Jungle Kingdom
A young kong lounges on a tree branch, legs crossed, and a red cap covering his eyes from the burn. Diddy's taken "lookout" duty for the day. His uncles going to do the same thing he always does: crush reptiles. The human felt like a special event.
Now it's just same old, same old.
The sound of rustling grass snaps the monkey awake. He raises his cap and swings his head East..spotting a mustached man in a penguin suit. Diddy swings to the branch above and grabs his launcher, with a load of barrels to boot.
"What-a nice day." The man says, inhaling more of that oxygen.
"Another human?" Diddy whispers.
"The sun shines, the birds chirp, and no rabid monkeys came at me."
"Sorry, but I got bad news for ya." Diddy adjusts his aim.
"NOTHING can ruin this day." Mario says, taking a seat. "Not even snipers." That plumber looks Diddy right in his eyes.
"No no no—"
A kick from behind sends him onto the grass! He practically eats it, with birds flying around in his head. "Oh…"
Mario kips up. "Sorry for what I'm-a gonna do."
Diddy forces himself up. "I'm not." He fires a few barrels, but Mario bellyflops under all of them, and takes cover behind a tree. Diddy's shots aren't scraping him, but with this rapid fire, he'll need another guy to shut him down quick.
Unfortunately, he's the distraction, as distant penguins and Shy Guys go charging downhill.
"It's-a on you." Mario whispers, charging up his flap. He hurls iceballs at the kid, but that ape does a cartwheel to avoid them. He climbs back into his tree.
After a few seconds..nothing. Mario just wipes his hands clean. "That'll—"
Diddy flies out with a jetpack, and tackles Mario! He claws at the face, and uses his pack to lift Mario. He takes two feet to the nose and smacks against the field! "Waaaah—OOMF."
Diddy makes the landing. "What were gonna say?" The man doesn't move. "Hello? Mario? I asked wh—"
Mario blasts his legs with ice! The poor kong tries to use his jetpack, but that ice is SOLID. He's hyperventilating, NO control over his situation whatsoever. "I'm so so stupid, why didn't I move?" During his struggle, his cap falls off. He reaches out, but can't catch the thing.
Mario grabs it instead. He wipes the dirt off.
"You can take the cap, just..don't kill me!"
Mario…puts the cap back on him. "Next time, you should double tap. They'll love you." he charges downhill, leaving Diddy to find himself out of this. He bashes the ice…no breaks.
"Aww..how does Uncle K do it?" he can't get a dent in there. Knowing he's stuck, he just adjusts his cap. "Well, could have done worse."
The penguin king drops behind him and clocks him with his staph! He's OUT. As the king marches on, another penguin slides to him. "What are we going to do about the man?"
"Nothing. He doesn't intend to stay long, so there's no point."
.
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Inside the luxorious castle, Wario's still sniffing around. He can smell gold from a mile away, and uses that to its full potential. Eventually, he comes to the throne room.
Vacant.
"What king leaves their best room alone? Morons.."
All the Kongs, except Diddy, are too busy hollering in the coliseum. The anticipation of their hero crushing another enemy. Wario jogs to the throne, touching every crevice on there. Nothing happens on most of the decoration.
When he grabs a sword, it goes down. The throne shakes as a wall opens up behind it. Wario has to hop off due to the intensity. As he catches his balance, a glow reflects off his eyes. His eyes widen at the mere sight.
"My beloved…"
His "Wahaha" echoes throughout the room.
.
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The Coliseum
A roaring crowd pounds their chests and hollers like savages. They are ready for an action packed showdown. That's just putting it lightly. They want a Jumpman repeat. Anytime DK won, they won, that's how much of an icon he is in the jungle.
Would anyone be ballsy enough to tell them otherwise?
Cranky's in the coliseums throne, with Jumpman in shackles, forced next to him. Cranky rubs salt in the wound. "Your boys gonna get stomped if he comes here again. Like father, like son."
Jumpman yanks his arms apart, but those shackles stick on. "You're such a prick. Even more than usual…"
"I can always get worse."
"Oh and I-a thought you hit rock bottom." Jumpman snaps. "Is that pit in your soul endless?"
"Don't get deep on me, Jumper." Cranky turns to his two-time prisoner. "Those 'hurrah' speeches don't get to me anymore. Too old to buy into that."
The man rolls his eyes. "You say you're ToO OlD for a lot.."
"Is that fire? It's about time you show me some'a the heat you gave me back in the day." Cranky pokes him with his cane. "I'll smoke you in the encore. You're little leg can't take it."
"I have another leg.."
As the old men bicker up there, the real actions downstairs. DK jumps out, pounding the beam beneath him. Luckily it doesn't break from the force.
"HOO HOO HOO!"
The crowd throws bananas at the Kong for fuel. In other countries this would be illegal, but if an apes a Kong, in Kong Country, nothing is.
Unfortunately for the walking lizard across from him, there's a lesson to learn. The creatures already shaking from the arena. Never has someone been SO against them before. For all they know, this "Donkey Kong" is about to tear them to shreds..and get CELEBRATED for it.
"DK!"
"DONKEY! KONG!"
"DK!"
"DONKEY! KONG!"
Kong grabs that reptile by his mouth, and slams him left and right! It gets pinned to the ground, as the heir throws shot, after shot, after shot, the pain will never end for this lizard!
"Submit."
PUNCH.
"And your pain will end."
PUNCH.
Despite DK's warning, that lizard loses a whole tooth over his refusal. They take a swipe, and gets a claw on the kong's cheek! It doesn't even dent this..this beast. DK uses one hand to grab their whole face..
A devastating blow to the jaw sends the reptile flying up! It even goes flying out of the coliseum! "AAAAAAHHHHhhhhhhh..hhhh…"
Cranky almost breaks his hip jumping from his throne. "Attaboy!"
DK flexes for the crowd, but there's no smile. He's going through the motions, same flexing, different day.
"aaaaaAAAAAHHH—"
THUNK!
The lizards crashes on the beam! It's got butterflies dancing in their hand. DK scores another win, unable to be overpowered by anyone in his journey so far. He has yet to battle the man who slayed his father, but even THAT reptile may not be a match for him.
"D-K!"
"D-K!"
"D-K!"
As the star of the show boasts with no enthusiasm…Jumpman closes his eyes and looks to the floor. Cranky doesn't let him breathe. "You want him to beat you—"
"Shut up."
"Exc—"
"Just shut ya mouth." Jumpman turns to Cranky, a legitimate fire in his eyes. "THIS is what you want everyone to do? Just beat their problems away? You shoulda' retired years ago."
"I—"
"I KNOW why you didn't. But you're dickin' your grandson over." Oh he's going there. "This ain't the 1700s anymore, you can actually be a good leader. Heh..things never change, do they?"
Cranky backs away. "Where'd THIS come from? We own you, and now you think you know everything?"
"Shut up pussy. You're backing away from a man in cuffs." Jumpman's losing his mind seeing this on a daily basis, and all the Cranky haters are eating. "I can kick your ass with ONE leg."
All the eyes in the coliseum move over there. Even Donkey Kong's watching his stubborn grandfather get chewed out. Rarely has there ever been a commotion over in Cranky's spot, but the venom those two have for each other dates back too long JUST to be solved with a talk.
Cranky glares at this brave human..but when he's reminded of the weakness, that glare turns into a smirk. "You wanna go another round? Hope you're ready to lose the other one." The elder hands a cane to his lifelong rival.
Eventually, they both get down to the arena, this time with DK taking Cranky's spectator spot. DK moves his buttocks around. "Ooo. Comfy."
Dor the fighters down below, there's no comfort. Only rage. Cranky taps his cane down, in sync with the crowd.
"CRANKY!"
"CRANKY!"
"CRANKY!"
Jumpman pops his neck, gripping the cane with all his might. If he wasn't at a disadvantage last time, this is a ridiculous one. Not only is he down a leg, but for his age: Cranky's still packing some abs. If he wants to win at all, he needs to use what he has, to his own advantage.
Cranky immediately looks to knock Jumpman with the cane, but it's blocked with his own. They have a little canefight, with the Italian hopping on one foot. Cranky looks for harder swings, but he's being read every. Single. Time.
"Stop being good at everything!" Cranky shouts, smacking Jump's good leg. The Italian goes down! Cranky gets dinged in the jaw before he can do much. Jumpman uses the cane to get on a knee..but Cranky wraps his legs around Jumpers head, and faceplants him!
"OOF!"
Cranky's got more moves, using his cane as a booster, to elbow drop Jumpers back! He gives Jump a few smacks for the sake of it. "You stronger than that, boy."
Jumpman balls his fists with each strike. Cranky goes for the head..but it's caught! Jumper snaps it in half, earning gasps from the apes!
"You—"
Jumpman bellclaps him with both sides! Hopping on his hood leg, he smacks Cranky's left cheek, then his right, then his left. He uppercuts Cranky with it..and as the ape comes down, he earns a smack across the back!
"What were you talking about?" Jump asks, smacking Cranky across the back with his own cane. The level of disrespect this man is showing is reaching Cranky territory, but that's how low he has to stop.
"I'm the loser?"
SMACK!
"I did what I said."
SMACK!
"Only needed one leg."
SMACK!
DK rises from his throne. He and his grandfather have not agreed on how the kingdom conducts itself, but that's still his grandad..getting brutalized in front of his own country. But Jumpman is not the menace he was made to look like.
Well, until now. He's beating Cranky like a dog.
"Will not interfere.." DK reminds himself, sitting back down. Hopefully his king can submit soon, but that's too far fetched. Cranky doesn't know the meaning of the word "submission."
Speaking of him, he's left crawling away from Jumpman, who just hops forward. "I can do this all day, Crank." The king can't get any words out. He's gasping, desperate for survival in this fight. There's no rope to grab. No cane to nab…so he rolls down to another beam.
It's dead silent. Some of the apes spit out their beverages. Did their king..lose? Jumpman just got crushed by the heir, but Cranky can't hold his own against a handicapped man? What happened to him? Age must have caught up..
Jumpman just swings around. "I'm not washed, ya know…"
DK hops down, eyes locked on the human. "I did not want you to participate. You are in no state for this next fight."
"He asked for it."
DK pops his knuckles. "Nobody would ask for the beating I HAVE to give you."
Jumpman continues hopping, but his good legs fatigue is kicking in. He loses his balance and collapses on his butt. "We're doing it now?"
The gate behind him opens up. Everyone's attention focuses on whoever this entrant is. As far as they know, nobody else is supposed to be here. If only they knew..because this is a bad sign of things to come.
He's finally here. Performing for you.
Juicy and plump, with that red and blue.
Mario enters the coliseum, rolling up those sleeves. "It's-a me."
Biggest showdown of the story about to happen. Stay tuned :)