This little short story is dedicated to Michael Jackson, the King of Pop. The most successful artist in life, and in death, may he rest in peace. Good god he's got some good songs though.

Just one little note, this isn't related to any other short story I've written for this game, and of course, trying to explain the dancing is hard, so don't get too frustrated trying to imagine what Meta Knight could be doing in this.

Smooth Meta Knight

It had been a hard day's work defending the castle. As night drew, Meta Knight retired to his room to rest.

...Or was that really why he retired to his room, every Wednesday night a 10:00pm?

He walked into the room, throwing his cape up onto a hook and putting his sword down. Just another day, he thought, but his heart right now was beating wildly. He felt excited. He just couldn't face the night yet. There was one more thing he had to do before he could go peacefully to sleep.

He walked up to a set of slightly off colour bricks and placed his hand across the cold wall. A few seconds passed until a little beep could be heard, followed by the opening of a small hatch adjacent to the newly revealed hand scanner. Then, Meta Knight walked up to the hatch and grabbed what was inside: a white suit jacket, a white fedora with a black band across it and a high quality super-CD version of Michael's Jackson's greatest hits. He closed the hatch and put on the clothes before sliding the CD into a player and standing still.

A song started with an orchestra hit, followed by windy sounds and a heartbeat, getting faster. Meta Knight stood still, looking straight forward, his back turned to the door.

Suddenly, Smooth Criminal kicked in, and Meta Knight started to click his fingers and nod to the music for the first two bars. Quickly, he did a little jig in time with the music and froze in a stance, clicking now with the other hand. The verse kicked in and as Meta Knight thrust his chest to every beat, he started to sing.

"As she came into the window, was a sound of, a crescendo..."

Imitating the voice coming from the CD, Meta Knight started to shuffle along the room, doing a waving motion with his body.

"He came into her apartment, saw the bloodstains, on the carpet..."

He stopped and did a spin before freezing again.

"So she ran under the table, you could see she, was unable..."

He now briskly walked back to where he started dancing, while singing the last line.

"Then she ran into the bedroom, she was struck down, it was her doom..."

Then, as the bridge kicked in, Meta Knight started to dance, putting his hands to his chest and nodding before doing a couple more wave motions, followed by quick to the beat dancing, using complicated balance to make it look better.

Then, as the chorus kicked in, he started to sing the words in a falsetto voice while stomping his feet. Quickly, by the time he was to sing the second line, he did a few motions with his arms and did a small hop. On the third line, he crossed his arms and moved his head around in a circle, doing a full 360 spin after it. By the fourth line, he was doing some sort of pretend walk, where he wasn't moving, but waving his arms as if he was. A little more dancing (that included slowly shaking his butt while feeling his body up and down with a hand, tipping his hat downwards before doing so) then came his favourite part.

"You've been hit by..."

He quickly grabbed his crotch with one hand and put the other behind his head. Then, he thrust his crotch twice in time to the rhythm.

"You've been struck by..."

A quick swap of the hands and another crotch thrust.

"A Smooth Criminal!"

Suddenly, the CD stopped. Meta Knight suddenly snapped out of the dream world he was lavishing in so much and turned to look at his CD player. To his horror, his gaze drifted past the door, which was open. As he looked back, he saw the whole bunch, Tiff, Tuff, King Dedede, Sword, Blade, Escargoon and even Kirby all standing by the door, looking at him in a way I can't really describe. It was sort of part horror, part hilarity and part confusion. Meta Knight looked at them.

Suddenly, his temperature rose and his face flushed red behind the mask. He realized something as he fell down on his back in embarrassment.

"I knew I should have locked the door......"