Here's the next chapter! I'll update again tomorrow!

Enjoy!

"Zelda!"

Zelda froze in the middle of walking down the hall. She knew that voice...

And all of a sudden Link was barrelling towards her, throwing himself at Zelda as soon as he was within range. Zelda, quick to react, spun around to send him a precise kick to the ribs. Link went flying back, sliding a few feet down the hall before coming to a stop in front of Marth.

The blue-haired knight looked from Link to Zelda at the end of the hall. The two stared at each other.

It was then that Ganondorf appeared.

"Good job, Kirby!" Ganondorf exclaimed, clamping Zelda on the shoulder before striding down the hall to stop before the two young men, "I heard we had intruders, but you've already apprehended them!"

"Kirby?" Link scrunched up his nose in confusion, glancing from Ganondorf to Zelda and back. Then he shook his head, "That's not Kirby. That's Zelda."

Ganondorf, hands clasped behind his back, frowned down at Link, "No, it's Kirby. My master of disguise."

But Link wasn't convinced, "It's Zelda. Only Zelda would react like that when I try to touch her. It's an impulse- she can't help it."

Ganondorf regarded Link skeptically, "Very well. Show me."

Link jumped to his feet and strode towards Zelda. When he was close he reached for her shoulders, fully intending to try and kiss her, like he always tried to do. He never succeeded. She'd always hit him or blast him away. If she did that now, Ganondorf would know she wasn't Kirby. But if she didn't...

Zelda gritted her teeth and squeezed her eyes shut. She couldn't take on Ganondorf one on one in his own fortress, and now that Marth and Link had shown up, she'd need to keep up the charade to save them.

Zelda waited, hands balled into fists at her side, vowing to blast Link into oblivion the moment they were safe.

When the touch on her shoulders came, it wasn't what she expected. In fact, it was more of a shove. A really, really hard shove, coming from her right. So hard a shove she was sent flying back into the wall.

Zelda's eyes flew open, only to find Marth a few feet away from her, arms outstretched and breathing heavily. Link was beside him, gawking.

But hadn't Marth been at the other end of the hall? Suddenly Zelda's eyes widened.

Had he actually just... hit her?

Zelda's vision went red as the air crackled around her, "What the hell did you do that for?"

Seconds after the words were out, Zelda clamped her hands over her mouth, eyes quickly finding the gaping Ganondorf, whose surprise immediately turned to rage.

"ZELDA!"

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Meanwhile, Back at Smash Stadium, Pichu and Young Link had snuck past the Jigglypuff Secretaries and were on their way to the Temple District.

Once they arrived, Young Link pulled out a GPS.

Moments later, he was running for Marth and Roy's apartment, "This way!"

Pichu followed and minutes later, after using the key Zelda had intrusted her with, the pokemon burst inside. Young Link ran past her, straight to Marth's room, where he took out his GPS.

"He should be..." Young Link mumbled looking around, "Right here..." he focussed on the closet, throwing it open and finding Marth's black armour.

"Here it is!" he exclaimed, removing the tracking device from the gear.

Pichu gawked at him. Then she started to shout.

It was around this time that Kirby, who had heard the voices, poked his head into Marth's bedroom.

"Ack!" Young Link exclaimed in horror, pointing at Kirby, "It's too cute!"

Pichu glanced over her shoulder and narrowed her eyes. In seconds she was sitting on top of Kirby, trying to squish it but failing.

"How dare you!" she shrieked, "First you try to steal my spot as cute sidekick, then when you fail to my bond with Zelda, you kidnap her!"

Kirby looked up at Pichu in puzzlement, "Buyoo?"

"That's right, boyo!" Pichu went on, "This is all your fault! Now where's Zelda?"

Kirby frowned his little cute frown and looked around. Then drooped forward with a sullen, "Buyoo..."

"Yeah, I know she's not here!" Pichu snapped, "That's 'cause you took her somewhere else!"

Kirby glanced up at Pichu with wide eyes, then nodded. The motion sent Pichu tumbling to the ground. Quickly regaining her balance, Pichu spun around and glared at Kirby again, "Take us to her right now you pink stress ball!"

Kirby blinked at Pichu a moment, then sat down with a thump, his little lip wobbling, and started to tear up.

Pichu jumped back in surprise, "H-hold on!" she stuttered, "Don't cry! You're the bad guy! You're not supposed to cry!"

Kirby tried to rub at his eyes, but they started shining with tears again the moment his stubby arms fell away.

"Wait..." Pichu murmured, peering at Kirby, "Do you... feel bad about what you did?"

Thinking Pichu meant stealing Zelda's dinner, Kirby nodded. At the response, Pichu shifted uncomfortably, then she stole herself for a speech.

"Look," she began, sour at first but quickly getting into it, "I might not have liked you at first, but I can't deny it: you're cute. Really, really cute. Not quite as cute as me, but... Never mind that. The point is, right now Zelda's in trouble, and you're the only one who can save her and, well, seeing as you were her temporary cute sidekick, and I'm her permanent cute sidekick, it's kind of our responsibility to team up." Pichu paused, mulled something over a moment, then extracted an object from her green backpack and handed it to Kirby, "See that? That's the cute sidekick badge. It means you're an official member of the team. I have one too."

Kirby stared at the badge with large eyes. It was circular, with one word imprinted in the centre: kawaii.

"Can I have one?" Young Link asked.

"No." Pichu snapped, "You don't meet the qualifications." then back to Kirby with a smile, "So, what do you say?"

Kirby looked from the badge to Pichu with shining eyes, "Buyoo!

Pichu sure can ramble, can't she? Anyways, thanks for reading! :)