The Secret of King Balakung!

The Secret of King Balakung! (Rahsia King Balakung!) is the second issue of BoBoiBoy Galaxy Season 2.

Synopsis
Planet Rimbara is a former colony of King Balakung, the original wielder of the Elemental Power of Darkwood who died at the hands of Retak'ka. A planet filled with jungles also holds many secrets.

Can BoBoiBoy unravel the secrets of King Balakung and obtain the Elemental power of Darkwood?

Plot
BoBoiBoy, Gopal, Ying, Yaya and Fang together with Hang Kasa flew the MYS Kebenaran spaceship to Planet Rimbara to transport Cendawa Tribe who had to move due to BoBoiBoy Movie 2's incident. As soon as they landed, they were greeted by a gloomy and barren atmosphere with all the trees looking withered. Hang Kasa commented that Retak'ka has absorbed energy from the surrounding forest to strengthen the Darkwood Element. Gopal teased BoBoiBoy by waving a withered leaf on BoBoiBoy's face while challenging him to suck the Darkwood Element, but Gopal's actions offended the Cendawas, and Ying and Yaya appeared to reprimand Gopal for not damaging the environment just to get power.

Hang Kasa instructed BoBoiBoy to learn the elemental power of Darkwood from its original ruler, King Balakung. For further story, the leader of Cendawas brought BoBoiBoy's gang to his house which contains a painting on the history of King Balakung who is described as a mighty king and the strongest hero who ensures the security of his people, as well as the balance of population and environment, until he is overthrown by Retak'ka.

Although King Balakung lives in history, Hang Kasa insists that there is still hope for BoBoiBoy to gain Timber Element by taking him and his friends to the Rimbara Forest. After a tiring hour of walking, they arrived at a giant tree with a large entrance on its site, inhabited by an 'important man'. Hang Kasa instructed to walk straight without turning when entering. Once inside, there are two branches growing forward to cross the gap filled with giant pitcher plants, one straight way and one on the left. Hang Kasa led BoBoiBoy's Gang through the middle branch, but Gopal refused to turn to the left branch, and even ran over the branch carelessly until he was almost eaten by a pitcher plant; fortunately he managed to escape.

Regardless, the team safely crossed the pitcher plants gap and arrived in a large space in the middle of a giant tree. However, found no one, just a small tree in the center of the space. Just as BoBoiBoy asked Hang Kasa where the important person was, suddenly the tree got up from the ground and appeared with a human-shaped figure with a lush bark as hair and shoulders, wearing a red robe. From being angry because he was disturbed from sleeping, he was happy to see Hang Kasa his old friend again with a sense of wonder because of his old face; after being shown his face in the mirror then he was shocked and realized how long he had been asleep.

The name of this important person reveals as Gaharum, and he greeted BoBoiBoy's gang with a rhyme. BoBoiBoy tried to reply with a rhyme also, but failed miserably. Gopal interrupted with a poem of its own. Gaharum was amused to see the appearance of those who are Hang Kasa's students, patting Hang Kasa on the back while asking their purpose to come here. BoBoiBoy replied that he wanted to learn to use the elemental power of Timber at the behest of Tok Kasa. Gaharum was puzzled and asked if he inherited King Balakung's power, then he agreed. Then Gaharum asked Kasa if he had defeated Retak'ka, and Hang Kasa explained that he could only freeze Retak'ka, but it was BoBoiBoy who managed to defeat the villain.

BoBoiBoy begs Gaharum to be taught to use his third level elemental powers, but Gaharum refuses because he is just a cook. The whole gang heard it because they thought Gaharum was a former user who may be familiar with the power of Timber he was looking for. Gaharum explained that he was King Balakung's royal cook, and he even said that King Balakung was known for his appetite, and the main source of his strength came from his food, so it was Gaharum's responsibility to serve nutritious food for King Balakung to refine the elemental powers he had obtained as witnessed by Gaharum with his own eyes.

After hearing the story of the past, BoBoiBoy is relieved and asks again how to gain that power. Gaharum is willing to fulfill the request as long as he seeks four ingredients, namely Crystal Salt from the Northern Mangrove Forest, Sacred Pepper from the Southern Mountain Range, Sky Coconut from Tallest Tree, and Blue Flame as a complement to the three. Asked by Fang what the ingredients are for, he replied to cook Enchanted Tom Yam, Gaharum's own long-missed favorite dish. Gopal picked up the phone to order Enchanted Tom Yam, but was prevented by Gaharum's claim that the original Enchanted Tom Yam had to be cooked by himself with high quality ingredients. Regardless, BoBoiBoy responded to Gaharum's request and rushed out with his gang. BoBoiBoy is followed by Gopal and Fang while Ying is paired with Yaya.

While searching the Northern Mangrove Forest to find Crystal Salt located in the river cave in the middle of the forest, the BoBoiBoy's gang had to take refuge from the Brolangkas Brothers, a group of three giant crab creatures. While fleeing, Gopal got stuck between two trees, so BoBoiBoy turned into BoBoiBoy Thunderstorm and slashed the trees to release Gopal and told Gopal to turn the surrounding trees into food. So Gopal turned the trees into bubblegum to tral Brolangkas Brothers. The Blue Brother was successfully trapped, but the other brother managed to surround them and accuse them of intruding, but Fang explained their true intention to get Crystal Salt. However, they paid no head.

Suddenly, a person wearing a green coat introduces himself as Qually. Qually tried to attack the Brolangkas' by his Flaming Spatula but it didn't worked. In the end BoBoiBoy and Fang has to rescue him; BoBoiBoy turns into BoBoiBoy Blaze while Fang performs Shadow Bear Fusion, both of them attacked Brolangkas Brothers, but the enemy's hard skin proved difficult to damage. Brolangkas Brothers hit BoBoiBoy and Fang by rolling. Qually calls out to them that there weakness is at the bottom, and extends its spatula to flip over the Blue Brolangkas for example.

Gopal grabbed the yellow Brolangkas' leg to flip him but with no awail, in the end, Fang, with his Shadow Bear Fusion, flipped the Yellow Brother. BoBoiBoy turns to BoBoiBoy Quake and summons his Earth Golem to fight the Red Brolangkas. The Red Brolangkas showed the fiercest match, Quake ordered the Earth Golem to use Quake Push to bring down the Red Brolangkas. The Red Brolangkas tried to avoid falling, but Qually used his spatula to flip him. The Brolangkas Brothers had a hard time getting up after being dropped on their back, so BoBoiBoy's team with Qually went to the crystal salt mines.

After they have collected the required ingredient, Qually tells them that he is the student of Master Gaharum sent to help them gather the ingredients. While getting to know Qually, Fang wonders about Ying and Yaya's condition.

Meanwhile, Yaya and Ying are being surrounded by unknown enemies.

Characters

 * BoBoiBoy
 * BoBoiBoy Quake
 * BoBoiBoy Thunderstorm
 * BoBoiBoy Blaze
 * BoBoiBoy Supra (flashback)
 * Ying
 * Yaya
 * Fang
 * Shadow Bear Fusion
 * Gopal
 * Cendawa Tribe
 * Tok Cendatok
 * Cendawa Children
 * Hang Kasa
 * King Balakung (flashback)
 * Gaharum (Debut)
 * Retak'ka (flashback; mentioned)
 * Brolangkas Brothers (Debut)
 * Qually (Debut)

Trivia

 * This issue was uploaded on 11th April, 2022 at Google Play Books in both English and Malay for international fans.
 * It is the first issue to be delayed.