Zelda appeared back in her room only fifteen minutes later with a bowl filled with the antidote. Palutena had also appeared with all of the smashers who had drunk the potion, all of them babies who had their original clothing under their bodies. Zelda started by taking three bottles and placing them on her bedside table. "Each of you take a bottle and start giving the babies the antidote." She said. Link and Palutena nodded, and the three got to work. They got all kinds of reactions - from embarrassment, to apologeticness, to pridefully blaming Zelda (Falcon). They worked until there were three babies left; Samus, Pit, and a blue-haired baby Zelda assumed was Ike.

"I guess it's time, then." Zelda said, taking Samus from Link's arms. She couldn't believe it, but a tear actually started to form in her eye; somehow, she had fallen in love with the child in front of her, who wasn't even really a child at all. She kissed Samus' forehead, and the baby reached out her hand and touched Zelda's cheek. Zelda smiled, fed her the antidote, and put her on the ground, as Palutena and Link did the same with Ike and Pit.

Pit was the first to come back fully, as he was the youngest, body-wise at least. "Lady Palutena!" He shouted. "What was that abou-" "I'll explain later, Pit," Palutena interrupted. "But for now, you need to get your clothes back." "Ah! I'm naked!" Pit shouted, awkwardly covering his body. Palutena laughed, and the two warped to Skyworld. Next was Samus and Ike, who grew back up completely at around the same time. The two stood, and when trying to turn to face Zelda or Link, faced each other and stopped immediately, noticing each other's bodies. Sanus stared at Ike's large muscular arms, and Ike… well, let's just say he wasn't staring at large muscles. When Samus noticed this, she began blushing furiously, and Ike quickly looked away. "I'm sorry, how rude of me." He said, and quickly bent down to pick up his pants, putting them on quickly, and running out of the room with the rest of his clothes in hand before Samus could think of what to say.

Zelda went to her dresser and found Samus' Zero Suit, handing it to her. Samus quickly put it on. The three stood in an awkward silence for a second, with Link and Zelda staring at Samus, waiting for her to say something. Then, Samus smiled. It was subtle at first, but soon grew until it was clearly visible on her face. She walked up to Link and Zelda, wrapping her arms around their shoulders. "Thank you, so much." She said. Link and Zelda both returned the hug. "You're our friend, Samus," Zelda said. "You know we'd do anything for you." "Not just that," Samus said, breaking out of the hug to get better eye contact. "For being my family. When you held me, I felt the love of my parents, the feeling I'd almost forgotten." Samus chuckled a little. "Especially their love towards each other." The Hylians blushed, but smiled nonetheless. The three then talked for hours about what had happened, what they had felt, and how much better everyone felt now. Soon, it was dark out, though the three didn't know how that came to be.

"Well, I should be heading back to my room, Toon will be wondering where I am." Link said, kissing Zelda. "Good night, my love." Zelda said as he finally released from the kiss. "Good night, dad-" Samus started. Everyone stopped for a second. "Um, sorry, Link, I didn't-" "No, no." Link said, walking to Samus and hugging her. "It's alright." When Link let go, he kissed Samus on the forehead, in a very fatherly fashion.

Zelda smiled. She saw no reason to be jealous of the kiss. She imagined that the three of them would have a few situations like this in the coming days, and Link obviously wasn't being romantic about it. Link said goodnight to the two one more time, then left the room. "So," Zelda said. "What do you think about Ike?" Samus blushed. "I don't know what you're talking about." "Oh, don't give me that!" Zelda said, smiling. "I saw the way you looked at each other." She paused. "The way Ike looked at you - that's the same way Link looked at me when we fell in love." Samus bit her bottom lip. "Really?" Zelda laughed, then yawned. "Hm," She said. "I guess we should be getting to bed." Zelda changed into a nightgown, and Samus changed into pajamas. Zelda went to lay down, but Samus walked up to her bed. "Um, Zelda, I…" Samus said, rubbing her arm. "Can I sleep with you tonight?" Zelda smiled, lifting the covers in front of her. "Of course." Samus climbed into the bed. Zelda wrapped her arms around her. Samus turned and did the same. The two fell asleep in a very innocent show of love.

Like that of a mother and child.

Well, that's it, I guess! I hope you enjoyed this fanfic, I really did enjoy writing it. I've had the idea for this story in my head for a while now.

In any future fanfics I write, I plan to keep the personalities of the characters as I have represented them here; think of it kind of like a spiritual successor. I imagine that I will elaborate on the IkeXSamus I hinted at, or perhaps explain the relationship between Ness and Ike that I introduced in Chapter 3. I really enjoyed working with LinkXZelda, and the Kid Icarus characters, so I might write fanfics of them in their own respective games.

Thanks for reading! :D