Author's note: Hi there!
... I dunno what's wrong with me. Lol. It's just that the severe lack of (IN-CHARACTER) Link/Marth fics on the site is giving me withdrawal symptoms. It's my freaking crack addiction, man, okay?
Anyway, I'll make this a one-shot for now. If it's popular enough, I might continue it. We'll see.
Now, if any of you fall into any plotholes... any at all... please let me know and I'll call in the plothole cement trucks immediately.
Lastly, the fic is based very loosely on Crash Nebula from Fairly Odd Parents. XD Enjoy!
Chapter One: House of Crazies
Link felt nervous as he approached his door. Part of him still wondered if this was all some crazy dream and he was going to wake up soon, though another part of him knew this was real. He was really attending an academy. It wasn't just your average academy, either.
He still remembered the moment when he'd first been accepted into this place. He hadn't believed it at first. It had just been too ridiculous. After finishing high school - and becoming an accomplished swordsman, courtesy of Rusl - he'd received a mysterious letter telling him that he held promise as a fighter and was invited to attend All-Star Academy for two years. What had been strange was that hadn't even applied for it. Even stranger was that the letter had told him that, if he wanted to view the place, he was to stand in Ordon Spring at a certain time on a certain day. He'd raised an eyebrow at this and assumed it had been a practical joke. When he'd told Ilia, she'd agreed with him, but he'd decided to see for himself anyway. If it was just Talo messing with him, he could laugh along and gently scold the boy, then there would be no harm done, so he'd stood in the spring and waited.
What he'd discovered next had blown his mind on so many levels. The spring had actually been used to teleport him from Hyrule to, well, somewhere and two giant floating hands had been there to greet him. After Link had gotten over his shock, they had introduced themselves as the founders - as well as the principal and vice principal - of All-Star Academy. The vice principal had been making weird finger motions and cackling creepily the entire time the principal had been talking.
It had taken him a while to believe the idea, let alone agree to it. Yet - after saying goodbye to his friends and makeshift family, promising to visit them on his first vacation - here he was, standing in front of the room that would be his dorm for the next two years. It was quite daunting.
Taking a deep breath - and tightening his grip on the handles of his wheeled suitcase and large bag - he pushed the slightly ajar door open with his elbow. Peering inside, his eyes widened considerably at the individual sitting on one of the beds. He was dressed like some form of Greek god, but the most shocking thing about him was that he had wings! He certainly didn't remember this guy from Open Day. Maybe he'd been there on a different day.
The guy looked up and beamed. "Hey there!" he said. "You must be my new roomie!"
"Uh..." Link replied, "yeah..." He put his bag on the floor and leaned his suitcase against the wall.
The guy jumped off the bed, walked over and offered his hand. "I'm Pit! From Angel Land!"
Link slowly took his hand and shook it. "Link... from Hyrule..." Angel Land? he thought in disbelief.
"Nice to meet you, Link!" He let go of Link's hand and stared at him for a second. "Hey, you have pointy ears!"
Link felt slightly self-conscious. "Uh, yeah."
"Are they real?" Pit reached over and twiddled the tip between his thumb and forefinger.
A shiver ran down Link's spine, so he quickly pulled away. "Yes, they're real..."
"Cool!"
"Are... those?" He pointed to Pit's wings.
Pit blinked. "Huh?" He glanced at his wings, then laughed. "Yeah, they're real!" He flapped them a couple of times to prove his point.
So, I'm bunking with a real angel... Link thought. Huh... First, the giant floating hands and now this. What other crazy stuff is in this school?
"Hyaaaargh!" came a two-fold scream before it was followed by a large thud.
Link whipped his head around. That scream had sounded awfully familiar. Too familiar.
"What the hell was that?" Pit cried.
The two of them ran out of their door to see what was going on. When Link saw what was in front of him, he was completely floored. There, sitting in the middle of the corridor, were two Hylians that looked a lot like him. They were even wearing the same outfit as him! One was much older than the other - and had a fairy floating by his head - and both were staring at each other as if they'd seen a ghost.
"Well, this is interesting..." the fairy said.
"What the hell...?" Link muttered.
"... Hey!" Pit said. "They look like you!"
The two Hylians turned in their direction. "Hyaaaargh!" they both screamed, pointing at Link. He could only stare back in amazement.
"Are you three related?"
"N-No... I don't... think so..."
At this point, many other residents were piling out of their rooms to see what the commotion was. He could see so many people, all of different shapes, sizes and species - some of which he recognised from Open Day - but he was mainly focused on the duo on the floor. They couldn't really be him, could they? Surely not.
"Hyaaaargh!" came another scream.
Link spun his head in the direction it had come from and his jaw fell open. There, in front of him, was another Hylian that looked like him, this one with cat eyes. He felt sure he had to be dreaming now.
"... Wow, four Links!" Pit cried. "That's so cool!"
"Your name's Link, too?" the cat-eyed Hylian asked.
"Wha-?" the older Hylian behind Link asked. "So's mine!"
"A-And mine!" the younger Link cried.
"... Oh, wow!" Pit said. "So there really are four Links! That's awesome!"
Link felt a headache coming on. Holding his head, he slowly started to amble back into his room.
"Link?" a voice asked.
Stopping, he turned around. "Huh?" he asked, lowering his hand. His eyes bulged at the person he saw standing nearby. "Princess Zelda?"
"I wasn't aware that you were also attending All-Star Academy." She glanced around her. "I... also wasn't aware that there were four of you..."
"Ooh!" Pit said. "She's a princess? Nice to meet you, milady! I'm Pit!"
Zelda stared at him for a moment, then nodded. "It's very nice to meet you, Pit. Are you Link's roommate?"
"Yes, I am! I'm also an angel from Angel Land!"
She blinked. "An... angel?"
"Yep! So, who's your roomate?"
She quickly recovered. "A fellow princess who hails from the Mushroom Kingdom. Her name is Peach."
"Oh, cool! There's more than one princess staying here!"
"Yes. I..." Zelda's eyes widened at something behind Link.
Curious, Link turned to look and stumbled in stock. Standing there was another Zelda, who was staring wide-eyed at the Zelda he knew.
"Um... hello..." the second Zelda said.
"Hello... I... take it your name is Zelda, as well?"
"Yes, it is..."
Link grabbed his aching head. What's next? he thought. Two freaking Ganondo...?
Before he'd even finished the thought, he noticed two Ganondorfs at the end of the corridor, who were sizing each other up with heavy scowls. Unable to take any more, he scurried back into his room and collapsed onto his bed, groaning. What a day this had been.
A while later, Link was packing away his belongings, his mind still on the crazy situation that he'd gotten himself into. Four Links, two Zeldas and two Ganondorfs, not to mention all the other students who were all from different dimensions. This had to be the most bizarre academy in the universe.
"Hey, what's this?" Pit asked from across the room. There was a bleep and a strange whooshing noise. "Whoa!"
Link looked up from placing underwear in a drawer. "Huh?" he asked. What he saw made him stumble slightly in shock. He suddenly got the feeling that he'd be doing that a lot in this place. "Whoa."
Pit's toga and wings had gone from being white to golden. The angel looked himself over from every angle, then looked at his reflection in the full-length mirror. "Whoa, cool! This must be the thing Master Hand was blathering on about on Open Day!"
Link blinked. "Huh?" Then he remembered. The principal had mentioned them being able to change their appearance whenever they wanted and the mechanism to do so would be in their rooms. They would all have one each. "Oh, that."
"This is awesome! I wonder how many colours there are!" He pressed the button on the remote a few more times. Each time, he changed a different colour. He laughed. "This is great!" His toga and wings suddenly turned black and his eyes widened. "Holy eggplants!"
Link closed the drawer and stood up to face the angel. "What?"
"I... I'm..." He turned to Link with an incredulous look on his face. "I'm Pittoo!"
Link blinked again. "You're... what?"
"Pittoo! Dark Pit. The dark version of me." He paused, looking himself over. He suddenly beamed. "This is so cool!"
Link smiled, giving a small sigh. It seemed like everything was cool to this guy. He glanced around, looking for his own remote, and soon spotted it. It was easily identifiable by the triforce symbol on it. Walking over to it, he picked it up and pressed the red button on it.
Instantly, his tunic changed colour. It was quite breathtaking. Never, in his life, had he ever known a device to do this. He'd only ever thought this outfit could be green, but this weird academy was breaking all the rules of physics, one after another.
"Wow..."
He pressed the button a few more times, admiring all the different colours of his tunic, until he eventually landed on black.
Pit gasped. "Oh, my God! You have a dark form, too?"
"Huh?"
Link looked at his reflection and blanched at the sight of it. This one had clearly done a lot more than simply change his tunic colour. His face was soot black and his eyes were blood red. It looked quite disturbing.
"So there's a Dark Link too, huh?"
"Uh... not that I know of..."
He quickly changed his colour back to green.
The rest of the day was spent settling in and getting to know a few of the other students on the same floor as them. Link had never been much of a people person, but was able to open up if the people he spoke to were nice. The following day, Link and Pit had to attend homeroom in another building across the campus. Entering the room, they chose to sit near one another in the middle and wait for the rest of the students to arrive.
After a while of chatting to one another, with the classroom slowly filling up, Link casually glanced up to watch the remaining stragglers coming in when his eyes caught sight of something. They widened a fraction.
A very pretty girl was parting ways with a red-haired boy at the door. The boy walked off down the corridor and the girl entered the classroom. Her scowling eyes scanned the available seats before she walked over to one fairly nearby and sat down. Link tried not to stare, but he couldn't help being captivated by the beauty of this girl. She appeared to be foreign, with delicate features, silky blue hair that ran down her neck and matching blue eyes. This was complimented perfectly by the small tiara that sat on her head, which suggested that she may be a princess. The most striking thing about her, though, was her clothing. She wasn't wearing a dress like either of the Princess Zeldas. Instead, she was wearing an outfit much like his own, except hers looked much more expensive. The cape was a nice touch, too. She was clearly a tomboy of some description. Maybe she wasn't happy with her life as a princess, or something.
Suddenly, she looked up at him. Nervous, he quickly snapped his head back to the front of the classroom.
There had been some confusion when the teacher had finally turned up. He/she/it had turned out to be what he/she/it had called a 'red alloy' and had told them that all of their teachers would be either 'alloys' or 'wire frames'. It was the strangest teacher that Link had ever seen. Then again, with the principal and vice principal being giant floating hands, he supposed it came with the territory.
When homeroom finally ended, it was time to head to his first class of the year. As he got up from his seat, he pulled his timetable from his pocket, unfolded it and looked it over. It seemed he had Brawl Theory in the Vicorage building.
"Brawl Theory, huh?" Pit asked over his shoulder.
"Yeah," he replied, starting to walk, while still staring at the sheet.
"Well, I've got Melee Practice first thing, so I guess I'll see you later."
"Yeah, I guess so."
"Oh, look out."
"Hmm?" He looked up and bumped into someone. "Oh!" He backed off. "Sorry about that." His eyes widened when he saw who it was.
The blue-haired girl from earlier frowned at him. He shrunk under the gaze.
She gave him a curt nod. "Hmm," she said. Flicking her fringe - he couldn't help notice the slight swing of her hips as she did this - she turned around and departed the classroom, her cape swishing behind her.
Link was embarrassed at the interaction, but damn, that girl was pretty. Slightly taller than him, yes, but still very pretty.
"Hey, Link," a distant voice said. "Liiiink..."
He shook it off and looked at Pit. "Huh?" he asked.
"You okay there, Link?"
"Yeah... Yeah, I'm fine."
Throughout the day, Link found that he shared a couple of classes with the blue-haired girl. This surprised and pleased him. He wasn't sure that she actually liked him at all - especially considering the way she'd looked at him that morning - but it was nice to see her, nonetheless. He was never able to find out her name, though, since she never sat anywhere near him and they simply signed the register when it came to their table. That was mildly annoying, but he wasn't going to let it phase him too much.
Eventually, when he got back to his room at the end of the day, Pit was chatting to the red-haired boy from that morning. Link was surprised to see him there.
Pit looked up at him. "Oh, hey, Link!" he said. "This is Roy!"
"Hi there!" Roy said, giving a small wave.
"He comes from some place called Pherae!" Pit turned to Roy. "Roy, this is my roommate, Link! He comes from some place called Hyrule!"
"Well, that's cool. Nice to meet you, Link."
Link smiled and nodded. "Likewise," he replied.
Pit looked back at Link. "Roy's also Japanese!" he said. "Aren't you, Roy?"
Roy answered in a strange language that Link neither knew nor understood. The only two languages he could speak were English and Hylian.
"That meant 'Yes, I am'," Roy explained.
"Oh!" Link replied.
"See?" Pit said excitedly. "Isn't he cool? He's Marth's roommate!"
The name sounded familiar, somehow. "Marth?"
"Yeah, the guy in our homeroom that also speaks Japanese!"
Link furrowed his brows, trying to remember him. "Um..."
"... Oh! Yeah! He was the guy you bumped into this morning!"
Link snapped out of his thoughts and stared at Pit. "... What?"
"You remember! The blue-haired guy who wears a tiara!"
Roy chuckled. "Yeah, that's Marth," he said.
Link continued to stare at them.
Pit tilted his head at him. "What's wrong, Link?"
Link blinked, then shook it off. "Wait..." he said, "that was a...?" He felt too embarrassed to finish the sentence.
Pit looked confused, but a sly smile appeared on Roy's face. It disappeared as quickly as it appeared. "You thought he was a girl, didn't you?" he asked.
Link felt heat rise to his face. He fidgeted uncomfortably. "Well..."
Pit blinked at him, then burst out laughing. "You thought Marth... Prince Marth of Altea... was a girl?" he asked.
Link's eyes widened slightly. "He's a... prince?"
"Yeah! I met him on Open Day! He's super grouchy and doesn't talk much."
"Yeah," Roy agreed. "He mainly talks to me 'cause I'm the only other person here who speaks Japanese." He paused. "Actually, I'm guessing that's why Master Hand made us roommates in the first place."
Link wanted to hide under a rock. That girl, that really pretty girl that he'd been admiring all day, was actually a guy?
Gods above... he thought, putting a gloved hand to his face as Pit continued to laugh, this really is the most bizarre academy in the universe...
