Quick Question: I really want to be able to separate scenes, but whenever I load it up, it removes my lines or asterisks. If someone could let me know in a review how to do that, I would greatly appreciate it. The (Meanwhile)s look so bad. In fact, I won't update again until someone helps me out. Just think of it as an incentive.

This update came quickly. Wow, less than a day and I already have a review. Thanks a lot Xanxi! When I read that, I almost cried. Since this is my very first fanfic, I didn't expect to get a comment like that so soon. Oh, and I promise that I'm not trying to copy your story or anything like that. Like I said before I had come up with the idea quite a few years ago, so any similarities between our two stories are more coincidence than anything, not that you we're accusing me of copying so I guess it's not a big deal. Anyways after seeing that review, I just knew that I had to put up my first chapter. I hope you all enjoy it.

Disclaimer stuff: Kirby and all char88acters that happen to fall under that franchise are owned by Nintendo and Hal. I don't care if you use any original characters that I make, however, it'd be nice if I get some credit for them. Enough legal junk, let's get on with the story.

Chapter 1

Knight's in the Sky

The night sky of Popstar is one of the most beautiful sights in the known galaxy. The bluish sky dotted with thousands of stars of countless colors. The neighboring planets are just close enough that you can tell them apart, be it the greenish colors of the rocky Cavios, the bizarre raindrop-shape of Aquarius, or the white aura given off by the spherical ice world of Shiver Star. However, in this day and age, few people take time to look up and admire the majesty of night. One such person went by the name of Waddle Dee. He watched the stars through his telescope on the balcony outside his room at Castle Dedede. Waddle Dee was a servant there. He basically was a grunt who did most of the menial jobs no one else wanted to do.

Waddle Dee had two passions in life though: the dazzling stars in the sky and the legends surrounding those stars as well as his own planet. He had worked hard to collect book after book containing the legends of old: the Nightmare, the Star Warriors that defeated it, even the ancient landmarks that supposedly held great significance to them. Like everyone else though, Waddle Dee didn't believe it either. To him, they were a wonderful tribute to ancient story telling. What he saw that night would eventually change his and an entire galaxy's viewpoint on that.

He looked in his telescope towards Cavios. The large craters from ancient meteor collisions, and openings into the hollow planet interior always amazed him. As he started turning his telescope toward another planet he noticed something orbiting the planet. At first he thought he was seeing things but on closer inspection, he realized that it was a bird shaped spaceship, and a big one at that. He also noticed that the ship looked like it had just come from a battle and that it had either barely escaped or barely won.

"Wow…" Waddle Dee said as he admired the battle-worn cruiser. A few seconds later another ship approached it and this one looked in perfect condition

(Meanwhile)

He stared at the screen on the ship condition display. The Halberd may be one of the most powerful ships in the galaxy but they had barely gotten out of that ambush alive. Of course some slight satisfaction came out of the fact that they had bloodied the Spark Os' noses a bit. They were definitely getting smarter. The Spark O were a savage race of mechanical diamonds that only sought destruction. His job was to make sure they did not do that. Unfortunately, every time he fought them, they seemed to get smarter. He sighed and looked towards his crew. They were definitely the best in the galaxy.

"Butch," he said to his skull faced navigator, "Did we lose them?"

"It looks like it Meta Knight." He said to his blue, mask wearing leader. "I don't detect anymore Spark O contacts on radar. Looks like we're in the clear."

"Alright," said Meta Knight then turning to another crew member who was easily five times larger than he was. "Masher, do we still have weapons?"

"Barely," came the gruff voice of the giant. " Missile launchers are all but gone and we only have one laser cannon working. The gravity disrupter still works…but with the condition of our ship, using a weapon of that power would probably take out our ship."

"…Alright." Meta Knight then turned to the intercom to contact the rest of his crew. " Trila, how are the engine repairs coming."

"Not to well, Meta. We definitely need to dock somewhere soon…Sword is searching for any spaceports or stations in this system. Meta-Droid says that the repairs will take at least a week long."

Meta Knight sighed at the inconvenience that would put on his group. He then contacted his last two companions. "Sword, Blade, where are we?"

Sword answered first. "We're right next to Cavios, Meta Knight. Fortunately, they've got a space station called Mecheye. I've already contacted them and they said that they'd be willing to dock our ship."

Blade then chimed in, "Something else that I thought you'd be interested in, Popstar is very nearby."

"Popstar…" mused Meta Knight. If we're going to be stuck here for a week…then I should go there to make sure that everything is still okay.

"Meta Knight!" yelled Butch. A Spark O cruiser is heading for us at high velocity.

Meta Knight looked on the viewing screen and saw the enormous solid diamond coming straight at them. "Sword, where's the star base?"

"On the other side of the planet. Sir, their jamming our communications."

Meta Knight rubbed his head in frustration then came to a decision. "…Butch, head for Popstar as fast as is safe."

Butch looked confused, " but Sir, we're closer to Cavios and Popstar doesn't have any rep-"

"Do I have to repeat myself? Head there NOW!"

Butch calmly turned around, "Yes, Sir Meta Knight." He turned the Halberd away from the Spark O ship and headed for Popstar. Moments later, the ship rocked from the heavy laser fire.

(Meanwhile)

"Oh WOW!" Dee said as he saw the diamond shaped ship fire at the other. Dee turned an ran into the room to wake up his cousin.

"Doo! Doo! You've gotta see this. There's a big space battle and the ships are really duking it out and it looks so awesome. C'mon, c'mon. Come and see!"

Doo slowly opened his single eye. "Dee…it's 2 in the morning. The king wants breakfast at Kawasaki's tomorrow…go to sleep."

"But I saw-"

"I don't care what you saw! It's late and we gotta get up early tomorrow. Good night." Doo then closed his eye and went back to sleep.

"Fine…I'll just watch it by myself," said Dee, a little sad that his cousin was so nonchalant. As he looked back in his telescope he noticed that the two ships were a lot closer to Popstar now. The diamond one looked like it had barely suffered any damage while the bird-shaped one was buckling. Then the ship seemed to charge up one of its cannons and let loose an enormous laser beam that instantly vaporized the diamond ship. "Holy cow!" shouted Dee. The bird shaped ship began to fall towards Popstar though.

(Meanwhile)

"It worked Meta Knight," said Masher, "but it was too much stress on the engine. The reactor's all but dead, we're being pulled toward the planet."

Meta Knight hit the comm. Button. "All crew brace for impact, we're going to be coming down on the planet Popstar. Butch steer us away from any populated areas, I don't want to attract any attention. Trila, you and Meta-Droid get out of the engine room. We're going down."

The Halberd began to sink into the atmosphere, picking up speed. Butch did his job well, and crashed the ship onto a remote island. Unfortunately for Meta Knight, they didn't go unnoticed. "Wow…I'm gonna check it out tomorrow," said Waddle Dee deciding that the excitement was over and it was time to go to bed.

To be continued

Alright, it's getting longer. Anyways I hope you all enjoyed it. By the way, I'm using the KDL2 names for the Meta clan. That is, Butch is Meta Axe, Masher is Meta Chain. Trila is actually Meta Lance. I made the name from her weapon (a trident) and her Meta clan name. I'm also going to use short nicknames for certain characters: Waddle Dee – Dee, Poppy Bros. Jr. – Poppy Jr. or just Poppy, etc. Please review. Remember, praise, comments, suggestions, constructive criticism are all welcome. Flames are dumb and will be ignored. Thanks for reading and I might update soon.