Bandicoot Within 3: A one-bandicoot army:
A/N: Hey, sorry about the delay. This is the last part of my Crash Bandicoot trilogy: Bandicoot Within. In this story, a mysterious villian named Devil Star are kidnapping all of Crash's friends. But who is he working for? And it's not Demon Crash (cause he's dead). So enjoy.
Chapter 1: Another great mission:
"Where is Crash?" asked Coco as she, Crunch and Spyro waited outside the bandicoot's house "He should be here right now."
"Yeah. He should come back with those logs about this second. And Aku Aku is with him" said Crunch.
"I wonder if anything happened to him on the way over here" Spyro pondered.
Suddenly a huge shadow cast above them. They looked up in surprise.
"Is it Cortex again?" asked Coco.
But it wasn't Cortex's blimp. It was a huge cruiser ship.
"What is that?" asked Spyro.
A microphone appeared from the cruiser appeared.
"Greetings, bandicoots and dragon" said a voice from the microphone "We finally meet. The name is Devil Star. Surrender or else!"
"Or else what?" Crunch snapped.
"Or else, THIS!!" Chains pours down and strapped around Crunch's arms and legs, tying him up. Then he dropped two cages and captured both Coco and Spyro.
Crash Bandicoot and Aku Aku had just returned to see what was going on. Crash's hair had gotten longer still and he wear a plain jean-like jacket and still wears blue jeans and flippers. They watched in horror as there friends were taken away.
"Let us go!" Crunch shouted.
Coco and Spyro notices Crash and Aku Aku.
"Help, Crash!" Spyro called.
"Crash, save us!" Coco cried.
"Coco, Crunch, Spyro!" Crash gasped. He called to the cruiser "Alright. Who are you and where are you taken our friends?!"
"You must find me first" Devil Star said "Now I must leave. My master will be expecting our prisoners. Ta-ta" and he flew off taking Crash's friends with them.
"Hmm… master…" Aku Aku thought "Crash, I had a feeling that Dr. Cortex and Uka Uka are up to no good again. My guess that Devil Star must have worked for them."
"I don't know. I had a feeling that Cortex is not as smart to hire someone as Devil Star" Crash said "But I hope I am wrong."
"We had to see for ourselves" Aku Aku said "let's pay Cortex a visit, then if Devil Star isn't working for him, we have to track him down and stop him no matter what."
Crash and Aku Aku ran back through the forest. Crash stopped in front of his cave and pick up his headband he wore when fighting Demon Crash. Then they resumbed their quest. Crash remained silent.
"Things won't be the same" Crash said "Benjamin's settling down with Lily and Tiny retired and spend his time with his wife, Tani. Guess it just you and me, Aku."
"I know you mess your partner Crash" Aku Aku said "You are the powerful bandicoot in the world. You even defeated Benjamin at the tournament. But don't forget, there's still evil around and we need you to stop this."
"Yeah, I know" Crash sighed.
They raced towards Cortex's ice berg lab.
N. Gin was looking through the telescope and sees Crash and Aku Aku crossing the sea towards then. He panicked and ran to Dr. Neo Cortex and his niece Nina, working on a project while Uka Uka watches.
"Dr. Cortex, Crash and Aku Aku are coming this way" N. Gin said.
"What? I was planning to use this to conquer the world and Crash already knows?" Cortex asks "Never mind. I'll deal with him first and then the world!"
"And what new plan has you come up with this time?" Uka Uka said.
"Behold!" Cortex takes off the sheet to reveal a huge canon-like ray gun. "The Destroyer! With this, in one blow, I can send Crash Bandicoot to oblivion!"
"One blow?" asked Nina "How is that…" but she didn't finish because Crash and Aku Aku burst in.
"Well, you got here quickly, Crash!" Cortex cackled "I was about to use it on you! Any last words!" He begins typing on the keyboard by the ray gun.
"Where's our friends, you creeps?!" Crash snapped.
Cortex stops what he was doing. "What?"
"Where's Coco, Crunch and Spyro?!" Crash repeated.
"Is that why you were here?" asked Nina.
"That's right! Where are they?"
"We don't have them here!" Uka Uka said "If we do, we would showed it to you!"
"And Devil Star. Is he working for you?" Aku Aku snapped.
"Devil who?" asked Cortex "Crash, I think you mistaking for someone else".
"Wait a minute. Who is Devil Star working for?" Crash asked "so if it not you, then who?"
"Stop making me confused!" Cortex snapped "now stand still so I can destroy you!"
Crash sighed and spins and destroyed the Destroyed in one blow. Cortex and the other villains were stunned,
"There? Happy?" Crash asked blistery "now if you excuse me, I got a real quest to do."
They left. Uka Uka and Nina glared at Cortex. Cortex was fuming and screamed out "CURSE YOU, CRASH BANDICOOT!!"
As Crash and Aku Aku walks out, they sat down to think.
"So Devil Star is not working for Cortex" Crash said.
"And again, Cortex's plan failed" Aku Aku said.
A piece of paper hit Crash in the face. Crash tore it off.
"Huh? It's a letter. 'Oxide, because you are working so blindly for trying to destroy Crash Bandicoot but Demon Crash destroy your plans, you are having a vacation in Mount Australia. From Emperor Velo'. Huh? Velo giving Oxide a vacation?" asked Crash.
"And Oxide's on earth?" Aku Aku pondered "something strange is going on."
Crash looked at the letter "I think it's time we pay our little alien friend a visit."
To be continued…
A/N: So Crash would meet up with Oxide again. So Cortex is not behind all of this so is it Oxide? Stayed tuned.