Chapter 152: King K. Rool
It turned out that they didn't have far to go after Galleom to reach K. Rool. They just had to climb a few flights of stairs, traverse a couple more hallways and rooms, fight some more enemies, before they reached a catwalk on which the king was standing.
The catwalk was inside a huge circular room with several other catwalks crossing it at different heights and directions. The bottom of the room was plunged in darkness for some reason. In the center of the room was something that looked like a black and purple orb inside a glass chamber surrounded by complicated machinery, the core of the ship.
King K. Rool awaited the trio near the center of the catwalk, and they didn't lose time to join him. The catwalk wasn't really large, to the point that DK and K. Rool took most of the place, so Diddy and Phantom were running before DK.
"I can't believe that you defeated the Galleom. They are the elite unit of the Subspace Army. They are supposed to take down large groups of armed soldiers by themselves. Oh, you are probably wondering what is the Subspace Army. Well, you see-"
"We already know what is the Subspace Army. We encountered Master Hand," Diddy said.
"What? Really? And you're still alive? Well, no matter. So I was recruited by them a few days ago. I'm now one of their generals. Which means that I now have the resources to finally eliminate you meddling Kongs, as you saw. But despite everything I sent against you, here you are, before me, still alive. Well, once I'm done with you, this won't be the case anymore!"
"Where is the illusion disruptor?" Phantom asked.
"Ah, you want to know, uh? Well, I have hidden it somewhere where I was sure you wouldn't find it while exploring the S.S. World Eater."
"On you?"
"No. It needs energy to work, and I don't have a source in my armor."
"But it's somewhere in this room then?"
"...Yes. But it isn't like you will have an occasion to search for it! I won't let you escape this catwalk alive!" At this, K. Rool grabbed a huge black cannon from his back. The cannon looked like the head of a dragon. K. Rool pressed the trigger, and the "mouth" of the cannon began to glow. "Here's my new toy! Die!"
The cannon fired, and out of the "mouth" came a big black arrow that flew in a straight line toward the trio. It wasn't that fast, but they still had to react quickly to avoid it. Phantom and Diddy simply lowered themselves against the floor. DK, however, had to jump. The arrow continued its path, then eventually curved upward and ended up hitting the wall where it caused an explosion.
K. Rool stared dumbly for a few seconds. "Uh. I expected it to be faster."
His distraction cost him as he ended up punched by DK. Diddy went on DK's back in order to reach K. Rool and slap him. Phantom took care of destroying the cannon by slicing it with her sword. Growling, K. Rool punched back, hitting DK in the face. His fist revealed to be equipped with an electric brass knuckle so his punch hurt more than it would normally. DK hit back with another punch of his own.
Meanwhile, Diddy and Phantom jumped from DK's back above K. Rool and landed behind him, surrounding him. They then proceeded to attack him from behind. Against this, K. Rool grabbed DK and suplexed him right on the two. He then jumped and dropped back on DK with all his weight.
While K. Rool was still on DK, the ape grabbed him and rolled with him, away from Diddy and Phantom, and sent him flying away with a kick. K. Rool landed in front of the exit on his feet and grabbed a gun. Thankfully, DK still had his shield to defend himself and cover his companions.
Diddy recovered from being crushed by both DK and K. Rool and flew up with his jetpack, his own guns ready. Seeing this, K. Rool changed target and fired at Diddy who did his best to avoid the shots while firing peanuts back at the Kritter. With K. Rool focused on the flying monkey, DK grabbed Phantom and threw her at him. Phantom landed in front of K. Rool and immediately slashed him repeatedly until she had to jump away to avoid being stomped on by him. Now that K. Rool was busy with Phantom, DK did a big jump toward him and slammed his fists on him, making him crash on the floor.
K. Rool quickly recovered however and, while still on the floor, bit DK's leg as he had been about to slam his fists on him again and pulled with his head, making DK lose balance and fall on the floor. K. Rool then got up and stomped on DK's stomach hard, keeping his foot on him before he grabbed a red beam sword from his belt and went to impale him in the chest, not minding Diddy's peanuts. He was stopped by Phantom blocking him with her own sword. Diddy then flew right into K. Rool, sending him crashing on his back beyond the exit. DK quickly got up and stepped back. Phantom remained where she was, expecting to be attacked and ready to use her sword.
However, K. Rool instead charged back on the catwalk like a train, and Phantom quickly had to place herself against the railing to avoid being trampled while DK jumped above him. K. Rool stopped at the opposite end of the catwalk, before the entrance from which the trio came, and he threw his sword horizontally, the weapon spinning in the air. Again, DK had to jump while Phantom lowered herself against the floor. To their surprise, the sword had a boomerang effect and returned, forcing them to avoid it again.
K. Rool then threw grenades all over the catwalk, not leaving a lot of safe place. Instead of searching for one, DK grabbed the nearest grenade and quickly threw it back at K. Rool, the grenade exploding on him, badly hurting him.
He dropped unconscious.
Phantom went to approach him, but was stopped by DK.
He did good because K. Rool quickly got up and threw his beam sword again. While Phantom and DK had to avoid the sword, K. Rool grabbed a remote and pressed a button. The next instant, several drones armed of a cannon came and took seemingly random positions over the catwalk before they each fired a laser down at the same time. The drones then changed positions and fired again. The process was repeated. So now, the trio had to keep watch of the drones to avoid the lasers. Of course, this was also the case of K. Rool so they could use this to their advantage. Diddy still began the process of destroying the drones one by one by firing at them with his peanut guns.
Catching his sword as it returned to him, K. Rool advanced on the catwalk, avoiding the lasers from the drones. When he reached DK, he began to attack him with his weapon. Since DK didn't have a sword of his own to defend himself, he had no choice but to do his best to avoid it by moving backward, by ducking, or by jumping. Whenever he had the occasion, he punched K. Rool. Especially when he jumped, he always made sure to drop back on K. Rool to smash his fists on him.
A drone forced them to move, but DK pushed K. Rool so he was hit by the laser. As K. Rool recovered, Phantom came from behind DK and climbed on his back to pass before she jumped toward the king and slashed him. In return, K. Rool grabbed his gun and aimed at Phantom's head, the gun almost touching her. DK quickly grabbed the gun and pushed it down, the gun firing at the ground. DK then was able to force the gun out of K. Rool's hand and he threw it above the railing to fall to the darkness below.
Diddy destroyed the last drone and rammed K. Rool from the side, almost pushing him above the railing. But K. Rool was able to grab Diddy before he could fly away and ripped the jetpack off the monkey's back. He was then about to throw him above the railing but DK jumped on him and repeatedly punched his head. This made K. Rool release Diddy who dropped back on the catwalk, and the monkey quickly ran away to avoid being trampled as K. Rool moved around as he attempted to get himself rid of DK. But Phantom, not worrying about it, slashed at K. Rool's legs, making him lose his balance and fall. The filly had to get away so K. Rool didn't fall on her.
DK went on K. Rool's back and continued to pummel him until K. Rool roared and brusquely got up, sending DK off his back. But Diddy then came, grabbed a grenade from K. Rool's belt, activated it, and let it drop at K Rool's feet before getting away. K. Rool escaped before the grenade exploded, only to right right into DK's fist.
K. Rool staggered a bit, then dropped unconscious.
The three heroes stared at the Kremling for a bit.
"Is he unconscious for good this time?" Phantom questioned, sword on the ground so she could talk.
"I'm not sure. Let's wait a bit," DK said.
They didn't have to wait long. Just as DK said that, K. Rool got up again, glared at the heroes, said "I'm not done yet!" and jumped off the catwalk into the darkness below.
The heroes looked down from the railing, wondering what the Kremling was preparing.
Sound of machinery erupted from the darkness.
"Something tells me that we should run," Diddy said.
Before the others could question him, they heard something right under their position and immediately moved away, just in time as a giant robotic claw teared through the catwalk where they had been. The catwalk then began to bend down under its own weight, so the three quickly ran to the exit, opposite of where they entered.
They thought they were safe in the room beyond the doorway, but everything began to shake, an alarm blared, and there were sounds of metal being ripped apart and of stuff being destroyed. The three understood that they had to continue running, especially when the robotic claw returning, tearing through the floor.
So the three ran, returning into a hallway where Subspace creatures awaited them. They didn't mind them however, only destroying the ones blocking the way, targeting in priority the ones that were easier to eliminate. They didn't dare enter the rooms, not knowing which ones would be dead ends.
Whatever K. Rool activated was following them behind the walls, wrecking the rooms behind, and letting out its claws forcing the heroes to be careful. When the trio reached a point where the hallway branched left and right, the thing burst out of the wall in the left. The three didn't have much time to see what it was as it disappeared inside another wall very rapidly, leaving nothing of the left path. Whatever it was left big cables behind that blocked the path anyway. This forced the trio to take the right path where they eventually had to climb stairs, the stairs to descend being destroyed with cables present.
They climbed a few floors until the thing came and destroyed the stairs above, again leaving cables in its path, forcing them to enter another hallway. They advanced, forced to take turns because of the thing destroying paths, until they arrived to more stairs that they had to climb.
The process of running in hallways and climbing stairs continued until there were no more stairs to climb. Then, the heroes had to follow a hallway that led to a ladder to a trapdoor, the thing chasing them just behind them, destroying the hallway. They rapidly climbed the ladder, opened the trapdoor, and found themselves outside the flying saucer, on the roof, close to the center of the ship.
They ran away from the trapdoor.
A few moments later, the thing came out, destroying the trapdoor and a large chunk of the roof, finally fully revealing itself.
As the thing roared, the trio saw that it was a giant mecha about the size of Galleom that was designed after K. Rool, without the colors, but with red glowing eyes. It was actually just the top of the body, the rest was made of cables of various sizes that disappeared into the ship, like the thing was half crocodile, half snake.
The top of the head then opened to reveal a cockpit with K. Rool sitting in it.
"How do you like it? I present to you the KAOS 2! We built it all by ourselves! We kind of had to because I took the World Eater behind Master Hand's back, and we built it so it uses the ship's core as a source of energy. So, anyway, it should do the job, right? There's no way you guys can win against it. And for your info, the illusion disruptor is inside the cockpit with me, so I defy you to destroy it! So die already!"
The head closed, and the mecha readied its claws. It began by sweeping the ground with them, first the right, then the left, then the right again. Quickly, Phantom and Diddy climbed on DK's back, and the ape jumped to avoid the claws. DK then had the idea of landing on the last claw to run on it, climb the shoulder, and reach the head that the three began to attack. But after a few seconds, the head discharged electricity, forcing the three to jump away, back on ground. DK and Diddy debated a bit if they could jump at the cables to climb the body, but they judged against it, the belly was too smooth with no parts to hold on.
Rocket launchers came out of the KAOS 2's back and fired many missiles toward the sky. The missiles then dropped back toward the trio who ran around to avoid them. While this happened, the mecha swept its claws again, giving another occasion for DK to climb it with Phantom and Diddy on his back to reach and attack the head until they were forced away by electricity again.
Again, the KAOS 2 fired missiles, then holes opened in its torso and out of it came mines that placed themselves all over the areas before it, so the heroes had to run around to avoid the missiles while being careful of the mines. Having learned his lesson, K. Rool didn't sweep the ground with the claws. Instead, the palms of the hands opened to reveal small cannons that fired continuous lasers that began to sweep the ground while the last missiles crashed. The trio had by now moved away from the area with the mines, so they had no problem avoiding the lasers. The mouth also opened, revealing a bigger cannon that began to charge. The trio quickly ran away before the cannon fired a beam that exploded upon impact. The three were sent flying by the blast, but they rapidly recovered.
The lasers were still sweeping the ground, so the three still had to run until they stopped. A hatch then opened on the KAOS 2's belly, revealing an even bigger cannon that began to charge while the mecha lowered itself so the belly was at the heroes' level. Again, the three ran away. The charge took more time, and the mecha tried to make it so the belly faced at least one of them, focusing on DK. After several seconds, the cannon fired a large laser that DK barely avoided. The laser continued for a few seconds as the KAOS 2 followed DK, but it eventually ended, and DK sighed in relief.
But the mecha fired missiles again, and released more mines, still not sweeping the ground with the claws, giving no occasion for the heroes to climb it.
"You saw the laser?"
"Yeah, I saw it."
"So they must be up there. Bring us there."
"Alright gramps. Hold on."
The trio continued as best as they could to avoid the KAOS 2's attacks. Things didn't look good. They still couldn't reach the head.
But then, Funky's plane arrived, open, and Cranky could be seen holding a barrel.
"Look at that. I knew you would need help. Here, use this!" He threw the barrel at DK who caught it.
The KAOS 2 targeted the plane with its missiles, forcing it to fly away. Left with some respite, threw the barrel with all his strength at the mecha's head, landing a perfect hit. This gained back its intention, and the heroes found themselves having to run around avoiding its attacks again.
Funky's plane eventually returned, and Cranky threw another barrel before the plane flew away again. DK caught the barrel and threw it at the KAOS 2's head.
The process repeated. Sometimes, DK missed the head, forcing him to wait for another barrel. Little by little, the KAOS 2's head was damaged.
Then, K. Rool seemingly had enough because he suddenly lunged at DK to bite him with the mouth's very sharp fangs. But DK jumped, avoiding the jaw, and landed on the head that he pummeled a bit before he was able to tear the top off, revealing the cockpit. Before DK could do more, electricity was discharged, forcing him away.
K. Rool slammed his fists on the cockpit in anger. "Screw it! I can't seem to defeat you no matter what! Then I'll go back to the initial plan: destroying the island! And guess what, this mecha can do it! Ciao!"
The KAOS 2 then returned inside the flying saucer, leaving the heroes behind.
"Oh no! We must go after him!" Diddy exclaimed in panic.
At this moment, the plane returned, flying very close to the surface of the ship, with Cranky signing to them to jump in. So Phantom and Diddy climbed on DK who ran toward the plane and jumped with perfect timing, landing inside the vehicle.
"So, the big bad got away. What is he planning?" they heard Funky ask from the pilote sit.
"He went to destroy the island," DK answered.
"Oh. Like good old time," Funky said.
"Then he must have moved to under the flying saucer to fire at the island. Funky, you know what to do," Cranky said.
"Of course, old geezer."
The plane flew to the flying saucer's extremity, then moved down to fly under it toward its center, still having to avoid shots from the ship's numerous cannons. Beside the World Eater's main cannon, after moving around it a bit, they spotted the KAOS 2. To ensure that K. Rool wouldn't fall, the head was upward, but the belly was facing down toward the island, hatch open and cannon charging.
By now, a huge part of the jungle was in flames.
"I know what to do. Get us above the head and I'll jump on it Be careful to not crash into the cannon or the cables," DK said.
"Of course! What do you take me for?" Funky said with a big grin. "And let me put some music! For our victory!"
The plane flew toward the KAOS 2, but K. Rool spotted it and sent missiles toward it. Funky dodged them as best as he could. Eventually, the plane passed above the KAOS 2, and DK jumped.
He successfully landed in the cockpit, right on K. Rool. While the king struggled to get him off, DK looked around in the cockpit until he found a cylindrical device the size of a football ball with an antenna. DK guessed that it was the illusion disruptor and smashed it to pieces.
"NOOOO!!!" K. Rool yelled.
DK immediately jumped from the cockpit, free falling.
Until he was hit by a wave of Phantom energy. Then, he stopped falling, instead floating in the air.
Phantom teleported beside him, back in her anthro form.
"Good job, DK! Thank you for destroying that thing! Now, it's my turn!"
DK gave her a thumb up, and Phantom flew toward the KAOS 2, a large red sword appearing in her hands. She then sectioned the cables, effectively cutting the KAOS 2 from the World Eater, and by the same occasion, from its source of energy. The upper KAOS 2 thus began to fall, and the energy accumulated in the belly cannon exploded, destroying the mecha. K. Rool was sent flying from the cockpit by the blast. As he was falling, he grabbed a remote and pressed a button. The next instant, he was sucked into a portal that disappeared right away.
Not done yet, Phantom grew to gargantuan proportions and began to push the World Eater away from the island and further up into the sky. Once the ship was away from the island's sky, she materialized clouds all over the island. From these clouds, it began to rain. This extinguished the fire.
Phantom then returned to her normal size and teleported above the ship. From here, she materialized a giant cannon and fired a huge beam right at the ship's core. The next instant, there was an explosion, and a Subspace bubble grew from inside the ship. The bubble grew to the point that it engulfed the whole ship, then continued to grow for a bit before it stopped. The bubble was high enough in the sky that it didn't reach the ocean.
Finally, Phantom returned to the island and materialized an army of clones to eliminate what remained of K. Rool's forces, saving the Kongs and the engineers who had all gathered in one of the few places that hadn't been touched by the flames.
And with this, King K. Rool's assault on the island ended in a failure. However, it wasn't without consequences. The majority of the jungle was destroyed, and many animals lost their live in the fire. There were now two Subspace bubbles dirtying the view around the island. And as for the Kongs, while they quickly gathered into groups to defend themselves against the Subspace creatures, eventually merging into bigger groups until only one large group remained, some were still killed in the action, and even an engineer, one from Samus' universe, died.
And if Phantom hadn't been present to stop the cannon, the whole island would have ended in a Subspace bubble. And even then, because of the illusion disruptor, it was a close call.
The Subspace Army really was dangerous.
And if they had more illusion disruptors... Phantom began to think that she should do something about this. Without the power of the ruby, she was close to useless. DK and Diddy did most of the work. Once they are done building the portal, she will talk to the engineers.
"Once the portal is built, we will bring help to replant the jungle," one of the engineers said to Cranky.
He nodded. "It'll take years for it to return to what it was. Not even the Snowmads caused that much damage."
"Once I see K. Rool again..." DK said, fist hitting palm.
"Now that he is part of the Subspace Army, we may see him again very soon," Phantom said. "Or maybe not. He took what seemed to be an important ship without permission and said ship is now destroyed. I wouldn't be surprised if he is punished as a result."
"But thanks to him, we saw what the Subspace Army is capable of, and we gained a lot of info," Diddy said.
"Yeah. I'm going to report that to everyone else as soon as possible," Phantom said. "And we also saw that the Subspace Army is not invincible. This should help to convince the leaders to not join them."
Stats
Page generated in 0.068 seconds
Total duration
738 users online
612,761 hits today, 1,960,719 yesterday
FIMFiction
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Fanfiction
Designed and coded by knighty & Xaquseg - © 2011-2024
Follow & Support Us
Support us
SubStar
Chat!
Discord
Follow us
Twitter
MLP: Friendship is Magic® - © 2024 Hasbro Inc.®
Fimfiction is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Hasbro Inc.®
If Master Hand was gonna be unhappy with a Galleom being wrecked, this is going to make him absolutely LIVID.
I would not be surprised if one of the next antagonists to show up suddenly had something made from Kremling skin.
It's weird how K. Rool's only biting move in Ultimate is a taunt (and not even a damaging one like a couple characters get).
Crocs are ambush predators, disguising themselves as driftwood until you're close enough to be eaten. This is another part Ultimate didn't really utilize (ironically by giving him the neutral game that other superheavies lack).
11681746
In regards to Crocodiles being Ambush predators, K. Rool playing possum is a unique take on it. IMO, at least.
Also, it shows that K. Rool at least has good instincts, because if DK hadn't been there, Phantom would have taken a VERY nasty hit, AT BEST, or been outright killed, AT WORST.
11681746
11681751
And K. Rool playing possum is something that actually happens in Donkey Kong Country. He falls unconscious, the credits start to roll, the player thinks he has won, and boom! K. Rool suddenly gets up and attacks right away. This caused its fair share of game overs back then.
11681760
then, it's also a nostalgic reference for those that played the game.
Or a PTSD-type trigger, depending on how they felt about it.
11675777
I have two options for Sweetie Void, depending on how much Master Hand actually values his own safety.
Option 1 (He DOESN'T care for his own wellbeing or he assigns Crazy Hand to deal with her.): He threatens her Friends and Family, holding them hostage until Galeem and Dharkon are dealt with so she at least backs off.
Option 2 (He DOES care for his own wellbeing.): Find either a way to lure her to that pocket dimension the two of them fought in during the first tournament, or something to either drain her power faster than she can regenerate it, or give off an AoE with the same conditions as the aforementioned pocket dimension.
11681767
Yeah, he does care for his own wellbeing (or rather, Tabuu does), so he would rather avoid angering Sweetie Void too much. So option 2.
Ok, so a new extended gameplay trailer for Super Mario Bros Wonder dropped a few hours ago here in the U.S., is that the case for you?
If so, have you seen it?
If yes, will we have Bowser getting that ambitious in this story?
I hope that Phantom realizes that if the enemy has countermeasures against her, they might have countermeasures against Apple Death and Sweetie Void. Let's hope she warns them about that so they won't be caught off guard like she was.
11681896
Maybe, but I don't know if the plot of SMB Wonder will happen. Bowser will already be very busy with other stuff.
11681954
Point taken.
That's one advantage of the fact that Kirby doesn't directly reuse major villains much. The other one being the verisimilitude of having those villains be stopped in a permanent manner.
Chapter 116 of A Sweetie Dreamland, Lucar had this in a comment regarding which universes MIGHT be shown in this fic.
Well, I think we have already established the fact that MIGHT change.
It also MIGHT not.
Really up to the author.
wait... so next time Ganandorf gets free, since it's canonically the same guy from Ocarina of Time to Wind Waker to Twilight Princess, presumably only stopping at Tears of the Kingdom for reasons obvious to anyone who has seen the end of the game*, would he call out Sweetie Void with some kind of taunt about being unable to be held prisoner forever or something?
(*No I will not even clarify with a spoiler censored statement, go see it for yourself, whether on YouTube, or by playing it yourself)
EDIT: I only ask because it hit me and I want only hypothetical answers. Facts will be revealed in time.
11684983
Well, hypothetically, yes, he would. But centuries in Future Hyrule would need to pass for that to happen.
11685359
Point taken.
question that came to mind while watching an artist on youtube make a piece involving fusing Deoxys with two other aliens and slapping the Blue Beetle's Scarab from DC on it's back, which brought back memories of something from the early Pokemon anime.
As a result, I highly doubt it will be but I need to ask.
But first a slight bit more clarification.
During a set of the episodes, something called Pokérus was introduced, then, as far as I know, never acknowledged again.
I don't remember the exact episodes, but it was a big subplot that involved the Jessie and James knock off's, Cassidy and Biff (MY NAME'S BUTCH.)
Final question: Will something be done with that here?
I'll take any answer, since you're the author, I am but a humble viewer, and you already said that the Manga will be more of an inspiration for tone than the Anime.
EDIT: I just did a bit of research and found out that it did in fact originate in the original Gen 2 games.
11686871
Ah right, the Pokérus. Totally forgot about that. No, I don't think that I will use it.
11686955
ok.
11684983
As Lucar said, this is technically outside the bounds of the story. Several characters on the MLP sides are immortal unless killed, however, so they will eventually have to deal with this much like Celestia had to throw Twilight at all the thousand-year deferments coming due!