~Traveling Stars~ [Discontinued]

by WhatamIDoing_GoodQuestion

Summary:

In Cappy Town and Dreamland, peace was everywhere, or people thought. The tyrant king that is Dedede ruins that factor a lot, but it's mostly peaceful when he is not trying to get rid of Kirby. It stayed relatively the same since Kirby's arrival until one fateful day. Kabu was acting weird, he never even acted this way when he was about to fore tell the future! Kabu then reveled that the people of Cappy Town may be getting some guest from the future, and they need help, but with what?

This an AU where Right Back at Ya is the past and the games are the future.

(This story won't be continued btw. Keeping it up for archive purposes)

Notes:

First story fic! Hope this is good & this is mostly meant to help me get a proper story in my head!

Chapter 1: A Dreadful Prophecy

Meta Knight was taking flight through the forest that surrounded Kabu. Though Meta Knight never really flew while in the town, or ever to be truthful, he deiced he would do it now just to get this patrol over with. He deiced to see what was happening with Kabu due to the fact that he heard a concerning amount Cappies talk about how he was acting weird.

What he saw was not what he expected from the tiki. His eye was twitching violently, and he kept mumbling. Before approaching the foretelling statue, Meta Knight flew down out of his view and made his wings go back to being a cape. After a bit of thinking, Meta Knight deiced to ask Kabu what was happening. However, before he could say anything Kabu stated something.

"The future is coming; it is coming to meet the past!" He said franticly

Did Kabu just said the future is coming to see the past? Meta Knight was truly puzzled by what Kabu stated or was repeating now. Did he mean that something that would affect the future seriously was coming soon or something else. In the back of his head, Meat Knight thought that maybe people from the future were literally coming to meet the past, but Meta Knight knew that would be impossible, right? Then Kabu screeched something that made Meta Knight even more nervous than he originally was this strange encounter.

" Bring all the people of Cappy Town to this forest. Most importantly bring Dedede, Kirby, yourself, and the Waddle Dee the responds to Bandana!" The sage exclaimed.

A Waddle Dee? This bewildered the small knight a lot, but he needed to remember the Dee's name of Kabu specifically called for them. Meta deiced to fly back even though it may risk Meta Knight being seen flying, but from how Kabu sounded, it seemed very important. On the flight to the outer parts of the town Meta Knight pondered the words of the wise tiki. What did he mean with those words? Why did he want the entirety of Cappy Town there? Why did he ask for a Waddle Dee? Why such a specific one? Why did he want King Dedede, Kirby, and himself. These questions kept floating around in the knight's head, but they had no answer.

When Meta Knight got to the outer parts of Cappy Town, he landed. He then ran most of the way there until he saw Blade Knight and Sword Knight and asked them for help.

"Blade Knight. Sword Knight." The dark blue knight called out.

The two larger knights then turned at the sound of Meta Knight. The two knights were actually from him due to him disappearing for a scary amount of time. Usually when the Knight leaves for longer than three hours, he gives them a heads up. However, Meta Knight has been gone for six hours, so they thought it would be good to look for him.

" I need you two to do a task that is important. Kabu is demanding that the entire town goes to the forest he is in to hear him out, however if you get to Kirby or King Dedede before me, you must tell them to come. Kabu specifically requested them. Kabu also stated that a Waddle Dee named Bandana must come as well for reasons that I'm unaware of." Meta Knight said this in a slightly warry tone. Usually, the knight talks in a very monotone voice, but it wasn't uncommon for him to talk out of it. However, it was never too due to him worrying or being scared of something.

Blade and Sword Knight knew this must be important due to how Meta Knight has been gone for six hours and his worried tone. This made them leave immediately once they agreed to the task and not ask questions even though the knights really wanted to.

All three of these knights went around telling the people of Cappy Town to head to Kabu. It was a bit of a challenge for Sword Knight to find the specific Waddle Dee since they're so many of them and they all look the same, but he did manage to find the right one and told him the news. Saying the Waddle Dee was surprised was an understatement. Sword Knight was shocked that the Dee did not pass out from shock. The Dee however did not know where Kabu was located though, so Sword Knight told Bandana to follow him for now.

Blade Knight also had a bit of a problem convincing King Dedede to go since he kept yapping about how he would not go because it would most likely mean that another Star Warrior was coming and other unimportant things. Blade Knight managed to convince him with the help of Escargoon because he knew the king trusted the snail more than him and because the goon could tell that no matter what, it was the smart thing to go to Kabu foretelling, especially when he demanded that His Majesty was specifically mentioned to come.

Meta Knight had a relatively easy time telling the people of Cappy Town that they must go to Kabu. When he got around to telling Kirby, Tiff, Tuff, Fololo, and Falala were with him. The kids were at first shocked when Meta Knight seemingly appeared out of nowhere. After they recovered from being startled, Meta Knight told them about what Kabu had basically yelled at him. The kids were worried that Kabu was acting strange, but they agreed to go. During this though, Meta Knight could have sworn that he saw a flash of pink behind Kirby's house, but he just brushed it off as him seeing things.

Once most of Cappy Town was at Kabu's location, the Cappies were vocalizing their concerns to one another, they were also gossiping on why a Waddle Dee was there. Once Meta Knight came with Kirby, Kabu started talking and everyone went quiet.

"The future is coming now. The future is coming to meet the past." Kabu was speaking in an vey ominous tone for some reason. " The four people who are coming are in seek of help, though some may need it in different ways at first. Two Star Warriors and two Star Allies."

Meta Knight was a bit startled to hear this. While he knew that something revolving around the future was going to happen, he didn't expect people from the future to be coming! While he did think that it may happen, it was very illogical and out of all the possibilities, that was the least likely to happen. Also, what was a Star Ally? Who are these Star Allies? Were they somehow connected to Star Warriors? Who would be these supposed Star Allies? From the knowledge the knight has, he guessed that Bandana and King Dedede may be these Star Allies, but that most likely meant they could not be anything good due to the King being in there. Though something in the very back of his mind told him that King Dedede may be a better person in the future and that the Star Allies could maybe be trusted. But Meta Knight knew that it's risky to be so optimistic, but the thought stayed in the back of his head.

King Dedede was annoyed by Kabu supposed prophecy. The penguin did not want to deal with two Star Warriors, though if it meant he could clobber up two Kirbies, then he wouldn't mind. He did wonder why this foretelling was pretty vague and how people FROM THE LITERAL FUTURE were coming to the past. The monarch just guessed that these people were from a much distant future at just kept it at that. Though if the people came to stop him, he would surely clobber them up and maybe kill them depending on what they came to stop. The King didn't even begin to think on what they may need help with or why they came to the past for help.

Kirby was wondering what these new people needed help with. Kirby loves to help people, so these newcomers would surely want to be his friend! He also wondered what they looked like and how they may act, the small boy also pondered on how he could help them. He knew for sure that his friends would also help him as well, especially since he couldn't speak. The kid also wanted to know what a Star Ally was, but he did not think on that for long and just thought they were somehow connected to Star Warriors.

Bandana was preoccupied thinking about why he was called here by Sword Knight, but he soon connected the two puzzle pieces. He realized that he was probably one of the two Star Allies since Meta Knight and Kirby were already Star Warriors and the only ones alive to his knowledge. He contemplated on how he was affiliated with Meta Knight and Kirby, he is just some random Waddle Dee and wasn't that special, right? He also inferred that King Dedede was the other Star Ally since he was also specifically called the king as well. With all of the sudden news that he just heard, Bandana deiced that it would be best if he slept do to how late it was getting and to think about this tomorrow when his head was clear.

Notes:

I really hope you enjoyed reading this. I feel like most of the talking was in character, but Anime!King Dedede will be such a pain to write. If you have any comments, please let me know

Chapter 2: One of the Four

Summary:

Kirby is now acting strange but is this even the right Kirby?

Tiff, Tuff, Fololo, Falala, and Kirby realized how late it was after the Kabu problem happened not to long ago, so they all decided that they would just crash at Kirby's house. it was the closest one in their path so it made sense.

During this night though, Tiff noticed Kirby outside looking at the stars past midnight and decided to check on him.

Kirby looked absent-minded, like he was becoming one of the stars. This wasn't to unusual for Kirby to be lost in thought like this, but it was never at night. Kirby is usual asleep by then!

"Hey Kirby, are you feeling okay?" The young girl whispered to him.

Kirby then seemed startled, as if he saw a ghost. He was snapped out of thought and looked horrified.

"Yea -Poyo!"

"Are you sure? You're almost never up this late unless something bothering you or one of King Dedede's monster is attacking at night."

Tiff didn't mention how Kirby almost spoke properly without mimicking someone, but she was kinda proud of this. However she decided to keep talking to the lovable pink puff ball.

"You're worried about Kabu prophecy, aren't you?" The little child questioned.

"Poyo?" Kirby questioned.

Tiff thought that Kirby was not paying attention or forgot the prophecy, so she told him it again.

"You know, the prophecy where Kabu stated that people from the future were in need of our help, and how they were two Star Allies and two Star warriors. The one he just said a couple of hours ago?"

A flash of worry went through the young Star Warrior before he yelled out, "KABU SAID THAT?"

This loud commotion woke up the other three people in the house and even tokkori from their slumbers.

"Whats going on?"

"Did something happen?" Two voices exclaimed in union.

"Why are y'all making this racked?

"Poyo" A young puffball exclaimed.

Everyone turned around to the Kirby that was right behind them. But wait, wasn't Kirby right in front of them? How are there two Kirbies? Unless....

"Wait a minute!" Tiff exclaimed. She then proceeded to grab the Kirby right in front of her. She then took a closer look at this Kirby and noticed something odd, this Kirby had a scar under his mouth and had some more fresher wounds as well.

Tiff knew that this Kirby, or maybe a faker, was at least docile enough to not kill her, so she decided to patch up the clearly nervous kid. During this though, Tuff, Fololo, Falala, and Tokkori asked questions to the supposed time traveler.

" So are ya' from the distant future?" Tuff asked the wounded Kirby.

" Uhm, if I remember correctly, then it's only been about a couple of years since King Dedede worked with uhhh..." Kirby trailed off seeming confused, " Do you guys know who King Dedede is getting these monsters from yet or is that later in the future?"

" That he gets the monsters from eNeMeM?"

" Yeah, he stops that in the future. Actually, he tried to stop Nightmare twice as well. You'd be shocked to meet him!" Kirby happily stated, "I think you and him would get along great in the future!" He giggled.

Everyone in the small house was a bit shocked by this. King Dedede tried to stop Nightmare twice? That doesn't sound like him. He would have probably help Nightmare get out of the trouble if Kirby thought that he needed to be stopped.

" How is Tuff even like King Dedede?" Fololo questioned. Falala was also puzzled by Kirby's previous comment.

" Well, they're both lighthearted at times, they love to goof around, and they can sometimes mean well, but the message may come out wrong!" Kirby announced brightly.

Everyone but the slightly larger pink ball was confused. King Dedede is nice apparently? He is also a bit of a goof too? How is he lighthearted? Kirby must be talking about a different penguin king at this point, because the king they knew was nothing like this.

"How about we maybe ask this future kid why he even came to the past?" Tokkori blurted out after a minute of silence.

To be honest, Kirby doesn't know what had happened either. He just remembered fighting three or four flying hands and then ended up in the past somehow. When this thought crossed the pink kid's mind he began to worry. Are his friends okay? Meta Knight was sick during this battle, so he could maybe have been easier to get control over. He doesn't want to see Meta Knight under their control again, he always ends up regretting it, especially with the eldest one controlling him. What about King Dedede? It's only been two months since his last possession! That isn't good for his mind! How is Bandana Dee? The flying gloves never attacked in front of someone who is not in the tournament. Why did they seem to go after Bandee? Did they maybe want his soul for that horrible ritual? He also isn't exactly allowed to tell people about the Hands!

" Kirby! KIRBY! Are you okay?" Tuff exclaimed.

"Yeah, I'm fine. Just thinking." Kirby affirmed, but in reality, he really wasn't.

" Are ya' goanna answer the question or what?" The bird demanded.

"Tokkori, you needed to be patient! This Kirby clearly just recently had battle!" Tiff barked at the flying bird.

" Oh please, it's not like you're patient!"

Kirby really didn't want an argument to start, so he deiced to just tell a half-truth to not get in trouble, "I'm not really sure how i got to the past to be honest, I just got in fight with some friends and then boom! I'm in the past!" Kirby sounded awfully cheery compared to how he sounded before.

"Oh, that reminds me," Tiff exclaimed, " Do you know what a Star Ally is? Kabu mentioned that's they're two Star Allies here!"

Seeing no real reason to lie about this, Kirby decided to tell the truth," A Star Ally are my friends who helped me stop Void Termina! They can also be called Dream Friends at time!"

The other five people in the room did not know who Void Termina was, but Tiff knew. She was frozen from shock. Kirby stopped Void Termina? The destroyer of worlds? He can't even win a fight against Meta Knight; how can he stop Void Termina? Tiff then realized that Kirby must have gotten much stronger in the future, so it may be possible.

" Well, umm, okay then!" She whispered.

" I hope you don't mind much, but can I please sleep here for tonight? I don't really know where to go since I'm in the past and stuff, but I don't want other people to know that I'm part of the prophecy, especially with how King Dedede acts in this time." Kirby rambled sleepily.

" Sleep!" Cried out the younger Kirby.

"Thank you!"

With that, the small house was now filled with two Kirbies and five other people, all wondering different things. Tiff wondered why the future Kirby was so close to his old, or maybe current house and who was he fighting before being sucked into the past. Tokkori was curious on how someone can be accidentally brought to the past in the middle of what seemed to be a serious battle. Tuff was thinking about how in all the galaxies could he be similar to King Dedede and also was very glad that Kirby could talk in the future, even if it was a bit unclear at times. Fololo and Falala were pondering on how to help the future Kirby more and how to get the knights and the king to not to notice another Kirby walking around. Past Kirby was very happy to see his future self and how cool he seemed, though he was worried about his wounds. Future Kirby was wondering on what to do next and how to protect the people of the past Cappy Town. Slowly, everyone began to fall asleep, most blissfully unaware about what would soon happen.

Notes:

I DID NOT THINK ANYONE WOULD LIKE THIS, BUT SOME DO, YIPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Chapter 3: Two of the Four

Summary:

A new Waddle Dee with a spear with a yellow ribbon may bring a lot of attention to themself

Notes:

Since were goanna see more of the future interacting with the past, here is a key for the characters
Future Meta Knight: FMK
Past Meta Knight: PMK
Future King Dedede: FDDD
Past Dedede: PDDD
Future Kirby: FK
Past Kirby: PK
Future Bandana Dee: Bandee
Past Bandana Dee: Bandana

These are list of their names!

Bandee just got to the outskirts of what seemed to be the old town from a couple years ago before Dreamland was filled to the brim with Waddle Dees and other creatures, Cappy Town. When Bandee first saw this, he was befuddled. Most people of Cappy Town left as soon as they could once Nightmare was defeated the first time and the ones who stayed probably went insane and now wear mushrooms for some reason. However, there were still some sane ones luckily. However, this town was full of Cappies from what he could see.

When Bandee entered the center of the town, he was immediately brought with what seemed like a thousand of stares from the Cappies. Though he could not think of why this happened for the moment, he soon realized that it was probably because of his dark blue bandana and his yellow-ribboned spear. Though this brought him a lot of attention, he deiced to keep his spear because a battle just took place yesterday with these weird flying hands, so this was simply just a precaution. However, the young warrior was snapped out of thought by a Waddle Doo.

"Hold it, what are you doing out of the castle. No Waddle Dee was ordered out of the castle with weapons today." The Waddle Doo questioned

Bandee was confused by this. Why was this Waddle Doo acting like a commander or a leader? To his memory, there were no commanders who were Waddle Doos since a few years ago. At this moment, Bandee was starting to figure out where he was, but he wanted to make sure.

"May I ask a question first before I answer yours?" The Waddle Dee questioned.

Immediately this action earned him even more stares. Bandee was really starting to question why this brought him so many glances and looks. All he did was speak to this Waddle Doo, nothing that bad. Perhaps he was a higher rank then he thought, so maybe it was rude to ask him questions. However, the puzzled Waddle Doo agreed to this.

"Uhm, sure but make it quick."

"What is the full date of today?"

Waddle Doo thought this was a weird question to ask a general, but this Waddle Dee was quite odd. First, he left the castle without permission. Second, he was caring a spear with a yellow ribbon, which was odd because that was a sign of high honor that not even him, the leader of the Waddle Dees, had earned. Third, he was wearing a blue bandana, no other Waddle Dee he had seen had something that clearly distinguish them from the others to someone who wasn't a Waddle Doo or Waddle Dee.

"It's XX/XX/XXXX. Now answer my question, why are you outside of where the other Waddle Dees are stationed."

"Sir, I just woke up in a forest far from where I live, I simply do not work at Castle Dedede."

This was obviously a lie from Bandee. He had worked at that castle for most of his life, and though at first it was not enjoyable, but it soon became a joy to work there once King Dedede became less selfish over the years. However, the bandana wearing Waddle Dee was immediately caught off guard by the date. Somehow, he was knocked from his time to a couple of years in the past. He soon came to realize who this Waddle Doo was. It was the commander before him, Commander Waddle Doo. He also soon realized why he got so many stares, Waddle Dees did not speak in front of people at this time, some didn't even know English too even though they lived in the castle their entire life.

"Well, since you don't live here supposedly, you can stay in the town for a while." General Waddle Doo stated.

With his mind filled with so many thoughts, Bandee took this opportunity to head to somewhere a bit more peaceful. Bandee found a big tree and deiced to just sit there for a bit to collect his thoughts. How in a million years did he end up in the past? In all honesty though, Bandee knew this day would happen when he first saw Elfilin open a portal to Dreamland from Waddle Dee Town, and not to mention all the other weird things he discovered on adventures with Kirby, Meta Knight, and King Dedede. However, he did not think that it would happen like this. He thought it would be through a portal that he would see, not being knocked out and wake up in a forest in the past. He was also worried about his other friends though. He could have sworn that he saw Meta Knight attack Kirby, which was odd because they were fighting the same thing. Despite that, he could have also sworn that one of the three hands that they were fighting had disappeared randomly. Could Meta Knight have been possessed by that magical hand and that's why he attacked Kirby? Maybe. Soon though, Bandee was knocked out of thought when a yellow-orange skin boy with green hair tips started to talk to him.

"Hey, your name is Bandana Waddle Dee, correct?"

"Umm, yes that is my name." The Waddle Dee answered back

Bandee was confused by this question. When he was younger no one know his name, and this was definitely the time period where that was true. So the fact this boy even knew his name was quite odd.

"Great, can you follow me please? Someone really wants to see you again!" The boy exclaimed.

Bandee thought for a moment but decided to see who wanted to see him again. Now that he thought about it, what did he mean by again? Bandee deiced to take the risk, but he knew he could easily fight off the boy if he needed to.

On the way to wherever the boy was takeing him, the young kid started to talk about something.

"So, Bandana Waddle Dee, you know Kirby, right?"

"Yeah, I do! He's one of my closest friends!"

"And I heard you're from the future, aren't you?"

Bandee was shocked and scared that the boy knew he was from the future. How did he know? He has only been in this town for an hour at max and he has never mentioned the future. Could this boy be a threat, or does he have a source for this information? However, the more he looked at the boy the more he realized something. This boy fits the description of one of Kirby's old friends from around this time. His yellow-orange skin, mushroom like hairstyle with jungle green at the ends, his hair covering his eyes, and purple shorts being held up by a single suspender. This kid fits the description of Kirby's old friend, Tuff.

"Yes, I am from the future, and I suppose your name is Tuff?" Bandee responded.

The boy seemed a bit shocked when he said his name, but he quickly clarified, " Mmhm, my name is Tuff! How'd ya' know?"

"Because Kirby has mentioned you a couple times, and also, how do you know I'm from the future?"

"Well you're about to find out!" After saying this, Tuff started to run towards a small hill and Bandee soon followed his moves as well.

Bandee soon saw a recognizable, small, dome house that belonged to the Void child known as Kirby. Bandee then saw said Void child and rushed to him for a hug. He was so glad that his friend was okay! He was worried sick that one of those flying hands may have taken him, even though the chance of that happening was slim to none.

However, Kirby just responded with a confuse, "Poyo?"

A slightly older girl then appeared from Kirby's house, " I think you have the wrong Kirby!" She told him.

Bandee soon realized that the young girl, who he believes her name is Tiff, was correct. This Kirby didn't seem to recognize him, lack the scar he got from King Dedede during the Jambu Heart situation, and didn't have the wounds he should have after being attacked by Meta Knight yesterday. However soon enough, a different Kirby appeared and was definitely the one he knew. He had everything that the past one was currently lacking at the moment.

"BANDEE!" The wounded Kirby cried out.

"KIRBY!" He responded back.

They both hugged and were close to tears. They were both worried sick about each other during the time they were separated. Bandee didn't know anything about those three flying hands, so he was worried they may have been too strong for Kirby. On the other hand, Kirby was worried about Bandee because he knew how strong the Hands can be and what they may do to him, so he was over-joyed to see his best friend again safely.

After both of the future kids calmed down, all the children began to talk. Kirby and Bandee were talking about the battle from yesterday and what they remembered from it. When they got to the part about how they all worked together, the kids from the past were confused about what the two time-travelers had just said, but it made sense from what they knew. However, during the conversation the two Kirbies kept getting confused on which is which when some asked about their input or something similar.

"Hey maybe we should come up with nicknames for everyone who has their future self here!" Tiff suggested.

" That seems like a great idea so no one will get confused!" Responded Bandee.

So, the group of five children came up with nicknames for everyone. Future Kirby was simply called FK, while the past was called PK, which FK laughed at for a bit for reasons the rest of the group could not figure out. The two Bandana Waddle Dees were called Bandee for the future and Bandana for the past. They group also decided on names for the two Meta Knights and the Two King Dededes. The Meta Knights were called PMK for the past and FMK for the future. The two kings were called FDDD for the future and PDDD for the past. With that sorted out, Tiff and Tuff went home for the night while the other three orbs went to PK's house to rest for the night.

However, without their knowledge, a certain knight was watching the whole interaction. However, this one was without the sheath holding his sword, and was without Galaxia. His eyes were glowing red in the dark, but not with anger, but with something in control of him wasn't himself. This Meta Knight, nicknamed as now FMK, was planning something that the others didn't know. Planning to get the pink nuance that destroyed the Lord of Light and to intact their revenge on him. He was planning to get control of him and to do it very soon. And with all the souls in this past location, they may be able to bring the Lord of Light back from the dead.

Notes:

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Also, what do you guys feel about the end of this chapter!

Chapter 4: Curiosity Won't Kill This Bat!

Summary:

Meta Knight is suspicious on how some people of Cappy Town are acting recently, especially this new Waddle Dee .

Notes:

OH BOY, THIS TOOK SOME TIME TO WRITE FOR ME.

Meta Knight knew how hard it could be to get information on something or someone. He knew this from personal experience and himself. No one knows anything about the Star Warrior himself beside himself and his other fellow knights. However, Meta Knight needed to get some information on multiple things right now. What is a Star Ally? Where are the four people from the future? Why are Tiff, Tuff, Fololo, and Falala acting strange?

Tiff and Tuff have been acting like they're hiding something. Yesterday when another one of King Dedede's monsters tried to attack the town again, they kept calling Kirby, "PK" which was odd. They also seemed much more nervous around him for reasons he can't figure out. They also mentioned someone called Bandee, which is similar to Bandana. The two kids also called him PMK, but they tried to recover by immediately calling him Meta Knight, but that slip-up was not left unnoticed. They acted as if there was something they knew, but he didn't. So, he decided to find out, the stealth way.

Meta Knight was currently hiding around Cappy Town. He was originally looking for Tiff and Tuff but found another prime suspect in his search for answers to his questions. This suspect was a Waddle Dee named Bandana Waddle Dee, similar to the one at Kabu's prophecy giving a few days ago, but this Waddle Dee went by Bandee though. Bandee wore a blue bandana and carried around a spear with a yellow ribbon, which Meta Knight found questionable because a yellow ribbon was usually a sign of high honor, but no ribbons have been given out here. However, due to the knowledge that Meta Knight has, he just chalked it up to Bandee being from a different place, supposedly, so he never really questioned it. What he did question though was Bandee's sudden appearance. He arrived the same day as Kabu's prophecy, which Meta Knight also found strange due to his name being the same as Bandana's name. With all of this in Meta's mind, he went on to spy on Bandee.

During his s̶t̶a̶l̶k̶i̶n̶g̶ spying on Bandee, he was brought deep into a forest. In this forest, Bandee stopped dead in his track and looked around. His eyes then landed on Meta Knights location.

"Sir Meta Knight, I know you're here!" Bandee yelled out.

Meta Knight did not react nor responded to the shout of the Waddle Dee, he wanted to make the Waddle Dee think that he was simply not there and that he just saw something similar to him. However, Bandee was aware of this trick as FMK has done it before. So instead, he just stared the Knight's location until he left it.

This slightly unnerved the knight, but he held his ground. To anyone who would walk in the forest, it would seem like Bandee was having a staring contest with a tree. It was a competition of who would give out the first in the starting contest, and Meta Knight was the one who lost this contest.

"You are very alert to have found me so quickly Bandana Waddle Dee."

"Thank you for the compliment, Sir Meta Knight, but I would know your tactics because you're the one who taught me how to be stealthy!"

This immediately gave Bandee away to Meta Knight because he has never trained a Waddle Dee on how to be stealthy, so it became very clear that he was from the future. Though Meta Knight did ponder the fact that he trains Bandee on how to be stealthier and wonders why. This Waddle Dee did seem to have a lot of potential compared to other Waddle Dees with how he found Meta Knight and how he did not give up finding Meta Knight even though he didn't respond for about thirty minutes.

"Also, what did you want to find out about me?" Asked Bandee

"How do you know I want to ask you something?"

"Because you've been following me for an hour and that's how you try to find out information on things."

"Simply I just want to know why you are here and what are your intentions with Dreamland."

Bandee was a bit shocked that Meta Knight actually asked the questions instead of pretending that he wasn't just stalking him for more information on him. Though Meta Knight did get better with asking questions in the future instead of just jumping to spying on people, he did still do it from time to time, and when he did, he very rarely told his intentions. However, Bandee was glad he did ask questions instead of just lying that he wasn't looking for anything, so he didn't have to pester the knight.

"As you are probably guessing, I'm from the future and my only intention is to get back to my time so I can go back to future Dreamland. I also intend to find your future self and future King Dedede as well."

With this new information that Meta Knight just obtained, this heavily hinted that Bandee had already found Kirby or Kirby was not part of this at all. However, the ladder was very unlikely to happen with how Kirby was asked to attend Kabu's prophecy. Meta Knight decided to ask Bandee more questions as he seems to me honest from what he is being told.

"Is the Kirby from the future here too?" Meta Knight questioned.

Bandee decided to lie to the knight due to FK not wanting PMK to know that he is in Cappy Town, so he lied, "Uhhhh, Kirby isn't here, he at.... Sandy Canyon."

It was clear to Meta Knight that was a false statement, it would have been clear to a one-year-old Cappy that he was lying. Meta Knight knew he should try to figure out the future Kirby's location, however he has an idea of where Kirby could be, all he needs to do is to go to where the Waddle Dee is staying. That location being present Kirby's house. This should have been more obvious to the small knight, but he realized he probably over thought it.

However, Bandee kept following the knight. Meta Knight appeared to not care, but internally he was curious on why he was following him now, he's not even trying to hide the fact he's following him. Meta Knight guessed that Bandee must know where he is heading, so Meta Knight decided to walk around Cappy Town for some time. When that didn't work, Meta Knight just decided to go to Kirby's house with the Waddle Dee tailing him after walking for about an hour or two. If Meta Knight really needed to for some reason, he could fight off Bandee, after all Waddle Dees don't seem strong.

Before the two reached Kirby's house, they saw Tuff running full speed for some reason. The boy looked slightly wounded and seemed like he has ash in his hair and clothes. He also looked dazed and scared.

"Meta Knight! Bandee!" The boy cried out.

"What happened Tuff?" Bandee questioned.

"FMK is attacking the two Kirbies for some reason! PK can't even fight him and he's throwing bombs for some reason!" Tuff answered

This immediately caught Meta Knight's attention. He realized what PMK meant now, it meant either present or past Meta Knight and that FMK must mean future Meta Knight. If his thoughts were true, then why was his future self attacking the two Kiribes? He also understood now that Tiff and Tuff were acting weird because they had the future Kirby, which he guessed was probably called FK, and didn't want him to know.

With that all in mind, the three ran to Kirby's house to stop FMK, all wondering what he was up to. When they got there, they saw some blood in grass, Tiff hiding PK, FK with Meta Knight's mask and sword somehow, and a winged, red eyed, vicious Meta Knight who was flying. When the three made it to Kirby's house, the flying knight stopped and looked at the three.

"What lovely timing your three have!" FMK called out, "The more souls the merrier!"

Notes:

Question, would you guys like more King Dedede angst or Meta Knight angst, because I'm doing both, just which would you like more of?

Chapter 5: Battle at Dusk

Summary:

FMK attacks the past and FK, but everyone notices the differences.

Notes:

AHHHHHHHH, btw question, if I added Metadede, would you guys like that, be neutral, or hate it?

FK was relaxing today. Tiff noticed how stressed he looked and kept asking him if he wanted to play, so the young puff ball agreed. So, FK was currently playing with PK, Tuff, Tiff, and chatting with Tokkori for the day. It was around dusk right now and everyone has been playing all day, all panting for breath from playing tag. Tiff was now talking about how tag was actually an acronym for touch and go.

However, Tokkori noticed something. It was a dark blueish dot that seemed to get closer and closer at a rapid speed north of Kirby's house. It seemed to have pretty big wings for its size and had the shaped of Kirby. The yellow bird thought that it may be worth checking out, it may even be a monster from Dedede with how many he has summoned recently. So, without a word, Tokkori took flight.

the closer Tokkori got to the fly dot, the more it looked like Meta Knight. You could see a mask with bright yellow eyes behind it. However, his eyes seemed more red. Tokkori didn't know much about Meta Knight, but he did know his eyes were supposed to be yellow but could change colors. If Tokkori had to make a guess, the knight was probably mad for some reason. With that observation, the yellow bird flew back to Kirby's house. On the flight back, he realized that Meta Knight didn't have wings. So how was the knight even flying if he has no wings?

"Hey, Torroki! Where da'ya go off to?" Questioned Tuff.

"Y'all don't noticed the flying dot in the sky? Went to check that out." The bird responded, "It seems to be Meta Knight from what I caught a look at, his eyes are red though."

Immediately this caught everyone's attention. Most of the kids there thought that Meta Knight was angry for some unknown reason, but one thought that something else may be in control of the knight. They all looked around until their eyes landed on the flying dot, that was becoming larger and clear enough to get some other details about the flying orb. Everyone could see how it could be Meta Knight, but the figure had almost ink black wings, so most people ruled off Meta Knight, but not all.

"Meta Knight doesn't have wings though Torroki." Tiff corrected.

"You guys don't know, do you?" Bandee commented

"Know what?" Tiff replied.

Bandee and Kirby were now whispering to each other. They were both unsure what they should say to them. Meta Knight had told them the reason why he hid his wings for some time was because he was worried that someone may try to use it to their advantage, that someone being people like Nightmare, Yin Yarn, the Haltmann company, and more. Now they were stuck in a situation where if they told the other three that Meta Knight has wings it could help them in a fight, but it may be dangerous for PMK. However, after a minute or two thinking they decided to make a compromise.

"He just thought that this was the time where Meta Knight had wings, they're not real wings, but they can help him fly!" Kirby responded.

This lie was good enough for the other three. Tiff was wondering on why Meta Knight would make wings, but she was amazed on the technology Dreamland has in the future. They must be super advanced in the future if they, or just Meta Knight, could make wings for someone who isn't supposed to fly! She knows it's hard due to bone density, metabolism, and other things, so it was super impressive. Tokkori was also surprised a bit by this statement because he simply thought it was impossible to recreate bird wings.

"So, wait a minute, Meta Knight can just fly now? And that's normal?' Tokkori questioned.

"One hundred percent! Meta Knight's ability to fly is completely new!" Bandee responded quickly.

The extra statement on how it's, "completely new" brought some suspension from Tiff that it may not be a new trait, but she didn't really question it because it didn't seem to matter. It Meta Knight did have wings this entire time, it didn't matter for now because he probably wouldn't budge for a bit on using his wings.

However, everyone was thinking on why FMK's eyes were red. Red was probably a sign of anger, so what made FMK so made? Could it be that he was stuck in a different location, did he find out something really bad?

During everyone's thinking, FK was getting ready for something, and that something was a battle. While Kirby obviously hates fighting his friends, if his suspension was correct, FMK was under the control of a Master Hand. He needed to get ready for the maybe up-coming fight. FK knew that the Master Hand that possess him was different. He's heard from FDDD that it has a hobby, and quite a disturbing one at that. He never got the answer on what it was though. The Master Hand also acts more insane than Marx when they fought! FMK always hates it when he remembers what he was forced to do under their control. So, Kirby grabbed some snacks to eat to recover any needed health and stamina. He was also mentally preparing himself for this fight. He has to make it quick.

Before everyone knew it, a quick swift of air passed everyone. Next thing they knew, PK was pinned to the tree next to Kirby's house. FMK immediately tried to stab PK but was stopped by FK with a punch to his side. In response FMK flew higher and stared down at FK.

"HAH, the plan did really work out, didn't it little star child?" He laughed with a mad laughter following the statement.

No one knew what the plan was, but FMK really did try to make it out that FK was somehow part of the plan. Before anyone could respond, FMK launched himself into a shuttle loop against FK, which hit him. Though FK was in a good bit of pain now, he knew he couldn't quit.

FK retaliated by inhaling FMK to everyone's surprise. He gained a mick of Meta Knight's mask and a copy of Galaxia. Now with this new ability, the two began the real battle.

FK started up a macho tornado that landed in FMK's path, launching him up for a seconded before he landed again. FMK then attempted to stab FK in the gut, but it missed and left a big wound on FK's cheek. The two then started up their own macho tornados which only slightly wounded them. FK then charged up his hammer, that seemingly came out of nowhere, while FMK was dazed. Once the possessed knight woke up from his dazed state, he immediately charged to the pink puff ball and was met with a hammer. He quickly recovered this time and went in to attack like a charged drill and landed a hit onto FK. FMK then shot up into the air and plummeted down with his sword to the stunted child. The child did not have enough time to dodge and was met with a sword. FK then got up and started to slash at the knight relentlessly.

During this fight, Tokkori ran away to call for help from either PMK, Sword or Blade Knight, or tell Chief Bookem, even though he's sure that won't do much. Tiff was trying to hide Tuff and PK because she knew that not she or any of them could take on FMK from what she's seeing. She's honestly surprised that FK is lasting this long against FMK with how he's been acting. She's not sure if this is a very cruel test or something else is happening, but FK may not make it out alive at this rate.

Out of nowhere, the flying knight grabs something out of his cape. It seems to be a sludge like thing with a red core. He then threw it on FK, and it started to flash red even more. FK knew what this was and tried to throw it onto FMK, Tuff noticed this and rushed over to grab the goo, but it soon exploded.

With this sudden explosion, Tuff was launched up in the air. While he was in the sky, he saw two recognizable figures, PMK and Bandee. Once Tuff landed, he tried his best to run to the knight and the Waddle Dee.

"Meta Knight! Bandee!" The young kid cried out.

"What happened Tuff?" Bandee asked.

"FMK is attacking the two Kirbies for some reason! PK can't even fight him and he's throwing bombs for some reason!" Tuff responded.

The group of three ran to Kirby's house to witness the battle that was still occurring. FMK was still up in the air and now had more wound due to another one of those tornado attacks. FMK turned around to check the new sounds and saw the three.

"What lovely timing your three have!" FMK called out, "The more souls the merrier!"

PMK immediately attempted to slash the flying version of him. He managed to hit his amor shoe, but it didn't do much to the knight. However, with this distraction, FK managed to jump up higher and knock the knight on the ground and formed into a heavy weight and landed on the fallen knight. With this, FK managed to do a successful macho tornado on him and swing him back up in the air with his sword. Kirby then gave FMK a shallow wound on his wing which made FMK's eyes flash yellow for a seconded with a quiet yell of pain. PMK then was able to give another wound to FMK's other wing with the same result. FMK was cable of wiggling himself out of their grip and struck another hit on FK and landed a drill rush that didn't hurt FK too much.

However, after this move was over a strange rainbow glow surrounded FK. With this glow, FMK quickly was flying around the young warrior for some reason, as if he was trying to dodge a serious blow from his pink counterpart. FK managed to do a drill like attack to FMK after he got himself up in the air that crashed FMK on the ground. Then a humongous sword appeared in the boy's hand, and he slashed the knight with it. He then seemingly teleported around landing even more hits on the knight.

After this series of attacks were over, FMK was clearly defeated, but not down. The attacking knight then teleported out of the battle from what they all could see. They all stayed still for a moment, all processing what just happened. After some time, a familiar yellow bird came back with two other knights. The bird wore a worried look for everyone there and you could tell the other two knights were clearly distressed from what they were seeing.

"Is everyone okay?" Blade knight asked.

"I will be honest with you; I have no idea." PMK answered.

Everyone there all decided to make a run for it because they knew with both the bomb and the giant sword that people would be rushing over to see what happened. Now in the safety of the forest, everyone explained to Blade Knight, Sword Knight, and Tokkori what happened. The two knights and the bird were astonished from what they heard, but Bandee wasn't really. They were startled by many things they heard like how the future Meta Knight tried to kill the future Kirby from what is seemed and who caused the big sword attack. However, the three knights now knew that the prophecy was already becoming reality. They all agreed though that they must hold the truth from present King Dedede though because he would definitely try to clobber up the two Kirbies, and even though they could easily beat him and any of the monsters he summons, it would be inconvenient and time consuming.

Since it was so late, they all decided to check on Kirby's house to see how crowed it was. As they predicted, it was quite crowed and there was police tape everywhere. However, it was already reaching about 10:00 pm at that point, so Tiff and Tuff offered the two Kirbies and Bandee a place to sleep for tonight, that being their house. Tokkori could easily just say that he wasn't there during the battle so he could head back to either his old nest or Kirby's house. The other three knights stated how they would need to ask more questions tomorrow to FK, Bandee, and the other two kids as well, but that was a problem for tomorrow them. With that, everyone went to their sleeping places and would deal with these new problems tomorrow.

Notes:

Fun fact: For a bit I thought Meta Knight's wings were not actually part of his body and were made by him!

Chapter 6: A Tough Investigation.

Summary:

After the Battle at Dusk, people are wondering what happened, so they try to find out.

Notes:

THE KING DEDEDES FINALLY APPEARS?

King Dedede was sitting in his weird prison cell as per usual. He couldn't really move in the first place; his mouth and hands were chained to the ground. Though both cuffs did have long enough chains so he could walk around his cell. He's been in here for either two or three days he thinks. He knows who his captures are, everyone that's stuck here knows who they are. King Dedede is curious on why they haven't tried to control him again, they usual only wait a day or two at max before possessing him again. He also hasn't seen Meta Knight in the cell yet, this worried him a lot. King Dedede no longer trusted any of the Master Hands or Crazy Hands after the only friendly one died at their hands. He didn't trust them especially after what happened on THAT day, or well two months. So, the unusually long possession of Meta Knight from them concerned the king a lot. He knows how the hand that usually possess Meta Knight is different from the others. It has a weird interest in "dissecting" other things, and it like to do that to things that are alive too.

Then by per chance, t̶h̶e̶ ̶k̶i̶n̶g̶'̶s̶ ̶b̶e̶l̶o̶v̶e̶d̶ ̶k̶n̶i̶g̶h̶t̶ Meta Knight appeared out of nowhere, though in reality he just used his cape. The knight then fell down on the ground as the Master Hand let go of him. The King immediately grabbed, or cupped his chained hands, the fallen knight. The guards in front of their cell then proceeded to chain the knight to the ground similar to how the King was chained, but just with his hands. If King Dedede's mouth was not cuffed down, he would have bit off their heads already and run away with his knight. However, since he couldn't do any of that, he had to just sit and watch the unconscious knight be chained. The penguin felt horrible for him. Meta Knight seemed sicker than he had during the fight three days ago. He really hoped that the hands wouldn't possess him for a while so he could get some rest at least. Though, King Dedede heard some murmurs about something. He guessed that it was about him being possessed soon. They always talk about that beforehand (pun intended) after the incident with one of the hands. They had to unchain him before they could control him, so that meant unchaining his mouth, so they always got more guards. For now, though, he would just get mentally prepared for the possession and check Meta Knight for any big wounds.

 

Tiff just got up after a very confusing night. She was asleep in her room with her brother, PK, FK, and Bandee. Last night was confusing and the more she thought about, the more puzzling it was. First thing was that FMK's wings were bleeding blood, so that meant that they must be organic. This heavily implies that FK and Bandee lied about Meta Knight's wings being man-made, and they were too large to have recently grown, so they must be organic. Though, she wouldn't bother PMK about it, she knows he probably hides his wings for unknown reasons. The seconded big thing was that FK had easily inhaled FMK and got an ability from it. While FK inhaling FMK could just be explained with Kirby's inhale getting stronger as he gets older, the ability is still a shock. How does Meta Knight have his own ability in Kirby's copy ability. There was currently no explanation on why that could have happened. The final thing was that weird big sword move that FK performed last night. THAT was weird. To say that sword was huge is an understatement. It was probably bigger than the rest of King Dedede's castle! How did FK's sword get so big? How was he able to carry it? HOW WAS HE TELEPORTING DURING THAT? How did FMK even survive such a big attack? The questions about that sword move filled Tiff's head.

She was later snapped out of her spiral of thoughts once FK awoke from his slumber. The young brawler had received a fair number of wounds from that battle, the most notable being the big slash on his cheek. He looked drowsy and sore, which seemed to be the only non-visible result of last night's battle. She decided to ask FK about these questions after they all have breakfast. Tiff believes that her parents are currently out of their apartment in King Dedede's castle. So, she decides to ask FK if he wants breakfast.

"FK, do you want some breakfast?"

"Uhhhh, sure! But shouldn't we wake up the others to let them know?"

"That would be more efficient so we can leave earlier and not be seen by anyone else!"

After waking everyone else up, they waited a bit for everyone to have the energy to get out of bed. Tiff also checked Tuff's burn wound from the bomb last night. It was still pretty bad, but it was getting better. Bandee got some cold water and vera loe for the wound as well, which seemed the relieve some of the pain the wound was causing Tuff. They also changed all of FK's bandages too since some were soaked with blood. After all that, they went out of Tiff's and Tuff's room to get some breakfast.

However, when they walked out, they were greeted by Lady Like and Sir Ebrum. The two parents were a bit supurised by how late Tiff and Tuff woke up, but that only caught their attention for a short amount of time. Their attention then went to the two Kirbies and Bandee. They were shocked by seeing a Waddle Dee in their house but seeing two Kirbies was even weirder! One of the Kirbies was clearly wounded from something and the Waddle Dee looked exhausted! Lady Like was worried that the three guest may be injured and her children as well. Sir Ebrum was wondering how they got in his house but was equally as worried as his wife.

"Are you guys all, okay? Tiff and Tuff, how are you feeling? What happened?" Lady Like questioned.

"How are there two Kirbies?" Sir Ebrum questioned.

It then clicked in his head how there was to Kirbies. That prophecy from four days ago! It mentioned how two Star Warriors were coming from the future, Kirby is a Star Warrior to his knowledge, so one of them is from the future!

After a bit, FK started talking, "Well to answer Lady Like's question first, were mostly all fine, but Tuff has a burn wound and I got slashed up, but nothing too bad." FK then thought for a moment before he talked again, "A battle happened yesterday against.......someone."

"Also, to answer your question sir, the wounded Kirby and me are from the future, but I think you figured that out as far as I could tell from your face." Bandee answered.

After a couple more questions, Lady Like decided to make them all breakfast. During breakfast, Tuff commented on how cool FK's sword move was last night and how it even happened, and that started fifteen minutes of questioning from everyone, even Bandee. FK stuttered a bit before creating a semi-cohesive lie. All but FK explained what they knew about the current situation and all the nicknames they came up with. During this lengthy breakfast though, they never mentioned who their opponent was. After breakfast was done, they all said thanks, washed their dishes, and left.

They managed to get to Kirby's house unspotted somehow. When they got there though, they were immediately questioned by Chief Bookem. He was investigating Kirby's house due to the bomb sounds and the giant sword. They all tried their best to hide FK from him. After Chief Bookem asked them a thousand questions, he decieded that they witnessed most of the battle, and decieded to bring the gang in. FK was left at his house for now, so he decided to talk to Tokkori, unless something bad happened.

"So, let me this straight. You're saying that you have no idea where the blood, bomb, and giant sword witnessed yesterday appeared? You just stated that you were at Kirby's house yesterday." Bookem questioned.

"That's right!" Tuff responded.

"You do know how little sense that makes, correct?" Bookem then sighed, "I need you to answer my question, who attacked you guys and Kirby? It's for the people so they don't get hurt!"

"Well, it could have been one of King Dedede's monsters." Tiff stated.

"Everyone knows that isn't the case. Escargoon and King Dedede were equally confused as everyone else, and they can't lie that well." Chief Bookem stated. " Maybe this will help y'all remember who attacked you guys."

Chief Bookem then showed a piece of ink-black leather or skin. This skin was very thin and looked like it belonged to any over-grown bat's wing. It was a mystery on how Hookem even found it. However, they all knew who this skin belonged to, Meta Knight. They couldn't tell him this though because it would either be a very bold and possibly false statement, or they would have to expose FK to even more people and make everyone know Bandee was from the future.

"Well, Chief Bookem, it seems like this skin belongs to a bat! How would this help us?" Bandee questioned

"Bat bat!" PK chirped out,

"This piece of skin itself is larger than a bat's wing! How could it be a bat?"

"Chief Bookem, it obvious we don't know what it is. So, you could just let us go!" Tiff stated.

Chief Bookem didn't know what to do at this point. He wasn't getting anywhere with these kids, and he wouldn't be soon. He's been questioning them for an hour now. So, he decided that he would come up with a plan to get them to answer the questions, but that would need to be another day. So, he dismissed the children for now.

The kids all went to Kirby's house now. The house was in weirdly good shape after the attack from last night. FK was in there watching channel DDD with Tokkori and chattering on about how King Dedede gave up this channel to a crew of Waddle Dees, and how it's now known as channel PPP. FK greeted Tiff, Tuff, PK, and Bandee when they entered his, or their house in PK case. He asked questions about how the interview went and things similar to that. Right before he mentionded how PMK hasn't arrived yet to question them yet, PMK appeared.

PMK knocked on the door to ask necessary questions about what in the stars happened yesterday.

"As I stated I would yesterday, I'm here to ask questions on why the events of yesterday happened." PMK stated.

"Okay, then ask away!" FMK responded.

"Why was FMK attacking you?"

"Due to how his eyes were glowing reddish orange and how he commented like an insane person having fun, it's most likely because he's possessed. "

PMK was caught off guard with that answer. However, he asked more, "Do you know who was possessing me?"

"Yes, but I can' tell who, I think." Kirby answered back.

"Why are you unable to tell me who it is?" PMK questioned.

"WELL, YOU SEE, I signed a contract, I think that's what's it's called, " FK rambled, "and it stated that I couldn't tell anyone outside of a certain group of people things like these, unless my life is on the line" FK paused for a moment, "Well I mean, maybe I could tell you?" The young child stated," You are part of the group in the future, but not now!"

FK stood there for a moment a contemplated on whether or not to tell PMK or not, at the end, FK told PMK the truth. PMK also asked some other less important questions too, like why FMK didn't have Galaxia and why he was using his wings. PMK soon left after that, and FK went back into his house. He was both watching channel DDD and thinking about all the false news on it, but he was also thinking about what would happen next. He needed to get a plan soon and to also figure out where FDDD is because he just realized there's been no signs of this. With this in his mind, he just sat down a relaxed with his friends for now.

Notes:

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, I need to include more KRBY characters.

Chapter 7: An Unexpected Puppet King

Summary:

FK needs some more social interaction, so he hangs around with Tuff for a bit. It's all fine until they notice.....something.

Notes:

EXAMS ARE OVER LETS GOOOOOOOOOO!

Tuff was planning to go out and play with his friends, those being Honey, Iro, and Spikehead, when he noticed FK bored or stressed out of his mind, along with Bandee as well. It has become normal sight for these two to be stressed, but they seemed uninterested with Channel DDD because of the amount of bogus news and other things were on that channel. They would usually make fun of the show to calm down, but today it wasn't working. Tuff thought that maybe FK and Bandee should maybe talk to other people besides him, Tiff, and Tokkori for once. When Tuff didn't talk to other people besides Tiff sometimes, he got bored, so maybe they just need some other friends!

With this in his head, Tuff decided to bring the orange and pink orbs along with his other friends to the canyon that Kirby and Meta Knight fought in. No one really had gone into it since then, but for some reason today, it smelt kind of smokey, and not the good kind at that. It didn't smelt like the smoke from food or from a car, but from something else, like a furnace or straight from a generator. It seemed like everyone in Tuff's group noticed this scent, but all expect the non-Cappy like people pushed it off. For some reason, the scent made FK and Bandee even more nervous!

"Why are you so nervous Bandee and Kirby?" Iro asked out of the blue.

"Poyo...." FK responded

"Do you guys do not smell the smoke scent?" Badee asked

"I do!" Honey answered.

"It doesn't worry you?" Bandee questioned, "Nothing seems flammable down here, so that means someone else is down here."

"You do have a point Bandee, but it's probably nothing! And if it is something, maybe we can pull a prank on them!" Tuff responded.

This did not help to calm down Bandee nor FK, if anything, they seemed more nervous than before! Do they have an idea on who could be down here, because if they do, this person must be pretty bad. Tuff couldn't come up with an idea on who could be down here, maybe because of their reaction, FMK? However, that doesn't make sense, there should have been a very loud explosion if it was him because the smoke would have been from the bombs he had out of nowhere.

However, before Tuff could make any conclusions that would be frightening, Tuff and Bandee heard a faint explosion. This made both the Waddle Dee and Cappy-looking kid jump back resulting in them crashing into the group.

"Hey, what was that for?" Spikehead posed.

"Didn't any of y'all hear that explosion?" Tuff asked.

"Kinda of, but why were you so jumpy?" Honey queried.

"Yeah, are you scared?" Spikehead retorted.

"Do you guys not recognize that sound?" Bandee responded back.

FK then perked up at that statement. In FK's head, to pieces of a puzzle just clicked together, and it was a bad conclusion. He needed to get everyone out of here! Bandee could handle this threat, but FK knew that he would prefer not to. The other children though, they would be toast if they got any deeper into the ravine!

With that, FK immediately grabbed Tuff's hand and tried to get the rest of the group out of this situation. However, FK used to much strength to suddenly and Tuff fell over. Tuff fell down with a thud, but soon got up.

"Kirby! What's wrong?"

FK couldn't handle his friends being hurt, so he decided to speak like a regular person, "FDDD is here! And I don't think he's in control of his body!" The young boy yelled

The other three children were surprised that Kirby just spoke in English but were also worried now as well. Who's FDDD? Is this person possessed? What's happening?

"Well, if that's the case, lets free him!" Tuff responded.

"You don't understand Tuff!" FK answered, "FDDD has some new abilities that his controller may know about!" FK then took a quick breath in-between sentence, "What they do know about htough is that his hammer has missiles in it, this is a new thing, don't worry. " FK answered," But that means that you guys could be TOAST!"FK yelled.

The group had a choice to make, either to see the possessed king or to run and not get their ribs smashed and not to get blown to bits. Tuff had made his choice, which was an in-between. This in-between being to leave for right now and get help, because the fight with FMK still left some marks on FK and Tuff still had that burn wound from the bomb. However, his friends had a different idea.

The three Cappies ran towards the explosion at full speed. At with little thought, the other ran after them to stop them. The three kids in the front thought that there was no way this King Dedede was possessed, and he was probably just being a dickhead like he usually is. The other three who were tagging along from behind knew otherwise, mostly Bandee and FK. Tuff thought that FDDD would be just as weak as PDDD, which was pretty weak considering his size. However, after the fight with FMK, Tuff knew that there was a chance that FDDD could be strangely strong like FMK. The time travelers though knew FDDD strength, and with the recent event of Fecto Forgo, the king was even stronger. Bandee and FK did not want to see four kids get absolute destroyed by the beast of a king.

In no time, the group was greeted with a recently blown-up cave in the canyon. The scent of the smoke was strong here, so everyone could tell that a bomb of some sort was just recently exploded. Tuff could even here loud breathing from time to time if he listened close enough. It was clear that someone was in there. The three Cappies then ran into the freshly made cave.

"Don't go i-" FK yelled.

The children were then launched out of the cave. They were now clearly in pain from a painful hammer swing. Soon enough, a familiar penguin king emerged from the cave. The King made a small grunt before immediately launching at FK.

Bandee then proceeded to attempt to stab the king in the back with his spear, which he always carries now, to get the king off of FK. However, before he could do this, the king immediately swerved the waddle off of him. With the FDDD distracted though, FK inhaled the large penguin. He then downed a familiar hat that was custom of the king. FK then managed to kick the large king off of him, though with a bit of struggle because FK was so small and launched missiles at the king with his new hammer. In response to this, FDDD launched even more missiles at everyone there. With all those missiles blowing up at the same time, it was louder than the bomb that FMK had thrown two days ago.

King Dedede was currently lounging around in his castle, making ridiculous orders to Escargoon, bullying some Waddle Dees, and being a menace to everyone in his vicinity. The tyrannical king was about to order a monster from eNeMeE when suddenly there was a loud boom that everyone could hear. From what the king could guess from the last time a sound like this happened, it probably meant something major was happening, most likely revolving around the pudgy pink pest know as Kirby. He knew that this would be the perfect opportunity for him to clobber that pink puffball up right now.

Meanwhile, FK was currently getting up from the previous wave of missiles that FDDD had just sent. When he got up though, the king ran into him with full force. The next thing he knew was that he was being bitten by the king himself. It was just like when he was controlled by Fecto Forgo. Before FK could think anymore, he immediately threw his hammer on the king's head. With this sudden blow to the royal penguin's head, the king luckily let go of FK. With FK now free, but hammerless, the small child went for a kick to the king's upper gut. The kick had so much force that it knocked the penguin on the hard rocky ground.

FDDD was then greeted with a Waddle Dee on top of him, soon with his spear jabbing into his gut. If it weren't for one of his Dark Matter possessions, the king would have probably been severely wounded or killed. However, due to that possession, the king got up with ease and used his giant hammer to crush the Waddle Dee. Luckily, Bandee jumped out of range for only his foot to be wounded. However, this would still be painful, especially with how heavy that hammer is. FK then quickly shot out his ability at the king and then quickly looked around for something else to inhale. However, there was nothing to inhale.

'𝑵𝑶 𝑵𝑶 𝑵𝑶, 𝑻𝑯𝑬𝑹𝑬 𝑯𝑨𝑺 𝑻𝑶 𝑩𝑬 𝑺𝑶𝑴𝑬𝑻𝑯𝑰𝑵𝑮 𝑯𝑬𝑹𝑬!' The young child thought.

At that moment, the young Star Warrior noticed the sheer amount of lose rocks around him. FK couldn't even fully process what he was about to think before he went in with his plan. He immediately went ahead and inhaled the rocks. Paired with Bandee's spear stabbing, the two were getting a lot of damage of the seemingly feral king. However, both of them knew that this strategy would not work for forever.

The other four children ran as fast as they could, it was even harder for the three that were falling behind due to them recently being hit by a HEAVY hammer. They needed to get help for their two time traveling friends! Their luck was two sided for this occasion though once they saw an iconic tank that belonged to King Dedede. To a non-wounded or panicking person, the average person would have questioned why he was using his tank when he had a limousine

"Watch'a kids doin' here? If ya' kids want to stop me, Ima' clobber y'all along with the two pink menaces." PDDD barked.

The children now needed a way to get PDDD away from this battle. Tuff knew that FK did not want PDDD to see him and Bandee. The other children just knew that he would make the battle a whole buch worse for the ones fighting. They needed to think of some lie to fool this king, but what? Thats when Tuff came up with a great idea!

"Yeah, if you want to mess with the king, you got a mallet in your future!" Escargoon chip in.

"I mean, I haven't seen two Kirbies yet." Tuff commented, "The other one must not be here yet!"

"Yeah!" Said three kids in union.

"All right then, where is the original one then?" Asked the rude penguin.

Tuff then pointed the opposite direction of where FK, Bandee, and FDDD are. He then ran off, satisfied with his lying. However, even though the king himself is not that smart, his loyal servant Escargoon could tell that they were lying. He didn't know whether or not they were lying about one or two Kirbies being in the direction they were heading, or about something else. However, he brought this up to his king and they head for the canyon.

FK and Bandee were now in a pickle. FK was out of rocks and Bandee was struggling to find more openings to wound his king. FK then came up with a quick plan and put it in action. FK managed to get behind the feral king who was currently trying to hit Bandee with his giant hammer and inhaled him again. Now with the king's crown, or more correctly hat, FK then began his own wave of missiles to wound the king.

It had been a while since FK had fought his friends possessed by a Master Hand. This would have been easy if he had remembered what the hand weak spot was, also where the hand was. FK nor Bandee could see the hand; however, FK could tell that he was possessed by a Master Hand because of his red glowing eyes and by the fact that FDDD made no sound. FDDD hand for some reason rarely talked or made noise, that hand was honestly probably more suited for Meta Knight. FMK's hand was insane, pulling some weird trick, and honestly kind of psychopathic. FK would sometimes wonder if that was the hand that made the deal with Marx during 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 event.

However, FK could not think to in detail about that right now. For he was in a battle between his possessed friend. He needed to remember how to get the hand to show itself so he could free his best friend, and honestly one of his father-figure at times. FK was trying to create another plan in his mind that would work in both Bandee and FK way. However, against his luck, he heard a familiar tank that swung his mind years in the past. PDDD and Escargoon were coming down into the canyon, just what he needed.

In Bandee's mind however, this was great. Not because the past king and his old snail henchmen was coming down, no that was really bad, but because that meant FK could inhale the tank! That would be a very powerful mouthful mode! He just needed to get near FK to inform him about his plan, because from what Bandee could see, FK was for some reason seeing the worst in this situation. All FK and him needed to do was either to get that tank down here faster or to survive until then.

King Dedede was partly startled on the sight he was seeing. He did not expect to see his future self here, but from what he was seeing, he still hated his pink nemesis. Though something did seem wrong about himself. He seemed to be in a state of fury. Don't get him wrong, he hated Kirby too, but he would never want Kirby dead dead. It was fun to have someone against him all the time, whether they wanted to or not. However, from what he was seeing, his future self wanted to kill both Kirby and another Waddle Dee. He didn't understand the pure rage against the Waddle Dee, after all it didn't seem to special. Also, how did Kirby get his hat and hammer? That was weird, but he probably just stole it or something like that, maybe that was why he was so angry.

King Dedede then demanded Escargoon to go faster because there was no way that he was missing out on this! However, the closer he got to the fight, the weirder it got. For some reason Kirby's hammer was shotting missiles and then his was as well! The closer he got as well, the Waddle Dee seemed to get happier as well, probably because they needed saving. This Waddle Dee would surely get a lesson for working with Kirby though!

FK now knew the plan that would hopefully make FDDD free from the Master Hands or at least flee so everyone can collect their thoughts and come up with a plan. Bandee was getting quite excited as well to end this battle that kept dragging on. FK knew that he would get bombarded with questions after he uses his mouthful mode. He knew the past king would talk about it, but no one would believe him. He didn't want something like that to hurt the past king reputation even more! The king already had a very bad, but well deserved, reputation, so FK didn't want it to go down even more for something that is true.

Soon, PDDD and Escargoon made it down to the bottom of the canyon in the nick of time, because FK was completely out of rocks. Bandee then made a quick dash for the tank and went into a kick powerful enough to knock both PDDD and Escargoon out of the tank.

"KIRBY! NOW!" Bandee called out.

"HEY, WHAT WAS THA-" Escargoon yelled.

FK then proceeded to inhale the now empty tank. It was so loud that Escargoon shutted his mouth. In no time, FK's mouth surrounded the tank, and he was now in control of it. FK then started to spin around FDDD. The red eyed penguin king got into a battling position, ready for an incoming strike or an attempt of being run over by the large jeep. However, the currently possessed FDDD did not expect to be hit by a giant missile by the jeep Kirby. This process of spinning and hitting went on for enough time for the Master Hand possessing FDDD to flee so it doesn't lose control of its puppet.

At the end of this battle, PDDD and Escargoon were laying on the ground shocked of what they just witnessed. Meanwhile, FK and Bandee were both doing a little victory dance, even though FK was still in mouthful mode with PDDD's jeep tank thing. Then right when the two were done with their victory dance, PMK, Tuff, Honey, Iro, and Spikehead had arrived at the canyon. They had quickly made it down to the bottom, with FK still having the jeep in his mouth.

"How?" PMK simply said with is eyes being white with shock.

"I thought you couldn't inhale things that heavy!" Tuff asked.

"Well not anymore thanks to some vortexes!" Bandee answered.

FK then spat out the jeep and walked over to four like nothing happened. "Oh, don't worry, this isn't even near the heaviest thing I've inhaled!"

"How does your body even stretch that far? Do w-, you not have any bones or organs?" PMK questioned.

"That's a good question!" FK responded.

Escargoon and PDDD soon got up and walked over to the group. They were clearly confused and angry, but mostly confused. So, they both decieded to ask a lot of questions, most of them being in a very rude manner. Honey soon realized how wounded FK and Bandee were. She tried to convince everyone that they needed to leave, but PDDD kept asking more questions to the clearly wounded fighters, probably to delay the medical attention they both clearly needed. Luckly, with the help of the kids and bit of help from PMK, everyone left. Tuff was now bringing Bandee and FK to Kirby's house so they could patch them up. The other three children went home to their parents, PMK went back to his room in the castle after asking FK and Bandee some questions about their battle with FDDDD, and Escargoon and PDDD went home ticked off that they couldn't hurt two Kirbies once today, though they both knew that FK would be a pain to land a hit on. With that, most of Cappy Town was now heading to sleep, covered by the seemingly peaceful sky.

Notes:

STARS IT TOOK ME FOREVER TO WRITE THIS CHAPTER, BUT IT'S DONE!

Chapter 8: Knightly Horrors the Size of a King

Summary:

After the encounter with FDDD Bandee and FK get some medical attention and chat with Tiff, but strange things happen that night.

Notes:

SOMETHIN HAPPENS AT NIGHT??????

Tuff, FK, and Bandee had finally made it to Kirby's house after quite a long walk. the walk was even longer because Bandee was limping from FDDD's giant hammer landing on his foot and FK's hand being slightly fractured from the missiles. However, they soon made it back to Kirby's house. Luckly, Tiff came back at just the same time with PK because the younger puffball kept trying to go into the watermelon fields. Tiff was then brought with a wave of worry for her future friends once she saw the condition they were in.

"What happened out there!" Tiff exclaimed, "I thought you three were just going to play with Iro, Honey, and Spikehead!"

"That was the plan!" Tuff responded, "But something else happened."

"What was this 'something else'?"

"FDDD kind of showed up, and he is quite the heavy hitter to say the least." Bandee answered

"OH, and FK did this weird thing where he, like, kind of ate PDDD's tank, but he was in control of it!" Tuff yelled.

"Isn't the tank too heavy?" Tiff remarked, "He can't inhale Meta Knight, there's no way he could inhale that jeep!" Tiff then thought for a moment, "Wait, FK. You can inhale Meta Knight now. Can you inhale something that heavy?" Tiff asked.

"That isn't even near the heaviest thing I've inhaled!" FK answered.

"Poyo?" PK commented.

"Speaking of which, these two need to get patched up again. They aren't lying when they said FDDD was a heavy hitter." Tuff stated.

Tiff then brought the four inside of Kirby's house. She then started to patch Bandee and FK up. She noticed the sheer amount of smokey powder on them and asked where they got this from. She would not think in a million years that FDDD managed to put an engine of some kind in his hammer to shoot missiles, and the fact he did that by himself too was shocking. She was also creeped out when she found out that FK could now inhale almost anything if he wanted to. What limits did Kirby have in the future? At this point, she could think of few. Though, the name they came up for it was funny, mouthful mode was such a silly name!

Once she got FK and Bandee patched up, Tiff and Tuff went home to go to bed. FK, PK, Bandee, and Tokkori finally went to bed as well. While the yellow bird's day was uneventful, PK had a lot of running that day, and Bandee and FK were exhausted from the battle with FDDD. It had now seemed that everyone in Dreamland had fallen asleep under the peaceful stars. However, not everyone was asleep. PMK was still wide awake. He was contemplating on what he had seen today. FK had just inhaled a tank. How is that even possible? Their species weren't THAT stretchy! Not many, if any, knew that Kirby and Meta Knight were the same species. Everyone would surely know if they saw his face. Now that PMK thought about it, where were other members of their species at? He had siblings and a father, that he was pretty sure that he wasn't related too, none of his siblings were related to each other or their father, that were the same species as him. Those being Sir Arthur, Sir Dragato, Sir Falspar, and Sir Nonsurat. PMK is sure they're dead. To his knowledge, Kirby, Kit Cosmos, and he are the only remaining Star Warriors. So, they are most likely dead. however, when they were alive, they could never stretch far enough to eat a gigantic bowl, so how is it physically possible for FK to have wrapped his body around the tank?

PMK train of thought was broken by the sound of something be smashed outside of his quarter. PMK shot up straight and grabbed his sheath, preparing for any battle. If PMK had to guess who the intruder was, it was most likely FMK. FDDD attacked today so it wouldn't make sense for him to come back since he was severally wounded from several missiles according to Bandee and FK, so that only left FMK, who had not attacked in a while. However, it could be a monster from Nightmare, and nothing related to the prophecy. Though, when the small knight went outside of his quarter, there was nothing outside. He looked around the dark castle and saw nothing. However, after several minutes of watching for something, he saw a flash of what seemed to be a red royal robe and blue feathers.

The blue knight then immediately started to chase the king. He couldn't tell if it was PDDD or FDDD, but he knew it was definitely King Dedede. The knight inferred that it must be FDDD during the chase. This is because the penguin was moving extremely fast compared to PDDD. The king was moving so fast that PMK only managed to catch up with him when they entered a forest. This forest appeared to be the Whispy Woods Forest after some observing. However, it had seemed like FDDD had disappeared. This didn't mean that PMK let down his guard though. He kept himself in a battle position and waited for any noise that could have alerted him of any sign of the king attacking him or making an appearance. The knight could not even hear anyone in the forest though, no crickets, no owls chirping, and no creatures making a sound. The leaves didn't even make a sound. It was like he went deaf or something else happened. It would make anyone scared, but all it did to the knight was make him uneasy. The blue orb however would rest until he caught the king, he knew that he would come back again. He knew the king was there in the forest, but nothing gave him away, there wasn't even any breathing he could hear.

Out of the blue, PMK was brought down to the ground by two giant hands that belonged to FDDD. The knight tried his best to wiggle himself out of this situation, he even tried to spread his wings to maybe draw blood from the king's hand to make him flinch, but nothing worked. He soon saw a yellow string of some kind be pulled from the king's pocket. The string was glowing and upon further investigation, it seemed to be similar to rope. The penguin the procceeded to use a bit of the string and tied it around the small knight.

Once the knight had been fully surrounded by the string, he couldn't move, it was like he went limp. He could still hear, smell, taste, touch, and see, but he couldn't do anything. He didn't know what was happening. He didn't know how this was happening. He didn't know the reason behind what was happening. However, the future version of Meta Knight appeared out of nowhere and started talking.

"I told you that this puppet would be good for taking down Meta Knight, even if he's from the past!" The knight said before giggling.

"It's not how ya' said he would react." The king replied.

"I said that was if he heard you!" FMK answered, "This knight could hear you breathing from a mile away with the forest so quiet." The knight then took a breath and continued, "That's why I sent you on the mission to get him, King Dedede can hold his breath for up to twenty minutes! I'm still shocked that's true!"

The king then began to sigh and responded, "Can ya' just go get the other King Dedede? I'll bring the knight back to your 'lab.'"

PDDD was just awoken by the buzzing of his alarm that he barley uses. He would have usually just turned it off and went back to bed, but before he could, he noticed something weird. It was 2:28 am. Why did he even have an alarm for that reason? he couldn't think of anything that made sense, like ordering a monster to destroy Kirby or eat a very important snack. When he decided to just go back to bed a maybe figure it out in the morning, he was awoken by another alarm. This time though, his alarm wasn't even on his nightstand!

"Hey, who's here messin' with my alarm!" PDDD shouted

He was then greeted by some laughter and a flying Meta Knight who was carrying his alarm. In a fit of rage PDDD grabbed his hammer and started to chance the knight. Even though Meta Knight was usually faster than King Dedede by a whole lot, it seemed like the knight was going slower than usual, like he was teasing him in a game of tag! This chance had left him outside the castle and him being led to the forest that had Whispy Woods. Just great. That darn tree hates him so much, that he may be killed by that tree one day! However, the king quickly realized that there was little sound in the forest, besides some gushing of wind. It was weird and creepy, plus it was pitch black out here, not a nice mix! The king tightened his grip around his hammer, ready for anything that might appear to hurt him. The gushed of wind also seem to being louder as well. Something was definitely out to get him, and that thing was probably Meta Knight.

Then the gushes of wind stopped and PDDD was knocked on the ground from a powerful drill kick from Meta Knight. The Knight then proceeded to do another drill kick while he was on the ground to keep him down. The knight then got some weird glowing string from his cape and started to tie it around him while he was on the ground. The King would have yelled something at ruthless knight, but he was in a good bit of pain. As soon as the string went fully around the king, he stopped struggling and went still like a dead fish. He wanted to yell and run away but he couldn't. The small knight then got a sharp piece of rainbow glowing glass, or was it a dagger? The king couldn't tell. He used this glass dagger thing to chop a hole in the tree that led to a giant concrete building.

The ceiling was so tall that the king and the knight looked like ants from he could see. Then a tall, ginger haired, green skinned, goblin person came up to the portal. This tall man was wearing a suit of purple and grey amor. The man then picked up PDDD with the help of Meta Knight, which PDDD guessed was the future one, and moved him for some time to a weirdly long door and opened it. Inside the room was another Meta Knight, which was probably the one from his time, that was tied down to a seat with leather straps that seemed to be quite strong because the knight could not break it. They set down PDDD into a chair and did the same thing to him, but they also tied his mouth shut too for some reason. They then unwrapped him from the golden string and the king could finally move again. He was frustrated and wanted to yell at these people, but he couldn't and even though the king was quite dumb, he knew that would be a bad idea.

Then another King Dedede came in, who was clearly FDDD, and the future Meta Knight began to talk, at the same time the ginger haired goblin left.

"Okay, so now all we need is either Tiff, Tuff, Lady Like, or Sir Ebrum, and I'll start dissecting them." Chimed the knight.

"Pick one. I'm only getting one at a time." Responded FDDD

"Hmmmmm, I guess Sir Ebrum would work!" Answered FMK, " It does make this puppet uneasy to see him, I suppose it's because he looks like President Haltmann a bit."

"Ain't dat the guy who ordered someone to make a clone of this puppet and mechanize Meta Knight?" Questioned the king.

"I believe so!"

"Okay, I'll get him in the morning."

"Oh, and before you do, can you leave these two notes in the knight's quarters and the king's room?" FMK asked, "I want them to know they should fear us, they should submit to us, and that they will die for the Lord of Light."

"And how does this help with that?" Questioned FDDD.

"It brings them fear!"

The king responded with a simple nod and left the room. The past king and knight were now trapped in a different place and were kidnapped. The knight and king were brought with fear. Who was the Lord of Light? Are they going to die soon if no one helped them? What happens in the future if Meta Knight gets startled by Sir Ebrum because some guy looks like him? Will they be safe? What will happen to everyone else? Countless questions filled both of their heads as they worried for their and others safety. For now, though, all they could do was hope that this won't end with three people being dissected like frogs.

Notes:

Btw FMK is horrified of Sir Ebrum, it's just kinda like parnioa, like being some where that looks similar to a bad thing.

Chapter 9: The Dismemberment Tale

Summary:

FK, Bandee, Tiff, Tuff, and other people need to figure out a way to help both of the Meta Knights and King Dededes, but two of the captures have some.....ideas.

Notes:

THIS CHAPTER IS HEAVLY INSPIRED BY THIS SONG, LISTEN TO IT, I LOVE IT. ALSO THIS ANAMATIC OF IT!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOb-Ha7UaEw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKh9GtchoWI

Sword Knight and Blade Knight were drinking their coffee around the little table in their quarter that they shared with Meta Knight. They were chatting about the weird things that have been happening lately, FK, and weird dreams they had last night. However, they both soon realized that something was off. Meta Knight Usually woke up around 4:30 am, sometime 5 or 6 am if he was really tired. Though today, it was around 9:34 am and Meta Knight was still not awake. He never slept for this long, the latest time he ever woke up to both of their memories was about 8:10 am. So, Blade Knight decided to check on him to see if he was sick or something

When the green knight walked into the room the Meta Knight usually slept in, he was greeted by a messed-up bed with a note of some sort. Blade Knight picked up the note that was clearly written by Meta Knight because of the fancy cursive that only Meta Knight knew how to write in. The note though seemed to have been from different individual though, probably FMK because of how threatening it seemed and that was the only other person that could write that. Blade Knight kept reading the note and was frightened.

"𝒯𝑜 𝓌𝒽𝑜𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇 𝒾𝓈 𝓇𝑒𝒶𝒹𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓃𝑜𝓉𝑒,

𝒢𝓇𝑒𝑒𝓉𝒾𝓃𝑔𝓈! 𝒴𝑜𝓊 𝓈𝑒𝑒𝓂 𝓉𝑜 𝒸𝒶𝓇𝑒 𝒶𝒷𝑜𝓊𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓅𝓊𝓅𝓅𝑒𝓉 𝒶 𝓁𝑜𝓉! 𝐻𝑜𝓌 𝓈𝒶𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓂𝒶𝓎𝒷𝑒 𝓎𝑜𝓊'𝓇𝑒 𝑜𝓊𝓉 𝑜𝒻 𝓉𝒾𝓂𝑒 𝓉𝑜 𝓈𝒶𝓋𝑒 𝒽𝒾𝓂 𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝒶 𝒸𝑒𝓇𝓉𝒶𝒾𝓃 𝒻𝒶𝓉𝑒. 𝐻𝑜𝓌𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇, 𝒾𝒻 𝒶 𝒸𝑒𝓇𝓉𝒶𝒾𝓃 𝓈𝑜𝓂𝑒𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝒾𝓈 𝓃𝑜𝓉 𝑔𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝓎𝑒𝓉, 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝓈𝓉𝒾𝓁𝓁 𝓂𝒶𝓎 𝒷𝑒 𝓉𝒾𝓂𝑒! 𝐼 𝒶𝓂 𝓌𝒾𝓁𝓁𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝑜 𝓅𝓊𝓉 𝓊𝓅 𝒶𝓃 𝑜𝒻𝒻𝑒𝓇 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝒹𝑒𝒶𝓇 𝓀𝓃𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉'𝓈 𝓇𝑒𝓉𝓊𝓇𝓃, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓂𝒶𝓎𝒷𝑒 𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓃 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝓀𝒾𝓃𝑔! 𝒜𝓁𝓁 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓃𝑒𝑒𝒹 𝓉𝑜 𝒹𝑜 𝒾𝓈 𝑒𝒾𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝓈𝓊𝒷𝓂𝒾𝓉 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇𝓈𝑒𝓁𝒻 𝓉𝑜 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝐿𝑜𝓇𝒹 𝑜𝒻 𝐿𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝒾𝓈 𝒸𝒶𝓁𝓁𝑒𝒹 𝒢𝒶𝓁𝑒𝑒𝓂 𝑜𝓇 𝒽𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓇 𝒦𝒾𝓇𝒷𝓎 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝓀𝓃𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉, 𝓈𝓅𝑒𝒸𝒾𝒻𝒾𝒸𝒶𝓁𝓁𝓎 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒻𝓊𝓉𝓊𝓇𝑒 𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝓀𝓃𝑜𝓌𝓃 𝒶𝓈 𝐹𝒦. 𝒴𝑜𝓊 𝓌𝒾𝓁𝓁 𝓈𝓊𝓇𝑒𝓁𝓎 𝑔𝑒𝓉 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝓀𝓃𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉 𝒷𝒶𝒸𝓀 𝒾𝒻 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒹𝑜 𝒷𝑜𝓉𝒽 𝑜𝒻 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓈𝑒! 𝐻𝑜𝓌𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇, 𝒾𝒻 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓌𝒾𝓁𝓁 𝓃𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇 𝒷𝑜𝓌 𝒹𝑜𝓌𝓃 𝓉𝑜 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝐿𝑜𝓇𝒹 𝑜𝒻 𝐿𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉, 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓌𝒾𝓁𝓁 𝓈𝑜𝑜𝓃 𝓂𝑒𝑒𝓉 𝒶 𝒻𝒶𝓉𝑒 𝓈𝒾𝓂𝒾𝓁𝒶𝓇 𝓉𝑜 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝓀𝓃𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉. 𝐼𝓉 𝓂𝒶𝓎 𝒷𝑒 𝒹𝒾𝒻𝒻𝑒𝓇𝑒𝓃𝓉 𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝒽𝑜𝓌 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝒹𝑒𝒶𝓇 𝒻𝓇𝒾𝑒𝓃𝒹 𝓂𝒶𝓎 𝒷𝑒 𝓉𝑜𝓇𝓉𝓊𝓇𝑒𝒹, 𝒷𝓊𝓉 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓌𝒾𝓁𝓁 𝓌𝒾𝓈𝒽 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓅𝓇𝒶𝒾𝓈𝑒𝒹 𝒢𝒶𝓁𝑒𝑒𝓂 𝒾𝓃𝓈𝓉𝑒𝒶𝒹 𝑜𝒻 𝓇𝑒𝒿𝑒𝒸𝓉𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒽𝒾𝓂. 𝒴𝑜𝓊 𝓌𝒾𝓁𝓁 𝒶𝒸𝒸𝑒𝓅𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓃𝑒𝓌 𝓌𝑜𝓇𝓁𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝒽𝑒 𝓌𝒾𝓁𝓁 𝓂𝒶𝓀𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒽𝑜𝓌 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓂𝒶𝓎 𝓃𝑜𝓉 𝒷𝑒 𝓅𝒶𝓇𝓉 𝑜𝒻 𝒾𝓉. 𝒲𝒽𝑒𝓃 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒹𝑜 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽, 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓂𝒶𝓎 𝑔𝑒𝓉 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝓀𝓃𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉 𝒷𝒶𝒸𝓀

𝐹𝓇𝑜𝓂,
𝑀𝒶𝓈𝓉𝑒𝓇 𝐻𝒶𝓃𝒹 #𝟤𝟢 & 𝟤𝟩"

Blade immediately ran to Sword Knight, " Sword! Sir Meta Knight has been kidnapped!"

Sword Knight immediately perked up at the sound. Blade Knight then slammed the note down on the table so Sword could read it. After a minute or two of reading the note, Sword was worried for Meta Knight's and FK's safety, mostly Meta Knight's safety though because he was the one who was currently kidnapped.

"What should we do? " Asked Sword Knight, " We won't-, 𝘸𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯'𝘵 praise someone this horrific."

"Agreed, this 'Master Hand' seems like pure evil, and recreating the whole world is insane." Blade Knight answered.

"But we can both also agree that were not giving FK to these things either, right?" Asked Blade after a moment of silence

"From what we know about these hands, no." Stated Sword Knight, " FK may just be our way to get Meta Knight."

"How?" Blade questioned. He knew that Kirby in the future was strong, but he nor Sword knows where Meta Knight is even located.

"Gonna be honest, no clue." Sword simply answered," But from what we have both heard from Meta Knight, he's our best bet."
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Escargoon was heading to King Dedede's room. He was still processing what he witnessed yesterday, that was certainly a sight to see with the future king going berserk and FK eating the entire TANK. However, when he entered King Dedede's room, it was empty.

Huh, that's weird. The king doesn't wake up till about 10 or 11 on his own will, and it was 9:34 am. However, in the messed-up bed, there was a piece of paper. Escargoon was shocked that the king even left a note, until he realized that it was a note from the king. It was a note from someone else. Whoever thsi person was, they were scaring the poor goon a lot.

" 𝒯𝑜 𝓌𝒽𝑜𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇 𝒾𝓈 𝓇𝑒𝒶𝒹𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈,

𝒴𝑜𝓊 𝓂𝒶𝓎 𝒷𝑒 𝓌𝑜𝓃𝒹𝑒𝓇𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓌𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝓅𝓇𝑒𝒸𝒾𝑜𝓊𝓈 𝓀𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒾𝓈, 𝒶𝓇𝑒𝓃'𝓉 𝓎𝑜𝓊? 𝒲𝑒𝓁𝓁 𝓃𝑜𝓉 𝓉𝑜 𝓌𝑜𝓇𝓇𝓎, 𝒷𝑒𝒸𝒶𝓊𝓈𝑒 𝐼 𝓀𝓃𝑜𝓌 𝓌𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝒽𝑒 𝒾𝓈! 𝐻𝑒 𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝓂𝑒, 𝒶𝑔𝒶𝒾𝓃𝓈𝓉 𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝒾𝓁𝓁. 𝒴𝑜𝓊 𝒸𝒶𝓃 𝒶𝓁𝓇𝑒𝒶𝒹𝓎 𝑔𝓊𝑒𝓈𝓈 𝒷𝓎 𝓃𝑜𝓌, 𝒷𝓊𝓉 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝒹𝒶𝓇𝓁𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓀𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒽𝒶𝓈 𝒷𝑒𝑒𝓃 𝓀𝒾𝒹𝓃𝒶𝓅𝓅𝑒𝒹! 𝒲𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝒶 𝓁𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁𝓎 𝑔𝒾𝒻𝓉 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝑔𝓊𝓎𝓈! 𝐵𝓊𝓉 𝓃𝑜𝓉 𝓉𝑜 𝓌𝑜𝓇𝓇𝓎 𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽! 𝒯𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝒾𝓈 𝓈𝓉𝒾𝓁𝓁 𝓉𝒾𝓂𝑒 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓉𝑜 𝑔𝑒𝓉 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝓀𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒷𝒶𝒸𝓀! 𝐼𝓉'𝓈 𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓎 𝓈𝒾𝓂𝓅𝓁𝑒 𝒶𝒸𝓉𝓊𝒶𝓁𝓁𝓎. 𝒴𝑜𝓊 𝒿𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝓃𝑒𝑒𝒹 𝓉𝑜 𝓅𝓇𝒶𝒾𝓈𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝐿𝑜𝓇𝒹 𝑜𝒻 𝐿𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉, 𝒢𝒶𝓁𝑒𝑒𝓂! 𝒯𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒾𝓈𝓃'𝓉 𝒶 𝓇𝑒𝓆𝓊𝑒𝓈𝓉. 𝒴𝑜𝓊 𝓂𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝓅𝓇𝒶𝒾𝓈𝑒 𝒽𝒾𝓂, 𝑜𝓇 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓂𝒶𝓎 𝒷𝑒 𝓃𝑒𝓍𝓉. 𝒯𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝒾𝓈 𝓃𝑜 𝒸𝒽𝑜𝒾𝒸𝑒 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝓎𝑜𝓊. 𝐻𝑜𝓌𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇, 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓂𝒶𝓎 𝑔𝑒𝓉 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝓀𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒷𝒶𝒸𝓀 𝒾𝒻 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒹𝑜 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈! 𝒯𝒽𝑒 𝓃𝑒𝓍𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒹𝑜 𝒾𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝒽𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓇 𝒦𝒾𝓇𝒷𝓎, 𝓈𝓅𝑒𝒸𝒾𝒻𝒾𝒸𝒶𝓁𝓁𝓎 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒻𝓊𝓉𝓊𝓇𝑒 𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝓀𝓃𝑜𝓌𝓃 𝒶𝓈 𝐹𝒦. 𝐼𝒻 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒹𝑜 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈, 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓌𝒾𝓁𝓁 𝑔𝑒𝓉 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝓀𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒷𝒶𝒸𝓀! 𝐻𝑜𝓌𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇, 𝒾𝒻 𝒶 𝒸𝑒𝓇𝓉𝒶𝒾𝓃 𝓈𝑜𝓂𝑒𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝒾𝓈 𝑔𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝒶𝓁𝓇𝑒𝒶𝒹𝓎, 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓃 𝒾𝓉'𝓈 𝒶𝓁𝓇𝑒𝒶𝒹𝓎 𝓉𝑜𝑜 𝓁𝒶𝓉𝑒! 𝐸𝓈𝓅𝑒𝒸𝒾𝒶𝓁𝓁𝓎 𝒷𝑒𝒸𝒶𝓊𝓈𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓅𝓊𝓅𝓅𝑒𝓉 𝐼'𝓂 𝓅𝑜𝓈𝓈𝑒𝓈𝓈𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒸𝒶𝓇𝑒𝓈 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓀𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒾𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒻𝓊𝓉𝓊𝓇𝑒 𝒜 𝐿𝒪𝒯. 𝐸𝒾𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝓌𝒶𝓎, 𝒾𝒻 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒸𝑒𝓇𝓉𝒶𝒾𝓃 𝓈𝑜𝓂𝑒𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝒾𝓈 𝑔𝑜𝓃𝑒, 𝒾𝓉'𝓈 𝓉𝑜𝑜 𝓁𝒶𝓉𝑒! 𝒴𝑜𝓊 𝒽𝒶𝓋𝑒 𝒶𝒷𝑜𝓊𝓉 𝟣𝟤 𝒽𝑜𝓊𝓇𝓈, 𝒢𝑜𝑜𝒹𝒷𝓎𝑒!

𝐹𝓇𝑜𝓂,
𝑀𝒶𝓈𝓉𝑒𝓇 𝐻𝒶𝓃𝒹 #𝟤𝟢 & 𝟤𝟩"

Escargoon didn't know how to react. On one hand, he was glad the king was gone, he was a total mooncalf! On the other hand, though, with no king, he wouldn't get paid! Another thing that was concerning was that the king had no heirs to the throne. But that wasn't that big of a deal, Cappy Town already had a mayor, so he could just be in charge. But what about the rest of Dreamland? That wasn't really his problem. Escargoon was mostly worried about his paycheck and the threat about him being kidnapped next. Either way, Escargoon decided that someone had to get the king back. But who?

The snail's mind went to the pink puffball known as Kirby, but mostly the future one. That one seemed a bit brighter than the past one and clearly had the strength for this type of mission. With that he left for the child's house
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PMK has been awake for stars knows how long. Same thing with PDDD. It isn't exactly easy for someone to sleep with their body strapped down to a chair of some sort and for you to be in a dangerous environment. His future counterpart was across the room next to a table, he was drawing on blueprint paper on ways to cut them up. That also didn't help them to sleep as well. From the large amount of talking the possessed knight did, apparently PDDD was going to get cut up first. Sure, that would save some time for PMK to escape, but no sane person would enjoy hearing the screams of a person being chopped. PMK was trying to find a way to escape, which seemed to be impossible before the drawing puppet began to talk.

" I swear, IF YOU KEEP THAT UP, I'M PINNING YOU WINGS TO THE TABLE WITH THE BIGGEST NAILS I CAN FIND." FMK yelled in an annoyed way.

"I do not have wings right now." PMK lied," So you would not be pinning anything."

"Oh, cut the crap!" His possessed counterpart screamed, " I can see some of your memories you idiot. You clearly had wings at this time." He barked at his free willed self, "You just decided to never use the for some reason."

PMK did not enjoy the fact that the possessed knight had just yelled that fact in the same room as PDDD. Now the king knew that he had wings at this time, just what he needed. It was clear that the penguin wanted to say something, but his chained mouth prevented that. Another question popped into the knight's mind, why was PDDD's mouth chained shut? That seemed like a waste of chains and metal. FMK decided to take risk for some information, after all, the answer could not be that important, right?

"May I ask you one question."

"Depends, what is this question?"

"Why is King Dedede's mouth chained up?"

"You don't know?" FMK questioned, "Well, sometimes this stupid penguin uses it as a weapon." Answered the red eyed knight, "I believe we lost a Master Hand because of that, and we lost countless clones." FMK added on, " Now shut up."

That was certainly an answer. Was it the answer the free knight expected, not by a bit. That seemed out of character for the king to do. Also clones? What are they even cloning? PMK had not seen much of this place, but it seemed small and for some reason had gigantic ceilings. So how are they cloning people? The answer also seemed to befuddle the past king as well. PMK assumed that the biting must have been something he did in the future.

Then in the awful silence created by the demand, a buzz went off and FMK picked up a walkie talkie of some sort.

"What do you need?" He asked

"Is this really necessary right now, I'm kind of busy." He answered the voice on the other end.

"Fine, just let me go put up this puppet."

With that, the future knight left the room with the king and the knight being stuck to their chairs, both of them worried about what was going to happen soon. They both wanted to leave so bad, but they couldn't. All they could do was hope that someone would help them in some way or another.
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Tiff was walking around Cappy Town with her brother Tuff. He was currently talking about how weird FK's mouthful mode was, and honestly, he was right, it was pretty freaky. However, while they were in the town, they noticed Sword and Blade Knight looking around frantically for something or someone. She also noticed that Sword Knight was holding a piece of paper. She guessed that maybe they were looking for a certain item, but they both looked too nervous with their body language for that to be the case. She decided to ask them along with Tuff.

"Blade Knight, Sword Knight. Is something wrong?" Tiff asked

The two knights gave each other a glance and decided to answer the question, "Yeah." Blade Knight answered, "But I think it's best if we find FK first." The green knight answered, "If I said it here it would create some worry." He said with a scruffy voice.

Due to the fact that Tiff trusted the knights, she decided to. Plus, they already knew the situation they were in.

During the walk to Kirby's house, Tuff was asking several questions. The knights didn't really answer them until they were at the part between the town and Kirby's house.

"So, what is exactly happening?" Tuff asked for the millionth time.

"PMK has been kidnapped." Blade answered.

Both Tiff and Tuff stopped walking for a moment. There was no way that PMK could have been kidnapped. Who was stupid enough to do something like that? However, the worry that basically radiated of the knights was enough to prove this wasn't a joke.

"Oh, is that what's the piece of paper is about? Is it okay if I read it?" Asked the boy.

The knight took a moment to think about it. The note was quiet threating and would probably be hard for the boy to read. However, it would provide much needed context for the kids about what was happening. So, Sword handed him the note.

Tuff could hardly make out some of the words from the note, but the words he could make out where not the nicest words. It seemed like this person was from some sort of cult. Another thing that was off was the fact the person didn't even have a proper name. Master Hand #20 & 27? Who names their child that?

The group of four soon made it to Kirby's house. It seemed like only Bandee was up. That made sense from what Tiff knew about the Waddle Dee. Apparently, he was the new general of all the soldiers who sworn loyalty to FDDD first. He had also told them that some soldiers swore loyalty to mainly FMK though, and they were called the Meta-Knights. Such a creative name. So, for a general, it made sense for him to get up early, it was probably part of his routine.

The bandana wearing Waddle Dee took one look at the group and knew something was off. "What happened now?"

"PMK was kidnapped, and if I had to make a guess, it was probably by FMK." Blade Knight answered.

"Uhh, may you repeat that?" Asked Bandee.

"He stated that PMK has been kidnapped and that it was most likely by FMK." Responded Sword Knight.

"I'm going to guess that the piece of paper was the note that told you." Bandee stated.

Both of the knights nodded, "May we see FK though, we both need his help and also need to give him a warning." Sword Knight queried.

Bandee didn't respond but went into Kirby's house. The young Waddle Dee shook FK until he woke up, but during this he also woke Tokkori by accident. The yellow bird squawked at him for waking him up, but Bandee clarified he just needed FK.

Once FK came out, Sword Knight handed FK the note for him to read.

"You do know I can barely read, right?" Stated the young child of Void, "And I for sure cannot read cursive, let alone Meta Knight's cursive."

Sword Knight should have honestly expected that, after all it seemed like FK was just a couple years older than PK, who can't even talk yet. So, the cyan-purple knight began to read the note to him. Fk became seemingly worried for PMK and PDDD's safety. However, the young child pointed out that someone else was going to be kidnapped soon.

"Who do you think it's going to be?" Tiff wondered.

"Really have no clue." Blade answered.

"I would say either you, Tuff, Lady Like, or Sir Ebrum." Said FK.

"Why us?" Tiff asked.

"Okay, so sometimes me and Bandee are a bit.... nosey." FK stated," So sometimes when FMK and FDDD talk at night, we would hear what they say." FK then took a deep breath to catch his breath, "And I believe I heard FMK mention that his...possessor likes to do something with weird things from different groups."

"We aren't that weird!" Cried Tuff.

"Well, you're kind of are Tuff, not be mean, but compared to all the other Cappies, you might be another species!" Bandee responded, " I haven't seen anyone of your kind before, so it would make you guys stand out."

"That sounds like something his captive would do." FK stated.

Blade was confused on the fact that FMK and FDDD talked at all when they needed to, even more so at night. Also, by the fact the two were snooping around and didn't get caught, but he should worry about that different time. What he needed to focus on was that four people could be kidnapped, even if it's just one of them.

"Wait, why were you guys spying on FMK and FDDD?" Tiff asked.

"Don't ask." Bandee simply said.

"We should probably warn your parents about this." Blade Knight stated.

Everyone agreed to it and made a sprint back to Castle Dedede. On their way back though, they saw Escargoon trying to get to Kirby's house. FK stopped and asked him what was happening.

"His Majesty has been Kidnapped!" The snail yelled.

Sword and Blade noticed the piece of paper in Escargoon's hand, and they both asked for it at the same time. After a bit of friendly debating on who should get it, Blade was the one who got it. Blade read the note on the way back after Escargoon explained the situation that was very similar to the one everyone else was currently in. It was clear that the king was also kidnapped, just great, but that whatever was possessing was a total psychopath and needed to be jailed at the bare minimum. Also, that it was sadistic, you could tell that it just wanted to hurt PDDD first because for some reason, FMK cared about FDDD quiet a lot. That was added to the list of questions that would probably stay in his mind for the rest of eternality because there was no way Meta Knight would answer a question like that.

Once the group had made it back to the castle, they went to Sir Ebrum's and Lady Like's quarter. The kids knocked on the door while Escargoon was looking for something that FK had ask, though no one could hear what he said besides the snail because FK whispered it to him.

"Yes?" Sir Ebrum said while opening the door. He was immediately greeted by his children, FK, Bandee, Blade Knight, and Sword Knight. The younger people rushed into the house so the two knights could step forward and talk.

"We need to inform you that you, your wife, and your children must stay inside and safe." Sword Knight stated, "This has not been disclosed to the public yet, but both Meta Knight and King Dedede have been kidnapped. We are aware of this by two notes that were left by their kidnappers. From the information we have, we can guess that they will kidnap someone else soon." Sword Knight stopped for a moment and took a quick breath, " From the info we also got, thanks to FK and Bandee, you four are most likely to be kidnapped next, so you must stay in for your safety."

"Oh, well... Thank you for the warning! We will take a high notice to it." Lady Like answered.

"Well then, good day." Sword Knight said."

Sir Ebrum then proceeded to close the door. He was originally going to have some tea with his wife, but that was changed with four new people in his house and him being a possible suspect for being kidnapped. He decided to just make more tea for everyone and to get everyone comfy because he was not letting his children leave his sight anymore today. He did not want them getting kidnapped! However, FK stated that he needed to get PK because he knew that if the kidnappers couldn't get their hands on any of them, they 'll go for the sleeping child. With that, Sir Ebrum and Lady Like began to make some tea for everyone that was here and was coming.

Tiff and Tuff began to talk about how their day was so far, even though it was only around 11:04 am so far, and they had waken up around 8:30ish. From what is sounded, their day was chaotic. They also began to gossip about the future Dedede's and Meta Knight's relationship. This was when Bandee started to join in, and he had a lot of stories. Honestly, from Lady Like's perspective, it almost sound like they were dating, if she didn't know how the king and the knight acted right now, she would have said they were dating. It seemed like mid-gossip Bandee realized that he shouldn't have been talking about this and changed the subject. He changed the subject to types of tea because the tea was just finished. Bandee had offered to pour out the tea for everyone, which the two adults agreed on. FK then came in with PK and they grabbed their own cups and poured their own tea, though PK needed some help. It was surprisingly peaceful despite the two knight's warnings. However, fifteen minutes later, Sir Ebrum heard a crash.

Sir Ebrum got up and decided to check it out, but not before grabbing a knife just in case. Sir Ebrum went to the porch that his apartment had and was greeted with a familiar penguin. Before the grey harried man could react, the king grabbed him, and he dropped his knife and he screamed. The king seemingly grabbed a piece of glowing string out of nowhere and tied him up quickly, right before the bright blue king could be caught by anyone, but right before he could leave, FK and Bandee appeared. While they couldn't get Sir Ebrum free from the FDDD's grasp thanks to the paralyzing string wrapped around him, Bandee did manage to throw his spear in-between the portal he used.

"DAD!" Tiff and Tuff yelled.

"EBRUM" Cried Lady Like, "FK, BANDEE! WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO?"

"Poyo..." Whispered PK

FK knew what he needed to do, but he wasn't prepared to do it. It would take time and he needed the item that he asked Escargoon for. He would also need help from someone else too. For now, though, all they could do was create a plan to get Sir Ebrum back, and hopefully PDDD and PMK

"I don't know right now, but we need to think of a plan soon" Bandee stated.
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Sir Ebrum was carried and was now being strapped to a table. He also now knew where Meta Knight and King Dedede where, they were also captured and brought there as well. Once they finished strapping him down, the red eyed king then backed up. He took a look at what he had just done then moved a bit so a flying Meta Knight could see as well. The rich man noticed the fact that a full shiver went through the small knight for some reason, as if he was scared of him. The blue knight then began talking

"OOOO~, this is just GREAT!" FMK cheerfully said, "I can't wait to cut him open! I reeeallly want to see the difference between his species and Cappies!"

"You enjoy the weirdest things." FDDD commented.

"And yet YOU still help me! Which thanks by the way." The flying knight responded and flicked the king lightly on the noise.

"Eh, it's not a big deal. Who else would help you find out a species' weakness?" Stated FDDD.

Both PMK and Ebrum found this interaction interesting and weird. PMK found it odd that two psychopathic fly hands got along better than he did with someone who he should have a neutral relationship with, while Sir Ebrum was wondering why it seemed like the personalities of both the king and the knight swapped from the stories Bandee had told. This interaction ended shortly though due to FDDD apparently being made to guard the entrance of the hallway that led to this room. That's when FMK left out a wicked laugh and pulled out some thicker gloves to switch them to switch them with his muddy signature gloves.

"I just can't WAIT to cut you all up into little pieces!" FMK laughed.

FMK then Went around to PDDD's chair was measuring his beak. The king growled at this, which the possessed knight responded with a whack the king's beak. The knight then giggled for what seemed to be the hundredth time, and then went back to his desk while flying a bit. He then seemed to get a needle ready, which seemed to look more like a nail gun then a shot.

"Are we sure that you didn't at least try to maul someone?" Asked the giddy knight, " Because you're sure acting like you would want to!"

The knight then pulled the gun and injected PDDD with something that everyone, but the injector, did not know of.

"Oh, I won't make an incision till your nice and numb! OH, and laughing gas can be so much fun!" The knight then proceeded to full shrug a lot in a happy manner.

PDDD then felt a bit loopy or something else. His mind felt like it was swirling and that he could fall asleep at any seconded, however the rude king tried his best to stay up. No way was he going to be killed by this knight, let alone while he was controlled.

"Oh shoot, I probably shouldn't use laughing gas, that would just make everyone feel tipsy, including myself!" The needle holding orb mentioned, " How sad, I have so much of it!"

During this, Sir Ebrum and PMK both tried to struggle out. Looking for a way to escape, PMK started to notice some creepy things in the room. The shelf was filled with jars that were filled with things such as eyeballs, ears, hands, bloody bones, a kind of fungus looking moss, and something that he couldn't even think of. Sir Ebrum looked up at the roof and noticed the sheer number of chains on top, why did d they need that many? They both then noticed a bulletin board in from of the desk that FMK was previously drawing on. It had plans for both PDDD, FMK, Cappies, Waddle Dees, and more things that neither of them could identify. It had seemed like this thing was a seasoned cutter.

FMK noticed how the other two were squirming around and wanted to try something out on them. "Oh, don't you squirm, don't you fret! I'm not going to hurt you, yet." The knight stated, " I'm just going to get a little of him first! It wouldn't be fun for me if I didn't torture the king physically and this puppet mentally!" The blue knight then proceeded to think through a decision really quick but decided to act on it. "You wouldn't know the joy I get from hurting people my puppet cares about! Especially you Dedede!" He giggled.

The knight then got another needle gun thing that was full of nothing and injected PDDD again, but this time, the little bottle on top of the gun filled up with his blood. PDDD wanted to scream so badly and the thick needle that was entering him, but then soon exited him, but he couldn't. This kept the king up for now. The insane knight then got a tube and a big tube and connected the tube to where he had stabbed the royal penguin and the tub began to fill with his blood. Some of the king's red blood managed to get on him due to the fact that the knight managed to slosh the tank a bit too hard when it was filling with blood at first.

"Y'know, red is such a lovely color on you! Too bad you want be needing that soon!" FMK commented.

The possessed knight then proceeded to unroll a large collection of knives on a nearby table and was deciding on which one to pick. It was truly a hard choice for the dissector but decided to go with a classic butcher knife that was worn down a bit. The sadistic dissector then began to sharpen the knife a bit before walking over to the loopy and wounded king.

FMK and Sir Ebrum just stared at PDDD in pure horror. PMK had seen many horrific scenes in his life, and while this was not the worst thing he had seen in his life, it was still really scary and frighting to see, especially so when he knew he could be next in line for this. For Ebrum though, this was definitely one of the worst things he had in his life. He was about to watch someone get chopped open and be cut up! He couldn't bear to watch it, but he could not look away from the horrifying display.

"Oh, by the way darling, don't you fight back! I think you'll find your missing the point with that." FMK whispered to the king.

FMK then made the chair go down into a flat state, so the king was laying down and he would be easier to cut up. He then walked to the other side of the royal penguin and started to get a bit giddier

"Oh, isn't it funny how this will bring you closer to me? Especially with your head dissected and in my hands!" The knight cheered.

The insane knight then proceeded to do the practice chops over the air above the king. He then did a dangerously close chop to the right side of the king's face. It was clear to everyone in the room that this crazy knight was enjoying this a lot. The knight proceeded to do more of this until he got ready for a real swing with his knife.

Just then, FK, who had some new ability with what seemed like a gun, busted into the room along with Bandee, Blade Knight, and Sword Knight. This stopped FMK's attempt to decapitate the king and he instead went straight for the pink puffball. While the knight was distracted fighting FK, Bandee went right next to the king to cut up the straps that were holding him down. During this though, the Waddle Dee accidentally knocks over the large container that carried blood. FMK then dove down to try to cup some of the blood, he needed a lot of it to make more accurate clones! The two other knights managed to free both PMK, and Sir Ebrum and they all made a ran for it, but Blade Knight and Sword Knight both provided support for the king due to his drugged state.

They all soon made it back to the pavilion they were on before. Bandee then saw FMK flying at what seemed like record speed to stab someone. However, Bandee pulled out the sticks that were holding the portal open and it closed right before FMK could get into their world.

Everyone just sat there, trying to catch their breath, they were also trying to process what had just happened. Everyone was now free of having their heads chopped off for now. Though, FK was now filled with more determination than before. He knew how much FMK hated this as well. While FK had only been possessed by a Master Hand once for around an hour from what he had heard and it was horrible. If the young child didn't have motivation to save his friends at first, he sure did now.

With that, Escargoon left the apartment to bring the drugged king to his room. PMK just stood there for a minute with white eyes but left soon after once he realized that nothing bad should happen soon. Tiff, Tuff, and Lady Like ran to their father, or husband in Lady Like's case, and hugged him. They were all crying because they thought they lost someone they loved. They thanked the two knights before they left, and they also thanked the two-colored orbs too. Even though it was only 3:17pm, everyone was exhausted with today. Most people in the room make the decision to just go to bed for now and deal with everything later when they all weren't in a state of shock.

Notes:

WOW, that was a long chapater!

Btw here's some of my hc for the characters

FDDD still has the stomach mouth from being possessed by that Dark Matter
Master and Crazy Hands act like a cult towards Galeem cuz funny
FMK and FDDD aren't dating in this, they just accept the fact that they both like each other, but they think the other doesn't or are too nervous to act on it.
When a Master Hand possess someone, the puppet's personality rubs off on them, for example, if the puppet hates someone, the Master Hand is more motivated to kill or wound them. If a puppet loves someone, they will be more motivated to harm them to mentally wound their puppet. However, if both the puppet and their love interestare possesse, then they will be friendly
A puppet can will themself out of a possession, but they need to be either very motivated or have a good mental state.

Chapter 10: Needed Rest

Summary:

After this wave of stress and battles, everyone needs a bit of rest.

Notes:

BEEN A WHILE, HASN'T IT? This chapter was honestly a pain to write, and I had no motivation to write this. Not the entire story, no I'm still full of ideas for it, just this one chapter. So sorry if it's horrible.

Dr.Yabui was surprised when he got a call to head to Castle Dedede for emergency treatment. He just thought it was maybe a severe cold or maybe a bad toothache, what he did not expect was this case. How had the prophecy from Kabu come true so fast, and in such a violent manner! It's not every day that the king gets injected with a substance that no one knows of. From using the tools, he had, all he could suggest was to wait it out and take so medicine if it hurt. The only doctor in Cappy Town knew that he had to do something more serious, after all Escargoon had stated that something about the needle.

"Now, what did you say about the needle used on him?" He asked

"From what both PMK and Sir Ebrum said, apparently it was long and big." Escargoon answered, "The thing they used was similar to a nail gun, I think."

The doctor became slightly paler after hearing those words. That must have been horrific, a needle of any kind is terrifying, let alone a thick one! Dr.Yabui took a deep breath to calm down from the thoughts about the needle before he began talking. "Now, I think what he'll need is lots of rest, water, some multivitamins, and things like cinnamon, garlic, and onions." The medic then thought for a bit on something else he could say to maybe help the tyrant king. " And if you can, maybe try to get some herbal supplement milk thistle. I can't guarantee this will work since this is usually used for anesthesia, but this is all I can say since we don't know what he was injected with."

"Why, aren't you supposed to know these things better?" The snail snapped.

The sole doctor of Cappy Town sighed tiredly before answering, "I may know lots of things, but none of that helps if I don't know what is or what's causing the problem!" He responded. The room then became silent for a moment before Dr.Yabui made a statement, "Look, when he wakes up, or if something weird happens with him during his nap, or whatever it is, just inform me at my clinic or through letter."

With that statement, the doctor left the room, and soon the castle. The goon was standing and processing everything that had just recently happened. It had been about a day since the king had been kidnapped and returned, but now he couldn't waken up for some reason! However, once the snail thought for a bit, it made sense. Whatever FMK had injected PDDD with was probably so he would just stay still, so he may have not known the aftereffects or care in general. The snail just hoped that the king would wake up soon so everything could be just slightly more normal, and so he could be paid too.

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PMK had just woken from one long nap, wait never mind, it was sleeping. The knight had only meant to sleep for around 3-5 hours because he REALLY needed some rest from being in such a dreadful situation. He knew from the fact that his clock said 7:56 am, when he went to bed at around 4pm. The Star Warrior did feel much better though from sleeping that much, which was great! However, the previous day had come back into his mind.

What had even happened yesterday? It was truly a nightmare sent by Nightmare, there was no way it could be real, right? However, the knight knew that it was real though. He still had the bruises from being both strapped tightly to the chair desk thing and from being held from FDDD with such force. The memories of yesterday were also too clear to be a dream on any sort. The knight could also not deny the fact that his memories were once reality by the fact all the sounds were still in his head. The laughter of his future self, the whimpers of fear from PDDD, and the sound of people screaming and laughing just outside the door they were locked in. It just that it was so horrible and bizarre, everything seemed too unrealistic.

PMK shook himself out of these thoughts. No, he must get back to work and get over this, he has seen worse during the war against Nightmare and his monsters, so why was this affecting him so much?

"𝘽𝙚𝙘𝙖𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙞𝙩 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙛𝙪𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛 𝙬𝙝𝙤 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙨, 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙞𝙨 𝙗𝙖𝙙, 𝙢𝙮 𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙙." A familiar golden sword spoke in his mind.

The knight mentally scoffed at that statement before answering. "𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯 𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘭, 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘯𝘦𝘸, 𝘐 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘦 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴." He responded.

Galaxia then sighed because she knew her wielder was smart, maybe a bit thick in the head sometimes, but he just didn't want to admit he was scared of how his future self acted. " 𝘿𝙚𝙖𝙧 𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩, 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙨𝙘𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙚𝙫𝙞𝙡 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙪𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚, 𝙬𝙝𝙞𝙘𝙝 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙫𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙡𝙮 𝙙𝙞𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙖𝙣 𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙤𝙧 𝙖 𝙛𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙙. 𝘽𝙪𝙩 𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙚 𝙙𝙤 𝙧𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙢𝙗𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙛𝙪𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛 𝙞𝙨 𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙨𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙞𝙨 𝙪𝙣𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙡 𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙤𝙬𝙣 𝙗𝙤𝙙𝙮."

PMK wanted to deny the point that the sentient sword had made, but he could not. He was horrified that his future self had done that. He would have associated that behavior with a sadistic person or a psychopath, not him. Though the blue knight would rather perish in a pathetic way then admit it out loud, he knew he had some sort of mental health issue but did not want to seek help for it. What he did know though, was that he was not a psychopath, he could not be! Though, the small orb did have to listen to all that his sword was saying, his future self was possessed. He knew he was not in control of his body. He knew that his future self must be good, if he was not, then why was FK still friendly to him? He could just chalk that up to it being Kirby, but General Bandee was also friendly with him, he even taught the Waddle Dee things in the future, a horrible person would not do that. He could not be a monster in the future.

"𝘐 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘮𝘦 𝘎𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘹𝘪𝘢, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘤, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘶𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦, 𝘐 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘺 𝘥𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴." The knight thought to his sword.

"𝙊𝙝, 𝙙𝙤 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙮 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩, 𝙙𝙚𝙖𝙧 𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩, 𝙬𝙚 𝙒𝙄𝙇𝙇 𝙗𝙚 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙘𝙪𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙧!" The ancient, possessed sword echoed in his mind.

With that, the knight got up and prepared himself for the day. He knew that even though he was well rested, he would need a large cup of coffee because with his experience, the glee of being well rested only last for about an hour or two before it fades into exhaustion. With his goals set for now, the winged orb went out to prepare his coffee. He filled it up to about halfway so he could put his creamer and sugar in it. No one really knows that be puts about a quarter of the creamer bottle in his coffee or that he uses about fifteen packets of sugar, but he prefers not many souls know this, but it would not be the worst thing in the galaxies.

At around 8:15 PMK had finished his coffee and the two other knights that he shared a quarter with had also just woken up and left their shared room. The two greenish knights were giving the smaller knight some weird glances, probably worried one considering how PMK immediately passed out once they got to their quarters and how he had only done that once. However, Blade Knight's mind was filled to the brim with thoughts about what had happened yesterday at wherever PMK, PDDD, Sir Ebrum were brought to. After all, PMK had not said a word about it, mostly because he's been passed out. Even though the medium sized knight really wanted to ask, he decided not to, most likely because PMK would not enjoy talking about being kidnapped, especially because of how recently it happened. However, the knight desired to know at least some useful facts on what happened yesterday.

While Blade Knight was thinking, Sword Knight and PMK had begun chatting. Sword was actually talking the most in this conversation, which was rare because the tallest knight didn't talk much. from what Blade was hearing, it sounded like what he wanted to ask, but from how sword was saying it, the conversation was beating around the bush of that topic. So, the green knight decided to step in and start beating that bush.

"So, PMK. While you were there, what did you find out about FMK and FDDD?" Blade Knight asked. The medium size knight started to have second thoughts about asking that question. What if it came off too rude? Was he too blunt? Being kidnapped is traumatizing to some, and the knight didn't know if PMK was scared from that. Then again, if he or Sword were kidnapped by the enemy and were brought back safely, PMK would ask them something similar to what he said.

"I found out that for starters, whatever is possessing FMK, it can look into our memories." The hundreds of years old knight started," I also found out that FDDD apparently mauls things. Which is apparently is effective enough to kill a Master Hand and several clones." There was a moment of silence for the other two knights to processes the information the knight laid out before he continued, " I infer that if whatever is possessing FMK can look into our memories, then the same thing is likely to apply to FDDD. This may be a major problem if some future memories contain important information or something similar to that." PMK then stopped for a seconded to think of what he was going to say next, but quickly started up again, "I would also have to guess that Master Hands are stronger or harder to hit then clones due to the fact that he has only killed one while he has reportedly killed several clones. Another thing that I should also mention is that whatever is possessing me either has possessed several other things or possessed my future self several times. This is because the lab that me, PDDD, and Sir Ebrum were kept in had several blueprints, jars full of other dissected things, and scrapes and scratches from other creatures all over the walls and chairs. This is all I can think of that would be useful or that I have caught on to."

" So, what you're saying is that these things may not be new, FDDD is feral basically, and that this possessor could probably know us better then we want to?" Asked Sword Knight.

"Essentially, yes." Answered PMK.

"May I ask another question?" Stated Sword Knight.

"You may." Answered PMK.

"How did you even get kidnapped?"

"If I remember correctly, it was nighttime. I heard someone breaking something in the castle. I decided that I should see who did it and to know if they were a threat or not. However, when I left our quarters, I saw FDDD make a run for it through the broken window. I made the choice to follow him, but he was surprisingly fast. I then lost him in Wispy Wood's Forest. The forest went quiet, and I could not hear a thing. Then before I knew it, His Majesty appeared out of the forest and grabbed me with his hands. He then pulled out some odd-looking string and wrapped it around me. I was unable to move for some strange reason. Then FMK appeared and started talking to FDDD. I did not get information that was too valuable, but I did find out that King Dedede can apparently hold his breath for 20 minutes." The small knight rambled.

" I wonder if something similar happened to PDDD." Questioned Blade Knight

"With how dull the king currently is, you could throw a bag over his head and throw him into a truck, and he wouldn't realize he's being kidnapped! Whoever took him just walked up to him I bet." Sword knight answered.

"From the fact that FMK and some tall goblin person, who I believe to be named Banen, had to bring him in, I feel like they were a bit more discreet than that." Observed PMK.

All the knights were now silent. It wasn't awkward because they were all absorbed in their thoughts about this new information, while PMK was just thinking about how his life got to this point where he was interacting with the future. He was also wondering on how he could not hear FDDD at all last night, or was it two nights ago? He could not remember. He should have at least heard his footsteps, why did he not hear them? The other two knights were puzzled on what was even the goal of FDDD and FMK.

The knights then proceeded to finish everything they were doing in the kitchen to get ready for the day. They were after all still knights.

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PK had just woken up to the bliss of peaceful sunlight. The young boy hoped that today would be just a beautiful and lovely as the sun. After all, many bad things have been happening lately. The pink puffball did not want to see any of his friends get hurt today, or any day! He just wanted to play today, or maybe even hear a story from the future! Hearing a story was always amazing, even when the stories he mostly heard were about Star Warriors. So, a story from the future would be a lovely change of pace! Oh, he should get Tiff and Tuff to hear a story from the future too. They would love it too! Tiff loves reading things and Tuff loves action, so maybe FK or Bandee could tell an action story! However, he would have to ask Bandee or FK to agree to tell one.

Bandee was already up; his future friend always woke up so early. The gumball shaped Star Warrior then trotted up to the Waddle Dee who was playing with FK outside. He then tapped the young general's shoulder.

Bandee then turned around and glanced at PK, "Need somethin' PK?" He questioned.

"Poyo! Story!" PK asked.

"A story? Do you want a story?" Bandee asked.

"I think he wants one from one of our adventures!" FK stated.

"Oh, that would be fun to tell!" Exclaimed the general, "But which one? We've been on so many."

"Tiff! Tuff!" Shouted PK.

"Oh? Do you want us to get them?" Posed FK.

The younger puffball nodded, and Bandee went off at that motion to go find the two kids. From the times he's been with the two children, they would seem like the would enjoy a story about one of their adventures. However, before he left, the Waddle Dee asked FK to pick an adventure.

While Bandee was gone, FK and PK chatted about which story they should use. FK was considering Revenge of Meta Knight, but that may be a bit too bizarre considering that from what FK knew, no one but the three knights knew about the Halberd. He could do Forgotten Land! But then again, he didn't know everything about why things happened during that adventure, so he may say something false. Then FK's mind went to the right event, Return to Dreamland! No major secrets that people are unaware of right now happened in that adventure, besides Meta Knight's wings, but his friends already knew that he had wings now. It was the perfect story! It had action, funny events, and even betrayal!

Now that the two had decided on a story, the two young boys just had to wait for their friends to arrive. FK was basically bouncing around his front lawn waiting for his friends. He rarely got to tell stories because his voice could be hard to understand, and most of his friends already knew most of his adventures, so the young boy was filled to the brim with glee.

In about 15 minutes, Bandee came back with Kirby's friends. Bandee had luckily explained why PK wanted them to come to his house. The two children were actually planning on going to Kirby's house that day because they just loved being with the little puffball, and also the fact that Tiff's mind was filled with anxiety relating to recent events. Tuff on the other hand was also worried about PK a lot; but was hyped to hear a story from FK, who wouldn't be excited to her a tale about the future?

FK then brought them all into his house. Tokkori was still in his house, but he practically owned it in this time, so it was fine. Tuff and PK then explained to him that they were going to listen to a story from FK, though in reality, PK tried while Tuff did explain it. The bird begrudgingly agreed, but he was honestly interested. FK then got on the rug while everyone else spread out in the small house.

FK then started the story up, and honestly, to everyone but the people who went on the adventure and PK, it sounded fake. How in the stars could a random flying ship enter and crash through a portal? However, Tiff thought for a moment on what was currently happening and decided that honestly makes more sense than what's happening now.

Then FK mentioned super abilities like they were a completely regular thing that he uses every day, which he doesn't, which the mere mention of them flabbergasted everyone in the room until Bandee started to explain them in greater detail. The clever Waddle Dee then mentioned that on the night when FMK first attacked and FK used that giant sword, it resembled the super ability called Ultra Sword a lot, but he would have needed to inhale a Super Blade Knight, which wasn't at the battle. The older pink puffball got tense at that mention but continued on with the story.

Most of the story sounded like a fever dream, traveling to different dimensions, Sphere Doomers taking power gears, FK turning himself into a giant snowball and terrorizing everyone, including his friends, and FDDD apparently getting stuck in the ground at one point, which made pretty much everyone laugh, and according to FK and Bandee, even during that time. He even made FMK laugh! Tuff didn't even know that was possible considering how serious the knight is. About halfway through the story Tokkori made a semi-snide comment about how none of them seeming to get tired or wounded in the story. This then resulted in Tiff and Tuff asking how the quartet did not get tired in these dangerous levels. FK answered that it was because of adrenaline rushes probably, not mentioning healing kisses because that would be gross considering what time they were in.

When FK and Bandee got to the part of when the Lor Starcutter was fixed and taking off to Halcandra, Tuff was exhilarated when FK got to the section about how Landia had shot down the flying ship. Tuff wasn't glad that FDDD, FMK, FK, and Bandee's progress was halted because of the ship falling, but he was excited to hear about a literal dragon, maybe even a hydra, was now part of the story, even if she was mentioned before at the start. Nearing the end of the story, Bandee asked the listeners if the noticed something as he began to list all the locations the group had traveled to in this tale, after Bandee finished off at Dangerous Dinner, everyone went silent for a bit and thought. Then, Tiff stated that if you used the first letter of each location it spelt crowned. She then immediately connected it to the Master Crown that Magolor had mentioned before in earlier in the story. Why would Bandee mention that?

Finally, FK and Bandee got the part where the quartet all began to fight Landia. To all, it honestly sounded like a really rough battle, fighting a dragon that can become four smaller ones! However, the biggest twist of the story was when it revealed that Magolor was apparently evil then entire time and was using Kirby and his friends to get his grubby floating hands to obtain the power of the Master Crown! Even PK seemed irritated at the Halcandrian he would meet in the future. What really creeped the crowd that FK and Bandee were telling the story to was though, was the final form of Magolor. That description was vague but horrifying. An eye where his mouth was supposed to be, two blank white eyes, his body becoming a black orb, and weird wings. Not a pleasant image. At the end though, with much struggle, and what Bandee called God armor, Bandee, FK, FDDD, and FMK defeated the possessed Magolor and landed back on Popstar. FK then chattered on about how Magolor actually redeemed himself and is now one of FK's friends, which surprised absolutely no one.

The six people in the small house then began talking about the adventure, with the four who weren't part of the adventure bombarding the two who were part of the adventure. It went like this for the rest of the day while Sir Ebrum was enjoying the peace and quiet at home after what experienced yesterday. Most of the the people in Cappy Town were enjoying the day of peace that they ahd been lacking for a bit.

Notes:

IT'S DONE, I FINISHED THIS CHAPTER. Sorry for not posting in a bit, I had a tripe, then a lot of work, lacking motivation for this chapter, and contemplating my writing of Galaxia because for like a day or two I hated how I wrote her and the fact I just included her. But alas, this chapter is finished. It will most likely not take me as long to post the next one but can't guarantee.

Chapter 11: Held in an Awful Cell

Summary:

Three Cappies in an awful cell meeting people of the future!

Notes:

So originally, FMK was supposed to have been freed this chapter, however in that version of the story, we never really go back to this Master Hands' base. I really wanted to show how awful the cells that the brawlers are kept in, but with FMK freed, I don't feel like I would have shown it much with them. Also, I wanted to include more Right Back at Ya character interacting with the possessed future Dreamlanders. Finally, I wanted more of FDDD, because he has only had one main chapter, plus we got no PoVs of the future Dreamlanders who are possessed, so I'm killing two birds with one stone. Either way, ON WITH THE STORY

It was about 5 am when the mayor of Cappy Town had got up from his slumber and was ready for the day. While he didn't have much political power considering how King Dedede acts, he does report complaints to the king every once in a while, and he did enjoy talking to the citizens quite a bit. In the early morning, he found himself talking to Chief Bookem and Mabel. They were originally talking about the recent explosions and that night with that gigantic sword, but the conversation somehow switched to the prophecy Kabu gave a week ago.

" I'm starting to think that this prophecy may not come true!" Mabel mumbled in a worried tone.

"Why, that may be true, but I think that's unlikely, after all, who else could make all these loud noises and weird swords?" The mayor answered, " I know Sir Meta Knight is skilled with swords, but that wasn't his usual sword, nor could he even hold a sword that big!"

Chief Bookem then began to talk up, "Well if the cause is from the future, then they need to show themselves! Didn't Kabu say they needed help from something? Can't help someone that's exploding everything all the time!" He then let out a short laugh that echoed in the peaceful town.

"If I had to make a guess on who would be from the future, I would say it would be that bandana wearing Waddle Dee." Mable stated in a doubtful, yet curious tone, "They almost never talk or wear anything, then one just comes around a day after the prophecy doing the opposite of what they are known for."

"Can't you see the future, Mabel?" Asked the mayor," Perhaps you could foretell when these guests may arrive!"

The fortune teller then thought for a moment, but answered, "It may be more distant in the future, after all, I can only see so far." She answered.

The only police officer in the town then began to speak, "Well, if the prophecy is anything like Kirby's, the king is gonna be pissed with another person trying to stop him." The chief said it in a rather blunt tone, but he was probably right either way.

Mable then giggled a bit at the statement and was about to make a comment on that before a loud noise came from seemingly outside of Whispy's forest. The sound wasn't loud enough to wake the entire town, but if you were up, it would catch your attention. Mabel and Chief Bookem both furrowed their brows and Mayor Len Blustergas rolled his eyes in annoyance. They all guessed that it was probably some King Dedede scheme with Escargoon considering that there hasn't been much these past few days. The group of three did not say a word to each other, but they all made the decision to see what King Dedede was doing and consider if they need help.
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FDDD just had the displeasure of being possessed as soon as FMK had been brought back, again. He generally hated being possessed and being kept in a cell in the first place, but his knight was actually telling him some useful information he managed to scrap from his Master Hand's thought, for example, their new nick names and that FK and Bandee were safe for now. The king knew that they were alive from the battle they had a couple of days ago, but he wasn't sure if they were safe. However, FMK had more to tell him before a possessed Pikachu and Ridley with a few clones came in to get him so his Master Hand could control them.

Apparently, his hand had been assigned to capture Lucario after he was trying to flee her captures. FDDD could guess of a few obvious reasons, like generally not wanting to be in the nightmare or finding an obvious escape route, but she may have been trying to return to her trainer. The king was told by Ness that apparently her trainer was a gym leader named Korrina and that she could actually mega evolve pretty often, even outside of the tournament. The king had even seen her with her Lucarionite at one point.

Lucario had managed to flee from what the king could guess was either in or near Whispy Woods from what he could smell. This time the Master Hand had not given him one of his eyes to see from since nothing here could lower his motivation. During this chase though, the royal penguin often tried to make his body stop or move away from Lucario so she could be free or attack him and maybe free him. However, the king could still unfortunately feel the pain of each spin kick or aura sphere that the bipedal blue fox did. The king though was just glad though that Lucario had not got any serious damage done to her though. To the king's unluckiness though, a familiar voice echoed in his head.

"𝙄 𝙨𝙬𝙚𝙖𝙧 𝙩𝙤 𝙂𝙖𝙡𝙚𝙚𝙢, 𝙄𝙁 𝙔𝙊𝙐 𝙆𝙀𝙀𝙋 𝙏𝙃𝙄𝙎 𝙐𝙋 𝙄 𝙒𝙄𝙇𝙇 𝙎𝙉𝘼𝙋 𝙔𝙊𝙐𝙍 𝙉𝙀𝘾𝙆 𝙎𝙊 𝙔𝙊𝙐 𝘾𝘼𝙉 𝙎𝙏𝘼𝙔 𝙇𝙄𝙈𝙋!" Yelled the Master Hand in his head.

The king did not think for a moment but snapped back as if he didn't just blank, "𝘈𝘴 𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘢 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥, 𝘺𝘢 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘯' 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘥. 𝘐𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘧 '𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯. 𝘔𝘺 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘭 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘧𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯' 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘢𝘴𝘩 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘢 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯' 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘰."

The Master Hand responded in record timing this time, "𝙊𝙝, 𝙄'𝙡𝙡 𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙖 𝙬𝙖𝙮 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙩𝙡𝙚 𝙗𝙞𝙩𝙘𝙝, 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙬𝙖𝙞𝙩." The giant hand said it in such a way that it felt like the king was face to face with the monster and it was about to stab him.

"𝘊𝘢𝘯'𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘪𝘵 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳', 𝘺𝘢 𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘴𝘯𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘮𝘦!" The king jokingly responded.

The hand the scoffed and tried to focus on the task at hand, which was the fight with one of the escaped puppets they called 41 but was also known as Lucario. It was an annoyance that they only had 39 and not his other two puppets, those being 63 and 40. However, the king was glad that he was posing such an inconvenience to the hand, Lucario may be able to escape with how slow he was being.

And it seemed like luck was on FDDD's and Lucario's side today even though he was stuck with a hand, because Lucario managed to escape into the depths of the forest that was unnaturally peaceful in Lucario's eyes. The puppet king then sighed and stayed still for a bit. The hand was thinking on what to do now. There was no way that he could find 41 now that she was probably alert for any threats. Just great. Master Hand 01 & 82 would be pissed that he lost a puppet. However, the puppet then heard a sound coming from the bushes nearby, and maybe, just maybe, could it hold something to cover up the lost puppet.
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The group of three had just found the culprit of the noise, and unsurprisingly, it was King Dedede. Though, something was obviously wrong with him. He had very bright red eyes which was almost the complete opposite of his usual light blue eyes that he normally had. Another odd thing about his appearance was that he was wearing a tan kimono, but that could just be explained by him maybe changing something up.

"What's wrong with him?" Mabel asked queitly.

Chief Bookem thought for a moment, but answered in the same whispery voice, "I don't know, he looks lost in thought, if he can think for more than twenty seconds that is."

In response to that comment, both Mabel and Mayor Len began to laugh. However, the mayor laughed too much and fell over, causing the bush to rustle. The king's head then immediately turned to the direction of the bush they were hiding in, and they all went silent. Each holding their breath so they wouldn't be caught, they knew the king would not do anything too bad to them, but they still did not want to be caught spying on their king.

The king then made a dash after them. The mayor and chief were caught in the king's hands before they had time to properly react to the king's dash. Mabel on the other hand had already made a run for it, she prayed in her mind that she could maybe get out free, and maybe get her friends out of the situation they were in once she was safe. Unknown to her, the king had already wrapped the two other Cappies tied up against a tree for now, unmoving.

Mabel had managed to get to the outskirts of Cappy Town before the king caught her. She let out a loud yell before the same string was wrapped around her as well. Then she went limp like the other two Cappies who were recently caught. King Dedede then brought here over to where the other Cappies were and opened a portal with a rainbow glass shard.

The three Cappies were horrified and the sight of the portal, but the other side of said portal did not help with their fears, it actually made them worse if they were honest. The damp smell, the lights in there were almost blinding, and the white concrete building had blood everywhere and other liquids. It was like those standard dark and damp dungeons but white with some sky blues, sunset pink and reds, and sunny yellows here and there. As the bright blue penguin was bringing them somewhere, the group went by a giant pillar that was seemingly painted with a glowing orb of light surrounded by metallic wing shapes. The entity's several wings were all brightly colored just like the place the painting was in, and the painting gave off the aura of a mural to a God who may have fallen before or is yet to arrive.

The penguin then stopped in front of a cell with blue beams seemingly being the bars, and there was a splash of darkness in the corner trying to do something, but the beams obscured their vison. In a matter of seconds though, the beams were gone, and the splash of darkness was revealed to be Meta Knight. The three Cappies where then put down into the cell and the golden string was cut off of them. Even though they could move now, they still didn't out of pure fear. The beams were then soon put back up and Meta Knight was the first to speak up.

"Well, that is a shocker, none of you are dead." He stated in a monotone voice.

Chieft Bookem then turned around to face the knight, and was greeted with what he was picking at, the locks that were holding his wings shut with the claw at the end of his wings. The police officer mind went blank for a moment then started up again.

"𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘔𝘦𝘵𝘢 𝘒𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴? 𝘏𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘶𝘱......" He thought.

"Did you attack Kirby's house?" The police chief asked in a loud manner.

"Huh? Oh! I think so, but I am not for certain if that was where I was attacked." He answered, "All I remember was attacking Kirby and then the past version of me."

"Hold up, your past version?" Asked Mabel.

"Most likely, yes." Future Meta Knight responded.

Mayor Len Blustergas then proceeded to speak up, " How about we ask him where we are? BECAUSE WHAT IS THIS PLACE" Hey rushed quickly.

The future knight then thought for a moment on what the brawlers even called this place, but he thought he remembered it, "I believe it's called the Master Hand's storage." He answered, " It is essentially the place where the Master Hands keep the people the possess and souls."

The group of three then were sucked into their thoughts of panic. They were all worried sick on what was about to happen to them. They knew that they were defiantly not the ones getting possessed, because they are weak, but what else could they be here for.

"Also, simply just call me FMK and when King Dedede gets back, just call him FDDD. This is so everything can be simpler." FMK stated, "I believe that the past version of me and FDDD are called PMK and PDDD."

"What do you mean when FDDD gets back?" Asked Chief Bookem, "Are you working with these 'Master Hands' and attacking the past?"

FMK the raised his hands and wings, which were all chained to the ground, "Does chaining people and possessing them scream allyship?" He asked.

The police officer then thought for a moment, but spoke up, "Fair point, but what do you mean by when he gets back?"

FMK then had to make a choice on how to describe this, or if he should. He was not allowed to tell people outside the tournament about their possessions and anything related. On the other hand, they were just kidnapped by the Master Hands, so they deserved to know what's happening. The knight had made his choice.

"The amount of Master Hands have decreased rapidly, while the people they are possessing has grown, thus resulting in the need to store them to possess the other people they have." He answered, " So that means some hands have more than one person assigned to them. FDDD's hand is no different, so it means soon, he will be put in this room and be chained up, but free in his mind and body."

"So, wait, does that apply to you as well?" Questioned the mayor.

"Yes."

Mabel then began to mumble something, "I guess the prophecy came true faster than we thought."

"A prophecy?" FMK quired.

"Oh, yes, you don't know." Stated Mabel, "Basically, Kabu gave a prophecy about how two Star Warriors and two Star Allies would come from the future, and they need help."

"Well, I guess that foretelling did come true."

They all then went silent, with FMK having a coughing fit everyone once in a while, and the group of Cappies then analyzed the room that they were being kept in. The first thing that they noticed was that in the center of the room, there was a large metal hook that contained several chains. Most of the chains looked identical to each other, that being that they were meant to be cupped over an organism's hand or paws in order to prevent them from leaving the cell or using them. The only different chains that could be seen were the ones holding FMK's wings from opening or flying and another chain that seemed to clap over something instead of covering it like the other chains, it was also not connected to the ground as well. The clap chain was quite larger in width and length, as if it was meant for some large like FDDD, which it probably was.

The next thing that one of the Cappies saw was a steel faucet in the corner of the room the was continuingly dripping, and right under it was a dark grey bucket that seemed to have moss or mold growing from the outside. It was likely that the other cells probably had this feature to keep the people in this building alive and to have something to drink. However, it was probably the cause of the damp moldy smell in the entire building.

One other thing were the walls. Just like outside of the cell, there was blood. There were strokes of blood covering the wall, some old, and some more fresh. There were also feathers on the ground here and there too, clearly belonging to FDDD due to the fact that they were his same royal blue yet had an odd brown puffiness to them as well. Another thing on the wall was the sheer number of scratches on the walls. If anyone of the Cappies had to guess, they would think FMK did these scratches considering FDDD doesn't have claws and the only thing that could leave a dent on the walls would be the claws at the tips of his wings. Which was also probably why they were chained shut, so he wouldn't cause any more damage to the walls or something else.

The last thing they noticed was the amount of grime and gunk on the walls and FMK. FMK's wings were covered in mud to the point where at some parts, you could barely see the dark blue that his wings were. The same thing was with his shoes and armored shoulder pieces. Another thing about FMK's wings when the insides were visible, due to the fact his wings were mostly droopy, was that they had several infected cuts on them. His mask also had some noticeable cracks and edges of his mask were chipped off as well. His gloves were in a similar state as well, that being covered in strange liquids and grim. The metal on top of his gloves were also rusting slightly too.

There was then a commotion outside, something about 39, puppets, and strings. The gang of Cappies then peeked outside of their cell along with FMK. For some reason, FMK's wings perked up as well.

"I guess FDDD got tired of being possessed." FMK stated.

"Does that mean he's coming back into this cell?" Asked Mabel.

"If they can catch him or not be killed by him, then yes." Answered FMK.

"Great, this place is going to be a downer with that tyrannical penguin." She mumbled.

"If it were PDDD I would agree. However, you will be pleasantly surprised with how he acts in the future on his own will." The knight expressed with admiration clearly in his voice whether he meant it or not.

Mabel then gave a confused blink at the knight, "Really? How?"

"That is quite a lengthy story, but I'll give you a more recent example." The knight spoke, "This comes from both Bandee, a Waddle Dee who exceptionally good with spears, and Future Kirby, also known as FK apparently. Apparently when FDDD was just freed from a possession caused by Fecto Forgo, he, FK, and three other Waddle Dees were trying to flee to an elevator. However, one of them fell and would soon be trampled and most likely killed or kidnapped by members of the Beast Pack. FDDD must have noticed that there were only two instead of three, and he threw the Waddle Dee in the elevator and held off the Beast Pack so FK and Bandee could stop the ultimate threat." Midway through telling the actions of FDDD, FMK's eyes became a deep purple that no one knew the meaning of.

"Hold up," voiced Chief Bookem, "FDDD did that? Are you sure we are talking about the right king?"

"Unless there is another bright blue penguin that wears and tan kimono, a royal red coat with his signature peace sign on his back and has a trimming of soft fluff and a red beanie with a large cotton ball on it, then yes. "

Everyone then went silent after that semi-detail description of the king. The Cappies knew that maybe FDDD would be at least slightly better than PDDD, but their expectations were low. Meanwhile, FMK was hoping for a long time that FDDD would manage to get away from the hands so he could be free and see if the younger two were okay, and maybe help him.

After what seemed like hours, but was truly only one hour, the Cappies and FMK finally got their answer on what happened to FMK's sworn partner. The saw a royal blue penguin with yellow string wrapped around him being carried by a large black turtle with ginger hair or a mane and also had silver spikes, red eyes, and black and gold spike bracelets. The cell was then open again and the king was placed on the ground a chained up, with the hand cuffs on first then the mouth clap on top. The turtle thing then ripped of the string and the king then immediately stood up. He looked around frantically as if he was unaware of where he, but then his eyes turned to the large turtle creature with rage in his eyes and his beak turning into a scowl. FMK was also clearly mad at the turtle thing because his eyes had turn from the deep purple to a bright red.

The turtle then left and FDDD began to look around the cell. When his eyes landed on FMK he gave him a small wave, but then looked at the Cappies in the cell. The Cappies expected some sort of negative reaction from the king considering that Mabel was pretty public on her hatred for the king. However, they were met with the king turning his head to the side and giving them a confused expression. He then turned to FMK and pointed at the Cappies and gave him the same confused reaction as before.

"They were brought here by you while you were possessed, sire, though I did not ask exactly how they were brought here by you, but they may know. " The small orb answered with his eyes returning yellow, yet purple still swirled in them.

"If you wish for an answer to that statement, we heard an explosion from the forest and we decided to check it out, and we saw FDDD there. We were hiding in a bush, and I accidently fell and then FDDD caught me and Chief Bookem. Mabel was able to run for a bit but was ultimately captured." The mayor rambled.

The king gave a look as if he knew when that happened and looked sorry for what happened but could not say it due to the fact his mouth was clamped shut. FMK must have also known as well be he looked to the ground as if he also remembered the time when the king did this action.

The Cappies were now silent again as FMK and FDDD were trying to figure out what happened during his possession through what seemed like a game of charades. Surprisingly, FMK was very skilled at what FDDD was trying to say. He also somehow made FMK laugh once or twice, and even Chief Bookem and Mayor Len Blustergas. Mabe then took a mental note on how the king was actually quite lighthearted, yet also worried about the situation they were in.

After FMK got most of the events done, the king and knight looked fixated on the outside of the cell, trying to hear what was going on outside their cell. Meanwhile, the Cappies were chatting on what in Nova's name is happening right now. They all had one goal though in mind, to find a way out of this nightmare. And hopefully, they will be freed soon.

Notes:

This was a long chapter in my book, but I enjoyed writing it a lot! It was hard to write then ending of this one because I felt like I could have gone on forever, but I'm glad about how this chapter went. One side note though, I hate how the games make it look like Dedede's skin is blue at times with no feathers. Another thing is that this story will most likely be updated every Sunday, but may change. Alright, GOOOOOOODBYYYYYYE

Chapter 12: Searching for Love can be a Challenge.

Summary:

With three Cappies missing, their loved ones go search for them, but encounter someone from a different time and on the road to see something horrible.

Notes:

MY GIRL LUCARIO IS HERE Y'ALL. But fr, I decided since this is also partly a Super Smash Bro fic, I might as well add a brawler or two from the game. Who better than the brawler who escaped into Whispy's forest? ALSO, SORRY FOR THE HORRIBLE ACCENTS WITH SAMO! ALSO ANOTHER THING, I've been in love with the fic " Waltz of the Oblivious" and I'm using the Waddle Dee dictionary at the end of the author's notes, so if you find this fic and love Metadede, the go check it out, it's an amazing fic. The full title is, "Waltz of the Oblivious" By Analytical_Cochineal.

In the thick canopies of Whispy Wood's Forest, it was easy to swing from one tree to the other. It was weird for a blue fox that was meant to walk on land with two legs to be moving, not like how Greninja would move through this type of environment, but that was the last thing she could care about. What Lucario needed to worry about was how to get back to her dimension, being the Pokémon dimension. Korrina was probably worried sick about her. After all, she was gone for a week. Her trainer wouldn't question a day or two of her being gone, those were common, but four days or more? Her trainer was practically having a panic attack about her. Lucario sometimes wondered how she was feeling mentally when she was gone for those two months.

Lucario almost lost her grip on the branch she was trying to swing on, "𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘱 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘭." Lucario had a problem with worrying about her trainer too much. She loved Korrina, don't get her wrong, but she was always worried about if her trainer would be proud of her. Either way, Lucario was trying to stay focused on getting far away from the possessed King Dedede and finding a way home. She knew that she was in Kirby's dimension, so maybe she could find Kirby. After all, he was never captured by the Master Hands, expect that one time, but that was only for an hour. So surely, she would be able to smell if Kirby was nearby. After all, the pink puffball either smelt like cotton candy or sweet strawberry flavored gum.

Lucario then proceeded to land on the soft grass bedding that was before her. She then sticked her nose up in the air to smell Kirby or maybe a scent of Mynydd Town. She could mostly smell the morning dew of the forest, with flowers, most likely poppies and daisies, and something like peanut butter, sweet peas, and the almost acidic smell of wine or whiskey. All these scents were familiar in a way, because Lucario had smelled these items or plants before, but he could not associate them with a person. However, once she sniffed again, she was brought with the smell of apple juice.

This scent was what she associated with a Waddle Dee named Bandana Waddle Dee. She had never met the Dee before; however, she had smelt his scent a thousand times before because it would often rub off onto Meta Knight, King Dedede, and Kirby. He basically always smelled like sugary apple juice. She didn't know why, but she just knew it was his usual scent. She thought for a bit on whether or not if this was a good idea.

"𝘐𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘴𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘰? 𝘐'𝘮 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘣𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘺 𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦." She began to think anxiously. The fox was aware that this was a basic rule, but she needed to get to someone else that was part of the tournament, and Kirby was the only available option. "𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘒𝘪𝘳𝘣𝘺 𝘪𝘴! 𝘔𝘢𝘺𝘣𝘦 𝘐 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘩𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦." Her fur began to prickle from the excitement and fear of this plan. She knew that it was worth a shot.

Lucario then tried to find which direction was the apple juice scent the strongest at, once she found it, she began to make a stealthy sprint into his direction. Only halfway through the dash did she remember that Kirby's house was in an open field, but if she got there fast enough, she could get in the cover of the night, or early morning that is. She guessed that she would have enough time to get to Kirby's house, after all, it was late November in Dreamland, so she guessed it was about 6 or 7 am. That would give her just enough time hopefully.

Though when she got almost to the source of all the scents, a new worrying scent had appeared. The scent of rocky beaches and cherry blossoms had appeared. The cherry blossoms were often a scent of Olimar and King Dedede, but would not be rare on Peach or Zelda. However, the scent was clearly a more artificial cherry blossom, so that would narrow it down to King Dedede or Peach and considering who he had just recently had a fight with, she guessed it was King Dedede.

She began to sprint faster, each step bringing the scents closer her and her courage to help Bandana Waddle Dee and whoever was with him increased dramatically. She knew she was getting close but needed to go faster. She sprinted to the top of a tree and started to do the maneuver she was doing before.

Before she knew it, she saw the red eyed king and started to fall. She managed to land on top of his head, and she jumped again to leave a blow on his head. She was soon thrown off his head and landed on her back in front of the very small crowd. She recognized one of them, which was Bandee, who was standing beside her, ready to fight.
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The gentle spring breeze was lovely to wake up to in the morning, which is exactly why Buttercup left her window slightly open last night. It was also to get rid of the horrid smell of trash that cluttered her house because of her husband. Speaking of which, she turned over to tell him good morning.

When she did though, no one was there. She checked the time which read 5:29 in the morning. It wasn't unusual for Fred to wake up at 4:30, though he didn't do it often. So, she thought not much of it and decided to get ready for the day.

She got ready in a relatively quick pace and finished her breakfast in rapid speed. It was about 5:44 now. The old woman wanted to see how her husband was doing this morning still, so she decided to head to the police department to go check on him. On her way there, she was enjoying the remaining starlight from the sky that was slowly dwindling away yet would remain for another hour or two. The breeze was still lovely and the large tree's leaves were moving slowly but beautifully.

About halfway on her walk, she saw Hana appearing as though she was looking for someone. Buttercup thought for a moment, she would like to get to her husband faster, but it looked like Hana needed help with something. So, being the good person she is, she decided to help one of her closest friends.

Buttercup walked slowly to her so she would not scare her. She then tapped on her shoulder and her friend turned around immediately. Once she finished showing her shocked face, Buttercup began to speak, "Good morning, Hana!" She smiled, "Is something wrong." Her voice was filled with concern for her friend, but not too much were she seemed too noisy.

Hana then gave a sigh of relief and showed gladness in her eyes. "Oh Buttercup, good morning to you as well. " She answered, " I was just looking for Len, he wasn't home when I woke up, I've been looking for quite a while, but I can't find him!" Hana appeared worried for her husband, he was usually in the town, but for some reason he wasn't today.

Buttercup noticed this worry and took immediate action, "We could get Chief Bookem to help us! I was just heading to the police department." She stated happily.

Hana gave a confused blink and her head leaned back a bit. Buttercup was curious about this reaction but didn't say anything because her friend had begun to talk. " I went there five minutes ago, no one was there. " She voiced plainly, " I thought he was with you, isn't he?"

"No... he isn't." Buttercup answered slowly. Panic began to creep into her voice. Where was her husband? No crime usually happened, so he wouldn't need to leave town. Maybe he went on to investigate the explosions that were being made. No that wasn't likely at this hour. Where could he be? Where could Mayor Len be? "Perhaps he just got to his office?" She questioned.

The other older woman hoped that she was right, after all, where else could her husband be? "Maybe, let's go check."

The two old Cappies then made a sprint towards the police station. Each of them both worried for their husband and their friend's husband. When they got to the station, it was locked shut and no lights were on. They both had no idea what to do. They were starting to get worried about their husbands. How often was it that the only police officer and the mayor go somewhere they don't know on the same day? Almost never.

Then Hana got an idea. Why hadn't she thought of it before? "Buttercup! What if they're at Samo's bar?" She spoke up.

Buttercup turned her head around to face her friend, smiling at the highly likely chance of their husbands being there," They may be! Let's go find out!"

The girls then sprinted to the bar. As they entered the bar, they checked the clock, 5:45 am on the dot. The bar had just opened 15 minutes ago. Samo then looked up from the counter he was cleaning and raised an eyebrow. The two old women were never the first Cappies that entered his bar, it was usually Gus or Mabel who entered first. Sometime the two old women wouldn't even visit for a month if they could. So, it sure was an odd thing to see them in the bar at such an early hour.

Samo then let out a quick yawn and tried to hide the drowsiness from waking up later then he had plan, "Good morin', would ya' like anythin' to drink?" He really hoped it would be something simple since it was early in the morning, and he didn't know how well these two could handle alcohol before he had to cut them off. Perhaps they're just getting juice.

"Oh, we do not want anything to drink," Buttercup assured, " We were just wondering if you've saw our husbands?"

Samo shook his head with curiosity filling his head, "Naw, I haven't seen neither o' them." He responded, "May I ask why you came here?"

Hana looked a bit shocked and disappointed, but she responded, " We were looking for them, but they aren't here in the town, though they may have been here."

Samo gave a sigh, "Well they sadly aren't here, but I do have a question for you two."

The two women raised their eyebrows, "What is it?" Buttercup asked politely.

Samo then thought if he should really be asking this, but he was starting to see anxiety creep into his mind, so he just thought he needed to get this over with. "Have you...um..seen Mabel today? She was supposed to.. pick up an order an hour or so ago." He asked this in a tone that clearly stated that this was not about drinks, but about something else.

"No, sorry we haven't," Buttercup acknowledged, " But she is almost never that late to anything related to orders, at least to my knowledge."

Hana then interrupted whatever Samo was about to say, "So wait, let me get things cleared up, three people who are rather important, the only policer officer, the mayor, and a foreteller are nowhere to be seen today?" Hana questioned.

Samo began to sweat at that statement and Buttercup went deep in thought. Hana did have a point, three people missing from what they were supposed to do, and they were rather important. Mabel was usually on time for things, Fred is probably was either asleep or at the sheriff's office doing work, and Mayor Len was doing something with taxes for the town during late April. So why were none of the three doing what they would normally do. It could just be that they were doing something different today, but what was the likelihood of them all doing that? Slim to none in Buttercup's mind.

"Something's wrong, that's certain." Buttercup stated.

Samo blinked at the statement, but nodded, "So, what are we going to do?" He requested, "I mean, were not sure if they got kidnapped, after all, there's no physical proof."

"I agree with Samo," Hana called out, "I mean, your husband is the only police officer, who else are we going to tell? Sir Meta Knight? Blade Knight? Sword Knight? They probably won't take this that seriously!" The way she said this statement was rather blunt and more cold than her usual tone of voice.

Buttercup thought for a split second, but came up with an idea, "You've seen that new Waddle Dee? Apparently, he's not from here." Buttercup laid out, "He actually talks and always carries a spear with him with a yellow ribbon, he may help us!"

"That may work!" Samo responded excitedly.

After they all agreed to go now, they all left the bar. The group of three made the decision to find the strange Waddle Dee, until they realized they had no clue where the Dee was. The trio the sat at the large tree for a moment and began to brainstorm for some time. None of the locations in the town made sense, but maybe Kirby's house made sense. Kirby was caring and would be willing to share his nest or his house and the Dee did seem to head into the direction of Kirby's house at dusk at times. So maybe he would be near his house. The Waddle Dee may already be on his way to the town right now since he seemed to get up at an early time.

With those facts laid out, they decided to travel on the path to Kirby's house. And just as they had predicted, the bandana wearing Waddle Dee was on his way to town and was wielding his spear. The Dee glanced at them, but he minded his own business. So, the Cappies had to start this interaction.

Samo swallowed nothing for a moment, but soon started up a conversation, "Hey, your name is Bandana Waddle Dee, correct?"

The Dee then turned around and looked up at the taller Cappies, "Yes, it is." He stated in a monotone voice.

"Great! So um, where you were originally from, did people go missing often?"

Bandee just squinted his eyes in bewilderment and was wondering on how to answer that question, "Sometimes?" Who ask someone you never met about the statistics for people who have gone missing? And how would he answer that question? Three hundred Waddle Dees did just get kidnapped and brought back, so he could just keep his answer as is.

Hana then put a hand and Samo's shoulder and gave him a bewilder glance before she took over the conversation with some swift thinking, " Oh, we were just wondering about the ribbons on your spear," she questioned with sincerity in her voice and trying to be as inconspicuous as possible, "Here, a yellow ribbon is a sign of high honor and respect, and we were just so curious if the ribbon had the same meaning in you homeland"

The Dee in questioned was confused on the difference between the questions that the two Cappies had asked, how does asking about the rate of kidnapping could possibly be twisted from a question about his ribbons, but he answered it nether the less. "Yes, they do have the same meaning as here," He responded. He almost let out a chuckle at the irony of his answer. After all, Cappy Town would later become Mynydd City. The town had the same king, same general layout, and even some of the same citizens who stayed after the Nightmare incident. "I got them after serving for years under my king and after several adventures helping my country with three other people." The tween boy then thought about his role in King Dedede's castle and military. He was his right-hand man to some extent, and honestly was a father figure to him as time. He was also the General in the spear section of His Majesty's army but had more days off and more supervision due to his young age.

The gray fuzzy haired Cappy was pleased by this answer and hope shimmered with in her and the chance that maybe he could help her and her friends find their love ones, or apparently in Samo's case, his 'friend'. "Great, because we were wondering if you could help us with something."

"If I had to guess, it has something to do with kidnapping, 𝘺𝘢?" The dee soon realized his slip up and wondered if he sounded too rude. He didn't mean it as if he was saying yes in a slangy way, but it was just a natural thing him and other Waddle Dees do when there nervous! He then raised his spear again to seem a bit prouder and less small than he actually was to make it seem like he was up for the job, which he was because he really wanted to help. If the Bandana wearer had to guess, the missing people had probably something to do with whatever was possessing FMK and FDDD.

Buttercup gave a sigh of relief to that statement, but had to make some quick clarifications, "Were not sure if they were kidnapped, but they might be. We can't find them anywhere and it's getting too worrying, what if something bad happened?" The Cappie questioned, " And the prophecy too!"

'𝘞𝘢𝘪𝘵, 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘦𝘤𝘺?' The brave Dee thought. He hasn't heard of any prophecy to his knowledge. Wait, now that he thinks about it, FK did mention something about a prophecy, but did not go too in detail about it. Maybe he could get answers from these Cappies when they started to look for the missing people.

"Alright!" Bandee announced, "Do you guys have any idea on where they possibly went?" This was usually a good question to start on when trying to look for people. If Bandee had to make a guess on where they could be, he would maybe guess Whispy's forest due to the fact that's where PDDD and PMK had apparently been last seen before those notes appeared. Bandee managed to get this information from another Waddle Dee that was up late last night and saw PMK running after FDDD when he broke the window and another Dee saw PDDD chasing after something in the dark. He somehow had time to get this info right before him, FK, Blade Knight, and Sword Knight broke into the facility that the people who were kidnapped were kept at. However, it would be unlikely that they would use the same location again, but it was worth a shot. Then he realized that he should actually wait for the people who knew the people who were missing.

The three Cappies then gave a moment to think about where a possible location that their loved ones could be at. They checked all over town and even a bit of the outskirts, but no luck. There was nothing that hinted on the Cappies location either, so the group were out of ideas.

"I'm sorry kid, but we honestly don't know where they could be." Samo answered, adjusting his bowtie, " We checked al' around tow', but we can't find a trace of them!"

'𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭, 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘩 𝘢 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘵, 𝘐 𝘨𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘴' The tween reasoned, "Hey, what if we check Whispy's forest?"

"Why?" Hana asked. It was quiet a bizarre guess to think that the three missing Cappies got lost in the forest. Why would they go there in the first place? Also, Whispy doesn't exactly hate the towns folk, but he doesn't exactly like them either, so no one went into the forest too often. But why there?

"Well where I'm from, people who go missing often get lost in Whis-, I MEAN um Oak Woods!" The Dee lied, "So I thought that m-maybe they got lost in the forest near here! I-I think it's called Whispy's Woods." His bandana fell down a bit because he almost said the forest name, so he readjusted it. The Cappies could tell that he was stress by this new job likely and looked like a hot mess.

Fortunately, Buttercup tried to ease his nerves in some way, "That's correct, and you may just be right." She assured, "But if this is a bit too much for you, you don't need to help." The Cappie offered while putting her hands on her chest.

"NO!" The Waddle Dee objected loudly, "Uh, s-sorry. I do really want to help, please don't get that wrong, it's just ummm.." The Dee didn't really know how to get himself out of this pickle for a second. He wasn't about to just tell three Cappies that he was from the future, he hardly knew them, even if it was causing his anxiety! However, he managed to speak up again, "I'm nervous, I mean I've done some things people may say are brave, I just always get a bit nervous!"

That lie made sense, but the Cappies felt like there was more to it. I mean, he did almost say Whispy's Woods before he corrected it, which would make sense. The forest was only in Dreamland and its name wasn't actually called Whispy's Woods. Its legal name is something like Star Wood or Astral Forest or something along those lines, only people near and in Dreamland called it Whispy's Wood. However, if the Dee did live near Dreamland, wouldn't they have heard about a Dee with high honors and could talk. Also, it just seemed very sketchy to correct Whispy's Woods, it was like he was trying to hide something.

Hana then cleared her throat, "Well then," She spoke suddenly," Why don't we go check the forest?"

The other three all gave a nod and began to jog to the forest. However, Samo kept eyeing the Dee. He seemed odd and like he was familiar with the town, which wouldn't make sense if he was new to the town. Now that he thought about it, the Dee came to the town morning after the prophecy was delivered. Usually, Kabu's foretelling didn't take too much to be fulfilled. Kirby's prophecy was proven true rather quickly, and by quickly he meant by literal minutes. So, what if the prophecy was already coming true and this was one of the people from the future?

No, he's probably just looking too far into it. The Dee is probably too anxious in social situations for its own good and is most likely just trying to seem normal or fit in. Those thoughts never really left Samo's mind though and just kept looking while they searched the forest. The quartet had no luck on finding anyone until Hana yelled for the group to come to her.

The group then made a sprint to her and saw her carrying a small thing of a glowing yellow object. Hana gave the group a worried look before speaking, " I found this next to this tree," She pointed out, "I don't think gold string is a naturally occurring thing in forest."

Buttercup then gave a closer at the string, "Where in the world did this come from?" She asked lowering her body to look at the ground to search for anymore string. It was an odd thing to find for sure.

Bandee began to sweat looking at the string, "P-Perhaps somebody used it to capture the mi-missing Cappies." His voice was shaky and nervous now that he looked at the string. That odd glow was so familiar but in the worse way possible. It gave him memories of being somewhere dark, it was so dark. The only light was coming from the string and his body. The weird memory also brought back a fuzzy image of a battle, but not the one with the weird hands, but with someone else. He was flying above a child, he a blur of green with a mix of brownish-red that he seemingly used as a shield. The child was using a spear of silver colors to fight off someone with the glowing string who was a blur of black and a pale tan holding something golden that wasn't the string. The memory felt painful, and he felt wrong now. It couldn't be a memory, it was too weird, and he was just hallucinating, right? Or was it Deja vu? Has he actual seen this string before?

"Bandana Waddle Dee?" Samo questioned while waving his hand at him, "BANDANA WADDLE DEE?" The child was hyper ventilating now and his face was painted with worry that was oddly clear for someone with only eyes. The young Dee seemed to be transfixed on the string and was not snapping out of whatever was happening to him. Samo then gently hit the top of his head and the tween boy snapped out of his trance.

The Dee then gasped as if he was holding his breath and the Waddle Dee was on the verge of tears at this point. "I'm- I'm sorry, I-I don't know what came over me-e, really!" Everyone knew now that there was more to what the Dee was saying, that he knew something he didn't, and that they should probably figure it out.

"Bandana Waddle Dee, do you know something that we don't?" Hana asked in a sweet yet demanding voice. She knew how to deal with kids, she has some after all. However, she also needed the truth to find her husband as well. So, she would do what she needed to do.

"I, umm, don't th-think so Miss." The Waddle Dee answered back shakily, "It was probably just some Deja vu o-or what-whatever it's called." The orange boy choked out, "Let's just k-keep going, as a group, please."

With that, the group kept searching in awkward and tense silence, but soon they found a trail of footprints that belonged the missing Cappies apparently, however Samo and Bandee pointed out that the footprints were too big to be a Cappies, and probably belonged to the kidnapper. The followed the trail and they noticed some blue fur near the ground too. This urged them to keep going and the team speed up their search until they saw something. shocking.

Almost right in front of them was King Dedede, or to Bandee, FDDD. What on earth could the king want with their loved ones wondered the Cappies, but not with Bandee. The clever Dee knew who the kidnapper was, and he was right in front of them. The Dee then quickly leapt out in impulse and was followed by the Cappies. The Dee got into a fight position with the trees seeming responding by shaking almost violently.

Bandee then ran as fast as he could and almost landed a hit on the FDDD who was trying to set up a smoke screen but was failing. He was so close until the trees stopped shaking and a blue fox thing jumped out of the trees and left two blows on the king's head and was soon thrown off balance and landed right next to him. The Dee had no clue why the fox was attacking FDDD but he was sure that he wound need all the help he could get, and the fox somehow seemed to recognize him. With that, the Dee helped the bipedal fox up and they both charged after the king.

Notes:

Fun fact: According to google translate, Mynydd means mountain in Welsh. Also, the entire scent section with Lucario was based on the fact that Lucario are just bipedal foxes with spikes and stuff, and since foxes can smell 500 times better than a human, I decided to add it. Also, I had to write this chapter to be a bit shorter, so sorry if the quality is worse the usual. Either way, hoped you enjoyed the chapter!

Chapter 13: A Fight and a Foretelling

Summary:

Bandee, Lucario, Samo, Buttercup, and Hana finish what they started with FDDD and the people of Cappy Town get an update from Kabu about the prophecy. PDDD is also finally awaken from the coma he's been in for a couple of days.

Notes:

I want to make FDDD suffer. So now, whenever anything hits the back of his stomach mouth, which he got from his second Dark Matter possession, he now throws up blood from his first mouth. How does that work? IDK but I find it funny and painful. It can also be delayed or happen immediately due to the fact that mouth is not supposed to be there. It's going to happen soon, don't worry. Another thing I thought I should add on, I've been re-watching the anime now, so hopefully some of the personalities would make sense because I've been using the wiki recently.

When you start off your day with kidnapping some innocent Cappies and trying to find a blue fox against your will and are then thrown into a fight with your right-hand man, who's basically your son but you won't admit it, and said blue fox, you get kind of pissed at your possessor. Which is exactly why FDDD is basically trying to get himself out of this dumbass Master Hand's control, because while he hated being possessed in general, he was ABSOULTELY done with every POSSIBLE thing this hand had planned. With that being in his head, FDDD tried to make himself stand still so his controlled body could get hit by the two creatures charging at him. And with that goal in mind, it worked.

FDDD was knocked back with such force he almost fell and was stunned for a moment, but swiftly got back up with some curses shouted at him in his mind by his controller. He couldn't exactly hear everything, but he could hear Bandee's spear-copter almost on top of him and Lucario's aura sphere charging up. The king could also have sworn that he heard a feminine scream and someone yelling something in an Irish accent, but he could just be going insane.

Unfortunately, FDDD was unable to stop the hand from attacking. This resulted in the future Triple D to jump up and swing his hammer at Bandee when Lucario shot her aura sphere. If FDDD had to make a guess, his general for the spear section of his army was brought out of the sky and landed on the ground painfully. The blue penguin then felt his arms raising his mallet, preparing to clobber his Dee. Then, he was brought with a powerful kick from Lucario that made him fumble. He could feel himself bleeding now probably because of Lucario's giant spike on her feet.

The Master Hand then had the wonderful idea of using FDDD's rather body force and tried to grab Lucario, which he did by the wrist. However, before he could break her wrist, he could feel a spear enter his stomach mouth and hit the serrated teeth there, which also led to the gums there bleeding. The stab made him let go of Lucario and shudder. The hand may be controlling him; however, it couldn't stop things like shuddering and shivering. Bandee then stabbed him by his shoulder and proceeded to start hitting him lightly, but rapidly. The king countered this wave of attacks by using his gigantic hammer and sweeping it against the floor knocking over the Dee, but not the fox who jumped onto a branch. The monarch then grabbed the Waddle Dee by it's head and threw it against the same tree the Lucario was perched on.

Then, the royal penguin fuzzily heard the sound of Lucario jumping off the tree land somewhere near him, which was behind them through the fox's perspective. The fox then flicked the back of her ear and landed a powerful force palm that sent FDDD to the ground. Lucario then swiftly ran to FDDD and pinned down one side of the hostile penguin. Bandee then caught wind of the blue fox's goal and did his best to him down on his other side. The future king was now struggling against both of their strong grasp. The Hand came up with a plan that could maybe get the Cappies to convince at least Bandee to let him and the puppet go.

"IF YA" LET ME EXPLAIN MYSELF," The possessed king shouted in a demanding voice, "THEN MAYBE YA' WOULD UNDERSTAND WHY I'M HERE."

Lucario rolled her eyes and decided to put her chip to use,"𝑫𝒐 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒍𝒊𝒆," Lucario stated in a deep feminine, yet robotic voice,"𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒂𝒚 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒆 𝒖𝒑 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒌 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒆 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆, 𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒏'𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖?" The fox was not having ANY of this today, she just got out of a battle against King Dedede, was home sick as ever, missed her trainer, and was sick and tired of being used to kill, and so where several other brawlers, like King Dedede.

Meanwhile, Bandee was THIS close to just trying to figure out where the thing that was possessing FDDD and just ripping, or stabbing it, to shreds. If it wasn't crucial for him to be pinning down his da- he means His Majesty, then he would already be doing the urge he really wanted to do. "If it's another one of your dumb deals, then none of us are accepting! I know you aren't His Majesty, just someone possessing him!" He yelled quietly with the voice as if he had crying for hours.

"What if it meant that these three Cappies got to see their loved ones again though, hm?" The aggravated penguin asked, "Perhaps they should make the choice, 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶"

The three Cappies, who were Buttercup Hana and Samo, were currently hiding from the battle due to the fact that none of them could really fight and two of the three were elderly. The three Cappies did want to hear the offer but knew that something was clearly wrong with the king. His iris were red and he was unusual fierce and strong. However, they knew they should at least hear the deal.

Samo then took a deep breath to calm his nerves, which barely worked, before he started to speak. He then stood up from the bush he was in and looked at the horrifying king. "W-Well 'our Majesty, i-i-it wouldn't to h-h your offer!" Samo answered nervously and quickly. The possessed king was still struggling to get out of the hands of the two people who were holding him down, and each time he tried to escape, it seemed like he was getting closer and closer to his goal while also baring his teeth, which made him seemingly ready to strike at any moment.

"Well, I know where 'our beloved 'Appies are, but' I'll only give them to ya' if you get meh dat future Kah'by ." FDDD respond coldly.

Samo tilted his head, " 'our Majesty, th-there hasn't been any sightings o-of an-nother Kirby!"

FDDD stared in bewilderment, "Are ya' blind? Ya' fuckin' dumb?" He questioned," It ain't easy to NOT see a giant sword!"

Was that what that giant sword a couple days ago was about? Was that really the future Kirby? That couldn't be possible! Sure, Kirby was strong, don't get Samo wrong! But he isn't that strong! How strong could he have gotten over the future? Then again, King Dedede could just be lying.

Hana then stepped in front of the tree she was hiding behind to ask some questions herself, "How do we know we can trust you?" She quizzed, "You could be lying to get your hand on any Kirby that here! Present or future! How are we-"

"JUST ACCPET THE DEAL ALREADY!" FDDD butted in.

The king then managed to get out of the Bandee's and Lucario's grasp and stood up. He then grabbed his hammer ready to clobber them all. However, Buttercup found a sharp stick and managed to swiftly get behind him despite her age. She then tried to throw it at the king's head but aimed too high.

Unknowingly, she managed to cut two of the five strings controlling FDDD. A massive hand appeared above FDDD, bigger than anything any off the Cappies had seen before and rivaled some of the enemies that Bandee had fought. They all, except Lucario stared at it with awe and horror. FDDD then step back in control of his feet once again into a tree.

"GET OFF OF...ME!" The king struggled to say. This is it! There was a chance he could be freed from the Master Hand's grasp! He either needed to will his way out of this or let someone cut of the remaining string. Then he could figure out a way to save FMK and the captured Cappies!

However, a faint echo appeared in his mind as a third string snapped from his body, "𝙉𝙤𝙩 𝙨𝙤 𝙛𝙖𝙨𝙩 #39."

Immediately, the Master Hand remade one of the broken strings and gained more control of the king despite FDDD's mind and body trying to snap the strings. Lucario then tried to hit the strings with her aura spheres, but it hitted FDDD's body instead. Bandee then went in to cut off another piece of the string but was thrown away by the king's massive hand. A fourth line of string then appeared and connected it to FDDD's body. With the right amount of control, FDDD ran off deep into the forest with Lucario chasing after him until she realized that she would be unable to find him.

FDDD was then brought to an open field where the Master Hand got assistance from a clone of #14 to bring the rebellious penguin back to the Master Hand's Storage. Meanwhile, Lucario had just arrived back at the location the Cappies and Bandee were still at. Bandee was helping with some minor wounds that Samo had obtain during the start of the battle while the two elderly women were talking about what had just recently happened.

When Lucario had reappeared, Bandee quickly finished what he was doing with Samo to look at Lucario. "I'm very grateful for your assistance in the battle," The Waddle Dee spoke, "But I must ask, who are you? And how did you know whatever was possessing His Majesty would lie?"

Oh Arceus, what was Lucario going to do now? Should she just run away and leave the Dee confused? No, that would lead him to ask someone questions about her and the three Dreamlandian brawlers would soon figure out it was her. Should she lie? No, she knew it would be wrong, but she didn't want to be honest either! Perhaps she could use a half-truth and a half-lie!

Lucario cleared her throat and began to talk using her translating chip, " 𝑰'𝒎 𝑳𝒖𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒐, 𝑰 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒂 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒆𝒕 𝒇𝒂𝒓 𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆." She answered calmy, putting her hands to her side, "𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒐𝒏 𝒘𝒉𝒚 𝑰 𝒌𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒍𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝑰'𝒗𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒃𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆." None of that was technically a lie. She was from another planet far away and she did have encounters with the Master Hands before, she was just being vague and leaving out some crucial details about what was happening.

However, Bandee wasn't convinced that was all to the fox's story. Wouldn't he have heard or remembered a fox from a different planet if Lucario had been near Cappy town? Maybe the blue fox had simply been near the town during the past, but that would have meant the giant hand things would have been near Cappy Town too, right? Perhaps he could have been thinking too hard about this and Lucario could have been someone passing by.

Hana then approached the fox with a warm and friendly smile on her face. She wanted to greet Lucario politely, especially since she just helped Bandee save her and the other two Cappies from King Dedede. "Oh, thank you so much Lucario!" She greeted, "I'm Hana, the Cappie wearing a necklace is Buttercup, the one wearing a bowtie and a tux is Samo, and the Waddle Dee is Bandee." Even though Hana had just met the strange blue canine, she felt like she could trust her, "Y'know, I feel like there is a rising trend with heroic creatures coming from different planets and landing in Popstar, now isn't there?"

Buttercup then slowly walked to Hana and gave her a nod, "You're not wrong, that's for sure!" Buttercup answered, "Perhaps she should stay in Cappy Town for a bit, she seems kind of wounded." She analyzed. Lucario did suffer some mild injuries from her fight with the King, so it may be a good idea for her to lay low for a smidge.

"I wouldn't mind!" Samo butted in, " She could even stay in the bar for a day or two to get fully healed, and I bet Kirby would be glad to have a new friend with something in common with him."

Lucario's ears immediately perked up at the sound of Kirby's name. That is exactly what she needed. Even though she had to admit that she was grateful for their hospitality, she really needed to get to Kirby soon. She probably had just broke so many codes or whatever that it would be in her best interest to just say she's from a different planet and not a different universe or dimension. Even if she had to stay in an alcohol scented bar for a bit, she would take what she could get. So, with that, she gave him a quick nod

So, the querent that was now a quintet headed off to Cappy Town to hopefully figure out what the heck was wrong with King Dedede and to help Lucario and Bandee after the fight. However, Bandee kept eyeing Lucario. He felt like he's heard of her somewhere, or seen someone like her, but the only thing that came to his mind were those weird Deja vu filled dreams that he had just recently got. The people in Cappy Town would probably be skeptical of her for a day or two, but nothing too bad hopefully.

However, the three Cappies felt like something was wrong with the Waddle Dee who had just fought for them. Him freezing up, him calling King Dedede His Majesty, the Dee saying they weren't accepting ANOTHER one of his deals. What other deal was he talking about? Did the Dee have something hidden that could lead the three Cappies to figuring out what was causing all the commotion recently? What they did know though, was that something was strange about Bandana Waddle Dee.

-

Escargoon was talking, or more so demanding and yelling, with Dr.Yabui about the health of PDDD in said king's room. According to the doctor, he should wake up in a couple of days if everything went right. However, the earlier he wakes up, the loopier he could possibly be. However, the doctor advised to take everything with a bit more caution due to the fact that the two were still unaware of the liquid that was injected in him when he was kidnapped.

"The people can't wait a few more days!" The snail yelled, pointing his arms down to the side of his body, " The other Cappies are going to be suspicious about the fact that His Majesty hasn't appeared in public in two days!" It would be a nightmare if the news about PDDD and PMK being kidnapped got out to the public. Sure, PDDD being held hostage wouldn't that shocking, the penguin seemed and sometimes acted like he could barely fight. But PMK? That would be a whole different story. Escargoon could see the newspapers from different kingdoms and maybe even the rest of Dreamland right now, "Dreamland's King and Strongest Warrior kidnapped by future versions of themselves." That image alone made the gastropod shudder.

The doctor sighed for the millionth time it felt like in the pass days, "Again, Escargoon, I cannot be sure when he's going to wake up due to the fact they are unaware of what was injected into him." He told him in a very dead-pan tone, "However, it is most likely he will wake up in 2 to 6 days." What was Dr.Yabui supposed to do? He went from curing and helping a kid with a sleeping sickness to trying to take care of the king who was unconscious because of a weird juice thing injected into him. The doctor for some reason could not shake off the feeling that stuff like this would be happening more often though.

Escargoon was about to snap something back at him when they heard a groan come from the penguin next to them, who was now rising from his bed. The doctor's and the snail's mouth were agape due to the fact said doctor was just saying how it may take about a week for him to get up.

"Ugh, that's a headache if I ever had one." The king said sluggishly. It felt like he was being repeatedly hit with a hammer over his head. The pain was so intense that he could barely even see correctly without either having to squint his eyes or everything blurring. For the moment he was up right in his bed, he couldn't really Rember anything that had happend before he had clocked out. He just felt empty for a moment for an odd reason. That was until he remembered what in Popstar happened to him.

The King then began to blink rapidly to help clear up his vison, then glanced at the large snail in his room. "Hey, Escargoon, what happened?" There was no possible way what he was remembering could have been real, probably just some wild dream his mind had conjured up. Though, it was a pretty weird dream by Popstar's standards, almost a nightmare, which basically never happened in Popstar.

The gastropod then cleared his throat that felt like a desert due to the fact it had been hanging open for a minute now, "Your Majesty! Glad to see you're awake!" Escargoon then muttered something under his breath but then answered the penguin's question, "If you can't recall, you were kidnapped and injected with something about two days ago by FMK." He answered.

The monarch's eyes then widened at the fact Escargoon had just told him, "Eh, so it really wasn't no dream." The king then looked at the side of his stomach which had two holes in it. If the king had to make a guess, one was used to inject whatever weird liquid was in the needle gun looking thing and the other was to draw some blood. However, PDDD couldn't really recall too much to the fact that he was basically drugged out of his senses, which to anyone else he lacked.

Dr. Yabui then strided slowly towards PDDD's bed, "Your Majesty," The doctor stated, "Do you perhaps know what was put into you during your kidnapping?"

"Ain't got' ta clue if ya' talkin' about liquids." The royal penguin answered snobbishly, "Aren't cha' supposed to know this doc?"

The clinician wanted to scream at the top of his lungs but couldn't because he still wanted to be paid for this. He then sighed," I am unable to tell what was injected to you because it could be a multitude of different things," He answered, "And because it could be something completely different!" Does no one have any common sense now or was the doctor going insane?

"Hey!" The snail shouted,"Watch your mout-"

The door burst open and ran in Commander Doo. His giant eyed became bigger as he saw the awaken king, but then saluted to him, "Glad to see your awake your majesty," he stated loudly to the king.

The snail then scoffed at Commander Doo, "Oh, you couldn't knock, could you?"

"I'm sorry Escargoon and your majesty," He then turned his body to look at Dr.Yabui, which he just realized that the docotr was in the room, "And Dr.Yabui. But I must inform you that a large amount of Cappies are heading towards Kabu today to seek guidance from him." He informed them, "Apparently there's a strange blue fox in town and three Cappies have been reported missing!"

Escargoon let out at a small gasp and the PDDD's mouth went agape. The king was never that smart if he was honest, however, he felt like he knew what happened. Considering how him, PMK, and Sir Ebrum just got kidnapped by his future self and FMK, it wouldn't be a stretch that something similar occurred to the missing Cappies.

PDDD then gulped and closed his mouth for a minute, "Now ya' tell me which of them Cappies gone missin'!" The penguin demanded.

"From what I heard, it's Chief Bookem, Mayor Blustergas, and Mabel." Commander Doo answered, " I must say, it's weird how all three of them went missing, none of them often go far from the town."

The king jumped out of his bed, ignoring the spinning of his head and his urge to throw up, and made a beeline to the exit of his room. He could hear Dr.Yabui's pleads for him to stop, along with Escargoon slithering his way to follow the king with his own objections. Soon enough, the king couldn't hear the doctor, but could still hear his right-hand man still tailing him.

Soon the king was in the passenger seat of the limo that he barely knew how to drive, which he had already started. "Escargoon! Hurry your snaily behind up! We got a foretelling to watch!" King Dedede yelled. Escargoon sped up a bit a replied with something on the lines of, "I'm trying" but for once, the inside of the monarch's head was no longer filled with ideas on how to clobber Kirby, or food, or something generally rude and mean, but filled with worry for the missing Cappies. Even though he had been up for less than an hour after being passed out for some time, he could already remember the horrible things that happened while he was kidnapped. Even if it would pain him to say it out loud, he finally had a smart thought. He needed to also seek guidance from the foreteller Kabu.

-

PMK was far in the back of the crowd of Cappies. He analyzed the crowd he was in. Mostly Cappies, two Waddle Dees, one being Bandee, the other presumingly being Bandee's past self, who was probably confused on what's been happening lately, PK, Tiff, Tuff, Fololo and Falala, and FK hiding to his left in the forest surrounding Kabu. From the smell of gasoline, PMK could also guess that PDDD and Escargoon would be arriving soon as well. Blade Knight and Sword Knight were right next to him as well. There was also a strange bipedal fox in the crowd too. It was standing right next to Samo, Buttercup, and Hana. The knight found it weird how Mayor Blustergas was not at the foretelling, but his wife was. Same thing applied to Chief Bookem. They usually came to these large foretellings or when a swarm of people needed advice from Kabu. Another odd thing was that the blue canine kept glancing back at him. It was not in the usual uneasiness or fear that he got when a newcomer saw him, but one that gave off the aura of seeing someone you knew. The weirdest thing was though was that it did not radiate the energy on one of the thousands of demon beast from Nightmare. Bandee and the fox also seemed wounded from something, perhaps they got in a battle. However, PMK felt like he could not trust the fox.

Buttercup was the first to speak up surprisingly, "Kabu, we seek your great wisdom for your prophecy and recent events." She announced, "Three Cappies have gone missing, those being Chief Bookem, Mayor Len Blustergas, and Mabel." She listed. She hoped and she prayed that Kabu would not give her and the other Cappies a vague answer. No one had time for riddles and people going missing was odd and horrible. "Please tell us what's happening! Is it related to your prophecy?" The old woman pleaded.

Kabu's non-existing pupils seemed as if they looked down on the crowd, as if he was feeling pity for what was later destined to happen to the small village. "The three who are gone have been kidnapped." Kabu responded, "For the one who took them was King Dedede, but not the one nearby, but the one from the future." The wise tiki informed Buttercup and everyone else, with the crowd gasping due to the fact the foretelling came true, "For he is under the control of a threat, unknown to you, familiar to the Kirby of the future who has been here for a week, yet somehow giving a sense of Deja vu the future Dee wearing blue, yet it may not be just a false memory."

Half of the crowd tried to look for FK while the other half just starred at Bandee. Though PMK did not know the Waddle Dee well now, he could bet a hundred D bills that the young boy did not enjoy a lot of people looking at him with what could be awe, disgust, or confusion. Anyone could tell the boy was anxious and on the verge of tears for some reason. The anxiousness made sense, but tears? It may be related to the supposed Deja Vu that may be reality. What was that memory that could have made him cry? The knight could not think about this longer due to another Cappy beginning to yell.

"Who's the fourth person you talked about?" Shouted one voice while another yelled, "Did the future king order this threat too?"

Kabu then began to answer the question in his usual loud and booming voice, "The fourth person is the Meta Knight from the future, being controlled by the same threat as the one holding the future king." The voices that were talking while Kabu where all went silent, everyone now understanding the danger of this threat. Meta Knight was strong and hard to defeat, and his mind was like steal trap. The Cappies knew that whatever was in control of both the king and the knight was not a force to be reckoned with. "King Dedede did not order these beasts at all. He hates them with all his mind and soul for what they have done to the people of the future." Kabu answered, "For if you set both the future King Dedede and Meta Knight free from the grasp of the monsters, they would both work together to annihilate this threat and they both would leave a big scar on said threat."

Bandee and FK, despite both having fears that may become reality soon knew what Kabu was trying to do. He was attempting to get the citizens to understand the fact that this threat is bigger than they originally thought. However, the two knew that FMK and FDDD practically tried to work together on anything they could together whether they would admit it or not. They learned that through Buddy Fight Tower, which still left them in awe of how well they worked together.

The crowd though were chatting about the mere thought of the two working together. Sure, Meta Knight may work under King Dedede, but did anyone really see them interact? No, it would be odd to see them in the same room together. However, another Cappy still had some questions to throw to the wise sage.

"Who are the Star Allies? And who is this fox?" A Cappy asked, "What is this threat called?" Cried one in a more masculine voice.

"The Star Allies are the friends and allies the future Kirby has made. They helpt him conquer a world destroyer. They vary from those who never harmed him on their own will, like Ribbon and Adeleine, from those who have tried to kill him various of times like King Dedede and Magolor." Kabu replied sternly, "The fox is Lucario, a creature from a different time and a different universe, but not one like Kirby. From one where we do not exist. Lucario is not a Star Ally, but is a friend to the future Kirby, King Dedede, and Meta Knight, she is fimilar with the threat at hand." The smart foreteller acknowledged, however, another vision formed in his head. One filled with blinding light a pure darkness that led to two different paths. "I must warn you, FK, that this future leads to a fork road." His absent pupils then turned to where the young puffball was hiding, Kabu hoped that the boy was ready for what he would hear. "A blinding light and threating darkness will fight once more. If all is good, no one but the future will remember this, for the past will be sent back just before I thought saw this future. If all goes wrong though, the future and the past will collide, creating a mess that will result in thousands dead, a threat remaining, and all under the control of the Lord of Light or maybe the Lord of Chaos. You've won against both before, but will your soul conquer them once again? Or will your soul lose the light it clings on to?"

Everyone just stood in silence for a moment, yet they could all hear the soft crying of a young boy close. The group of townsfolk started to leave after fifteen minutes, with PDDD and Escargoon both driving closer to Kabu. Not to threaten him like they've done before, but to ask questions. Once all were gone, all who remained were Lucario, Tiff, Tuff, Fololo, Falala, their parents, the three knights, Bandee, PK, Lucario, and now FK who had appeared at the platform that the town was just standing on minutes ago. SO many questions were to be asked, yet the tears that were falling down the three people from the future made it hard to talk.

"So," Bandee started up, "Do you mind maybe telling us what these beasts are FK and Lucario?" He asked gently, his voice shaky from the fact so much was now on the line and the fact his dreams may actually be memories. The two didn't respond.

Tiff took action this time, "Please FK, please answer his question." She pleaded, tears now forming in her eyes, yet not being set free yet, "Many may die, so may you please tell us who may be trying to kill us." Tiff thought that it wasn't too much to ask, if they were going to die, she would at least like to know who was going to kill her and everyone she loved.

FK gulped, he stammered trying to find the right words, "Master Hands. And I suppose Crazy Hands now since they may bring him back." The young boy muttered quietly, yet with how silent everyone was, you could hear him loud as day.

"Who is he?" PMK asked FK in a kind voice that not many have heard from him before. PMK knew that whatever had happened to FK and Lucario now, it was horrifying. The fear in the twos eyes made the knight remember the tears that were sheded by those who survived a wave of monsters from Nightmare. PMK could wait all day for PK to answer, but Lucario made the choice to answer the question this time, he felt like he owed it to FK after all the puffball did for the brawlers and what he may do in the future.

"𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏 𝑭𝑲 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝑫𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒐𝒏, 𝒐𝒓 𝒂𝒔 𝑲𝒂𝒃𝒖 𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒉𝒊𝒎, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑳𝒐𝒓𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒐𝒔." Lucario responded in a slightly cold tone, "𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒆𝒍𝒔𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒐𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉," The fox added, "𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑳𝒐𝒓𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝑳𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕, 𝑮𝒂𝒍𝒆𝒆𝒎. 𝑯𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒚 𝒃𝒆 𝒓𝒖𝒍𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒇 𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕, 𝒚𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒔 𝒊𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒍 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆."

PDDD and Escargoon had questions of their own, but seeing the mortal blows done today to just about everyone that could answer their questions, they decided to just wait for tomorrow. So, the two left. Lucario and Tiff manage to strike up a deal with everyone that maybe tomorrow or soon FK and Lucario, and possibly Bandee, could answer their questions. After all, FK was dealing with the fact that Galeem and Dharkon are going to return soon, and that was possibly the worst thing he could hear at a time like this, the same thing applied for Lucario.

With that, the group of people spilted up to deal with the events of today, everyone being exhausted and frighted more than anyone deserved to be. The group did not know that this was merely only the beginning of a storm of pain that they all must be prepared for.

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N.M.E Sales Guy was waiting for one of several customers to order a monster from Holy Nightmare Enterprise. However, business had been slower than usual lately. Their number one customer, King Dedede, had not called to order a beast in several days, which was a new record for him. Perhaps he got tired of their monsters failing or maybe that idiot of a penguin finally realized he was being scammed, which should have happened months ago! It was no big deal though; they could just send a monster to kill the two Star Warrior in Dreamland. Afterall, the money was mostly used to so they could obtain resources semi-legally.

Luckily for the Sales Guy, one of their newest customers had just called in, "Welcome to Nightmare Enterprises, you must be our newest customer!" He greeted. This new customer was a dog creature with a bun on top that was tied by two bells. Her fur was a desaturated yellow, with the same lack of saturation with her orange blushes. She seems to wear a grey vest with short white sleeves. Her ear fur was a darker color then all her other fur and she wore a faint maroon ribbon by her neck. N.M.E Sales Guy couldn't really understand why she was even buying monsters from this company any way, why would she need them?

She sighed, "I suppose I am. My name is Isabelle. And I came to propose an offer you cannot refuse." The dog stated with a quiet voice saying what she would soon say too. The Sales Guy was going to make a joke about how he was the salesperson, but she cut him off before he could start.

"As you may know, you are dealing with two Star Warriors, those being Kirby and Meta Knight." She laid out, "However, a recent prophecy has brought the future version of Kirby to your time sadly."

How did she know this, but he didn't? Nightmare was surly not going to be happy with that. "So, I suppose you want to give me something to stop this? What does this even have to do with you?" Her deal couldn't be that good any way.

Isabelle nodded, "Correct, I want you to give this to the King Dedede you are in contact with." She then got up from her chair and showed an odd-looking mirror. The mirror had two large golden wings that were symmetrical to each other, along with a crown shape on the top of the mirror, which was also covered with polish gold. Four large stars were placed on the edges of the rails that were behind the mirror that were also the same gold. The odd mirror reflected nothing yet was showing something. "This is known as Dimensional Mirror. It should distract everyone for a bit so me and my team could fix this mess." The yellow canine sternly said to the sale guy. "However, you play a VERY crucial role in this plan. You may charge him however you want for this, or just give it to him for free. It comes with the sales pitch too."

N.M.E Sales Guy let out a tired sigh, "That still does not answer my question, what does Kirby have anything to do with you? Answer that and I may ask my boss." He was supposed to be selling monster to her, not the other way around! However, something did feel weird about that mirror, and it could be very valuable. But he would need Nightmare's approval.

Isabelle than sat down and looked at him dead in his eye, with her bells making sound as she sat, "Kirby has tried to destroy the group I'm part of in the future, or for me, the past. If we can distract him for at least two more days, we may be able to kill both the future one and the present one." She explained, "And yes, I'm from the future. However, I need you to listen up." Her voice went serious, and she got closer the camera, "If we do not kill at least one of the Kirbies, both me and you will be screwed, because Kirby WILL kill Nightmare in the future, twice. So got ask Nightmare now."

Sales Guy than turned off his face cam and turned around to talk through the speaker with Nightmare. For some reason, he was easily convinced what Isabelle was saying was true and gave him the green light to obtain the mirror, saying how it will guarantee a valuable object at least. However, he did clarify to let her know that there will be consequences if this is a scam.

"Alright," He spoke while turning the camera on, "Nightmare just gave you the go! But if this is a scam, he told me to cut your throat open." The dog giggled at the comment but paid no real mind. After all, unknown to N.M.E Sales guy, she was just a clone that was repeating the words a Master Hand gave to her. She had no real mind. The mirror was sent, and all the hands could do was either hope it may kill PK and distract them for some time. But now the transaction was done, and they should be reaping in the rewards.

Notes:

NOW THAT WAS A CHAPTER! Hoped you guys liked it, this was really fun to write. I decided to include some familiar characters because when I first though of the idea, I couldn't get them out of my mind, but the next thing of notes will give more HCs probably. BYEEEEEE

Chapter 14: An important update

Hey everyone. So I know it's been like a month since I've updated this fic, don't worry, it's not canceled, I'm going to take a little break again. Something is happening in my life that is a bit personal, so I won't say it, but it may result in the chapter being pushed back by a week or two. It may not though because I may write more to get what's happening off my ming though. I guess only the stars can tell. But don't worry, chapter 14 is going to be out soon because it's almost done! So yeah, just another heads-up.

Chapter 15: A Mirror In Disguise

Summary:

PDDD finds it odd that N.M.E Sales Guy just gave him a strange mirror for a relatively low price with a free trial too. It didn't seem to have a monster, nor could it reflect when Escargoon looked into it. Yet it showed something odd when other looked at it, and he isn't the only one it does this trick to as well.

Notes:

Holy molly, okay so this is my longest chapter yet I think. I had to cut some scenes shorter, so I didn't take a year writing this chapter and make this chapter into more than one. Nova, I need to plan better, or just start planning. I originally was just going to include the Dreamland quartet as the future dreamlanders, yet mirror guys are cool. Also I feel like PMK would be desperate for answers, because I mean, who wouldn't? Also, writing DMK was a blast!

It was midnight now; everyone was truly done with their day beforehand. However, PMK was not finished with his day. He felt like he needed to get as much information about what his future self and the future king could do in the future. What abilities was he unaware about? What new tricks and maneuvers could his future self do? Were there any other natural abilities that FDDD had he was unaware of? What were his powers? Because he was for sure had no idea how on Popstar he had missed the king holding his breath for more than five minutes, and twenty minutes should have killed him. Probably because that would be to long for the loudmouth king to be silent for. Also, how could he spin so fast too? However, he needed to know his opponents' techniques, and who better than the wise wooden tiki known as Kabu?

The knight decided that it would most likely be best if he did not take a long trip this time and made the decision to fly over to Kabu's canyon. It was a smooth flight, and honestly, felt quite nice. Early April always had a nice breeze in Dreamland. He looked over the peaceful landscape below him. He hoped it would remain that way for just a bit longer. Yet the Kabu's words echoed in his mind, '𝘐𝘧 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘨𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘥𝘦, 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘮𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘶𝘭𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘥, 𝘢 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘰𝘳𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘓𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘢𝘺𝘣𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘰𝘳𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘰𝘴.' Those words kept repeating in his head. Will it be for certain that these lords, known as Dharkon and Galeem, would take over this world and many will die if FK fails? Or maybe there was still hope he could do something? The blue puffball thought for a moment on his previous idea. No, he was being too hopeful, he could not take on his future self, let alone a deity.

"𝘿𝙚𝙖𝙧 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩, 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙨𝙡𝙚𝙥𝙩, 𝙞𝙣 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩? 𝙏𝙝𝙧𝙚𝙚 𝙙𝙖𝙮𝙨? 𝙁𝙤𝙪𝙧? 𝙄 𝙙𝙤 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙠 𝙞𝙩'𝙨 𝙖 𝙨𝙢𝙖𝙧𝙩 𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙖 𝙩𝙤 𝙠𝙚𝙚𝙥 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙨𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙨 𝙪𝙥 𝙤𝙧 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙢𝙖𝙮 𝙛𝙡𝙮 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙤 𝙖 𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙚!" She scolded. Honestly, making sure PMK doesn't die from something incredibly stupid is a challenge for some reason. Probably because of poor self-care. Though, she did remember being like that when she was in her late twenties, making dumb and stupid choices that seemed smart at the time. She cringed at that though, at least PMK had someone to give him some guidance.

PMK rolled his eyes, '𝘋𝘰 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘺 𝘮𝘺 𝘭𝘢𝘥𝘺, 𝘐 𝘶𝘴𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘥𝘰 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘵𝘰𝘰 𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴, 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦.' PMK did not want to make his teacher fret over his safety, especially since it had been happening so often. He knows he should most likely sleep more, but why sleep when he could be working? He's survived being up for at least a week straight before passing out, he can handle a few more days!

Galaxia wanted to talk some sense in the knight, but she would later. She was curious on the prophecy too; the whole universe and future people were at threat! '𝙄 𝙢𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙖𝙙𝙢𝙞𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝, 𝙁𝙆 𝙢𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙗𝙚 𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙖𝙣𝙚𝙡𝙮 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙝𝙞𝙢 𝙩𝙤 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙣 𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙬𝙤 𝙜𝙤𝙙𝙨 𝙖𝙩 𝙤𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝. 𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙡𝙞𝙢𝙞𝙩𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙬?' She questioned, '𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙜𝙜𝙡𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙛𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙖𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙩 𝙒𝙤𝙡𝙛 𝙒𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙝, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙢𝙮 𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙙, 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙞𝙛 𝙁𝙆 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙗𝙚𝙖𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙛𝙪𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛, 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙝𝙚 𝙜𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝?' Wolf Wrath was strong alright, but nowhere near a god. With FK's inhale also getting stronger too, he could obtain new abilities likely, but what power do those new abilities hold?

'𝘐 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘴𝘰𝘰𝘯 𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩." PMK thought. He tilted his wings down to have a smooth glide down at the sight of Kabu. He thought about what Galaxia had said about FK's strength. It was true, FK was incredibly strong, stronger than PMK thought was possible, even for Kirby. He was proud of his strength, a truly magnificent Star Warrior indeed. He would for certain be able to take down Nightmare if he hasn't already, but knowing what time this town had left before the evil sage would strike, he must have already slain him.

PMK landed silently on the platform, with the moonlight giving the canopy a faint glow that was gorgeous due to the lack of torches, one of the many reasons why PMK loved the moon. He pondered for a split seconded if he still loved the moon as much as he did now in the future. The knight tucked his wings in a fashion so where they could not be seen, even if they were uncomfortable in that position. He swiftly entered the room that was inside of Kabu to ask him the questions in private. The knight stopped in front of the warp star and just stared at it. He had so many thoughts at once that he could not register them and they were gone as soon as they came. He then snapped out of his trance and looked up.

"Kabu, I seek your guidance once more." He called out in the room. The knight was now mentally preparing a list of questions to ask Kabu so he could get this over with because he felt his exhaustion catching up to him.

The wise foreteller took a breath, "There is no need to ask any questions right now," Kabu announced," For I know why you are here." PMK nodded in response to Kabu's statement, waiting for the truth to be revealed. "For the future king, his powers of strength grow larger after a certain dark heart takes over, yet the Three Mage Sisters who helpt summon the dark heart have similar powers to him. His strength may even rival yours at times" Kabu rhymed, "For you, new skills with your sword will lay before you, seemingly causing a tornado. The same dark heart as before will help you with your mind, breaching to objects you wish to grab. Fooling opponents will be easier when there is multiple of you." The wise sage explained, "For the future Dee, strong enough to crack Popstar if he wished, skilled with a spear and a parasol, and a soul that can last after death, he is harder to fight then you might think." Kabu stated in a sing-song sort of fashion, as if he was telling a poem. "For the seconded child of the stars, a stronger inhale grants him new powers, ones that should not be possible. An iron will to investigate and fight, yet his kindness never fading and helping him make powerful friends instead of foes. Old abilities that grow tired reawaken, for his strength is not confined to mere genetics for him. "

Both Galaxia and PMK had so many more questions. What was this dark heart? Who were the Three Mage Sisters? Could he clone himself in the future? Bandee was strong enough to crack Popstar? How can copy abilities change over time? How was he going to cause a tornado? Was Kabu talking about that werid spin move? But most importantly, what was the danger that could be posed if PDDD had the strength that could rival him? He knows that FK is certainly in one piece so that means anything that PDDD tried in the future clearly did not work, but now with this new power Kabu was talking about, could it halt FK's progress? He was aware the FK would mention FDDD in a positive manner, but this was Kirby in the end, and like Kabu stated, he is quick to make friends.

PMK took a couple of deep threats, "I must ask Kabu, is FDDD in any way a threat to FK on his own free will?" he questioned. He really hoped that his thoughts from last week were true and that perhaps FDDD had changed his ways enough to at least be tolerable and not try to kill an infant, but what were the chances of that?

"King Dedede will no longer be a threat, for he has changed. People of the future talk about how different he is, as if he was a new person, who just happened to look like the king." Kabu assured strongly, "For he is great friends with Bandee and Kirby, yet even closer to you." For some reason, Kabu said the last part in a softer manner than he usually used, as if it meant something more in Galaxia's mind, yet PMK just ignored it. How in the world is he close friends with FDDD? That's like saying him and Kirby were brothers! Though it could be possible if FDDD went through such a drastic change that he seemed like a new person.

'𝑷𝑴𝑲, 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒇𝒂𝒊𝒓, 𝒊𝒇 𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒘 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒖𝒏𝒎𝒂𝒔𝒌𝒆𝒅, 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒘𝒐 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒃𝒓𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒔, 𝒐𝒓 𝒇𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒐𝒏 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏!' Galaxia laughed in his mind. She knew that the chances of them being related were slim to zero, but she could see someone being confused by the fact the two looked similar. She had a brief thought of them being related to a certain deity for a moment, but soon discarded it.

FMK drowsiness kept creeping up on him, and he felt like should go home soon. "Thank you for your guidance Kabu." The knight began to slur. The small orb then walked outside of Kabu and his wings hot out and soon the swordsman flew up into the sky, yearning to go to bed now.

-

It was around 7:30 am when PDDD got up, which was shockingly early for the penguin. In all honesty though, he had been up since about 5 am due to the fact that the memory of being kidnapped kept replaying in his dreams, so he struggled to go back to bed. So the king's eyelids felt heavier than usual, but not enough for him to go to bed again.

Escargoon was shocked to see His Majesty up so early, he knew that they were going to try to get answers from Lucario and FK, but they planned on doing that after lunch. Why was the king up so darn early? The snail really wasn't complaining though, it was a pain to wake up PDDD anyway, but he was curious on it. Though the snail let the thought leave his mind in order not get hit on the head again by PDDD.

The king walked to his thrown and just sat there, not really doing much. His mind was just as empty as usual, but he just didn't know what to do. So, he just stared at nothing. That was until for some unknown reason, his throne got in the position to call Nightmare Enterprise. The room turned dark and the giant T.V flipped out. The monster summoner then appeared out of the roof and the floor too. Then finally, the little umbrella over his chair appeared.

The screen turned on and had a familiar face was shown, "Triple D! It's been a while hasn't it?" N.M.E Sales Guy blurted joyfully. "We actually have a killer deal for you, Your Majesty!" Sales Guy hoped that the king would accept the price he was offering it for, if not, he will just say he can give it a trial run.

The king's eyes widened as he cleared his throat, "I actual ain't lookin' for no monster today. Must of pressed the wrong button or somethin' like dat." While it would be a funny idea to put the two Kirbies against a huge monster, PDDD and Escargoon, who was now behind the throne, both knew that this would certainly go down the drain with FK present.

N.M.E Sales guy shook his head, "Well you'll be lucky you hitted that button today, King Dedede, because this isn't a deal you would want to miss!" He exclaimed.

Escargoon sighed, while the salesperson was smart in selling monsters to PDDD to fight against PK, he really had no idea what he was sending these monsters to fight. He almost felt bad for the beast that would appear soon likely. It wouldn't even be a fight with FK, he'd just eat them.

PDDD looked up at the screen, this time with much more intrest, yet was kind of ticked off at the salesman. "Yea? You said that with other deals!" PDDD barked, "And they were all nothin' but trash!" He did not feel like being scammed by Nightmare today, that was for certain, or ever really.

"Can't I at least show it to you?" N.M.E Sales Guy questioned, "I'll even give you a weeklong free trial for it since you're are most reoccurring customer!"

A free monster, aye? Well, if he wasn't paying for it, what could be the harm on lettin' it in now? Nothin expect the Kirbies could get hurt. With a grin that shouldn't be there, PDDD shouted, "Alrighty then, I'll do the trial, just send that beast over!"

Soon a bright flash was coming from the monster summoner. What seemed like lighting kept appearing from the top of the machine and kept striking the floor until something truly odd landed there. A mirror, which was floating too. the screen had already turned off so Escargoon nor the king could yell at the sales person.

Escargoon began to walk to the mirror, "Really?" He yelled in his usual sarcastic tone, "Just some fancy smanshy mirror? What is this going to do even against PK." He then sighed picking up the mirror, "I knew it was a scam!" However, when the gastropod looked at the mirror, it didn't reflect anything. The only thing that it showed was a shadowy landscape that kind of looked like the outside of the castle, creepy.

Escargoon took an audible gulp, "This thing can't even work as a normal mirror, now can it?" What a unless object, all it could be used for honestly was a haunted house, and a pastel one at that with how bright and polished the gold outer ring was. All they could do now was wait for the free trial to be over he supposed.

The king pushed his henchman aside and grabbed the mirror, his head turned towards Escargoon, "Now how is dat possible?" He snickered, "It's still some weird lookin' mirror." Escargoon's eyes widened as he looked into the mirror now, he pointed a hand at it, visibly shaking. He tried to say something, but he kept stuttering. "Now what chu' scared about now Goonie?"

the king than turned his eyes to the mirror and jumped back, letting go of the mirror, yet it did not hit the ground, but floated instead. The mirror had finally reflected something alright, that being PDDD, but it wasn't exactly him. The penguin the mirror showed had no pupils nor iris, it was just pure white. He was a shade of black or perhaps a dark grey, with his shoes and beak being a light shade of grey for sure. His robe and hat were a maroon shade of red that was kind of dusty. The trimming his coat was defiantly black though, along with the puffball on top of his hat though, with the harder part of his hat being a shiny darkish grey.

Even though the reflection of him looked drastically different from him, it still mimicked his movement and his face, so it had to be a reflection, but what in the world was this mirror? Reflecting a creepy version of the king, yet showing nothing of Escargoon? Perhaps it was some weird monster.

The king than stepped away from the mirror, going to the side of it. Escargoon did the same thing too, and they both looked each other in the eyes with fear. "Now what was that about?" The snail cried.

PDDD felt a cold shiver down his spine, "I ain't got a clue, but dis definitely ain't no normal mirror, dats for sure." He muttered. Then, an idea formed in his head. What if he put this weird mirror on the path between Sir Ebrum's quarters to confuse the life out of those two annoying children of theirs? That would be haliarous! He then told the idea to Escargoon, who was hesitant to agree, but soon said yes.

PDDD made all the Nightmare Enterprise related items go back into their hiding place and commanded Escargoon to hand the mirror to Waddle Doo or any Waddle Dee to hang it up in the location he stated. The monarch than sat in his throne once more. However, once he sat down, he felt a wave of guilt over come him. he started to think about the reflection he saw in the mirror. It looked so horrible, yet it felt like it was the personification of the worst parts of him. He didn't know why, but it was what his gut was telling him. Now that he looked back at the mirror, it definitely gave off a strange and terrifying aura. It felt like his evil reflection could appear right in front of him and take him to whatever location was shown by the mirror. But that couldn't happen, it just couldn't! Those kids probably won't even have a reflection like Escargoon. They'd just be creeped out by it.

The penguin than rapidly blinked. Why was he even thinking like this? He never cared about the Cappies any way. They we're below him! Maybe it was some recent events that made him think like this. Having your life at stake may do things to you after all. But who cares? He was king, so he could do whatever in Popstar he wanted! Maybe he just needed to splash some water on his face, water did kind of help him feel better most of the time.

The king got up from his chair and walked to his room, which led to his bathroom. He looked in the mirror for a seconded. It was just a regular mirror, not whatever the fuck was that other mirror, if it was one. It reflected what he looked like on the outside, not what the golden one showed. It was the physical him. He turned on the faucet and cupped the water despite the fact he was wearing gloves. He then splashed it on his face and repeated this three times. He then grabbed a towel and pulled his head up to look at his reflection while drying it. This time when he looked at his mirror though, the same entity from the winged mirror.

The penguin let out a small yelp from seeing the reflection again and almost fell over. When he got himself balanced again, he realized something. His reflection didn't move. It just kept staring at him, following him with its non-existent pupils. Now this for sure was the monster! The mirror must have created it in some way, but why him? Escargoon was the first to look at it, so why didn't he have to deal with this? Why did it seem like the mirror only affected him?

PDDD than stared right back at the beast, "A-a-alright!" He stated shakily, "What cha' name?"

The creature didn't answer. It just kept staring at him. It than tilted his head sideways but gave a sinister grin. "Y҉o҉u҉ ҉r҉e҉a҉l҉l҉y҉ ҉d҉o҉n҉'҉t҉ ҉k҉n҉o҉w҉,҉ ҉d҉o҉ ҉y҉a҉'҉?҉"҉ The thing responded fuzzily. The creature, known as King Dedede, or Shadow Dedede by his light counterpart, was confused by this. How could he not recognize the person he fought, won against, and then shoved back into a mirror? Even more so after SDDD had tried to kill him once or twice. Also, he wasn't wearing his usual onesie or his kimono that he may sometimes wear, how odd.

PDDD rapidly shook his head, "Now how on Popstar would I regconize you?" He quizzed, "We just met!" What was this weird, mirror hermit thing talking about? Was it the monster that the mirror supposedly was? If so, it seemed more interested in him than either one of the Kirbies!

The mirror dweller growled at him, barring oddly sharp teeth. "D҉o҉n҉'҉t҉ ҉c҉h҉a҉'҉ ҉e҉v҉e҉n҉ ҉t҉r҉y҉ ҉t҉o҉ ҉l҉i҉e҉!҉" The being growled through the mirror which resulted in it sounding staticky. "Y҉a҉'҉ ҉f҉o҉u҉g҉h҉t҉ ҉a҉n҉d҉ ҉w҉o҉n҉ ҉a҉g҉a҉i҉n҉s҉t҉ ҉m҉e҉!҉" Now PDDD was truly befuddled. He first of all encountered this thing, decided to fight it, and won? How on earth was that possible? This THING seemed to be strong enough to maybe kill FK even! Though in reality, SDDD had lost to FK too, but didn't care enough about the puffball. " ҉B҉u҉t҉ ҉n҉o҉w҉.҉.҉.҉ " The penguin like creature breathed, "I҉'҉l҉l҉ ҉b҉e҉ ҉d҉a҉'҉ ҉o҉n҉e҉ ҉w҉i҉t҉h҉ ҉y҉a҉'҉ ҉h҉e҉a҉d҉ ҉c҉h҉o҉p҉p҉e҉d҉ ҉o҉f҉f҉.҉" It stated bluntly. It picked up its giant axe looking thing and starred dead in the eyes of PDDD, as if it were looking at his soul, "O҉h҉ ҉a҉n҉d҉ ҉b҉y҉ ҉t҉h҉e҉ ҉w҉a҉y҉,҉ ҉j҉u҉s҉t҉ ҉c҉a҉l҉l҉ ҉m҉e҉ ҉S҉D҉D҉D҉ ҉y҉a҉'҉ ҉f҉u҉k҉i҉n҉'҉ ҉d҉u҉m҉b҉a҉s҉s҉.҉" It than sliced the mirror it was seemingly in, leaving the mirror to be cracked into several pieces.

The bird let out a scream just loud enough to catch the attention of Escargoon, who was frightened by the sound of the scream, busted into the bathroom of the king's room. He turned his head rapidly, trying to look for the sound that caused the yelling. His eyes landed on the now shattered mirror. Escargoon could fit the puzzle pieces together if what he was thing seemed in any sense logical, but it didn't.

"What on Popstar happend?" He asked PDDD.

PDDD uncovered his face, which were being covered with his hands, and turned to Escargoon. "I think dat creature was more den just a reflection Escargoon." He responded fearfully

-

Lucario had just tied an apron around her neck and was currently behind the counter of Samo's bar. It was a plain white one that was barley used, so it lacked stains from spilt juices and boozes. Speaking of which, the scent of alcohol was so strong here, it gave Lucario a slight headache, but nothing she couldn't deal with. She's received worst headaches from fight with physic type Pokémon that would use moves like hypnosis and then flinged her around.

"This really isn't necessary Lucario!" Samo cried. He really didn't know why she was doing this. Do not get him wrong, he was grateful for her trying to help him, but he just felt like it was rude to let her do his job. However, each time he mentioned this, she would just say it was fair.

"𝑰 𝒅𝒐𝒏'𝒕, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐." She responded. It just felt right for her to do. She appears out of nowhere, is vague about her origins, and is revealed to be from a different universe and time, and he still let's her crash at his bar? That was way too kind and honestly kind of worrying on how trustful he was, but that appeared to be a common trait in this universe. Anyone else would have been horrified of her from being from the future and a different universe. Plus, she was always the kind of Pokémon who repaid people who helped her since she hatched according to what Korrina said to her and her father, so it was probably just in her nature too.

Lucario than turned her head to the smaller Cappy near her, "𝑨𝒍𝒔𝒐, 𝑭𝑲 𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒑𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒃𝒚 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑻𝒊𝒇𝒇, 𝑻𝒖𝒇𝒇, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑩𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒆 𝒕𝒐𝒐 𝒃𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒚." She informed him. She had just remembered that FK wanted her to tell Samo about the meeting he wanted to make. "𝑶𝒉, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑷𝑲 𝒕𝒐𝒐!" The darkish blue foxed added.

Samo tilted his head at the mention of PK and FK, "Who's PK and FK?" Where they some new twins or somethin' on those lines. Or it could just be the Kirbies now that he thought about it. Yeah, that made sense, why did he even thing the latter thought? That was dumb. He was honestly a bit shocked by the fact that FK was coming out in public so soon after being revealed to be from the future and that he was in Cappy Town. I guess no matter what time Kirby is from, he just can't wait to be in public around people, he was always social. "Actually never mind."

Lucario than snickered at a thought she had, "𝑰𝒇 𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒚, 𝑰 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒃𝒆𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑷𝑴𝑲 𝒊𝒔 𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒕𝒐𝒐!" She giggled. While she wasn't close to the knight that much, she was an ally to him, so she knew a few things about him. One of those things being that he likes to appear out of nowhere often, which could be both hilarious but also terrifying and from what she had heard from FK and sometimes FDDD, he had always been that way.

Samo went silent for a moment, "Do ya' think anybody can take down dis threat down?" He quietly asked. Who could beat these lords that Kabu talked about? From their titles, it could be thought that they controlled light and chaos, which would make someone really powerful. He did also say that FK had 'conquered' them once before, whatever that meant, so maybe he could do it again. He prayed that he could do it again. No one wanted the disaster that Kabu prophesied to happen, including Samo.

Lucario knew that feeling. Feeling like there was no hope to stop Galeem or Dharkon, back when she was first possessed by the Master Hands or right after the beginning of the World of Light. She had something in her mind telling her to give up and to just not fight back, because what good could she do? She was just a Lucario. While they were strong, her thinking she could defeat Galeem felt like saying she could solo Arceus, impossible. She wasn't sure if it was her Master Hand talking to her, as they often tried to destroy a fighter's mental health and stability, or if she really thought that on her own. Luckily, she got out of that horrible mind set, and she wasn't going to let Samo fall into that Bunnelby hole! She could already feel it affect his aura too!

"𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅, 𝒐𝒓 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍, 𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒑 𝒖𝒔 𝒅𝒆𝒇𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔." She reassured, "𝑭𝑲 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒅𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒊𝒕 𝒃𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒆'𝒗𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒑 𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑳𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒐𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑳𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕." She than noticed his aura getting ever so slightly better again, returning to his light blue he was lucky to have. Most people his age seemed to have such horrible auras that reflected all the horrible things they have done in life and how they were thinking now, especially bar tenders! Yet for some reason, he had such a warm and nice aura. Mostly likely it could be chalked up to the fact he lived in Dreamland, which rarely saw such big threats at this time.

He looked up at the blue fox, "Ya'? Well I hope it will pay off." He answered.

It was relatively quiet for a bit, Lucario did the dishes while Samo swept the floor. Lucario than reminded him that he should probably get Buttercup and Hana in case they had any information for the plan to rescue their husbands. Samo nodded and went to get them. While he was gone, someone named Professor Curio walked into the bar. He first greeted Lucario as if she were Samo for a moment but was shocked to see her there instead. He questioned her for a bit on why she was there, but she answered swiftly and took his order of Tokaji wine. Professor Curio was drastically different from the professors of her universe, but then again, so was literally everything else here.

Soon, a group of five entered the alcohol and juice bar. The group of five being Tiff, Tuff, Fololo, Falala, and either PK or FK. Tuff and Kirby sprinted up to Lucario, which helpt her realize the Kirby was indeed FK.

"Ello' Lucario!" Tuff said cheerfully. He was ecstatic to see Lucario. It was so cool to see anyone from a different time, let alone a different universe! It felt like meeting PK for the first time again.

Meanwhile, the little puffball next to him piped up too. "Poyo!" He yelled out in a very sweet manner. No matter what year or how old Kirby was, he was always just so adorable and huggable! He just always had a friendly aura to him, an aura that for some reason, was always the lightest shade of blue in Lucario's eyes, it barely became darker unless something truly horrific had happened.

Tiff, Fololo, and Falala also said there greetings to, which Lucario responded too as well. "Where's Samo?" Tiff asked. The bar owner was nowhere to be seen today.

"𝑶𝒉, 𝒉𝒆'𝒔 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑴𝒓𝒔.𝑩𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒆𝒎 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑴𝒓𝒔. 𝑩𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒈𝒂𝒔." Lucario informed the girl. Now she had her own question as she looked for two missing people, "Where's FK and Bandee?" She wondered. The two were not to be seen with the group for some odd reason.

"Oh, they stopped to talk to Rick." Falala answered.

"Yeah, the two said that they just wanted to check on something." Fololo added on to his other half, "Something about a star wand or something?" Neither Fololo nor Falala knew about this wand, but they did wonder why they asked Rick about it.

Curio overheard what they were saying, and decided to clarify, "I believe you mean the Star Rod," Professor Curio began, "From what I've heard, it is an artifact made by an ancient civilization, enchanted to bring good dreams when is on top of a certain fountain." If Curio had to be honest, not much was known about the Star Rod to his knowledge other than the fact it was old and was rumored to be able to get rid of nightmares, but not who made it. "Who made it exactly though, not a clue on this planet may tell!"

Huh, how far in the past was this Popstar? Lucario thought everyone knew about the location of the Star Rod, especially the people here considering they live not too far from it. FDDD checks on it either daily or weekly from what he hears, and he rarely uses his car, so it can't be too far. Also, they didn't know about the Fountain of Dreams?

Tiff was interested in the Star Rod though. She had read a book about it once, because she basically read anything that was in front of her, and Professor Curio was right, not much was known about it. "Perhaps an ancient Cappy civilization built it!" She suggested. She knew it was near Cappy Town, but didn't know exactly where it was, so maybe it was made by one of the Cappies ancestor.

Lucario shook her head, "Not from what I've heard." She responded to Tiff. Lucario was told that it was created by a group called the Ancients, which in her opinion could use some creativity in their name, and was mad thousands, perhaps eons, ago. So, she didn't think an ancient Cappy could have made it.

"What have you heard about it?" Tiff quizzed. How did this fox know about the Star Rod at all? Maybe FMK or FK told her about it? But how would FK know though? He couldn't read and he probably wouldn't ask questions about it. Maybe FDDD? No, he didn't care much about the town itself, not the country he ruled over, he was just a mean and scheming monarch.

"The Star Rod was made thousands, maybe even eons, ago." She started, "It was created by a civilization known as the Ancients" She than found a piece of paper under the counters and slid it to Tuff, hoping to get an order, "Yes I know not the best name, but that's what they're called," She added on, "But the Ancients for some reason wanted to get rid of all bad dreams so they made two things." She started build up suspense at the end of her sentence, like she was telling a story at night, and they were all huddled around a campfire too! "Those two things being the Star Rod, which is the object that gets rid of bad dreams, and the Fountain of Dreams, which is the pedestal that gives the energy needed for the Star Rod to do its job." The blue fox than noticed Tuff whispering to his sister, who gave him a pen, and than he went back to his seat. He than scribbled on his paper. Two apple jucies.

Lucario than went to where Samo kept the juices and grabbed the apple juice. She than quickly grabbed two cups and swiftly began pouring them. She got them all the way to full, but than made a foolish mistake. She ran full speed back to tuff, who was sitting right by PK, and made a sharp stop, causing the two drinks to spill on both the kids.

"Oh Arceus, I'm sorry!" She gasped. She tried to quickly find the napkins, which were hid behind some bottle of presumably vodka from what she smelt. She could hear Tiff in the background urging the two boys to go to the bathroom to clean themselves up do to the fact that the juice spilt on them and would make them sticky.

The two boys did just that and went the the bathroom. Tuff made a comment on how Lucario may be just a tiny bit too fast for a job like this, which PK commented with a happy 'poyo!' As the two made it to the bathroom, which was dimly lit, with just a toilet, soap dispenser, sink, and paper towel dispenser, and a murky mirror, Tuff started to wash his hands.

Tuff than quickly finished washing his hands and took several paper towels to dry his entire body off. "Your turn PK!" He stated cheerfully. PK had to hop the brim of the sink to clean his hands, but when he did, Tuff's mouth went agape.

PK than went to grab some paper towels, but a voice stopped him. "₭łⱤ฿Ɏ! ₩₳ł₮!" His reflection called out in a glitchy voice. PK than turned to the mirror and gave it an odd look that showed his curiosity. His reflection wasn't him exactly if Tuff had to describe it, but it was shaped like him. It had bright white eyes with its mouth being a similar color too. Instead of PK's pink blushes, it had faint grey ones instead. Its body was confined to a shape identical to PK's, yet intead of pink skin, it was like a purple and black vortex was stuck inside it, with it nubs and feet having the same affect.

The creature looked like it was a blob of worry and excitement and at seeing PK for some reason, "ωнєяє нανє уσυ вєєη? ιт'ѕ вєєη α ωєєк!" The creature cried, "Mê åñÐ ¥ðµr £rïêñЧ årê wðrrïêÐ. Ärê ¥ðµ hµr†?" Why was this thing worried about PK? Why did it recognize him and knew his other friends? He knew that him and his sister had never met this look alike and neither had Fololo or Falala. Spikehead, Honey, and Iro would have most likely told him immediately if they saw anything similar to PK, so how did it know PK's friends?

Meanwhile, on Shadow Kirby's side of the mirror, or just simply known as SK, he was relieved to see his light counterpart again! Him and his Kirby got along well, which was weird considering how DMK and MK basically tried to murder each other in some way each time they saw each other but wouldn't actually kill each other. Meanwhile, SDDD hated King Dedede with all his guts and had tried multiple times to actually kill him, but never succeeded. It could be explained by the fact that SK was the non-existent evil that was in Kirby's soul, so that's why they got along, because Kirby got along with everyone. He was also thankful to Kirby and owed it to him for somehow making DMK and tolerable person and not trying to stab anything he saw, which was a drastic improvement from his past self pre-Amazing Mirror!

He knew that Kirby had been missing for about a week now because about five or six days ago, DMK had received a call from Daroach who asked if he saw King Dedede, Meta Knight, Bandana Waddle Dee, or Kirby. Dark Meta Knight responded no because he did not care about the group that much, expect Meta Knight, which Dark Meta Knight had a rivalry with, and maybe sometimes King Dedede for the only purpose being to make fun of his light counterpart. Daroach must have told him about the fact that the four had been missing for three days now, and asked if they could use the mirrors to find them. Normally, DMK would have said he would try than 'forget' about it, but since it was Daroach, he asked SK for his help, and they spent at least an hour per day trying to find their missing light counterparts. DMK and SK had no luck until today when SK just found Kirby!

Back on the light side, Tuff had run to grab his sister, who was talking to a shocked Professor Curio, something about someone named Nova. The mess had been cleaned up, and Fololo and Falala were talking to each other holding their faviorite drinks, Sky Juice. However, Tuff was about to start a panic.

Tuff made a beeline for the chair Tiff was at. "Tiff! Somethin's wrong with PK's reflection!" He cried out. Tiff was wondering was on Popstar could be wrong with his reflection. How could something be wrong with someone's reflection? It was just light bouncing off of an object, so it was just showing what they really are.

"Wrong with his reflection?" Tiff questioned, "Tuff how could that be possible?"

Tuff, however, didn't have time for questions, "I ain't jokin' Tiff!" He yelled at his sister, "You have to check this out!" Tiff now understood from the sheer panic in Tuff's voice and the fact he looked like he could run a hundred-meter dash in five seconds that he wasn't joking.

All the life forms in the bar had their eyes on the two siblings, wondering what they could be talking about. Lucario did remember something about mirror people or something along those lines but couldn't pinpoint it exactly. Professor Curio had a befuddled and confused look while stroking his mustache. Fololo and Falala gave concerned glances at each other but made the choice to follow Tiff and Tuff.

Tuff snatched Tiff's hand and yanked her out of her chair. Tiff made an oof sound at first but kept up with her brother's speed as he made a wild dash to where PK was. When they got to the bathroom, Tiff saw what Tuff meant by something was wrong with his reflection. What on Popstar was this mirror showing? This creature had none of the same colors as PK nor did PK have those weird swirly things inside him! Fololo and Falala were mentally on the same page as Tiff, being confused out of their tiny bodies.

SK could hear the heavy breathing of some other creatures in the room where Kirby was but was unable to identify them due to the fact they weren't in front of the same mirror as Kirby. "кιяву, ωнσ'ѕ ιη тнє яσσм ωιтн уσυ?" The shadow variant questioned. His light version responded with yet another poyo, which meant friends. Said friends appared in front of the mirror, and didn't look like anyone he's met.

The reflection turned his head, "Hðw ¢ðmê Ì'vê ñêvêr mê† †hêm?" The darker version of PK wondered. Tiff was just losing her mind at what she was seeing and hearing. The creature sounded like its voice was looping and echoing, yet it seemed to know PK? How was the mirror talking to them? How were they hearing the thing? Maybe it was a monster ordered by PDDD and it was only acting friendly to trick them into thinking they could trust it! Then again, what monster could this possibly be?

Meanwhile, while the group of five were stuck interogating PK's reflection, Lucario and Professor Curio were talking about Nova still. That was until Samo, Mrs. Bookem, Mrs. Blustergas, Bandee, and FK came in the bar.

Samo glanced at Lucario and the professor, "So, how did ever'thing go while I was gone?" The bartender pondered in his usual polite, Irish accent way. He knew that nothing too big happened since the bar was still intact and it seemed like nothing had exploded, which was a relief because of how fast chaos can seemingly happen here in Dreamland. Samo and the other two elderly Cappies also ran into FK and Bandee, who were also on their way to his bar too, so they joined along too. The kids were really sweet when chatting with them, and FK was just beyond adorable, like, somehow cuter than his past self, which no one knew was possible.

Lucario looked up at Samo with her ears pointed up, "Nothing much," She acknowledge, "I did accidently spill juice on PK and Tuff though when they came." Lucario then remembered the fact that something was wrong with PK's reflection. "Oh also, FK, I believe that something's wrong with your past self reflection, may want to get that checked out." How could she forget about the reflection nothing so soon? Lucario could be so forgetful sometimes.

FK and Bandee both knew what was happening. Somehow, SK had managed to talk to his past self. How? Also, was it past SK or was it the future one? Only one way to find out! "Hey! can chu' three give me and Bandee a minute pleaase?" The pink boy begged. He could figure out what was wrong. Luckily, Buttercup gave FK a nod. FK face lit up and he dragged Bandee with him, who let out a thank you.

When they got there, it was just what the two future boys expected, or something like that. They didn't think that SK would be this worried about them because he kept asking questions about Bandee and FK, who the shadow variant thought was PK. However, due to PK's lack of vocabulary, SK was just losing his mind. This didn't get any better once FK stepped in front of the mirror with Bandee, seeing two Kirbies seemingly gave SK that crash ability and he exploded, metaphorically, for there were no crash bombs in SK's house. But his mind must have been going insane.

"₩ⱧɎ ₳ⱤɆ ₮ⱧɆⱤɆ ₮₩Ø ₭łⱤ฿ɎłɆ₴?" SK cried out in curiosity. How in Nova's name is this happening? DMK did cut Kirby in four equally strong versions of himself, but they were all different questions. Also, from what he heard from King Dedede, Kirby was once cut in half into two versions of himself, that were only half as strong as the original version of himself. Apparently by a monster he bought called Splice and Slice, which was a dumb name in his mind. But those two were two different colors from what he heard! Why was this one exactly like Kirby, but just a bit smaller!

Bandee giggled at the sheer confusion that was going on in SK's mind, "SK, this may sound weird or confusing, and probably both," Bandee clarified, "But the reason why they're two Kirbies is because one is from the past and the other is from the future." He explained in a sincere voice while smothering another laugh because SK looked like he was on the brink of an existential crisis on the newfound knowledge he had just obtained. "The taller one if from the future, our time, and the smaller one is the past!"

SK's mind was just mind boggled, how the FUDGE did this happen? Is this the reason why the mirrors never reflected light Kirby? But why was it showing him now? Why did it reflect him to the past Kirby? Was he in the past now? "в-вαη∂єє, ƒυтυяє кιяву, ι'νє вєєη тяуιηg тσ яєƒℓє¢т тσ уσυ ƒσя, ℓιкє, α ωєєк. ωну ιѕ ιт ωσякιηg ησω?" SK was filled to worry and concerned, why was it working now? Is the mirror in the past now? How far in the past were they? Is it by only a year or several. He had never seen the people who were next to the past and future Kirbies, so it must have be from a slightly more distant past. Also, the Lololo and Lalala near them were flying! Lololos and Lalalas could never fly, so why were these flying? He thought he would have heard of them. Wait, maybe he has! He did hear about a Fololo and a Falala who could fly! Maybe these were the people Kirby was talking about.

Bandee and FK gave each other nervous glances, if SK has been trying to this for about a week, why was it working now? Only two things came to their mind, either something like the Master Hands or Crazy Hands had summoned the future mirror or Nightmare Enterprise had somehow managed to get the future dimensional mirror and sent it to PDDD. Those two options were the most likely, but why would the Hands make the future mirror show up in the past? Neither of the two knew.

"SK, the mirror may be in the past now." Bandee answered. He really hoped it wasn't because DMK could be quite rude at time and violent, meanwhile, SDDD would try to kill PDDD probably and most likely, anyone he comes across, and this is a REALLY bad time for that. Though, DMK could be useful for getting the future King Dedede and Meta Knight back, so he wouldn't be too bad. SDDD no matter how you spined it though, would be a problem. But he rarely left the mirror, so there wasn't a high chance for him to appear.

SK began sweating, "†hðµgh† †hå† må¥ ßê †hê ¢å§ê." The shadowy vortex commented, of course this had to happen. How is the future Kirby not tired of this stuff happening, like, every month? It's only been two months since his last adventure or whatever he calls it, so why is this happening so soon. Eh, who knows, it's Kirby, that's just how he is. BUT WHY WAS HE HERE? He wasn't really that strong compared to the future Kirby! The closest he ever got to defeating Kirby was probably during the Buddy Fight Tower. He was on floor forty-five and got some serious damage on Kirby and Bandee, but he soon got his butt kicked and had to retreat. Man, that tower was weird. When he told DMK about it, he said something about it being fruity, which was odd because there was no fruit. But discarding that, why was he here truly?

"Maybe PDDD ordered whatever brought SK here!" Tiff piped up. Whatever contained SK, which she thought was his name from what she heard Bandee call the shadow boy, would likely be up PDDD's ally. It seemingly caused some peoples reflections to be sentient and shadowy.

FK turned over to Tiff, "Ya', you're probably right Tiff." He commented, "We should bring him here to both hear him better and explain this whole fiasco!"

"Smart idea." Bandee responded.

Tuff looked up at the two flying orb, "Hey, maybe we can send Fololo and Falala to wherever SK is!" He suggested. The boy thought it was a smart idea until he realized one thing, where was SK? The group had no idea where he was, just that he was in the past, which narrowed down nothing. Maybe PDDD's castle if Tiff's theory was right. That was their best bet.

"Sure, we don't mind!" Falala responded, the reflection of the Kirbies seemed nice enough, and if they did try to hurt her and her other half, they could just fly away as fast as possible.

"But where is he?" Asked Fololo. Him and his pink half didn't know where he was nor what this mirror looked like, and there were thousands of mirrors too in the castle! It would take hours to find SK!

Luckly, Bandee had a vague version of a plan. "If the dimensional mirror is in PDDD's castle, it has humongous wings that are made of a shiny light gold. The entire rim of the mirror is made of a light polished gold actually." Bandee described, "it has a crown shaped thing on the top of it, with stars on the corners of its bar rimming stuff. If it's not hanged up on something, then it's probably floating." The Waddle Dee finished explaining. That was pretty specific in the Dee's mind, and to his knowledge, not many mirrors had giant golden wings, so it should be clear as day to find it.

Fololo and Falala gave a nod, but before they left SK started to yell, "ι'ℓℓ вє ωαιтιηg συтѕι∂є σƒ тнє мιяяσя! ву тнє ωαу, му ηαмє ιѕ ѕнα∂σω кιяву! вυт נυѕт ¢αℓℓ мє ѕк тσ ѕανє ѕσмє тιмє!" Shadow Kirby cried out.

On their way out of the bar, Falala and Fololo saw Professor Curio leaving too. He had finished his wine and needed to get back to his job. He had an idea on what may be causing this weird reflection ordeal but need to be certain first.

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It was about the afternoon in Cappy Town now when PMK had made the choice to go see if the town's only historical researcher, Professor Curio. He needed some historical questions answered, or questions he thought were historical. Those being who The Mage Sisters were and what the fuck was a dark heart. If he had to guess, these things were connected to some sort of mythologic story from the past, but if they were just fiction, why did Kabu reference them? Also, he stated they summoned this dark heart too, so they may be real people. It must have happened in the future too, so maybe Professor Curio had nothing on them because it was a future event. But in PMK's mind, it was better to be safe than sorry, so he'll try to figure out who these mages and this dark heart are.

"𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒅𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝑭𝑫𝑫𝑫 𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒇 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒑𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒂𝒓 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒆𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒈𝒆?" Galaxia wondered in his head with similar questions floating in their shared mind space for FMK, FK, and Bandee. All of them seemed much more powerful in the future, but the increase in their strength did not make any sense though. If Galaxia had to make an estimate on how much time had passed since the present to the future the Star Allies and Warriors had come from, she would say ten years at the max. Yet FK seemed to hold so much power, that he could maybe defeat Nightmare with ease! And do not get her started on the Waddle Dee! She could have sworn that any Waddle Dee who had a morsel of his power would be well known over all of Dreamland, yet currently, his past self appeared to be a plan old Dee! While she did not know much about FDDD, she did know that he was able to hold his breath for tw"enty minutes, which was impressive considering how much his past self yelled, and that if he wished to, he could sneak up on even the most alert knight. Also, the fact that he could apparently rival FMK's strength at times, which was fascinating! Speaking of FMK, his future self appeared to be quite stronger too, he was even using his wings in the future! She also overheard from PMK's mind that FMK was not wielding her, but she could just chalk that up to the fact she could help prevent possessions, so the Master Hand would have got rid of her somehow so the possession could go easier. Yet something about Kabu's word made her think that PMK could possibly be a psychic!

PMK mentally rolled his eyes in a joking manner at the sentient sword, "𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘰𝘯 𝘗𝘰𝘱𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘐 𝘣𝘦 𝘱𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘤?" He thought while moving out the way of some Cappy children playing the center of town, "𝘈𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘦, 𝘐 𝘣𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘣𝘺 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴, 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘦, 𝘴𝘰 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘐 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘺𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘢 𝘱𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘤?" The knight asked her, waiting for an actual answer from Galaxia and hoping she didn't dive deep into his mind to think for an hour or two. "𝘗𝘭𝘶𝘴, 𝘐 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘩 𝘒𝘪𝘳𝘣𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘢 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘴𝘮𝘢𝘯. 𝘈𝘭𝘴𝘰, 𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘯𝘰 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘱𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘤," he added.

Knowing her wielder wanted an answer in at least fifteen minutes, she planned on what to say, "𝑹𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑲𝒂𝒃𝒖 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝒏𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕? 𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒃𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉 𝒕𝒐 𝒐𝒃𝒋𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒃, 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒂 𝒑𝒔𝒚𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒄 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒆, 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝑯𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕," The golden sword responded to her wielder's question. Though she did have to admit, why would he be a psychic? Then, it hit her. "𝑴𝒂𝒚𝒃𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒅𝒊𝒅 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒂 𝒑𝒔𝒚𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒄, 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒎𝒂𝒚𝒃𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒌 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒅𝒊𝒅 𝒊𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒖𝒏𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒚!" She latched on to her previous statement. It made sense, why would FMK willingly be near something even nicked named as, "The Dark Heart." It sounded like too much dark matter for someone as righteous as Meta Knight to even be around unless he was trying to defeat it.

PMK nodded, her thinking made sense. Kabu's words heavily implied that he would be able to pick up objects via his mind, but that he still did not desire to be a psychic, but it was forced upon him. "𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘬 𝘺𝘰𝘶, 𝘮𝘺 𝘭𝘢𝘥𝘺." He commented, with a sigh following immediately after. "𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘯𝘰𝘸, 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘯𝘰𝘵, 𝘎𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘹𝘪𝘢?" He asked his sword using his mind. She did not say anything, but just gave a mental nod. How could his future self deal with all these odd threats?

Before he could think more or Galaxia could comment on something, he realized that he was in fact in front of Professor Curio's Museum, or what was really his house that showed off some relics. For some reason, PDDD barely gave enough funding to the museum to even function! PMK found that rather unfortunate because honestly, learning about history was just amazing! He did not care if it was only a decade old or eons old, he just adored learning about the past! So, it was sad that no one's taxes went to this instead of some hideous statue of PDDD. He needed to focus though, he needed to learn about the Three Mage Sisters!

PMK turned the doorknob to be greeted with the museum's usual build and the owner of said museum desperately trying to put together an ancient pot but stopped the moment he saw PMK walk through the door. It would be an understatement to say that he was astonished to see the knight. He thought he would be doing whatever he usual does or trying to figure out what the hell was going on with the future Kirby, who may be going as FK for the sake of convince, and Bandee. So why was he here?

"Uh, greetings Sir Meta Knight!" The archologist yelped. He then swiftly got up on his feet, or as fast as a man his age could, and dusted off his clothes. "What brings you here today?"

PMK nodded, "Good morning, Professor Curio," the knight greeted," I was just wondering if you had any information on a group known as the Three Mage Sisters."

The Three Mage Sisters? The professor thinks he'd heard of them before. When did he hear about those three? Ah! Now he remembered. It was about ten years ago when he ran into a man who swore on his life that he saw a girl who was struck by lightning on top of a high tower on some distant planet. At first, Curio did not believe what he was hearing, but the rescuer sounded like one of the magic ancients from long, long, long, ago. So, there may be an ounce of truth in that strange tale. Apparently, the girl who was struck was revived by the traveler and had been save by harnessing the bolt of lightning. According to the man, this happened a mere three months ago when he was told of the strange tale. Then someone gave him a book about the lighting mage and two other girls who had similar stories. Maybe he still had those books!

"I believe I do!" He responded excitedly, "I may have a book related to the three somewhere around this place, just give me a minute." The old man then ran to the back of his shop. Meanwhile, PMK just stood there patiently. The knight just glanced around the front area of the building. Nothing really caught his interest expect the singular, yet rather large, Dyna Blade feather.

How did Professor Curio even get such a large feather into his building? It was quiet heavy from what the blue knight had heard, so maybe the other Cappies had helped him. Thought that still must have been a slight pain the ass because of how sharp the feather was. The knight then began to wonder how well the feather would work in battle. It was razor sharp, but hefty. It would probably either cut any opponent in half or stun them from how hard it must hit. But because of how much it must have weighed, PMK figured that it would not have been a good weapon for most people, mostly people in his size range. Perhaps someone larger could wield it.

PMK must have been too focused on whether or not the feather would have been a good weapon, and now what it was really showing him. The feather must have recently been shined because it was reflected the dark blue knight well, too well. The knight, despite being as alert as he is, did not notice the fact the feather was not showing him anymore, but someone very similar. It did not last long though, because as soon as the knight heard it speak, he was snapped out of his thoughts.

"Whêrê †hê £ÚÇK håvê ¥ðµ ßêêñ, ß̆ÇH!" A voice similar to his yelled out. The voice was a bit gruffier than his and lacked his accent a bit. When PMK looked at the feather now, it did not reflect him, but someone like him. A being that was him, but all the blues were now greys, his shoes were a violent red, a stark contrast to anything else the seeming clone wore. Its shoulder pads were more similar to his future self though, with the main color being a darker version of the trimming of the should pads. It also had the marking on his pauldron too, which for some reason his future self had. The being's eyes were also more of an orange-yellow then a firm yellow too. The most noticeable difference though was the thing's mask. His was full of slashes and had one big gash over its right eye. Why did it not change its mask if it was surly about to break? Also, why did it act like it knew him too?

"I do not even know you." He panned out to the creature. What in the stars was this thing? Why did it want his location? Was it working for Nightmare or maybe the Master Hands? Maybe the Crazy Hands that FK mentioned yesterday because of the fact this weird creature cursed twice in one sentence for no reason.

Oh great! Now Meta Knight was lying to his face! This is one of the several reasons why DMK absolutely fucking hates his light counterpart. Despite what people think, it was not just because he kept losing to that cunt, but because he would try to lie to his face sometimes, and this was just ridicules. I mean, how can you just forget about the person who locked you in a mirror for a bit? If Daroach did not care about Meta Knight so much to the point it got annoying, Dark Meta Knight would not be searching for this bastard. He swore to Nebula, why did that pestering, yet somehow charming, rat even care about his light counterpart!

DMK then remembered that he was starting a conversation with his light counterpart, and decided to just direct his anger at Meta Knight instead because what was the point of being jealous over something as dumb as Meta Knights relationship with Daroach. "Öh, ¢µ† †hê ßµll§hï† Mê†å Kñïgh†. ̆ ï§ñ'† ê姥 †ð £ðrgê† †hê þêr§ðñ †hê kêêþ§ åþþêårïñg ïñ ¥ðµr rê£lꢆïðñ." He snapped back.

Whatever guess that PMK had about his weird reflection was thrown out the window, because he has never seen his reflection do this before. However, PMK did have a theory on what was happening. This being looked like his future self, so maybe he would meet this weird doppelganger in the future for whatever reason. Why did he have a doppelganger in the future? PMK had no clue. However, that possibility seemed the most likely.

But how would he be sure? Maybe he could his weird reflection some questions about the future. He then snickered a bit. His reflection seemed so hot headed though, if he asked a question that could be common sense, the creature may just leap out of the feather and shake him, though PMK was not sure if that was possible.

"Last time I checked, you have never been there instead of my reflection," PMK spoke back in a semi-sassy tone, "That statement would be like saying I have met the Three Mage Sisters." If Kabu used the Three Mage Sisters as a reference to something, he may have interacted with them before, but he was certain. If not, then he could use this to find out more about his strange issue with his reflection.

What is wrong with Meta Knight? How does he not remember the three women who helpt summon his creator? WHO HELPT SUMMON A GOD FOR FUCK'S SAKE! Was he playing some trick on him? No, that did not really strike him as something that Meta Knight would do. He was either way to stoic and strict or in some sort of mood where he would make a lot of puns, so pulling a prank on him would be out of character.

DMK just rolled his eyes, "ßð†h 𣠆hð§ê §†å†êmêñ†§ årê †rµê, Ðïþ§hï†." The grey knight barked back, " ¥ðµ håvê mê† †hê †hrêê Mågê §ï§†êr§ åñÐ Ì'vê ßêêñ åþþêårïñg ¥ðµr rê£lꢆïðñ £ðr ¥êår§ ñðw." Maybe all of Meta Knight's trauma is catching up on him now and is causing him to forget things. While the mirror world may not be a safe as the light world, he did know that he has never been possessed four times, and that's not counting that Forgo creature who tried to possessed Meta Knight too. Also, that war too apparently and the multiple times the Halberd has sunken. The fact that Meta Knight seemed mostly unfazed by all of that was weird.

So PMK did meet the Mage Sisters in the future! He wondered why he would ever encounter them, but if this creature was telling the truth, then he also knew this creature. However, this weird reflection was quiet hostile to be fair, and cursed a lot. He basically curses every sentence for no apparent reason. Maybe he caught him in a bad mood, or this was just normal, PMK did not have enough information to make a reasonable conclusion, or if this being was telling the truth.

Meanwhile, Professor Curio was unable to find the book on the Mage Sisters, which was unfortunate. However, he could just tell Sir Meta Knight what he knew about the three. While the professor was walking back to where the knight was located, he heard the knight speak, and something responding to him. The odd thing was though, was that the other person's voice sounded distorted, but what he could make out kind of sounded like Sir Meta Knight, but a bit more gruffy, low pitch, and lacked his accent a bit. Did someone enter the museum while he was looking for the book? And why were they screaming?

The professor soon saw the scene that was playing right in front of the Dyna Blade feather. Which to anyone, the scene was just mind-boggling confusing. First of all, WHY WAS META KNIGHT'S REFLECTION TALKING TO HIM. Secondly, why was it voice so weird?

"Sir Meta Knight, what is happening?" Professor Curio questioned.

The knight, to be honest, was just as confused as Curio, if not more. The knight just shrugged, "I do not know, Professor Curio." He answered back, "But whatever this is clamming that I know it and the Mage Sisters."

Then, the reflection's wings popped out of its back and its eyes turned to a dark red, "฿Ɇ₵₳Ʉ₴Ɇ ɎØɄ ĐØ ₭₦Ø₩ ₥Ɇ!" The being cried out in furry, with the fuzziness of the mirror going away a bit but being replaced by a glitchy sound. "ⱧØ₩ ₵₳₦ ɎØɄ ₦Ø₮ ⱤɆ₥Ɇ฿ɆⱤ ₥Ɇ ₮Ɽ₳₱₱ł₦₲ ɎØɄ ł₦ ₳ ₥łⱤⱤØⱤ?" The reflection wondered, with its arm moving in front of its face as if it were trying to catch something. "ⱧØ₩ ĐØ ɎØɄ ₦Ø₮ ⱤɆ₥Ɇ฿ɆⱤ ₮ⱧɆ ₥₳₲Ɇ ₴ł₴₮ɆⱤ₴? ₮ⱧɆɎ Ⱡł₮₮ɆⱤ₳ⱠɎ ⱧɆⱠ₱₮ ₴Ʉ₥₥Ø₦ ₳ ₣Ʉ₵₭ł₦₲ ₲ØĐ! ł ₴₩Ɇ₳Ɽ ₮Ø ₦ØV₳, ₮ⱧɆɎ ₩ɆⱤɆ ₮ⱧɆ ⱤɆ₳₴Ø₦ ₩ⱧɎ ɎØɄ ₲Ø₮ ₱Ø₴₴Ɇ₴ɆĐ ł₦ ₮ⱧɆ ฿Ɇ₲₲ł₦₲ Ø₣ ₮ⱧɆ ɎɆ₳Ɽ!"

The room was then filled with a silence that no one really wanted. It made the room feel wrong and like they all should know the reflection, but the two on the other side of the feather did not. Both were confused, both were curious on this thing, both were concerned that it may come out of the feather despite how unlikely it was, but the anger from the thing made it seem possible.

Dark Meta Knight looked around the room the mirror was vaguely showing. The knight knew this room, it was Professor Curio's workplace. He was one of the few Cappies that still lived in Mynydd Town. Plus, he knew a fast route to get there. "Ì kñðw whêrê ¥ðµ årê. Ì'm gðïñg †ð £ïñÐ ¥ðµ. ¥ðµ ßꆆêr ßê rêåÐ¥ †ð êxþlåïñ ¥ðµr§êl£, Mê†å Kñïgh†." DMK stated, before leaving the mirror, allowing Meta Knight's reflection to become normal.

"What on Popstar was that thing?" The two men both asked. What they did know though, was that they were about to have a surprise guest.

Notes:

Dear Nove, that ending was not what I originally, but it's good enough! Next chapter will be a continuation of this chapter, they were originally meant to be one.
Head cannon time!
SDDD is partially possessed from being possessed from his second dark matter possession because of his stomach mouth, you can thank a-pansexual-she-they-waddle-dee on tumbler for that!
The dimensional mirror will show the other version of the creature if their counterpart isn't also looking at the mirror still, but it will just act like a regular mirror.
If the person doesn't have a counterpart to them, they don't appear. So they're some people who are only from the light world and some only from the dark world. The mirror picks and chooses for some reason.
SK is Shadow Kirby, DMK is Dark Meta Knight, and SDDD is Shadow Dedede.
Kirby, Meta Knight, Sir Aruther, sir Nonsaur, Sir Dragato, Sir Falspar, Sir Nonsurat, are all related due to the fact that they all come from Void. That means the entire Dark Matter line too.
SK is significantly weaker than FK, yet still much stronger than PK.
DMK is weaker than FMK, yet from the Amazing Mirror, is stronger than PMK.
SDDD can put up a decent fight for a minute against FDDD, but he ultimately wins. Anyone can win a fight against PDDD though.
DMK has just the tiniest crush on Daroach, and vice versa. JK, they both kind of fruity, but not as much as the Sworn Partners.
SK and DMK spend most of their time hanging out in the light world because they realized how nice color is!
The dark world people are all from the future.
Kabu left after the events of Kirby's Dreamland somehow, with only FK's warp star phone where he was before. Out of respect for him, they named the in-game Kabus after him.
Kirby actually crashed onto Popstar, yet the rumor spread around about him coming from a spring breeze because that' how he returned from a mini adventure right before Kirby's Dreamland.
Dededetour kind of happened, but not really. King Dedede went to check the ruins of the sky peoples' castle and ran into some foes. But he looked into the mirror and fought SDDD, but not DMK.
PMK and PDDD are both mentally in their late twenties while FMK and FDDD are in their early to mid-thirties. Bandana is like seven-9, Bandee is a tween or teen, PK is a baby, and FK is mentally like 6-10 years old
Sky juice is the Kirby universe of bee pollen juice. Yes, that's a real thing. It comes from the people of the Sky, they trade it with people on the ground, but only few do it.
The war against Nightmare happened a couple hundred years ago, not thousands instead because I feel like that would be too long of a gap.

Chapter 16: The Shadows of the Future

Summary:

Fololo and Falala are speeding to find SK, this weird shadow version of FK, who is also from the future. However, someone else is with him who swears like a sailor but is tolerable.

Notes:

DMK is just my favorite to write, just amazing. Also, Fololo and Falala????? Existing?????? Also, head cannon, but Tuff, Fololo, and Falala don't know what fuck means, but they are going to find out soon.

Dark Meta Knight was swiftly gliding through the grey, black, and white land of the mirror version of the usually vibrant version of Dreamland. Nothing was unusual for the Shadow Dreamland, with the fields being empty, few plants living, and it being very dry where he was. That was until DMK saw a familiar purple vortex running below him, that being Shadow Kirby. The young child seemed to be in a frantic rush to get to the mirror, perhaps for the same reason as DMK, to chat with their light counterpart. However, the shadow knight was quickly out speeding the small purple orb, so he decided to help.

DMK angled his wings down to grab the child, which was a rather quick process. However, as soon as DMK grabbed SK, the young vortex began trying to squirm out of his grasp. SK also began to sweat, which almost caused him to drop him.

"Dear Nova, calm the fuck down." DMK ordered SMK, with him grabbing both of his nubs. The knight understood why he was reacting the way he was. At one point, he would use this tactic to surprise attack the young shadow warrior. Well, at least according to his rather foggy memory. If both SK and DMK were honest, they couldn't remember most of their life before the Dimensional Mirror incident. It was all unclear and hard to decipher.

SK then looked up at the figure holding him and saw DMK. The puffball of a blackhole let out a relieved sigh knowing that it was someone he knew. "Did you find Meta Knight?" SK asked him.

DMK nodded, "Yes I did, but he acted very odd." He responded, "It was like he never met me or some of his friends."

SK eyes widened, "Oh yeah! About that, the mirror is in the past." SK stated nonchalantly.

"WHAT THE FUCK!" DMK yelled out of surprise, "You kidding me, right? Who told you that?" The shadowy knight wondered. How in Nova's name did they end up in the past. If it was true, they must be at least five something years in the past. That would make sense, because the Dimensional Mirror was the seventh or so big adventure for Kirby, so it would have to be father in the past.

SK quietly giggled at DMK, "Oh you know, FK, our Kirby." He answered cheerfully, "It made sense since there were two nearly identical Kirbies in the room!" Now, if it were a different color Kirby, then it would have been totally normal. After all, Keeby and the Kirby clones lived on Popstar too.

"So, our Kirby goes by FK now?" Wondered DMK as he glided back down to enter the mirror.

Before SK could respond though, the two flew high up and entered the mirror, but instead of being met with a cloudy, yet colorful pastel, sky, they were instead greeted by a hard wall which DMK flew full speed into while carrying SK, resulting in them both hitting the wall and falling onto the mossy colored ground.

"Ow..." SK groaned as he got up, with DMK getting back on his feet in seemingly a nanosecond. They both glanced around in the strange hallway that the mirror was now located in. It was the complete opposite of the skies that the mirror mostly resided in, with the hallway seemingly feeling cramped even though it wasn't, along with the colors being a damp dark blue while also being a mossy, yet almost moldy, green. The wall seemed to be made of brick, with the corridors appearing to be never ending.

"This isn't Rainbow Route!" SK squealed, "This isn't anywhere near it!" The child then began waving his hands wildly while he began to start running around in circles. Though, before he could make a full lap, the shadow knight next to him grabbed him.

"Shut up." He whispered to the vortex he was holding, "Of course this isn't Rainbow Route. We're in the past, like you just said not even five minutes ago." SK squeal did bring up a good question, where were the two?

The comment did not seem to get rid of the fear in SK's eyes, "I know, but what if were in a bad place?" The young boy asked.

DMK just let out a tired huff. "Come on, are you really that worried?" He questioned back, letting go of SK. " I'm the shadow of the greatest warrior in the galaxy! You're the reflection of the most positive reincarnation of Void for Nova's sake!" He responded to the worried child, "I think we can handle what is here." Sometimes it felt like SK was too concerned on somethings, like whether or not they could take on a few guards. Did this child forget who he was at times?

In moments glance though, the pair saw two flying orbs, a blue one and a rosy pink one. Even though they were flying, they had no wings, which was odd. Even weirder, they looked like a Lololo and a Lalala. However, they could not fly. So, what were those creatures?

SK began to wiggle his nubby hands at the two flying objects in order to get their attention. If he heard correctly, their names were Fololo and Falala. Huh, now that he thought about it, those names were awfully similar to a Lololo and Lalala, who looked similar to the other two. Were they named after them?

Fololo and Falala then got to the location where SK was, but he was with someone else. The person looked like Meta Knight, but now that they were closer, it wasn't exactly him. He was much greyer and somehow edger and more intimidating. The two did not know that was possible for someone to look more intimidating than Meta Knight! He was one of the scariest people on Popstar if you got on his bad side, but he was mostly a reasonable and well-meaning figure to all people, even to snobs like King Dedede!

"There you are Shadow Kirby!" The pink one chirped up. She flew down to the ground to get a closer look at SK but did not land. The blue one flew right behind her, though he was still a smidge higher then the other one.

The blue one then glanced at DMK, "Who's your friend? He kind of looks like Sir Meta Knight!" He asked SK. His voice was lower than his pink counterpart but was still about the same. Dark Meta Knight didn't know that Lololos and Lalalas could talk though, or that they could fly. Maybe they weren't just regular pair of Lololoa and Lalalas, but perhaps a sub species?

SK gave a simple glance at DMK. Shoot, he'd have to explain to the two who DMK. Lucky for him though, the two didn't seem to question him to much, so it should be rather simple to explain to them that DMK was the mirror version of Meta Knight. "Okay so, you know how I'm the mirror version of FK?" He asked the two.

"No, we did not know that." Fololo answered back.

"But since you supposedly are, I would have to guess this is the mirror version of Meta Knight?" Falala wondered. If that was a case, then there must be a mirror version of FDDD and Bandee too! Just how many nicknames were they going to have to create for all these people?

DMK nodded, "To makes this smoother, just call me DMK." He responded with annoyance from trying to calm down SK. He really hoped these two knew where they were though because SK and him were lost as shooting star. "Side note, where the fuck are we?"

Fololo and Falala looked at each other. If SK was friends with FK, then how did they not know Castle Dedede. "You're in Castle Dedede, DMK." Fololo answered politely. The two did wonder though, what did fuck mean?

DMK just laughed at the statement, befuddling the two monsters even more. "Please! Do you see anyone's eyes burning? His castle is brighter than any star in the galaxy." He then stopped for a moment, "Well expect the outside of it I suppose. "

What was this knight even talking about? "No, his castle is usually this murky." Falala answered back at the shadowy knight's statement.

"Besides a few rooms!" Fololo chipped in.

"Are you su-"

SK just sighed, "If you guys are going to be arguing about the brightness of Dedede's castle, can we at least do it while walking to were ever FK and the others are?" Shadow Kirby suggested while cutting of DMK.

They all just stopped and starred at SK, all responding with some variation of 'fine' or 'sure'.

DMK then snatched SK and asked the two in front of him where they needed to go. Fololo just told him to follow them, which DMK obligated to. He then spread out his wings and began to trail behind Fololo and Falala. While the two were shocked about his wings, they decided to not mention it, after all, they had to resume their debate about the color of Dedede's castle. The three came to the conclusion that he built a new castle for some reason between the years of the present and the future. It apparently was the reverse of the current castle. That being bright on the inside, yet dark on the outside.

The group soon landed outside of Samo's bar. They had put their argument on hold for now because there were probably more pressing matters to discuss soon. Though, SK gave a sigh of relief after figuring out the three had stopped bickering for a bit, which was now about which color scheme was better. The group then went in, with Fololo and Falala entering first and Dark Meta Knight last.

-

"No FK, that won't work!" Bandee responded.

"Why won't it?" FK asked back in record speed, "We've done raids before, and they've always worked!"

"𝑻𝒉𝒓𝒆𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒌𝒊𝒅," Lucario started up, "𝑶𝒏𝒆, 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒏 𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒅𝒔, 𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓?" She then raised two of her fingers, placing her seconded one on her hip, "𝑻𝒘𝒐, 𝒘𝒆 𝒅𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒆𝒏𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎 𝒂 𝒔𝒖𝒄𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒇𝒖𝒍 𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑯𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔. 𝑻𝒉𝒓𝒆𝒆, 𝒘𝒆 𝒅𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒂 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒅! 𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒘𝒆 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆?" She asked the pink puffball while rasing a third finger. She knew FK was strong, don't get her wrong, but if those Master Hands got control of FK, they were all screwed.

FK huffed and frowned at Lucario's statement. Why did they not trust him to go on raids? He was strong! Shouldn't he be trusted to help them fight the remaining Master Hands and Crazy Hands? He should help! If he could defeat Galeem and Dharkon at the same time, he could for sure defeat a few Hands! Plus, he's been possessed the least out of all the fighters. Only one time! And that was only for an hour too! Meanwhile, FMK and FDDD could go on raids and other things he wasn't allowed to do despite being possessed six times each by those Hands! It wasn't like he was too young! Ness, Lucas, and Bowser Jr. got to go on missions too, but why couldn't he? It isn't fair that his friends can risk their lives for a cause that he also supported and would fight for, yet he couldn't!

"Perhaps you could do a sneaky mission instead." Tiff suggested, "Though, I don't know what we can do about the shard thing you mentioned." No one but the two brawlers knew what this mysterious shard was, but Bandee and Tiff could presume that it was used to travel from dimension to dimension. But the lack of it was certainly causing a problem to their plan.

The front door then flung open revealing Fololo and Falala flying in rather slowly with SK right behind them. However, someone else was with them. If the group of people (which included Samo, Buttercup, Hana, Tiff, Tuff, FK, PK, Lucario, and Bandee.) would guess on who it was, they would say some sort of weird copy of Sir Meta Knight. FK and Bandee already knew who he was, but the others did not. Lucario though, thought she did. It looked like one of the clones that the tournament made for training, but also like the clones the Master Hands made.

She started to run towards the clone of Meta Knight, despite having little evidence to prove it was a clone, but stopped after FK swiftly got off his chair and grabbed her.

"Wait!" He shrilled. Dear Nova, Lucario was fast! The boy knew what she was thinking though. She likely thought this was a clone of Meta Knight, which it wasn't. "It's not a clone!"

She gave the child a glance, "𝑨𝒓𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒆? 𝑩𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒔 𝒆𝒙𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒂 𝑴𝒆𝒕𝒂 𝑲𝒏𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒄𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒆." She could not recall anyone from this universe that looked like this. She knew SK existed because she would often over here FK talk about him, like he does with everyone, but she never heard of a Shadow Meta Knight.

The knight in question, who did not move an inch despite the fact the fox almost charged at him, just gave the fox a blank yet tired stare. "I swear to fucking Nova." He said, "If I get confused with Meta Knight one more time, or even a clone for that matter, I'm going to leave."

"Language!" Buttercup scoloded.

The knight's gaze went to the old lady next, giving her the same stare that he gave to Lucario. "Never mind, I'm leaving now." He then turned to face the front door again. If there was one thing he absolutely despised, it was people trying to correct his cursing habit as if he was some moody twelve year old. "I got shit to do anyways" He stated, turning to give one last glance at the old lady who corrected him. He then closed the door shut and began to fly to search for this past Meta Knight.

"Who even was that?" Tuff asked, which was what most people were wondering.

SK then walked up to Tuff, clearly somewhat nervous for some reason. "That was Dark Meta Knight, he curses a lot." SK knew that he could talk to this boy. A friend of Kirby was a friend of his, most of the time. Shadow Kirby could guess though that from the kid's wide grin that he had not much to worry about.

The boy then introduced himself as Tuff, and just as SK predicted, he was full of excitement. Meanwhile, his presumably sister seemed a bit more skeptical of him, but she looked more weary then as if she did not trust him at all and as if she was open to being friends with him. The fox who almost tried to attack DMK gave the boy a look as if she somehow knew him, which was odd. However, he felt safer here then he did in the Mirror Dimension, and that was good enough.

Bandee then hopped back on the discussion of the plan as the two older women were talking about something vaguely related to the plan. The encounter with Lucario and DMK had brought an idea to mind that may help them get closer to the final version of the plan though. "What if we did a disguise mission?" He suggested, "Where we bring both Dark Meta Knight and Lucario to the Hand's base."

-

PMK had just left Professor Curio's house and museum before he was met with DMK appearing right before him. PMK had instinctively tried to stab him with Galaxia, but he moved to the side. DMK just gave a simple huff at his attempt to stab him.

"Look, I do not know exactly what is going on." PMK told to the weird version of himself. "I just know that you are now in the past."

"I know that now, I just came here to not break my promise." He informed his past light counterpart, " I don't want to seem like a pussy, you know?"

PMK just rolled his eyes, "Is that all you can do? Curse?"

"No, I can also beat your ass!" He exclaimed.

"How many times?" PMK asked.

DMK blinked, "Once.." He muttered.

PMK huffed, "As expected," He sighed, "Look, do you know where PK and FK are?"

"At some bar I think."

"Thank you, also goodbye."

PMK then walked around DMK, expecting him to go the other way, but he did not. He instead followed him. PMK just ignored him, hoping he would leave. But he did not. He followed him all the way to the bar, but PMK did not enter the bar. He just turned around and looked at DMK.

"Question, do you know anything about the Three Mage Sisters and their powers?" He asked DMK. "I already know about the ice one and how she died, but not about the other two." He told his clone. He knew that the ice one was a girl who was freezing to death, but a strange traveler had revealed her natural talent for ice. After that, she had begun to follow and assist the traveler who had saved her nearly a decade or two ago. What PMK got from this was that FDDD must have something to do with ice. He hoped that it didn't mean he could control it or make ice instantly, that would be a pain to deal with.

"Yeah, I know about them." DMK notified PMK, "Also, the ice one is named Francisca." Why was PMK even curious about the Mage Sisters? Maybe he was just too much of a history nerd and heard about them from elsewhere. "The other two are called Flamberge and Zan Partizanne. Flamberge has fire related powers with Zan has electric."

PMK scoffed, "Oh that's just great." He muttered to himself. Why did FDDD have fire, ice, and electric powers? It was clear PDDD did not, so maybe they are more recent. But then how did he get them? Were these powers strong or weak?

DMK then walked passed him and entered the bar. PMK followed behind him. They were greeted by a rather large crowd of people, but Lucario was the tallest. Lucario then ran over to DMK to talk about something.

"DMK, we need your help with something." She asked.

"With what?" He asked the blue fox he did not know the name of.

Bandee then walked right behind her so he could talk. DMK did not know Lucario all that well, but Bandee knew him a fair bit. "We need your help with getting three missing Cappies and FMK and FDDD back."

"And how will I help with this Bandee?" DMK asked him. He didn't want to do this personally, but Daroach did ask him to find Meta Knight and King Dedede, so he supposed he would do this for him.

"Apparently there is a Meta Knight clone that looks exactly like you, so we could use you and Lucario to get into their warehouse undetected." Bandee explained, "When you to get there, Lucario can try to open the gates while you look out for any Master Hands or other clones."

"Alright then," He stated, "Who's Lucario by the way?"

"Me." Lucario answered.

DMK squinted his eyes at her. It was the fox who tried to kill him when he first entered, yet now he was expected to work with her? Well, to be fair, he had worked with other people who had tried to kill him before, so what's another person? "Fine, but how will we get there?"

"With a shard!" FK responded.

"What shard?" DMK asked, "What does this shard do?"

"It allows us to travel to different dimensions." Lucario explained, "But we lack one."

"So how will we get there?" DMK wondered.

"Perhaps we should check the cave FDDD made when we first found!" FK suggested, "After all, why else would he be making a cave?"

Notes:

Hope that was a good cliffhanger. The ending was very scrappy in my opinion, but I want to get this chapter done soon, so it is what it is. Hope y'all like it! Maybe the next chapter won't take too long.

Chapter 18: Story updates

Summary:

Story updates are here!

So, this fic is going on a temporary hiatus until I get ideas or motivation to keep this story going. Willing to take suggestions!

Notes:

I really hope you enjoyed reading this. I feel like most of the talking was in character, but Anime!King Dedede will be such a pain to write. If you have any comments, please let me know!