I'm very sorry, everyone, but I'm going to skip the Great Cave Offensive and Gourmet Race and go right to the Revenge of Meta Knight. I might do the Gourmet Race, but I can't seem to think of a good way to do the Cave. Again, very sorry.
Chapter 11:Revenge of Meta Knight
It had been a few days since the Dyna Blade incident. The duo was now wandering around, trying to find something to do. They had found out that they could copy the Broom ability, which was evident in the fact that Trent was now a Broom Hatter. The difference being that his skin was green with blue feet, and his green hat had a yellow stripe going across it. Also, he had gained a strange need to clean things. As they walked along a dirt road, he examined his purple broom, wondering how such an object could count as a good weapon.
Josh had inhaled a Gim and a Bonkers together who had ambushed them earlier, and was now tossing around a strange yoyo, naming it a yommer. It looked like the head of a small hammer wrapped in string. He had been messing around with it for quite a while, and had learned a powerful move where he spun it around above his head and slammed it in front of himself, and no matter which way it landed, it did a lot of damage, plus it had great range. The two downsides of this ability was that not only was it wild and hard to control, but it took some effort to actually bring it back to himself once he had swung it, even once hitting himself on recoil. Still, he liked the ability, so he decided to keep it for the time being.
"So, what do you want do?"Trent asked boredly, sweeping the path they stood on idly.
"Already doin' it,"Josh muttered, continuing to mess with his weapon/toy."Man, if only I had fingers..."
"Please. You can't do any of those fancy tricks,"Trent said."You can't even do around the world without hitting yourself in the head."This earned him a glare from his friend.
"Oh, yeah? Watch this!"he said, holding his arm back and then spinning the yommer in a circle. But before he could complete the circle, he ended up hitting himself from behind and knocking himself down with a shout of "D'OH!" Trent would have smirked if he had a mouth.
"I stand corrected,"he said, leaning on his broom."You can't do around the world without hitting yourself in the back of the head."
"QUIET, YOU!"Josh shouted, quickly standing back up. Before he could come up with another retort, a warpstar landed right in front of the two, confusing them both."Whaa--?"
"Where'd that come from?"Trent asked. Josh shrugged.
"If that's not a plothole, I don't know what is,"he remarked, then shrugged again and jumped on. The ride started to shake, then took off a second before Trent managed to jump on with a shout.
"That was close..."he muttered."So, where do you think this thing's going?"
Josh mumbled something, noting they were over the ocean."I'm going to say...there."He pointed towards a spot on the horizon. Trent squinted his non-existant eyes, seeing a giant, and familiar, warship resting in the hanger of a small island.
"Ah, the Halberd,"Trent said."This is going to be a pain."
"True dat,"Josh said as they closed in.
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"Sir, we've spotted Kirby on his Warpstar, heading at us from the east!"a Waddle Dee with a blue bandana said. The blue knight was silent from his seat, eyes closed in contemplation."Uh, sir...?"The bird captain next to him squawked angrily as he stood up.
"All troops get to their posts!"he said."That little gumball has been a thorn in our sides for too long! We're taking him out, here and now!"The rest of the crew, save Meta Knight, cheered at the co-captain. The galactic knight just sat there, thinking as his crew checked the bridge's instruments.
'I wonder if these two truly have what it takes,'he thought."Goddess, by the sound of things, these new warriors don't seem to have the makings of greatness worthy of star warriors.'He chuckled inwardly.'Then again, I said the same thing about Kirby back when we first met. I wonder how he's faring with Dedede right now.'
"He's landed on the ship's deck!"a skull engineer said."And he already has an ability and a partner!"
"WHAT!?"the bird shouted."Since when he is so prepared for us?!"
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"I think they've spotted us,"Josh muttered, watching soldiers running towards them.
"Really? I didn't notice,"Trent said sarcastically.
"Shut up and start sweeping,"Josh said, throwing his yommer forward and taking out a few Gims. Trent started sweeping the ground like mad, throwing up a cloud of dust that some waddle doos ran into, where they were quickly taken out. They started running across the deck, dodging past laser spheres and other enemies, Trent nearly getting his hat blown off in the process. Right after they passed a switch and hopped up a platform to the interior, Josh threw his yommer back and hit the switch, causing the wall in front of them to pull up. Trent quickly jumped up and ran past it. But Josh wasn't too lucky. He got past the wall, but only because his weapon knocked him through it.
"Ow,"he muttered, stumbling to his feet and following Trent through the door. Suddenly, they heard a voice blaring through the intercom.
"They're in the rocket valve!"a high pitched voice shouted.
"Release Heavy Lobster! Quickly! Quickly!"a rougher voice spoke.
"Why would they shout that through the friggin' PA system?"Josh asked as they climbed down a ladder.
"Maybe the button's stuck or something,"Trent said. A skull creature wielding an axe started charging towards them, flailing it's weapon around. Trent swiped his broom across the floor, throwing dust at it and stopping it just long enough for Josh to slam it into oblivion."Man, this place is dirty."
"You kidding?"Josh asked."This is nothing compared to your room. Sometimes I wonder if there's even a floor in there."Trent growled angrily at that, but said nothing in response, knowing he was right. They descended another ladder, and barely managed to avoid a flaming pitch fork thrown at them from a samuria-like creature. Trent quickly ran down the hall and knocked it silly with his broom as Josh hopped on the elevator on the other side. As Trent turned around, he saw Josh waving at him and grinning as the elevator went down.
"HEY!!"He quickly ran up to where it was moments ago and looked down the shaft. With a grunt of annoyance, he jumped down...
Which was a bad idea, as the elevator came riding right back up and instantly crushed him. Quite painfully, at that.
Josh poked his head out from the elevator, looking around for Trent and having no idea what he had just done."Hey, dude! Where'd you go?"
"...You bastard,"Trent growled from helper space, scaring him slightly.
"What happened, man?"Josh asked, making the elevator go down again.
"You fucking crushed me on the ceiling,"he said slowly, as if he was about to explode.
"Um...oops?"Josh offered weakly, smiling nervously."At least you're not a neat-freak any--"He was interupted by a flash of light, and Trent appeared in a new form. He looked a bit like Bonkers, but was somewhat smaller and frailer, had the eye of a Gim, and wore white gloves."You look...freaky,"Josh muttered, taking a step back. Trent's lone eye twitched.
"I'LL SHOW YOU FREAKY, YOU STUPID LITTLE MARSHMALLOW!!"he screamed, swinging his yommer at the pink puff. Josh screamed and ducked out of the way, letting the weapon slam into the elevator floor, causing it to snap off it's cable and plummet...about two feet. The slight jolt was enough to snap Trent out of his anger, and made Josh scream again.
"That..."Josh breathed, eyes wide."could've been ugly."He laughed nervously.
"Yeah, let's not do that again,"Trent agreed. They went through the next door, landing near a large turbine.
"Kirby's behind the nozzle! Fix him!"another voice shouted through the intercom. The duo saw a large shadow form around their feet. They ran out of the way in time to avoid a giant golden robot they recognized as Heavy Lobster landing right where they were standing just seconds ago.
"That thing's bigger than I thought it would be,"Trent muttered. Josh nodded in agreement. The robot charged towards them quickly, claws held forward to skewer them. They quickly jumped over it, landing behind the giant machine. Trent swung his yommer back somewhat clumsily, not used to his new form. The weapon collided with the robot, knocking off some of it's armor.
"Prepare to take off! Blow Kirby away!"a deep voice spoke as the Lobster's eyes glowed.
"Okay! Main engine ingnition!"said a somewhat gravelly voice while the duo dodged a flamethrower.
"Take off!"said the gruff voice from earlier. Suddenly, the giant turbine began to spin. The three, including the Heavy Lobster, paused, then looked at the large engine. They slowly looked at each other worried looks.
"Oh, fu-"the duo started, then all three were blasted away as the ship took off.
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End of Chapter
Okay, that took a LOT longer than I was going for. Sorry, but hopefully the humor makes up for it somewhat.