Chapter 1: I myself couldn't believe it when I survived!
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Kirby is currently sitting below a tree nearby his house, as he had just woken up from a nap where he rested in this exact same spot he is still sitting in.
Today has just been a lazy day so far. However... it appears something is starting to occur that might potentially change the rest of today.
Kirby begins to hear some sort of bouncing noise. He slowly starts to get up, as he's growing curious about what the noise is.
It sounds like it might be some sort of ball that's bouncing around.
The sound is getting closer and closer. It appears to be from the other side of the tree.
As Kirby gets up, he moves around to see what's making the noise.
"Hey, hey, hey!" exclaims a peculiar voice that greets Kirby as he approaches the other side of the tree.
Kirby becomes stunned to hear this voice. It's a voice that sounds familiar to him. A voice he hadn’t heard in ages, which is the reason why he’s stunned.
As he finally sees the person in question that made the voice... Kirby becomes extra stunned. He opens his mouth wide in shock. He recognizes this person! It's a purple puffball-like being that's bouncing on a beach ball... the bouncing beach ball is what's been making the noise. He's wearing shoes, a red bow on his body, and a jester hat on his head. Kirby has seen him before!
It's.... it's....
MARX?!?!?!?!?!?!?
IS THAT ACTUALLY YOU, MARX?!?!?!? UNBELIEVABLE!!! WHAT A SURPRISE!!!!
This guy literally just showed up out of nowhere. Unannounced.
The encounter that Kirby had with Marx was such an incredibly long time ago. To be honest, Kirby thought that Marx was dead! He thought that he ended up killing the jester when he punched him hard enough to send him crashing into that comet! He survived??? It's a huge surprise to Kirby that Marx survived and has been alive this entire time. He thought he would've never seen him again... and yet here he is, alive and well!
"Hahahahahahahaha!" laughed Marx, as he watches Kirby being stunned at the sight of him. "Long time, no see, Kirby! Did you miss me?" He’s been continuing to bounce on his ball non-stop.
"M-M-M-M-Marx?!?!?" said Kirby, still in shock. "H-h-h-how did you.."
"Oh, did you think I was dead?" asked Marx as he interrupts Kirby. "Hahahahahahahaha! Nope, I lived. I know, I myself couldn't believe it when I survived! But here I am!"
Now that it's known that Marx survived, why is he now coming back to Kirby? Is he finally choosing to redeem himself? Or does he have something else in mind? Given what happened last time, Kirby knows that this guy is rather unpredictable.
"What are you doing now?" asked Kirby, as he's confused at the jester's presence at this point. "Is.... is there a reason you're just now suddenly coming to me after all this time?"
"I came here to inform you that there are really big meteors far out in the galaxy that might eventually come this planet's way, Kirby!" said Marx in a straight face.
"Wait, what?" asked Kirby.
"They can certainly be stopped if someone like you were to go out in space and destroy them! Or, perhaps, you could even attempt to ask the giant comet Nova for help again!" Marx's face continued to be straight.
Kirby immediately squinted as soon as Marx said Nova. This is another trap. He's not going to fall for it this time. He continues to squint.
Marx smirked as soon as he noticed Kirby's squint. The smirk then turns into a complete smug expression, as his smile significantly widens. He then begins to chuckle.
"Nice, it appears you've caught on to my tricks since the last time!" said Marx as he continues to chuckle. He then jumps off of his beach ball. He turns, and then kicks the ball into the air. The ball breaks when it lands. He then turns to face Kirby again.
"I didn't expect for you to fall for it again, anyways." Marx followed up. "I just wanted to mess with you, really. Hahahahaha!"
Kirby's squint came to an end. Perhaps Marx does actually want to become a friend now, he thought to himself. That'd be great! Another person he can reconcile with. It was just earlier this year that Kirby had reconciled with Susie, several months after the Haltmann Works Company invasion was stopped and resolved. And then here's Marx that just shows up out of nowhere. Two former enemies he reconciles with this year? That’s unusual! That doesn't happen every year!
"Hey, Marx.." said Kirby. ".. are we friends now? Can you be my friend now??" he has a smiley expression, almost like he's pleading for it to happen.
The two stared at each other for a few moments.
Then finally, Marx gave his response. "Yes." he said. "That's why I came here, Kirby. To become your friend. I am sorry for what happened before!"
That put a big smile on Kirby's face. During the long time period that Kirby thought Marx was dead, he wished that he wasn't dead so that he could befriend him. But now he no longer needs to wish that, because it's real!
Still, though, it made Kirby sad every time he thought he killed someone. He never intends to kill people and only just wants to stop them from doing bad things. Even to this day, Kirby still feels really sad about the deaths of Queen Sectonia and President Haltmann, two people who are completely proven to be dead. He really wishes that they didn't need to die in order to save Popstar and the universe, respectively.
He even thought Magolor was dead as well, until a long while ago when that guy came back and apologized. When Magolor came back to Kirby, he sat him down and explained to him that he never died. During those moments, Kirby thought that it would've been nice if Marx were to also come back and do the same, but he really did believe that the jester was dead due to how long ago that incident was and not seeing him since.
But here is Marx now. He's alive! Just like Magolor, it turns out that Marx never actually died. Kirby finally gets what he was wishing for, which is befriending Marx. He believed that there was something about the jester that would've made him redeemable and forgivable.
"Marx, you're forgiven!" said Kirby. "I was hoping you were around this whole time because I've actually been wanting you to become my friend for a while now."
That put a smile on Marx's face. "Well, I sure like to hear that, old pal!" he said.
After smiling, he then lightly hovers into the air.
He transforms his eyes, with his irises and pupils turning into a more slit shape. He then displays two fang-like teeth. After that, he opens up two large golden wings. There are claw-like fingers. A lot of hexagonal mirror-like scales spawn from below the golden wings.
He is laughing wickedly while doing all of this.
Kirby is shocked for the first few seconds Marx is doing this, because he didn't expect him to just suddenly do all of this. But he then remembers all of these things from before. He remembers these traits that Marx acquired from Nova. Remembering that the jester was displaying all of this when they fought. Why is he suddenly showing all of this now?
After a few more seconds, Marx then retracts the wings and comes back down onto the ground. He turns his irises and pupils back to their normal circular shape. He then retracts his fangs.
"Hahahahahaha!" laughed Marx. "That was just to show you that I still have all of the powers that the comet Nova gave me! But no worries, I won't try to take over Popstar again. I mean, I was surprised that I ended up surviving the last time! Not going to risk that all over again."
"How did you.. even survive anyway?" asked Kirby. "The way you crashed onto Nova. I thought that would've gotten you for sure. I didn't intend to kill you, of course, I just wanted to stop you. But I began to feel bad because I.. thought I ended up killing you. It looked like that killed you. But I'm glad you never died! I think you must have gotten really lucky in surviving."
"Aww, you were worried about my life? How nice!" said Marx. "Anyways, luck was probably it? Truthfully, I don't know. It was either that, or I just suppose that I can withstand more punishment than I thought I could. But regardless, I was in serious pain for a while. At first, I was floating around in space, struggling to do much. But then someone came around. They took me in and helped me recover."
"Someone helped you?" asked Kirby. "Whoever that was, I'm very glad they did it!"
"Yes. And that someone was a guy that you know."
"Really? Who was it?" asked Kirby.
"Wanna try to take a guess, Kirby?" asked Marx, with a grin on face.
"Umm, I don't know. I'm not good at making guesses like this."
"It was Magolor!" said Marx.
Kirby gasped. Magolor was the one that helped Marx heal up after he crashed into that comet? Wow! Apparently, Marx and Magolor know each other. They seem to be friends, as Kirby had absolutely no idea about that!
"Magolor? Yes I know who that is!" said Kirby. "Was it actually him?!?"
"Indeed, it was." said Marx. "Also, I'm the reason he first heard about you. Because I told him about you!"
That received yet another gasp from Kirby, this time even heavier than the last one. Kirby does not respond just yet, as he takes a few moments to think about this.
Was that the reason why Magolor tricked Kirby and betrayed him? Because Marx inspired him to do so? As Kirby now thinks about it, it's... somewhat starting to make sense. Even previously, he's even noticed the similarities between Marx and Magolor, as they've both presented themselves as nice guys that stab him in the back later. They've both shown mischievous sides to them, too. Kirby thought he ended up killing both of them, until Magolor revealed that he survived, and now Marx reveals that he survived as well. Honestly, Kirby thought there just had to be some sort of connection between the two, even before Marx proves it right here. Magolor however has never said anything about Marx during all the times that he's talked with Kirby.
Except... hold on. Kirby is now remembering several lines that Magolor said.
He remembers when Magolor said these lines: "This same power gave rise to clockwork stars that soar across the cosmos...", "There may even be some folks here who have fought with you before.", and especially one line in particular: "I even know somebody who knows you quite well!"
It turns out... that somebody was Marx the whole time! Magolor didn't mention him by name, but it's now clear that the jester was the one who told him about Kirby! It made even more sense when remembering that Magolor mentioned about clockwork stars, since a clockwork star was involved in Kirby's past incident with Marx.
Perhaps the reason why Magolor didn't mention Marx by name at the time is because doing so would've made everything really suspicious, and that Kirby would've already detected that Magolor was planning a betrayal before he could've successfully pulled it off. In that case, it's understandable he didn't mention the person that betrayed Kirby before him.
What's being disclosed now is quite revealing to Kirby. It proved a few vague suspicions he had in the past.
"You doing good there, pal?" asked Marx, as he observed Kirby taking time to think.
"Yeah I'm fine." said Kirby. "I just had to take a bit to think. Magolor tricked and betrayed me just like you did. He apologized, though, but I take it that you inspired him to do all of that in the first place?"
"If I have to be honest with you, yes." replied Marx. "I told him about the fight between you and me. It motivated him into making his own grand plan by having you help him get the Master Crown. Of course, that doesn't matter anymore, since you beat him, and he said sorry. But yes, I did inspire him to do all of that in the first place!"
"He was wanting to take over the entire universe when he took the Master Crown!" said Kirby.
"Wait, what? He wanted the entire universe? He never told me he wanted to go that far. Huh. Well, now that's irrelevant ever since he started regretting it, as he no longer wants to wear that crown like a real master would. Hahahahahahaha!"
"Nice one.." said Kirby, as he couldn't stop himself from having a light chuckle after hearing that pun.
"Thanks!" said Marx, with a smirk on his face. "Anyways, it's all good now, since he's your friend, and I'm your friend. Here, want a handshake?" He then sticks out his right golden wing. The hands, of course, are the 'claws' in the middle of the wing.
Kirby sticks out his right stubby arm in response. "Yes I'll take a handshake, Marx!" he said. He grabs Marx's hand-claws.
After handshaking for a few seconds, Marx then decides to troll. As he sticks out his other golden wing as well as his fangs, he flies into the air, with Kirby being lifted up in the process as he still holds onto Marx's right hand. Kirby let out a shocked yell since he didn't expect this to happen. Marx laughs immensely. His irises and pupils don't transform shape, however, as they are still in their normal circular shape.
"Hahahahahahahaha!" laughed Marx. "Let's have some fun, Kirby!"
Marx, still laughing like a maniac, flew around Kirby's home area in circles, with Kirby still hanging on to Marx's right hand.
At first, Kirby was overwhelmed because he wasn't prepared for this. But then he started warming up to it. He can admit he's enjoying this. Marx sure is nuts in what he finds to be entertaining, though.
Marx stops going in circles, and instead goes across the horizon of Green Greens. He continues to laugh. Kirby has never stopped holding onto him.
After a while, Marx decides to end it. He lands right by Kirby's home. Kirby jumps off of him when close enough to the ground. As Marx lands, he retracts his fangs and his golden wings.
"Well, Kirby... did you think it was fun?" asked Marx.
"You know what?" said Kirby. "Yes. I'll admit it. It was fun, Marx. It really was!"
"Hahahahahahaha! Well I'm glad you enjoyed it!" said Marx. "Anyways, if you're curious as to how I found out where you live, it's because Magolor told me where your house was."
"When did you first come here in Popstar?" asked Kirby.
"Oh, I've only been on this planet for the last couple of days. I just felt like chilling out in other planets for a while until I chose to finally return here. I first met up with Magolor again when I came back here, and I've been hanging out with him until he told me where you live, and thus I came to you."
"Wait, so did you make any other friends, or is it just me and Magolor that are your friends for now?" asked Kirby.
"Uhhh..." said Marx. "It's really just you and him right now. I haven't taken the time to make more friends just yet, even though I've pranked some people here... hahahahaha! But I wouldn't mind making some more friends, if you're intending to give me that suggestion."
"I know people who can become friends with you!"
"Oh, nice!" said Marx. "Go ahead and direct me to them if you'd like!"
A warp star shows up nearby. Kirby begins gesturing towards it. "Come on, Marx, let's go!" he said. "I can find you new friends now!"
Marx had a chuckle, as he and Kirby then both jumped on the warp star. Kirby controls the warp star as he and Marx fly around Green Greens again.
As they spend a few minutes flying around Green Greens, they already find one of Kirby's other friends wandering around in the grass.
It's none other than the googly-eyed blue blob of Dark Matter defect; Gooey!
"That's one of my friends!" said Kirby.
"Oh.. what's his name?" asked Marx.
"His name is Gooey!"
As Kirby and Marx in the warp star approach the ground, Gooey notices them, focusing his pupils on them. Kirby waves at Gooey, who then responds with a smiley expression.
Gooey is very similar to Kirby when it comes to making friends, as he's also very friendly and easily forgives people for their past wrongdoings. He's a bit on the scatterbrained side, but he means very well and can still easily become one's friend! He wasn't informed about what Marx did to Kirby in the past, but it shouldn't matter anymore now since the guy is now friends with Kirby. Marx shouldn't have any trouble becoming friends with Gooey.
"Kirby!" said Gooey, as Kirby and Marx finally land onto the ground and hop off the warp star.
"Gooey! Hi!" replied Kirby.
"Who's this, Kirby?" asked Gooey while gesturing towards Marx. "Is this a new friend?"
"You'd better believe I'm a new friend!" said Marx as he approached Gooey. "Heh! Anyways, yes, I just became Kirby's friend. The name's Marx! Kirby told me that your name is Gooey, would that happen to be correct?"
"Yup, it sure is! I'm Gooey, alright!" replied the blue blob. "I am glad to meet you! A friend of Kirby's can easily become a friend of mine as well!"
"In that case, I can easily become your friend!" said Marx. "Kirby's helping me find more friends, since I'm new here."
"Well, you've come to the right place!" said Gooey. "Thanks for introducing this guy to me, Kirby. I'm always glad to make new friends!"
"Absolutely. It's always great when someone comes around to become a new friend." said Kirby. "Anyways, I think some other friends are down there over at Whispy's forest. Some friends that are animals!"
"That's cool. I wouldn't mind staying here with Gooey for now, though." said Marx. "I'll take my time in making friends. You can go find those other friends in the forest if you'd like, and let me know when you find them."
"Okay! I'll go find them now." said Kirby. "Both of you, have fun with each other for now!"
"Will do!" said Gooey.
"See ya in a bit, Kirby." said Marx.
Kirby then hopped on the warp star and went to Whispy Woods' forest, leaving Marx and Gooey behind to hang out with each other for the time being.
As Marx and Gooey faced each other, Gooey temporarily rolls around his pupils and sticks out his long tongue. After several seconds, he then focuses his pupils back to Marx and retracts his tongue.
"Woah.." said Marx. "What a really big tongue you have!"
"Yup!" said Gooey. "I'm quite the extraordinaire! I came from rather strange origins."
"Where'd you come from?" asked Marx.
"I come from Dark Matter, a large evil cloud that tried to invade planets with darkness. I'm a defect of it and broke away from their desires. Kirby stopped that evil cloud of darkness, and I gladly assisted him in stopping it. Dark Matter's desires, simply put, were of pure hatred and negativity, and it wanted everyone else to suffer the same negativity that it felt. I didn't like it at all when I came into existence! I went straight to Kirby and the others when I had the chance."
"Well, I suppose you could be called light matter." said Marx. "You're a matter of dark that then saw the light!"
That got a laugh out of Gooey. Gooey's laughter sounds hilariously adorable.
"Aww, I love the sound of your laugh!" said Marx. "Wanna hear another joke?"
"Sure, I like hearing jokes!" said Gooey.
"It's quite poetic that Kirby stopped that cloud of hate. He just Kirb-stomped it and replaced the hate with love!"
Gooey laughed again. Marx got himself to chuckle, because he likes how easily he can make Gooey laugh, as he loves the sound of Gooey's laughter.
Marx then leaped into the air, and spat out a beach ball from his mouth, revealing a new skill that he got when he made his wish to Nova a long time ago. He then lands on the ball and starts bouncing on it.
He forgot to show this new skill to Kirby, but he can easily just show it to him when he comes back.
"Wow!" said Gooey. "You can create balls?"
"More or less." said Marx, as he bounces on the ball. "I've got a lot of capabilities. I got them from a wish I made to a clockwork star known as Nova."
"Ooooooh!" said Gooey, as he was intrigued. "What other capabilities do you have? I'd like to see!"
"Hahahaha.." Marx laughed mildly, yet mischievously. "I'd be glad to show. By the way, Gooey, how much are you into mischief? If you like to mess around, then I'd be glad to have you join me into some fun! What do ya say?"
"Mischief is fun! I have partaken in some light-hearted tomfoolery with many friends of mine." said Gooey. "I wouldn't mind joining you in having some fun."
"Hahahahaha!" laughed Marx. "Anyways, Gooey, let's go have some fun!"
Chapter 2: Has anyone ever used you like a ball?
Summary:
Kirby has just introduced Marx to Gooey. How will the jester interact with the little Dark Matter defect?
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Marx jumped off his beach ball and landed on the ground.
"Okay, so I'm going to kick this ball to make it go high in the air." He said. "Can you catch the ball with your tongue and bring it back to me, Gooey?"
"Catch the ball with my tongue, as in wrapping my tongue around it?" asked Gooey, as he stuck his tongue out again and rolled it to demonstrate, then retracted the tongue back into his mouth. "I can do that!"
Marx then uses as much kicking power with his right foot as possible to kick the ball. "GO GET 'EM!" he shouted as he kicks the ball high into the air.
Gooey dashes as fast as he can to chase after the ball. He chuckles while chasing after the ball. Marx stays at his spot while watching Gooey try to catch the ball.
As the ball covered some distance in the plains of Green Greens, it's now finally starting to fall down. Gooey begins to close in on it. "Here it comes!" he says, as he then becomes ready by sticking out his tongue to grab it.
When the ball comes low enough, Gooey begins to jump with his tongue still sticking out. He extends his tongue to greater lengths to try to reach the ball. Eventually, his tongue catches the ball and he starts wrapping it.
However, while the wrapping the ball, he ends up pulling it to his face. His pupils starting rolling around again like they often do, and his body starts rolling around as well with the ball. He begins to fall. Unfortunately, when he lands on the ground, the ball ends up breaking. He didn't mean for the ball to break. He retracted his tongue after landing.
"Oopsie!" said Gooey, as he then chuckles while still being cross-eyed.
Marx laughed when he saw that Gooey ended up blowing up his ball. He then started flying straight to Gooey's spot, using his golden wings. Once he approached Gooey, he landed back onto the ground and retracted the wings. Gooey was distracted with chuckling and looked the other way, so he's still yet to see Marx's golden wings.
"Gooey! How dare you break my ball!" said Marx. "You have failed!"
"Well, it was an accident!" said Gooey, still chuckling.
"Hahahahaha! I know it was." said Marx, as it turns out he was either being sarcastic or was just trying to spook Gooey. "Not a big deal. We're just here for some dumb fun anyways!"
Gooey, still relatively cross-eyed, turns to face Marx. The jester approaches him more closely. "Want to see some funny faces?" asked Marx.
"Heheheheheh." laughed Gooey. "I always like to see funny faces. Show me the funny faces, Marx!"
Marx begins by displaying his fangs and changing his irises and pupils, and then flickers his tongue around. Gooey bursts out laughing heavily. It wasn't too hard for Marx to figure out that it was pretty easy to make Gooey laugh. It helps that Gooey's laughter sounds adorably funny, to the point it's basically contagious. It's even making Marx laugh to hear the blue blob's laughter. It makes him want to continue to make Gooey laugh.
As Marx returned to his normal face after retracting his fangs and putting his eyes back to normal, he then contemplates making another funny face. "Hahaha, I've got another one!" he said.
Gooey calms down on the laughing for a bit to pay attention to the next funny face that Marx is about to make. He focuses his pupils on the jester.
Marx puffs his cheeks, and then gapes open his mouth wide. When he gapes open his mouth wide, his face expands into an alligator-like mouth, as it's the facial expression he makes when he's going to spit out a big laser. He displays his two fangs while making this face. While still making this face, he then commits a laughter that's more goblin-like than his laughter usually is.
This gets another burst of laughter from Gooey, as it's even more intense than the previous burst of laughter, because Gooey finds this facial expression to be even funnier than the previous one. Gooey goes back to being cross-eyed with his pupils going back to rolling around, as he's overwhelmed by his laughter to focus on much of anything else right now. Marx puts his face back to normal and then proceeds to laugh with Gooey, due to how contagious the blue blob's adorable laughter is.
"I love these funny faces!" exclaimed Gooey when he finally calms down on the laughter and focuses his pupils on the jester. "You're really good at making me laugh, Marx! It's already very fun to have you as a friend."
That got a smile out of Marx. "Hahahaha... I love hearing that, pal. I return the favor in that I enjoy having you have as a friend as well, Gooey. Anyways, has anyone ever used you like a ball? Because I have an idea."
"Have I been used like a ball? Funny enough.. yes, I actually have." said Gooey. "There's a friend of mine that's a cat, and he likes to play around with me like I'm a ball."
"Hahahaha! That's nice! My idea is to use you as another ball to bounce on."
"Oooooh!" said Gooey. "Sure! I don't mind at all. Go right ahead."
Marx hops on top of Gooey, and bounces on him exactly like how he bounces on a beach ball. Gooey goes back to being cross-eyed, and rolls around while he's being bounced on. This catches Marx off guard as he tries keeping himself on top of Gooey, with the both of them aimlessly going around Green Greens thanks to Gooey's rolling around. Gooey is perpetually chuckling while being used like a ball by Marx, as he's enjoying it.
After two minutes of rolling around, Gooey stops in place. Even though Marx managed to keep himself on top of Gooey during the rolling around, he's more at ease now since the blue blob stopped moving. While still bouncing on him, Marx then comes up with another idea.
"Hahahahahaha..." laughed Marx. "... now it's my turn to control where we go!"
Marx uses both of his feet to steer Gooey and make him roll around again, but this time to go where he wants. Gooey doesn't mind being steered, as he just cares about having fun right now. His continued chuckling hasn't stopped since the earlier instance where he was rolling around. Marx makes himself and Gooey go around in circles.
This goes on for about three minutes until a disruption happens.
Eventually, Gooey randomly sticks his tongue out while still being rolled around. When his face gets closer to Marx while being rolled around, he impulsively flings his tongue around and licks Marx in the face. It also knocks Marx over and, much to his dismay, sends him falling onto the ground. Gooey stops moving after that happened.
"Whoops!" said Gooey, although he couldn't help himself but laugh pretty hard afterwards, because he had to admit that abruptly knocking Marx over with his tongue was pretty darn funny.
Marx gets back up. He then shakes himself to recover being licked. After doing that, he turns his attention to Gooey, and approaches him, with a slight chuckle. Gooey then focuses his pupils on Marx.
"You got me real good there, Gooey. Hahahahaha!" said Marx. "Were you planning on doing that? If so, good prank!"
"Funny enough, I wasn't even planning on it." said Gooey. "I just.. sort of did it out of nowhere. It was still funny what ended up happening, though!"
"You still got me good enough, it could've easily worked as a prank!"
Both of them laughed. It is clear by now that these two get along great as friends and are enjoying each other's company. Gooey is very easy to be friends with, and he has some silly tendencies on his own that are pretty easily up Marx's alley. This is a good choice for an early friend for Marx to have. He's glad that Kirby introduced him to the blue blob of Dark Matter defect!
After the two finished laughing, Marx then comes up with something else. "Check this out! I can fly with these!" he says, as he leaps into the air. He displays his fangs and then opens up his golden wings, keeping him in the air. Gooey finally gets to see the golden wings for the first time.
"Wooooaaaaahhhhhh!" said Gooey.
"I can also do this!" said Marx, as he then dives into the ground, leaving behind only a purple shadow to be visible. Gooey pays close attention to the purple shadow, with his pupils fixated on them. The shadow goes past Gooey and to the other side of him, and he turns around with it to keep his eyes on it. The shadow then goes in a circle around Gooey. As he continues to stay laser-focused on the shadow, Gooey turns around in a circle to keep sight of it. After going around in the circle, the shadow then stays in place for about ten seconds.
When those ten seconds are over, the purple shadow transforms back into Marx as he springs up out of the ground. "Hahahahaha!" laughed Marx.
Gooey decides to also show his flying capabilities, and leaps into the air with orange petals encircling his body. The orange petals rotate in motion around his body as he flies around. "Look at me, I can also fly!" he says. "This is me in my Mock Matter form. I got it from being part Dark Matter!"
"You're mocking the dark, eh?" asked Marx. That got some pretty heavily chuckling out of Gooey, as it wasn't bad for a minor pun.
"Well, it isn't called my Mock Matter form for nothing!" replied Gooey.
The both of them laughed. They then flew around each other for a little bit.
After a little while, Marx then decides to turn it up a notch and fly around faster. He swiftly flies circles around Gooey. Gooey decided to play the game of keeping sight on him as he quickly flew around, and thus the blue blob is turning himself around in circles. Eventually, Gooey becomes dizzy. He becomes cross-eyed again, he starts chuckling, and he begins to fall to the ground, with the orange petals encircling his body starting to retract. Once he landed on the ground, Marx laughs when he noticed that he succeeded in a prank that involved making Gooey dizzy.
"Hah!" said Marx. "Get pranked, Gooey!"
Gooey however didn't seem to pay attention to his words and is instead chuckling on the ground, still cross-eyed. Marx comes down on the ground to approach Gooey. As he lands behind Gooey, he retracts his fangs and golden wings. Marx sniffs from behind Gooey, which makes the blue ball turn around to face him, although he's still cross-eyed, and he's still lightly chuckling.
"You good there, Gooey?" asked Marx. "My bad for dizzying you earlier, haha. How about playing with some more balls?"
Gooey just laughed again. "Don't sweat it! I'm having a lot of fun so far. And sure, more balls please!" he said. It appears that Gooey is one that takes well to Marx's pranks.. at least the more light-hearted ones, that is.
Marx then goes back up in the air, displaying his fangs and golden wings again. He swoops around, spitting out beach balls. As Gooey spots the beach balls, he gleefully darts towards them and bonks his head onto them, making them bounce around, and laughs while bonking them. As Marx spits out more beach balls, Gooey continues to go around bonking his head onto them and making them go around. The two of them are just continuing their dumb fun! Gooey seems to have a fun time bonking the balls around and making a mess across a part of Green Greens, while Marx is proud to have become the cause for all this mischief.
The ordeal becomes wide enough to easily be seeable from a distance. Four bronto burts hover in the sky while watching this stuff going on... they appear to be very baffled by it, to say the least. Eventually, Marx looks up and notices the bronto burts. He laughs that his tomfoolery has caught their attention, and comes up with a new idea.
"Look, Gooey!" said Marx, as he hovers down to get Gooey's attention and has him look up at the bronto burts. "They've noticed us and our shenanigans! How do you feel about us going up there to mess with them?"
As Gooey fixates his pupils towards the bronto burts in the sky, he flies into the air in his Mock Matter form. "Haha, sure!" he said. "I've been feeling real silly lately. I wouldn't mind joining you in pulling something on them. Let's go!"
The bronto burts start looking a bit nervous to see Marx and Gooey staring back at them, and start fleeing. The two however chase them down, much to their dismay and frustration.
The mess of numerous beach balls bouncing around in the plains of Green Greens is left behind. The bronto burts head to Whispy Woods' forest to hopefully lose sight of them, but they fail to reach there before Marx speeds up to catch right up to them, with Gooey tagging behind him.
Frustrated, the four bronto burts reluctantly turn around to find out why Marx and Gooey suddenly want to bother them. They stop right outside Whispy's forest.
While Marx and Gooey were chasing the bronto burts, they've secretly planned something.
"Hey, hey!" greets Marx.
"Okay, so what on Popstar do you freaks want?" asked the leader bronto burt, which is a male, and he very clearly looks irritated. "Please make this serious and worth our time, or we'll want nothing to do with you again. We saw your foolish mess down there that you didn't even try to clean up."
"It's something serious!" said Marx. "My friend Gooey here really likes snow, and he'd like to know where there's a snowy place on this planet! Do you know of a snowy place around here?"
"Yeah!" said Gooey, with his pupils still in focus on the bronto burts. "Is there anywhere in Popstar that's usually snowy? I like to play around in the snow!"
"Ummm...." said the leader bronto burt. "I'm aware that there's a place known as Iceberg."
Gooey approaches the leader bronto burt more closely. "Oh, nice!" he said. "Do you happen to know the direction of where it's at?"
"If I remember correctly, Iceberg is that way." said the leader bronto burt, as he turns his face to the direction he believes where it is.
"Are you weirdos planning to do your stupidies over there at Iceberg?" said one of the other bronto burts, as this one is a female. "If so, then good, because we don't need to witness it over here!"
"That's what we've been thinking of doing, yes." said Marx, as he approaches that female bronto burt.
"Good, because you guys are really weird and freaky." said the leader bronto burt.
"I should do something to show my thanks to you to that direction!" said Gooey.
The leader bronto burt reluctantly lets Gooey show his apparent gratitude. "Umm.. alright, fine." he said.
Gooey then proceeds to stick his tongue out and lick him in the face. The other three bronto burts gasp in response. Marx laughs like a maniac while watching Gooey licking the bronto burt in the face.
After being licked, the leader bronto burt grunts in sheer anger and then snaps. "YOU GUYS SUCK! I NEVER WANT TO SEE YOUR FACES EVER AGAIN! I'M OUT OF HERE!" he screams, with a face that looks like he really wants to beat them up, ironic for saying he never wants to see them again.
"SCREW YOU GUYS!" screamed another bronto burt, this one being another male.
Marx began to laugh even harder than he already was. It appears that he loves getting dramatic reactions out of people. Gooey begins to laugh pretty hard, too.
"Get pranked, fool!" said Marx while still under intense laughter.
The bronto burts, with angry grunts, flee inside Whispy Woods' forest, but Marx spits out beach balls to hit them in the heads with as they leave. Gooey started laughing hard enough to the point his pupils start rolling around and he's back to being cross-eyed.
"Did you see the look on that guy's face, Gooey?" asked Marx, when he and Gooey started calming down on the laughter. "That was priceless!"
"Hahaha, it was fun to pull that prank with you!" said Gooey. "I don't normally do that to people, but hey, I've been in a silly mood today."
"Don't worry about it. I'm sure they'll get over it later."
That was a good prank. Obviously, they're not planning to go to somewhere snowy, they just said they wanted to because that's part of the prank. Gooey has already been to Iceberg before anyways, although now he may not remember where it is since it was a long time ago since he was last there. Regardless, though, the two were entertained by what they just pulled off.
"Should we go back to over there in the plains?" asked Gooey.
"Where all the balls are at? Yeah, sure! Don't see why not." said Marx.
The two of them went back to the part of Green Greens where all the balls were bouncing around. The balls are still there once they arrived.
When Gooey landed on the ground and return to his normal form, he went back to playfully bonking his head on the balls. Marx appears to join in on the bonking, as he still darts around and rams his head onto the balls too. The balls are bouncing around rapidly in the area. Both Marx and Gooey laugh around while hitting the balls.
After a few minutes, Marx then retracts his fangs and golden wings, and then runs over to Gooey and bounce on him like one of his balls again. Gooey, of course, doesn't mind. The two have been having a lot of fun lately! Marx uses his feet to steer Gooey around to continue hitting on other balls.
"Gonna try to lick me again while being bounced, Gooey?" asked Marx, although he wouldn't care if it were to happen again.
"Haha! Nah, not gonna do that this time." said Gooey. "But I'll do this!" He grabs a beach ball with his long tongue and pulls it towards him. Gooey's pupils are now focused.
Marx then alternates between bouncing on Gooey and bouncing on that ball. However, at a moment Marx hops on the beach ball, Gooey then pulls a fast one and quickly flickers around his tongue with enough force to send Marx and the beach ball flying in the air.
"WOAH, WOAH, WOAH!" screamed Marx. As he opens up his fangs and golden wings again to stay in the air as the beach ball falls down, Gooey goes back to being cross-eyed and laughs heavily, revealing that was another prank he just pulled.
"Nice one, Gooey!" said Marx, as he laughs as well. He then grins deviously, as he comes up with another idea.
As Gooey goes back to bonking his head on the beach balls, Marx sneakily dives into the ground, showing only a purple shadow again. Gooey doesn't pay attention because he's occupied with hitting the balls. Marx's purple shadow manages to sneak up on behind Gooey. He swiftly comes in front of him and springs up out of the ground.
"PEEK-A-BOO!" said Marx. "HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
Gooey shouted in surprise, and then rolls backwards. "Heheheheh.. you surprised me there!" he said.
"Hahahaha!" laughed Marx. As he lands back on the ground and retracts his fangs and golden wings, he then hops on Gooey again to make him stop rolling backwards. He bounces on the blue blob yet again, who stays in place this time.
Marx bounces on Gooey for about another minute until Kirby shows up at the scene with a warp star. When the sparkly sounds of the warp star could be heard, it caught Marx's attention. As he saw Kirby, he jumped off of Gooey. Gooey turned his attention to Kirby as well.
"Marx! Gooooooeey!" said Kirby as he hops out of the warp star. "What's all this?" He is referring to all the beach balls bouncing all over the place.
"Oh! That was just us having some shenanigans!" said Marx.
"He's capable of spitting beach balls out of his mouth." said Gooey.
"Wait... what?" asked Kirby.
"Yeah! I forgot to show you that I can do that, by the way." said Marx. "Here! Look!" he then jumps and spits a beach ball out of his mouth, and then lands on the ball and bounces on it.
Kirby gasped in surprise.
"Haha! This explains why there's so many balls around here. Hahaha." said Marx.
"I came here to let you know I've found more friends for you to meet!" said Kirby.
"Oooooh! Nice! Show me them!" said Marx. "By the way, Gooey here has been a blast so far."
"I've been having a great time with Marx, Kirby!" said Gooey.
"More friends are over at inside the forest. Just follow me!" said Kirby as he hops back on the warp star. Marx jumps off of his beach ball and hops on the warp star. Gooey decides to join as well, so he hops on the warp star too.
They go inside Whispy Woods' forest. They went past Whispy Woods himself, who didn't notice them as they passed by. They head towards a particular section in the forest that has a landmark that Kirby knows of.
This landmark has a pretty open area inside the forest, but it's surrounded by thicker forest, and they land in the thicker forest.
Marx spits out a beach ball and uses it to bounce on, since he likes to introduce himself while bouncing on a ball. It's how he met Kirby way long ago.
"That's a spot where many friends of mine like to commonly hang around in!" said Kirby, as he points towards the open landmark. They're more than close enough to see it.
"They're a fun bunch! They like to mess around, too!" said Gooey. "I'm sure they'll also be willing to become your friends, Marx."
Marx liked hearing that. "That sounds exciting." he said, as he continues to bounce on his ball. "If they're up for some tomfoolery as well, then I'd be all for inviting them to do it!"
They approach the open landmark, with Marx using his feet to move the ball around to follow Kirby and Gooey. The warp star they used to get here stays in place. Sometimes, warp stars will fly off, but they'll usually stay in more enclosed areas, and the thicker forest parts count as that.
As they leave the thicker forest and step foot into the open landmark, they encounter three of Kirby's animal friends: Rick, Kine and Coo.
This landmark is easily visible as there are barely any trees to obstruct the view. There are many big rocks here, as well as a pond. Rick is standing in the grass, Kine is floating in the pond, and Coo is sitting on one of the rocks.
The three animals notice Kirby, Gooey and Marx entering the landmark. They greet them, as Kine jumps out of the pond and Coo flies out of the rock to approach the group.
"G'day, mates!" said Rick as he approaches them.
"Oh, hey! Mr. Goo Boy showed up, too!" said Kine, as he looks directly at Gooey. He then looks over to Marx, who took his ball with him and is still bouncing on it. "And that's the guy you wanted to show us, Kirby! Is that right?"
"Yes, that's him!" said Kirby.
"Hey, hey, hey, hey!" Marx greeted the animals.
Coo lands on the grass. "Kirby told us all about you and that he'd bring you here!" he said, as he turned his attention to the jester. "You must be Marx, is that correct?"
"The one and only!" replied Marx proudly. "And wait... he told you guys all about me? Including what happened between me and him way back?"
"Yeah! Kirby said that ya went against him back in the day." said Rick. "But he then said that ya made up with him. So no worries now, mate!"
"We've forgiven many people that went against Kirby before!" said Kine. "We always believe in second chances for folks, just like Kirby does! So if you've become Kirby's friend.. then chances are, we'd be willing to become your friends too."
Marx smiled. "Hahaha, that's nice! I've been in the mood to make more friends, as Kirby's been assisting." he said.
Coo bowed his head. "We always like making more friends as well!" he said. "Glad to declare you as a new friend around here, Marx."
Kirby smiled as he watches them accept their friendships with Marx.
The animal friends and Gooey stood out amongst Kirby's friends in the aspect of being easily forgiving to former enemies that decide they want to become friends. Even when King Dedede, Meta Knight, Bandana Dee and others have had problems in trying to forgive such people, the animal friends and Gooey are much more generous.
They were rather quick to forgive Magolor for betraying Kirby when he came back and apologized. They've forgiven Taranza for being complicit in that incident involving the Dreamstalk when he decided to make up with Kirby. Heck... just recently, they were even generous enough to go as far as to forgive Susie for her complicity in the Access Ark invasion last year, when she made up with Kirby afterwards, and he showed her around in Popstar just a few months ago to allow her the opportunity to apologize to other people. Kirby recognized how easily forgiving the animal friends are, so he knew that they'd accept becoming Marx's friends.
Whether or not other notable people in Popstar would be willing to become Marx's friends is another question, but at least the animal friends are easy to accept as far as that's concerned.
"Anyways, allow to introduce ourselves!" said Coo. "My name is Coo, and I'm an owl." He points to himself with his right wing. He then points his right wing over to Rick. "His name is Rick, and he's a hamster.." He then points over to Kine. "... and his name is Kine. He's an ocean sunfish. Since Gooey came in here with you, I assume you may have already gotten to know him."
"Hahahaha, yes, I have!" said Marx. "Gooey is great! I like him a lot already!" Gooey nodded happily.
"Marx is great! I've already done some funnies with him." said Gooey.
"Good on ya, Gooey!" said Rick. He then looks at the jester. "Well, we're up for lots of funnies, Marx! So feel free to hit us up with that stuff, mate!"
Marx liked hearing that. It seems like these guys are yet more people that he can get along with.
"By the way, Marx, there's three other animals that often hang around with us as well!" said Coo. "But they're elsewhere outside of this forest right now. Not sure where they're currently at, but I'm sure they'd also be glad to meet you at some point." He is of course referring to Nago, ChuChu and Pitch. They also have a knack for silliness, so they'd likely take well to Marx too.
"Haha, well that's fine. I can meet them some other time." said Marx.
"Hey, I think I'm gonna get going now." said Kirby. "I'm a little tired, and I feel like heading back home. Marx, I think it should be fine that I leave you here with these guys. I'm sure you'll have fun with them! Anyways, byeee!"
"Not a problem, Kirby! See ya later." said Marx.
"Catch you later, Kirby!" said Rick.
"Get some good rest, Kirby." said Coo.
"Bye, Kirby!" said Gooey.
"Alright buddy! See you later." said Kine.
Kirby waved at them as he left the landmark and hopped on the warp star that still remained in the thick forest, heading back home.
Gooey decided to stick around with the others. That makes Marx, Gooey, Rick, Kine and Coo as the ones currently hanging around at the landmark right now.
Marx turned his attention to the other four, with a slightly devious grin.
"Well, fellas.” said the jester. "... May I interest you in joining me into some committing some fun and mischief?"
Chapter 3: I'm really only just meaning to cause some mischief because it's fun.
Summary:
Marx successfully became friends with Gooey. Now Kirby has introduced him to Rick, Kine and Coo. How will the jester interact with the animal trio?
Notes:
(See the end of the chapter for notes.)
Chapter Text
Rick, Kine, Coo and Gooey all looked at each other, and then nodded their heads yes, as they agree to join Marx in committing some fun and mischief. They then turned their heads to look at the jester.
"We're on board!" said Coo.
"Count us in, mate!" said Rick. "We often have a ripper time with mischief!"
“Hahahahaha!” laughed Marx. "But before we go into deep into causing shenanigans, I'd be curious to see if any of you can pull some sort of neat trick with my ball." He then hops off of his beach ball to give one of them a chance to do something with it.
It looks like Rick is the one that becomes interested in doing something with the ball, as he approaches it. "I could try to give it a good ol' bounce!" he says, as he picks up the ball and tosses it in the air, and then attempts to balance it by using his nose.
Everyone else watches Rick as he tries balancing the ball on his nose. Marx in particular watches with upmost interest, as the others here have already seen Rick balance things on his nose before, but Marx has yet to.
"Ooooh..." said Marx. "I just thought of something. Allow me to try this!"
As Rick continues to balance the ball on his nose, Marx jumps on top of Kine, to let himself then jump on top of the ball while Rick is still balancing it.
"Woaah!" said both Coo and Kine as they watch what's going on now. Gooey also looks very intrigued, though he doesn't say anything, but he focuses his pupils at what's happening.
This is basically some sort of circus act. Funny enough, this isn't the first time Rick balanced something on his nose that also had somebody standing on top of it. He once balanced a parasol on his nose when Kirby stood on it. Marx is honestly a bit surprised that he's holding himself decently well on this whole act. When he hopped on the ball, he was partially expecting Rick to lose balance and fall over, and he probably would've laughed in an 'oopsie' manner if that happened. But no, it's.. actually working.
Marx became smug when he kept balancing the ball on Rick's nose. "Hahahahaha! Anything is possible with me!" said the jester, in a boastful tone.
Gooey gave glances to the animal trio. "He's got a bunch of tricks and capabilities that he showed to me!" he said, as he's of course referring to the powers Marx got from Nova, as they were shown to the blue blob earlier. "Including spitting out more of those beach balls!"
"Wow, sounds incredible!" said Kine. "Hey Marx, mind showing that stuff to us?!?"
"Oh? Sure thing!" said Marx. He then hops off of the beach ball, and opens up his golden wings to start flying in the air. He chuckles in the air as he displays his two fangs. Rick decides to stop balancing the ball, and lowers his head to bring the ball down to watch Marx fly.
The animal trio becomes stunned to see Marx's golden wings for the first time. They wowed at the golden wings' various hexagonal mirror-like scales. They also noticed the claw-like fingers. All of this was unlike anything they've seen before.
Marx flew a lap around the landmark and then came back to the group. As he came closer to them, it looks like Coo has a question.
"So, those claws..." said the owl. "...are those meant to be your hands, Marx?"
"As a matter of fact? Yes, they are!" replied Marx, as he demonstrates by moving around one of his wings to show that it's like an arm. "By the way, if you fellas happen to know anything about clockwork stars, I made a wish to one called Nova. And that's how I have a bunch of amazing powers, including these wings to fly with!"
"Crikey! That sounds heaps good, mate!" said Rick.
"Hold on a moment..." said Kine. "Goo Ball Boy over here said you can spit more beach balls out of your mouth. That sounds... uh... nuts! Can you show that to us?"
"My pleasure to do so!" said Marx. He then starts spitting out beach balls, and goes around the landmark while doing so. The animal trio becomes stunned yet again. Gooey laughs, as he's been shown all of this already.
"This is what he and I were doing outside the forest!" said Gooey. He then goes back to being cross-eyed, and quickly wraps one of the many balls with his tongue. He proceeds to fling it across the area.
The animal trio also decided to mess around with the balls. Rick decided to kick the balls around for giggles. Coo flew around in the air, and used his wings to smack the balls that were mid-jump in the air.
Kine however thought of something really interesting he might be able to do with these balls. "Hmmmm.... I wonder if I can cannonball these things.." he quietly said to himself. He stuffed a beach ball in his mouth, and holds it in a similar manner to how Kirby and Gooey have rode inside his mouth before.
The sunfish then looks around for a good place to fire the ball at. He's trying to not accidentally hit Coo, Rick, Gooey or Marx. However, while he's in the middle of looking for somewhere to shoot, Marx notices him holding the ball in his mouth and comes over to him.
"Woah, woah, woah!" said Marx as he lands on the ground, retracting his fangs and golden wings. "What are we doing here, fishy guy?"
Kine doesn't pay attention to Marx, but he finally finds somewhere to fire off the ball, which is somewhere in the thicker forest surrounding the landmark. He spits it out like a cannonball. It hits a tree, although it's one of the heavier trees that is completely unphased by the impact.
Marx was impressed to see Kine being able to fire off beach balls out of his mouth like that. Why is he impressed? Because of the thought that suddenly just popped up in his head. He believes that there's something that could be done with cannonballing beach balls. It makes him feel devious on the inside.
"Hey, hey! I really liked seeing that!" said Marx, as he finally catches Kine's attention, who then turns around to face the jester.
"Heh! Thanks! I've fired off many things out of my mouth like that before." said Kine. And he’s right. He’s shot off light bulbs, fireballs and cutter-beams during his past two adventures with Kirby. He’s also fired off Gooey out of his mouth a couple times for kicks and giggles.
"Well, I think there's some real pranking potential in that!" replied Marx.
Kine liked hearing the sound of that. His facial expression become smugger, as he can already infer the jester may have something planned, and that he'd be more than willing to participate.
Coo flies over to Marx and Kine. Meanwhile, Rick and Gooey continue to play around with the balls on another part of the landmark. Rick is balancing a ball on his nose again, and Gooey is rolling around with the balls, chuckling.
"Haha, Marx, I take it you already planned a prank to pull on others in the forest? That may involve me spitting out your balls?" asked Kine.
"Oh?" said Coo, as he lands right by Kine. "Coming up with some other kind of mischief to pull around here?"
"Hahahahahahahahahaha! The answer to that question would be yes!" said Marx. "I'm already wanting to start stuff out there, and I want you all to join! Mind if you get the others to come over here? I'm thinking to go back into the forest."
"Yes. I'll go ahead and do that!" said Coo. He then flies over to the two still messing around with the balls. "Rick! Gooey! Marx wants to start some mischief deeper in the forest!"
"Righto!" exclaimed Rick. "Comin' over, mate!"
"Heheheheheh. That sounds fun. I'll be glad to join it!" said Gooey, as he and the hamster came over to the others. He focuses his pupils while coming over.
"Want to start messing with people out in the forest, fellas?" asked Marx.
Everyone looked at each other, and then nodded their heads yes. "Looks like we're all on board to join!" said Coo, as he observed the others nodding yes. Marx is starting to get the impression that Coo often serves as a leader for the animals, and he'd be right about that, because that is indeed the case.
"Haha.. excellent." said Marx. His grin becomes devious yet again.
"But before we get going..." said the owl. "... I shall do something about all those balls over there." Coo then flew to where the rest of the beach balls were at in the landmark, and started spinning himself around like a tornado. This technique is of a similar manner to how he and Kirby used the Parasol copy ability in unison. He makes all the beach balls fly around in a twister-like pattern, and they go all over the place. They all drop in various parts of the forest of a certain radius around the landmark. It would be very difficult to find them all, but that doesn't matter, because they don't plan on doing that.
"Hahahaha! I bet they'll hit unsuspecting peeps in the heads!" said Marx, as he watched Coo cause the balls to go around throughout the forest with his twister-spins.
That got a laugh out of the owl. "Believe it or not, that was the intention!" he said, as he came back to the group. Coo is often the most serious out of the animal friends, but even he enjoys engaging in tomfoolery every now and then.
"Hahaha, they won't know what'll hit them!" said Kine mischievously.
"They sure won't!" said Rick. "Anyways, Marx.. apologies for keeping us here for just a lil' bit longer, but check this beauty out, mate!" The hamster then transforms into a big brown rolling stone, although his eyes and whiskers are still visible. This is the same rolling stone that Rick was able to turn into when he and Kirby used the Stone copy ability in unison.
"WOAH, WOAH!" exclaimed Marx, as he was stunned to see Rick do that. "That's crazy cool, Rick! I bet you rick-roll around with that!" He laughed right after saying that.
Kine, Coo and Gooey also laughed alongside with him. "Haha, rick-rolling, that's the joke we keep making about it!" said Kine.
"How is he capable of doing that?" asked Marx, as he's genuinely curious.
"It came from the few adventures we've had with Kirby." said Coo. "When he used copy abilities, he actually combined them with us, and we've made our own spins out of them! And we've been able to maintain the capability of using some of them that we've performed. It lets us have a lot more fun!"
"Hahaha! Sounds incredible!" said Marx.
"That twister-spin I did earlier was something I inherited from when I made my version of the Parasol ability that Kirby uses. I've pulled off other silly shenanigans with that!" Coo followed up. "I can also do this!" He demonstrates by swinging his right wing and shoots off blade-like feathers, something he got out of using Kirby's Cutter copy ability that he's still be an able to use since then.
"I can surround myself in ice!" said Kine, as he demonstrates by doing so. He covers himself in icy waves, but after ten seconds of doing so, he then ends up turning himself into an ice cube.
"Uh oh." said Marx, worried that Kine just turned himself into an ice cube. "Was... was that supposed to happen?"
Rick, still in his rolling stone mode, then rolled himself into the ice cube to thaw out Kine.
After being thawed out, Kine took a few seconds until he responded. "I got a little ahead of myself for how long I showed that. That will happen if I use it for too long!" he said. "However, I've become more tolerant of cold temperatures. I can also thaw myself out if need be, so it's not a big deal if it happens!"
"Some of their abilities are pretty wild!" said Gooey. "Rick can breathe fire!" Ooooh... Marx was interested by the sound of that.
"Indeed, he can! But he never does it here in the forest, for obvious reasons." said Coo.
Rick transforms back to his normal hamster self to follow up what Coo said. "Yeah, I ain't gonna risk settin' the forest on fire! If ya want me to show it, then we'll have to do it outta the forest!"
"Pffft... it really wouldn't be THAT bad if you did it here, because I can easily put out the fire!" said Kine.
"Hahahaha! Sounds like that problem is solved." said Marx. "Does that mean you can show it here?" He's daring enough to ask this.
"Uggh.. I'd rather not, mate." said Rick.
Kine laughed. "I made it sound doable just to mess with Rick! In actuality, it's best to not do it here." said the sunfish. "But I mean, it can be taken out, but it's understandable to wait until we leave the forest.”
"BOOOO!" said Marx. "Hahaha, just kidding. I get it."
“He does use it for when we want to have a campfire out in Green Greens, though!” said Coo.
“Oh wow, that sounds fun!” said Marx.
"That’s true, it happens! Anyways, sorry I kept ya here for a bit longer, Marx!" Rick. "If you're ready to start them shenanigans out there now, I think we're all ripper now!"
"Hahahahaha! It's fine. And yes, I'm ready!" said Marx.
"Allow me to become a rick-roller again so you can use me like a ball, mate!" said Rick, as he transforms into his stone roller form again.
"One moment please!" said Marx, as he spits out a beach ball and then pushes it over to Kine. "This is yours to use! Hit someone with it when they don't expect it! Haha!"
Kine laughed. "Heheheheh.. absolutely." he said, as he stuffed the beach ball in his mouth.
Marx then hopped on top of Rick, who is still in his stone roller form. "Hahahaha... time to mess around in the forest!" he said as he bounces on Rick.
"On we go, guys!" said Coo. The group then left the landmark and went deeper into the forest.
As the group went around in the forest, Rick rolled around with Marx keeping himself on top of him. Kine, Coo and Gooey followed. Kine still has the beach ball stuffed in his mouth as he moves around with the others.
They went through the thicker parts of the forest that surrounded their favored landmark. At one point of going through this section, they encountered a small herd of nruffs passing by. Marx comically made Rick knock one of them over, as they then quickly zoomed out as soon as they knocked the nruff over, laughing their butts off in the process.
As they leave the thicker sections, Marx disclosed to the others about the kind of prank he was thinking of pulling, which involved using food to lure something, so Coo quickly zoomed at a tree to grab an apple and carry it with his talons to take with the group. Kine still has the beach ball stuffed in his mouth, as that'll be involved in the prank that Marx wants to do.
The group is now deep into the lesser dense areas of the forest. "Say... I think we ought to ram into one of these trees!" said Marx, as he still steers Rick rolling around. "Wait.. are there things that live up there in the trees?"
"As a matter of fact, yes there is!" replied Coo. "Arboreal life exists here in the forest as well!"
"Hahahahaha... time to disturb them!" said Marx. With Rick still in his stone roller form, Marx rolls him at a high speed and makes him crash onto a tree. The tree above shakes a little bit. Gooey laughed when he watched them hit the tree.
Marx jumps off of Rick, who then reverts back to his normal hamster self. They then both move back.
Several creatures come out of the tree's foliage. They're scarfies. There are eight of them that pop out.
"Crikey! I'd forgotten that scarfies lived deep within these skirts!" said Rick. The animal friends and Gooey didn't like scarfies due to their violent tendencies. They didn't trust being around them without them turning into their aggressive cycloptic phase.
The scarfies bark in frustration. Scarfies can't talk, but it was clear that the impact that hit the tree upset them. Surprisingly, they didn't transform into their more violent phase yet, but they still had mad facial expressions.
As Marx observed the scarfies and laughed due to provoking them, he then walked up to Coo and Kine. "You guys ready to pull it at the right moment?" he quietly asked them both, quiet enough to where the scarfies don't hear it. Both Coo and Kine nod their heads yes to Marx's question, since they remember the prank they discussed about pulling.
After they nodded yes, Marx then turned his attention back to the scarfies. He displays his fangs, unfolds his golden wings, and flies into the air to come towards them.
"Hey, hey, hey!" said Marx, as he greets the scarfies. "My apologies for disturbing you! Here, would one of you like an apple?" He then gestures towards Coo carrying the apple with his talons.
The scarfies calmed down their angry looks. The leader scarfy appears interested in the apple. It starts slowly heading its way towards Coo.
Marx quietly becomes smug. Hahahaha, these things aren't very smart, he thought to himself.
Coo grins happily as the scarfy approaches it, wanting that apple. But just before scarfy can get close enough to bite the apple, it gets hit from below and is knocked over.
It was the beach ball from Kine's mouth that knocked the scarfy over. Kine fired it off like a cannonball to hit it. The prank that the group thought up was luring someone into the apple that Coo was holding, only to then get hit when they don't expect it.
The group collectively laughed when the prank worked! As they laughed, Coo then hovers over to Gooey to feed the apple to him. Gooey uses his tongue to pull the apple out of Coo's talons, and then gobbles it up.
However, the other scarfies became angry at what they witnessed. This time, they actually transform into their violent phases. They didn't move forward, but they instead barked in hopes of scaring the group away. Their barks caught the group's attention.
As the group turned their attention to the angry cycloptic scarfies, the animal trio and Gooey react the way they normally react to scarfies becoming violent, which is of apprehension. Again, they don't like these things.
The scarfy that was knocked over gets back up, and also transforms into its violent phase as it rejoins the others.
"Oh, crikey, we're gonna have to deal with 'em now!" said Rick. "I'm sure we can handle it though!"
"That won't be an issue at all! I can handle this!" said Marx. He then laughs wickedly as he dashes towards the the scarfies at a high speed, temporarily stunning them. As he moves to the other side of them, they turn around to face him. It appears he dashed towards them in an attempt to make them turn their entire attention to him and away from the rest of the group.. and it worked, showing that these creatures struggle to focus on more than one thing at a time.
The scarfies become more aggressive and start moving towards Marx, snapping their jaws as they intend to bite him. But unfortunately for them, as they get close enough, they get met with a nasty surprise.
Marx begins to, quite literally, split his body in half. Thick green blood hangs from his two halves, as his eyes bulge out of his face. He lets out a loud, insane laughter, far more insane than his usual laughter. The scarfies become absolutely terrified upon seeing all of this! It scares them to the point where it forces them to revert back to their normal forms, and then they flee away from the scene as quickly as possible.
After the scarfies fled, Marx then puts his two bodily halves back together, as the thick green blood disappears in sight and his eyes go back to where they were. He's now back to normal. He then decides to land back down onto the ground, retracting his fangs and his golden wings.
Awkwardly for him, though, Rick, Kine, Coo and Gooey have watched the entire thing happen. Gooey's pupils were fixated on it the whole time.
To say that they were honestly frightened by what he just did would be downplaying it. It was something they couldn't even begin to fathom. How did he do that, they thought. They never thought that there'd be someone capable of splitting their body in half, survive while doing so, and just put themself back together without trouble. That's absolutely NUTS. This guy is so much weirder than they thought. This.. kind of changes their perception of him a tiny bit, although they'll still give him more chances since they're generous compared to many other people, but something tells them that a lot of other people are going to be really weirded out by this guy being able to split himself in half and them put himself back together. Many people would be grossed out by it.
Marx approaches them. "Hahahaha, that was cool! Wasn't it?" he asked.
"W-W-W-WHAT WAS THAT?!?" asked Kine.
"Crikey, Marx, how in Popstar are you able to do that?!?!" asked Rick.
"It's one of the many incredible powers I've acquired from Nova!" said Marx. "It may seem crazy, I know. But that comet gave me a bunch of radical powers! And I enjoy them."
Coo had one major question in mind while he watched that spectacle unfold. "Good grief, Marx... does Kirby know you're able to do that? Has he seen it?" he asked.
"Yes, he has! It was one of the techniques I used during that fight against him back in the day." replied Marx. "I just.. happen to have all of the same techniques now. But don't worry, because I don't want to end up becoming enemies with Kirby again since I got hurt REALLY bad the last time. Therefore, I'm really only just meaning to cause some mischief because it's fun, and not cause enough trouble to the point where it makes Kirby want to beat me up again."
Upon hearing those last couple of sentences, the animal trio and Gooey did ease down a bit, but honestly they're still kind of weirded out. It was just... insane to witness what they just saw occur in the first place. But hey, they've had fun causing mischief with him so far! They're still good with him being a friend.
"Alright then! You're good. That was just... incredibly obscene to watch, though!" said Coo, and the others would definitely agree. Coo already has the feeling that he and the other animals may need to keep their eyes on Marx when he comes by. He's already had the feeling that the jester might have a tendency to let himself go to potentially go too far in mischief, and he'll have to be kept in check if that happens. That's fine. Others have also been needing to be kept in check sometimes, such as ChuChu and Pitch, who are also pretty rowdy.
"I would've never expected anyone to split their body in half and then put it back together!" said Gooey.
"Neither would I." said Kine. "But hey, if mischief is all you care about to do, then it's fine!"
"I'd say that all is aight now, mate." said Rick.
"Hahahahahaha. Sorry if it freaked you guys out." said Marx. "Wanna cause more mischief? Maybe outside of the forest?!?"
The others looked at each other and nodded their heads yes. "Sure thing, Marx!" said Coo.
"Count me in!" said Kine.
"Me too!" said Gooey.
"Righto! I'm down for more!" said Rick.
Marx laughed proudly at their responses. The group then made their way out of Whispy Woods' forest and back to Green Greens. They'd have mischievously greeted a few bronto burts and waddle dees on the path they go through. Rick had the chance to showcase his capability of breathing fire to Marx, who was wowed at it.
Eventually, they head towards King Dedede's castle. It was Kine's idea for the group to invite themselves to go there, because he's particularly fond of messing around with Dedede. The animal friends and Gooey have committed mischief near Dedede before, and also with him too as they even invited him to join them sometimes. Out of the animal friends, Kine and Rick are the ones that liked to mess around with Dedede the most.
Rick, Kine, Coo and Gooey got Marx to be on-board with the idea of going to the castle with them. Marx has actually met King Dedede already, as he did so before finding Kirby to reconcile with him. He hardly did anything with the king at first meeting other than tell a joke, but Dedede did previously hear about Marx's past incident with Kirby... although he let it slide at this point, because of how long ago it was and that the jester said he wanted to make up with Kirby.
This will be Dedede's first time witnessing the typical mischief that Marx partakes in.
The group arrive right outside of Dedede's castle. Marx let out a wicked laughter. The others look at him... and they feel like he already plans something.
"Sounds like ya already know what ya wanna do, mate!" said Rick.
"Yes!" said Marx. "How do you all feel about assisting me in flooding the place with balls?"
The group gave each other glances and nodded their heads yes in agreement, much to Marx's joy. He then jumps in the air, display his fangs and unfold his golden wings to keep himself in the air. He spits out a whole load of beach balls right by the castle's entrance.
A few waddle dees near the entrance noticed it, but they were just confused more than anything. They weren't sure what to make of the stuff they were seeing.
Once enough beach balls were created, they became ready.
"Go send them flying, Coo!" said Marx. Kine however was quick enough to snatch a ball inside his mouth before Coo makes his move, as he appears to want to cannonball one off again.
Coo then spun himself like a tornado above the balls and then went inside the castle, making the balls also go inside. They fly all over the place inside and bounce like crazy.
King Dedede's castle is overrun by a giant barrage of beach balls. The waddle dees inside the castle begin freaking out and rush to further in the castle, but some of them have been hit in the head by the beach balls while retreating.
With Coo already inside the castle, the rest of the gang also enters inside to continue the mischief. Gooey bonks his head on them as he's cross-eyed, Rick kicks them around, and Coo smacks the ones in the air. Kine still has a ball stuffed in his mouth ready to fire off whenever he sees a good moment to. Marx spits even more beach balls out of his mouth as he flies around, expanding the mayhem to a greater scale.
They stay in the entrance room while causing their beach ball mayhem. Many more waddle dees retreat to further in the castle when they see it.
After a few minutes of this mischief continuing, King Dedede arrives at the scene to the castle's entrance room, as the waddle dees certainly reported to him about what's been going on.
"What in the....." said Dedede. "...... what in the world is goin' on here?!?!?!??!" He now begins to witness the influx of bouncing beach balls all over the place. He's incredibly baffled by it, to say the least.
A few beach balls quickly come right at him. He knocks them away with his hammer. "Where'd all these darn balls come from?!?!?" he exclaimed.
Dedede looked around the entrance room, watching all these beach balls bouncing around. While looking around, he then notices yet another ball coming straight at him, and he knocks it away with his hammer. This ball was the one that Kine just fired off.
Kine laughed. “Bet you didn’t expect to see all of this!” he said while laughing. He attempted to use the ball he held in his mouth to cannonball at Dedede, but he doesn’t seem bothered that it failed. He still thinks it’s funny to see the king witnessing all these balls bouncing around.
As soon as Dedede saw Kine, he also had a laugh, since he knows the sunfish is up for sillies every time he comes to the castle. But he's still really, really perplexed. "But for real though! Who's makin' all these there goofy balls?!?" he asked.
"They came from Marx!" replied Kine, as he approaches the king.
"From.... Marx?!?"
"Yes, he spits them out of his mouth!" said Kine.
That weirded the king out. That clowny guy can apparently spit out beach balls straight from his mouth.. he thought to himself. He knew that the guy has to have some weird magical powers to make that possible.
Gooey saw Dedede and came up to him. "Hey! You finally came out!" said the blue blob, as he then laughed.
"Oh, hey, look, it's the funny blue gumball himself!" said Dedede, followed by a laughter. Back in the day, Dedede used to be rather uncomfortable around Gooey because of the times he's been possessed by Dark Matter. But he's warmed up significantly to the little guy as time went on.
When Gooey comes right up to Dedede, he pats the blue blob on the head, and chuckles while doing so.
As Kine and Gooey have their attention on the king right now, Rick and Coo are continuing the mayhem by pushing balls around. Marx.... wait, where did Marx go?
Oh... a purple shadow is zooming across the floor.
The shadow comes at Dedede, and he sees it. He is unsettled by it. "W-what's this? What's it doin'?" he asked, as it goes in a circle around him. Kine and Gooey laugh beside him, because they know who that shadow is.
After several seconds, Marx materializes out of the purple shadow as he springs up out of the floor right in front of Dedede's face. "SURPRISE!!!" he screams right at the king.
"DAAAAHHHH!" Dedede got surprised as he didn't expect Marx to pop up like that in front of him. He falls over. Marx laughs as he spooked the king. Kine and Gooey laugh with him.
Eventually, Rick and Coo would notice Dedede as well, and they too start heading towards him. The beach balls are all left scattered throughout the castle's main entrance floor.
The king gets up while all of the mischief doers have their attention on him, as they start to form a circle around him.
"Hahahahaha! Get pranked, king!" said Marx. As Dedede faces Marx, he's stunned again. This is the first time he's seen the jester's golden wings, as he is currently in the air with them.
"Crikey, I missed it mate!" said Rick. "Did ya spook him, Marx?"
"This little bugger pulled a fast one on me! I gotta say you're quite the cheeky one!" said Dedede, as he then chuckles.
Everyone else laughs.
Marx then spits a beach ball out of his mouth, as Dedede witnesses exactly how he does it. After spitting out the beach ball, the jester then retracts his fangs and golden wings and starts bouncing on the ball.
"Hahahahaha! We've been on a tomfoolery spree!" Marx said to Dedede.
"Yeah, this clown's pretty crikey crazy with them pranks!" said Rick. "But we've had quite the ripper time with him. Gotta admit that he's great for startin' them sillies with!"
Dedede laughed. "Sounds fun! Y'all must've been having a grand old time." he said.
"It is indeed very fun!" said Gooey. "I'm glad that this guy came around as a friend, now."
"By the way, it was my idea to start causing mischief in here!" said Kine, with a devious facial expression following that.
That got another laugh out of the king. "That don't surprise me, ya goofy fish! I hadn't forgotten all them times that you've seem to be enjoying messing with me! Hahaha!"
"The big spree of beach balls was Marx's idea! He thought it'd be funny to flood the castle with them." said Coo.
Upon hearing that, Dedede gave Marx another glance. As the jester laughs yet again, Dedede's grin became mischievous as he then swiftly knocks Marx's ball over with his hammer. Marx gets shocked as he then falls to the floor.
"Pfft... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" King Dedede laughed immensely. "Got ya that time, clown boy!" Everyone else laughed alongside with him.
As Marx got up, he couldn't help himself but laugh. "Dang, you got me good, tubby!" he said, while still laughing.
Everyone eventually stopped laughing. "Well, y'all must've had a lot of fun, and I enjoyed seeing y'all. But now, how about y'all help in getting rid all of these there balls?" asked Dedede.
"I know how to get rid of them all really quickly!" said Marx.
"Err...?" said Coo. He and everyone else became really bewildered at what Marx just said. Marx can get rid of them all really quickly? Ummm.... how? Is there yet another power this guy has that they're not aware of?
"Really quickly?" asked Gooey. "How can you do that?"
"I can show how I'll do it!" said Marx. "But I highly recommend that all of you stand back. And I mean back, like, way back!"
Everyone gave each other glances, then looked back at Marx. "Well... if ya say so, mate!" said Rick.
"Let's all go back over there." said Dedede, as he gestures towards the stairs to the next floor of the castle. He, Rick, Kine, Coo and Gooey then move over there, and turn around to face Marx. "Would this happen to be far enough for ya?" asked Dedede.
Marx nodded his head. "I think that should do!" he said. He then walks to the center of the site of the beach balls.
"Hahahahaha! Here we go!" said the jester, as he faces the others who are currently on stand-by while he begins. He leaps in the air, displaying his fangs and golden wings again. He then splits himself in half again... the thick green blood appears yet again, hanging from his two halves. His eyes start bulging from his body again.
Dedede becomes beyond flabbergasted to see what's going on. "WHAT IN THE..?!?!?" he screamed. The others aren't quite as stunned, because they've already seen it a while ago, but that doesn't stop them from still going wow.
"Yeah... he's capable of doing that..." said Coo. "We know, it's really absurd."
But something new happens that even the animal trio and Gooey have not seen yet. Something appears between Marx's bodily halves. It is... A BLACK HOLE?!?!? Good Nova... a literal black hole. It sends shivers down everyone's spines. Now they understand why he said to stand back, because they sure as heck would NOT want to get caught in that.
All the beach balls get sucked into the black hole. Everyone continues to be perpetually shocked... wow... he really did get rid of them really quickly. He was right. They just... didn't think he was going to do it THAT WAY. Wow.
The black hole dissolves after it sucked all of the beach balls in. Marx then begins to put his two bodily halves back together, the thick green blood disappearing and his eyes going back to normal. He also retracts his fangs and golden wings, and lands on the floor.
"All done! I just removed all of them!" he said. "You're all good to return now!"
The others decide to start coming back to Marx. King Dedede is the slowest at doing so, though, since he's by far the most shocked out of all of them. Honestly.. at this point, he doesn't really know how he feels about Marx.
"Oh, and by the way, Kirby's seen the black holes too. Hahahaha!" said Marx. "If it concerns you, I won't and have absolutely no intention to use them to target people. Besides, it's difficult to split myself in half anyways! And I already said I don't wanna get on Kirby's bad side again!"
"Well, crikey, of course it must be really darn hard to do that, mate!" said Rick. "We're still shocked that ya can even do it in the first place! None of us can even imagine doing that!"
"Most things wouldn't survive doing that!" said Coo.
"Galactic Nova really glorified me, didn't it?" said Marx, followed by a laughter.
The others, even Gooey, hardly laughed, because they're still trying to relax themselves after seeing what just happened.
Gooey darted forward to Marx a little bit. "Well... hopefully it'll be very rare when you do that." said the blue blob.
"Yes. I know some may see me as crazy, but I'm not that crazy." said Marx. "Even I'm above the level of constantly using it and being a danger to others with it."
That gave the others some relief. The animal trio and Gooey did remember how Marx said he only cares to do a lot of mischief, but not actively trying to be a serious threat again.
Eventually, everyone else comes up to Marx, including Dedede who took the longest to approach. "Well, try to keep that particular power to a minimum!" said Dedede. "As long as ya do that, you'll be all fine and dandy."
Marx nodded his head in agreement. "You can also look at it in another way, when you really think about it!" he said. "I'm Kirby's friend, now. If I wanted to, I could be a teammate for whenever some really big baddy shows up. I could use all of my powers to help out! You've got an extra source of power on your side!" He then grows a proud look on his face.
"Oooh! In that case, that's great!" said Gooey. "I think you'd certainly make a very powerful ally among us, Marx!"
"Got a plan! I can help!" said Marx.
The others liked what he just had to say. Marx certainly would make a valuable ally. He's incredibly powerful. He's likely a lot stronger than many of Kirby's other friends. He hasn't even shown all of his powers to the animal trio, Gooey and Dedede yet. Kirby could have a hidden gem in his hands, should Marx join him in stopping some future evil force. Of course, the jester seems like he'll certainly continue to be the fun-loving, mischievous troll that he's been, but it seems he can also serve as a great asset to Kirby's team if necessary.
"I remember Kirby telling us that he'd like for all of his friends to come together one day!" said Coo.
"Hahahaha! I wouldn't mind meeting them all." said Marx. "I already know Magolor, though!"
"Oh my Nova. Magolor..." said Kine. "That guy is also a blast for doing mischief with!"
"You guys know him?" asked Marx.
"Aye, mate! Kirby showed him to us one time and we forgave 'em!" said Rick.
"I'll be honest, I even thought of him for a moment while we were doing shenanigans with you. He's done similar things with us!" said Coo.
"Magolor is great! He's fun to be around with." said Gooey.
King Dedede stepped up a bit. "Magolor.. that rascal.. hahahaha! He backstabbed me and Kirby and the others! I hated him for a while because of it! But he came back and went outta his way to show he's sorry. So we're fine with him now. He also shows up here and pulls fast ones with me sometimes." he said. "He pranks me hardcore! I'm a fun-loving fella 'round here, so feel free to do some sillies with me if ya like! I have limits, though."
Marx laughed. "Sometimes, you might find yourself having your hands full on that one!" he said deviously.
The group hanged out for a couple of more minutes until departure began to occur.
"You know, I had a great time! But I'm getting tired. I'm thinking of wanting to go back to the forest." said Kine. "And besides, I need to get back to water!" Kine is still a fish, after all. He's still technically supposed to be aquatic. He's grown to be capable of being on land for several hours, but eventually he's gonna need to get back to water.
"I'm also starting to feel a bit tired, myself." said Coo.
"Ah! That's fine! I suppose we could all start going now." said Marx.
"Alright! Y'all have a good rest of your day!" said King Dedede.
"Later, mate!" Rick said to Dedede.
"Okie dokie! Time to go!" said Gooey.
Marx, Rick, Kine, Coo and Gooey had then left Dedede's castle and went back to Green Greens.
So far, King Dedede seems to be fine with Marx. He's only interacted with the jester a few times, so his opinion of him may change over time as he interacts with him more. That being said, he already has the feeling that Bandana Dee and Meta Knight aren't going to like him very much if they haven't met him already.
The group of five that left the king's castle walk across Green Greens for a little while. "So, Marx, what are you doing now?" asked Coo. "We're going back to the forest. You can go back with us if you'd like, unless you'd rather do something else."
"I think I'm good to do something else." replied Marx. "It was great pulling pranks with all of you! But I think I'm going to go elsewhere now."
"Hey, Marx, have a great rest of your day, mate!" said Rick. "It was a beauty to have met ya!"
"It sure was!" said Kine. "You know how to put up a great time, man! We're always up for that. Come hit us up again if you'd like!"
"Thank you for becoming our friend, Marx!" said Gooey.
"Hahahahaha! My pleasure." said Marx. "And this one's for you, Gooey! I'm glad to have met you!" he hops on Gooey and uses him like a ball for several seconds. Gooey does not roll around and instead stays in place, and laughs while being bounced on. The animal trio get to witness Marx using Gooey like a ball, showing how close of a friendship the two have already formed. They were amused at watching it.
"Ha! Gooey's another ball for you!" said Kine, laughing.
"I suppose I shouldn't be surprised at that one!" said Rick, also laughing. "I balanced Gooey on my good ol' nose once!"
After a minute, Marx hops off of Gooey. "Okay fellas. I think I'm going to go now! See you all later!" he said.
"Catch you later, Marx!" said Coo.
"Bye, you cheeky clown." said Kine.
"Later, mate!" said Rick.
"Bye bye, Marx!" said Gooey.
Rick, Kine, Coo and Gooey continued going back to Whispy Woods' forest, while Marx went a different direction in Green Greens.
Today went well for the jester! Rick, Kine, Coo and Gooey have all taken well to Marx, and all four of them can consider him to be their friend. Marx has still yet to interact with a lot of Kirby's other friends, though. It is questionable as to what they'll think of them. The animal friends and Gooey are very generous and don't get easily ticked off, so Marx was lucky to have gotten to know them, but many other people aren't quite as generous and might be more likely to become annoyed or mad at Marx's antics.
That's fine, though. Marx wouldn't be upset about not winning everyone over. If anything, the people that end up not liking him could become good targets for him to pull pranks on! He loves getting dramatic reactions out of people.
As Marx walked across Green Greens, he stopped for a moment to relax. He watched the view around him. He even sat for a little bit.
He admits that it was very refreshing today to have reconciled with Kirby and met some of his friends. For a long time after he crashed into Nova and shockingly survived, he held a grudge against Kirby, to Kirby's unknowing because the jester did not come back to Popstar for a very long time until recently. This grudge went on for quite some time until he got over it, with assistance from Magolor who encouraged him to get over it and befriend Kirby. When Marx looks back at it all now, he's glad to have gotten over it. No need to hold a grudge forever, he thinks to himself. It's better to have become Kirby's friend, and then still be a silly mischievous dude in the meantime. He's sure that Kirby doesn't mind.
Becoming Kirby's friend puts weight off of Marx's nonexistent shoulders. Now, there's nothing he feels remotely upset about. He could just spend the rest of his life being a silly guy, and he has friends that he can be silly with! He could also even try to play the hero against some incoming massive threat if the time calls for it. Although, his biggest reason for wanting to join Kirby and his friends on a future adventure could just be to witness the chaos and see how it all goes down more than anything else, but they probably wouldn't mind that regardless!
Marx is now officially one of Kirby's friends.
After sitting down in the grass of Green Greens for a little bit, Marx gets up. He jumps in the air, then displays his fangs and golden wings to keep him in the air.
Laughing immensely, Marx flies off in the landscape.
The jester seems to want to spend the rest of the day causing mischief. That's his thing!
Marx flies by Kirby's house, gesturing a goodbye while he passes by, as he continues on his day.
Notes:
That's the end of the story! Thank you for reading!
I've made all of the Wave 1 dream friends hang out together in a fanfiction, what an accomplishment! How often do you see Wave 1 dream friends interacting? Marx is commonly lumped with the Wave 3 dream friends, and while that makes sense, I decided to let him hang out with his own wave instead.
Once again, this story takes place before Star Allies. Gooey and the animal trio have already known each other beforehand of course, so I had to do was just throw Marx into the mix to make the Wave 1 group complete early before that game occurs! Marx just sticks around in Popstar in time for Star Allies.
As you can see, I've interpreted Gooey and the animal friends as generous beings that are also into mischief, and thus they're able to get along with Marx just fine!
Marx is one of my favorite characters. If you also like Marx, then you're welcome that I just provided some new fan content for him!
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