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Black… I can only see black all around, am I dead? If so, I feel pretty alive right now.
Oh wait-, my eyes are just closed.
I should probably open them.
So, I open my eyes and I see.. a brick wall?
Wait what?!
I swivel my head around and suddenly notice that I'm in an alleyway of some sort and the worst part is that I look down and find myself sitting in a garbage bin.
“EW”, I shouted as I immediately jumped out of that disgusting thing.
“Where am I?” I asked to none in particular.
I couldn't have fallen asleep here, I would never associate with that garbage bin anytime in my life, well, except now.. “But that wasn't of my own will! I could've been kidnapped or this could be a prank from that idiot Marx or someone else!”.I secretly hoped that was the case. ‘Anyway, maybe I could try and remember the last thing I was doing to see how I ended up here?’.I'm trying to remember but it's a little fuzzy. Hmmm…, I think I remember now!
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I'm working in my lab that I built on Popstar. A lot of clutter is surrounding the area but it's only a minor inconvenience as I'm building the latest and greatest thing! I'm working on a new machine that could make my life a whole lot more interesting! I was thinking the other day, Popstar has all these nice people like Kirby willing to help me and give me resources to fund my experiments but I was thinking, if I'm thinking of really restarting the family business I should probably scope out other planets, a.k.a, potential customers, if you get what i'm saying. I say it's all for the business but a part of me also kinda just wants to explore the world a bit and have a little adventure in my life and not just sit on postar working my days away. I look down at my new contraption that I'm building, and continue working…
A few hours later…
I've done it, I've completed my new machine! If you're wondering what the new machine that I've built is, I'll gladly tell you! This beauty is the Planet Hopper 3001! I know, I know. You're wondering why it has a ‘1’ at the end instead of just being a neat and clean 3000 but I was feeling like spicing up things y'know? Anyways back on topic, i've built this machine so hopping to those planets for business will be lickety split instead of having to use a ship and pay for fuel, gotta save those expenses for potential later uses, of course, of course(or I could just ask Magolor for a favour and ride his ship but that'll take too much time to convince him and he is verrry stubborn), so anyways I should probably get to it. Business and adventure awaits!
I set the machine down in an open field in Whispy’s forest (mind you, far away from Whispy otherwise I would never hear the end of it) and carefully open it up to prepare for takeoff. I just gotta stand in the middle and all will be good. Now where should I head first? I should probably start with very out of touch friends of friends of friends and so forth, they always seem the most gullible. I rub my chin in thought. Yeah! Maybe I'll just go visit that Taranza guy first in Floralia and see what I can do from there. I pat my machine and flick the on switch,
“Okey dokey! First stop, Floralia!”.
Wait, should I test it first… nahh, it'll be fine my machines are always perfect. Then suddenly I was engulfed in a bright light and then black.
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‘That's how I got here then! All because I didn't do a trial test of my machine?!” I shouted to myself in my head. Slowly developing a headache over the absurdity of the situation, I figured that it probably would be better to calm down and figure out where I am, because I am pretty, triple times over sure that last time I checked, Floralia doesn't have dusty alleyways with brick walls and trash cans. I then realised something. Im so stupid. I've been standing here like an idiot thinking about all this when I should be examining this.. place I've ended up in. It's not like an alley is a prison cell and you can't get out of it.
I notice that it's bright out and if this place has some sort of buildings, indicated by the bricks, and civilization plus its daytime, that most likely means people, or natives if this place is less developed than some of the more developed planets like Popstar and basically all the other ones that are known. Well got nothing better to do here than see what ‘here’ has to offer. I slowly walk towards the opening in the alley, blinded by the sun, I duck down and peek around the corner of the alley…