Kirby Quest (Kirby/PMMM)

[undead frog]

[x] A knights preparations

You look a Meta Knight as you voice the one thought you both share "The moment is now….it is time to confront Zero."

Meta Knight gives you a sharp nod. "Agreed we cannon delay any longer." He then looks at Mami, who is still bleeding from her missing arm, her magical girl constitution preventing death by bloodloss "And we will all need to be at full strength for the coming fight." He finishes as a waddle dee with a maximum tomato on a platter arrives in the room.

The waddle dee walks up to Mami, who seems rather confused by the whole thing.

You point to the tomato "Eat it," you begin "It will heal you."

She nods before picking up the tomato with her good hand and taking a bite out of it.

SHING!

Almost immediately after taking a bite of the tomato, a bright light overtakes her for a few seconds, and when it parts, her wounds have all disappeared and her arm is back where it should be. Maxim tomatos aren't the most flashy healing item in the world, but they do their job and they do it well.

She looks at her newly healed arm in amazement "I feel…………good." She manages to stutter out as she examines her restored arm.

Meta knight nods "As expected, the Maxim tomato is well known among my people for its healing ability's." He then looks to you "I have also taken care of another issue that would plague us on your journey you remember our discussion about Miracle Matter correct?"

You nod "We believed that he would fight us at some point."

"Correct" Meta Knight answers "However, through a stroke of luck I was able to bring down the fiend when I caught it scouting out the city, its elemental resistance did it not good against a blade that can strike with the power of any element."

He then turns to regard you specifically "Speaking of blades, I have something you need to see." He then turns to the assembled magical girls "I need to talk with my young comrade alone, feel free make reasonable requests of the crew while I do so."

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Meta Knight takes you to a heavily guarded room within the Halberd. And by heavily guarded you mean to emphasize the heavy part, as Meta Knight has Heavy Loberster of all things standing guard over it, it's a good thing the room leading to the door is so big, you don't think that oversized mechanical crustacean would even fit otherwise. Still it's nice to see it when it's not trying to kill you; it even looks kind of cute in how it loyal stands guard over the door for Meta Knight.

It doesn't take long for Meta Knight to open the door, although it still takes longer then you'd expect opening a door to take due to all the locks Meta Knight put on it.

……..it's the rainbow sword. He actually brought the rainbow sword!

You haven't used the old thing since you first fought with Dark Matter!

Meta Knight picks up the sword and walks over to you. "You use this weapon once in Dark Matters first attack on dreamland; I hope your skill with it has not diminished over the years." He then hands you the weapon.
It is an odd weapon; it has no much different energy in it, with so many different purposes. One source of energy bends the sword to do one thing while another bids it to do another. As a result the sword tends to be more 'eager' to acquire a wielder then most other legendary weapons, so it's no wear near as picky about who can hold it as Galaxia or the Love-Love Stick. It still wants to destroy evil in general and Dark Matter in particular with all of its being though, so it will work fine for the upcoming battle.

You stash the sword away and head back up to the control room.

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When you get back to control room of the Halberd you find that your friends have settled in quite well. Mami and Rosana are leaning against the walls talking and Koyko is eating……..a lot.

In fact the redhead seems to have cleared out several plates of food as a waddle dee brings her another one.

For some reason you hate her less now.

Mami turns to you when she sees you enter the room. "Ooh hey Kirby nice to see your back." She then regards Meta Knight "Thank you for restoring my arm, it would have a lot harder to fight without it,"

The Knight nods "I is only natural, from what I have heard from Kirby you possess a strong will, and a concern for others to match it. You will want to be at full strength for the upcoming battle. We have brought down one of Zero's strongest fighters, but the other still remains.""

Mami nods nervously "Yeah……that Dark Knight was in a league of its own."

"Unfortunately" Meta Knight begins "You are right on that fact, I was unable to defeat him during my own duel with him, and I doubt he has gotten any weaker since."

Mami remains quite for a few moments before speaking this time. "Well I don't care how strong he is, I have not intention of just letting a monster like that do whatever he wants!"

Meta Knight nods in approval "I had suspected Kirby would befriend someone with a spirit like his, I am my suspicions were correct."

"Thanks" Mami responds giving her traditional small smile.

You can't help but give a small smile it's so good to see you friends getting along so well!

A waddle dee wearing a captains hate approaches the Halberds steering wheel and you can see Meta Knights men taking up positions at the controls.

Meta knight seems to take notice of this and excuses himself from his conversation with Mami, before walking to the front of the bridge, and addressing the assembled group.
He clears his throat a bit before talking, something you find odd since like you, he doesn't really have a throat to clear. "Today we face down a dark and terrible opponent." The knight begins as he begins looking around the room. "Some of you are experience with this Dark and Terrible foe." He indicates to you and his own men. "Some of you have not faced this evil before." This time he looks to the magical girls. "Not matter the case, Zero seeks to kill us, enslave our people, and deprive them of anything to make life worth living." He then pauses for a moment, and you see his eyes start to shine red. "Well I cannot speak for you, but Ihave no intention of letting him!" his voice has escalated slightly, and his eyes are now starting to burn with anger. "WARRIORS OF EARTH AND DREAMLAMD! WE STAND NOW UPON THE BRINK OF A BATTLE THAT COULD CHANGE THE FATE OF BOTH OUR WORLDS! WILL YOU HELP ME STOP THE VILE ABOMINATIONS THAT THREATEN US IN THEIR TRACKS!?" He finishes, by this point his voice is outright thundering and you can feel the raw fury in the room.

You don't even bother trying to resist the urge to shout out "YES!" at the top of your lungs, and from what you can see the others are just as excited as you. Even Kyoko seems to have gotten somewhat exited in the flurry of cheering.

With the crew ready and motivated Meta Knight orders the Halberd to take to the sky, you've got a hard flight ahead of you.

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You watch from the bridge as the Halberd jets off into space, the strangeness of the earth left behind as you once again look upon the void of space. It's a beautiful thing, and you often enjoy your flights through it on your many adventures. A look at your companions reveals they like the view as well, stunned speechless as they look out into the vastness before them.

Then it appears………the entry to the mirror world.

The entrance located in space is a massive thing, far bigger than the one on popstar, or your universe's other planets, but you can only assume that this was how Meta Knight got all the material to build a new Halberd. In hindsight you'd imagined that he would have had to import to get it done, even though the locals were apparently ignorant enough to miss him building the actual thing, you can't imagine they wouldn't noticed all the mining that would need to be done. Otherwise the entrance is remarkable in how unremarkable it is, looking exactly like the dreamland one except bigger.

The Halberd enters and in a flash you in space again, except this time in your own universe. It probably isn't easy to tell, but your universe has a certain energy in it that the earth seems to lack.

"Wow" you hear the redheaded magical girl mumble quietly before turning around to see what the big deal was.

As it turns out the corruption seems to be leaking out from your friends soul gems, and disappointing without actually doing anything.

Interesting

Anyway you have a few moments before you actually reach Dark Matter.

So how are you going to go about this?
[x] You summon your warpstar, you have a feeling that not all the fighting will be on the first deck.
[x] Join the others on the deck, the fighting their will be hard.
[x] Guard the engine room, you should be able to get back to the surface in time for the fight with Zero anyway.
[x] Stay in the control room, its one of the Halberds weakest points.

OOC: The Lor Starcutter will be showing up, it just hasn't arrived yet.

 

[undead frog]

[x] I'm flying on my warp star and you can't stop me!

You take flight with your warp star, deciding that you could do the most damage against Dark Matter with full areal mobility on your side.

Mami, and the other magical girls have taken up positions along with Meta Knight and some of his soldiers on the front deck. The heavy lobster is absent, so your assume that its guarding a critical part of the ship, hopefully Meta Knights followers were smart enough to make sure it can't smash something important by accident like it did back when you were the one attacking the Halberd.

Soon the sinister mass of pure misery and emotional turmoil that makes up Dark Star comes into view. Fitting to its name the entire planet is an inky black, the mass of Dark Matter that makes it up ever shifting and moving about. IT was a dark and evil place, and it radiates a sinister feeling. Its not the horrible torment the rabid pink haired human shaped creature on earth gave you, but its still pretty unpleasant. All around the planet you can see smaller Dark Matter forms reading for battle, it seems zero already knew you were coming.

If the soldiers in the control room were in any way deterred by this they didn't show it, as the Halberd rockets forwards to face its enemies.

And those enemies charge forward to meet it. Swarms of smaller Dark Matter life forms descend upon the Halberd, as the ship attempts to destroy them with bullets, cannon shells, and energy blasts. Many of Zero servants fall to this powerful barrage of attacks. The sheer weight of fire too much for many of them to overcome.

Even still however a truly mind boggling amount manage to get onto the decks attempting to break into the ship itself so as to cause damage from the inside.

However they are not unopposed, as Meta Knight Soldiers cut away at them with axe, mace, sword, javelin, and many medieval weapons. Mixed in with Meta Knight soldiers you also spot a variety of dreamlands other creatures, each contributing another strange and unique ability to the fight to keep Dark Matter away. From the beams of Waddle Doos to the magics of Simirrors all of Dreamlands strange and varied powers can be seen at work fighting off the evil on the decks bellow.

Kyoko and Rosana are also making good accounts of themselves, the former destroying scores of Dark Matter forms with her spears while the latter reaps a deathly toll on the dark forms with her twin swords.

However the two fighters that really catch your attention are Mami, and Meta Knight, more so for the opponent they are facing than anything else. Staring down the magical girl and the knight is a Dark reflection; it seems Dark Meta Knight is looking for another battle with his good counterpart.

You consider intervening yourself, but then you notice some Dark Matter forms swinging around to the back of the Halberd. Looks like the creeps want to take out the ships thrusters.

Well then you'll have none of that, especially not when your friends are on the ship in question.

Quickly you swing your warpstar around the Halberd in pursuit of the Dark Matter forms, cutting one in half with the rainbow sword as you approach them.

The other react almost immediately breaking from their assault on the halberd and scattering, allowing the great ships guns to pick off a few that were too concentrated on you, and not enough the ship itself.

You zero in on another destroying it with a slash from your blade, and vaporize a fourth dark matter with a rainbow colored sword beam.

ZAP!

But another one gets the drop on you from behind hitting you with a blast of dark lightning. It hurts, but you power through it, attempting to shake the Dark Matter so you can get a good shot off at it.

ZAP!

ZAP!

ZAP!

Unfortunately it doesn't seem very willing to let up, and several more of its kin join it in its pursuit. Well you suppose this is a bit of a pickle………oh great now you've made yourself hungry for pickles.

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!

Before the Dark Matter forms are able hit you again however, they find themselves sucked into a portal to another dimension, and in all likelihood destroyed within.

At the same time a familiar sight emerges from the portal. It is another ship, far less aggressive looking then that Halberd, but for all intents and purposes no less powerful. It was also far more simple and primitive in appearance, its man method of propulsion seeing to be oars and a sail while the Halberd did its work with several massive engines, and anything even resembling weaponry was absent while the Halberd was armed to the teeth with a variety of guns.
Look like the Lor Starcutter will be joining you for this fight, Meta Knight must have really worked hard to get it for the battle in the first place.

Together with the Lor Starcutter and the Halberds own defenses you end up clearly out most of the sky. Dark Matter forms ether falling before your blade, from the Halberds point defenses, or from star shots launched from the Lor Starcutter.

You land on the deck to see how the others have been holding up, and are very happy with the results.

All in all you discover that things are looking good; considering they were just fighting a massive battle against the horrible forces of darkness. A few of Meta Knights men were taken down, but the vast majority of them made it out just fine, and are ready for another round of fighting. Rosana seems to have gotten out without a scratch, while Kyoko lost an arm in the fighting, although another Maxim Tomato is enough to fix them up in a jiffy.

A look at Mami and Meta Knight reveals that they had survived their fight with Dark Meta Knight, and a conversation with the two reveals that they had actually managed to beat him. Apparently Mami using her ribbons to obstruct the Dark Knights movement while Meta Knight himself kept his counterpart from rushing his companion was a very effective tactic, and not even Dark Meta Knight's dirty fighting allowed him to beat the pair while they were working together.

You give Mami a big hug, happy to see that she made it out of the fight alright, you'd do the same for Meta Knight, but he isn't exactly a hug loving kind of guy.

Just as you break out of the hug you notice that the Halberd has gotten very close to dark star.

This is it.

The final battle with Zero himself.

How do you go about this?
[x] Empower the Halberd itself and force your way through, its an all out assault. (Everyone fights, but with minimal support from the legendary artifacts)
[x] Save most of the power for yourself, but take another fighting with you on the Lor Starcutter (Choose one ally to bring with you, bot of you have cvery strong legendary weapon empowerment)
[x] Take the other strong fighters wit, but leave the crew and Halberd back just in case (Lower number of skilled fighters with greater legendary weapon empowerment for the final battle)
[x] Go solo (No allies, but the Rainbow sword will be at full power)
[x] Write in

OOC: Well guys the final battle is upon you. How do you feel? Also I've been considering a Fire Emblem Path of Radiance quest after this would you rather I focus on SB or SV for it?

 

[undead frog]

[x] Going soloI

In the end you convinced the others to let you go alone. Meta Knight was a the only other one wielding an artifact that would actually let him hurt Zero, and dividing the power up would only weaken everyone.

You say goodbye to your friends as you leave the Halberd. Mami gives you a huge while Rosana gives you a fist bump, or whatever your personal equivalent is because you don't really have fists. You exchange some key words with Meta Knight; the two of you were always close, even if you weren't much for physical contact. You even share a handshake thing with Kyoko, even if you still don't like her personally you suppose you can respect her from a professional standpoint.

Leaving the others behind you mount your warpstar with the Rainbow Sword strapped to your back, and fly off into the mass of darkness before you.

SWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH!

The darkness is ever-present as you force you way through the layers of Dark Star. It is a haunting feeling, as the wails, moans, and passive aggressive complaints of countless Dark Matter forms surround you, each of them looking at you with hateful eyes.

You are not frightened in the slightest; you have face Dark Matter time and time again, and nothing these lesser fiends try to do will stop you, especially not with the power of the rainbow sword surrounding you.
Soon you exit the dark cloud and enter a blood red arena………were you mortal foe is waiting patiently.

Zero has always been strange with his forms, sometimes possessing another living thing, sometimes using variants of his base form, and sometimes showing up in a different incarnation altogether.

This time he has chosen to appear in one of his simpler forms, looking much like he did during your very first battle with him. However he has made some changes, as you can see three massive wings jutting from his frame, while three smaller versions of himself orbit his massive form.

The two of you almost immediately begin fighting, you dodging out of the way as Zero shots streams of burning blood at you. Ironic really, that you're most powerful opponent is also the only one other than Meta Knight to never mock you, even when he does choose to speak.

What do you do?
[x] Aim for his central eye, it should be his weak point!
[x] Take out his wings. Without them he should have a harder time maneuvering.
[x] Try and hit him from the sides, it won't be as vulnerable, but the rest of his body is still a valid target.
[x] Air for the smaller versions of himself, those things will probably end up being annoying if you don't take them out.

 

[undead frog]

[x] Rotations

Those miniature versions of Zero are almost certain to be a pain latter. It's pretty obvious that they're going to need to go if you want to bring the big one down.

You rush the top sphere right off the bat, skewering it before it has any time to react. Blush gushes out from your swords entry point, and you can feel a large build of energy from within the sinister object.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

It explodes in a shower of blood, converting you in the disgusting fluid. What is it with Zero and his blood fascination anyway? You know for a fact that he doesn't need to use it to fight.

SPLASH!

You dodge out of the way of a shot of blood from one of the other spheres, it seems you were right about these things being annoying.

SPLASH!

SPLASH!

SPLASH!

SPLASH!

SPLASH!

You duck and weave as the two remaining spheres keep firing at you from various directions, forcing you to keep moving.

However they aren't able to keep this up for every, and one of them slows down for just long enough to let you get an attack in yourself.

For one of them at least, it will be a fatal mistake.

You fire back with a sword beam, the rainbow sword amplifying the already devastating attack into near unstoppable levels.

There is no explosion this time around; the miniature copy of Zero was simply vaporized by the attack, its small form unable to handle a blast from a weapon capable of harming the real deal.

You then turn your attention to the remaining copy, charging at it sword ready.

It attempts to deter you by spraying blood at you, but you somehow manage to deflect the stream with your sword.

A quick slash followed by an explosion latter and you find that it's just you and Zero now.

What do you do now?
[x] Attack his body
[x] Go for his eyes
[x] Take out his wings

 

[undead frog]

[x] Clipped wings
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You target Zero's wings next, without those his movement should be hindered enough for you to deliver the final blow.

However Zero's main body is far from idol, turning rabidly so that you are in sight of its single massive eye.

SPLASH!

Unlike the shots its lesser version used on you the blood that Zero's body attacks you're with is an outright torrent, actually knocking you off your warpstar and sending you plummeting.

Thankfully the Rainbow Sword slows your fall enough for your warpstar to get back under you, that fall could have ended badly.

Looking up you see that Zero has temporarily lost track of you.

Now's your chance! The warp star accelerates as you buzz right by Zero, cutting off one of his wings as you pass him by.

Only two more left.

Zero launches a stream of blood at you, and you move to dodge, but this time the blood actually changes course to follow you.

You immediately start maneuvering in an attempt to shake off the blood, with the blood doing the same to make sure it stays on your tail.

Well then, you'll just have to work at high speeds then. You quickly turn around to face Zero before accelerating your Warpstar forward at truly mindboggling speeds. The blood is unable to turn fast enough, and you managed to cut off another of Zero's wings before it can catch up to you again.

SPLASH!

SPLASH!

SPLASH!

However when you try to make a third pass Zero releases a minefield of floating blood bubbles, forcing you to break off at the last moment.

Curses, that's going to make things a bit harder, but it's not impossible overcome.

You maneuver around as the blood follows you, this time tricking it into crashing into itself with some cleaver twists, good now that pesky distraction should out of the way.

Your sword gathers energy as you call out the name of your mighty attack "RAINBOW SWORD BEAM!" One swing of the sword latter and a massive rainbow colored blast of energy roars out at Zero's final wing.

BOOM!

BOOM!

BOOM!

BOOM!

The mines Zero had set up turn out to be next to useless again the power of a legendary weapon the sword beam going through them as if they weren't even there, and right through Zero's last wing destroying it.

Good, now it's time to bring down the big boy himself.

You maneuver your warpstar so that it's facing Zero, before channeling all your power into your weapon for your final attack. Even as you continue to channel energy into it your can feel the rainbow sword growing to massive as size, all the while Zero desperately tries to stop the energy build up with more blood attacks.

Fortunately for you, the now overflowing power from the rainbow sword protects you from the negative effects of Zero's blood as you bring the massive blade down upon him.

SLASH!

You first swing cuts into its eye, popping it like a grape and sending great torrents of blood out from the monster.

SLASH!

The next one lands right above were the eye used to be, ironically not trying any blood at all, but still leaving a massive scar. Perhaps only Zero's eye ever had any blood in it? Weird, but Zero is an entity composed of pure misery, you suppose you can't expect his biology to be normal like yours.

SLASH!

A final blow cuts the entity right in two.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

However before you can even process your victory the massive energy stored within Zero erupts all at once, and the world goes white.

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You wake up latter surrounded by all Meta Knight and your new friends from Earth. Mami and Rosana are both happy to see that you're alright, with the former giving you a big hug and congratulating you on your victory. Even Kyoko seemed to have a smile on her face, although it was a small one.

Meta Knight took the Halberd to dreamland where you are currently celebrating. He planes to show your friends how to travel back and forth between universes via the smaller amazing mirrors that connect earth and dreamland, and warns them that one day Zero will return, but for now all the group needs to do is relax.

Ah it's a good day to be alive.

 

[undead frog]

Epilogue​

Meta knight showed the girls how to get back home after the victory celebration, and how to get back to dreamland should they ever wish to do so. Like you he would spend most of his days defending Popstar against a variety of evil and rotten creatures.

Mami would spend most of her years defending her home city, although she was no long alone as you, Rosana, and Kyoko would all visit her at varying times. She would have many battles ahead of her, but without her loneliness to hold her back she would soon become strong enough to beat all challenges sent at her, of natures both evil and mundane.

Rosana would return to the United States were she would continue to live out her life, although she would occasionally leave the country to talk with Mami again, or go on whatever crazy adventures she goes on whenever you aren't in contact with her. Either way Rosana seems happy and content with her position in life.

To your great surprise Kyoko was the one who would visit Dreamland the most. It seems she had taken a liking to the twins Adeleine and Ado when she first came to visit, and would act as a big sister figure to them.

Eventually she would even end up moving to dreamland on a more permanent basis, apparently not having many ties to earth beyond Mami, and really liking the place in general. It was actually a pretty big surprise to you, but you suppose the abundance of food, and strong enemies to fight would win anyone over, especially someone who had already been forming bonds with the twins. When she isn't visiting Mami she spends most of her time ether looking after the twins or wandering around and fighting monsters, you even have started teaming up with her willingly after the two of you managed to get over your grievances with one another. Who would have expected that a human that would defend monsters like she did would eventually turn out to be an ok person………….or that she'd have a problem with you eating people?

The Dark haired girl with the time powers would continue to keep creepy, and the pink haired demon would continue to be a pink haired demon.

The blue haired girl would somehow wind up training under Meta Knight, and somehow wound up a very skilled swordswoman, somehow balancing her personal life on earth with training under your knightly friend, last you heard she'd actually completed a run in dreamlands arena.

Kyubey would return to speak with his own kind, and fix the magical girl system. Apparently when a girl's soul gem would become fully corrupted they would become a witch, all as part of some weird system to gather energy. Needless to say with Dark Matter around something like that was an unacceptable risk; especially with the portal to dreamland making the 'heat death' his kind feared a non-issue. Apparently magical girls don't run the risk of turning into witch's anymore, of course these days you eat him on site for supporting such a system to begin with. Stupid cat things thinking that something like that was even remotely a good idea, how a living species can get that disgusting is beyond you, at least dark matter has a good reason for acting the way it does.

You would continue to go about your peaceful life in Dreamland, occasionally leaving for earth to visit your new friends.

Then again, peace never lasts forever, who knows what adventures might still come your way.

OOC: Well congratulations guys, you've won the game. How do you feel about this?