A/N- Here's chapter 3 part 2…I would like to restate that I had some confusion with the names Kammy and Kamek and that I had intended the character of Kammy to be the story…Just to let all you know part 1 was the last we will see of Kammy and Bowser for while…PLEASE REVIEW…Enjoy!

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Rumble in the Jungle

Diddy and Donkey Kong landed on the deck of the large tree-house with a light thud. Mario and Peach released their grips from the apes. It was starting to get dark and whoever lived here had lit torches around the deck which gave a soft glow to the area. The tree-house itself was made of wood planks and roofed by layered banana leaves. Many windows lined the wall and a single door sat closed in front of the group. The four of them stood there a moment and let their arms rest. As they rested the door to the house opened up, and the head of an elderly monkey popped out. Mario could tell he was older for the fact that the monkey had a long grey beard.

"Donkey? Diddy? Is that you?" he asked.

"Yes Cranky it's us." DK answered. "And we found some people."

"Oh! They've finally come! Quick, come in, come in!" Cranky said.

DK and Diddy walked in first followed by Peach and Mario. The inside of the house was very cluttered; books, papers, and various other things were scattered every. A fire cracked in the middle of the far wall, were a single rocking-chair sat in front of it. In the corner hung a brown hammock, which lightly swung back-and-forth.

"Let me get a look at you." Cranky said. He walked up to Mario and Peach and looked the up and down intently. "You don't look like much, but if you're here you must know what to do."

"Now that that's done…We need to go get Dixie!" Diddy yelled.

"We can't, not now, it's dark out." Cranky said.

"But—"

"Don't 'but' me. You know we can't see well in the dark, if we left to get her now we would be caught too. I know she means a lot to you. We will go first thing in the morning."

At this Diddy stomped out of the house and hopped off the deck and swung away.

"Should we go after him?" Peach asked.

"No he's just upset." DK said.

"Aren't you afraid he'll go anyway?" Mario asked.

"He knows better. He's just going home." Cranky said.

"To the point, we're here for Bowser and Kammy." Mario said.

"Ah, yes…" Cranky said, "the turtle and the witch. Well, there's nothing I can tell you about them I'm sure you don't know, but I'm sure you want to know how I know about other worlds…Well, it's something this tribe has known for generations. But only the elder of the tribe has ever known about them. That elder now would be me, but as you can see I've told some of them before it was their time. I sent the others of our tribe to the other side of this island for their protection…I'm afraid that those two you're chasing have told Rool about the worlds and traveling to them, which makes him all the more dangerous. Now that he has Dixie he is one step closer to the coconut, which is the only goal plausible for him. She's a strong girl, but I don't know how long she can hold out against him. So tomorrow at the first light of day we will go to K. Rool's mine and get her back…That's all I have to say…Any questions?"

"I do actually," Mario said, "Diddy said you could explain the world time difference or something."

"Oh, yes, well, to put it simply the time in each of the worlds is not synchronized. So that means, say two minutes in your world is equal to two days in ours."

"That's simple…I think." Mario said rubbing his chin.

"That's all there is for to tell you. It's late the two of you can sleep in Candy's house. Donkey Kong, if you could?" Cranky said.

"Sure… Alright you two, hope on."

Mario reached around DK's waist and clasped his hands together. Peach then wrapped her arms around Mario's neck.

"See you tomorrow Cranky." DK said and hoped out the window.

They were swinging through the trees for hardly a minute when they landed on the deck of another smaller house.

"This is Candy's house. She has real big bed so you two should fit fine. I'll come get you first thing in the morning." DK said.

"Actually…DK could you do me a favor?" Peach asked.

"Sure…what?"

"Could you take me to Diddy's house? I want to talk to him."

"Um…sure I'll take you." DK said, unsure why she wanted to go.

"Peach, why do you want to go?" Mario asked.

"So I can comfort him about Dixie." she answered.

"You shouldn't meddle like that." Mario said.

"It's not meddling, it's caring." Peach retorted.

Mario thought about for a moment and said, "Don't be long. We need to sleep if we run into trouble."

Peach wrapped her arms around DK and they started swinging through the trees again. Mario turned around and walked into the house. He didn't take notice of much, except for the so called bed. It was nothing but a giant pile of banana leaves. At that moment he realized how tired he was and walked over to the pile. He plopped down on top of them and almost instantly fell asleep.

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DK and Peach landed on the deck of Diddy's tree-house. The windows glowed with the light of a fire.

"I don't mean to be rude, but could you what out here?" Peach asked.

"Sure."

Peach opened the door and saw Diddy sitting in a hammock staring at the roof. He saw her come in and hopped down to the floor.

"Hey…" he said lazily, "you need something?"

"I came to see if you were alright."

"Of course I'm not alright!" Diddy exploded, "No one seems to care that son of a bitch lizard has Dixie!"

"Of course they care. We all care." Peach said calmly, "It's just that nothing can be done right now. I know your heart is telling you to go get her now, but deep down you know it's not the best thing for her."

"But you don't know what kind of pain those monsters are causing me now that they have her."

"I do know the pain. Let me tell you something. Before Mario and I came here, Bowser and Kammy caused me the greatest pain I have ever felt."

"How's that?"

"Where I come from I am a princess, and the only living member of the royal family. On the day I was to become queen everyone in the kingdom was full of joy; for some it was the happiest day of their life. But Bowser and Kammy destroyed this happiness. When I was about to be crowned they attacked the courtyard where everyone was gathered. Bowser burned alive many of the people there with his fire breath. So do not presume I do not understand your pain. The happiest moment my kingdom has seen was destroyed because of them, and it will pain me forever to know that I can never bring that happiness back."

"I…I'm sorry I didn't…" Diddy stammered, "It just kills me to think about what they are doing to Dixie…I want to get them back for everything—for Dixie and your kingdom."

"I understand completely. Come tomorrow together you and I will give them back the pain they have caused us…I promise."

"Thank you Peach. I think now I sleep and be ready for tomorrow."

Diddy walked up to Peach and hugged her, and she returned it. They held the hug for a moment then separated. Diddy hopped back into the hammock and closed his eyes. Peach walked back outside onto the deck where DK was waiting.

"Ready to go back?" DK asked.

Peach gave him a nod and wrapped her arms around him. He jumped off the deck and began swinging back to Candy's house.

"What you did for him…" DK said.

"Don't thank me. I was glad to do it." Peach said. "Don't say another word about it, it was nothing."

They rode in silence the rest of the way back.

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The next morning as the sun was just coming over the horizon Cranky was getting ready for the journey to K. Rool's cave. He was pacing the room when he heard a voice out on the deck.

"Cranky!" came a high pitched girls voice.

He immediately recognized the voice as Dixie's. He rushed out to the deck to see her standing there.

"Dear God!" Cranky said, "How did you get here?"

"I escaped in the middle of the night."

"Oh my, this is big…hold on!" Cranky went inside and a bell started ringing loudly. After a few seconds he came back out. "That should bring Diddy and DK here along with the help that arrived."

"Help?"

"Yes—Yes! Two people that come from the same world as the witch and turtle came here to help get rid of them."

This news upset Dixie/Rool considerably. He had not expected any extras to be here. At the height the sun was at he guessed he only had a few hours before the spell would wear off. He was going to have to work quickly.

"Oh, that's…good." Rool said, improvising. "But something bad happened before I escaped."

"What?"

"That witch somehow entered my mind with a spell and discovered were the crystal coconut was."

"Oh no!" Cranky exclaimed, "When the others get here we must hurry to it, before Rool and the others reach it first!"

As if on cue Diddy and Donkey Kong landed on the deck with Mario and Peach attached to them. Rool knew he would have to provide a dramatic moment with the smaller one. He made eye contact with him and rushed over to him with open arms.

"Oh, Dippy I was so scared!" Rool said wrapping his arms around him.

Diddy was in a state of shock at the sight of Dixie. He just stood there as she hugged him. He was brought back from his daze when he heard Mario speak.

"That's not his name." Mario said, "His name is Diddy."

Damn human! Rool thought, I need to fix that… "Oh…I'm sorry…that…that witch kinda fried my brain." Rool said thinking quickly.

"Yes—Yes!" Cranky said, "We must hurry to the coconut! That blasted witch poked around in her brain and found out where it is!"

"Oh no!" DK said, "We have to hurry!"

"Yeah, we need to go now!" Rool said getting a little eager.

"Come on, the fastest way there is the barrel cannons." Diddy said

The apes ran down the deck to the backside of Cranky's house. Mario and Peach followed not really knowing what a 'barrel cannon' was. They reach the back to see two ordinary looking barrels attached to metal platforms.

"Mario, Peach," DK said, "these gadgets here are our fastest way to travel. All you do is hop in and you'll be launched to where it's aimed at. These are already set to fire at the volcano mouth. One of you will ride with me while the other rides with Diddy."

Not wanting to lose any time Peach walked over to Diddy and Dixie. "I'll ride with you."

"But what about…" Diddy said.

"I'll be right behind you." Rool said, getting sick of having to be so sweet, but it was worth seeing as how he was mere moments from getting the coconut. He could hardly contain his excitement, but they needed to hurry Kammy's spell was starting to wear off because his arms and legs were starting to ache.

Diddy let go of Dixie and hopped into the barrel. "Ok Peach, get in." She got into the barrel surprised at how much room there was. "Alright," Diddy said, "curl into a ball, and I'm gonna carry you. Don't worry it won't hurt me when we land."

Peach did as she was told and a moment later they were launch in the air. Mario and DK followed after them. They were a tighter fit due to DK's size. They launched right after Diddy and Peach leaving K. Rool and Cranky. Rool was hesitant for he had never used this before, but he got over quickly being so close to the coconut. Cranky got into one barrel and was launched. Rool got in the final barrel and after a few moments he was sent flying through the air. He was moving so fast the forest below was a blur. He looked ahead to see that he was getting close to the mouth of the volcano. He had a sudden brush of fear at the thought of landing in the lava. He started losing speed and dropping slowly. His fear got stronger as he got lower to the ground. He clenched his shut awaiting the impending doom…

He felt himself land in a net, and started rolling down. He opened his eyes to see that he was at the mouth of the volcano, lying on the ground. He quickly got up and saw the others standing there. Behind them was the open hole where the lava pit was. Diddy walked off a little ways and reached down. He lifted up what appeared to be trap door.

"Looks like we beat them here." Diddy announced.

K. Rool was now sure that Kammy's spell was wearing off. He looked at his hands to see the fur was turning back into green scales. He ran over to Diddy and shoved him out of the way. He looked in the hole the trap door covered and saw the crystal coconut in all its glory. He quickly grabbed the whistle under his hat and blew it as had as he could.

"Dixie!" Diddy yelled, "What's wrong with you!"

"All of you are complete fools!" Rool yelled as quickly grabbed hold of the coconut.

"Dixie what is—" Cranky stopped and stared at her as she began to glow. The hair on her body melted away into green scales. Her arms and legs grew long as her grew into sharp claws. Her face grew out into a long snout, and her stomach started to expand out. When she stopped glowing Dixie was gone and King K. Rool stood before them.

"Shit!" DK yelled.

"Do you realize what you all have done?" Rool shouted gleefully, "You have just handed me a piece of our plan to destroy you!"

"How…How…" Diddy stammered.

"How did I look like her?" Rool said, "It was thanks to the magic of Bowser's witch."

A loud whistling was then heard coming from above. Two large black rocks came out of the sky and crashed into the ground between Rool and the others.

"A gift from Bowser and Kammy." Rool said. "Now I must be going." Rool then ran to the edge and jumped off the side of the volcano.

"No!" DK yelled and ran over to the edge. Mario and Peach followed him. When they looked over the edge a flash of light appeared and K. Rool was gone…along with the crystal coconut.

"Dammit!" Peach yelled.

"Guys…I think we have a problem!" Diddy yelled.

Mario, Peach, and DK turned around to see that the two rocks, which weren't really rocks, were shaking.

"Oh, no." Mario said. "Diddy, Cranky hid behind something now! DK, you too!"

"No way! I'm fighting! Diddy take Cranky and hide!"

Diddy ran over and grabbed Cranky. They ran and hid behind a large real rock. The two "rocks" lifted into the air and sprouted yellow legs and yellow arms that held large tomahawk-like weapons. They then sprouted heads covered by helmets. One helmet had the letter 'A' on it while the other had 'B'. The two things lowered to the ground and started juggling the weapons.

"Who are they?" DK asked.

"The Hammer Brothers." Mario and Peach said in unison.

At the mention of their names the brothers charged. The trio scattered in different directions. DK ran towards the right in the direction of the lava. Peach ran left towards the net. Mario ran straight forward. When he got close to the brothers he dived head-first and slid under them. He quickly jumped up and a fire ball formed in each hand. He threw them at their backs, barely fazing them. 'A' turned around swinging the hammers fast and hard. Mario didn't expect such a fast reaction and didn't have enough time to get out of the way.

Peach saw what was about to happen and started concentrating. Alright Toadsworth, you said I had to learn on my own…Give me offensive to use! Two orbs of bright light formed in each of her hands. She didn't know but she knew exactlyhow to use these as a weapon. She put her wrist together, and spread her hands and fingers apart creating a bowl shape. Energy welled up inside her and she shouted, "White Light Laser!" A beam shot out of the orb in her hands. It struck the Hammer Brothers in the side and sent them sailing across the ground. They landed hard on the ground. They laid there long moment but started to slowly get up.

'B' brother stood up and raised his hammers into the air. He threw them quickly at Peach with a howl of anger. Mario chased after them but was to slow. They were almost upon her…

When a large rock landed in front of them and they were imbedded in it. Mario looked over to see DK with another rock ready to throw. Mario, seeing DK's immense strength, quickly formed a plan. "DK, I need you to distract them for at least a minute."

DK gave a nod and started throwing various rocks at the brothers.

"Peach," Mario yelled, "grab those hammers and bring them to the net!"

She did as she was told and tugged at the hammers. They were in deep but after a few hard tugs they came out. Once she had them she quickly ran over to Mario and the net. He grabbed one and started cutting at the edges that held it up. She didn't know what he was doing, but she followed along and started cutting another edge. The hammers quickly cut through and the net was loose in no time.

"Peach," Mario said "you need to run behind the brothers and do that thing again. You think you can do it?"

"I can try." Peach said and she took off running. She ran past DK who was still throwing rocks. She quickly got behind the brothers and concentrated.

Mario ran up to DK with the net in his hands. "DK, quick grab an end of the net." DK did so and they ran apart spreading out the net. "Peach going to shoot the brothers into the net; when that happens we need to wrap it around them, and then you need to throw them into the lava." As Mario finished the blast hit the brothers from behind and they were thrown into the net. Mario and DK quickly circled around them wrapping them in the net. DK then grabbed then grabbed the net and started spinning. After gaining momentum he released the net. They soared over to the lava pit and fell down into it. The trio heard a short scream of pain; and then all went quiet.

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Cranky and Diddy came out from behind their rock. They walked up to Mario and DK who had been joined by Peach.

"You guys make a good team." Cranky said.

Diddy did nothing but stare at the ground.

"What do we do now that Rool has the coconut?" DK asked.

"We can't follow him. We don't know where he went." Peach said.

"Yes…that bothers me terribly." Cranky said, "but something else bothers me. When he was talking he said 'our plan'. I think more than just he and Bowser are up to something, but I don't know what."

"Well…" Mario said, "where do we go? We don't know what world they went to."

"That's true." Cranky said, "Other than you're world I do know of another. You could go there and maybe find something out."

"Well that's something. What is it we'll go there." Mario said.

"It's a place called Tallon." Cranky said. "I assume you have a Rift Orb. So you must hurry."

"And I'm going with you." DK announced.

Mario wasn't going to argue he knew DK's strength could be handy. He produced the orb from his pocket and held it out.

"Donkey Kong," Cranky said. "I'm not going to tell you to stay, because you do need to go. The coconut is important. If others are taking items of equal value from their worlds then something very dark is on the horizon."

"Thanks Cranky." DK said. "Little buddy are you going to be ok?"

"Yeah, I have my own mission. I have to find Dixie. Once we get of the mountain I'm going to Rool's cave, that's the only place she could be."

"Good luck." Peach said. "Don't forget our promise. I'll be back and we can do it together."

"Thanks Peach…Now you need to get going."

"Alright guys, hold on to me." Mario said.

Peach and DK each grabbed onto a shoulder. After a moments pause Mario shouted, "Tallon!"

They were gone in a flash of light.

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A/N- So what did you think… I know this was long, but I really liked writing this chapter…PLEASE REVIEW…There's a question I thought for sure people would ask me from part one, I'll see if anyone can think of it before next chapter…Speaking of next chapter I won't update unless I get at least three new reviews, I don't want to be mean I just want to know what people think…Anyway, can anyone guess what world 'Tallon' is? And what about the fight scene should there have been more or less or was it just right?...Don't forget three reviews please .