Time for Chapter 78! This time Link and Sarami are about to meet the head honcho behind the power tonic, Engineer Meokuro, but what surprises could she have in store for them?
"Hey come on, open up in there Granny!" shouted Engineer Meokuro, the scientist leader of the Ebony Sisterhood's underground laboratory, wanting to get inside of the lab of Granny Truttlo.
"Damnit, what does she want now of all times?" Granny muttered, then looked to Link and Sarami, "Well hurry up, I said you two need to hide quickly!"
"Hey wait a minute!" said a nurse, "They're the enemy, we should turn them in to the boss!"
Granny just paused and looked to Link and Sarami, staring into her apprentices' eyes in particular.
"...frankly, I don't care." Granny said, "I won't have my apprentice getting hurt. You don't want me telling Meokuro about you being the one eating her pudding out of the ice box, do you?"
"Um, c-carry on!" the nurse said, turning about face to pretend to play innocent.
"Dr. Sarami, Mr. False King, over here!" said a different nurse, pointing to a vacant lab table.
Link went ahead and hurried Sarami to hide under the table, and Granny had the nurses put a cloth over it to hide them, as well as put some books and paperwork on it to make it less conspicuous.
"Alright, let her in." Granny told a nurse, who opened the door, only for Meokuro to burst in the second it was unlocked.
Engineer Meokuro was still wearing her odd helmet and goggles, but she was now also wearing an odd copper device around he waist, it was round and circular like a pipe and connected around her like a belt. She was also holding a metal device under her arm.
"Wihiihiihiihii... hello Granny Truttlo, how's progress here in the medical wing?" she asked grinning.
"O-Oh, Ms. Meokuro." Granny muttered, "Done so soon with your meeting...?"
"Yeah, it went better then I predicted, but those elite rebels are being elite pains in my ass!" Meokuro said with annoyed pout, "Don't they know they can't rush the work of a genius?!"
"Elite rebels...?" Link muttered to himself as he peeked out from under the cloth.
"So how's your work going then Granny? Get any results with FZ-501 and the prosthetic research?" Meokuro asked.
"We're still having set backs with the tonic, the test subjects keep dying from it." Granny said, "The prosthetic limbs are coming along fine, it's just that mental deterioration that's the problem. We're hoping FZ-501 will help with counteracting that, but as we discussed before, it can have dangerous results for the patient and everyone around them."
"Well, you'll be happy to know you're not going to have to worry about that for much longer!" Meokuro said with a wide grin, "You see, I already figured out how to fix it!"
"You have?!" Granny exclaimed.
"You have?" the rebel nurses all said.
"She has?!" Sarami and Link whispered in unison.
"It's a bit roundabout, but it's pretty darn effective!" boasted Meokuro, then called to outside the room, "Bring in the test subject!"
With that, two Beamos Walkers came in carrying a large Wolfos by it's arms using their clamps. The creature was badly injured, and groaned in pain.
"What is this now? I've never seen this one before." Granny said.
"We had it captured outside the lab just a little while ago." Meokuo clarified.
Out of curiosity Link and Sarami both peeked out from under the sheet to see what it was, and were both shocked to see it had very familiar white fur, which was very unnatural for a wolfos of the desert.
"Lady Sheeva?!" Link exclaimed in the softest voice he could muster, recognizing the wolfos leader.
"How did she get here?" Sarami gasped.
"Grrr... unhand me you accused Gerudo!" snarled out Lady Sheeva, "I'm going to tear your damn throat out for this!"
"What? It can speak Hylian tongue?" a nurse exclaimed.
"Huh, first you say 'unhand me', then you say you're going to tear my throat out? Decisions, decisions!" Meokuro sarcastically said with a shrug, "But don't worry, I got an equip item for dealing with that nasty attitude of yours!"
Meokuro then pulled out the strange device in her hands, it was metal and shaped like a bowl, with cords and electric tesla tubes sticking out from it.
"What on earth is that?" Granny asked.
"Little something I've been working on to keep the FZ-501 specimens under control." Meokuro explained. She turned and put it on the struggling Sheeva's head. The bulbs on the helmet started to light up, and a small energy flash went through them. Sheeva's eyes widened as she tried to break free.
"Grk... what... are you doing... to me...?" Sheeva stammered, her eyes flashing between their normal blue color and a familiar blood red color.
"You recall that drink I gave you shortly after you tried to break into my laboratory?" chuckled Meokuro, adjusting her goggles, "It was laced with our little energy enhancement tonic, and this helmet should help keep your enraged self under control!"
"N-No... " Sheeva stammered, then threw her head back and screamed out. "NOOO!"
"Oh no... she's been given a dosage of FZ-501?!" Sarami spoke.
"This is bad..." Link muttered.
"Are you crazy Meokuro? Giving a powerful creature like this that tonic? What if this helmet of yours doesn't work?!" Granny pointed out to Meokuro.
"Well, that's exactly why I brought her to you here." grinned Meokuro, "You see, you've taken too long to find a way to counteract the side effects of FZ-501, but now that I have this technology to control the specimens, we really don't need you anymore!"
"W-What?" Granny spoke in shock, "Wait a minute, we had a deal that if I helped you we would work together on perfecting the prosthetic technology!"
"Well unfortunately for you, Mother Eclipsis is pushing to get things done in time for the big plan, and the deal had to be changed." grinned Meokuro wickedly, "So I'm cutting you off, literally."
Granny's eyes shrunk down, as sweat ran down her head.
"Hey wait a minute, you can't do this to Granny!" shouted a rebel nurse stepping up to Granny's side.
"Yeah, she's making real progress in her work!" said another nurse.
Granny looked up to her pupils and was amazed at how they stepped up to her defense, even against their own boss.
"...Tsk, I was going to have you all work for me, but fine then. If you're going to take her side, I suppose you won't mind being voluntary test subjects for my experiment!" Meokuro said with a smirk, as she adjusted a dial on the helmet, "Okay wolfie, let's see if this works, game start!"
Sheeva paused as she hung her head down. The helmet's lights lit up brightly, before she looked up with blood red eyes at Granny. She snarled and started walking slowly towards the old woman in the wheelchair.
"Just as I thought, she mentioned that she blames you for killing her mate with that Hinox we experimented on a while back." Meokuro said, "And it looks like her anger towards you is making her more complacent with the helmet's control!"
Granny took in those words and nervously looked up at Sheeva; she could see the fury in the wolf's eyes, more anger then she had seen in any other specimen she experimented FZ-501 on.
"Hold on!" shouted a rebel nurse, stepping out in front of Granny, gripping an IV stand as a weapon, "Back off of Granny!"
"Yeah we won't let you hurt her!" said another nurse as she pulled out some syringes, pointing them at Sheeva.
"W-Wait a minute, you girls back down!" Granny shouted.
Sheeva then lunged out at them; the nurses tried to protect Granny, but they were knocked out of the way effortlessly, as Sheeva came right at Granny. The wolfos growled angerly and brought up her claws to gore her. The elderly doctor gasped and closed her eyes, preparing herself for her fate...
But that was when Sheeva was blocked off by someone jumping out in between the two holding out a shield. The wolfos leader looked to see a somewhat familiar person stopping her, before they quickly kicked her backwards.
"What...?" Granny spoke softly, seeing who it was that defended her.
"Back off of her!" Link shouted, with his sword and shield out as Sarami ran up to Granny's side.
"Granny, are you okay?" Sarami asked.
"Y-Yes... thank you Sarami." Granny said with a look of lingering guilt.
"Well, well, well..." spoke Meokuro, rubbing her chin, then grinning widely, "If it isn't the false king! So you're one of the intruders I detected in my lab! Well this makes it all the better, killing two birds with one stone! Wihihihihihi!"
"I'm not going to let you hurt Granny or Sheeva." Link said coldly to Meokuro and holding out his sword, "And I'm taking down this sick operation you're running here!"
Sheeva growled, looking at the determined stare in the Hylian male's eyes, they almost looked familiar to her, but she was too angry to think about it any further.
"Hmph, like I'm going to let you take away what I've put my blood, sweat and tears into. I'll just have my wolf friend here sweep the whole lot of you!" Meokuro said, she turned and walked out the door with her Beamos Walkers, speaking out to Sheeva, "Have fun wolfie."
The helmet's bulbs gave off another bright flash. Sheeva hung her head down with her eyes closed, and stood motionless. She then opened her eyes showing them to be blood red, she rose her head up and grinned wickedly, licking her chops as she stared down at Link, Sarami and Granny.
"...Sarami, you keep Granny safe. I'll deal with Lady Sheeva." Link said.
"Okay, good luck Link..." Sarami nodded, pulling Granny's wheelchair away.
Lady Sheeva growled out and swung her claws at Link, who brought up his shield to block them off, but her attack had much more force in it thanks to the influence of the power tonic. Link staggered backwards from the impact, and Sheeva lunged out to bite him. Link quickly sidestepped out of the way and swung his sword, slashing her side and causing her to yelp out. Sheeva growled and did a roundhouse kick, bashing Link and sending him backwards.
Link shook off the impact and saw Sheeva running at him again, he brought out his sword and clashed against her claws. Sheeva swung her claws out furiously and Link quickly countered with his shield and sword. While she was stronger due to the power tonic, Sheeva still had her injuries from fighting Nabooru earlier that day, as well as getting captured by the rebels, and she was starting to gasp out.
"Sheeva, snap out of it!" Link shouted, "Don't let this control you!"
Sheeva just growled out and continued to attack him, she managed to smack away his shield and slash him. The White Wolfos then tried to bite down on him but he bashed her in the face with his shield and gave her another slash.
Sheeva staggered back and gasped out, panting heavily, "Grrra... graaah... Hy... grah... Hylian... male..."
"Sheeva?" Link asked.
"She's snapping out of it?" Sarami asked.
"Please..." Sheeva panted, "Please kill me... end this... ple... please... graaa... grrrrr... GRAAAHH!"
Sheeva then snarled out and lunged at Link, slamming him into a wall. She brought up her other claw to maul him with it, but Link quickly took his Longshot and fired it out to the side. The hook impacted onto an indent hole in the wall and yanked Link out of Sheeva's grip. He landed to his feet and used his Fairy Bow to fire off two arrows at Sheeva, impacting into her side and causing her to scream out in pain, before Link charged forward and bashed the wolfos one last time with his shield, sending her falling backward and impacting to the ground.
Sheeva gasped out, shaking in pain. Link sheathed his sword and ran over to Sheeva's side and knelled down to her.
"Sheeva, are you here with us now?" Link asked.
"Hylian..." she gasped out as her eyes flashed between normal and red, "This sensation... I don't know... what I'm going to do... I might attack you again..."
"Hold on, let me see!" Sarami said, running over to Sheeva's side, "Oh dear, I need to do something about these injuries!"
"No... you can't..." Sheeva gasped out, trying to get up.
"Stay down Wolfos." Granny said rolling up to the three, "Judging from the state of those wounds, if you try to exert yourself too much, the power tonic will surely take your life. Believe me, I've seen it before."
"You... you're that Granny woman..." growled Sheeva, her eyes turning red for a second, before she groaned out and fell backwards again.
"Stay down and rest!" Link demanded, placing his hands against Sheeva's shoulders to keep her down, "Sarami, please do what you can to help her!"
"Right away!" Sarami said, going through her medical supplies.
Sarami was about to start treating one of the slash marks when Sheeva snarled out, "I can't take it, I'm so angry... it hurts so much... just kill me now and get it over with!"
"No way are we going to do something like that, we're going to heal you and get you back home to your pack." Link said sternly.
"You idiots, if you try to help me I might go berserk again from this sickness and attack you!" Sheeva shouted, "You saw what my wolf pack went through, they were so blinded by anger they even attacked our own family!"
"..." Granny said nothing but stared down at Sheeva as the rebel nurses all started to recover and join the group.
"Just stay calm and rest." Sarami said to Sheeva gently, before looking to a rebel nurse, "Excuse me, can you help me remove these arrows?"
"O-Oh, sure." nodded the nurse somewhat nervously, kneeling down and helping Sarami.
"I'll go get more alcohol and bandages!" another nurse said running off to check the supplies that hadn't been destroyed in the fight.
"I don't understand... why would you do something like this?' Sheeva asked Sarami, "If I get better, then I might attack you again, even if I don't want to!"
"Just stay still." Sarami repeated as she continued to treat Sheeva's wounds, making the wolfos growl in frustration.
"Damnit, do I need to spell it out for you, Gerudo doctor?" Sheeva shouted out in annoyance at Sarami for ignoring her warnings.
"If you try to save me, then you could lose your life!"
Sarami paused in that moment and closed her eyes. For just a short moment, she thought about her patient Gonaeti, and her unborn daughter Rimel, and the lung tumor that Gonaeti suffered from because of her pregnancy...
Sarami then slowly opened her eyes and smiled beautifully, which surprised Sheeva and made Link blush lightly.
"I'm going to keep going, and I'm not giving up." Sarami said, then looked to the nurses, "Please, someone get me more gauze."
A nurse nodded and handed her a roll of bandages so Sarami could wrap up the Wolfos' leg.
"I don't understand, why would you keep doing this, even knowing what could happen... I even almost killed you before..." Sheeva spoke, recalling when she snapped and slammed the doctor against a wall back at the town hall, "So why...?"
"It's because... I'm a doctor." Sarami said, "And a true doctor doesn't pick and choose their patients. They work to make their patients healthy and happy. And I'm going to do the same for you."
"But... aren't you afraid I'll hurt you...?" Sheeva asked.
"No, I'm not." Sarami shook her head, then looked to Link, "Because no matter what could or will happen, I know that Link will always be by my side to support me, just as he has since the day he taught me that I need to relay on others."
Granny looked in awe of Sarami's words, the same ones she herself used to to tell her all the time back when they lived together. Even back when Sarami suggested the idea that she could have hurt Granny after healing her, she had told the young rogue that she would have had no regrets over helping her.
Link nodded and smiled, "Sarami is one of the most important people in my life, she's saved me more times then I can count, so I make it a point to help her whenever she needs it. We relay and depend on each other, like how a family does."
"Fufufu... you mean like how lovers would Link?" Sarami teased with a giggle.
Link turned bright red and looked away as the rebel nurses snickered to themselves, while Granny herself was astonished at how close Link and Sarami were.
'Could you have finally found that man Sarami?' Granny thought to herself, 'The one who would finally relieve you of your fears...?'
Sheeva herself just laid there, surprised by Sarami and Link's words, before closing her eyes and spoke out to them, "O-Okay... do what you will."
Time past as Sarami and the nurses took to treating Sheeva. The pain was severe, but she did everything in her power to hold back her anger, even in the presence of the Granny woman she hated so much.
"You doing okay, sister?" Sarami asked one of the rebel nurses, who was trying carefully to remove the last arrow from Sheeva's side.
"Um, yeah.. this one's just in an awkward spot..." the nurse said sweatdropping, she soon discovered the arrowhead and started to remove it, but that was when Sheeva reacted badly to the pain..
"YEEEOOOW!" Sheeva howled out.
"Uh, sorry?" the nurse asked, only to see Sheeva was growling out with red eyes again.
"Please Sheeva, get a hold of yourself!" Sarami said.
But Sheeva snarled out and uncontrollably swiped her claw at Sarami. Thankfully Link caught Sheeva's arm before her claw could even get close.
"Grrr..." Sheeva growled.
"It's okay..." Link said, squeezing Sheeva's arm, "Down girl, take it easy. We're here to help you..."
Sheeva panted out a bit, looking to the firm grip Link had on her arm, before her eyes changed back to normal, and she relaxed again.
"S-Sorry... please continue..." Sheeva said.
"Of course." Sarami nodded, taking a moment to thank Link before continuing.
"There, that should just about do it." Sarami sighed, wiping her brow, "Just take a rest for a while Lady Sheeva."
"T-Thank you..." Sheeva spoke, looking down at the bandages that covered her wounds, "I.. um, apologize for what I've done... Honestly I didn't trust you all in putting a stop to that sickness... so I attempted to storm the hideout myself and kill that Granny doctor... but I was captured by those metal monsters..."
"It's okay." smiled Sarami, "I think I understand you a lot more then you realize."
"Huh...?" Sheeva asked.
"You mentioned before you were once a thief before you were turned into a wolfos, right? Well I used to be a thief too, until I went through a horrible tragedy that turned my life upside down... but it was because I met Granny that I was able to find a new calling in life." Sarami explained, "Just like you found a new calling as the wolfos leader."
Sarami continued, "I could tell from back when we met you Sheeva, how much you care for your pack. I feel the same about my own people, it's why I became a doctor in the first place. It was so I could take care of those that are important to me."
Sheeva's eyes widened, and she laid back with a small chuckle. "I see..."
Granny meanwhile just watched Sarami carefully, whispering to herself, "She's grown so much..."
Sarami giggled and pet Sheeva affectionately on the head, "And this is for being such a good girl!"
"Aahh!" Sheeva's eyes widened at the sensation, her tail started wagging rapidly at the touch, before she practically passed out on Sarami's lap.
"You certainly got a way with big animals." Link grinned, recalling how well Chester got along with her.
It was then they heard a loud explosion from outside of the door, as well as some crashing and banging going on.
"Link!" shouted a voice as they heard the door shift, and barging in was Nabooru, Togau, Aviel, Nemisa, Professor Bradson and a number of rebel Gerudo, "We finally found you!"
"Good to see you girls!" Link said waving. Aviel ran right up and hugged Link in relief.
"What th- L-Lady Nabooru is here too?" exclaimed a rebel nurse.
"Nabooru, what's going on out there?" Link asked, looking out the door to see some laser beams and explosions going off all around in the storage area.
Outside of Granny's lab, a group of monsters from the kennel were rampaging around the place, knocking over supplies and destroying things. The Beamos Walkers came in to fight them, but the monsters had a quick upper hand. A wolfos lunged out and knocked over a walker, while a Leever leaped onto the head of another and twisted it's head off. A vulture flew down and dropped a Bombling on one of the walkers, blowing it up.
"Just some new friends causing a little commotion." Nabooru said with a playful smirk.
"You found and freed my people..." Sheeva spoke seeing the desert wolfos fighting the walkers.
"So Lady Sheeva is here too? What's happened to her?" Nemisa asked looking down at the beast woman and her injuries.
"Sheeva was captured by the rebels and the leader of this place forced her to take the power tonic." Link explained.
"Oh dang, ya okay there Sheeva?" Togau asked worriedly.
"...yes... I think I am now, thanks to these two." Sheeva nodded and gestured to Link and Sarami, "Though I'm still worried about the raging illness that tonic gave me..."
"We'll do what's needed to help you Lady Sheeva, but right now we need to get out of here while the freed monsters are having their fun." Nabooru said.
Link looked to Nabooru on that note, thought to himself, and nodded.
"Listen everyone..." Link said, "All of you go on ahead. I'm going to go hunt down the rebel Meokuro, and put a stop to all of this."
"...Alright then, but be careful." Nabooru said. Link nodded and ran off out the door, she then called out to the others, "Everyone, let's get a move on!"
"Wait, even us?" a rebel nurse spoke up among the others that had worked with Granny, as well as the guards they had captured back at the kennel.
"Of course." Nemisa nodded, "You're our sisters, so we're taking you back with us to Gerudo Town."
"It'll take time for you to be rehabilitated, but you'll be joining our home and society." Nabooru clarified, "It's what our King Link wants of all of you."
The rebels all looked to each other in surprise the Lady Nabooru and the king being so willing to not just spare them, but give them a chance to live in their town.
"Fascinating." chucked Bradson, adjusting his glasses.
Togau then transformed herself into her Lynel form so Sarami could climb up onto her horse-half, while the rebels did what they could to gather and load up whatever supplies from the lab Granny asked for.
"Alright, let's get goin' then!" the rancher said grinning.
"But what about Lady Sheeva here?" Aviel asked looking down at at the wounded and tired wolfos.
"Hmm..." Granny thought to herself.
Link charged through the rebel laboratory, taking down whatever Beamos Walker he could with his sword, shield, Longshot and arrows. The former captive monsters proved to be an excellent distraction for him to defeat the walkers without trouble. As another walker fell down and exploded, he came to a halt and saw Engineer Meokuro going through one room on a high up balcony. There weren't any stairs that led up to it, so he pulled out his Longshot and fired it into an indent on the ceiling, pulling him up to the door and he entered.
When Link arrived in the room, bars came down over the doorway in, indicating he was stuck in there for the time being. He took that moment to look around the room, it was some sort of production room for the Beamos Walkers. The room was spacious, with a steel grate floor, and on the sides were conveyor belts hauling half-finished walkers. The conveyor belts led over to the far end of the room where about four Beamos Walkers were taking parts and wielding them together, causing sparks to fly out and light up some of the darker areas of the room.
That was when he saw two small gleaming green lights in the darkness, and jumping out was Engineer Meokuro. She was still wearing her steel helmet and goggles, but it turned out the copper belt she was wearing before now had large metal spider legs not unlike the Walkers sticking out of it. Meokuro was using the legs to jump out and land down, then the legs walked forward a little. She stared at Link and her goggles gave off an eerie gleam, the mechanical spider legs making her way taller then her normal legs would have.
"Wiihihihihihi!" laughed Meokuro, "So the false king arrived, and about five point thirty seven minutes faster then I could have thought!"
"Meokuro is it? I'm here to capture you and put an end to his whole operation!" Link said, pointing his sword at her.
"That so? Well I'm not about to let myself get captured, not after all the work I've put in here!" Meokuro said, as one of her spider legs stomped down on the grate floor, "I may be a woman of mechanical science, but I can fight too, and I'm going to make you pay for what you did to Faurugo!"
"Faurugo? You mean the miner we fought back at the Hall of Knowledge?" Link asked.
"She was an colleague of mine, she discovered the ruins this place used to be, and the ancient beamos technology used to protect it eons ago." Meokuro said, "And I took this place and turned it into the technological marvel it is now, and rebuilt the Beamos into something even better then before!"
"So this used to be a Gerudo temple..." Link said, looking at the numerous inactive Beamos Walkers lining the sides of the room,"So what are you doing with all these things anyway?"
"This is the neo army of the Ebony Sisterhood!" Meokuro said, as the luminous crystals lighting up the room lit up more and started flashing. The Beamos all turned and looked down at the floor where Link and Meokuro stood, they started waving and swinging their arms, almost as if they were all rooting for Meokuro, even one Beamos Walker was hanging from a rafter by it's clamps. "With many of our sisters leaving or dying, I'm taking it upon myself to build these Beamos Walkers for the day we declare war on the Hylians!"
"This is insane..." Link muttered.
Meokuro walked up to one walker on her spider legs and brought up one of her metal gloves, a small blow torch igniting and she used it to wield a part of the walker into place, "Machines are far more practical then humans for war; they're stronger, easier to repair, they don't allow emotions like fear or sadness get in the way of their objectives, and soon they'll all crush the Hylians and help us reclaim the great King Ganondorf! We'll see how their archaic steel swords and spears stand up to robotic claws and lasers! Wiihihiihhihiihii!"
"Not if I can help it, and I'm going to make you answer for what you did to Granny and Lady Sheeva." Link said, swinging his sword to the side.
"Ha, bring it then! Round One, FIGHT!" Meokuro said.
With that, Meokuro used the spider legs of her belt to leap into the air, then came down at Link with all six legs pointing down at him. Link quickly rolled to the side to avoid it, and Meokuro then turned and started thrusting at Link with two of the legs while walking towards him with the other four. Link quickly brought up his sword and shield and started deflecting each leg using them.
"Wihihihihi! I'm gonna enjoy taking you down, false king!" Meokuro said grinning, "Maybe we can even have a bit of bed fun before I start experimenting on you!"
Link was too busy deflecting her rapid jabs with her spider legs to give a response, but then he looked own to see the metal spider legs. He deflected one jab, then quickly swung his sword downwards at one of them. This caused Meokuro to trip and fall to the side a bit, giving Link the chance to punch Meokuro in the face with his shield, making her stagger back.
"Graaaah! Damn you!" Meokuro shouted, she then used her spider legs to leap up onto the rafters of the room where there was a supply of spare gears for the walkers. She grabbed a number of them, before climbing down to a lower bar and hanging off it. She ignited the gears with her blow torch, heating them up, then dropped down to the ground, where they started spinning and shot at Link like flaming wheels.
"You gotta be kidding me!" Link exclaimed as the gears spun right at him. He quickly rolled and jumped out of the way of the gears, only for some of them to bounce against the walls and impact into him from behind, giving Meokuro the chance to leap down and strike at him with her spider legs. Link quickly brought up his shield to block her from stabbing him, but was knocked backwards by the forceful impact. She then leaped back and chucked more gears at Link, but this time he ran at the gears and jumped over them, bringing up his sword and swinging it down at Meokuro.
The scientist reacted in surprise and stepped back to avoid the slash, then tried to swing her spider legs at Link. He ducked the attack, and swung his sword forward, but she blocked it with her metal gloves. She ignited her gloves with their blow torches and shot fire at Link, blasting him back, before lobbing more heated gears at him.
This time though Link had an idea, seeing the center of the gears had a latch hole in them for attaching to bolts, he brought out his Longshot and fired it at one of the gears, grabbing it and allowing him to swing it around him, bashing Meokuro across the face, before running up and slashing at her, causing her to scream out.
"Graaah, medic heal please!" shouted Meokuro, but then realized, "Oh right, I fired her. I'll just have to do this instead!"
She then used her spider legs to backflip away onto a high place, and called out to her Beamos Walkers, "Fry him! Burn bobonga!" making many of the automations start charging up their lasers and aim down directly at Link.
"Oh crap!" Link said, looking upwards and seeing an indent in the ceiling. He quickly fired his Longshot upwards and latching to the ceiling, which pulled him upwards just before all the walkers fired their lasers simultaneously, causing a large explosion under Link that he missed just in time.
Meokuro quickly climbed up the side of the wall and swiped at Link from there, but he brought out his sword and deflected her attacks. He then swung himself backwards on his Longshot and using his shield, bashed through her next spider leg attack and impacted into her. Meokuro screamed out as Link released the Longshot's grip and pushed Meokuro downwards onto the floor, using the shield to hold her in place.
"Give yourself up!" Link shouted, "Even if Ganondorf was as great a king as you think he is, freeing him isn't worth all the lives you're hurting!"
"And you think you and Lady Nabooru are any different?!" Meokuro shouted, as metal tendrils shot out from her helmet and punched Link backwards, giving her the chance to get back up. The tendrils on her helmet were flailing around as her spider legs stood her up high so she could tower over Link, "We picked up information that you're going to meet with the Hylian Parliament to negotiate getting rid of the banishment law, but how can you be so sure they'll listen to reason? The Hylians will just walk all over you!"
Link frowned, he recalled Faurugo speaking very similar things to Nabooru back at the Hall of Knowledge, he wondered in that moment how close the two of them had been. As a result, he felt some guilt deep down for not being able to save Faurugo from the power tonic taking her life. He then realized then just how similar Sarami must have felt about her inability to cure Gonaeti's tumor, or the power tonic's effects as well.
He took a deep breath and looked up to Meokuro with determination in his eyes.
"...Frankly I don't care what the Parliament intends to do. Even if they have no intention of giving us a fair chance, I'm not going to give up on helping the Gerudo." Link said, "I'll fight to the very end, to help them all get the chance to be free, and that includes you and the other rebels!"
"..." Meokuro paused at those words, "But why would you help us...? We want to kill you and Lady Nabooru, why would you think we'd ever join you?"
"Because of what the Gerudo once were, all those years ago. They all used to be thieves and killers, until Nabooru reshaped them into a true society. They were given a second chance, and I'm willing to give that chance to all of you. I say that not as the Gerudo King, but just a person who just wants to help you all."
Meokuro once again stood in stunned silence, looking downwards in thought.
"That's... really fascinating..." Meokuro muttered, She then chuckled a little and looked up to Link, her goggles gleaming, "Unfortunately, you can't persuade me that easily. I'm not going to give up on my people, so I'll fight to the end!"
With that, she lunged at Link with two legs up to strike him. Link quickly blocked off the attack, then countered with his sword. One of the metal tendrils on Meokuro's helmet wrapped around the sword, yanking it away and forcing Link to concentrate on more defensive maneuvers. He backflipped away from the engineer and pulled out his Fairy Bow, firing off several arrows at her. Meokuro then brought up her spider legs and deflected the arrows away. But then Link shot one arrow that flew right over her.
"Ha, you missed by approximately twenty two point four inches!" Meokuro stated.
"Wasn't aiming for you." Link grinned.
That was when Meokuro realized the arrow had shot right through the tendril holding the sword, causing the blade to fall to the ground, surprising her. Link then darted forward at his sword, Meokuro tried to blast him with her torch gloves, but he ducked down and rolled across the floor, grabbing the sword and with a few quick slices, he managed to cut across Meokuro and sever a few of the metal spider legs of her belt at the same time.
"Ugh... this isn't right..." groaned Meokuro as she staggered around, the broken spider legs causing her to lose her balance, "I need to reload my save!"
"I don't know what you're talking about." Link said, "But you're done, now give yourself up."
"Grrr... never!" Meokuro said, she then got herself up with her last three spider legs and catapulted herself to the back of the room, then shouted to the walkers, "Blast him! Attack his weak point for maximum damage!"
That was when all the Beamos Walkers started charged up their lasers at Link once again, only this time they were charging up more and more. Some of the unfinished machines were even starting to break down from it, but still charged up.
"Uh oh!" Link quickly turned and ran at the door, only to see it was still barred up.
"Wiiiihhihihiiiiii-oowie...!" laughed Meokuro, but cringing a bit in pain from her wounds as she did, "It's game over for you, false king!"
"They're all locked on me..." Link muttered, but that was when he had an idea, "Wait... they're all locked on me!"
He looked up and eyed the hook hanging overhead he used to evade the lasers last time, He fired his Longshot up to the ceiling and latched onto it, hanging over the room, as all the laser were still aimed at him.
"Ha, too early! Now they'll blast you out of midair!" Meokuro shouted.
But Link eyed the Beamos Walkers carefully, recalling just how long it took for them to fire last time, and then unlatched from the hook. As he fell downwards, just as he was lined up with all the Beamos attacks, they all fired at once. Instead of getting blasted though, Link landed to his feet and ducked downwards as all the lasers shot over him. The Beamos Walkers' lasers as a result all blasted into the other ones from the across the room, blowing them up.
"WHAT?" Meokuro shouted with her jaw dropped.
The heads of the walkers flew up and exploded, and even those who weren't hit by the lasers exploded as well, causing a massive chain reaction which caused all the Beamos Walkers to be destroyed.
"No! My creations!" shouted Meokuro, too distracted by what was going on to notice the Longshot shoot past her and impact into a wall behind her, as Link shot forward and gave a powerful slice across the engineer, she screamed out and impacted to the ground, her goggles shattering as she impacted.
"And that should do it." Link sighed out, spinning his sword in his hand and sheathing it. Before he could do anything else though, the ground started to shake, and he saw the rafters were starting to creak and wobble, before coming apart and smashing to the ground around them.
"Uh oh, we better get out of here!" Link realized. Seeing Meokuro was in a daze, he lifted her up and started carrying her out of the room. The bars of the door had lifted after Meokuro's defeat, so he just went out that way as more walkers and the rest of the machinery were blowing up.
"Ugh... what are you doing...?" Meokuro groaned, "Why are you saving me...?"
"Because you need my help." Link simply said, carrying her off.
The engineer was in stunned silence at the man she knew as the false king, before muttering, "You... can't be serious, you idiot..."
Meokuro then fell unconscious from the fatigue of the battle, leaving Link to focus on escaping with her.
And that ends the chapter for this week. Meokuro's been defeated, and now all that's left is to escape! How will our heroes get out of this mess? Find out next week!
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