Last time on Medabots & Hylians, Link and company recruited Malon and her medabot Brown Bison to help them save their home from the coming evil. Meanwhile, Zelda's destiny was made clear to her as she set off to begin her own adventure. However, it didn't go as planned as some skeleton monsters found her and began pursuit. When it looked like Zelda was done for, a mysterious white medabot came from nowhere and saved her. What'll happen next? Find out now on "Medabots & Hylians- a New Generation of Heroes."
I do not own either LoZ or Medabots, but I do own the OCs in this chapter.
(One more note- I forgot to mention in previous chapters, but if you want to see a pic of a certain medabot, pm me who you want to see and I'll message you the image)
Chapter 8- The Good, the Bad, and the Cowboy
After a couple hours of walking, Link's little party was starting to get tired. "Come on Link," Metabee whined, "Let's take a break. My feet are killing me." Malon complained about the same thing earlier, but when nobody wanted to stop, she had Brown Bison medachange into a buffalo and used his wheel treads to give her feet a break; and the boys were sure sorry from there. But now, even Sheik, who was on the school track team, was ready for a break. "Why don't we take a break Link," Sheik piped up, "We've been walking all day." "Alright," Link agreed at last, as his feet were sore too, "Let's stop at that tree over there." He pointed for a tree on the other side of the empty road. The group then took a seat on three sides of the tree and sighed heavily in unison. "Finally," Malon sighed, "A chance to give my feet a break." "I'm with you on that one Malon," Metabee added as he sat on the ground, "My aching feet." "Metabee, you're a medabot," Link fussed, "How can your feet hurt?" "Hey, even medabots get tired of walking after a while buddy." Metabee snorted. "Hey Nin-Ninja," Sheik called, "Any idea how much farther it is to Kakariko Village?" "My best guess is that at the pace we are going, we should arrive by nightfall." He explained. And from that, everyone sighed in heavy defeat knowing that there was still more walking to do. "Good going Link." Sheik huffed, "We walk all the way from our neighborhood to Kakariko Village and you don't get the idea to bring a car." "Hey, how is this now my fault?" Link shot back, "If I remember correctly, you were as ready to go as I was." "Will you two just quit fighting?" Malon raged as she rose to stand over the boys with her hands on her hips. They gulped slightly in unison as then simply sighed and looked away. Link then got an idea, "I know why we're so antsy, we're just hungry." The other two teens happily agreed as they took out a small snack from their backpacks and proceeded to restore their energy.
As they munched away, the silence between everyone couldn't stay long. "Whew," Malon sighed, "It's good to finally take a break." Brown Bison grunted as he transformed back into robot mode and sat on the ground. "It's seems that you took the words right out of his mouth." Metabee responded as he sat on one side of the tree by himself. About a minute later, Link and Sheik couldn't help but notice how vibrant the red in Malon's hair was as she tied most of it up in a ponytail, but left some hanging down her back. "Hey Malon," Link asked, "I've always been wondering this since the fifth grade, but how can your hair be so red? It just doesn't seem natural." "That's because it's not my natural color silly," Malon smiled, "It's colored." "And what color would it normally be?" Sheik then asked curiously. "Like I would tell you," She laughed, "It's my secret." She then paused. "But, I'll tell Link what it is if he agrees to my condition." She continued. "And that would be?" Link sighed, "Although I'm afraid to ask." "I'll tell you my natural hair color if you take me out on a date and say that I'm your girlfriend." Malon snickered dreamily as she turned and winked one of her blue eyes at him. "No way," Link quickly replied, "I don't want to find out that badly." "Well you're no fun." Malon huffed, a little disappointed that her plan didn't work. Ever since she met Link in the third grade, she has tried time and time again to get Link to call her his girlfriend, and failed every time to date. But Malon however is convinced in her own mind that she and Link are destined to be together, and never gave up on that dream yet. And as much as the other boys in the school, and namely those on the football team, begged her to go out with them, she has refused every request so far. Malon then glanced at Sheik, hoping that he'd be able to convince Link otherwise, but was quickly shut down. "Sorry Malon," He shrugged, "But I don't think he'll budge on this one." "Rats," Malon grumbled to herself, "I'll get Link one of these days."
However, after finishing their snacks, the group heard a loud squawk coming from behind them. They turned to find a huge ugly bird mutant flying right towards them. It was easily as long as a car, and its wingspan was about twice its length. And it had no visible feathers, but flew in the likeness of a bird of prey. It had a beak filled with small sharp teeth and its eyes clearly told of its intentions of destruction. "That thing doesn't look friendly." Sheik warned as he stood up, "Nin-Ninja get ready." "Yes Sheik," The ninja type medabot answered as he readied his battle stance as he dashed forward a few feet, unsheathing his ninja swords at the same time with a flick of the wrist, "I will do my best." "Metabee, help Nin-Ninja." Link ordered through his medawatch as he stood up with Sheik. "You got it. Bring it on Bird-brain." Metabee shouted as he stood ready next to Nin-Ninja. "Brown Bison, lend those two your strength." Malon instructed as she joined the group and as the buffalo type medabot advanced forward and snorted. Metabee tried the first wave of attack by shooting at it, but the attack was in vain as the bird creature evaded to the left and flew around its attackers. And when it attempted an attack, Nin-Ninja tried to counter it, but failed as it picked him up with its talons and tried to throw him into the tree. "Brown Bison," Malon shouted, "Catch Nin-Ninja!" The buffalo type medabot grunted loudly as he took a running start and leapt upwards to catch the incoming medabot successfully. "Not bad Malon," Sheik smirked, "Thanks." "No problem." Malon smiled back as their medabots nodded at each other. Unfortunately, due to the speed and agility of the creature, the medabots were unable to land any sort of attack on it, as it was all they could do just to stay out of its way. And after a while, the creature learned how to use the turbulence of the wind to attack passively. So it then began swooping down low to the ground and sped like a bullet. And then flew straight back up as it met its attackers, and the turbulence in turn caused the medabots to be thrown everywhere without the creature having to physically attack them.
However, just as the bird mutant got close enough to repeat the passive attack, a lasso came from out of nowhere and took the creature down by its neck. The teens then heard a loud "Yee-Haw" as a small, medabot-sized steam locomotive dashed out from the groups left, with the lasso tied to the rear of the tender, and dragged the beast behind it. "Yee-Haw!" The voice then shouted again. "This is more fun than wranglin' cattle on a Wednesday. Casey, bring that oversized turkey back on over here so I can have some fun with it." The small train then whistled as it made a wide U-turn with the creature squawking angrily in tow and dashed for its master. The owner of the voice, a boy the matched Link's group in age, then reached for hand of rope on his belt and readied himself as the creature roared by and jumped onto it. The little locomotive then dropped the rope it was holding and transformed into a medabot and watched the rest of the show. Link and the others were about to dive into the midst of the fight, until the locomotive type medabot stopped them. "Don't interfere," He called casually, "He does this sort of thing all the time." "You're a feisty one aren't you?" The boy shouted at the beast as it squawked in rebellion to what the boy was doing. But after the group of teens watched long enough, they noticed that he was wrestling the beast and tying knots on its wings, legs, tail, and beak. And as the creature lost all energy to struggle, the boy finally finished his series of knots with a hog-tie, completely immobilizing the creature. Link's group watched in silence as the boy took the other lasso from his medabot, the locomotive type, and wrapped it back into a proper knot for storage on a belt clip and left the creature alone in the opening behind him as he then started walking for the group.
As he neared the group, they were able to make out better detail. He wore cowboy boots, and brown pants with a matching vest, and under the vest was a white button-up shirt with the sleeves rolled up just above his elbows and a red bandana around his neck. And on his head he wore a matching brown cowboy hat the hid a majority of his facial features. But when he looked up to face the group, his face was now easily visible as they showed the welcoming smile and blue eyes. And the tan that his forearms hinted also showed that he's worked in the outdoors for quite some time. "Whew," He sighed, "For a first time in Hyrule; that was sure a load a fun." "First time in Hyrule?" Sheik questioned when he snapped out of the silencing awe, "Where did you come from?" "Why I came from the good ole United States of America Partner," He laughed with a heavier country accent than Malon, "I come from the state of Texas to be more precise." "Wait a minute," Link thought to himself, "Where have I heard of that State Texas before?" And a moment later it clicked. "Hold on," Link asked, "Is your name by chance Jedediah?" "That's right," He smiled, tipping his hat, "Jedediah Shenandoah at your service." "So you're the one that was going to stay with me." Link smiled. "Hold up a sec," Jedediah questioned, "Is your name Link?" "Yeah, it is." Link answered. "Boy howdy," Jedediah laughed, "It's a pleasure to finally meet you Link, call me Jed." "It's nice to meet you too Jed," Link responded happily as Jedediah took his hand and shook it heartily, "I know it's not the best time to say it, but welcome to Hyrule." "Many thanks Link, and who're your friends here?" Jedediah asked when he released the handshake. Link then pointed towards each friend as he made the introduction, "Jed, this is my medabot Metabee, my friend Sheik and his medabot Nin-Ninja, and Malon and her medabot Brown-Bison." "It's a pleasure to meet y'all," Jedediah tipped his hat, mainly at Malon, which made her blush a hint, "This is my medabot Casey Jones, but call him Casey for short." "Nice to meet you." His medabot added, with a lesser country accent than his medafighter.
"So Link," Jedediah started, "I assume you don't live way out here in the middle of nowhere, so where are y'all headed?" "We're headed for Kakariko Village." Link answered the Texan. "Kaka-what now?" Casey piped up. "Kakariko Village," Sheik corrected, "There's something we need to do there." "Alright, fair enough. Y'all wouldn't mind if we tag along would you?" The cowboy then asked. "Dude, we thought you'd never ask." Metabee chimed in. "We need all the help we can get," Link explained, "So welcome to the team." "That's mighty nice of y'all." Jedediah thanked as the group started walking down the road once more. "By the way," Jedediah spoke up, "What did you mean by needing all the help you can get?" "It's a long story," Link started, "But to condense, some hostile army just took over Hyrule City, and we're going to take on whoever's responsible for sending that army." "Sounds like an adventure to me Partner," Jedediah chuckled, "But what do we need at this Kakariko Village?" "Unfortunately, we do not know that for a fact yet," Nin-Ninja answered, "But one thing that we are doing right now is enlisting help." "Makes sense," Casey concluded, "But how much help do you think is needed?" "Not sure," Malon chimed in, "But the more we have the better I guess." "By the way Jed," Sheik piped up, "How did you learn to wrangle like that back there?" "Well it's quite simple," The cowboy laughed, "It helps when you've been doing that since you were ten years old." "Now I've seen it all," Metabee mused, "How'd you do it?" "I live on a huge ranch my family owned for three generations now," Jedediah explained, "And one skill that I learned young was how to wrangle cows and horses." "My Dad has a ranch too," Malon exclaimed, "How large is yours?" "Well let's see, that last time it was counted, we had a thousand or so acres." "Really?" Malon gasped, "That's a lot of land, way more than ours." "When you live in Texas, you need a lot of land." Jedediah explained, "And even then, when we're not working, Casey and I have a few games we play out in the fields." Like what games?" Link asked, now getting interested. "When we have friends over, one of our favorites is one called Robattle Survival." "Robattle Survival?" Malon repeated. "That's right," The Texan nodded, "How it works is medabots only, but their medafighters are only allowed to give hints. And how the game plays is like a Western version of Capture the Flag. And each medabot, or team of medabots, get a designated square of territory. The aim of the game is to be the last team standing by owning all the territory." The next few minutes passed merrily as Jedediah and Casey proceeded to tell the others about some of the exciting things from living on a ranch.
Well now you've met my OCs that'll be sticking around and helping bring peace back to Hyrule. Reviews are greatly appreciated.