More Than A Guardian

Okay that montage didn't go particularly well so let's just move on…

Disclaimer: I'm a student typing this on a laptop that will overheat soon, so you really think I own anything?

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"Getting Strong now

Gonna fly bzzt!"

That "Bzzt!" sound you just heard was Peach's golf club shattering a speaker. Master Hand still hadn't given up with his montage idea and it had driven Samus to frustration. There was only one person in a spandex jumpsuit who liked these cheesy songs and it wasn't her so what better way to test the two princess' stronger attacks then to have them destroy every last speaker of the sound system around the arena that kept playing the same three 80's montage tracks over and over and over… interspersed with a bit of Twisted Sisters' "You can't stop rock and roll" whenever Crazy Hand, Master Hand's crazier twin who Samus had spotted in Master Hand's office one time making erratic gestures and bad joker, got hold of the sound track.

Can't stop rock and roll? Apparently you could with a golf club.

"That's enough for this morning. Meet back in the training room in 3 hours, until then do whatever you want."

"My sound system! My beautiful, expensive sound system! What have you done to it?" Master hand wailed as Samus walked past him. Not letting him see the small smirk under her visor.

"Put it to good use." She said coolly.

"I'll get you for this Samus! Sooner or later you will pay for my sound system! Not that soon because I still need you at this moment in time! But eventually! Like locking you out of the mansion once its up and running with Captain Falcon in the rain and there's going to be so much sexual tension that you'll be so embarrassed and they'll make jokes about you two getting it on out there even though there will be no evidence whatsoever and that any contact between the two of you will probably be the result of some violence and then you'll have the shippers… you'll just regret messing with me!" Master Hand threatened, loosing the point a bit before re-grouping.

"Right, good to know." She said, pressing forward to the cafeteria.

"GAAH!" MH shouted as Samus collected her lunch before sitting down next to Link.

"So how did the match with Jigglypuff go Link?" She asked.

"Could have gone better, fortunately it fell asleep for some reason while just a few inches away from me. Don't know what it was trying to do, but I managed to send it over the edge before it woke up."

"Right."

"Haven't seen you have a match recently though."

"I've been busy. I've been roped in to helping Master Hand, no other missions had come up and this one gets me more money without having to buy extra ammunition."

"Ugh, don't remind me about his plan. I have to get to Hyrule at some point but he seems to be set on keeping us all here for a good long time. God knows what has happened there while I've been here."

"Got a girlfriend back on your planet?"

"Well no, not really. Have a few friends that happen to be girls but no actual girl-friend." Link explained, trying to prevent a blush from forming.

Girl-friends but no girlfriend? Fox would probably call him a 'playa' if he found out.

"It's just I hope to really get back to see if I can stop the Princess from getting here, if its not too late."

"And if it is?"

"Pray that everything hasn't turned into anarchy without a monarch."

"I think we need to talk in private."

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"So how did you get here?" Peach asked, it had all gone so quickly that she hadn't had that much time to get to know her fellow royalty.

"I'm not sure myself, first I received an invitation with instructions to go to the balcony at a certain time. At first I thought it was some trick from Bowser to kidnap me again but there was this flash and then I met you."

"A similar thing happened to me as well. It's strange, that this Master Hand would go through all this effort if not for ransom payments."

"Maybe he's just a friendly person. If you asked he would probably send you back without much worrying."

"Hmm…" Zelda wondered. If they were just looking for fighters there must have been plenty more people to abduct. Impa was her mentor when training to survive the seven years, Nabooru was one of the most skilled swordswomen of the Gerudo. Why her of all people if not for ransom or to take over Hyrule. Something was up here. If she could get enough time to herself maybe she could figure it out.

"Look Samus… I'm glad that it's you who's training her and not some pervert who'd use this to take advantage of them. I just… don't think this is the right place for her." The two princesses heard, stopping them in their tracks.

"Are they talking about us?" Peach asked.

"Well she's actually doing well with the training. Surprised me the way she was able to keep up with some of the things, much better than Peach was at any rate."

"It's not that, I know that she can be a decent fighter. It's just; the last time she had to fight at all was probably the worst time in her life. I don't want her to have to remember every bit, the hardships that she went through, and him."

"Him?"

"Ganondorf. What he did was… I don't really want to talk about it."

"You think that learning how to fight is going to remind her about the time she had to. So you want me to stop training her?"

"That's her decision not mine. If she really wants to be a part of this then I won't stop her."

"Are you sure there's nothing going on between you two? You seem more concerned about her than just fear of her getting hurt." Samus asked.

"Is there?" Zelda whispered to herself.

"Zelda?" Peach asked concerned that her new friend had spaced out.

"I think we've eavesdropped on them long enough." Zelda said abruptly before quickly leaving a confused Peach standing alone in the corridor.

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And now I've gone and dropped a serious romantic sub-plot to this comedy. I hope it wasn't too ham-fisted attempt.