I wrote this for an Instagram contest. It's kinda ooc because it was comedy themed and I can't take evil overlords seriously when I'm writing them
The Puffball Project is based on a post RadiantSeraphina on Tumblr made.
BTW I don't ship these two because I have honestly no idea why anyone would except for that one parody I read. Anyways, have some intergalactic conquerors who got turned into puffballs.
It was a normal day on the Death Star clone for pretty much everybody. They were still rebuilding most of it so the main base of operations was on a nearby planet that was dark and boring- perfect for an evil lair. Customer Service was somehow still alive after that physically impossible explosion and was setting up a new delivery system. His boss, however, was missing. It's not easy to go missing when you're a giant demon vampire guy so something was obviously wrong. Then someone kicked the door down and stood there while a whole bunch of ominous purple fog came through the opening. Normally this would scare someone but CS was completely used to it. A small silhouette appeared in the dark doorway. It was rounded on top with thin horns, and maybe a cape on its back. The figure slowly walked in and CS had to keep himself from laughing.
Nightmare had turned into a puffball.
"CUSTOMER SERVICE, WE HAVE A HORRIBLE PROBLEM." He said, raising his hand-stub things in the air. "I CAN'T USE MY POWERS ANYMORE." The too cute to take seriously evil overlord waddled over to the computer panels and typed in an address. He smashed a button with his fists and the screen came to life.
"ZERO. YOU ARE THE ONLY IGNORAMUS WHO WOULD AND COULD DO THIS TO ME. TURN ME BACK AT ONCE OR I'LL-"
Nightmare stood there in shock. Instead of a giant eyeball stood a small white puffball with bandages around half of his face a red eye on the other side. The puffball had segmented wings on its back too.
"I was about to call you and say the same thing." Zero the puffball spoke.
"WELL IF IT ISN'T YOU CAUSING THIS IMPEDIMENT, THEN WHAT MORON IS IT?!" Nightmare yelled. He saw Dark Matter Swordsman (who was also a puffball) with a dictionary, desperately trying to look up all the fancy vocabulary words he was using.
"Well, as you can see here, my most loyal knight was turned into a puffball too. I also have reports that my scouts Dark Nebula and Dark Crafter were turned into the creatures as well." Zero replied.
"Dark Nebula also informed me that some people from... Kirby's recent adventures had been transformed too, including the Mages Magolor and Taranza." He said Kirby like it was complete trash. If there's one thing those two had in common (other than intergalactic takeover), it was their hatred for a little pink ball.
"Hmm... If that's the case, we should go check out the situation for ourselves." Nightmare said. "Customer Service, can you boot up the delivery machine?"
"Sure thing, boss!" CS walked over to a big button that said "Don't Press This" and pressed it. The machine exploded for a second and then was perfectly normal.
"Zero, you have wings, but I don't, so I'll meet you in Dedede's castle."
"Good thing we can breathe in space."
Magolor was freaking out. He had been perfectly normal yesterday, and now he was a small and fat blob like Kirby. Kirby was excited that his friend was more like him now. Kirby showed him how to copy people's abilities (so far ESP was his favorite) and how to float around like a small deflating blimp all morning. Everyone else was trying to figure out what happened. Meta Knight and Taranza were ikn Dedede's Library trying to find a book on magic. Unfortunately the majority of books were about food or DededeMan so the two were taking forever.
Susie was looking up information on her computer. Dedede bought a cheap wifi plan so she had to wait five minutes for a page to load. While she was waiting, she heard electric zapping noises coming from the throne room. She went to investigate and found that the delivery machine had been used recently. She analyzed it and wrote down notes about how advanced this technology was for Popstarian standards. What she didn't notice was the puffball sneaking behind her.
Wow, I've got a fan of my technology, Nightmare thought. He snuck out the door and ran to find Kirby.
His first idea was to try and turn into that weird orb, but he couldn't. He was a different weird orb already. Then he realized Kirby can fly- not very well; but it was better than nothing. So on he flew, like a small balloon that's running out of air.
Zero, however, was flying pretty fast through Popstar's atmosphere. He'd been to the cheerful planet once before and hated it. Too happy for his taste. Zooming in on Dedede's castle, he saw a small dark purple speck bobbing around below him.
"Hey Nightmare, need some help?" Zero called.
"NO, I CAN DO THIS ON MY OWN!" Nightmare replied.
"Whatever." Zero dove down and picked the lord of darkness up.
"I SAID I DIDN'T NEED HELP!"
Kirby and Magolor were having a picnic/eating contest when Meta Knight and Puffball Taranza came to them.
"We found a book on magical curses," Meta Knight said. "The one we think was cast on you two, Taranza and Susie was 'The Curse of Fanfiction'."
Taranza opened a book that looked really fancy. "The curse of fanfiction is when a person from another dimension writes a story about you. I think this also applies to the time Daroach and Spinni went on a date and ended up fighting a giant spaghetti monster."
"That was a weird incident," Magolor said. "I just wish the person would turn me back to normal." Well he wasn't gonna get that
Suddenly ominous lightning and thunder came out of nowhere, seeming to follow a red and white winged puffball and dark purple puffball. When they got closer, Meta Knight realized who they were.
"Kirby, stay behind me. If these two are together, we have a problem." Meta Knight gestured for Kirby to hide.
"Wait, who are they? Enemies?" Magolor asked. Taranza seemed equally confused.
"You must have heard legends of the embodiment of sorrow and the embodiment of fear."
"Yes, I read lots of history before I left Halacandra. They both aim to take over the universe. The only obstacles in their path are eachother and the legendary heroes known as Star Warriors, such as you two."
"Yes, and it looks like they have been affected by this curse as well."
Magolor had to look twice. The two evil overlords looked cute as puffballs.
"OH MY NOVA. THEY'RE REAL." Taranza whispered in all caps. Floralia was very disconnected to the lower world until the dreamstalk came along, so he had not known about Kirby's past battles (aside from Magolor, Marx and the Mirror World Crisis). He'd just assumed the moon blew up from an asteroid or something.
"META KNIGHT, IM HERE TO TAKE YOU HOME AND KILL KIRBY!" Nightmare (the puffball) shouted.
Meta Knight was calm on the outside, but inside he was like "oh nova dad sTOP I hate the Metaknightmare theory" too bad I like it hahaahhah
Ok enough with my headcanons
"And I'm here to kill Kirby too. Whoever does it first gets gets to rule the planet." Zero said. He put Nightmare down onto the ground and then got down himself.
Unfortunately the two didn't have any powers so they tried copying some.
Nightmare looked over to his left or something.
"Ah, yes, a clown! Everyone's scared of clowns!"
Somewhere in space a undead jester felt offended
So using his new vaccum lungs™ Nightmare inhaled the clown guy and copied his power. A really goofy looking hat now sat on his head (and his horns were sticking right through the balloons).
"WHAT IN THE DARK ABYSS IS THIS?!" He screamed. The lord of darkness doesn't have time for simple words like "heck". He likes fancy terms mortals wouldn't dare use.
Kirby laughed because he's a kid and doesn't really know better.
"OH, WELL THEN. I'LL USE THIS POWER TO DESTROY YOU!"
Circus Kirby isn't the best ability (though it is fun), so all the lord of darkness puffball could do was summon a balloon that looked exactly like his orb form.
"I can summon it- I mean, HAHAHAH KIRBY! IVE SUMMONED MY-"
Meta Knight whipped out Galaxia and popped the balloon. Nightmare went flying off Team Rocket style.
"I WILL BANISH YOU DO THE DARK VOID OF NIGHTMARES FOREVER" blah blah blah no one could understand him after that
Zero looked at the four kind of relevant characters and flew off after his (im)mortal enemy/new partner.
"What" said Taranza
"Wh" said magoloser
"Y" Said Kirby
And that's it I may make a sequel someday
Eh ¯\_(ツ)_/¯