My name is Link. Though most here call me Young Link. I am 11 years old, and have gone through enough for grown adults to freak out. I'm not the only kid here though. There's quite a few. I consider them my friends. But they all have their scars…some worse than others. The only kid whose got near as many as me is Lucas. Most adults know this, they call us brave, strong. But they don't quite understand. The only ones who DO understand the trauma were there for it. Well, there are two adults I'd say understand. Samus and Lucina. Samus is in her late 20s, Lucina is 20. Neither had a childhood. Lucina grew up in an apocalypse. And Samus, well, she had her biological family taken from her, and later her adoptive one.

I don't want these kids getting more scars. I feel their pain. It's why I often go to them during their nightmares…

"What's going on? Stop stop stop I can't grasp whats going on!"

"NO! PLEASE CLAUS YOU DON'T NEED TO DIE!"

"HOLD ON NANA DON'T FALL!"

"POPO I'M SLIPPING!"

"NO! SNAP OUT OF IT! ITS DARK MATTER!"

"AAAAAAAAAAAAA LADY PALUTENA! VIRIDI! PITTOO! SOMEONE ANYONE! MY WINGS THEY WON'T STOP BURNING!"

"I…I don't want to…die like this…let go you…you stupid bug…it's all going dark…help me…"

"NO PLEASE! I NEED TO GET THE POKÉMON CENTER! NO NO!"

"ARYLL! NOOOOOO!"

"PAPA PLEASE CALM DOWN!"

"WILY! WHY ARE…WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS!? PLEASE!"

"NO STOP GET THAT GOOP AWAY I NEED TO HELP 8 NO-"

"The darkness! I-I need to fight it!"

I always go to comfort them when the nightmares come. No one should have gone through what we did. As for those women, they hide things better. Lucina generally takes walks after waking up from a nightmare, and goes to train. Pikachu has to tell me when Samus had a nightmare.

Usually to calm everyone down, I get someone they trust from their universe who went on whatever "adventure" caused this. For some this isn't an option. So I stay with them as long as they need. Not to say I don't help the others. I usually calm them down until they can get to someone they know.

Villager is interesting. He seems to crave an adventure, we're like heroes to him. I envy his innocence. Still, just because I'm scarred doesn't mean he should be. As with the others, I try to protect him.

Their are many threats in smash. Most don't have their enemies in smash though, so that's good. But that doesn't mean their aren't problems.

Ness' cousin Ninten apparently told him about Gigyas' original form, Giegue. So when the Melee tournament happened, and Ness met MewTwo…the nightmares were unintentionally projected to everyone nearby…I can say that Gigyas may be more terrifying than Majora…

Lucas fighting MegaMan is never good. He freezes, unable to attack. He always looks so…broken

Lucina had a panic attack seeing Zombie for the first time. She kept it hidden, but I could tell. Shaky hands, a more brutal fighting style, shaky breath.

Samus was a wreck after Ridley joined. She wouldn't leave her room, even when we had to go to another Hotel.

When Kirby heard his fan wrote a story about him, he was happy. When everyone died in the story, he was a mess. The idea of everyone dying and him needing to save them…that much pressure. Pointing out plotholes in the fic helped, but not much. He was practically attached to Meta Knight

And let's not forget the Heroes vs. Villains Splatfest. Each group was stuck with their group until it ended. Whoever decided Dark Pit was a villain…has my hatred. Especially when there was a fight the splatfest, since they now had leverage over a goddess. I shouldn't enjoy stabbing Ganondorf so much haha. Poor Dark Pit was hurt though, pretty badly too. Guess that's what happens when someone with morals is stuck with villains and unable to escape, and severely weakened because in this realm, we have to be weaker for the fights to be somewhat fair.

I'm still a kid. And I frequently have my trauma resurface. But I guess, if there's one thing I've learned, what goes around comes around. Whenever I have a nightmare, I wake up to my friends, all there to comfort me…they all also like to spend time with me. Everything I do for them, they do for me, even Bowser Jr! I guess I just…wasn't prepared for that. Things are way less doom and gloom. We can do…semi normal kid stuff. We can…kinda…have childhoods!

I'd give up my life to protect any of them. Is that normal? Maybe it is when you lose everyone you've ever cared about. I cannot see Saria anymore, The Great Deku Tree died, Navi left. Only Zelda remains. I gotta admit, I maaaay have a thing for her. But that's off topic. My point is, as long as I am around, I will protect my friends. I won't let them suffer as much as me…

A/N I was just listening to Ventrom's Stone Tower Temple Remix, thought of this. and wrote it down. So ye