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Well, people, it’s sad to say, but here is the final chapter of this grand saga. Well, second-to-last. The final showdown against Ganondorf is here. With just this one remaining stage, and Rachel’s destiny upon her, the grand finale is in our reach.

Chapter 80: Ganon Reborn

Rachel and Lehcar held tight to Epona’s back as the Underworld Castle was merely miles away. “I’m curious about something, Rachel.” Lehcar spoke. “Why didn’t you slay Ghirahim during that first battle? You clearly have no problem with slaying the lower-level minions. Was it because your morals kicked in, or…?”

“Eh… I dunno… it just felt a little too… easy.” she replied simply.

“Ahaaa.” Lehcar smirked. “So, you don’t take well to killing things unless they provide a challenge first. Seems like BOTH of us are rubbing off on the other.”

“Well… I will admit, I get a thrill with slaying enemies. But it’s totally different from your way. I get a thrill with bringing peace and justice to all the kids in the world. You only destroy things just for the heck of it. That’s totally different.”

“Ah, yes, always the goody two-shoes. I suppose Link felt the same way in his time. But surely you don’t slay things without the teensiest little thrill of seeing enemies fall before you?”

Rachel glanced at her Negative and gave a slight mischievous smile. Lehcar smirked back before the two faced ahead at the incoming castle. As they were just outside the drawbridge gates, surrounded by a magma moat, the two disembarked the horse, and Rachel patted Epona in thanks as the two looked up at the tremendous, impending castle. Dark-red clouds circled the heavens, releasing purple lightning. “Funny thing is, we didn’t have to do much here the first time.” Rachel said.

“That’s because the stage designers at that time were lazy.” Lehcar retorted. The two girls laughed.

“Okay, let’s get going.” Rachel chuckled. “It’s only a matter of time before Ganon absorbs Mandy’s soul completely.” (Play the “ZREA Tower of Spirits” theme from Zelda: Spirit Tracks!)

Stage 62: Castle Hell

Mission: Locate Ganondorf and stop his demonic reign once and for all!

Act 1

The two girls crossed the drawbridge and entered the castle’s dead courtyard. The front entrance seemed protected by a massive wall of fire, so the girls went around toward the right. As they were about to enter a door to the next-door courtyard, a barrier surrounded them, and a squad of Bokoblin charged in wielding swords. Rachel rapidly performed spin attacks to knock them away, and Lehcar jumped in the air to kick purple flames at them. In a matter of moments, the barrier disappeared when the enemies were gone. “Hey, I thought you didn’t have your powers, anymore?” Rachel said.

“Seems my anger for Ganondorf has revived it a little. I guess rage really does pay.” She shrugged. The two proceeded to enter the door, and ended up in a Bulblin archery field. The masked demon riders got onto their Bullbos and rode around the field, shooting tons of fire arrows their way. Rachel held up her shield in defense while Lehcar skied out, tossing purple flames at the Bulblin and knocking them off the demon bulls. Lehcar then proceeded to hop on one of them, burning the bull a little so that it charged, and she controlled it to make it ram through the Bulblins and all of the fences set up to block their path. Rachel hurriedly ran after her Negative, seeing Lehcar jump off before the Bullbo rammed the wall far on the other side. When Rachel made it to her side, the two noticed six pillars with crystal switches on them. They all seemed to make a Triforce design, with three of them more spread out away from each other, and the other three closer together.

Rachel tossed her Boomerang around randomly to hit the switches, but they seemed to switch back to normal. “Dang it. There’s always a certain order.”

“Hey, what’s this?” Lehcar asked, noticing a pile of dead leaves on the ground. The Evil Princess burned the leaves, revealing what appeared to be a picture of the Triforce, drawn with lines in a certain path. Rachel studied the lines and arrows and carefully compared them with that of the switches. Figuring out the order, she tossed her Boomerang around so that it formed the outer triangle, then the inner triangle. The order was accepted as a cage opened near to them. The two hurried over and found a lever inside, pulling it the other way. Within the castle’s front yard, the wall of fire vanished.

The girls high-fived before hurrying back to the front courtyard. They tried to get in through the front door, but unfortunately it was locked. “Oh, shyah, you can’t go anywhere in dungeons without the next door being locked. Ah well, let’s look over here.” Rachel decided as the two went into the other courtyard on the left side. This one appeared to be more wide open, but as they walked into the center, another barrier trapped them inside, and a squad of Lizalfos charged in to begin attacking.

The lizard soldiers carefully sidestepped around the girls as they tried to leap and swing their swords. Lehcar shot flames at a few of them, but others rolled behind and tried to strike her. Rachel rolled behind the Lizalfos to strike their rears, but when she stood up, a couple Kargaroks flew down and began clawing at her face using their talons. Rachel rapidly swung her blade and sliced the bird monsters, flipping away just in time before some Dinolfos sliced at her. Both she and Lehcar ran to attack the demons and took them out in seconds. After they were gone, the barrier disabled, and the two took notice of the treasure chest beside the wall. They went over to open it and found the key. Shortly after returning to the front yard, the two opened the front doors of the castle and entered.

They came into the castle’s foyer and saw several doors high up on platforms, and chandeliers hanging around the room. Once again, a barrier surrounded them when they stood in the center. The room became much darker as swarms of Miniblin began scampering over, trying to jab their pitchforks into them. The two were dangerously outnumbered, but Rachel charged up a Hurricane Spin in her sword and gave her battle cry as she zoomed around the area, slicing all the weak-boned enemies in one strike. Rachel became dizzy afterwards, so this allowed a group of Moblin to charge over and bat her several feet away with their spears. The Moblin held up their spears in defense when Lehcar began shooting fires at them, but Rachel recovered and ran behind the Moblin to slice at their butts. The pig monsters gripped their rears and bounced around in pain, so Rachel was able to strike and defeat them.

The barriers disappeared as candles lit the room from atop the chandeliers. Rachel noticed one of them hanging beside a platform and shot her Hookshot to latch onto it. Lehcar held onto Rachel as the Hookshot pulled them up. Hanging from the chandelier, Rachel slowly lowered them with the Hookshot’s chain, making them able to swing and build enough momentum before they released and fell to the platform. They entered the door and went up a couple stairs before appearing in a long, straight hallway. They hid behind their doorway as a strange, blue-cloaked skeleton being with a scythe slowly walked down the hall, aiming a red beam from its eye. “What is it?” Rachel whispered.

Fi responded, “Target locked: Reaper. Reapers are soul-carrying monsters of the Underworld who lead souls to their fates after they’ve been decided in the afterlife, be it the Spirit World, the Sanzu River, etc.. A few of them are used as guards for the Underworld Army. I highly suggest we do our best to stay out of their line of sight, or else I predict a 90% chance he will be after us, with a very high chance of defeating us.”

“Well, it’s best not to take any chances.” Rachel figured. “Let’s hide.” When they saw the Reaper turn around and begin walking the other way, the two carefully tiptoed behind it. When he was about to turn around, the two quickly ducked behind one of the gaps in the wall. The Reaper turned and walked by without a single notice of them. They made it to the end of the hall, going up a staircase that led them to what appeared to be the central chamber. Before them was a tower in the very center, surrounded by a dark barrier. The barrier was connected to what appeared to be four different-colored beams connecting to rods above doorways.

“A report, Master.” Fi began. “The door in the tower ahead appears to be the entrance to Ganon’s Tower. However, judging by the field of darkness encasing, I project we will not be able to continue unless we do something about it.”

“No duh, ya dumb spirit.” Lehcar stated snarkily.

“Lehcar…” Rachel glared.

“However, I presume if we do something about the four connecting generators, there is a 5% chance the shield will last.”

“’Guess that’s our cue. But man, what’s with all these final stages having trial rooms?”

“Eh, it is the last stage.” Lehcar shrugged.

“Good point. Alright then, let’s do this one first.” Rachel decided, leading them through the door the red beam was going to. They ended up in what looked to be a replica of the Groudon Volcano. “Hey, I remember this place. This was back when we first met Meta Knight. Ahhh, the memories…” Rachel sighed. “Where is Meta Knight, anyway?”

Rachel noticed the bomb flower attached to the stem of an unstable sphere-shaped boulder and fired an arrow, exploding the ball off its perch. The ball rolled over, and the girls carefully stepped on, using the ball to balance and roll their way across the magma. They noticed some Fire Toadpolies sticking out of the lava, but the two were able to roll the ball over and crush them. They noticed a lava geyser reaching up to a higher ledge, so when it sunk back down, the two rolled the ball on top of it, jumping off after it raised them higher. They trekked through a small cave, finding a small area with a glass wall, overlooking a deep chasm of lava, with geysers shooting out. There appeared to be a tiny hole just below the wall, and a tiny trail leading down to a crystal switch. On their right was a door, but it was closed with bars.

“Hmm. Shame we didn’t bring the bug.” Lehcar said.

“Well, maybe this should help.” With that, Rachel pulled out her M.A.R.B.L.E. bag and rolled one of the tiny explosives down the track, but it exploded on contact of one of the geysers. “O-kay. Wait for them to go down.” she decided. Once she knew the end geysers were low enough, she quickly rolled another M.A.R.B.L.E. down before the front geysers came back up. The bomb exploded on touching the crystal switch, making the door open. The two opposites smiled and high-fived each other before entering the door. Inside was a ball of dark energy, surrounded by the red beam. Rachel drew out her Light Arrow and took aim, shooting and destroying the generator.

At that instant, the girls were swallowed up by light and teleported to the central room, watching as the red beam disappeared. With that done, they decided to enter the door that had the yellow beam. As Rachel suspected, they were taken to a remake of the Sun Temple. “Aww, I remember this place! Those robots were adorable. Sure do miss ’em.”

“Who cares, let’s keep moving.” Lehcar demanded. They passed over the quicksand and went across the broken treadmills before arriving at a door that brought them to a long, thin hallway, the same one Rachel remembered. And as she remembered, the floor tiles started rising to the ceiling, so the group had to be quick. But instead of a switch being on the ceiling, there was an eyeball switch on the wall, so Rachel quickly shot it to make the door open. Another difference was the door was on a higher point now. Rachel noticed a Hookshot target and grabbed onto Lehcar as she shot the Hookshot to pull them up.

Within the next room, next to them was a key, and the door was on the other side of an even longer hallway, with a maze of spikes. When Rachel picked up the key, spikes emerged all over the ceiling, and the girls dashed through the spike maze as fast as they could when the ceiling slowly began to sink down. Looks of fear shone on their faces as the ceiling was coming close to crushing them. But thankfully, they were able to reach the door and open it before they were squashed. They found the generator that was surrounded by yellow energy. Rachel took out her Light Arrow and fired, taking it down.

They warped back to the central chamber as the yellow beam vanished. Next, they went into the room with the white beam, finding their selves in a replica of Sky Pillar. “Sigh… this place. Wasn’t really too fond of this stage, though, but the scenery was nice. Why did Ganondorf wanna come here again?”

“I dunno, somethin’ about being pissed at the Sky God.” Lehcar shrugged. The two found a stairway and decided to head up the tremendous pillar replica. They found one of the balloon-crystals and grabbed on, letting the floatable take them up higher. They had to swerve to the side as flames came out of the walls, and Rachel swung her blade to keep away Keese that were trying to bite their balloon. When at the top, they kicked off onto the ledge and noticed a Peahat trail leading high above them. As they used the Hookshots to get higher, they noticed the ledge at the end had flames surrounding it. They also noticed some crystal switches in the wall, so Rachel tossed her Boomerang to hit them, deactivating the fires.

After getting to the ledge, they entered a door and found the dark ball surrounded by white energy. Rachel fired the Light Arrow and destroyed the generator, being transported to the main room. The beam of whiteness disappeared, and the girls proceeded into the final room with the green beam. Inside was a replica of the Tree of Beginning. “Ah, this place was pretty nice. Those Minish guys sure were cool. I’d like to see more of them.”

“You mean that tribe of bugs that Father told me about? Yes, they were fascinating creatures. Fascinating to see squished under my feet.”

“Uh-huh. You love torturing bugs, don’tcha?”

“It’s a habit. I like stepping on things.” The two walked up a short hill to a higher point, where Rachel shot arrows at some large crystals on the ceiling to make them drop and stick to the ground, allowing them across. They went up another hill on the other side and entered a door to the outside area. Various large crystals stuck out of the wall as they led upwards, each of them having Hookshot targets, so the two used the Hookshots to make their way up higher. Along their way up, some Nejiron dropped down from above and tried to hit them, but the girls were able to avoid as they reached the balcony up top. Once up there, a couple of Aeralfos flew into the area and hovered around the balcony.

They both kept an eye on each of the Aeralfos as one of them launched down at Lehcar, but the Negative dodged and grabbed its sword hand, spinning it around before tossing it against the wall. The other one held its shield up at Rachel, but she shot her Hookshot to pull the monster in, then proceeded to deal away at it using her sword. Eventually, both Aeralfos were defeated, and the door opened before them. They entered inside and heard the sounds of the generator, but, no generator. Rachel felt a shadow loom over her, and quickly jumped out of the way when a Wallmaster hand tried to grab her. Rachel immediately stabbed the hand demon and took it down. Afterwards, the two proceeded to the wall ahead, feeling around and noticing the wall was fake. They phased through the fake wall and found the generator. Rachel took out her bow and arrow and shot the Light Arrow straight at the ball of darkness.

The two were transported back to the center room and watched as the green beam disappeared. With all beams shut down, the force-field spiraled around out of control before exploding and vanishing completely. As the two stood before the entrance to Ganon’s Tower, Fi came out and spoke, “Come, Master. Our foe awaits.”

“Okay. Let’s go.” And with a serious nod, both girls stepped into the entrance to the tower. (Play “Ganon’s Tower” from Ocarina of Time!)

Act 2: Ganon’s Tower

The sounds of a powerful pipe organ could be heard echoing throughout the tower. Inside the first room, a couple of Keese flew around, but Rachel swat them away with her sword when they got close. They heard the squeaking sounds of rats, and the two suddenly felt their selves be covered by something, slowing them down. Lehcar alit with flames and burned the Ghoul Rats off of her, while Rachel took them out with a spin attack. Afterwards, the duo hurried up the stairs and entered the door to the next room, where two Lizalfos and two Dark Lizalfos ambushed them. Rachel ran to slash at one of the Lizalfos as it defended with its stone arm, easily stabbing under the arm to take him out.

The other Lizalfos punched Rachel away, only to be burned by Lehcar, but the Negative became poisoned by one of the Dark Lizalfos. Rachel aimed her Light Arrow to shoot the Dark Lizalfos, then quickly back-flipped to dodge the other Lizalfos. She threw a few swings and defeated the Lizalfos, then focused on the other Dark Lizalfos. The dark-blue lizard tried to swing its tail, but Lehcar was able to grab it and set it on fire. The lizard monster ran around with his tail on fire, allowing Rachel to hurry over and stab it. With the monsters defeated, the girls hurried up the stairs to the next floor. A bunch of Chu-Chu blobs dropped down from the ceiling, but Rachel was easily able to wipe them out with a few spin attacks as they made their way up.

The next room was protected by a couple Stalfos, and also had a treasure chest surrounded by fire in the center. Rachel went to battle one of the skeleton soldiers, who held its two blades ready in defense. When it tried to strike, she ducked and quickly slashed back, easily taking it out. Lehcar swiftly avoided blows from the other Stalfos as Rachel tapped its shoulder from behind. When it turned to face her, she smirked and tossed a M.A.R.B.L.E. into its mouth, and his eyes widened with fear as the skeleton exploded instantly. When the monsters were gone, the flames surrounding the chest died out.

Rachel curiously walked over to open the chest, and inside was a mysterious red shield with a mirror design on the front. She pulled the shield out as the two studied it. “Hey… is this-”

Fi jumped out to report, “Master, I have information to report: the object you hold in your hands is none other than the Mirror Shield, one of Link’s most valuable weapons in slaying Ganon. It is the 3rd of Three Sacred Treasures of Hyrule you hold in your possession, along with the Light Arrow and Master Sword. With all three of these weapons, your chances of defeating Ganondorf have increased dramatically.”

“So you’re basically an unstoppable arsenal now.” Lehcar smirked.

“Yeah, I guess I am.” Rachel said, studying her cool new shield.

“As the name implies, the Mirror Shield can deflect light, and other kinds of energy. Use this to your advantage when necessary.”

“And seeing as this is basically the end, there won’t be much need.” Rachel figured. The two continued their way up the tower, the stairs now guarded by a bunch of Redeads. Rachel noticed the rays of light coming out of the wall and used the Mirror Shield to reflect the rays into the zombies, stunning them and allowing Rachel to start slicing them. In the next room atop the stairs, a squad of Poe ghosts drifted around the room. The intangible ghosts tried to whack the girls with their lanterns, but Rachel stood in the rays of light coming from the wall and shone them on the ghosts. The ghosts became tangible again, and Lehcar proceeded to burn and finish them off.

They entered the next staircase where the stairs were aligned with a bunch of Beamos. The robotic eyes took aim at the kids and zapped lasers, but Rachel easily deflected the beams using the Mirror Shield and shot them back, destroying the robo totems. They made their way into the next room of the tower, where three Darknuts guarded the doorway. The heavily armored demons took notice of the girls and slowly approached with their swords raised.

Rachel flipped and ducked to avoid the first one’s swings, running forward to deal quick blows against his armor. She hurriedly dodged the swings from the other soldiers as Lehcar charged up a jolt of lightning, shooting and dealing heavy damage against the armed demons. Rachel sheathed her blade as two of the demons approached, performing a Mortal Draw to knock off much of their armor. She sheathed her blade as they approached again, unleashing another Mortal Draw, continuing to repeat this tactic until all of the armor was gone. With no armor to slow them down, the demons ran forth and rapidly swung at the blonde hero. Rachel raised her Mirror Shield in defense and used Shield Bashes to make them wobble backward, allowing her to stab away at the unguarded beings. Lehcar kept avoiding strikes from the other Darknut and got behind him, shooting lightning at its rear. Eventually, all the armor was knocked off of him, and she had to dodge even faster as it began throwing rapid swings. Rachel saw this and charged behind the Darknut, stabbing at his back until he was taken out.

The two entered the next door and continued their way up what appeared to be the final staircase, much longer than all the others, and decorated with a red carpet, as the sounds of the pipe organ grew louder and louder. Just at the very top of the stairs, the girls gasped in horror when two Ornes suddenly appeared in their way. The floating, fiery skulls roared with the misery and sadness of hundreds of souls inside their form. One touch from the soul-eating skulls would be their demise. Rachel showed no more fear against the horrid skulls and put on a fierce look of determination. The Supreme Leader drew out her Arrows of Light and took a steady aim, piercing both of the skulls straight through and causing the Orne to be swallowed inside the light.

“Ah-halright! Not bad, Rachel!” Lehcar cheered.

“It’s a living. Now then… are you ready to make Ganondorf share the fate of all these other fools?” Rachel smirked.

“Yes.” Lehcar smirked. “I am.” With that, both girls entered the massive door before them, and into the top area of the castle.

The sounds of the organ boomed even louder in their ears. They stood atop the balcony at the very top of Castle Hell. The duo looked over the edge, having a vast, marvelous view of the ruined wasteland below. From there, it was easy to observe what destruction had come to the land. The girls looked up and gasped when the Helmaroc King suddenly flew down beside their balcony. The massive bird gave a cry and looked like he was about to attack them. But before it could, some lasers shot down from above. They all looked up as the C.O.O.L.-B.U.S. was flying down from the heavens, zipping past the evil bird as it gave chase. “What are they doing here?!” Rachel exclaimed.

“Hey, they just made it a bit easier for us.” Lehcar told her. “Leave old Big Bird to them. We have a much bigger bull to wrangle.” Rachel exchanged a serious glance with her counterpart and nodded. The two looked to the double parallel stairs just beside them, leading up to the source of the organ’s sound. The two went up separate stairs and reunited at the top. They stared into the massive chamber before them, the Dark Lord himself sitting at his throne and rapidly pounding his fingers against the pipe organ’s keys. They slowly entered the throne room, Lehcar holding flames ready in her hands, and Rachel readying her Master Sword and Mirror Shield. They glanced down at the fallen angel statue head beside them near the entrance as they kept walking. Once halfway across the room, they stopped and gasped at seeing the unconscious Mandy cuffed into the Triforce statue above the organ.

Their attention focused back on Ganondorf, the Dark Lord continuing to play his organ. He looked just like Davy Jones doing that. Not to mention he was currently missing his heart. After a few more moments, the Dark Lord ceased the loud music, and sat in his throne quietly. (End song.)

“For many eons… I have lived. Reborn in this world from generation to generation.” The two girls just stood there, but kept their guard raised. “I had known what my purpose was from the very beginning. Ever since before I lay my hands on the sacred golden triangle. Even before I met… him.”

Ganondorf calmly closed his eyes. “I’ll never forget him… That…That SHINY golden hair and… beastly blue eyes. And garb more green than the vast fields of Hyrule itself. And a heart…a heart could never be so strong. So pure. He had fought like no man or demon I have ever encountered. Nor in any other time after that. For every time I had risen from the depths, every time that boy had been reincarnated in an endless cycle… his strength had proved no bounds. I had first known Link when he was just a simple little child. And he has become a fine man… The perfect nemesis.” The Evil King turned in his chair and opened his eyes. His dark-yellow eyes glared tight on Rachel T. McKenzie. “And now… look what the heroic Link has come to. A tiny little girl… who can’t help but dig her face in that cheesecake of hers.”

“Hey, I’ll have you know that cheesecake is a plentiful-”

“Silence!” He slammed his fist, slowly standing up. “The Link I had faced in the past was strong. Every lifetime I return to, I always look forward to gazing upon those blue eyes of his. And now… all I have is a simple little girl. Am I supposed to fear someone who can never miss a single second of her favorite television show?”

“Dr. Time-Space is a good show…” she mumbled.

“It truly is laughable… and ironic all the same. Where Link’s ancestry has come. But what I find more ironic…” he turned his attention up at Mandy, “is where the bloodline of Princess Zelda has ended up. The once beautiful, vibrant spirit of the golden-haired goddess… reduced to this. Her soul even now is very tangy to taste. And yet… even more ironic than that…” his eyes focused on Lehcar, “is how I was responsible for creating the newest incarnation of Link itself. And that I had given birth to a counterpart so equal in her skills… that she ended up betraying me.”

“Yeah, yeah.” Rachel said. “Are you gonna keep going with this monologue? Or are we actually gonna battle.”

“Hehe…” Ganondorf grinned. “Impatient as he was, I see. So desperate to save his pitiful world. You’re just like the King of Hyrule. And all those worms that stood beside him. Don’t you see? All of you…” The dark man whooshed his arm in an angry fashion. “YOUR GODS BETRAYED YOU! In the olden days of Hyrule, it was the gods’ plan to wipe away and leave only small fragments of your kingdom! That time has come again!” Ganondorf calmed down a little, and sighed quietly as he stared at his open right hand. “I never believed it at first… but I know now.” He clenched his fist tight and shook it as he looked to the heavens with a fierce look. “I truly am the Devil reborn as a mortal… placed on this earth to continue on his will. And it is my destiny to redeem the mistakes made by the Uno Family, and remake this world. A new world order… that shall finally bring peace to all beings. Peace… within darkness.”

“HA ha!” Lehcar only laughed cockily. “Such big talk for someone with literally no heart! But if that new peace is really what you want… then I will risk everything to STOP IT!”

“HEH heh! Poor, poor Lehcar… you forget your place. You may be as defiant as your Positive… but you are part of me. You were created from my blood. And I… am your FATHER!” He threw his hand open at her.

“HNNGH!” Lehcar grunted when she felt her waist area suddenly squeeze. Rachel looked in shock as Lehcar fell on her knees. “OHH.” she gasped, now on her hands.

“STOOOP!” Rachel demanded.

Ganon only chuckled. “You really are unlike your Positive, Lehcar. You’re weak… submitted to the will of another. I’ve never seen anyone so pathetic.” The Dark Lord waved his arm around, and Lehcar flew around the room in mimicked motion. When Rachel ran up the carpeted stairs to attack him, the Dark Lord poofed into a cloud of black smoke just upon her strike. She looked confusedly, then back at Lehcar after hearing her drop to the floor with a thud.

Rachel focused back to Ganon as the black cloud shot up and went straight into Mandy’s body. Mandy’s form shook a little upon his entry, and the ropes that shackled her came loose as Mandy’s body slowly drifted down. Rachel kept her sword raised as Mandy gently landed on her feet, her eyes still closed and her head still down. When Rachel carefully moved her face closer to Mandy with a curious look, the demon girl shot her eyes open at Rachel, sending the hero flying away, beside Lehcar. When the both of them looked back up, Mandy stepped down the carpeted stairs and waved her hand, and Lehcar was sent flying out of the exit. When Rachel tried to run after her, Mandy set up a barrier to block her throne. She then set up another barrier to seal the exit, separating Rachel from Lehcar.

Rachel observed the orange barrier to find a way around. She heard an evil laughter and turned back, seeing Mandy approach with her sword raised. “I’ve been waiting for you, Rachel.” She spoke in a mix of Ganon’s voice and her own. “For you… yes… For the hero! Heh…” A smirk appeared on her face. “Do not betray my expectations…” The possessed child hovered in the air and readied her sword.

“Why are all my relatives getting possessed?” Rachel sighed. (Play Ganondorf’s Boss Theme from Zelda: Ocarina of Time!)

Boss fight: Ganon’s Puppet, Mandy

Mandy soared around the room and waved her sword in the air, conjuring an electric ball of light. Remembering this plenty of times before, Rachel hit and sent the ball back when Mandy tossed it, and the two began to send it back-and-forth at the other. Mandy took the hit and became stunned, but was able to quickly recover and dodge out of the way before Rachel shot her Light Arrow. Mandy teleported behind Rachel and erupted a Fear Scream, stunning her. Mandy warped in front of her and dealt a few strikes with her sword, knocking her against the barrier. When Rachel recovered, she saw Mandy fly into the air again. The fearbender charged another electric ball in her sword and sent it at Rachel. Once again, the two ended up swatting the ball back at the other, and Mandy took the hit at the end. Rachel quickly drew out her bow and fired a Light Arrow, giving Mandy a shock that caused her to drop to the ground.

Rachel tried to strike Mandy, but she flipped back and ran to rapidly swing her sword at Rachel. Rachel held up her blade in defense before leaping above Mandy and striking the back of her head to knock her away. Rachel sheathed her sword as Mandy stood back up, and when the younger cousin ran to strike her, Rachel performed a Mortal Draw and quickly struck back. Afterwards, Mandy flew into the air again and conjured another electric sphere, sending it at Rachel, but when Rachel knocked it back, Mandy simply dodged out of the way. The demon child twirled her sword around and released a barrage of Fear Spheres, in which Rachel held up her Mirror Shield to absorb all of the attacks. Afterwards, Rachel released the energy right back at her, but Mandy flew out of the way. Mandy teleported and appeared right behind Rachel, looking with a glare. Rachel turned around and gasped, quickly holding up the Mirror Shield and causing Mandy to glare at herself. Mandy was stunned by her own Scare Stare, allowing Rachel to deal a few more blows against her.

Mandy repeatedly began warping and appearing on all directions of Rachel, who hurriedly aimed her shield all ways to avoid against Mandy’s fast strikes. When Mandy stopped teleporting and appeared several feet away, Rachel tossed her Mirror Shield and it bashed her on the head, bouncing back to Rachel’s hand. Mandy recovered from the dizziness and warped away again, raising her blade in the air as energy seemed to charge. Rachel looked down and gasped as a massive golden triangle was appearing below her, flipping away before it erupted a shockwave. Mandy swooped down and flew around to try and stab Rachel, but the KND leader swiftly sidestepped and rolled around her before Mandy was up in the air again. Mandy was once again charging power into her sword, releasing another energy ball at Rachel. Rachel knocked it back and began playing tennis with her again. This time the ball swerved behind Rachel and tried to hit from behind, but she quickly turned and swung behind her. Mandy kept the ball away and it kept coming at Rachel from different directions. Mandy also conjured another ball, so Rachel had to rapidly keep swinging to avoid being hit from all directions. Eventually, Rachel was able to knock one of the balls into Mandy, and after a few more quick swings, the second ball hit as well.

The possessed child fell to the ground, shaking from the painful electric waves. A dark aura was showing around her as well, so Rachel took this as her time to pull out the Light Arrow, and shoot directly at Mandy’s chest. (End song.)

“UWAAH!” Ganondorf screamed, the Gerudo man flying straight out of Mandy’s body and landing on his back as the two barriers disappeared. As the man sat up, Rachel watched as a light energy flowed out of his eyes and mouth, going straight back into Mandy. The child gasped for a breath of air before her eyes closed, and she was unconscious. Rachel hurried over to grab her before she fell down. “You… miserable…” Ganondorf panted in extreme anger, gripping his chest.

The massive cry of a bird was heard, and they all looked as the Helmaroc King crashed through one of the upper walls, taking crash-land and scraping his face along the floor as Violet and Scarlet rode on top of him. “How’s that for kitty power?” Scarlet smirked.

A bunch of demons around the outer areas saw this, and charged inside as the C.O.O.L.-B.U.S. flew in through the wall and took land. “COME ON, GUYS! SEND THESE DEMON FREAKS BACK TO HELL!” Harvey screamed as he and all the other operatives charged out to begin battling the demons.

“Lass! Are you okay?” Fanny asked as she, Patton, and Nigel hurried over beside Rachel.

“I’m fine… but what are you all doing here?”

“You didn’t think we’d let you go against Ganondorf all by yourself, did you? I mean, besides Lehcar.” Nigel said with a smirk.

Rachel gasped. “Lehcar!” They all directed their attention behind Ganondorf, where Lehcar was slowly trying to stand up. Ganondorf glanced back there and raised his right hand, and Lehcar started uncontrollably zipping back-and-forth again. He used his power to make Lehcar levitate over, and set her on her feet in front of Rachel.

The Dark Lord drew out his black sword and shot a fiery-red ray over toward Lehcar’s right hand, making the Devil’s Sword appear. “It’s time you made up for your mistakes…” Ganon spoke as Lehcar waved her sword around against her will, “and destroy your opposite.” Rachel quickly held up her blade to defend when Ganondorf made Lehcar begin rapidly swinging her sword. The two clashed their weapons against one-another before Rachel’s sword was knocked right out of her hand, sticking into the ground several feet away. Rachel gasped at this, and Lehcar shot a flame to knock her off her feet. The Negative raised her sword, the others looked in horror, and Rachel shut her eyes and awaited her impending doom as Lehcar swung the blade at her neck.

The weapon stopped just inches away from Rachel’s neck, and Lehcar gritted her teeth tight as she struggled to hold it away. “What are you doing? Finish her now.” Ganondorf demanded.

“No! Don’t do it, Lehcar!” Yllaw yelled from several feet behind her. “Come on, Lehcar, don’t listen to him. You’re the most cold-hearted person in the Negaverse. Ganondorf pretended to treat you like his daughter and then wanted to kill you. And now you’re just going to let him control you? You’re no puppet: you’re our leader! The most selfish leader to ever rule the DNK! That’s it, Lehcar. Feed your anger. Let it out, all over Ganon with all your force!” Lehcar groaned in desperation as she tried even harder to pull the sword away. Empowered by her anger towards Ganondorf, the Negative shot around and sped straight into Ganon like a rocket, stabbing the sword straight in his chest.

Ganon’s face was shocked frozen, and Lehcar pulled the blade out as the black energy flowed out of the gap in his armor and chest. The energy flowed directly back into the sword, and Lehcar proceeded to impale herself to become fueled with that energy. Feeling the powers of darkness inside her again, she pulled the blade out and prepared to strike Ganon with a dose of lightning. Before that could happen, the black dragon that was Matthew Dimalanta flew in and took land before giving a tremendous roar at the heroes. The dragon grabbed Ganon in its left hand and flew over to the throne, placing him there. Afterwards, he turned back around and roared again at the heroes.

They heard the light sounds of tiny walking and turned around to spot a familiar blue heart sneaking across the floor. “Look! It’s Ganondorf’s heart!” Rachel exclaimed. The heart curiously turned to look at them, then looked up and screamed as a rat cage dropped down from the ceiling and caught it inside.

“Haha! Gotcha, ya sneaky little bastard!” Zant exclaimed, coming out from behind one of the pillars and picking the cage up, staring at the heart.

Koume and Kotake swooped down afterwards and took the cage, flying beside Ganondorf. “Quick, My Lord. Let us reinsert this heart back in.” Koume said, shoving the heart into the gap in Ganondorf’s chest and trying to fit it inside.

“Hnneeh. Good. My powers shall return to me in moments. Keep them all busy until it happens.” With that, the Evil King snapped his fingers and reemerged the barrier to block his throne.

As Nigel, Fanny, and Patton carried Mandy outside, the barrier suddenly popped up and kept them outside. The three looked back and gasped, and Nigel shouted, “Rachel!”

“WHOOA!” Violet and Scarlet screamed when the Helmaroc King suddenly caught them in his talons, flying away with them.

“Scarlet!” Yang yelled, attempting to chase after them, but Yin held him back by his shirt.

“They can take care of their selves.” she told him. “We have to help Matthew.” The Twins, Katie, and the Toxic Trio (at the moment) focused their attention back on the hissing dragon.

“Come on, Matthew. Get a grip, man, it’s us.” Jeremiah tried to tell him as they carefully kept their guard up.

“I’M SORRY I TOOK YOUR COOKIIIEEE!” Leopold screamed.

“Yell all you want.” Hannibal said to them, flying overhead on his loyal bird. “Dragon ain’t takin’ squat from a bunch of do-goodies like you.”

“I hate to agree with the bad guy, but he’s right.” Yevrah spoke up. “Beforehand, Hannibal took Matthew to the Yin-Yang World using the Yin Yo-yo. And anyone who goes in there and comes out without both yo-yos becomes completely evil.”

“So, we have to get those yo-yos and take Matt on another trip through.” Yin summarized.

“That won’t be easy.” Yevrah said. “I saw Hannibal feed Matt BOTH of the yo-yos after they came back out.”

“Hold on, hold on.” Elijah spoke up. “I get the Yin-Yang part, but that still doesn’t explain how he turned into a dragon.”

“I know how! Look!” Lehcar yelled, pointing up at the tiny, evil bean. “Those things Hannibal’s wearing on his arms can change anything or anyone into any shape or size. The Moby Morpher! It’s probably what he used to turn Matt into a dragon.”

“So, that’s where he got it. I thought it looked familiar. Heh.” Ganondorf smirked.

“Okay: my sister, Katie, and I will try to take the Moby Morpher from Hannibal and change Matthew back. Meanwhile, you three keep Matt distracted. And see if you can get him to cough up those yo-yos.” Yang ordered.

“YYYES!” Eva exclaimed. “Finally Nigel isn’t giving the orders!”

“Oh, ha ha.” Nigel laughed sarcastically.

“So, both of us each get three people?” Hannibal asked. “Well, I guess those are fair odds. You want this Moby Morpher?” Hannibal smirked as he leapt off of his bird to the floor. “Well then COME AWN OVER ’N’ GIT IT!” The bean snapped the two parts together, and the three gaped as the tiny bean grew into a man-sized being using the Shen Gong Wu. He then decided to grow even more, and was now about two stories tall. The bean pulled his two arms apart as three more vine-arms appeared on each side, so he now had a total of eight arms. The large, demonic bean made a few stretches, and the Dimalanta Dragon roared as the kids readied for battle. (Play “Dark Beast, Ganon” from Zelda: Twilight Princess!)

Boss fight: Hannibal Roy Bean

The gigantic bean leapt into the air and came directly down on his three opponents, crushing them flat. He jumped off and didn’t give them any time to recover as he started pounding them down with his eight vines. The Toxic Trio kept their guard up against Matthew, jumping to the side as the dragon tried to snap its fangs at them. The dragon tried to swipe its claw at Jeremiah, but he rolled under and slashed his pocketknives at his stomach. Hannibal grabbed Yin and Yang in his vines and bashed the two’s heads against each other before hurling them behind Katie. Katie recovered to see this and gasped when the large bean charged toward her, quickly erupting a Fear Scream to hold him back, making him shield his ‘ears.’ “Hang on, you guys can transform, too, can’t you?” Katie asked.

“Oh, yeah,” Yang remembered.

“I guess we can.” Yin finished.

“Let’s try it!” With that, they both stacked up and switched into the disguise of a muscular figure. Hannibal furrowed his eyes at this form and readied his guard as they charged, unable to defend as the Twins started pounding away at him, shoving him straight into one of the columns and toppling it over. Afterwards, the muscular being leapt and slammed right onto Hannibal’s belly while he was down.

Dimalanta Dragon shot his purple breath at the poisonbenders, missing Leo as the Anderson child dodge-rolled and dashed right under Matthew to get behind him. The dragon turned around and roared at him, but this allowed Elijah and Jeremiah to grab onto his tail and try to climb up. Matt turned to glare at them when he felt this, and Jeremiah flipped onto the dragon’s back and ran over to slash at its head. Afterwards he leapt onto the head and grabbed his horns to force its mouth open, and Elijah took this time to conjure a Gas Bomb and toss it inside, exploding it inside Matt’s stomach.

Hannibal stood up with an angered look and used his Morpher to transform once again. He now took the shape of a large drum surrounded by smaller drums, and some floating drumsticks which had the Moby Morpher on them. The sticks grabbed the three kids and dropped them on the drums, proceeding to beat away at the drums and send them flying up in the air. Katie was able to land on the floor and sent a bunch of Fear Spheres to pound on the drums, which seemed to give Hannibal a headache. Yin & Yang then grabbed onto each other and formed the disguise of a hammer, using the pickax side to pierce through the drums.

Afterwards, the drumsticks snapped the Morpher parts together again, and Hannibal took the form of a genie lamp. The devil-red genie emerged from the lamp and began blasting the kids with lightning, turning them black with soot. Yin and Yang saw the genie lamp hovering around the room and dressed up in an Aladdin disguise, pulling out a sword and dodging Hannibal’s lightning shots as they made their way toward the lamp. They dealt a few blows against the lamp before it was shattered, and Hannibal fell to the ground.

“WOO, ho there, cowboy!” Leopold exclaimed, folding his hands over the dragon’s eyes and holding on as Matt rapidly swung his head around to shake him off. Jeremiah and Elijah both held on to a Poison Whip as it was wrapped around Matt’s tail, trying to pull the dragon back. Matt angrily shook Leo off of him and swung his tail, sending the other two flying. The dragon tried to unleash its Poison Breath upon the two, but Leo hurriedly leapt onto its head again, hanging his head upside-down in front of the open mouth and releasing a loud “BUURP!”, making the dragon begin aimlessly shaking its head around as Leo was thrown off.

Hannibal Bean stood up and now took the shape of a tiny carnivorous earwig. The three carefully stepped away as the earwig approached them, and Katie failed to smack it off when it crawled up her body and went straight inside her ear. Katie began banging the side of her head to get it out, and her eyes shot wide open as she gripped her head and began shaking it around. “AAAHHHH! IT’S EATING OUT THE BACK OF MY EYES!!”

Yin and Yang immediately shrunk and took the shapes of worms, crawling up and into their cousin’s ears. They made their way to the area behind her eyes, and Katie’s head began knocking around dizzily as the two were having a battle against the evil bean inside. Her face scrunched up when Hannibal crawled right out of her nose, followed by Yin and Yang as they reverted to normal. The demon bean held up his Moby Morpher again and took the form of a giant crab. “Sss ss ss, ssss, ssni sni.”

“Huh? A crab doesn’t say that!” Yang yelled at him.

“OOHHH-WHOOP-WHOOP-WHOOP-WHOOP-WHOOP!” Hannibal cried, beginning to skitter around just like Zoidberg, towards the trio as he was snapping his claws. The three leapt back to avoid being snapped in two, and Katie used a Scare Stare to glare into the red/yellow eyes coming out of the shell. Hannibal fearfully crouched into his crab shell, and Yin and Yang took the form of Knuckles the Echidna, using their Shovel Claws to greatly damage and shatter the crab shell. The frightened crustacean quickly skittered away and transformed into what appeared to be a Vocaloid doll.

The giant maniacal doll hovered toward them with its head drooping down, proceeding to pound away at them with its arms. The doll hovered in the air and tried to Ground Pound them, shaking the floor a little, until Katie drew out one of her nightmare syringes and swung it at the doll, creating a tear that caused some stuffing to pour out. Yin and Yang then took the shape of a cat and clawed their way into the doll, tearing it up from the inside. Eventually, Hannibal shot the two out of him and took the form of a gigantic leg with a foot.

“A foot? What’s a foot supposed to do?” Yang asked.

“Ever heard of athlete’s foot?” Katie asked, the three dodging before Hannibal could stomp them, making the ground quake some more. The Nightmare girl extended one of her syringe needles, so when Hannibal was about to stomp her, she jabbed it up and easily pierced the giant foot. Hannibal shook his paining leg and kicked Katie away, then tried to stomp Yin and Yang, but the twins simply took the disguise of a spike bed and caused Hannibal great pain when he tried to stomp on them.

“OOF! ’kay, not mah best idea. Ah, the heck with these disguises.” With that, Hannibal decided to revert into his regular bite-size form. The tiny bean hopped around the floor as Yin and Yang tried to catch him. Hannibal hopped up in front of Yang’s face and knocked his head around with several rapid punches before sliding him away. Hannibal landed on the floor, quickly leaping when Yin tried to slide and catch him. The Ying-Ying Bird soared by and caught Hannibal on its back, soaring around the air. Hannibal laughed at the kids below, then gasped when he found Katie in front of them, flying using her fly-like powers. Katie unleashed a Fear Scream at the villains, causing Ying-Ying to scream and shake, and Hannibal to fall to the ground.

Before the demon bean could recover, Luna appeared and suddenly crushed him under her foot. “And THAT’S how it’s done.”

“Great timing.” Yang said as Luna raised her foot to reveal the squashed bean on her shoe. Yang pulled the dizzied bean off and gripped the Moby Morpher parts, pulling them clear off his arms. “All right! How are you guys doing?” he asked the Toxic Trio.

“Well, it’s gone better.” Elijah yelled over as the three stood on the dragon’s back, pulling a Poison Whip that was wrapped around its mouth.

“Okay, let me try something: Moby Morpher!” Yang used the Shen Gong Wu to take the form of a ghost, flying and phasing into Matt’s belly. The ghost flew back out and reverted to normal, having the two Yin-Yang Yo-yos in hand. “Got ’em!”

“Great! Now turn Matthew back!” Yin shouted.

“Right! Moby Morpher!” The Shen Gong Wu glowed once more as Yang had it aimed at the dragon. In a matter of seconds, the Dimalanta Dragon had reverted back to his regular human form. (End song.)

“Matt!” Yin exclaimed in happiness.

“Ha ha, it’s good to have you back, Buddy!” Leo beamed, embracing his leader in a hug.

“Off me!” Matt yelled, punching Leo in the face and breaking free. “Doesn’t matter. I’ll still have all of you destroyed!”

“Uh-oh. He’s still evil.” Katie said. “We have to take him through the Yin-Yang World using the yo-yos.”

“Actually, you only need one yo-yo.” Yevrah reminded. “It’s how the effect gets reversed.”

“But whoever takes him will end up becoming evil, too.” Yin replied.

“I’ll take him.” Yevrah decided. “It’s the least I can do for you guys for helping Lehcar take a stand against our awful father.”

“You really sure about this, Yevrah?” Rachel asked, concerned.

“Who cares, just let ’im do it!” Yllaw yelled.

Yin tossed Yevrah one of the yo-yos, and the smiley-faced Negative ran over to grab Matthew’s arm as he yelled, “Yin Yo-yo!” He shot the item over and opened the portal, dragging Matt with him inside. The portal vanished and everyone stood in silence for a few seconds. But eventually, the portal shot open, and Matt and Yevrah came flying out.

“Ohhh…” the toxic leader groaned, holding his aching head.

“Matthew!” Yin excitedly hurried over and knelt beside him.

“Yin?” Matt looked at her. “What just happened?”

“Hannibal turned you into a dragon!” Elijah replied. “He brought you through the Yin-Yang World and had you turned evil.”

“You were scary!” Leo yelled.

“Hmm… I can’t remember anything. Oh well. I’m sorry if I hurt you guys.”

“Well, the good news is you’re back.” Yin smiled. “Now we can get back to finishing Ganondorf.”

“Hey, Yevrah… are you okay?” Rachel asked, calmly approaching her brother’s Negative as he stood and brushed himself off.

“I’m fine!” Yevrah angrily smacked her arm away. “Now keep your filthy hand off me! And get me some soda!”

“Ho yeah! That’s what I’m talkin’ about!” Harvey perked.

“Hmmm. Seems the Yin-Yang turned Mr. Smiley-face evil.” Hannibal smirked, riding on Ying-Ying’s back again.

“Meh, whatever. All I wanna do is get home, eat nachos, and watch some TV.” Yevrah stated smugly.

“Ahhh.” Lehcar sighed in happiness. “Isn’t he the most precious brother you’ve ever seen?”

“Uh, yeah… he’s real… sweet.” Rachel stated, scratching the back of her head in confusion.

The two heard a long groan and looked over to see Mandy recovering beside Nigel and the others. Mandy looked up to face her cousin as Rachel hurried over. “R…Rachel? Where are we?”

“We’re in Ganondorf’s castle. He was possessing your body.” Rachel explained.

“Yeah, and then Rachel had to come and save your butt!” Numbuh 4 yelled. “So, ya better be grateful!”

“Take it easy, Numbuh 4.” Rachel replied. “Mandy’s been through a lot today.”

“Got that right.” Mandy said, gripping her head before looking up at Rachel. “Still… I’m grateful for… saving my life.”

Rachel smiled. “Aww, it was nothin’. Now, how about we get to taking down Ganondorf?”

“Hold up.” the Grim Reaper spoke up, walking over with his scythe in hand. “You’ll need this.” He presented the mystical weapon to Mandy.

Mandy stared at the blade, wondering what Grim had in mind, and took it in her right hand. She stared in amazement as it began to glow with a golden light. “W…What’s-”

“The Scythe of Light.” Grim spoke. “By feeling undying gratitude towards Rachel for saving your butt, you are able to awaken the true power of light within.”

“Hehe, MANDY has undying gratitude towards me?” Rachel chuckled.

“N-No I do not.” Mandy refuted. “You must have got this light from the Spirit World or something!”

Up on Spear Pillar, the Sacred Light’s chest was still open.

“Ah, quit hiding it, Mandy.” Nigel smirked. “You can’t keep your true feelings hidden under that Scare Stare forever.”

Mandy only looked at Rachel with a light smile.

“Hnn!” Hannibal smirked, flying on Ying-Ying closer to Ganondorf, who still sat on his throne and gripped his torn chest. “You c’n always count on the good guys to make the cheesy endings. Heh he—OOF!” Before he knew it, the bean was clapped trapped between Ganondorf’s palms. “Hurr!” He struggled to pull himself out of Ganon’s folded fingers. “H-Hey! W-What’re you-” Hannibal got a frightful look from Ganondorf’s grinning visage. “WAAAH!” The Dark Lord tossed him up high, and Bean plummeted straight into Ganondorf’s open mouth as his teeth snapped shut.

Everyone’s mouths dropped with shock as Ganondorf proceeded to powerfully chew the bean, the grin still plastered on his face as his teeth swished back and forth. “So it is true… You really are the Hero of Time. Reborn.” Ganondorf spoke to Rachel. “You’ve made quite the fight. But it’s over for you now. My powers have returned. The blood of demons… calls within me! Know the real darkness that is… LORD SATAN!” He shot his head up, eyes glowing with evil fires.

“RACHEL, WATCH-” But Nigel was too late as Ganondorf released a powerful beam that exploded before Rachel, sending her flying and screaming miles away from the castle. “RACHEL! Quick, everybody in the-”

“C.O.O.L.-B.U.S.! HA! I said it first!” Eva exclaimed.

“JUST GO!!” Nigel pushed his cousin forward as everyone piled into their ship. The 2x4 bus hurriedly shot away from the throne room as the castle already began crumbling with Ganondorf’s rising power.

Meanwhile, Violet and Scarlet were still clutched in Helmaroc King’s talons, trying to shake away as the humongous bird carried them. “Uugh! Let GO of me, you stupid bird!” Scarlet demanded and shook.

“Oi! Beakface!” The large bird directed its attention to Marine, the chipper raccoon hovering around in her spaceship. “Fresh raccoon ON THE menu today, COME and get it!”

The King’s eyes widened at the tasty-looking raccoon, speeding right after her at high speed. Marine dodged her ship left and right to avoid Helmaroc King’s snapping beak. After a while of chasing, the tremendous bird ended up coming face-first with the wall of Ganon’s castle. “Ha! Moi piloting skills are better than a BIRD’S!” Marine exclaimed.

As a result, Violet and Scarlet were dropped from the talons, and Marine quickly flew down to land them on her ship. They watched the C.O.O.L.-B.U.S. soar away from the castle and chased after it before the bird regained consciousness. “The wheel is mine!” Yevrah yelled, fighting with Harvey over the steering wheel.

“No, I’m driving!” Harvey fought back.

“I’m a better driver!”

“It’s my ship!”

“It’s Sector V’s ship.”

“So, it’s mine!”

“LET GO! UGH!” they both whined.

“WILL YOU TWO STOP IT?” Hoagie yelled, pushing both away. “I’m the pilot here.”

“Pfft. Fatty.” Harvey called him.

“Lardo.” Yevrah followed.

“GRRR!” Hoagie grit his teeth in anger and annoyance.

“Just focus on driving!” Nigel ordered. “We have to find Rachel!”

“Look! There she is!” Patton pointed outside a window.

“Yeah, and she’s riding…” Numbuh 5 began, looking a little surprised.

“HUH??”

When Rachel awoke, she found two pitch-black dragon wings flapping on her left and right. She looked down and found she was riding atop a familiar black-silhouetted dragon. “F…FATHER??”

“E-yep. Probably the last time I’m gonna be savin’ your butt, Kid.” The Uno dragon told her.

“But don’t worry.” Rachel looked behind and saw Monty Uno riding with her. “We’ve got your back.”

Rachel then saw Grandfather flying beside their right, and Chancellor Cole on their left as they were facing ahead at the castle. In a matter of seconds, the entire fortress crumbled as loud, demonic screaming was heard. The Demon King referred as Demise erupted from the fortress, flaming orange hair, vicious blood-red eyes, sleek black skin and gray chest, and a raven-black cape blowing behind as he wielded the massive Satan Sword in his right hand. Rachel heard a bird’s cry and looked to her right to see none other than the Crimson Loftwing from Skypia. She hopped off of Father’s back and took land on the Loftwing’s, soaring ahead.

“’Guess we’ll get in the mix, too.” Mandy decided, hopping out of the ship’s window and using Grim’s scythe like a broomstick to fly. The operatives looked to see Helmaroc King crying and flying towards them, but Lehcar shot out of the ship and landed on the bird’s head. The big bird shook a little as Lehcar pulled against its hair.

“That’s more like it.” The Negative smirked. “Now let’s start pecking on Ganondorf’s cheeks.”

“Uno Family:” Grandfather announced to his bloodline allies (and Cole), “give him Hell!”

“YEEAAHH!” The legions of demons cheered down below and charged toward the gargantuan demon. (Play “The War’s End” from Kid Icarus: Uprising!)

Boss fight: Demise

“So, you fools think you have a chance against me?”

“Look who’s callin’ who a fool, Ganondork!” Rachel retorted, flying at high speed on her bird.

“I’ve had it with your prattle! Now DIE!” Rachel rapidly dodged around and fired Light Arrows as Demise began unleashing beams of fire, and the Demon King tried to shield himself as the Unos were shooting flames at him from all directions, and Mandy was shooting light rays from her scythe at his head, but the demon’s tremendous figure made him easy to hit. “Geh. You put up quite the fight, Rachel.”

“Don’t blame me, you’re so fat.” Rachel retorted again before shooting arrows at his eyes.

“HEH! You can be awfully cute, Rach! Though that doesn’t mean I won’t SQUASH YOU LIKE AN ANT!” Rachel hurriedly rolled her Loftwing out of the way before Demise’s fist could come into contact with them, and ended up getting stuck in the ground. “DAMN IT! MY ARM IS STUCK!”

“Let me assist with that!” Cole declared, unleashing white strings from his fingers to grab the King’s wrists, then started pulling his fist in to repeatedly punch the demon in the face.

“Mind if we cut in?” Hoagie called from his ship as they flew behind and started shooting lasers at Demise’s bent-over butt. Lehcar smirked at this as she flew the Helmaroc King down and took a powerful bite out of the rear.

“YOOWCH!” Demise leapt into the air and came back down with a thud, then observed his free hand. “There! All better!” He tried to swing his powerful blade at Lehcar’s bird, the Helmaroc rapidly dodging as Rachel and Mandy shot more light rays from their weapons behind his head. Demise tried to swat them, but the Father Dragon shot down and snapped its teeth on Demise’s crotch. “YAAAH!” After shaking them away, Demise growled in anger and started spinning in a hyper-fast pitch-black tornado, the heroes trying to fly away as they were being sucked inside.

“WATCH OUT FOR THAT TWISTER!” Monty yelled.

“YA THINK?” Mandy and Rachel cried. Despite their efforts to pull away from the twister, the two ended up sucked inside. Rachel and her Loftwing companion were separated as Rachel was flung miles away, but the hero was thankfully saved by her loyal horse companion. “Phew! Thanks, Epona!”

“GYAAH!” Demise roared to the heavens and crouched down, taking the shape of a demonic bull with horns.

“WHOA!” Rachel yelped, Epona dashing across the fields at high speeds as the enormous bull began to give chase. The demon began zapping laser rays from his eyes, so Rachel held up the Mirror Shield to deflect all the rays back at his face.

“For a gigantic bull, he sure moves fast!” Sonya exclaimed.

“Kind of like watching an elephant sprint.” Harvey said.

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Well, people, it’s sad to say, but here is the final chapter of this grand saga. Well, second-to-last. The final showdown against Ganondorf is here. With just this one remaining stage, and Rachel’s destiny upon her, the grand finale is in our reach.

Chapter 80: Ganon Reborn

Rachel and Lehcar held tight to Epona’s back as the Underworld Castle was merely miles away. “I’m curious about something, Rachel.” Lehcar spoke. “Why didn’t you slay Ghirahim during that first battle? You clearly have no problem with slaying the lower-level minions. Was it because your morals kicked in, or…?”

“Eh… I dunno… it just felt a little too… easy.” she replied simply.

“Ahaaa.” Lehcar smirked. “So, you don’t take well to killing things unless they provide a challenge first. Seems like BOTH of us are rubbing off on the other.”

“Well… I will admit, I get a thrill with slaying enemies. But it’s totally different from your way. I get a thrill with bringing peace and justice to all the kids in the world. You only destroy things just for the heck of it. That’s totally different.”

“Ah, yes, always the goody two-shoes. I suppose Link felt the same way in his time. But surely you don’t slay things without the teensiest little thrill of seeing enemies fall before you?”

Rachel glanced at her Negative and gave a slight mischievous smile. Lehcar smirked back before the two faced ahead at the incoming castle. As they were just outside the drawbridge gates, surrounded by a magma moat, the two disembarked the horse, and Rachel patted Epona in thanks as the two looked up at the tremendous, impending castle. Dark-red clouds circled the heavens, releasing purple lightning. “Funny thing is, we didn’t have to do much here the first time.” Rachel said.

“That’s because the stage designers at that time were lazy.” Lehcar retorted. The two girls laughed.

“Okay, let’s get going.” Rachel chuckled. “It’s only a matter of time before Ganon absorbs Mandy’s soul completely.” (Play the “ZREA Tower of Spirits” theme from Zelda: Spirit Tracks!)

Stage 62: Castle Hell

Mission: Locate Ganondorf and stop his demonic reign once and for all!

Act 1

The two girls crossed the drawbridge and entered the castle’s dead courtyard. The front entrance seemed protected by a massive wall of fire, so the girls went around toward the right. As they were about to enter a door to the next-door courtyard, a barrier surrounded them, and a squad of Bokoblin charged in wielding swords. Rachel rapidly performed spin attacks to knock them away, and Lehcar jumped in the air to kick purple flames at them. In a matter of moments, the barrier disappeared when the enemies were gone. “Hey, I thought you didn’t have your powers, anymore?” Rachel said.

“Seems my anger for Ganondorf has revived it a little. I guess rage really does pay.” She shrugged. The two proceeded to enter the door, and ended up in a Bulblin archery field. The masked demon riders got onto their Bullbos and rode around the field, shooting tons of fire arrows their way. Rachel held up her shield in defense while Lehcar skied out, tossing purple flames at the Bulblin and knocking them off the demon bulls. Lehcar then proceeded to hop on one of them, burning the bull a little so that it charged, and she controlled it to make it ram through the Bulblins and all of the fences set up to block their path. Rachel hurriedly ran after her Negative, seeing Lehcar jump off before the Bullbo rammed the wall far on the other side. When Rachel made it to her side, the two noticed six pillars with crystal switches on them. They all seemed to make a Triforce design, with three of them more spread out away from each other, and the other three closer together.

Rachel tossed her Boomerang around randomly to hit the switches, but they seemed to switch back to normal. “Dang it. There’s always a certain order.”

“Hey, what’s this?” Lehcar asked, noticing a pile of dead leaves on the ground. The Evil Princess burned the leaves, revealing what appeared to be a picture of the Triforce, drawn with lines in a certain path. Rachel studied the lines and arrows and carefully compared them with that of the switches. Figuring out the order, she tossed her Boomerang around so that it formed the outer triangle, then the inner triangle. The order was accepted as a cage opened near to them. The two hurried over and found a lever inside, pulling it the other way. Within the castle’s front yard, the wall of fire vanished.

The girls high-fived before hurrying back to the front courtyard. They tried to get in through the front door, but unfortunately it was locked. “Oh, shyah, you can’t go anywhere in dungeons without the next door being locked. Ah well, let’s look over here.” Rachel decided as the two went into the other courtyard on the left side. This one appeared to be more wide open, but as they walked into the center, another barrier trapped them inside, and a squad of Lizalfos charged in to begin attacking.

The lizard soldiers carefully sidestepped around the girls as they tried to leap and swing their swords. Lehcar shot flames at a few of them, but others rolled behind and tried to strike her. Rachel rolled behind the Lizalfos to strike their rears, but when she stood up, a couple Kargaroks flew down and began clawing at her face using their talons. Rachel rapidly swung her blade and sliced the bird monsters, flipping away just in time before some Dinolfos sliced at her. Both she and Lehcar ran to attack the demons and took them out in seconds. After they were gone, the barrier disabled, and the two took notice of the treasure chest beside the wall. They went over to open it and found the key. Shortly after returning to the front yard, the two opened the front doors of the castle and entered.

They came into the castle’s foyer and saw several doors high up on platforms, and chandeliers hanging around the room. Once again, a barrier surrounded them when they stood in the center. The room became much darker as swarms of Miniblin began scampering over, trying to jab their pitchforks into them. The two were dangerously outnumbered, but Rachel charged up a Hurricane Spin in her sword and gave her battle cry as she zoomed around the area, slicing all the weak-boned enemies in one strike. Rachel became dizzy afterwards, so this allowed a group of Moblin to charge over and bat her several feet away with their spears. The Moblin held up their spears in defense when Lehcar began shooting fires at them, but Rachel recovered and ran behind the Moblin to slice at their butts. The pig monsters gripped their rears and bounced around in pain, so Rachel was able to strike and defeat them.

The barriers disappeared as candles lit the room from atop the chandeliers. Rachel noticed one of them hanging beside a platform and shot her Hookshot to latch onto it. Lehcar held onto Rachel as the Hookshot pulled them up. Hanging from the chandelier, Rachel slowly lowered them with the Hookshot’s chain, making them able to swing and build enough momentum before they released and fell to the platform. They entered the door and went up a couple stairs before appearing in a long, straight hallway. They hid behind their doorway as a strange, blue-cloaked skeleton being with a scythe slowly walked down the hall, aiming a red beam from its eye. “What is it?” Rachel whispered.

Fi responded, “Target locked: Reaper. Reapers are soul-carrying monsters of the Underworld who lead souls to their fates after they’ve been decided in the afterlife, be it the Spirit World, the Sanzu River, etc.. A few of them are used as guards for the Underworld Army. I highly suggest we do our best to stay out of their line of sight, or else I predict a 90% chance he will be after us, with a very high chance of defeating us.”

“Well, it’s best not to take any chances.” Rachel figured. “Let’s hide.” When they saw the Reaper turn around and begin walking the other way, the two carefully tiptoed behind it. When he was about to turn around, the two quickly ducked behind one of the gaps in the wall. The Reaper turned and walked by without a single notice of them. They made it to the end of the hall, going up a staircase that led them to what appeared to be the central chamber. Before them was a tower in the very center, surrounded by a dark barrier. The barrier was connected to what appeared to be four different-colored beams connecting to rods above doorways.

“A report, Master.” Fi began. “The door in the tower ahead appears to be the entrance to Ganon’s Tower. However, judging by the field of darkness encasing, I project we will not be able to continue unless we do something about it.”

“No duh, ya dumb spirit.” Lehcar stated snarkily.

“Lehcar…” Rachel glared.

“However, I presume if we do something about the four connecting generators, there is a 5% chance the shield will last.”

“’Guess that’s our cue. But man, what’s with all these final stages having trial rooms?”

“Eh, it is the last stage.” Lehcar shrugged.

“Good point. Alright then, let’s do this one first.” Rachel decided, leading them through the door the red beam was going to. They ended up in what looked to be a replica of the Groudon Volcano. “Hey, I remember this place. This was back when we first met Meta Knight. Ahhh, the memories…” Rachel sighed. “Where is Meta Knight, anyway?”

Rachel noticed the bomb flower attached to the stem of an unstable sphere-shaped boulder and fired an arrow, exploding the ball off its perch. The ball rolled over, and the girls carefully stepped on, using the ball to balance and roll their way across the magma. They noticed some Fire Toadpolies sticking out of the lava, but the two were able to roll the ball over and crush them. They noticed a lava geyser reaching up to a higher ledge, so when it sunk back down, the two rolled the ball on top of it, jumping off after it raised them higher. They trekked through a small cave, finding a small area with a glass wall, overlooking a deep chasm of lava, with geysers shooting out. There appeared to be a tiny hole just below the wall, and a tiny trail leading down to a crystal switch. On their right was a door, but it was closed with bars.

“Hmm. Shame we didn’t bring the bug.” Lehcar said.

“Well, maybe this should help.” With that, Rachel pulled out her M.A.R.B.L.E. bag and rolled one of the tiny explosives down the track, but it exploded on contact of one of the geysers. “O-kay. Wait for them to go down.” she decided. Once she knew the end geysers were low enough, she quickly rolled another M.A.R.B.L.E. down before the front geysers came back up. The bomb exploded on touching the crystal switch, making the door open. The two opposites smiled and high-fived each other before entering the door. Inside was a ball of dark energy, surrounded by the red beam. Rachel drew out her Light Arrow and took aim, shooting and destroying the generator.

At that instant, the girls were swallowed up by light and teleported to the central room, watching as the red beam disappeared. With that done, they decided to enter the door that had the yellow beam. As Rachel suspected, they were taken to a remake of the Sun Temple. “Aww, I remember this place! Those robots were adorable. Sure do miss ’em.”

“Who cares, let’s keep moving.” Lehcar demanded. They passed over the quicksand and went across the broken treadmills before arriving at a door that brought them to a long, thin hallway, the same one Rachel remembered. And as she remembered, the floor tiles started rising to the ceiling, so the group had to be quick. But instead of a switch being on the ceiling, there was an eyeball switch on the wall, so Rachel quickly shot it to make the door open. Another difference was the door was on a higher point now. Rachel noticed a Hookshot target and grabbed onto Lehcar as she shot the Hookshot to pull them up.

Within the next room, next to them was a key, and the door was on the other side of an even longer hallway, with a maze of spikes. When Rachel picked up the key, spikes emerged all over the ceiling, and the girls dashed through the spike maze as fast as they could when the ceiling slowly began to sink down. Looks of fear shone on their faces as the ceiling was coming close to crushing them. But thankfully, they were able to reach the door and open it before they were squashed. They found the generator that was surrounded by yellow energy. Rachel took out her Light Arrow and fired, taking it down.

They warped back to the central chamber as the yellow beam vanished. Next, they went into the room with the white beam, finding their selves in a replica of Sky Pillar. “Sigh… this place. Wasn’t really too fond of this stage, though, but the scenery was nice. Why did Ganondorf wanna come here again?”

“I dunno, somethin’ about being pissed at the Sky God.” Lehcar shrugged. The two found a stairway and decided to head up the tremendous pillar replica. They found one of the balloon-crystals and grabbed on, letting the floatable take them up higher. They had to swerve to the side as flames came out of the walls, and Rachel swung her blade to keep away Keese that were trying to bite their balloon. When at the top, they kicked off onto the ledge and noticed a Peahat trail leading high above them. As they used the Hookshots to get higher, they noticed the ledge at the end had flames surrounding it. They also noticed some crystal switches in the wall, so Rachel tossed her Boomerang to hit them, deactivating the fires.

After getting to the ledge, they entered a door and found the dark ball surrounded by white energy. Rachel fired the Light Arrow and destroyed the generator, being transported to the main room. The beam of whiteness disappeared, and the girls proceeded into the final room with the green beam. Inside was a replica of the Tree of Beginning. “Ah, this place was pretty nice. Those Minish guys sure were cool. I’d like to see more of them.”

“You mean that tribe of bugs that Father told me about? Yes, they were fascinating creatures. Fascinating to see squished under my feet.”

“Uh-huh. You love torturing bugs, don’tcha?”

“It’s a habit. I like stepping on things.” The two walked up a short hill to a higher point, where Rachel shot arrows at some large crystals on the ceiling to make them drop and stick to the ground, allowing them across. They went up another hill on the other side and entered a door to the outside area. Various large crystals stuck out of the wall as they led upwards, each of them having Hookshot targets, so the two used the Hookshots to make their way up higher. Along their way up, some Nejiron dropped down from above and tried to hit them, but the girls were able to avoid as they reached the balcony up top. Once up there, a couple of Aeralfos flew into the area and hovered around the balcony.

They both kept an eye on each of the Aeralfos as one of them launched down at Lehcar, but the Negative dodged and grabbed its sword hand, spinning it around before tossing it against the wall. The other one held its shield up at Rachel, but she shot her Hookshot to pull the monster in, then proceeded to deal away at it using her sword. Eventually, both Aeralfos were defeated, and the door opened before them. They entered inside and heard the sounds of the generator, but, no generator. Rachel felt a shadow loom over her, and quickly jumped out of the way when a Wallmaster hand tried to grab her. Rachel immediately stabbed the hand demon and took it down. Afterwards, the two proceeded to the wall ahead, feeling around and noticing the wall was fake. They phased through the fake wall and found the generator. Rachel took out her bow and arrow and shot the Light Arrow straight at the ball of darkness.

The two were transported back to the center room and watched as the green beam disappeared. With all beams shut down, the force-field spiraled around out of control before exploding and vanishing completely. As the two stood before the entrance to Ganon’s Tower, Fi came out and spoke, “Come, Master. Our foe awaits.”

“Okay. Let’s go.” And with a serious nod, both girls stepped into the entrance to the tower. (Play “Ganon’s Tower” from Ocarina of Time!)

Act 2: Ganon’s Tower

The sounds of a powerful pipe organ could be heard echoing throughout the tower. Inside the first room, a couple of Keese flew around, but Rachel swat them away with her sword when they got close. They heard the squeaking sounds of rats, and the two suddenly felt their selves be covered by something, slowing them down. Lehcar alit with flames and burned the Ghoul Rats off of her, while Rachel took them out with a spin attack. Afterwards, the duo hurried up the stairs and entered the door to the next room, where two Lizalfos and two Dark Lizalfos ambushed them. Rachel ran to slash at one of the Lizalfos as it defended with its stone arm, easily stabbing under the arm to take him out.

The other Lizalfos punched Rachel away, only to be burned by Lehcar, but the Negative became poisoned by one of the Dark Lizalfos. Rachel aimed her Light Arrow to shoot the Dark Lizalfos, then quickly back-flipped to dodge the other Lizalfos. She threw a few swings and defeated the Lizalfos, then focused on the other Dark Lizalfos. The dark-blue lizard tried to swing its tail, but Lehcar was able to grab it and set it on fire. The lizard monster ran around with his tail on fire, allowing Rachel to hurry over and stab it. With the monsters defeated, the girls hurried up the stairs to the next floor. A bunch of Chu-Chu blobs dropped down from the ceiling, but Rachel was easily able to wipe them out with a few spin attacks as they made their way up.

The next room was protected by a couple Stalfos, and also had a treasure chest surrounded by fire in the center. Rachel went to battle one of the skeleton soldiers, who held its two blades ready in defense. When it tried to strike, she ducked and quickly slashed back, easily taking it out. Lehcar swiftly avoided blows from the other Stalfos as Rachel tapped its shoulder from behind. When it turned to face her, she smirked and tossed a M.A.R.B.L.E. into its mouth, and his eyes widened with fear as the skeleton exploded instantly. When the monsters were gone, the flames surrounding the chest died out.

Rachel curiously walked over to open the chest, and inside was a mysterious red shield with a mirror design on the front. She pulled the shield out as the two studied it. “Hey… is this-”

Fi jumped out to report, “Master, I have information to report: the object you hold in your hands is none other than the Mirror Shield, one of Link’s most valuable weapons in slaying Ganon. It is the 3rd of Three Sacred Treasures of Hyrule you hold in your possession, along with the Light Arrow and Master Sword. With all three of these weapons, your chances of defeating Ganondorf have increased dramatically.”

“So you’re basically an unstoppable arsenal now.” Lehcar smirked.

“Yeah, I guess I am.” Rachel said, studying her cool new shield.

“As the name implies, the Mirror Shield can deflect light, and other kinds of energy. Use this to your advantage when necessary.”

“And seeing as this is basically the end, there won’t be much need.” Rachel figured. The two continued their way up the tower, the stairs now guarded by a bunch of Redeads. Rachel noticed the rays of light coming out of the wall and used the Mirror Shield to reflect the rays into the zombies, stunning them and allowing Rachel to start slicing them. In the next room atop the stairs, a squad of Poe ghosts drifted around the room. The intangible ghosts tried to whack the girls with their lanterns, but Rachel stood in the rays of light coming from the wall and shone them on the ghosts. The ghosts became tangible again, and Lehcar proceeded to burn and finish them off.

They entered the next staircase where the stairs were aligned with a bunch of Beamos. The robotic eyes took aim at the kids and zapped lasers, but Rachel easily deflected the beams using the Mirror Shield and shot them back, destroying the robo totems. They made their way into the next room of the tower, where three Darknuts guarded the doorway. The heavily armored demons took notice of the girls and slowly approached with their swords raised.

Rachel flipped and ducked to avoid the first one’s swings, running forward to deal quick blows against his armor. She hurriedly dodged the swings from the other soldiers as Lehcar charged up a jolt of lightning, shooting and dealing heavy damage against the armed demons. Rachel sheathed her blade as two of the demons approached, performing a Mortal Draw to knock off much of their armor. She sheathed her blade as they approached again, unleashing another Mortal Draw, continuing to repeat this tactic until all of the armor was gone. With no armor to slow them down, the demons ran forth and rapidly swung at the blonde hero. Rachel raised her Mirror Shield in defense and used Shield Bashes to make them wobble backward, allowing her to stab away at the unguarded beings. Lehcar kept avoiding strikes from the other Darknut and got behind him, shooting lightning at its rear. Eventually, all the armor was knocked off of him, and she had to dodge even faster as it began throwing rapid swings. Rachel saw this and charged behind the Darknut, stabbing at his back until he was taken out.

The two entered the next door and continued their way up what appeared to be the final staircase, much longer than all the others, and decorated with a red carpet, as the sounds of the pipe organ grew louder and louder. Just at the very top of the stairs, the girls gasped in horror when two Ornes suddenly appeared in their way. The floating, fiery skulls roared with the misery and sadness of hundreds of souls inside their form. One touch from the soul-eating skulls would be their demise. Rachel showed no more fear against the horrid skulls and put on a fierce look of determination. The Supreme Leader drew out her Arrows of Light and took a steady aim, piercing both of the skulls straight through and causing the Orne to be swallowed inside the light.

“Ah-halright! Not bad, Rachel!” Lehcar cheered.

“It’s a living. Now then… are you ready to make Ganondorf share the fate of all these other fools?” Rachel smirked.

“Yes.” Lehcar smirked. “I am.” With that, both girls entered the massive door before them, and into the top area of the castle.

The sounds of the organ boomed even louder in their ears. They stood atop the balcony at the very top of Castle Hell. The duo looked over the edge, having a vast, marvelous view of the ruined wasteland below. From there, it was easy to observe what destruction had come to the land. The girls looked up and gasped when the Helmaroc King suddenly flew down beside their balcony. The massive bird gave a cry and looked like he was about to attack them. But before it could, some lasers shot down from above. They all looked up as the C.O.O.L.-B.U.S. was flying down from the heavens, zipping past the evil bird as it gave chase. “What are they doing here?!” Rachel exclaimed.

“Hey, they just made it a bit easier for us.” Lehcar told her. “Leave old Big Bird to them. We have a much bigger bull to wrangle.” Rachel exchanged a serious glance with her counterpart and nodded. The two looked to the double parallel stairs just beside them, leading up to the source of the organ’s sound. The two went up separate stairs and reunited at the top. They stared into the massive chamber before them, the Dark Lord himself sitting at his throne and rapidly pounding his fingers against the pipe organ’s keys. They slowly entered the throne room, Lehcar holding flames ready in her hands, and Rachel readying her Master Sword and Mirror Shield. They glanced down at the fallen angel statue head beside them near the entrance as they kept walking. Once halfway across the room, they stopped and gasped at seeing the unconscious Mandy cuffed into the Triforce statue above the organ.

Their attention focused back on Ganondorf, the Dark Lord continuing to play his organ. He looked just like Davy Jones doing that. Not to mention he was currently missing his heart. After a few more moments, the Dark Lord ceased the loud music, and sat in his throne quietly. (End song.)

“For many eons… I have lived. Reborn in this world from generation to generation.” The two girls just stood there, but kept their guard raised. “I had known what my purpose was from the very beginning. Ever since before I lay my hands on the sacred golden triangle. Even before I met… him.”

Ganondorf calmly closed his eyes. “I’ll never forget him… That…That SHINY golden hair and… beastly blue eyes. And garb more green than the vast fields of Hyrule itself. And a heart…a heart could never be so strong. So pure. He had fought like no man or demon I have ever encountered. Nor in any other time after that. For every time I had risen from the depths, every time that boy had been reincarnated in an endless cycle… his strength had proved no bounds. I had first known Link when he was just a simple little child. And he has become a fine man… The perfect nemesis.” The Evil King turned in his chair and opened his eyes. His dark-yellow eyes glared tight on Rachel T. McKenzie. “And now… look what the heroic Link has come to. A tiny little girl… who can’t help but dig her face in that cheesecake of hers.”

“Hey, I’ll have you know that cheesecake is a plentiful-”

“Silence!” He slammed his fist, slowly standing up. “The Link I had faced in the past was strong. Every lifetime I return to, I always look forward to gazing upon those blue eyes of his. And now… all I have is a simple little girl. Am I supposed to fear someone who can never miss a single second of her favorite television show?”

“Dr. Time-Space is a good show…” she mumbled.

“It truly is laughable… and ironic all the same. Where Link’s ancestry has come. But what I find more ironic…” he turned his attention up at Mandy, “is where the bloodline of Princess Zelda has ended up. The once beautiful, vibrant spirit of the golden-haired goddess… reduced to this. Her soul even now is very tangy to taste. And yet… even more ironic than that…” his eyes focused on Lehcar, “is how I was responsible for creating the newest incarnation of Link itself. And that I had given birth to a counterpart so equal in her skills… that she ended up betraying me.”

“Yeah, yeah.” Rachel said. “Are you gonna keep going with this monologue? Or are we actually gonna battle.”

“Hehe…” Ganondorf grinned. “Impatient as he was, I see. So desperate to save his pitiful world. You’re just like the King of Hyrule. And all those worms that stood beside him. Don’t you see? All of you…” The dark man whooshed his arm in an angry fashion. “YOUR GODS BETRAYED YOU! In the olden days of Hyrule, it was the gods’ plan to wipe away and leave only small fragments of your kingdom! That time has come again!” Ganondorf calmed down a little, and sighed quietly as he stared at his open right hand. “I never believed it at first… but I know now.” He clenched his fist tight and shook it as he looked to the heavens with a fierce look. “I truly am the Devil reborn as a mortal… placed on this earth to continue on his will. And it is my destiny to redeem the mistakes made by the Uno Family, and remake this world. A new world order… that shall finally bring peace to all beings. Peace… within darkness.”

“HA ha!” Lehcar only laughed cockily. “Such big talk for someone with literally no heart! But if that new peace is really what you want… then I will risk everything to STOP IT!”

“HEH heh! Poor, poor Lehcar… you forget your place. You may be as defiant as your Positive… but you are part of me. You were created from my blood. And I… am your FATHER!” He threw his hand open at her.

“HNNGH!” Lehcar grunted when she felt her waist area suddenly squeeze. Rachel looked in shock as Lehcar fell on her knees. “OHH.” she gasped, now on her hands.

“STOOOP!” Rachel demanded.

Ganon only chuckled. “You really are unlike your Positive, Lehcar. You’re weak… submitted to the will of another. I’ve never seen anyone so pathetic.” The Dark Lord waved his arm around, and Lehcar flew around the room in mimicked motion. When Rachel ran up the carpeted stairs to attack him, the Dark Lord poofed into a cloud of black smoke just upon her strike. She looked confusedly, then back at Lehcar after hearing her drop to the floor with a thud.

Rachel focused back to Ganon as the black cloud shot up and went straight into Mandy’s body. Mandy’s form shook a little upon his entry, and the ropes that shackled her came loose as Mandy’s body slowly drifted down. Rachel kept her sword raised as Mandy gently landed on her feet, her eyes still closed and her head still down. When Rachel carefully moved her face closer to Mandy with a curious look, the demon girl shot her eyes open at Rachel, sending the hero flying away, beside Lehcar. When the both of them looked back up, Mandy stepped down the carpeted stairs and waved her hand, and Lehcar was sent flying out of the exit. When Rachel tried to run after her, Mandy set up a barrier to block her throne. She then set up another barrier to seal the exit, separating Rachel from Lehcar.

Rachel observed the orange barrier to find a way around. She heard an evil laughter and turned back, seeing Mandy approach with her sword raised. “I’ve been waiting for you, Rachel.” She spoke in a mix of Ganon’s voice and her own. “For you… yes… For the hero! Heh…” A smirk appeared on her face. “Do not betray my expectations…” The possessed child hovered in the air and readied her sword.

“Why are all my relatives getting possessed?” Rachel sighed. (Play Ganondorf’s Boss Theme from Zelda: Ocarina of Time!)

Boss fight: Ganon’s Puppet, Mandy

Mandy soared around the room and waved her sword in the air, conjuring an electric ball of light. Remembering this plenty of times before, Rachel hit and sent the ball back when Mandy tossed it, and the two began to send it back-and-forth at the other. Mandy took the hit and became stunned, but was able to quickly recover and dodge out of the way before Rachel shot her Light Arrow. Mandy teleported behind Rachel and erupted a Fear Scream, stunning her. Mandy warped in front of her and dealt a few strikes with her sword, knocking her against the barrier. When Rachel recovered, she saw Mandy fly into the air again. The fearbender charged another electric ball in her sword and sent it at Rachel. Once again, the two ended up swatting the ball back at the other, and Mandy took the hit at the end. Rachel quickly drew out her bow and fired a Light Arrow, giving Mandy a shock that caused her to drop to the ground.

Rachel tried to strike Mandy, but she flipped back and ran to rapidly swing her sword at Rachel. Rachel held up her blade in defense before leaping above Mandy and striking the back of her head to knock her away. Rachel sheathed her sword as Mandy stood back up, and when the younger cousin ran to strike her, Rachel performed a Mortal Draw and quickly struck back. Afterwards, Mandy flew into the air again and conjured another electric sphere, sending it at Rachel, but when Rachel knocked it back, Mandy simply dodged out of the way. The demon child twirled her sword around and released a barrage of Fear Spheres, in which Rachel held up her Mirror Shield to absorb all of the attacks. Afterwards, Rachel released the energy right back at her, but Mandy flew out of the way. Mandy teleported and appeared right behind Rachel, looking with a glare. Rachel turned around and gasped, quickly holding up the Mirror Shield and causing Mandy to glare at herself. Mandy was stunned by her own Scare Stare, allowing Rachel to deal a few more blows against her.

Mandy repeatedly began warping and appearing on all directions of Rachel, who hurriedly aimed her shield all ways to avoid against Mandy’s fast strikes. When Mandy stopped teleporting and appeared several feet away, Rachel tossed her Mirror Shield and it bashed her on the head, bouncing back to Rachel’s hand. Mandy recovered from the dizziness and warped away again, raising her blade in the air as energy seemed to charge. Rachel looked down and gasped as a massive golden triangle was appearing below her, flipping away before it erupted a shockwave. Mandy swooped down and flew around to try and stab Rachel, but the KND leader swiftly sidestepped and rolled around her before Mandy was up in the air again. Mandy was once again charging power into her sword, releasing another energy ball at Rachel. Rachel knocked it back and began playing tennis with her again. This time the ball swerved behind Rachel and tried to hit from behind, but she quickly turned and swung behind her. Mandy kept the ball away and it kept coming at Rachel from different directions. Mandy also conjured another ball, so Rachel had to rapidly keep swinging to avoid being hit from all directions. Eventually, Rachel was able to knock one of the balls into Mandy, and after a few more quick swings, the second ball hit as well.

The possessed child fell to the ground, shaking from the painful electric waves. A dark aura was showing around her as well, so Rachel took this as her time to pull out the Light Arrow, and shoot directly at Mandy’s chest. (End song.)

“UWAAH!” Ganondorf screamed, the Gerudo man flying straight out of Mandy’s body and landing on his back as the two barriers disappeared. As the man sat up, Rachel watched as a light energy flowed out of his eyes and mouth, going straight back into Mandy. The child gasped for a breath of air before her eyes closed, and she was unconscious. Rachel hurried over to grab her before she fell down. “You… miserable…” Ganondorf panted in extreme anger, gripping his chest.

The massive cry of a bird was heard, and they all looked as the Helmaroc King crashed through one of the upper walls, taking crash-land and scraping his face along the floor as Violet and Scarlet rode on top of him. “How’s that for kitty power?” Scarlet smirked.

A bunch of demons around the outer areas saw this, and charged inside as the C.O.O.L.-B.U.S. flew in through the wall and took land. “COME ON, GUYS! SEND THESE DEMON FREAKS BACK TO HELL!” Harvey screamed as he and all the other operatives charged out to begin battling the demons.

“Lass! Are you okay?” Fanny asked as she, Patton, and Nigel hurried over beside Rachel.

“I’m fine… but what are you all doing here?”

“You didn’t think we’d let you go against Ganondorf all by yourself, did you? I mean, besides Lehcar.” Nigel said with a smirk.

Rachel gasped. “Lehcar!” They all directed their attention behind Ganondorf, where Lehcar was slowly trying to stand up. Ganondorf glanced back there and raised his right hand, and Lehcar started uncontrollably zipping back-and-forth again. He used his power to make Lehcar levitate over, and set her on her feet in front of Rachel.

The Dark Lord drew out his black sword and shot a fiery-red ray over toward Lehcar’s right hand, making the Devil’s Sword appear. “It’s time you made up for your mistakes…” Ganon spoke as Lehcar waved her sword around against her will, “and destroy your opposite.” Rachel quickly held up her blade to defend when Ganondorf made Lehcar begin rapidly swinging her sword. The two clashed their weapons against one-another before Rachel’s sword was knocked right out of her hand, sticking into the ground several feet away. Rachel gasped at this, and Lehcar shot a flame to knock her off her feet. The Negative raised her sword, the others looked in horror, and Rachel shut her eyes and awaited her impending doom as Lehcar swung the blade at her neck.

The weapon stopped just inches away from Rachel’s neck, and Lehcar gritted her teeth tight as she struggled to hold it away. “What are you doing? Finish her now.” Ganondorf demanded.

“No! Don’t do it, Lehcar!” Yllaw yelled from several feet behind her. “Come on, Lehcar, don’t listen to him. You’re the most cold-hearted person in the Negaverse. Ganondorf pretended to treat you like his daughter and then wanted to kill you. And now you’re just going to let him control you? You’re no puppet: you’re our leader! The most selfish leader to ever rule the DNK! That’s it, Lehcar. Feed your anger. Let it out, all over Ganon with all your force!” Lehcar groaned in desperation as she tried even harder to pull the sword away. Empowered by her anger towards Ganondorf, the Negative shot around and sped straight into Ganon like a rocket, stabbing the sword straight in his chest.

Ganon’s face was shocked frozen, and Lehcar pulled the blade out as the black energy flowed out of the gap in his armor and chest. The energy flowed directly back into the sword, and Lehcar proceeded to impale herself to become fueled with that energy. Feeling the powers of darkness inside her again, she pulled the blade out and prepared to strike Ganon with a dose of lightning. Before that could happen, the black dragon that was Matthew Dimalanta flew in and took land before giving a tremendous roar at the heroes. The dragon grabbed Ganon in its left hand and flew over to the throne, placing him there. Afterwards, he turned back around and roared again at the heroes.

They heard the light sounds of tiny walking and turned around to spot a familiar blue heart sneaking across the floor. “Look! It’s Ganondorf’s heart!” Rachel exclaimed. The heart curiously turned to look at them, then looked up and screamed as a rat cage dropped down from the ceiling and caught it inside.

“Haha! Gotcha, ya sneaky little bastard!” Zant exclaimed, coming out from behind one of the pillars and picking the cage up, staring at the heart.

Koume and Kotake swooped down afterwards and took the cage, flying beside Ganondorf. “Quick, My Lord. Let us reinsert this heart back in.” Koume said, shoving the heart into the gap in Ganondorf’s chest and trying to fit it inside.

“Hnneeh. Good. My powers shall return to me in moments. Keep them all busy until it happens.” With that, the Evil King snapped his fingers and reemerged the barrier to block his throne.

As Nigel, Fanny, and Patton carried Mandy outside, the barrier suddenly popped up and kept them outside. The three looked back and gasped, and Nigel shouted, “Rachel!”

“WHOOA!” Violet and Scarlet screamed when the Helmaroc King suddenly caught them in his talons, flying away with them.

“Scarlet!” Yang yelled, attempting to chase after them, but Yin held him back by his shirt.

“They can take care of their selves.” she told him. “We have to help Matthew.” The Twins, Katie, and the Toxic Trio (at the moment) focused their attention back on the hissing dragon.

“Come on, Matthew. Get a grip, man, it’s us.” Jeremiah tried to tell him as they carefully kept their guard up.

“I’M SORRY I TOOK YOUR COOKIIIEEE!” Leopold screamed.

“Yell all you want.” Hannibal said to them, flying overhead on his loyal bird. “Dragon ain’t takin’ squat from a bunch of do-goodies like you.”

“I hate to agree with the bad guy, but he’s right.” Yevrah spoke up. “Beforehand, Hannibal took Matthew to the Yin-Yang World using the Yin Yo-yo. And anyone who goes in there and comes out without both yo-yos becomes completely evil.”

“So, we have to get those yo-yos and take Matt on another trip through.” Yin summarized.

“That won’t be easy.” Yevrah said. “I saw Hannibal feed Matt BOTH of the yo-yos after they came back out.”

“Hold on, hold on.” Elijah spoke up. “I get the Yin-Yang part, but that still doesn’t explain how he turned into a dragon.”

“I know how! Look!” Lehcar yelled, pointing up at the tiny, evil bean. “Those things Hannibal’s wearing on his arms can change anything or anyone into any shape or size. The Moby Morpher! It’s probably what he used to turn Matt into a dragon.”

“So, that’s where he got it. I thought it looked familiar. Heh.” Ganondorf smirked.

“Okay: my sister, Katie, and I will try to take the Moby Morpher from Hannibal and change Matthew back. Meanwhile, you three keep Matt distracted. And see if you can get him to cough up those yo-yos.” Yang ordered.

“YYYES!” Eva exclaimed. “Finally Nigel isn’t giving the orders!”

“Oh, ha ha.” Nigel laughed sarcastically.

“So, both of us each get three people?” Hannibal asked. “Well, I guess those are fair odds. You want this Moby Morpher?” Hannibal smirked as he leapt off of his bird to the floor. “Well then COME AWN OVER ’N’ GIT IT!” The bean snapped the two parts together, and the three gaped as the tiny bean grew into a man-sized being using the Shen Gong Wu. He then decided to grow even more, and was now about two stories tall. The bean pulled his two arms apart as three more vine-arms appeared on each side, so he now had a total of eight arms. The large, demonic bean made a few stretches, and the Dimalanta Dragon roared as the kids readied for battle. (Play “Dark Beast, Ganon” from Zelda: Twilight Princess!)

Boss fight: Hannibal Roy Bean

The gigantic bean leapt into the air and came directly down on his three opponents, crushing them flat. He jumped off and didn’t give them any time to recover as he started pounding them down with his eight vines. The Toxic Trio kept their guard up against Matthew, jumping to the side as the dragon tried to snap its fangs at them. The dragon tried to swipe its claw at Jeremiah, but he rolled under and slashed his pocketknives at his stomach. Hannibal grabbed Yin and Yang in his vines and bashed the two’s heads against each other before hurling them behind Katie. Katie recovered to see this and gasped when the large bean charged toward her, quickly erupting a Fear Scream to hold him back, making him shield his ‘ears.’ “Hang on, you guys can transform, too, can’t you?” Katie asked.

“Oh, yeah,” Yang remembered.

“I guess we can.” Yin finished.

“Let’s try it!” With that, they both stacked up and switched into the disguise of a muscular figure. Hannibal furrowed his eyes at this form and readied his guard as they charged, unable to defend as the Twins started pounding away at him, shoving him straight into one of the columns and toppling it over. Afterwards, the muscular being leapt and slammed right onto Hannibal’s belly while he was down.

Dimalanta Dragon shot his purple breath at the poisonbenders, missing Leo as the Anderson child dodge-rolled and dashed right under Matthew to get behind him. The dragon turned around and roared at him, but this allowed Elijah and Jeremiah to grab onto his tail and try to climb up. Matt turned to glare at them when he felt this, and Jeremiah flipped onto the dragon’s back and ran over to slash at its head. Afterwards he leapt onto the head and grabbed his horns to force its mouth open, and Elijah took this time to conjure a Gas Bomb and toss it inside, exploding it inside Matt’s stomach.

Hannibal stood up with an angered look and used his Morpher to transform once again. He now took the shape of a large drum surrounded by smaller drums, and some floating drumsticks which had the Moby Morpher on them. The sticks grabbed the three kids and dropped them on the drums, proceeding to beat away at the drums and send them flying up in the air. Katie was able to land on the floor and sent a bunch of Fear Spheres to pound on the drums, which seemed to give Hannibal a headache. Yin & Yang then grabbed onto each other and formed the disguise of a hammer, using the pickax side to pierce through the drums.

Afterwards, the drumsticks snapped the Morpher parts together again, and Hannibal took the form of a genie lamp. The devil-red genie emerged from the lamp and began blasting the kids with lightning, turning them black with soot. Yin and Yang saw the genie lamp hovering around the room and dressed up in an Aladdin disguise, pulling out a sword and dodging Hannibal’s lightning shots as they made their way toward the lamp. They dealt a few blows against the lamp before it was shattered, and Hannibal fell to the ground.

“WOO, ho there, cowboy!” Leopold exclaimed, folding his hands over the dragon’s eyes and holding on as Matt rapidly swung his head around to shake him off. Jeremiah and Elijah both held on to a Poison Whip as it was wrapped around Matt’s tail, trying to pull the dragon back. Matt angrily shook Leo off of him and swung his tail, sending the other two flying. The dragon tried to unleash its Poison Breath upon the two, but Leo hurriedly leapt onto its head again, hanging his head upside-down in front of the open mouth and releasing a loud “BUURP!”, making the dragon begin aimlessly shaking its head around as Leo was thrown off.

Hannibal Bean stood up and now took the shape of a tiny carnivorous earwig. The three carefully stepped away as the earwig approached them, and Katie failed to smack it off when it crawled up her body and went straight inside her ear. Katie began banging the side of her head to get it out, and her eyes shot wide open as she gripped her head and began shaking it around. “AAAHHHH! IT’S EATING OUT THE BACK OF MY EYES!!”

Yin and Yang immediately shrunk and took the shapes of worms, crawling up and into their cousin’s ears. They made their way to the area behind her eyes, and Katie’s head began knocking around dizzily as the two were having a battle against the evil bean inside. Her face scrunched up when Hannibal crawled right out of her nose, followed by Yin and Yang as they reverted to normal. The demon bean held up his Moby Morpher again and took the form of a giant crab. “Sss ss ss, ssss, ssni sni.”

“Huh? A crab doesn’t say that!” Yang yelled at him.

“OOHHH-WHOOP-WHOOP-WHOOP-WHOOP-WHOOP!” Hannibal cried, beginning to skitter around just like Zoidberg, towards the trio as he was snapping his claws. The three leapt back to avoid being snapped in two, and Katie used a Scare Stare to glare into the red/yellow eyes coming out of the shell. Hannibal fearfully crouched into his crab shell, and Yin and Yang took the form of Knuckles the Echidna, using their Shovel Claws to greatly damage and shatter the crab shell. The frightened crustacean quickly skittered away and transformed into what appeared to be a Vocaloid doll.

The giant maniacal doll hovered toward them with its head drooping down, proceeding to pound away at them with its arms. The doll hovered in the air and tried to Ground Pound them, shaking the floor a little, until Katie drew out one of her nightmare syringes and swung it at the doll, creating a tear that caused some stuffing to pour out. Yin and Yang then took the shape of a cat and clawed their way into the doll, tearing it up from the inside. Eventually, Hannibal shot the two out of him and took the form of a gigantic leg with a foot.

“A foot? What’s a foot supposed to do?” Yang asked.

“Ever heard of athlete’s foot?” Katie asked, the three dodging before Hannibal could stomp them, making the ground quake some more. The Nightmare girl extended one of her syringe needles, so when Hannibal was about to stomp her, she jabbed it up and easily pierced the giant foot. Hannibal shook his paining leg and kicked Katie away, then tried to stomp Yin and Yang, but the twins simply took the disguise of a spike bed and caused Hannibal great pain when he tried to stomp on them.

“OOF! ’kay, not mah best idea. Ah, the heck with these disguises.” With that, Hannibal decided to revert into his regular bite-size form. The tiny bean hopped around the floor as Yin and Yang tried to catch him. Hannibal hopped up in front of Yang’s face and knocked his head around with several rapid punches before sliding him away. Hannibal landed on the floor, quickly leaping when Yin tried to slide and catch him. The Ying-Ying Bird soared by and caught Hannibal on its back, soaring around the air. Hannibal laughed at the kids below, then gasped when he found Katie in front of them, flying using her fly-like powers. Katie unleashed a Fear Scream at the villains, causing Ying-Ying to scream and shake, and Hannibal to fall to the ground.

Before the demon bean could recover, Luna appeared and suddenly crushed him under her foot. “And THAT’S how it’s done.”

“Great timing.” Yang said as Luna raised her foot to reveal the squashed bean on her shoe. Yang pulled the dizzied bean off and gripped the Moby Morpher parts, pulling them clear off his arms. “All right! How are you guys doing?” he asked the Toxic Trio.

“Well, it’s gone better.” Elijah yelled over as the three stood on the dragon’s back, pulling a Poison Whip that was wrapped around its mouth.

“Okay, let me try something: Moby Morpher!” Yang used the Shen Gong Wu to take the form of a ghost, flying and phasing into Matt’s belly. The ghost flew back out and reverted to normal, having the two Yin-Yang Yo-yos in hand. “Got ’em!”

“Great! Now turn Matthew back!” Yin shouted.

“Right! Moby Morpher!” The Shen Gong Wu glowed once more as Yang had it aimed at the dragon. In a matter of seconds, the Dimalanta Dragon had reverted back to his regular human form. (End song.)

“Matt!” Yin exclaimed in happiness.

“Ha ha, it’s good to have you back, Buddy!” Leo beamed, embracing his leader in a hug.

“Off me!” Matt yelled, punching Leo in the face and breaking free. “Doesn’t matter. I’ll still have all of you destroyed!”

“Uh-oh. He’s still evil.” Katie said. “We have to take him through the Yin-Yang World using the yo-yos.”

“Actually, you only need one yo-yo.” Yevrah reminded. “It’s how the effect gets reversed.”

“But whoever takes him will end up becoming evil, too.” Yin replied.

“I’ll take him.” Yevrah decided. “It’s the least I can do for you guys for helping Lehcar take a stand against our awful father.”

“You really sure about this, Yevrah?” Rachel asked, concerned.

“Who cares, just let ’im do it!” Yllaw yelled.

Yin tossed Yevrah one of the yo-yos, and the smiley-faced Negative ran over to grab Matthew’s arm as he yelled, “Yin Yo-yo!” He shot the item over and opened the portal, dragging Matt with him inside. The portal vanished and everyone stood in silence for a few seconds. But eventually, the portal shot open, and Matt and Yevrah came flying out.

“Ohhh…” the toxic leader groaned, holding his aching head.

“Matthew!” Yin excitedly hurried over and knelt beside him.

“Yin?” Matt looked at her. “What just happened?”

“Hannibal turned you into a dragon!” Elijah replied. “He brought you through the Yin-Yang World and had you turned evil.”

“You were scary!” Leo yelled.

“Hmm… I can’t remember anything. Oh well. I’m sorry if I hurt you guys.”

“Well, the good news is you’re back.” Yin smiled. “Now we can get back to finishing Ganondorf.”

“Hey, Yevrah… are you okay?” Rachel asked, calmly approaching her brother’s Negative as he stood and brushed himself off.

“I’m fine!” Yevrah angrily smacked her arm away. “Now keep your filthy hand off me! And get me some soda!”

“Ho yeah! That’s what I’m talkin’ about!” Harvey perked.

“Hmmm. Seems the Yin-Yang turned Mr. Smiley-face evil.” Hannibal smirked, riding on Ying-Ying’s back again.

“Meh, whatever. All I wanna do is get home, eat nachos, and watch some TV.” Yevrah stated smugly.

“Ahhh.” Lehcar sighed in happiness. “Isn’t he the most precious brother you’ve ever seen?”

“Uh, yeah… he’s real… sweet.” Rachel stated, scratching the back of her head in confusion.

The two heard a long groan and looked over to see Mandy recovering beside Nigel and the others. Mandy looked up to face her cousin as Rachel hurried over. “R…Rachel? Where are we?”

“We’re in Ganondorf’s castle. He was possessing your body.” Rachel explained.

“Yeah, and then Rachel had to come and save your butt!” Numbuh 4 yelled. “So, ya better be grateful!”

“Take it easy, Numbuh 4.” Rachel replied. “Mandy’s been through a lot today.”

“Got that right.” Mandy said, gripping her head before looking up at Rachel. “Still… I’m grateful for… saving my life.”

Rachel smiled. “Aww, it was nothin’. Now, how about we get to taking down Ganondorf?”

“Hold up.” the Grim Reaper spoke up, walking over with his scythe in hand. “You’ll need this.” He presented the mystical weapon to Mandy.

Mandy stared at the blade, wondering what Grim had in mind, and took it in her right hand. She stared in amazement as it began to glow with a golden light. “W…What’s-”

“The Scythe of Light.” Grim spoke. “By feeling undying gratitude towards Rachel for saving your butt, you are able to awaken the true power of light within.”

“Hehe, MANDY has undying gratitude towards me?” Rachel chuckled.

“N-No I do not.” Mandy refuted. “You must have got this light from the Spirit World or something!”

Up on Spear Pillar, the Sacred Light’s chest was still open.

“Ah, quit hiding it, Mandy.” Nigel smirked. “You can’t keep your true feelings hidden under that Scare Stare forever.”

Mandy only looked at Rachel with a light smile.

“Hnn!” Hannibal smirked, flying on Ying-Ying closer to Ganondorf, who still sat on his throne and gripped his torn chest. “You c’n always count on the good guys to make the cheesy endings. Heh he—OOF!” Before he knew it, the bean was clapped trapped between Ganondorf’s palms. “Hurr!” He struggled to pull himself out of Ganon’s folded fingers. “H-Hey! W-What’re you-” Hannibal got a frightful look from Ganondorf’s grinning visage. “WAAAH!” The Dark Lord tossed him up high, and Bean plummeted straight into Ganondorf’s open mouth as his teeth snapped shut.

Everyone’s mouths dropped with shock as Ganondorf proceeded to powerfully chew the bean, the grin still plastered on his face as his teeth swished back and forth. “So it is true… You really are the Hero of Time. Reborn.” Ganondorf spoke to Rachel. “You’ve made quite the fight. But it’s over for you now. My powers have returned. The blood of demons… calls within me! Know the real darkness that is… LORD SATAN!” He shot his head up, eyes glowing with evil fires.

“RACHEL, WATCH-” But Nigel was too late as Ganondorf released a powerful beam that exploded before Rachel, sending her flying and screaming miles away from the castle. “RACHEL! Quick, everybody in the-”

“C.O.O.L.-B.U.S.! HA! I said it first!” Eva exclaimed.

“JUST GO!!” Nigel pushed his cousin forward as everyone piled into their ship. The 2x4 bus hurriedly shot away from the throne room as the castle already began crumbling with Ganondorf’s rising power.

Meanwhile, Violet and Scarlet were still clutched in Helmaroc King’s talons, trying to shake away as the humongous bird carried them. “Uugh! Let GO of me, you stupid bird!” Scarlet demanded and shook.

“Oi! Beakface!” The large bird directed its attention to Marine, the chipper raccoon hovering around in her spaceship. “Fresh raccoon ON THE menu today, COME and get it!”

The King’s eyes widened at the tasty-looking raccoon, speeding right after her at high speed. Marine dodged her ship left and right to avoid Helmaroc King’s snapping beak. After a while of chasing, the tremendous bird ended up coming face-first with the wall of Ganon’s castle. “Ha! Moi piloting skills are better than a BIRD’S!” Marine exclaimed.

As a result, Violet and Scarlet were dropped from the talons, and Marine quickly flew down to land them on her ship. They watched the C.O.O.L.-B.U.S. soar away from the castle and chased after it before the bird regained consciousness. “The wheel is mine!” Yevrah yelled, fighting with Harvey over the steering wheel.

“No, I’m driving!” Harvey fought back.

“I’m a better driver!”

“It’s my ship!”

“It’s Sector V’s ship.”

“So, it’s mine!”

“LET GO! UGH!” they both whined.

“WILL YOU TWO STOP IT?” Hoagie yelled, pushing both away. “I’m the pilot here.”

“Pfft. Fatty.” Harvey called him.

“Lardo.” Yevrah followed.

“GRRR!” Hoagie grit his teeth in anger and annoyance.

“Just focus on driving!” Nigel ordered. “We have to find Rachel!”

“Look! There she is!” Patton pointed outside a window.

“Yeah, and she’s riding…” Numbuh 5 began, looking a little surprised.

“HUH??”

When Rachel awoke, she found two pitch-black dragon wings flapping on her left and right. She looked down and found she was riding atop a familiar black-silhouetted dragon. “F…FATHER??”

“E-yep. Probably the last time I’m gonna be savin’ your butt, Kid.” The Uno dragon told her.

“But don’t worry.” Rachel looked behind and saw Monty Uno riding with her. “We’ve got your back.”

Rachel then saw Grandfather flying beside their right, and Chancellor Cole on their left as they were facing ahead at the castle. In a matter of seconds, the entire fortress crumbled as loud, demonic screaming was heard. The Demon King referred as Demise erupted from the fortress, flaming orange hair, vicious blood-red eyes, sleek black skin and gray chest, and a raven-black cape blowing behind as he wielded the massive Satan Sword in his right hand. Rachel heard a bird’s cry and looked to her right to see none other than the Crimson Loftwing from Skypia. She hopped off of Father’s back and took land on the Loftwing’s, soaring ahead.

“’Guess we’ll get in the mix, too.” Mandy decided, hopping out of the ship’s window and using Grim’s scythe like a broomstick to fly. The operatives looked to see Helmaroc King crying and flying towards them, but Lehcar shot out of the ship and landed on the bird’s head. The big bird shook a little as Lehcar pulled against its hair.

“That’s more like it.” The Negative smirked. “Now let’s start pecking on Ganondorf’s cheeks.”

“Uno Family:” Grandfather announced to his bloodline allies (and Cole), “give him Hell!”

“YEEAAHH!” The legions of demons cheered down below and charged toward the gargantuan demon. (Play “The War’s End” from Kid Icarus: Uprising!)

Boss fight: Demise

“So, you fools think you have a chance against me?”

“Look who’s callin’ who a fool, Ganondork!” Rachel retorted, flying at high speed on her bird.

“I’ve had it with your prattle! Now DIE!” Rachel rapidly dodged around and fired Light Arrows as Demise began unleashing beams of fire, and the Demon King tried to shield himself as the Unos were shooting flames at him from all directions, and Mandy was shooting light rays from her scythe at his head, but the demon’s tremendous figure made him easy to hit. “Geh. You put up quite the fight, Rachel.”

“Don’t blame me, you’re so fat.” Rachel retorted again before shooting arrows at his eyes.

“HEH! You can be awfully cute, Rach! Though that doesn’t mean I won’t SQUASH YOU LIKE AN ANT!” Rachel hurriedly rolled her Loftwing out of the way before Demise’s fist could come into contact with them, and ended up getting stuck in the ground. “DAMN IT! MY ARM IS STUCK!”

“Let me assist with that!” Cole declared, unleashing white strings from his fingers to grab the King’s wrists, then started pulling his fist in to repeatedly punch the demon in the face.

“Mind if we cut in?” Hoagie called from his ship as they flew behind and started shooting lasers at Demise’s bent-over butt. Lehcar smirked at this as she flew the Helmaroc King down and took a powerful bite out of the rear.

“YOOWCH!” Demise leapt into the air and came back down with a thud, then observed his free hand. “There! All better!” He tried to swing his powerful blade at Lehcar’s bird, the Helmaroc rapidly dodging as Rachel and Mandy shot more light rays from their weapons behind his head. Demise tried to swat them, but the Father Dragon shot down and snapped its teeth on Demise’s crotch. “YAAAH!” After shaking them away, Demise growled in anger and started spinning in a hyper-fast pitch-black tornado, the heroes trying to fly away as they were being sucked inside.

“WATCH OUT FOR THAT TWISTER!” Monty yelled.

“YA THINK?” Mandy and Rachel cried. Despite their efforts to pull away from the twister, the two ended up sucked inside. Rachel and her Loftwing companion were separated as Rachel was flung miles away, but the hero was thankfully saved by her loyal horse companion. “Phew! Thanks, Epona!”

“GYAAH!” Demise roared to the heavens and crouched down, taking the shape of a demonic bull with horns.

“WHOA!” Rachel yelped, Epona dashing across the fields at high speeds as the enormous bull began to give chase. The demon began zapping laser rays from his eyes, so Rachel held up the Mirror Shield to deflect all the rays back at his face.

“For a gigantic bull, he sure moves fast!” Sonya exclaimed.

“Kind of like watching an elephant sprint.” Harvey said.