Chapter Eight: Operation Chibi: Part One

Young Link led his two new friends down the hall, being as stealthy as he could, hoping Marth and Dr. Mario would follow suit. Unfortunately his idea of stealthy left much to be desired. His picture of stealthy was exactly the way he saw it on TV when the detectives in the cartoons tiptoed across the scene. Exaggerated footsteps and all. For crying out loud, it was complete with the last person stepping on the squeaky floor board and the others turning around and shushing them at the same time.

The Kokori stopped a moment at the corner and peered around it,

"Alright guys," he hissed, "The coast's clear."

"Um…Link?" Marth's voice came sounding worried.

"What?" he snapped, gluing his gaze around the corner to scout for any potential threats.

"I-a-think we may-a have a problem." Dr. Mario said hesitantly. Young Link blinked and turned around slowly. Marth and Dr. Mario stood over a small girl in a pale pink dress. In her gloved hands she clutched a tiara, and her big crystal blue eyes welled up with tears.

"Princess Peach?" Young Link said, tilting his head to the side, "I don't remember…"

"Um, that's the thing." Marth said, shuffling his feet, "She kinda snuck up on me and I got scared so…I…um…"

"He-a shrunk her." Dr. Mario finished. Marth punched him in the arm as if to say "shut up". Dr. Mario winced and fell silent. Young Link pondered for a moment, then shrugged,

"Just leave her there." he said.

"Huh? Wait, why?" Marth asked.

"Cuz she's just a dumb ol' fluffed up girl. Why would you want to have a girl help us?"

"I dunno…" the miniature swords master said in a small voice.

"Marth's-a-got a girlfriend!" Dr. Mario proclaimed at the top of his voice.

"I do not!" he shouted back, pursuing the doctor as he bolted down the hall. Link sighed dramatically and followed at a jog. Then followed an elaborate chase scene that turned out not to be so elaborate after all. Marth chased Dr. Mario down the hallway that Young Link had been spying down for about three seconds until the both of them ran into a certain enormous mutant turtle monster with bad breath. Or in simpler terms, Bowser.

Young Link ran into Marth who had run into Dr. Mario who had smashed headlong into the giant Koopa and all four of them cried out in either surprise or extreme pain. The extreme pain part meaning Dr. Mario who had made friends with several of the spikes on Bowser's shell. Amazingly he left the ordeal with nothing more than a cartoon style lump on the top of his head.

"Grra! What are ye doin' runnin' into me, ye little pipsqueaks!" the enormous koopa snarled. The three boys cowered from him. Bowser eyed them a moment, then a malevolent grin crept into his features. The giant turtle monster began to draw a deep breath.

"Holy Hyrule!" Young Link shouted, "He's gonna torch us!"

"The Chibi Potion!" Marth shouted. Dr. Mario fumbled with the lid on his bottle, then wrenched it open, and flung the contents into Bower's face. Just in time too, as the turtle monster had begun to spit flame. However, as Bowser decreased in size, so did his flame attack. And by the time he had stopped shrinking, the attack was nothing more than a glowing puff of smoke.

Marth, Young Link and Dr. Mario breathed three simultaneous sighs of relief.

"Grrrrra!" Bowser roared as loudly as his preteen sized lungs could, "You shrinked meeee!"

"Um…duh?" Marth said, putting his hands to his hips, "How else would you be so much smaller than usual?"

Baby Bowser stomped on the floor,

"I dunno!" he said, his roar turning into something of a wail, "I wanna be big again! I wanna be BIG!" and the tiny koopa king promptly burst into tears.

Young Link heaved a deep dramatic sigh,

"Just leave him," he said. "A crybaby isn't gonna be of help to us either."

At that moment, who should up and come out of her hiding place, than Navi. The blue fairy flew out of Young Link's hat, and got right up in his face. She appeared to be very angry, though she could use no real words to express this. A good thing too, because if she were to use an understandable language, all of it would be censored. Young Link blushed faintly, being the only one of the three who could understand her.

"Navi, calm down!" he said hurriedly, "I know I said I would stop, really! But these last two were accidents! I promise!"

Navi seemed to hiss at Young Link, and flew off down the hall in a huff. The three boys stood in silence a moment before Link spoke again,

"Erm…let us be off then?" And the they made their way down the hall.

Little did they know, however, that just around the next corner was a whole mess of trouble…

A/n: okay, I know I haven't updated in forever! I know! I don't even remember if the last chapter got reviews or not! Please don't flame me! But I have a new chapter now, so you can't be too mad. The only request I have is for no flames. Review.