Inter-dimensional relaps

After the little scuffle with the redeye, the group of four decided that it had been a long couple of days and that they needed a place to stay for a while.

"Any ideas?" Sonic asked with a shrug.

Link thought for a while, not even Mario making a little scuffle with Fox interrupted him. Then, after a minute or two, he snapped his fingers and said, "Why not the place I grew up? Kokiri Forest."

"Koka-whoodi-whati?" Mario sputtered.

Link smacked himself in the forehead and said in a slow tone as though Mario were stupid, "Ko-ki-ri Fo-rest! DO…YOU…UNDER-STAND?"

Mario blinked a few times and said, "Touchy."

A few minutes later, they found themselves at the forest. However, it was like a ghost town and so quiet you could hear an ant skitter.

"That's strange…" Link said in deep thought.

"What?" Fox asked with a cocked eyebrow.

Link turned and said, "Usually, you can see Kokiri running around and playing during the day. Now there’s no one out."

"Maybe they left?" Sonic suggested.

"Nah. It's not them to leave this place. There's most likely something on the loose." Link corrected.

Sonic snapped his fingers with a quick, "Darn!"

After the little investigation, Link talked his friends into checking in houses. He decided to go into the first one in mind: Saria's.

He was about to go through the door when he told Mario, "Stay outside and keep watch."

Mario stood there, muttered under his breath, and stood outside with his arms folded.

Mario’s muttering could only make out a few words, “…Get no respect, no respect at all.”

Link walked through the door with Fox and Sonic and Saria was there to greet him. Link had to get down on his knees in order to hug his best friend, seeing he was twice as tall as Saria now.

"Link! Where have you been in the last three days?" She asked.

Then, she eyed the blue hedgehog and the fox, giving them quizzical looks.

"Who are they?" She asked as she pointed to them.

“Is something wrong with my face?” Sonic asked Fox, who simply shook his head, “Whew. For a moment I thought I had a zit.”

Link chuckled, but then went back to Saria.

"It's a long story." Link told her and went to telling her.

I'm not going to bore you with this, so I'll tell you what happened OUTSIDE.


Mario was waiting outside for Link while whistling his theme song. Then, he heard a noise in the bush and turned to check it out. He felt something down his neck and slowly turned around. He came face-to-face with a six-foot, four hundred-pound gorilla staring right at him. Mario turned pale and didn't even have time to scream, because the ape grabbed him and slammed him on the ground to his left and right. The primate held Mario to the ground and began beating him up in a very wide variety of wrestling moves. The gorilla then began using Mario as a bouncy ball and even hit him with a chair it snatched. After the ape did everything he could think of, he hid and left Mario beat up and covered in dirt.


Back in the house, Saria now understood everything.

"Oh, I see. But where's the plumber?" Saria asked.

"Oh, he's outside keeping guard. By the way, why's everyone in their houses?" Link asked.

He had been waiting some time for an answer. When he did ask, Saria seemed somewhat frightened.

Saria gulped and said, "Link…There's a gorilla on the loose here. Mido went up to see it. The next day, he ended up in his house with bruises and a slight case of amnesia."

Link scoffed as he went outside and asked, "How bad could it be?"

They caught sight of Mario and Fox spoke up this time. "What happened to you? Did you step on a land mine?"

“What’s a land mi…” Link began.

Before Link could react, he felt a large hand grip his arm. A few seconds later, he was being lifted off the ground and saw Saria next to him in a similar hand. Link turned and saw that this must have been the gorilla Saria was talking about. A minute later, he and Saria were tossed like footballs into the Lost Woods. They landed in the Sacred Forest Meadow and Link ended up landing on Saria. Link got up, apologized to Saria, drew his sword, and charged his way through the woods.

Fox and Sonic were standing in front of the big ape and it was amazing how much it looked like King Kong. Fox quickly began dialing on the small device on his wrist and Sonic had already made his escape in a sudden flash of blue light.

The gorilla said, "OOH! OOH OOH OOH! NECKTIE?!" because Fox had finished a translator.

"Necktie?" Fox asked.

The gorilla turned to Fox, grabbed him, and shouted, "WHERE IS IT?! Tell me or else!!!"

“Where’s WHAT?!” Fox asked impatiently.

“Don’t ‘Where’s what’ me! I’m not some dopey little fox!”

Fox was somewhat hit by this and angrily said, "At least I don't wear my tie backwards."


Link had made his way out of the forest and saw the gorilla had his back turned to him.

“That’s it. I’m gonna kill this ape for that.” He growled.

Link raised his sword in attack and the ape turned to him and said, "Hey, pal!" in a rather happy tone.

Link was stunned. The gorilla smiled and painfully patted him on the back. Link hadn't felt like that since Darunia did something very similar.

"What did you do to him?" Link asked in shock.

Fox smiled and said, "He just wanted his necktie. It was on backwards."

The big primate then took Link's hand and squeezed so hard, it almost broke Link's hand.

"YEOWCH!" Link screamed.

The ape smiled and said, "Nobody likes a weak handshake. Sorry for tossing you like that. It was all blind rage. By the way, the name's Donkey Kong: DK for short."

Link silently cursed himself for not noticing the Dimensional scale going off. He then playfully slugged DK's arm. Unfortunately, DK didn't know his own strength when he did it. He slugged Link so hard that he fell in the water. Strangely, something came out with Link on its back. It had long jaws, armor-like scales on its back, and razor-sharp teeth. Link hopped off just when it opened its large jaws and they almost slammed shut on his leg. Out came a large crocodile and it was HUGE: more than twenty feet long. It didn’t stop in the river, the minute Link landed on his stomach, the croc chased after him, sprawling on all fours like a lizard and exposing its leathery hide. It was about to snap him up for dinner when DK leapt into the air and put it in a headlock.

“DK, are you sure you know how to handle that?” Sonic asked, somewhat worried.

DK looked up from wrestling with the crocodile and answered Sonic while holding the jaws closed.

“Of course. I beat up crocodiles all the time.”

After a long tussle with DK, the crocodile gave a hiss that sounded like, “Fine, I’ll leave you alone” before lumbering off.


Link and friends would spend the night at Kokiri Forest. Now that the Kokiri had nothing to fear, they could go out when they could. Mario ended up in a bed next to Mido.

The Kokiri "Boss" turned and asked, "You too?"

"You wouldn't believe what he did to me." Mario answered.

“I’d like to thank that guy in the green, but I can’t remember his name.” Mido added.

“Oh, brother.” Mario groaned.

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