The battle was fierce and the Society for the Salvation of the Earth played a huge role in turning the tide of battle. The villains used each of their unique abilities to take out hordes of Golem in one fell swoop. While Mojo used his robots to smash down on various groups of shadows, Princess Morbucks used various grenade launchers to take out more. Fuzzy's immense strength allowed him to run through lines of golem and crush their face tablets left and right, while Sedusa's tentacle like hair allowed her to grab small groups and throw them crashing to the ground.

The biggest players were the Gangreen gang and HIM. Ace threw cards at such a rate and power that waves upon waves of Golem fell as the bullet-like cards found their marks. Lil' Arturo had mastered supersonic flight and carried a large metal baton that allowed her to crack the stone tablets with ease. HIM allowed his black dust to permeate the surrounding power lines turning them into large electric snakes that could clear the road in one swoop. All of the effort being put in cleared, finally, a path for Link to go and persue Zant.

"Why are you helping us?" Buttercup asked HIM as she cleared another wave of golem.

"Please I have more reasons than one," HIM said smiling and causing parts of the road to crush down on a particularly troublesome golem, "First and most important is REVENGE! And then there's the fact that the world is better off being destroyed by me than some obsessive aliens."

"Blossom where's Link?" Buttercup yelled over to Blossom who was pulling down a streetlamp on a few golem that had surrounded Fuzzy Lumpkins.

"He went after Zant." Blossom responded

Buttercup donned a worried expression, "Alone?" she asked running up the road and around the corner.

"You better follow stinkypuffs we can handle these." HIM commanded the girls

The girls nodded and ran around the corner after their friends as the villains continued to fight the oncoming horde.

"How could they be so much better than us?" Blossom asked to Bubbles

"Well I imagine it's because they are used to mass destruction while we focus on just fighting individuals and keeping the damage as small as possible. It makes sense when you think about it." Bubbles responded

Link finally caught up with Zant who had stopped running and was waiting for Link on a quiet road.

"Tell me how does it feel to forget everything?" Zant turned into a small cloud of darkness and moved to the side of the street, "No family or friends to lighten your mind, get you away from the dismal reality that your home is gone." He turned back into a cloud of dust and flew to the other side of the road. "You'll never see Zelda again." He said and Links eyes opened wide.

He could see a young girl staring in a window, trapped in a cell, flying on a large bird and he could remember feeling happy and complete when she was around. They were friends, close friends like him and Buttercup. Link fell to the ground with his head in between his hands, his sword off to the side scraping the ground.

"Who is she? How do I know her?" He yelled and Zant shaded over to the side of Link's ear.

"You really want to know don't you?" He said cynically, "Of course right now it doesn't make much difference, she's become part of the darkness." Zant said triumphantly behind Link drawing out a sword and readying his blade to deal a silent blow to the emotionally unstable Link.

"Megaton Hammer!" Came a shout from behind Zant causing him to turn around.

When he turned he met the business end of a giant hammer swung with the full might of Buttercup. This sent Zant flying down the road skipping off the cement like stones being thrown in a pond. Eventually he embedded himself in a cement wall on the side of an industrial complex.

Buttercup went over to Link, "Who is she, why can't I remember?" He said still holding his head in emotional tourment. Buttercup bent over to his side, she hesitated as she reached out to touch his shoulder.

The moment Buttercup's hand touched Link his emotional pain disappeared. He looked up and looked around and saw Buttercup bending over next to him with a smile on her face. He rose quickly and gave her a hug. "Thank you." He tearfully whispered to Buttercup's surprise, "I remember now." He said.

Blossom and Bubbles came around the corner to see Link hugging Buttercup. Buttercup felt the strength in his arms and the definition of his chest. She felt warm and safe and it seemed for a moment that there wasn't anyone else in the world but them. Eventually Link let go and went over to Zant.

He stretched out his hand and a golden light circled around the creature and pulled him from the rubble. He was hoisted a foot off the ground and blue blood poured from a gash on the side of his head going to a small puddle on the ground.

"What have you done with Zelda?" Link asked commanding an answer

"I told you she's part of the darkness now." Zant said trying to laugh but he only coughed up some blue blood.

"Impossible!" Link said clenching his fist which seemed to cause some discomfort to Zant, "I know that Gannondorf needs her he wouldn't let her become part of the darkness not until she gives him what he wants. So now TELL ME, WHERE IS SHE?"

This time Zant laughed hard as his blood came pouring out of his mouth and down the side of his face. "Please he has no use for her now that we already know where you are I wouldn't be surprised if he's sent her off to 'the Sorting' yet."

Bubbles gasped

"What is it?" Blossom asked

"When I died I had a choice to either return to life or continue to 'the Sorting', evidently that's what these people from Links world call heaven."

"Not quite." Link corrected, "The sorting is more of a judgment before the three goddesses than heaven, if you sort well you can choose to come back to earth or you could choose to go to paradise. But in the end that isn't important." He said turning back to Zant who had started to fade out. "How do we reach Gannondorf?"

"Heh…heh. You don't need… to reach him… he's coming… for…you." Zant finished and passed out.

Link looked into the sky where the Nebula had come into full view of the earth. Dark shadowy branches reached down to the ground and started to pour over the streets of New Townsville. Soon the Society for the Salvation of the Earth came around the corner to see Link.

"Mojo thinks we have a lot to worry about!" Mojo started

"Yeah all the shadow creatures just disappeared." Ace said and then he saw the streams of darkness falling from the sky.

They looked like dark waterfalls coming from the upper atmosphere and crashing down in waves to the ground below.

Link turned to the super villains, "I need you to evacuate the city. Bring them underground or whatever they all just need to get out of the city before he comes."

"Before who comes?" Fuzzy asked

Link looked to the sky, "Gannondorf."

Thanks for reading this short chapter I am saving up for the next one which might be my last in this chapter in this series so if you want me to continue you can PM me if I can get at least five I'll continue but if not within the next two I'll end the story, Ultima S. Next, Gannondorf! (aka The Final Chapter.)