Just The Beginning
(Part 2)
Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN ANYTHING OWNED BY NINTENDO OR RAREWARE! I DO NOT OWN DIDDY KONG, DIXIE KONG, NECKYS, ZINGERS, KONGO JUNGLE, OR ANYTHING CHARACTERS OR LOCALS MENTIONED BY ANY CHARACTER. However, I do own this storyline.
Author's note: I gotta thank the anonymous reviewers and The Lovely SxRF And Pyro MoK for reviewing. (And for posting that lil DK pic on her profile with that funny little overload explosion quote.) This chapter was supposed to be longer but eh…I'm working on chapter 3!
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Cue theme music for opening: "Diddy Evolution" youtube it if u want since stupid FF won't let me add the link! (and yes, the entire song) Done? Good, start the chapter.
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Diddy barely had any time to react at all as the gigantic hornet flipped to stab the chimp with it's stinger. He rolled backward and away from the bumblebee attacker. However, it was too late, the buzzing that surrounded him signaled what the chimp was trying to avoid: the Diamond Needle Formation.
Zingers to the left of him; Zingers to the right, Diddy felt a warm and muggy dampness settle over the area, which is what often happened when the gigantic hornets gathered together. It was a distraction tactic: prey would start to sweat from humidity, anxiety and fear. The sweat would serve as an indicator, signaling the bees to swarm the prey and sting it to death. If the prey did not perspire then it would not be safe to attack. Generally, creatures that are not afraid of swarms will be prone to fight back and Zingers, which were not very durable, would be killed in the ensuing battle.
Once, the chimp witnessed Rambi the rhino caught by a swarm of fifteen Zingers. In forty-five seconds fifteen Zingers were dead and Rambi trotted out of the Jungle in style. Diddy, however, was not a rhinoceros, he did not possess steel hardened skin, or a tungsten sharpened horn. He also did not weigh a half ton and did not hit with the force of dynamite. In other words, Diddy was in deep trouble.
The buzzing of giant insect wings seemed to fill the youngster's head as swarming Zingers pulled even tighter around the small chimp, warming up the already humid area. The heat was becoming unbearable, Diddy's head began to spin, the yellow and black fuzz covering the gigantic predator bees seemed to swirl and shift into wispy and cloudy fog. Something was wrong, there was a hallucinogenic haze being cast over him. He stumbled around stupidly. Suddenly, the same violent hornet that had attacked him just seconds before had returned.
There was a flash of mustard and onyx pigments and then Diddy had found himself on the ground. He vision grew even more obstructed as the soil beneath him slid out of focus. The pores on his body all opened at the same time, he could not concentrate on escaping, he was still unsure if he had been struck or not. His hands fumbled confusedly over his person and he heard the angry buzzing climb in strength. They were about to swarm him!
His hands immediately stopped and dropped to his sides, he held his breath and tried to come up with a plan, something, anything. His hands slowly slipped into his pockets but there was nothing of use in either of them. Just a few DK coins in his left pocket and a discarded banana peel he'd been too lazy to throw away, nothing he could use to fight his way out of a pack of giant hornets. Diddy let out a sigh of defeat and suddenly the buzzing and heat was right in front of him: a Zinger was definitely on the attack. Without thinking, the chimp plunged his right hand into his pocket and threw the greasy banana peel directly at the attacker.
A dissonant buzzing sounded from before him. The banana peel had struck one of the Zingers. Diddy's clouded vision yielded patches of lemon and raven around him. Before him, a hazy view of dark green snaked forward: a path out of the Diamond Needle Formation.
Without missing a beat, the chimp sprinted along the path he felt the breeze around him begin to heat from the friction. Diddy felt he was in a hot wind tunnel as green blurs flew by his vision. He ran in zigzags to avoid the Zingers that the chimp was sure were pursuing him. Gotta lose 'em, he kept telling himself. I just gotta- SPLASH!
The poor chimp accidentally stumbled into a river. Diddy tumbled through the water frantically, wildly clawing to find the surface. His head finally broke the water and he opened his eyes to see an area of the jungle where the trees parted slightly.
As he pulled himself out of the river, the chimp noticed that he had drifted downstream a ways. The Zingers frenzied buzzing was further away, he was safe…for now.
He looked at the water and saw a sickly yellow residue floating on the top of the water like strangely colored oil. "Was that on me? Sick!" The chimp realized that the Zingers were spreading this oil around when he was surrounded; this gunk clouded his vision.
"At least I got away," Diddy quipped triumphantly. But everyone else who comes across them is in big trouble. The chimp ignored the sour thought but it was followed by another. I hope Dixie's okay. He bobbled in the water as he tried to get his bearings. Nothing would happen, Diddy was sure of it. Besides, who would be dumb enough to wander into Vine Valley by themselves? The answer came in the form of a scream: "AHHHH! ZINGERS!"
Dixie's voice came from the same direction as the Zingers. Wasting no time, Diddy charged back to the giant hornets as though he were being shot at.