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Kirby smiled as he laid the picnic mat on the soft, green grass. "Shadow Kirby, we're going to have a great day today!" He exclaimed.

Shadow Kirby nodded excitedly. "Oh yeah, where's Meta Knight?"

Meta Knight was following them slowly, carrying a huge bag loaded with, of course, foods of all sorts. Daroach was following Meta Knight slowly.

Shadow Kirby jumped around energetically."THIS IS GONNA BE AMAZING!!!!!!" He shouted so loudly that some trees shook.

"Shadow Kirby!!" Meta Knight and Daroach screamed at Shadow Kirby together.

"Eh...heheh... sorry." Shadow Kirby said while smiling.

Suddenly, Meta Knight felt a dangerous presence. He quickly realized that they were being watched. Meta Knight turned around quickly. He could swear that he saw a black shadow, but only for about a nanosecond, so he thought that he must have imagined it.

"Hey, Meta!" Shadow Kirby cheerfully called. "Come on, can you open the bag of food for us since you have it? Oi, Meta! Come on!"

Meta Knight snapped back to his senses and nodded. "Of course, Shadow Kirby. And try not to call me Meta please." Meta Knight replied quickly.

Meta Knight carefully opened the bag of food and started to take the delicious snacks out one by one, placing them onto the picnic mat.

Daroach heard rustling above him. Daroach looked up, and a leaf fell onto his face. "Hey, have you heard some shuffling up there? I think somebody might have been spying on us." He told Kirby and the others.

"Yeah. I feel the same." Meta Knight agreed.

Suddenly, a mysterious person jumped down from the trees and started attacking the group fiercely. Kirby was surprised and lost his balance, falling over headfirst into a strawberry shortcake.

This person looked exactly like Meta Knight, but with black armor, red shoes, a scar on his left eye, a thinner visor, battered wings and a ripped cape. He was attacking with a large, silver sword that looked rather familiar. It looked just like Meta Knight's sword, Galaxia, but instead of being golden and with a red ruby on its hilt, it was silver with a blue jewel.

The shadowy knight was slashing at Kirby. Shadow Kirby tried to fight back, but without a copy ability, he was useless, unable to fight. "I'm useless! I need a copy ability right away or I'll be like a face with no makeup! Daroach! Use your Triple star cane!" Shadow Kirby yelled. "Meta Knight! What's wrong?"

Meta Knight was not moving. Even though his expression was concealed under his metal mask, something was wrong. "That figure... Isn't it Dark Meta Knight? No... it can't be, I defeated him long ago. He couldn't have survived..." he was muttering to himself.

Dark Meta Knight glanced to his side and noticed Meta Knight. He glared at him, still attacking Kirby, who was almost going to lose all his stamina and strength. Suddenly, Dark Meta Knight turned away from Kirby, and swooped towards Meta Knight. "Meta Knight... My mirror version... My enemy. Light Meta Knight." he murmured to himself quietly. He then charged his sword, and fired a giant beam of light. It hit Meta Knight directly, making him regain his senses.

Meta Knight transformed his cape into a pair of bat-like wings. He turned around, drawing his sword, Galaxia.

Meta Knight summoned a powerful tornado from Galaxia by stabbing it into the ground. "Mach tornado...!"

Dark Meta Knight smirked and reflected the tornado by waving his hands and creating a mirror.

Meta Knight was flung away by his own attack and hit the ground with a thump.

Dark Meta Knight easily defeated the other three and they all fell unconscious.

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