Halberd (SSS)

:This article is strictly about how the Halberd appears in Super Smash Stadium. For information about it in general, see its article on the Kirby Wiki.
The Halberd is an active stage on Super Smash Stadium. Debuting on the Season 28 premiere, it's Metaknight's personal battleship and was the 88th stage to debut overall.
==Stage overview==
The stage starts out in a hangar, which is completely flat and has walk-off side kill zones, but it's only there for 15 seconds before the Halberd launches. While the Halberd is in the air, you do battle on a not-quite-Battlefield clone that consists of one long platform and a shorter soft platform on top; the long platform slopes a little underneath the short one.
Eventually, this platform parks itself at the back of the ship, on the main deck. While on the deck, you must deal with the Combo Cannon, which fires a cannonball that moves slowly, but deals quite a bit of damage and knockback to anyone caught in its explosion. You must also contend with a laser that spends five seconds aiming before it fires; should you get caught in the blast, you take moderate damage and knockback. Finally, there's a claw that will try to pick fighters off; it, too, does moderate damage and knockback. After about a minute, the Halberd takes off again and the cycle repeats.
==Changes==
Prior to May 30, 2003, this stage was a blatant clone of Battlefield that did nothing but float around while the ship flew in the distance. This form of the stage kinda-sorta came back in Season 47 as part of the changes made to the Metal Smash, and is how the "Battlefield form" looks in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
==In its own universe==
The Halberd is Metaknight's ship. Its debut appearance was in one of the minigames featured in Kirby Superstar/Ultra, aptly named "Revenge of Metaknight". It also featured heavily in the "Subspace Emissary" minigame featured in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, where five Mr. Game and Watches hijacked it to assist the Subspace Army.