Chapter 28: Snap! Kracko! Pop!
"Who dares to disturb my thunder?!" called Kracko from the clouds.
Meta Knight's voice was amplified as he shouted back, "It is Meta Clan and their warship. We demand your surrender."
The clouds parted and out came Kracko surrounded by that strange cloud garment of its. "Fools!" Kracko replied. "You cannot defeat me! Now leave! If you do not, I will destroy your 'warship'."
"Surrender or die!" retorted Meta Knight.
"So be it," said Kracko and unleashed a torrent of lightning. The lightning went down to the Halberd and suddenly veered off to the nose where it was absorbed by something that was shaped like a horseshoe.
"What the..." began Kracko.
"You see," explained Meta Knight, "we thought of your thunderbolts and created a magnet that absorbs them and converts them into power for our ship. Not only that, we also have more than enough soldiers to wipe out any minions you deploy. Furthermore..."
At this point, Kirby was distracted by his phone.
Captain: "Fire the giant cannon again! Now!"
Kracko was blasted from its cloud garment by a huge cannonball that hit it right in the eye. The cloud garment hung there for a few seconds, looking like a big spiky doughnut, and then disintegrated. Kracko shot back into the clouds and reemerged a few seconds later with its cloud garment on again.
"Not bad," it said, "but how about some of this?!"
Kracko shot cannonballs down at the Halberd, but they were just shot out of the sky by the Halberd's cannons.
"You see, Kracko," said Meta Knight calmly and smugly, "you cannot harm us, but we can harm you. We have thought up every attack you might use and armed this ship with a way to counter it. Why don't you just give up while you're still alive?"
Kracko did not move. It just floated there as if stunned.
Silence.
"You want to destroy me, don't you?" said Kracko.
"Yes," replied Meta Knight, "and there's nothing you can do to stop us."
"Maybe not..." said Kracko slowly, "but if there is nothing I can do to escape my death at your hands, then..." Kracko suddenly shouted, "I'm taking you down with me!!!"
Kracko went into a dive. It was headed straight for the Halberd. Kirby watched Kracko's path with horror. If the Halberd exploded, Kirby would be taken with it and even if he got away, the star rod shard would be lost forever!
"No! Kracko stop!" Meta Knight shouted.
Then voices came over the phone again.
Meta Knight: "The eye's not stopping!"
Captain: "With all the electricity in that cloud it's wearing, Kracko will rip through the Halberd like tissue paper, causing it to explode while Kracko's inside!"
Meta Knight: "Meta Drone, is there any way to prevent this?"
Meta Drone: "We could activate the mirrors and fire the laser cannon. The problem is that Kirby already destroyed the laser cannon!"
Captain: [censored]
Meta Knight: "Please tell me there's a plan B. The must be..."
Meta Drone: "There isn't. We spent so much time preparing for Kracko and Dark Matter that we were unprotected against a Star Warrior interference."
Silence.
Meta Knight: "Then... we lost... it's over..."
"Gooey," said Kirby, "get me a warpstar, now."