Time for the finale of Kami's arc!
Chapter 61: Kam 'n' K. Rool Duel
Heart Star, approaching Hideout Helm
"Oh no! We're too late!" Ava exclaimed, seeing the powerful blue laser from the island base attach to the Tiki Tower.
"He's already trying to revive the Leptys." Dixie observed. "We have to stop that cannon!"
"On it!" Ava instantly fired some lasers at the island base, but it didn't appear to be doing any damage.
"It's no use. He's got the place protected by a force field." They looked over and noticed another Flying Krock ship.
"It's the Chaotix!" Kami pointed out.
"Quick, meet us down below." Espio told them, flying and landing on the sea while the Heart Star landed beside them. The teams stepped out and stood on their ships as Vector spoke.
"Listen, there's an entrance we can sneak in to under the base. But we's gots to hurry! That Leptys thingy's gonna be powered up any minute."
"We estimate about 30 more minutes until it's complete." Espio said.
"Well, no time to waste." Mika decided. "Let's get in there and stop it!"
"We'll stay here and keep them distracted from the outside." Vector offered.
"Yeah, they won't know what hit 'em!" Charmy fist-pumped.
"I'll stay out here and help them, too." Rainier offered.
"You sure you know how to fly this thing?" Ava asked him.
"Actually, I'll stay out here and help him." Funky Kong said. "I flew it to you guys, didn't I?"
"Hmm… I guess so." Ava shrugged, though she didn't like trusting anyone with her ship.
"Okay, guys, we have our mission." Kami announced in a leaderish tone. "Let's shut down this doomsday… whatever thingy… and kick K. Rool's butt away from this island! Ready?"
"Duh!" Ava agreed.
"You bet!" Kweeb exclaimed. "Just save more room for me when we get there!"
The group dove below the surface and quickly swam toward the floating island, finding a barred gate that led into a waterway. Mika used psychic to bend the bars open and allowed them to swim through, resurfacing in a sewer area of the base. They were about to head up to the first hall until they were stopped by a large, buff Kremling with a spiked club. "Halt, ye landlubbers! Nobody gets past 'ere while ol' Blast-O-Matic is in motion, aye?"
"Klubba?" Dixie questioned. "Is that you?"
"Oh? Ohh!" Klubba beamed at the sight of them. "If it isn't me old mateys, Diddy and Dixie! Here to stop ol' K. Rool's plans again, are ye?"
"Uh, yeah. So, if you could just let us pass…"
"Oh, sure, sure, go right ahead." Klubba offered, stepping aside. "K. Rool makes us eat dung for dinner! Punch him one real good for me, aye?"
"Will do." Kami smirked and saluted him as they ran past. "Thanks for letting us by!" (Play "Hideout Helm" from Donkey Kong 64!)
Stage 54: Hideout Helm
Mission: Shut down the Blast-O-Matic in 30 minutes!
The group went up some stairs to the first hall of the base, where a group of Klumps immediately saw them and chucked Orange Grenades their way. Donkey and Diddy jumped and knocked the first Klump on its back, and while it was down, Kami took one of his grenades and dropped it in his mouth, exploding in his stomach and making him burp out smoke. Kweeb leapt onto another one's nose and jumped before it tried to punch him, making it punch itself out. The last one tossed a grenade at Ava, but she caught it stuck on her sword, flipped over, and slid it down his pants before it blew up.
They hurried around the halls of the base, seeing a swarm of Kasplats run their way. One of them tried to grab Kami, but she ducked his arms, kicked his crotch, and punched him upside the head while another one kept trying to grab Kweeb and Tiny Kong, the two bite-size creatures leaping all about and confusing the croc before they got behind his sunglasses and poked his eyes. Two Kasplats tried charging at Lanky, but the orangutan stood on his arms and stretched to the ceiling and tricked the two into running between his arms and missing. When they looked back at him, he performed a little peekaboo gesture before starting to run over the walls and ceiling on his hands, the Kasplats trying to chase him, but ended up falling when they ran up the ceiling.
Chunky easily punched and knocked out a couple more before they hurried forward, getting to a room with some computer monitors where some Kops stood up and approached them with electric sticks. Diddy shot peanuts toward them, but they swat the peanuts away with their rods, but Chunky drew out his bazooka and shot pineapples, the heavier fruit able to knock the shock rods away and allowing DK and Lucario to run over and start pounding on them. Afterwards, Chunky shot a switch in the wall and caused the wall to open and reveal a passage with a lava river. Mika noticed some metal barrels floating in the river and used her psychic to hold them up and allow the others to jump across. When they were all across, she dropped the barrels and floated across herself.
They arrived at a room where some Tikis ambushed them with fire arrows, the group taking cover behind some steel beams when the Tikis started firing rapidly. Donkey rolled out and was able to avoid the arrows, jumping and bashing one of them in the head and destroying it. The ape grabbed another Tiki and threw it into another, but the last Tiki cowered and fled down a hall, the kids trying to chase it, but the Tiki flipped a switch and sealed a door. "Crud. What now?" Dixie asked.
"I could probably get in through those vents." Tiny guessed. "Wait here." The pigtailed monkey climbed up to the vent and shrunk down to squeeze through the bars, hurrying across the windy air duct, not too far before she reached a vent above the hall on the other side of the door. She jumped down and re-expanded to flip the switch and let the others pass.
"Finally, someone who really gets me!" Kweeb exclaimed.
"You said it." Tiny agreed, the two exchanging a knuckle-touch.
After turning a few corners of the hall, they finally arrived at the center and found what they were looking for: the massive machine which seemed to take 3 stories of the base, with several wires attached to it from the walls, control tables at the bottom where Kremling officers were at work, and five different pipes in which yellow, red, blue, purple, and green lasers flowed through their own ones. "There it is… K. Rool's Blast-O-Matic." Dixie recognized.
"Hey, I remember that. I saw it when I was brought here the first time." Kami remembered.
"MEW MEW MEEW!" They could see the Firstborn trapped in a chamber on a higher level, screaming in pain from the terrible shocking.
"Mew!" Lucario grit his teeth in anger, about to run and puncture the device, only to be painfully zapped by a barrier and thrown back. "No! They have this guarded by a barrier, too."
"20 minutes until completion." The computer announced.
"MWEH HEH HAH HAR!" K. Rool's evil laughter echoed throughout the base.
"I coulda sworn we had more time when we started this." Kami said.
"Either way, we have no time to lose. How did you guys stop it the first time?" Ava asked.
"Um… ooh!" Diddy perked up. "We had to shut down a generator in each of those 5 rooms." They looked and noticed five different hallways around the room. "And each generator was activated by two switches."
"Okay, here's what we'll do:" Kami began, "Donkey and Diddy, you take that one. Tiny and Dixie, take the one over there. Lanky and Chunky, take the one up there. Mika and Lucario, fly up to the one WAY up there. And Ava, Kweeb, and I will take that other one on the second floor. And, BREAK!"
The eleven heroes scattered and went to their predestined targets. Donkey and Diddy entered the chamber of the yellow generator and knocked out the Kritters guarding the room. They split up and entered two different rooms beside the generator. In Donkey's room, the ape found a series of floating barrel cannons leading across to a platform with a switch. Donkey got in the first cannon as it moved up and down, but two spiked Tikis were floating in a circle between him and the next cannon. Donkey waited until both were above or below him and fired between them. The next cannon moved left-and-right as flamethrowers sprouted flames from down below, but Donkey waited until the flames died down to shoot over. The last cannon only went around quickly in a circle, but Donkey focused and watched for it to aim at the switch, firing and hitting it perfectly, landing on the floor below afterwards and climbing the ladder that led out of the room.
In Diddy's room, there was a large cage protecting the switch in the center, with four other switches around a higher part of the room, with numbers 1, 8, 4, and 9. Recognizing these numbers, Diddy threw on his jetpack and flew around the room, hitting the buttons in the combination of 1984. The combination was accepted as the cage was lifted off the floor, allowing Diddy to go and press the switch. With both switches pressed, the two Kongs met up and watched as the yellow generator was shut down, grinning and doing a high-five.
Lanky and Chunky found the room with the blue generator and knocked out a Klump before splitting up into their separate rooms. Lanky's room was some kind of maze, with the switch in a cell on the other side. Lanky found a switch beside him and pressed it, causing the cell to open for a short time. Lanky stood on his hands and quickly started sprinting across the maze. He took two lefts, but found a dead end, went straight, took a right, then a left, but another dead end. But when he took another left path, went right, then one last right, he found the switch just in time and pressed it.
Chunky's room appeared to be littered with tons of huge boxes. The gorilla grew into his giant size and started to rampage around the room, destroying every box in his path until he found the switch. By the time every box was wiped out, he couldn't find anything. But he shrunk back to normal and found some kind of loose tile in the room's entrance. He lifted the tile and found the switch hidden beneath, smacking himself in the forehead before stomping it. The two Kongs regrouped and watched as the blue generator vanished, and Chunky grabbed Lanky's hands and swung him up in the air in victory.
Tiny and Dixie found the purple generator and took out some Krooks before splitting up. Dixie's room was nearly nothing but a long, bottomless pit, with a couple of winged Tikis flying over it and the switch on a foothold on the far other end, guarded by a Koin. The pink-wearing Kong jumped and twirled her hair, gliding across the pit and bouncing off the Tikis along the way to get a better boost. When she landed on the ledge, the Koin kept his shield raised to protect the switch from her. Dixie thankfully found a metal barrel and tossed it over the Koin, rolling along the ledge, bouncing off the wall, and coming back to knock the Koin out, allowing Dixie to press the switch, afterwards using the nearby barrel cannon to shoot back.
In Tiny's room, the switch was behind a glass window, but she had to get around under a tiny pathway under the wall. She minimized and made her way under, having to fight her way past giant spiders. After clearing the spiders, the rest of her way was protected by mousetraps, so she carefully made her way around them to avoid being snapped. She carefully climbed onto the side of one of the traps to see how far she had left, but tripped and accidentally fell on the snapper, but to her fortune, it only flung her away like a catapult, landing her on the switch as she grew back and pressed it down. The two sisters met back in the generator's room and watched the purple energy vanish, cheering and doing a few flips in victory.
Mika used her psychic to fly all the way to the room at the very top while Lucario just scampered up the walls, finding the room with the red generator as Lucario knocked out some Kasplats. They split up, and Mika entered a room full of boiling lava with the switch on the other end. It was inside another cell, and there were four switches beside it, with letters D, M, L, and R. Smiling at these numbers, she used psychic to pick up some metal crates and hurl them at the switches, in order of M, L, R, and D. The combination worked as the cell opened, allowing her to float over and press the switch. "Those are the first letters of some of my favorite Pokémon!"
In his room, Lucario was ambushed by a swarm of grey Krushas. They came at him from all directions, as he dodged left, dodged right, grabbed one and spun around before hurling it at another. He conjured an Aura Sphere and smashed it to the ground, exploding it and blowing another bunch away. He leapt up and started to kick a few more away before starting to dash around the walls of the room, then rapidly leaping from wall-to-wall faster than the eye could see, swinging his hand spikes as he zipped past the Kremlings and knocked them out. He landed stylishly after he was finished, but one more dashed up from behind to try and smack him, but he punched behind him and stuck his spike in the Kremling's face. A cell protecting the switch opened up as a result, so he ran over to smash it. He and Mika met up in the outside room as a result, doing a knuckle-touch as the red beam shut off.
Finally, Team Alien entered the chamber of the green generator, knocking out the guarding Kops before Ava and Kweeb both took the door on the right, while Kami took the left. Ava and Kweeb's room seemed to go a few stories high up to where the switch was. Ava tossed a sword at the wall, then tossed her other one a bit higher in the parallel wall. She tossed the tiny alien onto the first one and let him jump to the second. As he got higher, she kept pulling the previous sword back and tossing it higher than the one Kweeb was on, allowing him to jump high enough to reach the switch. The alien was too small to push it down, however, but he simply pulled out his shrink ray and minimized the switch so he could press it easier. Apparently, that worked.
Kami entered the final switch's room, facing ahead as the big, blue button sat on a pedestal. "10 minutes until completion." She spared a glance at the timer on the wall and took a breath before she walked over to press the switch and finish their mission. But before she could get close to it-
"TURTLE POWER!" Four turtles in different colored masks suddenly dropped down and began circling around her, each wielding different weapons.
"What the—Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? ?" Kami questioned in total confusion.
"We needed some money after our shows went sucky, so we got a job workin' for K. Rool, Dude." Leo said.
"Totally radical!" Raph said.
"Totally rad." Mike said.
"Ugh. Fine, let's just fight." Kami tried to punch Leo, but the leader turtle jumped back and rapidly kicked her face, knocking her dizzy before doing an aerial spin-kick, knocking her away. She quickly got up and dodged to avoid Raphael's daggers, leaping around and continuing to dodge before she grabbed his hand, flipped over it, and kicked him in the face, knocking him out. Donatello leapt over and tried to bash her with his staff, but she kicked the staff and broke it before punching his nose and knocking him out.
"Gnarly, dude…" he said dizzily before fainting. Mikey wrapped his nun-chucks around Kami's legs and flung her at a wall, pulling them back as she stood up. She dodged left when he whipped them at her again, and when they came at her a third time, she grabbed it and pulled the turtle over, pounding his face a couple times before throwing him against the wall.
"Not cool, Dude." Leonardo told her, readying his sword.
"30 seconds until completion."
"Okay, there is SOMETHING wrong with that timer!" Kami shouted. She kept her guard up and slowly backed out of the room as Leonardo slowly followed her, keeping his sword raised and ready to strike. Kami backed up until she was very close to the green energy beam, then smirked and kicked the air toward the remaining turtle. Leonardo jumped back in surprise, and Kami quickly rolled to the side when he charged and tried to slice her. She hurried behind the turtle as he faced her, too late to strike as she punched him upside the head and made him fall back into the green beam. The turtle screamed and shook, enduring the painful shock, until he was finally zapped into oblivion. With 10 seconds remaining, Kami hurried back into the room, past the unconscious turtles, and stomped her foot hard on the final switch.
King Kroctus sat in his throne at this time, happily drinking away his swamp water as he watched the display of the blue laser zapping the Tiki Tower on his screen, and petting his Klaptrap. "5… 4… 3… 2… 1… Completion aborted. Shut down initiated." (End song.)
"Huh?" Kroctus watched confusedly as the laser suddenly shrunk down and vanished.
The Kremling officers around the machine all panicked frantically as the entire machine, and the barrier, shut down. "No! Quick! Start this thing up again so we can-" Before the chief could finish, Ava already ran in and sliced all the Kremlings across the stomach with her swords.
"Mew…" Mew whispered quietly as Mika and Lucario helped him out of the chamber.
"It's okay, Mew. You're safe now." Mika assured him, returning him to the Spirit Ball as the others came over beside them. "Well, Mew's saved. We headin' outta here or what?"
"Not yet." Kami told them. "You guys go ahead. We still have to stop K. Rool."
"Very well. Best of luck to you." Lucario told them before he and Mika ran off.
The apes and aliens watched as a door with Kroctus's visage opened above a staircase in the room. "Let's go." Kami ordered, hurrying past the door and down a few halls with the others. They passed by the room with the giant ship-wheel that controls the island's movement and hurried up some stairs, and the heroes spotted the King himself up ahead.
"There he is!" Ava pointed. Kroctus immediately slammed his fist on a button on his armrest as they ran toward him, closing the door to his throne, but Kami stylishly slid under the tiny gap before it shut all the way.
"You aren't keeping me out that easy."
Kroctus only smirked and waved at the blonde girl before tapping another button, causing his chair to levitate upward into a hole on the ceiling.
"HEY!" Kami tried to run after him, but to her surprise, a pitch-black spot of darkness appeared in the spot where the throne once stood. She stepped back in utter shock when a dark-blue version of herself with glowing yellow eyes emerged from the darkness, smiling creepily as the two readied to fight each other. (Play "Shrouding Dark Cloud" from Kingdom Hearts!)
Sub-boss: Anti-Kami
Kami tried to punch the dark figure, but it grabbed her fist and hurled her to the other side of the room. She got up and saw the anti form walking over, and flipped her way over to start kicking at it, but Anti-Kami kicked back and grabbed her foot, throwing her against the wall. Kami jumped back up and rolled beside the anti, able to kick the back of its head and push it away. When it turned to face her, Kami punched it a few times across the face before it was splat into dark-blue gooey substance, dissolving and reemerging behind her to kick her away. Kami jumped on the fiend's head and tried to twist it, but Anti-Kami grabbed her by the leg and started bashing her around the floor, spinning around rapidly and hurling her headfirst at the wall.
Kami recovered and saw Anti-Kami jump over, rolling away just before it could kick her face. Kami charged at the anti to tackle it, but it simply grabbed her arms and tried to keep her back, kicking up at her face while Kami did the same. Anti threw her to the side, but Kami stayed on her feet as the shadow ran over, jumping when it tried to grab her and bouncing on its head, getting behind the creature and punching it a couple more times before it dissolved into the gooey substance. Kami saw it reemerge a few feet away and ran to punch it, but the shadow turned 2-dimensional and became flat at the floor, breaking into three copies that ran around before they became 3-D again. Kami punched the first clone and caused it to vanish, then hurried and punched another one, but it was also a fake.
The real Anti-Kami then went below the floor and vanished. Kami kept her guard up and watched where it would appear, but the anti popped out right below her feet and flung her away. As she recovered, the anti vanished again and popped out below her again. Kami quickly recovered the third time and started running around the room to avoid when the copy would pop up. When it finally stopped, she took this time to go over and punch it. It turned flat and split into three again. She went for the one sitting atop the picture of Lanky's visage in the room and kicked it, but it vanished. She saw another one smiling at her from atop K. Rool's TV, but instead went for the one walking around the room, dealing a few punches before it dissolved in the substance again.
Kami heard the door to the room make a creaking sound, looking to see a pair of fingers below trying to lift it up. "Ooh!" Donkey hauled the door to the throne open as all the others ran in.
"Kami! What's going on?" Ava asked. That's when they noticed the shadow pop out right behind her.
"Let me borrow this." She insisted, taking one of Ava's swords. While the clone readied her guard and waited to strike, Kami ran over and performed a diagonal spin strike right through the clone's middle. (End song.)
The Anti-Kami gripped her chest, stepping back in pain as darkness leaked out of the crack in its body. They saw the portal of blackness open up on the same spot behind her, so the clone jumped in as the portal shrunk and vanished. "…Well, that was random." Kami commented. That's when K. Rool's throne came back down on the spot where it vanished. "It's time to take K. Rool down!" she declared.
"Ooh-OOOH!" Donkey pounded his chest in agreement. Both he and Kami jumped on the throne and pushed the same button, letting the chair float them into the ceiling hole above. It brought them to a room with tiny camera monitors, showing rooms of all areas of the base. They heard a door slam behind them and looked all the way down the hall to see one. The two exchanged a nod and walked that way. The automatic door opened and allowed them entry into some kind of gymnasium. In the center, they found the Kremling King himself, his back facing them as he lifted a metal bar, with the two weights at the end of it being barrels of Golden Bananas. To the left of the fat king was Cranky Kong, barely holding himself up with one knee and his cane as he panted heavily.
"HURRR." The croc grunted loudly from lifting the heavy weights, putting it back on the floor as he brushed his hands off and turned and faced the duo. "Well, I must say, Kami, I am impressed. Making it all the way to my lair and ruining my machine just as your meddlesome father did." The two only glared at the reptile, keeping their battle-ready poses. "By the way, how did you like that Anti-Clone I sent after you? I created that from the energy in the Darkness Cannon. You see, anyone who gets shot by a Darkness Cannon, their data gets extracted into the cannon, and is able to download evil anti copies of themselves. Pretty impressive, isn't it?"
"Hm. Kinda is. But your plans are through, K. Rool! We stopped your machine before the Leptys was complete. There's nothing you can do now."
"That's where you're wrong, Child. You may have stopped my machine, but the Leptys already has enough animal spirits to work to a fine extent. I can easily find the last of the spirits myself, and then diversity will once and for all be ancient history. But before it happens, I have decided to give you one last chance: leave these fools and join me. Together, the Powers of the Leptys will be ours to control. We can easily rid the world of accursed diversity together."
"Dude. You are one, seriously crazed up Krockpot. I told you, that is never gonna happen. Not very good listening skills, do you? Now if I were you, I'd stop this whole crazy plan myself unless I wanted my other eye reddened."
"Hmm… 'tis a shame, Kami. A pity that you wish to go against me." With that, the Kremling readied for battle. "Very well. I'll celebrate my golden moment by finally ridding you AND that miserable monkey's faces off the face of what will soon be my world! MWEH HEH HEH HAR!" (Play "King K. Rool/Ship Deck 2" from Smash Bros. Brawl!)
Boss fight: King K. Rool
Kroctus immediately grabbed his gold crown and hurled it at Kami, sticking her to the wall by her shorts. With his head exposed, Donkey leapt and slammed down on him with both fists, but Kroctus pulled his crown back and charged headfirst at the Kong, blowing him against the wall. Kroctus saw Kami running for him, so he spun and tried to bat her away with his tail, but Kami grabbed the tail and bit down on it, making him yelp and fling her away. Kami landed on her feet as Kroctus picked up some weights, hurling them at the Drilovsky as she rolled and dodged. When the King dashed at her, she grabbed a weight and tossed it at his head, knocking his crown off and knocking him dizzy as Donkey rolled over, jumped, and bashed his head again.
Kroctus grabbed the ape's fist and spun before throwing him at a wall. He saw Kami run at him just in time and grabbed her fist when she tried to punch him, but she held onto his fist as she flipped overhead and made him punch himself. Angered, the Kremling sucked in some breath and charged at a wall, the impact making the whole room shake and causing a net holding a bunch of cannonballs on the ceiling to crack open and drop a bunch of them down, Kami rapidly dodging to avoid being bumped in the head by one. The croc lifted up a couple cannonballs, and Kami ducked when he hurled them her way. She grabbed a banana barrel when the King charged again and threw it at his head. He was dizzied a little, but kept the crown on his head when Donkey leapt and tried to slam down, ending up being spiked by the sharp crown.
He shook his hands from the pain and ducked before K. Rool could toss another cannonball, then the ape grabbed a weight and spun around before tossing it straight at his face, pushing him back a bit further. The King jumped up and down a few times before performing a Super Jump straight to the ceiling, spinning and shooting down fist-first, causing a tremendous shockwave that knocked the two over. It also caused the poles that were tied on the ceiling to fall, so the Kremling King used them to climb to the ceiling and afterwards swing across the pull-up rings that were on the ceiling, making his way to a cannonball net and reaching in to grab and throw cannonballs down at them.
Donkey avoided the cannonballs and climbed the poles himself, holding onto the rings at the top as he swung and dodged the incoming cannonballs. He got close enough to K. Rool to kick the croc and send the reptile plummeting to the floor on his back, his crown coming off in the process. With his head exposed, Kami hurried over and kicked his scalp like a kickball before he could stand up. Kroctus angrily stood up and started jumping in the same spot again and quaking the room. To his misfortune, however, this caused the cannonball net above him to break open and drop the tons of cannonballs right onto his skull, knocking the Kremling King incredibly senseless before he finally fell over unconscious.
Donkey Kong dropped back down and gave Kami a high-five, doing a little dance after their victory.
Kredits:
Koding: Klaptrap
Karacters: Krusha
Kolouring: Kritter
Koncept: Klump
Kommander: King K. Rool
Kami's Story: END? ? ?
…PSYCHE! !
Kroctus got back on his feet and jumped at DK, the force of his golden belly sending him across the room, afterwards doing the same thing with Kami. "Hey! The credits were rolling!" she yelled.
"Fake credits. Gets them every time." He smirked. The still-conscious croc then started bouncing all across the walls at high speed, spinning like a torpedo as he came down and knocked Kami over again. He continued to bounce around as Donkey recovered, the ape unable to protect when he was hit by the incoming King again. The two stood up and kept their focus as the King rapidly bounced all over the place. However, Kami suddenly noticed a huge golden glowing banana sticking out of one of the closets, walking over to pull it out, seeing it had a sticker with some kind of "R" symbol (the Rareware logo). She struggled to lift the heavy banana up, but was able to, smirking as she held it in front of her when K. Rool came. The bounce-happy croc gulped in horror as he was homing in on the banana, stopping completely when his face came in direct contact.
A few of the reptile's teeth fell out as he began wobbling dizzily around the room, having just rammed his head into pure, solid gold, full force. After a few seconds, the Kremling King finally fell unconscious, his tongue sticking out as he lie on his side. (End song.)
"Phew." Kami sighed in relief, tossing the banana away before running over to Cranky's aid. "Cranky!"
She helped the bearded Kong up as he weakly opened his eyes. "Heh… nicely done there, Kami."
They heard the door open just then as Ava and everyone else hurried in. "Cranky!" Diddy and Dixie yelled.
"Ooo-ooh-oooh. (It's okay, Little Buddy. We showed K. Rool who's boss just in time.)" Donkey assured his nephew.
"Arrgh…" Cranky weakly stood up. "I thought I still had a little fight left in me. But K. Rool still had a few more tricks. Ah'm lucky y'all came just in time."
"Gah!" They switched their attention when K. Rool suddenly recovered again. Breathing heavily, weakened from the fight, Kroctus ignored them and hurried out of a back door.
"The Leptys will be ready soon." Cranky told them. "Listen, Kami, he's got the Tiki Tong working for him. He's the big boss Tiki that controls all the others. He decides who should get the Powers of the Leptys, and it looks like he's chosen K. Rool. Whenever it's ready, old Tiki Tong just needs to sing a little song and they'll be rarin' ta go. Ya've got to hurry up and stop them."
"But what about you?"
"Oh, I'll be fine. Just so long as K. Rool doesn't get the Leptys. Now, go! Before Ah decide ta beat you again."
"Okay." Kami nodded. "Thanks for everything, Cranky." The other Kongs waved good-bye at the old man before hurrying after Kami through the back door.
The door led to a hidden staircase which the team hurried up, finding their selves at the very top of the floating base, atop K. Rool's crown. They held their eyes closed as very strong winds blew past them, coming from a massive Flying Krock that was getting ready for lift off. "Hey! Come back!" Kami yelled at K. Rool, who was boarding the vessel.
"Look at the Moon, Kami." Kroctus yelled at them, the team directing their attention upwards at the bright-blue full moon. "It's a real beaut tonight, isn't it? And pretty soon, the Leptys will get a good view of it, too. Once the eyes face directly at the Moon, the Leptys will be partying like a thousand werewolves! And I'm going to watch it all from the coziness of my Flying King Krock! Good-bye…" With that, the hatch closed all the way as the vessel took off, the heavy winds stopping as a result.
To their fortune, however, the Team Chaotix crew landed beside them on their Flying Krock, alongside Funky Kong in the Heart Star. "What's up, dudes! Looks like K. Rool got away, huh? But ya stopped the machine!" Funky noticed.
"Yeah, but only barely. K. Rool doesn't need it now." Kami replied.
"Listen, you three get inside and help Cranky out." Dixie ordered to the Chaotix, jabbing her thumb back the way they came. "The rest will go after Kroctus."
"You can count on us." Vector saluted, the trio of former Kremlings hurrying inside.
Ava jumped in the cockpit of her ship as everyone else took a seat or stood on the roof. "Let's go!" The Heart Star lifted off the ground and immediately went after K. Rool's ship. The Flying King Krock was merely flying around the Tiki Island, awaiting the Leptys Tower to face the Full Moon. It saw the Heart Star flying behind them and started firing homing missiles, but the Heart Star easily dodged around them and fired its own missiles at the turrets. The Flying King Krock's engines burned brighter and tried more desperately to get away, but Ava's ship boosted after them as well, staying on their tail.
"There's a weak point in the down-left corner." Kweeb pointed out.
"On it." Ava responded, taking aim at the marked weak spot and firing another missile, shaking and blowing a hole in the ship. "Got it! All right, team: prepare for landing." With that said, she moved the Heart Star faster and rammed right into the hull, landing in one of the interior corridors. The team could hear cheering sounds from down the hall as they stepped off their ship, slowly walking down and viewing around the rather dark ship.
The heroes eventually reached the center of the ship, and to their surprise, found the stadium of a wrestling ring with hundreds of screaming Kremlings and Tikis in the audience, with also a few monkey Heartless. The ring had a red corner, yellow corner, green corner, and blue corner, as well as Kroctus's visage in the middle, and "K. Rool's the King" written around the side. Above the ring were four stage lights alighting the place, and also a ceiling fan in the middle of the lights. Atop one of the areas of the audience was an announcer booth. Ava, Kami, and Kweeb proceeded to climb into the red corner of the ring, parallel to the blue corner, watching a 15-year-old boy in a tuxedo, long brown hair to his shoulders, and a slight mustache walk out in the middle.
"LADIIIEEES and GENTLEMEN! Welcome to the main event of Kami's storyline in Legend of the Eight Firstborn! We bring you a grand 3-on-3 tag-team boxing match for the heavyweight championship of DK Isles! Brought to you by Fanfiction and Gamewizard2008, in association with Emma Industries and Rareware Enterprises!"
"Who the heck is this guy?" Kami asked.
"I remember him." Ava replied. "A while back, this weirdo kidnapped us for some silly Truth or Dare game in another dimension. Then later, he was hosting this intergalactic race across Galaxia. This guy here was his assistant."
"Now, let's meet our contestants!" Nick announced, stepping over beside Ava.
"In the red corner." The speaker announced.
"All the way from Planet Glomour, the alien of a thousand tongues, pro at dual swords, introducing Avalagrogaline Ragasquirina!" The Glomourian smiled and waved as the crowd booed. Nick then walked over beside Kweeb, picking and holding the tiny alien up. "Next, hailing from Planet Kateenia, the alien that's small as a grape, but quick as a flick and stings like when Peter pees-"
"Ew." Kami commented.
"Give it up for Kweeboleemolbo Lypbynopbolus!" Kweeb quickly leapt off Nick's hand when the audience started shooting spitballs. "And finally…" Nick went over beside Kami. "All the way from West Virginia, a nerdy videogamer with a stone-hard heart. Put your scaly hands together for Kamilla! Melody! DRILOVSKYYY!" The audience booed and hissed even more, still throwing trash. "Now let us meet their opponents!"
"AND in the blue corner!"
"Third highest ranked in the Kremling Krew, the brains of the K. Rool Brothers with complex marriage problems." Team Alien looked toward one of the entryways on the other side, seeing Baron Kolamitous walking in and desperately rubbing his gloved hands for warmth after being trapped in Arctic Prison. "Scream and shout for Baron Kolamitous Roolenstein!"
The Kremling scientist climbed into the ring, smiling and waving to the applauding crowd.
"Next, entering the ring, second ranked in the Kremling Krew, biggest Kaptain of croc captains, and survivor of shark-infested waters." They watched as Kaptain Kruckers entered in another entry, completely dripping wet as he poured water out of his hat, squeezed it out of his clothes, and picked piranhas off his skin as he got in the ring, afterwards shooting fish out of his blunderbuss. "Kaptain KRUCKERS!"
The pirate waved his gun in the air as the crowd cheered.
"AND FINALLY! The King that everyone came to see! Big boss of the Kremlings and mastermind behind this whole plot!" The three operatives looked up and gasped when the Kremling King himself was lowering down on a chain, dressed up in blue shorts, blue sleeveless shirt, red rubber boxing shoes, brown belt with a golden buckle, and red boxing gloves. "King KRUSHAAAAA Kroctus Rool!"
"YEAH! THANK YOU!" the King cheered, waving at the many screaming fans. "Thank you!" Nick looked up in terror when he saw the croc directly above him, looking at the camera with his mouth agape, too late to move as Kroctus released the chain and came down, squishing Nick flat under hit butt. Kroctus stepped back to the blue corner with his brothers, allowing the flattened 2-D Nick to stand up and blow into his thumb, filling him up with air and making himself 3-D again.
"HOO! Anyway… the rules are simple, kick your opponent's butt any way you can, I know it's supposed to be boxing, but, eh. But only one person from each side is allowed to fight, which means there should only be 2 people in the ring at a time. However, fighters are allowed to call for backup if necessary. My partner, Zach and me will be watching the fight from the booth up there, and we'll be ringing the bell whenever the time is up for a round. When the time is up, the person who is currently fighting has to tag another person to fight. So, that's it. Now if each team would just decide a person from their group to go first."
"Arrgh, roast these children onto a silver platter, aye?" Kruckers exclaimed as he and Baron patted Kroctus's shoulders, leaping out of the ring.
"Good luck, Kam." Ava said, smacking and pushing Kami forward as she climbed out.
Kweeb climbed onto Kami's shoulder and said, "I have total faith in you!", patting her shoulder and jumping off after Ava.
"WELL-P, looks like we have our first two combatants. ANY questions or CONCERNS before we begin?" Nick yelled into the microphone.
"Umm… I do?" Kami rose her hand.
"Yyes, my dear?" Nick replied smoothly, wrapping an arm around Kami and giving a handsome grin, to which she was creeped out at.
"Uhh, I don't really box."
Nick seemed to ignore her statement and rolled his eyes back-and-forth between her and the camera, still keeping his smooth grin. "LET'S GET READY TO RUMBLLLLLLLE!" Kami rubbed her ears from Nick's deafening shout as the announcer jumped out of the ring and headed to the booth above the audience, taking a seat by his partner, Zach.
Kroctus fixed the gloves tight on his hands before facing Kami, punching the air a couple times before waving to his fans once more. "Yeah! Thank you!"
"That's gonna get annoying…" Kami mumbled.
"Then hit 'im hard enough in the mouth so he'll shut it." Ava told her.
"Right." Kami got in her battle-ready pose and faced the Krem King.
In the booth, Zach was happily shaking the golden bell in his hand and ringing it. Nick smacked the boy and took the bell back, sticking it onto their microphone stand and smashing a button. The button made the bell ding, and the first round began. (Play K. Rool's Battle Theme from DK64!)
Boss fight: The Three K. Rools
ROUND 1
Kami and K. Rool ran right at each other, but Kroctus was the first to attack, punching Kami in the face and pushing her back. She tried to punch him back, but Kroctus's longer arms made him the quicker puncher, dealing a few blows to her stomach before she dodged one and ran to his left. K. Rool kept turning and watching her until she was able to run and slide between his legs, grabbing his tail and about to bite it again, but he quickly spun around and flung her away. She landed in the green corner as Kroctus ran to punch her against the pole, but she climbed the pole and leapt right over him, hurrying away as Kroctus gave chase. She ran to the other side and grabbed the rubber ropes, holding on tight as Kroctus grabbed her legs and tried to pull her away. The King struggled to pull Kami off the rubber ropes as she kept a tight grip, but the Drilovsky smirked and let go on her own, causing the force of K. Rool's pull to allow her to kick him hard in the nose, making his head spin.
"OHH! Looks like K. Rool got burned on that deal!" Nick exclaimed.
"No kidding. That musta been painful." Zach commented. K. Rool shook the pain off and rubbed his teeth before walking in the center and jumping, slamming the floor on his butt to create shockwaves. Kami stood on one of the corner poles as he did so to avoid them, but Kroctus saw this and decided to charge straight at said pole, making Kami fall off and causing the ring to shake.
Outside the ring, Kweeb noticed that the stage light above Kroctus was shaking loose, smirking as he got an idea. "He did say we could call for backup." With that, he carefully aimed his Tri Gun and fired a mini laser, successfully burning the beam that held up the light and causing it to fall. After shaking the dizziness off, Kroctus looked up and gasped when the light came down on him, getting it stuck on his head as he endured a painful shock. The crowd booed and hissed and began to throw garbage at Kami while K. Rool walked around aimlessly, unable to see.
"Yeowch. The audience isn't too happy about that." Zach commented.
Kami was then hit in the face by a banana peel, but she pulled it off and smirked, having her own idea. "Hey, Krocky, over here!" Kroctus heard this and cried as he ran to where her voice came from, so Kami threw the banana peel in his way and caused him to slip, flinging up in the air and coming down on his bottom, but the stage light came off in the process.
"Alright, who threw that banana?!" he shouted to the audience.
One of the Kremlings blushed and confessed, "Uh… I did-" Right away, Kruckers shot him in the chest with his gun.
Up in the booth, Zach noticed Nick had fallen asleep, and that the time for the round was up. The boy smirked and slammed his hand down hard on the button, making a loud ring that startled Nick awake. "TIME'S UP!" Zach yelled. "Both combatants, tag another person from your team."
Kami leapt out of the ring and said, "Your turn, Ava." patting the alien's shoulder as Ava nodded and climbed in.
"Teach her a lesson." Kroctus ordered to Kruckers, the pirate nodding and climbing in.
ROUND 2
"Looks like it's Ava's and Kruckers' turn now, folks!" Nick announced. "And the Kremling Kaptain is already blazin' with his blunderbuss!" Like he said, Kruckers kept firing cannonballs from his gun as Ava ran around and avoided the shots. He switched the rocket on in his gun and shot over to her, swinging at Ava and batting her across the ring. She rolled away when he performed the same tactic again and quickly ran when Kruckers spun in a tornado, trying to whack her again. He became dizzy and allowed Ava to run over and deal a few strikes from behind. Kruckers yelped awake and turned to swing his weapon, the huge gun coming in contact with the dual swords as both weapons pushed against the other. Ava pulled her swords back and struck, but Kruckers jumped back and shot homing spiked balls.
Ava carefully dodged past the spiked balls, but that's when Kruckers fired the purple gas from before, which caused Ava to do the opposite of what she wanted. Ava remembered this, so when Kruckers switched on his rocket and shot over, Ava stabbed behind her, so the gas made her stab in front and strike Kruckers. When the gas wore off, Ava did a spin-kick and knocked him off his feet, but Kruckers simply switched the rocket on again and zoomed around the ring, so Ava got onto the pole in the blue corner to avoid him. Ava kept an eye on him and jumped, landing on the speeding Kaptain and taking control as they zoomed around the ring, flying straight up and coming back down, Kruckers headfirst as they crashed and Ava jumped off.
In the booth, Nick was happily kicking back in his seat while Zach watched the timer, seeing it was close to the end of the round. He glanced back-and-forth between Nick and the bell, feeling like Nick wasn't gonna ring it. This was his chance, Zach thought! Zach was just about to ring it himself when Nick instantly sat up and smashed his hand on the button, beating Zach to it. "AND this round is up! Players, pick a teammate!"
Ava climbed out of the ring and picked Kweeb up, placing the little alien in and saying, "Be careful, Kweeb."
Kruckers climbed out and said to Kolamitous, "Argh, swab the deck with him, aye?"
ROUND 3
"Let's see what this Krockhead can do!" Kweeb exclaimed cockily. Kolamitous started off by switching on his jetpack and hovering in the air, throwing a bunch of tiny beads around the ring that all connected with electrical beams.
"This ought to give you a shock." Baron said, switching out the electric rods on his pack and zapping huge electrical beams at Kweeb, forcing the alien to carefully hop around the ring in between the electric beams. He bounced his way over to the pole behind Baron, jumping up the rubber ropes and getting atop the pole, shooting his stun gun at the jetpack and making it switch off, causing the scientist to fall and get zapped by the electric floor. He became stunned, and Kweeb noticed the stage light wobbling above him. That's when Diddy pounced over and grabbed the alien on his tail, tossing him up above the stage light so he could creep into a crack and get inside.
Like he usually does, Kweeb went around the stage light and started shooting and cutting wires. Eventually, the stage light broke free of its beam and fell onto Kolamitous's head, giving him a shock so painful, they could see his skeleton. Baron pulled the light off and tossed it away, then pressed a button on a remote that caused the corner poles to electrify. Kolamitous hovered around in his jetpack again as snaky lines of electric moved around the floor, trying to catch Kweeb as the alien ran around to avoid them. To Kweeb's luck, Lanky ran and tossed a metal barrel into the ring, which Kweeb zapped and shrunk down with his shrink ray, hiding behind it as the electric snake hit it and vanished. Kweeb grabbed the barrel and tossed it above him, shooting it with his ray gun to force it up a lot higher, afterwards zapping it with the shrink ray's reverse setting. The barrel re-expanded and came down on Kolamitous's jetpack, making him drop down and take a shock from the electric snake.
Baron then tried to switch on his jetpack, aimlessly walking in the center of the ring. Kweeb looked above him at the spiraling ceiling fan and got an idea, running and jumping into an opening on the jetpack. The alien moved around inside and tinkered around with some of the wires before hurriedly jumping out. As a result, the jetpack switched on instantly and zipped straight up, breaking the blades off the ceiling fan as the jetpack was stabbed into it. Before Kolamitous could shake himself free, the Kremling scientist endured a brightening, painful shock, exposing his skeleton stronger than ever before the light died down, knocking the croc unconscious as he just rotated from the fan's post, covered in soot.
"Who's idea was it to put a CEILING fan thar? !" Kruckers asked.
Another Kremling, next to the previously shot Kremling, blushed and raised his hand. "Uhh… that was me-" Kruckers immediately shot him as well.
Nick and Zach exchanged quick glances between each other and the microphone, both of them grabbing for and fighting over it. Zach wrapped the phone's wire around Nick's neck and started to strangle him, but Nick grabbed the bell and bashed Zach with it, taking the microphone and speaking, "Looks like Kolamitous is down for the count. Both teams must now pick the next person." Zach then got up and bashed Nick's head with the bell.
ROUND 4
"Arrr… it's time I be mountin' yer heads on a wall." Kruckers said, getting back in the ring with Ava. The Kaptain began shooting cannonballs with built-in buzz-saws, moving around the ring along their spinning blades, so Ava held on one of the corner poles to stay away from them. Kruckers took this moment to shoot at her, so Ava had to jump and carefully balance her way across the rubber ropes. When Kruckers shot a cannonball at the rope she was standing on, she jumped ahead to a pole and caused the ball to bounce off the rope and bash Kruckers's face. The croc fell over and screamed when one of the buzz-saws went over him, slicing his shirt and skin a little bit.
The buzz-saws stopped as Kruckers recovered, switching on his gun's rocket and hovering over Ava. The white-skinned alien ran as he unleashed flames down below, burning a trail of fire as he followed Ava around. By the time he stopped and landed, a good portion of the ring was covered in flames, giving Ava little room to dodge his spiked cannonballs. She could barely dodge left or right as they zipped by and scratched her dress, but was able to crouch and duck a few of them. Thankfully, Kruckers released ice from his gun and put out the flames, but made the floor too slippery for Ava to walk over. When Kruckers shot spike balls that rolled along the floor, Ava got away by stabbing her swords in the ice and was able to crawl away before the spikes could stick her. Eventually, Kruckers just decided to switch on his vacuum and prepared to suck her in.
Ava kept her swords in the ground and held on as the powerful gust was pulling her away, but she saved herself by tossing her left sword back, getting stuck in the vacuum. The sucking stopped as a result, and Kruckers flicked the switch on-and-off to get it to work. The sword shot out as a result, but to his dismay, the rocket activated and went out of control, zooming the Kaptain all around the stadium until he finally flew straight out of the airship. He zoomed around the Flying King Krock until crashing on the roof, dropping his gun and rolling over the side of the ship. He ended up caught in the ship's side propeller, desperately trying to crawl away for dear life as the massive fan was quickly sucking him in. He glanced back and watched in total horror as his jacket was already caught up in the blades, screaming, "ARRRRR! !", before he himself was sucked in.
This caused a whole chunk of the ship to explode, and the audience and everybody onboard screamed as the ship began spiraling aimlessly, making the whole stadium spin around and around, upside-down to right-side-up, over and over. In their booth, Nick and Zach held their arms wrapped around the other as they cried, but eventually, the ship came to a crash-landing along the beach of Tiki Island, right-side-up. The whole ship came apart as a result, exposing the boxing ring to the outside atmosphere. Teams Psychic and Chaotix, who were currently resting on the island, saw this and went over to watch the match, alongside Cranky Kong.
"WHOA-HO!" Nick shouted into the mike. "Looks like it's down to Kroctus 'n' Kami! Who will win, folks?!"
As the aforementioned combatants got in the ring, incredible hatred and anger brimmed in Kroctus's eyes, snarling at his opponent with pure lust for revenge. "I offered you the chance to be my apprentice… I waited patiently at the last moment to see if you would change your mind… but now…" the King threw off his rubber gloves, "you've gone too far." A squad of Kremlings then ran in and slipped new gloves onto his fists, metallic gloves with spiked, electrified knuckles. "With these, I will tear you apart limb-from-limb. And all of your guts will be decorations for my brothers' graves, as memory of their sacrifice."
ROUND 5
Kami looked slightly terrified at the enraged and torn-up croc, but kept her guard up. Before she could counterattack, Kroctus charged and punched her across the face, the sharp and electrical knuckles doing serious damage as he continued to punch, leaving several bruises and bloody holes. She did her best to keep standing, but that's when Kroctus ran into one of the rubber ropes and started slingshotting all around the ring, belly-bashing Kami several times as he passed her. She recovered just in time to punch his gut, but forgot that his stomach was made of gold underneath, paining her knuckles as Kroctus smacked her away, hearing the audience give louder cheers at their King's triumph.
Ava and Kweeb watched in pure worry as the reptile grabbed her by the shirt collar and started rapidly punching her face, swinging her around before finally slamming her body against the floor. She barely lie conscious on the floor as Kroctus climbed onto the ropes, getting ready to jump and smash her bones to pieces. "YEAH! THANK YOU!" He waved to his fans.
Ava quickly ran over to their side and slipped a sword beside Kami. Feeling it, the Drilovsky's weakened expression became serious again, grabbing the blade and aiming it upward as Kroctus attempted to crush her under his bottom. His butt came in contact with the sharp blade, making the croc cry and leap into the air, gripping his bottom. Kami quickly rolled away as he crashed back down, both opponents standing up and facing the other. Kami then spotted K. Rool's previous boxing gloves and hurried over to slip them on. When the King charged and punched at her again, she was able to hold the electric fist back with the rubber glove. She added more pressure to keep his fist back and was finally able to toss him on his back, running and punching him across his face.
Kroctus rubbed his aching teeth and stood up, attempting another charging punch until Kami held his fist back again. This time, K. Rool added the other fist, and Kami began struggling to keep both of them back. Tiny Kong shrunk down and hurried onto the ring while he was distracted, dashing in the hole in Kroctus's left shoe and firing her Feather Bow at the Kremling's toes. Kroctus hopped around on the other foot, being tickled, allowing Kami to grab Ava's sword again and strike at his behind. Kroctus leapt into the air and landed on his front as Tiny dashed out, the King standing up and facing Kami again. He got back in his blue corner while Kami got in the parallel red corner.
"Hey, Kami!" Kweeb yelled and waved, aiming his Tri-gun at her right fist. He fired the growth ray directly at the gloved fist and made it grow to about K. Rool's height.
"Whoa!" she yelled, barely able to raise her enlarged fist. "You sure this is a good idea?"
"Yeah! When he comes at you, just punch him!"
She faced back ahead as the Kremling King snarled, getting ready to charge at her full force, struggling to hold her enlarged fist up, but still did so and was prepared to punch. Finally, Kroctus dashed straight at her, arms flailing all about, but was instantly stopped when the giant punching glove came in contact with him. Kami started punching Kroctus from all directions using her hugified fist, until finally bashing him straight in the air and twirling her arm for one final punch. She leapt straight up to him and dealt the final punch straight in his gut, sending the Reptile King soaring to the heavens above. (End song.)
Kami stood there and only panted heavily, completely worn out from the battle as Kweeb shrunk her hand back down, and the audience fell into silence. Before she knew it, the whole of the Kremling audience began crying and cheering for their victor, Kami brushing a hair strand off her face as she gave a smile and waved. Ava and Kweeb climbed in the ring and stood by her as well, waving as the fans cheered them on.
"And the winner is: TEAM ALIEN!" Nick announced to the crowd.
"SHE DID IT! HEH HEH, I KNEW SHE WOULD!" Cranky yelled as the Kongs and their other friends smiled and waved.
"Thank you, one and all for attending this epic storyline finale! This is Nick Klouse and Zach Guiles, reporting live from through the 4th wall! THANK YOU and GOOD NIGHT! And if any ladies out there would like to request a date with me, please don't hesitate to-" Kami just walked over and bashed him with the metal glove that K. Rool dropped. The announcer wobbled around in dizziness before falling on his back, his eyes spinning as birds flew around his face.
"Uh, peace." Zach said before running off.
The Tikis and Heartless, however, all exchanged glances and nodded before moving away from the crowd. Team Alien's moment of glory ended when they saw the Kremling King fall back down from the heavens, crashing straight in the Leptys Tower's head. Hearing this, the audience silenced and looked up at the tower. The eyes of the tower suddenly started to glow a bright red as its huge, frowning mouth opened. By this time, the tower was directly facing the Full Moon.
"Oh no! The Leptys is happening!" Kami exclaimed.
"Aw, dagnabbit! This whole boxing match was just a trap to stall for time." Cranky yelled.
"Then we have to hurry up there and stop him."
"Quick, dudes! Use this rocket to get up there." Funky ordered, bringing out a rocket barrel.
Team Alien immediately jumped in as the rocket fired up, starting to fly them straight toward the Leptys's mouth. A couple of Tiki soldiers were riding on blimps and firing arrows to try and stop them, but they easily dodged around the arrows and blimps and kept going. It didn't take long until they reached the colossal tower, but the rocket barrel was already dying out. They were able to jump into the Tiki's mouth before it crashed, but the mouth closed tight and sealed them in.
The trio weakly stood up and found their selves in a pure dark chamber, with the only light coming from the moon through the eyes. The walls of the chamber suddenly alighted as well, and the three stared with awe at the silhouettes of animals moving across the jungle-decorated walls. They faced dead ahead toward the room's center, where the moonlight shone down upon King K. Rool.
"Can you feel it, Kami? The Moon's power?" Kroctus asked, raising his shaman staff as he kept his eyes closed and bathed in the light. "Finally… after so many long years, the Leptys is finally awakened. With the power of the Tikis, I will be the ultimate ruler of Animalia, and diversity will come to an end. Nobody will EVER have to worry about being bullied for being different! This is a golden moment, Kami. You should be pleased. No longer will mortals feel shunned for being 'different.'"
"So what? Who really cares about any of that stuff? Sure fish aren't able to breathe on land, humans can't fly, and Kweeb is very easy to squish… but people are supposed to be different! I mean, the differences in people, cultures, and even animal habitats is what makes the world so unique. It's what makes people special. And you will NEVER get away with taking away what makes people special."
"That's very noble of you, Child, but the King always calls the shots in his kingdom. And as ruler of Animalia, I hereby decree that diversity is: no more! Begin the ritual." (Cue the Tiki Tong Song from Donkey Kong Returns!)
A squad of Tikis of different instruments appeared around the room, surrounding the King as they all played their music. The team gaped when the Tiki Tong himself came down, starting to sing deep and mystical vocals. The Tikis all tossed Golden Bananas into his mouth as he chomped down on them, letting the squashed, glowing substance poor all over on K. Rool's form. Notes also flowed from the Tikis into the Tong, who then let the notes flow down onto Kroctus. The King immediately felt the power surging in his veins, growing even larger as his transformation was coming on.
His right arm became furry like a gorilla's, his left arm became like a cat's and grew claws. His right leg became an elephant's and his left leg became a bird's talons. His tail turned into that of a snake's, a turtle's shell appeared along his stomach, porcupine spikes grew along his back, gills appeared on his cheeks, spider legs appeared around his body, many eyes appeared on his face, also spider's, but the rest of his head remained that of a croc's as the golden crown grew longer and sharper, the King now 5 times as big as he normally was.
"Finally… with the Power of the Leptys now in my control, I have nearly enough strength to finally end the wretched diversity. All I need now… is the fresh spirit of… A HUMAN!" His neck stretched like a snake and got his face into Kami's, who jumped back in fright. "And a couple aliens wouldn't be bad either." Ava and Kweeb gasped. "ROOOAAAR!"
Kami suddenly felt some light energy around her right hand, watching as a brown Keyblade appeared out of nowhere with teeth designed like bones. "Um, okay… I'll take it!" Kami gripped the weapon tight as all three readied for battle.
Semifinal boss: Animal King (Kingus Animalius)
The kids scattered when Animal King punched his gorilla arm at them, running around his body to look for weak points. Ava tried to strike the bird leg, but its skin was too hard, and Kroctus slashed the talons at Ava and pushed her away. Kweeb tried to climb one of the spider legs, but Kroctus spat a web and tied him up, making Kweeb drop off, but he was able to shoot his ray gun and burn the web. Kami dodged as Kroctus shot water out of his nose like an elephant would, running and striking the elephant leg with the Keyblade. She ran away when he rose the elephant foot and tried to stomp her, running behind and throwing strikes at his snake tail.
The tail wrapped around and squeezed her a bit before hurling her away. Afterwards the Animal King crawled up to the ceiling and was able to weave a spider web, hanging upside-down from the web and spitting webs down at them. Ava twirled her swords around like a helicopter and hovered upward, floating beside where the web attached to the wall and slicing the strands, eventually causing the incarnation to plummet down below. His head was down at the floor as a result, so Kami was able to deal a few strikes against his many eyes with her Keyblade.
Kroctus quickly stood up and rubbed his eyes of the throbbing pain. He then transformed his gorilla arm into a crab claw, trying to snap at Kami, who was able to dodge and whack his claw back. He snapped his cat fingers and caused the whole tower to fill with water. The operatives held their breath and swam around while K. Rool had the benefit of his gills and fins, his teeth becoming that of a shark as he swam around and tried to gnash on Kami and Ava. Kweeb was able to swim past the teeth before they could bite down at one point, getting inside the mouth and blasting the uvula with his laser. Kroctus shook around and coughed the alien out, but Ava took this time to swim over and strike his eyes a bit.
Animalius swam away and made the water drain out of the tower, afterwards sprouting some bird wings so he can fly around. From the air, he turned his back to them and shot the porcupine spikes out, but Ava and Kami twirled their swords/Keyblade and protected, while Kweeb easily slipped between the spikes. Kami noticed his tail dangling and ran over to grab and start climbing it. Kroctus felt this and made more spikes appear along his back, but Kami sliced them away with the Keyblade and continued to climb, getting over the monster's head and on his nose, throwing more strikes against his many eyes.
Kingus fell back down with a thud and threw Kami off. Angered, he stood back up and snapped his cat fingers, summoning the Heartless that were designed like blue chimps. The Heartless frantically danced and ran about the room, scratching the heroes with their sharp finger and toenails, but Kami performed a few spin strikes and sliced the Heartless back, releasing the captive hearts from their forms. She rolled away when Kroctus tried to crush her under his elephant foot again, getting behind him with Ava and slashing at his snake tail.
Animalius summoned a few more chimp Heartless, this time red female ones with bows on their head. They scampered even faster around the room, throwing banana bombs, but Ava was able to toss her swords like boomerangs and sliced them, destroying the creatures as her swords came back. Animalius made his cat arm into an octopus tentacle, wrapping it around Ava and strangling the Glomourian. Kweeb zapped the tentacle with his stun gun and released Ava, who exchanged a nod with Kami before the two jumped and sliced the tentacle clean off with their weapons. They each grabbed a severed piece and shot a glare at Kroctus, biting and chewing away the tentacle like it was a squidburger.
Kingus gasped in horror at this and cowered inside his turtle shell. Kami and Ava exchanged another look in disbelief before stabbing their weapons into the holes where the arms and legs crouched in, making the beast yelp and come out. With that done, Kami leapt off Ava's hands and onto the nose, and Kami dealt more strikes against the eyes.
"GAHH!" The mammoth screamed, panting heavily from the pain as he looked up at Tiki Tong. "Tiki Tong! I need more power!"
"Hnn. Arr-ar." He shrugged, gesturing "alright." With that, the Tiki grabbed Ava and Kweeb in both his hands, starting to squeeze them.
"Guys!" Kami watched in grief when her friends' bodies vanished into thin air, their hearts coming out and floating into the Tiki Tong. "NOOO!"
Tiki Tong absorbed the hearts' energies and transferred it into the Animal King. "Yes! Now, the added powers of TWO aliens!" Kami nervously waited for what transformation he'd go through next. "W-What? What's happening?" they both noticed Kroctus's chest was beginning to pump larger and larger. "NOOOOOO!" To Kami's utter shock, his chest exploded like a pimple, and a humongous beating heart popped out and landed merely inches from her, looking totally grossed at the severed organ. She then looked up at Kroctus, his shocked expression totally frozen, yet lifeless. Without anything to give him breath, his body fell dead to the ground.
"…Hm. I guess the power was too much for his heart to handle." She figured.
"AHH HA HA HA! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Tiki Tong burst into uncontrollable laughter at the King's death, crying a little and wiping tears from his eyes.
Kami smirked up at the monster and said, "Why are you laughing? You're next."
"HUH?" Tiki Tong gasped at the statement, giving an evil grin and rubbing his hands together. He sang more of his majestic vocals and sprinkled some kind of magic dust on the beating heart. Kami stepped away as something started to grow inside the heart, and before her very eyes, a giant, purple lizard emerged from the heart, with a Heartless insignia on its chest, and Kweeb's antenna on its head. Tiki Tong's hypnotic vocals started to hypnotize the creature as its eyes began to swirl. "Hnn, HUR!" Tiki Tong ordered and pointed at Kami.
Kami kept her Keyblade raised as the Heartless approached, getting ready to scratch at her. "Uh… s-stay back, Ava; Kweeb, er… Kweeba. Stay back, Kweeba. You two are my friends, now. I don't wanna hurt you." Right away, the Heartless spun and whacked her away with its tail. "Sigh, alright, then. Guess I'm gonna have to hurt you. HAAH!" She ran and started dealing strikes against the Heartless as it fought back by swiping sharp claws. She also had to dodge as Tiki Tong tried to smash its hands on her and struck his hands back as a result, the Tiki rubbing the struck parts with his other hand.
"Ooh-OOOH!" Donkey Kong suddenly dropped down from the hole K. Rool left earlier, facing the Tiki Tong.
"Donkey Kong!" Kami exclaimed. She quickly guarded when Kweeba swung its claws at her, keeping its arms back with the Keyblade. She kept swinging at the Heartless until it was knocked dizzy, but Tiki Tong grabbed her in his right hand and started to squeeze her tight. Kami was able to get her right arm free and bash her Keyblade against the hand, making him release her and shake it from the pain. That's when Donkey Kong leapt and grabbed the hand, holding on when the Tiki tried to shake him off, then leaping at the other hand. He then jumped onto Tiki Tong's crown and started bashing his head, knocking the Tiki senseless.
This caused the hypnosis to break for a while, and Kweeba came to his/her senses. Kami smiled at the Heartless, who smiled back and let Kami get on its back. They both faced the Tiki Tong as his mouth hung open in dizziness, noticing the golden orb that was in his throat. They guessed this to be his vocal chords, so the lizard pounced and grabbed his lower lip, forcibly pulling it open wider. Kami climbed up Kweeba's back and got into Tiki Tong's mouth, then proceeded to strike at the golden orb and caused it to crack a little.
Tong immediately coughed Kami out and made Kweeba release. He gasped in horror when he noticed cracks of light appear on his right hand, which then exploded after a few seconds and released some bananas. "AAAUUUUNGH!" he screamed, angrily pounding the floor with his other fist. He sung his hypnotic vocals again and hypnotized Kweeba, the lizard shaking Kami off right away and facing her.
Kami looked up as Tiki Tong's left hand hovered over, about to smash down, but as she was getting ready to strike back, the Tiki pulled the hand away and wagged its finger at her, gesturing "No, no, no", and bursting into laughter. Kweeba continued to scratch at Kami, but she smacked its claws away with the Keyblade and struck back. The Tiki Tong only focused its attention on Donkey Kong, about to slam the ape into the wall, but Donkey only jumped the hand. Before Tiki could pull it back up, Donkey rolled over and grabbed the back of it, so Tiki tried to shake him off. He did shake him off, but ended up flinging him onto his crown, allowing the ape to bash the head again.
His control over Kweeba was broken again, so Kami was able to ride its back. Once again, the lizard grabbed the bottom lip of his mouth and forced it down, allowing Kami to climb up and deal more strikes against the golden orb, making even huger cracks appear visible. Tong coughed Kami out of him and smacked Kweeba off, but gasped when he saw his left hand cracking. "AAUUUNGH!" he cried when it exploded into more bananas.
Tiki Tong lit on fire with anger, deciding to screw the hypnosis and fight on his own. He flew above Kami, still riding Kweeba, and smashed down, but the lizard got them out of the way, only to have its feet burned by the flaming shockwave he released. Kami saw his crown come off during the attack, exposing the red weak spot on his head, but he flew back up before she could do anything. He went above her and attempted another Ground Pound, but she dodged and jumped the shockwave, getting on its head and stabbing the weak spot.
Tiki Tong yelped from the pain and shook her off, hovering around in the air and spinning around, sending flaming Tikis down at Kami. He sent a storm of flaming Tikis down her way, but she kept rapidly swinging her Keyblade and destroying the Tikis before they could burn her. Kweeba recovered as Donkey got on its back, letting the lizard kick him up and land on the Tiki's crown, bashing his head and making him dizzy again. Kami smiled when Kweeba threw her back on its back and leapt up to pull the Tiki's lower lip down again. She climbed up and into his mouth, dealing more strikes against the vocal chords. With one final strike, she swung and successfully shattered the orb to pieces, falling out of the mouth as the music came to a stop. (End song.)
Kami recovered from the fall and watched as Kweeba wobbled around, gripping the spot on its chest with the Heartless insignia before falling over. A big, blue heart was released from the Heartless's chest, vanishing in the darkness. The body of the Heartless faded away into nothingness, and Kami smiled and ran over beside her restored alien friends.
"Ava! Kweeb!"
"Hnnn… huh? What happened?" Ava asked, rubbing her head.
"You guys just got mixed in with that… thing. K. Rool's heart popped out and turned into a lizard. But me and Donkey stopped the Tiki Tong and saved you."
They heard some crying grunts and looked up at Tiki Tong, trying to get some vocals out, but his chords were broken and prevented him from doing so. Unable to sing anymore, the Tiki burst into tears and wailed. The three heroes exchanged another glance and shook their heads in disbelief at the creature. "OOH-OOOH!" That's when Donkey leapt high above and slammed his fist hard on the weak spot on his crown. The Tiki was forced to the ground as cracks of light appeared around his body as well.
"Umm… uh-oh." Kami could only say, sensing danger as the Tiki swelled up. In seconds, the Tiki finally exploded in a burst of light, sending the four screaming and flying toward the heavens. They shot off faster and faster and were actually flying right out of the planet's atmosphere.
"OOH!" Donkey screamed when they looked down and noticed they were blown all the way to the moon. Donkey got an idea and gestured for the others to grab his hand, so they did so as the ape charged and began spinning at super high speeds. The four caught on fire as they were shooting straight for the moon, the ape's fist coming in contact with the surface, and causing the entire moon to shake. The three operatives couldn't be more shocked when the force of the punch caused the entire moon to FALL straight down to the planet, landing right on top the Tiki Tower's head and squishing it, causing its tongue to stick out. The weight of the moon eventually pushed the tower all the way back in the volcano.
The volcano shook a little bit and spat the moon straight back to the heavens.
Moonbase
All of the Moonbase workers got on their feet after the incredible shake. "Umm… anyone else feel that?" Herbie asked. Everyone shrugged.
Tiki Island
The volcano suddenly erupted an incredible supply of Golden Bananas. The bananas rained all around the island as the animals smiled with glee, each one grabbing a handful of bananas and proceeding to eat them. The four heroes came down for a crash-landing right on the island's beach, beside the Kongs, Chaotix, and Team Psychic. As the bananas continued to drop around the island, they were all still trying to comprehend the fact that the moon just FELL. "…I… will NEVER understand how we just did that." Kami could only say.
"If it's not a common thing on your planet, I won't either." Ava said.
"So I'm guessing that's the end of the Kremling Krew." Kweeb figured. The sun began to shine over the horizon as the dawn appeared. The many animals felt the warmth of the daytime light and already knew that the darkness on their island was long gone. As the Tikis' eyes were exposed to the warming sun, their bodies dissolved, and the energy was gone.
"WAHEEEY! YOU DID IT, YOUNG WHIPPERSNAPPERS!" Cranky yelled and limped over to them. "You beat that no good bunch of reptiles and brought peace back to DK Isles! I doubt old K. Rool will be showing his face around here anymore!"
"Well…" Kami folded her arms, "it's not everyday someone survives having their heart jump out of their body, and afterwards having their remains being crushed and burned in a volcano by the moon."
"Ah, yes, yes, defiance of logic. That's a pretty nifty Keyblade you got there." He and Kami observed the Keyblade in her hand. "That's Jungle King. The jungle's Keyblade. And my guess it came to you because you knew the true meaning of diversity. You've become as big a hero as I, Kami." Kami could only smile sheepishly as he spoke. "DK Isles thanks you greatly."
"So, we stopped K. Rool." Ava summarized. "What do we do now?"
"Hmmm…" Kweeb already began to think. (Play the Credits Theme from Donkey Kong Returns!)
DK Isles
"OOH-OOOH!" Donkey Kong cheered and swung on his vine, doing a cannonball into the hot spring and splashing the other Kongs while Ava, Kweeb, and Kami relaxed on lawn chairs, in bathing suits and sipping milk out of coconuts around the side of the spring, and Team Chaotix played and danced to their music.
"You think we should try to regroup with the others?" Kami asked.
"Nah, they can wait." Ava remarked. "Besides, it's not like we're Firstborn Guardians. Well, I don't think we are, anyway."
"Hm hm, good point." Kami laughed. "Now that we took out one of Gnaa's main guys, I just wanna relax."
"Er, say Kami, I got a little somethin' for you." Cranky came by and told her. "Come to my cabin."
"Okay, then." She shrugged, getting up and walking away with him. "Later, guys."
"…Hm. Wonder what he wants?" Ava said to Kweeb, who shrugged.
"O-kay! This one is brought to you by the department of potassium and Vitamin D!" Vector announced into his mike.
"Yay, for healthy colons!" Charmy cheered.
Inside Cranky's Cabin, the elder and Kami were engaged in a 2-player battle in Mario Kart. "I gotcha!"
"Think again, Missy!"
"You're mine, now!"
"DAHH! YOU! !"
"Haha!"
"TURTLE POWER!" the Ninja Turtles cheered, dropping from the ceiling.
"Come on, dudes, let us play!" Leo pled.
"Only two people at a time, guys!" Kami told them.
"Aw, huge bummer."
"Totally lame."
"I want some nachos."
"Go get some, Dude."
"Aw, where's the soda?"
"I'm starving…"
"Eat this, Cranky!"
"Aw, that's it! You'll get yours, Missy!"
"Ow!" Cranky started bonking her head with his cane again.
And SO ends another story arc. A lot more epic than Sonic's, huh? I dunno, this was probably better than Shaunie's. Also, I just HAD to add that scene where the moon falls! It happened in DK Returns, it should happen here! Go ask the creators of that game how that's even possible! Now to finish up Jagar's story, who won't have AS great an ending, but y'know. Next time: Dani and Nolan's relationship gets a little rocky! How's this even possible you might ask? Well, we'll find out. ;D Until next time!