#me-devil

“Did you say underworld?”

“They’re from the other side of the cloth. Basically, on the opposite side of this world lies a universe of its own. The inhabitants of that place are a bunch of contrarians who love to cause problems. While fluff was explaining, the underworlder made the hole larger and flew out of it. It was a round, purple creature with large bat-like wings. In the middle of its body was a single large eye. It laughed and flew around. “Wahahahahaha! You guys are wild!”  

“Who are you?!”

“Waahahahahahaha!” The creature suddenly attacked them. It summoned a black sphere made of lint. They held it between their feet before aiming it at Fluff and fiercely launching it at him. Fluff wasn’t phased. “That measly little ball of lint is harmless! We totally overestimated you!” Suddenly, the ball formed spikes. Fluff’s eyes widened in surprise. “...Eh? Hey! that’s cheating! Woah woah woah!” Fluff tried to get away, but it was too late. The spiked ball hit Fluff straight on! “Waaugh! Ow ow ow OW!” Fluff grabbed his throbbing head. Kirby jumped up indignantly. “How dare you do that to Fluff!” Kirby stretched his hand out. The rope of yarn snaked its way to the underworlder. “Wassat? Wassat? Wahahahahahaha!” It taunted as it somersaulted out of the way and retaliated with another black lint ball, this time aiming at Kirby. 

“Hah!” Kirby jumped away and sent out another rope of yarn.” 

“Wahahahahahahahaaaa! This is so fun!” The underworlder cackled as it easily dodged Kirby’s rope. Kirby tried to think of a new plan as he panted from exhaustion. They were too agile for Kirby’s yarn. Well, if the small rope isn’t working, he’ll just have to attack with something larger! “Alright!” Kirby turned his back to the underworlder. 

“Oho? What are you doing, trying to run? Well I won’t let you..! ……Heellooo?! I’m over here!!” Of course, Kirby didn’t intend to flee. Him turning away from the devil was simply part of the plan. “Eyah!” Kirby stretched out his hand and sent out his yarn attack. The string headed toward the apple tree that Kirby had eaten from earlier. The tree bore many fruits, but Kirby aimed for the largest apple of them all. Kirby pulled back, causing the string to retract and bring the gigantic apple into his hands. The underworlder guffawed “Oi oi! Are you seriously having a snack at a time like this? You’re quite the carefree one. But come on, we can do this AFTER the fight! Truth be told, Kirby actually did want a snack right now, but he ignored the impulse. “Take this!” He threw the giant apple at the underworlder. They were taken by surprise and tried to get out of the way, but it was too late.”

“Guahh!” They were knocked to the ground by the impact. Kirby and Fluff rushed over to them as they laid face-up on the ground. As they peeked at the creature, it met their glance before quickly looking away. Instead of attacking them as they expected, the underworlder laughed brightly. “Ahahahaha! Aah, that was insane! You guys are really good!” Still not letting his guard down, Fluff asked, “Just what are you? Are you one of Yin-Yarn’s men? Did he order you to attack us?” The underworlder bounced up in response, seemingly offended.

“Give me a break! I answer to NOBODY. Did’ya ACTUALLY think that an underworlder would let themselves be ordered around by some bub from the surface world?” 

“Then why would you…”

“I’m the Me-Devil!  And I wasn’t even attacking ya really. Down under, it’s always quiet, dark, and BORING. I was thinking that nothing interesting would ever come around, but then I heard all this commotion coming from the overworld!” The Me-Devil looked at Kirby excitedly “So I went to check out what was going on, and I saw you fighting that uniclod! You’re quite strong considering how tiny you are! It really struck my interest. I wanted to fight you for myself, so I flew into the scene.” 

“Hmmm…” While they didn’t quite get his reasoning, they didn’t seem like a bad guy. Kirby and Fluff and Kirby decided to trust him. The Me-Devil’s mood improved “Thanks for playing with me! In return, I'll let you in on some valuable underworld intel!” 

“Eh? Underground intel?”

“Not underground intel, underworld intel! Us underworlders know of things that you overworlders are completely unaware of.”

“Really? Tell us, tell us!” Kirby was ecstatic. With his ego boosted, Me-Devil continued. “Well, let’s see...There are lots of things that I could tell you. And underworld intel is so valuable that I can only give you one tip. So what do you guys want to know?”

“Give us cooking intel!” Kirby instantly replied. “Tell us the best food places in Patch Land! Where to get delicious cake, and delicious ramen, and delicious curry, and…!”

“—I want to know how to bring the continents back to normal.” Fluff quietly cut Kirby off. The Me-Devil looked at Kirby to confirm, to which he gave a defeated nod. “Alright then! I’ll tell you how to do that! In order to rejoin the continents—” The Me-Devil lowered their voice “You need magic yarn”

“Magic yarn? Where is that?”

“They’re being guarded by Yin-Yarn’s minions.” 

“His minions..?”

“Yeah, each continent has a boss that guards the magic yarn. For example, since this is Grass Land—” The Me-Devil cupped its mouth with its wings and whispered “The boss is Fangora”

“Fangora?”

“Yep. They’re a ferocious dragon that’s known as the guardian of the skies. They’re able to summon gusts of wind with the size of their wings, breathe fire, just an incredibly powerful beast all around.”

“So if we take them down, we’ll get their magic yarn!” Fluff said enthusiastically. 

“Now, where is Fangora?”

“Usually, they live up in the clouds. Rarely ever coming to the ground.”

“Then, how are we supposed to fight them...” Kirby thought, but Fluff seemed to get an idea. 

“What if we make Fangora angry?” 

“Make them angry?”

“Yeah. Yin-Yarn’s minions want to rule Patch Land right. If we run around messing everything up, if it starts thinking we’ll run into its territory, it’ll probably start to get angry.” 

“I got it! Then we gotta rampage as much as possible! Ay!” Kirby stretched out his arm and took another apple. “We’re going to need more than that to make Fangora angry...We’ll need a big weapon, but-” Fluff said. He looked up at the devil who was floating around absentmindedly. “Me-Devil. Do you know of any strong weapons?” 

“Huhuhu… Well, I may have something, but-” Me-Devil replied. “Kirby. Didn’t you say that you ate a Metamato earlier?” 

“Huh? Yeah, I did, and…?”

“Then try to find a metamortex.” The Me-Devil flipped in the air. 

“What’s a metamortex?”

“It’s a legendary artifact! I’ve never seen it in person, so I don’t know much about it. But if it exists, it’ll be able to bring out the full potential of your metamor abilities.” 

“My metamor abilities…?”

“The abilities that can only be used by those who consume a metamato! I don’t know what kind of upgrades it’ll give you though! Ahaha!”

“Where can we find a metamortex?” 

“Who knows? If I knew that, it would be too easy! Ahahahaha!” The Me-Devil let out a piercing laugh. But then Fluff had a realization. “A metamortex….wait a minute…!” He yelled out. Fluff turned to Kirby. “Let’s go back to the castle, Kirby!”

“Eh?” 

“There are tons of mysterious artifacts stored in our castle treasury. If the metamortex is anywhere, it’s there. So then!” Fluff began dashing off. Kirby hurried after him and waved to Me-Devil. “Thank you, Me-Devil! See ya!”

“Oh, good luck!” Me-Devil waved back at Kirby with one of his wings and watched the two run off. 

The castle treasury was filled with various yarn-made treasures, paintings, and statues. Fluff was rummaging around the room when something finally seemed to catch his eye. “Ah! There it is!” Fluff called out. He held up a beautiful ring. The yarn it was made of glowed with all seven colors of the rainbow.

“Long, long ago, my ancestors found this deep in the forest. But its use has been long forgotten, so it’s been sitting here. But could this be the metamortex Me-Devil was talking about?” Fluff handed the ring to Kirby, and the instant Kirby took it—

“WAH?!” Fluff yelled. Kirby had transformed. This transformation made Kirby’s car form from earlier look like a joke. Kirby’s body was now that of a giant robot. His two eyes were now bright headlights, his feet had turned into treads, and on the top of his head sat a pilot’s seat. “K-K-Kirby?! Are you alright?!” Fluff yelled while looking up at them. 

“I don’t know… What… happened to me?” Kirby answered, utterly dumbfounded. Missiles suddenly came out of Kirby’s open mouth. They landed a direct hit on the treasury’s walls and made a giant hole! Fluff stood there, mouth agape and unable to muster up any words. Kirby frantically apologized. “S-sorry, Fluff! Because of me, a hole…! Every time Kirby spoke, missiles would blast out of his mouth. Soon the treasury was littered with holes.

“Ki…Kirby…Please stop talking….” Fluff said, utterly dazed

“Eh? Why?” Bam! Another missile flew out. Fluff jumped out and yelled.

“I’m begging you, stop talking! Every time you talk, missiles come out!”

“...” Kirby fell silent, finally understanding what was happening. Fluff wiped the sweat off his brow.

“That has to be the metamortex. Me-Devil was right. This thing really does bring out the full potential of the metamato. So that’s why you transformed. Fluff's face became bright. “You’re amazing, Kirby. To think you were capable of transforming into a giant robot! We’ll definitely be able to cause a ruckus with this! We’re coming for you Fangora!

Fluff let out a laugh. “Love the enthusiasm, Kirby! I’ve decided to call this Metamor ability… Tankbot.”

“Tankbot?”

“See ‘cause it’s a robot that looks like a tank. Now let’s go, Kirby!” Fluff pulled a lever by the pilot’s seat, causing the robot’s arm to rotate wildly before launching a powerful punch. “Alriight, so you have missiles, and I can go wild with punches. We’re coming for you, Fangora!” tankbot’s treads began to move forward, and they left through one of the holes in the wall.

Tankbot progressed through Grass Land, sending out waves of missiles and punches.

“Eat this! MISSILE!”

“Let’s go! Punch Frenzy!”

The two were having the time of their lives. This level of power was overwhelming. They quickly disposed of the monsters that were running rampant around Grass Land. 

“W-What is up with that robot…..!”

“It’s feisty! However, I can easily beat-UWAAAaaagh!” 

Nobody who was in the way of the tankbot stood a chance. “This is amazing, Fluff!” Kirby said as tankbot trucked along. “Yeah! Those monsters will think twice before they mess with us again! But you’d think fangora would have popped up by now…." That instant.

Their surroundings suddenly became dark.

Having heard the commotion from above the clouds, Fangora was finally angered enough to land.

“They’re here, they're here!” Kirby yelled excitedly and aimed a missile into the sky. However, all Fangora had to do was flap his wings once. The resulting gust of wind was enough to send the missile flying. “Oh no! Missiles don’t work..?!” Fangora turned to the tankbot and began to shoot balls of fire at it. 

“Uwaaaaah!” They tried with all of their strength to move their treads, but it still wasn’t enough to escape the path of the falling fireballs.

Fluff paled, “This is bad…somehow, the missiles aren’t having any effect..!” Fangora spat more fireballs at them with a smug look on his face. “Ho-Hot! Ow ow ow ow!” Kirby flapped his hands as he was surrounded by fire. This caused one of the robot’s arms to collide with a nearby tree, and then… The arm began wrapping around the tree and kept wrapping around it causing the robot to unravel. With the tankbot gone, Kirby was back to normal. Fluff, who was just in the pilot’s seat tumbled to the ground. “Oh no! The tankbot got..!” Fluff yelled with worry in his voice. Fangora roared victoriously and attacked the two. Fireballs began to rain down on them.

“Uwaaagh!” Fluff screamed, but Kirby nimbly dodged the incoming assault. “It’s alright! We got this!” Kirby yelled spiritedly. He ran right, left, and all around while dodging Fangora’s attacks. Fangora, unable to keep up with Kirby’s movements, began panting. Fluff’s eyes widened.

“Is Fangora getting tired..?! Of right! a big guy like Fangora would be bad with small opponents!” Fluff began to follow Kirby’s lead and ran around. He also gathered any small rocks he came across. He threw one of the rocks at Fangora and yelled, “Over here, Fangora! Come and get me! Ei! Ei! Eiii!”

Fangora changed his focus to Fluff. The rocks were far too small to actually hurt Fangora. But they were enough to hurt Fangora’s ego. Kirby also began collecting rocks and throwing them. “Hey, hey! Over here! Come and get meee!” Fangora was moving all over the place. Whenever he aimed at Fluff, Kirby would start attacking him, and when he aimed at Kirby, Fluff would attack with all of his might. Moving here, there, and everywhere had finally made Fangora dizzy. His eyes spun as he panted. Revealing a tongue with a button on the tip. “If we pull that button…Hey Kirby, aim for the button!” 

“Alright!” Kirby put his sights on the button and released a rope of yarn. 

“.....?!” the yarn wrapped around the button. Fangora’s eyes widened at the feeling of his tongue being tied up. “Hup, hup huuuuuuup!” Kirby pulled the rope with all of his might. Fangora struggled against it, but with his tongue tied up, there was nothing else he could do. “Just a little more! You can do it, Kirby!” Fluff ran up to Kirby and began pulling with him. Fangora writhed in pain and attempted to fly away to escape the two’s grasp. “Now!” On Fluff’s cue, the two let go. Fangora’s outstretched tongue flew right back to him, resulting in a direct hit.

“........!” Fangora had been gravely damaged by his own tongue. His large yarn body began to unravel. That’s when-

“Th…That’s!” Fluff yelled. A beautiful glowing thread of yarn was released from Fangora’s body. “That’s the thing Me-Devil was talking about, right? The…Uhhh…”

“The Magic Yarn!”

Fluff frolicked around. “We did it! We got the magic yarn!” The magic yarn shimmered and spiraled and swirled high into the sky. Suddenly the ground began to shake. Kirby and Fluff held each other. “W-What’s happening?!”

“The ground…It’s moving..!” 

“Oh, the yarn is weaving its way into the fabric of the kingdom!” Fluff yelled, having a sudden realization.

“Eh?”

“It’s weaving through our separated continents and stitching two pieces of Patch Land back together!” 

Before long, the shaking stopped. Fluff let out a sigh. “With that out of the way, let’s keep going. Onward, to Hot Land!” Fluff ran off.

“Wait for me, Fluff!” Kirby and Fluff ran through Grass Land’s meadows and headed to the next part of their adventure.