A/N: Pretend there is a disclaimer...
Now several things before I start: This is AU (alternate universe), but this will become clear soon enough.
This is also rated M; while you will come across some mentions about a T rating in some chapters, by now it is M, and as this is a rewritten form of chapter 1 you will already come across a higher rating here. Not quite M yet, but then again I'm not quite sure what to rate this...
So, this chapter was rewritten, and I plan to rewrite the others as well. When you read this in the past that's alright, but I changed things. In fact this chapters is right now the chapter with most hints to future events, some of which only happen after chapter 20. So feel free to read this again. ;)
1. The Visitor from Space
Many would consider this particular night beautiful, or if not beautiful at least peaceful. There were only few clouds in the sky, and one could see countless stars when looking up. There was no wind blowing at all, and it was quite warm for this time of the day. All in all a peaceful night.
Unfortunately peace didn't last.
Sheep were sleeping atop a hill, resting on the green grass, tired from the previous day; too tired to notice anything that was going on.
When one of the sheep awoke and gave a terrified sound, it was already far too late for them to escape the danger they were in.
The villagers didn't even notice something was wrong until the next morning.
"It's terrible!"
"What could have done that?"
This and similar questions or exclamations greeted the king of Dreamland the next day. Although no one had heard anything the night before, it was painfully obvious that something had happened to the sheep. It wouldn't have been that obvious if they had simply disappeared, leaving the possibility of them simply having run away. But the bones lying on the ground suggested something else entirely: someone or something had eaten all sheep.
"Some monster ate all the sheep!" someone exclaimed, and the tense atmosphere became even worse, although that had hardly seemed possible only moments before. Saying out loud what everyone had known already anyway hadn't been the smartest idea.
"But where is it?"
King Dedede, who looked a little like an overweight penguin, with a blue body, yellow mouth, feet and hands, and wore a heavy red coat, didn't really care for all the questions the villagers had.
There were several in his throne room now, all of them afraid of whatever monster had eaten the sheep the night before. He didn't even know why they came to bother him with their problems.
"Don't bother his Majesty! He has more important things to do than search for some imaginary monster!" Dedede's assistant Escargon, a snail with lavender skin, a green shell and a mustache and goatee, came to save the king and try to drive all the villagers off, but before it came to that, someone new spoke up.
"Maybe you should actually listen to them. Whatever ate the sheep may be dangerous for everyone else as well."
Standing in the door were the Cabinet Minister Parm, his wife Memu, his son Bun and his daughter Fumu, who had been the one to speak earlier. Her look became suspicious when she saw the king's new pet in the corner, prompting the villagers to look in that direction and realizing it for the first time since entering the throne room.
"Could it have been this?" the Mayor, a Cappy wearing a brown jacket and hat, questioned after looking at the king's pet, making the king look at his pet in turn.
"What? My cute little Octacon doin' somethin' like this? No way." While everyone present definitely did not think of it as 'cute', they had to admit it was small. Far too small to eat any sheep in fact. And it was an octopus living in an aquarium. Those normally didn't eat any sheep.
"Mm, it sure is small... It wouldn't be able to eat any sheep..." The Mayor still thought it was the king's doing, but he had to admit something as small as that octopus wouldn't be able to eat whole sheep.
"Well, if there are no more questions left, you all may leave." It was obvious that Escargon only tried to get rid of the villagers, but they all complied, still talking about the possible monster because they still had no answer to their question.
The only one looking back at Octacon before leaving the throne room was Fumu.
"What is it the villagers have to ask of Kabu?"
Several villagers had gathered in front of the wise Kabu, a Stone Sage they had always come to in their times of need. Fumu had always wondered why Kabu knew so much, and why he helped them.
"Honored Kabu, a monster appeared, eating all the sheep at night..." her father began tentatively, unsure how to finish his sentence.
"We don't know for sure it's Dedede's doing, but he has that pet..." the Mayor continued, careful not to actually say it was Dedede's fault.
"Please Kabu. We need your wisdom." Fumu's look showed signs of desperation when she spoke to Kabu. She had no idea what to do with the situation.
"And the long-lived Kabu shall answer." Kabu paused for only a moment, but for all the villagers it felt like minutes, agonizingly slow passing minutes. "There is a demon beast in Dreamland."
The reaction was one of confusion. "Demon beast?" None of the villagers knew what exactly a demon beast was, though some at least had a general idea.
"Demon beasts are created by Nightmare, the Emperor of Darkness." Nightmare was no name any of them knew, but 'Emperor of Darkness' sounded bad. Someone like that sounded like much trouble.
"So Dreamland is targeted by this... Nightmare? Who exactly is he?" Fumu had remembered the name, although the title had admittedly stuck more to her thoughts. What exactly did someone with that title do?
"Nightmare is the President of the Holy Nightmare Corporation, which dominates the universe now after defeating almost all Star Warriors," Kabu answered, and it came as no real surprise to Fumu, although she had admittedly not expected 'the universe'. That was huge.
Awkward silence prevailed for some moments, and no one dared to voice a question.
"What will happen to Dreamland?" And then the critical question came. Fumu could see that all of them had wondered about that, and considering that someone like this Nightmare had sent a demon beast to Dreamland, that was hardly surprising.
"Dreamland will be destroyed." The reaction came instantly. Four simple words that caused panic among the villagers.
"But there has to be a way. There is a legend..." Fumu started, aware that Kabu would hear her despite the commotion. Even most villagers had heard her.
And again there was a dramatic pause before Kabu spoke. It was nerve-wracking.
"You are referring to the legend of 'Kirby of the Stars'." Of course Kabu knew which legend Fumu was referring to. "Soon he will arrive."
She looked at Kabu in surprise. That legendary warrior would arrive? Briefly she imagined some knight in shining armor rescuing them all; then her thoughts were interrupted.
"That's stupid! There's no one gonna arrive!" Dedede shouted from afar as he and Escargon came driving in the king's big, green tank, making all the villagers hurriedly get out of the way. Interestingly enough he seemed not angry but vaguely amused; surprising considering the fact that Dedede was easily angered on normal days.
"Kabu is not a liar."
Kabu declared it for everyone to hear in his usual somewhat aloof manner, clearly unbothered by the fact that Dedede was aiming his tank's weapon at him. He seemed absolutely sure that nothing would happen.
"Well, predict this! What will happen if I shoot at ya?" Dedede was laughing loudly, a sound that made Fumu cringe slightly because of the volume.
"Dedede won't shoot at Kabu." That prompted only more laughing from Dedede, as well as hitting Escargon on the head.
"What? I'll show you!" Dedede aimed at Kabu, ready to shoot, yet before he could do anything a light illuminated the sky.
Everyone looked up in surprise as something fell from the sky, a comet crashing down on their planet? They all followed it with their eyes and saw the thing smashing through a tree and in the end crashing into a hill near the castle.
After only a second of hesitation everyone hurried to get there, and when all of them arrived where the thing had impacted, they saw what it was. It was a silver, star shaped spaceship.
Fumu and everyone else went closer, trying to see if someone was inside, but they had no success. Until they heard some noises, indicating that it was opening.
"Stupid thing..."
They couldn't see who it was because the hatch faced to the other side, but apparently the one was not happy about having crash-landed. When he went around his spaceship, everyone stared at him.
He was smaller than the Cappies, even smaller than Fumu herself was, though not by too much. He wore a silver mask, white gloves, a blue cape and pauldrons. On his left shoulder there was a star shaped badge that briefly caught Fumu's attention, but soon her attention turned elsewhere.
His eyes were piercing her and everyone else with an intensity she had never seen before. Their color wasn't exactly common either, though their gold-yellow hue was not all that important as he took the situation in.
"It's a space invader!" While everyone was still staring, Dedede had already pulled out his mallet, intent on attacking their mysterious visitor, who had, obviously to his displeasure, crashed. But Fumu stopped him before he could.
"Wait a minute!" Surprisingly Dedede really stopped and looked at Fumu, clearly not happy to be interrupted. But Fumu ignored him and looked at the visitor from space, who in turn looked back at her.
"Who are you? You couldn't be... Kirby?"
"Kirby?"
He was well aware that his eyes had changed color to green right now, but those people's surprise was nothing compared to the surprise he himself felt. For exactly this name to be associated with him... Where had they even come across it?
"I do not go by the name of Kirby."
"Oh... Well, who are you then?" the girl from before asked, but his attempt to respond was cut short by the other guy.
"That guy is obviously a demon beast!" he accused heatedly and made ready to attack with his mallet, yet stopped his attempt.
"You may call me Meta Knight. I am..." he paused, simply for dramatic effect, "a warrior from the stars."
"You are a Star Warrior?" That was not what he had said, but he saw the futility of telling the overly enthusiastic girl. Theoretically she wasn't even wrong with that.
"Even if you're not Kirby you might still be able to save us then!" Meta Knight gave her a calculating look.
"Save you from what?" he asked, already a vague idea of what might be the problem in his mind.
"Kabu said there is a demon beast here in Dreamland. He also said 'Kirby of the Stars' would arrive soon."
And in Meta Knight's experience Kabu was right more often than not. Now that was certainly an interesting situation; regardless of whom exactly Kabu meant, at least the part about the demon beast was certainly true, Meta Knight noticed with some amusement.
"So there is a demon beast here, and you want me to defeat it." It wasn't even a question, yet most of the people present nodded. From the corner of his eyes Meta Knight noticed the guy from before look at him with an angry expression.
"Do you have any idea what it looks like?" He addressed all of them now despite the fact that there had only two people been talking to him until now. Still, it didn't get him any real answers.
"Um... well... We don't know..."
"We just have to wait for it to appear again then."
Just as Meta Knight had finished his sentence, some movement from the side caught his attention.
"If you're a real Star Warrior you'll be able to take this mallet!"
Meta Knight had seen the movement in time and easily sidestepped the big guy's attack, making him lose his balance and come dangerously close to the edge of the hill they were standing on.
What Meta Knight hadn't considered was the guy's desperate attempt to hold onto something to keep himself from falling. He grabbed the closest person, who obviously happened to be Meta Knight, with his left arm and took him with himself into the abyss. Quite literal.
Both of them fell down the hill Meta Knight's ship had crash-landed on, Meta Knight punching his opponent so he would let go. He did halfway down the hill, and Meta Knight managed to get back on his feet and stop his descent down the hill before he even reached the ground.
The other guy wasn't that lucky and hit the ground with a grunt of pain. Served him right.
Jumping down the last few meters, Meta Knight made sure to land some distance away from his attacker, far enough away that he wouldn't be in his immediate focus when he would get up again.
"Your Majesty!"
Meta Knight raised a brow in doubt and surprise. That had been the king?
"Your Majesty, are you alright?"
Turning away from some overly concerned snail asking whom he now knew to be the king for his wellbeing, Meta Knight found his way blocked after only a few steps. The girl from before stood panting in front of him, along with a boy and two others.
"Are you... alright?" she asked concerned, or what Meta Knight thought was concerned. After running down the hill she was panting too much to actually figure out her exact tone of voice.
"Yes, I am..." he said, pausing at the end of his sentence, only now realizing how he didn't even know their names.
"That's a relief... By the way I don't think we introduced ourselves." She got her breathing back to normal, then she continued. "I'm the Cabinet Minister's daughter, Fumu."
Meta Knight couldn't quite guess her age, but she was older than the boy who had accompanied her down the hill. Her skin and hair were both of pale yellow color, with her hair in a ponytail, and she wore a green and pink outfit. She looked curiously at him with her green eyes, obviously intrigued by his arrival a few minutes ago.
Much to his chagrin she was also a little taller than him.
"I'm her little brother, Bun." He was a little smaller than Fumu, and also a little smaller than Meta Knight, and his skin and hair had a slightly darker color. He wore a pair of purple shorts and green shoes, and unlike Fumu, he smiled. His eyes couldn't be seen though.
"And we are Lololo..."
"... and Lalala." The other two didn't only look alike (except for the color), but they even had similar names. And they seemed oddly familiar... Meta Knight nodded at all of them and then turned in direction of the guy who had attacked him earlier.
"And who is this?"
Meta Knight gestured in the guy's direction, slightly disappointed because he seemed to be mostly alright. He was standing beside the tank the snail had come down the hill with, but at least he was slightly swaying on his feet. Served him right.
"That's King Dedede, ruler of Dreamland, with his assistant Escargon." Fumu said, an annoyed expression on her face now. Apparently her opinion of their king was pretty low; a fact Meta Knight would certainly remember. If he judged the situation correctly Fumu was not only smart, but also quite influential in a certain way.
"A great pair to have as one's enemies, I'm sure."
Before any of them could comment they heard the roaring of an engine, and saw Dedede's tank come up behind them, clearly intending to run them over. Meta Knight had seen it soon enough and pushed Fumu and Bun out of the way before the tank came too close. He even had enough time to simply side-step instead of jumping out of the way.
Dedede and Escargon turned the tank around, angry that Meta Knight had escaped them, and began firing at him. Meta Knight dodged the shots, never in danger of actually being hit, and as soon as Dedede lost sight of him, Meta Knight was gone completely into some random field.
His opponents made to follow, but had soon to realize they that wouldn't catch Meta Knight like that. They had lost sight of him and had no idea were he had gone, when Meta Knight himself kept exact track of their movements.
Instead Fumu, Bun, Lololo and Lalala suddenly appeared in their way, making them stop as to not run them over. They were not the target and the villagers would certainly be most displeased if those four would be run over by a tank.
"Stop this right now Dedede!" Fumu shouted with an angry expression, clearly displeased with the situation, and glaring daggers at the king and his assistant.
"Yeah, stop chasing him around!" Bun added from right next to her.
Meta Knight saw Dedede's face take an angry shade of red, and he prepared to interfere if the king decided to attack. Before it came to that, though, Escargon leaned towards the king and whispered something in his ear.
The king's face became almost pensive for a moment, then his face contorted into a grin that promised nothing good. Without a word they left the kids be, turned the tank around and drove away.
They looked after them in confusion, clearly surprised by this turn of events. None of them even noticed that Meta Knight had appeared behind them.
"Am I the only one who noticed that they plan something?" he suddenly asked from behind them, and was rewarded with all four of them turning around, startled.
"Where did you suddenly come from?" They didn't get an answer.
Meta Knight was certainly not a social person, and as such he felt decidedly uncomfortable in the presence of not only the four kids from before, but also many of the villagers. Maybe it wasn't uncomfortable; he didn't care for all their attention at any rate.
The Mayor and everyone else had insisted on giving Meta Knight a proper welcome, and he had been unable to refuse them, even though he had tried, quite hard at that. But all his protests had been ignored, and now he was sitting at a table in the Mayor's house with everyone else.
"I would like to welcome our visitor from space, Meta Knight!" the Mayor said, much too enthusiastic for Meta Knight's taste. He had raised his glass and everyone else followed suit - everyone except for Meta Knight.
"Cheers!"
He was only wasting his time here. Defeating the demon beast on this planet was his only concern, even if he had technically not even agreed to that. Regardless, he would defeat it and then he would leave.
Enduring their welcome party without complaint was harder than he had first thought. Some stupid questions later Meta Knight was ready to just leave, and certainly to their surprise suddenly did just that.
Wasn't there a noise in the distance?
When Meta Knight arrived at the place from where he knew the noise had come from, he couldn't do much more than stare at the scene of disaster in front of him. He wasn't quite sure which demon beast had done it, but none of the sheep he knew had been supposed to be there, were left.
Fumu, Bun, Lololo and Lalala had followed and caught up to him now, and their first reaction was to gasp in surprise. That was probably the first time they had ever seen something like this.
They were standing on yet another small hill, granting them a perfect view on the carnage in front of them. Bones lay scattered in the grass, some of them splintered, indicating that some sheep had experienced a painful death at least.
The exact details were a little harder to make out, considering that it was dark by now that was hardly surprising, but the moon revealed yet another dreadful detail. Bones were not the only indication of what had happened, for something reflected the moonlight on the ground.
There was another gasp as the cloud that had temporarily obscured the moon disappeared and revealed all the blood on the ground beneath. It glistered in the moonlight, yet there was no beauty to it.
Meta Knight himself was unbothered by it, his companions were not. They hurriedly took a few steps away, clearly disturbed by the images.
"Who did this?" Fumu asked, her voice uncertain and shaking slightly. Her reaction almost made Meta Knight smile.
"That was the demon beast. I wonder which one it is," Meta Knight stated, unconcerned by the fact that his answer let the kids pale slightly.
A sudden explosion in the distance made all of them turn their heads in direction of the castle, where it came from. It was only a dark silhouette in the distance, even the moonlight not enough to illuminate it completely, but Meta Knight still saw clearly where it was located.
Not waiting a moment longer, Meta Knight sprinted for the castle, expecting something bad to happen there.
The guards, some Waddle Dee with spears he noticed in passing, either didn't care for him or were too surprised by his sudden entrance; either way they were no obstacles on his way to... wherever he was going.
Though it was his first time entering the castle, Meta Knight found the way to Dedede's and Escargon's location without problems. When he arrived at the throne room, he also found out what had caused the explosion, and he wasn't happy about it.
"What do you think are you doing?" Meta Knight asked with an icy tone and made the king and his assistant turn around in surprise.
While Dedede had a smug expression on his face, Escargon's expression came closer to a grimace instead.
They had taken Meta Knight's ship apart, random pieces lying all around them. Meta Knight glared at them, his eyes and voice promising painful punishment.
Of course Dedede either didn't notice or chose to ignore it, far too sure of himself and his title that didn't mean a thing to Meta Knight.
"Taking your ship apart of course," he answered, smug expression never leaving his face. Of course Meta Knight already knew that, it was plain to see after all, but it didn't improve his mood to hear it from Dedede. Not in the slightest.
And then several things happened at the same time. Meta Knight threatened to draw his sword, but was interrupted in the process. Not by the arrival of Fumu, Bun, Lololo, Lalala, and two people he suspected to be Fumu and Bun's parents, not by Escargon's warning for Dedede and certainly not by Dedede taking a step back, but rather the octopus that was in an aquarium in the corner and glaring at him.
Though it certainly was weird for an octopus to glare at him, or for any octopus to glare at all, it was not weird for a demon beast to glare at him. Meta Knight gave up on his attempt to attack Dedede and glared back at the octopus. Or rather the octopus he knew to be the demon beast Octacon.
Lost in his glaring, Meta Knight didn't notice Fumu had begun speaking to him and only understood half the question. "- noise, Meta Knight?"
Meta Knight turned around to look at her, still trying to comprehend the question he had not realized had been for him. And that was his mistake.
While he was searching for an answer, Dedede raced in his direction, mallet in hand and ready to attack.
Sparing Dedede no look while jumping to his left, Meta Knight looked at Octacon. The glare had become a look similar to that of Dedede earlier, and its eyes were glowing a bright green. Looking back at Dedede, he noticed his eyes had taken the same color and it was quite clear to him what had happened. Octacon was controlling the king.
What an interesting ability. That one was new and certainly made the whole situation more entertaining, if only because Meta Knight wouldn't retaliate with the same ability.
"What are you doing, your Majesty?"
Meta Knight dodged one of Dedede's strikes, both of them ignoring the question. In fact Meta Knight was not sure if Dedede even knew what he was doing. Probably not.
Hence it was no surprise for Meta Knight when Dedede's attempts ultimately ended with him smashing into a pillar. And it had been so obvious. It had not been coincidence for Meta Knight to just stand in front of the pillar after all.
With Dedede out cold ("Your Majesty!") Octacon had no other choice but to attack him itself. And while Meta Knight knew what was going happen before it actually happened, the others did not and were a little alarmed by what happened next. 'A little' might have been an understatement, though.
"What's happening?"
Meta Knight refrained from stating the obvious. After all it was so obvious that it was absolutely impossible to not see what was going on. Or hear it for that matter, because the aquarium had shattered and sent pieces of glass everywhere.
But that was to be expected, considering that Octacon now was more than ten times as big as before, it would be surprising if the aquarium had survived.
The ridiculously huge octopus didn't hesitate long before attacking. It summoned several small octopuses and sent them Meta Knight's way, intent on killing him.
But Meta Knight had abandoned his strategy of evading. He drew his sword from the sheath, and it appeared with a shower of sparks. The golden sword with the six spikes cut through the first octopus without any trouble.
The second fell soon after, and only a few seconds later none were left, all cut down by Meta Knight. That left only Octacon itself, and Meta Knight was confident that it also wouldn't last much longer.
"Sword Beam." Taking no chances Meta Knight didn't fight it in close combat; instead he shot a beam with his sword that came flying directly at his opponent.
However, Octacon had been thrashing its arms around, and that fact now helped it. Unfortunately for Meta Knight, Octacon smashed a pillar and his attack did only hit it as it fell. The pillar was smashed into little pieces by the force of Meta Knight's attack, and pieces of stone rained down on the demon beast and Dedede.
Everyone else ducked and shielded their faces in reflex, but none of them were actually close enough to be hit anyway.
Now Octacon was mad and Meta Knight made a subtle dash for the exit. Predictably the demon beast followed, knowing full well that Meta Knight was the only threat to its continued safety. He sprinted through the dull gray hallways, seeing the occasional Waddle Dee on his way, all the while hearing sounds of destruction behind him.
He was quite sure that some walls had not survived.
The way Meta Knight chose was pretty random, and it wasn't too much of a surprise for him, when he couldn't go on because he had reached a dead end. That was unfortunate, but he was confident that he would get out of this situation.
Even if it was through a window.
It was really the only choice left besides fighting Octacon in a narrow hallway and Meta Knight didn't hesitate long. He didn't even bother with opening the window first; the fact that Octacon had appeared in the same hallway and was breathing fire at him, forced him to take the drastic approach and jump while it was still closed.
Still shielding his face with his arms, Meta Knight landed on the ground, shards of glass raining down to the ground all around him. His arms had been slightly cut, but those cuts would heal soon and wouldn't leave permanent damage.
Looking up he saw Octacon shatter some more windows, and he backed off from the shards, not impressed by that poor attempt to hit him. It roared in anger, but took the longer way through the castle to get to him, certainly because it was too big to fit through a window and didn't feel like destroying the whole wall.
That left Meta Knight plenty of time to get away.
While he had sprinted before, he had now slowed down to a jog. It was more than enough to escape Octacon because it actually took a detour through almost the whole castle. Smashing walls would have been quicker for sure.
That fact was proven when Fumu, Bun, Lololo and Lalala reached Meta Knight before Octacon did. He couldn't say he was thrilled by that, though.
"Why did you follow me?"
He had found the way to the castle's gates by now, and was sure that his opponent was somewhere relatively close - at least the noise of destruction made him suspect that. That meant the kids weren't safe in his company.
"Because you might need help?"
"Because you don't know the way!"
"Because we wanted to see what's happening."
"Yeah."
At least there were reasons, though Meta Knight couldn't say that any of them made that much sense considering that they endangered themselves because of it. He ignored it and left the castle, the kids following only moments later.
"What are you going to do?" Fumu questioned.
"I am going to defeat it." Any further questions were stopped by the arrival of the demon beast.
"Get out of the way."
The kids hurriedly did; up close the octopus was certainly much more intimidating than from a distance for them.
Meta Knight looked briefly at the demon beast, which had finally caught up. It didn't waste time and breathed fire at him again, but Meta Knight wasn't overly concerned. The fire hit a pretty widespread area, though Meta Knight easily escaped.
Now there were no obstacles like the pillars earlier, and Meta Knight got a clear shot at the octopus. His next Sword Beam left a bloody trail on three of its arms, and the fire instantly stopped. Some grass was burning, but that was really of no concern to Meta Knight.
Briefly looking behind him, he saw that all kids were safe and a reasonable distance away from the fire. Good.
His opponent had used the brief distraction as another chance to attack, this time trying to grab Meta Knight, but he had expected something like that. In a flash he slashed his sword vertically, and with a fountain of blood an arm was lost for the demon.
It backed away with a screech, but Meta Knight mercilessly kept attacking.
Another two small Sword Beams injured the demon beast further, until Meta Knight finally had enough. One last Sword Beam was all it took for Octacon to die.
It exploded in a shower of sparks, something demon beasts did quite often when they died, though Meta Knight had yet to figure out why.
"Cool!"
And that was really everything that had to be said.
Everyone was happy when they heard that the demon beast had been killed. Everyone except for Dedede.
He had been whining about his destroyed throne room, the destruction throughout the whole castle, and even had another reason to whine about when he heard that his 'cute little Octacon' had been killed. The one to blame for all his problems had soon been found out.
"You destroyed my throne room and killed my Octacon!" Accusing Meta Knight was not the smartest thing to do considering it had been on Dedede's orders that Escargon had taken the ship apart. It certainly didn't improve Meta Knight's mood.
"Octacon destroyed the throne room and the castle, but yes, I killed it. Because it was a danger for everyone else."
That certainly wasn't the reason, but it would do for someone like Dedede. It wasn't like Dedede really listened to him anyway.
"See? You even admit you killed it!" he shouted angrily.
Meta Knight was about to sigh in exasperation, but decided against it. Instead he turned around, intent on simply walking away and ignoring Dedede.
"Stupid Star Warrior!"
That was, unfortunately for Dedede, a little too much to ignore. It was probably one of the worst things he could have said, though neither Dedede nor anyone else would really understand why.
Dedede had it coming, and yet his expression showed only surprise when Meta Knight turned around and punched him in the stomach, making Dedede hit the floor. He held his stomach in pain, but Meta Knight didn't care for one moment.
Meta Knight left the destroyed throne room behind, wondering why he had even bothered to talk to Dedede at all. Angrily he walked through the hallways, and all Waddle Dees kept their distance when they saw him coming.
He left the castle through the gates, and found several people waiting for him. Many of the villagers he had met so far, but hadn't bothered remembering their names, along with Fumu, Bun, Lololo and Lalala.
"Well, how did your conversation go?"
Fumu had been the one to tell him to talk to Dedede, after all he was the ruler and it would certainly not be wise to have him as an enemy. Too bad that this was exactly what had happened now.
"I punched him," Meta Knight easily replied, waiting for the reactions he was sure to get for that. He heard some coughs, some people laughed, but Fumu's face was priceless. That answer she had obviously not expected.
"You did what?"
"I punched him. He had it coming. He just couldn't stop and that was his reward in the end." Meta Knight paused for a moment, then, "he still has my ship. I suppose I have to threaten Escargon to get it back or something like that..." Fumu still had this same look of surprise on her face.
"So you will have to stay here anyway because you have no ship?" she asked, and Meta Knight couldn't help but notice the almost hopeful undertone in her voice. What a curious development.
"Yes, I will have to stay here."