Hundreds of animals fled in terror as multiple white coated human minions carrying large nets pursued them. Whether they were dingoes, koalas, kangaroos, kookaburras, or bandicoots; no animal was safe from their poaching ways.

One by one, the minions rounded them up, loading them into crates which were carried onto helicopters.

The last three animals to be taken away were three bandicoots.

The minions surrounded them with nowhere to run. As they lifted their nets, they were joined by another.

He was a short, stocky man. He was wearing a white lab coat like the others, but what made him stand out from them was that the right half of his face was covered in metal and had a missile sticking out from it.

The man stepped before the bandicoots and picked all three of them up at once.

"Hmm, yes. The doctor will be most pleased with these specimens," he said, before he placed the bandicoots in one of the nets. "Take them away!" he ordered.

With that, the bandicoots were placed into the crate and into the helicopter to be shipped off to another of the three Wumpa Islands in which they lived.

Unfortunately, for them and the others, things were not looking good.

Another had made his residence in the Wumpa Islands and to say he had wore out his welcome would've been a gross understatement.

In his large castle, this individual was experimenting with the various animals he had captured.

He was a short man with a large head that had an 'N' written on it.

At his command, one of his minions placed one of the bandicoots onto a table which sat underneath a large ray gun.

This gun was called the Evolvo Ray.

As the minions strapped the bandicoot to the table, the man with the missile on his head approached. "But Dr. Cortex, we haven't determined the cause of past failures. They still may be some adjustments I need to make," he said.

"Nonsense, N. Gin. Success does not come without failure. And you know what they say, if you want to make an omelet, you have to mutate a few eggs," said Cortex. "This time, I will reign triumphant and when I do, this bandicoot will be the general of my new army known the Cortex Commandos!"

N. Gin pressed the button and the ray fired at the male bandicoot, transforming his physical appearance.

The bandicoot was now taller, resembling somewhat of a human, and seemed to be confused by his surroundings. He began running around the lab, running into walls and other things until Cortex's minions grabbed him.

"He certainly likes to crash into things. Hehehe, maybe you should call him 'Crash' Bandicoot! Hehehehehehe!" N. Gin said jokingly.

The minions took the mutated bandicoot and got him dressed in a pair of blue sweatpants, brown sneakers, and brown sleeveless gloves. Next, they placed him in a chair.

Another mutated bandicoot, a female one with blonde hair in a pony tail, watched from one of the cages.

At Cortex's command, N. Gin pulled the level and the bandicoot was lifted into a giant circular machine. This was the Cortex Vortex which the doctor hoped to use to control his animals for his army and he was confident that this bandicoot would be the lucky one, or unlucky one.

The machine rumbled and sparkled with the bandicoot inside. Cortex looked at the computer for the results. Unfortunately, they came out the same as before, a failure.

"Grrr, failure again! Cage him with the others!" Cortex commanded.

The minions placed the bandicoot in a cell next to the recently mutated one. Meanwhile, a frustrated Cortex decided to call it a night for he could do more tomorrow morning and besides that, his favorite soaps were coming on soon.

"Tonight is the episode where we'll find out if Shannon is actually a half Chinese or Johnathan's evil twin sister crossbred with alien DNA," Cortex said as he and N. Gin walked out of the lab.

With the lab empty most of the animals went to sleep with the exception of the female bandicoot. Of course, it was kinda hard for her to sleep with the loud snoring of the other bandicoot next to her.

"Hey!" she called out. Hey! Buddy! Would you mind keeping it down?!"

But the male bandicoot was fast asleep.

The female bandicoot tried to think of someway to get his attention. She tried banging the cage with her feet and clapping loudly, but neither methods worked. Just then, she remembered the name that N. Gin had jokingly gave him and called him out by that name.

"Crash!" she called out.

Suddenly, the male bandicoot responded and woke up, sticking his head outside his cage.

The female bandicoot stuck head out of her cage as well to talk to him. "Hey, sorry about that, but could you keep the noise down. I'm trying to figure out a way to bust out of here!" she said.

Crash titled his head in confusion.

"I'm not gonna stay here for long. I just need to figure out a way to get out of this cage. Name's Coco, by the way. The big chrome dome gave me that name when I spilled some hot chocolate on Ole' Rocket Head," said the female bandicoot.

Crash chuckled.

Coco waited for Crash to say something, but got nothing. "Not much of a talker, are you?" she said.

Nonetheless, Coco still needed a plan of escape and decided to sleep on it, though it was still hard with Crash's snoring.

The next morning, the minions delivered the animals their breakfast for the day. It was the typical gruel that was served to them. Coco wasn't too fond of it, however, Crash had no problem gulping it down.

As the minion served Crash, Coco noticed he was carrying the cage keys in his back pocket and it was then that she got an idea.

The minion served Crash and prepared to go on his way when he heard moaning coming from Coco's cage. He looked to see Coco rolling in pain.

"Help...me...my...mutation...going...out of...control..." Coco groaned.

However, there was no response from the minion. "Oh please. I'm not falling for that. I'm way too smart for that," he said.

"Yeah, you're right. I can't put anything over you. By the way smart guy, Crash over here just made a mess," said Coco.

The minion bent over to Crash's cage to check for any 'unwanted presents' that Crash left behind. As he did this, Coco grabbed the keys and unlocked her cage.

"Well there doesn't appear to be a mess here," said the minion.

As he turned around, Coco knocked him out with a roundhouse kick.

With the minion out, Coco unlocked Crash's cage next. "Come on, Crash, let's free the others and get outta here!" she said.

But as Coco was about to unlock the other cages, Cortex and N. Brio, along with some other minions, entered, spotting the two escaped subjects.

"The bandicoot's have escaped! Capture them!" Cortex ordered.

The minions charged at the two bandicoots and surrounded them. It appeared as though there was nothing they could do. They were outnumbered and N. Gin was blocking the door. There was no way out.

"Surrender yourselves, bandicoots!" said N. Gin.

Seeing the odds against them, Coco decided to throw in the towel. "Well, at least we tried. I'm sorry, Crash," she said.

Crash looked around and noticed one of the castle windows and then an idea struck as he grabbed Coco by the hand.

"Crash? What are you doing?" said Coco.

With Coco in hand, Crash rushed to the castle window and jumped through, not realizing that the window lead to a long way down into the ocean.

"Uh oh!" said Crash.

N. Gin and the minions couldn't see Crash or Coco in the ocean, given how high they were.

"Quick! Go after them! find them!" N. Gin commanded to the minions.

However, Cortex stopped them. "Never mind it, N. Gin. They were defective specimens anyway. We have plenty more where they came from," he said.

At the snap of Cortex's finger, one of his minions brought forth the third bandicoot that they had captured and prepared it for experimentation.