The group was looking around inside the INN as they waited for someone to take their order.

"Did you guys see that cloud over Death Mountain?" asked Ed.

"Kinda hard to miss a swirling, red cloud flying over it!" Eddy replied.

"I do hope the Gorons are okay." Edd said as he looked out the window towards Death Mountain.

"Same for the Zoras." said Link.

"Let's not worry about them now." said Navi as she floated onto Link's shoulder. "All we can do is prepare for the Forest Temple. Then, we'll tackle the others in time." she finished, earning a nod from the others.

"E-excuse me." The group turned to see another woman standing there. She was dressed in a simple white shirt, with brown slip on shoes, a yellow skirt that matched her long blonde hair, and a white apron was tied around her waist. She was holding a pencil and paper close to her face, allowing the group to see only her green eyes over the top. "I'm...I'm here to take your orders." Link smiled while Eddy checked her from head to toe, his mind racing with dirty thoughts at how she looked.

'Babe!' he thought with a grin while Edd merely smiled at her.

"I'll have a bowl of Chunky Puffs, a layer of pudding skin, a quart of gravy-"

"Ed! Shut up!" Eddy snapped before looking at his menu. "Gah! Still can't read this!" he muttered.

"We have a special." the woman said in a quiet voice, looking like she wanted to just hide more behind her notebook. "Steak and Eggs for only 15 rupees."

"We'll have four specials then." Link answered.

"Right away!" said the woman before she darted away into the kitchen.

"She seemed a little shy." Edd mused.

"Probably couldn't handle guns like these." Eddy smirked while flexing his new muscles.

"Keep telling yourself that." Navi chuckled before looking at the kitchen door. "Still, that was pretty strange."

-10 minutes later-

The boys were still waiting for their orders before a set of plates were set before them by the blonde woman from earlier. The aroma from the food began to make their mouths water before they began to eat. Link ate like a normal person, Ed and Eddy ate like animals, and Edd tried to eat before looking at his friends in disgust.

"Must you eat like that?" he asked in annoyance.

"Oh, will you stop bitching?" Eddy asked.

"HAW! Eddy!" Edd snapped. "Watch your language!"

"I'm not a kid anymore! Literally!" Eddy countered while Ed continued to shovel food into his face.

"Yumminy yum yum!" Ed grinned before another plate was placed in front of him. It was a stack of toast, evenly buttered, and slathered in gravy. "OH GOODY GOODY!" he screamed in joy before slapping the plate to his face. Link had to bring up his shield to block the food flying around them while the other two Eds ducked under the table.

"Pardon me," Edd began as he looked up at the woman. "But we didn't order that."

"And I ain't paying for it!" Eddy immediately said afterwards.

"It's on me." she said with a smile.

"Well, that was very generous of you Ma'am." Edd said with a smile of his own.

"Don't worry. Even after seven years, I know what Big Ed likes." the woman giggled.

"Anyone seeing him eat his food like that would know he likes..." said Eddy before he realized what she said. He, along with Link, Edd, and Navi, were now staring at the woman in confusion.

"Did you just say seven years?" Edd asked.

"Do you know these guys?" Navi asked while floating between Eddy and Edd. The woman's only reaction was to grin at them. A big, buck-toothed grin.

"He's my Pooky Bear." said the woman.

"Pooky...Bear?" Link repeated dumbfounded.

"...K...Kak...kakak..." Edd stuttered while pointing a shaking finger at the woman and sweating bullets. Eddy's jaw hit the floor in a silent scream, releasing a strangled garble.

"Kaka?" Navi asked in confusion before harumphing. "Do you know her or not?"

"KANKER!" the two Eds screamed before running out the door.

"WHO?! WHAT?! WHERE?! WHY?!" Ed yelled as he ran after his friends, knocking down the door, and the surrounding wall with it, leaving an INN full of confused and shocked people staring at the gaping hole that used to be the exit.

"What in the name of the Goddesses is going on out here?!" screamed the hefty woman as she barged her way towards the exit. "What happened to my door?!"

"That's what I want to know." Link mumbled before looking at the woman, ready to ask questions. He opened his mouth, but closed it shortly after when he noticed the woman staring at the hole in the wall, a smile on her face as tears cascaded down her cheeks.

-Outside-

After a severe scolding from the woman about keeping his friends on a leash, the woman let Link go on the promise that they never come back. Now came the hard part of finding where the Eds had run off too. Link searched on foot while Navi took to the skies.

"They couldn't have run that far." Link said to himself.

"Link!" came Navi's voice as she fluttered down to him. "I found them!"

"Where are they?" Link asked.

"Up there." she replied. Link followed her line of sight to a tall lookout tower near the entrance to Death Mountain. At the very top were three shivering forms that could barely be made out as his friends.

"Seriously?" Link sighed before he walked over and began climbing up the tower. "Is it wrong of me to want to shove them off?"

"Mmmm, no." Navi answered as they neared the top. Link peeked his head over to see Ed, Edd, and Eddy shivering like cowards in a huddle.

"What has gotten into you three?!" Link demanded while hanging onto the ladder.

"KANKER!" the trio wailed at Link.

"Kanker?" Link repeated before staring off in deep thought. "That sounds familiar."

"Didn't these three mention a group called the Kanker sisters?" Navi asked.

"Now that you mention it, they did." he said before turning to the Eds. "Who were they again?" And that's when he got three very strange versions of the story from the Eds, each one more confusing than the last. "I don't know what an evil banshee is, or why mutated food was even in this story." Link answered.

"All I could sum up from their stories is that these Kanker sisters chase these three around a lot." said Navi.

"Relentlessly." Edd gulped. "And if May is here, then her sisters Lee and Marie can't be that far from here!"

"How'd they even get to Hyrule?!" Eddy asked.

"Maybe Mr. Kaba Gobaba brought them here, like us!" Ed suggested.

"If he did, I'm gonna stuff that owl!" Eddy growled in anger.

"How she, or they, got here isn't important." Link told them. "What's important right now is getting those supplies we were talking about earlier so we can destroy the evil inside the Forest Temple. Remember?" The Eds looked at each other before relenting, knowing that Link was right. "Now I'm gonna climb down this ladder, and if you're not down in five minutes I'm coming back up to push you off." He then descended down the ladder, mumbling angrily as he did so. "Fought a dinosaur inside a mountain, yet they're scared of 'girl germs' and such. Ridiculous!" Eddy was the first to start climbing down, followed by Ed, and Edd last. They all met up with Link and Navi at the bottom, who were waiting for the trio before looking around. "Now we need to find a shop or blacksmith that sells weapons or armor."

"And where are we gonna find someone like that?" Eddy asked with his arms folded across his chest.

"There!" Ed said while pointing at a nearby shop. They all looked to see a familiar bearded head above the door, but with a sword on one side and a shield on the other.

"Well, that's convenient." Edd stated before they walked into the building. Sure enough, the same man that sold them a Hylian Shield was standing behind the counter, a few gray hairs beginning to show in his beard.

"Welcome to my shop!" greeted the man. "Need some weapons? Or how about our special on select pieces of armor?" The group looked around at the variety of items that filled the shelves. Swords that ranged from little daggers to two-handed bastard swords, plenty of Hylian Shields, chainmail, leather boots, and much more.

"Look at all this stuff!" Eddy exclaimed with a grin. "I bet we could take on anything if we had this kind of gear!"

"I don't know. Just having these objects doesn't exactly mean victory." Edd remarked.

"Don't rain on my parade, Double D." Eddy frowned as Ed picked up a sword with both hands.

"Ed! Put that down before you hurt someone!" Link snapped as he took the sword from Ed, who looked down in sadness. "We'll let you have a sword AFTER we're far away from the village."

"That's right," Edd smiled as he placed his hand on Ed's shoulder. "When we get to the Forest Temple, you can use your sword to dispel any evil creatures inside." You could see Ed's eyes light up at Edd's words.

"That's if they pay first." said the man, reminding them all that he was there. "Anyway, I was about to step out for some food. My assistants can handle any purchases while I'm gone. Wait right here." he said before removing his apron and stepping through a door to the back. "Hey! I need one of you to handle these customers while I'm gone!"

"Yeah, I got it!" came a woman's voice. The man walked back out the door, past the group, then out of the shop, leaving them alone with whomever it was the man was speaking with. They waited while the woman began grunting in annoyance before making her to the counter. She was a slim woman wearing a pair of blue overalls, a white shirt, thick leather gloves, and a wielder's mask covering her face, with long dirty red hair flowing down the back of her head, tied in a white ribbon,. "So, here for some gear, huh?" asked the woman as she lifted her mask. She then took a look at Link before snickering at him.

"What's so funny?" Link asked her.

"Never seen a guy walk in here wearing a dress!" she laughed.

"Dress? This is a tunic." he said while crossing his arms. "And yes. We're here for some equipment."

"One question though."

"What's that?" Link asked.

"What 'we're'? You're the only one here." she answered. Link blinked before turning his head left and right, taking note that the Eds we're there anymore.

"What the-? Where'd they go?" he asked before looking behind him. He groaned with a frown before moving to the side, revealing the three of them clumped together and hiding behind Link, each of them trembling in fear.

"Why are you three idiots hiding behind Link?" Navi asked them. The three of them didn't answer her before they heard the woman gasping. They looked to see her lifting part of her hair to reveal a wide eye staring straight at the Eds.

"Ed? Edd? Eddy?!" the woman said slowly, as if not believing her eyes. "Is that you?"

"You all know...wait. Is she someone from your world?" Link asked, feeling where this was going. Edd was the only one to snap out of it long enough to stutter out a greeting.

"Link, m-meet the leader o-o-of the K-K-K-Kankers...Lee Kanker!" Edd managed to squeek out.

"Another Kanker?" Navi asked.

"Where...have you been?" came Lee's voice in a quiet, almost inaudible tone. They looked to see tears streaming from under her hair and down her cheeks. Her hands were balled into tight fists, and her entire body was trembling.

"What?" Ed asked.

"I said, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?!" she roared, knocking the four men onto their butts. "We all thought you were dead! Everyone looked everywhere for you three morons! Now you show up out of nowhere, and all the way HERE even! HOW?!"

"What's with her?" Navi asked Link from inside his hat.

"I mean, is this where you've been hiding this whole time?!" Lee ranted on. "In Hyrule?! With this dress wearing weirdo?!"

"I told you, it's a tunic!" Link snapped.

"Shut it you, before I-"

"What's going on out there?!" asked another woman's voice.

"Oh no." Edd gasped, having a good idea of who that was. And sure enough, coming out of the back room was none other than the final Kanker. The one that had her eyes on him just like her sisters had their eyes on his friends. Marie Kanker. She too, like her sisters, had grown into a beauty. Her blue hair was still short and covered her left eye, but the rest had changed. She was wearing a thick apron around a black overshirt with leather gloves, a pair of overalls that covered all the way to her boots, and was covered in what looked to be some kind of oily substance. When Marie saw the Eds, her visible eye widened in shock. She rubbed her eyes and looked straight at Edd, who stared back in fear. Not wanting to be rude, he gave a nervous smile and waved. "He-Hello M-Marie." She just kept on staring before turning to Lee, who was wiping her face of tears.

"It's not a trick. It's them." she said.

"Isn't it great?!" came another voice from the entrance. The boys all jumped to see that May had walked in, a happy smile on her face. The Eds immediately hid behind Ed's shield while backing into corner as the sisters all approached at the same time, leaving Link and Navi to just stare before Link facepalmed.

"This is getting ridiculous." he groaned with a headshake before looking at his friends to see the Kanker Sisters bombarding them with questions and affection.

"Where have you been, Oven Mitt?" said Maria as she began hugging Edd in a bear hug.

"Come on Big Ed! How'd you get to Hyrule?" May asked as she had Ed pinned in a corner.

"Well? We're waiting Eddy!" Lee smirked while looking up at Eddy, which actually surprised her now that she wasn't shouting at them.

"HEY!" Navi shouted as she flew between the two groups. "Would you three stop crowding them?! We don't have time for this!" The Kankers were now eyeing Navi with different looks as the Eds managed to get some breathing room.

"It's a fairy!" May whispered in wonder.

"We can see that May." Lee snapped before Navi floated back to Link. "So, Mr. Tunic. Who are you?"

"My name is Link." Link introduced, a hint of annoyance in his tone before holding a hand towards Navi. "This is Navi," he said before holding his other hands towards the Eds. "And I'm guessing you already know my friends here."

"Uh-huh~" the sisters said in unison, scaring the Eds.

"Please stop scaring them." Link groaned before taking a deep breath to calm himself.

"Still, I wanna know. Where have you three been?" Lee asked again.

"Well, that's a long story." Edd answered, sweat still running down his face.

"Is that so?" Lee asked with a hand holding up part of her hair, showing a narrowed eye. "Then hold up with the story telling 'til I get the others."

"Others?" the group said in unison.

"You mean more from your world are here?" Navi asked.

"Probably the same as them." Marie said while pointing to the Eds. "Another long story.


A/N: I apologize if it sounded off. Couldn't seem to think of how to get this going. Please tell me what you thought of the outfits and Kankers looks. Wanted to add a touch of Hyrule to them.