In the middle of the ocean there are no bathrooms, no alleyways to duck behind to relieve yourself, and no rules about public urination. Thus it was a habit of Toon Link's to stop his boat whenever he felt the urge, ask the King of Red Lions (his boat) to politely look away, and then relieve himself over the side. Today was no different as he sailed along the infinite sea and felt the breeze on his face.
"Hey, can you stop a second?" he asked his boat, holding his aching bladder with the hand not holding the sail.
"Again?" the king asked, slowing down.
"We're not in a hurry, right? I gotta potty!" Toon Link answered. He stood up, lifted his tunic, and then thought a second. 'Potty? Why would I say potty? Something doesn't feel-"
"Pssst, Link. Come on, let's try and potty..."
Toon Link suddenly snapped awake- out from under the vast sky and into a small dark room. Just inches from his face was Pit, who looked equally tired as he shook him awake.
"Hey buddy, let's try and use the potty real quick, alright?" Pit prodded gently.
"I don't gotta pee…" Toon Link complained. He closed his eyes again and almost just as quickly fell back asleep.
Vigilantly, Pit pulled back Toon Link's covers to find the younger boy was sleeping with both of his hands clutched in his lap, holding on for dear life.
"Common," Pit urged him, pulling Toon Link by his shoulder to try and get him to wake up. "Let's just try. It couldn't hurt, right?"
"Sleepy…" Toon Link groaned, turning onto his side and away from Pit.
"Just sit on the potty for a few minutes for me, okay? Or at least so we don't add another rain cloud to your calendar."
Toon Link, having finally come awake with the realization that he was about to burst, quickly rolled over to face Pit, which threw Pit off balance and sent him tumbling to the floor with a thud.
"Augh!" he cried, landing straight on his butt.
"Crap, I'm so-" Toon Link started to apologize when all of a sudden he saw Lucas jump from his bed and into battle position, his PK energy flowing from him and lighting up the room. A second later, Blue and Popo were also on the ground and ready for battle.
"Who's there? Show yourself!" Lucas demanded, looking down to see Pit had been attacked and trying to find the villain who did so.
"I'll MESS you up! You came to the wrong neighborhood!" Popo threatened.
"Hey, it's okay!" Pit told them quickly, standing up and rubbing his sore butt. The 3 other boys, still full of adrenaline, breathed a sigh of relief as Pit explained, "I was trying to wake Link up before he wet the bed and I accidentally fell off. Sorry..."
All eyes went up to Toon Link, who looked like a deer in the headlights.
After a few seconds of tense breathing, Lucas broke the ice with an awkward, "So did it work or...do you need help changing sheets?"
"I'm not wet!" Toon Link insisted, jumping up on his bed to show the front of his pajamas were in fact dry. He managed to keep the pose confidently for a moment before suddenly grabbing himself and shooting down the ladder.
"But I gotta go!" he gasped, running off toward the bathroom and nearly tripping over some toys they'd been playing with earlier. "Sorry Pit, sorry everyone! Go back to bed!"
"I'll go make sure he's okay…" Pit said while still rubbing his butt. He sneaked off to the bathroom to wait while Popo, Lucas, and Blue all gave each other a look before getting back in their beds to try and sleep.
In the bathroom, Toon Link finished up and flushed the toilet before checking for leaks. His shorts were fine, but his undies weren't quite an ideal amount of dry. It was clearly wet on the front and, once he pulled his shorts back up, he could still feel the wet cold fabric on his skin and it didn't feel pleasant at all.
He washed his hands and left the bathroom, taking a few steps back to his bunk before a sudden noise caused him to jump in place from surprise. If it had happened 2 minutes earlier he'd have definitely left a puddle.
"How'd it go?" Pit asked.
Putting a hand over his heart to calm himself, Toon Link flipped around. "Just fine!" he said.
"Oh my goddess, did I scare you? I'm sorry," Pit said, putting his hands on Toon Link to calm him while also subtly checking the boy didn't have any visible wet spots.
Toon Link breathed deeply, calming down. "Nono, I'm sorry...for the bed thing...and knocking you onto the floor."
Pit gave a quiet laugh. "Hardly any pain at all for an angel like me!" He bragged, being boisterous so that Toon Link wouldn't feel as bad. "Anyway, let's try and get back to sleep. You have an early fight tomorrow, don't you?"
Toon Link nodded and said his goodnights before climbing back into his bed. He wondered what time it was, if the other kids were still asleep, if they were mad at him, and- most importantly- if he could sneak down to his locker to get some dryer underwear. Sleeping like this felt disgusting and for that reason, as well as the other things on his mind, sleep seemed to evade little Toon Link until the early morning sun was already shining through his window.
o-o-o
"Congratulations, Toon Link!" Pit applauded.
An extremely tired Toon Link looked out through his bedhead stricken blonde hair at the overly-excited angel just a few inches from his face.
"This is your first dry night in over a week, you've really earned this sticker," Pit encouraged him, pointing to the sun sticker on the calendar.
Toon Link unceremoniously turned his head and stared blankly at the sticker. He was tired and annoyed at the ever-upbeat Pit but he actually gave a small smile of achievement at seeing the sun sticker on his chart.
He quickly shook the smile off his face. "I'm still tired…" he complained to Pit.
Pit gave a laugh and climbed down. "Well get up and get dressed, you've got a match in an hour. Maybe splash some water on your face or get some coffee, that'll wake you up," he said, preoccupied with making sure the other boys were waking up and getting ready as well.
Giving a lion-like yawn, Toon Link climbed down the stairs to start his day.
Pit took another second to look at his old calendar. The day before had a rain cloud from Toon Link's night time incident but there was a bright sun on the daytime portion of the calendar, as was to be expected. But this morning's sun sticker had a small cloud in front of it, a sign that all didn't go quite according to plan. Pit decided he'd let it slide for now.
o-o-o-o
In the yard outside of Smash Manor, Toon Link was laying against a tree under the shade with his counterpart, Young Link, and the inkling girl, Orange. He was enjoying his Brewsters Coffee, courtesy of Villager, while the cute couple next to him was laughing, joking, and generally being their lovey-dovey gross selves. Being that Young Link was just another iteration of Toon Link, Toon wondered if one day he might be willing to risk getting cooties like his counterpart?
'Yuck…'
"So Toon, how'd your match with Sephiroth go?" Orange asked, snapping Toon Link out of his little trance.
"Huh?" he asked, taking a second to process it and going into his normal happy-go-lucky mode. "Oh, it went great!"
"Really?" Young Link asked. "I was watching on the CRT and it looked a little rough."
Toon Link gave a big sigh and nodded. "Actually yeah…" he admitted. "...I didn't get a ton of sleep last night. Sephiroth is scary on a normal day, but after what happened last night I was barely awake enough to hold my sword. He totally whooped me..."
"What happened last night?" Orange asked, a devious little grin forming with the question.
"Last night?" Toon Link echoed, caught off guard. "Oh, uhhhh nothing! I just uh...too much coffee kept me up, yeah! I tried doubling down with coffee before the match and it didn't really help."
Orange nodded, not convinced but accepting the answer.
"Now that you mention it, you look pretty tired," Young Link said, admiring the bags under Toon's eyes. "Maybe you should go take a nap?"
"I don't need a nap!" Toon Link insisted. "I just need another few minutes for the coffee to work."
"Well tired or not, Sephiroth isn't too bad once you learn how to fight him," Young Link started to explain. "Early in the match he can't recover as well, so you've just got to-"
Toon Link pretended to listen as he took a sip and rested his eyes, just for a moment.
…
"Woomy?!"
Toon Link stirred a little, his 'just a moment' going on for many more moments more than he'd planned.
"I think he's wetting himself- I'll go get Isabelle!"
"Orange, wait!"
Toon Link started opening his eyes slowly to see the blurry images of Orange and Young Link standing over him.
"But look, he's peeing all over himself! Shouldn't we go get someone to help clean him up?"
"What…?" Toon Link asked, taking a second to register what they were saying and why his butt was suddenly getting warmer. Putting 2 and 2 together, he quickly jumped up and tried to stem the flow with all his might. "Ah! Make it stop!" he cried, shoving both hands between his legs as the stream kept pooling down toward his shoes.
"Make it stop?! What do you expect us to do!?" Young Link chastised him, watching as Toon Link helplessly flooded his pants. "Just stop peeing!"
"I can't! Just…" Toon Link sighed as the last little bit escaped him. "Nevermind...I stopped it…"
"You stopped it? Or…" Orange asked.
Both Links shot a look at her to say that now wasn't the time.
"Woomy, sorry," she said.
"Is it...is it noticeable?" Toon Link asked, doing a spin and trying to get a look at his butt to see how wet it was.
Orange and Young both pursed their lips, causing Toon to lean over in exasperation. "Damnit! Pit's gonna kill me…"
As Toon started tearing up, Orange's soft side took over and she went to comfort the boy. "Hey, it's okay. You were napping, a lot of boys can't help but having accidents when they-"
"I'm not a bedwetter!" Toon Link interrupted through tears, desperately wanting to keep that description from sticking to him again. "I didn't wet the bed, I wet my pants! I'm not in a bed so I'm not a bedwetter!"
"Okay, sorry! You're not a bedwetter, you're a pants wetter. My bad…" Orange said, softly.
"That's not what I meant…" Toon pouted, though the dry teasing seemed to pacify him for now. He held out his soaked tunic and thought for a moment. "Do either of you have like...a sweater or anything I can tie around my waist?"
"Oh, I know!" Young said, putting one finger in the air like he had an idea. "Give me 5 minutes, wait here," he added, running off to the manor.
"Where's he…?" Toon asked, watching him go.
"He's gonna grab one of his spare tunics, duh," she said. "It's the least he could do being that you saved his butt the first time you two fought and he soaked himself."
"You knew about that?!" Toon Link asked, surprised. Neither he nor Young Link had brought up the incident since, with the exception of Young awkwardly returning Toon's borrowed tunic the next day.
Orange winked and put a finger to her mouth, causing Toon to giggle.
o-o-o
Once Young returned and Toon had changed behind some bushes, he parted ways with the happy couple and went back to Cabin B for the evening. He'd planned to immediately change into something else upon arrival, ideally something with pants and underwear (which Young had neglected to provide) but the presence of Nana, Popo, and Pit seemed to hinder his plans. They were all working on popsicle stick art, which Toon Link happily joined in on after taking a sneaky detour to drop his soiled clothes into the hamper.
After about an hour of doing arts and crafts Toon Link had completely forgotten about his little accident and was too busy having a blast with the three. It wasn't until Lucas and Blue came back to the room that he thought any more about it. The boys had hardly taken 3 steps in and said their hellos when Lucas paused and pointed up at the calendar on Toon Link's bed.
"Raincloud…" he pointed out, sort of matter of factly.
Everyone else froze and followed Lucas' finger up to see that the calendar did in fact have a new rain cloud on it, though Toon Link was the first to snap up and spring into action.
"R-raincloud! Yeah, from a couple of nights ago!" he gave a false laugh and ran to his bunk, cursing Palutena's magic as he realized how truly powerful she was if she could know about his most recent accident without even being around to see.
"Link." Pit got up and put a hand on Toon's ladder, stopping him from climbing away to hide the calendar. "There's clearly a raincloud on it today… you wanna tell me what happened?"
"Your stupid calendar is broken!" Toon Link insisted, trying very badly to look calm and act like nothing was wrong.
"Now that you mention it, his tunic looks a bit long," Blue pointed out.
"Yeah, and he's not wearing any pants," Nana joined in.
Popo nodded. "He looks almost like Young Link but with a bigger head."
Pit stared Toon Link down as Toon Link tried to look at anything else in the world. Perfectly normal behaviour.
"Then you wont mind if I check your under-" Pit, unwisely, grabbed the edge of Toon Link's tunic and lifted it up only to accidentally show off his 'master sword' to the entire room.
Popo covered Nana's eyes with both hands as Blue looked away quickly.
"What the hell?!" Toon Link yelled, pushing the hem of his tunic down.
"Crap! Sorry!I thought you'd be wearing underwear or something!"
"That still doesn't give you the right!"
"I know! I'm sorry!" Pit got onto the floor and started bowing to Toon Link in apology.
"Don't get under me, perv!"
With the cat now out of the bag, Toon Link stalked to his locker and got his pajamas before heading to the bathroom. "I'm gonna take a shower and go to sleep! Just...don't wake me up tonight, okay?!"
With Toon Link too upset to answer questions, the rest of the cabin could only guess how that rain cloud got there.