Dragoon

The Dragoon is an Air Ride machine from the game Kirby Air Ride that will appear as an item in SSBB. Throughout brawls, fragments of the Dragoon will appear as items and if the player grabs them an icon of the fragment will appear above the player's icon. Opponents can grab these fragments too so the player can smash them until they fumble the fragment similar to how beating opponents make their items disappear in SSBM. KOing an opponent will also make them drop their fragments. If the player collects all three fragment they will combine to form the flying Dragoon machine rippling with red energy and the stage will darken as it does when a Smash ball is obtained. The player will then hop on and red cross hairs controlled by the pilot will appear over the battlefield. As the other opponents scramble to dodge the target the ship will eventually fly forward through the stage and KO anyone it touches while leaving blue streaks behind it.

In the original game Kirby and friends would collect power-ups for their vehicles from various boxes. Rarely a box would contain a fragment of one of two incredibly powerful Air Ride machines, Dragoon and Hydra. If all three fragments of the machine were collected the ship would assemble and Kirby would fly on it as opposed to hovering or driving with all other machines.