A Hopeless Future
Disclaimer: I own nobody on this story except for the OCs. I also do not own any songs that might be used on this story. They go to their proper owners and all rights of Kirby belong to Nintendo!
Author's Note: If you haven't read the prequel to this story, Silence the Past, you won't be able to understand the plot of this story to the full extent. Well, let's get started anyway, shall we?
Chapter 1: The Journey
"Then we must prepare today if we wish to make haste to Earth. Let's get to work." Those were the last words spoken on the matter of Earth's survival. Everyone was preparing to travel all the way to the Milky Way Galaxy just to fulfill the task of saving Earth. They scrambled like ants to get prepared for the journey. Meta Knight was first to walk out of the room, with the knaves and Callie following him.
"Lord Meta Knight, what are we going to do?" Sword asked. "Get prepared like everyone else is. We have a long journey ahead of us. We will have to carry as much as we can. Go to your quarters, maybe something useful might be in there. Other than your armor and weapons of course..." "Right, Sir!" The two knaves said before running to their room. "Why'd you send them off for, Meta Knight?" "For the very reason of having us all gather any useful items we need. You have Azura Slicer, do you not?" "My own legendary sword? Why would I not have it? But, I'll get more stuff!" Then Callie ran off. Meta Knight chuckled to himself. "For a girl who dreaded her birthplace, she is surely eager to go back to Earth. I had better get prepared myself." Then Meta Knight walked off to gather items to prepare for the journey.
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Victoria was doing what everyone else was: gathering useful items for the journey to Earth. All she found and packed so far were some clothes, her laptop, her 3DS, and a couple Warriors books. "Well, that's all I've found, but nothing that's 'useful'. Oh... how could Serafina say that I am the hero that protects everyone in a major battle in the war?! I don't even have my own sword! But, I can't stand... b-blood..." Then she sighed. "I'd be more of a liability than an asset on this journey." Then Victoria sat down on her couch. "You know, you ain't helping the situation just throwing a pity party." Said a voice from behind her. Startled, Victoria whipped around significantly quickly. She saw that it was just Callie.
"Oh, it's just you, Callie." "I heard what you were saying." "You probably think I'm more of a burden than a help now, don't you?" "Well, stuff like this stresses out an untrained mind. Don't think for a second that you aren't just as useful as everyone else." "Well, what use could I be?! I have no training! I just write FanFiction and make animations and have a childish quirkiness that gets super annoying at times! Look at you! You're so much more... mature than me. So much cooler than I am. You have so many things special about you; why don't I have any special quality?! You have sword training under your belt, you're just as strong- if not stronger- than Meta Knight, hell, you're even his dead wife's reincarnation! Why don't I have anything special that could help us?" "I'm not as special as you think, Victoria. I have qualities that can act as burdens too. My overbearing seriousness bums everyone I'm around out because I just can't take a joke. I tell things how they are- too much! And that hurts morale. Sure, I have my times when I'm perky and cheerful like you, but that can be explained as an autistic quirk. And whenever I'm in a mood and snap at everyone that comes around me, people would just say that I'm an absolute bitch, but I can't entirely help that I have a temperament of fire. I have drawbacks too. But you, Victoria? You lighten the mood up for everyone, even Kirby, and he's always in a good mood! Sure, you can be really annoying with your quirkiness sometimes, but that's just you. Everyone can feel at ease around you. Even Meta Knight. Do you understand?" Callie asked. Victoria just stared at her in disbelief. Callie said that she can prove useful? She knew the sixteen year old was being sincere- after all- Callie told the truth so much that it can be both a blessing and a curse.
"Thanks, Callie." "It's no trouble. Now, come on. We gotta get ready." "Right!" And the two teenage Puffal girls left out of the room to prepare for their long journey furthermore.
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Let's see... Spare masks? Check. Armor? Check. Pendulum Amulet? Check. Healing potions? Check. The Orbital Anomoly device? Negative. Maybe it is still in my room. I had better go check- that device is the sole thing that will break the Halberd out of Popstar's orbit. Oh, this situation just had to be on one of the three years we have this damned temporal slowing. Meta Knight thought to himself. He was on the Halberd battleship, a vessel Sword, Blade, and himself built. It was a grand ship indeed. It's immense size could actually benefit on the means of carrying passengers- that is, if something threatened the fate of Popstar, such as Nightmare attacking. Meta Knight sighed at the thought. If Nightmare found a way to inspirit darkness unto Earth... perish the thought! The Christian means of the Anti-Christ has already arrived and is slowly killing the Earth. Anti-Christ... I'll have to ask either Callie or Victoria about that later... Meta Knight thought to himself. He was at the door to his room, when he heard arguing nearby.
Now, what is going on now?! It was too early and too late for ridiculous bickering. Meta Knight sighed before going to the source. The arguing was coming from the Ebrum apartment. Tiff and Tuff were arguing with their parents with the situation of going to Earth.
"Absolutely not! If it's that dangerous right now on Earth, I'm not going to let the both of you go!" Lady Like screamed at the two kids. "But we're supposed to go! We have to go!" Tiff said. "Yeah! Serafina said it herself!" And with that response, the arguing only picked up. Meta Knight sighed. "I suppose we shall have to intervene, eh, milady?" He said, talking to the amulet. He summoned Serafina again. With light being present in the hallway, one could see that Serafina indeed looked much like a human. But, the main differences were her immense height, her very large angel wings that were exactly half of her total body height, the blue diamond in her right hand and the pink pearl in her left hand. She wore a white dress that looked slightly frilled, and it was so long that nobody could see her feet unless she were to walk. She had two giant circular shoulder pads that had the pearl and diamond on the same side as the gems in her hands. They were the same color too. The shoulder pads connected to a slight bit of armor that was on Serafina's upper chest- up to the top of her breasts.
"Oh? My dear Meta Knight, why do you call me so soon?" "I need your help to intervene in the argument that is going on in the Ebrum apartment." "Alright, my dear. Let us go in." And the two went into the apartment, unnoticed. The whole family was still arguing. Then, Meta Knight's voice cut through the turmoil like a hot knife through butter, with him saying: "I believe you need to stop this pointless arguing." And the four turned and saw both the knight and the goddess. "But Meta Knight, what about the safety of our children?" Lady Like asked. When Meta Knight began to speak, Serafina raised a hand that silenced his thought and she voiced it for him, but with her altercations. "What about the safety of the Earth, Lady Like? This could also happen with Popstar, and if it does... we will need all of the help we can get. Also, in the alternate future I saw, they have an important role for a certain battle, and it may just save the lives of thousands." The two adults stared at the humanoid goddess with disbelief. Their children... responsible for saving thousands of lives?! That is incredible. "Tiff, Tuff. You can go." Sir Ebrum finally said. The two kids smiled big. "But please, don't be gone too long!" Lady Like added. "We won't, Mom." "And I shall make sure of that. Time is my mastery. Space is my devotion. If you combine the two, the rifts and portals shall be as clear as crystal." Serafina said. "Let's go you two, considering you have all of your items gathered." Meta Knight then added before he and Serafina walked to the entryway.
"We have all of our things, Sir Meta Knight, but we'll need a little bit of help." Tiff explained. "Please, allow me. I will be staying with you all for a long while." "You're going with us, Serafina? Awesome!" Tuff exclaimed. Serafina just chuckled. "What an amusing boy. I shall meet up with you at the Halberd when we are ready to leave, Meta Knight." "I just need to install the Orbital Anomoly device that will help us break out of Popstar's orbit." "Orbital Anomoly?" "It is a cosmic event that happens with Popstar every three years. Everything, including the planet's orbit slows down. That being said, it is also harder to leave the planet's orbit due to the slower speed. Now, let me get your belongings." Then Serafina went to get Tiff and Tuff's items for the journey to Earth.
"Alright, now that that troubling issue has been taken care of, I better get the device." Then Meta Knight went back to his room like he intended to before the... distraction. He went inside and spied a small, octagonal device with three red rivets and four buttons on one side of it. This small, diminutive device, believe it or not, was the Orbital Anomoly device. Meta Knight picked up the device off of the bed. He turned back for a second. Hmm... nothing said I cannot travel comfortably in my own ship. I should take my things off of the bed. Setting the slightly mischievous thought in motion, Meta Knight snatched the pillow and cover off of his bed and went on with his business, carrying the Orbital Anomoly device and his other items with him to the Halberd.
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Everyone met outside. The Halberd was already out of the secret hangar and ready to be flied across millions of miles of the vacuum of space. King Dedede stood on a small stage while the Cappies gathered below him. He was currently announcing their departure.
"Attention citizens of Cappytown! I have an important announcement to make," Then the Cappies murmured amongst themselves. "Please! Silence yourselves, your king is announcing something of great importance!" Serafina said, raising her hand in the air, silencing the Cappies. "Thank you, Lady Serafina. As I was saying, I, along with Kirby, Callie, Meta Knight, Sir Sword, Sir Blade, Victoria, Tiff, Tuff, and Escargoon will be traveling to Earth," And the cacophony of chatter started again. King Dedede just groaned before saying, "Can one of y'all come up here to shut these goddamn Cappies up?!" Then Callie raised her hand. "I'll do it, and y'all might wanna hold your ears." Then Callie screamed to the top of her lungs, silencing the Cappies. "Discuss, later. Right now y'all need to listen to what we have to say!" Then Callie hopped off the small wooden stage. "Ok... now, like what I was saying... uhh... Escargoon, you have the floor from here." "Thank you, Sire. Ok, now, why we are leaving to go to Earth, is because the life there is in danger. War has broke out all over the planet by a group of Islam Humans called 'Isis'. They are the ones basically responsible for what many on Earth call 'World War 3'. We are going to go to Earth to end that war and ensure that life there will stay alive, and, if we don't, life there will all die due to nuclear warfare. If there are any questions, do not be hesitant to ask." Then Meta Knight's eyes flashed a pale red before he went to the snail and whispered in his ear. "What!?" "Yes. We needn't delay any further; we have to leave." Then they went to the Halberd. But Kirby called out from the ship, saying, "Kaabi wiww miss aww of you!" And the door to the ship closed.
"We can't waste anymore time, we have to hurry and break out of our atmosphere." "Right! Who knows how much worse that war will get while we're still in this galaxy. Power the ship up, Meta Knight!" Callie said. Meta Knight nodded, doing what she asked. The thrusters fired up like a flaming heart. The ship began to ascend higher into the air. In less than fifteen minutes, the Halberd broke through the lower halves of the atmosphere. When the ship went into the mesosphere, Meta Knight activated the Orbital Anomoly device, increasing the power output put forth from the reactor by double. In half of the time, the ship broke through the mesosphere and went into the thermosphere. Eventually, the ship broke out of orbit and it began to get four times harder from there.
"Thank NOVA that's over. Now the onto the next matter: getting to Earth. What is the primary plan?" Meta Knight asked. "All we have so far is avoiding the dangers of space and keep the Halberd intact for our trip back to Popstar once we resolve the end of the Earth. That's it." Victoria said. Everyone else except Callie, Meta Knight, and Serafina shrugged their shoulders. "Are you kidding me!? We do not even have a Star Code for this planet, we will just be flying around for centuries, millennia even! And you fools don't even have a viable plan to save the Earth?!" "The matter only came up today, Meta Knight. Calm down, your anger and hastiness might kill us." Then Serafina raised her hand in the air. "I knew this day would come for many millennia. I have a special way for us to get to Earth, but we will have to travel for about seventeen hours." "T'at good, poyo!" Kirby chimed. Everyone smiled when the little one spoke.
"Well, alright then! We travel for seventeen hours, take turns shifting person to keep us on course and we find this 'special passage'. I think that sounds fair, do all of you?" Callie asked. Everyone chattered in agreement. Then, the long journey officially begun.
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Almost seventeen hours passed on the long journey. Sword was manning the helm of the ship while Meta Knight laid on the ground, asleep. He had his mask taken off and his face facing the opposite of everyone else. Everyone remained on the bridge, due to orders by Meta Knight. Serafina was sitting close to Sword, keeping an intent eye on the horizon.
"Are we almost there, Serafina?" Sword asked. "Yes. Keep your eyes focused on your path." "Ok, I don't get this! Why have we been flying for 17 hours for?!" King Dedede asked in a furious shout. "Watch your tongue and tone. You are speaking to a goddess, not to mention that there is a hard working man asleep in a well deserved slumber because of the hell he endured in his visions just to get us here! And, look ahead here. See where space is distorted in colors of purple and pink? We are entering the Gateway of Dimensions." Then Serafina placed her hands on the sides of her head, and her dress changed into what looked like a one-piece swimsuit, with the exception of her shoulder pads, which were now smaller and sleeker. The gems in her hands were glowing, and the gems in Meta Knight's amulet were doing the same. Callie nudged Meta Knight on the head, whispering in a soothing voice, "Wake up, Meta Knight." His silver eyes opened halfway. They looked tired, restless, like Meta Knight hadn't slept in ages. He sat upright and rubbed his eyes with the left hand, holding his mask with his right. He put it on and noticed the amulet glowing and hastily put it on.
"Are we here?" He asked. "Yes. But there is something I must warn you about." "What is it, Serafina?" Tiff asked. "A long time ago, Nightmare started creating the first demonbeasts. They were so powerful and so unstable that they escaped from Nightmare Enterprises into the stars. They can travel through dimension. Though, I can use a Dimensional Barrier to stop dimensional travel, I cannot block anything that is stationary in the wormhole, and I am afraid a Jigen Kurākenwāmu has infiltrated the wormhole." "A what?!" Blade asked with complete confusion. "Jigen Kurākenwāmu or Dimensional Kraken Worm. It is a very powerful and very large dimensional travel demonbeast. It is extremely unstable and can break the Halberd apart. I'll defend the ship because I am the only one that can go without breathing. I am immortal. I am unable to die. I won't let the ship be destroyed. I'll see us through. Meta Knight, you are to connect your will and mind with the amulet and guide the ship through safetly in case there are anymore obsticals ahead." Then the ship began to move again and Serafina phased through the roof onto the area of the Combo Cannon.
When the group came into the vortex, they saw many beautiful colors. Shades of purple, colors of pink, different reds, blues, and greens too. It was gorgeous. Everyone, even Meta Knight was awestruck. It was as if they were flying through a tube of rainbow colored sand, with the exception of the stars glimmering and twinkling.
"Wowee! Pwetty! Pwetty! So so pwetty poyo! Kaabi wanna gwab a stah poyo!" Kirby squealed happily. He hopped up and down, much to everyone else's amusement. But then, as they thought their travels through the wormhole were just a mere cakewalk, the first tentacle of the Dimensional Kraken Worm appeared. As it tried to swat the glass of the "windshield", a pink chain swatted the tentacle out of the vortex. So that is a way Serafina will defend us...? Interesting. Meta Knight thought to himself. "Alright everyone, we are under attack. We need to stay calm and not let our anxiety and emotions get the better of us. Stay calm, and find a safe shelter in case one of Serafina's defenses falters." And everyone scrambled to a safe place while Serafina fought the demon.
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Serafina was fighting off the first attack of the Dimensional Kraken Worm. A tentacle was going to strike the left wing when Serafina fired an attack from her right hand. The tentacle shook wildly and spasmed as blood gushed out from the wound. The tentacle sank out of the vortex. Then, in a bad twist of fate, fifteen more tentacles appeared as an earsplitting screech was heard. It was very similar to the screech heard in Meta Knight's dreams. Serafina gasped, realizing that the screech was none other than the demonbeast. She summoned the Pendulum Staff, gripping it tightly in her right hand. The Pendulum Staff was a six foot tall staff with a star centerpiece. It also had the pink spacial pearl and the blue temporal diamond. She charged an attack that made the diamond glow. She fired a temporal blast from the staff and it hit one of the tentacles. The blast reeled three other tentacles back. Serafina threw the staff at one of the tentacles, coming back like a boomerang in her left hand. She used another attack of Spacial Rend Chains that hit a mass amount of the tentacles. "Ugh, I grow tired of this. Kūkan Boruto!" A burst of energy harnessed by the power of space itself. The tentacles were all gone. But then, as the situation actually started to lighten, the Dimensional Kraken Worm actually appeared for real. It looked grotesque and hideous. There were streaks of pink on its head. Its eyes were black with red irises and pupils. Its mouth was always open and had thousands of teeth lining every bit of the mouth inside and it was always open in a gape-like manner. The beast roared, having lost most of its tentacles. The beast used its remaining tentacles to attack Serafina. She dodged with such grace and swiftness that would make the most expert Galaxy Soldiers and Star Warriors envious of the goddess. As the attacks missed by a narrow margin, Serafina knocked the tentacles away from the Halberd to keep the ship safe. She fired a blast, utilizing the powers of Time and Space right at the Kraken itself. Having no defenses powerful enough to stop the attack, the Dimensional Kraken Worm exploded to pieces, blood splattering everywhere, but prevented from getting on Serafina or the Halberd due to a barrier Serafina casted at the last second. She phased back through the roof of the ship.
"Well, that is done and out," Serafina said. She glanced at Meta Knight, who was in a deep focused state. Both gems on his amulet were glowing, as he figured out what Serafina meant by "connect your will and mind with the amulet". "So he is in total focus? That is promising." The others came out of the hiding places and went to the bridge to see Serafina completely unscaved. Everyone but Meta Knight rejoiced. He was still in deep focus. Escargoon went away from the happy celebration to the window. The end of the wormhole was in sight. He nudged Meta Knight, who broke out of focus and glared at the snail.
"Look, everyone! The end of the wormhole is in sight!" Escargoon yelled to the others. They all went closer to the 'windshield' and saw that he was right. In a matter of fifteen minutes, they were out of the wormhole.
It was clear where the group was now: the Solar System in the Milky Way Galaxy. They saw the bright red-orange star that was the Sun, they saw four planets, but one caught their eye in particular. A planet with colors of blue, green, and white. That was the Earth. "Wow. So that's what Earth looks like from space. It's beautiful." Callie mused to the others. "It won't be anything soon unless we do something. Let's go." And they went on, going ever so closer to the Earth.
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Alarms were going off. The sound of boots clacking on the smooth, concrete floor was heard along with the alarm. Those boots belonged to a woman. It was the woman originally seen on the news that informed the party of the impending doom of the Earth. She was 5'4 and had a slight statuesque figure. She wore a gray dress and her boots were gray to match. She wore a long white lab coat with a ray gun in a pocket of it. Her face looked similar to Callie's when she was still human. Eerily similar. Her hair though was much longer and was styled in a ponytail. A pair of welding goggles was on her head. She walked to a very important area in the Pentagon. A man with graying hair was standing at the entrance. He gave a four fingered salute when the woman passed by.
"Lieutenant." "Sergeant Smith." Then the woman walked up to the radar. "Why are the alarms sounding?" She asked one man at the radar. "Something's coming for us. A ship, Lieutenant." And the Halberd was pulled up on the radar. "It looks like something I've never seen, Lieutenant. Even our technology can't surpass a warship like that! Lieutenant?"
So he's coming. Meta Knight's actually coming back. This godsend made this war a hell of a lot more interesting...
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Author's Note: First chapter is FINALLY finished! *sigh* It took longer than expected. A couple of those words were in Japanese. Here are the translations, well, one was already translated, and that was the creature Serafina fought. Here is the other translation.
Kūkan Boruto- Spacial Bolt
That's all I have for now. The next chapter might not be as long. You never know XD! That's all I have for now. Till next time- CallieSizemore601.
