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Emergency Chat!
Daroach: Oh look at that a triple whammy
Daroach : Not a good sign
Magolor : Shit
Susie : Oh dear…
Taranza : Uh oh
Rick : Dear Nova I just woke up
Hyness : Oh dear. What happened?
Gooey : Wwwhhaat haapenned
Adeline : It's not another world ending cosmic entity again is it!?
Ribbon: I hope not it's Magolor Day! Our potluck day!
Coo : If that were the case then we would have been texted by either Kirby, Bandee, the King, or Meta Knight.
Kine : That's true
Zan Partizanne : Speaking of whom, I'm surprised none of them have joined our conversation yet…
Zan Partizanne : Especially since those four are always first to respond.
Francisca : They take their hero job very seriously.
Flamberge : Yeah where are they?!
Magolor : That's actually the problem!!! Kirby is acting strange!!
Susie : That's what I wanted to talk about. Meta's not acting like himself.
Taranza : Bandee's actually with me right now, but there is a problem with the King.
Magolor : …
Susie : ...
Taranza : ...
Daroach : I don't like where this conversation is going
Ribbon : WHAT HAPPENED!!?
Rick : It must be bad if Kirby is acting strange!
Susie : Hmm…
Susie: I suppose we should each take turns explaining our situations in the order we first texted.
Susie : Magolor you go first, then me, and finally Taranza.
Susie : Sound good?
Taranza : Yes
Magolor : Yes boss!!
Gooey: iiiiis iiit possssessioon?
Daroach : I think I can speak for all of us in saying that none of us want to fight a possessed Kirby
Adeline : That's true but we'd do it anyway to help save our pink demon!
Daroach : Right you are
Magolor : No no
Magolor : It's not anything like that
Magolor : At least we don't think it is…
Magolor : Me and Marx think Kirby might have reverted back into a baby
Several people are typing…
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Susie choked on her own spit from the sheer absurdity after reading the last line of text from her wizard friend.
Kirby… reverted back into a baby?
How?!
Why?!
And most importantly. Did this somehow connect with how Meta Knight was acting?
"Are you alright Ms. Haltmann?" Vul questioned.
"Yes, I'm quite alright." She waved him off as she composed herself. "Let's get to the interrogation room before anything happens."
Vul nodded in agreement. Dark was currently alone with "Meta" in the interrogation room. Sure it had only been a few quiet minutes. Though, leaving the two knights alone was usually a recipe for disaster. Susie knew that well enough. The crew on the halberd knew that. Every single star ally knew that.
Though she had to commend the mirror knight, she hadn't heard any fighting.
Not yet anyway.
Susie turned the knob and was met with Dark's frustrated screaming.
"BLINK NOVA DAMN IT!"
Dark gripped the table and stared daggers into the blue knight that was sitting right across from him.
"Dark, what are you screaming about?!" Vul demanded to know.
"HE DOESN'T BLINK AND I HATE IT!" Dark growled loudly that Susie was sure everyone in the ship could hear it.
The secretary sat herself down right next to the mirror knight. "Calm down. We have more important matters right now." She gave a quick glance at Meta Knight who was silent as ever and unblinking.
Susie didn't want to admit it but it scared her. Who doesn't blink? Being watched by a gaze that never looks away was unnerving. But she had a job to do!
She let out a little 'ahem' as she tried to copy the same serenity the Knight in front of her had. "Now I'm sure you know how this goes. We'll ask you some questions and you must answer them truthfully. Captain Vul will be standing guard by the door so you can't escape. Understand?" Susie brought out both a pen and paper.
He nodded.
Good, he wasn't hostile. Another sign that he wasn't possessed.
She clicked her pen. "Question one. What is your name?"
"What an odd question since you all seem to know the answer. I am Meta Knight." His voice was calm and impassive.
Susie began scribbling down. "Yes, you certainly look like him." She looked up and saw that his eyes had once again changed color.
"Second question. Are you feeling sick? Head injury? Or perhaps somethings there that shouldn't be?"
She watched as the Knight shook his head no. "I feel perfectly fine." She wrote down the answer swiftly.
"Third question," Dark began. "What's with the eyes?"
The businesswoman rolled her eyes. "Really Dark?"
"I need to know Susie! You'd think he'd been possessed with his eyes acting like that!"
Truthfully Susie couldn't blame her fellow Star Ally as she too would have liked to know.
"My eyes change color to match my current emotion. Many people know this fact." The Knight stated matter of factly.
"Uh-huh, and what about the no blinking?" Dark pushed the question.
"I assure you I am still blinking under my mask. This mask was specially designed to make sure it looks like I am alert at all times. So that no demon beast can sneak up on me."
'Does that mean it looks like his eyes are still open when he sleeps? Oh, that's creepy!" Susie thought to herself as she wrote down his response.
She checked her phone which was vibrating every few seconds from the emergency chat. Everyone was still talking about the baby Kirby situation.
"All right, back to the important questions. Question four! Where were you last night?" She stared at the Knight intensely waiting in anticipation for his answer.
"I was in my room at Castle Dedede." Meta Knight simply put.
Normally Susie would have teased him for such an answer. But that answer was completely and utterly wrong! Just last night all the meta-knights had all pitched into work on Kirby's surprise! They were so close to completion too!
She shared a knowing glance with the darker knight.
"Next question. What does Star Allies mean to you?" Dark questions.
The Knight thought for a moment. "I don't know what a Star Ally is but I know what a Star Warrior is."
Dark let out a single flat laugh. "And we don't know what a star warrior is."
Quickly Susie wrote down the response. The moment she finished dotting her i's and crossing her t's, she turned to Dark. "Have you read our emergency group chat lately?"
"No, why?"
"You might wanna catch up." She handed him her personal phone. He scrolled up to the beginning of today's conversation. His eyes got wider as he read each of the Star Allies' responses.
"What the fuck?!"
She hummed. "That leads to my final question." She slammed her hand on the table. "Do you know why Kirby turned back into a baby?"
"Kirby turned back into what?!" Vul's shocked voice came into play.
Meta Knight showed no emotion but by the tone of his voice, both star allies could tell he was confused. "What are you talking about? Kirby is a baby."
The room fell silent for a few short seconds.
"I see." Susie finally said. "I believe I found my answer." She grabbed her phone back from Dark and began rapidly texting.
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Emergency Chat!
Susie : If I could get everyone's attention!
Susie : I do believe it is my turn now.
Magolor : Right! Sorry!
Magolor : It's just really weird and we don't know how it happened.
Susie : Don't worry about it!
Susie : Plus I believe I figured out what's going on.
Daroach : Enlighten us then.
Susie : Gladly
Susie : I believe we are experiencing another one of our dimensional problems.
Susie : Based on the answers Meta Knight has given us during his interrogation I must assume that he and most likely both Kirby and King Dedede are from another dimension.
Susie : His answers were too precise and he sounded truthful each time he answered mine and Dark's questions.
Susie : Apparently Kirby is a baby in his dimension!
Adeline : Oooh
Taranza : I knew it wasn't possession!
Coo : Thank Nova…
Magolor : Muh a couple of portals must have opened up.
Susie : Right.
Flamberge : Baby Kirbs just a lil guy
Daroach : That leaves the question
Daroach : where are our Kirby, Dedede, and Meta
Susie : I have to assume their counterparts' home dimension.
Susie : Dark is currently explaining the situation to this Meta. He seems like he has some understanding of this whole mess.
Bandana Waddle Dee : Thank goodness it's not possession.
Zan Partizanne : Finally joining in the conversation Bandana?
Bandana Waddle Dee: Yeah I left Taranza with that Dedede for a moment to get my phone.
Taranza : You looked like you needed a break from guarding him…
Taranza : He's very different from our Great King. And loud
Francisca : How so?
Taranza : You'd have to see it yourself…
Bandana Waddle Dee : In any case, we need to figure out how to get them back home and save our friends!
Ribbon : Right
Ribbon : Do any of them know the coordinates of their home dimension?
Susie : Unfortunately no.
Taranza : No
Magolor : This is a baby
Magolor : So I can't just take the Lor and go get them…
Magolor : Nova Damn I knew I should have implanted tracking chips on everybody.
Daroach : Ayo??
Francisca : Mmh no…
Flamberge : BAD
Coo : No
Hyness : Magolor, think about what you are saying.
Rick: nO
Ribbon : UM
Adeline : Hey no.
Gooey : Nooooo
Kine : Magolor no
Zan Partizanne : Juh?!
Taranza :Nope bad
Susie : Mmmh
Susie : Not an entirely bad idea.
Susie : I don't mean on us but perhaps an extension on our chat app in case we get lost and need someone to pick us up.
Susie : Especially because of our current situation.
Daroach : See if you had phrased it like that Magolor you wouldn't have given us all heart attacks.
Magolor : >:[
Bandana Waddle Dee : Anywho
Bandana Waddle Dee: @Susie @Magolor could you two bring the counterparts to the castle.
Bandana Waddle Dee : And maybe stay and help us, please.
Susie: Of course.
Magolor : Yeah!!
Bandana Waddle Dee : Thank you!
Bandana Waddle Dee : Everyone else please be on the lookout for random portals
Bandana Waddle Dee : I hate to be the one to say it. But I think we have to cancel our potluck for the day.
Flamberge : But Magolor's Mac and Cheese!!!
Bandana Waddle Dee : I know…
Flamberge : NOOOO
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Meta Knight watched the pink haired woman now properly known as Susie put her phone away and replaced it with a pink remote with a single yellow button on it.. She turned to the two knights.
"All right let's go."
"Where to?" Dark asked.
"Why did I make you a phone if you're not gonna use it?" She deadpanned as she idly played with one of the buttons. "Bandana wants us and this Meta Knight at the castle."
The mirror knight shrugged and once again took his tattered wings out. "Ready whenever you are."
The two Star Allies stared at the star warrior as they were waiting for him to take out his own wings.
He would if he could.
Meta Knight looked away from them. "I'm afraid I don't have the same access of flight as you do."
"No wings?" Susie silently said. "No worries you can join me."
He solemnly nodded. Such an oddity has occurred. Finding himself in an all new dimension. He wasn't the only one apparently. Both his majesty and the young Star Warrior Kirby have also found themselves switched with this dimensions version of them.
Instead of the Star Warriors, they had the Star Allies. Which this dimensions version of him seemed to be a part of.
There were many similarities and differences from what that Dark variation said. Like the Halberd for instance. It still flew high into Dreamland's great big sky.
It was all so strange.
He followed the two star allies to the deck of the halberd. Dark instantly took flight while Susie pressed the button she had been fiddling with. In a flash, a little machine with a propeller appeared in Susie's hand.
She gestured her free hands towards the blue knight. "Grab on."
He did as he was told and they instantly took flight.
The wind on his skin brought nostalgic feelings to the Knight. He looked down to see this Dreamland's greenery. It was gorgeous from this height. It had been so long since he's felt this.
It was pleasant.
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From the castle's courtyard, Bandana watched as both Dark Meta Knight, Susie, and who he had to assume was the other dimensions Meta Knight begin a slow descent down.
He waved his free nub in the air. "I'm glad you guys made it!"
When they were close to the ground Susie's flying machine disappeared. Both she and the Knight landed safely on the ground. She waved back to the young Waddle dee.
"It's nice to see you Bandana." Even without a mouth, you could tell both of them were smiling.
The waddle dee looked on to the knight and casually approached him. “And you must be the other Meta Knight! I’m Bandana Waddle Dee!” He lend out his nub for a handshake.
Meta Knight shook it but was in complete awe of the waddle dee in front of him. Waddle dees did not talk in his home dimension.
“Did your eyes just change color?” Bandana asked.
He jumped as he felt a pat on the back from the secretary.“Yeah, this one’s got quite some differences from our Meta Knight.” Susie answered for Meta.
Just then both Dreamland’s famous pranksters flew down right beside Bandana. On top of the purple jester was a much smaller Kirby who gleefully enjoyed his flight from Magolor’s ship to Dedede’s castle.
“Hello, fellow Star Allies!” Magolor said as he picked the pink puff off his companion. As he did Marx put his colorful wings away.
“Is that… Kirby?” Bandana questioned. Magolor answered his question with a single nod.
“He’s so… cute!” Susie cooed as she brought both her hands to her face. “He’s so much smaller than normal! I wanna pinch his cheeks!” Kirby poyoed along with her words.
“Maybe later Susie. Where’s Taranza and their Dedede.” Marx commented.
“Taranza is currently untangling him from his webbed cocoon,” Bandana embarrassedly answered.
“Ha! You had to cocoon him?” Dark laughed.
“He tried to run away and kept swinging his mallet at me.” The waddle dee’s voice grew quieter.
“Sorry that I’m late,” Taranza’s soft voice was heard. Three out of his six hands held tightly to the penguin's arm to make sure he didn’t try to run off. “My web magic is hard to get off sometimes!”
“More weird floaty hand people…” Dedede took notice of the Star Allies. “That one doesn’t even have any. And what’s with that one? Meta Knight’s edgier twin?”
“Eh kind of.” Marx joked getting Dark to roll his eyes. “What’s our game plan Bandana?”
All eyes turned to the bandana wearer. He gulped. “I suppose first we should all properly introduce ourselves to our dimensional guests and maybe give them a rundown of how things work here.”
“That’s fair,” Susie nodded. “Dreamlands culture and etiquette are quite different from most places. We should teach them how most things work around here.”
“Especially since we have no idea how long they’ll be here,” Magolor added.
“Yeah, we don’t want any of them falling for LIGMA!” Marx crackled as he earned a few silent chuckles from both Dark and Magolor, an unimpressed look from Susie and Bandana, and a small pained smile from Taranza.
The self proclaimed King was puzzled by what the jester said. Which wasn’t fun since he was already confused to high heavens from this whole ordeal.
“What LIG-”