These will all be grammar checked again on the 8th. I checked it twice, but I probably missed some stuff, so y'know?

Chapter 12: THE END (Part 2/7)

Somewhere in a room.

King Dedede woke up.

Did he?

He didn't seem to be able to move. Not even his eyes were able to move around, but from what he could see his hands were held out. He didn't really remember what just happened a few minutes ago, he remembered something to do with Meta Knight, but then everything went black.

"Did you prick the penguin?" a voice asked.

"Yes." Another voice replied. Dedede noticed the strange grey tiling, and deducted they were inside someplace. But where?

"They aren't moving, is that supposed to happen?" the first voice asked.

"Yes." The other voice said. "They're awake, but not in control."

"Well, I suppose they shouldn't be." The first voice paused. "The prick was to simply keep the blood flowing, to make sure they don't perish."

"Makes sense."

Dedede tried to move his fingers, but they moved to no avail, and it became apparent he was stuck. At least his eyes didn't hurt from not blinking.

Wait…

Crud, he just reminded himself of it, and now they were starting to burn. Feeling pair sear through his eyeballs, Dedede suddenly felt everything around him move, and the floor transitioned from the previous grey tiles into a whiter floor tiling.

Dedede suddenly came to a stop, and he saw a pair of legs walk in front of him momentarily. He heard a couple of beeps, then quickly found himself moving yet again. This movement compared to the previous times didn't take long, and suddenly Dedede found himself being flung against a wall.

"Ow!" he said scratching the side of his head. "Wait a minute!" Dedede looked around and moved his arms up and down rapidly. "I can move again." He said. "But where am I…" Dedede reached for his hammer, but found himself instead grabbing the side of his coat. "And where's my hammer?"

So many questions, but there was so little time to answer as Dedede noticed that he was moving downwards. The room he was in was white, a pure kind of white you would see if you headed to your local country club, or gold course.

…

If you looked at the golf balls.

…

What did you think I meant?

Anyways, Dedede knocked on one of the walls, but was no answer back. The sound indicated the room wasn't hollow, so at least he had that going for him. Dedede then nearly fell down as the room came to a sudden stop. Sudden Dedede heard a noise behind him. He turned around and saw a corridor leading into another room. Dedede was about to step in, but without warning, something pushed him inside.

He found himself on a conveyer belt, and a voice suddenly sounded from the ceiling.

"Hello, and welcome to the documentation process!" the voice said. Dedede looked around and pointed to himself, making sure he was in the right place. "Yes, you have been determined to be smart enough to answer many choice questions about your group of friends!" the voice said.

"Huh?" Dedede asked.

"Great question!" the voice replied. "How would you answer?"

"That's not what I-"

"Just look at the correct option when it appears on screen?" the voice replied. "You ready?" before giving Dedede the chance to answer, the voice continued. "Go!"

Dedede hadn't noticed it, he had been too concerned with where the voice was coming from, but the conveyer belt had brought him to a circular platform in the same sort of white room from before, except far bigger. In front of him was a large screen that had a black outline, and just a few seconds after he looked at them, a question appeared on screen.

"What is your full name?"

"Uh…" Dedede stopped to think. "Well, it's-"

Then a voice different from the previous one spoke. "Hello [Uh Well It's], there are two questions left." The voice sounded robotic compared to the previous voice, and it seemed to be coming from the same location. Then suddenly on the screen, there was a strange string of text that appeared.

Audience reaction: confusion

"Audience reaction?" Dedede asked, feeling the same as the audience. "This ain't one of them hidden camera TV shows is it?"

"Please don't speak outside of questions." The more natural sounding voice said. "Back to questions."

Then the screen changed yet again.

"Can you tell us the names of-"

Suddenly near the bottom of the screen, pictures of his friends, from left to right: Bandanna Dee, Sword Knight, Blade Knight, and Popcorn all looking to be in rather strained positions.

"-these people in order?"

Dedede didn't respond for a moment, he didn't know what this was for… perhaps he could lie?

Dedede pointed to Waddle Dee. "That's B- George." He corrected. He then looked at Sword Knight's picture, and did so for each sequential name. "S…sam, Barry, and… Poppy."

He felt sort of odd saying the last name, I mean what kind of self respecting genius would possibly choose the name Poppy? But it seemed to be finished, as the robotic sounding voice spoke. "Thank you [Uh Well It's], there is one question left." Dedede nodded, and looked to his right where the conveyer led to. It didn't seem to be blocked off…

Audience reaction: Surprise

Dedede wasn't really feeling what the audience was as he looked back towards the screen. Without warning, a wall for text appeared on screen, startling Dedede.

"Two trains of length 150 m and 170 m respectively are running at the speed of 40 km/hr and 32 km/hr on parallel tracks in opposite directions. In what time will they cross each other?"

"What.." Dedede said with his mouth open. What was this convoluted series of words and numbers

"You will have five minutes to answer."

The voice didn't speak after that. Dedede looked at the screen and stopped to think. Well, if the relative speeds of the train were 40 and 32km respectively, then you would need to add 40 and 32 to equal…

"Wait a minute…" Dedede looked to his right again. "Hm…" Dedede took a step onto the conveyer and it stayed stationary, and Dedede began to walk forward, slowly increasing his speed.

"Stop." The natural sounding voice from before said. Dedede didn't, instead keeping up his steady pace towards the end of the conveyer. "You didn't hear me."

"Oh I heard you…" Dedede said, as he began to sprint as past as his little feet could carry him.

"Ok." The voice said. "We'll skip this part." Suddenly the ground under his feet began to move rapidly towards where he was going.

He was moving very fast. So fast in fact that when Dedede took another step, the ground was moving at such speeds that he tripped. He found his face almost touching the ground, not touching it due to him stretching out his arms just in the nick of time.

Dedede was about to get up, he looked forward, and saw what appeared to be a wall, strangely grey compared to the rest of the room. The close her got, the more things he noticed. For instance, there was a red arrow pointing down, probably towards some sort of pit. He also noticed that the arrow was getting closer. So close in fact that it was almost like a wall.

Wait-

SLAM

Dedede suddenly crashed against a wall, face first. As he did he heard a camera shutter sound effect play. He then fell onto a lower platform. Dedede regained his sense of vision thankfully and found himself in a grey room, one that had a single small screen that was in front of him.

It showed him a picture of him, that was his face smashed against a camera, one that was probably on the red arrow he saw earlier. Then the floor started to move downwards. Dedede saw this and tried to jump. Unfortunately, the ceiling, or where the ceiling for him was now closed up. Dedede hit his head on the ceiling, nearly losing his hat. He landed, and the floor stopped maybe ten feet downwards.

"What the-" suddenly beneath Dedede the floor tilted, and he found himself falling, not too far thankfully, but he still fell nonetheless. The room he got dumped into was a small square room with nothing inside besides two other familiar faces. The other two were Meta Knight and Ribbon, who looked strangely dehydrated.

"Dedede?" Meta Knight asked, getting up from a sitting position.

"Oh hey Meta Knight." Dedede said, getting up and brushing himself off. "What's popping?"

"Don't refer to me with those informal terms." Meta Knight replied, glaring at Dedede. "You ruined my perfectly logical plan."

"Hi." Ribbon said, sitting in the corner.

"Oh hey Ribbon, what's popping?" Dedede asked.

"Nothing really, I'm just watching his guard." She replied.

"Are you listening to anything I said?" Meta Knight questioned. "You've ruined my entire plan!"

Dedede wasn't listening, and instead walked over to Ribbon. They could see out of the room they were in, well, jail cell was a better term. There was this guy in a blue night guard outfit, sitting at a table with a fan and a monitor on top. "Huh…"

"There's nothing else to look at really." Ribbon said, shrugging.

"Hm…" Dedede said looking closer. Along with the fan on that guards desk, there was something else that caught Dedede's eye. A key. Not like the ones that Carry Dees carried, these were smaller, lightweight and easy to steal. "Let's steal they key." Dedede said.

"That's not going to matter." Meta Knight replied. "In case you haven't noticed, the door has no keyhole." Dedede looked at the door, and there was no keyhole. Nor was there a hole for anything. In fact the door was literally just glass. Stretching to the ceiling, and probably a bit farther up. Judging by how it looked, it was probably soundproof.

"Oh." Dedede said. "Well, what if we break the glass?"

"We tried." Ribbon responded.

"And got shocked." Meta Knight told him.

"What?" Dedede asked.

"Well we tried to attack the glass, and the room administered a controlled shock." Meta Knight replied. "Not exactly worded that way, but what I'm saying s this room is rigged with electricity on every surface, if that makes sense."

"I'm not buying it." Dedede said. "Lets test that theory!"

"Dedede, no!" Meta Knight said. But he was too late, Dedede balled his hand into a fist, charged up a punch and-

ZZZAP!

As soon as Dedede's hand touched the glass, Dedede felt his feet get zapped suddenly. The electricity from his feet coarsed through his entire body, all the way up to his arm as he let out a loud scream.

"AAAGGGGHH-" Dedede yelled.

"AAAAAA-" Ribbon screeched.

"Ouch." Meta Knight screamed. As the electricity subsided, Meta Knight, a bit quieter than before looked at Dedede. "I told you so."

"Noted." Dedede said in a hoarse voice. "Guess we'll have to think of another plan."

"…"

"Well, it wasn't really a nice place all things considered.

It was rather dark, I couldn't actually see anything.

But that's about it."

"…"

Did you get that? I know you're alive. Talk. Why won't you talk? Hello? Am I mistaken? Well, as I was saying…

"It was dark, then I found myself being moved, at least I felt it."

"…"

Why won't you speak to me? It happened long ago, surely you must be over it by now. But I'll continue for my sake. For yours as well.

"Afterwards, I could move, but only a little.

I passed by some sort of screen.

Nothing appeared on it, before I found myself being moved to the right."

"…"

Speak to me. Honestly. Nothing else is going to be accomplished if you don't.

"…"

"Then…

I found myself in this room."

"…"

"Speak."

"No."

"Any ideas?" Dedede asked.

"Nope." Meta Knight responded. "It's not worth trying, I suggest we wait for a better moment to strike."

"So you're saying to give up?" Dedede asked.

"For now." Meta Knight replied.

"This sucks." Ribbon sighed. "Can't you think of anything?"

"Why don't you come up with an idea." Meta Knight replied. "Because at this point, I just give up."

"Thought you had Bat Wings." Dedede muttered.

"Huh?" Ribbon said, looking at Dedede.

"What?" Meta Knight asked confused. "I said, I thought you had Bat Wings."

"I do." Meta Knight said. "Are you confused or something?"

"Really?" Dedede questioned. "Cause you giving up like that are making them look like chicken wings, ya chicken."

Meta Knight looked rather disappointed. "Are you really trying to use childish insults to persuade me?" Meta Knight scoffed. "It won't work."

"Okay ya big fat chicken." Dedede said, flapping his arms.

"Are you really doing this?" Ribbon asked.

"Yep." Dedede replied.

"…" Meta Knight just stood there.

"Bawk bawk, I ought of serve you up with some mashed potatoes, ya chicken."

"Dedede…"

"You're a bigger chicken then Dyna Blade." Dedede mocked.

"Dedede." Meta Knight said glaring at the king. "Shut up."

"You're a bigger chicken than Dyna Blade, a Birdon, and… uh… some other bird I can't name combined."

"Dedede." Meta Knight said turning to the king. "For the last and final time, I am not going to be persuaded by your idiotic name calling!" Meta Knight walked over to King Dedede. "Understand?!"

"Careful now, your anger make ya punch the glass, and trigger the electric floor you big chicken."

"For the-" Meta Knight paused. "Back up a bit." Dedede walked backwards into a wall. "No, say what you just said again.

"What you just said again." Dedede said.

"Don't get smart with me, say the sentence you just said." Meta Knight demanded.

"Your anger might trigger the electric floor." Dedede repeated.

"That's it." Meta Knight said. "The floor and walls are electric but the air isn't!" Meta Knight paused for a moment. "Well, I assume it isn't."

"And that means.." Dedede said looking at Meta Knight like he has figured out the culprit in Clue.

"If we trigger the glass midair, we won't get shocked!" Dedede and Meta Knight said in unison.

"I knew you could figure it out." Dedede told Meta Knight.

"Well, I guess you have your ways." Meta Knight laughed.

"Uh…" Ribbon said quietly. "Did I miss something between you two?" Meta Knight and Dedede looked at her with similarly confused looks on their faces.

"Eh, we've known each other for years, stuff like this happens whenever we hang out." Dedede shrugged. "It's why I hired him."

"Yes, but that's another story." Meta Knight said. "Anyways, Ribbon get on Dedede's back, we have to test out theory."

"Can't move, remember?" Ribbon reminded him.

"Dedede, put Ribbon on your back." Meta Knight said. Dedede nodded, then walked over to Ribbon, quickly picking her up and letting her piggyback ride momentarily. Once he was done Meta Knight looked towards the glass. "Okay, when I say jump, you jump as high as you can."

"Alright!" Dedede said. "Ready when you are."

"3…2…" Meta Knight paused for a second. "Jump!" Dedede jumped as high as he could without using his trademark Super Dedede Jump, and his head graced the ceiling. As Dedede was midair Meta Knight jumped and concentrated some effort into hitting the glass. He moved his fist forward and….

The glass budged a teensy bit.

Meta Knight braced for some sort of shock, but thankfully nothing happened, and as he and Dedede landed, they looked at each other in triumph. "It worked." Meta Knight declared. But the glass didn't crack. "Well, at least we know that it works, but we're going to have to find a way to break the glass.

"Yeah… how are we gonna do that…"

Then as they were thinking, opportunity came knocking on their door. Or from the ceiling. As of he was an angel, of a really green icicle, Sword Knight came falling into the room. The ceiling quickly closed when he entered, and they all watched as he slowly gained his senses back.

"Hm…" Dedede said, as Sword Knight began to come to. "Metal beats glass right?" Dedede asked. "Or is it paper beats rock?"

"I get what you're saying, now excuse me for a moment." Meta Knight turned around, facing away from Sword Knight. "Sword, get up." Meta Knight said.

"Oh, Sir Meta Knight, you're safe!" Sword Knight said. "It was horrible, they said my name was same, and that I needed to find out what time two trains met up."

"That sounds like torture, but we're not safe yet." Meta Knight responded. "There is one thing you must do."

"What is it?" Sword asked.

"Close your eyes." Meta Knight said.

"Okay?" Sword questioned, a bit skeptical, but still following orders.

Meta Knight walked over to Dedede. "Okay, so grab Sword Knight, back up, and we'll use him as a battering ram, alright?" Dedede nodded, and went over to Sword Knight. Meta Knight spoke quickly. "Don't open your eyes."

"Okay, but- WOAH." Sword Knight screamed as Dedede picked him up.

Meta Knight stood next to Dedede. "I'm going to hang on to the side of your coat." He said. "When I say go, run and jump into the glass as hard as you can."

"Glass?" Sword Knight asked. "What's going on?!"

"Don't worry." Meta Knight said. "Now Dedede, back up…" Dedede backed up until Ribbon was being pressed against the wall. "GO!"

Dedede rushed forward, swinging Sword Knight backwards momentarily, before jumping and swinging him forward into the glass. Like a crumbling statue, the glass broke into lots of tiny pieces, and the group smiled as they saw their triumphant escape from…

Wherever they were.

The guard quickly turned to them, his eyes as wide as the overworld of Amazing Mirror. Meta Knight jumped off of Dedede's coat, and glared at the guard. "I don't get paid enough for this." He said throwing his hat away. He then walked out of the room, through a door that probably led into some sort of hallway.

And in that moment, though things were looking dark. Perhaps, that just didn't matter. As they were one step closer to understanding what was going on, and getting the heck out of here. Or atleast that's what they assumed.

…

I uploaded late because I was busy destroying my Animal Crossing Island.

Also it's my headcannon that Dedede and Meta Knight are those type of friends who rarely hand out, but when they do it's never a dull moment.

Anyway-s.

Stay safe.