Spencer woke that morning, then grinned, for it was a Saturday and he didn't need to go to work. He got up, ran his fingers through his shaggy brown hair, and looked around his room.
It wasn't really special, he had a metal shelf in the corner of the room, that had all sorts of things on it that he hadn't bothered to put elsewhere. Beside it was a desk, littered with drawings, mostly of game characters. There was also a desk that had his Computer on it, on the wall behind was a map of Cyrodiil, a poster of a Robot tearing out another robot's wires, and a screen shot of Midna. The screen shot was taken while Midna taunted Link after their first meeting with princess Zelda.
After eating breakfast, he decided he would go walk to the grocery store and get some food. He couldn't live on toaster waffles forever.
He was walking down the street, passing a run-down looking building when he heard someone whispering to him. "Psst, hey you, come here, it's your lucky day!" He turned around and sure enough, an old man was sticking his head out the side door of the run-down building. "Why would I want to go in there?" Spencer asked. He obviously didn't trust the old man. "Here" The old man tossed a pistol at Spencer, and he caught it. "If you think I'm dangerous, use that to protect yourself. You might need it anyway." The old man explained. Spencer, thinking that if he's got a gun he can protect himself, followed the odd man inside.
"Today is your lucky day, boy." The old man was talking to him as they walked through the building. "I have created a machine that will change your life." He stopped at the so-called 'Machine'. There was a computer sitting on a wooden desk, with cords leading from it to... a thing that looked, and smelled, a lot like a portable toilet. "This machine can teleport you anywhere you want, fictional or not, and any given time. Just type in the Place and Time in that computer over there. Thinking this was a joke, Spencer decided to play along. He typed in 'Gerudo desert, Mirror chamber, Ending of Twilight Princess' "Go on in, shut the door, and wait to be teleported" said the old man. He was grinning as if he was on ecstasy. Spencer walked in, but he didn't shut the door. The old man slammed the door shut the second he was in, and Spencer heard him locking the door shut. 'Shit,' Spencer thought, 'I can't believe I fell for that!' Spencer then heard a whirring sound, as if the odd man had just turned on a bunch of electric equipment. There was a blinding flash, then the odd man opened the door. Spencer was gone.
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Spencer rubbed his eyes, still stinging from the blinding flash. 'Ow, right when I was least expecting it!'
"Link... I... See you later..."
The words snapped Spencer back to reality. He looked up, and saw that he was across the mirror chamber from Midna herself, who had just shed a tear.
'Holy shit, it worked! There's only one thing to do now!'
Spencer started at a run towards the Mirror. If he could make it in time, he could prevent the mirror from breaking. Midna pushed the tear forward gently, it started it's journey to the mirror. 'Shit!' Thought Spencer. He was halfway across the Mirror chamber, he had not yet gotten anyone's attention. Midna ran up the steps the be teleported back into the Twilight Realm. The tear was drawing ever closer. 'Shit, shit, shit!' Spencer cursed himself, he was almost there. He leaped up onto the platform, and jumped in front of the mirror...
He was too early. He flew by, crashing into Zelda, whom shrieked at being dove into, then he got up and leaped for the mirror. But he was too late. The mirror started to crack, and all he could do was look at the shocked expression on Midna's face as she was teleported into the Twilight Realm. The mirror finally exploded, a fist-sized shard (probably the biggest one there) hitting Spencer in the back of the head. Despite his recently acquired head-wound, he got up and ran to where the holographic platform was, dived headlong into the fading portal, and quite predictably slammed right into the slab of rock, being knocked out as he landed on the sand below.
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Spencer woke to the sound of something hitting the wall. Repeatedly. He opened his eyes and found himself in a room, presumably in an Inn. The sound was in fact Link, across the room, hitting his head against the wall.
"Why SMACK didn't I SMACK Tell her?!"
He retired from beating his head against the wall, to flop down on the bed Spencer wasn't Laying on. Memories suddenly flooded back to Spencer, the Odd man, Midna, Diving into Zelda, getting a glass shard shot at his head, then diving headlong into a giant slab of stone. He felt the back of his head, and sure enough, there was a bandage covering the back of his head. He groaned, and this caught Link's attention.
"Oh, you're awake." Link got up and walked over to Spencer, the sat in a chair beside the bed. Link's eyes were red, he had obviously been sobbing. "I have a question for you." He said. "How did you get in the Mirror chamber so quickly without anyone noticing you?"
Spencer though for a moment, and decided that after what he knew Link had been through, he would believe him. "I.. uh, I am not entirely sure, but I'll tell you what I can." Spencer told Link of what happened since the Old man beckoned him to come into the old building. "Really..." Link didn't really look like he believed Spencer. "Well, that would explain the odd clothing, except for the Triforce on the shirt you're wearing." Link pondered this a moment, then asked: "How do you know that was Midna? How do you even know her name?" This question struck Spencer while he was off-gaurd. "What? I don't remember saying anything in the Mirror chamber." He said. "You were talking in your sleep." Link said, "You were saying something about how you needed to stop her, to stop the tear from breaking the Mirror." Spencer was struck dumb. Should he tell Link everything in this world is in a game?
"Well... it's kind of complicated. In my world, there are these things called video games. In these video games the user got to experience a different world. There was one such video game called 'The Legend of Zelda: the Twilight Princess." He said. Link was obviously unnerved about his answer. He looked away. "Just how much do you know?" He asked. Spencer gulped. "Everything" He said, "from the point where you were called to herd the goats the day before Twilight swept over Hyrule, to the moment the Mirror shattered." Spencer felt uneasy, he couldn't imagine just realizing someone had been watching him for a long time. Link went back to his bed, and flopped down on it again. Spencer got up and decided to talk walk outside to see where he was.
As he emerged from the Inn, he realized he was in the middle of castle town. He looked across the street and saw the Malo Mart, and decided to see what they had.
The music and dancing people were even more annoying from a first person perspective. He looked over to the counter, and looked on the shelf. He saw
bottles full of red and blue liquid, a Hylian shield, and a sword. He dumped his money out on the counter, looking at the colored Canadian dollar bills before him. The cashier walked up him, and looked at the money. "What's all this then?" He asked. 'I'd like to buy that sword over there" Spencer replied. "With what may I ask?" Ask the cashier. Spencer cursed himself silently for forgetting that Hylians use Rupees. He cleaned up his money and walked out, a couple other customers were whispering about him. Probably about the clothes or rounded ears. Or maybe even the head bandage.
He returned to his room at the Inn, to see Zelda talking to Link. "Oh, hello." She turned around to address him. She had her leg in a splint, presumably broken from Spencer crashing into her. "Sorry about landing on you." Spencer said. "Yeah, I was going to ask you about that," She said, "why did you dive into me?" Link snickered, but Zelda didn't hear him. "Oh, err... I was actually trying to stop the mirror from breaking. Sorry about hitting you in the process." Spencer said. "Well, Link has told me about your predicament, and I thought you wouldn't have any Rupees on you." She tossed a bag at Spencer, that contained a few orange Rupees. "Thanks, it's not everyday a guy ends up in a different world." Spencer said. "I'm also probably going ot need a place to stay." "You can come with me, I'm going to travel into the woods south of Ordon to live there. I don't know if I can live here with what happened yesterday..." Link walked past Spencer to get his equipment ready. "Nice meeting you, Zelda." Spencer said.
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After Link had gotten ready and Spencer bought what he desired from the Malo mart, the made their way to Ordon, then shortly afterwards they traveled further south and built a cabin there. The lived there without noticeable incident for 5 years...