Minion: A Few Hundred Drastic Changes Under King Kirby
Chapter Fourteen: Cells and Cabbages
Bandana Dee is a stingy Waddle Dee.
"Look, I'm going to go and give Dedede his food and whoever would like to accompany me can," Bandana Dee declared, swinging a cloth bag absentmindedly. (Okay, he nearly hit the flower vase with no flowers in it, but Haddle was going to throw it out soon.)
"What food did you get?" Midori asked curiously, hopping to his side. (Translation: I'm tagging along but I think you know already anyway.)
"Nothing fancy." Bandana Dee was brilliant at being vague.
They ended up all going down to visit Dedede. Haddle was trying to make his staff more independent and make Spaggy attempt to play doctor for a while. (Spaggy was a magician. If he failed and nearly killed the patient with the normal medical things, he could use his magic.)
The cells were dark, dirty, and smelly. Bandana Dee kept a firm grip on his bandana to keep it from falling off. Midori was literally jumping off the walls, and Mitchizuka shrieked and tried to avoid him, while Haddle trailed behind and was darkly muttering about them being annoying and Haddle-like things.
"We're here," Bandana Dee announced, kicking open the door towards another hallway of cells. A Waddle Dee and a Waddle Doo were sitting on some chairs and talking and gossiping and all those synonyms. They were guards, of course; there were guards in every hallway. There was another door leading to another hallway of cells, Bandana Dee supposed, but he wouldn't bother to check.
"Are you taking over?" the Waddle Doo asked, spinning his rifle around. Bandana Dee didn't like rifles—they were loud and noisy. Mitchizuka liked shooting things, but Bandana Dee had banned him from keeping a rifle, so the Waddle Doo just rented one for the day (it was really cheap to) and wandered around with it when he was on duty.
"Yep." Bandana Dee had taken the initiative to reply; Midori was busy fascinating himself with the floor ("Wow, it's so disgusting!") and Mitchizuka was looking at the floor with him and Haddle was still lamenting about stupid fools and stupid friends and stupid universes.
"A confirmation card, please?" the Waddle Dee prompted, stretching out his hand (the one that wasn't holding a rif—yeek! Why were there so many rifles today?). Bandana Dee poked Mitchizuka's side, and Mitchizuka jumped, then nodded, and pulled it out of his satchel. It was a blank white card that read "GUARD(S) ON DUTY". And then it had Kirby's signature on the bottom left corner. "All right, we're leaving, Quili."
The Waddle Doo nodded and they scampered out of the hallway.
"It's a Dedede—oh, wow." Midori was suddenly fascinated by his own words and the (overoveroverweight) penguin turning to face them with a dreary expression. "Oh. Oh. Oh. Wow. That's the first time that I've called Your Idiocy by his proper and him not yelling my head off."
"He's not the king anymore, he doesn't have the authority to," Haddle reminded grumpily. "Bandana Dee, go and feed him whatever you brought. When does our shift end?"
"It's only an hour!" Mitchizuka piped up. Bandana Dee nodded in agreement, before drawing something out from the plastic bag and rolling it through the gap in which a tray of food was supposed to be slid through for the prisoner.
Midori was amazed. "...You brought him a cabbage? Okay, he was a mean jerk and all and he deserves to die, but don't you think Dedede deserves more than a cabbage?"
Bandana Dee shrugged nonchalantly and watched as Dedede attempted to unwrap the cabbage (he'd never done any unwrapping before, he always had one of the minions do it for him). "Kirby said they gave Dedede a big breakfast so he only has to eat something light."
"I don't think that's how it works," Haddle informed him curtly, looking up from his preening.
They talked and sometimes told Dedede what was happening, and the penguin responded with sneers and "Oh really?"s and stopped when Haddle threatened to snap off his beak.
Bandana Dee also caught Dedede reluctantly shoving food into his mouth. What was his problem? Cabbage was nice!
When the next guards came for their duty, they stood up to leave, and Haddle stiffened slightly.
"What's wrong? ...Bugs!" Midori suddenly realised and began shrieking and flying out of the corridor.
"No," Haddle scoffed although Midori had already flown off into the sunset. "I heard something. Anyway, it's probably just one of those stupid prisoners complaining. Let's go."
15 May 2014 SGT: Everyone says "it's just my imagination" but Haddle does it better. (He doesn't like to think that it's his imagination. He's too arrogant to think his senses are growing strange.)
Anyways, you know about the break? Yes? (You would've if you've been reading the author's note...) Well, it seems that I write chapters when I'm trying to escape from studying. Is liddat.
...No, it's not like that, but I just will do anything but study.
Also, as a curious question: Which browser do you use?