Once Memu realized that Fumu was not coming back, she went to the front door of the apartment and yelled after her with Bun and Kirby behind her, "Fumu! Come back here! You know better than to cheat another person!"

"Yeah, sis! We know you can still hear us! We'll find out what's really in that bag!"

After Bun finished his proclamation, Kirby ran out after Fumu with Bun following just behind.

Meanwhile, Meta Knight had been let go of with only Fumu's right hand clutching the tied top of the bag, and already she had run so far that by the time Bun's words reached her, she was at the bottom of the stairs listening to two pairs of footsteps.

"Do you have your wings?" Fumu panted as she turned a corner.

"No."

"Foo!"

She rushed out the castle gate, and a Waddle Dee and the Waddle Doo who had just been returning from their lunch break spun and collapsed from the wind Fumu had created from whizzing by them.

"Sorry!" She called back over her shoulder as she started going down the hill.

"It's okay! We're used to this!" Was the reply Fumu would have heard if she was not already halfway down the hill.

At the bottom of the hill, Fumu slowed down only slightly to check to see if she was being pursued. Bun and Kirby were also at the halfway mark of the hill, which made Fumu speed up again and bypass the town and change direction toward Whispy's Forest.

By the time Fumu had gotten to the edge of the forest, Bun and Kirby were still a decent distance away, or so she had been checking before she tripped on a bundle, her pillowcase slipping out of her hand and roughly tumbling to the ground as she attempted to untangle her feet from a dark blue, silky thing she had found on the ground... This dark blue, silky thing was Meta Knight's cape! And his armor! And Galaxia! Which made sense considering, but she had not thought about where what he was wearing might have gone.

Untangling the cape, she did not just want to leave his stuff here but Bun and Kirby were gaining quickly, so she did not have much of a choice other than to slip the armor and cape around her neck by the undone buckles and scoop up the sheath holding Galaxia, which was lying right next to Meta Knight's pillowcase which was also snatched.

Getting all her bearings, Bun and Kirby could not have been thirty feet away, so she delved into Whispy's forest, hoping she could lose them in there. Less than a hundred feet in, she saw a pit of spikes with a three foot ledge on the other side. Probably where Meta Knight had gotten his scrapes from, at least that was what Fumu thought as she hopped over the pit.

About a trek and a half later, Fumu saw a rather large, odd-looking boulder in a bit of a clearing. She slipped behind it, hoping Kirby and Bun would pass her so she could get back to her apartment and explain the situation to Memu. She pressed herself tightly against it, only to fall completely into the stone itself. Picking herself up, Fumu looked around. She was in a cozy little place with a small, red, yellow, purple and green rug and a painting that looked more like a pencil sketch of a Waddle Dee on the wall.

How strange, that these things would be out here in the middle of the forest.

"Meta Knight, I think we're safe." Fumu whispered as she backed herself up against the wall.

His voice came out quiet and muffled as he was set into Fumu's lap. "Good. Now where are we?"

"In some kind of cave. There was this weird looking boulder in a clearing and when I pressed up against it I fell through into this room." After she mentioned the boulder, Fumu felt Meta Knight tense up inside the pillow case.

"Fumu," he spoke seriously, "You need to get out of this cave. This is where I was transformed."

Fumu jolted to her feet with a slight gasp, now frightened as she dashed through the curtains...

... Only to smack into her brother.

"Ow!"

Kirby, who was just a bit ahead, stopped and turned back to see why his friend had yelled, but all he saw was a mess of comical smoke and a few hands and heads every now and then as Fumu and Bun fought for the pillowcase, Meta Knight's voice cheering Fumu on even though he could not see.

Fumu did not notice Kirby, however, as her back was to him and she was then holding Bun back by his forehead as she lifted the pillowcase above his reach. And such was her surprise when she felt Kirby's entire body tackle her arm and slam into her head, taking her down and freeing her grip from Bun.

In the split second when Fumu had no idea what was going on, Bun snatched away the pillowcase and ran off a distance behind Fumu and behind a tree as Kirby blinded her with his adorable pink face.

"Fumu? Please tell me you're Fumu." Came Meta Knight's incredibly worried voice from the pillow case. He felt hands untying the bag and saw a part of it open up a little when he glanced up. The knight hid his face immediately in the corner of his cell, sensing that he was going to be seen or heard of by a lot of people that day.

Bun opened the bag and stuck his head in, only to get smacked in the face by Meta Knight who had jumped out of the bag backwards and bounced off Bun's face, dashing away as fast as he could so he could get away from Bun faster and so the constant rotation of his body blurred his face.

Fumu threw Kirby off her just in time to see Meta Knight hit Bun's face and roll off, so she rushed over and scooped him up and sprinted a fast as she could out of Whispy's Forest, leaving Bun and Kirby to recuperate before shaking off their dust and following Fumu, who was already almost out of the forest at that point thanks to her mad dash.

Once out of the forest, Fumu took special care in making sure Meta Knight's face was tight against the side of her stomach like a football player would hold a football. Surely if anyone saw her, say a female Waddle Dee out picking mushrooms, they would give the armor-clad girl some strange looks.

Fumu got an idea.

Fumu, instead of completely bypassing the town, rushed straight into it and headed for the prison.

"Borun! Borun! Wake up!" Fumu screeched at the sleeping Cappy, who was immediately startled out of his sleeping position on his rocking chair.

"Fumu! What's wrong?" The policeman then noticed what the girl was wearing. "Why are you wearing Meta Knight's clothes? And why are you holding a ball of yarn for dear life?"

Fumu shook her head and quickly glanced around. "It doesn't matter. I need you to lock me in the cell. Maybe I'll explain later, just hurry!"

"Er, okay. This appears to be serious. Come on in, I guess?"

Borun led Fumu into the prison and opened the cell door, the cell itself of course was empty because frankly, Borun could not catch and keep a criminal to save his life. "Are you sure you're okay, Fumu?" He asked just as he was about to shut her in.

"Yes, just lock it and DON'T let Bun or Kirby in, no matter how much they beg."

"Only because you're sure." The door was locked and Borun went back outside. "If you need anything, yell." And then they were alone.

Fumu set Meta Knight down and he watched her take the sheet off the bed and climb the cell bars, using the strength she had acquired when Meta Knight trained her to lift herself up, and fastened the sheet by expertly hooking it over some bolts so no one could see inside.

She turned to Meta Knight, who instinctively turned to the wall. "It's okay, I already saw you. You don't have to hide anymore, at least not from me."

Meta Knight took it into consideration and slowly turned around, looking at the floor of the cell as his face heated a little from the embarrassment of her telling him she knew what his face looked like. "Thank you... But what do we do now?"

"Well, I was thinking we'd just wait around and wait until Bun and Kirby pass because they all know they're coming. Then we'd go find a phone and call Mom and explain the situation."

"What do you mean, 'they all?' You're not talking about them, are you? That's out of character."

Fumu sat down on the bed. "I've come to accept their existence."

"Well done." Meta Knight hopped up and remained beside Fumu, sitting partially on the cape. "Also, why are you wearing my clothes? Are they not a bit heavy for you?"

"I didn't just want to leave them on the path. The cape was what made me trip back there. The armor is a bit much for my shoulders, though." Fumu undid the buckle that was around her neck and crossed her arms, rubbing her shoulders as the garment fell.

Meta Knight chuckled at that, a smirk coming across his face as he briefly closed his eyes before a frown appeared on his face which could have been what an exasperated facepalm would cover and he flopped over onto his front muttering, "Ha... What have I gotten myself into..."

Fumu looked down at him, surprised he was letting himself act like that in front of her, even after a day of stress. She did not know what to do besides lean down and give him a hug. He did not really like hugs, at least he said he did not, but honestly he needed one, so he accepted it.

"Thank you..." He muttered, feeling a bit better. "But really... What happened to my mask? Were you not holding it? You claimed it just disappeared."

"I was looking right at it and then I just wasn't holding anything. I have no clue what happened. Sorry I lost it! But why did you say 'yes' to me taking off your mask? If you really didn't want me to so this wouldn't happen, why'd you let me?"

Now it was Meta Knight's turn to be confused. "I do not know either. I thought someone else said it, but you claimed I did. I also felt strange, like something was going on in my head, but it went away quickly just after the deed was done."

"So should we tell Mom to get Bun and Kirby off our backs first or go find your mask?"

"We should tell your mother first, then maybe get a paper plate for me."

"Hey, whattdaya mean we can't go in?! My sister's in there!" Came Bun's voice from outside.

"Poyo!"

"I'm sorry. She told me not to let you in, no matter how much you begged."

"But then our game of hide-and-seek'll never be finished! You can't just let her cheat!" Bun lied.

"Oh! She didn't tell me it was a hide-and-seek game! You're right, I can't let her cheat. Right this way."

Fumu and Meta Knight looked at each other in silence. "... Grab my stuff and prepare to make a run for it." Meta Knight murmured.

Fumu quickly refastened the cape and armor around her neck, buckled Galaxia's sheath around her waist, picked up Meta Knight football-style again and took a running stance just next to the jail's door. The lock snicked. The door opened a bit slowly and the sheet fell just as Fumu dashed out of the cell, knocking Bun to the ground and yelling, "Moron Borun!" As she sprinted out of the prison.

Bun staggered to his feet. "After them! Charge!"

Borun looked at him questionably. "You found her, you don't need to..." But Bun and Kirby were already gone.