Author's Note: Long time no see, folks. I have finally returned to this site with better stories this time. (I hope.) Since you last saw me, I have matured. Also, I have been thinking of doing a Kirby fanfic, much like LeerJustice's "Kirby of the Stars: The After Story", but with changes to separate the two and hopefully not copying anything to lose interest from the story itself. The changes are gonna be that:

I won't do something like the GSA and there will gaps between the games' events to show what Kirby and his friends do in their own time, when not saving Popstar or something like that.

And the biggest change of them all...

Ribbon joins Kirby in his adventures... As his girlfriend/partner, after the events of Kirby 64.

Anyway, I'm gonna shut up now and let you enjoy a story that I should have put on this site when I first released it on DA. Enjoy!

LAST CHANCE, ACT 0

I was knocked out for what seemed like hours on end, thanks to that demonic bat. And now, chaos could be breaking out onto Mobius... or even worse.

I've got to stop him from achieving his goal, I'm not gonna lose to him and let everything I know corrupt and break apart.

At last, I woke up, holding my head in pain. "Damn... He really knocked me out with that punch... Wait, where the hell am I?" I got up, looking around me, only to be met with darkness with an light static covering it. "Well, no point in staying here, better get going." I said, crossing my arms before running for a bit through the darkness until I came to a monitor.

These things normally help me and my friends through our adventures and are VERY handy, especially when we need them most. I jumped into the air and curled into a ball to destroy the monitor.

Upon doing so, static covered my vision. "Hey! What the-" I said, confused about what was happening. After the static lifted, I saw Sonic and Tails, captured in a cage. I took no time to look around, or to free them from the cage, they were confused. "Joshua, why are you doing this?" One of them said, hoping for my answer, Before I could answer, the static returned, bringing me back to the darkness place.

"Damn it..." I said, knowing I couldn't explain, I then heard these words... "We've got a problem... Sonic and Tails escaped!" It sounded like my voice... but corrupted in a way. I didn't know what it was and shrugged it off, perhaps it was me hearing things, or this place trying to make me go insane... Another reason to get out of here...

But how? Maybe the static monitors can help? I'll have to try and find out. Thinking about this, filled me with a strange feeling that I never had before this... But I had this same feeling before, if so, what was it?

It was determination.

I started to sprint again, now determined to find a way to save this world, it took longer to find the next monitor, I curled into a ball to destroy it as soon as it reached my sight, more static appeared... I found that I was in Scrap Brain Zone, the sky seemed to be covered in thick red clouds, much like a thunderstorm.

I was next to a strange monitor that looked unstable, I soon found a toolbox that supposedly belonged to Dr. Eggman, the one who created me before Sonic and his friends had saved me and turned me into an hero in the first place.

I used the tools to fix the monitor, only to find that it had a '?' image flashing on it, I left it alone, hoping that it wouldn't be used by the wrong hands... The static returned to signal that my time was up. I took no time on dashing around the place to find a way out of this place, I just hate the thought of my world being taken over, along with my friends possibly being slaughtered.

It had been an hour or at least felt like it since I had started running after the last monitor. At last a giant ring came into my line of sight, I skidded before stopping in front of it. I was confused, these things only appear when nobody all has all the emeralds, did Sonic lose them again? Or did someone steal them all? Curious, I decided to jump into the ring, I didn't care if it was a trap or not, If it was, I wasn't going to let that bat beat me... It was time to fight back, for my friends, for Mobius, for the whole universe...

Here I come, you demonic bat. I jumped into the ring, disappearing along with it as my vision went white and then black afterwards...

-TO BE CONTINUED IN PART 2-