You know, I think this is my fastest update ever. Awesome! Hope you like it.
I do not own Kirby characters, because if I did, things would be very different... :)
Meta Knight managed to drag Jecra down to the dungeons of Castle Dedede. He was headed towards the table in which they had tortured Escargoon to get rid of Erasum, but paused when he came across a chair. Changing plans, Meta Knight moved towards it. He pushed Jecra into sitting position on the chair, strapped him in, and removed his prisoner's mask. Then, Meta Knight went over to a grey panel next to the chair, waiting.
As soon as Jecra began to stir, Meta Knight reached up and spun a dial. Jecra suddenly began to yelp and pull himself around in the chair as much as the bindings would allow. The dial that Meta Knight had turned triggered small needles filled with poison to inject into Jecra. Meta Knight waited thirty seconds, and then turned off the machine. Jecra slumped over as the needles receded. He glanced over at Meta Knight's cold glare and grinned.
"Well, it seems the great Meta Knight has managed to capture me," Jecra said sarcastically. Meta Knight stepped up to him, forcing himself to look into the sockets of Jecra's face.
"You, Jecra, are going to answer some of my questions." Jecra's grin faded and was replaced with an angry expression.
"And what happens if I won't?" he challenged. Meta Knight said nothing. Instead, he walked back over to the panel and twirled the dial again.
This time, Jecra didn't react as the needles were injected through his body. When the small pains subsided, he smirked.
"Is that the best you can do to me?" Jecra teased. "Poison won't do anything to make me talk."
Meta Knight's eyes turned pink, which confused Jecra. What was there to be amused about?
"Well," Meta Knight said. "This chair has more functions than what I've just shown you. We'll find something here that'll persuade you."
"Where the heck is he?"
"Don't worry, Sword. Meta Knight'll turn up."
Blade was sitting in front of the TV, watching a comedy show on Channel DDD. Sword paced back and forth behind him, worried. They hadn't seen Meta Knight all day, and it was sunset now. It was beginning to worry them.
Or, at least, worry one of them.
Sword stopped his pacing long enough to glare at Blade before continuing his pace. Blade seemed completely unconcerned about the whereabouts of their master, and it was doing nothing for Sword's mood.
Sword sighed, and then glanced out the window at the sky. The sun was almost down. "Maybe we should go looking for him-"
"Sword, you're forgetting something about Meta Knight," Blade said, cutting Sword off. "Meta Knight is only found when he wants to be found. He'll turn up on his own."
Sword gaped at Blade, who, thinking he had won, turned back to the TV. Sword was right about to strangle him, when the door flew open. Both looked over to see Meta Knight had entered the room, eyes shining with triumph. He walked right up to them, and glanced at Blade before turning to Sword.
"Ready the Halberd," Meta Knight said. "I have found information that could help us get rid of the skeleton problem."
Before Sword could say anything, Meta Knight had vanished again. Blade got up from his spot, turned off the television, and went to stand next to Sword.
"Told you he'd show up."
"Shut up." Together, the two knights went off to the fountain in the courtyard.
After the first attempt to defeat NME, pieces of the Halberd had managed to find its way back to Cappy Town, mostly through the monster delivery system in the form of robotic monsters bent on destroying Kirby. Though these monsters exploded, Meta Knight, Sword, and Blade managed to gather up scraps and rebuild the Halberd. The last piece, the bow to the ship in the shape of Meta Knight's mask, had come a week ago with Odomok. This piece, like so many of the others sent by Nightmare, had been damaged from a combination of the fight with Kirby and NME's fun with the objects. They'd fixed it up the best they could, but the one thing they could do nothing about was the mark over one side of the bow. From a distance, it looked like the ship had a scar over one of the eyes.
Sword and Blade entered the control room to find Meta Knight was already starting up the Halberd. They took their positions at the control panel and helped prepare for takeoff. That was when Sword noticed something strange.
"Sir?" Meta Knight glanced up from what he was doing to look at Sword.
"Yes?"
"You haven't put in our destination." Meta Knight turned back to what he was doing.
"So it seems."
"But why?" Blade asked, glancing at the screen Sword had up.
"Because we don't have an exact location yet." Sword and Blade looked at each other in confusion. Meta Knight looked over at them, but they didn't question further.
In Cappy Town, things were going as usual. Chief Bookum was in his rocking chair at the front of the police department, snoring softly. Kawasaki was cooking his usually terrible food in his restaurant. Curio was off looking for old Cappy artifacts, while Gus pumped some gas for Mayor Blustergas' car.
Suddenly, the ground rumbled, and anyone walking about fell to the ground. Chief Bookum's chair broke and he collapsed on the ground, looking confused. Everyone outside looked up towards the sky to see a huge battleship with a familiar mask on the front just before it vanished into the clouds.
I'm going to be busy over the next month or two, and I'm not sure when I'll be able to update again. But I will try to make it as early as possible.
