Kirby and SSB isn't mine, I wish it was!

Kirby Pov

The early morning light filtered through the curtains of the window, rousing me from my sleep. Ticcori wasn't up yet, thank the stars, and any and all other deities for that blessing, I really don't like it when the selfish bird always gets in my face. Honestly, if I wasn't as nice as I am, I'd have smacked him a good one ages ago!

Carefully, I crawled out of the bed I, unwillingly, shared with Ticcori and got to packing. It was a slow process, but because I pretty much laid everything I'm taking out before I fell asleep (Ticcori was already snoring away by the time I fell asleep), all I had to do was put everything in my little red backpack. Red had actually given this to me at the last Christmas Party in Smash Mansion when he discovered my luggage consisted of all my stuff bundled up into a knapsack tied to a stick. Personally, I didn't see anything wrong with that, but apparently the adventurous trainer did, because the first thing he told me when he got it was that it was about time I got a real bag to carry my stuff around.

I had just put the last of my stuff away when I heard the soft knock on my door, opening it I found Meta Knight and, surprisingly, Blade and Sword Knight. I quickly got over my shock, figuring Meta Knight had let them in on where we were always going. Knowing them, they probably tried to follow us to the tournament. Those two can be worse than Tiff sometimes if they become curious or suspicious enough. The three of us walked calmly into the forest, no reason to wake anybody up. Upon reaching a deserted clearing, we sat and waited, after Blade and Sword returned home. It wasn't long until I heard the arrival of Dedede, big penguin couldn't even blink without making a ton of noise about it.

"Hey! What's the point of getting up so early if we're just gonna stand around doing nothing all day!"

"Quiet, Sire. You'll awaken the entire forest. And unless you wish to explain to Whispy Woods and his woodland friends why we're here. Then I'd say have at it!"

That shut the king up, the old tree guardian still had it in for Dedede after his many plots to turn his forest into a country club. I couldn't help but smirk, which on my face, looked more like a cheerful, if idiotic, smile. At least Dedede doesn't know I'm making fun of him I suppose. I may be a child, but I'm far from being as nearly immature and child-minded as the other Kappy's, and by extension Dedede and Escargoon, think I am. I can still remember the day Dedede first came to the Tournament.

/Flashback/

I had just been in the middle of sharing some of my adventures over the past year with Link and Mario, and Toon Link after being introduced to the kid-hero of a separate timeline/dimension of Link's world, when I suddenly heard the thump of another person coming through the portal and a familiar yell.

"HEY! WHAT IN THE NAME OF… WHERE AM I?"

It was Dedede, I couldn't help but laugh at his expression when I saw it. Way to get peoples attention idiot. Link and Mario seemed to quickly catch on that this guy was a stray from my world who wondered into the portal. They quickly silenced Dedede. Basically just telling him to shut up so they can get Master Hand and his brother to explain things.

"Hey, Dedede. Nice reaction. I hadn't seen something like that in forever!"

"Eh? Who said that!"

I couldn't help myself, his expression was just too good, and got even better after he realized exactly who it was that just mocked him. I fell on my butt in laughter.

/End Flashback/

I chuckled a little at the memory. Master Hand had taken three whole hours to drill it into Dedede's head that he was in an inter-world hosting grounds for a tournament. And Dedede, always trying to prove he's the best, immediately joined in, he barely lasted a single preliminary round and had to take an extra training course. A complete embarrassment for the first few months until he finally turned his head around and realized that the members of the tournament were neither impressed, stupid, or really interested at all in his status back home. This was proven even more when Princess Zelda and Princess Peach flatly slapped him in the face and kicked him in the nuts for acting like an immature brat and basically giving royalty in general a bad name. Trust me, that shook the idea that titles don't matter into him, especially upon learning that it took a lot to make the kind-hearted and motherly Peach blow a fuse and actually hit somebody. Normally the only way that would've happened was if she caught Falcon peeping in the girls showers or somebody bullying the younger Smashers. Of course, he was lucky that Samus was in the middle of a match, or else he's have to deal with the "Bounty-Hunting She-Devil" AKA Samus when she's pissed.

Anyways, here we were, waiting blah, blah, blah. Waiting kinda gets boring after a while. Of sitting around, did Master Hand sleep in or something? Speaking of sleeping, I might as well get some shut-eye before portal-hopping.

Tiff Pov

I had finally figured out where they were going, or so I thought. Me and Tuff, he had insisted on coming and threatened to wake mom and dad up, had gotten up before the brink of dawn to camp out by Kirby's house. Imagine my surprise when I saw Meta Knight knock on Kirby's door with a sack being carried by his followers and Kirby answer it, carrying a strange red backpack I've never seen before. We followed them to the forest where Meta Knight told Sword and Blade to return home. Not long after Dedede came out of the surrounding trees complaining about the time. Why was he here?

It was clear they were expecting Dedede, and that they seemed to be waiting for something, or in the case of Kirby, sleeping until something happened. I could tell Tuff was getting bored, my idiot brother never could stand still. I had managed, through great perseverance, to keep the both of us still for up to ten minutes when out of no where their was a bang,along with a softer thump as Kirby woke, and a strange light filtered into the clearing.

"FINALLY! I thought that stupid Hand was gonna keep us waiting for hours!"

"Sire, surely you understand that he has many important duties, right?"

"(Yeah…)"

I didn't understand what they were talking about. I watched as they gathered their bags and walked into the light disappearing in a flash. The light was still there, so I did possibly the stupidest thing in my life, me and my brother entered the strange portal, and with a blinding flash, disappeared.

*Another Cliffy!