The Adventure

The King

King Dedede lashed out with a fury he hadn’t known he possessed. He was generally a peaceful king, if not a bit misguided, but he understood one thing for sure. Loyalty.

All King Dedede thought about as he launched missile after bright missile at Kirby was Mr. Tick-Tock, how effective a soldier he had been, and how the alarm clock had foolishly abandoned King Dedede for his worst nemesis, Kirby.

Bonkers jumped up and over King Dedede and his missiles in an Ultra Hammer Spin, the attack hit twice due to the speed of the Ultra Hammer Spin compared to the regular Hammer Spin, and King Dedede’s anger grew immensely.

Now Kirby had Bonkers on his side? That did it for him.

King Dedede pressed a button on the Dedede Hammer and pounded it to the ground, and a shockwave of electricity rushed at Kirby, who just barely jumped out of the way.

The king didn’t want to attack Bonkers, but he mustn’t show weakness to him. More rather, he would focus on Kirby and Kirby alone, occasionally swiping at Bonkers, but not enough to defeat him. Just enough so Bonkers would be too weak to fight back when he put him through what he put Mr. Tick-Tock through.

King Dedede thought during his shockwave attack, and forgot about Bonkers, who had been behind him since after Bonkers performed the Ultra Hammer Spin. Bonkers went all out on his second attack, a Hammer Flip to King Dedede’s shoulder, which made the scatterbrained king lurch forward flat on the face of his mask, directly into the path of Kirby, who had started dashing in preparation of a Hammer Swing.

Kirby was startled a bit at King Dedede so close to him faster than expected, and out of reflex, Kirby used Hammer Spin a fraction too early.

Kirby felt his momentum slow down the before he made it out of the way of King Dedede, and had to withdraw his hammer before he fell.

Unfortunately, King Dedede’s shoulder was still smoldering from Bonkers’ Hammer Flip, and Kirby got slightly burned from the white hot fabric.

King Dedede got up, triumphant thoughts going through his head as he prepared a Hammer Swing of his own.

King Dedede got ready to start swinging his hammer, wincing almost unnoticeably as his injured shoulder got used in an unnatural way by swinging both arms behind his torso, like one would swing a baseball bat.

The king took a step forward as he swung the hammer, the sheer mass and speed being enough to move even a big lug like him in a three hundred sixty degree circle multiple times.

Kirby and Bonkers floated and air-jumped respectively out of the way of the hammer toting penguin, but Bonkers jumped one more time than he should have and got electrocuted by the ceiling of the cage. Bonkers felt the electricity arc through his heavy purple armor, starting at the head, and he lost the ability to air-jump as the electricity coursed through his body rendering him immobile.

Bonkers landed on the floor, knocked unconscious by the amount of electricity that just raced through his bones, his blood carrying the electricity further.

King Dedede had sped up his Hammer Swing a few moments before Bonkers hit the ground by use of the built-in rockets, and didn’t know Bonkers was there as he was swirling around the arena so fast.

The king stopped his Hammer Swing and let his foot down off the side of his other foot (He didn‘t like to use his Hammer Swing because of the way his feet were positioned, it made him feel like a ballerina), and was greeted with a  leftover charge of electricity that still remained in Bonkers.

King Dedede took the damage he would have had he been electrocuted by the cage itself, and he was already dizzy from spinning around the arena sixty times in a row, so King Dedede was so disoriented he almost fell over trying to figure out what was happening around him and what he was standing on. Meanwhile, Kirby delivered the crushing blow of three Hammer Flips in a row, a new record!