Sylvia, Wander, and Kirby hid behind a crumbled down wall as the Watchdogs march pass by them, along with some of the captured citizens of the small village. In a low whisper, Sylvia said to the two, "Okay, I'll sneak into Hater's ship while you two... make sure you don't get capture. Okay?"
"Okay." Wander said with a smile as he nod, along with Kirby.
"Good." Sylvia said, then ran off towards the ship, trying to avoid the Watchdogs.
Wander look at Kirby, and with a big smile on his face, the star nomad said, "Want to draw?"
Kirby happily nodded as Wander took out some pieces of paper, along with some crayons, from his big, green hat.
With Sylvia, the zbornak sneak around the area, trying to make sure she doesn't get captured by these Watchdogs. Hiding behind a small house, Sylvia notice right above the middle of the town was the Hater's skull-shaped ship and right under the ship was Hater sitting in a throne with Commander Peepers next to him, listing things Hater wanted along with some of the rules. The blue zbornak narrowed her eyes at the two.
What are they up to? Sylvia thought.
She try her best to sneak closer to the duo to hear their plans while avoiding the Watchdogs. At first, she was annoyed with the lack of success of hearing them until Sylvia was able to hear what they're talking about.
"Lord Hater, why are we here again?" Peepers ask, looking a bit confusion. "This planet doesn't seem to be that special."
Hater gave the one-eyed commander a look that reads 'Are you kidding me?' and said, "Don't you remember what I've shown you?"
As a screen from Hater's ship came down and appear in front of the two, Hater said, "This is why I wanted to come here!"
On the screen was a clip of a star-shaped object crashing into the planet's mountains. There was still a look of confusion on Peepers'... eye as he said, "A star? What do you want with a star? There's plenty of stars in space. Why this one?"
"Those stars were mostly balls of fire, Commander Peepers. This star could be useful and looks like it won't burn my face off." Lord Hater said, ignoring a couple of screams in the background.
"So you have no idea what it does?" Peepers said.
"Think of the possibilities! It could give me invincibility!"
Peepers glance at the screen, which repeated the clip many of times, and said, "And if it doesn't? I mean, it could be a ship or something like that."
Lord Hater stopped for a brief moment to think until he said, "Maybe I'll just use it as a decorative or maybe just melt it down into a sword or something. Let's just hope that the metal is strong."
Sylvia's eyes widen and thought, Really? They want Kirby's ship? How is he going back home to this Popstar? I better go back to Wander and Kirby. Maybe we, or at least I, could think of a plan to get off of this planet with that star ship. I could probably just rewire the ship and fly us out of here. Then again, the ship looks like it out only hold Kirby. How are we going to get out of here!? I don't want Hater to get that ship.
"Lord Hater! Look what we found!" One of the Watchdogs shouted, saluting Hater.
The blue zbornak froze in place before she could sneak away as she thought, Please don't tell me. They captured Kirby and Wander. She looked back to Hater and Peepers and tried her best to not shout in anger when she saw Wander and Kirby tied up in rope while there were some tape covering Kirby's mouth as the Watchdogs make sure they didn't try to escape. Although there was this small part of her that knew that this might happen to the two.
"Wander?!" Hater angrily shouted. "...And weird pink thing? What happen to your blue friend? Did you replaced her with this... pink marshmallow?"
"What? There's no one in the universe who could replace Sylvia. This is my new friend, Kirby. Say hi to my friend, Kirby." Wander said, turning his head towards the pink puffball.
Kirby was only been able to make a muffled sound that slightly sound like, "Hi."
"The pink one was 'kind of' hard to capture, Lord Hater." One of the Watchdogs said, sounding a bit cautious with what he's saying.
Hater look at the Watchdog with disbelief, wondering if he should replace these one-eyed aliens, or at least this Watchdog, since he believes there is no way it would be difficult to capture this pink puffball. Still looking at the Watchdog, Hater said, "Are you kidding me? It was 'kind of' hard to capture this pink puffball."
The Watchdog slightly shivered and said, "Y-Yes, sir. The pink alien actually tried to... swallow us."
"Swallow you?" Hater repeated.
Swallow them? I know Kirby seems to have a pretty big appetite, but that can't be possible. Can it? Sylvia thought, wondering if it's possible for the puffball to swallow up people.
"Yes. One of our soldiers was swallowed, but this creature spit him back up." The Watchdog said, pointing at one of the others, who was shivering in the corner, saying, "I was almost eaten by a marshmallow! His stomach was like a black hole!"
"Luckily, we were able tape up his mouth before he could do anymore damage." The Watchdog continued. "There is no way I could be making up this, sir. I'm serious about this."
Hater narrowed his eyes, but glanced at Wander, who said, "It's true."
The skeleton man rubbed his chin until he said, "Release this Kirby."
Some of the Watchdogs let out a gasp of fright as Peepers said, "Come on! I'm sure Lord Hater would make some precautions before releasing this Kirby."
As soon as Peepers said that, Hater just pulled out a sword out of nowhere, pointing it at Kirby, which just cause the commander to say, "Close enough. At least it's not a giant laser or something."
One of the Watchdogs slowly approach Kirby and rip the tape off of him. As soon as the Watchdogs ran away in fear, Hater said, "Okay. Do it." as he stared at Kirby's innocent, blue eyes while the others watch to see what happens to this pink puffball.
AN: I must deeply apologize for not updating the story... in like two years. I really am sorry for not continuing the story in so long. I hope you like this chapter, and I hope I would be able to update more in the future, even though I might be a little more busy than I thought with my life. Still, I'll try my best with updating.