HAHA finally somebody's paying attention… but what about Dokeshisan… come back to me! ANYWAYS I'm glad people have noticed my updates. But I suppose we should get on with the story. Don't you just love how I'm the only author that doesn't take forever to get new stories updated… well there was that one time. Ok time to assault the Halberd, and fail.

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Chapter 8 Rapzor's debut

"Alright that should do it." Said Tiff as she walked over to Kirby. She had just finished repairing his Warpstar. Kirby jumped up and the Warpstar floated in the air.

Tiff was indeed sad to see her dear friend Kirby leave, but she was more concerned about the Halberd. Suddenly Tuff ran up behind her with an eager twinkle in his eyes.

"Tiff look what I found!" Tuff held out his hands revealing a necklace with a large purple stone attached to the end of it.

"Wow, what is that?"

"I don't know, but I found it by the remains of that monster."

"Hmmmm… Ah I know!" Tiff grabbed the Necklace from Tuff and handed it to Kirby.

"Here, take it, that way if we don't ever see each other again, you can just look at this and remember us!" Kirby gripped it and tossed it into the air. He opened his mouth and the amulet fell into it.

"Ugh! Kirby!"

"Hang on Tiff maybe he's keeping it there." Tiff looked back at Kirby who nodded.

"Okay… But don't you dare swallow it!"

"Poyo!" Kirby then rocketed his Warpstar up leaving his two friends behind. He passed through many clouds in the night sky, slowly approaching the Halberd. It glided against the sky like a hawk vigilantly watching. On the bridge Meta Knight was getting ready to attack.

"Sir the cannons are charged at 90 percent." Meta Knight turned to the cannon operator.

"Good. Are we above Cappy Town yet?"

"No, would ya just be patient already! SQUAAK!"

"Cannons charged at 98 percent, ready for fire."

"Don't fire yet, I want to gloat in my victory over Kirby."

"Speaking of Kirby…" Said the Bandana Waddle Dee. "He's on his way here!"

"WHAAT! But I thought we took care of him!"

"Apparently not."

"Cannons charged at 100 percent, maximum fire power ready for use."

"FIRE!" As Kirby approached the Halberd he noticed something. Small tiny yellow dots were appearing on the exterior of the Ships' hull. The dots continued to grow brighter and brighter until Kirby could no longer see. The hero was then met with several hits to the head. The Warpstar held its own and continued on.

Back on the Halberd the cannons suddenly dropped to 12% charged.

"Huh! T-t-that's impossible!"

"What? What's wrong! SQUAAAK!"

"The Cannons are dropping, rapidly!" Meta Knight quickly thought this over and suddenly remembered the combo cannon.

"Get ready to fire the combo cannon!"

"But sire its main laser takes forever to charge back up!"

"No use the claw part."

"Ahh, okay, CLAW AWAY!"

A confused Kirby lazily drifted through the night sky staring at the halberd. The Warpstar fell a foot or two, but it remained aloft. That is until the claw came out. Suddenly a large three fingered claw was propelled from the Halberd, and it was connected by a seemingly never ending cable. The claw came and forcefully punched Kirby off the Warpstar. Before he knew it Kirby was plummeting back towards the ground at a quick rate, he was heading towards Cappy Town.

"HA! Kirby's done for! Who wants champagne!" Meta Knight shook his head in disgust.

"We will NOT be drinking away this night, and don't be so sure, the star warrior has survived much more than these trivial obstacles."

The bandana Waddle Dee gave Meta Knight a confused look, as if he was asking a question.

"Really? That pink runt?"

"Would you count, defeating a nightmare, beating up a giant penguin, stopping Dark Nebula, destroying Dark matter three times, and even defeating me in one on one combat?"

"….wow…"

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"Kirby…wake up…..Kirby….WAKE UP!" Kirby awoke with a start to find Marx hovering over him.

"Oh, good! 'bout time. I suppose you could use some help, after all I knew that when I told you about Meta Knight that you would need some help."

"Poyo?" Marx gave a curious look before he nodded and made Kirby smile.

"Alright now then, If you truly wish to go up against The Halberd, you'll need POWER, not the NOVA kind though. In fact I was thinking about a rather giant bird." Marx turned his head towards a large mountain just east of the two. "I think you know what to do?" Kirby nodded and took off towards the mountain, once again rushing through leaves and branches of all kinds. He splashed through a small creek, and stirred several of the fish, including a large opened mouth one.

"Hey Kirby!" Kirby stopped to look back at a big fish. Most of its scales were blue, except for the ones on his fins which were yellow. His mouth was open in a large 0. It was Kine. "Were ya headed?" Kirby pointed towards the mountain with his stub of a hand. "Oh well good luck with Dyna Blade, she's in a bad mood so be careful." Kirby then pointed his hand at Kine. "Oh me? Well I'm on my way to go see Tiff!" Kine's eyes suddenly became filled with love. "She actually accepted another date from me! I'm so happy I could just die! Well anyways she's expecting me, I think… so I'll see you later." Kine ducked his head down beneath the cold waters of the stream and he continued on. Kirby waved at the fish and turned back to the mountain.

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"Really the Twilight thorn defeated?"

"Yeah that's what I said isn't it, that little puffball deflated it into a popped beach ball!"

"It doesn't surprise me, after all it has been beaten by a giant key before… anyways it seems as though you've been running through our newest monsters rather quickly." King Dedede slammed his fist down onto the chair and started to scream.

"Well what do ya expect? Ever since Nightmare was defeated you guys got all soft!" Customer Service glared at the king, hurt by the insult.

"Hmmmmm… well then if you think we're too soft how about we just cancel our services?" The King dropped his jaw and hurriedly searched his head to correct his sentence.

"No no I jus-"

"Catch ya later triple D!" The monitor shut off and retracted back into the wall. However the machinery stood put.

"Look sire, we could just keep calling them, and then he'll have to lend us their services. See the uploading equipment is still out maybe we could-" Escargoon was interrupted by a loud shaking noise. Suddenly beams of light erupted from the machinery, and several explosions occurred. Smoke, fire, and a rancid smell filled the air. King Dedede ran screaming out of the throne room with tears in his eyes. Escargoon quickly followed after. The two collapsed, well away from the destroyed throne room, panting.

"Aw great now I'll nevah get rid of that Kirbeh!"

"Eh… look on the bright side sire, at least we don't have to pay the cost anymore…"

"YOU THINK I CARE ABOUT SOME DUMB FEE!"

"Well seeing as how you pretty much blew all our Drands on monsters from NME… I assumed that it would feel good to be rid of them." King Dedede slowly turned to face Escargoon. His eyes ablaze and his hands twitching. "Uh sire what's wrong?"

"Don't worry snail, your king's just in suspended animation, he won't be moving for a while." Escargoon jumped and screamed. He quickly turned around to face a man wearing a black cape. He had a mask like Meta Knight's only it was grey. He had large oval feet like most people, and he stood about Chef Kawasaki's height. Long locks of black hair fell from behind the mask. He was wearing a simple Cuirass with a black crow insignia on it.

"Wh-wh-who're you!" Escargoon said as he backed up a couple of steps.

"Rapzor, Star Warrior Hunter at your service." Escargoon started to scream out a number of questions, all of which Rapzor ignored. "Now now calm yourself snail, your King will be mobile in just about a minute or two. I couldn't help but notice that he was about to attack you."

"Well thanks for watchin' out, but I don't need it, I can take care of myself!" And with that the hammer was brought down on Escargoon's head.

"Hmmm it looks to me as though you need the help." A dazed Dedede shook his head and darted his eyes around.

"Huh where am I?" Rapzor smiled under his mask and proceeded to greet himself.

"Star Warrior Hunter huh?...OH! You could be the guy we need!"

"Say no more King I'll take care of any Warriors you've got a grudge against. I'm assuming I'll be hunting Kirby?"

"Huh? You know 'bout Kirby?" Rapzor took a step back and bowed before continuing.

"Why of course, any Star Warrior Hunter would know of the infamous Pink Vacuum! You see I originate from a planet called Halfmoon, rather far from Dreamland, anyways I noticed while looking out over the stars that the Sun and Moon were fighting rather fiercely and I decided to look into it. Imagine my surprise when I learned that the very planet they were fighting above was Popstar, home of Kirby! So I assembled my fleet and headed here with the utmost haste. I showed up in a place known as Green Greens. A strange talking Tree told me that Kirby had gone to Float Islands. I arrived there during the Fireworks festival to catch a fish monger. He said that Kirby was heading to Bubbly Clouds to do battle with a ruthless dictator called Kracko. Of course as expected by the time of my arrival Kracko was dead and a new ruler called Leo was in charge. I assumed he was a friend of Kirby's so I pretended to act like I was an old friend to the pink ball. He told me that he had gone off to deal with you King Dedede. Once I got to Mt. Dedede your castle was gone, and several pieces of food was laying on the remnants of the castle. It took me a while but I finally ended up here after several questions. Now then I've got one more, where is Kirby?"

"Quite the story Boy, but I don't know if we should trust ya. After all you did put me in that uh suspensded animaltion thingy. And I've gots nothins to pay ya!"

"Don't worry sire, after all I was just looking out for your poor snail friend. Also I'm free of charge."

"FREE! Now you're talkin' mah language!"

"Your language indeed." Rapzor said under his breath.

"Huh what was that!"

"Oh nothing, nothing just uh thinking out loud." King Dedede laughed some more, and he ordered Escargoon to go and fetch Rapzor and himself some refreshments. Escargoon left the room for the two leaders to talk in private.

"Hmmm? Something's off…" Escargoon looked around the hall, something had changed. The carpets were the same, as were the ceiling, the tiles, and the wa- "Wait that's it!" Escargoon turned to the walls; the things missing were the thousands of Dedede statues. "Hmmm with them gone, the castle seems lonely… almost eerie… Where is the kitchen anyways?" Escargoon's eyes darted around quickly scanning the halls, finally he had to admit it, he was lost. "Getting lost in your own castle is kinda embarrassing… OH!" Escargoon had noticed a door. He creaked the door open and peaked inside. It was Tiff's room, the lights were on and Tiff was reading. Taking a chance Escargoon stepped inside.

"Uh… Tiff!" Tiff looked up from her book with a snarl on her face.

"Well…. What!"

"Ug do you know where Kirby is?"

"No I don't and if I did I wouldn't tell you, now if you'll excuse me I have an unfortunate event to attend to!"

"Unfortunate event?... OH! You've got a date with Kine huh?" Tiff stopped in her tracks and started to blush.

"I-I do not! Just go away!" Tiff bolted out the door, and headed towards the court yard. Escargoon decided that he wasn't going to get anything out of her. He turned back to the hall and headed back to the throne room.

"You majesty I couldn't find the kitchen so… huh?" The throne room was completely empty and the lights were out. Escargoon shivered and he slowly slid back out into the hall.

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Tiff sat next to the fountain in the courtyard talking to Kine, although the whole experience was rather awkward for her.

"And so then I saw Kirby!" Tiff suddenly snapped her head towards kine.

"Really? But I thought he went up to fight Meta Knight?"

"He did but his Warpstar got blasted down and now he's heading to Dyna Blade's nest to see if she'll give him a ride up there."

"OH very good fish now I know where that little ball is hiding!" Tiff and Kine turned up to the wall to see Rapzor standing there. They could only see his silhouette, and he casted a dark shadow against the two.

"Wha- who are you!"

"Oh Tiff my dear now it wouldn't be smart handing out my name to complete strangers, after all you could use that against me."

"Hey Rapzor where are ya!" King Dedede suddenly came barreling out into the court yard panting. "Hey girly have you seen a guy named Rapzor 'round here?" Tiff looked back up at Rapzor with her eyes ablaze.

"So Rapzor's your name!" Rapzor smiled underneath his mask before leaping backwards off the wall. He landed safely on the outside of castle Dedede and he whistled. A black raven shaped Warpstar appeared and he took off to Dyna Blade's nest. "Kine you go and secure the rivers and make sure to do all you can to stop him!"

"Got it Tiffy!"

"I'm going to rally a militia!"

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Kirby scurried up the steep incline of Dyna Blade's nest, and fell several times. He still had about half of the mountain to go, and he wasn't making any progress. Marx stood by his side not particularly wanting to help.

"Any time now Kirby!" Kirby plopped down on the slope exhausted. Marx impatiently tapped his foot on the ground waiting for Kirby to get up. Marx then noticed something in the sky. "Oh terribly sorry about this but…" Marx suddenly kicked Kirby off the edge of the mountain. He had only seconds to teleport before a gigantic purple object crashed into the side of the mountain. Kirby was able to survive the fall by puffing up. His feet touched down on the side of the mountain, only feet away from the impact site.

"I've been waiting a long time for this Kirby!" suddenly without warning Rapzor rushed forward with his blade outstretched. Kirby rolled out of the way of the blade, however a purple aura stretched from the blade and it curved to hit Kirby. Kirby rolled back a couple of feet before standing. Rapzor then jumped into the air and swiped his blade. Several purple waves of energy came out and homed in on Kirby. The first couple hit Kirby dead on, and then Kirby got it together. He started to inhale one of the beams. It went right into Kirby's mouth, who didn't hesitate to spit it out. It came out glowing and white. Rapzor got hit head on and he fell to the ground with a CLANK! "You're more trouble than your worth Kirby! But don't worry I've got a surprise!" Rapzor launched himself into the air and waved his hand around. "Come out!" Suddenly a large group of metallic balls burst from the ground. Once every one landed Rapzor tapped his wrist and a portal appeared. "Have fun!" He climbed into the portal and it shut behind him. Immediately after Rapzor's departure the balls started to activate. Every one rose into the air and started to glow. Large slits appeared on the surface of each one and long robotic arms came out. At the end of each arm was a razor blade. A large bowl appeared over the tops of the robots and two glowing eyes appeared in each one. All the eyes turned yellow, and the razor blades started spinning. Kirby had duck, dodge, and weave his way around the blades. The robots showed no signs of stopping, and neither did Kirby. He ran to the side of the mountain and waited for a robot to lunge at him. One did, however Kirby moved just in time for it to hit the cliff side. The robot yanked and tugged at its arm until it ripped the razor right off. Kirby turned to notice this and he took his chance. Kirby opened wide and sucked up the razor, and a couple of rocks from the impact. Suddenly A brown helmet with two wings appeared over Kirby's head and a rocky blade appeared along with it too. Kirby took the two, and he became Rock Cutter Kirby! Kirby then noticed a robot charging at him. Kirby took out the blade and blocked the robot's razor. To Kirby's surprise the razor broke on impact. The robot looked at its hand for a minute trying to calculate what just happened, however before it could figure out anything Kirby raised his blade and sliced right through it. The other robots noticed this and continued to charge Kirby, much more vigorously however. Many more of the robots fell to Kirby's power, and only one remained. It's turned to orange, and it attempted to run, but it took off in the wrong direction and it fell off the cliff. Kirby sat back down exhausted from the whole battle, but was forced to get back up when Marx floated back up to the edge of the cliff.

"I have never seen that kind of POWER before… it makes me wonder if it could even stand against NOVA." Kirby cocked his head at Marx demanding to know what NOVA is. "Oh don't worry about it, if you keep going like this then you'll eventually find out, now then I think the next best thing to do is hunt down that Rapzor….Kirby look!" Kirby turned around to see the hulking massive bird Dyna Blade glaring down at him.

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Yep its done! Rapzor is an original character just like Sakana, who probably won't be making another appearance, but I assure you Rapzor will make many more appearances just keep reading.

Ok the Kingdom Hearts reference in the last chapter was the Twilight thorn itself. Remember that huge nobody that Roxas battles at the beginning of Kingdom Hearts 2, well that's what Kirby battled.

Yep Nightmare Enterprises will no longer be offering their services to King Dedede, I got really tired of them, but with enough feedback, I might just bring back Customer Service!

…now onto my last note… WHERE ARE YOU DOKESHISAN!