Smarty and the Geek proudly present their fifth Fanfiction: Trial of the Heroes.
Disclaimer: Smarty and the Geek do not own anything in here but the storyline. Crash Bandicoot is © to High Impact Games, Jak and Daxter are © to Nihilistic Software, and the Legend of Spyro is © to Sierra Entertainment. Just to clear things up, this is post-Twinsanity, post-Lost Frontier, and post-Dawn of the Dragon.
Prologue
The head from a mech flew towards Earth in a giant fireball. It was unlike anything any person had ever seen as it had a resemblance to the head of a jackal with something stuck in its head. It flew towards a small archipelago in the southern ocean nearby Australia. Its trajectory made it head straight towards the Northern most island in the archipelago. Two people stood on the balcony of a castle, looking at it while unaware of its trajectory.
"Uncle Neo, it's so pretty," the girl with a metallic lowercase n on her head said.
"Yes, Nina it is very nice," her uncle, a yellow skinned man with a much larger uppercase N on his head agreed. Cortex soon realized the trajectory of the "meteor" was making it head straight towards them. "Nina, get down!"
Cortex dove on his niece and they just barely missed being hit by the head. He looked down to investigate the crash and saw nothing but a wreck of a body in the "meteor". Cortex instructed two Lab Assistants to take the body up to the regrowth ray so that he may be able to tell what the thing was. After a treatment with the regrowth ray, the body took the shape of a tall man with very long, pointed ears, red hair, and (eerily) red eyes. He got up and hissed a threat to midair:
"I will get you Jak, if it's the last thing I do!"
"Who?" Cortex asked in confusion. The man turned to him with a snarl.
"Jak, the supposed Hero of my world." Cortex looked at him in surprise.
"What a coincidence, my nemesis is the hero of my world, Crash Bandicoot," he stated excitedly. The man regarded Cortex for a moment.
"Who are you?" he inquired with interest.
"Dr. Neo Cortex. And you?"
"Erol," the man stated coldly.
"So you want revenge on this Jak?" Erol nodded.
"And you want revenge on Crash?" Erol guessed.
"Yes." Erol's expression turned ugly.
"Why stop there? We should eliminate every hero in the universe." Cortex's eyes widened.
"How many are there?" Cortex asked nervously.
"Three as far as I know."
"Crash, Jak, and…" he paused, waiting for Erol to throw him a bone.
"Spyro, the Purple Dragon; a very powerful enemy according to the Dark Makers."
"His nemesis will want part in this too," Cortex said.
"Yes. This way, our revenge on the heroes will be complete and we will have universal domination." Cortex's nervous attitude disappeared as soon as Erol said the word "domination".
"Our plan?" Erol tossed him a power crystal off the floor which Cortex caught quickly.
"Figure it out." An evil smile crept onto Cortex's face.
"Muahaha! Look out heroes, your greatest trial is yet to come."
Trial of the Heroes
1 year later
Crash Bandicoot topped a wave on his surfboard off the coast of his island home. He gave a cry of joy and did a handstand on the board then started spinning around very rapidly.
"Woo hoo! Go Crash!" cheered his sister from the shoreline. The large, burgundy furred bandicoot behind Crash snorted then crowed:
"Give it up Crash! I'm the better surfer." Crash stuck his tongue out in response.
They battled on their surfboards until the wave crashed into the beach Coco was sitting on. When he emerged from the water, Crunch was covered from head to toe in seaweed, making him look like a sea monster from a low-budget, 1960s horror film. Crash had landed farther up shore, his upper half completely stuck in the sand as his legs kicked the air comically. Coco started giggling at how ridiculous they looked until Crunch splashed her with water.
"Hey, don't get my computer wet," she shouted, drawing her legs around the little pink laptop. Crunch simply grinned and pulled Crash out of the sand where he was stuck.
"We haven't seen Cortex in some time. I wonder what he's planning," Coco said to keep the conversation going. She tapped her chin thoughtfully.
"I keep telling you. Cortex died in that meteor crash last year," he dismissed the idea easily. AkuAku shook from side to side as though he was shaking his head.
"I don't think so Crunch, I feel no absence of Cortex's presence on that island." Suddenly, a huge teleport gate appeared in front of them, trying to drag them into it.
"Great Aku, but could you tell us this a little before something like this happens," he groaned, thinking "Here we go again".
"I had no idea this would happen," the mask defended. Before they could get away, the giant portal sucked them all into a world a trillion miles from their own, with its own set of dangers.