Heroes of Dreamland, Book 7: Kirby and the Battle for Dreamland (OLD)

Impastas, It's All in Your Head

Sakura's POV:

Would've been nice if you could have told me that the guards were literally right outside the cell, Mags, I think in frustration to myself pretty much the instant I hop out of the magical portal and take in my surroundings. Looks like your standard small-town jail setup: one good-sized cell with bars for one wall, a couple of guards with spears, and only one way in and out of the building, since all the windows are barred.

Well, it's been awhile since I've done anything Ninja-ish, but this doesn't look like anything too terribly difficult. Who knows? It might even be fun.

"Wait, who are you?" one of the guard Toads mutters in confusion. "Where'd the other puffy people go?"

Unable to help a small laugh, I inform him, "Somewhere far, far away, my good gentleshroom. Now, since I'm not the puff you're looking for, mind letting me out?"

One of the other Toads, whom I recognize as Geek Toad, actually, informs me, "Nah, we probably shouldn't. I know you're buddies with the jailbreakers, and- wait just a scientific second! You're the one that just let them out! Of course we're not gonna let you just up and walk away!"

Rolling my eyes, I sigh in a faux-sorry sort of way, "Pity. And here I was thinking that we could do this the easiest way."

The third Toad, one of the two with spears, gives me an unimpressed look. "Not like there's anyway you can get out of there..."

"You wanna bet?" I grin and pull my cape around myself, which I then use to warp to just by the door of the establishment. "Ta-da! Dimensional Cape. Everybody totally needs one."

"What the...?" one of the spear Toads grunts in frustration as they both start to come after me. "Breaking out of jail is still technically considered illegal, even if you're using magic to do it!"

Shrugging, I disagree as I get ready to run out the door, "Hey, I'm already a wanted outlaw. Not like this'll make my future job applications and resumes look any worse, right?" With that, I leave the jail and find myself on a fairly-busy Mushroom Kingdom town's street. After the shortest of pauses to take everything in, I start scaling one of the jail's walls, hoping to get away from my spotted-capped pursuers and to be able to see where they've got the Starcutter at when I have a vantage point from above the city.

It only takes a minute before I'm at the top of the only-two-story-tall building, now with several Toads down below shouting up at me. Luckily for me, the mushroom guys can't fly, but I should probably hurry up and find where I'm supposed to be going before a certain mustachioed plumber decides to make an appearance.

Not so luckily for me, I can't see the Lor anywhere. After a minute of looking around in impatience, I spread my wings and take off, only to suddenly have something hot whiz by and charcoal a couple of my secondary feathers.

"Shotzo. Fireball," I grunt in annoyance to myself as I try to fly faster. "That really didn't take long." Sure, it takes Mario forever to get around to checking Bowser's Castle every time Peach gets kidnapped, but it takes him no time at all to decide to come after me.

"Get-a down here!" Nintendo's Little Favorite (sorry, I just had to say it,) hollers up at me from where he's dashing along down below, sounding rather impatient. "You-a aided and abetted jailed, well, uh, possibly a-criminals!"

Come to think about it, I should probably be thankful that he hasn't found a... whatever-the-helicopter-mushroom-power-up-thingy-is-called yet. 

Calling down, I disagree, "Well, you jailed someone who wasn't exactly guilty of anything and impounded the main method of long-distance transportation of the people who are trying to keep the universe from going under, so I don't feel too bad about it." After a verbal pause and a dodge of another fireball, I ask in friendly sarcasm, "You wouldn't be so kind as to tell me where you put the Starcutter, would you?"