Hurricane Island [Diddy Kong x Dixie Kong]

Chapter 73: On the High Seas

On the other hand, on the stairs of the building, Jemky's quartet was descending at full speed and with elongated steps with their four limbs, almost throwing themselves off the steps and heading towards the second floor.

"Those dumb monkeys don't have to get away with it this time!" Jemky exclaimed as they went down. "They have everyone out there and they're going to take them away! We must notify our dads! And getting other guns!... And hopefully they won't punish us!"

"Wait, wait!" Rocky exclaimed, stopping abruptly and stopping the other kids. "We can't go to our dads! We were told to stay hidden!"

"Hey, don't tell me you believed that pair of fools that those circus tamers are with them?"

"Oh, of course not!" Rocky replied. "But maybe they'll punish us because we didn't hide. I think we should just go to get more guns and go out and face that pair of dumb monkeys."

"Those two have guns too; they took them from us!" Mandrew replied. "They have Mr. Pinky and Jenny's in their orders, and those animals too, that I don't even know how they got here!"

"But our dads won't even want to listen to us!" Rocky contradicted. "They'll blame us first! Besides, we don't even know what kind of bosses they were talking abou-"

"Well, we're going to keep wasting time if we keep going like this!" Melenky interrupted. "Let's just go with our dads!"

"Yeah, let's just go, we'll explain to them quickly," Jemky added, giving the other three kids little pushes.

The four kids resumed the way normally, except for Rocky, who was only rolling his eyes and insisting on changing their minds, but the other kids didn't listen to him. The quartet continued to run at speed, this time through the corridors and toward the laboratory, where the apes could be found.

"Look, there they come!" Jemky exclaimed when, at the end of the corridor where they were, the apes came running in a hurry. "Quick, let's explain-"

"B-but what the heck are you doing here?!" the lead orangutan exclaimed as he saw them approaching, though this time, he spoke in a stealthy, desperate tone. "Go hide, for all the holy apes!" he added, giving them small pushes in such a desperate way.

"But why?!" Jemky replied in opposition. "We have to inform you some-"

"JUST GET OUT OF HERE, DARN IT!" one of the mandrills added. "You can't be seen by-"

Suddenly, the four children looked up at the moment when three tall silhouettes were right behind the apes.

"Useless apes!" the tamers exclaimed by surprise, pulling the apes by the ears. "RIGHT NOW, YOU GO-"

Suddenly, the group of tamers was shocked and confused when they realized the presence of the four children... as if they had never seen them before. But at the same time, the apes showed themselves as if they had gone blank for a few seconds, and then hurriedly took the quartet in their arms, and kept them clinging to them as if they wanted to hide them while looking at the tamers. That seemed to be confusing Jemky and company.

"D-dad, w-what's going on?" Jemky stammered as he was held by the lead orangutan. "W-who are they?"

"Wait a moment..." the one-eyed tamer said. "And those four little ones... Who are they?"

"Darn, I think let's run right now," the blue-lapel mandrill muttered under his breath, while holding Mandrew.

"Wait a minute!" the tamer of the prosthetic leg exclaimed with a stern look.