Chapter 3: The Three P's: Pink, Puffy, and POYO!

It was yet another peaceful day in Japan, and then suddenly a large star-shaped portal appeared in the sky, and then Meta Knight, King Dedede, and Waddle Dee popped out from the portal and crash landed onto the surface of the Earth; King Dedede landed in a tree, Waddle Dee fell into a bush, and Meta Knight landed safely on the ground.

"It seems that I have stalkers upon my tail." Meta Knight said in slight annoyance. "Why is it that you continue following me?"

"Sorry." Waddle Dee apologized as he adjusts his bandana and brushed off the leaves on him. "It's not like I wanted to follow you for a reason, but if I don't tell King Dedede, he's gonna get all nosey and stuff."

"I can hear you, ya know!" King Dedede called out as his head pops out from the tree. "I'm not that annoying!"

"Yeah…you're not THAT annoying." Waddle Dee says sarcastically. King Dedede jumps down from the tree and pulls out his hammer, then he started to shout a hearty laugh.

"AHAHAHA! Alrighty then! Looks like I managed to make it to this crazy place! Now alls we just gotta do is ta follow Meta Knight ands we'll find Kirby! AHAHAHAH!" But as King Dedede was continuing praising himself, Waddle Dee noticed Meta Knight was already gone, and so Waddle Dee jumped out from the bush and started his journey to find Kirby (along with Meta Knight). King Dedede finally stopped laughing proudly to himself and noticed that both Meta Knight and Waddle Dee were already gone.

"Uhh. Meta Knight? Waddle Dee?" Where's are ya?" King Dedede said as he looked around to find them. "Yo! Meta Knight! Waddle Dee!" He called out to the top of his lungs, but no luck; Meta Knight and Waddle Dee didn't come back. Then King Dedede started to growl and then shouted so loudly, people nearby could hear him.

"WHERE ARE YOU GUYS!"

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"Darn it. I'm alone again."

Meanwhile, back at Seiyo Academy, class has been dismissed and the Guardians were having their usual activities…

"Huh. Yaya isn't here yet." Amu said in a worried tone. "Maybe Kirby might've given her a hard time."

"I think Yaya's okay with Kirby." Rima wondered. "Besides, they both have childish attitudes so I guess they could get along together very well." Silence was held in the royal garden for a while. Just then, Yaya her Shugo Chara, Pepe, and Kirby appeared at the entrance, happily waving at the guardians.

"Ohayō!" Yaya called out as she waved back at her friends.

"Ohayō~dechu!" Pepe also waved happily.

"Poyo!" Kirby happily waved back.

"Oh! Yaya! Kirby!" Amu calls back. She smiled in relief for that Yaya and Kirby were both okay. I'm guessing that they got along very well back at Yaya's home, Amu thought. Yaya sat down with a smile on her face as she got to her seat with the other guardians.

"I'm guessing you guys had a good time." Amu responded.

"Uh-huh! Me, Pepe-chan and Kirby had so much fun yesterday!" Yaya happily answered.

"Yeah! We did a whole lotta stuff back at home~dechu!" Pepe added. "Right Kirby?"

"Poyo!" Kirby calls back happily. Everyone looks back at Kirby with a smile on their faces, but Amu's smile changed quickly into a slight frown, as she remembered when she found Kirby severely injured and his Warpstar majorly damaged. Tadase noticed her and comforted her by holding her hand.

"Amu-chan." Says Tadase. Amu's face starts to blush. "Don't worry. Whatever happens, we're always here to help you." As Tadase finished talking, Amu's face turned into a bright red color.

"Uh-Oh! Amu-chan's blushing again!" Ran teased.

"Looks like we found ourselves two lovebirds here!" Miki joined in. Amu's face turned from love struck to annoyed and began to start chasing her Shugo Charas around the Royal Garden.

"GET BACK HERE YOU!" Amu angrily shouted. Ran and Miki laughed at enjoyment as they continued running away from Amu; Kirby laughed as well and started to join in the fun by running along with Ran and Miki. Amu's friends all began to laugh happily as they enjoyed the chase between Amu and her Shugo Charas and Kirby.

The chase died down and after a few minutes everyone was back doing their regular guardian activities; Amu and her friends were doing paperwork for the school, the Shugo Charas were having fun in their dollhouse, and Kirby was also playing with the Shugo Charas.

"Ready?" Su called out.

"HAI!" The other Shugo Charas answered. Su covers her eyes with her hands; then after, the other Shugo Charas and Kirby started to hide from Su.

"Ready! Where are you?" Su called out happily as she removes the hands in the front of her eyes. Then Su made haste and tried to find the Shugo Charas and Kirby as well. After Su managed to find everyone they all started laughing and rolling along the floor happily. Amu smiled as she watched her friends having fun with their new friend Kirby.

"Kirby's having so much fun!" Yaya joyfully says.

"It looks like Kirby's getting along with the others very well. Maybe for a while, Kirby might be a guardian apprentice." Tadase says.

"For a guy like him, who knows? Maybe he might have some strange power that even we don't have that might be helpful!" Nagihiko says. The guardians nod their head in agreement. But soon after, their conversation got cut short when one of Amu's Shugo Charas felt something weird and dangerous. Ran, flew to Amu to warn her about it.

"Amu-chan! It's an X-Egg!" Ran warned.

"What! We better go, and fast!" Amu leads. She then turns around at Kirby. "Kirby you stay here so you won't get hurt." All the guardians stood up from their chairs and the Shugo Charas went to their respective owners, then they all started to follow the source of the X-Eggs power. Kirby tilts his head slightly in curiosity and begins to follow them as well.

At the scene where the event was taking place, there were 10 X-Eggs causing trouble in a public park. The guardians managed to reach the area before the problem could forward.

"Ran! Chara nari!" Amu calls out.

"Hai!" Ran answers and floats towards Amu. The other guardians also called out to their Shugo Charas. Suddenly a flash of bright light shone upon the guardians. Shugo Charas went back inside their eggs, as that has happened sparkling stars circled around each guardian;. The stars quickly retreated and Hinamori Amu and the others surprisingly changed clothes. Amu was wearing a pink cheerleaders costume, as of Tadase he was wearing a shiny large crown and a white kings costume while holding a large golden staff. Rima was wearing a rodeo clown costume and had a large red bow on her head. Yaya wore a cute pink baby costume, and finally Nagihiko was wearing the same clothes as his Shugo Chara, Rhythm, was wearing; a white beanie, a blue vest over two other shirts, blue cargo pants and has a pair of black headphones around his neck.

"CHARA NARI! Amulet Heart!" Amu calls out her character transformation. The other also called out their sudden transformations as well.

"Platinum Royale!" Tadase exclaims.

"Clown Drop!" Rima calls out.

"Dear Baby!" Yaya happily says.

"Beat Jumper!" Nagihiko exclaims.

"Kirby Poyo!" Kirby cheers as he jumps in and joins in the fun. The others turn around a look at Kirby blankly. Then Amu runs up to him worryingly.

"KIRBY!? What are you doing here!? You're supposed to stay back at the school!" Amu says in anxiety.

"There's no time for that right now Amu-chan! We currently need to focus on the X-Eggs right now!" Tadase calls out.

"Um…okay!" Amu answers. She looks back at Kirby with an uneasy look on her face. "Please try not to get hurt. Those X-Eggs are extremely dangerous and I don't want you to get involved by accident, okay?"

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"Poyo." Kirby says in agreement. Amu smiles and runs to her friends to help them. The X-Eggs started to shoot their dark energy at Amu and the others, but they quickly avoided the attack. Amu then creates a pink baton out of thin air and Tadase got his staff in hand. Then they both touched them together to perform their special move.

"Platinum Heart!" They both called out. Their move purified 9 X-Eggs and turned them back into Heart's Eggs; Kirby cheers for them from a distance. But then notices one more X-Egg seemingly armed with something long and pointy.

"Be careful Amu-chi!" Yaya warns.

"Amu!" Rima calls out to Amu. "Look!" Rima points at an X-Egg, Amu looks and a frightened look appeared on her face; one of the X-Eggs was holding large pointy thorny branches, and starts swinging them around menacingly.

"Amu-chan!" Nagihiko calls out.

"Yeah, I know. That X-Egg is armed with thorny branches." Amu stated. "I don't think neither of us can get near it. We need to try to get it to calm down, without getting injured in the process."

"Hai!" Amu's friends call out, agreeing to her plans. So they try to delay the X-Egg so that Amu is able to confront it and calm it down. Amu turns her shoes into pink roller skates and then flew towards the armed X-Egg.

"Amu-chan!" Miki warned. Amu nods her head in forewarning. She manages to get closer to the X-Egg, but cautiously tries to move closer to it. Kirby looks up from below, with a nervous look on his face. Amu manages to get closer to the X-Egg and tries to calm it down.

"Just…calm down…" Amu tries to ease the X-Egg. "Stop attacking…okay?" As Amu was talking, the X-Egg started to shake in rage, and then it started to swing the branches around.

"USELESS!" The X-Egg screamed. It swung around the branches so quickly, it was about to hit Amu, but thanks to her Heart Pom-Poms she managed to block the attack. The X-Egg continuously tried to hit Amu, then it hit Amu so hard that she had to get back to ground to avoid any more attacks. Kirby saw what happened and he couldn't take the pressure, so he ran up to where the fight was taking place and tried to help out. But before he could go on, Yaya grabbed his hand to stop him.

"Kirby-chan! Don't do it! We don't want you to get hurt!" Yaya warns. Kirby looked back at Amu and saw the large cut on her arm, then he turned around towards the X-Egg with the pointy branches.

"Poyo!" Kirby says as he slipped through Yaya's grip.

"AMU!" Yaya calls back to him.

"Do not worry about him." A strange mysterious voice spoke up. The guardians look around to see who the one who said that was. Rima looked up and saw a caped masked man on a large tree. The others turned around and saw him.

"Who are you?" Tasade asks. The mysterious man doesn't respond and only looks back at Kirby.

"Kirby can handle this. Just watch." The man spoke up. The guardians looked back at Kirby to see what he was capable of doing. Kirby ran up to the X-Eggs and avoided the attacks they launched at him. The guardians were still looking back uneasily.

"What's Kirby going to do?" Amu asked, but the masked man didn't respond as he was continuing watching Kirby fight. Kirby ran up to the X-Egg and confronts it, but he was unable to get closer because it was still swinging the branches around. Then Kirby ran up to it and started to suck up X-Egg's weapons. The guardians were very surprised by this.

"What's Kirby doing?" Amu wondered.

"Kirby is trying to suck up that X-Egg's weapon!" The mysterious man answers.

"But wouldn't it be dangerous and taste bad?" Su commented. Back at the fight, the X-Egg couldn't keep its grip and it lets go of one of its branches, making Kirby able to suck it up. Then Kirby jumped in the air as he over goes a special transformation. On his head appeared a green conic cap with a yellow cotton ball at the point, then as he raised his hand, there appeared a sword that Kirby created out of thin air.

"Copy Ability! Sword Kirby!" Kirby calls out. Everyone stood there, staring at Kirby in amazement.

"Whoa! What happened!?" Amu wondered.

"He has copied the abilities of that branch he just sucked in. Now he is, SWORD KIRBY!" The masked man exclaims. The X-Egg was furious, so it started swinging the branches it has now at Kirby, but Kirby fought back at started swinging his sword back at the incoming attacks. Then, Kirby held his sword back and then swung it with brute force, cutting up the branches into small tiny pieces; the X-Egg was now unarmed.

"Kirby was able to do it!" Tadase says. "Amu, now is your chance to purify it!" Amu nods and runs towards where Kirby and the X-Egg were. Amu looks at the X-Egg and then places her hands in the form of a heart.

"NEGATIVE HEART! LOCK ON!" Amu exclaims. "OPEN HEART!" Then a heart-shaped pulsar beam shone onto the X-Egg, thus turning it back into a Heart's Egg. After that, all the X-Eggs were all purified, and everything in the park went back to normal (not to mention, everyone was wearing their usual clothing again).

"Yatta! We did it!" Ran cheered.

"Kirby's transformation was so cool!" Kusukusu commented.

"I'm impressed on how he swung that sword!" Kiseki added.

"Wow Kirby! You have a really special gift!" Pepe praised Kirby. Kirby blushed and rubbed his hand behind his head.

"Looks like Kirby has the ability to copy one's ability." Tadase noted. "This might be helpful the next time something like what happened a while ago happens again."

"Yeah." Amu agrees, then she remembered the masked man, so she turns around and asks his name.

"So, um…it looks like you know a lot about Kirby. What's your name?"

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"I am Meta Knight, a star warrior from Dreamland, and I am an acquaintance of Kirby" He answers.

Meanwhile, Dedede was in a large abandoned mansion, and was still unable to find Meta Knight and Waddle Dee.

"Dammit. No luck." Dedede groaned. Then black smog appeared in front of King Dedede, he looks at it in curiosity.

"Da heck? Where'd this fog come from?" He wonders, and then an eerie voice speaks up.

"Why hello Dedede…"

"Wha? W-who's there!?" The King calls out. Then a creature appeared from behind the fog; it was a purple puffball with big boggy eyes, which wore brown shoes, a jester hat, and had yellow wings that displayed digital, colorful hexagons. King Dedede looked at the creature in fear.

"W-who are you?" He asks.

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"My name…is Marx."

I bet some of you were expecting the Leaf or Needle ability when Kirby sucked up the thorny branch, but I chose sword because I thought that it may be too early to use more stronger abilities. I hope you enjoyed reading this. Take your time to review.