The Legend of MARVEL: Linked Earths

Chapter I: Hero-napped

WARNING OF CLARIFICATION:

As mentioned in the previous chapter, the primary languages will be represented in typographical emphasis but when there is no typographical emphasis, it means that the dialogue is in the listener's perspective when conversing in another language, not in the perspective of all characters present in the conversation.

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Twilight practically had to drag Time by the neckline of his armor just to make the old fart move! The Links, the heroes chosen by the Goddesses, were currently in the forest that resided in the land of the traveler's Hyrule. Hyrule explained that maybe, if they kept walking with no stops, they would reach a small town by sundown, but with the way Time skidded across the dirt, that failed to get them anywhere, just barely two inches of road they trekked in the last hour. Twilight may have been the strongest and burliest of the Links, but carrying a man in his mid or late thirties, packed in armor was nothing like carrying stacks of hay or goats. Twilight's only thought was, "How in the Great Sea of Wind's Hyrule is this man heavier than a dang village goat!"

It wasn't the first time that they experienced a quick shift like this one. The last one was when they shifted from Four's Hyrule, to Skyloft, and after a second of falling from the sky, they ended up in the barn of LonLon Ranch. Twilight's protégé, Wild, smelled like maneuver for a week, mainly because he "liked the stench of manliness", and the poor wild child was chucked into the bathtub by Time and Legend.

The group of knights were a bit squeamish with all of the unpredictable quick jumps into places. It didn't help that they had just started to get used to the black portals created by their little friend, the Black Lizalfos. They didn't understand the meaning of all this but took caution since this was, by far, the strangest issue they've encountered besides a demon with a long tongue, ghosts with powers, and a walking humanoid fish with a face lift. Now, Time, the wise old man that they all looked up to as a leader, was being dragged by his descendant, looking like he was throwing a tantrum.

"Time?" spoke out Warrior to break the increasingly uncomfortable and awkward silence. "Hate to, uh, hurt your pride...or whatever pride you have left, but you look like a half-dead horse waiting to be put out of its misery."

"I've been waiting for that for years, now..." Time grumbled, making Legend roar in laughter. However, no one else laughed to which he howled louder.

"Well, hate to break it to ya, but you're gonna hafta wait a while longer," Twilight said awkwardly, struggling to move his own feet. In frustration, he dropped him. "Time, you're bein' ridiculous."

"I'm not being ridiculous," replied Time. "I'm standing by my word as should the rest of you."

"We left Twilight's Hyrule for a second, and you think this is the solution?" questioned Four.

"Whatever is causing these unusual teleportations across time knows we're letting our guard down by aimlessly wandering Hyrule without knowing what we're up against and fooling around, so if we don't move, as I keep trying to tell you morons, we won't shift. Its power is based on fear."

"That only works on cuccos..." Hyrule muttered.

"And if it works on cuccos, it works on unknown entities messing with teleportation! Logic!"

"You think your wife threw you out the window so many times, your logic died along with your dignity," Legend said, eyeing him, "or whatever's left of it."

"I'll pretend like I've never heard that so I don't carry out my plans on burying you all alive, except Wind," Time said.

"Why him?" Sky asked, and regretted it immediately.