"This place is beautiful," Kirby commented on Ribbon's home planet.
Ribbon snickered. "You mean it would be beautiful, if not for all the evil fairies and dark clouds here."
"Actually, I think it is already. Do you think all the fairies have been taken by the Dark Matter?" Adeleine asked.
"I don't know, actually," Ribbon answered. "I left minutes after the Dark Matter attacked."
"Just keep your head up," King Dedede told her. "This place is infested with Dark Matter, and we know it wants that crystal."
"I know. And it won't get it." Ribbon hugged it close.
After awhile, the crystal got so big that Ribbon couldn't carry it any more, so Dedede carried it for her. "Do you think it's complete?" he asked.
Ribbon studied it. "No, but it's only missing one more shard"
"Ribbon!" A frantic voice called to her all of a sudden.
"Huh?" Ribbon turned around to see her old friend Satin!
"Ribbon! Are you all right?! Everyone's been talking about you, when you would return to let the crystal defeat the Dark Matter!"
"Wha The crystal can beat the Dark Matter by itself?" Ribbon looked confused.
"Yes! We just found that out a few days ago, but it will only work if the crystal's 100% complete! And I trust you didn't let anything happen to it, did you?"
"Um, well, you see"
"What?!" Satin grabbed Ribbon by the shoulders and shook her. "Tell me!!"
"Geez, calm down," Dedede calmly pushed Satin away. "I have the crystal, but it's only 99% complete."
"Wha..?! 99%?! Ribbon, what happened?! And who are these people??"
Ribbon introduced Kirby, Waddle Dee, Adeleine, and King Dedede to Satin, and told her about how the crystal had shattered. "But we only need one more piece," she added.
"I know," Taffeta came up then. "And guess who has the last piece?! The Dark Matter!"
"Oh, no!" Ribbon gasped.
"That's bad," Kirby agreed.
"Eep" Waddle Dee's eyes were huge.
"Looks like we have one more big thing to do" Adeleine sighed.
"I'm ready for anything," King Dedede huffed.
Ribbon straightened up. "Well, leave it to us," she told her friends. "I made this mess worse, and my new friends and I will rid this place of the Dark Matter, you'll see!"
"Yep, we're with you all the way!" Kirby spoke for the group. "So how do we fight the Dark Matter?"
"The same way you fought Adeleine's Dark Matter' painting," Ribbon answered. "But you have to be matched with the power it possesses."
"Doesn't sound too hard"
"I had a Dark Matter painting?" Adeleine asked. "When? I don't remember"
"When I fought you," Kirby answered.
"Oh I suppose I can help you again. Paint whatever the Dark Matter turns into"
"No."
Ribbon looked at Taffeta. "Huh? Why can't we do it together?"
"The Dark Matter will only hold a one-on-one fight. One of you guys is going to have to face it alone."
"Worse than I thought," King Dedede gasped. "I think Kirby should; hey, he's the main guy anyway."
"I agree," Adeleine looked worried. "I just hope you can take the Dark Matter on by yourself, Kirby!"
"Yeah, I agree too," Waddle Dee finished. "Kirby's the only one who can copy powers!"
Ribbon faced Kirby. "Do you think you can do it?"
Kirby nodded. "I'm ready for anything!"
Ribbon gave an approving nod. "Okay, but, be careful. The Dark Matter can do a LOT of damage"
"Doesn't scare me. So," turning to Taffeta, "where do I go to fight the Dark Matter?"
"I'll take you, but, the Dark Matter changes its place a lot It's everywhere, really, so it's hard to know. Bring the crystal with you."
King Dedede gave Kirby the crystal. "Be careful with it"
"I will. See you once I get a victory, guys!" He waved good-bye to his friends.
"Goodbye, Kirby! I know you won't let us down!' Adeleine called.
"Be careful," Waddle Dee added.
"So long, sucker! . I mean, buddy!" That was King Dedede.
Ribbon caught up to him and held him back for a minute. "Promise me you'll be careful," she begged. "Promise!"
"I promise," Kirby assured her.
She smiled sadly. "Thank you!" She gave Kirby a quick hug and went back to the others.
Taffeta and Kirby went outside, and Kirby held the Crystal up. "Hey, Dark Matter, we have a score to settle!"
Just then, a black cloud appeared just over Kirby, materializing into a rock form, which dropped smaller rocks. Kirby scrambled out of the way, while sucking up one of the smaller rocks, and spit it out at the Dark Matter. The Dark Matter then turned into an ice cube, with ice crystals surrounding it, Kirby sucked up the ice and spit it out. And so it went
Until the Dark Matter could take no more! That particle of it broke, but No Crystal!!
Satin, Ribbon, Adeleine, Waddle Dee, Taffeta, and King Dedede had been watching. The three fairies flew outside to see what was going on.
"Oh, maybe I was wrong," Taffeta muttered, "but I know that the crystal's not complete"
The other three met up with them then. "What happened?!" Adeleine demanded. "I thought the Dark Matter had the last shard!"
"Maybe it wasn't that particle that had it," Ribbon suggested. "But I would sure hate to"
"Look!" Waddle Dee shouted. "The crystal's glowing again!"
They all watched as the Dark Matter clouds suddenly gathered and flew off, leaving Ripple Star alone.
Or so it seemed
"Eh, I'm officially confused," Satin mumbled. "The crystal's not complete, but it chased the Dark Matter off?"
"Maybe it only has to be 99% complete," King Dedede suggested.
"Maybe," Ribbon agreed, "But I'm just glad it's gone! Where's the Queen?"
"Oh, I'll go get her!" Satin flew off.
Satin returned a few minutes later with the Queen of Ripple Star, a clumsy black-haired fairy twice the height of Ribbon and her friends.
"Is the Dark Matter gone?" she asked.
"Yep!" Ribbon presented her with the crystal. "Here's the crystal, but I'm afraid it's only 99% complete"
The queen smiled. "Well done, Ribbon! I heard of what happened to the crystal; I'm very happy you got it as complete as you did!"
"Oh, I didn't do it myself," Ribbon motioned to her new friends, "they helped me!"
"Oh, I see" The Queen looked at Kirby, Waddle Dee, Adeleine, and King Dedede. Kirby wasn't sure why, but something about her stare made him feel creepy
That afternoon, the fairies threw a party for the five who had helped recover the crystal, then the Queen gave them a spaceship to go home on.
"Glad to be going," Dedede muttered as he climbed it.
Waddle Dee climbed in silently. Kirby was next, but Ribbon handed the crystal to the Queen and stopped him.
"Promise me," she said, holding one of his hands, "If you happen to see the missing shard, please come back and give it to us!"
Kirby nodded. "I promise I will!"
The spaceship thingy then flew away, and the Queen looked at the crystal, then at Ribbon.
"A complete crystal?" she said outloud. "That will never happen!"
"Huh?" Ribbon looked confused. "Why's that?"
"Because I said so!" Something about the Queen's evil look didn't look right
Suddenly, the Dark Matter came back, engulfing Ripple Star again! Ribbon felt like fainting.
"Um What's going on?" Satin and Taffeta were wide-eyed.
"Give me that!" Ribbon tried to grab for the crystal, but the Dark Matter got her, and her two friends, before she could do anything
A few days later, Kirby, Waddle Dee, and Adeleine were combing Pop Star for that last crystal shard.
"Geez, it's hard to find just one crystal," Adeleine muttered. "Sure wish King Dedede would help!"
Over the next few weeks, they had combed every planet but Ripple Star thoroughly, but found no crystal shards!
King Dedede was with them now. "Maybe it was complete," he suggested, "and that little blond-haired fairy was wrong"
"I doubt that." Kirby was punching in the coordinates for Ripple Star. "It must be on Ripple Star somewhere."
"Oh, my goodness!" Adeleine suddenly shrieked. "Look at that!" She pointed in the direction of Ripple Star.
The others saw it too. Black clouds had engulfed Ripple Star again!
"Oh, great, that Dark Matter returned," King Dedede muttered. "Just perfect"
"I'll bet they need help," Kirby told them. "Who wants to beat the Dark Matter again??"
"I guess it's OK," Waddle Dee answered.
King Dedede swung a hammer, hitting Adeleine in the process. "I'm ready!"
"Ow" Adeleine whacked him with her paintbrush, "I'm all for it!"
"THERE WAS PAINT ON THAT!" Dedede roared at Adeleine, trying to hit her with the hammer again. "You spoiled my royal coat, you little brat!"
"It's washable," Adeleine snapped back. "Or are you so great you can't even wash your clothes??"
"Cut it out!" Kirby shouted at them, "Can't you guys ever get along?!"
"King Fatso's hard to get along with! Right Waddle Dee?" When Waddle Dee didn't answer, she poked him with her paintbrush. "Uh, Waddle Dee?"
"Zzzzzz" Waddle Dee was asleep!
Adeleine fell over, anime style. "Uh, so much for that"
Once they were on Ripple Star, Kirby wasn't too sure where to begin. "We need Ribbon with us," he sighed.
"Yeah, it's not the same without her," Adeleine moaned.
"I'm here!" Ribbon waved at them from a window in the castle.
"Hey, Ribbon! We just came here looking for the last crystal shard!" Kirby shouted up to her.
Ribbon flew down, her friend Satin just behind her. "It's been tough here," Ribbon explained. "The Dark Matter took over the Queen BIG TIME, and all us other fairies too. But, Satin and I got into a fight and ended up knocking the Dark Matter out of each other"
"Yep!" Satin grinned. "The only time fighting ever did us good"
"Now you just need to get the Dark Matter out of the Queen," King Dedede observed. "Suppose she has the last crystal shard?"
Ribbon shook her head. "No, the Dark Matter hid it, I just don't know where But the Queen's got the rest of the crystal!"
"Hmm, if the Dark Matter hid the last shard, it did a pretty pathetic job!" Adeleine was using the end of her blue paintbrush to dig something out of the dirt. Once she did, she picked it up. "Ta-da! It was buried in the sand!"
Ribbon grabbed it. "Yeah! Now, we need to get the Queen out of her room, and get the crystal."
Satin nodded. "And I know how"
