While flying through space towards a small moon in the distance, Aero noticed many dark spirits that resembled black spheres each with one eyeball forming in the air. The plane narrowed his eyelids and said, "Careful, there, buddy, these are Dark Matter spawns," Metaknight asking, "So... you know about Dark Matter's creations but you didn't know until now who Dark Matter was?" Aero letting down a nervous sweat drop before focusing on the enemies ahead saying, "Luckily for us, though, they're weak and can be destroyed easily."

With that in mind, Aero Star opened up a hatch representing his belly, a gun of sorts coming out before firing a barrage of missiles, hitting the spawns hard and causing them to vaporize. The plane then noticed some coming from below before retracting the missile launcher and dropping a big bomb down on them. Metaknight smiled with confidence, trying his best not to think about what his clone had told him. What mattered was escaping from this mirror world and reuniting with his friends.

This was the moment where everyone else had escaped from the worlds they had been stuck in for the last while. Joe was the first to exit as his work took the shortest to complete, the boy's eyes going wide when he noticed he was in a world made up of nothing but clouds. In this area were all of the other mirrors representing the worlds the others had gone to, except one of them was smashed. This was of course the mirror connected to the one evil Metaknight had destroyed.

The boy's train of thought was soon interrupted when Flint escaped from his own mirror, his eyes going wide as he exclaimed, "Hey, Master, I found you!" Joe laughing before replying, "Can't say I'm surprised you'd be the first among the others to bust your way through danger," Fumu soon following, a ball of fire circling her body to help warm her up after she had spent nearly ten minutes in the frozen tundra wearing nothing but a now-tattered and ripped dress.

Seeing the princess, Flint's eyes went wide, a big smile forming on his face as Fumu turned to face him, the girl putting out her ball of flame and letting down a tear of joy, sniffing before wiping her tear and running toward the Fighter Kirby. Joe grinned with pride for his student as the Kirby and princess embraced one-another, Fumu spinning with Flint in her arms, Flint's face turning beet red for whatever reason.

However, he then looked up and asked, "What happened to your wonderful dress?" Fumu sighing, "Let's just say some moron had no consideration for high class," remembering that she was the only one in the kingdom who knew that Wiz was evil.

At that moment, Sirica crawled out of her own mirror before noticing the others, a light smile on her face as she said, "Hey, fancy finding you guys here," the others about to give her a warm welcome before noticing her lack of feet, all three of them freaking out as Joe ran over and spat, "WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU!?" Fumu clasping her hand over her mouth as Flint's jaw dropped.

Sirica let out a disappointed sigh and replied, "It's no big deal... some demon beast ate them..." Flint and Fumu in even more panic as Joe stared in admiration saying, "I must say, it takes some real backbone to treat that like a minor inconvenience," Sirica looking up at him and asking, "Really?"

Before anything more could be said, Melanie soon exited a mirror with two model trees next to it and smiled at the others, saying, "Hey guys!" Flint and Fumu then giving her a hug as Flint said, "Now our group is back together!"

After the hug, Melanie noticed Fumu's dress and blinked before sighing, "Look, Flint may not be the most refined person around, but I don't think you need to make yourself so revealing to get his attention," Flint letting down a sweat drop as Fumu giggled, saying, "Thanks, I needed a good laugh after what I've been through."

"Speaking of..." Melanie started, turning toward Sirica as her eyes went wide, her jaw dropped as Sirica laughed nervously, saying, "I wonder how many more of those I'm gonna get."

Flint then blinked and said, "Hold on, I got an idea," entering the mirror to the world he had just come from, the others staring hoping he would return soon. They would have followed him but Flint had left with a look in his eyes implying that he didn't need any assistance, and it was rare to see him this confident. He must have really known what he was doing.

After a couple of minutes, Flint returned with a pair of robotic legs saying, "It seems my new friends had a set of these lying around in their closet," the others staring in shock as the boy added, "Apparently, they can function when attached to human skin. Now let's see how this works," Fumu laughing nervously and saying, "I'll do it."

Sirica blinked, amazed that anyone would take time out of his life for her sake, Joe looking strangely concerned for her well-being. All the while, Fumu was using her magic to help connect the legs to the star soldier, the legs soon attached as Sirica wasn't even sure how to respond.

"Well, try them out," Joe suggested as Sirica nodded and moved one of the legs up and down, soon kicking the other outward, her eyes going wide as a grin formed on her face, the girl placing her hands firmly against the ground and pushing herself up, standing firmly on her new robot legs with a look of confidence.

"I'm sure this might take some getting used to, but..." Melanie said as Sirica grinned and remarked, "Are you kidding!? These legs make me taller!" the girl laughing with pride as if height actually mattered, the others staring before the soldier turned to Flint and Fumu saying, "Thanks, you're both life savers."

At that moment, the others then stared at Fumu, the princess blinking as Melanie asked, "How did you do that anyway?" Flint adding, "Also, what was with that fireball?" the princess nodding and replying, "I just learned that I can use magic," Flint's heart racing every moment as he embraced the princess and exclaimed, "My girlfriend is a mage! That's awesome!" Melanie tauntingly asking, "What, girl magicians can't be witches?" Flint glaring at the Hammer Kirby.

However, all went silent as everyone looked around, Melanie asking, "Hey, come to think of it, where's Metaknight or Spencer?" Joe shrugging and replying, "Probably not here yet," Fumu nodding and adding, "We should wait for them."

During this time, Spencer had woken up as Dark Matter noticed this, a grin forming over his face as he said, "So, you're finally awake, young Sword Kirby," Spencer groaning and rubbing his eyes before seeing the creature before him, his eyes going wide.

"Who are you?" he asked, trying to back up only to find he was floating in a bubble and was unable to move freely, the Sword Kirby looking around and shouting, "Hey, what am I doing in this thing!?" the dark being snapping his fingers as the energy bubble vanished, Spencer falling against the ground, grunting before getting up and saying, "Thanks I guess."

"No problem," the dark man replied, "It's not you can leave this world without my say-so anyway," Spencer blinking and asking, "What do you mean?" before noticing four particular elemental Kirbies lying unconscious in their own energy bubbles, the swordsman trembling and asking, "Who are they?"

"They're the ones who help me gain a link to your world," the man replied, "Allow me introduce myself..." Spencer pointing and shouting, "I know who you are now! I've seen your face in text books! You're Nightmare!"

At that moment, Dark Matter frowned, flames shooting from his ears as he gritted his teeth furiously, clasping his hands against the sides of his head shouting, "DON'T EVER CALL ME THAT! I AM SICK AND TIRED OF EVERYBODY CALLING ME THAT!"

Spencer stared in absolute confusion as the demon calmed down, taking a deep breath and replying, "Sorry, it's not your fault that everyone has spread that name around like a plague," Spencer simply shrugging his shoulders and replying, "Look, whatever you prefer to be called, you made a mistake bringing me here!" pulling out his sword and trembling, not even sure if he could take the demon before saying, "You should be dead."

"Ah, yes, that time everyone thought I had died," Dark Matter replied with a light chuckle, "Let me tell you a little story about my life and that should clear up everything," the sword Kirby blinking, asking, "Why should I?" Dark Matter sighing, "Because there is something you really need to hear."

The swordsman frowned before taking a deep breath, realizing he had no other options. Besides, if he could stall the conversation long enough there might be a chance for his friends to find him if possible.

"Contrary to popular belief," the demon explained, "I actually wasn't born on Dark Star. In fact, that planet didn't even exist when I was born," Spencer's eyes wide with shock as Dark Matter added, "No, I was born on the planet Earth."

Spencer's eyes widened with shock. He had heard of this planet before but knew very little about it. All he knew was that its citizens were known as humans and apparently looked nothing like he or anyone else had ever seen before.

Dark Matter was born in a city known as Daleberg, named after its founder Dale Smith. He lived in a small house as his family wasn't very rich. Despite this fact, they never let life get them down and had no problem having a child of their own. The day Dark Matter was born, his parents gave him the name Drake as he was strangely born with teeth like that of a dragon, but that wasn't the strangest thing about him.

For a reason that Drake himself didn't know, despite having perfectly normal parents, he was born with naturally grey skin. Over the years, his ears also grew to resemble those of an elf. As a result, everybody made fun of him, however, the one thing keeping him from going insane all those years was his parents.

Like most parents, they loved him no matter what and always told him that one day people would respect him. All he needed to do was find something he could do for mankind and show kindness toward others. It would be difficult, but if he kept this up, it would one day happen. That is what his parents had told him.

However, fifteen years had passed and Drake had not found the answer to his problems. People still made fun of him on a regular basis and to make matters worse, this was around the time he had hit puberty. Needless to say, the pain of knowing that no girl would ever want to go out with him ate away at him. In fact, when he entered Junior high school, he had started to question whether or not being nice to others was really worth it. He did plenty of nice things over the years and still no one wanted anything to do with a deformed freak of nature like him.

He had done all sorts of things, too. When a girl in grade ten had her doll broken, he went to the trouble to bringing it home and having his parents fix it. When he gave it to the girl, she simply took it from him and mouthed him off, telling him never to wrap his 'dirty' fingers around it again. There were many occasions where kids would get hurt or picked on and Drake would try coming to their aid, but every time he was rejected, all of them scared that he would only cause them more pain with his razor sharp finger nails that never got shorter not matter how often he cut them.

However, the day things took a turn for the worse was on his birthday, but it started out looking rather positive. See, during the year following this very day, Drake had devoted a lot of his spare time to working on something that he figured everybody would love, a robotic pet. Those were very popular there and he figured if he could make something like this bigger and more like an actual animal that would never die or get sick, people would love him.

Just as he was about to put the finishing touches on his first model, a robot dog, he noticed a strange dark aura coming from his hand. His eyes went wide with shock as the power surrounded the robotic pet, eyes forming on its clear pink visors representing pupils, the dog sticking out its robot tongue and making an actual panting sound, its skinny metal tail wagging back and forth. Drake's eyes were wide with shock as a grin soon formed on his face, the boy picking up the dog and hugging it as if it were actually the real thing, kissing it. This dog would be his key to finally earning himself respect as he was planning to show this as his project for his next Science class.

First he would need to put it safely in his backpack without it struggling so he could surprise everyone. With that in mind, Drake flicked its on switch into the off position, but because he somehow used magic to bring the machine to life, it didn't power down. As such, he simply told it not to move. For whatever reason, this robot dog was more loyal than he had anticipated especially since he had made it to think more like an actual dog, and even the most obedient of dogs weren't this easy to control.

But while Drake left for school to show off his creation, he ended up leaving behind a trail of dark energy as soon, small creatures started to form, spawns of his dark power. Something worth note was that humans did not have the same kind of power that every other creature in the galaxy had. The best you could ever get naturally from them was high physical strength. Humans couldn't use energy attacks, ninjas weren't quite as skilled as Ninja Kirbies and barely anyone during this time period used swords for combat anymore. The best they had were guns, and who was to say those would be useful against these demonic creatures?

After forming, the spawns headed up the stairs before entering the kitchen where Drake's parents were sitting down for breakfast. The two of them turned to face them and panicked, frightened out of their minds as ten spawns formed together to creature the first ever Wolfwrath. Unfortunately, the only weapon the two had was a rifle used by Drake's grandfather back in his war days and that didn't work anymore.

As such, the two were unable to fight back as the canine lunged at them, Drake's father standing in its way only to be pinned to the ground, the wolf using its claws to rip open his flesh. The wolf then proceeded to take out his innards, devouring them as seven spawns came together to create the first Buggzy. Without a moment's hesitation, the beetle picked up Drake's mother by her midsection, the woman screaming in terror before being sliced in half.

At that moment, the demon beast broke through the door and the wall surrounding it, letting out a loud roars before storming off toward the school. Needless to say, the citizens in the area were frightened out of their minds, all trying to flee for their lives as the twenty spawns came together to create Kirisakin himself.

During this time, Drake was waiting eagerly in class to show off his robot dog. He just knew everyone was going to love it. But just as his name was called up, everyone in class heard screaming from outside, the sound of missiles going off. This was because the demon beasts were right outside of the school with the military coming at them.

As the students and teacher all stared out the window in absolute shock, Drake noticed more of his dark power coming from him and forming more spawns. All of them combined together to create even more of these demons beasts, this time forming small ones as to cover more ground as it seemed each small demon beast only required one or two spawns.

Drake stared at this in absolute horror as suddenly, his dog jumped out of his backpack with a look of evil in its eyes, everyone staring in horror, Drake trying to explain that he had no idea what was happening. Needless to say, nobody believed him but they didn't have time to get after him as they ran from the classroom, the demon beasts starting to follow them only to Drake to fume, more darkness coming from him.

"STOP!" he barked, the creatures all halting their attacks as one of them let out a low growling sound, Drake somehow understanding this as he remarked, "I don't care if you're looking out for me! You just lost me my chance at finally being accepted!"

Looking out the window and seeing the military taken down despite there only being three demon beasts, Drake's eyes went wide. He then looked at the darkness coming from his hands and said, "I think I get it now... the reason I was born like this..." then taking a deep breath, he grinned, a maniacal look in his eyes as he exclaimed, "Yeah! It all makes sense! It's my destiny to never get along with these people! I was created to destroy them!"

With that in mind, he laughed wickedly as the three bigger demons broke through the wall, bowing their heads. Drake grinned and said, "Yes, you will all be my followers, my pets," the robot dog consuming more darkness as it, being a robot, expanding in size and becoming the walking suit of armour known as Masher.

At that moment, the Buggzy handed Drake the material that made up the clothing of the boy's dead parents. His eyes went wide when he saw this, knowing that his creations had done this unspeakable act. However, rather than feeling fury, he simply frowned and used them to create a cloak for himself while grumbling in a mocking tone, "They'll respect me as long I show kindness and find something I can do for mankind!" before growling, "Yeah right! You lied to me!"

At that moment, a government official brought out a megaphone and barked, "HEY, KID, ARE YOU OKAY!?" Drake turning as everyone gasped, seeing the demon beasts staying by his side while Drake smirked and replied, "Just peachy!" snapping his fingers as the demon beasts all lunged at the people, Drake shouting in a booming voice, "LET IT BE KNOWN THAT I AM NO LONGER THE PUNCHING BAG YOU CALL DRAKE! FROM THIS DAY FORTH, I SHALL BE REFERRED TO AS DARK MATTER!"

Spencer blinked and asked, "So... you didn't even show remorse for the death of your parents!?" Dark Matter retorting, "WHY SHOULD I!? THEY ALWAYS PRETENDED TO CARE FOR ME BUT THEY NEVER TRULY HELPED ME WITH MY PROBLEMS!" Spencer remarking, "Ever think maybe that was beyond their abilities!?" the demon sighing, "That's nothing but a cop-out and you know it. Now shut up and let me finish," Spencer scowling before nodding his head.

Soon enough everyone was overcome by the demon beasts, all of them slaughtering every citizen in Daleberg and destroying the entire city, leaving nothing but rubble. However, Drake knew that with so many people in the world who could possibly stop him he would need a place where he could plot in secret. Better yet, why not let his name be known throughout the universe, take out a few other planets before going after the rest of Earth?

Luck soon struck him when he discovered a mirror left behind from the destroyed museum, this mirror containing a powerful vortex as he soon found himself in the Mirror World. No one had a god of leader to look up to, so he immediately let his name be known there, but used the name his parents gave him so they would trust him. There he created many more demon beasts but at the same time he longed for a home back in his original world.

As such, he one day returned at the age of thirty and used his power to form Dark Star, a planet where he and his demon beasts could live. Everyone believe he had been born on this planet and that he had been secretly conspiring against the citizens of Dark Star, but this was far from the truth. He had been its creator and this was when he used his magic to form the very first Kirby, a dark blue sphere known as Metaknight.

Spencer couldn't believe what he had just heard as Dark Matter proceeded to explain how more and more Kirbies followed and how Metaknight was to be their leader, Dark Matter saying, "You were all to grow up on Dark Star so that one day you would be good enough to go to other planets and serve me."

"Wait, back up!" Spencer remarked, "You expect me to believe that you were the one who created us!?" Dark Matter nodding before replying, "Yes. Your parents and every other Kirby at that time were created by my hands. You were supposed to be evil like the other demon beasts!"

"Then why aren't we?" the Sword Kirby remarked as Dark Matter sighed, "I don't know. Something went wrong with you and all of you grew up with free will, the will to think like them, like those humans who made me suffer all those years! When I discovered this, I decided I couldn't possibly conquer another planet before ridding your kind from my world, so I sent my demon beasts across the land to take care of you. Unfortunately, not only was this when the Star Soldiers were formed but powerful warriors from other planets came to aid you, and just like you, they knew nothing of how you were created. All that mattered to them was that another planet was in danger."

Metaknight was among the first of the star soldiers, but like Dark Matter himself, it took him a while to discover most of his abilities and demonic powers. As such, it was at least five years until he was world renowned. Of course, during this time, Nightmare was so confident his demon beasts could take care of themselves now that he decided to move to the planet next to where he formed Dark Star, a world shaped just like a giant star, Popstar.

Needless to say, he caused all kinds of havoc and suffering there, and as the citizens of that very planet weren't quite as powerful as the Kirbies and star soldiers, many soldiers were sent to Popstar to protect it, Metaknight being assigned to Pupupuland, the location that was in the most danger.

It was around this time that Dark Matter was given the name Nightmare as many felt he and his power could darken any day no matter how bright it was. The demon was naturally offended by this and thought the name nowhere near intimidating enough but thought little of it, not letting it distract him from what he figured was truly important.

Dark Matter finished explaining the rest, how when he was said to have been destroyed he simply fled to the Mirror World and was trapped there, Spencer staring in absolute shock as Dark sighed, "You can choose not to believe me if you wish, but it is true."

"Well, it seems some good did come out of your reign of terror," Spencer remarked with a smirk, Dark Matter blinking as the Kirby explained, "You gave us a lot of power to oppose you with! If you hadn't created us, your plan to take over the galaxy probably would have been fulfilled a lot sooner!" the demon nodding his head and replying, "As painful as it is to admit, you are actually right about that. But come on, you honestly think you can hold me and my minions off any longer? Some day it's going to happen and those unwilling to cooperate with me will suffer the same fate as those who stayed on Popstar."

Spencer fumed, his sword trembling as he asked, "If you were trapped in this world, how did you gain access to ours?" Dark Matter replying, "I was wondering when you'd ask. See those elemental Kirbies behind you? See, the portal to the mirror world after being shattered had been transferred to a crystal in a shrine just a little ways from Oro Town, the kingdom Iron Mom and her army rule. I discovered the key to freeing me from the crystal was for someone to bless the crystal with wind, fire, ice and lightning in that exact order, so I used my power to create a demon beast that could travel outside of the mirror world through a vortex, one by the name of Wiz."

"You mean our ex-entertainer?" Spencer remarked, Dark Matter nodding and replying, "I would have made more of him if making something that powerful didn't cost so much dark matter, though now it seems your fair Princess Fumu has made him into a good guy..." Spencer asking, "She knew about that?" Dark Matter sighing, "Yeah, it was a waste of magic, but he did get one major job done and that was sending a message to a village run by elemental Kirbies to light the crystal. He picked out the four strongest Kirbies, in other words the ones most likely to actually make it to the shrine. As for how he convinced, because I know you're going to ask, he simply told them it was to rid of world of demon beasts."

"WHAT!?" came four familiar voices, Spencer and Dark Matter turning to see all four elemental Kirbies awake, Houka fuming and barking, "YOU MEAN YOU USED US FOR EVIL!?" blowing a flame toward him only for it to bounce off of the energy making its bubble and burning the Fire Kirby a bit, his eyes swirling.

"Oh, my, how much of that did you hear?" Dark Matter asked, Tatsumaki remarking, "We heard most of that story," turning to Spencer and adding, "Kid, we don't know you, but we've heard of this guy. I don't think you can take him by yourself," Spencer groaning, "I was afraid of that..." Purazuma trembling and sniffing, "Are we going to die?" Koori equally worried.

"No one here will die," Dark Matter replied, the others staring as the demon added, "just as long as you swear your loyalty to me. I will see to it that you will be given power and status beyond your wildest dreams as long as you help me become the ruler of the universe!"

"As if!" Houka retorted, "We may be trapped here, but that doesn't mean we're gonna serve you!" Purazuma doing her best to look strong while saying, "Yeah, we can't let you do that," Koori nodding and adding, "That's right, we're not evil like you intended us to be!"

Spencer nodded and said, "That's right... I may not be able to stop you, but my friends will show up soon and when they do you'll be sorry!" Dark Matter sighing, "Spencer, join me and fulfil your purpose! You have surpassed the powers I gave you and for that I see you becoming a very valuable addition to my army!" Spencer shouting, "NO!" before rushing toward the demon.