A/N: Since as of right now there's no need to describe their exact actions I figured for now I'll write the Meta Knights dialouge like a transmission somewhat like how it appeared in "Revenge of Meta Knight." The parenthesis simply indicate the way their speaking.
Ax: Where did Kirby go?
Vul (Happily): Heavy Mole knocked that puffball right out of the sky! We've won!
Sailor Dee: Are you sure?
Mace (Happily): He's fallen somewhere in Dream Land and lost his warp star, who cares?
Sword: As Master Meta Knight has taught, never believe your foes to truly be vanquished.
Vul (Annoyed): Bah…
Meta Knight: I'm beginning to grow weary of this location.
Trident: Setting a new course for Float Islands.
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Kirby slowly awoke face down on the ground and pushed himself up and rolled over to his back before jumping up to his feet. He wearily looked around but soon widened his eyes as he saw a stampede consisting of his usual common enemies such as broom hatters, waddle dees, grizzos, and poppy bros. Jrs, charging towards him to get away from the burning forest. He puffed up himself and flew over the crowd and watched as they all ran down the forest trail. Once they were gone he exhaled and looked up the smoky trail that led up to Dedede's Cliffside castle. He ran up the path and skidded to a stop as he looked up at the castle. Most of the towers had crumbled from missile hits and the center dome had collapsed and a large clean cut hole been cut across most of the castle.
He slowly walked into the dimly light castle to find most of stone columns and portraits of Dedede knocked over and scattered around the floor along with remnants of the ceiling, his waddle dee army was nowhere to be seen. He made his way into the abandoned throne room and looked around unaware of the figure emerging from the shadows behind him. It lifted up a large hammer.
"IT'S ONE OF THOSE META KNIGHTS!" Dedede shouted.
Kirby turned around to see as Dedede brought his massive hammer down on top of him and repeatedly whacked him on top the head.
"Great king stop!" Bandana Dee cried as he ran up beside Kirby and started to wave his arms around stopping Dedede as Kirby stumbled in place in pain as his eyes circled about. "It's just Kirby."
"Oh, Kirby? Well that…" Dedede began before stopping and widening his eyes. "Wait a minute Kirby? AH!"
Dedede bought his hammer down on both Bandana Dee and Kirby and proceeded to rabidly hit both of them.
"Gre…at… king… stop…" Bandana Dee pleaded in pain.
Dedede finally stopped after becoming exhausted and watched for a moment as Bandana Dee joined Kirby in stumbling around in place. After a moment Dedede picked up Kirby by his foot.
"Hm, Kirby huh?" Dedede asked rhetorically as he shook him up and down by his foot. "What the heck are you doing here?"
Dedede dropped Kirby who jumped up to his feet.
"It's Meta Knight!" Kirby replied. "He's invaded Dream Land and destroyed my warp star!"
Dedede rolled his eyes. "Tell me something I don't know. That little traitor showed up a few days ago and the whole area's almost been destroyed."
"What? At this rate he'll control all of Popstar in no time!" Kirby exclaimed.
"I know, I'm gonna miss ruling this place after so long." Dedede cried.
Kirby gave him an annoyed look for a moment. "We can't let him win. We have to stop him."
Bandana Dee looked at Kirby strangely. "What can we do? That ship of his is massive."
"We can to work together, to stop him." Kirby explained.
"What?" Dedede asked in disbelief. "Work with you? Don't make me laugh."
"But there's no other way." Kirby told him. "My warp star is gone and I know you have to have something around here that we can use to get to him. Teaming up is the only answer."
Dedede crossed his arms and looked away. "No way, there's no way I'm going to work with you, even if it does mean we'd get a chance at stopping Meta Knight."
"But we have to!" Kirby told him before looking over at Bandana Dee. "What do you say?"
Bandana Dee looked at Dedede before looking at Kirby. "Well…"
"Come on." Kirby pleaded. "If we want to save Dream Land we're going to have to work together."
Bandana Dee let out a sigh. "I guess we have no choice, I'll do it…"
He walked up beside Kirby and the two stared at Dedede.
"Well…?" Kirby asked.
"No way, I'm not helping." Dedede replied.
"But great king you must. It's the only way you can keep ruling Dream Land." Bandana Dee told him.
Dedede looked over at tha pair and stared at them for a moment before dropping his arms and sighing. "Fine… if I have to… But when this is over I expect to have control over Dream Land once again."
Kirby nodded his head. "Great, now all we need is a way to get to onboard Meta Knight's ship."
Suddenly a load rumble roared in the air and the rocks and debris scattered about the ground began to shake.
"What the heck is that?" Dedede asked.
Bandana Dee ran over to the window and looked out it to watch as the Halberd turned in the sky. The jets on the back of it faced towards the castle and soon died down for a moment before unleashing a great amount of energy and the ship shot off in the direction of the Orange Ocean.
"Meta Knight's ship! It's leaving!" He told them.
Kirby and Dedede ran over to the window and watched as the ship began to fly out of their view.
"He's trying to escape!" Kirby exclaimed. "We need to act fast!"
Dedede stepped away from the window and placed his hand on his chin began to think. "Hm, I guess now's a better time than ever to try out that prototype of mine…"
Kirby looked at him curiously.
"To the basement!" He shouted as a raised his finger up in the air.
Bandana Dee and him began to run down the hall of the throne room and out of the room while Kirby watched on. After a moment he shrugged and began to run after them.
Kirby caught up with Dedede and Bandana Dee as they waited for him at the bottom of large staircase on one of the castles lowest levels.
"Took you long enough." Dedede remarked as he looked back at him.
Kirby shot him a glare before focusing his attention on the door in front of him. Unlike the rest of the doors in the castle it was made out of metal and contained Dedede's trademark blue V symbol surrounded by a yellow circle.
"What is this place?" Kirby asked.
"It's my secret hideaway." Dedede answered.
Dedede stepped forward towards the door and the ground in front of it sunk into the ground a bit seeming to react to his weight. A low buzzing sound came from the door for a brief second and suddenly it began to open revealing a lab like environment containing various parts of weapons such as shotzos, grand wheelies, and hammers.
"Whoa, I've never seen this room before…" Kirby awed in amazement.
"I wonder why…" Dedede groaned as he rolled his eyes before proceeding to walk into the room.
"Great king, what are we doing in here?" Bandana Dee asked as him and Kirby began to follow him.
"That prototype warp star of mine… We can use it to reach Meta Knight." Dedede replied.
Kirby's eyes widened as they continued to walk. "You have a warp star?"
"It's a prototype." Dedede corrected. "Should be around here somewhere…"
Another door opened as they walked into one of the backrooms of the basement and floating in a small see through tube was the prototype warpstar. It appeared identical to Kirby's only it was light red in color and a bit larger with two small jet boosters on the front wings likely to support Dedede's weight. Kirby trotted up to the tube and pressed his hands against it as he stared at the warp star that hovered around in it.
"This is your warpstar?" He asked.
"Made it myself." Dedede replied as he walked up behind him. "I was starting to get tired of you flying around in yours every time you ruined my plans so I thought I'd make one myself to teach you a lesson. I guess now we'll have break it out and use it to stop that traitor Meta Knight."
Kirby jumped around and waved his hands in the air. "Well what are you waiting for? Get this thing out of there so we can use it!"
"Hang on, hang on…" He muttered as he turned around and walked over to another steamed up tube that was attached to the wall nearby.
Kirby gave a puzzled look at Bandana Dee who walked over to him and simply shrugged in response. Kirby and him then turned to watch as they Dedede pressed a red button on the machine the tube was connected to before rubbing his hands together and laughing as the tube began to slide open causing the steam captured inside to fall down to the ground around it.
"Here we are…" He remarked.
The steam from the tube cleared out revealing his large metallic blue, red and yellow Dedede hammer. He pulled it out revealing his grey mask with three yellow horns. He smirked as he grabbed the mask as well before walking over to Kirby and Bandana Dee as he placed it on over his crown.
"Alright!" He exclaimed triumphantly in a slightly more menacing tone due to the mask as he raised his hammer up in the air. "Let's do this!"
Dedede swung his hammer to the side causing Kirby and Bandana Dee to duck as he smashed it the tube containing the warpstar breaking it.
"What the heck are you doing?" Kirby shouted as he looked back up at Dedede.
Dedede shrugged and threw his hammer over his shoulder. "I forgot how to open that thing."
Bandana Dee watched as the warpstar fell gently to the ground. "So now what?"
"Well since neither of us have any knowledge on how to drive this thing I guess it's Kirby's job to get us up in the air." Dedede replied.
Kirby nodded his head and held up a fist as he narrowed his eyes. "Right. Let's go!"
Kirby jumped up onto the center of the warpstar and held onto as Dedede and Bandana Dee both jumped onto the space beside the back wings.
"Alright! Let's go!" Dedede cried.
Kirby focused his thoughts on taking-off and suddenly the warpstar began to fly around the small room at a great speed before launching up into the air, tearing a hole into the ceiling before flying out into the sky through one of the explosion holes in the roof of the castle. The speed of warpstar caused Dedede to fly back causing him to grab onto one of the back wings while Bandana Dee grabbed onto his foot in order to avoid falling into the ocean below.
"K-K-K-Kirby! S-S-Slow t-this t-thing d-d-down!" Dedede shouted as they flew off towards the Halberd in the distance.
Mace (Panicking): Sir Meta Knight! Kirby is heading this way!
Sword: I warned you he wasn't defeated!
Ax (Panicking): What do we do!
Meta Knight (Surprised): …
Vul (Angrily): Argh! Divert all cannon fire at Kirby! Alert Heavy Mole! Prepare Kabula Mk. II! DO SOMETHING!