Chapter 7

Roy wrenched the door open and fell onto the bed.

"Bart and Young Link are dead," he said, matter-of-factly.

"Yes, we know," said Katie. "Thanks, Marth."

Marth waved his hand, shut the door, and his footsteps announced his departure. Katie sat down beside Roy.

"Where the hell have you been?" asked Katie. "What were you thinking? Going on an alien ship? Are you absolutely out of your mind? Do you know how scared I was?"

"I'm sorry," said Roy, sarcastically. "I was chasing Ganondorf and when he, Bart, and Young Link went flying into the sky. So, I thought I'd try it too just to see what it would be like. What the hell you think I was doing?"

Katie put her hands on her hips.

"Hey, I didn't ask you to run off after Ganondorf like an obsessed little kid," she replied. "In fact, I wanted the opposite."

Roy rolled onto his back and looked Katie right in the eye.

"Do you think I enjoyed myself?" he said. "I didn't ask for any of this to happen. Now we've got an alien race on our tails to kill us… and Ganondorf's with them."

"Will you forget Ganondorf now?" said Katie, resisting a strong urge to thump Roy's chest. "It's all you ever think about. Ganondorf, Ganondorf, Ganondorf! Stop!"

"Hey, I know I've got a thing for Ganondorf, but, last I checked, I had a reason to," said Roy. "Somehow, I don't think you've got room to talk! Do you know what he's doing up there?"

Katie shook her head like she didn't care.

"I suppose…" began Katie, "…do you know what he's doing up there?" asked Roy. "Giving the aliens our nuclear technology."

Katie's eyes went wider.

"Okay, okay" said Katie. "Alright! I give up!"

"You didn't do anything wrong, but I'm more then a little tired of being reproached like a little kid for being worried about Ganondorf," said Roy.

"What are we going to do now?" asked Katie. "Go kill him?"

"Probably, but not right now," said Roy. "Right now, I'm going to lie right here."

Katie shrugged.

"Me too," she said.

Roy jumped at the feeling of the bed moving as Katie laid down on it.

"Sorry," she said. "Did that hurt?"

"Yeah," said Roy. "I escaped alien torture rooms a little before we flew over the school, so I'm a little sore."

Katie knew this probably wasn't a good question to ask, but she had to know if she was right.

"Who worked the mechanics?" she asked.

"Ganondorf," said Roy, feeling Katie's entire body shake with anger

"If I ever see him alive again…" she said.

"Don't worry about it," said Roy. "I'll be fine."

"Roy…" said Katie. "Please don't take a trip to macho town."

"No, really," said Roy. "Bang my arm or something."

Katie reluctantly did. Roy flinched, but didn't scream or anything.

"And you tell us you're not really that strong?" asked Katie.

"Hmm," said Roy.

He let his arms move around her…

"Apparently I am," he said, pressing his lips to hers.

"ROY, KATIE!"

Roy slowly opened his eyes and looked around. Katie was waking up too. It sounded like it was Marth banging on the door. Roy got up, put all his clothes back on, and answered the door. It was Marth. A very red-faced Marth, breathing heavily, and holding his side.

"What's the emergency?" asked Roy.

"Big news on the alien story!" said Marth. "That wasn't Ganondorf, Bart, or Young Link with the aliens. They took a lie-detector test two and a half hours ago and it's proved they aren't lying. They were never with any aliens. They didn't even go to the dance. They were dunking Ness in a toilet, though…"

Roy blinked.

"Don't worry, they got suspension," said Marth. "Where's Katie?"

Roy looked over his shoulder. Katie was just finishing putting her shirt back on.

"She's just done getting dressed," said Roy. "Lemme tell her."

"I heard," said Katie, joining them at the door. "The question is who were those imposters?"

"The principal's guess is aliens," said Marth. "He expanded and told us it's very possible they can take on the form of another creature if they see the creature. Maybe they'd seen Ganondorf, Bart, and Young Link and decided that they'd use them as an excuse to explore earth. Lie detector results say Ganondorf, Young Link, and Bart have been experiencing long periods of time that they can't remember, so they were probably captured and copied."

Roy thought on this for a second.

"For once, our principal doesn't sound like he's on drugs," he finally said.

"They want you for questioning now," said Marth. "Just Roy, Katie."

Katie walked directly passed Marth out into the hall.

"I know they only want to question Roy, but no law says I can't at least wait for him while he's in there," said Katie.

"Tough crowd, the government," said Roy, over two hours later. "The FBI was the most hostile. But the CIA had a questioner that tried to make everything I said a lie. My arms hurt from the lie-detector cords. Katie, don't kiss the holes in my arm in public. Sorry, but there's still people dancing."

Katie got off Roy.

"What did they ask you?" asked Marth, taking a bite of a sandwich he'd made.

"What time I got on, why I turned off my cell phone, the power behind the Fire Emblem… all the things like that," said Roy. "Here's a transcript of the questioning. You two can read it, but it'd be illegal to let anyone else read it, so keep it to yourselves."

Marth's face became the comedy center of the hour for Roy and Katie as he read the transcript. Katie didn't think it was so funny when she read it, though.

"I can't believe he called you that," she said.

Roy shrugged.

"I guess they do that," he said. "Don't know why, but they do."

"I don't like that," said Katie. "Taking your Emblem like that and threatening to keep it and then almost running a search of our room."

"It'll be fine," said Roy.

Katie sighed and walked over to Roy.

"I hope they didn't hurt you," she said.

"No, they didn't hurt me… much," said Roy. "Having needles stuck into your skin hurts... Katie, I'm fine. What's up with you?"

Katie had grabbed a pistol off the table and made to leave the room. When Roy had finished asking the question, she put it down.

"I'm sorry," she said. "It's just that when you left, I thought you might've been dead, and I didn't think… well you get it."

"I'm not going anywhere, Katie," said Roy. "Anywhere at all."

Under Katie's surprisingly strong clutching, Roy thought his shirt was going to tear.

"You don't have to worry," he said. "I'll be okay."

Katie relaxed her grip.

"Just please don't ever do that to me again," she said.

"I can't make a promise," said Roy. "If I promised you and then broke it…"

Katie buried her face in Roy's shirt for a second.

"Alright, I know you can't," she said. "But, let's not worry about that anymore. Come on, let's just sleep and get ready for tomorrow. It's going to be hell so let's let the outside world be hell for now."

Roy didn't need telling twice. He fell backwards onto the mattress of their bed, pulling Katie with him. Almost as soon as his head hit the pillow, his eyes closed and he was asleep.