Captain N 2006 Chapter 2: Crackstar DX Version 2, a game x-overs fanfic

The symbol "&" will show the thoughts of characters.

"-I" will act as a section break.

"-" has replaced all astericks, which do not show up here.

In the middle of a field, there stood some guys. There were a lot of robot parts around. If you read the last chapter you should know what I'm talking about. If you didn't, why did you skip the first chapter? Just to spite you, I'll skip the normal introduction stuff and go straight to the dialog.

"Oh, by the way Jon," said Toad, who walked in from off screen, "there's some stuff I forgot to mention about your PAUSE. It uses up one Time Point every time you use it, and you use up another for every ten minutes you're in PAUSE mode. You have ten Time Points and you regain them by sleeping. Healing only starts if you sleep for at least three hours, so you can't recover in the middle of battle by sleeping in PAUSE mode."

"Uhh... That's nice to know, I guess..." Jon responded. He was still aching a bit from the previous battle.

Rock, meanwhile, seemed to be thinking, but suddenly got very excited. "King Game and Watch, Jon, can I stay here tonight?"

"Uhh... sure..." they both answered.

"Great!" Rock said. He went up to his robo-dog, Rush, and pressed a button. An image of Dr. Light appeared above the red dog. "Dr. Light, therewasanewGameMasterandIwanttogettoknowhimsocanIstayatthecastletonight? Pleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleaseplea-"

"Alright Rock, you can stay there for the night. So there's a new Game Master? I better make a note to meet him tomorrow," said the old doctor, Thomas Light.

"No, that's okay Tom, I'll write it down for you!" said the voice of an obsessed fan of Dr. Light.

"No, that's perfectly alright, Auto, I'm not old enough to-"

But it was too late, and Auto printed out a note to meet the new Game Master at the castle and stuck it to the scientist's head. "... Light out." Dr. Light was about to turn off the transmission when the lights suddenly went out. "Auto, how many times do I have to tell you, I don't WANT voice commands on the lights!" With that, Dr. Light turned off the phonvision (visual phone).

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LEVEL TWO: Crackstar

Because Magic cards are not created equal, the creators of Kirby took up crack and created this game. This Magic fact caused others to take a similar path, many to a much greater effect, especially Japan, as shown by games like Chu Chu Rocket. Thus, quite a few people in Japan are crackheads… and Magic fans, apparently…

"Wily, your invasion failed!" Mother Brain informed the mad scientist in her uni-tone voice. "You failed to retrieve the Map Cartridge!"

"How was I supposed to know that the Game Master would already be that skilled?" questioned Wily.

"Wily, why are you afraid of her! She's just a giant brain! It's not like she's going to call out a giant attack body and kill you!" exclaimed Bass. Instead of summoning her attack body from Super Metroid, Mother Brain activated her fire-ring guns and started rapidly shooting at Bass and Wily. Bass simply destroyed the rings with some charged-up blasts. "Is that all you got!" Bass cockily said.

"Bass, stop it!" Wily yelled.

"Shut it, old man!" Bass said as he continued shooting. However, some compartments opened up in the base of Mother Brain's jar, releasing several metroids, with some sort of electric device on their "heads", on the robot and human. Bass switched to his Blizzard Blast and froze all of them. "Pathetic!" However, after a few seconds, the metroids unfroze and resumed their attack. "WTF!" Bass yelled as he used his Blizzard Blast again. The metroids froze and unfroze again, and this repeated until Bass ran out of weapon energy. The metroids attached to Bass and Wily's heads and drained energy from them until Mother Brain shocked them using the electric devices on their heads, which were attached to their actual nerves, making them come back to the compartments.

LATER

Wily and Bass soon regained consciousness as Mother Brain finished conversing with the shadowed figure on her video screen. "Wily, it seems that when one of your robot masters took the cartridge, before he was killed, he managed to transmit the first message," Mother Brain told her lackeys. "Our scientists have thankfully managed to crack it. We must to go to Popstar and retrieve the Star Rod from the Fountain of Dreams."

"What, now?" Wily asked groggily.

"Say, do you think Kirby would let us have it?" the Eggplant Wizard asked.

"Of course not. Wait... Eggplant Wizard? When did you get here?" Mother Brain asked.

"When did I get here? Well... I got here right after I showed King Hippo the most annoying sound in the world and we had a ketchup fight. After that, I met his parents and we decided it'd be fun to smother them in keyboards, and they died, but it was fun, mmmmmm... tasty. Wait... after that, we decided to superglue post-its saying how tasty Jell-O pudding is everywhere on Venom- Andross was pretty mad about that and he yelled "BLARGHBlAh/\/\", but I think he was just hiding his feelings about how great it was, and then-"

"I didn't ask you how your day was. I asked you what time did you get here. It doesn't matter anyway. Where's King Hippo?"

"He's in the bathroom," the short, robed, purple man with an eggplant face responded.

"We might as well wait for him. I understand that humans have a strange liking towards reunions. In the meantime, I'll get some assistance on Popstar."

-I

"Neato! You got a really nice room!" said Rock, who seemed to turn into a hyper ten-year-old as soon as he came inside Jon's room. He started running around and tapped everything, either commenting that it was much better than his, or saying his was better.

"... Are you like this all the time?" asked an annoyed Jon.

"Only when I'm out of my armor. So basically, me and Mega Man are two different people."

"Is there any chance that you could change back to Mega Man for this sleepover? No offense, but ten year olds aren't exactly the most calming things in the world."

"Sorry, but I prefer to get into my armor only when I need to. It has so many bad memories," Rock said as he transformed his hand into his Mega Buster. "Look at all of these oil stains! They each represent one memory I want to forget, but can't!"

"I don't want to ruin your moment, but I don't see any oil stains."

"WHAT! Dr. Light must have cleaned them off while I was sleeping! However, there USED to be an oil stain right here! That was from when I Top Spun right through Gamma all those years ago. My entire body was covered in his oil an-"

Jon's thoughts interrupted Rock. "&I realize that 'oil' is supposed to be like blood, but it still sounds wrong o0&!"

"-d it still hasn't come off! ... Well, until now, that is. This oil stain that was right here was from when I Slash Man cut me, but at that exact time, I sent a Mega Buster shot sailing RIGHT through his skull, and THIS former oil stain was... from when I was watching Power Rangers and, in my ten year old stupidity, grabbed a sword and started swinging it around everywhere. Eventually, I cut a pipe and oil was sprayed right in my face, so I stopped doing that. Now THIS stain wa-"

Not wanting to interrupt Rock's "macho-ness", Jon turned on the TV. There was a commercial for McMickey's new line of hot-and-spicy Blaziken sandwiches.

-I

"Eggplant Wizard! I thought you said King Hippo was in the bathroom!" the angry brain "yelled", but it was the same tone and volume as before.

"He is in the bathroom- the one in his house! Duh!" the Eggplant Wizard said.

"..."

LATER

"Everyone, get into the ship!" Mother Brain told her three bruised lackeys. They silently walked into the Space Pirate ship, which, as soon as some Space Pirates carried Mother Brain in, blasted off for Popstar.

-I

Jon woke up the next morning fully healed.

"... and THIS stain, ohohoho, this one's a dozy, you might throw up after this one," the high-pitched voice of Rock continued rambling.

Jon listened to his talking for a few more minutes, but finally said, "Rock, you can stop now. You've been rambling on like an old man the entire time you were here." "&And besides&", Jon thought, "&Rock is obviously making stuff up now&."

"What? I was?"

"... Yeah"

"Oh... wanna play hide-and-seek!"

"... Why not? The rules are that you have to stay in the castle and you can hide first. I'll count to one-hundred."

Jon turned his head to the wall and heard a teleporting sound as soon as he said "one". Jon shrugged and turned on the TV. To his surprise, the face of Toad appeared on the screen.

"Game Master, what do you think you're doing?"

"o0 WTH!"

"Why aren't you looking for Rock?" asked the talking mushroom.

"... Because I don't want to and I just wanted to get rid of him for some alone time? He was a lot more annoying than I thought he would be."

"But you have to finish your minigame to move on!"

"Minigame?"

"By accepting Mega Man's challenge to hide-and-seek, you have started a minigame that you are unable to get out of unless you complete it."

"Oh... okay..." Jon started playing on his GBA.

"I'm gonna take that GBA and shove it up your wang if you don't hurry up! By the way, if the timer on the GBA's screen runs out, you'll blow up."

"WHAT! I'LL BLOW UP!" Jon yelled as he turned off his GBA, but there was still a timer counting down from 20 minutes in the upper-right corner. With wide eyes, he ran out of the door. "&How did that timer-oh screw this! GOTTA GO FAST! GOTTA GO FAST! GOTTA GO FASTER FASTER FASTERFASTERFASTER!...&"

-I

Rock wasn't that hard to find, considering the obvious reference his name makes, and the fact that there was a stage in the castle. Jon found him there singing some Spanish hard rock, occasionally chanting "SEIS SEIS SEIS!", while powering up the Atomic Fire attack, so there were flames surrounding him and stuff.

"You know, you're making this too easy", said Jon.

As soon as Jon came up to the stage, a large message saying "MINIGAME COMPLETED! YOU GOTTEN... A MUSHROOM!" popped up and a Mushroom appeared in Jon's hands. It then disappeared into his GBA where it appeared on a screen like this.

Mushroom x1 Recover a small amount of your health.

"What's with the Engrish?" Jon inquired.

Rock shrugged. "Scientists have been trying to figure that one out ever since the prize system appeared, which, judging from Kevin's information, was around the time the first game where you gained points appeared in your world."

"You mean since Pong?"

"I guess."

"So every time I complete a minigame, I get an item?"

"Yeah."

"So I could just complete simple minigames like this over and over again and I'll have unlimited mushrooms?"

"Not exactly," Rock said as he pulled out a bag of mushrooms from a compartment on his back. "Before the minigame, the challenger and the challengees must agree on a reward. If they don't come to an agreement, they automatically get the loser's lowest-level item. However, the challenger must, first, actually HAVE the item so it can be given to the winner. I carry around all of these mushrooms, even though they have no effect on me because if I lost a minigame, the systems would move up to something higher like my E-Tanks or weapons, and those are hard to replace."

"What about experience points?"

"Those are gained by the actual fight as you gain experience from it. Judging from what Kevin said, it seems that in RPGs, it just displays the total amount you gained from the fight."

"Speaking of weapons, what attacks do you have now?"

"Atomic Fire, Crash Bomb, Junk Shield, Water Wave, Tornado Hold, and Magnet Missiles. I still have two empty slots," Rock said as he changed his colors to each respective attack.

After this conversion continued for a bit, a Waddle Dee ran into the room. "Game Master, the King has a mission for you! Mega Man, you can come too!" he said as he threw down a warptube and jumped in. Jon shrugged and jumped in too, as did Rock.

"&Work already? Wait, why am I surprised? A game/show cliché is that as soon as the main character joins an organization/appears in a town/etc., enemies literally start coming out of nowhere, or a prophesy suddenly appears that states that doom will come soon, or something like that&," thought Jon.

"&Cool! The new N-Team goes on its first mission! Too bad no one else could come&," thought Rock.

They appeared in the throne room where Toad was waiting. "King Game and Watch has a lot of work to do, so he's having me give you the brief. Jon, I have a mission for you. For some strange reason, the Dark Matter seems to be guarding the Fountain of Dreams and is preventing everyone from seeing the Star Rod. Kirby won't help, since he always felt that the Fountain of Dreams shouldn't have been a tourist attraction in the first place and the Dark Matter isn't doing anything, so you have to go and find out what he's doing. Mega Man, you go with him to make sure he doesn't mess up."

"So wait, all I have to do is see what the Dark Matter is doing?" asked Jon.

"Yeah."

"No fighting at all?"

"Most likely."

"Why can't King Dedede handle this?"

"Because he's an idiot."

"...Meh, I guess this shouldn't take too long..."

"Actually, since there is no direct warp to the Fountain of Dreams, you'll have to take a path through the Green Greens, which will take a day at least. Mega Man should be able to direct you to the correct path. By the way, I'll have to open this warp outside, since inter-zonal portals tend to be rather large."

"&What he really means is that he's too cheap to pay the fee for warping to Rainbow Resort&," thought Rock.

"That means I'll miss today's episodes of Whose Line Is It Anyway..." Grumbling, Jon walked outside and into a newly opened warp to the Green Greens, followed by Mega Man, who transformed into his armor.

-I

Soon after Jon and Rock left, a cool wind picked up and started circling around a single point, creating a tornado of strange colors. Quickly, the wind died down and a blonde-haired man in green clothing stepped out.

"Hyrule Overworld Theme More Heroic Remix"

"Good morning, Link," said the Waddle Dee guarding the warp as he handed him a small mobile object that can be used for communication. "You want to meet the new Game Master, right?"

"That's right," said the Hero of Time. "Is he here?"

"Unfortunately, he just left for his first mission at the Fountain of Dreams, but I'm sure he'll be back tomorrow."

"If it's his first mission, I guess I should make sure he doesn't mess up too much."

"No, that's okay. He already has Mega Man with him, and all he has to do is see what the Dark Matter is doing!"

"Mega Man? I haven't seen him for forever! Is that the warp to where they went?"

"Yes-errrrrrrr... No..."

"Great!" Link said as he jumped in.

"Hyrule Overworld Theme More Heroic Remix"

"Wait! ... Darn it," the Waddle Dee said as he went back to his post.

-I

A sign appeared above the two heroes.

OVERWORLD: GREEN GREENS...

"Green Greens Theme From Kirby: Nightmare In Dreamland In The Last Level Before The Boss Fights"

"None of the animals are attacking, so I guess the Dark Matter is focusing on guarding the Fountain of Dreams, but why?" asked Jon.

Mega Man shrugged and motioned that they need to turn left. However, Link ran up to them. "Hey Mega Man! When did you come back from Sony?"

"I came back just last year, though my world's currently open to both Nintendo and Sony."

"You're Link, right? What are you doing here in Dreamland? &Cool, Link's here. That's awesome... I guess&," asked Jon. Once you see giant talking mushrooms, walking stick figures, and robots shooting exploding cones, you don't get easily surprised, so Jon wasn't that surprised by the fact that Link was standing right in front of him.

"I heard this was your first mission, so I came to help you out." Link said.

"OMG And I came to help you out too!" yelled an extremely freaky voice.

"Who are you?" asked Mega Man.

"I am teh scariest thing in the universe!"

"Live Nude Robotnik!" asked Jon.

"No! OMG!"

"Sailor Bubba!"

"No!"

"Man-Faye!"

"OMG No!"

"Tub Girl!"

"No, I'm God!"

"You're God?"

"Yes, I am, you son of biahdjkvitch ROFL!" the freaky guy lied. "Oh, and L is real 22856, ROFL I R better Game Master than j00!"

Link just stood there completely stupefied by the conversation.

Jon pulled out his warp capsule, threw it at the freaky guy, and it exploded, sending him back to the castle. "Silly n00b, thinking he can fool us with decent spelling…"

"That was our only way back to the castle, you know. Wait, actually, I think I may have one too, oh, here it is," said Mega Man.

"OMG I R TEH ROXXOR, PWN'D!1!1!12!2!1! OMG LOL!i c0ME T00 4WELP YOU ROFL LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL P\/\/N3D WTF!11!11!2!2121!2!212!" yelled another person, forcing the Game Master to grab the kid robot's warp capsule and throw it at him, sending him to the same location as the last.

"You know, I'm beginning to sense a pattern... Mega Man, do you have a built in phone or something?"

"No, those types of robots are actually very rare," answered Mega Man. "Not to mention that Rush only has a connection to Dr. Light's house and isn't actually a phone."

"You can use my cell phone," stated Link. Everyone stared at him.

-I

BACK AT THE CASTLE

"Yes... yes, Jon, I'll do that... the warp will last another hour, but... yes, I'll make sure no more people follow after you... okay... right... bye." Toad hung up, walked outside, and pulled a loudspeaker out of nowhere. There were news reporters, kids who should have been in school, people skipping work, and drunken hobos gathering around the castle waiting to meet the new Game Master. Pretty much everyone in the game universe was there.

"EVERYONE, GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE! THE GAME MASTER DOESN'T WANT ANY MORE PEOPLE HELPING HIM AND IF YOU GO THROUGH THAT WARP, YOU DIE! NOW GET OUT OF HERE BEFORE I GET MY BAZOOKA!" Toad yelled.

Not wanting to fight a fungus with a bazooka, the entire universe apologized at once and left for their respective regions.

-I

"I guess that's over," Jon said as he gave Link back his phone.

-I

On Starship Metriod, the screen suddenly started ringing.

Mother Brain activated the screen. "Yes, who is it?"

"You should recognize me! And how could you attempt to steal the Star Rod without me?" the figure on the screen said.

"How did you get the signal for this screen, Metaknight?"

"You of all people should know, with that galactic network of yours, that that's because I'm not Metaknight," Metaknight said as some purple gas poured out of his mouth and nose forming the Nightmare.

"Don't blame my data for overestimating your healing capacities. I would have thought you would have recovered from Kirby's attacks by now."

"Do you have any idea how much the Star Rod hurts? Though my friend, the Dark Matter, has been 'killed' many times by many legendary weapons, the Star Rod is not only the source of dreams, but the repeller of bad dreams as well, so you can probably imagine what it did to me."

"Get to the point!"

"Anyway, my sources, AKA, those idiots over there," Nightmare said pointing to the Meta-crew," say that the new N-Team, which has doubled in size from yesterday, is already here!"

"How could they have known?"

"Unlike me, Dark Matter isn't very good at being subtle. While I would have possessed the guards to keep an eye on the Star Rod and keep everyone away, Dark Matter just flew over there and started standing in front of the fountain like an idiot."

"I suppose we can't do anything about it now. Since Dark Matter is busy guarding the Fountain of Dreams, stop the N-Team!"

"I'm on it!"

"Uhh... Where am I?" the formerly life-less body of Metaknight said. Nightmare quickly went back inside Metaknight. "This is Nightmare, reporting from the Halberd II, signing off."

-I

The N-Team continued walking down the path, when a shadow fell over them, so they looked up.

"What? Is that one of Wily's ships?" asked the boy robot, Mega Man.

"No, it looks like the Halberd from Kirby SuperStar!"

On cue, a smaller ship flew out and dropped a large metal lobster in front of them. "I am Heavy Lobster 2.0," the robot lobster said... robotically. "I am programmed to kill the N-Team. Now you will be massacred!"

Suddenly, a large message saying "Battle... BEGIN!" appeared and the battle began... almost.

"... Why didn't that appear when I fought Crash Man?" asked Jon.

"... Did you interrupt his poses?" asked Mega Man.

"Yeah."

"There's your problem right there!" said Link. "Everyone knows the Battle Begin screen for Robot Masters only appears when you let them finish their poses!"

Thus, the battle actually began.

"Kirby SuperStar Boss Theme"

HL launched his claws toward the N-Team, but Mega Man used a charged up Mega Buster to knock them away. With Heavy Lobster defenseless, Link stuck bombs into the spaces where the claws launched from, and the robot was badly damaged. However, the claws still returned and the rebuilt robot dashed toward them claws first, but everyone jumped out of the way, some less easily than others. Mega Man shot a Magnet Missile at Heavy Lobster's back, but it was knocked away by his claw, which somehow reached his back. Jon pressed PAUSE and when time froze after he jumped a few laser attacks, he ran to Heavy Lobster's side, unpaused, and shot an A-Blast, but HL's claw quickly reacted and blocked that too.

"He's fast," commented Mega Man.

"&You know, one of these days, someone should come up with a more witty version of 'Thank you Mr. Obvious'&," thought Jon.

At this point, compartments on Heavy Lobster's back opened up, releasing several missiles at the three fighters. While Mega Man used his Tornado Hold to take care of some and Jon used his pinpoint accuracy, Link... blocked them with his shield.

"WTF!" asked Jon.

Link instantly knew what he was referring to and explained that his items emitted a magic aura, so they do more damage and can resist more damage than they should, and can thus block missile attacks and hurt robots. Jon nodded and the battle continued.

Heavy Lobster activated it's flamethrower, but Link used an ice arrow the freeze it and threw a boomerang into the claw to keep it open. Jon shot a B-Blast as Mega Man shot a Crash Bomber into the open claw. HL's systems overloaded and he exploded, but at that instant, 50 more Heavy Lobsters flew down from the ship.

End "Kirby SuperStar Boss Theme"

"Kirby SS Marx Battle Theme"

"...," Jon didn't say.

The first lobster started off by shooting out a small, rainbow colored version of himself, which started rushing toward the N-Team. Suddenly, a strange sucking sound was heard and the miniature HL2 stopped. After a short fight, it finally flew into the mouth of everyone's favorite puffball, Kirby. Kirby swallowed it, turning into Paint Kirby and he flew up into the air, holding up his paintbrush, and buckets of paint flew out of it toward the HLs. Not even their claws could block all of the paint.

"Visible spectrum sensors...inoperable. Infrared sensor... malfunctioning. X-ray sensors... destroyed. All visual operations are currently inoperable," all of the robots said at once. They then blew up, because they can.

End "Kirby SS Marx Battle Theme"

KIRBY WINS! YOU GOTTEN... USELESS PIECE OF SCRAP METAL!

Kirby looked at the metal that appeared in his hands and tossed it away.

"Kirby, thanks for your help," said Jon. "So, why did Metaknight attack us?"

"It wooks wike Metaknight was hired to sthop you flom leaching the Dalk Mather. However, Dalk Mather isn'th doing much, so wet's thake care of Methaknighth firsth. We ton'th hawe thime fol inthloducthions, so you can alw lide my walpstal tho the Hawbeld, buth ith wilw be wely clowthed."

"...What the hell is wrong with your voice!" Jon asked.

"--;"

-I

Ten minutes later...

"When he said the warpstar would be crowded, he wasn't kidding!" Link said.

"Stop complaining! At least you don't have to ride on the bottom!" Jon said as he clang onto the bottom of the star with Link's hookshot. "Thanks for letting me use your hookshot, by the way."

"No problem!"

"We quiet! We'le ahmost thele!" Kirby said. The warpstar crashed onto the deck, sending everyone a few feet away from the crash site.

"Gah... couldn't we 'land' closer to the control room?" Jon asked.

"No. If we thit, we wouwt hawe been shoth town. The main cannon isn'th some tinky Lighth Gun, ya know!"

-I

"Sir Metaknight! The N-Team has landed on the main deck!" Meta-Lance of the Meta Crew said.

"Send out Captain Stitch's squad! &Maybe sending out a bunch of guys will work this time. It didn't before, but it has to work now&," Metaknight ordered.

"Yes, sir, Sir Metaknight!" said Meta-Lance.

As soon as Metaknight left, Meta-Axe turned on the intercom. "Captain Stitch, power up the main cannon and have the blast skim, not destroy, the deck and kill the N-Team!"

"Meta-Axe, sir!" said Meta-Lance. "Sir Metaknight told you to have Captain Stitch send out his squad, not use the main cannon on them!"

"Shooting them would have a higher success rate then sending wave after wave of men to attack them, Meta-Lance, sir! We tried that with Kirby, remember? He has 3 more people with him, so there is an even lower chance of that working!"

"Hmmm... I guess you're right. Fire away, Sir Meta-Axe."

-I

OVERWORLD: HALBERD II MAIN DECK...

"... Shouldn't we have been attacked by a bunch of guys by now?" Jon asked looking around.

"Yeah, we shouwd be," said Kirby as he noticed something. "Guys! The main cannon is poweling up!"

"Gah! How do we avoid it?" asked Mega Man.

"It sweems to be aimed wat the deck-"

"Actually, it's aimed so that it barely touches the deck," Mega Man said as he calculated the angle of the cannon.

"So, we waf to go inside the Hawberd to avoid it."

"Inside?" asked Link, "But the entrance is about a mile away!"

"I think I could get us there in time," Mega Man said as he transformed Rush into his motorcycle form.

"How will you carry all of us?" asked Link.

"Maybe I couwd suck alw of you up so that there wouldn't be any extra weight and ride Lush to the entrance," answered the pink puff ball.

"Okay, I guess, but promise that you won't swallow us," said Jon.

"I plomise." Kirby then sucked everyone up and jumped onto Rush. However, at that moment, a large laser came from the cannon and hit everyone, knocking everyone off of the ship. By reflex, Kirby spit everyone out and Rush transformed back to his dog form.

-I

"Ugh... where are we?" asked Jon as he regained consciousness.

"Okay! Ewelyone who isn'th theath, say something!" yelled out Kirby.

"Did we make it?" asked Mega Man, whose logic circuits were a bit scrambled at the moment.

"No, we didn't," said Link as he pulled out a bottle of Lon Lon Milk, drank it, and then stood up as if nothing happened.

Mega Man handed Mushrooms to Jon and Kirby. "You still haven't answered my question. Where are we?" asked Jon. "And how did I survive both the blast and the fall?"

"Well, jutging flom the sulounthings," Kirby said as he looked at the large bronze skyscraper in front of them. "We al at the Buther Builthings"

"Butter Buildings? How did we get this far from the Green Greens," Jon asked.

"I have no ithea, buth this is acthually wely conwinienth. If I lemembel collecthly, Jeth's nesth shouwth be ath the thop. He shoulth help us geth back ontho the Hawbeld II, since I thith theach him how tho fly."

"Jet? Who's he?" asked the Game Master.

"Jet is Dynabwade's son. He and his wife al liwing at the thop of the Buther Builthings. Now, fowow me!" Kirby said as he walked to the towers.

"You know, I still want to know how I survived," said Jon.

Suddenly, Toad walked in from off screen and said," Law of Video Game Physics 86: A man named Rostenburg developed the Rostenburg Reality Scale, with measures exactly how realistic a world is on a scale from 1 to 10. Dreamland has a Reality Rating of 2, or two reals, so you can't be hurt by anything that isn't an enemy or obstacle, and thus, you weren't killed, but since this world still has some connections to reality, you still lost HP due to the height of the fall. Would you like me to repeat this?" "Yes" and "No" buttons popped up.

"How did you g-" Jon almost said, but deciding that he was yelled at enough times yesterday, he chose "No".

Toad nodded and walked off screen, so the Game Master decided to pretend this never happened, for now. He would question Toad on how he got here when he got back to the castle, however.

The N-Team came up to the Butter Buildings and started to walk in. "Wait! Why don't you just fly up?" the Game Master, Jon, asked.

"What do you mean?" asked Link.

"Kirby could use his infinite flight time to fly up while carrying either you or me and Mega Man could use the Rush Jet to carry either you or me, along with him, to the top, using a W-Tank every once in a while!" said Jon.

"We can'th do thath!" exclaimed Kirby.

"Why not?"

"Because... uhhh... thele mighth be enemies insithe anth we neeth tho stop them befole they leach Jeth anth his wife!"

"Uh... Yeah!" Mega Man and Link exclaimed.

"&...Damn video game logic&," Jon thought to himself as he followed everyone inside.

DUNGEON: BUTTER BUILDINGS INTERIOR...

-I

A Space Pirate ship loomed over The Fountain of Dreams.

OVERWORLD: RAINBOW RESORT...

"It's about time you got here!" Dark Matter yelled up to the ship. "The rays of goodness shining from the Star Rod were making me sick to my stomach!"

Bass teleported down. "Could you move?"

"Yeah, sure," DM said as he floated out of the way. Bass pulled the Star Rod out, causing the water to stop pouring out of the fountain and it lost its beautiful glow. He teleported back into the ship.

"Dark Matter!" Mother Brain said over the intercom, "You don't have to do anything else. You can go now."

"Just remember our deal! Once The Code is complete, I will be allowed to use a legendary weapon against Kirby!" Dark Matter then disappeared in a puff of smoke.

-I

"Whoa! Look at how pretty it is!" Eggplant Wizard exclaimed as he grabbed the Star Rod from Bass and started playing with it.

"Give me that!" Mother Brain yelled as a robotic claw stole it from Eggplant Wizard. However, the claw accidentally swiped it, so it shot out a star that created a hole that went straight through the wall. "Hmm... I guess I should be more careful," MB said as she put the Star Rod in a glass container, which was then put in a cabinet in her jar.

Mother Brain then called the shaded figure. "Did you get the Star Rod?" asked him.

"Yes, sir, we did," said MB. "We are heading back right now."

"No! Don't leave! Before you come back, you must take care of this new N-Team!"

"We currently have someone solving that problem for us, so don't worry," MB said as "The Man" hung up. She then called Metaknight. "Nightmare, Don't bother delaying the N-Team. Kill them."

"Yes, ma'am! The N-Team is in front of the Butter Buildings and I fear that they might enlist the help of the Dynablades living there. Has Dr. Wily finished enhancing my men?"

"Not quite," answered Dr. Wily, "but I did finish on the Poppy Bros. Sr.s. They are now Poppy Bros. Sr. Ultra Omega Deluxe Supreme Infinite Improbability Driven Bomber That Are Now More Powerful Than Ever Before And Give Kirby A Sleep Ability Instead Of Crash Or Bomb Ultra Omega Deluxe To The Third Power Men, or Poppy Men for short! I'll send them to you right now!"

"For your sake, I hope they are useful," said the Nightmare/ Metaknight.

-I

"Butter Buildings Theme From The Room Right Before You Fight Bugzzy"

"You know, this place is actually pretty boring without enemies," Jon said as he rode the Rush Jet to the top of the pit. "Usually, Bugzzy would be in the next room, but with NOTHING HERE, disproving your reasoning for going this way in the first place, there's just a small square room with another ladder."

"Game Master, would you SHUT UP? &I really liked Kevin more&," yelled Link as he jumped into the door, which was suspended in midair.

End "Butter Buildings Theme From The Room Right Before You Fight Bugzzy"

In the next room, it was strangely dark, except for some small patches of light. "The room wasn't this dark in Kirby's Adventure and Nightmare in Dreamland. Kirby, what's going on?" asked Jon.

"Someone musth have thesthroyeth the lighth bulbs," pointed out Kirby.

"Light bulbs? I guess that makes sense, since many rooms didn't have windows in the game."

"Not to mention it's noon and the sun is right above us, so no light is going through the side windows," commented Mega Man.

"Hey, I think I hear something," said Link with his huge pointy elf ears that girls find strangely sexy.

"If you hear strange noises, that means nothing's here. Trust me, using my knowledge of horror games, chances are, the object making the noise is far away from us. If it was anywhere near us, it would be completely silent, but suddenly, out of nowhere, there'd be a huge, hideous screech and a zombie would jump out at us and attack us with a butcher knife, but it would be stuck in his head, so he would have to pull off his actual head and attack us with that, and since the knife would be all the way through his head, he could still skewer us and stuff," said Jon.

"Jon, I see them," said Mega Man, using his infrared. "They're standing right in front of us."

"What do they look like?" asked Link.

"They look like... clowns," answered Mega Man.

"Cwowns? They musth be the Poppy Blos. Sl.s!" exclaimed Kirby.

"Poppy Bros. Sr.s? I doubt that! First of all, what would they be doing in the dark, and why are they just standing there?" countered Jon. "Chances are, they're demonic clowns that run away as soon as we walk up to them, only to drop down from the ceiling in the next room and stab one of us. The question is, which one of us will it be?"

"... You know, he makes a gooth pointh," admitted Kirby.

"Guys, they're pulling out some bombs," said Mega Man.

"Sure they're pulling out bombs- bombs to block the exit so we can't go back and escape the doom of being stabbed!" Jon said.

"Who wilw geth stabbeth, though?" asked Kirby.

"Okay, is any one here black?" asked Jon. Everyone shook their heads, but even though the Game Master couldn't see them very well, he knew it was a stupid question in the first place and already knew the answer. "Now, is anyone here enough of a dumbass to just stand around in a dark, supposedly dangerous room for five minutes?" Everyone looked at each other. Another stupid question. Suddenly, two lit bombs landed in front of the group and a missile flew into Kirby's mouth, preventing him from sucking up the bombs in time. "Hmmm... same shape, same color... so they WERE Poppy Bros... that doesn't explain the missile, though." Then, the bombs exploded, knocking everyone out.

-I

"Ugh... Where am I?" asked Jon as he looked around to see that he was on a beautiful cloud that was surprisingly hard with a strange river flowing through it... and that there were two axes heading straight for him. Jon screamed as the axes barely scraped the sides on his body, pinning him to the ground by his shirt.

"Stay down!" the owner of the axes yelled. He was a tall figure who seemed to be hovering above the ground. He had four arms, no legs, a face that was very simple with no curves and was only vaguely human, and a large, bulky wooden armor with some strange, Dreamland-ish inscription on the chest area. In fact, his entire body seemed to be made of wood. Upon closer inspection, there were strings coming out of him that were connected to one of those things puppeteers use to control puppets. You know, one of these days, they should make a reverse-dictionary, where you have a definition and you look up a word that matches up to it. It would make my life a lot easier…

Jon tried to reach for his controller, but it was knocked away by another axe.

"Don't bother," said Rock, who was next to him and somehow back in his civilian clothes. "Every time we move, he throws an axe before we can do it."

"Link! Why don't you use Nayru's Love to render yourself invincible to the axes?"

"I would, but my bag is over there," Link said nodding his head toward a pile of everyone's containers and weapons, except for the Mega Buster, of course. "By the way, Game Master, do you know where we are?"

"Well, judging from the clouds, we're in the Grape Gardens, which are only one level away from the Butter Buildings," Jon answered. "However, there MAY be a chance we're at the Bubbly Clouds or another cloud level, which are nowhere near Jet's nest, I guess. ...By the way, where's Kirby?"

Everyone looked around. "I have no idea," said Rock. "I suppose those clowns may have taken him elsewhere. Since it's not hard to figure out that they were sent by Metaknight, does he have a vendetta against Kirby?"

"Yeah, he does. I guess they took him up to the Halberd, making it even more essential for us to destroy the ship!" exclaimed Jon.

"That's nice and all, but how are we going to get out of here?" asked Link.

"I could easily escape from these axes, but the guy throwing the axes is the main problem," Rock said.

"Mega Man, I thought you were a robot. How can you be hurt by the axes?" asked Link.

"The blades seemed to laser-sharpened so they can cut through my armor. If they weren't, I wouldn't be pinned to the ground like this, since my clothes are metal, too."

"You know, that reminds me, I forgot to ask Toad this yesterday. If you can go to any world you want and take any thing with you, why aren't there any robots in Hyrule or anything like that?" Jon asked.

"Well, depending on the time period a region is supposed to take place in, some forms of technology don't work there. There's a lot of complicated math to it, but that's basically how it works," Mega Man explained.

"Wait, so that means you can't go into Hyrule?"

"Right."

"That so...? Wait, I think I know how to escape, just don't talk," said Jon as he turned to the puppet thing. "You don't seem familiar. Have you been in any games?"

"..." said the puppet.

"..."

"... Sooooooooo... do you have a name?"

"..."

"... You want me to guess?"

"..."

"…"

"..."

"Game Master, exactly what was your plan anyway?" Link asked

"Well... uhh... I can't remember..."

Rock broke out of the axes, transformed into his armor, and walked up to the puppet. "There seem to be traces of a sleeping powder all over him. It seems someone sprinkled him with it while we were talking, but who?" he said as he used the Mega Buster to destroy Link's and Jon's axes.

"Link, you stay here incase the puppet wakes up, me and Mega Man will try to figure out what happened," Jon said as and Mega Man walked away.

After a while, the sleeping powder wore off. "Ugh... HEY YOU! HOW'D YOU ESCAPE!"

"... What's your name again?" said Link.

"Axe Master," said Axe Master.

"... I've heard better."

Battle... BEGIN!

"Kirby: Nightmare In Dreamland Boss Theme"

Link struck first by shooting a fire arrow toward the Axe Master. The arrow hit and the puppet burst into flames, but he seemed to ignore this and struck Link with his now flaming axe. Though Link blocked it with his shield, the flames caught his clothes on fire and every fangirl in the universe held their breath at once. However, they groaned when they discovered that clothes never burn off in the World of Nintendo, and Link rolled on the ground/cloud, putting out the fire. Link pulled out his Master Sword and chopped off one of Axe Master's arms. However, it was again ignored and the puppet swiped at Link with an axe, but Link dodged and countered with an ice arrow. The puppet dodged in a similar manner, but Link lodged off another arm. To the Hero of Time's surprise, the wooden solider walked up to his arms and reattached them. Link sliced off his head with his boomerang but it was put back on in a similar fashion. The green-clad Hyrulian cut through the strings holding up the puppet, but they simply regenerated. Axe Master started spinning around and dashed toward Link, who received the full effect of the attack and was knocked across the cloud. Link quickly got up and shot another boomerang attack toward the wooden creature, but Axe Master knocked it away with his axe. As Link dodged an axe toss, the puppet did another spin attack, a mocking of Link's trademark tornado spin, but this time, Link successfully side-jumped out of the way and shot an ice arrow. After Axe Master was frozen, Link tossed a bomb to his side and he exploded into many pieces.

End "Kirby: Nightmare In Dreamland Boss Theme"

LINK WINS! YOU GOTTEN... PIANO E-CARD!

Slide this through the E-Reader and see what happens!

Another E-Card appeared in Link's hands. "Huh? What's this? Wait, I think the Game Master was using a card like this. I better meet up with them," Link said as he drank some blue potion and recovered his health and magic and walked toward where Mega Man and Jon were.

-I

"Test complete. The Butter Buildings are a few hours of walking ahead, so we better get started." exclaimed Mega Man. "Also, there isn't any sign of the person with the sleeping powder."

"Great, more walking," commented Jon.

Suddenly, Link ran up to them and showed them the E-Card.

"I guess I'll try it out," said Jon as he swiped the card, only to have a piano appear in front of him. "What... The... Hell?"

Toad walked in from off screen and said, "The Piano E-Card allows you to summon a piano! Would you like an explanation on how to use it?" An "Okay" and a "No Thanks!" appeared in front of Toad. Jon chose "No Thanks". "That's a good choice, since anyone who wasn't introduced as a fighter is good at instruments! Go ahead, try it!"

"Actually, we kind of need to hurr-"

"GO AHEAD, TRY IT!"

Unwillingly, Jon tried it, playing the overworld theme from the year 800 AD in Chrono Trigger… very badly.

"Game Master, as… uh, good as your music is, we still need to get back onto the Halberd!" said Link.

-I

After a few hours of walking, it became dark.

"It's almost night, so we should set up camp," commented Mega Man. "I'll stay up and keep guard, since I don't have to sleep."

"...Kay," Jon said as everyone went to sleep.

-I

The next morning, Link woke up to see that...

"...He's still asleep," Mega Man said.

"Well, we don't have time to wake the newbie up. The Halberd is currently at it's closest to the Butter Buildings, and we don't have another chance to get on, so we have to get Jet's help immediately," Link said squinting at a small brown thing above the Towers, which were now only a few minutes away.

Rock then clicked a button on his watch, causing his armor to appear, and had Rush transform into his Jet form with Jon on him. "Since we can't leave Jon behind, I'll have Rush carry Jon."

-I

At the Butter Buildings...

Do you think those cyborg Poppy Bros. are still in there?" questioned Link.

"Back when we first came here, I wasn't using my metaorb (the orbs robot masters give off when they die) detector, since I wasn't expecting any robots. I can't detect any robots now, so I guess it's safe," answered Mega Man.

"We can't take any chances, so we should be on our guard," Link said as he pulled out his Master Sword.

They walked in to find something they've never noticed before- an elevator. Shrugging, they walked in.

After a ride, they stepped out of the elevator at the top floor to see a giant nest with a giant bird known as a Dynablade.

"...Are Dynablades supposed to have purple auras?" asked Link as he looked up at the large bird.

"No."

"Well, what does it mean, then?"

"Purple means a lot of things," mused MM, "but, since this is Popstar, it is very likely that Jet is possessed by the Dark Matter. However, we can only be sure if he is very aggressive."

Suddenly, Jet noticed them and screamed as he dived toward them. Link dodged to the left, at the entrance, while MM and Rush dodged to the right, but Rush accidentally dropped Jon. Thankfully, a well-aimed hookshot wrapped around Jon instead of impaling him, and dragged him to the left. Jet then crashed into the tower where the entrance was, knocking a bunch of rubble in front of the entrance, blocking Link and Jon, and leaving MM and Rush to face the giant bird.

"&This doesn't look like anything a few bombs won't handle&," Link thought as he placed a bomb. The explosion only cracked the rubble. "&I guess this could take a while&."

Battle... BEGIN!

"Kirby SuperStar Boss Theme"

Realizing that in order to de-possess Jet, he would have to hurt him, MM started charging up his buster while the bird was recovering, and shot a fully charged blast, hitting him on the head. Jet screeched, took to the air, and dived toward MM. He slid out of the way and used a fully charged mega-buster shot, but Jet anticipated this, dodged, and countered with a fireball. However, MM brought up the Junk Shield, blocking the fireball, and fired it at the Dynablade, but he sliced right through it with his wings. Jet then landed on the ground and flapped his winds, causing MM to fall off the towers. Thankfully, Rush transformed into jet mode and saved his owner, and as they flew back up, MM blasted the Dynablade with a Crash Bomber. The bird, however, dodged and dived toward the duo. With a quick burst of speed, they dodged, and Mega Man shot a fully charged Atomic Fire. He shrieked in pain, and launched his head at MM (you know, that freaky attack from Kirby SuperStar where his neck greatly extended), knocking him off of Rush. On the ground, MM was littered by many fireball attacks, and the Dynablade was just about to pick up MM when he suddenly shot a Tornado Hold into his mouth, causing Jet to reel back in pain and the twister tore against his gums. MM slid away, but as soon as he got out of the slide, he noticed that Jet was diving straight for him. Thankfully, Rush Cycle drove past, picking up Mega Man right on time. Jet flew right through the rubble, releasing Link and Jon.

"&If I knew that was going to happen, I wouldn't have used so many bombs&," Link thought as the purple aura left Jet, taking the form of Dark Matter, who was on the ground panting.

End "Kirby SuperStar Boss Theme"

MEGA MAN WINS! YOU GOTTEN... MUSHROOM!

Mega Man sighed. Another mushroom.

"...Zzzzzz... Huh... what... what happened? Did anything happen while I was asleep?"" Jon asked as Dark Matter flew away.

Mega Man explained what happened. "We are at the top of the Butter Buildings... and it seems Jet has agreed to help us." Jet was looking at pictures Link drew to explain everything, and, after looking at them all, motioned for the N-Team to get on his back. They did, and they flew toward the Halberd 2.

-I

After 15 minutes, Jon said, "This is pretty boring. Does anyone want any in-flight music?"

Everyone agreed that it was a good idea, as it couldn't have been much worse than the last song, so Jon activated his Piano E-Card. The piano landed on Jet, and with a shriek, Jet started going down very quickly. Startled, everyone, started reaching around under the piano. Eventually, someone hit the Start button, causing the piano to go back to card mode and Jet to go back up.

"Something tells me you shouldn't do that again," said Link.

-I

"Squaksquakscreeeeee!" screeched Jet.

"We are getting very close to the Halberd, so brace yourself incase of attacks," translated Jon, who put on his translator.

"Halberd Theme From Kirby SS"

On cue, hundreds of bullets came flying toward and the nonrobotic members of the N-Team hid behind the safety of Jet's feathers.

"Rush and I will draw the guns' fire. You guys just get on the ship!" Mega Man announced as he jumped on Rush and flew towards the guns, Mega Buster blazing and bullets ricocheting off his armor.

"&You know, I never could understand how bullets have no effect on Mega Man, yet a pair of scissors can kill him if his health is low enough&."

-I

"Sir Metaknight!" yelled Meta Mace.

"The guns seem to have no effect!" yelled Meta Lance.

"Who told you to use to machine guns! Use the vulcan cannons!" yelled Metaknight.

-I

"Hey, the machine guns stopped," Link commented, but after he said that, the sky was littered with plasma blasts.

A bunch of them hit Jet and he fell toward the ground... again. "I think we're close enough for my Longshot to work, so grab on!" yelled Link. Nodding, Jon grabbed onto Link's hat (yes, I'm serious) and they swung onto the ship. "Mega Man can't seem to land! Jon, you're the Game Master, where can we deactivate the weapons?"

"If I remember correctly, the path to the weapons is past that first door. You go there, and I'll check out the first path incase anything important is there," answered Jon.

"'Kay," Link said as the two split up.

As soon as Link leaped over the door, they found themselves surrounded by many Capsule Js (jet enemies). Needless to say, Link beat the crap out of them. Link ran to the weapon control room, which was where the Combo Cannon used to be. However, before he could reach it...

End "Halberd Theme From Kirby SS"

-I

DUNGEON: HALBERD II BELOW DECKS...

With time paused, Jon walked past many enemies, and he was very happy about the facts that he didn't have to fight and that the path was so linear. Past the area where Kirby first fought Heavy Lobster, Jon had no idea where he was, but eventually he came to a prison area.

"&This must be where they are keeping Kirby&," Jon thought to himself, and sure enough, there was a bit of pink visible behind one of the cells. "&Hmm... there's no lock. That must mean I have to defeat an enemy to unlock the doors&," thought the Game Master as he looked around, still in pause. He then saw some strange distortion. "&Hmm... I recognize that... invisible... thingy&!"

Jon then unpaused and shot a B-Blast at the unsuspecting invisible-thing. The blast hit, knocking him out of his state of invisibility revealing Chameleo Arm, a magenta chameleon that could change colors, and one of the more annoying Kirby bosses.

"Hey, what was that for, man?" the rainbow lizard said.

"You're working for Metaknight!"

"Hey man, calm down! That was like ten years ago, man, I've changed! I'm one of the good guys now!"

"Then why are you guarding the cells?"

"I'm not, man! I was captured and I just escaped!"

"Then where's the guard? ...And how did you escape that lockless door?"

"The guard left to get some tacos, and my prison buddy was a wizard, man."

"Oh... Well, I'll need to defeat you to open the doors, so... yeah..."

"?"

Battle... BEGIN!

"KSS Boss Theme"

Jon shot an A-Blast, but Chameleo Arm dodged using his long extendo-legs. When CA bounced back, he puffed out his cheeks. Recognizing what was going on, Jon jumped out of the launching tongue's way and countered with an A-shot. It hit, but CA turned invisible and slashed Jon, but suddenly, Jon put up his arms to block it, which he didn't do during the Crash Man fight, and a barrier appeared. Though he was knocked back a little, Jon was surprised, and for a good reason. "What the? Why didn't that hurt? And where did that barrier come from?" As Jon pondered over this, he was run over by the renegade chameleon and was flattened like a pancake. This was Law of Video Game Physics 86 in work, but it still hurt. Jon pressed pause so he could think, but right before time froze, the Game Master was hit by a paint attack from Chameleo Arm, so he was sent flying into the wall. "Gahh... Why was I hurt by that?" he said as he quickly used the Mushroom he got from the hide-and seek minigame.

Suddenly, Toad walked in from off screen in the frozen world and said, "Would you like to learn about the Barrier System?"

In a brief moment of stupidity, Jon said, "Su-"

"BLARGHBLA/\/\!" Toad yelled in a similar manner to Andross in Eggplant Wizard's story. A "yes" and "no" appeared in front of Toad like usual and since Jon was actually curious about this barrier thing, he chose "yes".

"Like in the Super Smash Bros. Tournament, you can create a barrier around you to protect you from attacks. By the way, did you know there's a new one coming up? The tournament's biannual, but they've decided to move it up an year due to the popularity of the one last year."

"Are you serious? That's great! Wait, it's biannual? There wasn't a Super Smash Bros. game in 2003!"

"What! You mean they didn't show it in your world! It was the best one yet! 48 fighters, 52 arenas, it was just plain cool!"

"Dammit, how could they not show it in my world? Please tell me it's on DVD!"

"It is, but every copy was sold out and it was so good that no one is willing to sell their copy, not even on eBay!"

"Oh... can I borrow your copy when I get back to the castle?"

"NO!"

"Oh... Say, Toad, did you remember your bazooka this time?"

"No. Why?"

Jon grabbed Toad, unpaused, and threw Toad to Chameleo Arm. They collided, and Toad exploded in spores.

"Screw this, man," yelled Chameleo Arm," You're crazy, man, CRAZY!" He rolled up and dashed away.

End "KSS Boss Theme"

JON WON! YOU GOTTEN... JAIL KEY!

The bars opened, releasing Kirby. After a reunion, they walked into the next door. After a few rooms, they find themselves back on the deck and see a s---load of enemies.

"That's a big army 0o," Jon pointed out.

"I may be abwe tho kill them all if I hath the Clash abilithy. Tho you see any Clash enemies?" asked Kirby.

"Hang on, I'll check." Jon paused, and immediately (in Kirby's eyes) came back. "I found one. Follow me!"

In a large enclosed room, Jon and Kirby find a single Crash enemy. However, when they got close, a force field suddenly appeared around it.

"I won't let you pass!" yelled Metaknight who jumped down. "Kirby, I challenge both you and the new Game Master to a duel... TO THE DEATH! Since I'm not the Metaknight you know, you will not receive a sword!"

-I

Meanwhile...

"Not so fast!" said two voices. Suddenly, the Poppy Men appeared in front of Link and yelled, "How are you gentleman! All your base are belong to us now! You are on your way to destruction!"

"What you say!" yelled Link.

"There is no-"

"Could you guys hurry up!" yelled Mega Man.

"Oh, right," said Link.

A sign appeared, but it was different than the previous battle signs.

"READY!"

The Poppy Men dashed toward Link, but he jumped out of the way and they fell off the ship.

LINK WINS! YOU GOTTEN... POPPY BOMB!

A large bomb that can be used to blow up weapon control rooms.

"&...That as amazingly easy&," Link thought as he placed the Poppy Bomb in the weapon control room. It blew up, and all of the weapons on the ship deactivated. After about a minute, Mega Man flew down on Rush.

"Hey, I was going to save Mega Man," Proto Man said as he teleported away.

"... Blues o0? ...Anyway, thank you, Link! Now where's Jon?" Mega Man asked.

-I

Battle... BEGIN!

"Metaknight Battle Theme From KSS"

Metaknight started off by shooting a crescent of energy emitted from his sword at the two fighters, but Jon and Kirby jumped out of the way. Kirby quickly sucked up Jon and became Laser Kirby and they both shot some blasts at the masked swordsman, but Metaknight used his demonic wings to quickly fly out of the way. He did another sword beam attack, but Jon and Kirby jumped out of the way again. Jon paused and snuck up behind Metaknight, unpaused, and tried to tackle him, but the purple puffball with a mask spun around and created a dark tornado around Jon. Thankfully, Kirby sucked up the tornado, turning into Tornado Kirby. Kirby spun toward Metaknight, but he batted him away with his sword, the Galaxia, and flew after him.

Not wasting a moment, Jon shot a B-Blast at the purple warrior and it hit, so Metaknight focused his attention toward Jon and attempted to stab his sword into his chest. Thankfully, Jon ducked the attack and shot at Metaknight. He was hit, and after he was knocked back, Tornado Kirby spun into him, sending him into the air. Jon shot a B-Blast, keeping Metaknight in the air and causing him to drop Galaxia, his sword. Kirby sucked it up, becoming Galaxia Kirby (the powered-up form of Sword Kirby from the anime), and he shot a sword beam at the masked swordsman, ending the (not too impressive) four hit combo. When Metaknight landed on the ground, his mask was sliced in half and fell off, revealing a purple version of Kirby.

End "Metaknight Battle Theme From KSS"

As Metaknight started crying, Jon commented, "That was a lot shorter than I expected, and why hasn't that message saying we won popped up yet... Gah, I shouldn't have said that!"

Suddenly, a purple aura appeared around Metaknight, and the Nightmare's powers took over. A glowing sword of black energy appeared in his hands.

"That's not good o0! He looks like the Nightmare now! Maybe that's what he meant when he said that he wasn't the Metaknight you know!"

"Nightmare Form 2 Battle Theme From K:NiD"

Nightmare Metaknight dashed toward Kirby and slashed his new sword, but Kirby managed to block it with the Galaxia. Jon shot a B-Blast, but it bounced harmlessly into the sky, and the augmented Metaknight used the Nightmare's dark star attack. Jon jumped out of the way of the incoming stars, but the resulting explosion knocked him into the wall. It seemed like there was no chance of beating Nightmare Metaknight when suddenly, a beam of light collided with him and he screeched in pain.

End "Nightmare Form 2 Battle Theme From K:NiD"

"Heroic Version Of Hyrule Theme"

Link and Mega Man jumped down. Link had his bow out, and it was armed with Light Arrows.

"Of course!" exclaimed Jon. "You have to use final weapons to harm creatures like the Nightmare, like the Star Rod or Light Arrows!"

After shooting some more Light Arrows, Metaknight's aura disappeared and the Nightmare flew out into the sky.

End "Heroic Version Of Hyrule Theme"

Metaknight himself eventually woke up, not seeing the N-Team due to the fact that he was facing away from them, but he wrapped his cape around him and jumped into the air before he could look back. "He must have teleported away to figure out what's going on by himself," commented Jon.

"SIR METAKNIGHT!" yelled Meta Lance.

"WAIT FOR UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSSSSSSSSSSSS!" yelled Meta Axe as they flew after their leader.

"I guess we can claim this ship for King Game and Watch," commented Link.

However, that proved impossible when the victory pop-up appeared.

N-TEAM WON! YOU GOTTEN... REALLY BIG BOMB!

A really big bomb appeared behind the N-Team and started ticking. "..." everyone said at once.

"Maybe this was the reason Metaknight left..." Jon said.

Acting quickly, Link yelled, "Farore's Wind!" and everyone disappeared just as the bomb exploded, destroying the ship known as the Halberd II.

-I

The N-Team reappeared in front of the Presidential Castle, where it was now some time in the afternoon. "Thank you, Wink! In facth, all of you thith a gooth job! I guess I shoulth rethurn tho my worlth now," said Kirby. After some goodbyes, Toad threw down the warp to Popstar and Kirby walked in.

"I guess this is goodbye for you guys too," said Jon.

"Actually, I liked being part of a team again," commented Mega Man, who then switched out of his armor. "I think I may be able to convince Dr. Light to let me stay here, since Dr. Wily seems to have teamed up with Mother Brain."

"What do you mean," asked Jon. "I didn't see anything that could have hinted that Wily's involved in this, besides when he attacked the castle, and that may have been a coincidence."

"Actually, when Link 'fought' the Poppy Bros. Sr.s, or 'Poppy Men' to be more exact, I noticed that they used the same battle start signs as the other robot masters."

"What about you, Link?" asked Jon.

"Well, you do seem to need a magic user and someone to keep the Captain N name respectable, so I guess I'll stay. Besides, I already have the perfect person to take care of things in Hyrule while I'm gone," said Link.

-I

"Quick, just a few more rooms until we reach Princess Zelda's room and we can kill her!" said a guy to his partner as he walked down the hallways of Hyrule Castle. However, when he reached the door, he heard a sound... a demonic sound from the very pits of hell.

"Hey! Look here! Listen! Hey! Look here! Listen! Hey! Look here! Listen! Hey! Look here! Listen! Hey! Look here! Listen! Hey! Look here! Listen! Hey! Look here! Listen! Hey! Look here! Listen! Hey! Look here! Listen! Hey! Look here! Listen! Hey! Look here! Listen! Hey! Look here! Listen! Hey! Look here! Listen! Hey! Look here! Listen! Hey! Look here! Listen! Hey! Look here! Listen!" screeched Navi.

"GAHHHHHHHHH! IT BURNS! MY EARS ARE BLEEDING!" screamed the killers as they ran away.

-I

"So everyone is staying?" asked Jon. They all nodded. "I guess I'll tell King Game and Watch about this."

Jon walked into the throne room. "Did you complete the mission?" asked King Game and Watch, who apparently finished his work.

"Yeah, we stopped Metaknight and his crew!"

"Metaknight? I never told you to go after him! I told you to see what the Dark Matter was doing!"

"Dark Matter? He was possessing the Dynablades living on the Butter Buildings."

"Butter Buildings? He wasn't at the Fountain of Dreams?"

"Fountain of Dreams? Gah! With Metaknight attacking, I completely forgot about it!"

"King Game and Watch," yelled a Waddle Dee guard, "reports have come in that the Star Rod was stolen by a large Space Pirate battleship! As a result, no one can dream anymore!"

"GAME MASTER!" yelled Toad.

"Uh... Sorry?" said Jon.

-I

NEXT TIME ON CAPTAIN N: 2004!

"Instrumental Version Of Captain N 2004 Theme Song"

"After a check-up with Dr. Mario, it is revealed that there's actually a reason why there is a delay in my pause- I haven't adapted to this world's physics. For me to get used to this world's physics, I must go through special training from Super Mario RPG's Jinx. However, when Mr. Nintendo himself, Mario, pays a visit to Monstro Town, the Axem Rangers get their revenge in their new megazord! How can me and the N-Team compete with that!"

"Be sure to watch/read Captain N Level 3: Time For Crime Force!"

"If you don't understand the reference behind the title, the Power Rangers Time Force 'morphing phrase' was 'Time for Time Force!'."

-I

Episode 2 FAQ

Q: Why was Alucard removed?

A: I decided that with some of the rules introduced later, Alucard appearing makes no sense at all. When the first version of this story (not the group fic) was written, the most recent Castlevania game was Lament of Innocence, in which, as far as I know, Alucard was not born yet, so Alucard appearing would conflict with the rules that will be established in Ch. 4. I could have explained it by saying that Alucard is in leagues with

Q: What was with Proto Man making that cameo when Mega Man flew onto the Halberd after Link deactivated the weapons?

A: It was a reference to the group fic, which had Proto Man rescue Mega Man.

Q: Is the Star Rod being stolen ever going to be brought up again?

A: Of course it will! Do you think I'd just forget something like that!