Chapter 2: Dictatorship
King Dedede ruled over Dreamland and the Dreamlanders didn't care. Why should they? King Dedede was a self-proclaimed king and performed no administrative role whatsoever. Oh sure, King Dedede had tons of minions and a huge castle on a mountain that was named (by him) after him, but the Dreamlanders just went on living their happy lives without giving him a thought. It didn't even matter that he wasn't a Dreamlander. (For those of you who are wondering, King Dedede is a large penguin.)
One day, King Dedede's servants heard him growling and wailing and they stood wondering whether they should check on him or not. When they finally decided to, they burst into the king's room to find him looking perfectly fine. When they asked him what was wrong, he was so startled that he said something profane that meant (to put it mildly) to get out of his room.
The same day, King Dedede told his servants to organize a mass gathering of all Dreamlanders. The word was spread quickly and, in no time, a huge hall was filled with millions of Dreamlanders. The multicolored mass (as seen from above) was enough to make anybody gape, for each Dreamlander is a different color.
King Dedede approached the stand and held up a microphone to speak.
"Dreamlanders," he said, "thank you for coming to my castle! You will never leave it again! That is all."
With a snap, all the doors, windows, and passages to the outside world, sealed off.