After surviving the game, the survivors returned to the room. As they entered the room, they all heard the knocking from above. There was another room at a higher ground where the disqualified contestants were waving at them, but neither side could hear the other. 

"Hey, aren't those who lost the game of The Rose of Sharon Has Bloomed?" Susie asked as she pointed. 

"The mayor, chief Bookem, Kawasaki..." Tiff said as she read their faces. "Yup, that's definitely them."

"What are they doing up there?" Tuff asked. 

"Poyo?" Kirby asked. 

"Congratulations on winning your first game," the leader of the pink soldiers said as they entered the room. 

"Question: why are they up there?" Susie asked.

"They lost and they're no longer allowed to participate," the leader of the pink soldiers clarified. "However, they may watch the survivors play if they'd like."

Huh, so no one gets hurt, Tiff thought. Well then, maybe I don't have to try so hard to win. Also, if Kirby is still gonna be safe, I guess I don't really have to look out for his safety as much. 

"Now, you'll be prepared for the second game," the leader of the pink soldiers said. "I hope you're ready."

"It's just cutting out shapes of the plate of melted sugar," Tiff said. 

"Or dalgona," Susie specified. 

"Let's go," the leader of the pink soldiers said. They all followed it and headed into the room where it looked like a playground. "Since you know how this game works," the leader of the pink soldier said. "You all get the same shape, which is the Warp Star. You will have 10 minutes to cut it."

Everyone started cutting it with a needle that they received. "This is ridiculous," Meta Knight said. He pulled out the Galaxia and gave it a few swings. It cut into a perfect Warp Star shape. All the disqualified players cheered for Meta Knight, which they couldn't hear. 

Meta Knight exited the room after leaving a soft scoff. 

Triggered by Meta Knight's quick play, Galacta Knight also pulled out his sword to cut it, but it broke in half instead. One pink soldier escorted Galacta Knight out of the room as Galacta Knight groaned in jealousy. 

As Kirby broke the pieces off, he happily ate them. Tiff also gave the pieces to Kirby so that he can enjoy them as he is doing it. 

Meanwhile, Susie was murmuring to herself, "I gotta apply the just right amount of normal stress and shear stress along the border of the shape so that it can cut out clean and perfectly... also, if I happen to remember the ultimate tensile strength of the solidified melted sugar, I should consider doing it in some other method so that it does not create a fracture..." No one understood what Susie was murmuring to herself. Even though the author wrote this sentence, they had no idea what Susie was saying. 

"Aw, man!!" Tuff groaned as he broke his dalgona in half. 

"You little brat!" Haltmann screamed in anger and disbelief. "You made me jump and I broke MY shape!! Couldn't you have been a little quieter???" 

"Geez, sor-ry," Tuff said as they were both being escorted out of the room. 

Tiff and Susie managed to cut the shape without ruining the shape. They both showed it to the pink soldier and went out of the room. 

"Poyo, poyo!" Kirby cheered as he also was able to cut the shape perfectly. 

"Done," Susie said as she cut it out to the perfect shape. 

By the end of the game, Tiff, Susie, Kirby, and Meta Knight were the only ones who won the game. 

"It looks like there are only four of you," the leader of the pink soldier said. "So we'll be moving on to the final game. And there are absolutely no weapons allowed in the game." 

"What's the final game?" Tiff asked.

"'What's the final game?'" Susie mimicked rudely. "Haven't you watched the first episode? They literally explain how the game works of the squid game! There will be a team of two and then one side will protect the body and the tip, and the other will start from the head, go to the body, and hit the tip to win. You have to hop on one foot unless you go through the middle of the body. If you stay on both legs without going through the middle of the body, you're out. Once you get into the body, you can only exit through the bottom or you're out."

"...It seems that you know the game well," the leader of the pink soldiers said. 

"What can I say?" Susie said. "I have an IQ of 290, which is higher than last time, and I happen to be a huge fan of that series." 

"Well then, we'll get started immediately," the leader of the pink soldiers said. "We'll pick the team right away." 

The screen appeared with the team randomizer appeared and chose the team: Tiff and Susie in the offense, Kirby and Meta Knight on the defense.

"WHAT???!!" Tiff screamed in fury. "ME IN THE TEAM WITH THAT FEMALE DOG??? THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE! I AM SO AGAINST THIS!!"

"I AM NOT TEAMING UP WITH THAT SON OF A BISCUIT!!" Susie screamed in rage. "THIS IS RIDICULOUS!!" 

"Thank goodness we're teamed up," Meta Knight said as he held Kirby's hand lovingly. 

"Poyo!" Kirby exclaimed in excitement. 

Tiff and Susie were so enraged that they did not see Meta Knight and Kirby's lovey-dovey moment. The failed players saw them holding hands, but it only looked like Meta Knight was trying to comfort and give the best advice he could give to Kirby.

Each team was both sent to their private room to get prepared where no one else was able to see. 

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In Tiff and Susie's room, they both crossed their arms and sat down as they looked away from each other. "Listen, we have to call a truce," Susie said. Tiff groaned as she heard the suggestion. "Don't groan at me! Do you think I want to do this with you?? No! It's the only way that we can win!!" 

"You think I groaned because I didn't know that I have to do this with you?" Tiff asked in anger. "I still want to rip your hair out after you grabbed my ponytail earlier, but I'm holding the urge in!" 

"Enough argument," Susie said. "We have to defeat this octopus monster thing!"

"Thank goodness it's not Octagon," Tiff said. 

"So, truce?" Susie asked.

"Truce," Tiff answered as she shook her hand. 

In Meta Knight and Kirby's room, Meta Knight gave advice again to Kirby.

"You understand, right," Meta Knight asked.

"Poyo, poyo!" Kirby excitedly said. 

Meta Knight chuckled lovingly and embraced Kirby. "We got this," Meta Knight said lovingly as he warmly hugged Kirby. 

********

Soon they were in the arena with the squid drawn on the ground. Meta Knight and Kirby stood in the area where the triangle and square were drawn. Tiff and Susie stood where the circle was. 

"You all know the rules now," the leader of the pink soldiers announced. "Ready... get set... shijak!" 

Each team took their stands. Before one of them headed off, Susie whispered something into Tiff's ear, "All right, each takeoff to the different side of the body. I'm gonna pretend to go, and while Kirby and Meta Knight try to stop me, you run straight across while I grab him. I'm sure you can distract Kirby somehow. And then you run pretend to run to the tip, I'll try to run across. When I make it, we'll take it from there."

Tiff nodded and they both ran to the opposite sides. Meta Knight and Kirby both took their stands as they arrived at the center of the body. Susie nodded at Tiff, and Tiff nodded back. Susie screamed before she charged, and just as she thought, Meta Knight stopped her. Tiff somehow managed to distract Kirby and pass, but Meta Knight pushed Tiff away then she got out, and with his strength, he also pushed Susie down on top of Tiff, making her out too. 

"All right, Star Warriors team has won," the leader of the pink soldiers announced. "Please switch sides." 

Meta Knight and Kirby switched sides with Tiff and Susie. Tiff and Susie were now on the body, and Meta Knight and Kirby were on the circle. Meta Knight whispered something in Kirby's ear, "Just go to the bottom of the body, and float to the tip." Kirby nodded. Meta Knight and Kirby both got to the bottom of the body and jumped up high above the ground.

"What the Vietnamese rice noodle soup?" Susie said. 

"Where the heck are they now?" Tiff asked. 

"We're here," Meta Knight said at the tip of the triangle. 

"Poyo, poyo!" Kirby exclaimed as he landed on top of Meta Knight. 

"Truce my butt," Tiff groaned. "You couldn't even be helpful with that 290 IQ brain of yours."

"Say it to my face, you dirty little-" Susie said before Tiff interrupted her. 

"What??? Dirty??!!" Tiff screamed. "You want to get back where we left off?"

"Come on!" Susie screamed. 

They both charged toward each other and started pulling each other's hair and screamed painfully and violently. "KYAAAAHHH!!! KYAAAAHHHH!!!!!" 

Meta Knight and Kirby heard them fighting and screaming even though the door closed behind them.  

"For the final battle," the pink soldier started until he was interrupted by Meta Knight.

"Wait a minute, I thought you said that was the last game," Meta Knight said. 

"That was the last 'game', and this is the final 'battle'," the leader of the pink soldiers said. "You'll be fighting the octopus who keeps the losers of the squid game hostage.

"What did you say??" Meta Knight asked.

Then he heard a different type of scream from Tiff and Susie. "GAAAHHHHH! SOMEBODY SAVE ME!!!!" 

"No weapons brought here will be allowed this time also, good luck," the leader of the pink soldiers said. The door opened, and Meta Knight and Kirby saw Tiff and Susie wrapped in tentacles. 

No weapons brought here will be allowed this time also...

No weapons brought here will be allowed this time also......

No weapons brought here will be allowed this time also.........

These words circulated in Meta Knight's head. "Kirby, call the Robobot Armor," Meta Knight whispered into Kirby's ear. "Tiff! Call the Warp Star!" 

"Poyo!" Kirby said as he clicked the button to call the Robobot Armor. 

"Kabu! Send the Warp Star!" Tiff called. 

"WAAARRRP STAAAARRRR!!" Kabu exclaimed as it opened its mouth and sent the Warp Star. Robobot Armor arrived so that Kirby can hop on it, and Warp Star arrive so that Kirby and Robobot Armor can hop on it. 

"Kirby! Save me first!!" Tiff said. 

"Kirby!! Please!! Save me too!" Susie asked in such audacity. 

However, Kirby would save anyone. There was one time Dedede asked him to save him as he bent down to him and shook his booty (refer to the episode where Dedede got cavities), so he would save Susie too. He may have become smarter, but as he became smarter, he also became even more compassionate. 

Kirby leaped, punched, and slammed the tentacle against the ground, releasing Tiff. Kirby flew with Robobot Armor inside of the Warp Star, and when the tentacles tried to hit Kirby, the protection from the Warp Star stabbed the tentacles, making it painful that it released Susie in pain unintentionally. Kirby saved Susie as he caught her just in time. He placed Susie next to Tiff and finished the octopus off. The strength however was not enough to pick up and throw the octopus far away. 

"Oh... there is nothing Kirby can use!!" Tiff exclaimed. 

"Can it scan fire?" Susie asked.

"Yes, why do you ask?" Tiff asked. 

"I always carry this portable welding lighter," Susie said. She turned it on and said, "Kirby! Scan this!" Normally, Susie would never help out Kirby, but her life was at risk, so she decided to help out Kirby this time. 

"Poyo!" Kirby exclaimed and scanned the fire that Susie activated. Kirby quickly scanned it and transformed itself into Fire Mode Armor. 

"Yeah! It's Fire Mode!" Tuff cheered as he watched the fight among the other eliminated players. 

The octopus reacted to the heat and the tentacle started to be cooked. It screamed in pain as its tentacles turned into a cooked octopus. Kirby then chopped its tentacles, making the head easier and lighter to carry. Kirby then cooked its head to well done so that everyone can eat it. 

"Yeah! Kirby saves the day once again!" Tiff and Tuff cheered. 

"Kirby saved my life too!" Susie and Haltmann cheered. 

"Congratulations," the leader of the pink soldiers said. "You have won the game."

"Who are you??" Meta Knight asked as he took its mask off.

IT WAS WADDLE DEE!!!!

"Waddle Dee? What are you doing here??" Meta Knight asked. Waddle Dee looked around as it was confused. "Could it be..." Meta Knight asked himself as he gathered all the pink soldiers and took their masks off. THEY WERE ALL WADDLE DEES!!

"What is going on here??" Tiff asked. "Why are they all Waddle Dees??" 

"Could it be...?" Susie asked herself. 

"You! What do you have in mind??" Tiff asked.

"Well, I was building the wish-granting machine, and I might have forgotten to turn it off and said that 'I wish I was in a Squid Game but no one dies'. Maybe that wish came true but it used the Waddle Dees for pink soldiers!" Susie said. 

"YOU! YOU PUT OUR LIVES AT RISK!! YOU'RE DEAD!!!" Tiff said. 

"HEY!! I DIDN'T MEAN TO!!!" Susie screamed. "MR. PRESIDENT!!" Susie said as she threw down a ball and it exploded and created a dark fog. She activated her escape pod, took her and Haltmann outside of the island and sent themselves away to their company. 

"Well, at least Kirby still saved the day," Tiff said as she watched Susie and Haltmann fly off.

"Let's go back home," Meta Knight said. 

They all returned home with Waddle Dees who were now normal. 

Kirby giggled as he walked back with his Waddle Dee friends.