottom-right, the Kakariko Village at the bottom-left, and the Gerudo Valley at the top.

"Wow," Link sighed, his gasp filled with wonder. "The air and grass feel like Hyrule, even though it's just a carbon copy…"

"I gotta hand it to Dharkon: this guy knows how to perfect a world," Snake noted, admiring the place. All of a sudden, Fox McCloud began hearing beeping. He turned around towards the sound and looked at his chest, noticing a red reticle right at the center.

"Uh, guys?" Fox asked, noticing a Guardian aiming at him just beyond a hill. The fighters turned around and saw what appeared to be several more Guardians moving on their feet, some aiming for the fighters even if they were immobilized in the ground. Walking out from the team of Guardians was the Sonic Primary himself, sporting the purple eyes and red aura of the Dharkon Lock.

"Sonic!" Mario called out, keeping an eye out on the Guardians so as they did not open fire on him and his friends instantly. "Are we-a glad to see you again!"

"Sonic?" the Sonic Primary asked through a different voice and tone. "Do you mean the Iblis Trigger?"

"Iblis Trigger…?" Fox asked, placing his hand underneath his chin.

"That's right," the Sonic Primary responded. "The name's Silver. Silver the Hedgehog. I take it you haven't stayed around in Hyrule 2.0 for a while, haven't you? Allow me to give you a tour. You can obviously see what appear to be Guardians: stone warriors carved from the Sheikah. Let me give you a little taste in what they can do…" With a simple hand gesture, the Guardians started firing their lasers. Link, Toon Link, and Ireburn quickly surrounded their friends and pulled up their shields, reflecting the lasers back at the Guardians and killing them through their own explosions.

"Let's get outta here…!" Eleven exclaimed, pushing his companions farther from the incoming Guardian troops. Just as one Guardian was ready to follow them, the Sonic Primary stopped the ancient robot with the psychokinesis ability of Silver the Hedgehog.

"You morons won't even fit through the Temple of the Master Sword," the Sonic Primary explained, his red sneakers digging into the grassy dirt. "I must do this… for Dharkon…" Without another word, the captured fighter dashed after Group A, knowing where they were heading off to next.

The fighters got deeper into the center of the sub-area into a large temple the size of a battlefield, high enough to look at the three landscapes that were shaped like triangles. Not only were they vastly apart, they were also huge; Link pressed his hand against the cobblestone, noticing something familiar about this place. He looked down below of the temple they were in, admiring the language of the ancient texts carved into the rock. There was also a path spiraling upward, leading to a pedestal of the Master Sword itself. This particular weapon was completely different from the one the Champion of Hyrule had, even if they looked similar.

"Does anybody know what this Master Sword's doing here?" Simon asked. The other Smashers looked up the pathway and recognized the weapon.

"Well, that's pretty easy," Snake answered. "Normally, Link and his versions from alternate timelines would have to go through trials just to get that legendary weapon, but here all we have to do is walk up to it…"

"Link!" Joker exclaimed. "Your hand!" On Link's right hand, he noticed the lower-left triangle of his Triforce mark started glowing, only showing one third of the whole thing. Toon Link's left hand started glowing with the same mark, but the equal fraction of the Triforce of Courage was in a different placement. Sheik's right hand started flashing with half of the Triforce of Wisdom. The Smashers looked down on the ground and suddenly noticed the temple floor was a placeholder. The two Links saw their pieces of the Triforce of Courage combine together into two thirds of its original form, with Sheik's piece of the Triforce shining on the floor as well.

"Just as I suspected," Shulk explained. "The Triforces of Wisdom and Courage need to be made whole, and the Triforce of Power must be put back into its rightful place."

"So what we're guessing is that Young Link, Zelda, and Ganondorf are somewhere around here and we need to find them in order to complete the Triforce in this sub-area?" Mario asked.

"Guess by then, we can complete the sub-area and open a gateway closer to Dharkon," the Wii Fit Trainer replied.

"Then let's grab that Master Sword and get out of here," Fox responded, already running towards the sword in the pedestal. Just when things started to calm down, something grabbed the Star Fox mercenary and pulled him upward. The fighters quickly noticed the green telekinesis ability wrapping around Fox, with the younger Smashers dancing around in panic. The Sonic Primary appeared in front of them, levitating with his own powers.

"Figured I find you guys here," the Sonic Primary spoke, almost choking Fox McCloud with his telekinesis. "Excuse me if I'm being too rough with your friend over here…" The Sonic Primary then let go of Fox and dropped him onto the stone ground.

"Get him!" Joker yelled, firing his gun at the captured fighter. Mr. Game & Watch and the Inkling threw their versions of bombs at the captured fighter, but the Sonic Primary simply caught them with his powers and threw them back at the two Smashers. The Sonic Primary then landed on the ground and dashed towards Incineroar, jabbing at the Pokémon rapidly. Try as he may, the Incineroar was too slow and predictable to even avoid the Primary's superfast jabs and kicks. Before Incineroar could even use Revenge to multiply the damage and knockback for his neck attack, the captured fighter grabbed ahold of the Pokémon, lifted him up, and threw Incineroar at the other fighters.

"He's too quick!" Snake yelled, firing his missiles and throwing his grenades against the possessed blue speedster. The Sonic Primary quickly grabbed ahold of the mercenary and tossed him right at Joker, who quickly pulled off his mask to unleash Arsene by his side. Not even the Phantom Thief combined with his main Persona could pull this off as he succumbed to the Sonic Primary's powerful spindashes, which generated blue streaks of electricity as he moved around. Kirby tried swinging his flaming mallet at the moving speed demon, but all the pink puffball did was swing and miss. Link and Toon Link both tried to run up to the Master Sword, but they were stopped by some sort of invisible gateway that did not reveal itself until they ran into it.

"Somebody's going to have to go and snap our buddy out of Dharkon's control!" Captain Falcon told his friends, trying to block Sonic's speedy attacks with his lightning-quick reflexes. Mario jumped on top of the captured fighter, throwing the Sonic Primary onto his feet and grabbing the hedgehog's hands while pushing.

"Sonic-a!" Mario called out. "If you're in there, you need to fight back!" The Sonic Primary did not listen as usual and flew out of the red plumber's grasp. The captured fighter then levitated in the air, squeezing his fist and choking Mario with his telekinesis. Fox McCloud flashed blue between the possessed hedgehog's body and landed next to Mario, pointing his blaster at the captured fighter's head. The Sonic Primary threw Mario onto the ground and let the red plumber go, charging up some sort of special ability as the Smashers pounced at him. The captured fighter pushed all of the Group A teammates with his telekinesis and created some sort of forcefield around himself, trapping Fox in.

The fighters banged their fists on the barrier, crying for Fox to be safe. The Star Fox mercenary turned around to see the Sonic Primary approaching him, the captured fighter twisting his own neck and cracking the bones. The green telekinesis ability of his surrounded the Sonic Primary, still overshadowed by his red aura of the Dharkon Lock.

"I suppose you don't want to take this lightly," Fox responded, his own body heating up with literal flames. The Star Fox mercenary dashed towards the captured fighter and attempted to burn his opponent, but he could only watch as the Sonic Primary simply jumped above and kick him from behind. Fox quickly rolled into his knees and grabbed the hedgehog's legs, throwing the captured fighter into the ground. The two anthropomorphic fighters began kicking and punching each other, their jabs connecting time and time again. Fox then started tackling the Sonic Primary, pinning the captured fighter to the ground and punching him in the face. The Sonic Primary kicked Fox off, his arms glowing with the telekinesis powers of his.

The Sonic Primary started lifting up rocks both big and small and began throwing them at Fox. The anthropomorphic mercenary dashed towards the captured fighter, kicking the smaller rocks until they crumbled into dust and using his blue flash trick to dodge the larger boulders with the remnants hitting the sides of the barrier. Once Fox got in the right position, he coated himself in flames and flew right at the Sonic Primary, tossing the captured fighter into the stone floor. The blue hedgehog groaned in pain, looking up to see Fox land right in front of him.

The possessed Smasher jumped up high and landed with a deep thud, spindashing right into McCloud. The Star Fox mercenary felt the electricity of the rolling blue hedgehog spiral through his fingertips as he just dodged the attack, amazed by the captured fighter's destructive nature. The Sonic Primary then stopped and started attacking Fox with more kicking. Fox started blocking these kinds of attacks with powerful jabs, pulling out his reflector and stunning the captured fighter. Fox then zipped behind the blue hedgehog with his blue flash ability, ready to fire his blaster at the back of the captured fighter's head. However, the Sonic Primary sensed what was going to happen and quickly grabbed Fox by the neck with his telekinesis, forcing him to drop the blaster so the captured fighter could reach for it.

"No… you… don't!" Fox groaned, gasping for breath and struggling as the Sonic Primary reached down for his weapon. The Star Fox mercenary quickly wrapped his legs around the captured fighter's neck, squeezing the Primary tightly with his femurs. This managed to stop the Sonic Primary from choking the Star Fox leader. Fox quickly held on tightly to the Sonic Primary, pushing both the captured fighter and himself to the ground. As the two anthropomorphic fighters both struggled to reach for the weapon, Fox managed to head-butt the Sonic Primary and grab his blaster in time. The Star Fox mercenary then kicked the Sonic Primary in the stomach and fire a clean shot at the captured fighter's head. As the possessed body of Sonic the Hedgehog succumbed to the laser fire from the sweating, panting anthropomorphic fox, the telekinesis barrier dropped, and the fighters ran towards Fox in worry of his safety.


Somewhere, in an unknown area, there was a limp hand that looked familiar to Sonic's. It was held up in black, spiky chains, though the place was so black no one can figure out who it was. The arm started glowing in flashing colors of golden and violet, and the rest of the body was creating a silhouette of Sonic. The rainbow aura of his Fighter Spirit overwhelmed the silhouette, with the blackened chains dissolving. The silhouette escaped, flying faster than the speed of light in the blink of an eye. It is currently unknown what Sonic's Fighter Spirit was doing here, but somehow his freedom of his body released him from his shackles.


The fighters back at the large temple waited for the dust to clear, hoping they can find Sonic in time. Kirby then noticed the Silver the Hedgehog Spirit and the shattered fragments of the Dharkon Lock emerge from the rubble. Just then, the peculiar-looking Spirit entered the temple and fused himself back to Sonic's body, flashing rainbow colors for the other Smashers to see. As the fighters were blinded by the light enveloping literally the entire land of Hyrule, Kirby felt the red mist and Silver Spirit enter his body. The pink puffball's eyes started glowing red again, and he stiffened as he was taken to yet another vision.


Kirby tried adjusting his vision and seeing a mountain right in front of him. To be fair, the world of Arcus' was literally a starless night, so it was not the easiest thing to do. Thankfully, two torches on both sides of the cave ignited their flames, letting the other dragons that escaped from Dharkon to enter the cave just at the foot. While the surviving civilians of Arcus entered the cave, Ultima arrived in time. She was followed by Galeem who was carrying his brother's egg, and his wife Medley who walked on foot with Sozo while she kept her egg in her pouch.

"Well, here we are," Ultima told her brother and close companions. "We've found the Cave of the Ancients, birthplace of our ancestors and Lord Ceresor's first descendant. This will surely be the perfect spot to hide from Phoenix and his Crazy Hand army… I hope…" The four dragons entered inside the cave, watching the torches douse out as the last remaining dragons entered the shelter. The Dragosmos that escaped sat up on their back legs, lifting up the earth to block the cave entrance and cover it with vegetation for camouflage. An elderly female Eastern dragon noticed Galeem struggling with carrying the egg of Inkereign, and gave him a holding pouch out of generosity.

"If you want to keep your children safe, take them to the nursery here," the old serpent spoke.

"I'll take Glimmeress and Inkereign there," Ultima responded, helping Galeem slip his brother's egg into the pouch. The Queen of Arcus then pulled the other pouch with Glimmeress off the egg's mother and slipped it onto herself.

"Sozo. Galeem. Keep a good watch over the survivors. Attend to their wounds if you have to," Ultima told them as she headed to the nursery, with a golem-shaped dragon pointing her the way. The Queen of Arcus then entered the part of the Cave of the Ancients where she heard younger dragons crying. Few of them had their mother, father, or very rarely both to comfort them since most of these dragonlings were orphaned by the massacre caused by Dharkon.

As Ultima looked around, taking care not to step on any of the children, she managed to find an empty nest to place the unhatched eggs in. All of the other nests were packed with several wounded dragonlings, many even traumatized from the events. Ultima carefully placed the eggs of Glimmeress and Inkereign into the nest, grabbing the pouches with her bag and sliding them off. She leaned close to the two eggs and warmed them with her breath, trying to incubate them as she could feel their healthy heartbeats.

"You're… stepping in our nest," a young voice spoke behind Ultima. The spectrum-winged dragoness turned around to see two dragons both the size of her front leg, battered and bruised. The child that spoke was a female, pink dragon, her horns and tail shaped like heart tips, her scales shaped like flower petals, and the patterns on her wings reminiscent of butterflies. By her side was a male dragon younger than her, gnawing on a woolen sock puppet as though he was teething, even though his teeth already came in. His plastic eyes were rather peculiar, wobbling around as though he could not see straight. His dirty claws were constantly digging through the ground, kicking up dust all over his paws. His scales and wings all had the texture of wool, with his entire body colored a deep teal and his horns and wings a vibrant blue.

"Come again?" Ultima asked, noticing the two children wounded from the attack.

"You're… stepping in our nest," the pink dragon child repeated, her right front claws fondling the dirt.

"I'm sorry, but these two eggs need it more than you do," Ultima responded, trying not to make herself feel bad.

"We lost our mommy and daddy," the pink dragon slurred, her wing stroking the back of her mentally retarded brother. "We lost our… mommy and daddy…"

"I lost my mommy and daddy too," Ultima responded, feeling sorry for these poor kids. "My name is Ultima, the Queen of Arcus… or what remains of Arcus anyway…"

"I… I… My name is Josei, and this is my brother Ningyo," the pink dragon stuttered. "I have atypical autism, and Ningyo is suffering from a mental birth defect. The other dragons bully us at school for our disabilities…" Ultima sat down in front of the two dragons, feeling rather sorry for these two children.

"The bad guys… smashed all of the eggs," Josei wept. "They… got our baby brother and sister… Mommy and Daddy told us to leave and we escaped. We… We miss them." The pink dragon child wept into Ultima's chest, with Ningyo unable to feel emotions although he can understand them, stopping with gnawing on his sock puppet.

"We can end this… together," Ultima responded, patting Josei's back. "Your differences make you unique. No one can take that away from you, and they cannot even force change upon those who embrace it. If you like, you can show these kids that you're better by taking care of these eggs here… Can you do that?" Josei backed away from the Queen of Arcus and helped pull Ningyo's hand away from his face just as he was about to bite himself with the sock puppet.

"We'll do it," Josei answered, keeping her wings exposed. "We'll do it for Arcus and for our family."

"That's the spirit," Ultima cheered, smiling. As Kirby continued to listen to the cries of the other dragonlings, the environment started dissolving into black, and Kirby was transported back into the Sacred Land of Hyrule.


"Don't ever go black on me!" Pit cried, hugging the waking pink puffball tightly. Kirby squirmed out of the angel's arms, looking at the rubble surrounding the temple. Joker and Ireburn walked up next to the alien, comforting him.

"Terrible, we know," the Phantom Thief sighed. Kirby then noticed a glowing body found in the debris right where the Sonic Primary was defeated.

"Well this is new," Fox McCloud noted, walking towards the illuminating hedgehog. The fighters gathered around the friend that they had rescued, watching as Sonic's body flashed in a rainbow of colors, his aura spreading throughout Hyrule. Who the Smashers shielded their eyes from the intense light, Kirby noticed fire within the red, rocks within the orange, lightning within the yellow, leaves within the green, air gusts within the blue, water within the indigo, and magical stars within the violet. After the light shone its brightest, the sky reverted back to its dark gray color, and the unconscious body of Sonic slowly floated towards the temple floor. Fox ran up to the blue hedgehog in time, but what he saw surprised him.

On the speedy devil's face were two glowing scars: one of Dharkon's violet on the right side of Sonic's face, and the other of Galeem's golden on his left. Both scars were equally symmetrical, running vertically from the bases of his ears down to the tops of his cheeks. This was never revealed even when they fought against the captured fighter. The Star Fox leader placed his hand on Sonic's chest, feeling the slow heartbeat within.

"What happened to him?" Little Mac asked, concerned about the hedgehog.

"He's broken physically, that's what," Zero Suit Samus responded. "We need to take him to a village. Stat." Mario, worried about his closest friend's safety after ten years of being isolated from Sonic, looked down to the bottom-left of the temple, spotting Kakariko Village next to the somehow-extinct volcano of Goron Mountain.

"We can take him down there," Mario answered, looking back at his companions. "Follow me." The red plumber walked down the narrow path to the village. Fox carried Sonic's unconscious body for the rest of the trip, with the rest of their teammates traveling in a single-file line.

Once the fighters arrived in the village, they found it to be inhabited by Normal Novice Spirits of Koroks. There were a few human and Hylian Spirits around, although some of them were of the Advanced class, Normal or Master. One Korok, Hestu, was glad enough to take the fighters into his own little house and attend to Sonic's wounds from the intense battle and aftermath.

While the other Smashers waited in Hestu's living room, Fox McCloud sat on an empty bed and hesitantly watched the big Korok wet Sonic's head with a damp towel. Unlike the other fighters, including Mario, Fox felt something special about the blue hedgehog, something that not even the red plumber could reach to. It was almost as though Fox was forced to become a guardian to Sonic in the darkest of times… a parent, even. As the towel Hestu was using was starting to cool down, Sonic the Hedgehog opened his eyes for the first time in twenty years. His eyes searched throughout the strange room he woke up in, and he looked around to see two strange figures around him.

"I am so glad you're safe," Fox sighed, approaching the blue hedgehog. "We all were…" However, just as the Star Fox leader was about to touch Sonic's hand, the scarred speedster quickly acted. The blue devil kicked Fox right in the stomach, not out of anger but out of fear. As the Star Fox mercenary tried to keep his balance by grabbing onto a small table, he saw something unusual happen to the teenage pal he once knew.

The blue hedgehog's fists started glowing red with fire, generating powerful pyro blasts from his fingers. As he was doing that, the blue hedgehog's own body was glitching like crazy. Unaware of what was happening to him, Sonic generated a peculiar kind of electricity around his body and zapped himself out of the room faster than the speed of light.

The other Smashers were shocked once they heard the door to the bedroom shatter from a large gust of wind, splinters flying everywhere. Sonic instantly stopped in place, afraid of where he was and what kind of powers he had.

"Sonic!" the Wii Fit Trainer said with a cheerful heart. "You're finally speeding around the hou-" Sonic suddenly created a powerful magic blast that destroyed the entire house out of his insecurities, trying to run away from where he woke up in. As Fox climbed out of the rubble, he caught Sonic speeding lightning-fast to the center of the town only to clench his chest in pain from the severe glitch that stunned his body. The Star Fox mercenary saw this as a chance to run up to the blue hedgehog and pin him to the ground.

"G-G-G-Get away from me!" Sonic snarled, glitching himself out of Fox's grasp as he tried to crawl away.

"Sonic, don't you recognize us?" Fox asked, worried about the hedgehog's safety.

"…Who's Sonic?" the speedster asked, his hands glitching mildly. Fox became shocked as soon as he heard those words. While Sonic was sitting down, his legs spread out, the Star Fox mercenary now saw those mismatched irises of the blue speedster instead of the emerald-green eyes he once had. For the right side, he had a violet eye, but his left eye had a golden eyes, with both of them matching the colors of the scars on each side of the hedgehog's face. Fox started to get a feeling of worry, a feeling of guilt. Now that Sonic was asking who was his own name, those feelings clicked.

The rest of Group A met up with Fox in time. As soon as they arrived, the anthropomorphic star pilot got down onto his knees, his eyes starting to feel wetter.

"He doesn't remember his own name," Fox whispered, shaking his own head.

"That's ridiculous-a!" Mario objected, turning towards the glitching blue hedgehog. "You at least remember us, right?" Sonic simply stared at them, looking utterly confused.

"…Who are you people?" Sonic asked, his right-violet and left-golden eyes gazing upon the companions he no longer recognized.

"Sonic… it's us," Mega Man convinced, holding out his metallic hand. Kirby was filled up with sadness and pain for what happened to Sonic. As soon as the blue hedgehog asked his own questions, the fighters recognized what their friend has changed into. A glitching, blue-spine warrior with eyes each the exact same color as his scars with the literal abilities of a Dragosmo now remains of what once was the cocky teenage hedgehog that rolled around at the speed of sound. To make matters even worse, Sonic has now forgotten all of his friends, what happened before and after the encounter with Galeem, and any remembrance of his past, even his own name.

"Oh… geez," Mario responded. "None of us wanted this to happen…" As soon as the red plumber slowly approached the Sonic, the blue hedgehog glitched out of control.

"No! St-St-St-St-St-Stay away from me!" Sonic exclaimed, trying to back off with the glitch infecting his body, holding him down to the point that he cannot get away. Instead, all he could do was generate pebbles from his hands out of thin air and try to pelt the friends he no longer recognized with those tiny stones. Shortly after, once the blue hedgehog infected with amnesia stood on his feet, he created gigantic icicles around himself out of nowhere and threw them at the fighters who rescued him. However, the glitch infecting his body combined with the overuse of his powers caused Sonic to waste all his energy and fall like a ragdoll to the ground, converting all the icicles he threw into water that splashed upon the fighters in the process.

As time had passed, Group A had just managed to find another house from the permission of another Korok Spirit, where Sonic the Hedgehog was placed in a bed.

"This is terrible," Fox told Mario and the gang. "Our old buddy Sonic can't remember us anymore. This doesn't happen to any of us…"

"Well, he was responsible for sending Kirby back in time. You could cut him some slack…" Mario answered.

"Not funny, dumbass," Zero Suit Samus responded, her arms folded across her chest. The Incineroar started grunting in his own language, with Mega Man providing the translation due to his robotic abilities.

"Incineroar's saying that when Dharkon took over, he managed to capture the Fighter Spirits of the remaining Primaries, and they all escaped except for Sonic," Mega Man translated. "Somehow, Dharkon must know a way to interact with Spirits, even…"

"Change and alter their chemistry both physically and mentally?" Fox finished in the form of a question.

"Exactly," Mega Man replied. "Somehow, that glitch is torturing the poor hedgehog, and we need to get him out of it."

"Maybe we can find answers of how and why this happened, and still is happening, if we head to the Lost Woods," Link remarked. "My Sheikah Slate can't even make sense of what happened to Sonic, and it's going to be hard to kickstart Sonic's memory. It took him ten years for the blue speedster to help us remember who were are. And we will do the same to him, even if it takes another ten."

"…Then it's settled," Mario spoke. "We head to the Lost Woods for clues to bring back Sonic. Until then, he's staying here in Kakariko Village. For the time being, he's considered too dangerous for the unusual powers he's carrying, and surely any enemy can find use of him if he travels with us…"

"I'll stay with him," Fox told the team. "Your job is to complete the Triforce at the Temple of the Master Sword. My job is to protect Sonic at all costs." Mario patted the Star Fox mercenary's shoulder, his head bowing down.

"I know you'll prove to be a better friend than I was," Mario said, watching the Pokémon Trainer, the Inkling, the Ice Climbers, Villager, Sheik, Mr. Game & Watch, PAC-MAN, and all their friends walk out of the house, ready to head to the Lost Woods. "Do your best to bring our dear buddy Sonic…"

"Mario!" Popo called out. "We're waiting!" The red plumber adjusted his cap, journeying out the door. Fox McCloud looked back at Sonic, who was resting in bed while being attended by a Korok Spirit. The anthropomorphic mercenary walked up to the sleeping hedgehog, the back of his hand rubbing the left side of Sonic's face as it glitched again.

"What ever happened to you?" Fox whispered. "…What ever happened to you?"


While the fighters took the stone path from the temple to the Lost Woods, Mario looked back on the Kakariko Village. His heart began beating faster in the pain of reverence, unable to accept the fact that his own friendly rival had forgotten everything… even how he became that way in the first place.