Chapter Nine: Kirby Brigade
'Fox, pull up!' called the voice, but Fox couldn't hear it. He was unconscious in his Arwing-SP, which was falling towards the planet 214-KB. He didn't know it, though. He was going to die.
"Fox!" cried Samus, shooting at the remaining forces that were sent at them. There were only eight left, that of Star Wolf's gang and the four blue, shattered figures. They were going a lot faster than she thought they would.
"We'll get him when we're done with these guys!" called Falco, shooting at the pig, blowing his Arwing up.
"Hold still you little buggard!" cried Captain Falcon, shooting at one of the shattered's ships. Kirby came in from behind and got him.
"Wee!" cried Kirby, showing up on Samus's screen. He was such a child.
"Good job, Kirby," said Captain Falcon, shooting down a shattered. Samus looked around for another enemy, but she didn't see any one else.
"Where did the other go?" she asked, searching the skies for them.
"They've cloaked themselves, but I'm picking them up on radar," said Captain Falcon, shooting and hitting something in the darkness of space. Samus switch to radar, seeing four dots appear.
"I only see you three and one enemy. There should be four enemies." As she said it, the enemy dot disappeared, but she didn't see or feel any explosions.
"They've gone down to the planet," said Falco, turning towards it. Samus, Kirby, and Captain Falcon followed, failing to notice two other ships arrive.
He was in a daze, not really knowing what was going on, but knowing death was befalling him. He had died before, against Samus, but it wasn't a true death. They were just played. First, they were controlled, then they were mutilated, then, they fell forever in a black void until they cam back to their own realities. Now, everything was coming back. Back to Master Hand, but something is different. He didn't know, but he wished he did.
As he fell, his eyes came open and he saw several blurred things moving around his Arwing-SP. Then, a small figure opened up the ship and walked in. He pressed the button to activate his cloaking shield and was pulled out of the ship onto what looked like a star. Then, they flew off fast, surrounded by other blurred stars and their controllers.
Back at Samus and the others, Kirby's ship was picking up some weird activity. He was jumping up and down and making all kinds of ruckus.
"Kirby, what is it?" asked Samus, watching the screen with Kirby on it. He pulled up an image of a city, that was probably on this planet. The creatures that were inhabiting it were like that of Kirby.
"What in the world?" asked Captain Falcon, seeing the same thing. Kirby started to talk, but no one could understand him, because of his babyish sounds and laughter. Of course, it was already hard to understand him, because he was a baby.
"So, we just stumbled upon Kirby's home planet?" asked Samus, looking at Kirby. He shook his head no, then started his jumping again. He pulled back the accelerator and shot off to the planet.
"Man, I wish my race car had that kind of power," said Captain Falcon, looking on his screen to Samus. "Let's go catch up."
Just as they did, Fox's ship hit the planet, sending a major shockwave at them.
"Whoa!"
"What was that?"
"I think it was Fox's ship, Captain, but that couldn't be. That was like a giant bomb. No way it came out of that little starship."
"My readings say he hit a volcanic area of the planet. Nothing seemed to be living there, anyway. It was just Fox."
"Fox," said Samus, putting her hand on the glass of the cockpit. Captain Falcon showed concern for her, but there were more things to focus on. Star Wolf, Leon, Andrew, and the last Shattered were still on the planet.
"Let's go," said Captain Falcon, moving towards 214-KB. Samus slowly followed, knowing in her heart that Fox was dead. She hoped she was wrong.
Down on the planet, Kirby was meeting with several of the others just like him. Samus thought it was real cute, but Captain Falcon seemed to care just about the four that got away.
"Ooyou!" cried Kirby, talking with the others. They knew how to talk regular English, though.
"So, what you mean is that you thought you were the only one like yourself?" said a green Kirby, who kept looking at Samus and Captain Falcon. He seemed to not trust them, but since they came with Kirby, he felt a goodness in them. Samus felt the same way.
"Hey you! Yellow! Come here," cried Captain Falcon, trying to get a Kirby's attention.
"Yes?" he answered, reluctant to leave Kirby.
"Why are there so many of you?"
"Well, Maxwell Hauteur created us. We started our own little communion and things, would you like to see our Kirby Brigade?" Samus and Captain Falcon looked at each other and shrugged shoulders.
"Sure, why not?"
"Kirby Brigade! Fall in!" With this, every Kirby within the city limits came to them. They were in
four groups. One group contained twenty-five pink Kirbies. Another contained twenty-five Kirbies wearing different masks and hats. Another group contained six Kirbies of different colors. They were red, yellow, blue, green, white, and pink. In the last group, it was just a single pink Kirby, about fifteen times bigger in mass.
Samus, Kirby, and Captain Falcon were amazed by this.
"So, this is everyone?" Samus asked, awestruck by so many cute Kirbies.
"Yes, the pink Kirbies over there are called the Kirby Patrol. The ones wearing different items are called the Kirby Squad. The big one we call Kiriant, but he is known as Giant Kirby. And, we're called the Kirby Elite."
"How come their are so many Kirbies?" asked Captain Falcon.
"Well, Maxwell Hauteur wanted to have a lot of Kirby Clones."
"Wait a minute, you are all clones?" asked Samus, stepping back with Kirby and Captain Falcon.
"Don't worry about it, we wouldn't hurt a fly. Oh, by the way, do you know this person?" Several Kirbies left, but came back carrying some one. It was the limp body of Fox.
"Fox!" cried Samus, running to him and picking him up. She startle the Kirbies carrying him, who backed up into each other.
"He was falling in his ship, so we helped him out. We couldn't save the ship though, so we allowed it to fall into the volcanic part of out planet. By the way, why did you come here?"
"We were trying to find four people and our friend went to find him."
"A blue bird?" asked the White Kirby.
"Yes, his name was Falco," said Captain Falcon, looking around to see if he saw him.
"He's a clone," said the Kirby with Captain Falcon's Mask on.
"What? How can he be when he shot at those other guys?"
"It's called misleading and lying," said a Kirby with a blue wig on.
"So, he's a clone?" asked Samus.
"That's right, and now you and your friends here are going to pay for what you did to Master Hand," said a person standing on top of one of the Kirby buildings.
"Star Wolf, you old hound dog, get down from there," said Leon, who was standing behind the Kirbies.
"Don't talk to him like that, lizard lips," said Andrew from behind Samus, Fox, Captain Falcon, and Kirby.
"How sweet, Samus is in love with Fox," said Falco, walking in from behind Star Wolf. Samus glared at him through her mask. If only he could see how embarrassed she was.
"Well, aren't you going to kill them?" asked the shattered, blue version of Fox, who stood beside Leon.
"Shut up, you stupid Shatter," said Falco, jumping down next to a pink Kirby, and pulled out his gun. He shot at him, only to be cut off by another gun shot. Fox had woken up to the noise and saw his friend trying to kill the kind clone. the Kirby ran off behind the others, terrified.
"What the?" asked Star Wolf, jumping down to join Falco. Then, Fox disappeared.
"Hey, what is he doing?" cried Andrew, shocked by this. Captain Falcon took his chance, he charged at the monkey with a fiery kick. The attack literally blew Andrew up into little pieces, since the clones weren't well put together.
"Andrew," cried Leon, but he was receiving terrific blows from the real Kirby. He was also doing a fire move none of them had seen before. Leon fell dead, but Kirby didn't stop there. He went for the Shatter, who didn't seemed to have thick enough skin to withstand the heat and blow.
Star Wolf growled, but couldn't do anything, because he was trying to avoid Samus's energy blasts. He was jumping from place to place. The Kirbies had run into the forest near their home, trying to hide. So it just left the two clones and the three real creatures.
"Where are you Fox?" said Falco, looking around carefully. He knew, some how, that Slippy had been working on a cloaking device that wouldn't allow a person to take physical damage from anything. It still hurt though. He then felt his gut cave in as Fox sucker punched him. In retaliation, Falco put up his laser shield, sending the invisible Fox into a Kirby building. Falco cough laughed at this and shot several laser beams into the hole. He then saw Fox's footprints in the ground heading to him, but it didn't help Falco in time.
"Yah!" cried Fox, kicking Falco in the face, which gave in a little, but held its figure.
"Argh!" cried, Falco, trying to shoot at Fox, but without success. He received another blow to the chest and the head. He spat up purple blood, but it was ignored when he was hit again in the face. The clone's beating kept up until another laser beam shot our of nowhere and hit Fox.
"Shoot!" cried Fox, as he became visible again. The cloaking device he wore, fell from him onto the ground in a smoking heap. Falco took this chance to do a high kick on Fox, but it was dodged as Fox did his split kick, knocking Falco's legs out from under him. He fell, beak first, into the ground. Fox pulled out his gun, but it was shot away by the mysterious laser. He bent down to pick up his gun, but it was shot away again.
"Don't try and get it, Fox," said a squeaky voice, that could only belong to one person, Slippy. Fox turned to see him, knowing it was going to be a clone. Slippy wasn't alone, because he had Peppy, also clone, most likely.
"Well, if it isn't my good old friends, Slippy Toad and Peppy Hare. Come to rescue Falco Lombardi and to kill me, Fox McCloud. Isn't that just a fun bit."
"Hold still, and this'll go smooth and easy." Fox knew how Slippy acted when he was going to kill some one. He knew the talk was fake and he knew he had to get his gun. He did a backflip towards his gun as Slippy and peppy opened fire where he used to be. He grabbed his gun and shot, but nothing came out, his gun had a hole in it where a laser hit it. Dropping the gun, he ducked over to Falco and grabbed his gun. He fired, but hit only air. Falco's gun had a stronger kick to it, sending Fox back into a Kirby building. This wasn't going to go well.
"Catch me," said Star Wolf, dodging Samus, Captain Falcon, and Kirby. Peppy shot at the pink blob, hitting him in the arm. Kirby stopped and held his wound. He started to howl in pain. The Kirby clones in the forest heard this and started coming out. They saw Kirby in pain and the whole group of them became enraged.
"Get them!" cried the Blue Kirby, as he led them to the other clones. Star Wolf tried to run, but Kiriant jumped down on top of him, crushing him. Falco, who was unconscious was ripped apart by the Kirby Squad. Peppy, caught in surprise, was pummeled to death by the Kirby Patrol. Slippy, being the last, was left for the Kirby Elite, and he didn't last very long, dodging the fury of the balloons.
"Are you sure you want to help?" asked Samus, loading her ship with some supplies the Kirbies gave her.
"Yes, we will follow Kirby until we perish," said the red Kirby, doing the same with a ship just like Kirby's.
"We don't know where to go, though," said Fox, looking over the ship they gave him. It was just his size and was literally a 'star' ship.
"The whole Kirby Brigade knows where Master Hand resides, because we left from there and we are able to remember everything," said a Kirby wearing a crown.
"Well, do you think we should go in over fifty ships?"
"This is just for getting up to the big ship in orbit over head. Maxwell made sure it ran for a real long time. It'll get us to Maxwell's planet in no time," said a Kirby wearing what looked like Falco's beak.
"Okay," said Fox, getting into the ship. Starting it up, they all launched off the planet, sixty-one small starships heading to one giant starship.
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"Those failures!" cried Master Hand, shaking his shadowed surrounding. Voices trembled in reply.
"Master, what is it?" asked a new, but similar voice to the smooth one.
"Falco, Peppy, and Slippy failed to kill Fox and the others."
"Is there anything I can..."
"No, there isn't!"
"Sir," said the smooth voice from before.
"Yes, Dr. Mario?" A small, chubby man, that looked just like Mario, stepped into the light near Ness's frozen body.
"It seems Ness and the portal device he created are coming unfrozen."
"Then, we shall begin his experiments." Dr. Mario was then accompanied in the light by another Dr. Mario.
"What about that other thing you wanted us to do with him?," the trembling Dr. Mario said.
"He wants us to perform..." The smooth Dr. Mario was cut off.
"I was asking Master Hand, you twit."
"Twit this!" Dr. Mario was about to hit the other, but he was cut off once more.
"Silence! If you two don't cooperate, you'll both be more worried about not existing!"
"Yes, sir!" cried the both of them, pushing the block of ice into the shadows. Master Hand laughed softly, disappearing himself.
'Fox, pull up!' called the voice, but Fox couldn't hear it. He was unconscious in his Arwing-SP, which was falling towards the planet 214-KB. He didn't know it, though. He was going to die.
"Fox!" cried Samus, shooting at the remaining forces that were sent at them. There were only eight left, that of Star Wolf's gang and the four blue, shattered figures. They were going a lot faster than she thought they would.
"We'll get him when we're done with these guys!" called Falco, shooting at the pig, blowing his Arwing up.
"Hold still you little buggard!" cried Captain Falcon, shooting at one of the shattered's ships. Kirby came in from behind and got him.
"Wee!" cried Kirby, showing up on Samus's screen. He was such a child.
"Good job, Kirby," said Captain Falcon, shooting down a shattered. Samus looked around for another enemy, but she didn't see any one else.
"Where did the other go?" she asked, searching the skies for them.
"They've cloaked themselves, but I'm picking them up on radar," said Captain Falcon, shooting and hitting something in the darkness of space. Samus switch to radar, seeing four dots appear.
"I only see you three and one enemy. There should be four enemies." As she said it, the enemy dot disappeared, but she didn't see or feel any explosions.
"They've gone down to the planet," said Falco, turning towards it. Samus, Kirby, and Captain Falcon followed, failing to notice two other ships arrive.
He was in a daze, not really knowing what was going on, but knowing death was befalling him. He had died before, against Samus, but it wasn't a true death. They were just played. First, they were controlled, then they were mutilated, then, they fell forever in a black void until they cam back to their own realities. Now, everything was coming back. Back to Master Hand, but something is different. He didn't know, but he wished he did.
As he fell, his eyes came open and he saw several blurred things moving around his Arwing-SP. Then, a small figure opened up the ship and walked in. He pressed the button to activate his cloaking shield and was pulled out of the ship onto what looked like a star. Then, they flew off fast, surrounded by other blurred stars and their controllers.
Back at Samus and the others, Kirby's ship was picking up some weird activity. He was jumping up and down and making all kinds of ruckus.
"Kirby, what is it?" asked Samus, watching the screen with Kirby on it. He pulled up an image of a city, that was probably on this planet. The creatures that were inhabiting it were like that of Kirby.
"What in the world?" asked Captain Falcon, seeing the same thing. Kirby started to talk, but no one could understand him, because of his babyish sounds and laughter. Of course, it was already hard to understand him, because he was a baby.
"So, we just stumbled upon Kirby's home planet?" asked Samus, looking at Kirby. He shook his head no, then started his jumping again. He pulled back the accelerator and shot off to the planet.
"Man, I wish my race car had that kind of power," said Captain Falcon, looking on his screen to Samus. "Let's go catch up."
Just as they did, Fox's ship hit the planet, sending a major shockwave at them.
"Whoa!"
"What was that?"
"I think it was Fox's ship, Captain, but that couldn't be. That was like a giant bomb. No way it came out of that little starship."
"My readings say he hit a volcanic area of the planet. Nothing seemed to be living there, anyway. It was just Fox."
"Fox," said Samus, putting her hand on the glass of the cockpit. Captain Falcon showed concern for her, but there were more things to focus on. Star Wolf, Leon, Andrew, and the last Shattered were still on the planet.
"Let's go," said Captain Falcon, moving towards 214-KB. Samus slowly followed, knowing in her heart that Fox was dead. She hoped she was wrong.
Down on the planet, Kirby was meeting with several of the others just like him. Samus thought it was real cute, but Captain Falcon seemed to care just about the four that got away.
"Ooyou!" cried Kirby, talking with the others. They knew how to talk regular English, though.
"So, what you mean is that you thought you were the only one like yourself?" said a green Kirby, who kept looking at Samus and Captain Falcon. He seemed to not trust them, but since they came with Kirby, he felt a goodness in them. Samus felt the same way.
"Hey you! Yellow! Come here," cried Captain Falcon, trying to get a Kirby's attention.
"Yes?" he answered, reluctant to leave Kirby.
"Why are there so many of you?"
"Well, Maxwell Hauteur created us. We started our own little communion and things, would you like to see our Kirby Brigade?" Samus and Captain Falcon looked at each other and shrugged shoulders.
"Sure, why not?"
"Kirby Brigade! Fall in!" With this, every Kirby within the city limits came to them. They were in
four groups. One group contained twenty-five pink Kirbies. Another contained twenty-five Kirbies wearing different masks and hats. Another group contained six Kirbies of different colors. They were red, yellow, blue, green, white, and pink. In the last group, it was just a single pink Kirby, about fifteen times bigger in mass.
Samus, Kirby, and Captain Falcon were amazed by this.
"So, this is everyone?" Samus asked, awestruck by so many cute Kirbies.
"Yes, the pink Kirbies over there are called the Kirby Patrol. The ones wearing different items are called the Kirby Squad. The big one we call Kiriant, but he is known as Giant Kirby. And, we're called the Kirby Elite."
"How come their are so many Kirbies?" asked Captain Falcon.
"Well, Maxwell Hauteur wanted to have a lot of Kirby Clones."
"Wait a minute, you are all clones?" asked Samus, stepping back with Kirby and Captain Falcon.
"Don't worry about it, we wouldn't hurt a fly. Oh, by the way, do you know this person?" Several Kirbies left, but came back carrying some one. It was the limp body of Fox.
"Fox!" cried Samus, running to him and picking him up. She startle the Kirbies carrying him, who backed up into each other.
"He was falling in his ship, so we helped him out. We couldn't save the ship though, so we allowed it to fall into the volcanic part of out planet. By the way, why did you come here?"
"We were trying to find four people and our friend went to find him."
"A blue bird?" asked the White Kirby.
"Yes, his name was Falco," said Captain Falcon, looking around to see if he saw him.
"He's a clone," said the Kirby with Captain Falcon's Mask on.
"What? How can he be when he shot at those other guys?"
"It's called misleading and lying," said a Kirby with a blue wig on.
"So, he's a clone?" asked Samus.
"That's right, and now you and your friends here are going to pay for what you did to Master Hand," said a person standing on top of one of the Kirby buildings.
"Star Wolf, you old hound dog, get down from there," said Leon, who was standing behind the Kirbies.
"Don't talk to him like that, lizard lips," said Andrew from behind Samus, Fox, Captain Falcon, and Kirby.
"How sweet, Samus is in love with Fox," said Falco, walking in from behind Star Wolf. Samus glared at him through her mask. If only he could see how embarrassed she was.
"Well, aren't you going to kill them?" asked the shattered, blue version of Fox, who stood beside Leon.
"Shut up, you stupid Shatter," said Falco, jumping down next to a pink Kirby, and pulled out his gun. He shot at him, only to be cut off by another gun shot. Fox had woken up to the noise and saw his friend trying to kill the kind clone. the Kirby ran off behind the others, terrified.
"What the?" asked Star Wolf, jumping down to join Falco. Then, Fox disappeared.
"Hey, what is he doing?" cried Andrew, shocked by this. Captain Falcon took his chance, he charged at the monkey with a fiery kick. The attack literally blew Andrew up into little pieces, since the clones weren't well put together.
"Andrew," cried Leon, but he was receiving terrific blows from the real Kirby. He was also doing a fire move none of them had seen before. Leon fell dead, but Kirby didn't stop there. He went for the Shatter, who didn't seemed to have thick enough skin to withstand the heat and blow.
Star Wolf growled, but couldn't do anything, because he was trying to avoid Samus's energy blasts. He was jumping from place to place. The Kirbies had run into the forest near their home, trying to hide. So it just left the two clones and the three real creatures.
"Where are you Fox?" said Falco, looking around carefully. He knew, some how, that Slippy had been working on a cloaking device that wouldn't allow a person to take physical damage from anything. It still hurt though. He then felt his gut cave in as Fox sucker punched him. In retaliation, Falco put up his laser shield, sending the invisible Fox into a Kirby building. Falco cough laughed at this and shot several laser beams into the hole. He then saw Fox's footprints in the ground heading to him, but it didn't help Falco in time.
"Yah!" cried Fox, kicking Falco in the face, which gave in a little, but held its figure.
"Argh!" cried, Falco, trying to shoot at Fox, but without success. He received another blow to the chest and the head. He spat up purple blood, but it was ignored when he was hit again in the face. The clone's beating kept up until another laser beam shot our of nowhere and hit Fox.
"Shoot!" cried Fox, as he became visible again. The cloaking device he wore, fell from him onto the ground in a smoking heap. Falco took this chance to do a high kick on Fox, but it was dodged as Fox did his split kick, knocking Falco's legs out from under him. He fell, beak first, into the ground. Fox pulled out his gun, but it was shot away by the mysterious laser. He bent down to pick up his gun, but it was shot away again.
"Don't try and get it, Fox," said a squeaky voice, that could only belong to one person, Slippy. Fox turned to see him, knowing it was going to be a clone. Slippy wasn't alone, because he had Peppy, also clone, most likely.
"Well, if it isn't my good old friends, Slippy Toad and Peppy Hare. Come to rescue Falco Lombardi and to kill me, Fox McCloud. Isn't that just a fun bit."
"Hold still, and this'll go smooth and easy." Fox knew how Slippy acted when he was going to kill some one. He knew the talk was fake and he knew he had to get his gun. He did a backflip towards his gun as Slippy and peppy opened fire where he used to be. He grabbed his gun and shot, but nothing came out, his gun had a hole in it where a laser hit it. Dropping the gun, he ducked over to Falco and grabbed his gun. He fired, but hit only air. Falco's gun had a stronger kick to it, sending Fox back into a Kirby building. This wasn't going to go well.
"Catch me," said Star Wolf, dodging Samus, Captain Falcon, and Kirby. Peppy shot at the pink blob, hitting him in the arm. Kirby stopped and held his wound. He started to howl in pain. The Kirby clones in the forest heard this and started coming out. They saw Kirby in pain and the whole group of them became enraged.
"Get them!" cried the Blue Kirby, as he led them to the other clones. Star Wolf tried to run, but Kiriant jumped down on top of him, crushing him. Falco, who was unconscious was ripped apart by the Kirby Squad. Peppy, caught in surprise, was pummeled to death by the Kirby Patrol. Slippy, being the last, was left for the Kirby Elite, and he didn't last very long, dodging the fury of the balloons.
"Are you sure you want to help?" asked Samus, loading her ship with some supplies the Kirbies gave her.
"Yes, we will follow Kirby until we perish," said the red Kirby, doing the same with a ship just like Kirby's.
"We don't know where to go, though," said Fox, looking over the ship they gave him. It was just his size and was literally a 'star' ship.
"The whole Kirby Brigade knows where Master Hand resides, because we left from there and we are able to remember everything," said a Kirby wearing a crown.
"Well, do you think we should go in over fifty ships?"
"This is just for getting up to the big ship in orbit over head. Maxwell made sure it ran for a real long time. It'll get us to Maxwell's planet in no time," said a Kirby wearing what looked like Falco's beak.
"Okay," said Fox, getting into the ship. Starting it up, they all launched off the planet, sixty-one small starships heading to one giant starship.
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"Those failures!" cried Master Hand, shaking his shadowed surrounding. Voices trembled in reply.
"Master, what is it?" asked a new, but similar voice to the smooth one.
"Falco, Peppy, and Slippy failed to kill Fox and the others."
"Is there anything I can..."
"No, there isn't!"
"Sir," said the smooth voice from before.
"Yes, Dr. Mario?" A small, chubby man, that looked just like Mario, stepped into the light near Ness's frozen body.
"It seems Ness and the portal device he created are coming unfrozen."
"Then, we shall begin his experiments." Dr. Mario was then accompanied in the light by another Dr. Mario.
"What about that other thing you wanted us to do with him?," the trembling Dr. Mario said.
"He wants us to perform..." The smooth Dr. Mario was cut off.
"I was asking Master Hand, you twit."
"Twit this!" Dr. Mario was about to hit the other, but he was cut off once more.
"Silence! If you two don't cooperate, you'll both be more worried about not existing!"
"Yes, sir!" cried the both of them, pushing the block of ice into the shadows. Master Hand laughed softly, disappearing himself.