Hack: Yo! Been out for a week, so I haven't updated recently… But I've got tons of exciting parts thought up of! But those will have to wait for a while… This chapter and maybe the next will steer away from the battles against Cackletta to Fox's adventures on DK Isle! Enjoy!

…Actually I kinda went lazy in this chapter, not able to describe everything, so it might be dull… I just wanted to get this over with to get the plot moving on.


Chapter 9: The Lizard and the Zinger

"You ready, Fox?"

"Yeah, I'm ready anytime. Are you sure that you can aim this barrel cannon thing at the top of the fortress, Diddy?"

"Don't worry, I'm a pro at this stuff. You saw me shoot DK up to the top, no reason why you shouldn't reach it either. I didn't change the angle, so you should land right on target."

"Ok, I trust you. Shoot me out already so I can help out DK."

In all honesty, Fox didn't completely trust Diddy. He was never blasted out from a wooden barrel cannon before, so it makes sense that he was quite nervous about this.

Well he got DK up to the top, so I might as well trust him…

"Ready?" Diddy Kong asked.

"I'm ready."

"I'll be up there right after you get there. Don't worry," he winked as he lit the fuse to the barrel cannon.

Fox was laid in the cannon, pointed at the mouth of King K. Rool's fortress. The fuse on the rope finally reached the cannon, and Fox was shot at the fortress at frightening speeds.

"Why do I think that I've done something wrong..." said Diddy as he observed Fox flying. "Shit! I had to aim the cannon lower because Fox is lighter!"


"I guess it was ok to trust him. Looks like I'm headed for the right place," Fox said to himself with a smile. As he flew closer, he saw the doorway that leads into the fortress from the top, right between the jaws of the fortress.

He also noticed that he was about to hit the top jaw headfirst!

"SHIT!" he cried as he braced himself for impact, crossing his arms in front of him. He painfully collided with the top jaw, falling directly in front of the doorway. There was a loud clang as Fox sat up on his butt, groaning.

"Ow… my head…" he groaned. "I'm going to get that little chimp…" He held his head in pain as he stood up to face the doorway. However, there were two blue Kremlings, armed simply with their fists, blocking the way. Both had spikes on their head, and muscles from their chest bulged. The muscles bulging from their arms clearly showed that they can destroy much more than glass.

"Who izz zis fox?" one of them asked the other.

"I think he cuzed the bang on ze zip," the other replied.

Fox cocked his head to the side. "Was it really that loud?"

"Yez, it wuz. Everyone in it heard it. We zut it wuz that ape, becuz we heard he infiltrated ze zip."

"I dun't think you cuzed the noiz zoh. You can come in, zir," one beckoned.

"Um… ok," said Fox, raising his eyebrows.

"K. Rool will be very happy to have a nize visitor here. Come in!" Both of the Kremlings stood at opposite ends of the doorway. Both opened the double doors, smiling and allowing Fox to come in.

"Thanks," said Fox as he walked by. The moment he walked through the door, the two Kremlings shut the doors, locked them, then quickly jumped towards Fox, holding their jaw-breaking fists at him.

Fox quickly drew his staff and blocked both Kremlings' punches, each on each end. He quickly twirled it once, flipping both Kremlings onto their backs. Fox swiftly sheathed his staff and held two blasters, one in each hand. He twirled them once and crouched, aiming each at each Kremling's head.

"Sorry, but I'm not stupid enough to fall for your tricks," he said, charging his blasters. "I want the both of you to lead me to your boss's room. No more tricks. Tell everyone that we see not to attack. If you don't cooperate at all…"

He shot one of his charged blaster shots at the wall, melting a large portion of it into nothing in a matter of seconds. The two Kremlings stared at the melted portion in shock and fear.

"That will happen to your heads. You understand?"

The two Kremlings weakly nodded.

"Excellent. Both of you go in front of me." Fox kicked the Kremlings up and forced them to stand in front of him, with his charged blasters aimed at their heads.

For the first time, Fox carefully observed his surroundings. Everything was black around him, save for the windows that allowed light to shine through. He was standing in a simple hall that constantly turned left, with nothing but windows. It seemed to spiral downwards to the bottom of the fortress.

"Juz… Just follow zis hall… Can you let us go now?" one of the Kremlings asked, choking back tears.

"No. I told you, lead me to your boss's room."

The group of three slowly walked down the spiraling hallway. Eventually, they reached a large, bright circular room with many Kremlings hanging out. There were a large variety: some wielded swords, some hid in barrels, some bulged with muscles, some had enormous teeth, and so on. The moment Fox walked in the room with his two hostages, the entire room seemed to focus on him. It quickly quieted down. Fox felt millions of pairs of eyes staring at him.

"What is the meaning of this?"

"Who iz zat fox?"

Fox nudged his blasters into his hostages' heads on cue.

"Er… Don't attack!"

"He got uz good! Don't attack or elz we will die!"

The entire room quickly turned silent again. Fox pushed the two Kremlings forward, slowly walking through the room.

"Which way is it?" he hissed into their ears. The hostage Kremlings shivered as they felt Fox's hot threatening breath shoot down their neck.

"Z…. Zat way…" one of the hostages pointed at another door.

"Thanks. Any more directions?"

"Zat's it… Just follow ze hall."

"Thanks. Now if you will excuse me…" Fox turned his back to the door that the Kremling pointed at. He quickly held one of his hostages in front of him, and the other behind him, using them as shields. He slowly walked backwards towards the door.

"Remember, if they attack, you…"

"WOO HOO!" someone screamed. An enormous rhino barged through the wall, plowing its horn on its head through many Kremlings, sending them flying upwards. Donkey Kong sat on the rhino's back, smiling.

Immediately, Diddy Kong appeared above DK, flying with a barrel jetpack. He held a pair of peanut guns, sniping at farther Kremlings with them.

"What the hell are you guys doing?" Fox yelled, dropping his hostages to avoid a blow to the head.

"We thought you needed help, so we came in!"

"I had everything taken care of, dude! You're so stupid!"

"Shut up, Fox! DK! We have things to take care of!" Diddy yelled.

"Ah… right. Let's go Rambi!" DK cried, giving a shove on the rhino's neck. Rambi quickly crouched, and then he charged through an enormous group of Kremlings with his enormous horn, knocking them all out. Diddy Kong continuously hovered above the group of Kremlings, shooting peanuts at nearby Kremlings, knocking them out.

They probably got everything under control here… Might as well move on by myself. Fox quickly took out a couple Kremlings in his way with his staff and dashed through the doorway that should lead to King K. Rool's room.

DK lifted one of his arms up, carrying another barrel that said TNT. All of the Kremlings gasped in fear as all of them grouped together and backed off to a wall.

"Who wants me to throw this?" he asked with a wide smile.

"DK! Are you sure you want to threaten them with that?" Diddy asked.

"Of course I do, it's the smartest thing!"

Ironically, a Kremling hiding inside a wooden barrel tossed a small bomb at DK. It hit his TNT barrel, causing him to lose his grip and drop the TNT.

"Oh shit…" everyone in the room murmured the moment before the TNT touched the ground.


"What the hell?" was the only thing Fox could say the moment he reached the room at the end of the hall. It was a cylindrical room, with the ceiling what seemed to be 10 miles above the ground.

Rather than seeing King K. Rool, an enormous Kremling, he saw an enormous zinger, or simply put a freakishly large yellow-striped bee with two eyes. Rather than having only one stinger at its end, it had several over its body.

"Who the hell are you?" Fox asked. The zinger said nothing as it quickly charged towards Fox. Fox turned around to open the door he entered through, just to find it locked.

"Oh great, this is wonderful…" he sarcastically said to himself. "And I'm fighting a mutant mute bee…"

He quickly rolled to the side to avoid the tackle as he drew his staff and blaster, one in each hand.

"Well, if you want to play with me, then let's play!"

The zinger turned around and charged at Fox again. Fox jumped over the charging bee, shooting a charged blaster shot at the top of it. The zinger flinched as it turned around, blinking. It charged again, and Fox pulled off the same maneuver, this time on the head.

"Is that all you've got?" he teased, waving his blaster. The zinger suddenly turned red, having red stripes on itself. The stingers scattered on its body were blown off, flying with their points towards Fox!

Fox did the smartest thing he could do at this moment. He crouched and turned on his reflector, protecting him from all of the flying stingers. All of the stingers flew back at the zinger, but none of them seemed to affect him.

Although Fox's reflector was a powerful and stategic weapon, it was not perfect. After what seemed like an hour of reflecting stingers, Fox's reflector suddenly gave away from several minutes of reflecting.

"SHIT!" He cried, bracing himself for intense pain. The thin stingers impaled him on every inch of the front side of his body. He screamed in pain, as if a million killer bees were stabbing him all over his body. After a few seconds, the stingers gave away. Fox staggered, blood dripping all over the ground and pointy needle-like stingers stuck on his body.

"That was… damn uncalled for…" he could only grunt as he stood up again. The red zinger seemed to rejoice in inflicting pain on Fox, as it danced around in the air for a few seconds. It quickly increased its altitude by what seemed like miles, now looking like a minute fly near the ceiling.

"What now?" Fox groaned.

It charged at Fox. Again. This time, however, it was charging MUCH faster than before; it had increased its speed tenfold. Fox instinctively rolled to the side to avoid the charge as the bee flew back up to the ceiling again.

"Fine, be that way…" He drew a rifle and peeked through its crosshairs. In a few seconds, moments before the zinger charged again, a red beam of energy shot through the air, piercing through the zinger.

Fox had just sniped the zinger with the sniper rifle.

The zinger's altitude slowly fell as it danced around in pain, losing control of its flight. Fox's sniper rifle had clipped one of its wings.

Fox shot another blast of energy through the sniper rifle, accurately sniping the zipper's other wings. The zipper, now without wings, fell to the ground, unable to move at all.

Fox took his chance. He painfully flipped into the air with his staff and landed on the stinger-less bee, his staff stabbing through the center of the bee's body. The large zinger let out a loud buzz before it closed its eye, finally dead.

"Finally… Teaches you a lesson…" he said. "Those morons lead me in the wrong direction, damn it! If I find those assholes again, I swear I will…"

He made a violent gesture with his hands, one so violent that would instantly lead this story into rated R.

He looked to the other side and saw another door that he had never noticed in his fight against the zinger. "Well, well! Maybe they did lead me in the right direction… Wonder what's behind this door…"

He opened the door and walked in a room with a large throne, and a large control panel in front of it. When he saw what was in front of the throne, however, he was only able to say one thing.

"What the fuck…"


"What zee fook! Zis iz a dud! That TNT was a stupid dud!" one of the Kremlings screamed.

Diddy Kong looked up at DK. "Did you do that on purpose?"

"Of course I did, you doofus! What kind of idiot would bring a real TNT? You know how powerful a normal TNT is! Geez…"

"Look who's talking..." muttered Diddy.

"You tricked uz…" the Kremlings growled.

"Um… so what if I did?" DK asked.

Suddenly, Fox ran into the room from where he entered hours ago with a terrified face. Everyone looked at him as if he was crazy. He was breathing heavily, sweat rolling down his face out of fear. All of his weapons were sheathed and he glanced at DK and Diddy.

"Everyone, get the hell out of this place if you want to live!"

"What the heck are you talking about?" asked DK.

"IT'S GONNA DAMN BLOW!" Fox screamed at DK.

These four words were enough to trigger one extra word: chaos. All of the Kremlings screamed, running around and trying to get through the door that led upward to the exit. All they wanted was to get out for their lives.

DK, Diddy Kong, and Fox followed the Kremlings when one of them shut the door in front of them, locking it.

"Oh great! Now what do we do?" Diddy cried.

"What happened, dude! What happened to King K. Rool?" DK asked.

"He's dead, and there's a huge time bomb planted next to him. THIS PLACE IS GONNA BLOW AND YOU'RE ASKING QUESTIONS AT A TIME LIKE THIS? WHAT THE HELL! WE'RE FUCKING LOCKED IN FOR GOODNESS SAKE!" Fox screamed.

"Chill! We came in through a different entrance. Just follow us!" Diddy calmly replied. DK nodded and grabbed Fox's light body as both apes ran towards a different door.

To make things simple, all three got out safely from underwater through an alternate passage. The Kremlings weren't close to being as lucky.

"WHAT'S THE HOLD UP?"

"I CAN'T OPEN THIS DOOR, SOMEONE CLOSED IT! AND IT'S THE ENTRANCE DOOR!"

"FIND A WAY TO OPEN IT! OPEN IT, DAMN IT!"

BOOM

The fortress exploded, sending debris and dead bodies everywhere over the ocean. Fox, DK, and Diddy barely swam out of the explosion. Must suck to be one of those Kremlings…

The three sat on one of the islands, panting.

"That was… tiring… and stupid… Who killed him?" DK asked.

"I have no…" But Fox stopped his answer. He looked up to see a humongous black warship surrounded by countless smaller warships, where each of those was surrounded by even smaller warships. All of the ships were flying away, but some still lingered above DK Isle.

"Sorry, guys, I have to leave you here. I'm going to go in those ships," said Fox. "See ya!"

This was so sudden, that DK and Diddy couldn't say anything as Fox elegantly leaped up ledge to ledge and eventually to the top of the DK Isle, close enough to reach one of the ships. He jumped up high on top of one of the ships, and looked at the largest warship. The back of it said "HALBERD", but what was most noticeable was a blue-haired man climbing up a rope into the Halberd, and it seemed that he just escaped from King K. Rool's fortress…