Heroes of Dreamland, Book 6: Kirby and the Fountain's Fate (OLD)

A Dark Ship and A Dark Book

Meta Knight's POV:

Well, per the norm, everybody has decided to abandon the logical plan and instead spread out all over the castle by themselves. While I understand that the others are all glad to be home, as am I, it is still foolish for them all to go running off when there could be danger lurking behind any and every corner. Fine, maybe I have a tendency to be overly suspicious of my surroundings, but that is exactly how I have made it this far. In my experience, it is always far better to be safe than to be sorry.

With an irritated sigh, I decide that I should go check the Halberd bay and see if my little army has made any progress on getting some of the last Halberd incarnation's wreckage out of outer space. Seeing as how the only way they could have gotten into space in the first place is my old and rather beat-up starship, which is quite difficult to pilot for anyone not of a Star Warrior's size and stature, I can probably safely assume that they have not.

I suppose you are wondering how our small party came to be separated, so I will go ahead and tell you briefly. Essentially what happened is this: Once we got back to the castle, we all gave the place a brief look-over together to make sure nothing seemed too out of place. Other than a handful of dark Waddle Dees that were hanging around the throne room, actually, everything seemed exactly like it did before this whole mess with the Mirror World got started. And because of this apparent normality, Kirby decided it was time to go find Fumu and then a snack, Bandana Dee decided to go check the Waddle Dees' sleeping area to make sure everything was all right there, Sakura went to verify that everything in the kitchen was business as usual and to prevent Kirby from taking too much of a snack whenever he showed up, and I decided to check the secret library in order to see if my Dark side had ruined it while I was gone. Thank goodness, he has not. Like everything else, it looks the same as it did the last time I was in there, back on the morning that Sakura received that note of challenge from Dark Sakura. Even her old Dark magic books were still sitting on one of the tables in a disheveled and imbalanced stack. After taking those and tossing them back in the (supposedly sealed-off) room that I keep all Dark artifacts in to try and keep them away from those who should not have them (technically, that includes everyone), I found myself standing alone in the secret library pondering what to do. And that, my friends, is where you found me.

By now, I am most of the way to the Halberd bay. It takes only another minute to come to the secret entrance in the castle courtyard and to access the high-security elevator. Unfortunately for me, the very fact that it is high-security, (a fact that I am rather proud of, actually,) turns out to be highly inconvenient.

Impatiently, I tap in the numbered code to make it open, only to be subsequently informed that the code entered is incorrect. Frowning at it with narrowed eyes, I put it in more slowly this time in order to make sure that I miss none of the fifteen digits. Again, I get a red light and an obnoxious buzz. With a mutter of "That Shotzo," I am about to stubbornly put my code in again and end up locking myself out for an hour, but then decide to actually try to crack it. Let us see, if I was myself but evil, what would I use as my passcode? Honestly, I would probably have done the same thing I did when I set my passcode: punch in fifteen random digits, write down what they were when the screen popped them up, and then set them as the code. And, sadly for me, that means that there is most likely no logic to (and therefore no way to guess) whatever Dark Meta Knight changed the code to. Although, I have to wonder, how did he ever open the door in the first place?

A moment later, I feel a familiar but strangely dark presence behind me that makes me pause. After cautiously stepping aside to hide behind the protrusion from the ground that contains the entrance to the elevator (a technical feat that took no small amount of time to get worked out, I can assure you), I silently watch as what appears to be Sailor Dee's Dark copy steps up to the door (which has reset) and just starts randomly punching at the keyboard.