A/N: This is my first story, so I hope you like it! I've only played the Kirby games, but haven't completely invested myself in understanding the ethics and positions of all of the characters. If I get something wrong, I apologize, but this is my universe, and therefore my rules apply.

"He's out again sir."

"Kirby?"

"Yes sir."

"This has been going on too long. Every time that pink little blob goes running amok, the kingdom is ruined and it's up to me to rebuild it. The traitor must be arrested and jailed. Execute him if you must."

"Under what charges my king?"

"Charge him with murder, treason to the king, and property damage. Along with resisting arrest."

"As you wish my King."

As Meta Knight walked out of the High Tower of the castle, King Dedede turned around and stared out of the window. He had been thinking a lot on this matter. No matter how many times he tried to be reasonable with Kirby, or tried to squash him out, the little pink ball kept beating him up, destroying the kingdom, and killing pedestrians.

Recently, the King Dedede had met with his advisors and generals to construct a plan. They decided to have mercy on Kirby and treat the problem humanely. They sealed his house off from the world with a glass dome. They had decided to leave air holes and bring Kirby his meals along with sending him therapists who tried to convince Kirby that he had no reason to go out killing people and destroying stuff.

But no matter how people tried to reason with him, Kirby wouldn't listen. Somehow Kirby had gotten it in his head that the monarchy was the enemy, and that he had to assassinate King Dedede. King Dedede sent his best generals after Kirby to stop him, but he crushed them like plastic cups.

And now Kirby was out again. Even though he had sent Meta Knight, his best general out to deal with Kirby, he doubted it would make a difference. He knew that it would be hopeless and that Kirby would just come in and attack him again, but he had to do something, or at least look like he was doing something. If he made it look like he was accepting defeat, the public would lose faith in him. They would believe that he was not fit to be their leader and would be pushed from the throne. So he sent people after Kirby to take him down and make it look like Kirby was being either worn down or had gotten lucky.

"Sir," Meta Knight had reappeared behind King Dedede. "I've just had a talk with the High Generals. We think we might have an idea."

"What is it?" asked King Dedede, with little faith.

"Come and see my king."

King Dedede walked with Meta Knight to the war room. The rest of the High Generals were gathered around the large table that had a map of all of the kingdom. There was Wispy Woods, Paint Roller, and along with Kracko and Mr. Shine and Mr. Bright. There were also many more of his generals, all of which had taken a beating from Kirby. King Dedede not only sympathized and respected the pain that these brave warriors had gone through, but he also admired the. No matter how many times Kirby had taken them down, they just kept coming back. What a brave bunch, King Dedede thought.

"So what is this idea of yours?" asked King Dedede.

"Well you see sir," said Meta Knight. "We realized that our bodies are just flesh and blood. Kirby lives off of the energy of living beings and can manipulate their abilities. So we thought of going a different direction. Let's make an enemy that Kirby can't absorb. Something that is inorganic."

"Are you talking about a robot?" queried King Dedede.

"That's exactly what we're talking about sir."

"But Kirby can absorb robots."

"Not exactly sir. All of the robotic enemies that Kirby has absorbed have had some organic material to them. We're talking about something that is a total AI mechanical robot."

"AI?"

"Yes, it will learn from Kirby and can learn from other things we teach it."

"That seems like it would work. Start with production immediately!"

King Dedede's hopes were finally turning up. He thought that he had finally found an enemy that Kirby couldn't absorb.

"But one thing," said King Dedede slowly. "Wouldn't Kirby be able to use powers against the robot?"

"No sir," Meta Knight replied. "We factored that into the building of it. The robot emits a frequency that cancels out Kirby's absorbing powers and will revert him back to his original state."

"What do you mean you factored that into the building?"

"Well you see sir..." Meta Knight said carefully.

"We already built it." Wispy woods cut in.

"You did did you?" said King Dedede. "Well that's brilliant! That'll cut our schedule in half! Where is it?"

"Right here sir!" Kracko pulled a white sheet away from the back of the room.

Under the sheet was a gleaming six foot tall robot. It's eye sockets were black, not yet turned on, but you could see that it would be able to kill anything in a second.

"It's beautiful!" exclaimed King Dedede.

"It turns on at your touch only, my king." Meta Knight said.

King Dedede walked over to the robot and touched the robot gently. There was a gentle "ping" and the eyes glowed blue.

"What is it called?" asked King Dedede in awe.

"We call it the KB9000." said Mr. Bright.

"KB9000, can you understand me?" asked King Dedede.

"I can." said the robot in a tone that could only be described as mild. For a robot made for killing he was quite polite.

"Do you know what we need you to do?"

"I do. You require me to arrest or terminate the criminal known as Kirby."

"That's correct."

"Shall I begin doing that?"

"Yes please!"

"Actually no, KB9000," Meta Knight cut in. "First, we need you to gather information from the locals about Kirby's whereabouts and then report back here."

"Understood." said KB9000. Then it walked off.

"Why did you do that?" yelled King Dedede. "We could have had this over with quickly. Kirby's corpse would be lying on the doorstep before dinner!"

"Careful sir," said Meta Knight. "We don't necessarily want to kill Kirby. We need to lock him up to show him who's boss. If we have to kill him, we're going to want to make a big show of it in public, show people what happens to traitors."

"I see." replied King Dedede.

This seemed to be an ability of Meta Knight's. He knew how to gain somebody's trust and how to calm somebody down. The people loved him, but he was never interested in the throne. He was pleased to let King Dedede serve and to help him out in the background.

"I have a question," King Dedede told Meta Knight.

"Yes sir?"

"What are we going to do to KB9000 after he's done with this job?"

"I don't know. Maybe we'll keep him around as a general, maybe we'll just scrap him. He might just make a good coffee boy."

"I see," said King Dedede slowly. "I don't think he's going to be too pleased about those last to ideas."