Hey, everyone, welcome back. Any reviews or comments or tips on what to improve would be awesome! All characters, places, items, etc. except for Faroa Village and its citizens and Simon the Rocket Scientist are owned by Nintendo and not by me. Steve the Red Pikmin Trooper is Chuggaaconroy's creation. Thanks for reading.

P.S. There's a Kirby's Return to Dream Land spoiler in here…

Chapter 10: Meta Knight's Encounter

Meta Knight limped back into the Nintendo Building, headed down into the storage area and saw the trophies of Wolf, Leon, Panther, Donkey Kong, Diddy Kong and Tabuu. Meta Knight nodded. My security plan worked. Good.

"Hm… This reminds me…," he mutters as he thinks back to a few years back.

It was a happy day, when the heroes took down Tabuu and saved the world from the Subspace invasion. Princess Peach had invited all of the heroes (even Wario, Ganondorf and Bowser) over to her castle to eat a feast and revel in their victory. Meta Knight wasn't really planning on staying, but Peach had somehow managed to convince him to stay the whole feast.

"Please?"

"…Fine."

"Yay! Hey, everyone! I convinced Meta Knight to stay!"

The crowd hardly paid attention, with the exception of Kirby, who happily cooed, Marth and Ike, who smiled, and King Dedede, who groaned.

After the party, Meta Knight quickly took to the roof and flew away, with Link and Zelda watching.

"He sure loves a dramatic exit…" Link joked.

"Yeah…"

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A month or so later, Meta Knight was walking alongside the water in a port town somewhere in Kanto or Johto. He didn't know exactly. He was wandering for a while, never believing that Tabuu would ever really be killed that easily.

He saw a long, stone gray cargo ship moored on the pier and immediately was curious. He looked around, and saw a man in a suit walking towards him. Heh. I must look bizarre to him. I'm a dark blue ball with hands and feet. I'm also wearing a cape, holding a sword and wearing a mask.

"Hey! What are you doing?" the man asked, shouting. "This is not a public pier!

"Hm…" Meta Knight muttered, flying away. Okay… Now I'm really curious. What are they hiding that I can't see…? I'm going in anyways. Glad I can fly.

The masked swordsman turns around mid-flight and soars towards the ship. He makes sure he flies low enough so he remains unseen by the peculiar man. He sights a covered deck on the left side of the ship and makes his landing there. Upon landing, he hears voices coming from around the corner. Great… This is going to be tough. He dives behind a crate, hoping that he can remain unseen and unheard. They turn the corner. One's a frightened looking young man wearing a striking and slightly ugly light green polo and khakis and the other is a much older guy, with thinning gray hair. He looks angry for some reason.

"You fool! Is this really a good idea? Just abandoning our operations in Johto immediately?"

"Once again, sir. This was not my idea!"

"Well, still, it's not a smart idea…"

"They've already left in Mute City, Fourside and Altea."

Meta Knight barely held back his gasp of surprise. What?! I missed hearing all of this? Why are they abandoning all of the worlds? What about Tabuu…" "I have to warn the others… He then looks up from his thoughts and sees the two men standing over him staring.

"What are you?"

"Er… Meta Knight."

Meta Knight was kicked off the ship and ended back up on the pier.

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Meta Knight had, over the course of the next year, returned to his home, where he tried to forget everything that happened. They're still in Dream Land, which I know because I just took out Magolor with Kirby, King Dedede and Bandana Dee a few weeks ago. I don't know about in other worlds though… Falcon, Ness, Lucas and Olimar all seem to be in a prolonged period of peace…

"Well, the main creator building in their creations' worlds is in Mushroom City," Meta Knight spoke to no one in particular. "I shall confront them there."

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A few days later, Meta Knight shows up at the building and sees Ike speaking with the receptionist.

"Thank you, miss." Ike said, smiling. He turned around and saw Meta Knight walking towards him. "Meta Knight! It has been a while."

"Yes… It has…"

"So what has brought you here to the Mushroom Kingdom."

"You first."

"Okay. Fine," Ike quietly spoke as he subtly turned his head to the door. Meta Knight understood this, and the two of them stepped outside. "So last week, I had entered the Creator branch in Crimea, and it was empty. Fearing the fate of the kingdom, I made my way here, by myself…"

"Well, I have feared the idea of the creators leaving as well… I came here to confront them and ask why they left…"

Back inside, the receptionist told her boss about Ike's questioning, and they immediately began closing up the doors.

"Hey! What are you doing?!" shouted Ike, just turning around to see that a man had begun locking the door.

"Well, I am closing a door right now."

"We were going to meet with one of the managers!" stated Ike.

"Well, you aren't now."

"Let us in," growled Meta Knight, flashing his sword.

The man looked down at the sword. "Hey, man. No conflict." He then quickly opens the door, lets himself in and shuts the door.

Meta Knight and Ike both glare at him in frustration and leave. They look at each other and see that they are both thinking the same thing. Espionage. They walk around to the side of the building, where they find an unmarked side door. Meta Knight steps in, and scouts the room. "It's a dimly lit hallway… There's a staircase leading down over to our left, and a door with a security panel to our right. There's nobody in sight."

"Let's head downstairs."

"All right."

The two swordsmen slowly stepped downstairs, where they saw a man in a suit looking at a trophy. They stop, shocked at getting caught, when the man smiled.

"Well, hello there, Meta Knight, Ike. Do not worry. I won't throw you out. You see this trophy?" the man asked, letting them see the trophy. It was Tabuu.

"You and your other friends did not kill Tabuu. That would be… undesirable. We are keeping him here, with Dimentio, Giga Bowser, Princess Shroob and a handful of others. He's definitely the most interesting of your enemies here. Now, in case of emergency, would you mind if I asked you two to protect your friends from a rebirth of Tabuu?"

"No. I can protect them." Meta Knight responded.

"It would be an honor," stated Ike.

"Thank you."

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Back in modern day, Meta Knight looked at Tabuu and wondered what happened to that man and Ike. I haven't seen Ike since that day… I wonder if that man knew this would all happen… if he decided to leave us… Why?