Chapter 13: (THE… END… PART… 3/7…?)
Something about this chapter I hate, but I can't out my finger on it...
Nah NVM.
It's just a bit odd compared to what I wrote typically. But enjoy the read anyway.
Everyone watched with dull expressions as Blade Knight fell from the ceiling, and into the cell room. The group of four, Dedede, Meta Knight, Ribbon, and Sword Knight, waited for him to wake up. Eventually he did, and before the went Dedede stopped them. Everyone waited as Dedede looked up towards the hole in the ceiling, Ribbon still on his back.
"Okay, Bandanna Dee should be next." Dedede said, waiting for his buddy to hopefully fall from the ceiling. "Should we wait?"
"Well, I'd say we wait five minutes, then if he's not there, then we should continue on." Meta Knight responded. "But he'll be here."
So they did.
They waited exactly five minutes. But nothing came. There were no Waddle Dees coming from the ceiling, there were no alarms set off, and there were no other people who came to condemn them. It was silent, a sort of silence that never meant anything good.
"Is he okay?" Ribbon asked.
"…" Dedede didn't repsond. "Maybe he's up ahead?"
"Yeah, I mean they're probably just holding him back because they knew we broke the glass." Sword Knight suggested. "Thanks for the heads up about that by the way."
"You'll get a gift basket when we get on the Halberd." Meta responded. "In fact, choose one right now, pick a number one through five."
"Ooh, pick three!" Dedede said.
"No, one is where it's at." Ribbon responded.
"No, choose five!" Blade Knight exclaimed.
"Uh... four?" Sword Knight said. "Final choice, I choose option four.
Meta Knight laughed a bit. "You just chose Exotic Butters." Meta Knight turned around, and laughed to himself for a quick moment. "Okay, let's continue." Meta Knight said, getting odd looks. "Yes, and let's hope Bandanna Waddle Dee is up ahead."
Everyone silently nodded, and walked out of the room into a strange hallway. It was a grey floor with dark squares seemingly placed in random spots on the tile. The walls made the hallway seem more like a tunnel than anything, and they looked left and right, each direction stretching on and turning towards the same direction.
"Uh…" Blade Knight looked around for a moment. "Let's split up gang."
"Gang?" Dedede snickered. "What are you gonna say next, we need to search for clues?" he said laughing.
"Hillarious." Meta Knight said ironically. "Sword and Blade, you head with me." Meta Knight said, pointing to them. "I'm sure Dedede and Ribbon can handle themselves, correct?"
"Uh…" Dedede paused. "Maybe?"
"I think we can." Ribbon shrugged.
Meta Knight sighed. "Sword, go with Dedede, Blade come with me." Meta Knight said, heading left from the door. "Stay safe you three." Meta Knight told them.
Dedede, Ribbon, and Blade Knight nodded, as they headed down the right hall, into the unknown of the halls end. The walking didn't take long, then as soon as they made the first turn, something at the end of the hall caught their attention.
Near the end of the hallway, there was a bowl. Not necessarily a bowl, but it was shaped like one in the same way you could argue a sink is shaped like a bowl. It was far away, so they couldn't quite make out anything else about it. Seeing it as the only thing they could do in the hall, they looked at each other and walked.
As the trio walked down the strangely doorless hallway, and as they got closer to the bowl, a feeling of strangeness came over them. Like something was off about it, maybe it was just the atmosphere, but it didn't seem right. They eventually reached next to the bowl, and stopped in front of it.
Dedede walked up to the bowl, and Blade walked up besides him. The bowl was white on the outside, but on the inside it had a green and orange spiral pattern, leading towards the middle of the bowl, where a drain was. Next to the bowl was the guard from before, but he looked to be asleep, so they ignored him. Dedede touched the bowl with his ring finger, and without warning, a scanner appeared, and cloaked his finger in a greenish glow for a second.
Eventually, the green glow ceased, and it turned red for a split second, before Dedede quickly moved his hand back, half expecting it to be cut off by a buzzsaw. Thankfully, no buzzsaw came, and instead the scanner retreated into a wall. Suddenly a robotic voice spoke.
[Wrong, please administer the captains DNA] the voice said.
"Huh?" Dedede asked. "What's that supposed to mean?"
"I dunno." Ribbon responded. "It sounds cool though." Ribbon laughed slightly. "Like… DNA sounds like a superhero name, or an acronym like…" Ribbon paused. "Driver's… N…. Newton… Advocacy?"
"Well, I don't got any Drivers Newton Advocacy, so I suggest, we go ask Meta Knight." Dedede looked to his side. "Right, Sword Knight?"
Dedede looked at Sword Knight, who seemed to have zoned out. "Huh?" he asked. "Oh yeah, let's do that yeah." Dedede and Ribbon nodded at him, and they began to speed walk back to the entry point of the branching paths. They found nothing interesting, on the way back, and as they turned the corner, Meta Knight was still walking down the other corridor.
Meta Knight walked down the empty hallway, Blade Knight by his side. It was rather quiet, nothing really happening as they walked down. The hall strangely had no doors on the sides, making this place seem more and more like some sort of underground tunnel. Then, as they reached the end of the hall, they noticed something odd, that contradicted the area. There was a door, one that had a keyhole on the right, under a doorknob.
Despite the keyhole, Meta Knight walked up, and turned the handle, expecting something to happen. Nothing did. It was obvious needed a key.
"We need a key." Meta Knight said, repeating the narration. "Wait a minute…" Meta Knight remembered just before all of this happened, he got a box with a key. Was that they key… no…
Meta Knight reached to his side, but found nothing. He didn't have the key. Did Ribbon have it? "Something wrong sir?" Blade Knight asked. Meta Knight didn't respond, Instead, he peered through the keyhole, seeing if he could make out anything on the other side. There was a table and...
...!
His mask.
"We need to head back to Dedede." Meta Knight responded. "Hurry." Meta Knight began to speed walk back down the hallway, and turned the corner, only to slam into King Dedede, knocking both of them onto the ground. Meta Knight scratched the side of his head, as he looked to Dedede. "Why were you running?" he asked.
"There's this really odd bowl thingamajig on the side of that hallway." Dedede responded. "It said we need the DNA of the ships captain, whatever that means."
"On the left side, there was a door with a keyhole." Meta Knight explained. "My equipment is there."
Ribbon then perked up. "Wait, don't you have a key?" she asked. "Yeah, there was one in that box remember, use that!" Ribbon exclaimed.
Meta Knight looked around in slight embarrassment. "So you don't have they key?" Meta Knight sighed. "I don't have it either."
"F…." Ribbon paused. "Fum… um… that sucks."
"Then what are we supposed to do?!" Dedede asked. "I ain't got no ship captain DNA, and you ain't got no key.
"Well, I guess we could always try to get back inside of that cell and break into the ceiling." Meta Knight suggested. "Other than that, I got nothing, besides hoping."
"Hope eh?" Dedede asked. "Lets all put our minds together real quick and hope for something to happen."
"Dedede, that's stupid." Meta Knight replied.
"Meta Knight, we literally just used your friend as a battering ram, and you're calling hope stupid?"
"Touché."
So, they all stopped, looked up to the ceiling and put out their hopes to the unknown above. Perhaps they heard, perhaps they didn't, but there is one thing that was certain.
Somewhere, in a colony in the woods, there was a rather angry individual who randomly got hit in the head with something from the sky. The person looked at what hit her in the head, and saw a star. The star quickly disappeared before she could pick it up.
Then, the person looked up to the sky, and looked towards a strangely wooden building. They had to do something, that was obvious.
And they did.
...
So Kirby was pissed off.
"Ugh."
He had been confused, but sort of okay with being trapped in a strange room by himself. But then before he knew it, something else that happened ruined his day, more than the kidnapping.
Kirby had been almost asleep, but he just couldn't. He had been moving, and after a while, the movement had stopped. Then that's when they appeared. They honestly had the gall to reincarnate after all that Kirby had to go through.
Honestly?
Kirby didn't recognize it at first. The atmosphere was familiar, but he could quite grasp it until it looked at Kirby with a shocked expression. That's when everything came back. It started when Kirby was sleeping, like always when he woke up. Somehow he gained the ability of the friend heart, allowing him to befriend almost everybody.
Then he defeated Dedede, an easy befriend. Then he traveled across Popstar, defeating Meta Knight. Then, the Jamabastion appeared. Bip, bap, boom Three Mage Sisters were gone. Zan suddenly goes ballistic and destroys the place, forcing him to escape.
He even remembered the song, oh the stupid song they sung!
Rise oh dark lord of despair!
Crush the stars, lay waste to care.
It seems upon you wing, that dark judgment will bring,
May your symphony of tragedy cause the end of everything.
The entire… adventure that brought Kirby across the Galaxy, across nine planets, and finally facing Hyness. Then everything happened after that. Kirby had to travel through the gauntlet that was Another Dimension, he headed through the hellish Soul Melter EX, and after all that…
They were here.
Kirby wasn't going to speak, why would he? It made no sense whatsoever, especially after everything.
"Speak." They said.
"…"
"…"
"No." Kirby replied. He didn't say no of course, he said poyo. But for whatever reason, they seemed to understand each other. Well, Kirby knew the reason and he absolutely hated it. It's not like he had time to speak anyways. More guests were arriving.
Guests Kirby knew at one point, he had met them all.
But all he had to do was think.
The room had a way to see out. It was the glass that separated him and them from possible escape. But he couldn't break the glass, it was electrified or something like that. So what could he do?
…
There was nothing. So Kirby just put out his hope, in hopes that something would happen. He didn't know why, but he felt something. Maybe somebody, somebody… some people who seemed as hopeful as he was. At the end of the day he was still pissed, but maybe just a little less than before. Kirby looked over to them.
Nope, still pissed.
Bandanna Dee woke up.
"This is the… sixth one, yeah?" a voice asked.
"Yep, last one." The other voice said. "Well not sixth." They clarified. "If you don't count the blue and pink ones, which I don't believe the PCA did, so…"
"Oh they didn't?" the first voice asked
"They, in fact did not." The second voice replied.
"Oh yeah, cause they already knew about them, I saw it in a report." The first voice then paused. "It was like, they appeared on the ship, y'know we're like… well y'know."
"Yeah I get you."
Bandanna Waddle Dee's eyes were closed, just like they were before that weird black energy surrounded everybody. He flinched, as most people would do, and as such his eyes were unfortunately closed. He couldn't see anything, but he suddenly felt himself moving. Like he was on some sort of cart, or trolley, or perhaps a wheelbarrow.
He didn't know where he was going, and strangely he felt like there was wind blowing. Wind blowing from the east, but not blowing that hard. He then suddenly felt himself stop. Without warning, he felt himself moving upwards. Upwards rapidly, like an elevator being pulled up by a robotic arm.
Bandanna Waddle Dee felt air rush past him even quicker than before, and he felt everything jittering slightly. Things seemed to speed up even more, the wind becoming hurricane force until suddenly everything became eeriely silent.
Then, the elevator stopped.
[Welcome B'Mark.] a robotic voice said.
Was that even a word? Bandanna Waddle Dee then moved his hands back and forth, finding himself with the ability to move. In front of him was a door, a black door that, after a few seconds opened. Bandanna Waddle Dee walked inside, and found himself in a room with nothing but a singular chair facing a window.
"Hello." A voice that sounded rather quiet said. The voice came from the person in the chair. "So, how goes it?" the voice asked.
"Uh…" Bandanna Waddle Dee looked around. "Where am I?"
"Answer the question Bandanna Waddle Dee." The voice insisted. "How goes it?"
"I don't know how to answer." Bandanna Waddle Dee responded, beginning to walk a bit closer.
"Step any closer and I'll throw you against the wall." They said, making Waddle Dee stopped in his tracks. "So, tell me." The voice began. "What do you think of your friend Adeline?"
"Huh?"
"Adeline." The voice said yet again. "Your opinions, thoughts, headcannons…"
"She's cool, and we're friends." Bandanna Dee responded. "But, who are you?"
"…"
"Hello?"
"This reminds me of a time in my childhood." The voice said. "I was having a celebratory party for my birthday."
"Uh…"
"I remember, I was maybe… six, perhaps seven." the voice paused. "I went up to an office to visit my father, I took the stairs as kids weren't permitted to use the elevator." Fingers tapped together in the brief silence. "Anyways, when I entered my father's office, somebody else was there."
"…"
"I asked them the same question you just did, and the new person told me that they were a friend of his." the voice took a deep breath in. "Then I asked her name, and she didn't respond." Thereess another pause. "That was when I left the building and…"
"And?"
"And everything became immediately apparent as a lie." The foot of the individual talking began to tap on the metallic floor. "You see in the false little town they set up, there were a few people in position to speak to my father." The began to tap even faster.
"Ok..."
"It just so happens, that I came across his contact list on his device, he had pictures of all of his friends, she wasn't in any of the pictures so they couldn't have known each other." The voice paused, and the foot tapping ceased. "That's when I decided to follow the woman back to her home, I was young mind you, and I wasn't exactly smart." Then the person in the chair snapped. "And that's when I found everything out."
"…"
"The story is over, you can speak."
"Okay, first off." Bandanna Dee started. "I don't know the relevancy of any of that, and more importantly, why did you tell me this?!"
"Because." The person in the chair began to slowly turn it around. But before he could make the person out, they quickly stopped, going back to not facing him. "Because you have interesting qualities which, in comparison to others in your group make you different."
"Pardon?"
"Keh heh, I'm simply repeating what they told me those many, many years ago."
"Um, you still haven't told me your name…"
"My name…" the voice paused. "I'm Kelstri."
"Odd name, but I've seen stranger." Bandanna Dee shrugged. "Is there anything else I should know?"
"Truth be told, you know too much, but I'll give you one chance." Kelstri said. "Will you pledge your soul to the organization, and swear to act upon all of it's guidelines?"
Bandanna Waddle Dee stopped to think for a moment. He had no idea what this organization was, and was rather concerned at what would happen if he said no. He hadn't even seen this person's face, so how could he really trust them. But, if he could somehow escape, saying yes would probably be the best option.
"Sure." Bandanna Dee responded.
Kelstri stopped, and sounded rather surprised in the tone of her voice. "Oh." She said. "Very well then, you shall be put into the program."
"What does that-" Suddenly Bandanna Waddle Dee felt rather weak, and without warning fell onto the ground, his face against the metal. He could move his arms, just barely and as he moved his eyes upwards to see a pair of black boots directly in front of his face before everything went dark. What happened? Well, that doesn't really matter.
4 left yay :D
Wonder what will happen. :D