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Sacred Sword Galaxia
Part I: Ashes to Ashes
Chapter 3: Settling Old Scores


Clouds drifted in the sky overhead, beginning to obscure the stars. In Castle Dedede, Meta Knight, Chuva, Sword, and Blade were all standing out on the terrace of the highest tower, looking over the sleeping landscape below them.

"As suspected, it doesn't seem that was any kind of falling star," reported Blade.

"Shall we investigate?" asked Sword.

Chuva glanced at her double, as if confirming something in his thoughts, then replied, "No. There hasn't been a trace of intelligence from whatever fell, threatening or otherwise. We don't want to poke a dead fire."

Just then, the four knights heard a grinding, rattling noise down by the castle gates, far below. Their heads angled downwards in almost perfect sync. "It appears something unusual is going on," stated Meta Knight.

Waddle Dees, looking to them like tiny specks with spears as small as toothpicks, were lining up along the courtyard path, where the rickety royal ride was chugging through. "All soldiers, to arms, to arms!" King Dedede was shouting. "Close the castle gates and prepare for battle at once! Meta Knight! Meta Knight, are you and your girlfriend here?! Protect the castle from the enemy!"

"Do your job once in a while!" added Escargon as the damaged vehicle passed out of earshot.

"Does that mean you're actually going to start paying us?" muttered Chuva under her breath.

"Chuva, if you don't mind, I'd like you to go do a survey from the high wall," requested Meta Knight. She nodded, then slipped over the edge of the terrace and darted down the wall, using chinks in the brick as handholds, as agile as a cat.

"Let's go, Sword, Blade," ordered Meta Knight.

His two familiars nodded and followed him as he jumped from his perch. "Hai!"

***

After the drawbridge had gone up, King Dedede stormed into his bedroom. Escargon tried to exactly mimic his master, but the effect was spoiled when the doors swung closed and whacked him in the face.

"That must be an assassin out for my life. I'll order a demon beast to take care of it!" announced King Dedede.

"No, it was probably a debt-collecting demon beast sent by Holy Nightmare Inc.!" contradicted Escargon.

"Then how do I get rid of it?!"

The snail crossed his arms. "Pay what you owe."

"NEVER!"

***

The girl from the spaceship looked up at the imposing closed drawbridge. She wasn't particularly large, so she knew she'd never be able to blast through it. The only way to go was up.

Quickly, she adjusted the settings on her gun – which wasn't actually a gun at all. It was a multipurpose weapon, which included a machine gun, a flamethrower, a sword, a missile launcher, and the setting she was about to use now – a grappling hook. Gripping it tightly, she aimed up at one of the jagged upper walls. The hook caught purchase, and she jumped up, the elastic cord reeling her in like a fish.

She landed on the wall, and the patrolling Waddle Dees turned around to face her, surprised. She fired a few missiles at them as a distraction. The Waddle Dees panicked and began to swarm away en masse. Captain Waddle Doo became preoccupied trying to gain control of the skittish soldiers, hollering, "It's an intruder! Don't run away!"

The girl launched a few more projectiles, providing enough smoke so that she was sufficiently obscured. This latest attack was visible from the terrace that led into Cabinet Minister Parm's rooms, where the family (and Kirby) had gathered to try and figure out what was going on.

"It looks like someone's invaded the castle," gasped Parm.

"I wonder if it's a demon beast," mused Fumu.

"Is it someone after Kirby again?" complained Bun, who found all of the misunderstandings and misled motives that led to attacks on Kirby rather tiresome.

"Everyone, let's get back inside!" cried Memu, playing the part of concerned mother as always.

The family disappeared back inside, but Bun and Kirby remained, peering out at the smoke wafting up from not so far away. "Kirby? Come on!" called Fumu, and the pink ball hopped down and followed the others.

"Bun, hurry!" screeched Memu. Her son turned from the view reluctantly. "Kay…"

***

The castle was in a state of panic. The Waddle Dees raced back and forth in a roiling tide, everyone panicking, no one sure of what do to. Meta Knight, Sword, and Blade raced down a corridor, headed for the epicenter of the invasion, when suddenly a girl's voice called down to them, "META NAITO!"

Meta Knight looked up. This particular corridor opened up into two stories, and on the balcony above him was a girl – THE girl, from the spaceship. She glared down at him venomously. He stared up at her, confusion evident even behind his mask. But there was something else, too. Recognition?

"There's no mistake," she said. "It's you."

"I recognize that face…" murmured Meta Knight.

The girl jumped on to the railing. "I'd expect so," she responded haughtily. "My mother was the Galaxy Soldier, Garlude!"

Meta Knight made a small noise that fully indicated that these words had hit home with him. The next second, the girl had set her multipurpose weapon to its machine gun setting and fired upon him. He, Sword, and Blade all scattered, dashing off in different directions to avoid the assault.

Meta Knight felt something in his mind, a frequency that was the equivalent of a question mark. He glanced up to where the mystery girl was jumping down to pursue him and caught a glint of luminous yellow eyes – Chuva had been watching. The most trivial of thoughts ran through him – the girl and his double sure did look alike – and then he was telling Chuva, in their abridged mental shorthand, to cover him because he, personally, was under attack. He sent this message as he was running away from the girl who was still firing at him.

Dashing behind a statue, then somersaulting as he made it through a doorway, Meta Knight couldn't seem to shake this girl. She skidded to a temporarily halt behind him and fired off a missile. He was about to continue running when Sword and Blade jumped down from above and landed in front of him.

"Kyou, leave this to us!" declared Blade.

"Thank you…" answered Meta Knight reluctantly, before dashing off again. Sword and Blade blocked the path that the girl would have to take to follow him.

"Move!" she barked.

"We are your opponents!" retorted Sword.

She primed her weapon. In response, the two knights charged. She jumped over Blade's attack effortlessly, then twisted to get herself around Sword. She fired off another round of machine gun shells, forcing her adversaries to duck for cover behind the columns.

"Sword!" hissed Blade, vying for eye contact. "Up there."

Blade looked. There was a light fixture above them – something like a tinkling chandelier. Straining closer, he saw a pale blue face peer over the top of it. Chuva made a discreet hand signal at them, and Sword nodded, first to her and then to Blade.

Without warning, Sword dashed out from his hiding place, and the girl predictably fired. He dived behind a statue. Then Blade came at her from the other direction, his weapon pointed at her face. She swiftly switched her multipurpose weapon from a gun to a sword and met the attack with the clash of metal against metal.

The girl was so busy straining against the attack that she didn't notice the chandelier falling from above until it was almost too late. As it plummeted down, Blade dashed off, and she just barely managed to jump out of the way. The light fixture hit the ground with the crunch and tinkle of shattering glass.

As the girl lifted her head, she caught a glimpse of someone standing on top of the wreckage of the chandelier. It was a figure of about her height, but clearly an adult woman. The fact that she wore the same basic armor as Meta Knight did not escape the other girl's attention.

"Who are you?" she hissed.

"None of your business," the woman replied, and took off so quickly and quietly that she almost seemed to simply vanish. The girl got to her feet, but Sword and Blade had also escaped.

"Damnit…" she cursed.
And in this chapter, which is longer, Escargon gets owned by a door, Silica-who-shall-remain-nameless-until-chapter-4 looks a hell of a lot like Chuva (I WONDER WHY?), and Chuva copies her role model the Phantom of the Opera and drops a chandelier. Fun times, fun times.


Hoshi no Kaabii (C) Nintendo/HAL Labs
Chuva (C) Me
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