This story is basically what happens shortly after Nightmare loses the final battle in the anime... but with a few changes.
First, this is seen from the bad guys' point of view.
Second, I mixed game elements in it (which means that Zero of the Dark Matter will appear).
Third, in this version of the ending, I assume that the anime takes place AFTER the games unstead of before.
"WHAT?"
Nightmare stood before her master. Looking at his face, it was obvious he was ashamed... He had no good excuses this time... if he had failed, it was entirely his fault.
In front of him, sitting on a throne entirely made of the skeletons of different species, was the Queen of Darkness and the true brain behind the NME... the infamous Dark Matter queen, 02.
Her current host was an adult fairy. She was wearing a long, purple robe as well as silver bracelets on both arms. A black crown covered with rubies was on her head. She truly had the looks of a queen, that's sure... the looks of a very small queen that is. Altought the fairy was an adult, it was merely bigger than a common dreamlander.
It was really strange, seeing the humongous Nightmared terrorised by such a small being... but it was only small in appearance for a power that far surpass Nightmare lies within the body of this poor fairy, who was enslaved more than five centuries ago, kept alive solely thanks to the power of the sadistic queen of evil.
"M... m... my Queen! Please understand!" begged the caped villain.
"Nightmare... my patience has limits! Ten millenias... it took you TEN millenias to eliminate those weaklings know as the Star Warriors! You realise this? I allowed you to wield the most advanced technology in the Universe! I gave you the command of some of the most powerful demons on the physical plane!... and then, you get whipped so easily by a SINGLE Star Warrior... and a kid at that?"
"But... it had the Star Rod!" replied Nightmare, trying to justify his failure.
"ENOUGH!" thundered the queen. Obviously, the queen didn't believed this.
She jumped off her large throne and slowly flied to the face of Nightmare's face. She then grabbed the place where his neck should be and raised him above her, staring into his eyes. Pure rage could be seen within her blood-red, burning eyes...
"You are the ONLY one among the three Great Generals that did not bring me results. The ONLY one! Dark MetaKnight and Dark Reaper conquered many planets and defeated entire species with many less ressources than you! Incompetance shall NOT be tolerated! Not any longer!"
The fairy then thrown the poor villain into the wall, nearly breaking it (the wall, not Nightmare). Nightmare was knocked out instantly from the impact.
Then, a dark figure, merely a bit smaller than the dark queen, teleported just before her.
"I am here, my queen." said the figure. It's voice was noble and calm.
"Dark MetaKnight... you are here as I can see." stated the queen, who had seemingly calmed down.
Dark MetaKnight came out of the shadows and into plain view. He was grey, almost black and his yellow, almost red eyes glowed behind his dull grey mask. Pieces of black armor covered his shoulders and he also had a dark-red cape. Altought it wasn't visible, 02 knew that he was carrying the unholy sword, Black Hole, with him. Black Hole was Galaxia's perfect antithesis and had been created millenias ago by 02 herself for Dark MetaKnight to use. Dark MetaKnight had used the sword trought the generations to kill, one by one, each of MetaKnight's and Kirby's descendants.
Dark MetaKnight stared at her queen for a while and then begun his report. "My Excellency... it seems that the Star Warrior who defeated the Great General Nightmare was a pink being... and it also seems that he had been trained by MetaKnight's descendant."
The queen turned to Dark MetaKnight, obviously filled with interest.
"Continue on!" commanded the dark queen.
"This descendant was also wielding Galaxia and he did not gave the sword to the child... he didn't needed to. The child was able to wield the Star Rod all by itself... but this isn't the most surprising fact we found."
The evil queen began to wonder... a child, wielding the Star Rod? He hadn't believed it when Nightmare told her... but Dark MetaKnight's code of honor prevented him from lying to her, he was reliable. So... Nightmare was saying the truth... but still, a child is a child, right? That moron still doesn't have an excuse for losing to a child.
"We may also believe that this child... is the reincarnation of the half-breed, Kirby."
02 smiled as Dark MetaKnight finished. This dreamlander, a reincarnation of the all-powerful half-Dark Matter being that was created from her cells by Nightmare ten millenias ago? Impossible! The Dark Matter blood diluted in the veins of his descendants and the legendary power of the Copy ability was lost, never to return again... and anyway, Dark MetaKnight had personally terminated the very last of Kirby's descendants personally more than five millenias ago. It is totally impossible for this dreamlander to be related to the legendary half-breed.
"Dark MetaKnight... do you have any evidence of what you claim? After all, it is impossible that a mere Star Warrior could wield the holy power of Copy which only those with black blood may wield..."
Dark MetaKnight approached 02's throne and then pressed a few buttons... for 02's throne was more than just a throne. Beneath the bones was a complex network of wires and systems; the throne was not truly made of skeletons as it was only a cosmetic change. Using the throne's many functions as well as the tons of monitors that hanged from the ceiling, 02 watched over everything that went on in the entire Universe and issued orders, leading the Forces of Darkness in her mad quest to conquer the Universe.
Dark MetaKnight inserted a disc into a hidden slot in the throne and the largest monitor activated itself...
A video was displayed on the screen, showing Kirby copying an enemy and then using that ability. This was a common ability only, something simple, like Fire... but to 02, this was absolutely unbelievable. The pink being... it was not merely possessing! It was not merely mimicking his foe's powers! He was truly, completely stealing the powers from the foe and then turning them against the enemy! No doubt about it... ONLY a being with Dark Matter blood can do this!... which means that this being is the real thing, the reincarnation of Kirby!... but how? 02 was puzzled as for the origin of this reincarnation... it couldn't be a descendant of Kirby... Kirby's line ended long before this being was born...
Once the video was finished, the monitorwas deactivated and Dark MetaKnight took back the disc.
"I... I cannot believe this!" said the queen, still not completely believing what she had seen...
"The video is genuine. They even gave him the name of the half-breed to him: Kirby... and while to these fools, his "puyo" sounds like nothing but babbling, it is obvious that this is..."
02 already knew the remaining of the sentance before Dark MetaKnight finished and interrupted him...
"... the ancient Dark Matter language... only Dark Matters of royal blood knows of this language... the only remaining beings in the Universe who knows of it are myself, you, Dark MetaKnight, becease I taught you, Gooey, and..." said the queen, unable to finish her sentance as well.
"...Kirby. Back when he was alive, your husband, Medius, taught him how to speak it. The version this reincarnation speaks is quite crude... but it's genuine nonetheless. I fear that he is back... the Enemy is reborn." said Dark MetaKnight, finishing 02's sentance.
02 slowly approached the wall and grabbed Nightmare's cape, pulled him out of the wall. She then slapped him silly until he woke up.
"Come on, you incompetant fool! Wake up!" commanded the evil queen.
"OW! OW! I'm awake! I'm awake!" quickly said the villain, trying to keep his queen from harming him any further as he suddenly woke up.
"Tell me... where do this... child... comes from?" asked 02, suspecting Nightmare was the key to this riddle.
After all, the original Kirby was created by Nightmare by mixing cells from the original MetaKnight and from 02 herself. The results were astounding. The newborn had the Copy power from Dark Matters while being able to stand in both Light and Darkness without danger. The newborn was called "Kirby", which was the ancient Dark Matter word for "unique". Unique... this is what Kirby was... He was the first and only of his kind, he was supposed to become the next step in Dark Matter evolution. As soon as he would have grown old enough to survive tissue sampling, a tissue sample would have been taken and infused into every Dark Matter embryo of every pregnant female Dark Matter, causing the entire Dark Matter specie to artificially evolve into beings that, finally, would never have to fear the Light ever again.
However, a serie of terrible events had destroyed all those hopes... 02's husband's death... Kirby turning against it's creators... Gooey betraying the entire specie... various parts of Darkstar being devastated... war, death, suffering, destruction...
Even now, the mess continued on as war raged on. Dark MetaKnight had been filled with hope when news of the Star Warriors's ultimate defeat reached him. Finally, with the final enemies gone, Darkness would rule and with no Light to oppose it, no new war would occur and thus, the endless slaughters would end... but unfortunately, things were not as they seemed...
Dark MetaKnight was sure of it... this child was a threat, he was a threat to the queen's plans of revenge, to the Nightmare's scientific progress, a threat to Dark Reaper's dream of uniting all the galaxies under a single banner, a threat to the imminent but fragile peace! The Forces of Light must accept that they fought and lost! The war must not continue on!... and for that to happen, Kirby and all those fools on Popstar who oppose the queen must be crushed!... and for this to be carried out, 02 must first know where this new Kirby came from so she can prepare her troops accordingly!
Dark MetaKnight turned to Nightmare. 02 was awaiting the anwser too... Finally, after a long pause, Nightmare anwsered.
"Oh? That child? Used some old samples from the original Kirby that I had kept in a statis tank for millenias. I tried to create an army of Kirby clones so that I could destroy MetaKnight's descendant easily. You see, Galaxia is pretty s..." Nightmare could not finish his sentance.
"YOU DID WHAT?" 02 could not believe it! He had DARED to hide from her the fact that he had taken tissue samples from him in a way or another! This was unconceivable! Such an information was VITAL! She was shocked by the incompetance of this fool...
Dark MetaKnight, him, fell backward, his eyes widened. Nightmare was very smart but he was know for lacking a sense of common sense... but not THAT much! Nightmare must have received one hit too many on the head from those Star Warriors trought the millenias!
02 shacked Nightmare violently, completely enraged! Her eyes were almost out of their orbits and her face had turned totally red. Even MetaKnight had rarely seen the queen so angry...
"YOU COMPLETE, TOTAL IDIOTIC AND RETARDED MORON! WHY DID YOU GAVE A KIRBY CLONE TO THE ENEMY? YOU ARE COMPLETELY INSANE!... AND WHY DID YOU NEVER TOLD ME ABOUT THAT! I TOUGHT YOU HAD NEVEROBTAINED SAMPLES FROM KIRBY!" screamed the queen. Her eyes were filled with a mix of burning rage and sheer terror.
Already, 02 could sense it... this clone would bring suffering to the world, just like the original did... history was repeating all over again...
Dark MetaKnight made a step backward, not daring to intervene directly... but his code of honor prevented him from running away while her queen was literrally in a state of total hysteria.
"Please my queen! The original Kirby was an adult! This one is merely a child and furthermore, it's not as if the Crystal Sword was in their possession! I did conquer Ripple Star five millenias ago after all!"
02 stopped shaking Nightmare as she calmed down. This was true... Nightmare was maybe a Great General, but she kept him around mainly for his value as a comic relief... and becease, altought she hatred to admit it, becease the two had been friends ever since they were children. Compared to Dark MetaKnight and Dark Reaper, Nightmare was nothing more than a clown. It didn't meant anything if this clone could defeat Nightmare. Heck! If the Star Warriors were able to defeat Nightmare so many times before being destroyed, then it shouldn't surprise her that Nightmare would fail so easily!
As for MetaKnight... he was meaning it, this clone was not a threat... not yet. Altought both Galaxia and the Star Rod are mighty weapons, only the legendary Crystal Sword is powerful enough to truly kill 02 and her Great Generals. When Kirby fought 02 in Darkstar's atmosphere, during the final battle millenias ago, she survived merely becease Kirby had inflicted the finishing hit with a beam shot from the blade unstead of striking her directly. If he had struck directly... Dark MetaKnight didn't wanted to think about it.
As long as the Crystal Sword was in the hands of the Forces of Darkness, they would be safe... Dark MetaKnight would guard the sword with his life... The Crystal Sword was more important than his life. It was the most holy of all holy weapons... nope! It's the most holy of all holy things. The Crystal Sword was made from the tears of all life-forms, as they seen those before them die from war... all the suffering... all the sadness of the Universe was within the holy blade... as well as all of the hopes of all beings. Whoever wields the Crystal Sword wields absolute power... and altought Dark MetaKnight would have gladly given the holy blade to his queen, he judged that in her insane state, it would be unwise. In her fits of rage, 02 would probably forgets why she fights in the first place and destroy everything... and as for wielding the blade himself, Dark MetaKnight is not worthy. He dares not taint the blade with his hands... he who is too much of a coward to openly criticise the way 02 has fell to her enemies' level, becoming what she despises the most: a heartless tyrant.
During this time, 02 tought... and then, a part of what Nightmare said a bit sooner during this meeting returned to her mind...
"Nightmare..."
"Yes my queen?" asked Nightmare, wondering if she was going to go medieval on him again...
"Do you still have some tissue samples left from the original Kirby?" asked the evil queen.
"Yes, I have plenty of them!" anwsered Nightmare. He was happy. Finally, this would make her happy!... and it did!
The evil Dark Matter queen smiled... and behind his mask, so did Dark MetaKnight. Both shared the same toughts...
Nightmare was stupid enough to throw away the Kirby clone he created... Dark MetaKnight and his queen wouldn't.
Soon, this stupid Kirby wannabe kid shall face far more than he can handle... oh yes... far more...
It is time for the NME to start producing and selling stuff of "slightly" higher quality to King Dedede's descendant now...
King Dedede stared at the empty monitor that once allowed him to call the NME salesman. He had still hadn't give up on his dream of driving Kirby out using a powerful monster... but well, since the NME is gone, no more monsters.
Just for the heck of it, Dedede grabbed the remote and activated the monitor, especting only statics... and then...
FLASH!
"Hi mister and thank you for contacting the NME! I am the NME salesman and I'll be more than happy in guiding you as you look at our large selections of monsters on sale! So... how can I help you, mister?"
The NME salesman's face was on the monitor's display. Dedede barely believed it...
"Oh!" said the salesman. "It is you, our good client, King Dedede! We just received a new item all recently! We call it the "Batamon". Since you're an especially good client, you'll receive a 90 discount off your first Batamon! So... shall you buyone of them?"
King Dedede tought for a second that he was dreaming... so he pinched himself. Seeing as the face wasn't disappearing from the monitor, it became obvious this wasn't a dream...
"Well! Wait a little minute!" said the king, full of confidence. "I want to know I'm buyin' first! Come on! Tell me the features it got!"
On the other side of the monitor, on a far-off star where Nightmare's all-new base stood, the new NME salesman smiled, staring down at the list of features of the new Kirby clone Nightmare had created. It would be hard not to make it seem Dedede was buying an exact copy of what he hates the most... but he would try.
During this time, in her throne room, 02 laughed as she saw Dedede on her monitor.
Soon enough, Dedede would destroy that pesky reincarnation of the original Kirby and then, Popstar will easily fall in her hands... as well as Galaxia and then, she'll be one step further to total world domination!
02 laughed like the maniac she is... and so did Dedede, unaware that he was about to once againbecome the unwilling puppet of the Forces of Darkness.
In the shadows, Dark MetaKnight hoped for a quick victory. Light had struggled long enough... it was finally time for peace to happen... altought the Forces of Light would probably never espect that kind of peace... soon...
THE END
That's it! This will probably not be continued but if I get good reviews... maybe I shall. Anyway!
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