"Do you have any guesses as to what would be a good choice? I can try a lot of things but if there's a safer way to do things I'd prefer to do that."

"Attack its eye. And if in doubt, run. Last bomb..." Fwoomp. She hands it to him.

He waits until the Guardian is on the ground then sets the bomb to take out another rotor just in case. Then he approaches from the side that the eye weapon isn't on.

Link is scanning the surroundings and the sky as they approach. "I don't think the other one's patrol can see this spot... Good."

"Do you think we can destroy it from this side? Or do we need to go around to the side with the weapon?"

"Either one." The sword reappears as she stalks toward it.

It looks rather pathetic, stuck on the ground like this. She keeps the fat part between her and the cannon and starts smashing in the top.

He raises an eyebrow at this, hitting metal things with swords repeatedly doesn't usually work in his experience but apparently it does here. "Do you want help?"

"If you want to!"

Hitting the metal thing with the sword is having a slow but tangible effect on all the magic inside! Mostly, scrambling it into an unrecognizable mess.

This world is so weird. Zahn starts examining the exposed surfaces of the machine for seams.

Link is, in fact, aiming for those seams. She's managed to pry off one of the nacelles the helicoptor rotors used to be attached to.

It's basically just 'hit it until it stops moving' at this point...

Well he'll document as much as he can about the machine and try to pry the machine apart in hopes of seeing some of the internals before the magic destabilizes.

The internals are a dense mass of clockwork and gears. Which are magical in some way.

After enough damage is done, it crumples in on itself with a rush of purple smoke and a grinding noise, leaving behind a few gears and springs. "We killed a flying Guardian! Good stuff!"

He smiles. "I'm glad I was able to help. The internals of that thing were weird."

"I think I remember... Zelda and the Royal Guard and I studying these things... And we had no idea what we were looking at, really."

"Archeotech, that's interesting. I guess our magic kinda qualifies but we don't tend to see physical objects that qualify in our explorations."

"You mean, stuff that qualifies as lost technology? Yeah, that's only a thing because of whatever destroyed the Sheikah."

"Yeah, in our experience things like that don't tend to leave enough people alive for civilization to recover."

Shrug. "People are resilient. It was probably Ganon, honestly."

"The way your history loops is deeply weird. People talk about history repeating itself on my world but they mean it a lot less literally, or maybe just less comprehensively."

Link gives him a funny look. Like, my history is weird?

She absorbs the bits and pieces on the ground into the Slate's inventory. "Purah will want these, I predict."

"I don't really have much use for them except money and I don't need much of that."

"Right, then. You've seen the Guardians. What now?"

"I don't really have any specific priorities. I think it might be interesting to see the inside of that big flying machine, and I think I could teleport us on top of it. My overall responsibility is to evaluate this world's suitability for contact but I think I've largely done that so now I'm mostly interested in helping however I can."

"Huh. Are we 'suitable for contact'? And don't take the Divine Beasts lightly, fair warning."

"By civilians, not remotely. Escorted research teams will likely be allowed and depending on other factors we might try to intervene in the conflict cycle your world seems stuck in."