Marth's POV
Mercy had been super quiet for most of the trip. After we had started talking about Roy, he seemed to have started listening.
Stepping behind Ike, I took a look at Mercy's face. It was true, his eyes were stunningly blue. His hair was a mess now though, and along with all the bandages and messed up clothes, he looked like nothing more than a kid that needed saving.
Once Ike put him down in the holding room, I stopped Ike from leaving.
"What?" he asked me.
I spoke to Mercy. "Why'd you do it? Why did you kill all those people?"
In a flat, broken voice, he responded. "Because it was the only way to save everyone who's left."
I felt the shocked look flow over my face. As far as I could tell, this boy had not only been beaten, but threatened into killing a lot of people or else his loved ones would be killed.
"Wait here!" I was going to call the police chief over.
Ike chased out of the room after me, but still making sure to lock the door.
"Hey, what are you doing?"
"I know that kid killed a lot of people, but he's been beaten by someone from the look of most of his injuries. Constantly even. And from what he just said, looking me straight in the eyes, he was forced into killing all those people for the sake of his loved ones! I will not stand by and let this go on!"
I marched into the main lobby of the mansion. From here, if I called everyone down, they would hear.
I gave them all a moment to assemble. I noticed a few were missing. Although those missing were mainly off on missions of their own, Roy and Samus were also missing.
"Ike, go get Samus and Roy."
He nodded and ran off upstairs.
"We'll start once everyone is assembled," I told them. "I'm sorry for calling you all, but this is very important."
Ike came back down a few minutes later.
"Samus is out cold, I couldn't get her to wake up. As for Roy, I can't find him."
I sighed. Roy had probably worn Samus out and then snuck out. I heard a small laugh in my head. Anoi, my genie, was laughing at something. I sighed again, I'd have to ask him what it was later after I explained the situation to everyone.
As soon as I finished, I started to tell everyone to do their best in making Mercy at home here, as I planned to let him stay. Everyone agreed, even Ike. The next thing I did was have Pit go get the police chief. I'd call but he was probably still at the crime scene. I had our house nurse call the doctor who would be on call this late at night. Actually, by this point it was probably early in the morning.
Ike's POV
The doctor Marth had summoned arrived before the police chief. The doctor went down into the cellar and asked everyone to stay outside. He wanted privacy for his patient. When the police chief arrived, Marth explained the situation.
I was glad to let Marth handle that since the police chief wasn't happy that Marth wanted to let off the killer of fifty of his men.
I decided to try and wake Samus up again.
As I stood over her as she slept on the couch where I'd found her, I noticed a small spray bottle laying on the floor.
"What's this?" I said aloud, as if asking Samus. I smelled it. I dropped the bottle almost the moment I realized it was a drug to knock you out.
"Roy wore her out huh? When I see that little brat I'm gonna strangle him!" I looked at Samus on the couch. "At least he didn't leave her on the floor or anything like that." I knew that she'd be fine. She'd wake up in a while.
"Hey! Ike!" I heard Marth call from down below.
I came down. "Yeah?"
"Success! Mercy will be allowed to stay with us in the mansion. Of course, we have to watch him and he isn't allowed to leave, but I think that's a pretty good deal!"
I nodded. "Yup, just as long as he doesn't try to kill me, I'm good."
I noticed most of the residents had gone back to bed. Pit and Link were talking over to the side, like usual.
"How about we go check on Mercy and the doctor?" I suggested.
Marth said sure and so off we went.
When we entered the cellar, the doctor was messing with his advanced on the field medical kit.
"What's the deal?" I asked, a little concerned.
Mercy sat on the bed that was located down here. He looked straight at Marth and I as the doctor responded.
"Well, you are correct about most of those wounds being from beatings. The wound on his eye however, the one you two witnessed him receiving, won't heal quite right."
"What do you mean?" I asked him, beating Marth to the question.
"He should receive even a scar, but I don't believe he'll be able to see out of that eye of his again."
Marth flinched.
"Another thing," the doctor added, "His body and blood aren't normal."
I was about to ask what he meant again, but he continued before I could.
"According to him, he has been receiving shots from someone, he won't say who, for the past month and a half. I tested his blood just now, and it seems that, along with his blood, his body has undergone a strange sort of transformation from the shots. I can't tell you exactly what it is, but looking at this, I can tell you his body is enhanced." The doctor then proceeded to give exact details.
I'm not sure how much Marth got out of that, but I didn't get a thing. It was too complicated. Marth seemed fascinated though, and went into the hallway to talk it over with him more. I just walked over to Mercy and talked to him.
"Hey, we're going to let you live here. Don't worry, we'll help you save your family if you just tell us where they are. So I'm going to untie you and stuff."
I started undoing the bonds on his legs first.
"My name is Ike by the way. The other guy is Marth. I'd let you meet our friend Roy, but right now the little brat isn't here. He knocked my fiancee out and ran away. What great timing he has."
I finished with his legs and started with the ones on his hands.
"You know, your name can't be Mercy, so what is it?"
I finished pulling the bonds off, and the moment Mercy's hands were free, he reached up to his hair and pulled at it.
It came off, exposing short red hair underneath.
"My name is Roy."
The sad look that was plastered on his face made it seem almost as if he was pleading with me not to be angry.
"What the hell?" I muttered, placing my hand over my eyes as I stood up.
I glared at him. "You tried to kill me earlier."
He flinched and looked down. I could tell he was grinding his teeth.
I sighed and reached out, ruffling his hair.
"Don't worry about it, I'm fine. You got an injury as payment for trying it anyways."
I heard Marth's excited voice in the hall. He was still talking to the doctor.
"Well, you know, maybe you should put that wig back on." I pointed at the wig in his hands. I remembered Samus. "By the way, there is one thing I need revenge for."
Roy looked up with that sad eye of his. The other still hidden by a bandage.
I reached down and smacked him over the head.
"That's for drugging my fiancee! Little brat."
A small smile spread across Roy's face. "Not going to ground me?"
"I'll tell your Dad about it. He'll punish you worse than I could. Now hurry up and put that wig back on."
The small smile disappeared from Roy's face, the sadness returning. My strategy of teasing him to make him happier wasn't working so well it seemed.
"I'm not putting the wig back on. I want Marth to know... Besides, Dad can't punish me for any of this, so you and Marth will have to do your best."
"And why can't he? You want us to keep everything a secret from him? I think that will be pretty hard you know," I smirked. It was meant to tell him that we could do it if he wanted.
"It's not that. Dad's dead."
That threw me for a loop. Just before we'd left the house Marth had been talking to Eliwood on the phone. Everything seemed to be going a little haywire.
"How?!" I exclaimed.
"A month and a half ago, THEY shot him in the head."
"What? But that's impossible! Marth just-"
"Marth was talking to an imposter. The guys making me do this wiped out my Dad's entire company. All of them. They replaced them with imposters so that they could put up a front."
I had to sit down. I choose to sit next to Roy on the bed.
"Don't," I said.
Roy responded with a confused, "Huh?"
"Don't let the doctor see you with your wig off. Put it back on. We'll tell Marth all of this after the doctor leaves. I'm supposing there's more to it too. Save it for then. Now put the wig on. Remember, you owe me."
Roy cringed a little, but did as I asked of him. That was probably the first time he'd ever done anything I'd asked him to do, and I felt a little guilty for guilt tripping him into doing it.
We sat together in silence for a while. Roy leaned against the wall after a while, looking a little pale.
"Hey, maybe you should get some sleep. Marth is going to be a while yet, I think."
I realized Roy was already out cold. He started looking even paler though.
"Hey, hey! Wake up!" I said, suddenly worried. I reached for his shoulder to give him a shake, but he fell over sideways before I could.
"Hey! Doctor!" I yelled. I stood and ran to the door, throwing it open. "Doctor! Quickly!" I almost said Roy's name, but I held myself back.
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