Two primates laid asleep in their treetop home at dawn; one a brown, red neck-tied gorilla, and the other a red capped and tank topped monkey. The two of them lay blissfully dreaming, the gorilla in his bed and the monkey in his hammock, blissfully unaware of the catastrophic reality waiting to snatch them from the hands of their own respective worlds of sweet dreams. CREEK! CREEK! CREEK!
"WAH!" the monkey screamed, springing awake to the noise.
He looked outside his window and saw an eerie orange sky. There was slight rumbling and shaking under the floor, and he knew something was up. But what? Whatever it was he had to warn his friend. The gorilla remained fast asleep, as it was his normal tendency to be a heavy sleeper, even in the midst of chaos. The monkey could not afford to let things stay that way.
Without hesitation, the monkey swiftly moved over to his buddy's bed and shook him, saying, "Donkey Kong, wake up! Wake up!"
BOOM! A huge dark brown gorilla, much bigger than Donkey Kong, came bursting in through the roof, catching the attention of an alarmed Diddy Kong. He wore a white T-shirt, blue vest, black belt with a gold buckle, and a small red baseball cap on backwards. His eyes were glaring with an unusual red glow.
"Chunky Kong?" the monkey asked, nervous and perplexed.
BOOM! Another gorilla, light brown in fur and around Donkey Kong's size, burst in through a wall. He wore a red polka dot bandana on his head, purple tinted sunglasses, white tank top and ripped jeans. He also had eerily red glaring eyes, like Chunky Kong's, that shone through his sunglasses.
"Funky Kong?" the monkey shakily inquired, trembling.
POW! An orangutan kicked the door down with a cartwheel. He was very stocky with long, lanky arms and donned an undersized white T-shirt, large blue overall jeans, and a clown nose. He also bore the same glaring red eyes that Funky Kong and Chunky Kong had.
"Lanky Kong!" the monkey exclaimed in shock and fright.
"This is what I call a house divided against itself," an elderly voice spoke up as its owner showed himself in the doorway. He was an elderly, bald headed human war soldier in a blue and gold uniform. "A tragic thing, isn't it, Diddy Kong?"
"Who-who are you?" the monkey stammered. "A-and how do you know my name?"
"Oh, forgive me, I forgot to introduce myself," the old soldier answered. "I am General Immortus. How do I know who you are? Well, a new friend of mine told me all about you, and Donkey Kong. You see, I was given special orders, and I thought I might borrow some of your friends to help carry it out."
"What?" Diddy Kong questioned.
"Chunky, Funky, Lanky, kill them both!" General Immortus commanded.
The three hypnotized apes slowly approached Diddy Kong, who fearfully backed up against Donkey Kong's bed, as General Immortus smiled sinisterly.
"Please God, please let Donkey Kong wake up!" Diddy Kong whispered desperately. "I can't do this on my own!"
Once all three Kongs got close enough to Diddy Kong, Chunky Kong was the first to reach a hand for him.
"AAAAAAHH!" Diddy Kong shrieked in horror, curling up in a ball.
CLASP! A huge hand clasped onto Chunky Kong's wrist and flipped the hypnotized ape out the window. It was none other than Donkey Kong who committed this act of defense. Donkey Kong had finally woken up, much to Diddy Kong's relief.
"Donkey Kong!" Diddy Kong exclaimed.
Donkey Kong leapt in front of Diddy Kong, roaring and beating his chest in fury, but Funky Kong and Lanky Kong would not back down.
"Why Funky and Lanky evil now?!" Donkey Kong demanded. "What it is?! Why Funky, Lanky, and Chunky attack DK and Diddy?!"
"Donkey Kong, my lad, your friends are my pawns now," General Immortus answered. "I happen to be affiliated with an old enemy of yours, as of recent, and so the Kongs are now under our control. With the exception of a few."
As Donkey Kong continued staring down Funky Kong and Lanky Kong, Chunky Kong climbed back up through the window, snuck up behind Diddy Kong and snatched him up.
"HELP!" Diddy Kong cried out as Chunky Kong turned and departed for the window again.
Before Chunky Kong could escape, Donkey Kong grabbed him by the ankle, dragged him back, punched his elbow, and pulled Diddy Kong out of his weakened grip. Diddy Kong ran off to the sidelines as Donkey Kong continued fighting. Funky Kong lunged at Donkey Kong from behind, but DK whirled around just in time to backhand him out of the air. Lanky Kong darted a long, extended arm toward Donkey Kong, but he took hold of it, swung the orangutan over his head, smashed Funky Kong with him and then swung him to hit Chunky Kong across the face and knock him down before he could grab Diddy Kong again. Donkey Kong then threw Lanky Kong at General Immortus, who side stepped out of the way as the orangutan went flying out the doorway and into the jungle. Chunky Kong raised his fists to smash Donkey Kong, but DK whirled to toward Chunky and punched him in the stomach. Funky Kong then put Donkey Kong in a headlock, but DK pulled on Funky's fingers to weaken his grip and then flipped him into Chunky. Donkey Kong lifted both Chunky Kong and Funky Kong over his head and hurled them both hard out the window. DK turned to face General Immortus with angry expression as Diddy ran up next to him and got in a fighting stance.
General Immortus chuckled and said, "That was merely some good sport on my part. You have fought well, Donkey Kong, but hold… my legions are coming."
Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong were both alarmed as masses of screaming, hooting, and roaring were heard in the distance.
"Donkey Kong, we can't fight them all, we have to get out of here!" Diddy Kong insisted.
"Retreat if you wish, but this is a retreat that will be overridden," General Immortus taunted. "This entire island is turned against you both, and it is only a matter of time before you are both overcome and defeated."
General Immortus laughed evilly as Diddy Kong ran toward a treasure chest in the house. Donkey Kong followed after Diddy Kong as the latter took out his barrel jetpack, peanut popguns, and Donkey Kong's coconut gun.
"We've gotta make the best of what we have until we can get off this island," Diddy Kong explained, putting on his barrel jetpack.
"DK and Diddy leave DK Island?" Donkey Kong questioned.
"What choice do we have, Donkey Kong?!" Diddy Kong retorted, tossing the coconut gun into Donkey Kong's hands as he took up his own peanut popguns. "All of Hell has broken loose on this island! We've got to go! Somewhere! Anywhere! Get help! We can't do this on our own!"
"Indeed you can't," General Immortus scoffed under his breath. He then leapt off the ledge of Donkey Kong's house and then arose on the back of a Zinger. He pointed a finger at the house and gave a command to his legions, "BRING THEM DOWN!"
The ear piercing noise of the hypnotized Kongs intensified as DK's treetop home suddenly began rocking, causing Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong to lose their balance and fall to the floor. As the two Kong residents struggled to keep their balance on their rocking floor, Donkey Kong got an idea from the hole in his wall that Funky Kong had created. He aimed his coconut gun at the back wall and fired a hole into it so that he and Diddy Kong could escape. Seizing upon the opportunity, Diddy flew out of the hole with his jetpack. Donkey Kong merely slid out, but regained enough footing at the ledge so that he could jump into the jungle trees and use the vines and branches to swing and keep up with Diddy Kong.
General Immortus saw DK and Diddy escaping, having ascended up higher on his Zinger, and shouted another command to his legions, "OUR ENEMIES ARE ESCAPING! FORWARD!"
All of the Kong legions scrambled after DK and Diddy like a swarm of angry spiders. Fortunately, Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong were well ahead of the mob… but not for long.
"Where DK and Diddy go?!" Donkey Kong asked Diddy Kong while swinging through the trees.
"I don't know!" Diddy Kong answered. "We've got to get to a safe place first and then think about how we're going to get off the island!"
POW! A small female ape the size of Diddy Kong leapt through midair and knocked him to the ground, much to both his and Donkey Kong's shock. She was of light brown fur and had blonde hair with a long, thick ponytail and bangs, bright green eyes, long eyelashes, spherical cyan earrings, and a pink outfit consisting of a beret, a top tied in a knot above her navel, and cloth bands around her knees. She was another hypnotized Kong with glowing red eyes.
Diddy Kong flipped her off with his hind legs and implored, "Dixie Kong, please! It's me, Diddy Kong, your boyfriend!"
Dixie Kong just growled in response. Two more hypnotized female Kongs then joined her. One of them was her sister, who was much taller with darker fur and blonde hair tied in two large ponytails, blue eyes with thick eyelashes and dark red eye makeup, and an outfit consisting of a striped beanie hat (with mixed colors of green, purple, and pink, a sky blue belly baring spaghetti strap top with a flower on it, sky blue sweat pants and orchid sandals. The other one was a close friend and primary love interest of Donkey Kong. She was taller than Dixie Kong's sister, with a slender and curvy physique, thick blonde hair just below shoulder length, bright blue eyes with lavender eye shadow, thick lips with pink lipstick, a pink bikini top with "Candy" written on the front in white bubble letters, and pink mini-shorts with a belt.
Donkey Kong had landed just in time to aid Diddy Kong, but was shocked to see more of their friends under the hypnotic influence of evil. "Dixie, Tiny and Candy evil too?"
BAM! BAM! Two hands slammed the ground behind Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong, causing earthquake-like ground waves that sent them both flying up into the air. Tiny Kong and Candy Kong leapt in the air and delivered a kick to the chest of each Kong, Tiny to Diddy and Candy to DK. DK and Diddy were send flying in a downward diagonal direction until they tumbled into cages. They got a glimpse at who made the attack behind them. A large light brown toddler gorilla in a light blue onesie.
"Kiddy Kong!" Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong gasped as their cages were slammed shut.
They looked around to see four of Donkey Kong's old ape enemies laughing as they held onto the cages. One of them was a dark brown gorilla with dreadlocks and silver fur on his wrists. Another was a slender ape with dark tan skin, a purple robe with a black belt, and a long white beard and wild ponytail. A third one was a gorilla with light purple fur, a poofy bun atop his head, and yellow-rimmed purple tattoo like marks on his arms. The last one was a massive, obese, greenish brown ape with a sumo bun, a scar across his right eye, and blue green sumo tights. Like Candy, Dixie, Tiny, and Kiddy, all of them were red-eyed.
"Dread Kong, Karate Kong, Ninja Kong, and Sumo Kong evil again?!" Donkey Kong questioned in alarm.
General Immortus came flying into the scene with his legions of hypnotized Kongs following, much to the dismay of both Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong.
"Oh no, we're both done for!" Diddy Kong cried.
As the legions approached, Dread Kong, Karate Kong, Ninja Kong, and Sumo Kong opened the cages back up so that DK and Diddy could be seized and attacked. Before any of them could get close enough to lay a finger on DK or Diddy, a familiar voice disrupted the riot.
"HEY! HA-HA-HOW'S IT GOIN' Y'ALL?!" a jubilant, vernacular voice shouted out.
Everyone turned to see a non-hypnotized Kong high up on a wooden platform in the trees. He looked much like Donkey Kong, but stood upright and wore a black bowler hat, golden plaid vest over a white dress shirt, black slacks, black and white dress shoes, and diamond rings on his fingers. He also held a black and silver staff in his right hand.
"Swanky Kong!" Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong whispered.
As Swanky Kong began telling jokes to captivate the legions' attention, Diddy Kong turned to Donkey Kong and mouthed the words, Donkey Kong, he's distracting them. Now's our chance.
Donkey Kong nodded, and then he and Diddy Kong snuck out of the cages and fled. General Immortus was the first to notice and harangued his legions, "YOU FOOLS! OUR ENEMIES ARE ESCAPING AGAIN! DO SOMETHING!"
"HEY, WHATAYA CALL A HYPNOTIZED KONG WITH HALF A BRAIN?!" Swanky Kong joked, keeping the attention of the legions. "Y'ALL WANNA KNOW?! GIFTED!"
The legions screamed, roared, and hooted in rage as they chased after Swanky Kong.
"NOT HIM, YOU MORONS! DONKEY KONG AND DIDDY KONG!" General Immortus scolded.
Only Dixie Kong, Tiny Kong, Candy Kong, Kiddy Kong, Chunky Kong, Funky Kong, Lanky Kong, Dread Kong, Karate Kong, Ninja Kong, and Sumo Kong complied. The other Kongs kept pursuing Swanky Kong.
"Better than nothing," General Immortus muttered to himself. He then flew with the former group on his Zinger, took out his walkie talkie, and said, "Immortus to the Brotherhood, containing Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong has been a struggle. I need backup. They are heading toward the shore of Kongo Jungle."
Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong fled far enough until they reached Funky's Flights.
"Donkey Kong, look, it's Funky's Flights!" Diddy Kong pointed out.
"DK and Diddy use Funky Barrel?" Donkey Kong asked.
"That's just what I was about to ask," Diddy Kong affirmed. "The keys to the plane might still be in there. Come on!"
Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong ran to the shop, and Donkey Kong broke the door down with a powerful punch. The shop was very dark, but illuminated by the a green light with a brain inside, which happened to be on the head of a black and gray robot with a white skeleton-like face. Accompanying him was a tall and shapely woman with a black bob and a red and black uniform. With angry expression, Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong aimed their guns at the villains.
"Looking for these?" the woman taunted in her Russian accent, holding the keys to the Funky Barrel and shaking them lightly.
"I'm afraid you are too late, Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong," the robot said in his mechanical monotone voice. "When our friend, General Immortus, told us you were heading toward the shore of Kongo Jungle, I made a very wise, educated guess that the two of you would come here for Funky Kong's plane."
"Who are you, and what has General Immortus done to our friends?!" Diddy Kong demanded.
"Immortus did nothing, young monkey," the robot answered. "I, the Brain, was responsible for the hypnotision of your friends and kin members. General Immortus was merely leading them to you and Donkey Kong, as any general would do with his soldiers."
"And I, Madame Rouge, and just here to help out," the woman cheekily added, tossing the keys and catching them in her hand.
"What do Brain and Madame Rouge want with Kongs?!" Donkey Kong interrogated. "What do Brain and Madame Rouge want with DK Island?!"
"You ask too many questions, my good simian," the Brain rebuffed. "Shouldn't you know what villains do. Then again, the word 'donkey' is in your name, which, aside from the name of a long eared horse-like ungulate, means 'stupid.'"
Donkey Kong growled as the Brain continued, "Tell me, Donkey Kong, did you really think that you and your friend could escape this island?"
Before Donkey Kong could answer, someone pulled the fire alarm, distracting Brain and Rouge. The perpetrator, an anthropomorphic pig in glasses (Mr. Chops), shoved himself heavily into the latter, causing her to drop the keys. He then trampled over her and retrieved them as the Brain took out a mechanical missile to shoot him. Diddy Kong beat the Brain to the shot, shooting a peanut at the glass case containing the actual brain organ and causing a malfunction. As Rouge snatched up Mr. Chops, he tossed the keys to Donkey Kong. Madame Rouge extended her free arm and tried to intercept them, but Donkey Kong swatted it out of the way and caught the keys for himself. Madame Rouge tossed Mr. Chops aside, elongated her legs, stepped over Funky Kong's desk, and attempted to deliver a roundhouse kick to Donkey Kong's head, but he ducked. Madame Rouge then delivered a backward roundhouse kick, which Donkey Kong caught and thereby threw her out the doorway at an approaching General Immortus. The soldier was both knocked off his Zinger, and saw it crushed under Madame Rouge's weight. The remnants of General Immortus' legions ran around the three fallen villains and in toward the shop. Thinking fast, Donkey Kong whirled around and blew a hole in the back wall of Funky's Flights with his coconut gun. He and Diddy Kong fled through the hole, but were quickly besieged by their hypnotized friends at Funky Kong's plane.
"WAAAA-YA!" a combatic elderly voice cried as its owner struck Funky Kong in the head with his foot, snapping him out of his hypnotism. The owner of the voice was an old and frail-looking hunchbacked Kong with glasses, a long white beard, purplish tan sweater, and a wooden cane.
"Cranky Kong!" Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong exclaimed.
Cranky Kong got into a martial arts fighting stance, challenging the other hypnotized Kongs. Then, with a series of leaps, cane strikes, punches, and kicks, each Kong was struck to the head and snapped out of hypnotism.
All the formerly hypnotized Kongs moaned and rubbed their heads, and Funky was the first to speak, saying, "Uhhh, what happened?"
"Y'all were hypnotized," Cranky Kong told him. "Last night, Kongs were being captured left and right. You were among them, and apparently sent after my grandson and his friend."
"Some the others are still hypnotized!" Dixie Kong shrieked, pointing at Dread Kong, Karate Kong, Ninja Kong, and Sumo Kong, who remained red-eyed.
"Relax, we were born with these eyes," Dread Kong objected. "Ghastly King was our father. That's where we got these eyes from. It's what we've got, hypnotized or not."
"Ha, well at least I'm no red-eyed freak!" Cranky Kong jeered. "That ape apocalypse hasn't even TOUCHED me yet."
POW! A non-hypnotized gorilla appeared out of nowhere and punched Cranky Kong. This gorilla however, was genuinely evil. He was black furred and wore a grayish tan piano-like strap over his shoulder.
"It has now, no pun intended," the gorilla taunted in his faux French accent.
"Good work, Monsieur Mallah," Madame Rouge complimented as she stepped into the scene.
"Donkey Kong, Diddy Kong, take my plane and get outta here!" Funky Kong told DK and Diddy. "Go get help! We'll hold these guys off!"
Funky and the others, except for Cranky, began fighting Rouge and Mallah as DK and Diddy opened the plane.
"Hey, wait for me, I'm not getting left behind in this nightmare of an island!" Cranky Kong barked, running to join Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong.
DK, Diddy, and Cranky all hastily boarded the plane, closed it, and took off, much to the dismay of a fighting Madame Rouge and Monsieur Mallah, and a watching General Immortus (who had finished repairing the Brain).
General Immortus took out his walkie talkie and said, "Immortus to King K. Rool, Donkey Kong has escaped with Diddy Kong and Cranky Kong."
"WHAT?!" King K. Rool, an obese crocodile in a crown and red cape, roared from the throne in his headquarters as he slammed a fist in frustration. "HOW COULD YOU LET THEM ESCAPE!"
"I did the best I could, apparently it wasn't enough," General Immortus explained.
"No excuses!" King K. Rool rebuffed.
"But Your Majesty, we've already captured Donkey Kong's father, can't we do away with him first?!" General Immortus asked.
"No!" King K. Rool answered. "I told you, I want all three Donkey Kongs to die in a 3, 2, 1 order. First III, then Jr., and then Sr. I want III to die first cause he's my current enemy and I hate him the most! Fortunately, you have time to redeem yourself for this, because I will not prioritize killing anyone else until Donkey Kong III is dead."
"Thank you, Your Majesty," General Immortus sighed in relief. "Although, some of the Kongs; Chunky Kong, Funky Kong, Lanky Kong, Dixie Kong, Tiny Kong, Candy Kong, Kiddy Kong, Dread Kong, Karate Kong, Ninja Kong, and Sumo Kong; have been snapped out of their hypnosis and are attacking Rouge and Mallah as we speak."
"Fear not, I will send some reinforcements for them momentarily," King K. Rool told him. "First, I am going to send some of our minions after Donkey Kong, Diddy Kong, and Cranky Kong."
After King K. Rool hung up his walkie talkie, he gave an order to a super villain in a black, white, and gray moth suit, "Killer Moth, release the mutant moths!"
With the press of a red button on a gray switch, Killer Moth released legions of mutant moths from their glass cases.
Killer Moth then commanded them, "Come, my pets! We have work to do!"
Upon his command, the vast swarms of mutant moths followed Killer Moth out of King K. Rool's castle and for the Funky Barrel, as King K. Rool himself laughed evilly.
***Additional Notes***
1. Zinger is a bee-like enemy in the Donkey Kong games. It was also going to be one of the mounts in a cancelled Nintendo GameCube game, Donkey Kong Racing.
2. I gave Swanky Kong a vernacular accent because I imagined his voice actor being Steve Harvey. I also imagined voice actors for the other Kongs such as Bill Fagerbakke for Donkey Kong, Tara Strong for Diddy Kong, Gilbert Gottfried for Cranky Kong, and more.
3. I made up the theory that Ghastly King is the father of Dread Kong, Karate Kong, Ninja Kong, and Sumo Kong since they were all main ape villains in Donkey Kong Jungle Beat for Nintendo GameCube and Wii. I also did this to explain why the latter four Kongs still had red eyes after they were defeated and joined Donkey Kong's side in the end (shown in the endgame ceremony), and even after Cranky Kong snapped them out of the Brain's hypnosis in this story.
4. The Brain, Monsieur Mallah, Madame Rouge, and General Immortus are the original core four members of the Brotherhood of Evil in Teen Titans. In late Season 5 of the original Teen Titans Cartoon Network show, the Brotherhood of Evil took in many other villains from all seasons of Teen Titans, including Killer Moth (who was featured at the end of this chapter) in a scheme to eliminate young superheroes around the world.