A/N Omg… new chapter was late… bet you all thought this story was going to grave right? Well HAH! Wait, you didn't think that? Oh… alright then… anyway as the title suggests this chapter has a little romance, though it won't necessarily revolve around Marth, (hint, hint, wink, wink) well, directly anyway… I'm so sorry for the lateness! (bows)

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Teh Critter- Save them! Run! The poor nighties! (cries) Thank you!

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RoyalFanatic- Basically what it was, Gannondorf had put Roy under a spell and made him think he had to go rescue pjs from the closet, so pretty much he just confused him. Since Roy was the cook he simply poisoned the food he made and brought it out to Marth while Roy was all distracted. I wrote that part at midnight, so make lack of sense is made evident, and I needed something to keep Roy busy for a while XD Thank you!

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Ri2- Lol, true. However, Bowser isn't exactly the brightest crayon in the box XD Thank ya!

PirateGoddess27- Thank you! Some people didn't get the pajama thing, then others were like 'That part was so funny!' I guess it all depends on the reader lol.

BabyGurl278- Yeah, neither do I, I'm not that big a Pokemon fan really, but my little sister adores Pokemon, so I did that for her. Thanks!

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Wanchoo- heh, but I didn't make Link cry… yet. XD Just kiddin' thank you!

Shiru23454- YES! THAT'S THE WORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! XD I had seen the word 'manakete' in a story and I assumed it was misspell of mamkute. Thank you! bows It would be cool if Hector was in it, but I'd like to see Eliwood for some reason… but then again, SSBM came out before Fire Emblem 6, and well… I don't want to give away a spoiler to the game lol. I have a link in my profile next to the word Skater Punk (some numbers) which is a link to a translation of FE6.

I'll have to try and fix the mamkute thing, but I had read it did mean half dragon at some character info site, ah well, it's my fault really. I wouldn't be surprised if Master Hand did do that, but I kept to the game, I mean I believe Altea was invaded in the game and then Marth went to Sheeda's land, though I think he was younger when that happened… ah screw it.

Thank you for all those awesome reviews on the Twilight Zone XD. I was reading the translation as I read, and once I had finished I started Life after Exile, so know I know all about Roy (in the most un-stalker like way possible lol) which is strange since I changed the main character O.o Dark Link was a really good guess, but I had planned it around the Wireframes and the fake administration thing. It was rather short, but it was more of an experiment to get back into writing.

Disclaimer: I don't own SSBM or the poem which is by Shakespeare, from a Midsummer Night's Dream. (cries)

Life after Exile

Chapter Four- The Matchmaker Prince

"Roy? Have you seen Link anywhere?" The crazed half dragon stopped what he was doing and turned to look at me.

"Yeah, wasn't he floating in a crystal last night?"

"Yes, but he's out now. According to Master Hand you and I have a team match against him and Young Link today…" It was now one in the afternoon, the show would start in an hour, and with me being the Smash Champ I would of course be in the match. After seeing my absolute exhaustion yesterday Master Hand exclaimed that I should do a team match, it might add more drama to the fights. If by drama he meant me running around with my hair on fire because Roy decides he wanted to give me a hair cut in the middle of the fight, I whole heartedly disagreed.

"Oh, well ask the squirt then, he was downstairs with Ness and the Ice Climbers playing videogames, he should know where is older self is."

"Thank you." I replied as he went back to what he was doing, which happened to be setting little pieces of paper on fire with his sword and flicking them at people. So as I began to walk down the long halls to reach the stairs (we never had halls this large back in Altea, if we did the architect would have been hung) when I stopped in my tracks. There was Link peaking in through the door into a bedroom. Now most people would think that this something fairly normal, especially for a place like this, but Link was normally more sane than the others (well, from what I've gathered) why would he be spying on something? Carefully and quietly I stood behind him and looked through the crack to see what he was looking at.

The room was completely pink, from the pink bedspread, to pink carpets, to fuzzy little pink teddy bears. Link took a deep breath (for pink and emerald green can clash so horridly, I would be nervous too) and burst into the room and began to look around, opening drawers, spewing their contents, and basically making a mess.

"You are going to clean this up aren't you?" I asked forgetting all stealth (I was a neat freak, I couldn't help it) and entering the room. Link hastily nodded and suddenly stopped and looked at me stupidly realizing I was here. "Is this Zelda's room?" He nodded in response. "Well what are you looking for?" He looked around in one of the drawers again and then pulled out a bright pink book and handed it to me. "This is her diary, are you going to read it?" Link rubbed the back of his head embarrassedly. "You can read, can't you?" When Link shook his head response I sighed and answered, "Fine, I'll read it to you then." I carefully took the pink book from him and began to read aloud,

"Dear Diary,

Link and I are going to the SSBM tournament today! I got this letter before…

'To the cross dressing elves,

I would like to invite you both to come and fight on my show Super Smash Bros! I sent out one invite to the Hero of Time before…. but I think it got lost in another dimension… or something… so just share this one with him. Now transportation will be arranged by FedEx, I would like an rsvp. soon. Actually it doesn't really matter if you say no or yes, if you refuse I will set Hyrule on fire and force you here, really… I will.

With love,

Master Hand…'

I'm really excited, and I would guess Link is too, but lately he hasn't been able to talk due to a traumatic accident with a snail and a pizza at the last SSB tournament, poor thing, but he's still is playing the hero role, making sure the FedEx people aren't psychos. I can't wait to see his reaction when I start fighting!

I'll write tomorrow!

Zelda"

I blinked. "There another page, should I go on?" He eagerly nodded and I turned it and began to read again,

"Dear Dairy,

"I sort of miss Hyrule, but I suppose we'll be going home one day. I don't think the giant hand would be to happy if I left without any notice. Gannondorf has come to the tournament too, I don't really like him though, being trapped in a giant crystal wasn't fun at all. Link got trapped in one last night when annoyed Gannondorf by saving some guy from a poison soup. Weird. We had a little surprise too; Links' younger self came to the tournament! Kind of makes me wish I was a kid again…

Well I go to go! Bye bye!

Zelda"

"This must be a new diary then," I muttered once I had finished "because that was the last page…" Link looked absolutely crestfallen by the announcement. I blinked in surprise. "What were you expecting to hear something in the dairy, a secret or something? Maybe-" I stopped myself with a little gasp of realization. "Maybe you have a crush on Zelda, and you want to find out if she liked you too!" His blue eyes widened in surprise and he grabbed my wrist and pulled me out of the room.

…

"Ow!" I couldn't but to cry out as the angered Hylian had roughly pulled me down the hallway and pinned me up against the wall. Though on the inside I was quaking at the sight of the enraged elf, but I put on a seemingly calm smirk and asked, "You like her though, am I right?" He curtly nodded and pushed me even harder up against the wall with a look that clearly said 'If you tell I'll kill you.'

"I won't tell." I muttered in response to his angered glare. Slowly he took the pressure off my arms until they were completely off me and crossed across his chest. I massaged one my arms with my hand. "Are going to confess your love to her?" He shook his head. "Why not? Oh…" He was in quite a problem, since he couldn't speak he wouldn't be able to tell Zelda he loved her, and if he couldn't read, he probably couldn't write a letter confessing his love either. "Well, you know. I can help you out…" I announced royally to the lovesick warrior. "With going to all those regal parties and stuff and meeting princesses it's what I'd normally have to be a matchmaker. People would either be enlightened and find the love of their life thanks to me, or be horribly embarrassed and end up locking themselves in the their rooms. Oh but you shouldn't be nervous!" I added hastily when he seemed a bit alarmed by what I had said. "I get it right about… sixty percent of the time…"

Link leaned up against the wall in thought and finally nodded giving me permission to set him up. "Excellent, this is going to be hard though, I'll let you know when I have a plan…" Once he has left I let out a sigh of relief. Was I really a good matchmaker? No… but I did owe Link for saving my life, twice. What's a better way to repay someone than helping them obtain the love of their life, right? I turned to go down the hall from which I had come when I suddenly ran into Shiek who stood, arms folded, and looking me over with his red eyes.

"You're setting Link up with the Princess eh?" he asked, his voice slightly muffled by the turban.

"Were you spying on us?"

"Yes, and might I add you'd better clean my- I mean the Princess's room, yeah… that's what I meant, really." I raised an eyebrow at him and he continued, "I have an idea to set the two up."

"Really?"

"No… just kidding, yeah I do. Why don't you have him write a love letter?"

"He can't write."

"I know that, stupid, but you can."

"How would I know what he would want me to say? He can't talk either."

"I know that too Mr. I'm-going-to-tell-Shiek-stuff-he-already-knows. You can use a physic, like Ness or Mewtwo and find out what he wants to say."

"That's brilliant!" I blurted out, despite the fact Shiek had just referred to himself in the third person.

"Yes, I know."

"How am I supposed to get one to agree?"

"Here." He held out a strange ball thing with a string attached.

"What is it?"

"A yo-yo. Give it to Ness, and I'm sure he'll agree."

"So you want me to bribe him? Where'd you get that yo-yo anyway?"

"I took it…. from some guy, look does it matter? Take the damn yo-yo and set the two up." I hastily grabbed the yo-yo just in case he decided to take it back.

"But why are you helping-"

"Argh! Enough questions! I have to go!" He took out an acorn from his pocket and violently tossed it at the floor. At first I wasn't worried, what could an acorn do? But when the thing burst into a flash of light, I let out a surprised gasp as I was blinded a moment. When sight finally returned Shiek was gone.

…

"Okay, now here the plan, I will… Ness! You're going to break a lamp with that thing!" Ness immediately stopped spinning his new yo-yo around and grinned at me sheepishly.

"Sorry Marth, so why'd you call me to your room and give me this yo-yo again?"

"I don't expect you to remember since I haven't told you yet." Link, who was sitting on my bed hugging his knees, looked up with a bored expression. I had been fighting with the physic for over an hour now, he seemed to be trying to test my limits. "Look, I called you here for a reason. Link likes Zelda." The boy opened his mouth to say something but I immediately quieted him. "Now as you know Link can't talk, so I need you to-"

"You need me to tell you what Link wants to say using telepathy so you can help him write a love letter to the Princess."

"How… how long have you known that?"

"A hour." he replied with a superior grin. This conversation was getting no where fast.

"Alright then, now we can get on with our lives." I muttered as I grabbed the paper and took seat at the desk. "Well, let's begin… ready Link?" He nodded as Ness closed his eyes and began,

"Roses are red,

Violets are blue,

Sugar is sweet,

But you smell like poo…"

I raised an eyebrow at Link who automatically smacked Ness in the back of the head. "Ow…" the physic muttered with a distain tone of voice, "that's child abuse, I should sue." I heaved a sigh as his look of pain turned to amusement. "Sorry Marth, let's do that again."

"Fine, but I want you to actually tell me what Link says." I posed my self to write as Ness translated,

"Dear Zelda,

goddess, nymph, perfect, divine!
To what, my love, shall I compare thine eyne?
Crystal is muddy. O, how ripe in show
Thy lips, those kissing cherries, tempting grow!
That pure congealed white, high Taurus snow,
Fann'd with the eastern wind, turns to a crow
When thou hold'st up thy hand: O, let me kiss
This princess of pure white, this seal of bliss!"

I gaped at the Hylian in shock. "That… was beautiful… those were his exact words Ness?"

"Yes… it was exact…" I put the finishing swirl at the end the 's', shaking my head as I did so. Sometimes, I wonder why I just don't expect the irony… "So what do I write at the end? Love, Link?" Link nodded and I began to extravagantly write, 'Love...' when, suddenly, the letter was snatched from my hand. I glanced at Ness, expecting it to be floating around his but to my surprise he looked just as confused. So I turned again, to see who had taken it, and there was Gannondorf and Bowser, side by side, reading.

"Heh, you like her?" Gannondorf asked me with a smirk.

"No! I was writing it for-" He waved a hand to silence me as he read.

"Did you show it to Zelda?" Bowser asked curiously with a slight giggle (it's quite strange to hear a monster turtle chuckle).

"No! Of course not! I didn't-"

"Did someone say my name?" Zelda questioned as she entered the room looking around quizzically.

"Yeah," Gannondorf muttered. "The pansy here wrote you a love letter."

"I didn't write it!"

"You had to have, skirt boy probably can't write and I doubt Ness has such extravagant penmanship." He was right… my handwriting was extremely elaborated script complete with swirls, dots and fancy lettering, no one but a noble could possibly write like that.

"But, you don't- I-"

"Oh Marth!" Zelda said suddenly, her blue eyes widening in surprise as they rested upon me. "This… is beautiful!" She suddenly ran to me and wrapped arms around me. "I love it!"

"But…" I responded weakly as she moved toward me and gave me a kiss on the cheek.

"I have to go now." She said as she pulled away. "After all, I must cheer for my love in the upcoming battle!" she winked at me and, with another kiss, walked off.

"Wow…" Bowser muttered. "Maybe I should write more poetry…" Gannondorf raised an eyebrow at him.

"You write poetry?"

"Well… shut up." They both walked out, Bowser at the lead, and Gannondorf behind him, laughing.

"Did Link leave?" I asked Ness exasperatedly as I put my head in my hands once they had gone.

"Yep, right after she kissed you."

"Damn it."

"Don't feel bad; after all, I wouldn't if Zelda gave me a kiss."

"But I don't want Zelda… it's Link…"

"You want Link?"

"No! I have a battle against him soon…"

"Ah, I get it, now he's so angry that he'll murder you in battle…" he glanced at my grim expression and hastily added, "Well, I didn't mean kill you… I meant like…. he'll… aw…. hell yeah you're going to die."

"Can you see into the future?"

"Why?"

"Can you?!"

"Yes, vaguely."

"Any tips?" He sat on the bed and thought about it.

"Look out for the Pokeball."

"That's all you can give me?!"

"Yep."

"Thanks for the help then." I muttered with a most sarcastic tone.

"No problem." With that the red capped physic stood and left the room with a warning. "Don't forget it." I snorted in reply to that statement as I readied myself for the match.

…

"Ready Marth?" Roy asked, sounding rather chipper, as he stepped into the metal door an hour later.

"Not really…" I responded, sober in tone. Roy however seemed to take no notice of it as he continued to ramble about strategies and plans.

"I was a general you know." he bragged in midst of his ramblings as I shuffled beside him. "I commanded the Lycia Alliance!"

"Really?" It was almost impossible to imagine Roy leading anything let alone an army.

"Yes but I had some help of course, from this annoying guy, Merlinus, who never let me done anything I wanted to do. Heck it was always 'Roy, we should do this', 'Roy we should do that' 'Roy! Bern isn't in that direction!' 'Roy pay attention; and stop staring at the Fire Emblem because it's shiny!' but in the end I killed him and dumped his body in the river."

"You're kidding… right?"

"Yeah! Well… actually, I haven't seen him in a month…maybe I did…and just forgot…" Roy's rambles were cut off when the door slammed shut and soon we found ourselves heading for the arena, Kanto stadium.

…

"Uh oh…" Master Hand murmured softly through the platform's voice emitter as we neared the stadium.

"'Uh oh' what?" I asked irritably, desperately hoping I could get this battle over with before Link becomes even more steamed over time.

"It seems there's a Pokemon battle at the stadium..." Roy, whose platform wasn't to far from my own, cocked his head.

"Someone is already fighting there?"

"Yes, I'll send Crazy to clear em' out for you." Our platforms came by the stadium and stopped suddenly hovering above it. Two boys who were currently instructing their Pokemon looked up with widened eyes.

"Who're you?" one asked tentively, his red hat fell back a bit revealing his black hair.

"I am... Marth."

"I'm Ash, why've you come?"

"To fight of course."

"Then come down."

"I can't move; I have to wait until the battle starts."

"Okay… but the battle has already started…"

"Not my battle…" Before the child had a chance to reply to my strange comment a rather loud explosion took place, and there were several screams from the audience (who must have come to watch the Pokemon battle).

"I aM CrAzY HaNd!!!!!!!! OoOoOoOoH FeAr MeEeEeE!" came a booming voice as a hand floated in constantly twitching. "BeEeEeEeWaRe!" At first I figure it was Master Hand, but I was pleasantly surprised when Master Hand's voice floated in from the voice emitter.

"Yeah Crazy! Go! GO! Blast those suckers!" So the other giant hand began to shoot missiles from his fingers causing the two trainers to fall off the edge into the abyss.

"Will they be alright? Roy questioned nervously. "I mean, you're not going to leave them there, are you?" The Hand stopped twitching and gave (what looked like) a shrug.

"I guess…" he replied completely losing the insane tone of voice, "It doesn't really matter… does it?"

"Well… I guess not…"

"Good then, ah Link and Young Link are here." I glanced up to see Link and Young Link's platforms arrive on the other side of the field. The older Hylian had a look of anger, and pure determination on his face while he glared at me in anger, the other however, was the exact opposite.

"Hiya Martha, Roy." Young Link chirped with a bright smile.

"It's Marth." I responded stiffly, not even returning the greeting.

"Ha I know; it was just a joke. Geez, I don't know what it is with people today. First my older self is all pissed off and know you are too!"

"Yeah!" Roy interjected suddenly. "Fox was also angry! However, it may have something to do with the fact I accidentally spilled paint all over his fur…" Luckily, this, already pointless, conversation was not elongated for Crazy Hand called out,

"Alright Master Hand! Tell the underpaid announcer to begin!" Almost immediately after he said that a proud voice called,

"Ready…" Crazy Hand took off high into the air to keep out of harm's way. "GO!" Finally the platforms were dropped and my movement returned. There was precious little time to rejoice as Link immediately came bounding toward my, his eyes seemed to have a hidden fire in them.

"Now Link…" I reasoned backing up, "Let be rational." As if to say, 'RATIONAL?! KISS MY ASS!' he swung his sword almost taking off my head. Forced to fight I stepped backward and stabbed, which he of course sidestepped at the right time so I only cut a bit of his tunic. I turned and gave a diagonal hack which he parried and pushed me back causing me to stumble more several steps (later I'll make this a dance craze…). Taken aback by how quick he was I took a couple more reverse steps and then ran in on him with as much ferocity as I could muster, which wasn't much, considering I seemed to be the bad guy in this situation. Before I could even hit him he pulled out a strange silver object which shot a chain at me and with a surprised gasp from me it punctured my shoulder completely submerging the pointed tip and began to pull me toward him with causing a throbbing pain. "Damnit Link!" I muttered as I gripped the chain and tried desperately to pull it out. "I'd better not get sick from that!"

Link readily smiled in reply as I managed to pull out the chain with a hurt yelp and grabbed my wounded shoulder, as if it would help. "You son of a-" He swung at me before I could say anymore of my insult which I thought was quite rude indeed. To dodge I did a perfect back flip and landed on my feet and slashed at his chest, surprisingly I hit. My cut wasn't that deep but he did drop his sword as he curled up in pain clutching the gash. While he was distracted I made a move for his sword but my foot was suddenly pulled out from under me and fell to the ground. Glancing back I saw Link, who immediately pulled himself up after pulling me down, and sat on my back. There he pulled my arms behind me and grabbed his sword and forced it to my neck. "Link… listen to me…" I began slowly, as if speaking fast would cause him to kill me. "I was trying to help you… I never expected that to happen…" He simply pressed the sword closer until a trickle of blood came down my neck. Just as I thought I was surely going to die a red a white ball landed in front of me and opened up revealing a grand white light. I looked at it in awe, and I could vaguely hear Roy's voice saying,

"Hey, what does that ball I threw do exactly?" Link eyes widened as he looked at it and immediately got off me as a huge green and white creature appeared. As quickly as it came it jumped into the air, and came back down throwing both me and Link off the edge and into the darkness. As I fell, everything began to break up, I wasn't sure if this was supposed to happen, but my body landed flat on something, the platform had caught me. My mind was riddled with pain as I passed out.

…

"Oww…" I muttered when I finally became conscious. There was a figure standing over me in a white outfit with a doctor's band around his head.

"Don't move." he instructed with a heavily accented voice. "Are you in pain?"

"Would that throbbing sensation in my shoulder be pain?"

"Yes."

"Then I'm in pain."

"Well alright then." he chirped completely changing the mood. "You're ready to go then. Hopefully you're arm should be fine by tomorrow…" Gladly I got up and viewed my surroundings.

"Where am I exactly… and who're you?"

"I'm Dr. Mario of course, and this is my room/treatment center."

"How far is it from my room?"

"Your room is just across the hall!"

"Really?"

"Yeah…." Gingerly I got to my feet and opened up the door a crack to take a peak outside, sure enough, there was the door to my room.

"Wow… that's convenient… was Link here too?"

"Mmmhm. He left long before you, I had to send my nurse to keep him from killing you…"

"Your nurse?"

"Princess Peach."

"I thought she was the greeter/guide person…"

"Well she's multitalented…"

"And… did we win the match?" Dr. Mario paused.

"Roy ended up beating Young Link so you get to keep your title for now." I let out a sigh of relief; it would have been almost embarrassing to lose the title that fast… "But, you'll have to fight partially injured tomorrow… if we have a fight of course. Anyway, I'll see you in a little while to change the bandages on your shoulder." I nodded and immediately got up taking that as a signal to leave.

…

I guess… I owe Roy for this match… I hated to admit it to myself, as I stood in the hall trying to open the door my room. Regardless, if he asks me to write a love letter I'll kill him… My violent thoughts soon turned to fear as a hand gripped my already hurt shoulder. So I turned, to look at the source, and found Shiek standing there, with Link behind him.

"I have something to tell both of you…" I glanced at Link who simply glared at me and turned to look at Shiek who apprehensively continued. "Link…" he turned to the green clad warrior and pulled down the bottom of his turban, revealing most of his face (but since he was facing away from me I couldn't see him). "I know you wrote me that letter…" I blinked"And… I wasn't you to know… I love you too…" What the hell is going on?! "You're the only love I want… I knew there was a way to express your love to me… and kissing Marth was it so you would fight for… that showed me how much you love me… I'm sorry I didn't tell you sooner…" With that leaned closer to Link and slowly wrapped his arms around him saying, "I love you Link…" and then kissed him, passionately and seriously. My eyes must have been deceived; this couldn't possibly be what I thought it was… Shiek broke off the kiss and turned to me completely revealing his face… or should I say her face since it was Princess Zelda who was looking at me.

"Sorry to have gotten you involved in this Marth… I can't offer you more than that…"

"It's… no problem… I'm sure the pain in my shoulder will ebb away eventually… if I'm not scarred for life…" Link gave me apologetic grin as Zelda smiled.

"Yeah… sorry about that… well…. goodbye." She gave me a slight wave as she and Link began to kiss passionately right in the hallway. As I turned to go into my room I couldn't help but and think… if this was a chapter of a story…. it would probably be the most pointless of all.

A/N: I hate this chapter right now…. seriously… maybe I'm overacting but I thought it sucked, and it was late. I hope you can all forgive me; I'll do better next time! (bows) This chapter was short… it moved to fast… and it was utter pointless. However I kind of made it to go around that joke at the end… well hopefully I didn't disappoint you all (sniffle)