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“What do you mean ‘Dimensional thing’” Fumu was suspicious of anything the self-proclaimed king said. Though she must admit, this did make her curious.
The king rubbed his temples. "Uuuh ok ok. How much do you all know about different dimensions, rifts, and what not?"
Each of the strangers looked at him like he was crazy. Not a great sign.
"Alright shoot, how do I explain this? You know how random portals open up?"
Their confusion had only gotten worse. Shoot. The king knew he shouldn’t have assumed every dimension they visit would have portals randomly appear. But you can’t blame him for thinking that! It’s such a recurring theme!
"You're starting in the middle, Dedede." Meta Knight patted his king’s back softly. "Allow me to explain. What my king should have said first is that we come from a different dimension. We’re we come from there is a problem with portals opening up at random, leading us into different dimensions, planets, and whatnot. I'd have to assume that while we were sleeping last night a few opened up and dropped us here in your dimension."
A collective 'oooh' swept through the small group.
"So the multiverse theory is true then!" The girl with the ponytail was in awe at the knight's explanation.
“What’s the multiverse theory?” The younger of the two siblings asked.
“Multiple dimensions separated from one another. Each dimension is either extremely different or has little difference. Like Meta’s wings apparently. ” The king simply explained.
The dark knight nodded. "I also have to assume that due to this we may have switched with the ones that you all confused us with."
"Sorry for the confusion!" Kirby apologized politely.
"You seem very calm about being in another dimension" The younger of the two children pointed out.
“Yeah, this ain’t our first rodeo.” This would be what, the third, fourth time this has happened? Dedede had to wonder if they should have Susie or Magolor design a machine that would detect these random portals so they could better prepare.
"So then since we don't know you and we only look like your friends. How's about a proper introduction?"
The girl nodded in agreement. "My name is Fumu."
"I'm her brother, Bun!" The young boy excitedly added.
"Yo I'm Tokkori!" The small bird flapped his wings until he finally landed on Bun's head.
"...Escargon." The snail eyed their king suspiciously.
"You already seem to know us." The taller of the two knights said.
"Alright since that's done and over with!" The king's stomach loudly growled in the hallway. "Can we please get some grub! I'm starving!"
Meta Knight pinched the King's cheek. "Don't act as if you rule over this land. We are guests in this dimension."
"But Meta I'm hungry too!" The young pink puffball whined.
"I don't doubt that but we still need to be polite about it." The Knight was cut off by an even louder growl than the king's startling everyone in the hallway.
"Kirby was that your stomach?" Bun cried out.
"Uuh yeah sorry!" He chuckled as he leaped out of the King's arms.
"Hey, you." Dedede pointed at Escargon.
"Y-yes?"
"You said that the Waddle Dees was almost done with breakfast right? Well, I hope they made enough for us all! Come on show us where the pantries at!" The King smiled wide.
"Y-yes your majesty! Right, this way!"
Each of them followed the short snail towards the dining room. The King eyed the knight sitting on his shoulder and quietly laughed at him. "Guessing you didn't eat your midnight snack last night huh?"
The masked knight rolled his eyes but King Dedede knew there was a smirk underneath. "If you must know. I did not, as I was working on Kirby’s surprise." He whispered back.
"Heh, you’re lucky the kid loves you enough to take the fall."
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Breakfast was quickly served by the many waddle dees. Today's breakfast dish was a stack of blueberry pancakes topped with power sugar and wiped cream. Drinks consisted of coffee for the adults and apple juice for the young ones.
It didn’t surprise Fumu that both the King and Kirby started stuffing their faces the minute their plates hit the table. Nor did it surprise her when Meta Knight said he would wait until everyone else was done eating to eat his. No, what did surprise her was the fact that Dedede thanked the Waddle Dees and even pet one of them!
The other thing she found odd that surprised her was how much sugar the other Meta Knight kept putting into his coffee. Watching him rip open each individual sugar packet one after the other leaving an evergrowing pile was mesmerizing. She almost didn't take her eyes off him if Dedede hadn't spoken up.
"Hey Meta Knight, you want some coffee with your sugar?"
"Haha very funny my liege. You know how I like my coffee" The knight scoffed at him, continuing to add more sugar.
"Plus sugar makes the coffee taste better!" Kirby playfully added as he continued to stuff his pink face.
'They're certainly closer than our own version of them' Fumu thought to herself as she took another quick sip of her apple juice.
“I must apologize for this inconvenience. Most of us Star Allies have been trying to do more research on these random portals but unfortunately, it’s getting us nowhere.” Meta Knight stirred his coffee as he spoke.
“Star Allies..?” Fumu questioned.
“It’s the name of our little squad. Kirby named us.” Dedede answered after he had swallowed his breakfast.
“Yeah! It’s made up of all my closes friends and we protect Popstar and other planets!” Kirby excitedly explained.
“Speaking of which, I hope we can get back in time for the annual potluck. ‘Specially since I’m the one who hosts them!” The king chuckled.
“You… You’re the one who hosts?” Escargon hesitantly asked. Almost as if he couldn’t believe what he was hearing.
Meta Knight nodded. “Every Magolor Day, King Dedede hosts our Star Allies get-together potluck.”
“Then afterward we have a huge sleepover and watch movies we found on another planet!” The pink puff chimed in.
“Magolor Day? Is that some holiday you celebrate in your dimension?” Fumu had to wonder what kind of holiday Magolor Day would be.
Meta Knight smacked himself in the face. He deeply sighed. “Dedede, remind me to smack Magolor upside his head when we get back. I meant every Sunday.
Oh.
Well, there goes one question she had. But that did raise another.
“Who’s Magolor?”
“He’s one of us Star Allies.” The knight simply put. “As you can tell he’s got a bit of an ego.”
“So much so that he changed all of our calendars from saying Sunday to Magolor Day!” The king growled out annoyance clearly in his voice. He sighed. “But he is a good kid… well trying to nowadays. Plus he has a cool ship.”
“That’s it!” Meta Knight’s snapped his fingers. “The Lor Starcutter!”
“The what?” Tokkori asked.
“It’s a ship that travels in between dimensions.” The King answered.
"So then, is this Magolor’s ship the quickest way to get back to your dimension?" The shorter of the two knights asked.
"Most likely yes. Unless another random portal opens up soon." Meta Knight calmly stated.
“So how are you gonna get in contact with him?” Bun sipped the last of his apple juice as he waited for an answer.
"We call him!" The young star ally smiled as he pulled out his pink phone stylized in multiple different stickers ranging from stars to hearts, even some of his own hand-drawn ones of his friends.
“Is… is that a phone?” The other green knight, Sword questioned as soon as he saw the pink touch screen.
“Yeah! Our friend Susie gave each of us Star Allies one! Haven’t you guys seen a phone like this before?”
“No. The most advanced one I’ve seen is a flip phone.”
The King and Knight shared a worried glance at each other.
That wasn’t a good sign.
The pink puffballs smile dropped the moment he clicked on Magolor’s name.
“Guys it’s not going through…”
Both Dedede and Meta Knight wiped out their own customized phones and checked themselves.
No connection available.
“Try texting in the emergency group chat!” The King yelled.
“They're not going through! Nova damn it! What’s the point of these damn things if we can’t make a call out in the dimensional boonies!” No one in this dimension had ever seen Meta Knight this upset.
“Watch your tone. We’ll just have to wait and hope they’ll find us. Or y’know we get kidnapped by a portal while we sleep again.” The king said it in a calm voice but by his body langued you could tell he was still royally pissed.
“Then we shouldn’t have to wait too long. If our counterparts really did switch with us then mine should be with Magolor and Marx! I stayed over there last night to help Magolor make his Mac and Cheese!” Kirby tried cheering up his friends and for a quick second, it worked. Until.
“But isn’t there hundreds of different dimensions? Wouldn’t it take a long time to find ours?” Fumu the everloving woman of facts and logic pointed out.
“Shit.”
The King angrily glanced at the Knight. “And I doubt our counterparts also don’t know anything about dimensional travel either.” He watched as every single one of them shook their heads ‘no’. “... Of course.”
“But it isn’t all bad you can stay here in the castle until we can find a way back home.” The young girl said with a smile.
King Dedede perked up. “Hey yeah, we can make this into a little vacation too!”
“Yeah! We can wander around this new dimension and have fun while we wait!” Kirby agreed instantly.
Meta Knight didn’t look too pleased by this answer.
“We’ll still look for a way home, Mety Knight! But since we’ve been so busy in our dimension, we could use a break and just enjoy ourselves too.” The King faked whimpered doing his best to win the masked knight over.
Meta Knight rolled his eyes. “As long as you both promise to actually look for a way home with me.”
“We promise!” They both shouted.
“How’s about me and my brother give a tour?” Fumu politely offered.
“Yeah, and you can tell us stories about your dimension while we do!” Bun jumped out of his seat and ran towards the three.
“Before you do can you please tell us the whereabouts you were before you were transported to our dimension, Meta Knight?” Sword quipped. The dark knight smiled under his mask. Happy that no matter what dimension his followers were loyal to him.
“And his majesty's whereabouts as well!” The old snail practically yelled at them.
“Well, I was in my castle last night. Taranza was supposed to come early today too. Plus all my dees are there. So your king is in good hands.” Dedede didn’t miss the fact that the two kids plus the bird sighed in disappointment. He’ll have to ask about that later.
“I of course was in the Halberd. My crew should be able to handle another variation of me” Meta knight was about to leave it at that until he remembered something important. “...Then again there is the matter of my quote-unquote new recruits… Eh, he’ll be fine.” He shrugged it off.
“Sir what does that mean-”
“Alright, let's leave Meta alone so he can eat alright.” Dedede cut off Blades's sentence as he practically shoved everyone out of the room. Before the King, himself left the room he scurried his way back towards his knight.
“Hey if you can, can you ask the Waddle Dees to give you another helping. We haven't found Bandana yet and I know he’s probably freaking out right now since this isn’t our castle.”
“Of course your majesty. I’m actually quite surprised he hasn’t shown up either.”
“He’s gotta be here, right? It’s always the four of us together when it’s something like this.”
Meta nodded in agreement. “Now get the hell out of here I want to eat finally.”
Dedede laughed. “All right see you soon.”