Teba, with Link on his back, and Harth, with Aloy on his back, fly high into the sky until they are almost touching the clouds.
"All right. It's showtime!" Teba exclaimed. "Man, even I feel like I'm going to freeze up here!"
"Speak for yourself!" Harth called. "I can actually feel warmth radiating off that meteor rod Aloy is carrying."
They soon are upon a familiar sight that is far beneath them.
"That's Divine Beast Vah Medoh," Teba stated.
As if having seen their presence, Medoh brings up a red force field around itself.
"It has its barrier up again," Harth stated irritably.
"What a pain," Teba sighed, then notices Link and Aloy's silence. "What's wrong, Link, Aloy? Too scared to talk?" Then turns serious. "Let's go over the plan. You see those cannons? We'll draw their fire. While we're doing that, use your bomb arrows, or those other arrows you have, Aloy, to destroy the cannons. Got it so far?"
Aloy scans the Divine Beast and notices its four cannons not covered: one on the tip of its beak, one on the tip of its behind, one on its right wingtip, and the last one on its left wingtip.
"I think so," she next said. "But what if something goes wrong?"
"If you need to withdraw for a bit, just spread your cloth and float straight up in the updraft for a while," Teba answered. "We'll take that as a sign that we need to regroup."
"Don't bother aiming for anything covered by Medoh's barrier," Harth said. "It's impenetrable."
"And whatever you do," Teba warned, "don't get close enough to touch it. And finally-I know I've said this a few times already, but don't forget your cold protection. We can move whenever you're ready."
"Hey Link!" Aloy called out to him. "I wanna get rid of the cannons on its behind and right wingtip. Is that okay with you?!"
Link states that it is so as he firmly nods with an equally firm expression, then gives the word to go for it.
Aloy and Link deploy their paragliders and are pulled off the backs of their Rito carriers. Harth and Teba drop downward to fly around and distract the cannons from Aloy and Link. Aloy uses her focus to mark the cannons on Medoh's behind and right wingtip. Focusing on the hind cannon, Aloy swaps her paraglider for her sharpshot bow. Although it has the slowest reload of her three bows, it has the strongest hit and hurls arrows the furthest.
Aloy takes aim at the hind cannon with a tearblast arrow and releases. The tearblast hits the cannon, destroying it in one shot, and she immediately shifts her focus to the other cannon on Medoh's right wingtip while taking out another tearblast arrow; ignoring two explosions to her left that she knows was caused by Link who targeted the cannon on the left wingtip. She takes careful aim as each second brings her closer to Medoh and finally releases the tearblast arrow. It flies through the air toward its intended target. It strikes the cannon, destroying it.
Aloy grins with satisfaction as she swaps her bow for her paraglider to glide once again. She can now watch Link as he drops while targeting the last cannon on Medoh's head. She watches as he releases two bomb arrows in succession at the last cannon. The first one connects, then the other, destroying the last cannon.
The barrier surrounding Medoh disappears and Aloy manages to glide over to Link's side.
"We did it!" Aloy beamed.
That is when Harth flies in alongside her and Teba alongside Link.
"Bad news, Link, Aloy," Teba said. "It looks like I got hit pretty good back there."
"What?!" Harth exclaimed, then switches positions as he pulls back to fly up alongside Teba. "Your leg!"
"Yeah!" Teba said. "I think . . . I think I need to get back to the Flight Range. I just hope that . . . I can make it back."
"Harth, you have to go back with him!" Aloy stated.
"But I can help you both."
"That I don't doubt. But with Teba injured, he might not make it back alone. You must help him get back there. Don't worry about us. We can handle Medoh; just like we handle the last three Divine Beasts."
There is a moment of silence.
"Aloy, Link, you head down to Medoh," Teba said. "Good luck! It's all you two!"
The Ritos fly away as Aloy and Link glide down to Medoh.
"Hope Teba will be okay," Aloy said. "So where do we land?"
Link tells her the hind end and she notices that it is a large platform they can be easily land upon. The duo glide down and land upon it. Aloy only begins to feel the burning in her arms the second before she touches down. They are before a porch with a large closed door and a Sheikah pedestal in front of it. Wind blows around them as they are high up in the sky. Flankers of Malice and brief tendrils of black mist drift about impervious to the wind. Aloy checks out her tearblast arrows.
"I only got four left," she sighed. "I better make them count."
Link takes out the Sheikah Slate and activates the pedestal, causing the large door to open. A male voice is heard speaking in a conceited matter-of-fact manner with a smoothness to it.
WELL NOW, I' VE SEEN THAT FACE BEFORE . . . I HAD A FEELING YOU WOULD SHOW UP EVENTUALLY. AND WHAT'S THIS, YOU'VE BOUGHT A FEMALE WITH YOU, EH? IS SHE YOUR LOVE INTEREST? I WONDER WHAT THE POOR PRINCESS WOULD THINK? BUT MAKING ME WAIT A HUNDRED YEARS IS A BIT . . . INDULGENT. YOU'RE HERE TO WEST CONTROL OF MEDOH AWAY FROM GANON, CORRECT? IF SO, THEN THE FIRST THINK YOU'LL WANT TO DO IS FIND YOURSELF A MAP.
The duo see in their mind's eye the interior of Medoh all the way up to a Guidance Stone.
THAT GUIDANCE STONE HAS THE INFORMATION FOR THE LAYOUT OF THIS DIVINE BEAST. CAN YOU MAKE IT THERE?
"He sounds . . . charming," Aloy quipped. "Who was that?"
Link tells her that it was Revali, the Rito Champion who piloted Medoh one hundred years ago.
They enter Medoh, only to have their way blocked by stalagmites of Malice that are the result of an eyestalk up on the right wall. Aloy takes out her hunter bow and takes aim with a regular arrow, then fires and hits the eyestalk. With the Malice gone, they walk forward to take a good look around.
Before them and below out of sight is a fan blowing air upward. Beyond it is a large open room with the floor having rows of glass panels in the bottom. Before them are four large metal blocks hanging from rail lines running perpendicular to them with stone blocks next to them. Off to their left further down is a platform with a ladder like on the sides of Sheikah Towers going up. There is a chest upon it. Up above that chest on the wall is an eyestalk, of which Link takes aim with the swallow bow and a regular arrow, then releases to hit it and dispel Malice and reveal a doorway.
"There's the Guidance Stone," Aloy pointed ahead to the front. "But there's a small Guardian in front of it. But since when has that ever stopped us."
Link tells her to wait there and steps forward with his paraglider to catch a draft upward and fly across the room. Aloy at first wonders why he did not just step across on the blocks before them, then it immediately comes to her that he is going to go and get that treasure chest on that platform. She shrugs it off since it is not out of their way. She watches as Link gets up there and opens the chest to take out an ancient core. He next glides over to the Guidance Stone, fighting off that small Guardian with bomb arrows to destroy it. Link next takes out the Sheikah Slate and powers up the Guidance Stone. Revali speaks again.
YOU'LL NEED TO LOOK CLOSELY AT YOUR MAP OF THE DIVINE BEAST. THE TERMINALS THAT WILL ACTIVATE MEDOH ARE MARKED BY THOSE GLOWING POINTS. YOU'LL NEED TO ACTIVATE ALL OF THE TERMINALS TO TAKE BACK CONTROL. THINK YOU'RE UP TO IT?
Link walks away, then turns to his right and glides down to a chest in the corner below. Aloy watches him open it and take out five bomb arrows. He drops to the floor where he destroys an eyestalk surrounded by stalagmites of Malice, clearing it away to reveal a chest and opens it to find an ancient shaft.
He finally makes his way back over to Aloy, temporarily going out of sight then appearing before her after riding the updraft and lands near her.
"Took your time getting here," Aloy quipped, then looks around the interior where Link had first gone. "So where to now?"
Link takes out the Sheikah Slate and brings up the map of Medoh, showing her where the terminals are located.
"Two in the right wing and three in the left," Aloy mused. "So what can you make Medoh do?"
Link answers by making Medoh do a brief shriek and then tilt its body to one side. He then makes Medoh tilt to the other side. He finally puts Medoh back level and puts the Sheikah Slate away.
"I wonder how that could be helpful?" Aloy mused aloud.
Link next tells her that they will take the left wing and jumps over the side to catch the updraft with his paraglider to glide over to where he had gotten the first chest. Aloy is close behind. The duo enter the left wing and Link is quick to take out the swallow bow and shoot an eyestalk in the upper left corner behind a glob of Malice that has a toothy mouth. The Malice disappears and the duo go down a ramp before them.
The interior of Medoh's left wing is like a hallway with the right side a row of large round windows with an equally round metal shutter amongst them. Nearby is a ramp that leads upward yet to seemingly nowhere. At the end of the hallway is a large room with its wall made mostly of glass and has a door blocked by bars. Above that door is a shelf with a chest on it and alongside that door are a funnel and a yellow crystal switch.
"Hey, there's a Sheikah Terminal up in that alcove," Aloy said while pointing up at where Link had banished that Malice. Link takes out the Sheikah Slate and tilts Medoh's torso to the left so that its left wing dips, of which they can feel the floor tilting. Link puts the slate away as he goes up the ramp then jumps and whips out his paraglider to glide up to where the terminal is. Link activates the terminal and Revali speaks.
THERE ARE FOUR TERMINALS REMAINING! STILL A WAY TO GO.
Link jumps down and heads back up that ramp once again to jump and glide, only this time he glides to the shelf above the barred door and opens the chest to find a knight's claymore. He drops down as Aloy walks up and together they look through the huge thick window.
"There's the Sheikah Terminal," Aloy said as she is staring at it upon a ramp that is a part of the wall inside. She next looks at the doorway. "Those bars need to be raised somehow."
The duo walk over to the other side where the funnel and orange crystal switch are and look through the window there as well.
"There's a rail bed leading from that funnel with a rock in the way," Aloy noted.
Link agrees and they see that the rail continues onward and turns sharply left and leads up to another rock in the way. That is when he takes out the Sheikah Slate, creates a bomb sphere, and drops it through the funnel. Medoh's tilt causes it to roll up to that rock and Link detonates the bomb, destroying the rock. At the end is a light colored square block with a glowing orange circle within it. He next creates another sphere bomb and drops that one in so that it rolls all the way down to the end. He next tells Aloy to hit the switch since she is standing alongside it. Aloy takes out her spear and strikes the switch, turning it blue. A metal shutter inside that room opens, including the one behind them, and wind blows in. Inside that room, the wind makes the bomb roll up the groove to the end where there is a large rock. Link detonates the bomb, destroying that rock to reveal a large metal sphere. Link next makes Medoh tilt to the right so that the sphere comes rolling out, stopping when it hits the glass. The glass does not even crack let alone break.
"I figured that glass must be pretty strong," Aloy mused. "So what can be done about that sphere?"
Link repositions himself so that he is standing away from the room but in front of the barred door. Aloy stands alongside him too. He looks from the sphere to the other side where the funnel and switch are. But he is not staring at that which he and Aloy had used, but past it. He next exclaims that the square shape on the wall with a glowing orange circle is a button, then uses Magnesis to drag the metal sphere across the room and onto the railing, showing that the glass is no barrier to the Magnesis. Once he has the metal sphere set into place, he releases Magnesis and next gets Medoh to tilt left so that the metal sphere ends up rolling down to hit the switch. The sphere is unaffected by the wind and the bars on the doorway rise.
"Finally," Aloy sighed.
Link walks inside and up to the Sheikah Terminal as Aloy stands in the doorway to watch. After starting up that terminal, the voice of Revali is heard once again.
THERE ARE THREE TERMINALS REMAINING! KEEP GOING.
"Link, show me where the last one in this wing is located?" Aloy asked, and he shows her where. "That looks like it's underneath."
Aloy looks down as she scans with her focus and sees the Sheikah Terminal directly beneath them in a room off on its own with its door accessible only from the outside and facing open space.
"And of course it will be there," Aloy sighed. "So let's go. I'm gonna follow you to make sure that nothing bad happens to you."
Link smirks, then asks her to use her focus to find the best route to that third terminal and Aloy does so.
"That's the best route to take," Aloy finally said while pointing at the opened vent in the hallway, then starts walking. "I'll go first to show you."
Aloy walks over to the opening in the hallway with Link close behind. Looking out, Aloy sees an eyestalk on the platform that she and Link are to land upon. She takes out her sharpshot bow and an arrow, takes aim, releases, and hits the eyestalk to clear up the Malice that would have interfered with their landing. She jumps out and whips out her paraglider to glide down onto the platform. She lands and takes a deep breath, steeling herself as she now feels so exposed to the outside with the land so distant below and the blue sky so distant above, all as the wind blows around her.
Better not look up or down or else I'm gonna lose my balance! She thought. Better focus on Link then on ahead!
Aloy gets up and turns to look back up at Link and wave him over as she steps out of the way. Link jumps out and whips his paraglider out to glide down to her.
"Glad you could join me," Aloy gasped. "Now let's get you to that other Sheikah Terminal and get back inside."
The tilt of the wing and the winds buffet them but they manage to keep their footing and walk up to the edge that Aloy had been right about and walk up it as they remain close to the wall. Up ahead is an eyestalk on the wall that Link gets rid of with an arrow from the sparrow bow, which finally breaks. The Malice that was a part of it had been blocking an entry to back inside Medoh. Up ahead in the distance underneath the wing they see the Sheikah Terminal within that room.
Aloy steps inside the entry as Link runs and jumps, whipping out his paraglider to glide the distance. He lands in the room and next takes out his Sheikah Slate. Revali is heard.
THERE ARE TWO TERMINALS REMAINING. YOU'RE ALMOST THERE.
Aloy next hears the screech of Medoh and begins to feel the body tilt backward, making her feel a little relieved as she no longer has that feeling of falling out. Link jumps and glides back to where Aloy is.
"Now for the right wing," Aloy said.
The duo go across the body of Medoh and note another doorway directly across from them, but open space beyond it. They exit to see in the distance underneath the wing another room. Above them is a rail that leads all the way to that room as it starts just underneath a small ramp-like perch. Link takes out the Sheikah Slate and holds it up to get the telescopic mode and they see what looks like a cage hanging from that rail, with Malice in front of it and an eyestalk.
"Let me get that for you," Aloy said as she takes out her sharpshot bow and an arrow.
She lines up her shot with the eyestalk and releases. The arrow flies across and strikes the eyestalk, getting rid of the Malice over there. Link makes Medoh tilt left, causing the cage to slide along the rail all the way up to the duo, revealing itself to be a gondola.
"I guess that's our ride over," Aloy said. "No need to risk our lives needlessly in sailing across."
They get in the gondola and Link makes Medoh tilt right once again. The duo ride the gondola all the way across to the room.
"That was rather fun," Aloy quipped as she gets out.
Link takes out the Sheikah Slate and levels Medoh once again, then the duo go up a pair of ramps that take them up into a room with a Sheikah Terminal. There is a barred doorway to their right. Link activates the terminal and Revali speaks.
JUST ONE TERMINAL REMAINING! WHAT DO YOU KNOW?
The bars on the door lift and the duo walk out into the right wing, which is also a hallway. Aloy is quick to take out her hunter bow and an arrow upon noticing an eyestalk directly above them with a mouth next to it. She releases and destroys the eyestalk, getting rid of the mouth of Malice. A chest suddenly falls down and hits Aloy, but her Shield Weaver protects her from injury.
"That . . . was unexpected," Aloy said.
Link then tells Aloy that she can have what is in it. Aloy opens it to find ten ice arrows. They next walk down the hallway they are within as they look around. On their rightside are more large round windows, and a closed vent of matching shape and size. On their leftside is a large hammer head of light colored mineral that is built into a rail. Up ahead of it is a large heavy looking metal grating blocking its path. Past the grating is a switch like the one in the other wing where the second Sheikah Terminal was. Up above are two wingnut switches, with one of them a part of a metal block on its own rail. Near the vent in the wall is another orange crystal switch.
"There's the last terminal," Aloy noted as she points to it inside of a booth between the grating and the switch, but blocked by bars. "So that has to be struck by that up there." As she points from the switch up to the hammerhead. "Seems simple enough. All you need to do is make Medoh tilt to the left and it's done . . . But that grating blocks the way."
Link walks up to the orange switch as he takes out the ancient axe. He strikes the switch, turning it blue and opening that metal vent to make the wind blow in. The grating suddenly rises and they learn why: the wingnut switches are spinning in the wind.
Link takes out the Sheikah Slate and makes Medoh tilt left, causing the hammerhead to slide. But the metal grating suddenly drops to stop the hammerhead and they see why.
"That metal switch moved out of the wind," Aloy said while pointing to it. "You've gotta stop that from moving."
Link makes Medoh tilt right again to reset them, then makes Medoh tilt left once again; this time he is quick to use Magnesis on the metal base of the wingnut switch to stop it from moving. The hammerhead travels all the way to the end and hits the switch to lift the bars blocking the Sheikah Terminal. Link lets go of the metal block and goes into the booth to activate the terminal and Revali speaks.
THAT WAS THE LAST TERMINAL! NOW YOU TWO JUST NEED TO START THE MAIN CONTROL UNIT! I WANT YOU TO TAKE A GOOD LOOK AT YOUR MAP. THERE SHOULD BE A NEW GLOWING POINT ON THERE. WELL? FLAP TO IT!
"He's a lot pushier than the other three were," Aloy quipped.
As they leave the wing, Link notices a chest up above on a platform and glides up to it by use of the tilt and the wind to find a knight's bow in that chest, but has no more room and simply leaves it.
Link levels out Medoh once again and drops back down to join Aloy.
"Now then," she said. "Since all five terminals of this Divine Beast have been turned on, let's go pay the Blight of this place a visit."
