"So we've lost more of our villains, and now our enemies are united?!" King K. Rool roared pacing around in his throne room with Slade, the Brain, Monsieur Mallah, Madame Rouge, and General Immortus present.

"We musn't give up, Your Majesty, this is not over yet," the Brain soothed.

"I'd hate to admit it, but at this point, anything could happen," Slade said. "Therefore, we must be prepared."

"Preparing for battle would be our only option, but how shall we win?" Monsieur Mallah questioned.

"And surrender would surely be a humiliating disgrace, no?" Madame Rouge added.

"Lest we forget that it was I who oversaw the injection of our hypnotized Kongs with titan serum, I left a minority of them left without injection," General Immortus shared. "I did that on purpose. That way, if our previous attempt to destroy our enemies failed, which it has, we could use the minority of Kongs left… unhypnotized… to our advantage… as a means to bring Donkey Kong and the others to their knees."

"Hmmm, sounds quite interesting, I must say," King K. Rool remarked. He chuckled sinisterly and then asked, "What specifically do you have in mind, General?"

Before General Immortus could answer, two Kremlings in army attire, one a muscular blue croc and the other a purplish fat one, entered into the throne room, shouting, "Your Majesty!"

"Krusha, Klump, this is not the time, I am in-" King K. Rool began.

"But Your Majesty, it's important!" Krusha interrupted.

"King Bowser's airships are flying toward our castle as we speak!" Klump reported.

"WHAT?! BOWSER?!" King K. Rool exclaimed in shock. "What is that turtle dragon scum doing in my kingdom?! I am going out to investigate!"

King K. Rool departed for the entrance to his castle, and Krusha, Klump, Slade, the Brain, Monsieur Mallah, Madame Rouge, and General Immortus all followed. Once outside the castle, they all saw just what Krusha and Klump had reported. King Bowser's airships floating in the air, right before King K. Rool's castle. Aboard the ship were Bowser's hordes of minions, and the spiky turtle dragon Bowser himself with a beautiful blonde princess of pink attire in his hand, none other than Princess Peach.

"HWAH!" Bowser loudly grunted as he jumped off of his ship with Peach. BOOM! He landed so hard that King K. Rool and his comrades nearly fell off their feet.

"Bowser, what the devil are you doing here?!" King K. Rool demanded. "Surely you know-"

"About this whole plot to destroy the Kongs and the Teen Titans? Yes," Bowser interrupted. "The news spread like wildfire. The Justice League got both Mario AND Green Stache involved in helping those sorry circus freaks, so I seized upon the opportunity to do what I always do best."

"And quite frankly, I find it odd that you would bring a vast fleet of your minions here to tell me all about it," King K. Rool remarked. "What do you want, an award of recognition?"

"No, I'm here to join forces with you," Bowser answered.

"What, me, why would you want to join forces with an enemy?" King K. Rool questioned.

"Despite its many failures, this plot of yours does have potential, and I want in," Bowser explained. "Ya know, perhaps you could use some help from a more powerful villain."

"Shut up!" King K. Rool rebuffed.

"Your Majesty, Bowser could be of use to us," General Immortus told King K. Rool. "We are in desperate need of aid."

"I know, I just HATE his condescending talk toward me," King K. Rool answered.

"Quit whining, that's gonna happen when you're on the bad side, so stop being an oversensitive creme puff and get used to it!" Bowser insulted. King K. Rool huffed as Bowser continued, "Any rate, not only do I want this more promising opportunity to destroy Mario, but I'd like to help get rid of Donkey Kong too. I'm sick and tired of Super Smash Bros fans always comparing me to that annoying weed!"

"Well Bowser, he does rival you in strength and-" Peach began.

"Shut up, princess," Bowser silenced. He then continued on, "And I also happen to know that General Immortus is one of the most, if not THE most, strategic battle thinkers. So surely we could think of some creative way to outwit the Kongs, the Titans, the Justice League, the Doom Patrol, and some of those old Smash Bros characters… with our combined forces."

"Very well then, shall we go in and strategize, before our enemies arrive?" King K. Rool asked.

"You took the words right outta my mouth," Bowser smiled. He then turned and shouted an order to his minions, "KOOPA PACK! ENTER INTO THE CASTLE!"

Upon Bowser's command, all of Bowser's minions (Koopas, Goombas, etc.) leapt off of the ships and followed him, King K. Rool, Krusha, Klump, Slade, the Brain, Monsieur Mallah, Madame Rouge, and General Immortus inside.

***Additional Notes***

1. Krusha and Klump were originally King K. Rool's top minions, especially in Donkey Kong 64 and the Donkey Kong Country show. That is what inspired me to include them. Klump is brown in Donkey Kong Barrel Blast, but I went with his original purplish colors in the Donkey Kong Country games and in Donkey Kong 64 because I thought it would compliment Krusha better.

2. Bowser's "HWAH" is one of the voice clips of his modern voice since Super Mario Galaxy (which in my opinion is the BEST voice he ever had).

3. Bowser and King K. Rool have bad chemistry in Mario Super Sluggers, so that explains their initial tension in this chapter.

4. Bowser also has some rivalry with Donkey Kong that is most notably hinted in Mario Party 5 (DK is the opposite of Bowser and at times punches him to save players from him after landing on the Bowser space - DK also punches the Koopa Kids in Story Mode to take half of their coins when they land on his space) and Super Smash Bros Brawl (Bowser attacks DK and Diddy when they get their banana hoard back and shoots his trophy cannon at them, with DK ultimately sacrificing himself to save Diddy). Super Smash Bros fans often compare Donkey Kong and Bowser, due to their proximity in power and strength. In my opinion, there is no definitive winner between the two, because the winner depends on which character Player 1 chooses, and the skill of Player 1. I often play as Donkey Kong and fight against Bowser in Melee, Brawl, and 3DS, and almost always win. Bowser also called Donkey Kong an annoying weed in Mario Superstar Baseball, so that is where I got the former's derogatory reference to the latter from, to help explain their tension.