Just The Beginning

(Part 3)

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 OR ANY CHARACTERS OR LOCALS MENTIONED BY ANY CHARACTER. However, I do own this storyline.

Author's note: Once again I gotta thank the anonymous reviewers and The Lovely SxRF And Pyro MoK, Captain Bones, zamillion, NinjaWriter09, and Katakana Kong for reviewing. Additionally, if you like smart-mouth characters and fighting then you'll like this chapter, if not then…eh, sorry my bad! On with it and, yadda, yadda, yadda…

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Cue theme music for opening: "Diddy Evolution" (insert youtube) .com/watch?v=tjc70X6pyTc (and yes, the entire song) Done? Good start the chapter.

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It was unfortunate that nobody had been careless enough to leave any barrels lying around. Whenever they weren't needed, barrels or all shapes and forms could be found at any tree-trunk base. Now, as Diddy saw Dixie was surrounded by the Zingers, there was nothing, not even a plank of wood. The chimp shouted as loud as he could and all eyes turned to the speeding monkey.

Diddy felt everything slow down around him as he somersaulted into the fray. The closest Zinger soon found a chimp upon its face. The startled Zinger took flight, but it was too late; Diddy had brought his right foot up in a slicing arc and smashed it right into the hornet's oversized eyeballs. The Zinger then flew into a frenzied descent, desperately trying to regain its vision.

Diddy Kong plummeted in a nosedive back into the circle of enemies. The Zingers all bunched together and all shot up to attack the chimp. The first unfortunate hornet reached the monkey but he had brought both of his arms down with like he was smashing a nail with a hammer. The giant bee barreled into two of its allies and blasted them all out of the sky. Another Zinger came from behind but Diddy's back foot sent the hornet spiraling away.

Diddy hit the ground beside Dixie but fell to his knees from his aching hands, he had accidentally struck some stingers. "Jeez, Diddy! You never told me you were a "Jungle Smash" champion!" Diddy could not help but laugh at Dixie's joke. "You never get tired of almost getting us both killed, do you," he counter-questioned. She shook her head with a large grin.

Diddy was about to say something else when the buzz of hornets returned, with a familiar flap of wide wings, "Crap, the Neckys are here!" The chimp pulled his girlfriend to the shaded safety of a large palm tree. Both chimps crouched down and waited for the danger to pass. There was screeching and buzzing all around them. Dixie whispered, "You did a pretty good job smashing up those bees like that. I don't even think Donkey Kong himself could have done that!" Diddy knew that she was saying this to boost his confidence but he appreciated her words all-the-same. She must have read his mind because she quickly added, "I meant what I said, that was completely awesome! You're like a 'Zinger Predator' or something," she giggled at her own joke.

If only you knew how much you had to do with that "beating" I gave those bees, Dixie; Diddy thought to himself. "Hey," Dixie poked her boyfriend, "what's wrong?" The boy just stared at her blankly. "Don't try to pretend like nothing's wrong, you were 'lost in space' again, so tell me what's wrong?"

There was nothing really "wrong," in truth, Diddy was feeling better than he'd felt all day. It was now that he worried what would happen to him should there ever be a day that Dixie would not be around. Dixie, who seemed to have a radio broadcast of all of her boyfriend's thoughts, answered, "I know you're worried, but you've gotta chill out a little more. I mean, sure we're fighting for our lives right now, but you have to have a little more fun."

Diddy stared at his girlfriend incredulously. She wore a wide smile running the length of her face. Her facial expression changed from one of content to another of terror. "What," Diddy questioned her. Her arm trembled as she pointed over his right shoulder. Hot breath shot down the back of his t-shirt.

The chimp turned around slowly and found himself face-to-torso with a wall of blue muscle covered by army fatigues. Of all the Kremlings that roamed the land this particular enemy, known as Krusha, had to be among some of the dumbest, most vile, and most powerful Kremlings of their ranks. These tanks of blues scales were virtually indestructible, only being defeated by projectiles such as barrels or steel kegs or the full weight of Donkey Kong slamming down upon them. Any attempt Diddy made to scratch them were met with laughter and Dixie had never faced one in battle, (although she had insulted one's mother to his face and ran away.) Its build was huge and bulky, like a lizard football player. Huge girder-like arms and legs as thick as tree trunks with hands and feet the size of trash can lids. Add some large bone-like spikes to the top of its head and here you have the body of a Krusha.

Diddy looked around, there were no barrels and Donkey Kong would not just swing in and "save the day." In other words, Dixie and Diddy were in big trouble. "Hey brat, this is Kremling turf. Beat it," the muscle-bound lizard barked.

"What," Dixie replied before Diddy was able to say a word. "You say you're a Kremling turd? That's very big of you to come out and just admit to our faces, you must be very confident in your personality." Dixie was always quick with the insults. Diddy, however, was having a crisis in his mind. Dixie is going to get us killed!

The Krusha cocked his head in confusion as he strained his face in thought. An angry expression flickered across the Kremling's face. "What'd you say to me you lil' squirt!?" The Krusha reached for the girl and completely ignored the boy. Suddenly, a red cap obstructed his view, "What?"

"Calm down there big guy," Diddy negotiated. "You'll have to ignore her, she's slightly deaf…and," the chimp dropped his voice and leaned in a little closer to the Kremling, "she's completely gone in the head, absolutely nuts, ya know?"

"What's that you said, Diddy?" The male chimp tensed as he heard Dixie call him. "Oh, nothing, not a thing," he answered her. If she could hear what I said…There would be pain in Diddy's near future. Diddy whispered once again, "see, 100% wacko."

The Krusha grunted and shuffled away.

"What's the matter, running away from a party you started!? Too much of a coward to beat up two little chimps!?" Dixie's shouting got the Krusha's attention once again. Diddy fell back as the muscular Kremling turned back to face them again.

"That's it," the Krusha shouted, "I'll tear open your insides and feed your gizzards to my younglings!" Dixie scrunched up her face in disgust "Eeee-oooooh, no thanks. I prefer to keep all my insides inside of me and out of the bellies of any lizards, thank you for your interest though." Diddy turned to her and glared. "What," she spat defensively.

Diddy had no time to answer, however, because Krusha lunged at the two chimps. Both simians pulled away from the lizard. When they were a safe enough distance away the boy finally spoke again, "You just had to egg him on, didn't you?" Dixie opened her mouth to answer but he cut her off, "why could you have just let this one go, huh?" Once again Dixie tried to speak and once again Diddy talked over her, "a peaceful solution, I made a peaceful solution to avoid fighting…but no, you couldn't let that be, could you!?"

Dixie finally exploded at her boyfriend, "WELL EXCUUUUSE ME FOR LIVING! I-" Krusha reached for her but Diddy made an attempt to cartwheel the Kremling back but was repelled himself. The chimp gritted his teeth and jumped at the lizard bodybuilder again but was swatted into a bush.

Dixie edged back into the tree trunk and yelled. "Hey, that's five yards for unnecessary roughness! Ok, back it up, big guy," Dixie shooed the lizard away. The Krusha narrowed his eyes and puffed his chest out. The small chimp was not intimidated, however. "I know you don't think you're going to touch me…" She held a dangerous tone as she straightened herself up.

"I am going to flatten your furry butt, and then I'm going to use your pelt as blanket." The Krusha looked absolutely murderous. Dixie gagged, "At first you wanted to eat my entrails and now you want to use my skin as a blanket. Is Kremling commerce really that poor?" The Kremling twisted up his expression in deep thought again. Dixie sighed; maybe subjects like money are too complex for this meathead. She charged at the lizard on all fours. The Krusha brought up a powerful arm and drove it down in an attempt to make due on his promise to "flatten" Dixie.

The jungle floor shattered under the sheer impact of the lizard's arm. "Game over," the Krusha growled. As he lifted his arm, however, he saw that there was nothing under it, not even a pink beret to show for it.

A whistle sounded above him, "I'm up here!" Dixie waited until the confused Kremling raised its head to her before whipping her long blond ponytail down upon its face with a crack. The lizard's head snapped back painfully. "And now I'm not," she said triumphantly as she twirled back to earth. The Krusha whipped its head back and saw that the small chimp had her back to him and he ripped a bush right out of the ground. He took hold of the root, spun it over his head, and swatted the monkey as hard as he could.

Dixie felt a searing smack on her back as she suddenly flew into a tree with all the speed of a rampaging rhino. There was a painful thud and dancing of stars before the chimp's vision before she had realized she was still in a fight. Before she could even stand up, however, a shadow fell over her, a very large shadow. "Aw jeez, hittin' a girl when she's down!? You Kremlings sure do play fair, don'tcha?" Dixie quipped without even turning to face her opponent.

"Kremlings don't play fair, we play to win!" The Krusha shouted while attempting to flatten the girl once again. There was a rustling of bushes and suddenly Dixie felt something shove her and the world spiraled out of control.

Diddy looked frantic, "Are you crazy, you could've been KILLED!" Dixie rolled her eyes and spoke with a cynical tone, "I didn't know you cared." Diddy sighed and began to speak but was cut off by the Krusha reaching for them again. The two chimps ran out of the brush and back into the Zingers.

"Wrong way," Diddy nearly gasped. "Yeah, no duh," Dixie replied exasperated. The two made a run for the west, to the jungle exit but soon heard the flapping of large wings halted them in their tracks. A Krusha, a pack of Neckys, and a Zinger troop were all chasing them. Now what? Diddy thought. "Think of something, hero." Dixie pressured him. The chimps heard a loud roar from the lizard and fell under the brush.

"We're in trouble…" Dixie sighed. "Yeah, we are," Diddy replied. "If only there was a barrel…or a keg;" the chimp suddenly looked up into the tree near them and saw a multitude of fruit, "or something…" Diddy finished his sentence with a devious look in his eye. "What are you doing," Dixie sounded worried. Diddy turned to her, "How's you aim?" She looked up and saw what his idea was.

Both chimps climbed into opposite trees and snatched all of the fruit they were able to. Banana bunches, oranges, apples, pineapples, melons, peaches, pears, even some durian were all packed tightly behind them. "Now, we wait," Diddy said while eating some of his ammo. "Great, because we don't do enough of that as it is, do we?" Dixie sure knew how to bring a plan down. "Just sit there and wait!" Diddy was almost tempted to throw a durian at her. "Oh alright," she sighed.

An enormous vulture, at least ten feet in length flew close to Diddy's perch. Pineapple in hand he steadied himself. Aim and…Diddy let the fruit go and a loud bird's call echoed throughout the jungle treetops as the Necky hit the ground. "Alright," he congratulated himself. "Nice shot," Dixie added.

"Hang on, here come two more."

Diddy pointed out the couple of vultures flying toward Dixie. These were slightly smaller, by a foot or two. Dixie stood up on her tree branch and prepared herself like a diver would. "What are you doing," Diddy whispered urgently. "Ah relax," she whispered back and then she leapt from the tree. She landed squarely on the back of one of the vultures. Its partner had no idea what was happening and it just stared on. Immediately, Dixie grabbed the vulture's wings and pulled them about like horse reigns. Surprisingly, the vulture bent to her will. She pulled the wings and forced the vulture to perform a loop-de-loop. Then, a mischievous expression crept across her face as she looked at the other Necky who was still staring at her like a deaf and mute moron. Dixie forced the vulture she was riding to fly to its partner in a collision course. Both Neckys screeched as they collided with a crash and plummeted to the jungle floor. Dixie twirled her ponytail and gently settled down back on her perch.

Diddy's jaw dropped, That…was kinda hot. "…I'm both confused and impressed at the same time. Why didn't you just throw the fruit?" Dixie shoved a whole pineapple in her mouth and said in a muffled voice, "An' was' goo' foo'?"

Diddy sighed, "showoff…" Dixie swallowed the fruit and then winked at him, "jealous?"

It had literally taken thirty minutes for their weapons supply to dwindle to almost nothing. Diddy only had a few apples, some bananas, and a durian left. He had no idea what Dixie had left over but he hoped it was something good as he saw three Neckys emerge from the trees.

Suddenly he heard Dixie whisper urgently to him, "Diddy, throw something at them…I'm all out." The chimp almost fell out of his tree, "What happened, you only threw half as much fruit as I did."

"Well," she began sheepishly, "I also…kinda…ate most of the fruit I collected." Diddy shook his head, typical Dixie. "Ok, hold still." Diddy took aim at the vulture nearest to him. SPLAT! The pointed fruit nailed the vulture directly in the head and it reeled to it's right, slamming into its closest partner and that partner toppled onto the third as the trio crashed to the ground.

It was Dixie's turn to be in awe, "But, but, but," she sputtered nonsensically. "See, that's all of the efficiency with none of the extra work," Diddy said triumphantly. "…Well…I could've done that too…if I hadn't eaten all my ammo," Dixie muttered. "Riiiight," Diddy answered sarcastically.

"I can," Dixie argued.

"Uh-huh," Diddy replied, sounding less than convinced. Dixie glared at him but he couldn't hold back a smile. He was sure she could knock out those enemies the same way he had but there was something about her being annoyed that just made him smile, perhaps it was because his annoyance produced a smile upon her face. When she saw the smile she just stuck out her tongue and looked away.

Diddy suddenly heard buzzing. More Zingers- "Didn't we already take them all out," Dixie sighed. Another hornet shot from the trees quickly. There was something strange about this Zinger, maybe it was the fact that it seemed to be running from something rather than hunting for two chimps. Its flight was erratic, almost as though it were searching for a hiding place. It zigzagged quickly and crashed into the ground where it did not move.

"Now…there's something you don't see everyday," Dixie said with a raised eyebrow.

A/n: Ok, for the record, I love Dixie's attitude in this story, (although it was accidental.) And there's a good fight-laden chapter for you guys. There's more in this manuscript actually but it feels like I'm starting a new chapter, so you'll have to wait till chapter 4 to see what happens next.