The Day the Universes Collided

Chapter Three

Employee Cafeteria

Nintendo Home Base

Time: 1500 hours

Allstar N64 Link tapped the buttons furiously, making strange noises under his breath as Dark Allstar N64 Dark Link watched him, chewing his burger slowly. Link suddenly jerked, laughed lightly and resumed tapping buttons again. WindWaker Link was doing the same on his own Game Boy Advance, large eyes focused intently on the images on the screen.

"How long you been at that game?" Dark Link finally asked his twin brother. Link glanced up at him before resuming hitting the A button.

"Can't remember. Come on! Die! No! Waker, you're supposed to hit the one on the bottom!" he replied and tapped again.

"Sorry! Eeks! I need a fairy! Fairy!" WindWaker Link cried and maneuvered his character to the grass at the edges of the screen.

"Link, you and the little dude have been at that Four Swords game for the past two hours. Can't you give it a break?" Dark Link asked as he swiped a few of Link's fries.

"I just need one more medallion and then I can go back to Link to the Past and learn the Hurricane Blade." Link replied, "And stop stealing my fries!"

"You really should quit and save. When are we going to go pick up your car?" Dark Link continued as he stole a few more fries. Link paused and glared at him. "Hey, you were the one who got those speeding tickets and wound up getting it impounded." Dark Link told him, raising his hands in defense, "I told you to slow down in Center City!"

"Speed limits are for wimps." Link grumbled as he restarted the game, "Agh! I died! You should have warned me he was gonna shoot at me!" WindWaker Link shrugged as the little sprite was revived in the game.

"You shouldn't have paused then. Anyways, you're the one who got me killed in the Dragon Roost Cavern." he replied haughtily.

"How was I to know that you were supposed to Grapple the dragon's tail?!"

"It's right there in the Player's Guide! Miyamoto's sakes, don't you read that thing?!"

"No."

"Well there you are then!"

"Link! Can we go now?!" Dark Link snapped, "I'm late for an appointment with King Bowser already!" Link sighed and shut off the Game Boy, stuffing it into his back pocket.

"Fine. But, man, I was so close to getting the Hero's Key! If I hadn't died, we'd have had enough." he sighed. "Anyways, Mario wants me to get ready for Soul Caliber II so I might as well meet with the Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl down at Bally Fitness for another round of exercise." WindWaker Link collected the cable and ran off to challenge GC Sonic to a Pokémon battle. "Hey, how's Ganondorf doing?" Link suddenly asked as he and his twin walked down to the garage to Dark Link's car. "I heard he broke his leg last week near the edge of Microsoft Fortress. Another attack from the Nintendo Hunters?"

"He's healing." Dark Link sighed, "But I am starting to really get weirded out lately. I've been having these visions of a lot of Links in one place, trying to take on a being of incredible power. And why are there Hunters to begin with? Didn't Aftermath Link wipe them all out?" Link raised an eyebrow.

"Yeah, come to think of it. And, Bro, that's what we're doing now. All the Links in Nintendo tried to take on X Spirit and we got our butts kicked." he pointed out.

"I told you guys to leave it to Nin and Tendo. The Twins are the only ones powerful enough to take on an Entity. But, the vision I had was of totally different Links, each from their own world."

"FanFic Links?"

"Shigeru Miyamoto, Link! I'm not talking about FanFics! I mean whole other universes! Links that aren't the products of the imaginations of Programmers and Players!" Dark Link griped as he and his twin got in the Jaguar and drove out of the base to the city.

"As long as Cd-I Link isn't one of them." Link replied as he reached for the radio.

"Link, please, I just ate."

The man banged his head against his desktop as the papers continued pouring out. Now this one was getting visions and the local bad guys were starting to act up more than usual. It was definitely the work of his greatest rival. He looked up at the screens and frowned.

"Quinta, what are you doing?!" he hissed.