Chapter 3: Falling Heroes
Kirby and Peach had been spotted and, unfortunately, The Halberd was much faster than Kirby's little space-surfboard. But whomever was piloting it was smarter than to fire at them. They were too small, and Kirby could easily avoid attack.
Kirby was not able to escape however and soon The Halberd was bearing down on them. Kirby pushed his speed to the max, but it only held out a few seconds longer. The front of the massive warship bumped the back of Kirby's Warp Star and both fighters were rebounded onto the top of the craft. But before anyone on The Halberd could act on their advantage, a new enemy appeared.
An Arwing tore through the sky, easily faster than The Halberd, and opened fire. Its attacks were not that effective, but not useless either. Arwings had brought down bigger and badder before. That said, it needed time and it would have to evade The Halberd's barrage of firepower for a very extended period of time.
This proved too much for the pilot of the Arwing when a gigantic claw-like weapon launched out and caught the Arwing's back end, damaging its engine and sending the craft out of control.
As it fell, it passed over Kirby and Peach and the resulting rush of wind pulled them with it for a short time, long enough to send them past the edge of The Halberd and they fell.
Kirby landed face first on a floating rock but was perfectly fine from the impact. Peach was in far more control of her decent, however, and simply opened her parasol to float down unharmed.
Kirby got right up with no problem and began continuing to descend, his primary thought being to stay out of The Halberd's sight and range. It turned out that they had fallen all the way to the last layer of clouds, so it should have been easy to go all the way to the bottom. Unfortunately, there seemed to be a viable army of Primids in the way.
Kirby, being Kirby, would probably have tried to smash his way through all of them and he very well might have been able to do it. But Peach was not an infant like Kirby was and thought of a much better method to get through: Over.
Both Kirby and Peach had relatively easy ways to soar over the Primids heads and, though the Primids tried to follow, the two of them only had to battle a miniscule number of the purple grunts before they were safely on the ground.
In a completely different part of the world, someone had angered a giant. Koopa Troopas and Goombas alike found themselves at the wrong end of one said giant's powerful fists. Some were sent flying, while others became far too acquainted with the ground for comfort. However, the diversion they were meant to play the role of had worked. A massive tower of bananas had been loaded onto a motorized cart and put a large amount of distance between itself and the angry giant. Said giant has now crushed the last of his attackers and ran out into the open.
Donkey Kong pounded his fists against his chest in a blatant show of strength, then he caught sight of the runaway cart full of bananas. The Goomba at the back of the cart saw him too and launched three Bullet Bills at him. But the King of the Jungle was not alone. Diddy Kong swung from a high branch and blasted two peanuts at the first two Bullet Bills, destroying them. The third arced up, but Diddy was ready, he quickly fired both guns at the offending sentient bullet and knocked it out of it flight path, it landed behind Donkey Kong and Diddy landed beside him. The Uncle and Nephew duo posed for no particular reason other than looking awesome and the Bullet Bill exploded behind them.
Then they set their sights on their stolen pile of bananas, pointing at it to make it clear to any who would get in the way: they would not be stopped.
It didn't take long; the Kong's knew their jungle backwards and forwards. Of course, several enemies of all kinds of types and abilities tried to slow them down, but at the end of the day, they were just Goombas and Koopa Troopas, and soon Donkey Kong slammed his fist into the side of the cart, knocking it on its side and spilling its contents everywhere. Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong celebrated heartily and would have begun eating some of the reclaimed treasure but….
"Anyone that ventures into the jungle had best know at least one thing: If you steal the treasure of the Kongs, you will face their wrath" said a very deep voice.
"But there is another thing to learn from that, of course: If you want to put the Kongs right where you want them, steal their treasure and put it right where you want them" said an even deeper, growling voice.
The Kongs looked up and around. In front of them stood King K. Rool, and to their rear stood an even badder reptile: Bowser, The King of the Koopas. The Kongs readied themselves for a fight, but Bowser and K. Rool both pulled out Dark Canons. Diddy was either unaware or non-respondent to the danger, but his uncle was not as foolish. After quickly winding up his strongest punch, as the dark canons also charged their unstoppable attacks, Donkey Kong slammed his fist into Diddy Kong's back; launching him far away and out of harm.
Diddy was briefly able to see the streams of dark power coursing through the air at his uncle and best friend, but covered his eyes, unable to watch the ape he admired most fall.
Alright, two more canon chapters out of the way. Sorry there is less dialogue in this one. And also sorry that this one is much shorter than the others. But the next chapter will be much longer I promise. Also in that next chapter will be many more new fighters don't worry.
Still, King K. Rool has joined this story and he will get plenty of action throughout it. Its a hard balance to keep, I've got to add dozens of new fighters but only so many of them are 'Bad Guys' and I have to split everyone up between them. But again, next chapter will have many new or returning faces (I won't say who though!)