The rest of the morning progressed rather lazily for the solitary little Toon Link. He played some video games, had a quick breakfast, and got in a short workout (though he intentionally left out Wii Fit Trainer's new exercises.) It would have been an altogether boring day for the boy if it weren't for his phone alarm going off every hour, reminding him to try and use the potty.
At first he was annoyed by the interruptions, but come hour 4 Toon Link was starting to get into the habit well enough. Every hour, a few minutes before the hour, he'd feel the need to pee just moments before his phone alarm rang and he'd wiggle and bounce until he heard the bell which told him he could finally run to the bathroom. He started to crave the bell, the Pavlovian effect rewarding him through his bladder's sweet relief.
It was going swimmingly enough… until something of an act of God interrupted Toon Link's careful plans- or more likely an act of hardware negligence by Nintendo. As Toon Link was running a course in Mario Maker 2 for the 33rd time, suddenly the TV turned off and the lights went dark.
"What the heck?" Toon Link asked aloud to himself, looking around to see if someone had snuck in and turned everything off. The room being empty, he tried the power button on the remote before flicking the lightswitch on and off a couple dozen times. With a groan he exited the hallway to see what was up.
"Thanks, Sakurai," he heard a voice from down the hall say with disdain.
As Toon Link stuck his head out he found Dark Pit there as well, slamming the door behind him. "Did the power go out in Cabin B too?" Pit's emo clad clone asked, annoyed.
Toon Link nodded, seeing the lights in the hallway had also stopped working. "I was just playing the Switch when everything went dark, I wonder what happened?"
"No idea," Dark Pit lied, quickly shutting the door behind him to hide the blow dryer he'd been running.
"Maybe Isabelle can fix it!" Toon Link offered, running forward to the Girl's Cabin to give it a knock. Toon Link was friendly, but Dark Pit was a different breed of kid amongst the Smash child fighters. Of all the days to hang out with the bad tempered angel, this day of bladder vigilance was not ideal.
"She's busy today," Dark Pit said, trying to fix his hair to something presentable. "She came and picked up Villager this morning."
Toon Link frowned and looked up at Dark Pit. "Now what?"
Dark Pit rolled his eyes. "We go find someone else to fix it, duh."
"Oh, like Pikachu! Or maybe Pichu! Yeah, we can have them come over and put their tail in the electrical sock-"
"No, like Luigi," Dark Pit cut him off, then added smugly. "Plumbers and electricians are basically the same thing, you know."
Toon Link nodded, glad someone as smart as Dark Pit could be here to help. As much as he trusted Pit, he knew his cabin supervisor to be too nice and naive to be 'classically smart.' Dark Pit, being mean and suspicious, didn't share these nicer qualities so he must be super smart and responsible!
...Right?
o-o-o
"Ugh, where is everyone?" Dark Pit complained outside Luigi's door. They were lucky, or perhaps unlucky, that the electrical problems seemed to be isolated to their wing while the rest of the manor looked to have power, allowing them to get around the gigantic winding halls of the manor with some normalcy.
"Well there's a bunch of fights happening today and I think I heard something about a council meeting," Toon Link offered.
"Whatever, let's go to the council office then!" he spat as he stomped off. "We're guests at Smash Manor, how can they expect us to get by without something so basic as electricity?"
Toon Link looked up at the sign with the arrow pointing toward the Council of 64 Office, then looked over at Dark Pit who was going the complete opposite way. With a shrug, Toon Link followed.
o-o-o
"Where even is this place?!" Dark Pit was going from frustrated to downright angry as they searched for the Council of 64 meeting room..
"I don't know, I thought you were leading the way!" Toon Link complained, holding himself with one hand and looking around the hallway frantically for a bathroom. This was an area of the manor he wasn't familiar with; it was the wing where the more futuristic of the fighters stayed and the whole area had a sort of spaceship feeling. Toon Link had explored it early on when he'd first arrived but he wasn' really friends with Samus or any of the Star Fox crew so he didn't come around much.
"And how should I know where everything is, this place is huge!" Dark Pit yelled back at the little Link.
"You just have to read the signs!" Toon Link shot back.
Dark Pit opened his mouth but had no retort that could help him save face. Luckily for him, he was saved by the bell. Or at least the alarm.
"Shoot!" Toon Link said, pulling the phone out with his free hand and snoozing it for an hour.
"What was that?" Dark Pit asked, seeing his companion looking a little distressed at the sound.
"I uh...I gotta go potty…" Toon Link admitted. He normally didn't have to pee every hour but today's little alarm challenge had perhaps made his body get into a bad habit.
"Well can't you hold it?" Dark Pit asked, before a realization came on his face. Trying to hide his smirk, he said, "Oh wait, no you can't."
"Can too!" Toon Link shot back.
"That's not what I hear…" Dark Pit said, much more quietly.
"I'm sick of these rumors! My potty calendar is completely dry, dang it!" Toon Link insisted, though he couldn't quite make eye contact.
Just then the door behind them opened up, causing both boys to jump and Toon Link to press both hands against his lap. When they turned to look it was none other than R.O.B., and he looked as annoyed as a robot could look.
Which, in fairness, isn't very much.
"Oh uh...hey R.O.B.," Dark Pit said, realizing how loud they were being. "Sorry we just got kind of lost looking for the Council of 64."
"And a potty!" Toon Link interjected. He looked down at his tunic to see it was still dry, though he then lifted it and saw a small wet spot on the crotch of his white leggings. He gave a sigh before looking up and realizing R.O.B. and Dark Pit were looking right at him, at which point he covered himself with a deep blush and looked away. "I uh...drank a bunch of soda," he lied. He'd been avoiding it like the plague.
Without another word, or without a word to begin with, R.O.B. pushed past the kids and forward, rolling down the hallway lackadaisically.
With a brief snicker at Toon Link's expense, he gave the boy a push forward and said, "Come on, I think he wants us to follow."
Meanwhile, in a dark and empty Cabin B, a faint cloud appeared over the sun on Toon Link's calendar.
o-o-o
R.O.B. moved at an astoundingly slow pace. Maybe it's because he didn't have a bladder and didn't realize the situation Toon Link was in, or maybe he was low power or something, but the two spry children were walking at half speed just to not pass him.
"Mr. R.O.B., sir," Toon Link spoke up, biting his lip, "Do you think maybe...you could go a little faster?"
"Yeah, I don't wanna be held responsible for the kid pissing himself," Dark Pit added, knowing Pit and Palutana would give him an earful whether or not it was his fault.
"You're one to talk!" Toon Link shot back.
"That wasn't my fault, it was the Time Spring!" Dark Pit defended. "At least I was having accidents 'cuss of magical regression, what's your excuse?!"
"Well at least they didn't have to put me in diapers!"
"Try and say that again next week!"
Toon Link stopped in his tracks as the reality of the situation dawned on him. If he doesn't make it now then they might make him wear diapers to bed next week. iDiapers...like a baby!/i
Toon Link wasn't gonna let that happen! Swallowing his pride, he spoke up, "Pittoo…"
Dark Pit stopped and looked back, seeing that Toon Link was holding himself with both hands and shaking in the knees. His posture went from frustrated and angry to hesitantly sympathetic. Toon Link is a nice kid who Pit really cared for, not even the dark side of Pit could resist feeling some type of empathy for the little guy.
"Do you…" he started, embarrassed to ask, "...Do you think I'd get in trouble if I peed on the hallway?"
"They uh...how should I know?" Dark Pit replied, trying to look cool and indifferent despite his sympathetic gaze. Seeing the desperate look Toon Link gave him, he added a little more, "I uh...the calendar was made by Palutena, right? I wouldn't imagine she'd let Pit get away with something like that…"
The look of defeat that washed over Toon Link's face could have melted even Ridley's heart.
"But hey! Maybe we can find something for you to pee in! Like a…uh..." Dark Pit looked around, but the only thing he could see was the robot slowly chugging along.
"Hey R.O.B.!" he called. "Do you have like a compartment or something that Link can pee into?!"
R.O.B. stopped rolling and turned around. Finally he gave a definitive response to something, the first acknowledgement that he was even listening to the boys- a single shake of his robotic head- before turning around and pressing forward.
"Fine you useless hunk of bolts! This is why Viridi prefers nature, you know. The animals and plants can actually help you if you know...what…"
Dark Pit trailed off as he turned back to look at Toon Link, slumped to his knees and sitting in a slowly spreading puddle. Dark Pit slightly cursed himself for letting this happen.