Authors Note: This is part 5 of my Super Smash Brothers: Bedwetters Cabin series. You can find the rest of it on my profile, but the order is Bedwetters Cabin, The Problem With the Milk Taunt, Baby Icarus, then Surprise Christmas! Oh, and thanks for reading!
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"What's all the commotion?" the Inkling boy, Blue, asked from his top bunk. "Can't you guys keep it down? It's not even 8am yet…"
Blue sat up and looked over to the bunk opposite him where Pit seemed to be busy stripping the sheets. Lower, standing on the ground, Toon Link and Lucas watched. The former of the boys was in his long blue pajama shirt, though the lower part of his back and butt seemed to be entirely drenched. He was looking down, suppressing tears, as Lucas patted his shoulder to comfort him.
"Toon Link just had a little accident," Pit told Blue, climbing off the bunk and heading for the laundry basket. "Go back to sleep."
"Again?" Blue sighed and collapsed back on his pillow. "That's gotta be the 5th time this week his 'little accident' has woken me up…"
"It hasn't been 5 times!" Toon Link finally piped up, turning to face Blue's bunk. "I'm still dry most nights, unlike some people!"
Blue flinched at this but didn't respond. The inkling couldn't be sure if it was a jab at him or not but he was beginning to think his roommates were starting to suspect he might wear diapers to bed.
"I think this has been the 6th night, actually…" Lucas whispered to Toon Link, trying not to let Blue hear. Lucas slept below Toon Link on the bottom bunk. Mercifully, Pit had put a plastic sheet on Toon Link's bed after the little Link started backsliding with more wet nights again, but that still didn't stop Lucas from usually waking up when cabin leader Pit changed his bunkmate's sheets.
Toon Link swallowed hard and stared at the floor. Just 10 minutes ago he was having a fantastic dream- he was back at Outset Island and swimming under the waterfall- but when he came to he realized he was swimming in a waterfall of his own making.
"That oughta do it," Pit said, putting his cellphone down on the nightstand next to his own twin bed. "We're out of clean sheets but I texted Isabelle and asked for some spares, hopefully she'll see it when she wakes up." A couple of doors over, in the girl's cabin, Isabelle received a text that was just a bed emoji next to a water droplet emoji.
"I'm sorry for waking you up again..." Toon Link told them.
Pit smiled and gave a comforting chuckle. "It's okay, everyone has accidents. That's why you're in this cabin, afterall. Now let's get you in the shower first, then Lucas can take one next."
Lucas gave his own embarrassed chuckle, looking down and seeing that the bulge from his own sleep diaper must have been obvious this morning.
Toon Link went to his locker and pulled out his normal attire, the green tunic, and headed for the bathroom before being interrupted by a soft knock and the opening of the bedroom door. "Gyeh?!" he squealed, dropping his clothes in surprise and looking around frantically for anywhere to run so as not to reveal his embarrassment. Thankfully, it was just Isabelle. She peaked her head through the door quietly to be sure the boys were awake.
"I brought the spare… Oh, Toon Link, what happened?"
Toon Link watched, mortified, as she set the spare sheets and bedding down and ran to him, giving him in a big furry hug. "You poor dear, I thought you'd grown out of this."
"I thought I had too…" Toon Link sighed, sniffling a little into the dog's vest. "But it just keeps happening…"
"Keeps happening?" Isabelle pulled away and asked, surprised.
Realizing he'd already said too much, Toon Link clammed up. Pit, on the other hand, was too responsible for that and betrayed his charge's secrets immediately. "Yeah, he's been on and off for months," he told her. "But these last few weeks it seems he's run into a streak of bad luck."
"You should have told me," Isabelle told them, more concerned than angry or upset.
"I'm sorry…" Toon Link said, well used to apologizing for his bedwetting to Pit and Lucas.
"It's okay, I just want to help," Isabelle responded. "We'll get you some new sheets and I can put in an order for some diapers, then we-"
"No diapers!" Toon Link suddenly shouted forcefully. It took Pit and Isabelle by surprise and it finally woke Popo, who poked his head out of the little fortress he'd made of his bunk under Blue.
Isabelle tried to calm him. "Well if you're having a lot of accidents at night then there's no shame in-"
"No diapers!" Toon Link insisted again, crossing his arms defiantly. His statement might have carried a bit more authority if the bottom of his shirt wasn't still soaking wet.
"Look, Link, there's no shame in it." Pit got down on one knee to address the smaller boy face to face. "You remember when I was wearing diapers after that incident with the Rewind Spring? And then there's Lucas and Blue, who still-"
"No diapers!" Toon Link stomped his foot again, cutting Pit off.
From his bunk, Blue gave a sigh of relief that Pit had been stopped before he could out him.
"I never wore diapers in the past," Toon Link explained, annoyed, "I didn't wear diapers when I was wetting the bed during Brawl and I'm not gonna wear them now!"
"You were having a lot less accidents back then," Lucas pointed out from his bunk.
Toon Link looked back at him, betrayed.
"H-hey, listen! I know what we can do!" Pit interjected before Toon Link could yell again. "When I was really young, Lady Palutena got me this cool calendar that would track my progress when I was potty training!" The fact that Pit could remember this first hand betrayed how late he was to become fully potty trained. "If I stayed dry at night it would add a sun sticker on the chart, but if I had an accident it would put a rain cloud on it instead. If you want I can see if she still has it and that way we can track your progress over the week!"
Toon Link looked at him blankly, his eyes asking, 'Are you serious?'
"Good idea, Pit!" Isabelle encouraged the angel, giving him head scratches as a reward. He seemed to like them. "At the end of the week we'll see how Link did and then decide if he needs diapers at night."
"Wait, but I definitely don't need diap-"
This time it was Toon Link's turn to be cut off. "And the extra motivation to get the sun stickers should help him stay dry too!" Pit pointed out, excited to finally have a good idea for once. "I'll go talk to Lady Palutena, you help change Link and I'll be back with the calendar!"
As Pit turned and ran out the door, Toon Link protested, "W-wait, I don't need the calendar! And I don't need help changing!"
Taking his hand, Isabelle started dragging Toon Link into the bathroom despite his protests. It seems his fate would be decided by the stickers on a calendar whether he liked it or not.
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Some time later, Isabelle emerged from the bathroom with a squeaky clean Toon Link in tow. His hair was wet but his clothes were at least dry now. Isabelle placed his pajamas in the hamper along with last night's sheets.
"How was your shower, Link?" Blue asked, queueing outside the bathroom door with a strategically placed towel around his waist to hide any bulk. "Isabelle get you all cleaned up?"
"Shush…" Toon Link complained. He was in no mood for this this morning.
"Hey...you know I'm just teasing," Blue insisted, suddenly taking a softer tone at seeing how hurt Toon Link was to his ribbing. "I know what she's like, protective...and a little invasive."
Toon Link looked up and gave a wry smile before Blue parted for his morning shower. Meanwhile Lucas sat on his bed, allowing Blue to jump ahead of him for a shower and clearly more content to just sort of hang out in his present state.
"So, whaddaya think?" Pit asked, climbing down from Toon Link's bed and admiring his handiwork from the ground floor.
Toon Link looked up. There were some new sheets, sure, but what really stood out to him was the new calendar that Pit had thumbtacked to the wall.
"Piiiit!" he complained, pushing past his winged friend and climbing the ladder to see for himself. "I told you, I don't need this! And everyone can see it when they enter our room!"
Toon Link studied his new bunk decoration. It was fairly infantile: blue with some flowers and a sun and a sky with the words "Potty Chart" printed in colourful letters at the bottom. In the middle of the calendar were a group of boxes, the first row of which there were 7 labeled 'night' with the first box already having a rain cloud sticker on it. More worrying for Toon Link was the box under it, which read, "Daytime."
"Daytime...?" Toon Link asked out loud. "Daytime?! Why is there a section for day?! I don't have accidents during the day, only at night!"
"It's all Palutena had!" Pit said, backing up a bit and putting his hands up in front of him as Toon Link grabbed his pillow to attack with. "Look, we can just ignore that part and focus on you staying dry at night!"
Toon Link put the pillow back down and crossed his arms. "You already put the first sticker on…"
"The calendar is magic, Lady Palutena conjured it herself," Pit explained. "I asked her to bind it to you, so if you're dry it will automatically add a sun sticker and if you have an accident it will add a rain cloud. And remember, you wet your bed this morning so-"
"You don't have to remind me!" Toon Link rolled his eyes and started climbing back down.
"Sorry…" Pit apologized.
"It might help, actually. Reminding him, that is..."
Toon Link and Pit's gaze shifted to the next bed where Popo was un-iglooing his bottom bunk by taking down the sheets he'd put up around it. "Sometimes when me and Nana share a bed I'll set an alarm and wake her up in the middle of the night to try and potty. She's usually dry all night so long as I manage to wake her up in time."
Toon Link was mortified. Sure they were all roommates, but his bedwetting was HIS problem, not his roommates! He wanted to tell Popo to mind his own business but he knew his friend was just trying to help. Before he could say anything, however, Pit jumped in.
"Great idea, Popo!" he said, hitting his hand with a closed fist. "I'll set an alarm and take Link to go potty tonight!"
"To go pee!" Toon Link corrected him, his cheeks burning red at being spoken of like a toddler. "I don't need to go potty, I need to go pee," he insisted.
"You mean like...right now?" Pit asked, looking toward the bathroom door where Blue was still showering. "Can you hold it or should we maybe ask Cabin A to use their potty?"
Toon Link squinted angrily at his well-meaning but entirely too stupid cabin leader. "Just...nevermind! I've got a match to get to."
"I hope he makes it in time…" Pit said as Toon Link walked out the door.
All Popo could do was facepalm.