Chapter 16: No Walk in the Park

"Kirby," said Gooey, "I can think of two suspects as to who is keeping the star rod shard in this place. Number one: Ado. She is a witch who paints pictures and makes them come to life. The problem is that her greatest joy is to destroy things by painting evil creatures. Number two: uh... well... maybe that's a little far-fetched."

"What?" asked Kirby.

"Number two: Kracko."

"I've met that guy! It was the eye that tried to kill me in Butter Building! I just remembered that it told me its name! It was Kracko! Who the heck is that guy, anyway?"

"No one really knows what Kracko is or where it came from. It has been found that it has many aliases as well."

"Huh?"

"Aliases like Mr. Storm, Zaupon, and Zeus. It is an eye that can conjure clouds, cannon balls, spikes, bombs, Waddle Doos, High-Jump Dans, and lightning."

"Gooey," interrupted Kirby, "I think I'm going to have to cut you off. Ado is right in front of me."

Ado smiled. Dreamlanders are very satisfying to smash. She painted a Bronto Burt on the easel next to her and sent it at Kirby, who torched it with the Fire ability that he still had.

"Ooh, you're a feisty one!" she cackled. "How's about some of this?"

She started painting more and more enemies. Waddle Dees, Waddle Doos, Mariels, Bronto Burts, Mumbies, Bouncies, Li'l Red Cars, Boppin' Baseballs, Sparkies, Floaties, Nellies, and more bombarded Kirby, but Kirby would just get their powers and destroy them.

Kirby then noticed that there was a trail of easels along a cloudy path and that Ado was running away while painting enemies to keep Kirby busy! Kirby chased after her while continuing to fight!

Eventually, Ado stopped running and turned around to see that all her troops defeated and Kirby on his way to kill her! Kirby was nearing Ado and she had on the most evil look of pure hatred, eyes fixed on Kirby. Kirby faltered. This gave Ado just enough time to paint another enemy.

"Have fun with Kaboola!!!" she yelled as the blimp/cannon started machine-gunning Kirby.

Kirby took eight hits in the face. He flopped over on the ground. Dreamlanders don't bleed, but if they did, Kirby would have been lying in a pool of blood.

Kaboola dropped a bomb next to Kirby to finish him off. With his last bit of strength, Kirby inhaled the bomb, became Bomb Kirby, and nailed Kaboola right in the middle of its balloon part. Kaboola went down in a fiery blaze and exploded far below the clouds.

Kirby felt himself be forced onto his back, his mouth pried open, and something shoved in. Kirby suddenly felt great! What happened? He looked up and saw a cat slinking away into the distance. It had fed him something. Kirby decided not to think about that and focus on Ado. She was giving him another one of her hate-filled looks.

Ado quickly painted another enemy.

"Here's Lady Boxer!" she screamed as Lady Boxer went for Kirby, clad in full armor.

"Here's Kirby!" yelled Kirby as he inhaled her boxing gloves to reveal—

"Metal fists!" exclaimed Fighter Kirby. "This is going to hurt..."

POW! Lady Boxer's first attack sent Kirby flying at least a dozen meters away.

Kirby got back up and raced at Lady Boxer, using roundhouse kicks to remove her armor. She made a jab. Kirby dodged and then he hit her with the progressive vulcan jab into the air! One! Two! Three! Four! Five! Six! Seven! Eight progressive hits! Wind uuuuuuuuuuuuuuup... KO!

Lady Boxer was on the ground. She was beaten up so badly that she didn't even have a recognizable shape. Kirby inhaled her and spat her out at the easel that Ado was currently painting on.

Ado gave Kirby another one of those looks and bent her paintbrush into a boomerang. She threw it at Kirby slicing his left cheek. Then she caught it and threw it again. This time Kirby was ready. He inhaled it and shot it back at Ado, knocking her down.

VICTORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!