Author's note: So, why did I call it Dissimulation? Good question! It means to lie or hide your intentions (in short, yeah, pretty much), which goes with Marx really well. This is what they should've called Milky Way Wishes XD! Or not.

So, please R&R! The real villain is revealed in this chapter. Mwahahaha…or should I say Eee heeheehee..? Oh, and Meta Knight is going to be a major character from now on. Enjoy!

9

Matter of Darkness

The country of Dreamland was being tortured by the Dark Matter. I was flying into the void in the sky on Marx's back and once we entered it we defeated all the creatures inside, saving the world! Er, not really. Instead of being brave we were running around in circles on my lawn, screaming our lungs out.

"DEEEE! WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING!" Marx screeched while stopping, out of breath.

"BUT WHAT?" I shrieked back, also stopping. We stared at each other for a few seconds and then screamed in unison. I ran over to the house. "I'm going to collect all my precious belongings. Then we try to find Kirby."

"Okay," Marx wheezed, dashing after me, "I'll stand guard at the door for any Dark Matter."

I nodded and went inside. I grabbed a few stuffed animals, my purse and the dolls Marx made and put them in a garbage bag. I then picked up my parasol just before I ran out the door. Marx seemed to be frozen in place so I dragged him along too.

"Come on! Hurry! Before the Dark Matter gets us!" I yelled at him. With that he started to run even quicker than me, "Hey, wait up!"

"Dee, I'm going to transform! When I do you grab onto my back, okay?"

I nodded and watched as he changed into what I believed to be his second form. He looked pretty much the same, but with wings. I jumped on his back, still holding my bag and parasol. He began to fly faster and I had to close my eyes in order to stop them from watering due to the air hitting them.

"Excuse—"

"Marx, a tree! STOOOP!"

We banged into the shrubbery and I heard footsteps running toward us. I looked up to see Meta Knight and Nikki hovering over us. I struggled to sit up and Marx did the same.

"What is it you were running from?" Meta Knight asked. I couldn't tell how he was feeling.

I looked down the road which seemed to be black and warped. "Um, nothing." I couldn't help but laugh for some reason.

"You make it sound stupid," Marx snickered, looking into my eyes. I punched him in the side.

"That's because you two are stupid! Right Meta Knight?" Nikki tried to hold his gloved hand but he pulled away.

"Er, so what do we do?" We were all avoiding the subject of what was going on at this moment, no matter how important it was. So I mentioned it.

"Hmm," Meta Knight began, "We should find Kirby. No, that isn't it. Let me contemplate."

We waited for minutes as he thought and the Dark Matter clouds continued to torture and possess people. Nikki kicked a rock around and I watched Marx who was gapping out.

"No, I was right. Let us find Kirby."

Marx groaned. "We wasted three minutes so you could tell us what we already know! Ass."

Meta Knight glared at him. "Is your answer to everything calling others a name?"

"Well, I have a low self esteem so I'm allowed to!" Marx stuck his tongue out and turned to me, smiling again, "Let's get going and stop wasting time with these things."

"Things? You called us things! Didja hear that Dee?" Nikki pointed at Marx as if she was a little brat blaming her brother for something.

At this point Meta Knight and I were probably on the same team. Meaning we were no longer in the conversation.

"You really haven't changed at all, Nikki."

"At least I'm not psychotic!"

"Psychotic?"

"Yeah, it means—"

"I KNOW WHAT IT MEANS!"

"Aw, you're all mad and cute…can I kiss you?"

"NOOOOO!"

I turned to Meta Knight. "Should we try to stop them or just leave them here?"

I heard him chuckle quietly. "Yes, we should stop them."

We walked over to Nikki and Marx and pulled them away from each other. Marx turned to me and grinned, showing his fangs. I hopped on his back. "We should split into two groups to find Kirby and everyone else. If we do, we return here with them."

Nikki and Meta Knight seemed to agree with this. She flew into the air first followed by him once his cape turned into a pair of bat wings. Marx and I were off right after that. We flew around for what felt like hours, searching the skies in circles.

"My wings are getting tired," Marx told me after a while, "Can we look on the ground now?"

"Stop whining! We need to keep going!" I wrapped my arms around his body and squeezed him really tight.

"Fine," Marx sighed as he kept flying. He slowed down for a second and stared at the ground, "I see something down there."

I squinted. "Oh yeah, something is moving. Go there!" After my instruction he fell through the air so fast I almost dropped everything. As we touched the ground Marx hovered lightly and looked around. I followed him closely.

He suddenly sniffed the air. "I smell…olives." He shook his head, "No, that's not it. It's salty though."

"Okay, you don't even have a nose, but I trust you." I heard something nearby and I turned around. I spotted Simirror standing behind us. It's just that something was…off about her.

"Simirror? She smells!"

I punched him. "Shut up," I waved at Simirror, "Hey! Over here!" She stared at us, then suddenly jumped in the air and flew toward us. "What? Simirror can't fly…EEK!" she blasted us with a beam made of mirrors.

"She's possessed by Dark Matter! We need to defeat her!" Marx screamed, flying at her. She fainted on impact.

I hugged my parasol close. "It shouldn't be that easy, should it?"

It wasn't. From Simirror's limp body a dark cloud appeared. A fog surrounded the matter and it emerged fully clad in armour and a robe with only its spiky black 'hair' sticking out. A sword came out from under its robe.

"Oh crap. Dark Matter Knight." Marx turned to me, "let's beat this one together."

I nodded and tackled the knight with my parasol. It was wounded but retaliated by slashing me with its sword. I fell back, hurt. Marx flew past me and floated above the knight. It looked up but somehow decided he didn't matter. Marx opened his mouth and vomited out a blue ball. When it reached Dark Matter the ball froze it.

"There," he landed next to me, "freezing always works. Or, sometimes. We should do something else too, but who knows what—'

"THIS!" Simirror mirror cut the frozen Dark Matter Knight which broke the ice and split the evil thing in two. It made a gurgling sound and disappeared.

My eyes widened. "S-Simirror! Are you alright?" I ran toward her with my arms spread wide. We embraced and stood there like that for about five minutes.

"Omigod Dee, it was so scary to be possessed!" She exclaimed after we let go of each other, "It was right after Dedede disappeared when it started."

"Question," Marx flew up to us, "What now?" I stared at him. He stared at me. Then we just kept staring at each other.

"Uh, we should go back to where we started and tell Meta Knight and Nikki about this." I suggested. Before anything else could be said he scooped us both up and threw us onto his back. It was only a quick flight back to the starting point. Both Meta Knight and Nikki were standing there, waiting.

"Hey, hey, hey! Guess who we found!" Marx yelled as we touched the ground. Simirror jumped down and ran to Meta Knight, hugging him. Nikki looked confused (I probably did too).

"Huh? What's up with you two?" She asked with anger in her voice.

Simirror turned to Nikki and hugged her too. "I just want to show all my friends I love them and that Dark Matter doesn't change that! I don't even know you though!"

"She was possessed," I explained. Nikki nodded and squeezed Simirror back.

"What about me?" Marx whimpered next to me, "Am I not your friend anymore? Is that why you won't hug me?"

Simirror laughed. "Oh sorry! You were never really my friend but hey…" She wrapped her arms around him and he grinned.

"Alright," I clapped to get everyone's attention, "So we keep searching, right?"

"Hey lookie! SOMETHING IS COMING OUT OF THE SKY!" Marx looked horrified. I followed his gaze to the void in the sky. The Dark Matter were coming out of it in clumps which looked awfulenough without the ominous purple glow coming behind them. As the matters cleared a rainbow coloured orb floated down slowly, emitting the glow I mentioned.

"We should get closer," Meta Knight's cape turned into wings again and he flew toward it, followed by Nikki.

"We should go too," I said to Marx while getting on his back. Simirror got on too and we caught up with Nikki and Meta Knight. The five of us navigated through a dense forest until we finally reached the field directly below the void. In the middle of the clearing Kirby, Ribbon, Fumu and her brother Bun stood doing absolutely nothing.

I leapt off Marx and ran to them at full speed. "You guys! Are you okay?"

"Dee!" Kirby reached out and hugged me as I arrived at the center. Ribbon and Bun hugged me too while Fumu studied the giant orb carefully.

"Hey!" She yelled, "It's taking form!"

I glanced at the colourful mass. Sure enough, it was beginning to shape into something. I felt something wrap around me and I almost screamed. It was only Marx though, hugging me with his wings (Which was awkward, believe me!).

"What is that?" Bun asked his sister. Fumu frowned.

"I don't know," she seemed to be pondering this while it became a solid creature, "Oh!"

It was kind of blurry at first but the person was obviously female. She was dressed in a robe much like that of a Dark Matter Knight but it was violet and a bit more stylish. Her face was covered by a pink scarf and her witch hat. She had no limbs but for some reason had golden shoulder pads. None of these attributes drew my attention at first, just the bright yellow mouth thing on her grey stomach. Well, that and her blue hair which was horribly messy. If I were her I would want to brush it.

"Drawcia? What's she doing here?" Kirby asked, surprised.

Drawcia cackled. "It has been some time, has it not? My, you creatures here are so adorable! I loathed having to leave you all behind, so my Dark Matters revived me from that wretched painting I was locked in!"

"'Your' Dark Matters?" That was Meta Knight, always on top of everything.

"Yes, I'm taking care of them for my dearest, dearest Zero. Not that he asked me to, of course. I just decided that they deserved better than waiting for their master's return, poor things. So now they're doing my bidding!" Her voice was sickeningly sweet though she was obviously evil.

"What bidding?" Fumu was even quicker than Meta Knight this time. I was too surprised to do anything but watch. I think Marx was the same.

Drawcia looked at us cheerfully. "My, aren't you curious ones? See, my last dream was a failure so I decided to try again with one itsy bitsy change. I'm going to possess all of the denizens in Dreamland with Dark Matter! That way, no one can fight back and they won't ever disobey me! So, enjoy your new world of paint sweethearts, not that you have a choice!" She floated up and away. I collapsed into Marx.

"We're doomed! DOOMED!" I sobbed. He hugged me close and kissed my forehead gently. To tell the truth, this was the first time he ever needed to comfort me. It was usually the other way around.

I heard someone yell. I glanced up along with everyone else to see Kirby standing on a rock, looking determined. "We need to stay together now more than anything! If we don't, Drawcia has a better chance of succeeding!" He frowned, "But, um, we don't know anything about her yet. She's kinda mysterious."

"Hey," I looked up at Marx, who was still being hugged by me, "I knew her…before everything that, y'know…actually, never mind, it doesn't matter."

I smacked him. "Don't give us that! Tell us what you know! Anything helps."

He touched his cheek with one of his claws. "Ow, okay! I know that she's really timid and she'll do anything to get away from fighting. Um, as I'm sure you guessed, she has a weakness for anything cute and she hates being alone. There's more…I just forget."

"Wow, you're actually good at something other than looking dumb and getting angry," Nikki smirked, "How did you know her anyway? Were you in a relationship with an older woman? Tsk, tsk!" I wanted to laugh along with Nikki at this but then I remembered what happened on my birthday. I wouldn't doubt that Marx would do something stupid like that.

"No!" He snapped, blushing, "I would never do that! What a disgusting thought." I wanted to ask him about it but this was bad timing. We would just have to talk later.

"Okay!" Kirby did a fist pump, "Let's do this thing! We'll find out where Drawcia's hiding and until then…well, I guess we plan. YEAH! Even if we die we'll die fighting! Off to the castle!" No one asked why we were going to Dedede's castle, we just cheered and left.

I'm not sure if anyone else wondered but, why do all these bad things happen in Dreamland?

Author's note: There ya go! About the relationship Marx had with Drawcia, that won't be touched on anymore than it has here. We just won't go there. If you think about it though, they have similar soul abilities and they both laugh as they battle Kirby…so I was just like 'what the hey! Make them know each other!'

Er, as for Nikki, I paired her name with darkness in the last chapter and she appeared at the same time as the Dark Matter but she has nothing to do with it. Sorry, she isn't evil! Anyway, I revealed the boss pairing (Too bad no one guessed…)! Remember how Drawcia called Zero her 'Dearest?'…XD (Evil laughter is heard)

Okay, please review!