Tales of the Cosmic Wars Vol 2: A Star's Twilight

by Darth Necron

The second volume of the tale of Ben Auro as he joins with hero's like Mario, Sonic, Link, Samus Aran, Megaman X, Master Chief, Cloud and more to defeat the many groups of evil that threaten the cosmos. The more Ben fights, the more he faces the horrors of war, from the likes of Bowser, Ganondorf, Sephiroth, Sigma, Xemnas and more, to the darkness within. Character guide added!

40. C 95:Ganondorf's Ultimate Trap!

Tales of the Cosmic Wars Vol 2

Chapter 99: The Flaring Cruel Darkness! Ganondorf's Ultimate trap!

Last time in Tales of the Cosmic Wars Ben, Link, Cloud, Kirby and Yuri's group were trying to figure out just how to deal with the crises unleashed by the clueless Alexei, the large radioactive Octopus of doom the Adaphagoes! While they were slowly able to figure out the best method to wipe it out without having a negative effect on the planet Rita was able to work out a theory that would use the world's own Blastia and convert it to energy that would destroy it. However, just when they were about to give it a shot it seems someone has their own plan, when Duke appeared before them and took back Dein Nomos from Yuri and warning them not to interfere with his own plan!

As they were puzzled at what the white haired man was going to do when only a little while later there problems only got worse as they detected the massive giant tower breaking out of the ground !

And thanks to the sudden arrival of one of the Entelexeia, and it told them both Duke's true past and the secrets of the tower of Tarqaron! And what was most disturbing is that its powers could destroy Adaphagoes, at the cost of all the human lives on this world! Knowing that they can't let Duke go through with this and rushed on board to stop him! After dealing with a few dozen monsters or so they eventually made it to the top of the tower and confronted Duke.

No matter what anyone said Duke would not let anyone stop him, and was determined to wipe out humanity to return the world to a natural state! He was powerful and determined, but Ben's resolve was greater than Duke's, and it seemed that Duke even had respect for Ben. However before Ben and the Enji could speed his defeat they were stopped, by Yuri! As foolish as it may have been the vigilante was determined to prove to Duke that the people of the world of could fight for their future with their own power!

And while Duke's power was fierce, and after transforming he was able to blast the members of Brave Vesperia nearly to the breaking point! However, all of the warriors were determined, and in a combined assault they were able to defeat him! With Duke wounded, subdued and out of the way are hero's had no time to lose, and they moved quickly to move forward with Rita's plan! In the nick of time all of the Blastia around the world is transformed in to an energy blast fired by the Neo-Highwind!

However even this seemed not to be enough! However, Duke seemed to have a change of heart and gave a burst of power to the blast, and it seemed like it was enough! However, then something that no one expected happened! To everyone's horror the Adaphagoes transformed, in to some kind of nightmarish fusion of a ship and a castle! Before long Link's worse fears were conformed as none other than a triumphant Ganondorf teleported in front of them!

Not only was the King of Evil responsible for controlling all the events that have unfolded, but he was using all of this as a diversion to warp in to the Zaphas castle and once more kidnap Princess Zelda! It seems that the Zannacross Inquisitor has been preparing to show both his ally's and his enemies why he thinks he is the most evil being of all and the only one worthy of being the true envoy of Chaos Zannacross Necron! The question now is, just how will he do it and how painful will it be for are heroes?

The time to find out is now, so let's get started!

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Before we return to are hero's standoff we briefly return to the most evil place of all, Neo Pandemonium! At the main stronghold of the Zannacross Empire Kira, or by his new name Darth Judicar has just entered the throne room to report the progress of his reorganization and merging of the Titans Special Forces with the main demonic forces. Damonus had ordered him to rethink why he was beaten and killed by Ben Max his father and all the other Enji before he official took command of the fleet and just now he is ready to give the shadow lord his answer.

He stops just short of the throne and just remains still as the statues in the chamber till Damonus grunted out," So, have you reflected on your errors Darth Judicar?"

The son of the Grand Master nods and says," Yes, Damonus, after much time spent meditating I now see things clearly. While I thought I had planned for every situation perfectly, I now see I had let my powers make me arrogant. I was so fixated with fulfilling my destiny that I forgot the whole reason I was taking matters in to my own hands. Not for glory, but for the creation of the new era of darkness. I once again let emotions weaken my foresight, and because I lost the ultimate balance of light and darkness, thus I was no longer on a higher level then those weak hearten fools.

However, now I understand what must be done. I won't let pride, or any other worthless emotion fog my eyes. Now and forever, I am Darth Judicar, the one who will erase this decaying dimension and create paradise. Ben Auro, Max Bruder, Master Myers, and all other heretics that oppose the return of the Supreme God Emperor of darkness will die."

Damonus has his throne turn around and his eyes glow as he says," Good, you were able to erase all remaining fragments of your light. Now you can truly begin the path to the glorious revival of the one true ruler of all space and time! Ah, so I assume you also have a new war plan to present to me and the master?"

Kira smirks and responds with a stern," Not a plan, a map of death for the Lylat Kingdom. Father and King Atem may try and change were they hide there military bases and key projects. But it's useless. Not only do I know where they are, but I can easily predict where they will try and relocate all vital projects and fleets.

Since the Lylat Kingdom and its people could not accept the truth of the true nature of the world, they will be erased. And Ben Auro, since you were too weak to accept the truth, you will lose everything you hold dear before you painfully die!"

His demon superior laughs and has black flames ignite on his right hand as he says,"I see you wish to wipe out the light of the welder of the Star Sword. However, Ganondorf seems to be attempting his own plan for that at the moment. Right now he has succeeded in luring Ben Auro and his friends in to his trap that he had planned on the world of Terca Lumeris. Now it is time to see if he can perform up to the high expectations he has promised."

Kira sighs and responds with a calculated," Ganondorf, he is powerful and cunning, but he is a savage man who's mind is warped around his own ego and out of date ideas. All he can think about is conquering all he can. His darkness will never be enough to engulf Ben Auro's light on his own."

Damonus turns to the side and responds with," Its true Ganondorf has a little too high opinion of himself, but so does everyone here, including you. He is one to get results, he has destroyed the most planets out of all the Inquisitors theses last few months.

And even I will give him credit for the level of planning he put in to this plan. All that remains is to see if he can get his plan to work. For it would be a great misfortune for him if he can't. After all, there if no forgiveness for failures. And those that can't be of anymore use will either be recycled or deleted! Now, it's time I look over what you know."

" Of course. The will of the dark side will be fulfilled so that this cosmos can at last be free, of all the errors the god and the devil made in this dimension. Only then, can a new better world be created! Now, here is my plan."

With that the true traitor of the Enji and the one who is the voice of Zannacross go over all of his knowledge of the Lylat Kingdom's secrets!

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However, we now return back to the most pressing matter at hand, the appearance of Ganondorf! Yuri and the other natives of Terca Lumeris can tell right away that this guy is bad news. Yuri all of a sudden feels a lot heaver and glares right at the evil king hovering smugly above them all as he grunts out a angry," So, this is that Ganondorf nut that Link talked about? He is even uglier in person. And the fact that he is one of those Zannacross freaks that what to blow up everything is not helping me is won over! Is...his ship alive?"

Kirby winced before he gulped." I seen those creepy eyes before! Its the mean Dark Matter that likes taking over people's minds!"

Estelle saw Ganondorf snicker and falls to her knees merely from the amount of darkness Ganondorf has and says," I never felt, such a evil mind! Its like there is nothing at all but a pure black heart! I can feel it, I can see it in his eyes, this guy is much worse than Alexei or Yeager. He truly wishes to destroy this planet, everything and everyone on it, and many more planets!"

Rita then shakes Estelle and says,"Don't let him psych you out! He just wants to be a jerk and scare us so much he can feed of are fear or something! But he won't be able to do that when we blast him in to the sun! Still, he has this, creep feel. "

Link then points the Master Sword at his hated long time foe and says," Ganondorf! So you come after Agahnim failed to complete your plan when you found out I , Ben and the other Enji were here eh? So be it, this will be where we settle things once and for all!"

Ganondorf' 's power has grown so much that its causing lighting to strike the tower as his eyes narrow on Link while he says," Oh Link, your misunderstanding is so amusing. Hate to break it to you but I was right on my Black Omen controlling events to my liking before you were even here!"

Ben eyes the mad king carefully before he retorts with ,"It seems like quite the hassle for a Zannacross Inquisitor to go so far to a planet that borders on the edge of discovered space in the universe, then take his time hiding making his minions slowly control the events without even making his presence known, all to feed energy in to what looked like a giant Octopus? Seems a little too complex for someone who could just blow up the planet. Was there even a real Adaphagoes to begin with?"

The follower of the dark side looks up at the sky and says" Yes at one point in this pathetic planet's history the Adaphagoes was indeed sealed away. A few months ago I had just destroyed a planet in the same galaxy when I sensed an unusual energy. I sensed the dormant Adaphagoes sealed in this planet's moon, and also sensed the powers that this world possessed.

However, what made this planet useful was that it was all ready in contact with Hyrule. Rather than just destroying this planet as casually as I did the others, I saw that I could spawn a trap that would in time allow me to have both my revenge and my ultimate victory on all of those that have been thorns in my side for all to long!

That is why I hid in the shadows and waited till you and Zelda arrived before I pushed things in to motion. Heh, and it was more prove that patience is a virtue. I infused the Dark Matter demons that plagued Popstar and the worlds in that system with the Adaphagoes to mold it in to a monster that I could control with ease. Then I waited to see the chaos unfold, just so I could have the perfect option to strike. It was a great test of my patience to wait but it was well worth it. After all thanks to your great plan I was able to get much more energy than I ever thought from a world full of simpletons like you!"

Cloud then gives his enemy a death glare before he says," So, you made us go through circles and fight all these battles just so you could get even more powerful? Treating this planet merely as a stage for your mad plans will not be forgiven Ganondorf! The energy you have stolen will never be used to try and revive Chaos Zannacross Necron!"

Ganondorf sighs as he sees Cloud and the others to begin to power up and says," Fools! Think I would waste time creating such an elaborate plan merely for more energy? I see none of you possess the capacity to understand my cunning, but it's just another advantage to me! I see I already fired you all up, but be careful now! It would be tragic for you to fire at me with everything you got, only to miss and kill poor Princess Zelda!"

Link's eyes widen as he responds with a shaken," What do you mean you madman? Zelda is safely in Zaphas Castle, unless, no!"

Ganondorf does not do anything but smile before he extends his hand and has a large light from out of it before it blasts above him and explodes with a large light! And when it clears Link and everyone else are horrified to see Princess Zelda trapped in a giant Crystal floating above Ganondorf!

Flynn then says," Oh no, Princess Zelda! But she was safe, even after we defeated Alexei when I reported in she was still in the castle. Unless, that was an imposter?"

Link looks dismayed before he quickly retorts with," No, I would have known, I would have felt it. I should have felt her being taken! It was only when we were on this tower that I had trouble sensing magic energy. Wait, does this mean that when we were fighting Duke she was?"

His speech is interrupted when Ganondorf laughs madly and grinds out a harsh," Well kid, just putting it all together now? Bah, without all those sages telling you what to do you are helpless! Hahaahahah! But you are right, while you were fighting Duke and the other Enji to spread out, not to mention long rang detection of magic energies being impossible thanks to what you all thought was the Adaphagoes! Heh, I knew Duke would not amount to much, but at least his determination to protect this worthless planet allowed something of value to be done!"

The still wounded white haired warrior is outraged at what he is hearing and says,"You! To think I let my anger consume me so much that I was blind to your true intentions. You never wanted to save this world; you would massacre an entire world just to get this princess in your grasp? Is all you desire is to bring death and destruction?"

The evil king just looks amused and responds with a dismissive," You truly are an ignorant fool Duke! You devout you're whole being to protecting such fragile worthless things. However, you're just holding on to naïve illusions! Clinging on to such weak ideals breads more weakness and you will never be able to open your mind to the one truth of the cosmos!

And that is that only power is real, and the only real power is the power to destroy. Existence is fleeting. Destruction is eternal! Every mortal is born waiting for death. Civilizations fall, and there very ashes are swallowed by time. The stars themselves burn out. Destruction, on the other hand, it's the true face of the universe! Some call it entropy, and try to quantify and constrain it. Destruction is easy, and permanent!

When a being is killed everything he or she would have done or possessed, seen or felt, is too murdered. And this murder makes it a permanent change in the structure of the cosmos. It empties the universe of an entire life and leaves behind only a void. And it's this void that is the foundation of truth! That is why you Enji imbeciles who fallow a path of meritless balance of light and darkness is just a talk of weakness!

The darkness is the only ultimate power! And those that are too weak to command its power will be devoured! For there is no place for the weak, only the strong will prevail. And it's fate that the strong will dominate the unworthy! And since I am one who has fully embraced the darkness, it's only natural that I am the one true king of the dark side! And once I once and for all acquire all the things I need, everyone in the cosmos will be forced to expect it!"

After this long speech Yuri just snarls at the black skinned foe and says," Bravo you even outdo Alexei in overblown bad guy rants! However, I don't care how you rationalize this; nothing gives you the right to play with the lives of millions! So you nearly caused the Guilds and the Empire to wipe each other out, make Estelle suffer, and manipulate several people to endanger the world, all so you could kidnap one women?"

Ganondorf looks dismissive as he retorts with," Oh please, as if you option matters to me you worthless trash! Zelda, and the power within her is more valuable than all the people in this pathetic run of the mill planet! It was ideal to make this the planet the place where I shatter the thorns in my side once and for all, after all, I still want to make Hyrule my trophy world in the new era. This world however, is worthless and since you're not even worthy of being my slaves ill just transform this planet and its people to space dust! "

This makes everyone mad, but Yuri most of all! While he is still tired from his fight with Duke this puts him in to a rage and his magic energy explodes as he says," You, your nothing but an inhuman monster! Some rapid beast like you has no right to call himself a king of anything!"

Ganondorf looks amused and lands on the ground in front of Yuri as he snaps back with a dark," Worthless filth ,such irony you call me a beast when your nothing but a rapid dog! I have watched your struggles Yuri Lowell, and you are a dog with sharp fangs. However its time I put you in your place, all the way to hell!"

Yuri charges at Ganondorf and says," Bring it! Ill slice that wide grin of your face!"

Estelle then looks worried and yells out a terrified," No, stop Yuri! You can't win!"

Link quickly adds," She is right, you don't have any idea just how dangerous he is!"

Yuri then dashes in a zigzag formation right at the evil king, but just when it looks like he is going to slash at him, he then fakes it and jumps in to the air and says," I don't care how powerful you are or how many people you have beaten! No way are you going to get away with this! Final Gale!"

With this Yuri slashes his sword in a circular motion and fires a gale shock-wave at the enemy! However, as soon as it touches Ganondorf, the energy attack shatters on impact! The villain just eyes Yuri ruthlessly," Tsc, you really think someone like you, who has no real power, has any chance of even harming me?"

Yuri quickly retorts with," I don't care what powers you have and I lack. All that matters is that I can't afford to lose! Now just shut up and die!"

Yuri then slashes right at his foe's head, and the Zannacross Inquisitor dose not even move! However, everyone soon sees just why as the blade hits him dead on, only to have no effect to him at all! Yuri is in a state of disbelief as he says," What the, he did not even flinch? What is with this guy? AH! What the hell"

He then looks at his hand and sees that his hand is bleeding before he says," When did this guy move? I did not even see him?"

Ganondorf laughs and says,"You truly are a fool. If you had any real ability to sense magical power you would have sensed that my power level far exceeds yours, and that it's so large hitting me just causes a backlash of my power, to hurt you! Fool, think your resolve can make up for your lack of power? Let me show you, how wrong you are!"

With that Ganondorf performs a swift chop that hits Yuri's blade, and to his horror shatters it! Yuri is starting to realize how screwed he is as he blurts out a mortified" My sword, he shattered it!"

Ganondorf laughs cruelly before he fallows it up with," Now do you understand? It takes a blade as powerful as the Master Sword or the Star Sword to even harm me! Face it; tying to oppose me will only bring you much, much pain!"

With that he gives Yuri a brutal Spartan like kick right in the stomach that sends him flying fast! However the lesson of pain from the evil king is just beginning, as he warps behind Yuri even as he is being dashed back, and grabs Yuri by the neck before he slams him to the ground hard with his flame chock attack so hard that the platform nearly shatters and Yuri coughs up blood!

Hearing Yuri yell Ganondorf laughs and says,"What is the matter boy, reality too hard to bear? It's too bad you had to annoy me, because at first I was just going to kill you away instantly so I could fight the ones I am really after uninterrupted. However now I will make you suffer!"

With that he keeps crushing his heel on Yuri and Link says,"Fiend, you know I am the one you truly have a score to settle so leave the others out of it!"

Ben then powers up and says," You really are pure evil Ganondorf. And that is why I can't allow you to go on! I'll make sure you never inflict any more misery! "

With that he, Link, Flynn Cloud and the others all charge at Ganondorf but the foe sees this and has his hand glow while saying," Don't worry, we will settle things soon enough, after I put this street rat in his place!"

With that his energy explodes and in a instant he shows how much more powerful he has gotten when he fires a giant orb of dark energy in to the air, before it turns in to countless smaller blasts that all home in on are hero's! As Ben Cloud and the others tensely try to defect the blasts Ben says,"Damn him, he really has improved. Great, even more fun for us."

The evil king smirks and reacts with a condescending," Foolish Enji, your naïve to think only hero's can home their skills and strength! I quite well remember my defeat to you last time, and made sure that would not happen again no matter what! Let me demonstrate my new powers, on this young soon to be corpse!"

With that he floats in to the air and surrounds himself in his wicked aura and then performs a powered up version of his Wizard's foot from Brawl to try and split Yuri in to! However Yuri is able to rebound just in time to avoid being split in half, but the shock-wave from the attack still launches him in to the air, and in an instant Ganondorf grabs his head! He squeezes tight as he says," Its useless, in the end death is the fate for all who resist the dark side."

He then takes out one of his swords and has it radiant with dark energy as he says," Now, let you be the first to be offered up to my ultimate triumph, and the return of this realms true master! So long!"

He then prepares to impale Yuri, when all of a sudden another sword blocks the strike, and it's none other than Duke!

Yuri sees that Duke saved him and says,"Duke, thanks. "

Ganondorf smirks and mutters,"Now this is a surprise. Why would you, someone who despise humanity and wished for them all to be erased all of a sudden decide to save the one who most valiantly opposed you? Bah, not that it matters."

Duke's eyes just narrow and he says," My mind was clouded but now I see things clearly. To erase humanity, when they are a part of nature however flawed. I was about to do something very foolish when Yuri forced me to come to my senses. I now see that you are the true root of all evil to the world of Terca Lumiers Ganondorf! King of evil, for making me your pawn, and for all the sins you have committed to all life I will destroy you!"

With that he quickly slashes at Ganondorf with Dein Nomos and the evil king throws Yuri to the side to take out his other sword and blocks with his two blades! As the clash creates a shock-wave they both struggle to break out of the dead lock and the villain says," Fool, your already injured from your loss to theses lowlifes. What hope do you have to beat me?"

Duke quickly retorts with a grave," With the power of the will of this world you will be stopped!"

He then fires a surge of holy energy at his foe but Ganondorf blocks the blast with his swords and directs it to the air! He then says,"Fool, Ill erase what you fight for so your death will be one of utter defeat! Huh, grr, think you can get the drop on me?"

Ganondorf senses Link coming for him and in a flash turns around to block Link's thrust. The hero from Hyrule presses harder and says,"You will do no such thing! You will not get away, this time will be the last time we cross paths! "

His foe grins evilly and says," Oh that is definite, thought its outcome will not be one you like! "

Ben then charges at Ganondorf to back up Link and as his sword surges with holy energy he says," We beat you before when you were first brought back from the dead, and if it was not thanks to Xehamaru stepping in you would have been back to bothering others in hell! And now since I, all of us are much stronger since then this is the end of you even if you did raise your power a little!"

Ganondorf gets mad and the Tri-force of Power appears on his hand once more as he rasps out a scathing," Arrogant boy, I'll show you just how much stronger I have become!"

With that his energy explodes and blasts both Ben and Link back! As they get ready to charge the evil king says,"It is true that you were able to destroy Xehamaru and hold your own against Night Terror, those dark Enji and even Kira. However, you all fail to underestimate how powerful I have become. But wonder no longer, and witness the true power of someone who fully embraces the power of darkness! RAH!"

With that Ganondorf's aura grows larger and larger till it nearly covers the sky! But worse of all, Ben and the others can hear screaming, and can almost make out crying souls surrounding his aura!

Doug then says," What the hell is this? He really does love to push the pure evil bit down are throats!"

Zelda then looks horrified and says," No, it can't be! It's not just an illusion. Those are all the souls Ganondorf killed and absorbed to empower him!"

Ben is horrified at this and says,"No way! You're telling me you killed millions of life's just to make yourself stronger? "

Ganondorf laughs as he fully powers up and responds with a proud,"The weak live to serve the strong and help them fulfill there destiny! I have made sure the entire cosmos trembles in fear of my name! Of course I have been gathering souls to weaken the seal on the god emperor of darkness, but I have just been making sure I did not waste my time with these attacks and kept portions of each soul for myself! While individually they are near worthless. Let me show you what adding the power of millions of souls in despair can do! Who should be the first to feel my wrath?"

He looks at all the hero's ready to fight and smirks while saying, "Ah yes, I know. Time to shatter your illusions of hope, and I'll start,"

He does not finish and a lightning bolt strikes in front of him blinding everyone. However when its gone Ganondorf is now right in front of Yuri, charging up for a powered up version of his Warlock Punch from Brawl! Flynn then says," Yuri no!"

Ganondorf grins as he sees Yuri's of guard eyes widen and he says,"Too late, die vermin!"

With that he unleashes his powerful punch, and it's so strong it creates a shock-wave! However, it's not Yuri who took the hit, because Yuri is horrified to see Duke warped in front of him to take the blow! He payed a steep price to because Ganondor's attack was so strong that the punch went right through Duke's heart! Yuri is shocked and says," Duke!? Why?"

Duke forces a smile as blood comes down his mouth and he says," I wanted to make up for being a fool. Please, take up my task, and protect this world."

Everyone else is infuriated to see this and Judith then screams out," Duke, no!"

Ganondorf glares at Duke with contempt before grinding out a hateful,"You dare interfere? Such a waste of power, I think I'll take your power, your energy, and your life so they can be put to proper use!"

With that Ganondorf's energy engulfs Duke, and his entire body is consumed with dark flames! Its only moments before the Dein Nomos falls down and Ganondorf absorbs all of the flames in to his forehead as the symbol of the Zannacross Empire appears! His Aura now grows even larger as he cackle's madly and says," Hahahahah! Like lambs to the slaughter! Do you see now why siding with the light is so foolish!? Heh, that was a nice meal."

Yuri then stares at the fallen sword of Duke and says," You, you won't get away with this! I'll kill you no matter what it takes Ganondorf!"

Ben also gets mad and says,"You, you just can't get enough of inflicting misery! Duke may have been hostile but he was just trying to protect this world in his own way and did not deserve that! That's it; you're not going to be laughing when I shatter you! Bankai!"

With that Ben finally unleashes his true power and his magic energy explodes before light covers the area! Soon enough Ben's Star Sword has transformed and his aura is now golden. The members of Brave Vesperia are amazed to see Ben's true power unleashed and Yuri says,"

Damn, this is what he can really do? That look in his eyes, it's dead serious. I hate to admit it, but you really are something else Ben Auro."

Link smirks and adds," Ah, I see your even stronger then when we fought together against Xehamaru after his transformation. Still feeling so confident about your absolute victory Ganondorf?"

The evil king snickers as he says,"Oh please. I fear no tainted hero. You all ready proved that that your mind is too weak to resist the dark side. You can never be able to concur it! After all, without your friends you're quite weak. Otherwise Kira would have succeeded and you still be his pawn of evil!"

Estelle then says," Pawn of evil? Ben? What are you talking about? "

Ganondorf laughs and responds with a amused," Oh, so you did not feel obliged to tell theses natives about your little mental breakdown Ben Auro? You know, how you let your anger and sadness consume you, creating your personality of hatred Darth Idious, and wiped out an entire planet before Master Myers and the others brought your killing spree to an end? "

This of course shocks the members of the party that were unaware and Karol says," No way, you expect us to believe something from a jerk like you? Have to try harder than that right Ben? Ben, he is lying right? "

He and the others just see Ben look down and ashamed and he says,"My body did do that, but not my heart! I never wanted to do any of that! I, could not stop it, it was like I was trapped in a nightmare. It would never have happened if Kira did not push me till I was trapped."

Ganondorf then forms a even wider grin as he snaps back with," Blame whoever you like but it's you who are the mass murdered, not me! Face it, you're no better than me Ben Auro. Just a failure of a hero who is forever tainted by blood brought from his own dark rage!"

As he laughs once more and Ben nearly looks like it's going to reach him his friends run up in front of him and get ready to fight and Link says,' Don't you dare try and say Ben is in the same class as mad scum like you Ganondorf! I heard the full story, and while Ben could have done things differently. In his situation it was clear he was pushed over the brink involuntary. You choose the path of evil, Ben did not. And that is all the difference."

Cloud then adds,"That's right. Kira isolated Ben from everyone, gave him no chance to rest. And when he was dealt with very deep betrayals he was just pushed harder and harder. Nearly anyone would snap under a situation like that. But Ben was still able to recover and that proves he is not like you!"

Doug then gives a half cocked smile before he throws in," Damn straight! You have a lot of nerve comparing my buddy to the likes of you when it's you and the other bad guys who were conspiring for this in the first place!"

Kirby then says," That is right, its jerks like you who keep making everyone sad and that's why it's time to stop you for good!"

Ganondorf sighs and mutters a disgusted,"So you will really behind your hope to the end eh? Fine, then let it all end here!"

Ben then gets in to his fighting stance and quips back with,"Yes, it does end here. Time I show you that even though my heart fell in to the darkness, it still is one with the light!"

Ganondorf then looks mad as he responds with mocking," Oh, so you want to show me eh? Find, show me then, just how much your precious dreams are worth!"

Ben then steels him self before muttering a determined," If you insist! Die!"

With that in a flash he is right above Ganondorf and even he did not expect such speed! Ben slashes at Ganondorf so fast that he is not able to raise his guard in time and his slashed across the cheek! As blood falls down his cheek he dashes backwards before flying higher in to the air and saying,"Impressive, you're a fast one."

Ben quickly quips back with," That's just the beginning. And before I show you all I can do you will already be dead!"

Ganondorf laughs and says," I doubt that, but if you truly think you can overcome me, then you must prove it to me!"

Cloud then lashes back with a driven," We don't have to prove anything to you, just stop you!"

He and Link then charges at Ganondorf and prepares to slash him but Ganondorf snaps his fingers, and the crystal holding Zelda warps in front of him! Stopping in his tracks Link says," Zelda! At least fight honorably you coward! So you're trying to show how you can only beat us with a hostage?"

Ganondorf chuckles as he fallows up with a dark," Hardly. I don't need a shield, I am just reminding you that I hold all the cards! And if you wish to make sure no harm comes to your beloved princess then you will follow me, if you can! If you wish to settle are grudge, then we will finish this fight in my throne room. That is, if my minions don't defeat you first! And let me warn you they have also been busy getting ready to get there revenge on you Link! "

He then shimmers with darkness and Ben says," You're not getting away, this ends now Divine Flare Edge!"

With that Ben's sword explodes with holy energy and he goes to slash Ganondorf in half. However Ganondorf smugly flicks his cape as a dark dome forms around both him and the captured Zelda and before Ben can reach them they warp away! It is only moments later that they can hear him mocking them through an announcer like magic as he says," Heh, come to me Link, come to me Ben Auro! Come so we can prove which side is superior!"

Ben punches the ground in frustration and says," Damn him, he enjoys playing this out! He thinks this is a game but he will regret it!"

Link then looks at his foe's gigantic ship/fortress as he says," And once more he has Zelda in his grasp. His obsessive hunger to obtain the other parts of the Tri force seems to be as present as ever. But I will never let him have it!"

Cloud then says," Don't worry, no way Ganondorf is getting away with all he has done. Plus, that ship of his looks like it's a pretty high threat."

Rita then tries to stay calm before she responds with,"That's putting it lightly, I never would have thought possible there was technology so vast it could hide as the Adaphagoes! I would love to be able to have a sample of the technology, after I blast the rest of that creep's place to dust! I won't forgive him for treating this planet as his plaything!"

Cloud looks around before responding with a composed," I understand how you guys feel, but you should leave the rest to us. Ganondorf made it quite clear he is above all of your combined power. He will not hesitate to kill you if you come."

Yuri then looks at the Black Omen, and then looks at Dein Nomos before he walks over to Duke's sword. The long haired man picks it up before saying,"That may be the smart thing to do, but I don't care. Duke died saving me because he believed in us, to protect this world. And I am not going to let that cold blooded psycho get away with what he did! Brave Vesperia always finishes its jobs!"

Flynn then walks over to Yuri and puts his arm on his friend's shoulder as he says,"For once I am in complete agreement with Yuri. No matter how much power Ganondorf commands he must pay, no, he WILL pay for the crimes he has committed to the people of this world. "

Ben looks at the resolve of the two's eyes and sighs before saying,"Well, can't say I blame you for feeling this way. And I just know trying to stop you will end up causing more problems for us. Find, you guys can tag along, just be careful ok?"

Estelle looks happy and responds with a merry," Oh thank you Ben! Don't worry, we all will be."

James then looks up and says," Great, now we just have to figure how to get in that thing. Does not seem like Ganondorf made any hangers or any entrances to his freaky ship, guess he made it so that only he could enter."

Cloud grins and presses something on his glove as he says," Don't worry, Cid can find a way in to anything. Speaking of him, hey Cid, we could use one of your dramatic landings to get on board that ship in front of you and get to Ganondorf."

Everyone hears engines roaring as the Neo Highwind fly's higher in to the air and Cid talks through Cloud's transmitter and says," Hell yah! It will be a breeze to blow a hole in this sorry excuse for a ship! Just get ready to board while I get in to position and, hey!"

Just as the Enji's friend was piloting the ship to them all of a sudden the much larger black ship above it glows, and fires barrages of red particle blasts at the ship, and scores a hit!

Thanks to Cid's expert piloting skills he is able to avoid a disaster but it still takes damage and he says,"Damn it! Want to play rough? I'll show you rough! Sorry Cloud but can't take you there till I have an opening."

Ben then tenses up before he says," Man, Ganondorf really is going all out to win. But we can't let him win! There has to be some way we can break through his attacks. Huh, what is that? More of his ships? No wait, its are guys!"

Ben sees two more ships flying up, and recognizes the ships as the Enterprise Deluxe belonging to the other Cid, and the Albion mark VI that Luke's team fly's! As they also engage fire Ben senses more power levels and looks below to see both Cecil and Luke leading there teams up to rendezvous with them and Ben spits out a excited," Hey guys, looks like you made it."

They get on top of the tower to where the others are and Luke says," Ben, Cloud, and everyone else, glad to see you're still alive. We saw all the commotion and rushed over once things were cleared up."

Tear then sees everyone banged up and adds," Looks like we were too late to help though. What happened here?"

Ben sighs and says," Short story is that Duke was being used by Ganondorf as a diversion. All this was so he could kidnap Princess Zelda, and we all fell for it. "

Cecil then says," Damn him, all this suffering. We can't let him get away!"

Yuri then sees all three of the Enji ships attacking the Black Omen and says," To bad it seems all forms of transportation are busy not being blasted. Damn it, there has to be something you guys can do to get through!"

Everyone thinks for a second before no other then Kirby looks happy and says," Hey wait a minute, I have something that can get us through! I knew it would come in handy someday! Hang on a sec. "

Everyone is curious to see what the pink wonder is talking about and are puzzled as they see him stick his stubby hands in his own mouth, before a minute later he takes out what looks like a star!

Hiryuumon then says," Hey, I remember that thing. Isn't that what we used to get to where the fighting was going on back on your world?"

Ben looks worried and responds with," That's right, a warp star right. Er, riding one of those was not good for my stomach. And besides, I think it's too small to fit all of us Kirby."

Kirby smiles and says, Oh but you see this is a jumbo warp star! Just have to, ah there we go!"

He kicks it, and everyone is shocked to see it quickly expand to become the size of the entire area! Link then reacts with a cautious," Impressive trick, but can it get us through that demon's defenses?"

The pink hero nods and responds with a determined," Don't worry, it's going to take more than darkness to stop this star!"

Link then grasps the Master Sword tightly before he says," All right, let us hurry everyone. Every second wasted is another second Ganondorf has time to do what he wishes to Zelda and this world.

"Everyone nods and hops on the front of the jumbo warp star. And while it seems that it's not the most stable of rides, after a bit it seems that Kirby knew what he was doing, as the warp star rockets right to the bad guy's home base! It zigzags to avoid the energy blasts being sent his way and it zooms in right for the bottom of the Black Omen, and as they are quickly getting to their desired destination Judith says,"I must say, I never expected a miniature star would serve as such a fast ride. Say Kirby, what are you planning on doing to get in?"

Kirby smiles and says," Oh that's simple, just crash right through!"

The others are nervous at this and Raven panics as he says," Are you serious! Old Raven is not built for this kind of travel!"

Ben sees that there ride is not getting any slower and says," Good Grief, this is going to be rough. Hang on!" With that the Star collides with the ship's barrier and manages to break through it, along with the ship, crashing right in to it! Everyone is sent flying as they are all land hard on the metal surface! After making sure he is not seeing things Ben slowly gets on his feet to see everyone else is still with him and says," Whew, that was, a interesting ride. Good thing I did not eat yet. Er, is everyone still ok?"

Estelle seems to be a little wobbly but smiles while saying," Oh don't worry I am fine Ben. However, when did you become two people?"

Cloud then takes a deep breath before reacting with," Well, at least everyone is still able to fight. All right everyone. We have to be quick, it won't take long before Ganondorf knows we are here. Huh, scratch that, so much for surprise!"

Sure enough just as everyone is regaining their balance they hear some sort of sound that is most likely an alarm, before sure enough various Necrocalcous form out of the ground around every one! Not only that but various other long stable monsters of the evil king start appearing out behind them.

Kirby saw one of the shadows take the shape of a large black star. It had one large eye, that being found in its center. Another shadow took the shape, he wore a mask resembling an animal skull with large golden spikes coming out from it that conceals most of its face.

Another figure, a white figure similar to a twenty-sided die floated out before in the other direction

another one with a more humanoid appearance with spiky hair, armor, and a cape, as well as a visor with a single eye took out a sword of darkness.

Kirby saw all the eyes narrow at him before he gulped." Wait, Dark Matter Blade, Dark Nebula, Dark Mind, and Miracle Matter? Those are all the nasty forms the Dark Matter took, like the one that took my lunch!"

Ben shrugged before looking around." Guess Ganondorf's been busy trying to spawn as many monsters as possible."

Yuri grit his teeth before snarling out," Well, looks like he is too busy to settle things!"

Jade then retorts with a taciturn," No, he is laying out an even more devious trap then he leaded on. He intentionally forced us to enter his lair, so that his various minions could confront us. Most likely he wants us to exhausted are energy against them, then finish us of. "Link sighs and says,"

Ganondorf never did like to play fair. But, if he thinks this is enough to put us down then like always, he underestimates are resolve!"

Ben smirks and says,"Well, in that case let's remind him by bursting right through this place and confronting him! Get out of the way!"

With that his energy flares up before he unleashes a massive golden energy sword wave that disintegrates the charging Dark Matter Blade right in front of them! Everyone else gets to work to demolishing the many minions in their path, but little are they aware that as they fight fast, they are being watched, and not just by Ganondorf!

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We briefly switch are view to the evil king's throne room, where he has just returned with Zelda and is now sitting on his throne. The hag duo are there, as well as a few other of his elite servants! As they are all watching the evil king's largest minion laughs and says,"Look at those worms! Crawling as if they can stand a chance against you! This sight is so pitiful I can't wait to kill them all!

" Ganondorf says," Yes, Link and the others like usual are acting so heroic that they willing jumped in to my trap, and in to their doom!" Another one of his servants says,"

Oh please, please master let me have the pleasure of putting them out of your misery!"

Ganondorf just puts his hand on his hand and says," Heh, now then acting overconfident are we? Don't forget that despite your new powers they are all powerful warriors, and before you could not beat Link alone

!" The third minion bows before saying,

" Oh, but we are ready for all of them master Ganondorf. They will die before they even knew what hit them! Come boys; let's rid the cosmos of a bunch of foolish hero's!"

With that the trio all vanish in to the darkness, and there master laughs before saying," This should be a good show. Hopefully they can at least make Ben Auro and the others tired. Oh Zelda, care to watch your beloved hero's last moments?

"From her magical prison she looks away and says,"

You can taunt me all you want scum, but I know they will prevail through all that you throw at them and soon be here to stop you once and for all!"

Ganondorf just laughs and says," Oh, I am counting on it Zelda, I am counting on it.

"Meanwhile, as Zelda worries about her foe's implication, we now go back to are regularly scheduled programming, er I mean Ben and co!

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After quickly dispatching the monsters, Dark Matter spawns, and Necrocalcous in their way they at once moved at top speed! While the Zannacross Inquisitor had set many traps to make sure his trespassers would have a rough time. But while the group got slowed down a little after Karol fell in to a trap door, and had to have Yuri and Doug help him not get swallowed by the disgusting worm Like-Like monsters, although Link had to cut one open to get his Mirror shield back.

After that , and plowing through a bunch of supped up Redead zombies, they reach a important looking chamber that looks like a grand hall of such filled with stain glass windows. Estelle takes a look and says,"Wow, this place looks far different than the rest of the castle. It looks nice! Oh? Who are all the people?"

Link takes a look on one of the people imprinted on the windows and says," I know who that is, it's my old friend, Saria! She was one of the six sages that first sealed Ganondorf, and my child hood friend. Hey, and that's Rauru! In fact all of the six sages are here. Not only that, but Naryu, the light spirit Faron, and nearly everyone else who helped me. What is this? Huh, is someone coming?"

Everyone gets on guard, but are surprised to see its Zelda! Link at once runs over to her and says,"Princess! You managed to escape! How did you escape under Ganondorf's nose? "

Zelda says," Oh it was nothing , all I had to do was wait for him to slip up."

Luke grins before throwing out a enthusiastic," All right! Now Ganondorf has no leverage, and we can hit him with everything we have!"

Yuri then adds," Do you know the fastest way to him? The less things in are way the more we can save to give him a proper face cave!"

Zelda smiles and says,"Of course, come this way and what we all are aiming for will be in are reach."

Link looks relived before he reacts with," All right then, lead the way."

Zelda then motions to the left of the three doors out of the room and they are all about to fallow her when all of a sudden Hiryuumon pauses, sniffs his nose and says,"Excuse me princess, but you smell a little funny. You almost smell like that Ganondorf jerk!"

James looks embarrassed and goes over to his digimon partner before saying,"Don't be rude Hiryuumon, it just must be from being in her spell or something."

Zelda just keeps walking forward and responds with a tense,"Yes, that what it is. We must hurry, otherwise the dark king will destroy this planet, and his dark magic will become nigh invincible. "

Ben then also pauses, then put's his hand on his sword as he says," Hold on a second James, Hiryuumon was able to expose Metal Sonic when we first met him remember? Besides, I can sense a faint darkness lingering from her. Its not Ganondorf's essence, but it feels far different then how Zelda felt yesterday! So unless Zelda has had her mind possessed this is most likely a imposter!"

Zelda just laughs and responds with a playful," Oh don't be silly dear Enji. If I was not who I say I am, could I do this?"

With that her eyes glow black, and before anyone can move dark vines break out of the ground to entangle everyone, and quickly shock them all with some high voltage electrify!

This " Zelda" then forms a evil grin and responds with a sultry," Opps, I suppose if I were Zelda I would not have done that, but it's too late anyway, your all ready trapped!"

With that she snaps her fingers and a dark aura surrounds her, before her true identity shown! In Zelda's place is a woman with dark green skin, and red hair. She is wearing some sort of old medieval like sorceress outfit. Link gets mad once he remembers who he is dealing with, because its

Veran, the "Sorceress of Shadows" Who caused havoc in one of the countries of Hyrule named Labrynna all on the orders of the Twinrova sister to try and revive Ganondorf !

Link's eyes narrow and he says," Veran! So you were brought back to? Bah, ill cut you down if I must. Where is Zelda!? Tell me now vile women and you may not have to go back to hell so quickly!"

Veran looks amused and says," Hello Link, it's so nice to see you again. So nice because after suffering in hell for many years I can repay the favor! Too bad for you you're still not strong enough to see through my illusions. Maybe death will make you better at that! Bah, to think some runt exposed my facade? How disgraceful."

Ben looks annoyed and says," At least my last bout of training my sensory skills were sharpened enough so that I could see through those who were trying to conceal themselves. You may hide your face but even with a flawless copy if your heart is full of dark intentions ill be able to pick up on it. So anyway, another servant of Ganondorf with an overblown ego trying to tire us out? We don't have time for you, so you should know that despite what new powers you have your going to be going back to hell real soon!"

Veran looks annoyed and says,"So you're the one who the angles of heaven want to be there savior, Ben Auro is it? You, all of you are fools. Everything you cherish is an illusion. Hope, friends, justice, all just dreams. For one thing boy, I am not a fool like you think. Even with my new powers I knew it would be foolish to try to reach my revenge alone. And that is why I brought some hired muscles to insure your deaths! Ahem, that's your cue!"

Ben is not willing to wait and see where this is going and begins to power up. But before he can a strong gust of wind blows in to them and sweeps them up in a min-tornado! Soon another sly male voice laughs and says," Oh sorry Veran, just wanted to make sure I got a look at Link's face when he realized he is finished!"

Moments later the person who was talking appears behind Veran, and it looks like a human with grey skin wearing dark blue and grey cloths with a cape and has red eyes.

He is Vaati, the demonic master of wind master that was formally a small minish before he embraced the powers of the dark side, and stole the powerful Wishing cap from his master Elzo to gain much power before he caused much trouble for Link and Zelda. Link reacts to this with annoyance before he mutters," Vaati, so you're in on this to? I don't care how many of you fiends team up. We will concur all of your hatred and confront Ganondorf!"

Vaati forms a wide grin and says," I would not be so sure Link. After all you're still a sucker for opposing the one true power, the darkness! Oh well, by the time we thrash you that should give you a pretty clear message! Let the pain commence! But first, let's start with are heavy hitter!"

Before are hero's can even figure out what Vaati 's meaning is the dark mage causes them to be blown hard to the end of the chamber, just as a strong presence breaks out of the wall, and slams hard in to Link, Yuri and Flynn with its massive fist! As they hit the ground hard Yuri coughs up blood and says,"Damn it, that's not how introduce yourself."

They hear another even louder, more brutish laugh as they see the man laughing in front of them. He is four times the size of Link, Yuri or Ben and is encased in golden armor that has Gerudo- like designs topped of with a red marking on his chest that is likely the evil king's official insignia for his forces! Only his mouth is not covered from the cone shaped helmet he is wearing, and

he is Onox "General of Darkness" and the man who caused the seasons of the land of Holodrum to go out of whack! The large man winds up his fist and roars out," Well, looks like you fell for master Ganondorf's ultimate trap hook line and sinker! I was getting bored crushing weaklings. I hope you trained your body to withstand some pain Link, because I have a lot of rage to dish out!"

As everyone is up on their feet Yuri gets ready for a fight and says,"

Man Link, you have ran in to a lots of powerful deranged acquaintances!"

Ben then powers up and as he is still in his Bankai state he unleashes enough power to cause Onox to flinch as he says,"So it's a full ambush is it? At least it saves us the trouble of being delayed. Now we can clear the path of road blocks at once!"

Yuri grins as he uses his magic energy to have Dein Nomos glow and says," My thoughts exactly Ben. This guy likes to pull his weight, but all that means is more mass to come crashing down!"

He then charges at Onox but the evil general gets mad and says," Bah, this is why native cockroaches are so annoying. They just don't understand who they are dealing with till you mop the floor with their guts!"

With that he unleashes his magical aura before he holds his hand in the air, and a gigantic mace and chain materializes in to his grip! As he begins to swing it around in the air Yuri says," Is that supposed to scare me? A weapon that massive will not be able to be used very fast. By the time you try and bring that down on me ill already be cutting you down! Ghost, huh? Whoa!"

Just as he is about to unleash one of his attacks he is shocked to see Onox is much faster than his size gives off and the large mace is already coming down on his head! He just barely has enough time to get out of the way, and his shoulder is hit by the tip of one of the mace's spikes as it causes a large crater where it lands! Yuri looks at his much larger foe and says,' Man, he is faster then he looks. This ought to be fun."

With that he and everyone else in the proximity swiftly tries to avoid being smashed by the large foe's relentless attacks, and it's not helping that they also have to avoid the duo magical assault of Vaati and Vearn! At the moment Cloud is defecting blasts fired by the red eyes floating around Vaati, and his back is pushed against the wall as his foe seems not to need to pause in his attacks!

Vaati grins as his energy flares up and fires of a powerful red blast of energy and Cloud reacts by giving a enhanced leap in the air to avoid being singed, however Vearn is waiting for that and uses her magic to create a spike of dark energy to erupt out of the ceiling above Cloud, and head to impale him! However a holy blast destroys the spike, and the angry green skinned women turns to see that it was Tear, who intersected with her Holy Lance magic attack!

Vearn then says," It would be wise of you not to interfere girl, less you want your death to be ever the more painful!"

Tear then takes out her kunai knives hidden in her gloves and says,"We will see about that witch, Searing Sorrow!"

With that Tear powers up and throws her light energy infused knives at the dark witch, only for her to hold out her hand and freeze them before using her magic to disintegrate them! She then glares at Tear and says," My, your quite powerful, I wonder, how powerful I would become if I had your body to command? Let's find out!" With that she disappears in to her shadow, before appearing out of Tear's shadow while saying,"

Come, experience the greatness of being my puppet! Huh, gah!" She is about to try and take possession of Tear when all of a sudden Luke makes his presence known by punching his foe hard to the left as he says,"

I won't let you do that, your through! Radiant Roar!"

Luke then unleashes one of Mystic Arts to unleash a hyper-resonance in the form of an energy beam, which blasts the surprised Vearn hard! Tear then says,"

Thanks Luke, just watch out for any tricks, like that!" The two see what almost looks like a black hole coming for them and Tear hastily creates a barrier using her fonic hymen. However the blast hits the force filed and creates a powerful enough shock wave to blast the two back! Vaati makes it clear he fired the blast as he hovers above them and laughs while saying,

" What is wrong heroes? Can't multitask? Oh well, even if I was the only one hear it would still be too much for you lowlifes. After all no one can endure the wrath of Vaati the great, Hahahaha, AGH!"

As he is laughing Link can't resist the opening to send a volley of light arrows right in to his back, and James fallowed his lead and added even more pain by adding in some energy arrows in to the mix! This attack hurts Vaati hard and as his back is smoking he glares at Link and says,"

Damn it, I won't let you humiliate me again! Ill scatter your remains among the wind currents of this world! Ill, huh? Hey!"

Before he can finish his hate speech he sees something coming his way, and sees it's the giant mace of Onox! He quickly floats backwards as the Generals weapon smashes one of the pillars and nearly Vaati with it! He then shouts out a snarly," Hey Onix, watch were you are hurling that thing! You are supposed to crush Link and his little interstellar friends, not me!"

Onox just smashes the ground with his mace to cause chucks of the floor to break out before punching the debris in the direction of his targets as he says,"Bah, I'll do whatever it takes to have my revenge so don't get in the way unless you want to be crushed!"

Ben then rolls his eyes before he quips out,"Enough of this, we have better things to do then hear you talk all the time. "

Onox then twirls his mace even harder and says," Your getting bored? Fine, then die!"

He then throws his mace at Ben at rocket speed but Ben is not afraid and has the Star Sword shine while saying,"You want to match the caliber of are weapons? Fine ill play, Divine Flare Edge!" With that Ben unleashes a powerful charged up slash right as the mace comes his way, and to his foe's horror is slices right through it! As Onox sees his weapon fall down in two melting pieces veins can be seen budging in his only uncovered area as he says," Hot shot Enji! Think you can take me down! I am just getting started!"

With that the symbol of the Zannacross Empire forms on his forehead and it's apparent he activated a preset crystal as his aura of darkness expands! He then has a giant Axe form in his hand, and it's so large when it lands in his hand it cracks the ground! He then shows his speed by defying his size and in an instant causing the ground to shake with a massive swing as he says," Ha! Ready to admit your doom yet?"

Ben sighs and responds with a dry," You know, they say those that weld giant weapons are compensating for something crucial, like brains, or some other things. "This infuriates the evil general and he stomps the ground to cause a tremor as he says," Oh, a wise cracker eh? Bug, who do you think you are to think you can get away with mocking me!" With the he jumps up in the air and throws the giant Ax, aiming for Ben's head! However Ben shocks everyone by calmly catches the Ax with one hand, and unleashes so much magic energy to disintegrate it!

He then says," Who do I think I am? You must have messed the memo. Because I am Ben Auro, the one chosen by the celestial ones to weld the Star Sword and stop ultimate evil. And right in the job description is the detail of taking care of insane freaks just like you!"

Onox smashes one of the windows with his fist and says," So you're the one we were told about. The one who is as much as a pain as Link!"

Veran floats over to her evil partner's shoulder and looks smug while saying,"Relax Onox, he also told us how this kid is just a failure who could not control his emotions and became a slave of the darkness! He can't stop us!"

Ben looks annoyed and says,"Good Grief, dose everyone have to rub that in my face?"

Cecil then steps forward and responds with a heartfelt," What you scum can't seem to get is that falling in to the darkness is not the same as embracing it! Your kind can never understand, and that is why we will prevail! Enough of this, it's time to end this!"

With that the Enji Paladin charges at the evil trio and has his sword glow with energy. And as he charges Vaati looks annoyed and says," Think you can get close enough to stab me with that? Forget it!"

With that Vaati fires of another strong gust of wind to hurl Cecil in the other direction hard! He then laughs out with a wry," See? No matter how hard you try none of you will ever touch me you, AH!"

Right as his goading was increasing he was in for a sharp jolt of pain when Kain showed the wind did not bother him, as he launched his lance right in to the shoulder of the fiend! As the dragoon quickly jumps back he says," Your wind is strong mage, but I have fought stronger currents."

Vaati then looks mad and screams out sorely with," Oww! Lousy idiot, you're going to pay! "

Ben just has his magic energy flare up as he says," Enough of this, its time you all pay the price for causing so much pain!"

Onox then gets annoyed and seethes out a harsh,"So, that's how it's going to be? Find!

Since you're so special, then I guess hearing that I have been holding back this whole time is not going to faze you much eh Enji? Because guess what? This armor is not to protect me, it's to hold back my power! I won't show any of you mercy, take this!"

With that Onox glows with power, before the whole area begins to shake, before the large bad guy's muscles bulge and his armor cracks! He then roars and his armor explodes, causing a flash of red light! When everyone can see again they see that Onox has unleashed a monstrous transformation! Now even larger than before, he looks like some sort of humanoid grey scaled dragon! With many curse seal crystals breaking out of him and a shinning red gem on his forehead he stomps up to Link Ben and the others as he extends his claws and says,"This is more like it, eating you all will be quite a treat."

Estelle is just a little intimated and says," Oh no, now he is even more deranged then before. And rudder to! Still, there is no way we will allow you to eat us!"

Yuri smirks and responds with a brash," That's for sure, all those teeth and claws are only going to be good for clawing out of the hole you're going to be in when we are done with you!"

Hiryuumon growls and says," That's right, you're not so scary. Think you're the top dragon? Think again! Hiryuumon, double Digivole to!"

With that the digital dragon monster is consumed with a sphere of light, before he breaks out of it in his much larger and powerful ultimate level form and says," Geno-Wyrmmon! All right lets finish this! Striking Crusher Claw!"

With that Ben's pal wastes no time and charges right at Onox with his claw glowing for a powerful strike! However Onox just grins and catches the attack with one hand before he says," You think you can top me! Know your place!" With that the throws the digimon right through the wall!

Link does not even flinch before he reacts with a steady," No matter what strength you hold it won't be enough , we will win!"

Vaati then looks serious and says," You just can't admit when your finally outmatched! Bah, I hate to resort to this, but it seems like it will be the only way to finish this smoothly. Very well, die seeing true terror!"

With that Vaati glows before his skin cracks, and his dark aura causes him to be wrapped in a tornado of darkness! When it fades Vaati looks much different, he now looks like a gigantic black orb being lifted with bat wings, filled with a giant demonic eye in the center, and equipped with two large pincer like claw arms!

Ben then looks disgusted and says," Well, if it's a contest between you guys for most hideous lackey you can stop now. The only medals your going to win from us is a barrage of energy attacks to the face!" The now fully transformed Vaati snaps his claws as he says," Let's see how long you keep up that confidence when I rip you to pieces!"

Veran then sighs and narrows her eyes before saying," I suppose I should show my true colors as well. Enjoy!"

Veran then has her power surge, but to the relief of the good guys her transformation is not as drastic. All she seems to do is have demon wings sprout out of her back and her nails, and teeth sharpen as she looks more like a demon then ever as she says," You do realize by now that it's too late right? Even if you somehow defeat us, it will be too late to deny master Ganondorf his desire! Why I believe right about now he must nearly be done setting things up for Zelda. Hahaha"!

As she laughs like the true witch she is Link gets mad and says," What is your meaning you vile women? Answer me!"

Ben then says," Don't bother Link, its useless to try and get something out of theses jokers. Let's just put them out of commission so we can find out for ourselves before it's too late."

As they all get ready to resume combat Judith then says," My, I must say every time I thought these guys could not be more of a pest, they just keep getting uglier."

Cloud reacts to that with a composed," It must be that the more they use their true power, the more they reveal the true face of their heart. Guess you could say they are rotten to the core."

This makes the evil trio mad and Vaati says," Your one to talk with that ugly hair of yours!"

Cloud winces to this as he lashes back with a stern," Whatever, I am tired talking to you. This ends now."

Cloud then leads the charge against their foes and finds a volley of attacks heading his way! However, he splits his sword in to two blades before slashing the dark magic energy blasts heading his way. He defects the large spiral of dark energy fired by Veran , only to see Vaati have his claw sink in to the ground, and burst out from underneath the spiky haired warrior to try and crush him!

However his alleys have his back and the powerful monk Yang quickly unleashes a powerful kick that knocks it off course! Guy and Link then move in and slash in to it! It nearly slices of the entire tentacle! As the now demonic eye ball widens in pain he says," Yeow! Damn when one is attacking the others are getting ready! How much will it take you idiots to realize you can't win!?"

Ben laughs and says," You're all the clueless ones. You just don't get it. No matter how bad things are or how tough things get giving up is not an option! After all, countless lives are at stake. It's kind of the way heroes do things if you have not noticed."

Onox then pulls on his shoulder blade to pull out a giant sword as he says," You want to be a hero huh? Find, I'll give you a death fitting for a hero, a on the house cremation!"

With that he charges up power in his mouth before firing a powerful energy blast, but he is to slow and the good guys in the way are able to get out of the way as the blast blows through the wall and seems to go all the way out of the castle! Doug then attacks the knee of the evil general with his Hammer of Might and it causes him to flinch, which lets Luke, Yuri and Ben all slash him hard as Kirby pounds him in the back of the head with his hammer power for good measure!

Veran then gathers her power and fires a storm of energy bolts and the group, but Cloud and Link are ready and Link absorbs a lot with his mirror shield while Cloud sets up a reflect spell to deluged the magical assault even more. As they cover for there alleys Estelle, Rita, Rydia, and Tear all charge up spells and blast the dark witch with a Holy Lance, Violet Pain, Flare and Judgment magical combo!

As this causes another explosion and some screaming to be heard Vaati narrows his eye, before it turns blue and he fires a massive optic blast that would even impress Cyclopes from the X-men!

However Ben flash steps in front of it, has his golden aura flare up, and focuses before charging at the blast and slashing it in half! The foe then finds itself in for some return fire as its blasted by arrows from Raven, James, and Natalia all fire powered up arrows all in to the round body of the villain!

Onox then reacts by growling out a vicious," Damn it, this is not suppose go this way! Are combined powers should be enough to crush all of you!"

Link grins and counters with," Then it seems you overestimated your own strength while failing to see are true power! But it's too late, time to send you all back to where you belong!"

Onox then grows and says," Silence, l blast you all to dust!"

He then charges up an even bigger mouth blast but then Geno-Wyrmmon bursts out of the wall behind Onox and says," Surprise! Let's see how much you like sneak attacks when you're the one being suckered! Trinity Fury Cannon!

" With that the digimon fires of a powerful triple energy blast from his mouth and shoulder cannon that blast his larger foe in the back! Link takes his opponents distraction to charge at Vearn and unleash a fully charged whirilwind slash attack to hit the evil women hard! As she yells in pain Yuri charges at Vaati as he has Dein Nomos glow and says,"No matter what size you are freak, you're not getting your hands on this world! Divine Wolf!"

With that he jumps over a few eye blasts and then slashes the demon right across his single eye before he kicks him in to Veran, knocking both of them in to Onox, and the blast he is caught in! Ben then sees them struggling to get out of the blast and says," This has gone long enough. Time to go back to where you belong! Take this, Burning, Celestial, Shinryukenha!"

With that Ben fires of his energy beam at full power to merge with his Digimon partner's, causing the blast to overpower Oniox and he and the other two are consumed! As they all scream in pain Vearn screams out a frantic," No, not like this! RAH!"

With that the blasts seems to overcome them as a massive explosion of light fills the room and when it fades it seems Ganondorf's trio of henchmen were destroyed! Ben breathes a sigh of relief and says," Man, they were all pretty stubborn."

Link looks relived before he looks around and says," Thank you everyone. I doubt I could have beaten them all at once on my own. Hold on Zelda, we are almost there. "

Yuri grins and says," Don't worry Link. You helped Brave Vesperia free Estelle so I won't feel easy till we repay the favor."

Rosa then looks worried and says," I can sense her presence far above, however I sense the light around her weakling. We have to hurry."

Karol then says," Well what are we standing around here for? We have a princess to save and a bad guy to beat so let's get going! Forward, AH!

" He is about to march forward when all of a sudden dark spikes break out and not only grab him, but all the other people before they can even react! Once more they are instantly electrified, with even more voltage then before! Three laughs are then heard as to are hero's dismay, Onox, Vaati, and Vearn all appear out of dark domes to their sides!

Vearn laughs and rasps out a mocking," Heheh, that was a close one eh Enji? I knew if we faked are deaths you would let your guard down just for a moment. Still, that was to close. "

Onox growls and yells out a livid," Yes, I can't feel my own jaw thanks to you maggots! No more games, you all die now!"

Vaati then adds a mocking," We will be sure to send your regards to poor Zelda about your sudden painful demise! HAHAHAA!"

With that all three of them seem to put all the magic energy they have in to their attacks and as Cloud sees three massive energy blasts forming he says,"

Damn, they tricked us. Can't let them, do this. But, I can't move, ah!"

As they are all shocked harder Link says," NO, it can't end this way!"

Vearn laughs and counters with a sadistic," Oh but it is! Revile as your dreams turn to sorrow and your hopes wring in destruction! DIE!"

With that they all fire there most powerful energy blasts. And seeing everyone unable to break out Ben realizes he has no choice and says" Damn it, there is no time. Only one way to get out of this.

Oh well, here it goes. Kaio Ken!"

Vaati hears this and blurts out a baffled," Kaio what? You can't just, GUH!"

All of a sudden Ben shocks everyone as his energy turns bright red and his energy explodes with such force that all the glass in the chamber shatters , along with all the binds restraining Ben! An instant latter Ben vanishes from everyone's sight, but it's not hard to figure out what he is doing, as in one flash of blazing red energy all three blasts are shattered! It's only a second later that Ben lands on the ground in front of his friends and says," Onox, Veran, Vaati. You three hopeless."

Onox grows as he sees Ben looking dead serious with his energy still blazing red and he says," How the hell did you do that? You little, huh? No, what the hell? Impossible! GUHAA!"

The evil general was about to raise his arm, only for it to fall off! Ben then shows the extent at what he did as all three bad guys suddenly feel a lot lighter, as they fall to pieces! It seems that in those few seconds Ben moved so fast in his Kaio Ken that not only did he counter all three of the villain's attacks, but he slashed all of them multiple times with not one of them even feeling it till it was too late!

As the parts of the former servants of the evil king fall to the ground Ben sighs before he presses his glowing blade to the ground, causing the remaining parts of the three to explode! He sees the vines grabbing his friends crumble and says,"A gruesome end, but that's what they deserve."

His pals run up to him and Kirby says," That was amazing Ben! You showed them who is boss!"

Doug smiles and says," No kidding buddy! You totally owned them! I never saw you use such an awesome move like that before either!"

Cloud looks amused and adds," Me either. Was that one of the moves you learned in your training with Master Myers?"

Ben smiles and answers with a proud," You guessed it. That was the Kaio Ken skill he taught me."His fellow Enji are amazed to hear it and Cecil says," Is this true? You really mastered one of the Grand Master's own elite skills?"

Luke then looks around before he chips in a curious," Kaio what? What kind of spell is it?"

Luke gets his answer with," Heh, it's one of his secret ones, one of the rare Kai sage arts that only a few people in the entire history of the universe knew how to utilize. When this move is used the person's speed, power, and senses, and magic energy are enhanced. Kaio Ken can also be multiplied to be even more powerful."

Yuri whistles and reacts with a coy," Sounds like quite the show stopper. Still, why were you holding that back when you could have ended things a lot faster? "

Ben looks worried and looks down before his responds is," While Kaio Ken is quite powerful, and can end battles fast. It is not without risk. Using it for too long or too much can be a strain on the body. Master Myers warned me not to use it while in my Bankai state more than twice the normal version, or it could shatter my body. As you can see it's not something I would want to bring out on just any freak. To be honest I was hoping not to use it until we faced Ganondorf as an ace in the hole. Still, desperate times are for desperate measures."

Flynn gets what he is saying and says," You revealed your new secret technique in order to save us. Thank you, we are once more in your debt Ben Auro."

Ben smiles and says," Don't worry about it. It's what I learned theses powers for after all. All right, now that those three are definitely dead let's hurry before anymore servants of Ganondorf want a bonus and try to ambush us."

They all nod and Link says,"Better be ready Ganondorf. The time for all of your evil to finally be destroyed is at hand!"

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With that they all dash up the stairs to hurry and race to the evil king, and as they do little do they know, though some might suspect, that he is observing all this! Seeing the determination in his long time foes eyes Ganondorf clutches his fist and snarls out a disgusted," So that's the best those three could do? Pathetic, it was barely worth the effort to revive them! Still, at least they were able to land some blows in."

The Twinrova sisters look annoyed and Kotake says," Those three are a disgrace to your name my lord! Now Link lies ever closer, and the preparations for the ritual are not yet complete!"

Ganondorf stands up and responds with a confident," True, but it will not be long. By the time they get here it will be too late."

Zelda sighs and reacts with a exasperated," Another ritual Ganondorf? You really are getting to be repetitive in your vile nature."

Ganondorf laughs and has his hand glow with energy before he walks up to Zelda and lashes back with a ruthless," You may think of it as repetitive, but it's really an uncompromising will that will not be denied, until what eludes me is finally mine!

Nothing, not even death can keep me from my proper fate. And soon you and I will at last come to the end of are path together Zelda!"

With that his eyes glow and Zelda sees a odd obelisk that looks like a snake form out of the side of his throne and the symbol of the Zannacross Empire shines as Zelda says," What is that?

"Ganondorf grins widens as he answers with a diabolical," Oh, but that would spoil the fun, and it won't be long till you find out. You just have to wait till Link the Enji and there idiot friends come, and then you will understand everything, including who is the true winner. "

The Twinrova sisters fly higher in the air and bow to their king as Komue says," Don't worry my liege! We will make sure everything goes as you planned! We won't let the Enji ruin your moment of glory! Sadly, it's a shame that all of your other powerful minions are all ready blown up. "

The evil king's eyes glow red as he says,"Oh, not all of them. It seems the tool we picked up when disposing Alexei adapted even quicker then we thought. Seems like we can all ready put him to good use. It's time for you to fulfill the end of your bargain, understand Zagi!?"

With that a new voice laughs, before stepping out of the shadows. And it's none other than the same ruthless assassin that wants to kill Yuri that Cloud beat back at the shrine of Bacton! It seems that they picked up his beaten body, and Ganondorf sensed the darkness of the ruthless assassin and at once infused darkness in to his body, and it seems to have taken well to the killer's mind then even Ganondorf expected. Zagi is fully recovered, and now curse seal crystals are forming out of his body!

Zagi licks his lips and says,"Oh don't worry, I'll be more than happy to repay you for being kind enough to give me all this power! I'll kill anyone who gets in your way. The only thing I want in return, is to have the privilege of killing Yuri Lowell to myself! "

Ganondorf shrugs before he reacts with," So be it, I care little about the fate of that worm expect that he suffers for not knowing his proper place. Hehehe, HAHAHAHA! The time is now! After all of this planning, all that I desire will be mine! After all this time, what should have been mine the moment I entered the Scared Realm will at last be mine. If I knew all those years ago what that trouble that Link would have brought I would have killed him that instant. But the time to correct that mistake is now at hand.

The power of the golden goddesses, the essences of Din, Nayru and Farore will once more be reunited! And when all of that omnipotent power is at last all at my command, no one will be able to stop me! And then once and for all ill prove the light and those that fight for it are nothing more then another force fated to be blighted out by the supreme power of the darkness!"

Well, it seems Ganondorf is ready to get even more power then he already has! But can are hero's stop him, before he moves forward with his ultimate plan, the plan to truly infuse himself with the power of the full Triforce? The weather forecast is indicating another major showdown and to see if it's correct you will just have to tune in to the next exciting chapter of Tales of the Cosmic Wars!

Next time in Tales of the Cosmic Wars Ben, Link, Yuri, Cloud and all the others are nearly at Ganondorf; s throne room when the demented Zagi intervenes demanding one last shot at killing Yuri! Komue and Kotake also attack to further divide are hero's attention and the good guys are forced to split up to keep the foe's away! As Yuri and the rest of Brave Vesperia along with Kirby stay behind to deal with theses last three very stubborn pests the rest of the group finally confronts Ganondorf in his throne room, and many of their members have a score to settle with the evil king, and he is more than willing to let them try!

At last the showdown between are hero's and Ganondorf begins, but it's not going to be easy because with the power of all the souls he absorbed since becoming a Zannacross Inquisitor, including Duke, his power has risen to horrifying heights! Even so, Ben and the others know what is at stake, and refuse to let the massive magical assault of darkness that Ganondorf throws at them overwhelm them! Working together they manage to land some hard blows on Ganondorf.

When pushed Ganondorf pushes back twice as hard, and after being hurt enough he transforms in to his Demonic bestial Ganon form with more power then ever! Even this dose not phase are hero's.

But before they can go for the final blow, Ganondorf/Ganon has once more trick up his sleeve, and it is, going to be revealed next time! Sorry, can't give everything away heh. To find out if the evil king can finally be stopped once and for all don't miss

Chapter 100: Showdown! The Savage Will of a Tyrants Power! Thanks for the reviews like always. It might take a little longer for the next one since my winter break is just about over, but it will not be too much of a difference. Till next time!