Writing this chapter felt like getting hit by a freight train.
No it didn't.
What?
Chapter Fifteen: A way out (5/7)
-Camera 8-
"Kirby?!" Meta Knight asked in surprise.
"Kirby!" Ribbon screamed in delight.
"Kirby?" Dedede asked. "What are you doing here?"
"Poyo." Kirby responded, looking rather happy. "Hi, Poyo poyo pi poyo." He said, whatever that means.
Meta Knight translated thankfully. "Kirby said that thought we were all dead on the side of the road." Meta Knight said. "He also said hello."
"Obviously." Dedede responded. "Anyways, where did you come from, and does it involve an escape route?"
Kirby spoke and Meta Knight translated. "He said some absolute goon, whatever that means, broke him out."
"What?" Dedede asked. "Well, where's the guy or gal who did this?" Kirby then pointed to outside the door, and without any bit of hesitation, Dedede, Ribbon, Kirby, Meta Knight, and the other two in the room exited.
What a group.
-Camera 6C-
So the… odd ones of the group had taken their time walking down the hall, in… contrast to Kirby. They had stopped in the hallway for whatever reason, it's not like anybody could know currently. They weren't speaking. But what would a conversation between two individuals like that even entail of?
Such questions would have to wait.
The other five, making a total of seven walked into view.
They all paused in place, as if they were currently being raided by the FBI, or the SWAT team, or the other various acronym military groups. Then thankfully, the silence was broken as Meta Knight spoke. "Which one helped you out?" he asked Kirby.
Kirby pointed to Madison, which made everyone look around for a moment before Meta Knight spoke yet again. "Cool." He said. "Anyways-"
"Now hang on a minute." Dedede interrupted. "You ain't gonna say thank you?" he asked Meta Knight.
"Well…" Meta Knight stopped for a moment. "You say it first." He said.
"What, why?" Dedede asked.
"Yeah, sounds kind of suspicious." Ribbon interjected.
"Oh so now you don't want to say thanks?" Meta Knight responded. "What gives?"
Dedede looked at Meta Knight for a moment before looking back to Madison. "Thanks." He said blankly, looking back to Meta Knight. "Ok now you-"
Meta Knight interrupted. "Well, I'd say Dedede speaks for everyone here in what he just said, let's continue forward." He finished, walking past Madison and…
Well the other one.
Dedede looked annoyed, but he shrugged as he and all the others, including the two they just came across walked away, towards the left halls door. But for the moment as they passed by, the other one, the um…
Well, the dark matter.
Looked at the camera.
They couldn't stay, and perhaps if I could tell them, I would.
But I didn't.
-Camera 5M-
Nothing much happened as the strange group walked down the middle section of the hallway, but what could you put in a hallway to make it interesting? A miniboss perhaps?
No, that would be far too easy, too simplistic you could argue. But was that really the most important thing going on, no it wasn't, it was probably second in terms of importance. First of course, being the ragtag group of… protags and sidetags and whatever other tags there were.
Honestly, I sort of expected this.
-Camera 4C-
The group of seven was at the door, and it was what most would consider wide open, though not to a big extent. Kirby took the initiative to open the door, and as he did, his rather neutral expression turned into a confused one.
Heh, you see, hydraulics are hard to explain, but long story short, the room, atleast compared to previously had expanded put thanks to… keh… ah… hahaha….. ah, nevermind, nevermind. Kirby walked into the room, and the other six piled in as well, each looking like they had studied for the wrong obedience test, but as it turned out you were supposed to be studying human obedience, not animal obedience.
…
-Camera 3-
Moving on, the room had a sort of fade, one that faded into grey for the twenty feet the room stretched out, until coming back to the pristine white walls that should always be there. Unfortunately paint was hard to keep from flaking off inside a wall, theoretically of course.
"What happened?" Madison asked, from the back of the group like an absolute turtle.
"Poyo." Kirby responded. "Poy…" Kirby looked as a patch in the ceiling opened up, and down from it came the main attraction.
Truth be told, it was easy to come across, that penguins computer had all the schematics in the hard drive. But it was required enough, and that's all that mattered. What came down from the ceiling was what they simply called "Security Force (Metal General Prototype)"
To describe it would be simple.
The security is a rather short robot with a multi-hued coloring, along with yellow eyes. It had a dorsal fin jutting out from it's back, along with two rocket boosters. We removed the hideous logo from the front and replaced it with a circle, as circles are universal. The robot also came with a multi purpose weapon launcher attached to it's right arm, and a blade on its left. I do believe it should be a decent enough force to be reckoned with, yes.
"Metal General?" Dedede asked.
"Security Force." Meta Knight corrected. "What's it doing here?"
"It kind of looks deactivated." Sword Knight spoke. "Though I wouldn't get close."
Ignoring the filler dialogue, I pondered to myself many things. Like, which one should go first?
Hm…
The penguin.
Dedede, as they called him.
I pressed a button, one that you shouldn't care about, and the door shut behind the seven, leaving them stuck, inside of the room. Okay, let's see here…
"Dedede, step forward." A voice from the ceiling said.
Dedede was taken back a bit. Where did they learn his name, and more importantly, why did they want him to step forward? This clearly had to be some sort of trap, so there was no way he was stepping forward!
…
Dedede looked around, getting odd looks from everyone. Usually this was the part where something made him step forward. "Uh…" Dedede looked up at the ceiling. "What's going on?" Dedede looked back at his friends, who were still looking at him, unmoving. "Very funny, y'all can stop now." Dedede said.
…
Wait a minute…
They weren't staring at him to be rude. They were frozen, even Ribbon was frozen midair. Everyone was frozen, the sworn enemy of all master chefs, and the problem currently. How were they gonna move again?
Or did they? Perhaps they were doing the mannequin challenge?!
…
Nah, it's current year, they would be idiots to do that.
"Dedede, step forward."
"Alright, get off my case, you ain't my mother." Dedede said stepping forward.
"If I was your mother, you'd speak with a proper accent." The voice snapped back.
Before Dedede could respond, the Security Force in the middle of the room activated, and Dedede reached for his hammer, and…
Oh yeah no hammer.
"Catch." The ceiling voice said, as suddenly from the other side of the room, the greatest thing ever happened. Dedede's hammer, with the speed of a moderately fast snail came flying towards his hand. Dedede barely caught it, looked up at it, and held it up in triumph.
"I have the power!" he said as metaphorical lightning cracked in his mind.
Dedede-Man
"What?"
"Nothing." Dedede responded, as he looked towards the Security Force. "It's about time we got a fight scene!" Dedede said, sort of smiling. Dedede watched as the Security Force locked onto him and without hesitation began it's attack.
The Security Force extended it's left arm, spinning it at such speeds that it became kind of like the little propeller on the front of old timey airplanes. The Security Force rushed forward at Dedede, the blade moving at high speeds, and Dedede quickly jumped over it, hitting the security Force with him hammer with a spin.
"Logged." The ceiling voice said.
"Huh?" Dedede asked, as the Security Force turned before ramming into his friends. "Oh whatever." Dedede sighed as he ran up to the Security Force, and charged up his hammer behind his back before slamming it into the robot.
"Logged."
Apparently that did a lot of damage, as the Security Force began to glow for a moment before getting visibly angrier despite being a robot and all that. Security Force jumped away from Dedede's and the others, and midair, he held up his right arm and out came seven semi-deadly looking missiles.
Dedede braced for impact, then realized his hammer wouldn't do anything to stop explosions, so naturally he did what all penguins do in a dangerous situation.
Suck.
Dedede opened his mouth wide, and sucked in air as the missiles came flying at him one by one. Dedede waited as he felt the missiles enter his mouth, all seven of them filled his really stretched out stomach, as Dedede spat the missiles out in the form of a star at the Security Force, as it took another large chunk of damage.
"Logged."
"Log…" Dedede muttered. "Log this!" he said, throwing his hammer at the Security Force as it jittered with electricity. Dedede's hammer would've hit the Security Force, but before it could reach, the Security Force dodged and the hammer slammed into the far away wall, smashing some glass. "Well that ain't good." Dedede remarked.
"Catalogued."
"Hilarious." Dedede sighed as the Security Force convulsed midair, and sent out four smaller disc shaped robots from it's right arm. The robots began to fly erratically around the room, and one of them flew over Dedede's head. But unlike a missed joke, instead of flying over in a nice woosh, the disc robot shot out a lightning bolt from it's center, electrocuting Dedede, and would've his feathers off if he had any.
Dedede shook off the mild electrocution like a champ, and looked at the three other disc bots who were circling around the room as well. Dedede looked up at the one above him which seemed to be recharging it's electrical capabilities. Dedede took the initiative, and grabbed it out of midair.
Dedede then looked over to the Security Force. "Hey robot!" he said getting no looks. "Did you drop disc?" he said thinking he made a clever pun, and throwing the disc robot at Security Force, who didn't dodge, instead watching in a disappointed posture as the disc flew under him, landing upside-down.
The Security Force looked at Dedede, who was still in the throwing position, and shrugged before-
ZZAP
Suddenly a bolt of lightning shot up from the fallen disc robots underside, and hit the Security Force straight in its processing core, knocking it and it's robots smack dab onto the ground. Dedede looked in shock as he wasn't sure whether that was supposed to happen. Eventually he owned it though. "Yep, I totally planned that." Dedede said, as he totally 100% planned for all of that to happen, (not clickbait) (gone wrong) (almost died).
"That was not planned." The ceiling voice said quietly. "Excuse me for a brief moment."
In that brief moment, Dedede looked over to see his friends not frozen in time anymore. Ribbon was on the ground, but who cares? All that matters is- "Quick, our stuff is over there, make a run for it!" Dedede yelled, causing confusion for a moment before Meta Knight picked up Ribbon and indeed made a run for it. Sword, Blade, and Kirby also followed. Dedede ran over as well and grabbed his hammer, which had shattered a glass protecting two oddly labeled vials which looked like the type the doctor would use while administering shots. Dedede pulled them out, and as Meta Knight was putting his mask back on in triumph, he showed them to everyone.
"Any ideas what these do?" Dedede asked, to which Ribbon looked semi curious. "Leys see, one of them is labeled 'wing energy (poisonous) (bat)' and the other 'wing energy (magic?) (Fairy?)'." he finished. Dedede then looked at Meta Knight and Ribbon who were looking at him.
"Dedede give us the serum." Meta Knight said holding his hands out.
Dedede was about to, but then a thought crept in his mind. Dedede smiled cockily. "What's the magic word?" he asked childishly.
"Uh…" Ribbon paused. "Meta Knight, what's the magic word?"
Meta Knight didn't respond, but looked at Dedede with his eyes in a way that screamed "Really?". Dedede nodded, and Meta Knight groaned. "Give us the serum, pleeease."
"That's exactly what I've been wanting to hear." Dedede replied stabbing Meta Knight on the top of his head with the insertion part of the serum container.
"Ouch." Meta Knight said, with a tone of pain in his voice. Dedede then looked over to Ribbon who seemed kind of scared to take the shot.
"Ribbon, there's a cake behind you." Dedede said.
"Huh, where?" Ribbon asked, as Dedede stabbed Ribbon the same as he did Meta Knight, but this time in the arm through her sleeve. "Ahh…" Ribbon trailed off. "It wasn't that bad." She shrugged.
"So what did they do?" Dedede asked, looking at both Meta Knight and Ribbon at the same time. Suddenly without any real warning, Ribbon began to flutter like some kind of butterfly. Then with even less warning, she began zipping around the room like she had developed a caffeine addiction.
Meta Knight outstretched his wings for a moment before turning them back into a cape. "Okay, stop showing off Ribbon." He said, prompting Ribbon to fly directly in his face.
"Just let me have my moment." Ribbon said, and after maybe five more seconds of flying she quickly settled down. "Wow, that feels good after all that's happened." She then looked around at everyone else, who seemed just about ready to leave. She stopped for a moment. "Where's Addie?" she asked, prompting everyone to look around.
"Now that you mention it…" Dedede started. "I ain't seen her around this place." Dedede realized. "Haven't seen Bandanna Dee neither."
"Wonder why it's only them that's missing…" Meta Knight muttered. "Should we look around?"
"I mean, where would we look?" Ribbon asked.
"Poyo?" Kirby asked, getting a glare from Dedede. "Poy pot pi poyo."
"You have a way out." The ceiling voice suddenly said, causing everyone to look up. "I have all I need, you can all go back to your lives on your planet."
"Huh?" Sword Knight asked. "Who are you?"
"Good question." The ceiling voice responded. "If you look up there's a hole that leads up to where the quantum teleporters are."
"I knew it!" Dedede yelled suddenly. "Sorry."
"The point being you can leave." The ceiling voice finished. "Bring the human child with you."
Well there was a hole in the ceiling, that was true and it did seem to lead somewhere. But nobody in the room seemed eager to go. Everyone seemed to be missing something. Friends, Allies, acquaintance's…
"No." Dedede responded.
"Pardon?" the ceiling voice asked.
"I said no." Dedede responded again. "I don't care if I die trying, I ain't leaving my Number One Waddle Dee in some kind of Alien deathtrap!" he told the ceiling. "That's just wrong."
"Uh, yeah!" Ribbon added in. "I'm not letting Addie stay here and… do whatever you do here, I'm gonna save her!" she exclaimed. "We don't need a way out!"
"…"
"I never really got to know either of them as individuals, but you will pay for what you did to my wings!" Meta Knight said, holding Galaxia up to the ceiling.
"Poyo pi poyo pi poy po poy, poyo pi poyo poyo!" Kirby exclaimed doing a backflip for no reason other than because he could!
"Yeah, that." Madison said, wondering why she was even here.
"Poyo."
"Ok um…" the ceiling voice paused. "You wouldn't survive heading into the main section of the area, and it doesn't mater anyways." Meta Knight walked over to the door leading into the hallway with Dedede and the others close behind. "The door is-"
With a concentrated slice, Meta Knight cut the door in two with his sword and it fell to the ground leading into the hallway.
"Closed."
Before they went into the hallway, Dedede called them all together, and then spoke. "Hands in the middle!" he said, getting odd looks. "Okay, how about a mutual exchange of eye contact instead?"
Meta Knight looked at Dedede and nodded, who in turn looked at Kirby, and nodded. Kirby looked at Sword Knight who nodded, and Sword looked at Ribbon, who nodded. Ribbon looked at Poppy who nodded, and Poppy looked at Madison who nodded. Madison looked at Blade, who nodded and they all mutually agreed to never talk to each other after this was over because that was pure cringe.
There was a way out for them? Why aren't they taking it? These creatures make no sense whatsoever. I had it all set, but it simply couldn't be done. WHY? Wait... I said they make no sense...
But do they?
I could still go along with this, everyone could still go as plan, I would just need a deciding factor. But what to do… I had… Waddle Dee. Adeline. What else?
I had…
I had a gun.
That could work.
Guns were always a fun thing to play with.
Weren't they?
Well, before I began anything, there's just one thing I would need. My black boots tapped on the nice floors as I looked out towards the glass fixture in front of me.
I needed a way out.
Two more chapters. Uploads are getting closer and closer to the actual day, and not 1 AM.
Yay.
There's not much to say, except that I'm excited to share the ending of this pile of garbage.
:D
Anyway-s.
Stay safe, and don't store explosives in a fireworks warehouse.