Poppy Brothers Senior
The Warp Star launched Kirby high into the air. He looked down and saw the machine falling away beneath him. He held on tighter as a cold wind began to blow and the star went faster. Suddenly, in the utter darkness far below him, he saw a single room, and it was to this room that the Warp Star dropped. Kirby hopped off onto a flipper just before the star disintegrated. The room appeared to be empty, save for the flippers, but then Kirby heard a voice echo through the room…
Kirby, Kirby, Kirby
You come to my machine
You make it all the way to me,
Now that is mighty keen.
But you will not leave alive,
I will see to that.
Kirby, Kirby, Kirby
I'll bomb you till you're flat!
And then in swooped Poppy Brother Senior, father of all the smaller Poppy Brothers. He was short, not more than two feet high; he wore a floppy pointed hat with a puff-ball at the end, and he constantly danced back and forth from foot to foot.
Poppy took out a bomb and prepared to throw it at Kirby. Kirby rolled upwards and smacked into Poppy, causing the bomb to explode in his face. Poppy growled and leapt to the other side of the room. He took out another bomb, and this time Kirby wasn't fast enough to stop him. The bomb missed Kirby but struck one of the flippers, deactivating it.
Warning lights flashed on at the flipper control. "Ah, Kirby!" said Master Green into the intercom, "Stay as far away from that flipper as you can for about ten seconds. I have to recalibrate it."
"Check!" said Kirby, who meanwhile used the other flipper to catapult himself into Poppy again. This time, he was able to land on the ledge Poppy stood on and smack him repeatedly.
Ow, ow, ow!
Now you will pay the price!
Time for you to die, Kirby,
Our fight is twice as nice!
And all of a sudden, Poppy Brother Senior split in two, and now there were two Poppies against Kirby.
"Uh oh…" Kirby whispered. "Master Green, we're gonna need some fancy flipper work here!"
"Roger, Kirby!" said Master Green. "Go for it!"
The fight was lightning fast. Kirby bounced off the walls, smacking into the Poppy Bros. whenever he could. They repeatedly pulled out bombs and hurled them at him. Some of the bombs Kirby was able to stop, but others smacked into the flippers, deactivating them for a few seconds. Kirby, on his ninth trip up to the top of the chamber, managed to land on one of the platforms again, and he repeatedly punched one of the Poppy Bros. in the stomach. The duplicate disappeared in a puff of smoke.
"Now all that's left is the real deal," Kirby said. He hurled himself over to the other platform and smacked Poppy right in the face. Poppy began to shudder, and wailed,
No, no, no!
This really cannot be!
Kirby, Kirby, Kirby,
Why must you defeat me?
But Poppy would say no more, as he shook and exploded in a dazzling flash of light. The room was eerily quiet for a moment, and then the shimmering key to the first vault appeared, shining like a multiple-pointed star.
"Gotcha!" Kirby cried as he nabbed it. "Why, I feel like dancing! Kirby 2, Kirby 3, form a line!" Kirby's two alter egos appeared and they danced happily on the field of victory. And then they vanished, and Kirby rolled downwards onto the waiting Warp Star.