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Oh, yeah. Finally found out the bird captain's name.
Chapter 17:Destruction of the Halberd:Part 4
"Dude, that was the most awesome thing we've ever done!"Josh laughed as they flew through the air, away from the burning remains of the Halberd's right wing."We have got to come with more attacking combos like that!"
"Yeah, it was pretty sweet,"Trent grinned as they flew towards another area on the massive battleship. The two landed on a small platform leading off into a long drop.
"Looks like the explosion from Heavy Lobster took out the right wing!"Javelin's voice rung out.
Captain Vul hummed to himself."Having both wings destroyed may be just what we needed..."The duo suppressed their snickering after that, knowing Meta Knight was rather pissed at the moment.
"Kirby is climbing around the outside of the ship, heading for the helm,"Axe Knight declared.
"Technically, we're not really doing anything yet,"Trent remarked as the two walked to the edge, looking down the rather intimidating drop.
"Y'know, if I couldn't fly, my acrophobia would be crippling me right now,"Josh mumbled, then he perked up."But, since I can fly...GERONAMALABUNGA!"He leapt right off, Trent shaking his head for a short moment before diving after him. The two landed inside a silver cannon, which, as they expected, began to spin around wildly."I THINK I'M ACTUALLY STARTING TO GET USE TO THESE THINGS!"
"FEELING ISN'T MUTUAL! I'M GONNA HURL!"Trent shouted back, then put a hand over his mouth as if to prove his point.
Josh's eyes bulged."LIKE HELL YOU ARE! FIRE!"With that cry, the cannon pointed straight up and shot them right into the air above it. The duo looked at each other in confusion as they hovered in the air for a moment.
"Oh, for the love of-"Trent started, then gravity noticed what was going on and dropped them right back into the cannon, which began spinning again."THIS SUCKS!"
"FIRE DOWN, DAMMIT!"Josh barked angrily.
The cannon then pointed straight down, shooting the two down at a blistering speed, smashing them through a few Bronto Burts. Josh quickly managed to right himself and inhaled deeply to inflate his body, slowing his descent considerably. Or at least it would have, but Trent reflexively reached out an arm and grabbed Josh's foot, which, due to the combined weight of his body and his rocky armor, forced the pink ninja to flap his arms madly to keep from dropping like a brick.(Or rather, dropping like an armored, hammer-wielding gorilla holding onto a gumball-like creature's foot) Even then, Josh was desperately struggling to slow their descent. Noticing this, Trent quickly looked around before finding some food floating in a diamond shape near a large cloud, and he instantly remembered where it lead to.
He pointed his hammer."Float over there!"Josh immediately attempted to do just that, flapping his arms as much as he could (with slight help from Trent comically blowing over his shoulder as much as he could) and floated inside the cloud, where he immediately dropped, landing on the floor of the cloud and collapsing, taking deep breaths as Trent pushed himself to his feet, sighing in relief.
"Never...do...that...again..."Josh breathed tiredly, glaring at Trent, who grinned sheepishly.
"Ack! Kirby's disappeared from the radar!"Javelin cried, his voice muffled from the clouds.
"You lost him?"Captain Vul shouted."Find him! Do it now!"
"They are hiding in the clouds, it seems...they will come out soon enough,"Meta Knight stated coolly. Once Josh managed to catch his breath, he stood up and they looked around, then immediately spotted an Invincible Candy above them. With surprising speed and accuracy, Josh leapt up and sliced it in half as Trent calmly picked up a Crash Bomb with his free hand while holding out his hammer, catching one half of the invincible candy on its end and casually tossing the Crash Bomb to the side, where it exploded harmlessly. Josh quickly landed and scooped up his half and Trent flicked his armored wrist, maneuvering his hammer so that he held it just under the head and grabbing his half of the candy. Without a word, the two scarfed down their treats.
Quite predictably, they went nuts. What'd you expect by now?
The two ran forward at top speed for only a moment before Chef Kowasaki and Bugzzy appeared behind and in front of them respectively. The fools.
Josh shot towards Bugzzy while Trent lunged at the chef. Josh quickly unleashed a RIDICULOUSLY fast flurry of wild slashes at the wrestling beetle while screaming "CUTCUTCUTCUTCUTCUT!" as fast as he swung his sword, taking it out before it could blink. Trent roared as he smashed his hammer into Kowasaki's skull, causing immense damage and stunning him long enough for Trent to pick him up and hurl him backwards in an overhead throw while roaring with mad laughter, sending him straight towards Josh and the downed Bugzzy, the former quickly rolling out of the way and allowing the two to crash into each other and explode. Not stopping for even a second, the two dashed forward again, running through a door and somehow landing near the side of the Halberd.
Not having the necessary sanity to question it at the moment, they began leaping across platforms as the crew's voices spoking up.
"Kirby is moving along the base of the ship,"Axe Knight said as they smashed through a bomb wall."And...they've apparently eaten an invincible candy. Oh, boy..."The duo began leaping across moving platforms, going right through scarfies and plasma wisps until they reached the next door, the invincible candy wearing off.
"Whew,"Josh sighed, grinning madly at Trent."Well, that was pretty fun."
"I never get tired of that and I never will,"Trent chuckled, seeing a switch and a retracting wall ahead of them. He calmly struck the switch with his hammer, allowing the two to move forward, hopping over a Bugzzy trophy and under a Birdon trophy. They saw two switches, one on the floor and one on a platform above them.
They both frowned."Ugh, I remember this part,"Josh muttered.
"Let's just get it over with,"Trent sighed."You hit the one up top and I'll hit this one."
"And then I run as fast as my big red feet can carry me,"Josh muttered, inhaling some air and floating up to the top switch.
And so, after a series of elaborate button-pressing none of you want to read about, the duo managed to reach an elevator, only for a chrome cannon to fire a few shots at them, which Trent quickly blocked off with his armor before swinging his hammer and crushing the machine.
"Stupid thing,"the armored gorilla grumbled as Josh pressed the elevator button, causing it to go down. However, it was only a moment later that the elevator suddenly shook, as if hitting something.
"Whoa!"the two shouted, shocked by the sudden and shaky stop.
"I think we hit something,"Josh said, stating the obvious.
"You think?"Trent asked pointedly, pressing the elevator's up button and causing it ascend.
"Okay, we DID hit something,"Josh said, rolling his eyes as they reached the top again."Happy?"
Instead of verbally responding, Trent quickly picked up his small friend with a hand, pulling him out of the way of a few cannon balls from another mobile cannon. Irritated, he smashed it with his hammer just like the last one, putting Josh back on his feet.
"Where'd that thing come from?"Trent asked as they walked forward.
"I think it was that enemy respawning thing, y'know, from the game?"Josh suggested. The two stopped, noticing there wasn't an elevator. At least, not at first, but then it rose into their view, and three more chrome cannons filed towards them."...Or it could have from there."
"Yeah, that would explain it,"Trent said blandly as the chrome cannons fired a volley of shots at them. Josh quickly began to swing his sword at high speed, parrying, deflecting, or flat out slicing the cannon balls in half. As he continued, Trent leapt over him and positioned himself for an elbow drop, laughing wildly as he dropped towards them. He landed on the machines in a loud crash, crushing them beneath his immense weight. Trent then stood up and calmly dusted himself off while Josh blinked.
"Subtlety really isn't your strong suit, dude,"he remarked as they walked into the elevator, pressing a button and descending.
"I'm giant and I have a hammer. Subtlety's not exactly an option for me at the moment,"Trent said as they reached the bottom.
"Good point,"Josh admitted as they stopped. The two were confused to see nothing but a wall in front of them, then they turned around to see a cherry, a cookie, and a piece of cake floating there. As the two took said food, they descended again.
"Okay, seriously, who's leaving our food lying around?"Captain Vul asked, exasperated.
"Sorry, I think I left that there..."Waddle Dee said timidly. Just as the duo managed to finish their snacks, the elevator stopped, revealing another Chrome cannon and a button behind it. Josh ran forward, slicing through a cannonball before slashing the enemy apart and quickly pressing the button, which was followed by a muffled noise like something collapsing from beyond the wall. He hopped back on the elevator as Trent pressed the up button, causing it to rise again.
Once it reached the top, the duo quickly ran over to the elevator and descended stopping at a small area with a Yoyo trophy and 1-Up. Not wanting to waste any time, they just descended again before finally reaching the bottom, seeing a bird flying around and a chicken just sitting there. Eyebrows raised, they just walked around the fowls and hopped down a step, seeing ANOTHER trio of Chrome cannons.
"Dude, how many of these things do they have?"Josh asked irritably as he sidestepped a few cannon balls.
"As many as it takes to kill us,"Trent said bluntly, swinging his hammer vertically and smashing two cannons into a wall. Josh hopped over a few more shots before coming down and stabbing his blade through the cannon that had fired, taking it out and jumping off before it exploded. Their enemies defeated, the duo looked at a large block of...well, blocks.
Trrent hummed as Josh took a deep breath, eyes closed as he held his sword up, then he brought it down in a vertical chop, releasing a wave of energy that travelled through the blocks before hitting a switch within, revealing a door. The Kirby grinned as Trent tilted his head, the two walking towards it.
"How'd you do that?"Trent asked.
"Educated guess,"Josh shrugged, the two walking through the door, and walking into a room with plenty of food, Maxim Tomato, and a 1-Up.
"Noooo! My secret stash of food and 1-Ups!"Javelin cried as the duo began to feast.
"So, you were the one hoarding them! You scallywag!"the Old Bird growled.
"They look delicious..."Waddle Dee mumbled hungrily as the two finished off the food, quickly running back through the door afterward. The two ran to the end of the hallway, jumping and dodging around a flock of birds before running through the next door, finding a bomb trophy above them.
"They're heading towards the reactor!"Axe said frantically as they looked around.
"If we lose the reactor, this will all be over for sure!"Javelin shouted.
"Never fear. I don't think Kirby can do anything to the reactor,"Vul said, sounding surprisingly calm.
"So long as a reflected laser doesn't hit the reactor, it'll be invincible,"Waddle Dee remarked.
"Eeyaah! Don't even say things like that!"Vul squawked, now sounding rather upset.
"Well, it's not like we didn't know to do that in the first place,"Josh muttered humorously as the two walked through the door, landing in front of a giant machine with a spinning crystal in it, with many different Wheelies in the background on what looked like treadmills. They looked up to see a laser gun descending on a rod, taking aim at Josh as the main cannon on the machine charged up a flame.
"Hoo boy,"Trent muttered.
"You take out the main cannon and I'll do the rest,"Josh said, floating up before Trent could respond. With a grunt, Trent quickly jumped over a burst of flame before bringing his hammer down to damage the cannon. As he began to, pardon the pun, hammer away at it, Josh stared at the shaking laser gun as he positioned himself in the right in between it and the core. The gun fired, and Josh immediately breathed out, dropping out of the way of the laser and allowing it to hit the core, which caused it to glow slightly red. Josh landed as Trent backed away from the cannon, watching it warily. Neither of them notice a flamethrower moving under the grated floor and charging up until Trent sniffed a few times.
"Do you smell something burning?"he asked.
"No, I can't smell anything, remember? I don't have a nose,"Josh said."Why do you-?"They both froze in realization, then slowly looked down to see a trickle of flame licking at their feet. There was a pause...
"I hate this f*cking ship,"Trent deadpanned, hand on his forehead. Josh nodded in agreement, then the flamethrower fired and, while only doing minor damage to Trent, set Josh...well, on fire.
The Kirby screamed, then started rolling around frantically."STOP DROP AND ROLL! STOP DROP AND ROLL! STOP DROP AND ROLL!"As he continued chanting his mantra while trying to put himself out, Trent shooking his head pityingly, looking up to see a laser gun aiming at him. Cracking a smirk, he hopped onto the platform in front of the crystal core, beckoning the gun with two fingers. The weapon fired, and he immediately ducked his head, the laser barely scraping the top of his rocky helmet and blasting the core, making it glow redder. He hopped back down to find that Josh had managed to put himself out, albeit with quite a few burns.
"Life sucks,"the former human hacked out.
"So, what else is new?"Trent asked rhetorically. He glanced back at the main gun, or rather, where it had been."So, you took that thing out, huh?"
"Yeah, that thing was getting on my nerves,"Josh muttered. The two looked up to see another gun descending towards them, taking aim at Josh. Sighing, leapt up and stood in front of the core, the gun oh so stupidly taking aim at him and firing. Josh comically stepped sideways, causing the laser to hit the core again. Immediately following this, there was some loud, incoherent, and angry shouting from Captain Vul. The duo glanced at each other as Josh jumped down."Wow, he's really pissed right now, huh?"
"Well, we are wrecking his ship,"Trent remarked.
"This is Meta Knight's ship,"Josh pointed out.
"Whatever,"Trent shrugged. Once again, another gun lowered into their sight, but since they couldn't quite tell who it was aiming at (they were too close together), they both hopped in front of the now deep red core. The gun fired.
"The reactor has been destroyed!"Axe Knight cried as the duo hopped down.
"All of our Wheelie power sources are escaping!"Javelin said frantically. True to his words, the many Wheelies were driving around the room, making their way out of different holes in the walls.
"Ahhh! What are you idiots doing?"Captain Vul screeched angrily. Another warp star appeared, and the two immediately hopped on, flying out of the room just before it exploded.
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End of Chapter
Finally finished this chapter. Next chapter will be the end of this arc, plus you're going to see some questions answered. 'Til then, hasta.