"BEHOLD, EVERYONE!" King K. Rool shouted in a vast castle arena, with a whip in his hand, a huge audience of Brotherhood of Evil members, Kremlings, and hypnotized Kongs, and the arrested Kongs on a stage-like platform with him in chains. "THE KONGS WHO FELL OUT OF MY SUBMISSION!"
"I was never IN submission to y'all!" Swanky Kong heckled.
"SILENCE!" King K. Rool roared. He then continued talking to the audience. "Now, let me demonstrate what will happen if any of you who are Kongs step out of line! Bring forth Junior!"
The Kremling guards escorted Junior to a wooden post, where King K. Rool was standing, and they tightly linked his chains to that post. King K. Rool breathed through a sinister smile, then raised his whip and struck Junior on the back. King K. Rool whipped him again and again as he gnashed his teeth and struggled to restrain screaming while the audience cheered. The other hostage Kongs looked upon Junior with great sorrow and concern.
"King K. Rool's torturing Junior first just because he's Donkey Kong's father," Candy Kong whispered to Funky Kong, who happened to be standing right next to her.
"That piece of filth is gonna regret it when Donkey Kong himself finds out," Funky Kong replied.
Kremling guards poked them both with their staffs and silenced them, saying, "No side conversations allowed! Especially about Donkey Kong!"
Dixie Kong who closely witnessed this, struggled to hold back tears as she thought to herself, Oh Donkey Kong, Diddy Kong, Cranky Kong, wherever you guys are, I hope you're all safe, and that you'll find the right heroes to help get us out of this mess and take our island back. I don't want things to go on like this. God help and protect them, and may all of creation be redeemed soon from this horrible distortion.
(At Titans Tower)
Beast Boy and Diddy Kong played a game of ping pong in the common room, with Cranky Kong serving as the referee. Raven meditated in her room. Robin did research on villains in his office to try and figure out who was behind the unfreezing of the Brotherhood of Evil and the conquest of DK Island. Donkey Kong, Starfire, and Cyborg, being the three strongest of the eight at Titans Tower, worked together in the garage to repair the Funky Barrel.
Everything seemed to be going peacefully, until the alarm went off throughout the tower, and everything flashed red. This meant that there was trouble in Jump City. Everyone met in the common room, where the location screen showed multiple red spots.
"Something must have followed us off of DK Island!" Cranky Kong panicked. "I hope it's not more of those stinkin' moths."
"Whatever it is, it can't be good," Robin said. "Alright, we're going to have to split up. Starfire, you're with me, we're going North. Donkey Kong, Diddy Kong, you'll go East. Cyborg, Beast Boy, you'll go South. Raven, Cranky Kong, you'll go West."
"I'm with the purple weirdo who strangely adores old apes?!" Cranky Kong squawked.
"At least you get to impress me with your fighting skills," Raven teased.
"There ain't no time to complain, we've gotta move," Cyborg said.
"He is right," Starfire affirmed.
"Donkey Kong," Robin called to Donkey Kong. He then handed him his coconut gun, which had a shoulder strap added on. "I thought the strap might give you more fighting flexibility."
"Thanks Robin, DK like it," Donkey Kong thanked, strapping the coconut gun over his shoulder and onto his back.
"Titans, Kongs, move!" Robin commanded. Everyone then evacuated Titans Tower; Robin and Starfire to the North of Jump City, Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong to the East, Cyborg and Beast Boy to the South, and Raven and Cranky Kong to the West.
Slade's plan had finally come into motion. All over Jump City, there were rampaging apes that looked much like Donkey Kong (with relatively slight variances in fur color, size, and facial features), but with no neckties, and metal spike collars around their heads, wrists, and ankles. They brought great havoc; attacking people and even using their great strength to vandalize objects such as cars, trucks, buses, mailboxes, windows, walls, fire hydrants, train tracks, and even traffic lights and street lamps.
(In Northern Jump City)
As the evil Kongs rampaged, one Kong had gotten hold of a blonde mother and personally snatched her wailing four-year-old boy right out of her arms. The ape tossed then tossed the mother aside, as she was left to watch in horror at what he would do to her child. He snarled in the boy's face, but before he could do anything else… BOOM! Starfire blasted the gorilla's arm with her laser eye beams, causing him to screech in pain and drop the boy. Starfire swooped in and caught the child right before he could hit the ground and flew him back to his mother.
"Please, make with the haste! Find shelter!" Starfire instructed the mother and child.
BAM! The gorilla snuck up behind Starfire and slammed her into the ground with his fists, prompting the mother to flee with her child.
"HREH!" Robin screamed as he jumped and delivered a front kick to the gorilla's face, knocking him off of Starfire.
Robin helped Starfire back up, and the two of them advanced to attack the rampaging Kongs. Starfire flew around, throwing star bolts, shooting eye blasts, and occasionally using her her own raw superhuman strength in punches, kicks, grabs, and throws. Robin ran around using his bo staff and martial arts skills, and occasionally weapons from his such as birdarangs, smoke pellets, flash bombs, ammunition discs, and grapple.
(In Eastern Jump City)
There were both Kongs in the streets and Kongs climbing up buildings to break into apartment rooms, offices, and such like. One Kong smashed the window of an apartment, emitting screams of a couple who lived there. Before he could go in, Diddy Kong flew through the skies with his barrel jetpack and shot him off the building with his peanut popguns. The young monkey continued to fly around and knock off any climbing Kongs from their buildings.
In the streets down below, Donkey Kong was shooting charging Kongs with his coconut gun, until he felt the presence of one larger Kong charging from behind. Donkey Kong swept him off his feet with a spinning ground kick, sent him flying up in the air with an uppercut punch, and then flipped in the air and smashed him to the ground with his fists. More Kongs charged at Donkey Kong from all sides, but he sent them all flying into the air and slamming to the ground again and again with his powerful Hand Slaps on the ground. Donkey Kong had the upper hand, until one Kong on a nearby building lunged at him and disrupted his Hand Slaps. He pinned Donkey Kong down and threw heavy punches at his face and chest, until Diddy Kong swooped in and knocked him off with a cartwheel kick. As the other Kongs charged in, DK and Diddy fought them side by side, using their guns for further hits and then switching to hand-to-hand for closer hits. Donkey Kong clobbered them with his raw power, and Diddy Kong outsmarted them with his speed, agility, and acrobatics.
(In Southern Jump City)
As Slade's Kongs rampaged in the streets, one of them lifted an old man in his car overhead, causing him to panic. Before the ape could throw the poor helpless senior, Beast Boy charged from behind in the form of a bighorn sheep and rammed him. The gorilla toppled over on his front side and lost grip of the car. Liberated, the old man zipped and swerved his way through the streets to get away from the madness. Beast Boy then transformed into a gorilla, grabbed the other gorilla by his ankles, swung him around and threw him. Cyborg leapt in midair and sent him flying back onto the ground with a powerful punch. As more gorillas charged in from all sides, Cyborg fired sonic cannon blasts at them, and Beast Boy transformed into a mammoth and clobbered them with his tusks and stomping. Eventually, there were less gorillas closer to them, but there were still many of them rampaging in the streets and climbing buildings. Cyborg attacked them with missile launching, sonic cannon blasting, and even his own fists, while Beast Boy mauled them in different animal forms such as the T-Rex, triceratops, brontosaurus, stegosaurus, pteranodon, gigantopithecus, crocodile, elephant, rhinoceros, bull, tiger, and bear.
(In Western Jump City)
One gorilla had torn a couple away from each other, and their dog whimpered and trembled in his hands as he was about to be bitten on the neck.
"YEEHAW!" Cranky Kong shouted, distracting the gorilla as he came in riding on a horse.
As the rogue Kong looked at Cranky Kong, Raven used her dark telekinetic powers on his hands and weakened his grip on the dog. The ape put up heavy resistance, which made things difficult for Raven. As he turned to face Raven and snarled, Cranky Kong turned his cane so that the blunt end faced the back of his head. Once Raven got the cue, she ceased her telekinetic struggle with the gorilla and… BAM! Cranky Kong knocked him to the ground with a jab from the blunt end of his cane, causing the dog to tumble out of his hands. The dog ran back to his owners, and they took him into the nearest building for shelter. One Kong tried to chase them in, but Raven raised up the one that Cranky Kong had knocked down and threw him at his fellow menacing ape.
Meanwhile, Cranky Kong dismounted his horse with a bold backflip and allowed him to gallop off while he engaged more of Slade's Kongs in hand to hand combat. Cranky's opponents were much larger and more powerful, but he was too quick for them as he dodged their heavy blows and attacked them with jumps, kicks, cane strikes, and other martial arts moves. As other rampaging Kongs pursued Raven, she dealt detrimental blows to their numbers with dark magic blasts and telekinetic grabs and throws of both them and street objects at them.
(In Slade's Lair)
With the help of an overweight, unshaven geek known as Control Freak, and the use of his magic remote, Slade watched Donkey Kong, Diddy Kong, Cranky Kong, and the Teen Titans battle against his minions. Even divided into four teams, the eight heroes seemed to have the upper hand and were defeating them in great numbers.
"Come on, you're stronger than them, you've got them outnumbered by far, you are capable of more than this!" Control Freak harangued as he watched Slade's Kongs getting beaten.
"Patience, my lad," Slade soothed.
"Patience, whataya mean patience?!" Control Freak interrogated. "Our forces are losing!"
"As the old saying goes, if at first you don't succeed, try again," Slade answered. "I will admit, the three escaped Kongs and the Teen Titans are stronger together than I thought, even against minions with far more strength than my typical ones. But fear not, I am a strategic thinker. King K. Rool did send some other villains here along with you, right before I released my Kongs. I also recruited someone additional."
Meanwhile, the Kongs and Titans managed to significantly thin the number of Slade's apes, but were unaware of what was to come next.
In Northern Jump City, Robin threw a flash bomb at a couple of remaining rogue Kongs, and Starfire threw star bolts at five of them. Their victory was short lived as Starfire suddenly went down, screaming and trembling in pain and seemingly weakening. Robin looked around to see what was going on and spotted another Tamaranean girl, black-haired and full-body armored, standing behind Starfire with a radiating black jewel in her hand.
"Blackfire!" Robin snapped.
"Oh, hello Robin, I thought I might pay my little sister a visit," Blackfire taunted. "With the Jewel of Enmity."
"Leave Starfire alone!" Robin demanded.
Blackfire just laughed, which infuriated Robin, prompting him to charge and lunge at her for an attack. BAM! Blackfire knocked Robin out cold with a black bolt to the head. She continued laughing as she picked up her weakened sister and flew off into the sky with her.
In Eastern Jump City, Donkey Kong wound up a muscular arm and dealt a Giant Punch to one of Slade's remaining Kongs while Diddy Kong shot his peanut popguns at the heads of three of them. Right after Diddy Kong fired his last shot, he himself was shot and knocked out cold with a tranquilizer. Donkey Kong noticed the holder of the tranquilizer, a blonde-haired teenage girl in a pink prom dress and headband. Behind her was a massive bodybuilder with long brown hair and a goatee, and a black and yellow unitard, astride a giant mutant moth. Filled with rage, Donkey Kong roared at them with heavy chest beating. Before the ape could make any advances on them, a giant spider-headed teenage boy dropped in from behind and paralyzed him with venom, knocking him to the concrete ground.
"Nice work, Kitten," the boy said to the girl.
"Aw, I couldn't have done it without you, Fangy-poo," Kitten flirted. She then turned to the bodybuilder on top of her moth and commanded, "Mammoth! Get Donkey Kong out of here!"
Mammoth hopped off the moth, retrieved Donkey Kong, and flew off with Kitten and Fang moments later, leaving the unconscious Diddy Kong by himself.
In Southern Jump City, Cyborg fired a sonic cannon blast at a row of remaining Kongs while Beast Boy flew in individual one high up into the air in his pteranodon form. Once high up enough, Beast Boy dropped the rogue ape to his death.
Beast Boy then flew back down, transformed back into his normal self, and joked, "As the old adage goes, what goes up must come-"
Beast Boy was cut off, screaming as a group of teenage boys in full body-red uniforms in sunglasses jumped on him from a street alley. They hastily tied him up with barbed wire and covered his mouth with duct tape.
"Hey, let my friend go!" Cyborg shouted, only to be shot with a taser and struggle on the ground as his mechanical parts went into malfunction.
The shooter was a small, bald headed boy wearing green goggles atop his head and a dark green one-piece sweater with attached mechanical gadgets and built-in shoes. The boy walked up beside the flailing Cyborg, bent over and taunted, "Goodbye, CyBooger."
The red boys merged into one, and he said to the smaller boy, in his southern accent, "I got the green one, Gizmo."
Having taken offense to the phrase, "green one," even though it was directed at Beast Boy, Gizmo retorted, "You're lucky it wasn't me, Billy Doofus!"
"Hey, it's Billy NUMEROUS, you over sensitive baby!" Billy chastised.
The argument was stopped by a skinny African-American teenage boy in a green and white uniform, with his trademark being a dark green helmet that had one light green eye. He shot a giant yellow eye bubble from his own eye, to seal Beast Boy, which caught the attention of Billy Numerous and Gizmo.
"What're ya doin', See-More?!" Billy Numerous interrogated.
"Stopping y'all from arguing, and carrying out Slade's orders," See-More replied.
"You know what, he's right," Gizmo affirmed. "We've got Beast Boy, so let's get out of here before Tin Man snaps out of his malfunction."
Cyborg was left struggling as See-More, Gizmo, and Billy Numerous moved Beast Boy away. He vengefully screamed through gritted teeth, in the midst of his struggle, "HIIIIVE FIIIIIIIIVE!"
In Western Jump City, Raven spoke her famous words, "Azarath metrion ZINTHOS," before blasting a crowd of remaining Kongs with her dark magic. Cranky Kong defeated a single one with a cane bounce atop his head, but was promptly seized by a slender, red-eyed Batman like figure of black, purple, and gray colors and dragged into a dark portal.
"Kyd Wykkyd!" Raven gasped. Flying after Kyd Wykkyd, she shouted, "You'll never get away!"
Raven would have entered into the portal, just as it was closing, but - BANG! Raven was knocked out by a black and yellow "H" shield that was thrown at her head. The perpetrator was a muscular teenage boy in a full-body uniform of the same colors and design, none other than Private H.I.V.E. As he went to retrieve his shield, Kyd Wykkyd reappeared and opened a portal for him, and then they both disappeared inside.
Moments later, Diddy Kong was the first to awake from his unconsciousness. He pulled the tranquilizer dart out of himself and muttered, "Ugh, what happened?"
As he fully regained consciousness and memory, he looked around so see his city area cleared, but Donkey Kong missing.
"Donkey Kong?!" Diddy Kong panicked. "Oh no."
Diddy Kong flew around with his barrel jetpack, as the dark clouds loomed over him in the sky, and frantically called out, "Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong, where are you?! DONKEY KONG!"
The young monkey searched and searched, but could not find his friend. Heavy rain began to poor as he landed on top of a building, giving up. Scared, confused, and sad, Diddy Kong curled himself up in a ball and wept.
"Diddy Kong?" a voice spoke.
Diddy Kong uncurled himself and turned his head around to see Robin, Cyborg, and Raven standing behind him.
"ROBIN!" Diddy Kong exclaimed. The little monkey threw himself into Robin's arms and loudly sobbed into his chest.
Cyborg and Raven watched in sympathy for a few moments, until Robin set Diddy Kong back down, knelt before him and wiped the tears from his eyes.
"Robin, you don't understand," Diddy Kong wept.
"I do," Robin assured him.
"Donkey Kong went missing and-" Diddy Kong began.
"So did Cranky Kong," Raven said.
"And Beast Boy," Cyborg added.
"Starfire too," Robin sighed.
"Look, this isn't the first time Donkey Kong was kidnapped, it's happened a few times on our home land, but I don't understand what's going on this time," Diddy Kong lamented.
"It's the Brotherhood of Evil, Diddy Kong, they're the ones doing all this," Raven told him.
Diddy Kong shook his head, sniffled, and said, "I remember what we discussed in Titans Tower, that there's somebody using them as pawns. I've faced evil before, many times, but it was NEVER as scary, heinous and catastrophic as it was today. The vast majority of Kongs on our island were hypnotized and turned against both me AND Donkey Kong, then we ended up being driven out of our own island, with Cranky Kong, and then there were all these feral Kongs in the city, and now…"
The young monkey was unable to finish his sentence as heavy sobbing took over him again.
"Diddy Kong," Robin gently said, lifting the monkey's chin up to face him. He then put his hands on his shoulders and told him, "Listen to me, we are heroes. There are villains in this world, and that's why we're here… to protect and save the innocent. I know how much Donkey Kong means to you. I've seen it even in the games that Cyborg and Beast Boy played. You've rescued Donkey Kong before, you can do it again, and this time, we'll help."
"And you can help us rescue our friends too," Cyborg added.
"Don't forget Cranky Kong," Raven smiled. "Hopefully he'll like me for a change when we rescue him, along with the others."
"Look, Diddy Kong," Robin continued. "I know things are bad, and they may seem more difficult than usual, but listen, things have been like that for us too. Fortunately, no matter how hard it was, we always managed to come out on top. We've done the impossible. I have no doubt that we can do it all again this time."
As Robin once again wiped tears from Diddy Kong's eyes, Cyborg examined the tracking device on his Titans Communicator and said, "Robin, I think we might be starting to get some answers."
"What do you mean?" Robin asked.
"Well, I looked at my tracking device, and it says our friends are in Slade's lair," Cyborg replied.
"Who's Slade?" Diddy Kong inquired.
"A longtime enemy of ours," Raven answered.
"Come on, we can't waste time, Titans move!" Robin commanded. Promptly, he and the others set off for Slade's lair to rescue their missing friends.
Meanwhile, Slade continued watching Robin, Cyborg, Raven, and Diddy Kong from his screen, and said, "I've been waiting a long time for this… Robin."
***Additional Notes***
1. If anyone was confused by Cranky Kong riding into battle on a horse, I was inspired to include that by a clip of Rise of the Planet of the Apes, in which Cesar rode a police horse across the San Francisco Bridge at one point in the apes' battle with the humans. I made up in my own head that Cranky Kong either got the horse from a fallen police officer or a wrecked vehicle that was meant to transport horses (idk what those are called).
2. I completely made up Blackfire's Jewel of Enmity as an inspiration from a couple of jewels she had stolen, the Centauri Moon Diamond in "Sisters" (Episode 2 of Season 1) and the Jewel of Charta in "Betrothed" (Episode 3 of Season 3). She had stolen the Centauri Moon Diamond and given it to Starfire so that the Centauri police would capture her instead, and she stole the Jewel of Charta to make herself the invincible grand ruler of Tamaran. The Jewel of Enmity, which I made up, allows the holder to weaken and subdue those whom he/she hates.
3. Trivia: CyBooger and Tin Man were a couple of derogatory names that Gizmo called Cyborg.
For those who do not know, Diddy Kong rescued Donkey Kong, with the help of his girlfriend Dixie Kong, in Donkey Kong Country 2 and Donkey Kong Land 2, and with the help of Fox McCloud and Falco Lombardi in Super Smash Bros Brawl's Subspace Emissary.
4. Jestalnaker94000 personally helped with some of the ideas in this chapter, so I would like to take the time to publicly acknowledge and give him credit for helping me.