Chapter 9: Power #2 and Experimentation
A warpstar landed in front of Kirby and a little gadget thing scanned the shard. After that, it got back on the warpstar and zoomed off. Gooey spoke minutes later with the update.
"It is safe to eat it," he announced. "it will reside within you until you have eaten all the shards."
"You sure?"
"Absolutely! I'm always sure."
"Okay."
Kirby ate it. Suddenly, a strange voice spoke to Kirby inside his head.
The voice said, in a mystical tone, "Oh, Star Warrior, the star rod is still fragmented in six lands. Your next task is to locate the shard in Butter Building. High atop Butter Building is the fortress of Lololo and Lalala, two siblings that are offspring of Dedede's race and the Dreamlander race. They will clear your path. The power that I will bestow upon you now, through the star rod shard is the power to copy foes' abilities by swallowing them. You can also discard your copied ability at any time. May you shine forth like a star."
The voice faded, leaving Kirby lying wide-eyed on the ground.
"Great. What power did you get?" asked Gooey.
"The ability to copy foes' powers," replied Kirby.
"How do you know that?"
Kirby told him.
"I'm gonna try it out," said Kirby.
"Okay... On what?" replied Gooey.
Kirby looked around. He had already cleared Whispy's Woods of "foes".
"Gooey, get me a warpstar to Butter Building," said Kirby, decidedly.
The warpstar bashed in the wall of Butter Building and disappeared. Kirby was immediately face to face with a Waddle Dee! Kirby inhaled it, swallowed and... nothing happened.
"I just swallowed a Waddle Dee, but nothing happened," said Kirby.
"Duh," replied Gooey. "Waddle Dees are amazingly weak minions. Why would they have powers?"
"Good point," agreed Kirby.
Kirby walked on and encountered a Blowfire! Kirby inhaled and swallowed it. Kirby then transformed into Fire Kirby, complete with flaming hat!
"Yeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!!!" exclaimed Kirby. What else was there to say?
"I'm sure glad that the phone's fireproof, Fire Kirby!" said Gooey.
Kirby ran up to a few Bronto Burts that were about to dive-bomb him and breathed fire on them, enough fire to reduce them to flaming carcasses on the ground. Then Fire Kirby stopped, something had just occurred to him.
"How did you know I was Fire Kirby?" he said.
"The little letters on my phone always tell me who I'm talking to. It's just another high-tech thing that I've perfected," replied Gooey, smugly.
"Ah."
Kirby then transformed back into regular Kirby and inhaled a Sir Kibble to become Cutter Kirby! Cutter Kirby threw a boomerang to slice another Sir Kibble in half.
"I'm enjoying this more and more," said Kirby.