"Starfy was with you? I didn't know that!"
After awhile of explaining, it finally dawned onto Kit Fish of what had occurred within the past hour. At first, she scared, but ultimately was assured she was safe, despite essentially being dead in a sense.
"Yeah, Starfy and his sister, and his best friend was with us. They seemed pretty ready to help!" Bandana Dee began, but slowly retracted. "Well, two of them were."
"Oh, then that means they should be around here, right?" Kit Fish smiled, but noticed Dee's expression looking a bit down.
It didn't take a genius to understand what was going on.
"They...didn't get away, didn't they?" The young fish asked, with the spear wielding hero nodded. Noticing the tone of both going down, Plasma Bomber spoke up.
"Listen, I understand a chiild like you is afraid..." The robot spoke. "But we shouldn't back away. We need to assist this hero in stopping this force."
"Wait, but we're...ghosts, right? How do we help if we faze through things?" Kit Fish asked.
"Simple. We enter his body. From there, we empower him to face against many foes." Plasma Bomber explained. This left Kit Fish in a bit of confusion. "How do we...do that?"
To showcase this, Plasma Bomber zipped right back into Bandana Dee's body, empowering him. "Whoa..." With the fish entering the body, Bandana spun his spear in his hand.
Finally reaching the bottom of the mountain, the Waddle Dee went up to nearby stairs. But once he took a step, a suddenly was thrown at him!
Rushing away from it before it could explode, Bandana Dee sighed, before mumbling "Where did that come from?!"
He turned his head, and his eyes widened at his attacker. "Is that...?"
The attacker was a robot similar to Plasma Bomber, but had a white head, and a less computer-like face. His body was wss purple with a belt in it, and his feet had the color pink.
Plasma Bomber's Spirit was just as shocked. "Is that...White?"
Kit Fish spoke. "Yeah, his head thingy is white!"
"No, that's White Bomber! He's an ally of mine!" Plasma Bomber explained. Bandana Dee hopped to his fight. "White! It's me, Bandana Dee!"
White stared for a bit, before pulling out a bomb. "Looks like I missed a Ballom...let's go!"
"Wait, Ballom? I'm a Waddle Dee, remember?!" Bandana Dee desperately reminded, but the bomb was thrown, leaving the poor guy with no choice but to roll away to safety.
"Bandana, I think he's under the same influence as we were." Plasma Bomber. "You mean how I thought you guys were bad guys?" Kit Fish asked.
"Exactly. Bandana Dee, you'll have to fight him." Plasma said, his tone of voice showing he wished for an alternative.
"Um...alright." Bandana Dee said, slowly picking up his spear. "Just don't inflict lethal damage." The Spirit spoke. "R-Right."
Bandana Dee ran in, leaping over a bomb thrown at him and kicking one back, with White rolling to the side.
White quickly put in a memory cartridge into his belt, and turned invisible. Bandana Dee looked around, trying to find where White was, before feeling his back being kicked.
Turning around, Bandana Dee held his spear up, swinging wildly in a attempt to hit the robot. White held up his arm to block every hit, before headbutting Bandana Dee to the ground.
Dee scampered to safety, and saw a volley of bombs heading his way. Narrowing his eyes, he kicked one back.
White Bomber grunted as he rolled to the side, avoiding an explosion. He didn't expect to get hit by another one, getting caught in an explosion that sent him back, and another one to send him up into the air.
With everything in position, Bandana Dee leaped up, and slammed the handle of the spear into White's chest, smashing him hard into the ground below, cratering the floor...and knocking him out.
Bandana Dee landed on the ground, sighing in relief, before approaching the downed body. "White...? You alright?"
Slowly, White started waking up, groaning in pain. "Ugh...my head..." Now excited, Bandana Dee lifted him up. "White! It IS you!"
"...Bandana Dee...? What's going on...?" The robot asked, feeling his programs slowly booting up. Bandana Dee's face slowly fell.
"Galeem won..." The words made White stop focusing on the pain he felt, his eyes widening. "GALEEM WHAT?!"
"Remember when he did that laser attack that wiped us out? I got away, but he got everyone else..."
White took a second to process the info before asking "You're the only one left...?"
"Not exactly." Plasma Bomber's spirit left Bandana Dee's body, shocking his fellow Bomber. "Plasma Bomber?! What happened to you?!"
"Galeem vaporized him and turned him into a ghost!" Bandana Dee said, which make White be left with more confusion. "But we're robots! That can't be possible!"
"It seems this Galeem can turn whatever he wished into spiritual being..." Plasma Bomber noted. "I think he cloned White too I found Plasma after fighting someone who looked like him!"
Sighing, White looked at them. "So...quick recap. Galeem destroyed and remade the universe like he wanted."
"That's right."
"He turned everyone into ghost-like beings."
"That too."
"And aside from me, you've found no one else that isn't these ghost things."
"Pretty much."
White began to look down. "Not even my siblings?" Bandana Dee began to go quiet, as White clenched his fists.
"B-But...I think we can still fix this." Bandana Dee spoke. White turnes around, looking reasonably confused. "How? If Galeem did all this, we only have two left to fight him! We needed an army before...and it didn't work..."
"That's the thing; if you were allowed to keep your body, then there's a chance the others did!" Bandana Dee explained. "And if Galeem can bring back vaporized bodies, there could be a way to bring them all back!"
White paused and began to think. If what was said was true, then there was a chance his family could be around, and many other people who need help or woild be willing to aid.
After a few moments White turned to him.
"Then let's get going. We got no time to waste!"
Bandana Dee's eyes lightened up. "That's the White I know!"
The two began to run up the staircase, before reaching the very top, seeing the wide landscape in around them. They took a moment to look around; towns, citiies, forests...so many things in sight.
:"So...where to first?" Bandana Dee asked. White looked around, looking for any area they could head towards.
During the lookout, a couple of footsteps were coming from the steps to the right. Turning to look over, the two saw...a normal man walk up, looking around himself.
"Um, sir? Are you lost?" Bandana Dee asked, and the man looked towards them. Bandana Dee then realized something.
"Uh, White...? He's got the glowing red eyes..." Bandana Dee alerted.
"Does that mean something?" White questioned. "Yeah, it means Galeem trapped him in that body!" Bandana Dee said. "Or maybe that IS his body? You were like that, and you called my a Ballom, had to beat you out of it."
"...So that's why my head hurts." White muttered. "Alright, this guy looks like a normal man, so he better hold back a bit."
"Or alot."
From the man's perspective, he was coming up the stairs of a park nearby. Looking around, he would see where White and Bandana Dee were...but instead he saw two looters.
"Looks like we found ourselves an easy picking." One of the looters said, with the other approaching "Now, just give us your stuff. and we'll left you go unharmed."
"Last thing I need to get fired from Red Crown. So do me a favor and bug someone else." The man crossed his arms, looking mildly annoyed.
"That's the thing, old man, we don't care! Give us the damn package!" The looter with a crowbar got up to him. The man quickly threw a punch...
...Bandana Dee staggered, rubbing his cheek. "Darn it, I thought I could have talked him down like that fish spirit!"
"Looks like we'll have to subdue him." White noted. "Uh, White? I think you'll need a spirit to help you..."
With that, Plasma Bomber popped out, and looked at White. "Let's do this." Although reasonably confused, White nodded...and was caught offguard by the spirit entering his body, empowering him. "Whoa! That...felt weird."
"Alright, this guy looks like a civillian, so no bombs or spear stabs, got it?" White said, as Bandana Dee nodded. "Got it!"
Bomberman ran in, throwing a punch as the man dodged, punching him the back of the head. Dee flipped his spear to the blunt end and rushed on forth.
The strike was enough to not kill, but to hurt somewhat, making the man lose balance. White shook off the blow he recieved earlier. With a quick sweep of the legs, the man got knocked down, and Dee smacked him across the face to knock him out.
"Phew...that was pretty easy!" The Waddle Dee said. White looked at him, then asked "So what do we do now? how do we know if he's just cloned or the actual guy?"
"Well, usually the spirity thing kinda jumps out. If not it SHOULD be a bit before he wakes up." Bandana Dee said.
A few minutes would pass. The man was still breathing, but he was not awakening.
"Uh...I think he is the guy." Bandana Dee remarked awkwardly. White Bomber sighed, before pulling out the water bomb. "You may wanna stand back."
White threw the bomb up, which exploded and caused water to splash down. Both heroes stepped away as the water hit the ground, and the man getting drenched, and awakened.
With a startled yelp, the man sat up, holding his head. The moment his eyes opened, the first thing he saw was both Dee and Bomberman. Confused, he stood up and looked at his surroundings, which were unlike what he was used to.
"Where am I...?" The man muttered, before turning to the two. "Hey, what's with the costumes?"
"Costumes?" Bomberman questioned. Before the man could ask anything else, the area began to shake, before a giant voice boomed.
"So...you truly believe you can undo my perfect world, by merely bringing more your your side?" The three looked at the source of the voice...it was Galeem, far in the distance!
"That's Galeem!" White Bomber said, a tone of hatred. The man notably was surprised by what he saw. "What the hell is that thing?!"
"Hmph. You only are postponing the inevitable. Soon you will fall, and the universe will know perfection." The lord of light spoke.
"Me and Kirby fought a lot of universe ending monsters, you're no different! Me and my friends WILL stop you!" Bandana Dee yelled. Galeem didn't respond...but gave a motion.
A giant gloved hand appeared, snapping it's fingers, creating a barrier on one side, and then the other. Before it would completely trap them, Dee leaped up and plunged his spear through it, bursting it apart, and making Dee drop to the floor with a squeak.
"Ow."
As Bandana Dee got up, both him and Bomberman noticed the man staring at them.
"Can I get an explination as to what's happening here?" The man asked. After a bit of deciding, White held his hand out.
"Let's start with introductions. My name is White Bomber, and this is Bandana Waddle Dee. What's yours?"
After a moment, the man sighed and gave his reply.
"...The name's Kyle Hyde."