Chapter 53: Cruel Intentions

"So he's sending her here?" Drible asked Daisy, "Why?"

"Honestly, I dunno," she admitted, "DK sounded so upset over the phone it was ridiculous."

Drible smiled in return, "Well at least this means we can establish a foreign relation with the Kong Island, no?"

"Yeah, you're right," Daisy wrote something else down on her clipboard, "Better make sure I have enough time to keep her company and stuff." She looked down at herself and her bikini clothing, "I'll also need to dress presentably."

"Shall I go fetch your dress for you?"

Daisy shook her head, "Nah, not that frilly thing. I need somethin' that looks good on my body, yea know? Something that'll form with mah curves and stuff. Like my tennis outfit."

Drible nodded, "The one with the shorts, madam?"

She nodded, and got up, "Yup. I need to shower. You go get ready too."

"Of course, madam Daisy."

Meanwhile in the jungle...

Dixie Kong dropped down the ladder to find her little sister sitting on a rock, "Hey, Tiny gues-"

She cut her off, sighing, "Lemme guess. You guys are gonna go on another adventure and leave me out, hm?"

"..."

The tall Kong put a green backpack over her shoulders, "Look, it's fine, ok? I'm used to it by now.' She turned and started walking, "I guess this time'll be different because I'm not staying alone with Candy Kong. It's been awhile since I've been to the Mushroom Kingdom anyway."

"Are you alright?" Dixie called after her, "You need some help?"

Tiny Kong simply sashayed into the thick brush, "Nah. Go on, and have fun like you always do."

Dixie tried to say something else, but before she could, DK, and Diddy Kong were already ahead of her with Diddy shouting her name to follow. "Hey, come on! We ain't got time to waste."

She sighed, and closed her eyes, turning around to take off in the opposite direction.

Meanwhile, Tiny Kong kept walking through the dense jungle, and began to write to herself in her diary with a pink pen, "Dear Diary: Once again this has happened. My friends are off without me, and now I gotta go back to the mainland. In order to reach the mushroom Kingdom from Kong Island, I have to jump into a powerful barrel cannon that's capable of firing over that great a distance across the ocean. Funky Kong's been busy as heck, though..."

As she continued writing away, Tiny would eventually reach the other side of the brush, and onto the beach of the island. "Hm?" She looked around, scratching her head, "What the…"

There, just a few feet away, was a giant DK cannon that was big enough to fire Luigi if he ate a Mega Mushroom. "...Woah. That's one big cannon." Lost in awe for a moment, she started circling the cannon until she found the ladder she would use to get inside. "..." she swallowed a lump of fear in her throat as she began to climb it.

"It's….it's huge….so huge…" are the words that ran through her mind as she climbed the ladder to make it up. "Here we go…" she mumbled with anxiety as she slid into the cannon, with a claw arm placing something on her backpack. "So if I remember correctly, this should focus like most of the other ca-

BANG!

"-ANNNNONNNNSSSS!" she shouted through the air as the barrel cannon launched her across the sky. "...Woah…." Whatever fear that had built up inside of her had slowly diminished as she looked out over the crips blue ocean water as the Island had become a small dot behind her.

The claw arm had placed a device on her that turned into a glider-similar to the ones used in the Kart Races. It allowed her to glide carefully over the water with ease. "Funky you're freakin' amazing!" she closed her eyes, taking in the cool air that ran through her fur, and smelling the crisp, salty air of the sea below her.

It wouldn't be long before the mainland was in sight, and she began to write in her diary again while gliding. "Now, I'm flying through the air on my way back to the mainland Kingdoms after so long. The only time I've been there was to play baseball with DK and ugh...you-know-who. But seeing Mario and his friends like that...all together and fun with each other made me...jealous. Just...everyone over there seemed like a family who did everything together, while I'm only involved for one single baseball tournament. It's...it...it feels so..."

She would pause for a moment as something failed to click. Nothing she could fixate her mind upon would flow out onto the page anymore. Tiny Kong had frozen, staring at the words on the page of her diary and couldn't seem to think of anything else to put down. "..."

It would stay that way for a long time until she could see land ahead. "Ah!" Panicking, she quickly scrambled to put her diary and pen away as she pressed the button for the parachute to activate, "Ah! Dangit, Funky Kong!" The sand of the beach would be coming too fast, but there was nothing she could do about it. "Oh shitake mushrooms."

With a hammering thud, Tiny Kong slammed into the beach, tumbling around for a little while until she would stop by smacking dead into a tree. "Ow." She rubbed her head, and turned around to make sure her backpack was safe, which it was. "Ugh, FK needs to work on that landing gear."

Her eyes would then light up as she noticed a sign: "Sarasaland Beach." This meant she was where she needed to be. "Yes! Maybe I can meet some of them and have fun with a family for once." She got up, and started running opposite of the sign towards the city…

Meanwhile, under a beach umbrella, a floating pair of binoculars watched her take off. "She took the bait…" a voice said into a communicator.

"Good," a voice said from the other end, "Now when she gets there, we'll both get what we want…"