//------------------------------// // Chapter 75: Versus Sweetie Belle // Story: A Sweetie Dream Land // by Lucar //------------------------------// "That monster!" yells Rainbow Dash. "They will really fight her?" asks Fluttershy. "They haven't a choice," answers Applejack. As her friends look in horror and comment on what's going on, Rarity only look at what's happening in resignation. Taranza is forcing Kirby, Dedede, and Bandana Dee to fight Sweetie Belle. But... Even if her little sister will get hurt, she knows it's for the best. If they win, then they'll be able to bring her back. But it still hurts to see Sweetie Belle like that. Sweetie Belle turns her whip into its staff version before twirling it in front of her and slamming its extremity on the ground in an intimidating show of hostility, the filly now on her hind legs and Taranza moving his hands like a puppeteer. This doesn't scare the heroes who start running toward her, weapons ready. She creates a shield that she throws at them, and they jump above it directly toward her, ready to attack. However, Sweetie Belle surrounds herself in another shield, stopping all the weapons from hitting her before she expands the shield. Already familiar with this trick, the three heroes place their feet on it to not be slammed and to let it transport them. Dedede then grabs Bandana Dee who puts his spear above him, jumps, and throws him toward the shield, Bandana Dee starting to spin. Thanks to this, Bandana successfully breaks the shield and passes through it before landing in front of the filly. The two then start exchanging attacks with their respective weapon, swinging, parrying and dodging. Until Sweetie surprises Bandana by turning half of the staff back into a whip and wrapping it around him. With her weapon now turned into a flail, Bandana playing the role of the ball, Sweetie Belle starts using it to attack the others. Dedede is eventually able to grab the whip and uses his strength to unwrap Bandana Dee before pulling on it, propelling Sweetie Belle toward him. A few feet in front of him, Kirby is the one attacking the propelled filly with a hammer spin on the head, propelling her back and making her drop the whip. But Dedede knows perfectly that her dropping the whip doesn't mean that the weapon is now harmless. Sweetie Belle could manipulate it with her magic anytime, so he quickly takes it and wraps it around one of the pillars of the room, making a tight knot to make sure she can't unwrap it even with her magic during the fight. Only for Sweetie to destroy the pillar with an energy beam, almost getting Dedede who jumps back in both surprise and fright. With the pillar destroyed, Sweetie easily takes back her whip and starts working on the knot with her magic while she tries punching Kirby with her gloved front hooves turned into metal and enveloped in energy. Knowing that getting punched by those hooves would be very bad for his health, the puffball does everything he can to avoid them while attacking with his hammer, helped by Bandana who's quickly joined by Dedede. Overwhelmed by their number and their constant attacks, Sweetie Belle surrounds herself in another shield that she extends to force them to go away before she starts using her tail to throw cutter blades. Dedede opens his mouth and starts inhaling the cutter blades sent toward him before spitting them back at the filly, who uses a mirror shield to deflect the formed projectile back at the penguin and hitting him on the belly. Cursed mirror. Sweetie Belle then successfully removes the knot on her whip, and starts making it snaking in the air before she jumps on it like in her previous fight against Dedede, where she starts firing projectiles after projectiles while moving around. While Kirby and Dedede use their hammers to deflect the majority of the projectiles, Bandana Dee jumps in the air, then jumps again to reach Sweetie Belle before twirling his spear, cutting the surprised filly at least a dozen times before she punches Bandana away. Back on the ground, Bandana Dee laughs. "Eh eh. Surprise! I wanted to show it to you today." Sweetie Belle stares at him, before she takes Yin and Yarn from her belt, the knitting needles seemingly manipulated too. Using them, Sweetie Belle knits a dozen bombs that she rains on the heroes only for Dedede to inhale them, but this time, he doesn't spit them back at her. Annoyed, Sweetie Belle takes the Spiky doll, throws it in the air, and starts knitting, making the doll bigger and bigger. Until Spikezilla lands in front of the trio. "Uh... Let's try to avoid killing him," says Dedede. "Sweetie Belle would be devastated." Kirby and Bandana Dee nod, the Waddle Dee sweating a little. Spikezilla roars, and spits fire at them. The trio easily jumps out of the way and starts attacking him in return. While they do their best to not be cut into shreds by Spikezilla's claws, Sweetie Belle then does something unexpected: she levitates Yin and Yarn who grow in size, and throws them at Kirby, who's not able to dodge them in time. The needles then start floating around with Sweetie's magic before attacking the heroes, either with slashes, thrusts, or charges. And then, Sweetie Belle turns the magic in her whip into electricity, and starts flying around again, the whip constantly raining lightning bolts everywhere it passes, before she restarts firing projectiles at the heroes. Kirby, seeing that he's the one that Sweetie Belle is targeting in priority, sticks his tongue out to get her attention fixed on him before running, separating himself from the others. As planned, Sweetie Belle goes after him, along with Yin, Yarn, and Spikezilla. Now behind Spikezilla, Dedede jumps and bonks him on the head, getting back the dragon's attention, while Bandana runs after the needles, grabs Yarn who has just planted himself on the floor trying to impale Kirby, and throws him at Yin, causing the two of them to hit a pillar. Bandana quickly grabs the two of them again, and starts slamming them on the pillar and the ground. Meanwhile, Spikezilla tries again to cut Dedede with his claws, but the penguin is able to jump on his arm, and to jump again to clobber him on the head. Before he can land, Spikezilla counterattacks by spitting fire at him, burning him badly. But Dedede continues attacking the dragon despite this. As for Kirby, he continues to run while doing his best to avoid or deflect Sweetie's attacks. Bandana Dee then throws Yin and Yarn at Sweetie Belle, and the filly, taken by surprise, is hit by the needles, and falls from the whip. Kirby takes his chance and runs toward her before swinging his hammer at her again and again and again, until he's grabbed by Sweetie Belle who suplexes him. Meanwhile, Spikezilla breathes fire at Dedede again, but this time, the penguin counters with a stream of fire from his mecha hammer. Once the dragon stops, Dedede then fires missiles at him, greatly hurting the dragon who roars in pain. Dedede then activates the jet of his hammer and starts spinning before jumping toward the dragon's head. Bonk! Bonk! Bonk! Bonk! Bonk! Bonk! Bonk! Bonk! Bonk! Bonk! Bonk! Dedede finishes his hammer by using the dragon's head to jump, spin again, and slam the mecha hammer on the top of his head. The dragon of yarn falls on his back against a wall, unconscious, as Dedede lands beside him, putting proudly his hammer on his shoulder. "BWAHAHAHAHA!!! Dragons don't scare me!" Taranza looks at the unconscious dragon of yarn, then at Yin and Yarn who have stopped moving on the floor, then at Sweetie Belle, staff in hooves, exchanging blows with Kirby, only for Bandana Dee to charge, jumps, and headbutt her on the back, opening her to the puffball's hammer. Seeing the filly in difficulty, he starts sweating, not understanding what's going on. Since she's the hero of the lowerworld, shouldn't she be the one giving those guys a bad time? Mmh. Maybe he's overestimated the hero, and she's actually no match against those three clearly strong warriors teaming up. Even heroes have limits after all. And despite the disadvantage, she's still fighting very well against them. But if it continues... That's when Sweetie Belle's whip splits into ten parts that she levitates above her as she jumps away from her attackers. All the parts then point toward them. "Uh... This is new..." says Bandana Dee, not reassured. "Wait, she hasn't revealed all that her whip could do in our fight?" asks Dedede. The ten parts of the whip suddenly start firing small lasers, and the heroes quickly run to avoid them, which is not easy because there isn't much space to dodge all ten lasers which are moving. Dedede is obviously the one having the hardest time because of his size. While trying to avoid the lasers, the heroes run toward Sweetie Belle who fires at them a Giga Force Blast. They avoid it, and attack the filly with everything they have while still watching out for the lasers. Sweetie Belle eventually creates two swords of ice and grabs them before using them to parry and attack, while some of the floating whip part turned cannon stop firing lasers only to fire other projectiles, like fireballs, fire streams, ice balls, ice spikes, ice streams, lightning bolts, lightning balls, explosive balls, water streams, strong winds, and even themselves. With all those projectiles raining on them or getting in the way, the three heroes can't stop moving, and are forced to adapt to a hit and run tactics. Until after one last hit from Kirby, Sweetie Belle collapses, unconscious, and all the cannons fall around them. "She was probably reserving this for her fight against Meta Knight," says Dedede, breathing heavily. "What do you think would be his chances against this?" asks Bandana Dee, lying down back on the floor in fatigue. "With how he kicked my butt in our fight, and if he used everything he had, I would say... 50/50, unless he has hidden moves." Suddenly, magic looking like a lightning bolt coming from Taranza hits Sweetie Belle, and the filly starts floating as she's surrounded by a purple sphere of magic. "Let's give up all limits!" says then the spider. When the sphere disappears, the red of Sweetie Belle's cape, Dedede's symbol, and of her heart-shaped rubies turn purple, the gold of her gauntlets and circlet turn a lighter purple, and she glows with a small aura of energy. Sweetie Belle then roars toward the sky, cape floating without wind, as the ten parts of her whip start floating again. The four decorative axes in the room then start floating around her, and she coats the four of them in an element: Fire, Ice, Spark, and Wind. She then stares at them, pure murder visible in her eyes. The effects spread to Yin, Yarn, and Spikezilla, who wake up. The needles then start knitting alone, reforming the Yin Yarn Wizard that immediately grabs them. As for Spikezilla, nothing seems to change, but the trio knows better... And like Sweetie Belle, the two beings of yarn stare at the trio of heroes. And Taranza floats behind them, cackling like a madman... or madspider. "He can do that?!" asks Bandana Dee in horror. "He can do that..." confirms Dedede. "So, they're three, we're three, so how about we each take one? Kirby, we leave Sweetie to you. You're the only one that can defeat her. Besides, she's clearly after you." "Poyo!" "Bandana, you should be able to take on Yin Yarn." "Yes, my king!" "Which leaves the dragon to me. I already knocked him out once, so I should be able to knock him again, even boosted." The three heroes fix their designed opponent, readying themselves. Taranza stares back at them, in his mind, his victory assured. "Showtime!" They charge, and Taranza immediately do a movement with his hands, followed by Sweetie's cannons forming three small circles of three cannons before firing each a single, slightly bigger laser at all three of them that they avoid by jumping. Yin Yarn separates from the others and, seeing Bandana Dee charging toward him, knits a dozen Spear Waddle Dees. Spikezilla takes a big breath, and spits a more powerful stream of purple fire at Kirby and Dedede. The penguin places himself in front and rapidly twirls his mecha hammer, deflecting the fire. Behind Dedede, Kirby slams his hammer on the floor and uses this to propel himself in the air, like a big jump, toward Sweetie Belle. Again, the cannons form three circles, and they all fire a laser at the dropping Kirby who deflect them by spinning in the air. Rapidly, Sweetie Belle grabs the tenth cannon, and out of it comes a beam sword that she uses to parry Kirby's hammer. She immediately kicks Kirby away, and sends the axes after him. Kirby lands on his feet, and immediately jumps just in time to avoid being cut in half by the passage of the fire axe, and quickly swung his hammer to deflect the ice axe. When landing, he has to jump again and again to avoid sharp wind sent by the wind axe, and puts his hammer to parry the spark axe coming from above. The fire and ice axes choose this moment to attack Kirby from the left and the right while the wind axe continues sending its sharp winds. With a strong push, he repels the spark axe, then flatten himself against the floor, letting the fire and ice axes pass above him. A swing of his hammer destroys a sharp wind about to reach him, but he then gets hit by a laser from one of the cannons. He recovers and looks around him at the four axes and nine cannons (Sweetie still using the tenth as a beam sword), and sweats. How can she manipulate all those weapons at the same time? "She's your sister alright," says Twilight to Rarity. "As good at manipulating many objects at once than you." "I would say that I'm proud, but in the actual situation, this is really bad news..." Kirby has to jump to avoid a stream of purple fire coming from Spikezilla who's busy dealing with Dedede. The penguin has also jumped to avoid it, only to be slapped like a fly by Spikezilla's powerful claws, and he's barely able to stop himself from being propelled in the gap beyond the room by clinging to the barrier at the edge. Spikezilla then spits a dozen giant purple fireballs that all home in at Dedede, and he hides himself behind a nearly pillar to avoid them. The pillar is however destroyed by one of Spikezilla's claws, revealing Dedede to him, and he quickly uses his other claw to try to crush the penguin. Dedede does a small jump to avoid the claw, then start running on the leg before jumping on the dragon's shoulder. Spikezilla tries to grab him, and Dedede fires some missiles at it to fend it off before he does his Super Jump on Spikezilla's head, making sure to put in all his weight and helped by the hammer's jet, which slams the dragon's head against the floor. At the same time, Bandana parries a thrust from Yin Yarn, the wizard using the needles like spears to counter Bandana's. But despite Yin Yarn having two 'spears', Bandana is much more experienced at using one, and has no problems passing the wizard's defense to cut some of his yarn into shreds. Yin Yarn flies back, and quickly starts knitting his own body before Bandana can come to him again. The wizard's form starts to change, and in just a few seconds, his body has become the one of a giant spider keeping his normal body's features with four legs finishing like the ones of a real spider and four arms, the two lower ones finishing in hands holding the needles while the upper ones finish like the ones of a praying mantis, as sharp as a scythe. That thing comes from a horror movie, but Bandana remains focused and doesn't let his fear take over. With the needles, Yin Yarn starts knitting some Comos while he swings one of his scythe-like arms at Bandana Dee. He avoids it with a side jump, quickly eliminates an approaching Yarn Como, then approaches Yin Yarn while avoiding the other scythe. When he starts attacking Yin Yarn himself, the giant spider rapidly uses one of the needles to parry Bandana's spear, and walks forward to try to impale him with his spider legs. Trying his best to avoid the legs, Bandana takes the occasion to attack Yin Yarn's belly before rolling away when it starts to become a little too hard to dodge. He rolls again to avoid the swing of a scythe, and starts attacking the Yarn Comos that circle him. But then, the Yarn Comos spit strings at him, and he finds himself trapped in a ball of web. By instinct, he still rolls while inside it, dodging anothing swing of Yin Yarn scythes, so the giant spider decides to use them to sweep the floor, slapping the cocoon in which Bandana is trapped and propelling him right at Spikezilla's back, destroying the web. Thankfully, Spikezilla is too busy breathing fire at Dedede to pay attention to him. Bandana lands beside Spikezilla's tail, and the Yarn Comos quickly circle him again, and the Spider Yin Yarn also approaches. Thinking quickly, Bandana looks at Spikezilla's tail, turns toward his butt, raises his spear and... Poke! "ROAAAR!!!" Roaring in pain, Spikezilla uses his long neck to stare at Bandana in anger without turning, then starts sweeping the floor with his tail. As planned. Bandana jumps above the tail, but all the Comos around him are destroyed, and Yin Yarn is propelled, unexpectedly, right toward Sweetie Belle who's in the middle of a deadly dance with Kirby. Kirby spots the Spider Yin Yarn coming and jumps back, and Sweetie Belle finds herself being slammed by the giant spider and she slides until she's stopped by the barrier at the edge. The lost of her focus causes the many levitated weapons to fall, and Kirby quickly runs, passing beside Yin Yarn who's getting back up, jumps, and falls back on the recovering Sweetie Belle, crushing her under his hammer. The filly rapidly uses her strength to push back the hammer, freeing herself, before levitating all the weapons again. At the same moment, Yin Yarn starts knitting again, turning his body into the one of a giant bat, holding the needles in his legs. Meanwhile, Spikezilla fires dozens of fireballs at Dedede, who destroys them with his missiles, covering a good part of the room in explosions and smoke. By now, all of the pillars in the room have been destroyed, and it's a wonder that the roof hasn't collapsed on them. But it has certainly been weakened. Well then... Dedede points his mecha hammer up, targeting the roof above the dragon, and fires. The missiles fly to the targeted destination, and explode upon impact. Rapidly, the explosions cause the roof above the dragon to collapse on him, and the destruction spreads to the majority of the roof in the room. Dedede, Kirby, Bandana Dee, Sweetie Belle, Yin Yarn, and Taranza run/fly toward the edge and fly/air jump beyond it before being crushed by the falling fragments. While in the airs, Taranza uses the strings to make Sweetie Belle fly, and the filly takes the occasion to attack Kirby. The puffball releases the air inside him to avoid the first wave of projectiles, and quickly inflates again, making the second wave of projectiles pass just under him where he should have been if he continued to fall. To help Kirby, Dedede flies above Sweetie Belle and releases the air in him, making him drop on the filly and making the two of them fall until she uses her air jump. All the while, Yin Yarn has been flying around with Bandana Dee on his back the Waddle Dee having clung to him after avoiding a slash from the needles with an air jump. On his back, Bandana Dee has not stopped attacking him with his spear, and the bat is starting to lose speed and height. By now, the roof has stopped collapsing, turning a part of the tower into a pile of rubble, and the Bat Yin Yarn eventually crashes on it. Meanwhile, Sweetie Belle grabs Dedede from her back and kicks him toward the tower. Just at this moment, Spikezilla's head comes out of the rubble, roaring, only for Dedede to ram it, stunning him. Seeing this, Bandana quickly cuts the legs of Bat Yin Yarn, grabs the needles, and starts using them to knit a giant weight above Spikezilla's head. The weight falls on him before sliding of his head, the dragon roars in pain, and the head falls on the rubble, stopping moving. Bandana raises his arms in victory. "Woohoo! I knocked out Spikezilla!" But then, Yin and Yarn jump out of his hands and starts knitting a new body, only to be stopped by a swing of Dedede's hammer, propelling the two of them against the remains of a wall that collapses on them. Dedede takes a proud pose. "Aah! It feels good to clobber those two!" "The castle!" they hear Taranza yelling. Dedede and Bandana turn to look at the spider floating toward them, red in anger. Sweetie Belle is following him, still floating thanks to the string. Meanwhile, Kirby lands behind, at the edge. "How dare you destroy the queen's castle?!" "Oh, come on, it's just a part of the roof of the tower, nothing too bad compared to the full size of this castle," says Dedede. "And hey. It's you who started this fight here. It's your fault," says Bandana Dee. Taranza becomes more and more red, until he's suddenly bonked on the back of his head by Kirby, propelling him in the rubble. Bandana Dee gives Kirby a high five for this. The pile of rubble where Taranza has been sent to suddenly explodes as the spider unleashes his powers with a loud "ENOUGH!!!" before sending another lightning-like spell at Sweetie Belle. The aura around her becomes purple, and the purple of her clothes becomes various shades of black. The filly gives the biggest roar that her lungs can unleash as the smaller rubble around her, as well as her mane, tail, and cape, start floating thanks to the energy her body is now releasing, her eyes now glowing with power. "Oh, drat!" shouts Dedede in panic. The ten cannons form a circle around Sweetie Belle's horn, all pointing at the top of it as a ball of pure energy appears here. The three heroes immediately start to run as best as they can on the rubble, and when the filly unleashes from her horn a huge black laser, they quickly jump forward, barely avoiding being disintegrated, like everything that is in the laser's path, leaving a big hole in the tower. Almost directly, Sweetie Belle's horn glows black, and she flies away. Almost as soon, a black hole appears where she's been, starting to suck up the rubble around. Despite the surprise of seeing Sweetie opening a black hole, the heroes rapidly think to run in the opposite direction to not be sucked, having to jump when the rubble under their feet start being aspired. The cannons start firing lasers at them, forcing them to jump more while changing direction to avoid them, until the black hole closes. With a good part of the floor now cleared of rubble, they have less problems to keep their balance, but then, the four axes join the assault. The fire axe slams on the floor, and pillars of fire come out of the ground one after another randomly. The ice axe starts spinning, unleashing a storm of ice shards all around it. The spark axe starts glowing, and out of it comes dozens of orbs of electricity raining in front of it. The wind axe swings left and right, sending with each swing a tornado. The ten cannons start spinning, beam swords coming of both of their ends and they home in the heroes one after another. Sweetie Belle raises her hooves, and a giant orb of darkness forms above her before she throws it. The orb goes to the floor, and unleashes a huge dark explosion. By now, Dedede and Bandana Dee are both unconscious against the remains of a wall, propelled by the explosion of the orb, and Kirby slowly goes back up beside them, covered in burns, frost bits and many cuts. But despite how much it hurts, he must not give up. For Dreamland. For Popstar. For Sweetie Belle. He starts running toward her. Taranza suddenly starts throwing orbs of magic at Sweetie's axes, and the filly uses the axes to deflect them at Kirby while giving them elemental effects, and Kirby moves in all directions, jumps, and slides to avoid them and the fire, ice, electricity, and wind that follow them. Taranza then creates a huge orb, and throws it at the fire axe which deflects it at Kirby. The puffball jumps out of the way, and the orb bounces on the floor, creating a fiery shockwave on it that Kirby jumps above. The spark axe deflects the orb back at Kirby who dodges it again, and when it bounces on the floor, it releases a few lightning bolts. The ice axe is the next deflecting it, and when it bounces, it causes ice spikes to come out of the floor around it, but again, Kirby just runs away from it to avoid them. Finally, the wind axe deflects the ball, and when it bounces, it creates a strong air current that almost propels Kirby against some remaining rubbles. The four axes then swing down at the ball, and it explodes on the floor, unleashing the four elemental attacks at the same time. So Kirby runs away from the ice spikes and jumps to avoid the fiery shockwave, spins in the air to avoid a lightning bolt, and places himself so when he reaches a pile of rubble because of the wind, he lands on them on his feet and bounces from them back on the floor. Seeing that the fiery shockwave, which has now disappeared, has left an orange star near him, Kirby starts spinning and throws his hammer at Sweetie Belle, surprising her and hitting her. While she recovers from the hit, Kirby quickly inhales the star to gain the Fire ability, and immediately jumps, avoiding a laser from one of the cannons, before he spits a fireball at the filly burning her as he lands back. He continues his jumping and spitting fireballs tactic, avoiding many attacks this way while continuing attacking, but Sweetie Belle quickly creates a mirror shield, deflecting his fireballs back at him. But now, he's close enough, so he jumps again, but instead of spitting another fireball, he uses his comet attack, destroying the shield and ramming the filly. He jumps away to avoid a counterattack, then jumps to avoid a shockwave when Sweetie Belle punches the floor. The ten cannon then surround the filly, and create a column made of lasers around her, the lasers circling her. She then starts flying after Kirby, the column of laser moving with her, forcing Kirby to run away while still avoiding the attacks from the axes. Sweetie Belle raises a hoof toward him, and from it, she unleashes dozens of black lightning, electrifying Kirby and knocking the Fire out of him. Despite the pain, Kirby inhales one of the green stars left by the lightning and gains the Spark ability. Still running around to avoid the column of lasers and the axes, Kirby is able to surround himself in a ball of electricity that he sends toward Sweetie Belle, the ball passing through the lasers and shocking her, which causes the cannons to fall. Kirby then avoids a tornado sent by the wind axe, and releases the Spark ability before inhaling the star left by the tornado, gaining the Tornado ability. Kirby then uses it to turn into a tornado and fly around before charging at Sweetie Belle, hitting. Still a tornado, he turns around in the air and charges again, and again, and again, until Sweetie Belle recovers and punches the Kirby Tornado, propelling him and knocking away the Tornado. Kirby quickly bounces from the floor where he's landed to avoid being hit by projectiles from the cannons, and sees the spark axe charging at him. He opens his mouth, and the axe enters it. The helmet of a knight appears on his head, and a double edged battle axe appears in his hands: the Axe Ability. With it, he deflects a fireball, then runs back toward Sweetie Belle as the filly starts firing rather big black lasers from around her at him. He jumps left, right, left, right, deflects the ice axe, jumps right again, and jumps toward Sweetie Belle, headbutting her and bringing her back on the floor. He jumps back to avoid the laser of a cannon, and runs back toward her, swinging his axe. Sweetie Belle grabs a cannon and a sword beam comes out of it, parrying the axe. Another beam sword comes at the other end, and Sweetie starts using the double beam sword like she uses her staff, twirling it back and forth to first attack with a sword, then attack with the other from another direction, all the while the cannons are still firing and the axes are still attacking. Kirby jumps above Sweetie Belle to avoid a big spike of ice coming from the floor under him caused by the ice axe, then twirls the axe to deflect some fireballs from the fire axe before swinging at Sweetie Belle. As he has thought, the filly parries him, so he kicks the double sword beam at the metal part between the two, getting it out of her hold, then swings his axe at her again and again. Sweetie Belle then punches the axe, destroying it, and they both jump back, Sweetie Belle creating two shields in the shape of fists that she starts to use to try to punch Kirby from a long distance. Now without ability again, Kirby can only avoid the shield fists before he runs toward a pile of some remaining rubble and inhales them. He doesn't spit them, instead keeping them in him as he starts running toward Sweetie Belle. Bloated like he's, he can only jump and run to avoid the various attacks that rain on him, but he still succeeds to approach. Sweetie Belle takes another double sword beam, and swings it at Kirby, only for him to jump above the sword before he finally spits the rubble in him, the giant formed projectile ramming Sweetie Belle with the force of a train. Despite this, she starts recovering, only for Kirby to grab her by the tail before slamming her on the floor at least a dozen times. When Kirby sees that all the weapons have stopped flying, he stops slamming the filly, and looks at her. She seems unconscious. She grunts, and her eyes open, still glowing. He punches her in the face. She grunts again, another punch. Another grunt. He grabs her, places her on his head, jumps, and falls back on the ground head first. She doesn't grunt anymore. The purple aura around her and the strings disappear, and her clothes return to normal. He has won. Sweetie Belle is saved. Taking a big breath, Kirby runs back to Dedede and searches something in his finery. Quickly, he finds a bad full of food they've collected and not eaten in their adventure, and Kirby rapidly eats a Maxim Tomato before giving one to Dedede and Bandana Dee. Once done, he runs back to Sweetie Belle with the bag, only to see that Taranza is now beside her, trying to wake her up. "Wh-what's the meaning of this?!" Kirby punches him away from Sweetie Belle, and still keeping an eye on the spider, gives a Maxim Tomato to Sweetie Belle. "This... This shouldn't be happening!" he hears Taranza shout. "I did just as Her Majesty commanded! The lower world should fall to its knees before me! How could I fail?!" "How about 'by getting the wrong hero'?" proposes Dedede who's approaching Kirby and Sweetie Belle with Bandana Dee. "Good job, Kirby." "Poyo." "You don't mean..." says Taranza. "Yup!" says Dedede, tapping Kirby. "This little guy is the real hero!" "We are all heroes," corrects Bandana Dee. "But... Kirby is easily the strongest of all of us." "And Sweetie Belle is his sidekick in most of his adventures," says Dedede. At this moment, Sweetie Belle opens her eyes, and starts rubbing her head, grunting. "Uugh... Why can't a Maxim Tomato stop headaches?" Before she knows it, she's hugged from all sides by her friends screaming her name. She giggles. "My heroes!" Taranza growls. "Curse..." He then raises his hands. "Majesty! Your Majesty Sectonia!" A rune formed with heart symbols suddenly appears above Taranza, and out of it comes a giant bee-like creature who's facing the spider. "Oh, glorious Sectonia! Please come to my resc--" Before he knows it, he's blasted away by the bee's scepter, the spider slowly disappearing toward the horizon as he screams "Wh-whyyyyyyyyyyyyy...?" "Pitiful, Taranza..." says the bee, Sectonia. "I have no use for a fool who cannot follow orders." "Hey! He almost got it! I'm, like, the hero number two of Dreamland!" shouts Sweetie Belle in anger. Sectonia turns toward them, revealing her prodigious beauty that would make any model in Equestria jealous. "I only ask for perfection, and nothing else, so he failed. And I don't need failures." Sweet. A tyrant. I don't think we got to fight one yet. "Now then, heroes of the lower world. You would risk your life for this land? You would stand against me, the ruler of the heavens?" "Well, it's our job as heroes," says Bandana Dee. "Very well... You will bow before the great Queen Sectonia! My beauty rivals the divine..." She disappears, and reappears further, before charging toward them, another scepter appearing in her other disembodied glove. "And my power will crush all that you hold dear!"