Buttercup had been waiting outside the laboratory room door where Link was being operated on by a team of medical professionals brought in from Cityville by the Mayor. She had reverted back to her normal form and was sitting next to Bubbles on a makeshift hospital bed that the Professor had set up.

She thought about the past days events and how it was that everyone seemed to be getting stronger except for them. Mojo's inventions had gotten stronger, the Amoeba Boys could suddenly morph into physical objects, the Gangreen had a super changling and a deadly card thrower what would it be like facing HIM again now that the people had become more powerful.

Buttercup had had to call Bubble's Gran-gran and tell her that she and Link had decided to sleep over at her house for the night while she called her own parents and told them that she was invited over to sleep at the Professors lab. Ken, the Mayor and Miss Bellum all stood around anxiously waiting for news of either of the injured's recovery when the phone rang.

"Hello this is the Mayor." The Mayor answered, "Uh-huh… Really? No we haven't… no she's not here… Ok we'll start a search." He hung up the phone and looked over at Buttercup and Ken, "Blossom didn't go home last night!"

"WHA?!" Ken and Buttercup said in unison taking a step back

"I have a bad feeling about this." The Mayor said, "And now with only you Buttercup…"

"What do you mean only Buttercup?" came a voice behind them. Buttercup and Ken whirled around.

"Bubbles!" Poochie cried seeing that Bubbles had pulled herself up to the side of the bed.

Ken and Buttercup went over and gave a big hug to the newly revived Bubbles laughing with tears in their eyes. Miss Bellum and the Mayor let out a huge sigh of relief just as the Professor exited the side lab where they had spent the night operating on Link.

"Link's gonna be alright!" The Professor smiled in his bloodied scrubs

Bubbles suddenly got a worried expression, "Why? What happened to Link? And where's Blossom?" she asked realizing that her friend was not there.

The room donned a saddened expression and most everyone looked to the side. Finally Buttercup said, "Link was injured severely in battle and as for Blossom… we don't know where she is."

Mojo suddenly exited the room where Link was being operated on in bloodied scrubs as well, to which Bubbles jumped from her bed and transformed right there ready to fight. "If you hurt my friend Mojo I'll…" she was interrupted by the Professor who stood between her and the green simian.

"WAIT!" The Professor yelled, "If it wasn't for Mojo, Link might not have made it through last night!"

"Huh!?" Bubbles said confused, "You mean Mojo actually did something good."

"Yes Mojo has decided to not be so bad anymore," Mojo interjected, "Mojo has actually been offered a job here with the Professor as his assistant." Mojo finished smiling and put his finger to the side of his head.

"ASSISTANT!" Everyone in the room nearly fell over backwards

"Yes, it seems as though the black Z-Ray activity that affected Mojo in the first place has made him actually quite intelligent." The Professor explained.

"Yes and Mojo is tired of being beaten by little girls, he would rather spend his day building robots than watching them get destroyed." Mojo continued

"Well we've got our eyes on you!" Buttercup said as Ken, Bubbles and the Mayor stared him down.

"Oh Come on! Can't a monkey catch a break anymore…!" He said holding his head in his hands and stomping on the ground.

"Alright girls you need to go out and find Blossom. Link is pretty heavily sedated right now so no one can talk to him yet, by the time you find Blossom he should be able to take some visitors." The Professor explained and sent them on their way.

Outside the door Buttercup changed to her powered form and took off with Bubbles to scour the city calling for Blossom. Bubbles talked mainly to the animals and Buttercup asked the people in the markets and shops when she wasn't searching the rooftops. Soon Bubbles got a lead off an alley cat and Buttercup saw something down a darkened alley.

"Blossom!" They said in unison running to their friend who'd stayed in that same position all night long.

As they approached they heard her saying something like a chant, "He'll never forgive me… he'll never forgive me… he'll never forgive me…" she said over and over as Bubbles and Buttercup reached her side.

"What is she talking about?" Bubbles asked looking at Buttercup

"What do you two want?" Blossom asked in a monotone voice not looking up from the ground where her eyes had been fixed.

"Everyone's been looking for you, your parents are worried sick about you. Look Bubbles is okay!" Buttercup started

Blossom looked straight ahead and then turned to Bubbles and then let her face fall back to the position that it had been in. "I don't care about that." She said monotonously.

"WHAT!? What do you mean you don't care?" Buttercup yelled facing Blossom face-to-top-of-the-head, "You were all broken up when she was hurt!"

"You two always wanted to be the leaders." Blossom said, "You never paid any attention to my contributions." Blossom said starting to sound a little angry.

"That's not true!" Bubbles stated, "I've always loved your contributions to the team!"

"Shut UP!" Blossom yelled and two shadows reached out and wrapped around Buttercup and Bubbles and pulled them into the darkness of the alley like a slingshot firing them out the other side straight into a building.

Blossom exited the alley on the same side walking slowly and as she did two shadowy forms took place at her right side and her left. These were twilight golems whose bodies were made of pure shadow and where their head should have been a large stone tablet with strange markings stood. Bubbles and Buttercup pulled themselves out of the wall and looked over at Blossom who seemed to be walking slowly with these creatures towards the lab.

As they ran up to confront Blossom again a few more of these creatures came around and surrounded Bubbles and Buttercup. "Looks like we're going to have to fight our way out." Buttercup stated readying her hammer.

"Please girls we'll take it from here!" came the snooty voice of the Amoeba Boys and the girls looked up the road to see the three floating in at top speed. "Rapid Mitosis!" They shouted and soon the roads were filled with multicolored amoebas. All the purple ones broke off to form a giant tank while the pink ones formed a jet and the green ones pulled back behind to form a giant yellow ball. The twilight creatures turned and started running towards the large constructs but were blown away by rounds upon rounds of mortar and missiles. However, for each shadow creature destroyed another ten found their way up from the shadows.

"Go on girls!" came the sound of the female member of the Amoeba Boys, "We can take them."

"But…" Buttercup started.

"Don't think this makes us friends we just need to get these things out from the sewers before they take us out." The pink one finished.

Bubbles and Blossom nodded in thanks and ran off to chase Blossom. Just as they left the shadow creatures jumped high and slammed down on the Jet and the tank. Other Twilight Golems took down the giant yellow blob beating them down with incredible ferocity until only the three originals remained. Battered and bruised they couldn't even put up a small amount of a fight.

At this point the cascades of golems lined up until they had created a path and at the beginning of that path the Amoeba boys could see a lone figure that looked different from the others. It walked up wearing some type of mask that looked like a weird fish, his robes were long and dark blue with golden symbols painted in and his shoes wrapped around the base of his pants to give a generally eerie aura.

"You three pose quite a threat to me!" came a sinister voice from under the mask, "I'm sure master Ganondorf would not approve of you three continuing to live!" He finished and one could hear the smirk from under his mask.

"You… think (*pant*)… we're scared of you!?" The leader of the Amoeba boys asked slowly rising only to fall to the ground again. The masked figure just laughed.

"You should be!" he said and shadows reached up from under the ground and started to drain the life force from the Amoeba Boys until they turned into dim forms of themselves. "We… won't… give… up!" the three said but at last the last of their energy was gone and they dropped, lifeless, to the ground.

"Let this be a lesson to this world, none can stay the hand of Zant the ambassador of the great Gannondorf!" He said and turned and walked away.

Meanwhile, Blossom made it to the Lab and entered in the door. "Blossom?!" Ken and Poochie said in unison as Blossom walked towards the middle of the room. Her countenance was gray and her shadow was pitch black. From this black shadow arms reached up and around the lab grabbing things and throwing them through the walls.

"Blossom what's going on?" the Mayor screamed holding onto Miss Bellum.

"He'll never forgive me." Is all that they could hear her say.

"Who?" The Professor asked and then he looked towards the door that separated them from the wounded Link.

Blossom pulled up that small black box that was handed to her by the shadow and opened it. A bunch of red and black squares opened a hole on the ceiling that looked like a black vortex. Huge golems came out of that hole and started to destroy the Lab. One of them captured the Mayor and ripped him away from Miss Bellum while the others did the same for everyone in the Lab.

Poochie, however, was managing to keep them back for some reason. He was surrounded on all sides yet none of the creatures moved forward to restrain him.

"Blossom you don't need to do this!" Ken shouted but Blossom turned her head quickly in Ken's direction and the golem that had him punched him in the stomach.

"KEN!" The Professor yelled fighting to pull away from the creature that had him bound but to no avail. Soon he stopped fighting and started to cry, "Please, Please! Take me but let my son go."

Blossom didn't move or even acknowledge what was going on around her. "He'll never forgive me." Is all that she said.

"Forgive you for what?" Came a voice to the side of the room, Blossom looked up suddenly and there stood Link. He was bandaged heavily around his waist and arm and yet still a little blood had managed to get through. His face was bruised and had a small gash in the side that had been closed with a small adhesive.

"I did this to you. You were helping me and I wanted to destroy you." Blossom said in a sad yet monotone voice.

"But you're my Friend." Link said, "Don't you think that what you're doing now hurts me worse than a few broken bones?"

To this some color returned to Blossoms eyes and she realized that she was standing in front of Link. She fell to the ground and started crying. "I'm sorry…" She said through sobs, "I didn't know…" She continued and soon she felt a warm touch on her hands and she looked up. Link had grabbed her hand and pulled it up to just below his chin, Blossom looked into his deep blue eyes.

"I forgave you the moment you started!" He said

Blossoms color returned and the vine-like shadows that had surrounded her slowly drew back out and left the lab. The shadow golems withdrew back into their portal which then slipped back into the box.

"I'm so, so sorry!" Blossom continued to cry and Link lifted her up into a warm embrace. Bubbles and Buttercup flew in the door to see the desolation and Link on his feet. Blossom turned and saw her friends there. "I'm sorry you two!" She cried and Bubbles smiled ran up and gave her a big hug.

"That's all I need!" She said and Buttercup ran up and gave her a hug as well.

"Me too!" She said

Blossom then turned to the others and apologized for her actions. Everyone forgave her and gave her a big group hug.

"It's easy to let things get you down in life but when that happens all you need to do is pick yourself back up." Bubbles said

"Yeah, we're friends and friends don't let each other face problems alone. Next time just come and talk to us o.k.?" Buttercup added

"It's a promise!" Blossom said happily as the spiny shadows slowly dragged the black box back into the shadows.

Thank you for reading, I am glad to see that I got my first follower and send thanks to Piplupm hopefully I don't disappoint, Ultima S. Next, Preparing for HIM!