Kirby a tenuous sleep after much effort. It was too fragile to be sustained as the puffball woke after barely forty minutes of sleep. Kirby decided to go on a little nature walk to clear his thoughts.

"That's not suppose to be there," he said in reference to a moon shaped ship right in front of his oak tree. The soil look liked it had been recently torn. After inspecting the inside it was obvious the pilot was long gone.

Kirby wondered if Dreamland had another invader villain before a missile crashed a few feet in front of him. The pink puff was tossed into the air like salad. Kirby managed to descend back down with grace, even doing a back flip on the way down for some reason.

The dust cleared only to reveal two big pair of blue rabbit feet sticking out of the ground. They were connected to a body that was almost as ball shaped as his. Kirby, being the hero of Dreamland, went to help the poor feller out. The pink hero pulled on the feet to pluck out a predictable rabbit like creature. Kirby could tell this was a girl, and was willing to bet she had a connection to the ship.

"Is this your's," he gestured at the ship/

"Ah, yes," Bonnie grew anxious at the very real possibility of drawing Kirby's wrath for landing her ship on his yard.

"Are you a villain or have some evil agenda?"

"No!" Bonnie couldn't bear to be help in suspicion by her idol.

"Are you here to warn me of someone like that?"

"No." She was here to impress him but failed.

"Then what brings you to Popstar. . . " Kirby drawled on for a name.

"Bonnie, and I would like to be your sidekick?" Bonnie posed to statement more to herself. She came to win Kirby's respect by dealing with his villains for him but it was obvious she still had a lot to learn. Being in the presence of Kirby made that more obvious than her defeat.

"Do I have to pay you?"

"No you don't, if anything I should be paying you. It be like paying a tutor." This was great, Kirby was considering.

"Well, I guess so. But out of curiosity what can you do?"

"This."

Bonnie crouched into a running position and blasted off. She zoomed around Kirby and the tree a dozen times before little more than five seconds. Kirby's eyes could scarce make out the blue runner. Her after image produced two Bonnie to the naked eye. Bonnie slowed as time increased but her speed bottomed out at still an impressive rate. Bonnie came to a skid after her lightning speed was demonstrably undeniable.

"My feet can also take down any foe. I would demonstrate but I don't want to hit you or your tree."

"Okay then I guess you're my sidekick," Kirby guessed that as a hero he was probably supposed to have one but never paid it much thought. His many companions on his adventures never stuck around if they counted. Did that make Dedede and Metaknight his sidekicks when they worked together? Probably not as they would never agree to that.

"So how do we start?"

"Start what?"

"Teaching me to be a hero." She would be learning from the feet of the master.

"Uhmm, well there are no villains to stop at the moment," this had been a quiet day.

"What about Dedede?"

"He's not doing anything."

"Isn't he a dictator?" Kirby broke out laughing.

"The worse thing Dedede ever did was try and hog snacks for himself. Dedede likes to think he is this big villain but he is really not. Besides. there really is no government in Dreamland. Dedede is basically an eccentric rich person with way too much time on his hand, not to be too mean. Dedede actually helps to save the day when an actually credible threat pops up."

"Oh, okay," now that she really dissected the stories she heard Dedede threat level was probably ridiculous. Which made her defeat the more shameful, hopefully Kirby doesn't find out.

"What about Metaknight though?"

"He actually is a somewhat credible. But Metaknight has a code of honor. He is not some ruthless conqueror. He also helps saves Dreamland with his skill and battle ship when it's in danger. So why bother him if he's not causing trouble?" That also made sense. Bonnie swore to learn pragmatism as a hero.

"So we just wait until a threat appears or someone causes a problem?"

"Pretty much, I mean we can't go around micromanaging people. That would be annoying for everyone."

"Yeah," Bonnie was glad she lost to Dedede. She as literally going to go do that.

"Also you are the sidekick so you remain the sidekick. I'm the hero. Aren't you just suppose to assist me and make me look good?" Kirby read books where the hero had a sidekick that would remain by their side faithfully for years.

"Wait, but you are suppose to teach me. It would be like an apprenticeship."

"But you are my sidekick not my apprentice."

"But I want be the hero someday." Bonnie's ear were were line straight as her tone was laced with agitation.

"Isn't the sidekick just as important as the hero?"

"How."

"Well the sidekick is the hero's faithful partner who he can also confide. The sidekick is always adventuring with the hero and saves him more than anyone else. The sidekick also does several other small things that keep things running."

"I guess you're right."

"Also being the hero is a lot of work," it really wasn't. "You have to be saving people constantly and ready to go on the drop of a hat," Kirby generally liked but did sometimes find all the trekking annoying.

"Yeah but there is honor in doing the right thing."

"But isn't there more honor in being a sidekick. You are doing the right thing and ceding the fame to someone else, proving that you are just doing this to do the right thing."

Bonnie couldn't expect anything less from a hero as renown as Kirby. Being his sidekick was probably had higher distinction than being a solo hero. It also meant she could work with him everyday.

"Then from now until forever I am your sidekick."