I'm having a grand old gay old time. Gay means happy if ya didn't know.

Fun Fact: King Dedede is bald.

Have a uh… I don't know man just have a.

Chapter 8: A Key and Uh… k?

You wish to know what a key is?

…

Are you even…

Are…

A key is a key dear reader. A key is a key.

K?

K means OK.

Understand dear reader?

Very well.

The glowing eyes from previously were back. Though strange, for whatever reason Madison felt to check it out. But let's back up a bit. She had whoever was saying poyo on her mind, wondering various things about it. The wonder of childhood was something new to her, for various reasons, so this captivated her to a sickening extent.

But why this?

There had been other things she'd seen.

Wait!

Maybe that was it. She's seen other things. It's the mysteriousness of what was behind that door, the unsureness and uncertainty of it all that captivated her. But maybe wasn't a very good word. She had to be sure, but how could she?

A test.

But what could be suitable as a test for something she couldn't see?

Those glowing eyes… were they by chance still there?

And here we are. Re-read the beginning fist two sentences if you wish, but you get the gist. Though alas, a problem emerged in doing this and that's that well, the doors were locked. Now you see, the doors were locked via a strange lock, one that to be completely honest evaded her line of thinking.

It wasn't a visual lock like a retina scan, rather what was probably known as a Switch Lock. It involved two large metal blocks on the sides of the door, which slid into place via a snap. In order to unlock the door, you had to enter a passcode with only the letters A, X, B, Y, and R while on the right metal block, and on the left side you had to enter a directional code which included the letter L at some point.

How did she know this, well she watched her mother lock the door of course, and that's what she gathered. Her mother was in the exact same room as her, there were two beds, similar to that on the ship each one a differing side of the room.

If she were to get out she would either have to enter the impossible to find combination, or break the window, which would be a bad thing to do. But where would she find the code? There weren't many places to look. Alas. All there was in this room was a dresser, but the chances of the code being in there are like one in a million.

…

Madison reached over from the bed and slowly opened the drawer, as to not make any noise. She grabbed what felt like one of those paper pieces. She looked at it and was in slight shock.

So you're not gonna believe this, but the code-

Meanwhile

"Okay, so just to be clear, you understand the plan completely?" Meta Knight asked Ribbon.

Ribbon shrugged. "I guess, I mean it's kind of complicated."

"There's nothing complicated about taking a hostage, making a crossroad pattern in our movements, as so we're in the trip right sector of this place, so afterwards they'll be forced to give us what we want, but when they give it to us we'll take the person giving the thing to us hostage, then actually find Kirby, if he's here, but if he's not we split our loses and make a run for it."

"…"

Meta Knight sighed. "Okay, let's start from the very beginning."

Mean-meanwhile

-the code is in the dresser. Or maybe it's not the code, it looked sort of familiar, yet not familiar at all. The code was [0-3-0-9] a code that…

Wait…

That's not the code to this door.

It was the code to the uh…

The thing her mother required, yes that was it. So what to do now? Perhaps she should just… Madison stepped off the bed, and for whatever reason felt like the floor should be creaking. But it wasn't a wooden floor, thankfully. She exited the room and found herself in a hallway. It was dark. Very dark almost as dark as-

Wait, we already did this joke twice.

The point is it was dark, and she went down the hallway slowly feeling like she shouldn't be doing this, and she shouldn't. She had no idea why, but it was as if perhaps some sort of energy came over her. As she reached the end of the hall, there was the Switch locked door, and a screen.

As she walked by the screen flashed, and a robotic voice spoke up. "Hello! [Madison] shouldn't you be [Asleep] at this hour?"

"Um, my mother sent me to.." she paused. "Go outside to…" Madison pause again. "To tend to the nature outside."

"You have a tone of [Lying] in your voice." The robot, who's name wasn't important because I said so said. "As such, I will not say anything, and you shall go to your room whenever you are ready." The screen then shut off.

Madison with a sense of worry looked to the door. Okay, it was maybe Twenty three'o clock and she had perhaps a couple hours before she got tired, so how many combinations were there? Hm…

Mean-mean-meanwhile

"Hey uh, look why don't we just like… head in there now it's night time, y'know?" Ribbon asked.

Meta Knight chuckled. "That's what they want us to think, but I'm sure they have guards, and those guards have night guards, and the night guards have day guards, and if they're feeling like it, they probably have evening guards."

"But like.. I don't see anyone." Ribbon replied.

"Well let me put it this way." Meta Knight began. "What if we waltz into there and… somebody is there that we didn't see, and now they know we're here, and we have no means to defend ourselves without following my plan."

"Well I guess I'd you look at it that way it makes sense." Ribbon muttered. "By the way, what was the plan again."

Meta Knight looked like he was about to explode, then quickly calmed down. "Okay, let's start from the very beginning!"

Mean-mean-mean-meanwhile

Madison looked towards the door to see if she could find any clues of what the combination could possibly be. The right door lock thingy would probably have to be the first thing she unlocked, as it was set up in that order by her mother.

In a diamond formation, there was an A button on the rightmost corner, a B button at the bottom, an X button at the top, and you can take an educated guess as to where the Y button is. It was an odd setup for a lock, but all locks in concept are odd.

Okay, how about…

She pressed the A button.

[Wrong, try again!] A voice called out from out of nowhere. [You have Three Chances left]

Three chances? What happened when it reached Zero? Would an alarm go off? Perhaps she should just let the idea die… Madison began to walk away, when suddenly a voice popped up in the back of her mind.

If nobody notices, it's not like something unfavorable would happen.

That voice.

Was undoubtedly hers.

But why was she thinking this exactly?

Just go back, and if it reaches one, head back into the room.

Yes, she should do that probably, but should she? Well… she decided to try again. It didn't begin with A, she knew that at the very least. But what button would it be, well that was the question.

If it wasn't A, then perhaps…

B?

She pressed it, and happened, so perhaps she was right by pressing B? Madison wavered over the other options for a moment before pressing the X button

[Wrong, try again] the same voice from previously called out. [Two tries left or else.]

Madison paused for a moment. It wasn't A, and it wasn't B-X, so perhaps it was trying to spell out a word? But what could she spell with these limited letters? Madison thought of the possible words.

There was…

Baby.

Uh….

Bab.

No...

There was also…

Yay?

The first one was always the best choice, so she decided on that one. She pressed the B button, and like before nothing implying impending doom sounded off. She pressed the A button, and no words were spoken as well. Then she pressed the B button again, and finally the Y button.

Some sort of hissing noise was heard from behind her and a tile from the roof came down, attached to mechanical pillars. It was a manila folder.

Madison walked up to the file, and grabbed it, not exactly sure what to do with it. The file was labeled oddly, and she peered at it again. There was a picture of what looked to be a baby with black hair in some sort of crib. Nothing else caught her eye, and she didn't want to open the file in case everything fell out. Though as she was about to forget it she noticed something.

The label on the tab.

Was it even a name? How would you pronounce that?

Madison muttered to herself trying to pronounce the supposed name. "ADD-EL-INE?" she guessed, not really sure how to pronounce it. But she looked to the door again, which didn't appear to be unlocked any more than before. Perhaps there were different combinations?

If BABY was a combination, maybe…

Maybe the word Yay is possible?

Though there was the possibility she got lucky of course. She decided to push it, and pressed the Y button she was immediately met with a rather condescending.

[Nope, Wrong, you should just take the L]

What? What was taking the L? Was it a saying?

[Take the L]

Yes, she just heard that, but what could it possibly mean? Was there an L she could take? Was… she peered over the side of the lock, then over to the bottom. Nothing unfortunately. Finally she looked to the top, and there was an R.

An R...

On the right side of the lock...

Could R mean right side?

If R, perhaps meaning right was on the right side, then perhaps...

She was correct.

Mean-mean-mean-mean-meanwhile

Sssshhhhhhhhhh, they're sleeping.

Mean-mean-mean-mean-mean-meanwhile

On the left switch lock, when she looked on the top. She reached her hand over the top of the left lock and pressed the button. It probably wouldn't do anything due to them being separate locks and all,but felt like this would work.

Nothing bad happened when she pressed it, so perhaps she has to spell another word? Well, the only vowel that could proceed L was A, so she pressed the A button and stopped in anticipation for something to happen. But unlike before nothing happened. Were the locks actually connected?

Well if they were she needed to continue the word. "L…A…" Madison put a hand on the side of her face to think. What could possibly proceed A? Lax? No, this wasn't a fake Smash leak video. Lay? No, this wasn't a bag filled with fifty percent air. Lab?

Fearing the worst she cautiously pressed the B button, and…

Confetti.

Thankfully she wouldn't have to fill any holes.

[Congratulations]

Then a key fell from the ceiling and hit Madison on the head. The right side of the lock unlocked. Madison rubbed her head from the sudden pain, then looked at they key. Nothing from what she saw used a key… she pocketed the key anyways, then looked to the left lock.

The left had the same diamond formation for the buttons, but the placement of the buttons corresponded to the directions there were going in. So the rightmost one pointed right, leftmost pointed left etc. etc. you get the idea.

She didn't even know where to start, the chances of her getting something from the directions were the same chances as the door opening!

…

Nope, nothing this time.

Maidson sighed and leaned against the door to think. She pondered to herself, but as she did a voice sounded out.

[Key and File detected, opening door area promptly]

"Pardon?" Madison asked, as the door quickly opened making her fall, and nearly screaming at that. But screaming wasn't appropriate. Instead she fell to the ground in silence, hitting her head on the porch. She didn't fall unconscious thankfully, instead hitting her head VERY HARD.

[It is NIGHTTIME, please take this FLASHLIGHT]

A flashlight then fell on her forehead.

Madison felt like if you've ever done a trust fall and the person got too scared to catch you. Maidson got up, and picked up the flashlight. She felt better honestly, though perhaps it was just brain damage. Though that's not a very high probability...

What was she here to do again?

"Uh..."

The glowing eyes, yes she was here to investigate the glowing eyes to test her theory on whether or not seeing something made it less invigorating. To be honest, she just wanted to see if at this point, sort of ignoring all of the theory things she had thought up previously.

She didn't know why but…

No, it was probably brain damage.

Meanwhile for the final time this chapter.

Ribbon was stirring in her sleep, having a dream about Mirrors and the amazing aura of them. For some reason she had been semi-awake for like ten seconds and peered up into the night sky. It was probably around midnight, judging by the moon.

Well now that she was sort of up, might as well…

Oh yeah she couldn't fly like, at all.

Ugh…

"Meta Knight, are you awake?" Ribbon asked.

Immediately Meta Knight responded. "I never went to sleep."

Unimpressed, but not surprised Ribbon continued. "Uh, so when this is all over, can I stay at your place for a while?"

"I'm sorry what?"

Ribbon sort of embarrassed still continued. "Like, you know once we take the hostages or whatever, uh… can I just stay on your ship for a while?"

"I mean… the guest room is already taken up, and I would have to make extra room."

Ribbon was confused, then asked a question. "Who's in the guest room?" she asked.

"My mirror world version, or Dark Meta Knight as everyone else calls him."

Ribbon had a moment of realization, and nodded. "Yeah, he was there when the Dream Rod summoned us." She said. "He was sort of cool."

"He's not cool, if you lived within fifty feet of him you'd understand." Meta Knight sighed. "He exudes edginess like he's an energy generator."

"Yeah…" Ribbon replied feeling a sudden prescene in the area. She looked around but saw nothing in the darkness. She tried to peer closer, but she still couldn't make out anything. Meta Knight looked around as well, then a sort of whimper sounded as he did.

"…"

"…"

Meta Knight spoke up. "Who goes there?" he asked. Then, without warning a bright light shone on the two, illuminating them, along with a small surrounding area. They could barely make out who was shining the light, but what they could make out appeared to be one of those alien things they saw on the ship, however many days ago that was.

Then whoever that was ran away, back into the night.

Ribbon was rather dumbfounded, but Meta Knight seemed to be rather content, in fact he let out a laugh. Ribbon looked to Meta Knight. "What's so funny?"

"Oh, it's just that we know that if those from the ship are here…"

"Uh…"

"Oh for gods sake, if they're here then there's one logical thing we can infer."

"Which is…?"

"Kirby has to be nearby."

"Uh… K?" Ribbon shrugged, as she went back to sleep, Meta Knight staying awake, and wondering something...

What was going to happen tommorrow?

So as a funny fun fun time fun funny fun fun fact.

Kirby.

Is.

A.

Girl.

And.

You.

Play.

As.

Her.

Nah just kidding.

But fun fact: Kirby is a kids game.

I'll see you later today at 10PM!

More stuff next chapter.

(: