"Prime, c'mon lemme go. I just wanna see her." The cat-eyed pre-teen pleaded to his "big brother." After the discovery of a new assist trophy a few days prior, it seemed all Toon Link could do was rave over the red-clad witch known as 'The Great and Powerful Ashley!'
"Bro, last time you 'just wanted to see her'", he said with air quotes, "You ended up making Sonic green! I don't even know how you managed that!"
Toon blushed at the memory of what had occurred just the day before. He wondered if the now correctly colored hedgehog would still be annoyed.
"Well yeah, but come on, you have to admit that it was pretty funny. And, it's not my fault a thread of my cloak fell in that potion thing!" Toon's face flushed. "Please!" He said flashing his most pleading look.
"No," Link groaned, "not the puppy dog eyes! Or, would those be kitty-cat eyes, actually...?"
Eventually he caved, rolling his blue eyes as he let go of his smaller counterpart's shoulder.
"Fine, but I'm taking no responsibility for anything you two screw up, so don't come crying to me, 'kay?" He shooed off his younger brother.
Toon's face lit up as he gave Link Prime a goofy smile, running off and yelping in excitement like a mad man. Link sighed heavily once more, shaking his head and face-palming. Darn, that smile. The way it stuck to the little boy's face made it quite endearing. Yet somewhere in his Triforce-blessed heart, the young man knew that the two small tricksters would get into trouble. Again. And he'd have to get them out of trouble with the other smashers... Again.
He didn't even bother to tell Toon not to stay up too late. In spite of their age difference, both warriors knew the others could stay wide awake for days at a time.
"Ashley! Sorry I'm late! Prime was being all uncompromising again." Toon chuckled, yelling towards the impatient looking girl as he ran through the large, wide halls of the Brawl mansion.
"Sssshhhhhh! Shut up!" The girl said, her voice raising just above a whisper. "You'll wake him!"
Toon's tilted his head, his puzzled expression asking his question for him. Ashley pointed toward the nearby bed. Toon's face turned to one of giddy excitement as he looked to the sleeping face of their next "target".
Fox McCloud.
"Ooooh." he smirked. "What's the plan?" He inquired.
"It's not McCloud we're after," She said her lips curving upward in a devilish manner, " It's his... reflection device, thing...what's it called again?"
Toon raised a finger as if to answer, before realizing that if he'd ever known the answer to that, he'd long forgotten.
"I forgot."
"Whatever! I've seen him use it, and it looks like it'd be fun to screw around with." She giggled in a way that most people would describe a "maniacal". Toon's smile grew slightly more nervous, though he totally agreed with his friend's sentiment.
"That does sound like it'd make a cool toy." Toon said, staring directly at the pilot's belt. "But, uh, we're gonna give it back before he wakes up, right?"
"Maybe?" Ashley said with a shrug. It was more of a question than a confirmation. "Depends when we get bored. Why, is your worrywart brother rubbing off on you?"
"Well, you know..." Toon said, rubbing the back of his head nervously. "He says that you can be a bad influence."
The boy petered out, expecting Ashley to respond. An awkward silence fell when she didn't, and proceeded to look around at anything but the boy, rubbing her arm nervously.
"...Do you think that?" She asked.
Toon grew a panicked look and raised his hands.
"No! No way, I-!"
The boy stopped as Fox stirred in his bed, the duo's volume obviously growing too high.
The two panicked slightly, before Ashley calmed herself, taking a deep breath. "Stand back." She said beckoning Toon Link backward.
"Levioso." She muttered, the red orb on her wand glowing. Slowly but surely the reflector unhooked from the belt and floated over into the expectant hands of the young Hylian.
"Got it!" Toon almost yelped before catching himself. He started trembling with his hands over is mouth, dropping the reflector. Ashley winced at the sound of the shiny metal weapon clanking on the floor. Fox stirred yet again.
"No," he muttered, clearly having some kind of involved dream, "no dad I'm wanna keep my legs..."
The two kids both leaned down to pick up the reflector, their hands brushing as they did.
"Oh..." Toon said, withdrawing his hand and blushing.
"Um...yeah! I mean...yeah, sure." Ashley muttered, her face equally pink.
The two of them stood silently for a moment, before a snore from Fox sent them scurrying down the halls.
Once the two were outside of the building, the pair stopped running, panting a bit. Ashley looked up at her friend, tossing the reflector up and down satisfactorily. She looked curiously as Toon payed no attention to her, looking instead up at the night sky above them. She walked over to him, looking from him to the starry blackness.
"You know," the boy said dreamily, "if there's one think I'm glad I don't have to miss from back home, it's the night sky. Usually, I was too busy rushing around trying to stop Ganondorf to just, look at it. It's...really beautiful..."
Ashley looked again at the boy's face, remarking to herself that she'd never get tired of that little smile of his, before nudging him with a smile of her own.
"Hey Space-Case," she said, snapping Toon back to reality and tossing him the reflector, "let's have some fun!"
With that she leaped backward, Toon admiring her grace as she landed softly and pointed her wand at him. Without warning, she shot a fireball from the wand, Toon yelping as he fiddles with the reflector and narrowly dodges the thing. His hat was not so lucky, and Ashley couldn't stifle the laugh that came as Toon took a moment to realize the tip was still alight.
"AGH! I wasn't ready!" The boy whined as he put the flame out. He then activated the reflector, as he'd seen Fox do countless times. "Ok. Now, I'm ready!"
Ashley let her laughter die down as she fired yet another, much larger fireball, which flew at the boy, before bouncing harmlessly off the prism of light and blew a nearby tree to smithereens. Toon looked up, having crouched slightly unconsciously, as Ashley gave a low whistle of approval.
Grinning, Toon pulled out his boomerang and aiming meticulously, before tossing it. Predictably, it bounced off of the shield, but when the green clad hero avoided it's return it flew in an arc back to the protected girl. It rebounded off the reflector countless times before it flew in a wide enough arc for Toon to grab it, shaking his wrist in slight discomfort.
"Whoa." Ashley said, deactivating the reflector and staring impressed at the boy, holding it close to her chest. "How did you do that? You did do that on purpose, right?"
"Totally." Toon said with a cheerful grin. His eyes then widened, before he ran up to Ashley and grabbed her hand, pulling her closer to a nearby tree. He let go before grabbing a nearby rock and hiking up the tree, not noticing Ashley's intense blush at the contact.
"Turn it on." He said, and Ashley shook her head vigorously before doing just that. Toon then dropped the rock, letting it plummet onto the shield, where it then went rocket back up, then down again and on. It seemed to rise higher and fall faster with every bounce, all the while the two children giggled. After a while, they were certain it wouldn't be coming back down.
"Move over. Just, to the left a bit."
Ashley did as she was told, before Toon fired an arrow at her, which thanks to her particular angle ricocheted off and hit the bullseye on a target they'd drawn on the tree. The two shared a grin, before Ashley tossed the reflector to Toon and moved over to him slowly.
"Why do you suppose it's only projectiles that get reflected?" She asked, poking him lightly through the field with the end of her wand.
"ACK!" Toon yelled, giggling at the contact. "N-No idea-ah!"
It took Ashley a moment to realize why her prodding had affected him so. Of course he would be ticklish. A devilish smile came to her face as she continued to poke him.
"Wait! W-wait!" The blonde gasped between laughs, "No, come on! Dooooon't."
He ran off, the girl giving chase as neither of them payed much attention to the fact that the sun was rising around them.
That was, until Toon fell into a laughing heap on the ground, looking up at Ashley and admitting how the sunrise shaded the girl.
"Ooh, ooh, catch!" He said, tossing the reflector. Once she had activated it, he tossed a bomb which bounced off haphazardly and went flying into one of the mansion's nearby windows.
The two kids had just enough time to exchange a nervous glance before the bomb exploded and the and a sharp yell could be heard.
"That sounded like a chicken of some kind." Ashley noted.
"I think it was Pit." Toon said. "We should probably apologize."
"Really? I was just going to run."
"TOON LIIIIINK!" Came the yell of both Link Prime and Master Hand from two separate directions.
"Let's run to apologize." Ashley said.
"Right."
Toon took Ashley's hand yet again and the two ran into the building, hoping to avoid any angry authority figures. Toon was slightly more panicked in his gait, while Ashley chuckled at the angelic smasher's misfortune. Unbeknownst to the boy, she stole a glance back at the tree they had used for target practice.
She decided she liked that tree.
A/N: I'm sorry that both of our crossovers are so late. I got caught up in other fanfics,(including one for my birthday), then I got all lazy/obsessed with Power Rangers and mlp over break, and then I studied/lost sleep with the state test. Darn, I hate the DOE, always keeping the creative minds down.
Back on topic, I'm so sorry, and my brother and I sincerely hope you enjoy. We tried to make Ashley a little Tsundere, so review and favorite if you liked that. Or review, follow and fav, if you liked anything. It's really appreciated...
Okay, I know I'm rambling but does anyone else think Pit sounds like a chicken if you hit him hard enough, or is that just us?
*annoyed death glares from readers*
Okay, I love You, Bye-Bye!