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In retrospect, Fumu should’ve expected that Meta Knight was a fast eater. It didn’t stop her from jumping when he appeared out of nowhere in the middle of the barely started tour.
Dedede laughed at her jump, saying that Meta did that on purpose. Fumu expected that this Meta Knight would object to that statement but to no avail. The Knight simply shrugged.
She steadied herself and with a cough. “Now we can begin our tour!”
Touring around the castle was pretty quick and easy. There were many side remarks from both the knight and king about how much green was in the castle and that this Dedede had much better statues of himself back in their home dimension.
Fumu giggled at that. ‘Guess no matter the dimension Dedede will always have some sort of ego.’ the young girl thought to herself.
After a swift look around they stopped at one of the castle’s balconies and admired the village that lay beneath it.
The King whistled at the view “Well look at that. We don’t have a village like that back at home.”
“Dreamland doesn’t really have any villages, your majesty” Added Meta Knight.
Fumu was stunned by those words. “Then where does anyone live?”
“Yeah! What is your dimension’s Dreamland like?” Bun seized the opportunity to ask.
“Mainly people just pick a spot and start building their new home. We don’t really care. Sometimes you have neighbors and sometimes you don’t.” The penguin king waved her off.
"Also, Dreamland is a real nice place to live. Dedede’s really good at ruling!” The pink puff added. “It's real peaceful! There's lots and lots of fun things to do!" Kirby answered, matching the tone of the excitement of the young boy. “When it’s peaceful you can take nice long naps, participate in tournaments, go to Magolor’s amusement park, and have really tasty food!” Kirby could feel the drool running down his mouth after that last statement. He quickly wiped his mouth.
The alternate King let out a boastful laugh startling the young girl beside him. “Yeah, I’d say that’s pretty much the low down of it if you forget to include all the invasions that happen every once in a while.”
“Hence why we have the Star Allies now.” Meta Knight concluded.
The three star allies talked amongst themselves leaving the two siblings to watch in astonishment. To Fumu it was such a strange feeling to see that this Dedede was so kind, helpful, and tolerable ruler… in any dimension! And for him to be so close to both Kirby, who she was still getting used to the fact can talk, and Meta Knight, who seemed just a bit more open then theirs! For her brother Bun, he had other thoughts on his mind…
"Go back one second. Your friend Magolor owns an amusement park!?" Bun's excitement grew more and more.
“He sure does! It’s gotten even better now that Susie help him recently! There are so many games and rides to play! And the food is good too!” Kirby answered drool reappearing.
“The reason why he now owns an amusement park is no laughing matter, however,” Meta added.
“Why’s that?” The younger brother asked.
“He made it as an apology for making us go through such nonsense!” Dedede explained with a snarky laugh at the end. “Most of us have forgiven him except Mety here. But I think it’s just cause Magolor got a better high score than him in scope shot.”
“You know what a deceitful egg he can be your majesty. He cheated.”
Fumu could practically feel the salt coming off of the mysterious blue knight. Though she had to wonder what this Magolor figure could’ve done that would warrant him to make an entire amusement park as an apology. Though she figured she wouldn’t have to wait for an answer for too long considering her brother was chock-full of questions.
“Well, that wraps up what the castle has to offer.” She clapped her hands together. “ We can take you guys on a tour of the village if you’d like. I’ve already sent Tokkori down there to tell the cappies what’s going on.”
“Your village is home to cappies?” Dedede questioned with amusement. “A regular old cappy town huh.”
She nodded.
The young girl knew full well that if anything major happened at the castle the villagers should be informed right away. Sometimes they listened to her. Other times… not as much. It wasn’t hard to admit, the cappies weren’t always the sharpest tool in the shed. Maybe that’s why Dedede has remained ruler for so long.
“I only ask if you all want to see the village since I know how the villagers are. You’ll probably be bombarded with questions and not get a moment of peace for a while.”
“Nah I like the attention.” Dedede struck a pose with a checky smile. Kirby clapped his nubs together and Meta Knight looked at him with little to no amusement.
“Plus I wanna check it out since I didn’t find Bandana here.”
“Bandana?” Both her and Bun had a puzzled look on their faces.
“Y’know Bandana Waddle Dee. My bestie!” Kirby spoke up. “Also known as Bandee!”
“I don’t think we have a… Bandee.”
“Huh?”
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“For the last time, I’m telling you all the truth!” Tokkori shouted at the top of his lungs. The tiny bird knew that what he was saying was really out there and only a fool would believe him. But the villagers were usually so gullible all the time. Why wouldn’t they listen to this one actual true thing?
"I've heard some crazy things in my day but that has to be the craziest." Chief Borun laughed.
"We all dealt with Nightmare almost two years ago and this is where you all drop the line!"
“Even if you’re telling the truth about different dimensions I doubt any King Dedede would be kind.” Mable joined in. “I especially don’t see him being friends with Sir Meta Knight nor Kirby.”
“Yeah! The last time his majesty was nice was because he was possessed by a demon beast!” Kawasaki pointed out having each and every cappy there murmur in agrement.
The yellow greenish bird rolled his eyes and sighed in annoyance. He had no doubts Fumu would be pleased to know that the villagers were finally being skeptical for once. But this was not the time for that!
“Fine! Don’t take my word for it! But when-”
Suddenly at that very moment, a scream was heard. Not just any scream, a scream from their mayor.
All heads turned as they watched the horrified Mayor Len quickly driving away from an onslaught of projectiles aimed at him. One finally hits his front tire causing him to spiral out of control.
Mass panic filled the village. They all ran in different directions trying to make sure they didn’t get hit by both the unknown source enemy or the Mayor’s car.
Through the hysteria to notice that the car was on a direct course toward a single cappy child.
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“But it’s always the four of us!” Dedede once again cried out.
Fumu never once guessed she would ever see these three characters be so bummed out that their one friend was potentially not with them. At first, they had thought that even if this dimension didn’t have a counterpart of their friend Bandana he could possibly still be here. But as she pointed out, they had all woken up where their counterparts were last at.
Meta Knight gave his king a pat on the back. “It’ll be alright your majesty. This might actually be a good thing.”
“How could this possibly be a good thing!” The king yelled at his favorite knight.
“Think for a minute Dedede. If Bandana is back at our dimension that means he can keep things in check in Dreamland. Would you trust any of the other Star Allies to run it?”
The penguin sniffed. “You have a good point.”
“I don’t know I think Adeline or Zan would be pretty good.” The pink child added.
“Ok, you have got to tell me who every Star Allies is.” Bun said to Kirby who nodded in agreement.
As they got closer to the village they could hear the panic screams from each of the cappies and see the chaos coming from it.
Fumu gasped after seeing Mayor Len’s car swerving out of control and straight into her friend Honey.
The King was the first one to react. With a quick high jump he found himself between the car and the crying girl and with his bare hands he grabbed the upcoming out of control car stopping it completely. He lifted the damaged car slightly into the air and noticed that the tire was punctured by a shuriken still placed in there neatly.
“You two alright?” The King asked.