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Last time, King Dedede was having nightmares about a monster that looked a lot like Kirby. Tiff went to the castle with Mabel the fortune teller to find some clues, but what they found was a giant telescope. When they looked through it, they saw something suspicious way off in the distance. Dedede ordered a monster named Fridgy to battle Kirby, then Mabel told Dedede that there was an asteroid headed straight for Dream Land. King Dedede didn't seem to care much, but Kirby sure was interested!
— Narrator • Prediction Predicament - Part II

Gerath, is a large, glowing, red asteroid that appeared in Kirby: Right Back at Ya! in the two-part episode Prediction Predicament.


Physical Appearance[]

Gerath is a perfectly round red sphere with a glowing red aura of heat. Its surface looks strikingly like molten lava, and it has a gravity field around itself that produces incredibly strong winds and can throw anything that gets near it around unless something is thrown or shot at it with a force too strong for it to do so to.

History[]

Gerath was first spotted by Tiff and Mabel when they were using a telescope within King Dedede's observatory on one of the towers of his castle. According to Mabel, Gerath was King Dedede's secret conscience, and the monster had been haunting him in his dreams (which Dedede thought was Kirby trying to burn him up at first) because he was denying everyone's request for him to build a playground for the kids in Cappy Town to play in. At this time, Gerath was on course to crash into Dream Land in at least a thousand years. However, Nightmare and N.M.E. Sales Guy were impatient and decided to speed up its course, giving it 48 hours to crash into Dream Land.

Kabu warned the Cappies that earthquakes would occur and volcanoes would erupt as Gerath neared Pop Star. The Cappies gave up hope upon learning this, but Tiff was not willing to give up any hope, and with help from Tuff, Fololo & Falala, Meta Knight, Sword Knight and Blade Knight, went to work preparing cannons to fire at the asteroid. Unfortunately, however, the cannonballs could not go anywhere near its surface and were thrown around by its gravity field. Just as all hope seemed lost, the group saw Kirby and Dedede being flung around by the strong winds caused by Gerath, and Tiff summoned for the Warp Star, which Kirby got on as he flew at the asteroid. Sucking up the cannonballs and spitting them back out at it, Kirby was able to stop Gerath from striking the planet and change its course, and Gerath flew back out of Pop Star's reach, much to everyone's relief.

Related Quotes[]

That is what is known as an asteroid, and it is on its way to this planet. It might crash into Dream Land and destroy your whole kingdom. That is what you have been dreaming about!
— Mabel • Prediction Predicament - Part I
N.M.E. Sales Guy: Thousand years away, hmm? I don't know about our little friends, but I for one am feeling kind of impatient. What do you say we speed up the process just a little bit?
Nightmare: What a wonderful idea. *laughs evilly*
— Nightmare and the N.M.E. Sales Guy • Prediction Predicament - Part I
You see what I mean? That quack Mabel was right after all. It's gettin' closer and closer by the minute. What should we do, Sire? That freaky fireball's headed straight for Dream Land!
— Escargoon • Prediction Predicament - Part II
I have seen the burning star you speak of. Its approach brings much destruction. I see wind storms and earthquakes. Fire and darkness.
— Kabu • Prediction Predicament - Part II
If I can figure out exactly how fast it's going and where it's coming from, we can fire at it and throw it off course.
— Tiff • Prediction Predicament - Part II

Trivia[]

  • Gerath's name and appearance as a glowing red sphere is a direct reference to the 1962 Toho science fiction film Gorath, which is about a runaway star on a collision course with Earth and the successful effort to move the planet away from its path.
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