Ridley screeched something awful and shoved his long pointy nose in the banana cream pie.
"Hey! That's mine!" cried DK. He lunged over and slammed the space pirate in the face with his simian soles.
Ridley was badly hurt and began to cry great big tears.
"Serves you right, you big palooka!" DK snorted as he crossed his arms in satisfaction. He then sat down in Ridley's seat and swallowed the entire pie in one bite.
Dr. Mario ran up to the giant fallen dragon and placed his stethoscope on his chest. "Mama mia! Ridley is deprived of bananas! He needs them to survive!"
DK gasped. He had no idea that Ridley had a problem with potassium deficiency.
Dr. Mario called the ambulance and they picked up Ridley and brought him to the hospital.
Word went around quickly in Smashville. Pretty soon everyone was buying get-well-soon presents for Ridley and giving DK angry glares.
"What have I done?" DK said to Diddy.
"Well, for one thing, you've gotten poor young Ridley in quite the critical condition, old chap," replied Diddy with a snarl.
"I didn't mean to hurt the guy. I just assumed all the bananas in the known and unknown universe were mine and mine alone!"
Several weeks passed. Ridley was not getting any better. As it turns out, the banana cream pie DK had eaten used the last banana in existence until the annual banana harvest in the fall. Ridley was foraging for his yearly hibernation, but DK had just ruined everything.
DK sat on the edge of his hammock and wept bitter tears. Diddy had lost all respect for his Big Buddie and left to join forces with the Kremlings.
"I have to make things right. But… how do I do that?" DK sat pensively for hours upon hours. All of a sudden, a lightning bolt tore through his window and a golden banana lay at his feet.
DK jumped down and retrieved the delicious treat and thought about how he could now rescue Ridley with it. However, he was also quite hungry since he hadn't eaten a banana in ages.
Then DK got a brilliant idea. "I'll just split this puppy in half! One for me and one for my boy Ridz." The great ape quickly plodded to Dr. Mario's hospital.
But it was too late.
Moments before DK had made it to Ridley's room, it was reported that Ridley had passed away due to an infected toenail which was directly related to his increased lack of potassium.
DK wept and looked down at his golden banana. "Half a banana does not save lives…" he whispered to himself. He then raised his eyes to the skies in sudden realisation. "But perhaps a single banana can save half a nation…"
Later that night, DK melted down his golden banana and molded it into a metallic glove. He slipped it on his left hand. It felt so natural and it matched his tie perfectly.
"Now there's one last step I need to take in order to rid this world of chaos…" DK said under his breath as he plowed through the jungle to his next destination.