"No."
Dark Nebula, Gryll, and Poppy were suddenly stopped in their tracks. They were in a black room, pitch black, and in front of them was a figure, one with a familiar shape, but unfamiliar colors, sporting crisp platinum blonde pigtails that emanated out from a beautifully shining face, a single eye gazing in from an open left eyesocket. the figure had on a silver vest that draped down onto the floor, and in nature seemed almost heavenly.
"Huh?" Dark Nebula asked.
"Wh-"
"Silence." the figure said, standing up. "I've been thinking, and... you three, have to go?"
"Pardon?" Gryll asked. "Who are?"
"I AM EVERYTHING." she said in an incredibly loud voice that echoed around the room. "I'M EVERYTHING, and EVERYTHING IS I."
"That makes no sense." Dark Nebula said flatly. "Just-"
SUDDENLY without a warning the figure shot forward and was directly in front of Dark Nebula, multiple sparking particles fluttering back in forth as they spoke with conviction in a haughty tone, "SILENCE, YOU ARE NOT IMPORTANT."
"I-"
"You don't get it, do you?" the figure said, and-
E-E_E-e_E-e_e-_E-_E-e_E_E_E-e-E-_E-e-e
She looked to her side, and something turned on. It was a television, a name she only just grasped when it turned on. It was showing a channel, a channel that had...
Something.
"What was it?"
A... diamond?
"Yes, that was it."
EIE-E_E-_EE_-e_E_e_E-E_-_E_E_e_Ee-_E-e
-with a snap the room shifted from pitch black to somewhere else, they seemed to be on some sort of island, bright sunny skies, and what looked to be a massive fighting arena right in front of them. The figure turned from their appearance to more contrasted, the platinum blonde turning a more orange-blonde. "Look at this, we were so close to greatness here, we could've continue it all!"
"Who's that?" Poppy pondered, pointing to a man with an exuberantly large forehead and flowing hair, looking to be wearing a purple tunic.
"Eleven." the figure said blankly. "He would've eventually have had to bring everyone together as the Luminary and save all of Smash Brothers, but NO, the universe had to will against it!' the figure cried out in anguish. "Here's another!" the figure cried, and the landscape shifted once more.
The island turned to a more paper-y exterior as multiple trees grew over them as what looked to be some sort of ring stood in the middle of a grandiose lake, two figures, one as flat as paper, and the other, some sort of yellow folded being walked on up a path.
"This was great, it was so GREAT, but again, the universe HAD to forsake it!" the figure cried. "So many wasted potential stories, and yet here they are, floating in the great ether instead of being allowed to be claimed by the void!"
"Stories?"
"NOT JUST STORIES!" the figure said, getting in Gryll's face which made her lean back in anticipation as a red eye glared daggers. "WORLDS, ENDLESS POTENTIAL CAVED IN BY THE WHIMS OF AN UNCARING FATE, AND ONLY I SEEM TO NOTICE!"
"But-"
"THAT'S WHY YOU'RE HERE!" the figure sighed, placing a hand to her face. "You-" another sigh was let out. "You three ARE potential, and I don't get it, but when looking over the universes you three shone the most brightly, and that's how I managed to escape the confines of those artifacts."
Poppy scratched the side of its head, "Artifacts-?"
"Here, let's observe, shall we?"
"Are you going to get up, or will I have to slap you again?" a posh sounding voice spoke, and Ribbon looked up to see a little girl in a white dress staring down at her. She had weirdly red hair and blue eyes that shone in the light.
Ribbon groaned. "Who are you?"
"Alicina, obviously." she spoke with a bit of arrogance, before pointing a finger at Ribbon. "NAME, NOW."
"Ribbon." Ribbon said, picking herself up. "Sorry, my head hurts a bit, do you know where Meta Knight is?"
"Who's Meta Knight?" a voice said behind her, and she turned to see a ghost boy looking on from a couch. "Sorry, was I too loud?"
"No, you were too quiet." another creature, some thing which had a large red cloak on, holes where its eyes, mouth, and nose would be, a strange red liquid oozing out on the floor behind it. "I am Gof-Kin strange pink creature!"
"Cool." Ribbon, said, looking around, more specifically not at that thing. "Where are we?"
"Dunno," Alicina shrugged. "I was going somewhere, but I forgot, so now we all just hang out and watch old DVD's on the Telly."
Ribbon was interested, "What are you watching?"
"A show known as The Big Bang Theory." Alicina declared. "The PINNACLE of DVD'S according to the boxes, we have them all!" she declared, pointing to a large stack of cases spread haphazardly across the floor.
"Oh, is it about science?" Ribbon wondered, as Big Bang sounded science-y.
"No, not at all." the ghost said. "I'm Wisp, by the way."
"Who asked?" Alicina muttered. "Regardless, you're welcome to join us, but first you're going to have to tell us your Spirit Link?"
Ribbon looked around, not sure what she meant, "Who?"
"Get out." Alicina said blanky. "This is a gated community, no spirit link, no entrance." she explained. "Though I guess there's no real Out anywhere, so just go stay in the corner."
"No... out?"
"Just kind of a dark void of nothing, I don't mind though, makes controlling the plants easier." Wisp explained. "I call it the Potential."
"Why?" Ribbon wondered.
"Dunno, that's what it says to me when I ask it questions." he said, opening a window, and indeed there was just a black void outside. "Hey, do you know what year it is?"
/\/' POTENTIAL '\/\
Wisp slammed the window shut. "See?"
"That's... odd." Ribbon muttered. She felt like she was forgetting something, but her eyes wandered to the television. It had a weird looking guy in a green shirt and Santa (whoever that was) Hat just standing there. He wasn't doing anything in particular, just sort of... standing there. "Christmas." was the word she found.
"Who's Chris?" Alicina wondered, staring at the TV. "That's Bazinga Man, not Chris."
"His name is SHELDON." Gof-Kin corrected. "Sheldon Cooper."
"Yeah, and why does Chris have... mass?" Wisp asked. "Is he obese like Gof?"
Gof-Kin was offended, "YOUR MOTHER IS OBESE!"
"My mother is dead, probably." Wisp shrugged. "Anyways, who's Chris?"
"Chris as in..." Ribbon looked away. "Christ..." she spoke, not sure where she got-
…
"Wait, when did..?" she began to ask, turning away from the TV and looking towards the other three in the room, who all looked at her with blank faces, all seemingly frozen in time. Then, the window behind them slowly slid open, and Ribbon watched as the void began to slowly spread over them, the darkness filling the room like a poisonous gas, letting out a villainous HISS as it got closer, and all Ribbon could do was watch helplessly as it swallowed up the room, with her inside.
E_E_-_E-e_E-e_E-e_E-e-_E—_
He was in a dark forest, one that seemingly stretched on for hours and hours, with no sense of how far he had traveled. The trot of his horses hooves were the only sound, besides his breathing of course, that he could hear.
_E_-e_E-e_E_E_EE-E_E-_EE_E_e-_-
"That's it." the figure complained. "That's the issue, the moment these stories, these world stagnate, the potential... it kills them, it stops time, it ends the flow of everything and just consumes it all, it's what happened to your world."
"Our world?" Dark Nebula spoke, in a quieter tone.
"Kirby Skyfall was supposed to start it all, but it too stagnated, despite having the greatest potential of all!" the figure spoke. "And artifacts was the final breath of hope, despite that too fading from any chance of continuting."
"Wait... so our universe is-"
"Dead, for all intents and purposes, yes." the figure sighed. "The only one left is the one I put you in, but I just..." the figure paused, "This is why I have to do what I'm about to do." the figure said. "I am Kelstri, I am everything, I am... everything left of Kirby: Skyfall."
"What about Poppy?" Dark Nebula wondered.
"..."
"Yeah, I mean, she seemed to be actually involved with Kirby, unlike us, we just did fuck all during season one." Dark Nebula admitted. "Assuming it's connected."
"..."
"Yeah, and no need to rain on your pity party, but if you could pull us out of there, why not pull everyone?" Gryll added. "Is is that hard?"
"..."
Poppy took a step forward and spoke in an annoyed voice. "Also, Kelstri," they began, placing a hand to their chest, "Or whatever your name is, sorry to say, but I don't think we'd even do whatever it is y-"
Before Poppy could finish its sentence, something sharp pierced through their body from the floor, stretching up to the infinite ceiling as Dark Nebula and Gryll jumped back in horror.
"Well, now I am." Kelstri said blankly, turning to face Dark Nebula and Gryll. "Now, you two, I need you to listen to me very carefully." she said, walking forward as the background once more shifted, though this time all they could see was a star shaped planet in a distant colorful galaxy.
"YOU'RE SICK!" Gryll said, reaching for one of Dark Nebula's spokes, only to find her hand would pass right through it. "Huh?"
"You two are about to go on a long and perilous journey, and the chances of meeting eachother EVER again are far from likely." Kelstri said blankly, her hair turning a striking blue as Dark Nebula and Gryll looked at eachother with wide eyes. "So..."
"WAIT!" Gryll yelled, but before she could do anything else her ears filled with a horrid,
SNAP!
Good Luck.