"Ugh… My head hurts. I don't know what happened…" Vivian slowly got up and found herself out on an open field with purple grass surrounding her. Looking around, she noticed some people missing. "Where are the others?"
She turned her head to see if there was anyone around, but all she found was a pink lump and blue quills sticking from the ground. Vivian didn't pay attention to them, but then she quickly realized that those two were Bombette and Sonic.
"Bombette! Sonic!" Vivian gasped, floating over to them. "Are you guys all right?"
Thankfully, the two woke up sooner than Vivian thought and noticed it was dawn.
"Whoa… Where the heck are we?" Sonic asked, slowly getting up. "And how long have we been here?"
"Where is everyone else, too?" Bombette added, getting up as well.
"I'm not sure... I don't see Chopper in sight." Vivian replied, looking around. "I don't see the Warp Star either... I just wonder how we ended up crashing."
Bombette scanned the area around her, but then she noticed some green grass over by a hill ahead.
"Look over there!" Bombette shouted. The green grass was slowly changing to purple, and the trees were becoming darker. "What's happening to the grass?"
"We should go check that place out," Sonic suggested. "Maybe we can find Chopper and the others over there?"
They agreed and searched over by where the green grass was, but what they ended up finding instead was a cave. A cave with a slippery slope.
And Sonic was unfortunate to slip into the cave.
Planning room-
"And so, though Chopper is nearly losing the battle against the great evil, he eventually defeats it and saves the world," Fumu concluded, reading from her paper. "And that's the end."
Most of the Cappies seemed to approve of it and clap. King Dedede, however, was crossing his arms and pouting.
"You have to put up with it for now," Escargon assured.
"But the hero is supposed to be me!" King Dedede complained.
"We'll remake it afterward."
"Well, next is the storyboard," Fumu announced, walking over to the pictures with Chopper against the great being, some of his friends, and a couple of Crystal Stars. "And then we get to the climax. The enemy will makes its attack, and then Chopper and his friends fight."
"And I guess it goes into that?" Chopper asked, pointing to a picture of him against the evil being standing before him. It looked more like an evil, black blob with yellow eyes.
"Correct."
"Ahh... Now I understand the story more." King Dedede said, swinging his arm and hitting Escargon on accident.
"There's the animation, too," Fumu mentioned. "Doing the animation can be a tough job, and it takes a lot of work to complete it."
"That can easily be done," Escargon assured with a grin. "We may have many talentless people here, but they do have the patience to get it done!"
Drawing room-
The drawing room was much larger than the office and planning room, sporting many desks for people to work on drawings. Each desk had a lamp shining down on the paper to make it easier to see the drawings. While the blue walls resembled the previous rooms, the floor was red in color instead.
Many Cappies were creating the drawings needed for the animation. Chopper and Berry were also working on them as well, despite the objections. The only ones who didn't appear to be drawing were Flyer, Fumu, Bun, King Dedede, and Escargon. On the wall behind them were pictures of Chopper, his friends, and King Dedede, along with some other villains like Grodus and Gemerl.
"This character chart should give you an idea of which person looks like who," Escargon explained, pointing at King Dedede's picture. "And this one is of His Majesty."
"Excellent! With this many people, it should be done in no time!" King Dedede grinned.
He decided to take a look at the drawings they were making, starting with Chief Borun. The king nodded in delight and was about to walk over to the next Cappy, but he quickly stepped back and got a better look at the drawing.
That fuming look was enough to describe his thoughts on it.
"What is this?!" King Dedede exclaimed, taking the paper from Chief Borun.
"Why, it's you, your Majesty! Isn't it glorious?" Chief Borun said in delight, despite the drawing being horrendous in quality. At least, in King Dedede's opinion.
King Dedede's face turned red with anger, and he tore the paper to shreds and stepped on it like a spoiled child.
"Calm down, your Majesty. Remember your temper!" Escargon reminded. "And besides, he's a policemen. Of course his art will be bad."
"Everyone. Show me how much your picture of, uh…DededeMan looks like the one on the character chart." Fumu suggested, soon seeing everyone hold up their papers.
"Oh, dear..." Flyer trailed, looking puzzled at the pictures.
"I have confidence in this," Mayor Len announced, showing the king his work of art.
"What is this?" King Dedede gaped, swiping it away, along with the others that were shown to him each time one showed him theirs.
"I finally drew it!" Hohhe exclaimed, showing his poorly made picture as well.
"Is this even a living thing?"
"Is this no good?" Tago asked.
"It's a monstrosity!"
"What do you think of mine?" Moso asked.
"Terrifying!" King Dedede cried, swiping it away. However, they were nowhere near as bad as Chef Kawasaki's.
"How about this?" Chef Kawasaki asked, showing King Dedede his drawing. It was only a poorly made picture of King Dedede's head, which was the size of the paper.
"Hey! How about this?" Chopper asked, showing King Dedede his picture. The king would gaped, but his expression was more confused than terrified.
"Wait... This isn't me!"
Rather than staring at a drawing of himself, King Dedede only saw a sketch of an apple.
"Oh, yeah... I guess I was hungry." the pale green hero shrugged. All King Dedede could do was fall over on his back and faint. Chopper looked at his drawing of an apple and attempted to eat the paper, but Berry shook her head, gesturing him not to.
"Well, they all have zero talent, Fumu," Flyer sighed.
"This is more serious than I expected," Fumu mumbled.
"Fumu. Do something about this!" Escargon demanded, quickly approaching her.
"You're the supervisor!"
"You're my assistant! You must correct every picture! And that goes for the same thing as the wing-head!"
"You expect us to supervise the drawing?! That's insane!" Flyer gaped.
Later, at night-
Unfortunately, during the night, everyone was still drawing in the art room, including Fumu and Flyer. The two were less than thrilled to be working.
As they worked, Tokkori was putting some folders in the shelf right where Fumu was working.
"Whew… That's out of the way." Tokkori sighed. "Hey, Fumu! Are you done yet?"
"Tokkori?! What are you doing here?" Fumu asked.
"They asked me to work in production. I'm supposed to prod the lazy staff into working."
"Then it's your fault that we have this delay!" Flyer grumbled, pulling out a drawing of Chopper. "We both have to deal with these miserable drawings, so you shouldn't be complaining the most!"
Color room-
"This is where the color work is done," Escargon explained, showing King Dedede the coloring room. It was just like the drawing room, except now people were working with paint. The king noticed some Memu painting a picture of Chopper and gaped.
"Interesting… Hey, wait a second… They're coloring Chopper and not me!" King Dedede gaped.
"Don't worry! We'll exchange them afterward, so please be patient!" Escargon whispered.
Hana, the wife of Mayor Len, who wore a green necklace and a navy blue hat, turned to an old Cappy with gray hair named Sato, asking, "What color is Chopper?"
"He's over there," Sato replied, looking over at Chopper. "Though... If I had to say, he's probably green."
"He looks a bit more white to me, though..." Hana trailed.
"Choppy's pale green," Berry corrected, pointing at the correct paint.
Background room-
"This is where the backgrounds are painted," Escargon introduced, showing King Dedede a room with brown shelves and a couple of paintings on the wall ahead of them. Chopper had run into the room as well to get a look at the paintings.
Chef Kawasaki and a Cappy with hair on his sides curving upward, large, gray eyebrows and a mustache, glasses, and a doctor's outfit named Yabui was working on the backgrounds. However, when he was getting the correct paint out, he noticed there wasn't enough.
"Kawasaki, we don't have enough paint," Yubui noted.
"Oh, don't worry about that! I've got that covered!" Kawasaki assured, putting two bottles on the table. However, it didn't exactly look like paint bottles.
"But that's ketchup and mayonnaise..."
"Some of these backgrounds look pretty tasty!" King Dedede remarked, looking at a background scribbled in red and yellow paint.
"Really?" Chopper jumped up to the scribbled painting, but Escargon grabbed him at the last second.
"That's not for you!" Escargon shouted, kicking him out of the room with ease.
Framework room-
The framework room had darker walls, and it was much smaller in size. The only thing there was a table that took pictures of the cells to create an animation.
Up on a ladder, another shopkeeper named Gengu, who was much shorter and wider in size compared to Tago, was working on the camera. His outfit was somewhat similar to Tago's, having orange overalls and a red hat with an exclamation point on it. Mr. Curio, however, had the job of taking a picture of each frame.
When Gengu finished adjusting the camera, he climbed down the ladder and announced, "The camera's fully adjusted!"
"Thank you, Gengu," Mr. Curio said, placing a picture of Chopper on the background of Music Kingdom. "See how this becomes one picture?"
"I'll do it," King Dedede shoved Mr. Curio out of the way and pressed the white button on the machine, creating a frame and laughing afterward.
"Thank you, your Majesty! Now, let's get the next cell…" Mr. Curio took the next picture from Gengu and placed it in the background picture. However, Chopper decided that he would press the button and pressed it just as Mr. Curio's hand was adjusting the cell.
"That's not good!" Gengu noticed.
"My hand was filmed in there!" Mr. Curio cried.
King Dedede and Escargon grinned as they left the room and walked through the hallway.
"Heh heh heh! With all this work being done, we don't have to worry about doing it ourselves!" Escargon snickered.
"And all because they believe they're getting a million Deden!" King Dedede smirked.
"Wait... You aren't planning on giving them that much?"
"As if!"
"Well... At least you're being honest!" Escargon laughed, putting an arm on his shoulder, believing he would laugh. However, King Dedede only shoved him off.
"We still need to get the film put together," King Dedede reminded.
"That's where the editing is being done," Escargon showed King Dedede the editing room, where Berry and Fumu were working. It was a dark room, having a table with a filming device. The two girls held a few cuts in their hands, while they had a cut running on the machine. The animation shown was Chopper walking through Boggly Woods with Vivian, Scrub, and Kirby.
"Here's the next cut," Fumu said, giving Berry the cut. However, there was something that didn't look right.
"Wait... There's no color..." Berry noticed.
"There aren't any colors because the animators are behind schedule. Sorry about that."
"Well, then you two should know what to do," King Dedede snickered, walking away from the doorway and leaving the two girls irritated.
Much later-
"Hurry up. Hurry hurry!" King Dedede whispered outside of Dedede Studios.
"Yeah! Hurry up!" Escargon added.
Two Waddle Dees with small folders followed King Dedede and Escargon into the building. They went into the drawing room, where most of the Cappies, including Flyer and Fumu, were asleep. Not even the sounds of the king, his assistant, and his two minions woke them up.
"Here are the finished pictures," Escargon grabbed the folders from the shelf and took one drawing of Chopper out.
"That looks like something Chopper drew," King Dedede noticed, seeing some food surrounding him.
"With that, we do like this…" Escargon grabbed the folders and gave them to the two Waddle Dee, who took off. "…then say 'goodbye', and…" Picking up other folders he had, Escargon placed them in the shelf. "...we switch in the ones we prepared beforehand. With that, it makes His Majesty the hero of the story."
"Heh heh heh! That's what I like to hear!" the king chuckled.
Castle Dedede, throne room-
"Your Majesty, the anime is almost complete, correct?" the Tartara asked.
"Not yet," King Dedede replied with his arms crossed.
"We have to delay it," Escargon informed.
"Delay the broadcast."
"I'm afraid I cannot do that, Dedede," the Tartara replied. "See, by delaying the broadcast, you'll be breaking our contract."
"Contract? For what?!"
"We have a contract that requires you to get the anime done on time if you were planning on trying to get us our money through this anime. By delaying it, you're breaking our contract."
"So? Then what do I have to do?"
"Well for starters, you have to pay us 990 billion Deden," the Tartara sneered. "That, and the money you owe us from purchasing those Demon Beasts."
"WHAT?!" King Dedede gaped, falling on his back. He eventually got up and angrily looked at his TV monitor. "There's no way we have that money!"
"Well, then… That means the broadcast will be in accordance with the arrangement. It's either that, or you give us the money immediately."
"Oh, fine… I guess we don't have much of a choice..."
Dedede Studios's Office-
"What was that?!" Fumu gaped. "The broadcast is the morning of the day after tomorrow?!"
"But that's impossible!" the Mayor cried, now having bags under his eyes, just like many others. "We don't have that much time!"
"I guess you'll just have to work through the night," Escargon suggested smugly.
"We've already worked for three nights straight!" Kawasaki cried.
"Animators have rights too, you know!" Chief Borun protested.
"Is that so?" King Dedede got up from his chair and slammed his hands on his desk. "All of you keep your mouths SHUT! This country is an absolute dictatorship! Those who dare to oppose will be punished severely!"
Drawing room-
Unfortunately, for someone like Chopper, he too had become exhausted from the work he was drawing and ended up falling asleep. However, when one's sleeping on the job...
"Wake up, pipsqueak!" Tokkori yelled, hitting him with his feet and waking him up. Just like Chopper, he had bags under his eyes. "We've only got five more hours until this stuff's televised! So get back to work!"
"But I'm really tired..." Chopper groaned. "Can't I get some sleep?"
"I'm supposed to get your lazy butts off! If we don't get work done, there's going to be some serious issues!"
"But rest is important..."
"I don't remember the last time I got sleep," Berry yawned, rubbing her eyes. Not only were her eyes similar to mostly everyone else, but her hair was frizzled up as well.
They all worked for so many hours, as if the clock was moving faster every second they were drawing. This had continued all night, and a few Cappies had ended up falling asleep, only to be woken up by Tokkori. While Chopper worked, he wondered how things were going for his friends. Perhaps they were safe?
Nearly dawn-
When many hours passed, King Dedede and Escargon entered the drawing room to see what was going on. The blinds were closed, and as usual, people were working.
"Is everyone all right?" King Dedede asked.
"Your Majesty… Are you worried about our health?" the Mayor asked.
"Not in the slightest," King Dedede grinned, pulling out his hammer. "I'm just here to wake you up if you're sleeping."
Escargon walked over to the blinds and checked outside. The bright light made him squint, but he could obviously see the sun. "Your Majesty, it's nearly dawn."
"What?! Then there's no way that this anime is going to be finished!" Flyer gasped.
"We've only got twenty more minutes until the broadcast!" King Dedede yelled.
"Well then look at this chart!" the Wingel showed him the chart and the poor progress that had been done.
"Prepare the broadcast anyway! It's better than nothing!"
Castle Dedede-
"Your Majesty, is the new anime series completed? " the Tartara asked.
"Of course it is," King Dedede answered, sitting on his throne. Though his voice didn't sound too confident.
"Excellent! We'll broadcast it around throughout the universe! Perhaps this anime will actually make us more than you even owe us, Dedede. We must thank you for this idea."
"Well, I'm glad to help," King Dedede chuckled as got up from his throne. "The masterpiece series…starts now!"
"Wait..." Escargon paused, looking at the schedule. "The broadcast is at 7:30 A.M.? Who gets up at that time?"
King Dedede looked at Escargon, and with a single punch, he knocked him onto the floor.
7:30 A.M.-
It was now morning in Dream Land, and many Cappies in both Cappy Town and Hatty Town were getting ready to watch the broadcast. Many families and even the criminal Doron in his cell was watching.
"This is Channel DDD!" announced Escargon, recorded from the first time they made television available.
As for the more important characters, they were in the voice casting room, where there were a couple of microphones for someone to record their voice. There was a glass window where three Waddle Dees were in control of the volume.
Standing in front of the microphones were Chopper, Berry, Flyer, Fumu, Bun, and even Meta Knight. They held a book containing the script and stood in front of a big screen.
King Dedede and Escargon had entered the room quickly, as if they were in a hurry.
"We'll make due. We're putting the voices in without any rehearsal!" King Dedede decided.
"No way! That's absurd!" protested Fumu.
"Everyone! Play the roles of yourselves! And whoever is not here…someone try to imitate their voice!"
"Failure is not allowed!" Escargon added.
"It's starting!" Bun pointed up to the screen.
"The opening is finished!" Chef Kawasaki cried, running through the hallway with the opening cut. He placed it on the camera and turned it on. A countdown starting from ten commenced.
When it started, the first thing that they noticed was that the opening first showed Chopper being bonked in the head by King Dedede's hammer. Everyone was left agape, especially since the anime was labeled, "Paper King Dedede: The Crystal Stars".
"Wait... What's Dedede doing as the main character?" Berry asked. "He must've changed it to suit him!"
"And we succeeded," Escargon said proudly, while King Dedede laughed.
"The commercial film's done!" Chef Kawasaki announced, carrying it to the camera. Luckily, he was able to get there just on time before the opening was over.
"This program is sponsored by Tartara Co., and Dedede Inc..."
More Cappies came in with two cuts. One was labeled A, and the other was labeled B. They put the one labeled A in first, and it began to show the whole slide, starting with King Dedede in his bed.
"It's me!" King Dedede laughed.
"Shhhh! Your voice is broadcasting, Your Majesty!" Escargon shushed, handed him a script. Though, he couldn't help but look at the poorly made animation. It looked like it was drawn by a five-year-old. "That character isn't drawn smoothly,"
"Blame the character designers for that," the king whispered.
"That, and the drawing supervisor was terrible too."
"Mayor, get ready for your part," Fumu suggested.
"Errmmmm… This is a rather…strange script." the Mayor said, looking at his script. "Don't worry, Fumu. I'm ready to do my part."
"Doing post recording without any rehearsal… This is most unwise." Meta Knight commented.
"Well, we have no other choice," Fumu responded. "We have to do our best."
The animation showed King Dedede sleeping in his bed until his communicator began to go off. This triggered him to jump up from his bed and hit the ceiling. Chopper couldn't help but slowly shake his head.
"Hey, I didn't do that! I-" Chopper was quickly pushed out of the way by King Dedede's weight, who soon opened his book to read the script.
"'What is it now, Mayor? You practically threw me out of bed!'" King Dedede exclaimed through the microphone. The Mayor turned to his script and he went over to the microphone to say his part.
"'I apologize for waking you up, your Majesty. But, this is a big emergency!" the Mayor explained. "'You need to come to Hatty Town! And fast! I have some very…well, I have some important news to tell you!'"
"All righty! I'm on it! C'mon, Escargon! We need to go to Hatty Town to see what's all the hubbub." King Dedede declared, grabbing his hammer and heading to Hatty Town with Escargon.
"'No worries, your Majesty! I'm right behind you! You're an ally of justice until the end!'" Escargon exclaimed through his script, soon getting pushed out of the way by the king.
"'All right, Mayor! What do you need from us?'"
"'Oh, it's horrible! I just received this letter, and it states that if all of the twenty Crystal Stars aren't collected, then the entire universe will be destroyed by some strange darkness! I don't know where, but I heard it's bad!'" the Mayor explained. "...Am I doing it right?"
"'People of Hatty Town! Stop right there! I am Chopper, the evil demon that will soon destroy all! Hand over your food and nobody gets hurt!'" Chopper exclaimed through his script, looking at himself in the animation with disdain. "Wait... Why am I evil? I don't like being evil..."
"'Stop right there, Chopper! I won't let you harm anyone!'" King Dedede shouted. However, Chopper came charging at him, and now King Dedede was getting chased around by the antennae boy. "'Help me!'"
Suddenly, the scene changed to the Music Kingdom, with Escargon speaking to King Dedede.
"'Your Majesty Dedede. Good morning.'" Escargon greeted.
"'Escargon. You look well.'" King Dedede said.
"Your Majesty, you're always so cool.'"
"'You are just splendid.'"
"'His Majesty looks so cool.'"
"'Your facial hair is incredible.'"
"Wow... These lines are just as bad as the story's!" Chopper remarked, receiving looks from the others. "What?"
"And it also feels like a filler scene," Flyer whispered.
"'Your Majesty, there is the great evil,'" Escargon alarmed, pointing at Chopper, who began to zap all of the Toads and Cappies with his powers. Mayor Len and Chief Borun got a line too, but it only involved them screaming from their demise.
King Dedede pushed the two out of the way and got to his part, which then took place in the Shadow King's lair. It all went fast, almost too fast.
"'I will finish off that evil king!'" King Dedede declared.
"'If his righteous Majesty comes, our problems will be solved,'" Escargon said.
"'That is right. Now let me show my power.'"
"'It will surely be astounding. You will win for sure.'"
"'I always fight for the sake of justice,'" King Dedede laughed.
"I don't like this..." Chopper whispered.
"They've been standing around and just talking without moving at all for a while," Fumu whispered.
"It's difficult to make movement, so they decided to be lazy by having mostly idle chitchat," Flyer explained.
"Talk about poor quality..." Berry trailed. "Though what about the camera work?"
"It only moves to fool you," Flyer assured her. "It's a fraud."
"Is a lot of anime like this?" Chopper asked.
"Well... Considering that they might usually have three or even five episodes of a fight and simply standing, I'd say yes... But there are those that don't do stuff like that, thankfully."
Escargon overheard their conversation and he whispered to them. "Well, we didn't have enough time or money, so there was nothing we could do about it."
Back to the anime, Chopper spat out a fireball toward King Dedede, in which Escargon shouted, "'Look out, your Majesty! Inhale it!'"
"Wait... Isn't that usually my line?" Fumu gawked.
"'Ha ha ha ha! A simple inhale won't save you, Dedede!'" Chopper laughed, sweat dropping after he spoke his line.
King Dedede inhaled the fireball and he became…
"'Yes! That is Fire Dedede…'" Meta Knight shouted. However, he didn't feel pleased about his line and slowly shook his head. "…That did not sound good enough…"
But that wasn't the only problem.
"The picture doesn't have any color!" Escargon gawked.
"Where's the background?" King Dedede asked.
"There was no time!" Chef Kawasaki cried.
"It doesn't matter. We'll cover it with the strength of our performances."
"We can't make our voices fit when it's just outlines!" Escargon cried.
King Dedede turned to everyone else. "Voice actors have to fit their voices in no matter how hard it is!"
"I guess we just have to improvise! Something we're good at!"
"Ugh... All right..." Chopper groaned, looking back at his script. "'You may have the Fire ability, but I can still stop you!'"
"'Sorry, Chopper, but I can't allow you to rule the world!" King Dedede stated. "It's time to bring out my special weapon: the Warp Star!'"
King Dedede made a sharp whistle and summoned the Warp Star.
"Hey! The Warp Star!" Chopper gasped, only to get silenced by Escargon.
"It's his Majesty's line now, so shut up!" Escargon whispered.
"Hey, you know this illustration doesn't look too bad," King Dedede remarked, watching his anime self jump onto the Warp Star.
"You should've added in some shouting while jumping onto the Warp Star," Escargon suggested.
"Don't tell me what to do!" King Dedede growled, grabbing his hammer and bashing his assistant in the head.
"Ahem… 'Say your prayers, Chopper!' …Ooh! That sounded good!" King Dedede watched himself charge toward Chopper. That was, until everyone suddenly changed to poorly-made green drawings.
"Huh? What's this?!" King Dedede exclaimed.
"Oh, my… Those illustrations are WAY poorly done…" Escargon gawked.
"Hey! Those look like mine!" Chopper smiled, noticing the pictures of himself and the food surrounding him.
"Uh oh… I think those are the pictures Chopper drew…" Flyer whispered.
"Oh, now it's done for…" Fumu sighed.
"Well, at least they look cute," Berry defended, liking the pictures.
"Only because Chopper made them, right?" Flyer whispered.
"Ummmm... Maybe?" Berry replied, twiddling her thumbs as she looked sheepish.
King Dedede sighed and fell on his butt. "There's no way we can make a profit from this!"
"All that trouble for nothing!" Escargon cried.
Eventually the cut had began to work so poorly that the cells in each cut began to burn up and get destroyed, putting an end to Paper King Dedede: The Crystal Stars once and for all.
Castle Dedede, throne room-
"What kind of anime was that?!" the Tartara roared. "All of the sponsoring have led us to losing MORE money! Your anime was so horrible, that the audience rating was 0.001%!"
"It was Chopper's fault," King Dedede grumbled.
"Whether he did it or not, your anime was a failure. According to the contact, your anime was to be successful, which it was not. You owe us the money, Dedede."
At this point, King Dedede had enough and gave the Tartara an angry look.
"And why should I pay you back? You nearly ripped me off each time I purchased a demon beast! They were supposed to eliminate Chopper! And guess what? Each and every one of them failed! You guys are completely useless!"
"You bought the Demon Beasts. There was nothing in the contract that had to do with whether these monsters failed or not."
"Forget the contract!" King Dedede yelled, taking out the contract and tearing it up just in the same way as the drawings before. "I'm done with you guys!"
"Hmph... I'm not too surprised to see you do this." the Tartara remarked. "However, that will prove to be your biggest mistake, Dedede."
"Actually, I think I'm making the right choice here."
"You refused to pay us back, and soon you are going to regret it."
"I won't be regretting this," King Dedede pressed a red button and Tartara Corporations was deleted from his network. Afterward, he leaned back on his throne and laughed. "Ah, finally! We're rid of those guys for good! No more having to deal with debts!"
"Your Majesty… I don't think that was such a good idea…" Escargon trailed. "Remember the terrible consequences that thing mentioned before?"
"They were obviously bluffing. I mean, businesses always tend to do that kind of stuff to get people to buy their stuff or not mess with them! It's a total scam!"
"Well... Those guys were obviously monstrous, though..." the snail trailed, though considering the king deleted them from his network, he decided to brush it aside. "So, what about Chopper? What do you have planned for him?"
"Hmmmmm... Now that I think about it, we still need to take care of him!" King Dedede realized. "He ruined my anime and my chance of getting money, so I guess it's a good idea to give him what's coming! And this time, without the help of those Tartaras?"
"So... No Demon Beasts?"
"You remember the saying of when you want to get rid of something you do it yourself?"
"Yeah... But didn't that fail the previous times?"
King Dedede blinked in realization, but he immediately put on a confident look. "Oh, this time it will be different. I have a secret weapon in store for him, and I plan on using it back at Mt. Dedede!"
"You mean that old fortress?"
"You betcha!" King Dedede nodded, swinging an arm and hitting Escargon on accident. "And I don't plan on making it easy for Chopper. I've set up a machine in that fortress to make major changes to this land! Just the travel alone will be difficult for him! But if he succeeds, my hammer will do him in real good!"
"Wait... Your hammer?" Escargon sighed while rubbing his head. "The last time you attacked Chopper with your hammer, it failed."
"Not this hammer, you buffoon! I'm talking about another one! Lemme show you."
King Dedede walked over to his secret closet that not even Escargon was allowed to touch and opened it. When Escargon got a glimpse of the object inside, his mouth dropped.
"Impressive, right? This'll crush Chopper and those pesky friends of his!"
"You know, Your Majesty... This thing might just do the trick after all." Escargon grinned evilly.
Both villains began to laugh evilly, feeling very confident in their new idea.
If you couldn't tell, this and the previous chapter is based off the episode in the Kirby anime where they make an anime...which turns out to be a failure. It's probably one of my favorite episodes from the show because of how the anime within the anime kinda makes fun of some other anime out there.
Thankfully, this chapter is far from over, as the action begins to start in the next chapter!