Chapter 5

Golden wings carried Falacis closer to his target. He hadn't really cared much for Kirby before, but now Falacis felt Kirby had taken his place and now he felt obligated to end this little pink fiends life as retribution.

Kirby glanced back and cried out. He hadn't known Falacis could fly. Still, he gathered up confidence and flung a bomb behind him. It missed by two meters and blew up prior to smashing into the ground.

"Kirby!" He heard Tiff yell, "Look out!" Kirby turned around on his Warp Star to Falacis ready to strike—

Meta Knight smashed into Falacis, Galaxia blazing. Falacis flapped hard, trying to regain stability in the air.

"I remember you doing something like that for me a long time ago." Falacis said.

"I remember as well, but the circumstances were quite different, as was the outcome."

With a roar, the two clashed again, a frenzied and desperate battle. They fell toward the ground at an alarming pace. Meta Knight kicked Falacis away and soared higher. They circled around each other high in the clouds, the clank of metal on metal that proved they still fought.

They started to fall rabidly down, much to the horror of all watching.

Then, they pulled back from each other and glided, ran for a moment on the ground and flew upward once again, Meta Knight ahead of Falacis by a long shot.

Kirby saw his chance and took it. He threw a bomb just ahead of Falacis, guessing the altitude combined with the speed Falacis flew forward.

KABOOM!

There wasn't a sound as the dust fell lightly. Meta Knight glided wearily to the ground, stumbling a little. Kirby followed suit and also landed, his Warp Star shrinking and floating off to Tiff.

Sword and Blade had finally caught up with the rest of them, covered in dust and armor slightly dented.

"I am fine." Meta Knight waved off Sword and Blade, who questioned him thoroughly about his state of health.

"He's gone!" Tuff gasped. There was nothing left of the evil warrior, save for a tiny golden star, that none had noticed previously.

"Is it his Warp Star?" Tiff asked, when Meta Knight picked it up and examined it.

"No." Meta Knight said simply. He kept the little star in one hand, and said nothing more of it.

"He truly is one of them now. Isn't he?" Tiff said quietly.

"He always was." Meta Knight muttered, almost to himself. "Good work Kirby," He spoke louder now, but there was something a little different about his eyes that Kirby couldn't place. " I would not have been able to destroy him without your help." And with that Meta Knight, Sword and Blade all left them there, wondering why the knight acted so strangely, and what exactly the little star was and what that meant as well. Perhaps they would find out someday.

"I'm hungry." Tuff said. "How 'bout we go find Kawasaki and get some grub?"

"Poyo!" Kirby agreed heartily, jumping vigorously. All that fighting had worn him out. He could go for a snack.

Tiff sighed. "Boys are so…" She shook her head, to many words to describe them coming to mind to pick any single one.

Back at the Castle…

Or rather what was left of the castle. Dedede shouted angrily at several large groups of waddledees, all grammar forgotten in his nasty rage.

"I wanna make sho' that there are none them microphones anywhere in this here castle or anywhere on this planet! You got that ya buncha bumblin' yooha's?"

The waddledees stayed where they stood, fear struck in their hearts.

"Well, what're ya'll standin' there for? Get all those microphones and lockum up!"

The waddledees scrambled frantically, not knowing exactly what they were doing, but at least trying to look like something was getting done.

"And don't forget to rebuild the castle while yer at it!" Dedede added, just know remembering the castle had been completely destroyed. "You too Escargoon!" He shouted to the snail, who had taken to trying to hide himself in a bush to escape work.