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The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons

I recently replayed them both since they were added to NSO and will gush about them more under the cut.

The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages & The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons are two 22 year old classic Game Boy Color games developed in collaboration between Nintendo and Capcom. They use a Password sharing system to "link" the two games together (which was so robust and complicated they had to put a stop to development of a third game, or so the story goes iirc), so no matter which one you play first it'll transition decently enough into the second game.

This time, as a first for me, I picked Ages as my first and then played Seasons afterwards.

Ages, being a game centered around time travel, naturally has more of a focus on puzzles rather than pure combat challenges. This can be seen in several different ways.

The Dungeons, for instance, have increasingly complicated gimmicks and gimmick combinations that are slowly introduced over the course of the game. Things like six sided dice puzzles start out simple enough, but then they get more complex with the addition of bottomless pits and the fact that they can be used to change a minecart crossing to allow access. Water levels get changed to influence the layout of the dungeon. Pillars are shattered to drop turnstiles to a lower level. Hell, in one dungeon you have to traverse it in both timelines, and some of the things you do in the past change how the dungeon functions in the present.

Instead of a standard bow you have a Seed Shooter, which bounces projectiles off of walls (which is used both to solve puzzles and in boss fights, because of course the boss fights are puzzles as well). Instead of a hookshot to take you places, you now have a Switchhook that will swap you with other objects to reach new places (and also, as ever, to solve puzzles and to navigate certain enemy encounters). Even the Flippers get an upgrade in this game via the Mermaid Suit, which introduces an entirely new method of traversal, that admittedly, takes some serious adjustment to get used to it.

Ages has more of a linear plot structure than that of Seasons, with the many side objectives needed to progress between dungeons be almost hard locked behind story progression (and frequent meetings with our best boi Ralph). This can be seen before dungeon 2, where you need to deliver mystery seeds to Queen Ambi in order to gain access to the second dungeon. The third dungeon is perhaps the most memorable as it's probably the most convoluted and involved set up before a dungeon.

First, you have to have a guy build a raft. So you go to help him and he needs charts and a rope. So you go to the guy that has really good rope but he won't give it to you, so you go to the future and rob his grave for the rope and a chart. Then you crash on Crescent Island and all the local inhabitants steal all of your shit. And boy howdy, I had forgotten how incredibly tedious it could be. Like in concept it's a neat little idea and Crescent Island isn't that big, but even having played this game before there were plenty of times I had to trudge all the way from one end of the island to another in order to swap out an item (because of course you have to do some bartering first before getting all of your shit back). This isn't Dark Matter Kirby trilogy levels of BS "I Should've Been Using a Guide" but it's probably my second least favorite part of the game for a reason.

Actual least favorite part? Goron Dancing. The timing on it is very jank, goes on for too long, and I have no regrets about using the damn built in save states in the NSO app to fucking alleviate my problems with that.

Also at one point you have what amounts to a mock battle with Veran in a very story heavy segment before getting the final Tune for the Harp of Ages, so yeah when I say Ages is very puzzle-y, even in the overworld I mean it.

The Trading Sequence that was so beloved in Link's Awakening once again makes a return in Ages (and Seasons has its own as well). The Boomerang isn't the reward this time, rather it's the Noble Sword (with it being replaced in a linked game with the Master Sword should certain Secrets be exchanged before hand), which honestly feels a bit more impactful (although part of that is how heavily nerfed the Boomerang is in the Oracle games compared to LA).

Ages does a very good job, imo, with slowly building up the intensity of its atmosphere over the course of the game. When you start seeing Lynels and Dark Nuts every new place you travel to you start to realize that shit is about to go down. This is further exemplified in the last Psuedo Dungeon, the Black Tower, which is nothing more than a giant gauntlet of floors and enemies and even a cheeky little illusionary trick at the last part if you don't follow a certain flame.

The final fight with Veran, meanwhile, is a very fast paced, multi phase boss fight. First, you have a re-tread of the Possessed Nayru fight, this time with Possessed Ambi. After this, Veran adopts a very creepy looking Dark Great Fairy form while also spawning Shadow Links to try to mess with you further. Then, after everyone thinks she's dead, she pulls Link into the Darkness for one final confrontation where she tosses aside her vanity to take on truly monstrous forms in an attempt to lay waste to our Hero. These include a Turtle that can briefly spawn lava pits, a gigantic spider, and a super fast giant bee with its own minions and ranged attack.

But once the battle is completed, the day is saved, and time stops going haywire; our heroes celebrate before going their separate ways.

But of course, this isn't the end of it, as the twin Gerudo witches known as Twinrova cackle with evil delight as the first Flame has been successfully lit.

So we grab the password given to us after the credits, enter into the "Secrets" tab of Oracle of Seasons, and start a new adventure in the land of Holodrom.

Seasons is a lot more straight forward in terms of puzzle elements than its sister game. This is exemplified by several things, not the least of which is the fact that unlike in Ages, all you have to do to get the plot moving in Seasons is to talk to roughly seven NPCs; no moving sacred stones here, nosiree bob.

Onox, the General of Darkness, kidnaps Din, the Oracle of Seasons, and then causes the seasons of Holodrum to go out of whack by submerging the Temple of Seasons beneath the earth. (The Temple winds up in a subterranean realm known as Subrosia, much to the mild bafflement of that latter land's citizens).

After talking to the Maku tree and obtaining the sword (which is easier in this game since it's a linked game and therefore the Hero's Cave is more of a late game bonus dungeon), and reveling in the fact that I started with four hearts instead of three due to this being a linked playthrough, I went all of four screens (count 'em, four) past the north part of the village to enter my first dungeon.

It's in this first dungeon, the Gnarled Root Dungeon, that the difference in design principles between the two games becomes apparent. Ages was about the challenge of puzzles and figuring out how to unlock things. Seasons has puzzles, but it's far more interested in hurting the player through various traps and buffed up enemies. Spinning Spike Traps were a late game environmental hazard in Ages; in Seasons, they're in this first dungeon. At the end of the dungeon, you run into a massive boss known as Aquamentes; yes, the same exact first boss from the original Legend of Zelda. Every major boss in this game, outside of the eighth dungeon and the final Seasons boss, is a returning boss from either the og or LTTP.

After defeating the second dungeon boss (Dodongo), you at long last have access to Farore, the Oracle of Secrets who is basically just a glorified password entering machine in the form of an NPC. By talking to certain characters in a linked game, you can then go back to Ages with the "secret" (password code) and do a small thing or another to gain an item or an upgrade that you couldn't normally. By then taking that new password back to Seasons, you can talk to Farore and obtain that item or upgrade as well. However, it works on a tiered system; so if you only have the level 1 sword, you'll only get the level 2 sword in Seasons and will need to go to the location of what would've been the level 2 sword to find the level 3 sword instead.

So fairly quickly in Seasons I had things like a level 2 Ring Box, a level 2 Seed Satchel, and even an entire extra Heart Container to make things even easier for myself. It was also around this point I talked to Vasu the Jeweler's red snake companion in Ages and gained a password that let me copy my Ages ring collection to Seasons, which included the Blue Ring (which halves all damage). This made the game a lot more forgiving, although still not exactly a walk in the park as some enemies can hit you multiple times before you can recover and dodge out of the way. The only other ring I used throughout the rest of this playthrough was one I found in Seasons; the Roc Ring, which lets you stand on those crumbling floor tiles without them breaking and dropping you into a bottomless pit. Useful for a couple quirky dungeon rooms in the latter part of the game.

A neat thing about a linked game is that not only will you get those aforementioned moments of secret passwords, but also just little extra moments where characters from the previous game will come to visit in the new one. This can include Ambi (who travelled through time to see her love (the Pirate Cap'n) once more), the Great Moblin (who would really like it if Link would stop blowing up his fortresses), and even new characters like Princess Zelda herself.

In both Oracle games you run across Ricky (a boxing Kangaroo), Moosh (a flying, uh, bear), and Dimitri (a smol Dodongo friend who swims up waterfalls). While you do have to interact with all three of them in both games, you also can get a flute to call a specific one to you in the overworld to overcome specific areas in the overworld that change depending on the animal friend you end up with. If you play Ages and don't do anything special, you get Moosh; playing Seasons normally gets you Ricky; and no matter which game you'll need to do a short little side objective to wind up with Dimitri.

So of course I picked Dimitri. His zones in both games are relatively simple water segments that move at a quick pace; the same cannot be said for Moosh's and Ricky's respective areas. Also he's a cute dino friend. I can't say no to that.

The actual overworld puzzles in Seasons revolve around, of course, the changing of the seasons. First you end up grabbing winter; then summer, spring, and fall.

Winter ices over some ponds and lakes allowing traversal of these areas before the flippers are obtained. Certain trees also turn from two by two obstacles to 1 wide by two square tall ones instead, allowing for paths to be opened. Snow banks can also form in certain locations, allowing traversal between things like separated cliffs.

Spring has petrified buds come to life. This can be as simple as a path now being freely traversable to Deku Flower type contraptions that will shoot you up ledges. There is a child in Horon village who will showcase the latter every time the place is in spring and it is both informative and cute.

Summer will dry up lakebeds and at the same time it will cause vines to grow on certain walls.

Autumn will make rock mushrooms turn normal so they can be picked up. It will also have leaves fall on top of pits, turning them into temporary safe haven that can walked on if you're fast enough.

These various interactions between the seasons lead to some interesting puzzles, but nothing ever feels as convoluted as the time bending shenanigans of Ages (Zora's Domain, which I didn't touch on earlier, was a nightmare, btw)

Unlike Ages, which was more about items for utility, a lot of items in Seasons function as both puzzle solving elements and direct weapons. The Boomerang returns in Seasons, but later on gets an upgraded form in the Magic Boomerang, which you can control its flight path to some extent. Instead of a Seed Shooter you instead get a slingshot, and later and upgraded one that shoot three seeds in a spread. The Magnetic gloves don't do direct damage, but they can throw around large metal objects to kill some enemies that were normally only killable by knocking them into pits. (They are also used to yeet Link around rooms in fun and interesting ways) There's also the Roc's Cape, which acts as a controlled double jump that lets Link clear some larger gaps in the floor.

Some special shout out to various things in this game:

Fighting Blaino in his Gym to get Ricky his gloves back. Using two blue Cuccoos to soar over specific pits, while wondering why it was necessary to make them button mashers.

All of the trampoline puzzles in this game involving dungeons with multiple floors.

Setting off an active volcano in Subrosia to change the landscape above in Holodrum.

The sixth dungeon's terrifying room of "hi these walls are closing in better run faster".

The creepy Poe sisters and their curses that you had to lift by finding their grave markers; cause if the torches all went out in those cursed rooms you were teleported back to the beginning of the dungeon (even during the mini boss fight, where one or both sisters will try to blow out the torches in between trying to stab Link).

And of course cooling the lava in the Sword and Shield dungeon's bottom floor with those magic ice blocks.

Upon defeating the Medusa Head boss of the eight dungeon (who is a lot more intimidating in terms of looks rather than a super hard challenge, especially on this linked save file with a level 3 sword and taking half damage) it's time to go and fight the General of Darkness, Onox.

His palace is a bit more straight forward than Veran's, although his requires all enemies to be defeated (and the Facade mini boss makes a return). Whatever atmosphere is lacking in the final Psuedo Dungeon proper is made up for with Onox's large, intimidating presence. … and the gigantic spiked ball and chain he wields in order to try and crush Link. Midway through the fight he'll summon Din's trapped body to his side as a human shield, but the Rod of Seasons can safely bat her away and allow our young hero to defeat the General.

However, the fight isn't done with just one form. Oh no, for Onox is in actuality a Dark Dragon summoned forth by Twinrova from the Dark Realm in order to light the Flame of Destruction. So what follows is a side scrolling view fight straight out of Sigma's playbook where you have to jump on Onox's hands and then jump up to hit the crystal in his forehead with your sword.

After defeating Onox and freeing Din, you would think the day is saved if you hadn't been paying attention to the cutscenes involving Twinrova. But alas, the elderly witches kidnap the people's hope, Zelda, and mean to use this to not only light the Flame of Despair, but also to sacrifice her as a vessel. For their purpose this entire time has been to resurrect the King of Evil, Ganon.

What follows is a short gauntlet of two boss fights. First, is the battle against Twinrova. At first, you have to use your sword as a bat to hit the Ice Witch with the Fire Witch's attack and vice versa. After a brief battle (with some admittedly very wonky flight paths that don't make logical sense no I didn't get irritated at what felt like really cheap hits what do you mean) they combine into Twinrova proper, who will change the room's environment to use Fire and Ice attacks, and requires applying the sword directly to her forehead, followed by the application of some scent seeds when she's vulnerable.

Having been unable to revive Ganon using Zelda, Twinrova sacrifice their body for their liege. This results in a powerful Ganon, but one without his brilliant, villainous mind to control his actions. The battle therefore is mostly just Ganon teleporting, using an attack, teleporting, repeating ad nauseam. At one point he makes the floor go all silly and your controls are backwards but by the time he did so it took me all of two or three hits to defeat him.

So at long last the day is saved, Zelda is rescued, our heroes celebrate and Link leaves out to sea on a very familiar looking raft (the Oracle games were meant, at time of release, to be interquel games between LTTP and LA, but that was later retconned).

All in all, it was an incredibly fun experience to go through these two games again for the first time in…uh, a while. (10+ years, I think, with the majority of my replays being back in the early to mid 2000's) These two games hold an incredibly special place in my heart (if that wasn't obvious), that even the parts that annoyed me were still enjoyable to an extent.

#The Legend of Zelda #Zelda #Link #Oracle of Ages #oracle of seasons #Game Completed 2023

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rainbowwing251 · 9 months

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The Other Chris (Wild Kratts Tickle Fic)

A/N: I can’t. Believe. I’m doing this.

Seriously, I can’t believe I’m doing this. I should not be doing this, but I’m doing it anyway.

So uh… yeah, this is… a thing! It’s a tickle fic for the PBS Kids series Wild Kratts!

I know I said I didn’t want to make tickle content for the show, but truth be told… I really wanted to for… almost as long as I’ve been into the show. The only reason why I decided against it was because I was afraid. Afraid of how the Wild Kratts fandom would see me for making this kind of content. Afraid that the tickling community wouldn’t care about tickle content for this show. Afraid that somehow, someway, the Kratt Brothers themselves would find my content.

But recently, two out of my three fears have been proven false. It turns out that there IS a tickling community for Wild Kratts and that the tickling community as a whole does enjoy the limited amount of tickle content there is for it. I’m still concerned about whether or not the brothers themselves will find it, but I guess I shouldn’t worry about that for now…

This is a long author’s note, and I apologize for that, but before I get onto this fic, I would like to mention that this fic is a collab! This is a collab between myself and @kittyfluffies on Tumblr, whom I may have accidentally dragged into the Wild Kratts fandom with me… oops.

Well, let’s see how this goes! Real quick, this fic takes place shortly after the events of the episode “The Other Martins”!

P.S. Interpret this as Krattcest and I’ll get the sniper rifle. That shit is DISGUSTING.

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Today was a horrible day to be Chris Kratt.

Everything that could go wrong today did go wrong, except for the appearance of one or more of the villains. But would that have been any worse than falling into a pile of rotten apples, nearly being dive bombed by a Purple Martin (multiple times in fact), finding an American Pine Marten, having an American Red Squirrel steal your Creature Power Suit, getting tickled by said squirrel and your brother at the same time, and falling into a body of water, in that order, all on the same day? All while your brother teases you relentlessly the whole time? Chris would argue that this is worse than anything the villains could throw at him and the rest of the Tortuga crew.

He tried to combat his bad luck by calling it a day early to try and think of animals that shared his name, but there was one problem with this plan: he can’t think of a single animal that has “Chris” in its name. Not a single one.

“Come on, there’s gotta be one animal out there with the name Chris that isn’t me…! There has to be…!” he thought as he laid in a bed in the basement of the Tortuga. He had intended to lie in one of the hammocks that was in the central room of the ship, but remembered that none of those were his. They belonged, from top to bottom, to Aviva, Koki, and Jimmy Z, and as much as he would have liked to be in a hammock right now, he didn’t want to risk being scolded for taking a hammock that wasn’t his. That, and he was already feeling irritated by the events of the day and didn’t want to be angered any further, so he chose to isolate himself to try and calm down.

This worked for some time, but eventually, the peace was disturbed by the appearance of someone else.

The moment he heard those footsteps, he knew who it was. And he groaned.

“Oh no…” He should have known that there was no way he would be able to go the rest of the day without seeing the one who was responsible for half of the troubles he faced today, and yet somehow, he thought he would be left alone.

The door to the basement opened, and in came the reason he was even lying here in the first place: his older, mischievous, and sometimes annoying brother, Martin Kratt.

“Hey bro!” he greeted before noticing the look on Chris’s face. He’s seen him direct that face at the villains and sometimes him a couple of times, but something about that expression in this moment seemed… off.

“What? Aren’t you happy to see me?”

“After everything you put me through today? No, absolutely not.”

That upsetted Martin a little bit, but he did understand why he’d feel that way. It didn’t stop him from teasing him a little bit more, however.

“Awww, come on, Chris! You got to see animals that share a name with your bro! Does that not make you happy? Not even a little bit?” he teased, putting his hand on his shoulder and leaning towards his face.

Chris rolled his eyes at his brother’s actions, “Remember when I said that purple martins didn’t annoy me anymore, but this one-” Chris put a finger on Martin’s chest, “-not so much? I meant it.”

“Awww, you’re no fun, bro. I was just messing with you! I wanted you to enjoy The Day of the Martins!”

“Your teasing didn’t help me get my Creature Power Suit back from that red squirrel.”

“But I still got it back!”

Chris sighed and poked his brother again, “You don’t get it, do you?” He was about to lecture his older brother before he heard what sounded like a mix of a giggle and a squeak, “You’re still laughing at my luck, aren’t you?”

“N-no, just watch where you’re poking me!” Martin explained, grabbing Chris’s wrist and pulling it away from him. Chris looked down to see where he had poked him, thinking he had poked him in the chest again, only to realize that he had accidentally poked his brother in the stomach.

Suddenly, he got an idea. An idea on how he could get back at his brother for his merciless teasing.

If he couldn’t think of any animals with Chris in their name, then he’ll have to invent one. One that can give him the power to take revenge on his brother.

“...Chris?” Martin’s concerned voice pulled him out of his thoughts, “You alright?”

A malicious grin formed on Chris’s face, “Chris isn’t here right now.”

Martin raised a brow at his younger brother’s statement, “Huh? What are you talking about, bro? You’re right here! What do you mean you aren’t-”

“Chris. Isn’t. Here. Right now.” The green brother grabbed Martin by his wrists and swiftly pinned him down onto the bed. “Only his alter-ego~”

Upon hearing that teasy tone in his voice, Martin immediately knew what was about to happen. “C-Chris? Can we talk about this…?!”

Chris let out a sinister-sounding chuckle, “I already told you, Chris isn’t here~ Only…” he brought his hands into Martin’s vision and wiggled his fingers.

“W-wait, nohoho! Don’t-!”

“The TICKLE MONSTER!” The younger brother drilled a finger into the other’s armpits, “But right now, you can call me the ‘Other Chris’~”

To Chris’s slight shock, Martin had already burst into a fit of giggles with a few laughs mixed in for good measure.

“Nohohohoho, Chrihihihihs! W-We can tahahahalk about thihihis!”

“Laughing already? And from a single finger in the armpits, no less~? This will be easy~”

The blue brother was already squirming under the ticklish touch, trying and failing to throw Chris off of him.

“Trying to throw me off, are we~? I think that warrants a punishment, wouldn’t you agree~?” Chris ignored the unintentional rhyme and snuck a second wiggling finger into Martin’s armpits, causing his giggles to rise in volume and his squirming to become a little more violent.

“C-Chrihihis nohohohoho! That t-tihihihihihickles!” Martin cried out, his arms coming down in an attempt to protect his armpits, but unfortunately for him, that only served to trap his brother’s fingers in there.

“I told you, I’m not Chris! I am the Other Chris!” The “Other Chris” protested as he broke through the blue Kratt’s defenses to slip a third finger under his arms.

“Chrihihihihis, I knohohohow you’re in thehehehehre!”

“Nope, Chris is nowhere to be found right now, but I promise, he’ll come back once I give him what he wants~”

“Whahahahahahat? What d-dohohohoes he wahahahant?”

Chris gave him the most evil smirk he could muster. “Revenge~” With that, he skipped the fourth step and slipped the last two fingers under Martin’s arms. With all ten fingers tickling him, Martin went from squirming to thrashing uncontrollably, nearly throwing Chris off of him a few times. He’d also started kicking his legs, desperately trying to distract himself from the tingly sensation under his arms.

“NOHOHOHOHO, BROHOHOHOHOHO! C-CUT IT OHOHOHOHOUT!” Martin seemed to nearly scream out as he kept kicking and thrashing for a few more seconds, only stopping when he felt a hand on his ankle.

“Are you trying to kick me~? How rude~!” Chris teased. He was about to stick a hand back under his brother’s arm before he was hit with another idea. Martin, who had squeezed his eyes shut during his laughing fit, opened them and giggled in anticipation. “C-Chrihihihihs?”

The evil grin his brother had on his face nearly made him burst into laughter again.

“You know, Martin… I’m pretty sure it’s not a good idea to kick another person, and yet you tried to kick me anyway. I think it’s time for me to switch spots and teach you another lesson~”

“Whahahahat?” Martin questioned through his giggles before he felt his shoelaces coming undone. “Whahahaha- hehehehehey! Don’t remove my shoes, plehehehehehese! Chrihihihihis!”

“It’s too late to beg for mercy now, Martin~” Chris slowly pulled both shoes off before slipping a finger into the blue brother’s socks.

“Nononononono dohohohohohon’t! Dohohohon’t do ihihihihit!”

“Do what~?” Chris asked him, pulling one sock off of his foot, “Take your shoes and socks off? Well too bad, I will not stop until you apologize to me… and to Chris~”

“But yohohohou are Chrihihih- NOHOHOHOHOHOHO!” Martin burst into laughter upon feeling a hand on his bare left foot.

“Laughing already~? This will be easy~” With that, Chris dug in, scribbling his fingers all over the other’s feet. Martin absolutely lost it in response.

“NOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHO, CHRIHIHIHIHIHIHIS! S-STAHAHAHAHAHP!”

“Begging for mercy again are we~? I don’t remember you giving Chris mercy when he told you to stop, so why should I~?” Chris ribbed, leaning in closer to Martin’s face in an attempt to make the teasing worse for his older brother. Needless to say, it worked like a charm.

“PLEAHAHAHAHAHAHASE STAHAHAHAHAHAP TEHEHEHEASING MEHEHEHE!”

“And why should I do that~?” the younger brother asked, focusing the tickling on Martin’s arches, a spot he knew was unbearably sensitive to any kind of touch, “Does it tickle more when I tease you~? Does it make you lose all of your strength so you can’t fight back~? Tell me, Martin, does teasing make you weak to tickles~? Even more so than you already are~?”

Martin’s only response was to throw his head back in uncontrollable laughter before immediately rushing to cover his face with a pillow to muffle himself.

“That was not a response, but I’ll take it anyway~” Chris reacted with a giggle, far too amused by how much his brother was laughing. “Besides, now that you’re covering your face, you won’t be able to see what I’m doing~”

To prove his point, the younger Kratt suddenly switched from scribbling Martin’s arches to scratching under his toes. Just as he predicted, Martin’s laughter increased in both pitch and volume, though it was muffled a little by the pillow.

“CRIHIHIHIHS NOHOHO-MMMPH!” The older Kratt had lifted the pillow a little to plead for Chris to have mercy on him, but he had to cut himself off by pulling the pillow back over his face because he was afraid his laughter would alert someone upstairs.

“You brought this on yourself, Martin~ All you had to do was get Chris’s vest back without tickling him, but nope, you couldn’t resist~”

Chris looked down to return his focus to Martin’s feet when, out of the corner of his eye, he saw a bright green disc in one of Martin’s shoes. For the third time that day, he was hit with an evil idea. He slowed the tickling under Martin’s toes to a stop and waited for him to catch his breath.

“Hey Martin~”

“A-are you fihihihinally going to have mercy on mehehehe…?” Martin let out his after-giggles and slowly lifted the pillow off of his face. Chris grinned a little at seeing the bright pink blush on his brother’s face, a clear indication that this was a job well done so far. He nearly laughed when he saw his eyes widen in horror.

“T-that’s…!”

Chris let out the most malicious laugh he could muster. “The Pine Marten Power Disc~” He then leaned in towards Martin again. “I think you know what I’m going to do with this, but first, I need to find a pine marten~”

The other Martin tried to snatch the Power Disc out of his brother’s hands, but Chris just dodged each attempt effortlessly.

“Now… how am I going to keep you from escaping…?” Chris pondered, realizing that he had not considered the possibility of using an animal’s Creature Powers to tickle Martin. At that moment, both brothers heard the door to the basement open.

“What’s going on down here? I thought I heard someone laughing…” Aviva walked into the room and spotted the brothers. Martin’s blush deepened into a dark shade of red while Chris’s face turned a bright pink, just like his brother’s face was a few seconds ago. The blush quickly faded from the green brother’s face when he realized that the answer to his question had just caught them in the act.

“Aviva, keep him pinned down for me, will you?”

“Huh…?” Aviva was very confused, but upon seeing the tears of mirth in the corners of Martin’s eyes combined with the blush and residual giggles, she quickly caught on to what was going on, “Ohhh, I see~ Sure thing, Chris~”

“I’m not Chris, I’m the Other Chris!”

Aviva couldn’t help but roll her eyes at that, “Whatever you say, ‘Other Chris’~”

Chris elected to ignore the sudden embarrassment that welled up within him upon hearing Aviva’s teasing words and walked out of the basement to go find his “partner” in crime. As soon as he left, Aviva turned to face the flustered mess of a Kratt brother on the bed.

“Hehehehey Avivahahaha…!”

She couldn’t help but giggle at him, “Chris got you good, didn’t he~?”

“Yeahahaha, and he’s not even dohohohne yet!” Martin answered as the remaining after giggles slowly subsided. “You’ll get me out of here, rihihight…?”

“Hmm…” The inventor pretended to ponder his question before she pinned him down, just as Chris asked her to, “Nope~ Don’t want to get on Chris’s- sorry, ‘Other Chris’s’- bad side~”

Martin’s giggles quickly returned as he realized there was no hope of escape, “Nohohohoho! I mehehehehehean, I geheheht it, but nohohohoho!”

“No what, Martin~? Do you want me to get on your brother’s bad side~? On ‘Other Chris’s’ bad side~? After everything he did to you~?” Aviva smirked at the blue Kratt’s sudden laughing fit, “No way~! If you can’t handle his tickle skills, how do you expect me to handle them~?”

Before Martin could respond (if he would’ve been able to answer at all given how hard he was laughing), both he and Aviva heard the sound of a Creature Power Suit being activated upstairs, followed by the sound of quiet footsteps approaching the door to the basement.

Aviva couldn’t help but let out an evil chuckle as she saw her pinned victim’s eyes widen in horror, “Looks like your time is running out, Martin~”

“NOHOHOHOHO!”

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The whole time Aviva was teasing his brother, Chris had entered the main room of the Tortuga to find a pine marten. As soon as the door opened and he stepped inside, he finally allowed himself to break character.

“Phew… keeping up a fake persona is tiring… but oh is it worth it~” Chris thought to himself, “Let’s see… is there a pine marten in here…?”

Chris looked around the room and noticed that two certain crew members were nowhere to be found. “Koki and Jimmy aren’t here…? That’s a little odd…”

Before he could further question their whereabouts, his eyes landed on a pine marten that was sitting in Aviva’s desk chair. Chris grinned, “But right now, I need the help of my ‘partner’ in crime~”

He made sure to carefully approach the pine marten so as not to scare it away before he put on his Creature Power Suit and took Martin’s Pine Marten Power Disc out of his left pocket.

“Hey there! Li’l Marty, was it?” Chris asked the little creature as it turned to look at him, “Well I’ll need your help to get revenge on Big Marty~”

He put his gloves on. He was finally ready to enact the last part of his plan.

“Insert Pine Marten Power Disc!”

He put one gloved finger on the pine marten.

“Touch pine marten!”

He pressed the central button on his vest, and…

“Activate pine marten powers!"

The suit activated, and within seconds, he had become a pine marten.

“Haha, I finally got the chance to use pine marten powers! But I’ll have to test out the pine marten’s hunting tricks some other time. I have a more important prey to devour downstairs~”

Chris ran out the door and down the steps to the basement.

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He made it to the bottom of the stairs, but waited a moment before entering the basement to listen to the pure terror that found its way into Martin’s laughter.

“Did he hear me activate my Creature Power Suit?” Chris wondered before smirking, “Good.”

He finally entered the room to see Aviva holding down a hysterical Martin, but while they did hear the sound of the door opening and looked to see if he was there, they failed to look down towards the floor, where he actually was.

“Look down here~”

Aviva looked down and giggled upon both seeing him and hearing Martin shriek out a “AVIHIHIHIVA, LET ME GOHOHOHOHO!” She just ignored him and greeted Chris.

“There you are Ch- Other Chris!” she corrected herself.

“You see what my plan is now, Aviva~?”

“Sure do~ Want me to stay here, or do you want me to leave you to it?”

Chris tried to think about his response, but couldn’t hear his own thoughts over the sound of his brother’s uncontrollable laughter. Out of playful spite, he decided, “Leave him to me~”

Aviva nodded, “Okay then~ Sorry Martin, but it looks like you’ll be stuck with him for a bit longer~ See you later… if you’re still alive that is~” She released said Kratt from her grasp before walking out of the door and heading back upstairs. The whole time she was walking away, Martin was pleading for her to reconsider and help him escape, but it was futile. She and Chris had already made their decisions.

Martin’s laughter had subsided a little after the inventor left, but he still had a hard time controlling himself, especially when he looked at his younger brother sitting on the floor. Watching. Waiting there. Menacingly.

“C-Chrihihihihihs? Hellohohohoho?”

Chris leered at him, “Are you ready for the grand finale, Martin~?”

“Nohohohohoho, nohohot at ahahahahahahall!”

“Well too bad~”

The green pine marten ran over to one of the legs near the foot of the bed, climbed up it, and ran across Martin’s body to get to his neck. The whole time he ran across his brother’s torso and ribs, he dragged his tail behind him, intentionally tickling him and sending him into another fit of laughter.

“H-hehehehehehey, wahahahahahatch the taihihihihihil!”

“What do you mean? I was watching my tail!” Chris snuck up to Martin’s ear before he spoke again, “I was watching it tickle you~”

He could feel Martin shiver as he brought his now-free hands up to his ears to cover them up. Unfortunately for him, the ears were the last spot his brother had in mind.

While his hands were up and covering his ears, Chris made his way to his neck and stood dangerously close to the collar of his shirt.

He could practically feel the heat radiating off his brother’s skin as he took note of the blush that had managed to spread from Martin’s face to his neck. He saw the tips of his ears through his fingers and noticed that they even had a tinge of red on them. He didn’t know his older brother could get this flustered!

“You ready~?” He asked teasingly, knowing full well what Martin’s answer was going to be.

“N-nohohohoho! Chrihihihis, d-dohohohon’t do ihihit!”

Chris couldn’t help the smug grin that made its way onto his face, though he didn’t turn to show it to his brother, “Too bad~ Here we go~!”

He stuck his head into the collar of Martin’s shirt, slowly inching his way in. He was only a few inches in when he suddenly pulled himself out and began sniffing at the blue Kratt’s neck. Martin was in no way prepared for this sudden change and nearly let out a squeal as he desperately tried to move his head from side to side to get his brother’s face away from his neck.

“H-hehehehehehey, don’t sniff my nehehehehck!” I-I dohohohon’t smehehehell!”

“That’s not what I’m going for, Martin~ I’m just here to make you laugh, and unless you apologize for what you did to Chris today…” Chris moved down to where Martin’s blush ended on his neck and went right back to sniffing, “You better prepare yourself~”

“I-I cahahahahahahn’t!”

“You can’t apologize? And here I thought you knew basic manners~”

The green pine marten stayed at Martin’s neck for a few more seconds before the sniffing came to an end. However, while his brother had his guard down, Chris quickly zipped into his shirt and ran across his stomach over and over again.

Martin’s only response to the sneak attack was a squeal so loud that it nearly stunned Chris. While he knew that the walls of the Tortuga are rather thick, he highly doubted that Aviva, Koki, and Jimmy were unable to hear that squeal, even if they were outside of the ship.

“CHRIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIS, NOHOHOHOHOHOHOHO! I-I CAN’T- AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!”

“Huh? What was that, Martin~? I can’t understand you, you’re laughing too hard~” Chris taunted as he kept up the pace and continued to race around on his brother’s torso. He dragged his tail behind him once again, swishing it back and forth to make it tickle even more, and even stopped running a few times to pretend to use it like a paintbrush on Martin’s navel, which nearly resulted in him getting pushed out of his shirt by his hands. It didn’t take long for Chris to notice that Martin’s squirming and pushing was gradually fading, a tell-tale sign that he was nearly at his limit.

“Ready to say sorry yet~?”

“Y-YEHEHEHEHES! YEHEHEHEHEEHS! I’M SOHOHOHOHOHORY! CHRIHIHIHIHIS, PLEAHAHAHAHAHAHASE!”

The moment Martin said sorry, Chris brought the tickles to a halt and carefully climbed out of his sibling’s shirt, doing his best to not make any of his steps tickle him any further.

“Now that wasn’t so hard, was it~?” Chris teased him one last time before he hopped off of him and onto the floor, waiting for his giggly mess of a brother to catch his breath and calm down.

“T-thahahahaht… that wahahahahs evihihihihil…!”

“Good~ That’s what I was going for~ So next time, when you try to bully your brother for an entire day, remember… I will be here to tickle you until you apologize to him for your behavior~” With that, Chris stood up, said, “Deactivate!” and reverted back to his normal appearance and personality.

“You okay, bro?” he asked and held out his hand, worried that he might have taken his tickly punishment a bit too far.

“Y-yeah…” Martin breathed out, taking his younger brother’s hand and letting himself be pulled up into a sitting position. “Just give me a few more seconds to breathe…”

After two deep breaths, he got up off of the bed and stood next to his brother, “Do you think the crew heard me squeal…?”

“Only one way to find out! Come on, let’s see if they’re upstairs!”

A light pink blush returned to Martin’s face, but nonetheless, he went upstairs with Chris into the main room of the Tortuga. When the door opened, they were greeted with the sight of Aviva waiting in front of the big computer, while Koki and Jimmy were at their desks, having turned to face the brothers.

“So…” Aviva started with a smirk, “Who’s going to explain that loud squeal we heard downstairs~?”

Martin’s blush turned a dark red, while Chris just stood there, trying to look as though he had no idea what she was talking about.

“I’m not an expert on human noises, but I don’t think that squeal belonged to any of us.”

“Certainly didn’t come from me! I’d know my own squeals anywhere!” Jimmy responded to Koki’s comment, completely unaware of the engineer creeping up behind him until he heard a, “Boo!”

“AAAAAAH!” Jimmy didn’t squeal, but he did indeed scream and bolted behind Koki and her chair. Everyone couldn’t help but laugh at his panicked reaction.

“Hehehe, I think that’s enough to prove that it wasn’t him~” She then turned her attention back to the brothers, “Sooooooo~?”

The light pink blush Martin had the entire time turned a dark red again as his embarrassment grew, and even Chris couldn’t fight the faint pink blush on his cheeks as he tried his best to play it cool and pretend that he didn’t understand her.

No one said anything for a few seconds, then the blue Kratt finally spoke up, “I-It was me… and I’ve got to admit, Chris is a surprisingly good tickler if he got me to squeal that loud!” Martin quickly regained his usual energy and peered at his brother, who just looked at him with a confused expression.

“Huh? What are you talking about, bro? I didn’t tickle you!”

Martin gave him a “you’re really doing this?” look and decided to play along, “No, that was totally you, Chris, I swear!”

“No way! I’m not as good at tickling people as you are!”

“I think I remember hearing your voice teasing me into oblivion! I’d know your voice anywhere, bro!”

“I’m not good at teasing, either! Martin, I swear, you’re confusing me with someone else!”

For a moment, Koki and Jimmy thought that they were having a genuine argument over a supposed tickle attack, but when Aviva gave them a knowing grin, they immediately caught on to what was really happening.

“Nope, that was totally you! And you know what~?” Martin’s voice turned teasy out of nowhere as he brought his hands up into Chris’s view, wiggling his fingers, “I was lying when I said I was sorry~”

“Huh? Wha-” The younger brother was initially confused before spotting the wiggly fingers that were slowing approaching him, “W-wait, Martin noooOOOOHOHOHOHO DOHHOHOHOHON’T!” He immediately cracked when he felt his older brother’s fingers on his sides, ribs, and belly. It didn’t take for him to try to fall to the floor to escape the ticklish hell that was unleashed upon him, but unfortunately, Martin had followed him down, never stopping his assault.

“Haha, revenge sure is sweet!” Martin cheered, “Okay, I was sort of lying when I said I wasn’t sorry, I did feel bad for you, but right now, I care more about getting my revenge~”

Chris could only laugh and try to curl up as he felt Martin’s hand close in on the center of his stomach, but he managed to trap his hands there instead, sealing his tickly fate.

Aviva, Koki, and Jimmy couldn’t help but laugh along as they watched the chaos unfold in front of them.

“Hehe, these boys will never change, will they~?”

#tickling #wild kratts #Giggle Rats #lee!Martin #ler!Chris #with a little bit of lee!Chris and ler!Martin at the end #featuring a very teasy Aviva #I still can't believe I did this #But I AM CRINGE AND I AM FREE #fun fact: I typed up the last 430 words of this fic on December 22nd (the day before I posted this)#and I'm posting this on December 23rd which just so happens to be Martin Kratt's birthday #Happy Birthday Martin Kratt! What's your gift? your tickle monster of a brother apparently #one more thing: Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone!#this is probably going to be my only fic for 2023 #unless I finally finish that Splatoon 3 fic I was working on prior to this one #but if I don't you can expect to see that fic in 2024!#…oh shit I completely forgot that this was a collab fic #sorry fluffykitties!#If you want to see cute headcanons for games like Mr. Love or anime like Boueibu go check her out!#HELP THIS FIC WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE A TITLE #It’s The Other Chris if you want to know!

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