REWRITTEN (16 October 2014): Eeeeh so how do I put this...
I deleted the old author's note (as I will probably be doing with most of the rest, since they take up a lot of unnecessary space) but just for those who haven't read this before...
You happened to have clicked on the link which leads to the first story of the Minion project (which, I expected to turn out as a failure). My goal was to write 100 chapters and release one new chapter every day (and that didn't work out, but it's still completed, you've got nothing to complain about).
This mainly centers around OCs, but there are canon characters included. Just keep that in mind and you'll mostly be safe.
1: The Game
A form of play or sport.
When you come to Castle Dedede, you get interviewed, you get accepted, you are deemed as a minion.
(Well, that's the term said minions use for themselves. The owner of Castle Dedede doesn't care enough to give them a proper status name, so they made up of one themselves.)
And as a minion, you are deemed as a pawn.
This is a game.
They come to Castle Dedede, they get interviewed, they get accepted, they are deemed a minion, also deemed as a "pawn". This is known as The Cycle. (Or what the minions like to call The Cycle.)
In this game, there are pawns. The ones who do the bidding of stronger, more powerful ones. These stronger, more powerful ones are the leaders. They fight for dominance. For the quest of world domination.
Their leader, though, happened to be satisfied doing evil to his own people. There was no quest of world domination from the start, and there weren't any alarm bells to sign it, either.
Pawns help the leaders. They do their bidding, no matter how unreasonable it is.
Once the pawn is useless, the pawn is gotten rid of.
"Useless" means when the enemy has defeated them, which is when the pawn has no more health and cannot do anything anymore. The leader does not care for the pawn. He will mercilessly destroy it and snatch it out of existence.
They have gone through The Cycle. They are pawns. They get in their enemy's way, but they never win.
Yet they never become useless. They are never fully destroyed. Their enemy is a benevolent enemy. He does not destroy anything fully, unless he has to. They always come out alive. Injured, but alive.
Pawns get healed overtime, so long as they don't get injured again.
These pawns, that have survived through The Cycle, and are still playing in The Game.
Their ruler is none other than King Dedede.
And they are none other than Waddle Doo and Bandana Dee.