While all those battles were going on outside, K. Rool, Cranky, Klump, and Dr. Scientistein are already deep inside the Crocodile Core. In fact, they are standing in front of the seal to the Crystal Coconut. "All that I need now is the password," says K. Rool.
Cranky is tied onto a chair, and he yells as he struggles. "Never! I'll never tell you the password!"
Dr. Scientistein approaches Cranky with a syringe in his hand. "He'll speak all right, boss." And he injects the truth-drug into Cranky's arm.
"Ow! That hurts! You assassin! How dare you… you…" Cranky begins to feel strange.
"So, let's work together, shall we?" K. Rool says to Cranky.
"Yes, master!" replies Cranky as if he's hypnotized.
"Here is the situation. I am here to get the Crystal Coconut so I can take over the world. But the problem is that a password is required to access the coconut, and that is what you're going to tell me."
"Yes, master! I have it in my mind for such a long time! It's 9, 10, 19, 40."
K. Rool writes down the numbers he heard. "9, 10, 19, 40, is it right? The password to access the Crystal Coconut?"
"Password? Oh no! It was on September 10, 1940; on that day I stole a banana from the neighbor! I was only a little toddler at that time!"
"Uh? What's this junk you're giving me?"
"The sad truth, sir. Alas, it is sad, but it must be told. A few days later, I stole my mother's favorite ring and allowed her to blame the maid!"
K. Rool asks Dr. Scientistein. "Well, doctor? Is this how it should be?"
"I don't understand," says Dr. Scientistein, scratching his head. "It never happened before."
"Poor maid… How she defended herself, but they threw her out of the house," continues Cranky. "I almost died of laughing at that time! Even then, I was the devil incarnate!"
"I think I'll give him another injection. The drug might not have been strong enough," says Dr. Scientistein as he prepares another syringe of drug.
"Very well, doctor," says K. Rool. So the doctor injects more drugs into Cranky's arm again. K. Rool once again asks the old ape, "Now who is going to tell me the password for the coconut?"
"Me!" replies Cranky. "100."
"100? Very good, my friend!"
"Yes, that is the exact amount of peanuts I stole from the neighbor!"
"Are you joking with me!"
"Trust me, it is no joking matter. I am rotten; rotten to the core."
"The password! Tell me the password! I demand that you tell me the password!"
"I am so rotten that I even installed close-circuit cameras at the lake so I can peek on the human girls as they take a bath! Dreadful, at my age, isn't it?"
K. Rool is hopping mad and burning furiously. "I DON'T CARE! I DON'T CARE!"
"But you should care! There are lessons to be learned from the life of a dishonest ape."
K. Rool shouts at Dr. Scientistein angrily, "YOU STUPID DOCTOR! YOUR TRUTH-DRUG IS A SUCCESS! A TOTAL SUCCESS! ARGH!"
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Just at this moment, the entrance of the Crocodile Core begins to open slowly. "It's opening!" says Diddy. "They have done it!"
"Quick! We must go inside and stop K. Rool!" says DK.
"Should we wait for the humans?" asks Dixie.
"I wish to, but we don't have time. Quick, let's go!"
So the three apes run into the core. They run through a long hallway that was supposed to have security traps of all sorts, but they are none now. "I can't believe K. Rool got through all the securities without a scratch!" says Diddy.
"He's getting stronger every time," says DK. "I fear that we do not have the strength to defeat him!"
When they are near the main chamber, they hear a loud shouting. "Now are you going to participate, you mangy monkey!"
'That's K. Rool's voice!" points out DK.
Back in the main chamber, K. Rool is frustrated that Cranky won't tell him the password. "Now tell me!"
"A mangy monkey… That's what I am. It can't be said to often, but there's no excuse either," says Cranky. "Think of my grandfather. My maternal grandfather, for instance…"
K. Rool bites his hat into pieces. "GGRRRRRR!"
"My grandfather, a humble farmer, a simple honest man. 'Donkey," he used to call me, as that was my former name. 'Donkey, remember this: An ill-gotten rhinoceros gathers no gain.'"
K. Rool bursts into flames. "AAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!" And he attacks Dr. Scientistein. "IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT, DOCTOR!"
In desperation to defend himself, Dr. Scientistein jabs him with the syringe.
"YOW! You klutz! You stabbed me with the needle!"
"I'm sorry, boss!" apologizes the doctor.
"Wait… The syringe is empty, isn't it?"
"It was half-empty. You aren't feeling bad, are you?"
K. Rool begins to feel strange. "Bad… Bad? Of course I'm bad! I'm the devil incarnate! Let's hear anyone try to deny it!"
"Oh no… It's taking effect…" says the doctor.
"Excuse me? I am the devil incarnate!" protests Cranky upon hearing what K. Rool said.
"Oh yeah? Listen to this: I ruined my brother K. Lumsy and dragged my parents down the gutter," says K. Rool. "What do you say to that?"
"Kid's stuff! My great-aunt was so ashamed of me she laid down and died! Beat that!"
"Amateur! But you're not in my class! Think of the scheme I use to kidnap you! That took a man of great intelligence and without deficiency—a fiend!" K. Rool turns to Dr. Scientistein. "And you, doctor. I promised you 4000 gold coins if you can help me get the password out of Cranky, but all this time I made a plan to eliminate you when the job was done."
Dr. Scientistein begins to tremble in fear upon hearing this.
"Same goes for Manky Kong! Rich man, that's what he think he'll be with the money I flashed under his nose! He'll be disposed of when I'm ready! And also Congo Bongo is mined with bombs. The entire island will be blown sky-high and all life in there will be destroyed! Ha! The devil himself couldn't do better!"
DK and his two friends are furious to hear this. "That monster!" says Dixie angrily.
"Huh! You're not out of the nursery," says Cranky after hearing K. Rool lecture.
K. Rool is now angry at hearing this, and he shouts to Cranky, "Now let's get this straight! Do you agree that I'm wickeder than you?"
"No! I'll never agree! I rather die than to agree!"
"If that's what you want, die!"
"Quick! Time we intervene!" says DK, and he quickly runs into the main chamber. "K. Rool! Stop right there at once!"
"It's the Kongs!" gasps Klump. "How did they get in here?" Suddenly, Dixie hops on top of his helmet and pulls it down to his face. "Hey! I can't see!" And then Diddy trip him using his tail.
SLAM!
"Doh…" And he passes out.
"Ah, DK, just the person I want to see!" says K. Rool.
"What?" says DK curiously.
"You're an old friend; we've known each other for a long time. You tell him!" K. Rool points to Cranky. "Is it right, I'm the devil incarnate? He won't believe me!"
"I don't believe you! I don't believe you!" yells Cranky.
K. Rool begins to cry. "Boohoo! Nobody likes me! I wanna cry! Waaaa!" And DK punches him hard in the face, sending him into a wall.
BANG!
And he passes out.
Diddy and Dixie quickly unties Cranky, and he walks up to the fallen K. Rool and says, "Now out with it! Who's the dirtiest dog? You or me? Aha! So you won't talk! You admit it's me, right?'
"Pleases be quiet, Cranky," Diddy tells him. "We're in danger and we must get out quick!"
"Quiet, pipsqueak! Nobody talks when I'm talking!"
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Outside the core, the shamans are all gathered together. "I bet DK and his friends are inside the core already," says Manta.
"May I ask something?" asks Chocolove. "Why is almost everyone carrying somebody in the back? Piggyback contest?" He asks this because Jun is carrying Ren, Yoh carrying Anna, Ryu carrying Lyserg, and Horohoro carrying Pirika.
"I told sis to let me down, but she wouldn't!" says Ren with a red face.
"But you cannot possibly walk with such an injured body!" says Jun.
"It feels good to be carried by my fiancé," says Anna, and this made Yoh red.
"Lyserg broke his back, so he must be carried," explains Ryu.
"My head hurts and I can't walk properly," says Pirika.
"So what do we do now?" asks Tamao, who isn't carried by anybody, and so is Chocolove.
"We should go inside and help DK," says Yoh. "It may be dangerous in there, so I think you girls and those gravely injured should stay outside." So Anna climbs down from his back.
"Be sure to come back alive, Yoh" Anna tells him.
"Sure! Have I come back dead before?"
Ren tells Jun to let him down. "I want to go and help the evil crocodile, so let me down!"
"But you cannot fight in this condition! It will get worse!"
"These wounds are nothing! I can still stand! Just let me down and you'll see!"
After much demanding, Jun finally agrees to let him go in. "Please don't overdo yourself, Ren."
"You go on ahead, brother," Pirika says to Horo.
"Are you sure you'll be fine without me?" he asks her.
"Never mind about me. You must be among the ones to save the world!"
"Okay, if that's what you said." So Horo lets Pirika onto the ground.
"I want to be on Master Yoh's side and help him!" says Ryu. "I'm sorry, Lyserg, but you'll need stay behind."
"I know… It's such a pity I can't help…" says Lyserg sadly.
"It is more important to look after your body. Don't be like Ren who always outdo himself."
"Say that again!" Ren shouts at him.
"All right, get going, you lot," Anna says to the boys. So Yoh, Ren, Horohoro, Chocolove, and Ryu walk into the mouth of the crocodile mountain.
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Back in the main chamber, Cranky is still shouting to K. Rool about who is the devil incarnate stuff. "Please be quiet, dad!" says DK. "We have to get out of here!"
"Who told you to speak!" Cranky yells at him. "Get this into your heads: Nothing, and nobody, can ever stop Cranky Kong from talking!"
"Is that so?" says Dixie, and she gets out sticky tape and tapes it over Cranky's mouth. "Nothing and nobody, eh?"
"Hmph! Hmph!" mumbles Cranky through the taped mouth.
"Where'd you get that?" Diddy asks her.
"I brought it in case Cranky won't stop his mindless lecturing."
DK asks Dr. Scientistein, "How long until the effect of the drug wears off?"
"It usually lasts about 10 minutes, but because I gave him about 2 or 3 shots, it can take more than 30 minutes," answers the doctor.
"Okay, we'll just keep his mouth taped until then. Now that your boss is ditching you, would you come with us and promise not to bring harm?"
"Okay, I will. I will make up for the mistakes I've done!"
"Not so fast, you dumb doctor!" shouts K. Rool, who has gotten back up.
"Looks like he's back to his senses," says Diddy.
K. Rool gets up and points his gun at them, "Nobody escapes my clutches! I will get the Crystal Coconut no matter what!"
DK steps towards him and cracks his knuckles. "Bring it on! I'm not scared of you!"
A ghostly crocodile appears next to K. Rool and asks, "May I help you, master?"
"I should introduce you to Crocolord first!" says K. Rool. "He is the spirit of the great crocodile king from 1000 years ago. He was also the one who drank the Crystal Coconut at that time too!"
"What! He drank the coconut before?" gasps Dixie.
"But my reign of terror was brought to an end by the Kong family," says Crocolord. "My soul lives on in anger and spite. Now K. Rool has accepted me as his guardian spirit. I will get my revenge on you Kongs for what your ancestors did to me!"
"This has nothing to do with us!" protests Diddy.
"Enough talking! You are all going to die! Crocolord, oversoul into the gun!" says K. Rool, so Crocolord enters the big gun K. Rool is holding. "Behold my new shaman powers!" He pulls the trigger and fires a glowing cannonball at DK.
DK quickly jumps aside to avoid the cannonball, and he runs at K. Rool to get him. He swings his fist forward, but K. Rool quickly hops back to dodge it, and then fires another cannonball. DK once again dodges it, but surprisingly enough, the cannonball flies back by itself and hits DK in the back! "Ah!"
"What! The cannonball flies back by itself!" gasps Diddy. "It must be a homing weapon!"
"The soul of Crocolord is in the cannonball, so he can move wherever he wants," explains K. Rool. "There is no way you can avoid my attacks!" And he fires more glowing cannonballs.
The cannonballs fly towards Diddy and Dixie, who are trapped against the wall. "Oh no! We're finished!" cries Dixie. Suddenly, DK appears in front of them and takes the cannonball hits himself.
"Ugh!"
"Donkey! You sacrifice yourself to save off!" gasps Diddy.
DK is still standing from the hit though. "No matter how strong you are, you cannot defeat me, K. Rool!"
"Is that so? Take this!" K. Rool fires another cannonball. DK stretches his hands forward and grabs the cannonball, much to K. Rool's surprise. He hurls it back like a baseball and it knocks K. Rool's gun off his hand. "What!" And the DK runs up to him and punches him in the head. "OW!" He flies onto the floor with a crash.
"You're finished, K. Rool!" says DK.
"You have not seen anything of my powers yet!" says K. Rool. He jumps over to his gun and grabs it. "Giant Oversoul!"
In a bright and blinding flash, K. Rool is seen standing on top of a gigantic crocodile with evil red eyes! "What is that!" cries Dixie.
"How did he do that!" gasps Diddy.
"There is no way you can defeat me now!" says K. Rool. "Prepare to meet your doom!"
TO BE CONTINUED…
Try and guess if you can find out where I got the truth-drug and devil incarnate stuff from. It's a comic book.