good evening and welcome back to- ah forget it. I've started (another) Zelda fic and another fic in general. sigh I really need to finish stories before I start new ones. okay, down to business. as all of you should know, I DON'T OWN ZEDLA! shocker, ain't it? I've read a lot of fics where a person gets sucked into the game. well what would happen if Link and Co. got sucked OUT of the game? read to find out! (tee hee. I'm evil. I don't tell! XD)
Jessica sat in front of the TV, x-box controller in hand. Her brother, AJ, stood behind her, giving her pointers.
"Turn left. No, your other left! I mean, right! NO, no, you'll die if you go that way!" AJ waved his arms around, yelling.
"Shut it, will ya? I'm at work here!" Jessica snapped, flicking at the controls. "Jeez, you're so tense when I'm playing, but so calm when you are!" AJ didn't reply.
"I'm gonna go find something to do." he said, walking off. Jessica rolled her eyes at her brother's sudden mood swings and turned right. Just as her brother said, an enemy was waiting for her and she was killed. Sighing, she flicked the x-box off and unplugged it from the TV.
"Nothing like good ol' Zelda." Jessica murmured as she took the N64 wires and started plugging them in to the back of the TV. As she reached for the last cord, she noticed it was slit, but not fully cut. It looked deep enough to cause problems, but Jessica wasn't sure. "AJ!" Jessica yelled through the house.
"What? You die like I said you would?" AJ asked, walking back into the game room with a soda.
"Shad up. One of the N64 wires are slit. Should I just cover it in electric tape?" AJ nodded without looking at the cut and walked into his room. He came out a few seconds later, holding green electric tape. He tossed it to her and she wrapped it around the wire's cut.
"Don't waste it all or not put enough." AJ said, wandering off back into his room.
"Gee, that helps a whole bunch." Jessica said sarcastically. She plugged the last wire in fully and flicked the on button on the console.
The game loaded where Jessica had last saved, Ganon's Castle. She made her way through the level, not finding very many surprising enemies considering she played the game a lot. A few minutes later, Jessica was giving Ganon his last blow. As Link and Zelda appeared in the clouds, the N64 began to rumble.
Pictures began to flash on the screen. Epona. Raru. Saria. Darunia. Ruto. Impa. Nabooru. Ganondorf. Dark Link. Navi. Adult Zelda. Child Zelda. Adult Link. Child Link. The N64 rumbled more and there was a flash of light. Then, brown, yellow, green, red, blue, purple, orange, black, black and red, light blue, two pink, and two gold balls of light shot forth from the TV screen.
Momentarily blinded, Jessica heard someone land beside her and felt someone land in her lap. A small voice groaned in her lap.
"Ugh. Navi?" the voice asked. Someone beside her also groaned.
"Who's there?" it asked. This voice was deeper, but still young. As Jessica's vision cleared, she looked at who had landed in her lap. Her mouth dropped.
"What are you doing in my house?" she demanded, jumping up and accidentally making the blonde kid in her lap fall over and hit his head on the TV screen.
"Ouch. Navi, what is that?" he moaned.
"Sorry, it's just that you surprised me." Jessica explained, scratching the back of her neck in embarrassment. "It's not every day Hylians pop out of my TV screen."
"TV screen? What's that?" he asked, sitting up. Now Jessica had a full view of his face. He looked most defiantly like the young Link.
"Umm... it's the thing you just bumped in to." Jessica replied, trying not to laugh. The young Link turned to stare at the TV and jumped back when he saw the beginning rolls of the game.
"What's that? It looks like Hyrule!" he exclaimed, backing up into someone else. Jessica and little-Link just noticed the other blonde character that had happened to jump out of Jessica's TV screen.
"And I suppose you want to know what happened?" Jessica asked them both. Adult-Link stared down at little-Link as he stared up at him. They both looked at Jessica.
"Who are you?" they asked in unison.
"Uh... Jessica. You can call me Jess, though. And you're Link and you're Link," she said, pointing to each of them. "Which is really confuzing."
"And I thought Ruto was weird." little-Link whispered to adult-Link.
"But she is right." adult-Link whispered back. Little-Link blinked, then scratched his head.
"Umm... I think I'll take you up on that what happened suggestion." he said, smiling sheepishly.
"I figured as much." Jess muttered. "Okay, all these faces flashed on this screen here and then there was a flash of light and then little balls of light jumped from the TV and then you were here."
"Wow. That explains everything." adult-Link said sarcastically.
"Well what's yall's explaination?" Jess asked, putting her hands on her hips, annoyed.
"There was a flash of light like you described, and Zelda, young Zelda, Epona, Dark Link, the Sages, Ganondorf, Navi, him, and I were all in the Temple of Time. Then we all surrounded by balls of energy that-"
"Swept you away like it does when you play teleporting songs?" Jess finished. Adult-Link gave her a searching look before nodding.
"And then we were here." little-Link added.
"What we need to know now is where everyone else is..." adult-Link murmured.
"And where you are. You guys are in a totally different time period than Hyrule. You'd be thrown into the nut house if not jail, carrying around those swords and wearing those clothes." Jess pointed out.
"And how do you suggest we fix this?" adult-Link asked.
"AJ!" Jess yelled, making little-Link cover his ears childishly. A few seconds later, AJ emerged from his room.
"You don't have to yell, my room's right here." He paused when he saw the Links. "Why didn't you tell me you and a new boyfriend and his kid brother were having an at home Zelda convention? I would have gotten out my Great Fairy costume!" AJ disappeared into his room again.
"NO! AJ, NOT THAT!" Jess shrieked. AJ closed the door to his room. Jess attempted to open the door, but thought better of it. Links gave her looks.
"Umm... That's my brother. AJ. He's... a little insecure right now," she said, scratching the back of her neck again. "It's more like every day, but hopefully you wont be here to see that..." she said more to herself than to them.
"What does insecure mean?" little-Link asked. Both Jess and adult- Link bit their lips.
"It's when..." Luckily, neither of them had to explain because AJ came out in a wig.
"I couldn't fit into the whole thing any more, but this is just the four of us, so whatever." he said as Jess sighed in relief. He went to the stereo and turned on his Zelda CD. Little-Link cocked his head.
"What's that? It's playing Saria's song! Is it some weird kind of ocarina? And what's this?" He bounced over to the computer where AJ's picture slideshow screen saver of some Zelda fanart he had found was going on. "Why am I on here? And Ganondorf on his horse? Ooh, that's me slicing a Deku Baba in half! And there's Zelda and- AH! RUTO!" He ran from the screen. "Don't let her give me girl cooties!" AJ raised an eyebrow.
"You're acting like you've never seen a stereo or computer before."
"Computer? Stereo? Who are they?" little-Link asked curiously. Adult- Link looked interested in the screensaver and stereo too.
"Don't you dudes have these things in your house?" AJ asked. Jess slapped herself for her brother's idiocy.
"No, but I-, I mean we, have a record thing on the wall." little-Link replied, smiling at adult-Link.
"And Malon gave me a cow. It takes up half the room, almost." adult- Link added. AJ's face went blank.
"And I live in a fountain and you have to play Zelda's Lullaby to get me to come out and heal you, right?"
"Um, AJ." Jess elbowed her brother. "They're the real thing." AJ burst out laughing.
"I must admit, they act enough like the real thing and their clothes are the best I've seen, but seriously, Jess, you're way out of your mind." AJ explained, not believing it.
"You're way out of capability of believing it." adult-Link countered. AJ stopped laughing and looked the two up and down.
"What happened?" Jess groaned and explained her side again, speaking really fast, the Links adding things in along the way. "Did you catch that?"
"Something about lots of light." AJ replied, scratching his head in confusion.
"Close enough. The Links are going to need to hang low for awhile." Jessica stated.
"I got the threads for Link if you got the money to buy some for Link." AJ paused. "That made no sense."
"Ugh, my brain hurts." little-Link complained, rubbing his forehead.
"Okay, okay. We'll just call adult-Link Al for now. Adult-Link only, the first two letters." Jess sighed.
"Okay, AJ, just give him some clothes and Link and I'll go to Wal- Mart or Target." Jess instructed, rolling her eyes. "And go ahead and show him the games and all that comic and fanart stuff you have." AJ nodded and the two teens disappeared into AJ's room. Little-Link sighed and cocked his head.
"Why can't I just stay in these clothes?" he asked. "And what's wrong with carrying around my weapons?"
"Um... because the police, they're like guards, and the governor, he's like a king but with a whole lot less power, think they're dangerous objects to carry around." Jess explained. Link shrugged.
"So?"
"Ya know, for a future knight of Hyrule, you sure don't take time to notice the laws." Link shrugged again.
"So?" Jess sighed, taking the sword and shield from him, putting them in her room.
"So I can keep everything else?" Link asked, perking up.
"No. I just don't want to go digging through your person to find all your junk. I'm not that weird." Jess replied.
"Okay." Link took his bomb bag of his belt, delicately placing it with his sword and shield. He then took his Deku sticks, Din's Fire, sling shot, and Lens of Truth and put it with the other stuff.
"You can keep the boomerang, Deku nuts, and ocarina. They aren't odd enough to draw attention." Jess said. Link smiled.
"Are we ready to go then?" He didn't wait for Jessica's answer and ran out the door. "So where do we go?"
"Wal-Mart."
"Where's that?"
"Down the street."
"How long will it take to get there?"
"Not long. We'll walk."
"What'll we find?"
"Clothes."
"What type? Kokiri, Goron, Zora, Hylian, or Gerudo?"
"Sorta all of them mixed together." Link cocked his head again, thinking.
"That's some odd clothing we're buying." Jess sighed. So this is why Link didn't talk. By that time they were out of Jess and AJ's apartment complex and walking down the streets of New York City.
"So what's this land called?" Link asked.
"Umm... We call it a state, but they're the same thing... I guess. It's called New York."
"Is it New because you're recovering from an Evil King like Ganondorf?"
"Um... no. I don't know why it's New. It's actually really old, if you think about it..." Jessica replied, scratching the back of her neck again. 'Jeez, by the time this is over all the skin on my neck will be scratched off.' she thought to herself.
A few minutes later the two had arrived at Wal-Mart and were searching the boy's section for anything that looked like it fit Link since they didn't know his size.
"This is nice. I always thought you looked good in red." Jess said, holding up a red shirt with a black dragon design on in. Link cocked his head again.
"You've seen me in red?"
"Al. Same thing. Person." Jess corrected herself. Link looked at her oddly, still not understanding the fact that they were the same people.
"When we get home, Al can explain it for you." Jessica told him, handing him the shirt. "Go try it on while I find some pants to go with it." Link reached for his belt when Jess stopped him. "In there." She directed him to the dressing room. "Stay there until I come back. Don't go anywhere once your done changing." she warned. Link nodded and disappeared into a stall.
"Will do!" he replied from inside. Jess sighed and went to go find him some pants. After finding some black ones, she went back over to the changing stalls.
"Link? Ya in there?" she called out, knocking on a few stalls.
"Here! Did you find those pants?" he asked. Jess tossed them over the stall door.
"Try em' on. Did the shirt fit?"
"Yeah."
"Okay, then I'm going to need that tag to pay."
"Umm... You don't have to pay." Link said from inside the stall.
"Oh, yes I do! Your money isn't the same as our money. Do the pants fit?" Link emerged from the stall. He was still wearing his hat, making Jess chuckle.
"I'll make sure to get you some green clothes so you can still wear that, but with this," She took the hat off his head and stuck it in his pocket. "No." Link sighed.
"Do I have to?" he wined.
"Unfortunately, yes. If you want to fit in, this is a no, no." Jess replied. She took the tags off his clothes. "Let's go get a green shirt and pay. Your boots will do for now." Link nodded.
"Okay then." The two went back to the boys department, grabbed a shirt and went to pay. They made it halfway down the street before Link started to ask questions.
"What are those things?"
"Cars."
"What do they do?"
"They, um... Well, you get in them, tell them to go, and steer them to where you want to go."
"Like a horse?"
"Yeah, only you don't kick it unless it breaks down."
"Does that not hurt the Car?"
"Umm... the cars aren't alive. They're machines."
"What are those?"
"They're things that aren't alive, things that you control, and things that break down a lot, and things that you have to fix all the time." Jess replied. "Did you get all that?"
"Umm, no, but okay!" Jessica sighed. This was going to be a long walk home.
Many explanations later, the two were near the apartment complex. As they passed a dark alley, Link stopped.
"What?" Jess asked, expecting him to ask what a dumpster was.
"I thought I heard someone call my name." Jess froze in fear. If someone recognized Link, then they were in deep. The only one that would recognize him would be someone from the game, namely Ganondorf. She grabbed his boomerang off his belt and stood in front of him protectively, scanning the alley.
"No! I'm a friend!" a girl's voice called out. Jessica's eyes trailed down to look at a little girl's face peering out from behind the dumpster.
"Princess Zelda? I'm sorry!" Jess quickly handed Link his boomerang back. The little girl smiled.
"That's okay. I'm sorry I startled you. I just saw a familiar face. We're getting quite lonely and confused hiding here." Zelda replied.
"We? Who's with you?" Link asked. Zelda emerged from behind the dumpster, followed by a teenage boy not much older than Jessica. She hadn't noticed the boy because he wore a black scarf around the lower part of his head and the hood of a black hoodie was up. His jeans were a faded black and had a couple of holes. Zelda herself was wearing shabby clothes. The jeans she wore were a little too big for her and the shirt had the sleeves ripped off.
"Sheik?" Jess asked, raising her eyebrows.
"How do you know our names?" he asked.
"She knows a lot of things. She sort of weird like that." Link replied for Jessica. "Me and Big Link landed in her house."
"We landed in this alley." Zelda explained. "If you know our names, then you know Sheik's true identity right?" Jess nodded. "Well, she explained why she was my older self and said she could better protect the two of us if she was Sheik. We then found some clothes in this big box-"she indicated a card board box full of clothes to be thrown away. "So we could blend in."
"I think that's pretty good for right now. But those clothes are old and torn and really not very good unless you want to fit in with the people that live in back alleys." Jess said. Link nodded in agreement.
"We just went to the store to buy me new clothes. Big Link is borrowing some of Jessica's brother's clothes." Link explained.
"Sheik, you could borrow some of my brothers clothes. And when you're Zelda, you can use my clothes. As for Zelda, we'll have to look through my attic and see if I still have some of my old clothes." Jessica offered. "That is, if you want to come. But, I highly suggest you coming with us until we find the Sages and Ganon and another place to stay."
"You seem to know a lot about us and our world." Sheik commented.
"And you know nothing of this one." Jess replied. "My brother and I can explain at my house." The two nodded and the four walked back to Jessica and her brother's apartment.
I'm really bad a t beginnings and all, but I will get better. this is going to be a little bit of comedy too, since the people from Hyrule are absolutely clueless to what our world is like. but I guess you noticed that when Little Link asked so many questions. and have you ever noticed how hard it is to describe these types of things to people? I mean, how do you describe machines to someone from the way back past? not that time travel is possible (at the moment. our world is always learning something new. how to time travel might be next.) but how do you do something like that? I mean- DUE TO THE AUTHORESS'S CONTINUING RAMBLINGS, WE HAVE BLEEPED HER OUT SO SHE MAY NOT WASTE OUR TIME OR YOURS. PLEASE REMEMBER TO REVIEW TO HER FIC, AS IT IS ALWAYS POLITE. THANK YOU AND HAVE A NICE DAY!
