'Calm down Spencer, you've been through this crap before. Just think...' Spencer couldn't make out any landmarks at this time of night, and the headlights of all the passing cars were not helping. "Frickin' kid! It's as if he wants to muck about with our lives just for other people's entertainment!" He said in frustration.
"Where... how did that kid... what?" Link was trying to say something but obviously too many things were trying to come out at once.
"Spencer," Andima said, "Haven't you shown me this place before?"
"Yeah, but I don't know whether it's real or not... I think I know how to find out." Spencer replied. He cleared his throat. "YOU ZED YOU EM WHY EM DOUBLE YOU!" He yelled at the sky. Nothing happened. "Nope, it's real."
"What should we do?" Link asked.
"Get off the street, first." Spencer looked at the buildings, trying to make them out.
"Street?" Midna asked. Andima pointed at the four-lane road.
"Some kind of trail of flat stone or something." She said.
"A-ha! We are pretty lucky. My house isn't far from here." Spencer said.
"Wouldn't have someone moved in since you were gone?" Link asked.
"Hey, might as well check it out." Spencer said. "Follow me."
They walked away from the street,towards an alley between two short buildings.
"Shouldn't we be following the rock trail thing?" Link asked.
"This is a shortcut, unless they did something big in the past fifteen years." Spencer replied.
They entered the alley, which had a single trash bin beside the left wall. The buildings' shadows made it very dark. they continued down it, but as the were passing the big green trash bin, the lid flipped open and four rough looking individuals climbed out. "You Larpers picked the wrong alley to cut through!" One of them said. He wielded a metal bat, the others had knives. The began advancing on the group.
"Larpers?" Andima asked. Link, Midna, and Andima seemed to be more concerned about what he called them rather than the fact that they were going to try to attack them.
"I think their a tad confused about who we are." Spencer said. He only drew his shield.
"Get them, boys!" The thug with the bat said.
"Don't bother with your weapons, guys. We don't want to become murderers in this world." Spencer advised. Link put away the Master sword. "Let's just kick their asses and be on our way."
"Rraaagghhh!" A thug ran at Link, who hit him with his shield, then tripped him with a kick to the shins. The skull-to-concrete contact knocked out the thug. The other three thugs looked in awe.
"Did you just see what he did to Johnny?" One whispered.
"No one's dropped just like that..." One of the others whispered back. All three of them stood there shaking for a moment, before dropping knives and running.
"So... where do we go from here?" Midna asked.
"If my memory's any good, we should continue down tis alley, then follow the street to a smaller street and that's where I lived. Pretty convenient how very close we were to my old home." Spencer said. They left the alley out the other end,and kept to the wall of the building until they reached a street that was almost as big as they one they were standing beside before. They traveled along the route Spencer told them about, and soon they arrived in front of Spencer's old house. It had two garage doors, two roof peaks, and two small windows accompanied by a large window. One of the smaller windows showed light coming from the inside.
"I knew someone would be living there now." Link said.
"We can at least see who it is." Spencer said. The Quadro walked down the driveway, towards the front door. Spencer rung the doorbell. "Also, unless we find a way back tonight, we're gonna have to get new clothing for you three."
"Why's that?" Midna asked with a slight tone of annoyance.
"People don't typically wear Heroic tunics and Twili clothing around here." Spencer said.
"It's a good thing I packed a lot of Rupees then..." Link began.
"It's too bad those won't work around here either." Spencer sighed.
"Well what are we going to do?" Andima asked.
"I... don't know just yet." Spencer said. "Here comes someone." They heard footsteps approaching from inside the house. The door opened to reveal someone who looked exactly like Spencer, but he was wearing a black T-shirt with a Lambda symbol on it rather than a black long sleeve.
"Hello-" He began, "What the hell..." His eyes wandered to each of the Quadro.
"How- what- huh?" Link, Andima, and Midna gasped. Spencer sighed.
"You'd think you'd get used to this sort of thing by now." He groaned.
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Elsewhere, a man in armor sat at single table with a chess board on it. He moved a pawn forward two spaces.
"Everything's going to plan... hmm..." He mumbled.
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"So, you're telling me that that Loomis character had mastered teleporting technology?" The other Spencer said. The Quadro were sitting on a big couch in a living room accompanied by a Widescreen Television and a leather recliner, which The other Spencer was sitting on.
"Yeah, what year is it, by the way?" Spencer asked.
The other Spencer got up from the chair and ran his hands through his hair. 2008... shit... DAMNIT DAMNIT DAMNIT!" He pounded on the wall. The Quadro looked at eachother in confusion.
"What's wrong?" Link asked.
"What's wrong!?" The other Spencer repeated as if it were completely obvious. "If I had just listened to the crazy man instead of calling the cops on him, then I would've met all of you a lot sooner and lived a happy peaceful life in one of my favorite worlds-"
"I wouldn't call it peaceful..." Spencer added.
"Fine. Adventurous, at least! Having not to worry about wars, gas prices, taxes, everything that earth has to offer to screw you over, I would give anything for that! Even... even..." The other Spencer was interrupted by a burly man in a black suit running into the room.
"Everything all right, boss?" He yelled as he came in. As he saw the Quadro, he pulled a gun from his suit jacket and pointed it at them. "Who're these Bozos!?"
Something in the back of Andima's mind told her to react to the sight of the gun, so she did. She rose her hand at the gun, which sparks a couple times with purple sparks, then fell apart in the man's hands. "What the-!?" He looked dumbfounded at the mess of metal and powder in his hands.
"What was that, Andima?" Link asked.
"I uh... don't like guns?" She said.
"Look, I've been noticing some crazy shit happening around here, and I don't think I can figure it out alone. You guys suddenly knocking on my door is the biggest of these things... I've noticed a guy running about hitting things with a shovel, Another guy and woman dressed up as Doctor and nurse operating on the street, and I swear I saw a gang fight the other day when in fact I've never seen gangs at all... aside from the one living in my basement. Anyway, can you guys help me figure things out here?" The other Spencer said.
"Woah, backup. Gang in my- your basement?" Spencer asked.
"Oh yeah... to make a long story short, by calling the Cops to investigate Loomis' lab, the mob hiding out under his building had to find a new place to be. And since I kinda rna them out, they kinda threatened me with death. One thing led to another and now I'm the boss of the 'Raccoons'."
"How do you think we can help you?" Midna asked.
"Well, since you guys are so good at surviving it seems, I figure you wouldn't die where others have." The other Spencer said, "However, something tells me you don't have lightning reflexes, so I can lend you few guns." He turned to the suited man. "Sam, why don't you go fetch our friends here four Sub machiners?"
"She just... gun fell apart..." Sam stuttered.
"Just do it." The other Spencer said. Sam stumbled his way back down the hallway.
"Do I really have to use a gun?" Andima asked.
"Well," The other Spencer said, "You could use your lightning trick, but then again we don't want you overusing it and fainting in mid-fight, do we?"
While everyone had been talking Spencer was looking at his "could-have-been" living room. Everything looked very much the same, the Xbox, Gamecube, and Wii were still sitting next to the TV. He decided to look at a stack of Wii games he had not owned back before all this began. He flipped through the stack of cases. "Hmm... A new Zelda game..."
"What?" Link asked.
"Oh," Spencer started, "they always named the games you were in after Zelda, even tohugh she's always the one in distress."
"Seems a bit unfair to me..." Link said.
"Well we can't be beating up Nintendo jsut because of name choices..." Spencer said, flipping through the stack.
"Nintendo?" Link Asked.
"Nobody." Spencer said, deciding he had already let too much slip. He didn't think Midna and Andima would handle being created by some old Japanese men so well. "Hey, I was waiting for this game when I left!" He pulled a game labeled "Super Smash Bros. Brawl" out of the stack. He took out the CD and slid it into the Wii.
"What are you doing?" Andima asked. Spencer turned on the TV and picked up a Wii controller.
"I figure I've waited what, fifteen years? I should get a couple minutes of play at least." Spencer said. He navigated through the menus.
"I've already unlocked all the characters." The other Spencer said.
"Good, good." Spencer said. He arrived at the character selection screen and scrolled through it. "Er, you say you unlocked all the characters?"
"Yeah." The other Spencer said.
"That can't be, Midna's not here." Spencer said, scrolling through the Menu for a fifth time.
"I'm not what?" Midna asked.
"You're not in the game." Spencr said.
"Why should I?" Midna asked.
"Because I and a lot of other people made a lot of noise about getting you in, and I thought for sure you'd get here... Damnit!" He threw the controller on a table. "We'll be needing a few hundred grand."
"What!?" The other Spencer said.
"We're paying Nintendo a visit." Spencer said.
