Chapter Ten: Younger Still

Young Link, Marth and Dr. Mario came to a crashing, out of breath, giggling halt in the middle of the clutter filled room. When all three of them were positive all the doors and windows were locked, and that there was no secret entrance in the closet…just in case…they collapsed on the floor in hysterics.

"Did you see Roy's face?" Marth asked his companions when he found his breath again. Link and Mario nodded,

"Priceless!" the Doctor nodded.

"And older me." Link said, grinning, "I always knew he was stupid, but he just keeps re-proving the point!"

Thus followed another round of giggling. And they only continued as such when there came enraged pounding from the other side of the door.

Young Link rose from his place, informing the others of their dwindling supply of Chibi Potion, and made his way back over to the sock drawer to get more. He fished amongst the socks for a minute or two before coming up with three more bottles. When he turned around, he was confused and somewhat aghast at what he saw:

There, on the floor when he had left Marth and Dr. Mario, sat two infants. One with a fluff of blue hair, and the other with an oversized stethoscope around his neck. Young Link stared at them, the bottles slipping out of his hands and falling to the floor where they crashed and broke to pieces.

"No." Link said, "This isn't happening."

But as soon as he breathed the words, what should happen outside the door but three infant-sounding voices bursting into wails and buckets of tears. The younger Hero of Time swallowed, hard. He scooped up Marth and Mario in his arms, and clumsily opened the door to his room. Before he was even aware of Roy screaming at him, he yelled,

"I don't know HOW to take care of babies!"

Roy's screaming stopped, and he and older Link stared down on the Kokori for a second. It was certainly a sight to behold. How often to you get to see Young Link, a pleading look on his face, with a baby Marth and Dr. Mario in his arms? Not to often, I'll tall you that much. So, the duo promptly burst into laughter.

"Guys! Guys, its not funny!" Young Link shouted over them, "I'm serious!"

Roy coughed, regaining his composure and returning his features to the previous angry and dark.

"Alright, tell me," he began, drawing a deep breath and fighting off the laughter in his voice with venom, "What did you do to them?"

"I…I think it was an overdose?" he offered weakly.

"No, really!" Roy's voice was pure, one hundred percent sarcasm, "Tell me you have an antidote."

"Alright," Young Link shrugged, "I have an antidote."

"Great!" his older version chirped, "Where is it?"

"I don't have one."

"You…? Then why did you say you DID?" elder Link shouted at the very top of his voice. His younger self cringed,

"Cuz' he told me to." He nodded at Roy, who put on an annoyed look.

"Alright then," the swordsman said, "You mentioned you bought this from some hag in a village back in chapter six."

"Uh-huh." Young Link nodded,

"Where's the village? If she made this stuff, she'll know how to make the antidote."

"Wouldn't it just be easier if we got the antidote from Dr. Mario?" elder Link asked, stooping down and taking the infants who were on the floor into his arms.

"He's an infant you moron!" Roy yelled at him, "The hag is the only way."

The now infant Peach wandered around the corner, rolling a green egg in front of her. That egg was Bowser. Roy sighed heavily and picked the tiny blonde and the egg up.

"This hag had better know how to fix this," he warned, as Peach reached up and tugged at his hair.

"Yea, yea, sure." Young Link said, "Just take Marth, please! I think he had to go…"

A/n: you wouldn't believe how hard it was to spell stethoscope. And as far as the length and the ending of this chapter...please don't flame me...