Me: Whoo-Hoo, fourth chapter time! This'll be funny. I am so looking forward to the electronics.
Link: No! I am not doing the disclaimer too! Get Ike to do it or something!
Ike: What? Why me? No! Get Marth to do it!
Marth: *waking up* Wha?
Me: Oh just never mind… I don't own SSB, or any songs I may repeatedly mention…
Marth: What did I miss…?
*SSBB*
I turn away from them and opening Mozilla Firefox, going to Google and searching for comic shops in Low Garden, Iowa. The gawking at the computer is rapidly getting funnier, seeing as they 'Ooh' every time a link opens.
"Awesome! So just one comic shop to check… Then what about all the ice cream parlors?" I say to myself. I groan and lean against the back of the chair, aggravated by the fact there were five parlors to check, not even including the supermarkets that just sold it in tubs.
"Hey..." Link speaks up finally, re-finding his voice. "What is this thing again? And is it magic?" I snicker at his question, though everyone else appears to be mimicking it in their head.
"No magic. Just electricity," I say. "Though magic would be SO much awesomer. This is a computer. It has topic on every topic known to man."
"What would happen if we searched ourselves?" Ike asks suddenly. I shrug, wanting to see myself and typing in 'Marth' into the search engine.
"Hey, what's FanFiction?" Marth asks as I'm scrolling down. I think I'm going to have too much fun on the computer…
"Here, find out for yourself!" I say excitedly. Marth hesitantly takes my place in the chair. I leave them to continue their new computer obsession to get my Coke out of the TV room, coming back and finding Marth on the SSBB fandom and having searched himself.
When I come back Marth seems to have figured out the mouse, and managed to get to . And found the SSB fandom. Nice work, for the first time on the computer...
"What's a Marth/Ike mean?" He asks, looking at some story in which someone was busy Mike fangirling. I bite back laughter and quickly tell him not to click the link, taking the mouse back and closing out of it.
"Hey! I wanted to see that too!" Ike complains.
"No, no you didn't," I say, biting my bottom lip so as not to bust out laughing.
"What did they mean by Mike? I don't remember anyone named Mike, or Michael for that matter…" Link asks, trailing off.
"Nothing! Just probably an OC or something!" I say almost desperately, hoping to draw them off topic and ask what an OC is.
"What's an OC?" Marth asks. Win for Paige…
"An OC is an original character. A lot of people use them to cause… Well havoc… Or put themselves in a story. They're un-liked if they're a Mary-Sue," I answer, hoping to make them forget it completely as I lure them away with random FanFiction terms.
"What's a Mary-Sue?" Ike asks. Again, I win!
"An over-powering or invincible character. They're generally annoying. If used in an RP, it's called God-Moding, which is just as annoying," I answer, sealing the deal and walking away. They follow me, having many questions about fanfiction to which I only explain a few. They give up on finding everything out, looking out the window at the darkness.
"How late is it?" Ike asks. I look around him at the clock, genuinely surprised to find it being past nine.
"Late enough as to you three should go back to my neighbor's house if you want to stay there, I think we'll go Lucas/Ness searching tomorrow," I say. The door-bell rings and everybody jumps.
"What the hell was that?!" Link asks in alarm, reaching for Master Sword to attack the ringing demon. I almost lose it.
"D-Doorbell," I get out, giggling uncontrollably. "Harmless. Lets us know someone's at the door." They all nod, now visibly relaxing.
"Uh guys, can you possibly hide yourselves? Last thing I need is someone calling my parents and telling them I have… People over," I finish, nearly ending the sentence with 'boys' instead of 'people', though that's be more awkward than not. They nod, remaining in the television room as I go to the door.
"Hello? What is it Mrs. Monroe?" I ask my annoyed looking neighbor.
"Your dog is in my backyard," She says with narrowed eyes, looking a bit more frightening than a 50 year old woman with a gray-ish blond bun should.
"Oh, Midnight's in your yard? I'm so sorry; I'll go get her…" I say sheepishly. She nods, leaving and bringing me to her backyard. And there she was, my all black German Shepard sitting happily in the middle of her yard.
"Midnight!" I whine, going over and having her jump up and put her paws on my shoulders, licking my face. "Midnight!" I laugh, falling on my butt. Mrs. Monroe glares at us and goes in side after telling me to bring her back home. I make a mocking noise when she's out of earshot, Midnight getting off and wagging her tail, circling me as I make my way home. I open the door and she runs in, stopping to look in the television room and running in, probably to sniff the boys.
One un-manly yelp later, and I enter to see Link on the couch and trying to push her away, Marth and Ike in stitches at his expression and reaction.
"Link?" I ask incredulously, watching him swat at Midnight and trying to get her away.
"I DON'T LIKE DOGS!" He growls, somewhat hysterical and Midnight pawing at him.
I bite my bottom lip again, failing at containing my wide grin and calling Midnight over, rescuing the hero in green.
"Is Link afraid that big, bad Midnight is going to lick him to death?" I ask in a child-ish way, Link snarling a response I don't catch and Marth and Ike somewhat regaining themselves.
"Dude, what's wrong with you? It's just a dog!" Ike says, Link not answering immediately.
"I've been turned into a canine before, and it wasn't exactly a high-point of my life. I'd rather not remember it," he mutters, looking almost faraway.
"No way, really?" I exclaim. "I have that game! Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess!" I say excitedly.
"You WHAT?" Link asks. I open up the cabinet beneath the TV in the stand, revealing all sorts of games and digging through them until I find Twilight Princess, holding it up triumphantly.
"I never finished, it, nor did I get very far, but I know what your talking about!" I say happily. He nods, staring at the game as if it would summon the Devil to my house. Ike and Marth looked confused.
"That's just weird…" Ike says.
"Do you have any games with us in them?" Marth asks, looking like he'd rather I say no.
"No, but I so want some! I've been working on getting my hands on a Fire Emblem game!" I say excitedly, realizing how creepy that sounded only after I say it.
"That's creepy," Ike says.
"Shut up," I say, somewhat red and tell them to go to the neighbor's house. Ike and Marth roll their eyes, getting up and leaving after petting Midnight good-bye. Link takes a wide detour around the German Shepard, nervously saying he'll see me tomorrow before quickly following after Ike and Marth.
I sigh, traveling up the stairs and climbing into bed. I gather up my stuffed Pikachu, fox, bigger fox, Riolu, Snivey, and Pichu, curling up with them at my side. Midnight lays directly on top of me.
"Midnight…" I gasp. "I need… Air…" I choke out. But no, she doesn't move. I roll my eyes and push her off, laying next to her curled up form and falling asleep.
"G'night Midnight…"
*SSBB*
I WANNA BE, THE VERY BEST, LIKE NO ONE EVER WAS!
"Gah!" I yelp and flail, smacking my alarm clock to shut it up, groggily looking at it with disdain.
"Why do you have to be so loud?" I whine, Midnight raising her head groggily. It's five in the morning, it's too early to get up…
UNLESS YOU HAVE SCHOOL!
"Damn! I completely forgot I have to go to school today!" I swear, throwing off my covers and getting dressed in blue jeans and a t-shirt with Pikachu on it. "What'll I do about the boys?"
I eat a small bowl of cereal, and do all the required morning things, brushing my teeth and hair and washing my face and stuff… By the time I'm done it's six forty-five and the sun had rose so the neighborhood is bathed in a white light.
"Maybe I can get one of them to call the school and pretend to be a family member and call me in sick…" I think to myself as I grab the key to my neighbor's house, walking down the street with a yawn and cursing Mondays. I unlock the door and poke my head in, hesitantly asking if anyone's awake.
"I am!" Ike answers from inside the kitchen. Link answers next, but there's no response from Marth.
"How are you up already?" I ask, entering and going into the kitchen, Link eating from a box of cereal.
"Rising with the sun," Link answers with a shrug, Ike agreeing through a mouthful of waffle. At least they remembered how to work the toaster...
"What about Marth?" I ask, Ike snorting at that.
"Oh please. If it were up to him, the sun would go die in a hole if it rose before noon," Ike says with a roll of the eyes.
"Oh totally…" I say, agreeing with Marth. "It could rise at noon and that'll still be too early."
"Then what are you doing up now?" Link asks.
"School. My alarm clock woke me up," I answer, looking between them then looking to Ike. "You, you need to help me with something."
"That being?" He asks with a raised eyebrow, finishing off his food.
"I need you to call the school and tell them I'm sick or something, I do not need school interrupting our Lucas/Ness search and I don't want my parents thinking I ditched," I say, sitting on couch in their living room, looking over the small divider that serves virtually no purpose and looking in on Link and Ike.
"But why do I have to?" He asks, looking confused.
"Well… You have the deepest voice… So you have the bet shot at being mistaken for an adult… How old are you three anyway?" I ask after contemplating it for a second.
"Uhm…" Ike blinks, a little confused at my logic for a moment, then shaking his head and answering. "Marth and I are seventeen. Link is just sixteen."
"Just sixteen?" Link says. "I'm only a year younger than you!" He says with a frown. "And anyways, I'm not the youngest here!"
"Hey!" I argue. "Don't drag me into this! I may be only fifteen but without me you'd be lost!"
"Girl From another dimension wins again," Ike says with a laugh, Link grumbling to himself afterwards. I do my best not to look smug.
"So will you call or what?" I ask, propping my self up with my elbows on the little divider.
"Sure?" Ike says, still a little bit confused. "But you'll have to tell me what to say," he points out. "And re-teach me to use a phone..." He adds a bit sheepishly. I laugh, telling him not to worry and getting to my feet.
"Come on, we'll go to my house. We have to use my home phone," I say, looking up at the ceiling. "Should we wake up Marth?"
Ike snorts, shaking his head. "Oh please, his highness would chop off our heads and go back to sleep. He'd start feeling guilty at like, noon." I laugh at that, knowing the type and saying we'll come back for him later, leaving and taking Ike and Link with me.
"Hey Midnight!" I say happily, opening the door and getting lick attacked by the excited dog. Link makes an odd sound and takes shelter behind Ike.
"Link…" Ike says confused as he hides behind him, snickering at his pathetic fear.
"Oh please the worst she'll do to you is lick you to death…" I say with a roll of the eyes.
"That can happen?" Link asks incredulously. Oi...
"Never mind Link…" I say hanging my head. Midnight goes to investigate Ike and Link takes the chance to bolt for the door, looking out behind his new shelter and Ike leans down and picks her up, holding her to his chest.
"Dude, she's like 79 pounds!" I say incredulously. Ike shrugs, saying she's not that heavy and walking in with her, Link still evading her. "What ever, let's go find a phone…" I say. Ike sits down in the television room, Midnight now forcing him to play tug-of-war with her abused looking rope.
"You don't need to yell into that, by the way," I say, thinking of the 'Ron calling Harry' scene in the second book of the Harry Potter series. "Say I have the flu or something. If they ask you're… Uh… My cousin… Who's in college… And you're watching me while my parents are away?" I suggest, then telling him not to add anything like that unless they ask, saying he should just say I have the flu. He nods oddly, taking the phone after I find the number.
"H-Hello?" He says hesitantly. I face-palmed. "Uhm, yes, I'm calling in to say that…" He looks up at me, motioning for me to tell him my last name. He nods when I do, continuing. "That Paige Melrose will be sick today, she won't be in school… Uhm… No? Okay then… Have a nice day…" He gives me the phone, which I hang up. "THAT WAS SO WEIRD!" He whines afterwards.
"Well, what did they say?" I ask, hoping he didn't mess up somehow.
"They just said 'Okay' then asked if you'd like someone to pick up your homework afterwards…" He says, looking more confused by the minute.
"Okay, and you said no to that?" I ask, he nodding. "Okay, we're good then."
"Whatever you say…"
*SSBB*
"So should we get Marth up now? I'm tired of waiting," I say, utterly bored of the television and hanging out in my neighbors house. I wanna go on FanFiction, but I'm not willing to repeat that mistake with the guys around.
"If he's not up by now, someone is going to have to…" Ike says with a sigh. He looks to Link, who quickly shakes his head, saying Ike should do it, but going up the stairs when Ike threatens to drag him up there.
"What's so bad about having to wake him up?" I ask.
"You don't know how bad…" Ike says, counting down and on 'one' a very high pitched whine of pain comes from upstairs.
"What the heck?" I say, jumping to my feet and looking upstairs. "What just happened?"
"Link didn't evacuate in time," Ike says simply, as if that explained it. I nod, Ike getting up and I following him upstairs. He gestures into Marth's temporary room, where Link was curled up in pain, holding the spot in between his legs and grimacing. I start giggling uncontrollably, looking at the blankets, the only indication of life being the steady rise and fall of his breathing.
"Link, you weren't fast enough…" Ike says with a grin, Link nodding from his little ball on the floor.
"What happened?' I ask with a laugh, Link stumbling to his feet and coming over, crossing his arms over his chest and slightly doubled-over.
"I tried to shake him awake… And he kicked out… And then there was pain…" He says pathetically, leaning on the door. I start laughing at him, Ike snickering and telling him he had told him to be fast.
"If you think it's so funny… You go do it…" Link growls, going back downstairs one step at a time.
"Well, your turn Paige!" Ike says, pushing me into the room.
"What?" I exclaim, trying to dig my heels into the hardwood floor, my sneakers sliding along. "Why me?"
"Because," Ike begins, "he can't aim when he's kicking at you." I turn fairly red, telling Ike he should do it, he rejecting that idea.
"That's so weird though!" I whine. A small hissing sound comes from inside the covers, telling us to shut up and go away.
"See, he's awake, I don't need to do anything!" I say quickly. Ike sighs, saying he'll be right back, leaving to go downstairs, I quickly exiting the room and watching as he comes back up, now holding a glass of water.
"When I die, it's your fault, for not waking him up," Ike says. I laugh, knowing where this is going and looking in, Marth pulling the covers off his head to tell us to go away. Ike takes the opportunity to dump the water on the young prince's head, bolting immediately afterwards and laughing like an idiot as Marth makes a sound of outrage, attempting to kick Ike, who was long gone by then. I quickly evacuate the general vicinity, not wanting to get caught in the cross-fire and laughing at how disgruntled he was.
*SSBB*
Marth comes down about fifteen minutes later, saying something about it being much too early to get up, Ike and Link taking cover behind the couch.
"Good morning sunshine," I say sarcastically, Marth glaring at me and threatening to pull Falchion on me. Ike, who is kicked back on the couch if only so Marth won't immediately see and destroy him, snorts and says that he could very well not be kidding.
"I am wet, and I am tired, and I am NOT in the mood for sarcasm," Marth growls.
"Yeah, well I'm dry, awake, and totally in the mood for sarcasm! Now that that's cleared up, I suggest we start our little kid search," I say with a smile, Marth looking like he's contemplating cutting all our heads up but mumbling his agreement. He goes to the fridge and rifles through my neighbor's food, eventually pulling out a Monster, seeing as it promised energy on the can, hesitantly trying it and deciding it won't kill him.
"Uhm, I wouldn't…" I trail off, looking to the Monster and shaking my head, telling him he's going to crash and getting to my feet. The guys look confused, but shake it off. Ike and Link decide its okay to come out by now, asking where we should go first. I pull out printed directions from the internet, looking down at them.
"Uhhhh… Well, Baskin Robins seems to be the closest… So we'll go there first!" I say. The boys nod, though the TV catches my attention a moment later, the news flickering on as if by magic. All of us jump when it does so.
"Does that always happen?" Link asks incredulously. "Because that'd be OVERLY annoying!" I assure him it doesn't and blame it on Wish, then tell him to shut up and listen.
"… And police are still searching for the pair of kids, yes, kids who are charged for assault. We are interviewing the victim now…" Oh joy… A haggard looking man with a scorch mark on his side and clutching his ribs sitting on a hospital bed appears on screen.
"They came in and started rifling through the comics, and when they tried to leave I told them they had to pay… They said that they *cough cough* didn't have any money, I told them to put it back or I would call the cops, so they attacked me…" And the TV suddenly dies. Okay. No Baskin Robins.
"Or, we'll go find them running from the cops…" I say, thinking as if in anime a sweat-drop would appear on my head. Ike sighs, saying it was probably Ness defending Lucas when the blond got scared.
"Go now you idiots, I didn't give you the hint for nothing!" Wish says (still with the creepy laugh-like voice, she doesn't even sound mad…) in my head.
"Or, we can go in like, a half an hour after we come up with a plan?" I suggest aloud, Link asking as opposed to what.
"Go now, or I'm going to switch the TV onto porn."
Needless to say, we left the house pretty quickly.
*SSBB*
Me: Hey! Finally, the plot is picking up! After burying it in humor… Anyways, I hope you enjoyed it!
Wish: You know you did. I made it so you did.
Link: SHE'S MAKING ME DO IT AGAIN, DAMNIT! Whatever, let's just get this over with…
To Juni:
Thank you for your review! Ever single one of them makes me smile! And thank you for understanding. I'll look out for Lyra the goddess of music for sure!
To CEObrainez:
Yeah, it would be a cool idea, but I did make it somewhat impossible... Anyways, thanks for the review and thank you for the awesome opportunity, I think I'll do so it…And thanks for putting my story on favorites and alerts too! Hope my story continues being good enough to stay there!
To thebeastifiedone:
Thanks, I hope I continue for it to be great! And yeah, Wish is a very strangely entertaining character XD. I know he has the Master Sword, though I didn't know if it had a special name or anything… Thanks for the help and the compliments, hope I continue to be great!
To SSBBrulez:
It's fine! Have a nice flight, and thanks for continuing to review, hope I stay entertaining!
Again with the gushing thanks! I am so getting Marth to do it next time…
Marth: Again, why me?