Chapter 150: A Royal Comeback
Donkey Kong Island being at the other side of the world compared to the Mushroom Kingdom, added with the hours it took to reach the island with the airship (without jet engines, thank you very much), it was around noon here where it was night there.
The airship landed in a clearing large enough for it, and a ramp was placed to allow the engineer team mebers who couldn't fly to disembark while they transported the materials to build the portal.
"Any idea of where you guys will build this portal?" Phantom asked.
"Anywhere the Kongs will tell us. If they have nowhere specific, then we will probably build it near Donkey Kong's house," a member of Magolor's species answered while he carefully put what he transported where a pile was starting to form.
Speaking of the Kongs, Donkey Kong arrived in the clearing with Cranky Kong riding him. Once DK stopped not far of the airship, Cranky looked at the pile of material, then at the engineers.
"So you're the guys who will build that portal thingy. Well, follow us. We will lead you to the place we prepared for it."
The same guy who answered Phantom earlier turned to the others. "Continue to unload the airship while I follow the Kongs," he instructed before he floated after DK and Cranky who exited the clearing.
The walk through the jungle was peaceful, the only nuisance being bugs. The animals who didn't run away only observed. When they reached a river, they traversed it on a makeshift bridge made by a tree trunk. Before long, they reached an area not far of Donkey Kong's house where the Kongs built a wooden platform. Some of the Kongs were still around, waiting in curiosity to see the engineers and the beginning of the building of the portal.
"Here's where you will build that portal," Cranky said after he jumped from DK's back. "Once you are done, we will build a cabin around it so it won't stick out like a sore thumb."
"Also to protect it from the weather and the animals," DK added.
The engineer nodded. "Very well. I will mark the path for the others so they don't get lost in the jungle and we will begin the building right away. We should be done by tonight."
The engineer then left to return to the others, followed by Phantom., as well as by DK so he could guide them. Eventually, the engineers came to the platform with the materials, Phantom using her powers to make clones to transport what the engineers wouldn't have been able to transport in one go. In just a few minutes, the building of the portal started, some of the Kongs deciding to help.
Things went as planned for hours. The construction of the portal advanced well. During that time, Cranky returned to his home, not wanting to remain to watch.
However, late afternoon, a shadow that didn't seem to belong to a cloud appeared and covered the sky little by little, gaining everyone's attention.
The origin of the shadow revealed to be none other than a giant flying saucer, easily about two times the size of the island, larger at the center. The flying saucer, which was flying at about five thousands meters in the sky, positioned itself so its center was right above the island.
Phantom sighed. "Of course... What now?"
Some of the Kongs were scared by the view of the flying saucer, and even some of the engineers looked worried.
Then, some kind of drone flew down from the saucer right toward their position. Many went on guard in case it attacked them, but instead, the drone revealed to be a holo-projector. A giant hologram was projected from it, above it, revealing an imposing figure that had its back turned toward them, covered by a black cape and a black futuristic helmet.
But suddenly, music blared from the projector as the figure turned around and revealed itself to be a fat anthropomorphic crocodile entirely in black futuristic armor that only showed his face which had the particularity of having a bloodshot eye larger than the other.
The crocodile took a pose and yelled, "Guess who's back! Mwahahahahahaaa!!!"
"King K. Rool!" several of the Kongs shouted, including DK, who looked surprised.
"Yes! It is me! K. Rool! Long time no see, uh? Probably long enough that you thought that you were rid of us the Kremlings, right? WRONG! Ahahahah! I was just... temporarily retired... the time to find a new plan to finally destroy you."
"You mean it took you that long to find a new plan?" DK taunted.
"Shut up! What matter is that I have a now a plan! Thanks to some new friends that I made. From which I borrowed this ship."
"Wow. You couldn't even come up with a new plan by yourself. And you had to borrow someone else's toy? Why am I not surprised?" Diddy said.
"SHUT UP!!"
Everyone laughed among the Kongs and the engineers.
"Oh, you're laughing! Well, we will see who will have the last laugh!" K. Rool yelled. "PREPARE THE SUBSPACE CANNON!!! LET'S SHOW THEM OUR NEW POWER!!!"
Phantom stopped laughing. "Wait! Did he say "subspace"?"
Everyone else stopped laughing.
A huge door in the center of the flying saucer, under it, opened, and out of it came a cannon that was about the size of the island's volcano. The cannon pointed toward the ocean, charged a huge quantity of energy, and fired.
A few seconds later, a bubble of void appeared in the ocean, rapidly expanding, surpassing the size of the bubble that took Onett. The Kongs had to climb the trees to have a better view of it as it continued to expand until it was several times the size of the island. They could actually see that the extremity of the bubble wasn't far of the coast of the island when it stopped.
"You are a member of the Subspace Army!" Dixie shouted at K. Rool.
"Mwahahahahahahaaa! That's right! I was recruited by them not long ago! I immediately took the opportunity to take my revenge on you primates! And finally, victory will be mine! I will fire at the island, and you will be trapped in the subspace bubble! No way you can get out of this! IS THE CANNON READY TO FIRE AGAIN?!" K. Rool yelled at someone.
"Yes sir!" someone answered back.
"THEN FIIIIIIIRE!!!"
The cannon turned to point at the island. The Kongs and the engineers panicked.
SLASH!
Suddenly, before the cannon could begin to charge, it was sliced from bottom to top by a giant red sword, damaging it to the point that it couldn't fire anymore. Holding that sword was none other than Phantom.
"What!?! Who is that?!" K. Rool yelled in rage before he gave Phantom a better look as the holo-projector moved closer to her. "Wait a minute..." The next instant, he was holding a picture. "Mmh... Yeah, you are that illusion filly. We were warned about you. Why are you here, of all places? Well, no matter, you are easy to deal with. ACTIVATE THE ILLUSION DISRUPTOR!!!"
"The what?!" Phantom shouted.
The next moment, all her illusions disappeared. Her giant sword disappeared, and her appearance returned to her quadrupedal self. Also, she couldn't fly anymore.
She flapped her wings, managing to hover, but only for a few seconds.
So she fell, with K. Rool waving goodbye to her.
"FUCK YOUUUUUUU!!!!"
Thankfully, she was caught by one of the engineers member of Magolor's species. She was placed back where the portal was being built, among the engineers and the Kongs. The holo-projector returned to them.
"So, we have a slight delay," K. Rool said. "Thankfully, we have repair drones. SEND THE REPAIR DRONES TO REPAIR THE CANNON!!!" he ordered, and countless drones flew out of the flying saucer to repair the cannon. "While this happens, I guess that I should entertain you. OPEN THE HATCHES AND SEND THE SHADOW BUGS!!! ALSO, FLYING BRIGADE, GO TOO!!!"
Many hatches opened all over under the flying saucer, and thousands upon thousands of little purple glowing spheres, Shadow Bugs, were released, raining all over the islands. Then, from the extremity of the flying saucer, probably from hangars, anthro crocodiles -Kremlings- wearing jetpacks flew out and toward the island.
When the Shadow Bugs reached the island, they gathered and merged to form the same creatures that Sweetie Void fought in Fourside, and some others that she didn't, like clouds with a face, a battery on the back, and Tesla coils, or thin beings with a trumpet-like head. Most of the enemies were the soldier things however.
These things appeared absolutely everywhere on the island, there were too many to count.
"Does any of you have a weapon?" Phantom asked, not feeling great about her chances in this battle. Without her Phantom powers, she wasn't much. She knew how to fight without a weapon, but as a biped, not as a quadruped.
Thankfully, one of the engineers gave to her a beam sword that they brought to defend themself. "Take this!"
"Thanks!"
Phantom grabbed the beam sword in her mouth just in time to use it against the first enemy attacking her.
Thankfully, these enemies were rather dumb so they were easy to defeat. This allowed her to train a bit to better handle the sword with her mouth.
The first jetpack Kremlings arrived and began to fire with cannons mounted to their jetpack. No way Phantom could reach them so she left them to her allies armed with guns and magic, or to Donkey Kong who threw enemies directly at them.
Phantom mostly fought the soldier things and small, colored stick-figure-like enemies with a head shaped like the symbole of the Subspace Army, the circle with the line to the center that attacked in large numbers with punches and kicks. But eventually, she found herself face to face with a giant pot on wheels with two scythe-like arms. Some creature with a round purple head was inside it. Phantom had no choice but to climb on the pot to attack directly the creature.
After dealing with the pot, Phantom suddenly had to jump aside to avoid several white birds with rainbow wings that dove at her beak first. Their beak was like the head of a spear, so Phantom absolutely had to avoid them. Their dive was so strong and their beak so sharp that they planted themselves into the ground, leaving them vulnerable. Phantom used the occasion to deal with them.
She was kicked like a soccer ball from the left by an unarmed soldier, but she quickly got back up and killed it before she jumped back to avoid a boomerang. She looked around and saw that she was totally surrounded. Things didn't look good.
Suddenly, DK barreled through the enemies, sending them flying in all directions, and he grabbed her before he placed her on his back. He brought her to the others who all gathered to use safety in number, working together to fend off the waves of enemies.
"They are too many!" Diddy said as he kicked a soldier on the head.
"We must gather more people," a human engineer from Samus' universe said as she fired at a cloud and at a floating sinister ghostly humanoid enemy made of separate grey rectangles with red eyes.
'یƌ⌵⋲ ⋲⌵⋲ꭱɣơη⋲!" the Mr. Saturn said.
Phantom nodded and took the beam sword out of her mouth so she could talk. "Let's move around the island and gather all the Kongs into the group."
"We should first find Funky," Dixie said. "With his plane, some of us will be able to reach the flying saucer and destroy it before the cannon is repaired."
"Good idea. Hopefully, he is still not far. Follow me," DK said before he took the lead, ramming again into the enemies to open the way. Everyone followed him.
While the area around the portal was packed with enemies that came from all around to attack the group, once they left said area, the enemies were more spread out, so it was easier to go through them and advance.
Thankfully, they found Funky where DK hoped to find him, in a clearing large enough for his plane. One of the few places on the island where he could land his plane and take off.
The gorilla was currently fighting off enemies with his surf board, and he was surprisingly holding his own. Well, there weren't as many enemies here as there had been around the portal. However, he had a problem when he found himself facing one of these tanks with a green blob inside. One of the engineers quickly destroyed the arm, opening the tank and allowing Funky to attack the blob, which DK finished from behind.
"Thanks for the help, man!" Funky said to the engineer who destroyed the tank's arm once the tank disappeared. "Let me guess. You guys want a ride to that huge flying saucer to stop the baddies?"
"Just some of us," Phantom said. She turned to the others. "Who will go?"
"Me and DK, obviously!" Diddy said.
"Yeah!" DK agreed.
"Well, I'm going too," Phantom said.
"Alright! Anyone else?" Funky asked.
The others who weren't busy fighting shook their head.
"We will move around the island to help everyone," Dixie said.
"Ah! I don't worry about the others, especially if old Cranky is with them," Funky said. "Alright you three. Hop in. I'm starting the girl."
Not long after and the plane was flying toward the nearest extremity of the flying saucer. Some of the white bird enemies placed themselves in the path of the plane, but Funky simply rammed them. But then, cannons all over the flying saucer began to fire at the plane.
"Hold on tight!" Funky shouted as he maneuvered to avoid the shots. The plane was a small and fast target, so it was easy to dodge with it. If the heroes had used the airship, it would have already been over.
Birds were chasing the plane, as well as clouds, flying cyclope fishes, and some floating ammonites donning golden helmets and holding javelin-swords. Some of the shots from the cannons were hitting them instead.
Also, fire started in several areas of the jungle below. Probably a result of the actions of the little robots holding buckets full of burning bricks or of the wheels shooting fire.
Now, they must hurry even more before the fires spread out and destroy the jungle.
Thankfully, it didn't take long for the plane to reach the extremity of the flying saucer, and as expected, there was a hangar inside which they could see ships of various shapes and sizes. So this flying saucer also served as a ship carrier.
There were enough space between the ships and the ceiling to allow the plane to fly in. However, there was not enough place for it to land. The hangar was absolutely packed with ships. This left Funky no choice but to fly in circles inside the hangar. Also, a welcome committee was already present, made of both Kremlings and creatures of the Subspace Army, mostly the soldiers again.
"No choice, guys, you will have to jump!" Funky said before he opened the plane. "Good luck!"
The three nodded. "Thank you Funky," DK said before he grabbed both Phantom and Diddy and jumped.
He landed right on a Kremling wearing white futuristic armor armed of a simple laser gun, crushing him under him.
Above them, the plane left the hangar.
"Where do you think K. Rool is?" DK wondered as he dropped Phantom and Diddy, and the three immediately began to fight the many enemies around. There was a big presence of soldiers armed of firearms, in addition of Kremlings armed of laser guns, so the three had to use the bodies of their enemies as cover. The ships could also be used as cover.
Phantom couldn't talk now that she had the beam sword in her mouth, but she pointed at a Kremling.
"We question the Kremlings?" Diddy guessed, and Phantom nodded. "I have nothing better. Alright."
"But they won't answer before we hit them, I imagine," DK said.
"Don't hit them too hard. We need them to be conscious so they can answer."
"I'll question the first one I get my hands on. Cover me."
DK did as he said. He grabbed the nearest Kremling -one with a beam sword- and began to hit him repeatedly on the head. Meanwhile, others moved around defeating the enemies going after DK.
"Where is K. Rool?!" he asked.
"Ouchouchouch! S-stop hitting me! King K. Rool awaits you above the core of the Subspace Ship World Eater!" the Kremling quickly answered.
"Thank you." DK punched the Kremling one last time, this time strong enough to knock him out.
"So we must go to the center of the ship?" Diddy questioned.
"Seems like it. Oh, this guy has some small book. What is it? The Subspace Creatures: Reminder."
"Uh. Look, some of the Kremlings have the same book."
DK opened the book to the first page where there was an image of the Subspace soldier with, beside it, a name: Primid.
"Looks like it's a book that lists the different creatures that are part of the Subspace Army," DK said. "Judging by the title, it's to help the Kremlings to remind what they are since they are working with them."
"Of course these idiots need a book to remind them of the names of their new comrades."
Phantom cleared her throat, gaining the attention of the two primates. She then pointed at the exit.
"Right, we should go now that we know where to go," Diddy said.
"Uh... How do we reach the center?" DK asked.
"Weeeell... Hopefully, there is a map somewhere. Also, give me the book. I can keep it under my cap."
DK gave the book, and Diddy did as he said.
Finally, the three began to move toward one of the exits of the hangar, fighting their way through the enemies.
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Oof...that is some major kryptonite for Phantom. Hopefully she finds an effective way to fight without overly relying on the Ruby in the future, especially if the enemy has plenty more of those illusion disruptors.
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Yeah, Master Hand really didn't idle when he was being buddy buddy with the heroes. Finding a weakness for Sweetie Void will be harder however. I already have an idea for Apple Death.
That is a particularity of K. Rool, isn't it? Not only does he completely change tactics for each game he's fought in, but often outfits as well.
Man, Season 9 put Scoots through the wringer didn't it? (Be glad that I know enough about season 9 to recognize that canon adult Scootaloo still has distressingly small wings, because otherwise I'd be saying this was your fault.
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You can get away with capitalizing "Tesla" because it's the name of a guy, but the "coils" should be lowercase.
Eh, those things are only ever a threat because they hang out around bottomless pits.
After that Power Rangers reference with the Koopalings, I should've known there would be an allusion to Star Wars. Or maybe you were referencing its parody, Spaceballs; although badass, King K. Rool would definitely make a great Dark Helmet.
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I take it the illusion disruptor will be destroyed before the fight is finished.
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And I had this one almost right from the start of the story.
Poor Scoot really can't catch a breath with her wings.
Corrected, thanks.
And they stop you from approaching enemies. They are annoying!
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Dark K. Rool. Hopefully, his Kremlings have better aim than the Stormtroopers.
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They will need to find it first in that huge ship.
When Molt Down came out, we had two different authors and one artist point out that it was the second time someone she knew without wings had grown them in order to fly before she could.
Why the villains decide to appear when Sweetie is busy? Is almost like it was on purpose and someone told them "Go, now that the destroyer of universes is busy and she can't defeat you in one hit"
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It's almost like there's a MASTER mind behind them, trying keep his HAND hidden.
But that would be CRAZY, wouldn't it?
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Of course, how could there be a conspiracy using the fact that their most powerful player is in a vacation and they usually don't ask for help to others and the others on the group are not as powerful
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Actually, as it should be explained later, it's purely coincidences. K. Rool was recruited by the Subspace Army not long ago, after Master Hand spotted him following the "betrayal", and he decided to use his new resources to finally destroy the Kongs, without even going by Master Hand first. He didn't even ask permission to "borrow" this flying saucer. He just saw the giant flying saucer and went yolo.
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..... so it's Porky Minch all over again.....
WELP neither of the hands are gonna be happy about this.
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It's cute how you think that the universe can't just hate the protagonists. Especially when the writer is acknowledged in-universe as something that exists.
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They are main characters in a story, how could the universe can't hate them, if it did not hate them it could not be a good story
I thought Phantom's bass form isn't his mobien (anthro) form? why when her power is blocked she goes into her pony form?
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When Scootaloo and Infinite merged, they only merged in mind, the body remained Scootaloo's, so her base form is her pony self.