Hey, all I'm redoing my next generation universe AGAIN! This time, the changes are permanent. I'll be using a thick line to separate the author notes from the story, and a thin line for skips in the chapters.
Crash talks in my fics, just not very often and only the inhabitants of this universe can understand him. This means that you can understand him where the story is in this particular universe.
Characters get new designs, new couples are revealed, and a LOT happens in the later chapters!
I hope you enjoy this fic!
Please read and review!
Seven Years Ago ..
Crash Bandicoot had just defeated Cortex's last and newest henchman, or, henchWOMAN in this case: a female bandicoot with blood red fur, ice blue eyes, and sandy blonde hair and she was dressed in a black ninja uniform but without the cowl.
Crash held out a hand to help her up, but she only shook her head before throwing down a smoke pellet. Crash coughed as he waved the smoke away, but when the smoke cleared….she was gone….
The female bandicoot knelt in front of Cortex and Uka Uka, neither of them were happy with her.
"Cassidy, you FAILURE!" the evil mask yelled.
The bandicoot, Cassidy, shivered and kept her gaze to the floor.
"I honestly thought you would be worthy of being my general, I believed you would be the one to defeat Crash Bandicoot…..but NO, you were DEFEATED! THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE!" Cortex yelled, grabbing Cassidy's ponytail and forcing her to look at him. "You WILL be punished for this…"
"B-but….Master, please….give me another chance!" she begged, but was slapped so hard that she was knocked backwards. Tears filled her eyes as she was then punched in the eye, then further assaulted like every other day she had failed on training assignments.
"Leave her alone!" Crash yelled as he rushed in and tackled Cortex, triggering a fight that allowed Cassidy to escape.
Cassidy ran to the part of the hideout where her room was and rid herself of the ninja uniform. She tossed on a black tanktop, a blue jacket that she had cut the sleeves off of, a pair of black jeans with holes in the knees, and pair of black combat boots.
"I have to get out of here…." She said to herself, then alarms sounded throughout the building.
Cassidy looked out of her room and saw everyone evacuating. Everyone except….
"Oh, no…."
Cassidy ran into the room where Crash had been fighting Cortex, smoke was everywhere and machines were going haywire with damage. It only took a moment for her eyes to adjust to the smoke and she found Crash weakened, but victorious, in the center of the room. She rushed over and grabbed him, then held onto him as she jumped out of the window and landed safely on the ground below.
"Why did you help me?" Crash asked.
"You would've died in there…." Cassidy replied, then she turned and started walking away.
"Wait!" Crash ran and got in her way. "Where are you going?"
"Don't know yet, but I'm not going back to Cortex." She pushed passed him and began walking away again.
"Why don't you stay with us?"
Cassidy stopped and turned to face Crash, and saw two more Bandicoots standing on either side of him.
Feeling threatened, Cassidy got into a defensive stance and removed her staff from the weapon holster on her back. When she noticed none of them were making an attempt to attack, she tossed her wooden staff to the ground and stomped it in half.
She was visibly nervous as she approached the three siblings, knowing it would be a while before they could trust her.
What she didn't know….
Is that she'd fall for the oldest of the three…