Kirby and Meta Knight were having an audience with King Dedede. Meta Knight was warning the king of an alien threat approaching Pop Star, (kirby couldn't do so, because he's, like, 4 years old) and asked for his help in terminating them with extreme prejudice.

Dedede stroked his chin, turned his head and ordered, "Dan! bring me the charts!"

Dan Dee, the waddle dee so pun-fully named because he always wore a blue bandana, cheerfully responded, "got it, chief!" and ran off. He presented the king with many graphs and charts.

On these diagrams were good kingly deeds, such as providing security and building homeless shelters, juxtaposed with real dick moves like ransacking homes and demolishing homeless shelters to build royalty-only hotels. ("royalty" in dreamland meaning just Dedede)

Dedede mused, "hmm… if we sit this one out, we won't have enough benevolence in our budget to raze the citizens' porn stashes…" He turned to face Meta Knight. "All righty. I'll join you on one condition: you teach me how swords work. I tried to get that dark matter guy to train me, but he possessed me and that wasn't very fun."

Kirby was processing the request in his head. (in other words, his entire body) Teach penguin dad how swords work? Oh! I get it! Kirby proceeded to stab King Dedede in the foot.

he cried out, "EEEEEEEEEENNNNNNGGGGGH! This is NOT what I had in mind!"

After King Dedede, in panic, asked Meta Knight to tell his wife he loves her, only for MK to explain that Tharja doesn't exist, which Dedede would rebut by saying that he can dream dammit, while Dan Dee applied a band-aid to his majesty's foot booboo, the gang then boarded the halberd, where Dedede began his training in swordsmanship.

Meta knight explained, "Now, the first step is to actually have a sword. Sit tight for a second." Meta knight then dashed out of the room. when he returned, he was carrying a tied-up sword knight. Meta Knight said, "Now, I'm not quite sure how this works for you penguins, but, uhh… eat this guy."

"what!?" responded Dedede.

Meta Knight elaborated, "Eat him. Absorb his power."

"I can't." denied Dedede.

Meta Knight commanded, "Do it! Consume his flesh! SHOW ME BLOOD!"

The underling reasoned, "Y'know, I wouldn't mind doing this if it meant finally getting decent pay…"

Meta Knight was outraged. "You scoundrel! You dare say minimum wage isn't enough? I'll kill you myself!" he threatened. "FOR THERE IS NO SALARY IN HELL!"

King Dedede opined, "Wow, even I'm a better leader than you…"

Kirby and Dan Dee had to wait outside the entire time. it was aggravating.

Dan said to kirby, "so… you like anime?"

Kirby made a sound along the lines of "hah?"

Dan responded, "Oh. Well, anime is a type of animated tv show from… uh… where was it again? what's a japan?"

WILL THE ALIENS BE STOPPED? WILL DEDEDE LEARN SWORDPLAY? AND JUST WHAT EXACTLY IS A JAPAN? FIND THE ANSWERS WITHIN THE NEXT CHAPTER!