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

Clerk, Meet The Resistance

(Sorry for the lousy title I'm in a rush to finish before my wifi gets shut off)

Clerk's POV:

Well, things just seem to keep getting crazier and crazier, and I honestly only understand like maybe 20% of what's going on right now.

First, there was that whole Hyrule 'wait wow I'm a Link' thing, which I could comprehend just fine. But once the Lor Starcutter showed up, not being piloted, with a knocked-out Sakura and a panicking, Poltergust-packing Luigi (still don't know where he came from) aboard, and I got sent below deck so I'd be out of the way, I basically fell completely out of the loop.

In the past day or so, I've been dragged from Hyrule, to the Comet Observatory (although I never got off the ship there), to Nintendo City. Even though it probably makes me seem really oblivious, I had no idea that Rose had used her power to override all the Lor's security programming so that an Elvin guard could pilot it back to Nintendo City. In fact, he didn't even know I was aboard until we got to our final destination. (Smash Bros. pun totally intended.) Once he did find me, he asked Rose what to do with me, and she flippantly ordered for me to just be thrown out into town and told to stay away from her palace. Luckily for me, at least this is the place in Nintendo World that I'm most familiar with. Unluckily for me, I don't really know anybody around here anymore, and the few people I do know have basically been locked in the Prison of Azkaban. Well, I'm assuming that the Princess doesn't keep pet Dementors around, but you never know. Point I'm trying to make is, there's not much chance of them getting out anytime soon.

If even that much were the end of the story, then I could probably manage. But, since things apparently weren't hectic enough already, I haven't been here but like four or five hours, and suddenly all the inhabitants of the whole city seem to have collectively lost their marbles. And over what? The Princess' kidnapping, apparently.

Since it's the piece of town I know the best, I came to the spaceport, thinking that at least I could sit down on a bench somewhere and do some thinking. Of course, I forgot that there's a major holiday coming up (Dreamland's Dream Day, Hyrule's, Pokemonland's, and the Mushroom Kingdom's Harvest Festival, and Nintendo City's Day of Harmony, all celebrated on the same day), so things were already pretty insane here today, what with everyone trying to get to whichever point in a hurry and merchants bringing in goods that could be given as gifts or used in the celebrations. When the news broke that the Princess has been kidnapped, in addition to the already-worrisome nabbings of Zelda, Peach, the Elite Four, and King Dedede (not that anyone really cares about him), chaos was basically unleashed. Now everyone's trying to run away to whichever point or other planet they consider the safest. I'd try telling them that it probably won't help, but I don't really have the heart to.

As I stay seated on my bench, the one voiceless, silent face in the panicking sea of various species, I watch a scared-seeming yellow-green Star Warrior mom with wide baby-blue eyes drag two whining little kids behind her, (both different shades of blue with their mom's eyes) while also seeming to be holding a suitcase or something in her mouth.

"But Mooooooooooooom! I don't wanna go to Star World! It'll be boring! And all my friends are here! And I've never even been to stupid old Star World!" the medium-blue boy, who's probably ten-ish, complains.

Meanwhile, his much younger sky-blue sister pouts, "Kuno kuno kuno, kunoi, kuuuuuno kuno!"

Rolling her eyes, the mother ignores them and continues to lead them to whichever ship she's headed toward, unable to respond around the luggage in her mouth. Just before I see the last of them, I can see a look of total relief come across her face as they're joined by a medium-blue Star Warrior with dark green eyes who's wearing a black bowler hat and matching bowtie and carrying a plain old briefcase. Now that Dad's there, the kids quit fussing quite as much, and then the crowd swallows them from my sight and hearing.