Started February 27th 2020
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Chapter 3: Introductions to foreign ideals pt 1.
Bandanna Waddle Dee walked down Castle Dedede's hallway and came to a stop at a typical wall. He looked around and saw nobody else. He tapped the back of his foot on the wall which became a door. He made one more look around before heading inside. He entered the rectangular room with about 10 lights on each long side of the rectangle. Inside was the king himself, a Waddle Doo, one very fidgety Waddle Dee, a Carry Dee, and Bandanna Dee all huddled around a small circular table in the room.
Dedede then spoke up, "D-cret service meeting #43 now in service." The crowd all agreed to shut up and let the king speak. "First order of business, the uh… thingamajig that fell from the sky, A.K.A codename 'Skyfall'."
"Skyfall, Skyfall write that down." Said the fidgety Dee writing down the word 'Skyfall' in blue pen. The king continued.
"So as you know this alien thingy needs to be carefully looked at and monitored, but first things first I don't like that there name 'Alien' so I called y'all here today to name em." Dedede pulled up a picture on a monitor which was a close up of the alien, with short red hair like strands, a cleaning hat similar to that of the cleaning ability, the camera couldn't quite make out what they were wearing for a shirt, but essentially a white nightgown type shirt would've been visible.
"Well sire," Waddle Doo started. "Why don't we name them after you?"
"Waddle Doo, do I look like whatever that is to you?!" Dedede sighed, wondering how anyone would ever have a Waddle Doo give them ideas. They're good for nothing translators, and Bandanna Dee does a better job. "Next name idea…" He pointed to the Carry Dee. "Go!"
Then Carry Dee in a very proper voice said, "King Dedede, my great, amazing, strong, epic-"
"Get it over with." The king interrupts.
"Oh, but of course great king, as I was saying you should name it after your best and most reliable subject, none other than myself of course, why with the name Carryson the third Jr, sur-"
"Nope, next!" Dedede yells, turning to the fidgety Dee. "Alright, give me an idea…"
"Uh…. Uh….." The Fidgety Dee was sweating heavily, and then quickly responded, "Pass it to the other guy while I think!" Dedede sighed and looked over to Bandanna Dee who has his stub on the bottom of his chin-face-body thinking.
"Well hear me out, they say the word 'pop' a lot right?" Dedede nodded at this question. "Then how about, we call them something like…. Poppy?" Dedede thought about it for a second then was interrupted before he could speak by the Fidgety Dee who muttered,
"Mmm pop, I want some popcorn…" Dedede looked at the Dee wide-eyed, then took a look at everyone else in the room who all had a mixture of disappointed and melancholy emotions. "Did I do something wrong?" the Dee asked.
Dedede then responded with, "No, you did everything right! Popcorn is a perfect name, they say pop a lot and they popped up from nowhere like them Lil' corn kernels!" Bandanna Dee looked at bit angered as to why his name didn't get picked considering this… whatever it was has red hair strands similar to that of a poppy, but he couldn't judge the Kings choices.
The meeting then went on to discuss more important issues like healthcare, taxes, and 'WHICH ONE OF YOU FOOLS TOOK MY COOKIES OUT OF THE FREEZER?! Waddle Doo was let out of the service that day for violating rule #17 of the Dededoctrine, which was to never tamper with the Kings personal food supply. They held a moment of silence as he was shot out of a cannon into a distant mountain, never to be seen again in Canon.
At least that was what she perceived to happen from what Bandanna Dee told her. He felt the need to tell her about every meeting he went on since she was summoned from the Dream Palace, for whatever reason was unknown.
She didn't mind it of course, as it was nice to have his company. Adeline had been in the Kings castle for a majority of the day after, "Skyfall" and it was getting awfully late. She had been watching 'Popcorn' doing very odd things around the castle.
Popcorn had been sweeping the floors of the castle for some reason, and they were doing a fairly good job as well. They had swept the entire main hallway, and would've probably continued if not stopping and staring at the kitchen. For an odd reason, when they stared at the kitchen a little star came out of their head and the hat they had on disappeared. Adeline didn't tell anyone about this however and walked into the kitchen a minute after Popcorn walked in.
When Adeline peeked in they were surrounded on all sides via Waddle Dees in chef hats, cooking a large dinner for the 100+ Waddle Dees, and small, but slightly higher quality dinner for the king and themselves. Popcorn went up to one of the Waddle Dee who looked to be the head chef.
Strangely they said Pop over and over, and the Waddle Dee understood them completely and got them an orange. Adeline peeked back out of the room and headed around the corner to pretend she was just walking. When Pop exited the room, the only thing left of the orange was the peel…
When Adeline told Bandanna Dee this they both yawn simultaneously and giggled. They each should probably head off to sleep. Adeline decided to take Bandanna Dee to his room, "Just because" was her reasoning. When they turned the corner in the slowly winding down Castle, they saw Popcorn looking fairly confused and tired…
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"Why were these idiots calling me popcorn?" was the first part I didn't get. After hearing that irritating name repeated, I would prefer anything else. But strangely I had this…. Odd feeling of sluggishness with my eyes getting heavier as my vision blurred. I had felt this feeling before, when I was….close to defeat in the past. What was this feeling, and why was it…. Amplified? Then I let out a peculiar noise from my mouth hole which I felt the need to cover up when making it.
Then the blue hat Waddle Dee and… other thing were around the other side of the rectangular pre-room they called a hallway. The Waddle Dee, this Adeline called Bandanna Dee, looked at Adeline, then at me, they said I looked, 'tired' which was inaccurate, as I looked nothing like a vehicles tire. Bandanna Dee say he should 'show me to the guest room' whatever what was supposed to be… then he said to ,'follow him' and began walking. I followed, not exactly sure of myself….
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Bandanna Dee headed with Adeline and Popcorn to the guest rooms the king kept for when the off traveler or Smash fighter might stay to visit. They brought Popcorn to the room and they just stood there. Menacingly. It was like they'd never seen a bed before, but then again they popped in from nowhere, so they may be foreign to the idea.
Bandanna Dee asked Adeline, "Is it… going to be okay?" to which she responded probably not. So they did what any self respecting individual would and decided to show them the ropes of sleeping, as odd as that may sound.
Now as you may know you, the reader, are in fact a human being. This means you know the fundamental basics of sleeping in a bed, so I shall be skipping over the rather tedious parts of this… experience, and get to the part I'm sure you've all watched this story for…
They had managed to get Popcorn lying down face up in bed. Now they just had to inform it how to sleep. Bandanna Dee then told it, "Okay, so now you have to sleep…"
'So they're trying to kill me?' I pondered. No, they've had many opportunities to do so, surely. But I see no purpose of putting myself in elongated slumber, so I got up from the bed and stood on top of it's mattress as they called it. When I stood up on the bed, for an odd reason I bounced up slightly midair. Now, I wasn't sure why but this bouncing motion felt rather fun. So I continued to do it, then for an odd reason, the human called Adeline and the Bandanna Waddle Dee chuckled at the action. It wasn't funny at all, but I continued to do it…
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Bandanna Dee was still smiling, on the inside as he had no mouth of course, this was quite a cute moment. Then Adeline yet out a yawn. It really was rather late. "Okay, Pop…." He paused for a second, then said, "Poppy." He continued. "Its time to sleep, alright?"
Bandanna Dee got an odd look from Adeline when he called 'Popcorn' that name, but he gave a look back which was essentially a, 'would you want to be named after a corn kernel that gets puffy when heated, or be named after a flower? ' look. I'm sure you know what that looks like, as you've toooootally been given a similar look, so I won't explain.
Poppy eventually settled down in the bed and went back into the laying down position just staring at the ceiling again. Bandanna Dee then told Poppy, "Close your eyes, and you'll fall asleep eventually." Instead of getting up it seemed to instinctively close it's eyes and it seemed to make a little snoring noise.
Adeline looked at Bandanna Dee and smiled. "Nice job, I wish I could help people that easy." She then thought on something odd, then laughed it off sighing, "We should probably get to bed it's late…." Then before they exited the room, they felt drawn towards the window which showed a lovely view of the forest.
"I don't know why…." Bandanna Dee started, "But I get the feeling we're missing out on something big…."
"Come on, we have to catch it!" Ribbon told Kirby as the hatch closed behind them both. The cramped shaft, or mini-hallway, was rather cramped to the point where Kirby could barely move in it. The robot dragged the rock with Meta Knight inside behind it, turning a corner and Ribbon made a sharp turn doing her best to chase after.
"Poy…" Kirby muttered, meaning, 'Ok…' as they turned the corner leading into a strangely large room. A hatch slammed behind them both as they entered the room. The room itself was a gray metallic color with various glass cages around the room. The robot dropped the rock Meta was in inside one of the cages on the other side of the room, then looked towards Kirby and Ribbon.
Neither of them said anything as the robot whirred strangely. Then a faint ding was heard and a wall of glass appeared between Kirby and Ribbon. The side of Ribbon's hair was over where the glass, and as it went up to the wall her hair got stuck and trapped between the glass and the ceiling.
As this was happening Meta Knight busted out of the rock disguise with his sword and glared around. "The hell is this place…" He muttered, then looking towards Kirby and Ribbon. "What are you doing here, were you compromised as well?"
Ribbon, with her hair stuck between a rock and a hard place, responded, "We were chasing after you, because we didn't want you to be kidnapped…" Meta Knight, made an attempt to spread his wings but they got stuck on the sides of the cage. He couldn't move that well with the rock in the same cage.
"Great job, now we're all trapped."
"Poy…" Kirby said in his cage meaning, 'I wonder…'. He pondered. The room they were in seemed rather bare. There weren't that many things of note in there besides the cages, and the robot idling. One thing about the cages Kirby noticed is that there was a tiny air hole in the front, for whatever these ailens were to capture.
"Whats with the face, something up?" Ribbon asked Kirby who pushed his face up to the airhole. He then took a deep breath, exhaled, and the began to inhale. The robot jittered slightly as the air current pulled it towards Kirby. It couldn't fit in the hole, but that wasn't Kirby's goal, no he was gonna bust this glass down!
"Brilliant idea, wish I thought of that…" Meta Knight muttered. The robot began to turn at a slight angle towards the glass slowly… Kirby inhaled even stronger, getting the robot closer. Then he stopped for a moment to catch his breath. The robot was turned to it's side and making various mechanical sounds. It was just close enough to Kirby's cage for him to suck it up.
"Poyo!" Kirby announced taking another breath, then inhaling even harder than before and slamming the robot against the cage. It made a moderately sized crack which Kirby actually got a bit startled from. But he shook it off quickly and kicked his foot against the slightly cracked glass. It made a very slight tilt and the crack got a tiny bit bigger.
"Great idea, but hurry up my head hurts…" Ribbon whined, not fond of the idea of her hair being cut off. Kirby silently nodded then kicked at the glass again. The crack got bigger. Then again, and again until finally his foot slammed into the glass and shattered it into pieces.
As Kirby escaped he contemplated doing one of his dances, but it wasn't the time as a … as… hm, it was naptime wasn't it? That kicking really tired him out… maybe just a quick nap? Yes… WAIT NO. Kirby snapped it of his sleepy trance and… he yawned. It was fairly late and all… but Ribbon and Meta Knight were counting on him! But he was tired…
"Oh brother, he's going through sleep deprivement again." Meta Knight sighed. What could he do to stop this? Then he looked at the Robot on its side, still faintly whirring. It probably used some sort of electrical energy, or at the very least produced heat. So Meta Knight got an idea. "Kirby, suck up that robot, I heard it tastes like… Tomato…. cake!"
"Yuck." Ribbon replied, not wanting to imagine that taste. But unlike Ribbon, Kirby immediately shot up from his sleepy mood and looked towards the robot with his mouth wide open, forming a smile. He then began to suck even harder than he sucked when trying to escape. The robot whizzed and whirred and the claw stuck out for whatever reason. It looked as if it was trying to escape from the pull, and you could maybe hear a faint voice from somewhere saying, 'no'. But it's efforts are useless, as the claw got sucked into Kirby's mouth.
They claw went into the mouth quite easily, but when it got to the robots main body, well it was quite hot. So hot in fact, that Kirby's mouth clamped down as he felt his tongue burn up, as if he were a child licking a hot pan with a cinnamon roll on it.
Kirby made the attempt to spit out the hot metal, he had already had the claw part in the black hole that is his stomach. He usually finishes his food whole, but in this situation the claw part of the robot was already consumed, do it was detached from the robot. As it was spat out, leaving a strange matter where the claw and robot detached.
Then, as Kirby swallowed…
It was as if the world around him became a starry sky as an Crane Game, similar to one from an Arcade, appeared in front of Kirby. He went to grab it, then the front part of the crane, or the control panel, with the joystick and buttons detached from it. The part went on his head as a hat, then the crane from the machine went and attached itself to the back of the control panel.
Kirby did a spin and knew exactly what happened! He had become CLAW KIRBY. Original name, I know.
The illusion around Kirby dissipated and he looked towards Ribbons cage. Ribbon looked absolutely astounded with stars in her eyes. Kirby then used the claw attached to the hat on his head to swing it towards Ribbons cage, breaking the front face of the cube shaped cage, then the side face which her hair was stuck on.
He then went towards Meta Knight's cage and instead of a swing of the claw, the claw moved back a bit and charged up. After charging, it smashed through the front and top face, leaving enough room for Meta Knight to spread his wings and escape the glass cage. Ribbon, still a bit miffed at her hair being messed up flew over to Meta Knight, and looked at Kirby messing around with the claw.
"I love it when he sucks stuff up, it's so cool!" Ribbon told Meta Knight, who was stretching his wings out.
"Oh, I bet he loves it when you suck stuff up too." Meta Knight snickered.
"Huh?" Ribbon asked, then replying, "Oh and I bet you… oh wait you don't have anyone I could make a joke out of sucking with."
Meta Knight, stunned from the comeback began to respond, "Well…" But his rebuttal was interrupted by a door opening in the room. Unlike a regular door, this one sort of just appeared on a wall, then the part of the wall the door appeared on disappeared into thin air. Or whatever these things breathed. Speaking of those things one of them walked into the room silently holding what appeared to be a gun, and gawked at the Trio.
"V… er, ahem, afternoon ailens!" The thing smirked and silently twisted the ends of it's green hair. "I understand you must be confused but please, come with me." It motioned for the door, looking awfully friendly. Ribbon and Meta Knight were wavering on whether or not it go, but Kirby quite trusting, exited the room, Meta Knight and Ribbon following suit shortly.
The entered a large gray-blue hallway which stretched out to various rooms and assortments which all seemed foreign. Ribbon and Meta Knight followed behind Kirby, who was marching happily, and they exchanged glances. "Is this the part where they betray us?" Ribbon whispered to Meta.
"No, first they befriend you, then they betray you, then you defeat them using a weapon that they accidentally provided us with." Meta Knight responded, trying to stay under the radar.
"How do we know this isn't heading to an execution?" Ribbon said, even quieter.
"If they try anything I have Galaxia, Kirby had that claw thingy, and you can… throw rocks or something."
"I can do much more than throw rocks!" Ribbon whispered, but sort of shouted.
"Rocks…" The thing with the green hair they were following muttered. Meta Knight looked slightly surprised, but not that surprised.
"So you understand our language?" Meta asked the thing.
"I see you speak English as well, marvelous…" It said. Then they stopped at the end of the hallway before turning to each of them. Judging by the voice, Meta Knight would narrow it down to be a female, this female then spoke. "Call me Salad, and that's all you need to know about me." Salad cleared her throat. "I am taking you to my political associates where you shall be displayed as an example of alien life on this planet. You may not say no, as I have said yes for you. After this experience we shall take blood tests in order to collect your DNA, after which you shall each be put on an official record and broadcasted to the others, then I shall let you all go back to your lives, except you shall be more or less ambassadors to your… kind and us regular humans. Understand?"
Meta Knight looked flabbergasted at the entire idea, then said, "You can't force us to do anything." Then Salad got a peculiar glint in her eye and walked over to Meta Knight. She was about the height of Dedede, just a tad bit shorter, so when she looked down at him, he could tell something was about to go down.
Salad started, "Listen, Masked ball thing,"
"Meta Knight." Meta interrupted. "That's my name, and you will address me by it." He glared, with Kirby and Ribbon looking on from the sidelines.
"Listen. Buddy, I am on a mission. I have been sent here for reasons far beyond your puny level of comprehension. I'm sure you and that big ship with your face on it think you're so powerful, right?"
Meta kept glaring, then started, "We-"
Salad interrupted. "But here's the thing chief, you aren't and you will NEVER be as powerful as us. I'm telling you what to do, because if you so much as THINK of doing anything besides those orders I just gave out, I will make you experience a fate far worse than you could ever think of." During this she never got in his face, she never even looked that pissed. She simply looked empty while saying it.
She then turned to Kirby and looked less empty as she smiled. "Don't worry little Kirby, I'll give you a treat once it's all done." She laughed a small bit and Kirby smiled back, leaving Ribbon even more confused as Salad told them to wait for a moment as she entered the room ahead.
"Humans… why does that species sound familiar…" Meta Knight thought to himself.
"Kirby, have you met this chick before?" She asked Kirby, who responded, 'Poyo' meaning 'Never in my entire life." Meta Knight thankfully translated for her, then she pondered, "But how could she know about Kirby if they've never met each other?"
Kirby shrugged and kept playing with the claw on his head as Ribbon looked around the ships hallway. As Ribbon looked at the ceiling she noticed something odd. One of the tiles was moving. Very slightly, but it was moving… the ceiling tile stopped moving when she looked at it for a couple seconds. Ribbon got an odd feeling of Deja Vu for whatever reason as she shook it off, and the door in front of them finally opened. Salad motioned for them to walk in, to meet whoever was in the room…
TO BE CONTINUED…
2020 finish baby!