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// The Knight in the Brick Pile 
// Story: Kirby Pony Deluxe 
// by theassassin 
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	The group walked towards the wreckage of bricks and looked around the area to find out who caused it, or what caused it. After finding nothing, the group assumed that the who or what that caused it was either gone or under the bricks. As the ponies and Spike lifted the heavy bricks up, Kirby stood in place, staring at the brick pile.
"Hey, uh, Kirby? Could you please help us move the bricks?" asked Twilight. Kirby nodded and took a step back. Twilight was about to question him when he opened his mouth, and a vortex of wind came out, sucking up the bricks quicker than all seven of them combined. As the last few bricks got sucked up, a creature about the size of Kirby started getting sucked up too.
"Kirby! Wait! It's me! Remember?" he, who sounded weary, like he just woke up, said. Right as it looked like Kirby was going to eat him, Kirby stopped being a vacuum and closed his mouth, only to open it again to speak.
"Hi!" he said, not aware of the seven wide-eyed stares he was getting.
"Did- did he just eat those?" Rainbow asked. The rest of her friends slowly nodded. After shaking hands with Kirby, the creature turned to face them. He had a metal mask on with 4 diagonal claw-like bumps on the top of it. A little below the center of the mask, an opening that looked like a stretched-out V was covered in black, with 2 glowing yellow dots on it, most likely his eyes. He also wore pauldrons that each had a capital M on them, gloves, special-looking shoes, and a cape. In his right hand he held a special-looking sword. It didn't seem to be infused with magic, but it was a gold sword with a total of 4 spikes protruding from 2 opposite sides of the sword, and it was complete with a ruby in the hilt. Rarity wanted the sword so badly that you could know absolutely nothing about her, be behind her so you couldn't see her face, and still sense her desire for it.
"Greetings. My name is Meta Knight. I got kidnapped by the vines too, so when I woke up, I saw the castle and tried to jump onto it. I didn't complete the jump successfully, and I forgot I had these." he said as his cape transformed into to bat-like wings with a small claw on the front of each wing. "So, I ended up falling, and I smashed into this wall. End of story."
"Ouch." Spike said. "Sucks to be you." said Spike. Meta Knight glared at him.
"Anyway, what did I miss?" Meta Knight asked.
"Well, we watched the floating creature with 3 arms kidnap the King, met Kirby, who we hope won't eat us, looked around for you, and watched Kirby the bricks and almost you." Twilight said. Then, she introduced Meta Knight to the 6 ponies and Spike. Suddenly, a long gasp was heard by everyone in the castle.
"IJUSTREALIZEDTHATIDON'TKNOWYOUANDIALWAYSTHROWPARTIESFORNEWFRIENDSANDWENEEDTOHAVEAPARTYRIGHTNOW!" exclaimed Pinkie, who spoke so fast only her 5 best friends understood her.
"Pinkie, I think the party will have to wait. First, we have to go on an awesome adventure to save that guy!" Rainbow said. Three of the other ponies nodded, while Rarity stared at Meta Knight's sword and Pinkie started bouncing around, not at all sad about having to wait for the party.
"I agree, we should go save King Dedede by climbing up this, Dreamstalk, and I'm pretty sure Kirby agrees too." he said after he followed Kirby, who was already on his way to a new island attached to the Dreamstalk, which seemed to only grow upward from the castle to the lowest of six floating islands, and they were all certain that the villain brought King Dedede to the top island. When they were all at the island, they jumped in and started adventuring.
"What is this place called?" Rainbow asked.
"This island is called Fine Fields, it's usually not an adventurer's favorite spot, even when it was on the ground." Meta Knight responded.
"I really like this place. It's full of flowers and adorable creatures!" exclaimed Fluttershy, who had been completely silent from the point where she went through the portal to that time. She walked towards a Bronto Burt, and tried to pet it.
"Fluttershy! Wait!" Meta Knight yelled.
"What? It's just an adora- ow! He hit me!" Fluttershy said as Kirby sucked up and swallowed  the powerless critter.
"Yes. As adorable as these creatures look, they can and will attack you." Meta Knight said. "I recommend that if you don't wish to fight them, leave it to us and either watch or look away." After that incident, Fluttershy stayed away from the creatures as the rest of the group fought them.
Eventually the group found a small vine in the ground. When Kirby walked over to it, it grew and sprouted a red fruit with yellow bands around it. Kirby poked it, and it morphed into him. He became Hypernova Kirby.