"So... is this your ultimate plan?" Haltmann asked Susie.

"Not my ultimate plan," she replied with full of pride. "I will have more creations to get that star warrior... no, star warrior-s. The armored one too. He seems extremely powerful. And also, one of the only star warrior to survive Nightmare and his monsters. I will make more monsters, and more robots." 

"And also... about our final project..." Haltmann hinted.

"Yes... that's going on well," Susie replied. "And also, there are several more robots I've built. That would definitely get the star warriors. I bet that they are completely unaware about it. It will be exhilarating." She led President Haltmann to the back storage, and showed all the robots they built so far as she opened the curtain. They both evilly chuckled.

********

"Sire?" Escargoon called, confused.

"What is it?!" Dedede asked.

"Well, I just saw you walking out with Kirby and Meta Knight... and you're still here..."

"And yo' point is?!" Dedede asked.

"Can you duplicate yourself now?" Escargoon asked.

"Whatchu blabberin' 'bout?!" Dedede screamed. "I'm no monster!"

"But what was that thing that looked like-"

"That was da clone that Susie sent me!" Dedede laughed with delight. "Sooner or later, that pink fluff will get it! Plus this is free! As long as it's free I'm fine with it! Heh-heh-heh!"

********

While this was all happening, Meta Knight trained Kirby even more in the castle garden. Tiff decided to help Meta Knight to train Kirby to resist all the temptation. Meta Knight carried a huge watermelon, and Tiff held a plate of piece of cake and they both ran in different direction. Thankfully, Kirby was able to ignore all the temptation. 

"Great job, Kirby! Proud of you!" Tiff said.

"Poyo! Poyo!" Even Kirby was proud of his own achievement.

Meta Knight's eyes turned blue. "Kirby, not only you've became physically strong, but you also learned to resist. Mental strength is also important, and you're learning it quicker than I thought. You'll be a great warrior," Meta Knight proudly said as he watched Kirby and Tiff cheered around.

Tiff took Kirby for an afternoon walk, and also, her parents told her to run on an errand. Tuff and Meta Knight tagged along. They first went to Tuggle's store.

"Hey, Kirby," Tuggle greeted. "I have a lot of instant lunches that's expired but still fresh for you to eat. Wanna empty them?"

"Poyo!" Kirby excitedly said and immediately started to dig in. He sucked in the whole tray, gobbled up all the food, spit out the tray, and repeated the steps for rest of the instant lunches. Meta Knight decided to keep an eye on him until Tiff was done with grocery shopping. Kirby saw Meta Knight watching him eat. Kirby never saw Meta Knight take a bite out of anything. Why doesn't he ever eat? Or does he and just doesn't like to show the way he eats? "Poyo?" Kirby asked as he offered a tray to Meta Knight.

"No, thank you," Meta Knight kindly rejected.

"Poyo," Kirby replied and continued to eat. For some reason, just watching him eat made Meta Knight feel satisfied.

"Let's see," Tiff said to herself as she looked at errand list. "I need some milk, bread, cheese, canned meat, frozen seafood, and some fresh vegetables... Tuff, will you go to the dairy section and get some milk and cheese? Don't forget to check the expiration date."

"All right," Tuff said, and walked to the dairy section.

While he got the milk and cheese, Tiff grabbed some fresh vegetables, canned meat, frozen seafood, and bread. By the time Tiff was at the register, Kirby was finished eating every expired instant lunches. After paying Tuggle, they exchanged their goodbye's and come-again's. "Let's take a break at Kawasaki's place. He probably have leftover for Kirby to eat."

"Poyo! Poyo!" Kirby excitedly cheered.

"He never gets full, does he?" Tuff asked as he watched Kirby jump excitedly.

While heading to Kawasaki's place, they saw Mable outside her shop. When she looked at Kirby and Meta Knight, she said, "Kirby! Meta Knight! How can you do this to me?"

"Huh? What do you mean?" Tiff asked.

"They just made a huge mess in my shop and broke my fortune orb!" Mable exclaimed angrily.

"But Kirby and Meta Knight was just with me few moments ago," Tiff said.

"Yeah, we were all at Tuggle's store," Tuff added.

"But, it was you two," Mable said, very confused. "You two and the King was tormenting my shop for no reason!"

"I don't understand," Meta Knight said.

"Kirby! Meta Knight!" Curio was running towards them. "I knew the King would cause this kind of mischief, but I never knew you would do something like that! Now you asked for it! I want you to clean up all the mess that you made! I want no pieces on the floor!"

"Them again?" Tuff asked, confused. "But they've been with us the whole time!"

"What are you talking about?" Curio asked. "They were in my workplace and started to break every ceramics in my room! And now, the floor is covered with broken ceramics pieces!"

"Did they mess your place too?" Samo asked as he just came and heard the rant. "My place is now covered with broken glass pieces!"

"My place is covered with my cooking! And they were pretty warm and ready to be served!" Kawasaki ranted. 

Something's fishy... they couldn't have been same places in that short amount of time... Tiff thought. "Let's go back to the castle," Tiff suggested. "King Dedede must've done something!" They all hurriedly ran back to the castle. When they went in the castle, there was no mess made.

"What could possibly be going wrong around here?" Tiff asked.

Meta Knight sensed a sudden danger that glided towards their direction, and threw his small curved blade in the direction when he saw something suspicious. Then blade was thrown back at him, and he blocked it with Galaxia sword. "Who's there?"

The three clones jumped out and landed with a loud thud. They looked at Kirby and Meta Knight with an evil face. The false Meta Knight also had red eyes. "Looks like they've been everywhere to find me and Kirby..."

"Poyo?" Kirby looked at the three clones, confused.

"So this is what she has been planning," Meta Knight said as his eyes turned red, realizing what Susie has been up to. She was tricking everyone in Cappy Town that she was giving people a physical check-up, but in reality, she was finding useful DNA's so that she can make some clones out of them and use those clones to attack Kirby and Meta Knight. He couldn't forgive her for doing this. "Kirby, take this!" He tossed his blade to Kirby so that he can inhale it. Kirby transformed into a cutter Kirby. Meta Knight held his Galaxia sword and prepared to fight. 

TIff was also confused. There were two Kirbys and two Meta Knights. What is going on here?  Tiff thought.

"Tiff! Tuff! Go find sword knight and blade knight!" Meta Knight requested.

"Right!" Tiff and Tuff ran to go get sword knight and blade knight.

The clones charged after Meta Knight and Kirby. Kirby threw the cutting blade to Dedede, but false Kirby inhaled the blade, and it transformed into cutter Kirby. Kirby recharged his blade and held it on his hand to prepare for combat. 

False Kirby threw the blade, targeting Meta Knight, but Kirby countered it with his blade. False Meta Knight drew its sword and targeted Kirby, but Kirby was able to combat against him. False Dedede took out its giant mallot and tried to hammer Kirby and Meta Knight. As Meta Knight dodged all the hammering, he waited for a right timing. When he did, he quickly swung his Galaxia sword and sliced the mallot into pieces. The false Dedede growled in anger. Kirby quickly used the cutter blade to cut Dedede. False Dedede started to dissolve. Meta Knight's eyes turned red. "How dare he..."

"Poyo, poyo!" Kirby exclaimed as she faced false Kirby and false Meta Knight.

Meta Knight, furious, let out a spark from Galaxia sword. False Meta Knight tried to do the same thing, but ordinary steel sword cannot do the same thing. Meta Knight struck his clone with full force. False Meta Knight tried to block it, but its sword shattered in pieces. Right then, false Kirby tried to smack Meta Knight with its blade. Something came in quick to block its strike. It was not Kirby. It was not Meta Knight either. It was Sword Knight.

"We came to help!" The Sword Knight said. "What's going on here?"

"Ken Dooblo Kraven Kirby and Sir Meta Knight!" The Blade Knight said. 

"No time to explain," Meta Knight said. "Just fight my clone, it should be unarmed right now. And Kirby and I will take care of the clone of Kirby."

"Yes, sir!" Sword Knight and Blade Knight replied. The false Meta Knight took out another sword and started to hurl it against Sword and Blade Knight.

The false Kirby was also pretty strong, just like the real Kirby. Just then, Meta Knight had an idea. He took out a watermelon that he used to train Kirby with, then he started to run away from both Kirbys. The false Kirby started to chase after him... no, more like watermelon. Just like he trained, Kirby resisted. "Right there, Kirby! He's open!"

"Poyo!" Kirby responded and threw the blade at his clone. The blade struck the clone, and it started to dissolve. Instead of going back to Kirby, it went straight to false Meta Knight, as it was distracted by Sword and Blade Knight.

Meta Knight let out a deep sigh. "At least that's over... but I think it will get worse..."

"Poyo?" Kirby went up to Meta Knight.

"Don't worry, my friend," Meta Knight said. "You will be stronger. I will help you on your way. I know you can do it."

"Poyo," Kirby smiled and hugged him.

It seems like Kirby wants to be comforted by me... Meta Knight thought as he was being hugged by Kirby. 

"Yay, Kirby, you did it!" Tiff ran to him.

"You got all of them!" Tuff said as he ran with her.

"You and Kirby got them, sir!" Sword Knight said as he ran with Tiff and Tuff.

"Creevien vetroloom!" Blade Knight exclaimed as he ran with Tiff, Tuff, and Sword Knight. They all stopped when they witnessed Kirby hugging Meta Knight. Meta Knight was tapping on Kirby's back.  

"Poyo?" Kirby noticed Tiff, Tuff, Sword Knight, and Blade Knight looking at him. He looked at Tiff, then Tuff, then Sword Knight, then Blade Knight, then Meta Knight, then Tiff again, then Tuff again, then Sword Knight again, then Blade Knight again, then Meta Knight again, then he ran away without saying 'poyo', covering his eyes.

"Where's he going?" Tuff asked.

"Home, probably," Tiff replied.

"What's with him?" Sword Knight asked.

"Rimash kanthilun," Blade Knight said.

Meta Knight didn't say a word. He just cleared his throat and walked into the castle. 

He quietly walked across the halls in the castle.

"Meta Knight! Wait!" Tiff ran towards him. "I have a feeling you know. What's wrong with Kirby? He's been acting weird lately."

"I'm not sure either," Meta Knight said. "But we need to hope that it's a sign of him maturing." Meta Knight quietly walked away again. If he didn't mature... he wouldn't understand... or even have the feeling he's having now...

********

"Grrrrrrrrr..." Dedede growled as he witnessed the whole battle between clones, and Kirby and Meta Knight. "How did Kirby learn to resist? I thought it was gonna work!" He threw a tantrum like a baby, in other words, like always before.

"Sire," Escargoon said. "How about ordering a robot next time? There's some strong ones in the catalog."

"What?" Dedede snatched the catalog out of Escargoon's hand and looked at the picture. Just the picture because he still didn't learn to read. "Huh? These look good. Maybe I should order dem next time!" He let out an evil laugh that everyone was now used to. 

The screen turned on, connected to Susie. "Well, your majesty, did they solve the problems with Kirby?"

"No it didn't!" Dedede screamed. "So from now on, I'll order monsters and robots now!"

"I would have to charge you for that, your majesty," Susie said. 

"I don't care!" Dedede replied.

"But they should have the same power, and I put more energy chemicals inside them..." Susie wondered.

"But they didn't have new skills!" Dedede said.

"Plus, Meta Knight has the weird looking sword, yet it's powerful!" Escargoon added.

"A sword?" Susie asked.

"That flat and spiky one!" Escargoon replied.

Susie showed the picture of Galaxia. "This one?"

"Yeah, that one!" Dedede replied.

Susie thought for a moment as she looked at the picture for a moment. "Well then, I'll see you later, sire." She disconnected from Dedede. Hmm... he owns Galaxia, eh? Then I'll have to call him... though it might take long...