I don't own Super Smash Bros. If I did K. Rool and Ridley would be playable. The Zelda timeframe is just before Zelda splits the timeline in Ocarina of Time while the Donkey Kong timeline is just before DKC1.

The seven-year darkness that had engulfed the land of Hyrule was over. Link, whom Zelda was already sure history would remember as the Hero of Time, had defeated the demonic Gerudo King Ganondorf. Now the dark king was sealed away, never to be released. It was time for Zelda to reclaim her throne and for Link to be rewarded. He had sacrificed so much, missed so much. Zelda would give him the seven years of his life lost in his time-traveling back to him. Zelda had stolen those years from him by involving him in her childhood quest. Really it was not just Link, but all Hyrule that she had wronged. Ganondorf had only gained access to the Sacred Realm by her attempt to keep it safe from him. She had to send Link back to put the Master Sword back in its pedestal to sever the two timelines and fix her mistake. She also knew that this meant that she would loose him…

"When peace returns to Hyrule…it will be time for us to say—

Zelda stopped mid-sentence. The clouds around them disappeared, and they were back at the ruins of Ganon's Tower.

Link, ever silent, quickly turned his back to Zelda putting his sword and shield between her and the evil sorcery…

"Behind you, Hero." A refined yet menacing voice called.

Zelda and Link both turned in opposite directions at first, but there was no mistaking a fat Lizalthos with a red cape and a crown atop some kind of giant gray metal box big enough to fit ten soldiers in. There were knobs and levers and some kind of gauges, both with spinning needles and rising and falling fluids. Said Lizalthos sat in some kind of hatch near the back of the box,

"How did you interrupt my magic, you evil minion of Ganondorf?!" Zelda demanded.

K. Rool tried to hold a straight face, but he couldn't stop snickering? Him? A minion of Ganondorf?

The two Hylians stood speechless. This said nothing about the Hero, if K. Rool had done his homework correctly, but the Princess really seemed startled.

K. Rool finally broke out into a fit of full laughter before managing to get out the words, "Me? A minion of Ganon? Honestly…this is just, I'm sorry…to ridiculous." Another guffaw the humor was gone.

"If you are not with Ganondorf, then what magic did you use to bring us here?" Zelda demand.

K. Rool held up a finger and said, "Not magic, dear, science. What you are about to do will affect not only the history of your world, but that of mine and every other world."

Link said nothing.

Zelda put a hand to her mouth. "Other worlds?"

"Yes, your majesty. I'm King K. Rool of Crocodile Isle. I come from a world known as Mushroom Planet, and I am close ally of the sage Emperor Andross of the planet Venom. He created this device and sent me to your world and timeline to warn you of the consequences of what the two of you are about to do. We have covertly observed through space and time the effect of what you are about to do here today."

The noble Princess began to walk closer to the Lizalthos-like being from another world. The Hero remained tense, keeping his steely gaze locked on the being from another world.

"Doesn't say much, does he?"

"He is a valiant knight," Zelda said, apparently missing K. Rool's point.

Perhaps a silent minion had uses, he conceded. He was tired of overhearing his own minions talk about his weight. He wasn't fat, really. He was heavily muscled which anyone could tell by looking at his arms and pecs, but his inability to crunches combined with his gold plaited armor maid him look fat in the gut. Hero-boy over there could have any girl in Hyrule he wanted. But that was neither here nor there.

"If you send him back in time you will create two alternate timelines, and neither are any good for your kingdom."

"I pray thee, Lizard King, tell me what you and your master know."

K. Rool seethed with rage. His pupils dilated. It was rant time.

"Lizard King? I'm a crocodile, but what the heck would you know about that, coming from a temperate climate! And I don't have a master! Andross and I are equals! I'm not some royal vassal like the Zora King was to your father. I know all about your "civil war" and how your expansionist grandfather forced the Gorons and Zora to his side. Honestly, he was really no different than Ganondorf-in fact the actions he undertook against the Gerudo probably created Ganondorf. I am a crowned sovereign and you are not yet Queen of anything, so I would show a bit more respect."

Zelda bit her lip and responded, "How dare you, a non-Hylian make such accusations against my kingdom!"

Link suddenly remembered something he had seen written in the Shadow Temple about Hyrule's bloody and greedy history.

"Princess," he spoke.

K. Rool dropped his anger out of sheer surprise.

Zelda had only rarely heard Link speak.

"We should listen to your fellow ruler and not judge him only because he doesn't look like us."

K. Rool honestly did not expect this and began to clap.

"Oh, my dear Princess, you should make him one of your advisors."

Zelda needlessly held out a hand to prevent Link from making the attack he was never planning on making anyway.

"We shall hear him Link," Zelda said, as imperious as ever, "Speak creature."

Zelda was a foolish entitled brat, who couldn't see any flaws in her family's history at all. K. Rool, on the other hand, knew all of his family's flaws and embraced them. That's how his family had survived throughout Kremling history and how his grandfather was able to revive the monarchy as a hereditary dictatorship. He would now show Zelda just how incompetent she was. A perverse smile creeped across K. Rool's mouth as he barred his fangs.

"If you create two time lines, Link will go back to the past still bearing the Triforce of Courage, which will make the past Triforce of courage disappear and split the Triforces of Wisdom and Power between yourself and Ganondorf. There will be a massive war between the Hylians and the Gerudo which will result in the Gerudo's near annihilation. You'll capture Ganondorf, but he will be fueled by anger and powered by the Trifocre. He will kill the Water Sage and get banished to the Realm of Twilight, where he will ally himself to certain angry Sheikah descendants from much further from your past." K. Rool paused a licked his fangs. "I actually like the poetic justice of that timeline, pity it happens to a better Zelda."

Zelda felt her own rage boiling but began to consider the Kremling King's words. The Hylians had banished or killed large numbers of Sheikah in the past. Her own time with Impa had made her sympathetic to the Sheikah, and she was at last forced to conclude that there was some measure of truth in this Kremling's words.

"What of the other timeline, your majesty?" She adopted a humbler tone. He had come to warn her, and she became furious at his own accurate analysis. She also had been disrespectful. "Please, forgive my angry words. You are right, I am still a Princess. You are already a King."

K. Rool smiled. He loved others to defer to him. That's why he hated Andross and Bowser.

"I accept your apology. But I must warn you the other timeline is even worse."

"What happens?"

"Ganondorf escapes his seal—there is no Hero to stop him and the King of Hyrule is forced to ask the Golden Goddesses to flood Hyrule. Your whole Kingdom is turned into a island chain. The Zora turn into birds after evicting the Gorons from Death Mountain—

"Wait, please," Zelda asked.

"Yes, what's wrong?" K. Rool arched the skin above his good eye.

"If everything is water, why would the Zora…"

"Don't ask me that! We have observed this timeline multiple times and have never been able to work out why the Zora do this. Consider the topic forbidden."

"Oh," Zelda said, and there it rested.

"There don't appear to be any surviving Gerudo or Sheikah in this timeline, apart from Ganondorf himself, and he is somewhat depressed about being the last Gerudo. Not so much angry this time, just pathetic. Oh, and your descendants are pirates."

Zelda gasped after processing all of this. "This timeline must never come to be."

"But it already has," K. Rool said. "Every time you travel through time and change things you create an alternate parallel timeline. Link's travels have already created a parallel timeline where he loses to Ganon and Twinrova is still alive."

Link tensed but said nothing.

Zelda had heard enough. None of these timelines were any good.

"What can be done?"

"The timelines I mentioned already exist and cannot be undone, but you can make a better new one: Keep Link in present!" K. Rool demanded, then he thought of a delicious detail that would hurt Zelda's feelings and seem logical to her at the same time. He struggled to keep a smile off his maw as he thought, I love being cruel.

"And besides, keeping Link in the present is the best way to honor his responsibilities to Malon and their child…"

Link for the first time let worry into his face, but as usual remained silent. He relaxed his grip on the shield and sword.

Zelda turned to look at him. Betrayal struggled to make its way to her face, but concern cut it off. After all, they weren't betrothed, nor could they be. She was a Princess, he was a knight. She would have to marry for political advantage. Link was free to be with Malon, and given what they had just learned, he should be.

"Descendants of their child fight Ganon in both the timelines where he wins and the one where there's a flood. The two settle down and marry and a different descendant fights Ganondorf in the timeline where link goes back to the past. You really need to think of all the consequences when you put ten-year-old's mind in a seventeen-year-old's body," K. Rool said.

Zelda turned to face K. Rool again. She could say that she hadn't come up with the idea for time travel, but still, both she and Link had gone along with that plan, not that they had had much choice.

K. Rool simply pointed toward Link and said, "You two have a lot to work out."

Link still said nothing. He seemed frozen for the first time. There wasn't that wary energy that usually kept him animated even when he stood still. Zelda looked at Link and saw the fear.

What happened next amused K. Rool to no end.

"You need to return to your family," Zelda said, but Link simply shook his head, his resolve returning.

"First I must take you to Kakariko," Link said.

Zelda realized why.

"Link, you're forgetting I'm also Sheikh. I know I need to rally the people, but I can see about my own safety with Ganondorf gone."

That sentence really grated K. Rool. She was not safe so long as he existed anywhere in spacetime. She had insulted him and would pay for it…but not just yet. K. Rool had work to do. He relaxed when he saw Link get down on one knee in front of Zelda.

"I must protect you."

"Link, I don't need you to," Zelda insisted.

"My duty," Link said simply.

"Is to Malon and the baby."

Link nodded, raised to his feet, got on Epona and raced into the distance.

Zelda looked to K. Rool. "Thank you, your majesty, for your dire warnings. They shall not come to pass in this Hyrule."

K. Rool closed his eyes to begin a self-congratulatory speech, "Thank you, most honored Princess," only to open them and not see Zelda anywhere. Probably on her way to Kakariko.

K. Rool dismounted Andross's machine.

"Didn't even stick around to here my warning about how this affects other worlds? No matter, time to free Ganondorf."