Funny quip.
I'll probably fix spelling errors in all the chapters at a later date, but other than that enjoy the fun read.
But I just took a lovely, little gander at the view count and somehow it's over 1000 views.
Wow.
I mean, I didn't expect this, but I just want to say thanks before this fic ends on August 7th. My upload times for chapters 12-17 will be 10-12 PM EST, in case any of y'all we're wondering.
Anyways enjoy yourself.
Chapter 11: Heading out and meeting up. (THE END Part 1/7)
The time was around 12:30 AM, and everyone was getting ready to head out, though in various different ways. Perhaps you've headed out at some the point, maybe somebody told a joke so horrible, you just thought to leave the room. Though perhaps not in these times, all things considered, but perhaps you've headed out of a phone call, or an online chat.
Speaking of heading out, it appears that these beginning quips, even by another person must head out as well. So I will leave you with this…
There are many stories, and this is a single one out of millions. Go to your local library, online or in-person, and read. Just read. Because reading is fun, and there are far better stories than this one out there. As the next seven parts of this story continue, just remember.
I am always watching you but in a non-creepy way.
-Occipi, Somebody who's always watching.
"Can't believe it's already Twelve Thirty." Bandanna Dee said to Dedede. They were all outside of the castle, waiting. It had been quite a bit since the last interaction they'd had, but nothing of apparent interest had transpired. Bandanna Waddle Dee had brought Dedede's hammer to the king, and brought along his own spear.
"I can't believe there's no food." Dedede sighed. "Going a couple of hours without food just ain't right."
"How has he not died from heart disease…" Adeline queried aloud. "No offense, but I'm sure you understand."
"I eat, but I don't eat nothing greasy." Dedede replied. "All this fat is pure One-hundred percent Dedede Brand natural fat."
"Poyo" Poppy replied.
"Whatever you say," Adeline replied. "It will be an eventful trip."
"If you say so." Dedede shrugged. "At least you look better than yesterday." Adeline didn't respond. They were all below the Halberd, which was still above Dedede's castle, and they were all waiting for Sword Knight and Blade Knight to call them up to the Halberd.
"So, what do you think will happen?" Bandanna Dee asked Dedede.
"I dunno, maybe we find Meta Knight, then we head back here marching as absolutely everything goes back to normal," Dedede replied. "But the chances of that happening are as high as me getting a check in the mail."
"On the contrary, the chances are rather high everything will I according to plan," Adeline replied. "Oh look, it seems those knights are here." She said, looking upwards. She was indeed correct. Sword Knight and Blade Knight were coming down on parachutes, and they landed a few feet away from the group of four.
"Alright, we're ready for you to come up now." Sword Knight told them all.
Adeline looked up confused about something. "How do you plan to get us up there?" she asked.
"I mean, Dedede can fly, so we didn't bother to park the ship." Blade Knight told her. "Can you not fly?" he asked.
"No." Adeline responded.
"Well, Waddle Dee and Dedede can separately fly, and if me, Shulk, you, and uh…" Sword Knight looked at Poppy. "Them." He said. "As I was saying, if we all hold onto one foot, we'll be able to make it all at once."
"You two can fly?" Adeline asked, sounding genuinely surprised.
"Yeah, didn't you already know that?" Bandanna Dee questioned, a bit concerned.
"Yes." Adeline responded. "I was simply confirming the fact, as I always do."
"Less, talking more… flying." Dedede said absorbing air, and puffing up into a somehow even larger version of himself. He began to flap upwards and Sword Knight and Blade Knight held on to his feet. Adeline and Poppy looked over to Bandanna Dee.
"Ok, hang on a moment." Bandanna Dee said, getting his spear ready. He held the spear above his head, and after a couple seconds of charging it up, he began his spear copter move. Moving his hands in quick rotations, his spear was moving so fast that it allowed him to gain ground, though he didn't move it fast enough to gain too much verticality. "Ok…" Bandanna Dee said, straining. "Grab on…"
Adeline grabbed on to his left foot, only using one hand, and Poppy to the other. Once he confirmed they were on, Bandanna Waddle Dee began to move his hands, and by process his spear faster until he began to rapidly gain height, so much so to the point where they were ascending. Bandanna Dee tried to go as fast as he could, in hopes he could avoid getting a cramp on his foot, but the grip on his left foot became tighter the farther he went up.
Eventually, though he reached it after Dedede, he reached the deck of the Halberd, and the "passengers" departed, he landed a few seconds afterwards. Poppy seemed to be doing just fine, but Adeline seemed rather shaky. She had flown before, hadn't she? Bandanna Dee walked over to Adeline.
"Are you okay?" he asked.
"Uh…" Adeline paused. "What's your name?" she asked Bandanna Dee. He responded promptly, that his name was Bandanna Waddle Dee. Though that's not his true name, that is another story. "Bandanna Waddle Dee…" Adeline said aloud. "Odd." she then walked away, peering towards the edge of the ship. Bandanna Dee, while concerned, focused on the task at hand and walked over to King Dedede and Sword Knight.
Dedede looked over to him as he did. "Oh hey." Dedede said. "You ready?" he asked.
"Ready enough." Bandanna Dee shrugged. "Though…" he looked back over to Adeline. Then he looked at Poppy who was looking at the floor as if it were a golden coin. "Hm." Bandanna Dee said. "Sure."
"That's the spirit!" Dedede said. "The first stop we're gonna be stopping is that forest y'all found that building in yesterday."
"Hey, you all might want to hold onto something!" Sword Knight yelled. "The startup is usually really nauseating."
Dedede nodded and held onto a nearby crate. Bandanna Dee held onto Dedede's coat. Poppy held onto the floor, and Adeline held onto the surrounding air molecules. The ship then started to shake vigorously, and everyone began to jitter about slightly, some more than usual due to what the individual grabbed onto. For a seconds the shaking stopped, but less than a second after that the Halberd began moving forward rapidly.
It took a bit for everyone to get used to the quick speeds, but it didn't take long as they all stepped out onto the deck to look at the forest ahead. As if this was the start of a JRPG, the group felt as if something important that would change their lives would be up ahead. Maybe not immediately, but it would happen.
Adeline looked over to Bandanna Waddle Dee, with an intrigued look on her face as he looked out towards the forest they would reach in just a few minutes. "Bandanna Waddle Dee…" she said quietly. "Huh."
The rest of the ride didn't take long, it was a nice solemn trip, until they reached the outskirts of the forest. The Halberd slowly powered down, and landed, though with a bit of a rocky landing. Dedede, Bandanna Dee, Adeline, Poppy, Sword Knight, and Blade Knight all jumped off of the ship deck. Sword Knight looked back up at the ship. "Hey!" he yelled to somebody. "Lock up the ship!"
A car beeping noise sounded, then the sound of a locked car door played. Sword Knight looked over to the forest. "Okay, so you said you found the building by heading forward?" he asked Bandanna Dee.
"Yep, Pop… corn can confirm."
"Poyo." Poppy said.
"Okay, well we best start walking then." Sword said, but he was interrupted before he could begin the stride.
Dedede pointed towards the forest, and spoke. "It is time for a new era of Dedede-kind!" he announced getting odd expressions. "As you all know, we have nothing to fear but fear itself, so we must step forward into this brave new frontier!"
"Great King." Bandanna Dee said discretely.
"But as we all know, you must never underestimate the enemy!" Dedede yelled.
"King…" Bandanna Dee said, slightly annoyed.
"Some of you may not make it, but that is a sacrifice I'm willing to make." Dedede pointed upwards. "For a great man once said, I have a dream!"
"Dedede!" Bandanna Dee yelled getting his attention. "They already left up ahead."
"Oh." Dedede said, noticing only he and Bandanna Dee were in the area. "Wait up!" Dedede said, running forward, with Bandanna Dee close by. "I didn't get a chance to finish my inspirational speech!"
It was maybe 12:47 and Meta Knight was waiting.
Waiting for the mental clock he had thought up to reach 1:00 PM. Then, and only then would the plan come to fruition. It was simple, all they had to do was take a hostage, move towards wherever their items were, pick them up, then go to town on everybody. Ribbon, after one more time explaining, seemed to get the gist of the plan.
"Hmmmm…" Ribbon hummed to herself. "Hm….."
"Stop that." Meta Knight whispered.
"Hmmmm, hmm…." Ribbon hummed."
"Ribbon." Meta Knight said, a bit louder.
"Hmm?" Ribbon asked.
"Stop humming, I'm trying to keep the time." He told her.
"Oh sorry, I'm just bored, that's all." Ribbon sighed. "I'll just wait I suppose."
"Hm." Meta Knight replied. Then there was another silence, and the stillness of the forest made it feel like time was going four times slower. There seemed to be a sort of… aura that picked up in the place. Like when you enter an abandoned home, the door locks behind you, and you hear footsteps coming down the stairs. Something is clearly wrong.
Meta Knight for some strange reason didn't want to wait anymore.
"Ribbon." Meta Knight said.
"Yeah?" Ribbon questioned.
"We're doing the plan now." Meta Knight said, standing up.
"Huh?" Ribbon asked. "But I thought…"
"No time for thoughts." Meta Knight said, stretching his arms. "Hang onto something." Ribbon held on tightly to Meta Knight's back as he began to run into the colony, with a mission on his mind.
Madison was on the porch from previously yet again, and she felt like something was wrong. Yet again, the possibility of brain damage was always there, but something else felt wrong. Something that felt like it was running into the colony at the very moment in a spur of randomness.
No, it's the brain damage kicking in again.
Madison decided to take a walk. The path she took was the same as the other day, and took her to the strangely wooden building. The same guard from the other day was there, and he looked to be wide awake. Madison didn't have anything to ask him however, not today.
Perhaps she could distract him again and see what that Kabi fellow was up to? Madison looked away from him, and began to think of what to do.
Then she heard footsteps. Footsteps coming from behind her, closer to the guard, but still behind her. The footsteps sounded sinister, like they were the footsteps of something planning to attack. But the chances of that being the case are… very high apparently.
The guard that was guarding the station, apparently didn't see anything coming at him at high speeds, and Madison quickly turned her head to see some sort of blue ball with something pink on it's back kick the…
Sugar Honey Ice Tea out of the guard with a singular kick. Madison stood there frozen, and she couldn't seem to let it go. The blue ball she could barely make out seemed to pick up something. What was it called again?
Ah yes, a gun.
And it was walking right towards her. Oh dear.
"Don't move." The blue ball said, though it's not like she was planning to move anyways. "Back up slowly towards the building. " the blue ball said directly contradicting his previous statement.
Then, as Madison slowly backed up, from the other side of the colony.
Salad.
Salad walked up to where Madison and the blue ball currently were. She appeared to be holding a gun as well. "A bit early aren't you Meta Knight?" she asked. "You said One O'clock didn't you?"
Meta Knight?
…
"Oh." Madison said, as realization hit her like a freight train. I all made sense now!
…
Wait, no it didn't.
"Take a step, and she dies." Meta Knight replied. Suddenly a tumbleweed rolled by. "This colony isn't big enough for the both of us.
"Actually, it's rather spacious." Salad replied. "It can fit a maximum of one hundred seventy-five." Salad looked to the side for a moment, as did Meta Knight. They all watched as from behind Salad, her mother walked forward, staying behind Salad.
"Alyssa, what's going on?" she asked.
"Don't worry Maddie." Salad said. "Just wait."
"I can wait all day." Meta Knight replied. "I have a very high energy rate."
"I have a very high coffee intake." Salad replied. "Make your move."
"…"
"What do you want?" Salad asked. "I assume you're doing this for your energy back, correct?"
"…"
"If you give us back the girl, we'll give you your energy."
"Give us our energy, we give back the girl."
"I have a name." Madison whispered.
"Shut up." Meta Knight replied. "Or else."
"This is so intense." The pink thing on Meta Knight's back said.
There was a long silence as everyone glared at each other like rabid dogs on a leash. They were just waiting. Waiting for a person to make a move. Just waiting…
Then, somebody cried out suddenly. "HEYYY!" a strange deep voice called out. "ANYBODY HEREEEEEE?" the voice asked.
Meta Knight sighed. "Of all the times, he shows up now?" he asked, clearly aggravated.
"Wait a minute!" the voice said, sounding from the left of Madison, and subsequently Meta Knight. "GUYS, I FOUND HIM!" the voice said.
"You found him!?" another voice asked.
"YEP, HE'S RIGHT OVER THERE, NEXT TO THAT WOODEN BUILDING!"
"Is that Dedede?" the pink one asked.
"Unfortunately." Meta Knight replied.
"What's a Dedede?" Madison asked.
"Shut up." Meta Knight told her. "Or…" Meta Knight stopped and glanced to the left. "Oh brother."
Madison glanced to the left and saw…
Something.
How would you describe that?
It was…
A creature with a duck beak, a red large coat with puffy cuffs near the end, a red and yellow vest, orange feet, and a red hat with cotton near the top. Whoever made that abomination must've had a rough childhood. The creature, who upon further glance was holding a hammer, skidded to a stop near Meta Knight.
"Oh hey Meta Knight, glad we found ya." He said. The fat creature then looked around to scope the situation. "Uh…" the creature looked at Madison, then back to Meta Knight. "Excuse my French, but what in God's name is going on?!" he asked.
Soon, five more figures came running up behind him, one was a furry ball with a blue hat near it's tp holding a spear, another looking like a green suit of armor, the other a purple once. There were two others that just looked like regular people, although with odd quirks about them.
"It seems you are outnumbered." Meta Knight said, sounding triumphant.
"Yeah!" the fat one said. "What he said." He then leaned over to Meta Knight. "Psst, Meta Knight, who are they?"
"Not. Right. Now." Meta Knight said. "The point being, set your weapon down." He said. "You lose."
"I lose?" Salad asked. "Okay." She said. She threw her gun on the floor. Meta Knight pushed Madison forward, and she quickly ran over to her mother.
"Are you okay dear?" she asked. Madison nodded, but looked over to the group with Meta Knight. Looked like a bunch of Star Allies, but something seemed missing. Like one person was missing from the bigger picture.
"One more thing though." Salad said, walking forward. "Have you all ever heard of a mole?" she asked, pulling something out of a pocket. It was some sort of black ball, and Madison watched it slowly travel in front of Salad.
"Monty?" the green suit of armor asked.
"No, rather…" Salad kicked the black ball their way. Meta Knight went to kick it away, but somebody stopped him. It was one of the normal looking ones, she had a green shirt, and a red hat on, and she held him back. The rest of the group looked very confused.
"Addie, what are you doing?" the pink one asked, pushing back.
The fat one reached forward. "Stop it Adel-" then the black thing Salad kicked over went off. It exploded into a cloud of dark spikes which enveloped the entire group of off looking creatures. Madison looked in confusion, and slight fear as the black spikes dissipated leaving…
Statues.
Like a moment frozen in time, the entire group was there, each reaching for something. The furry ball with the blue hat was reaching for a spear, Meta Knight was clearly struggling, the fat one was reaching for the one with the red hat, and…
It seemed that everything was reaching a close.
Salad looked at Madison's mother. "We'll just get rid of this memory." She said. "Until then, bring them into the laboratory, the blue one should have the key."
…
Madison didn't know why.
But she felt a feeling that was very, very angry.
Angry at many things, angry at that fat one for seemingly ruining the silence, angry at the red hat girl for stopping Meta Knight, but more importantly angry at her mother and at… Alyssa.
And anger.
Is sort of a dark emotion, wouldn't you say? But that didn't matter. What mattered was…
What would happen next.
The next few chapters are gonna be around 3K words plus, and the final will probably be 5k if things got correctly.
I just ordered a Kirby Amiibo off of Amazon, and it'll arrive when the fanfic finishes, so that's fun.
I'll fix the horrid grammar later, probably on the eighth.
Anyway-s.
Stay safe.
And…
Read books.