The Legend of Zelda: The Missing Link

Chapter 9: SPARTAN H-4271

Seriously. There should be more than three crossovers.

Spirit of Fire

Date: June 28, 2653

...No...That couldn't be right.

What was he looking at?

Then it dawned on him.

...I'm...looking at Earth...how is this possible...?

Derek sat up and looked around.

Hmmm...Looks like a battle took place here...wherever this place is.

Then he heard what was unmistakably gunfire.

Meanwhile..

"GAAAAHHH! KILL THE SPARTANS! KILLLL THEEEEMMM ALLLL!"

A Hunter, a few Elites, and Grunts charged towards a few Marines, who tried to kill the Covenant warriors.

Then, something exploded in the area between the Covenant and Marines, and when the smoke cleared, both forces saw a lone Spartan standing there.

His amour was a few shades lighter than Master Chief's, who was somewhere else on the Spirit of Fire, dealing with another group of Covenant.

It had been handed down from one Spartan to the next, it was aged.

The Covenant had a good look at the Spartan before he reached behind him. And, to their amazement, the Spartan drew an Energy Sword. Though they hadn't seen this sword before.

The Spartan held the Energy Sword out in front of him, and slowly began to make patterns in the air with its energy trial. "You see this? This is Demonslayer. My family has killed legions of Covenant and other things with this weapon..." Behind the helmet, the Spartan grinned. "Would you like me to test it on you?"

Meanwhile...

Derek had managed to get up and was now inspecting the bullet-ridden walls.

...Strange...it's as if the metal was...torn apart...but by what?

Then he heard gunfire again. It was closer. Much, much closer.

Then something slammed into him.

"Hey...kid...you alright?"

He blinked away the threatening darkness and slowly sat up.

"Yeah...I guess...what even..."

Some guy in an olive-green plated suit gestured behind Derek with a wicked looking weapon.

"Hunter."

"...What?"

The helmeted figure looked down at him, shook his head (it was definitely a guy), and held out a gloved hand.

"Need some help getting up?"

Derek found that he couldn't say no.

A few minutes later, Derek found himself walking beside the armor wearing guy. He found that he couldn't take his eyes off of the wicked looking weapon that the guy was holding limply at his side.

"What is that?"

"What?"

Derek nodded towards the guy's hand.

"That thing?"

The guy lifted the weapon for Derek to inspect it better.

"What is it?"

"It's an Energy Sword. Been in the family for a long time, you see. Name's Demonslayer."

Derek stopped dead at this.

"Did I say something?"

"...Yeah...yeah you did."

Derek reached behind him and wordlessly drew his sword.

The two weapons sparked as they came near each other.

"...I'll be Damned..."

Derek sensed the guy was looking at his strange behind the helmet, then the two put away their weapons.

Then the other guy reached up and slowly removed his helmet.

"...So...all the past Heroes, which includes you, are trying to save the world? And now I'm caught up in it?"

"Pretty much. Sucks, huh?"

The man, who had introduced himself as a SPARTAN, whatever that was, nodded.

"Well, I reckon that we can't really talk without knowing each other's names. I'll go first, if you don't mind. Call me Wayne."

Derek shook Wayne's outstretched hand heartily.

"You can call me D..."

Wait a sec...none of the others are with me except him...which means...

"...Call me...Link."

"Link" and Wayne had found themselves in the armory.

"Okay. You ever fire a gun before?"

Link simply stared at Wayne.

"...That'd be a no, then..."

Wayne set down the rifle and picked up a smaller helmet.

"Here."

He held the helmet out to Link, who slowly reached out and took the object.

"Try it on...It should still work..."

So he did.

"...How in the world can you walk with this thing on your head!? It hurts already!"

"I have training. You don't."

Wayne silently watched the forest-green, bright blue visored helmet tilt to one side and then nod.

"Fair enough. Am I gonna wear more stuff or just the helmet."

"The whole deal. Now, sit down for a sec."

"...This is gonna be fuuuuunnnn..."

"...Calibration...complete...system levels...normal..."

"...Uh...Wayne?"

"Yes?"

"Where's that voice coming from?"

Link heard Wayne chuckle from somewhere close to his right.

"Hello, Cortana."

"...Cortana?"

Hello. So...You're Link?"

"Yes, Ma'm."

...Your parents raised you right...whoever they are-Wayne.

"Yeah?"

"Don't talk to me like that, young man!"

"...Sorry..."

"Quiet. There's a Hunter coming this way-can you fight, Link?"

"Would I have a wand if I couldn't?"

Any other talk was cut short, however, because seconds later, something huge slammed into the room.

Link only had a split second to see something heading towards him before he was flying across the room and hit the wall.

To say he was in pain was the gist of it.

From the position he was in, he could only stare out of his ruined helmet up at the Hunter that now stood above him, weapon raised.

Then something hit the Hunter, which caused the beast to roar and stumble backwards...

...Link...Link! Wake up! Wayne-he's fading-

"Don't think I don't know that, Cortana!"

It had been a terrifying moment when Wayne had killed the Hunter and then had turned around.

Link was laying on the floor, in a pool of blood and other things; the expression on his face near broke Wayne's heart.

Fast forwards about ten minutes later.

Wayne had called John on his comm link, the Chief had told him to regroup at a strange device that had appeared from nowhere- a beat up circle of upright stones.

Wayne was carrying Link in his arms, and while he was no doctor, he could tell that Link had it bad. Real bad.

"CHIEF!"

The Spartan whirled around.

"Wayne! ...Who's that?"

Wayne ran up to the Spartan and gave a very quick summary of the fight with the Hunter.

"...Hmmm...good thing you were there, huh?"

The way Chief was acting about the situation mad him irate.

"This kid's gonna die if we don't do something!"

Then John placed a gloved hand on Wayne's shoulder.

"I reckon that those stones are some sort of gate...I think you can use them to get out of here...what do you say?"

Wayne looked towards the circle of stones and nodded.

"Alright-are they supposed to be glowing?"

The stones were glowing a bright blue.

Something told Wayne that if it was time to leave.

The Spartan walked onto the inner most stone, turned around and nodded towards John.

The Chief raised a hand in farewell and then everything turned white.