A/N: Sorry it has been a long time but now Bandicoot Hearts 2 is opened. The Crash characters as you know will once again play Sora, Kairi and Riku. Speaking of Sora and Kairi, they will be in it alongside Tidus. I will OCs for Roxas and Namine and the Organistion will remain the same, expect for the leader who will be Bowser's Nobody. The Nintendo characters will play the Final Fantasy characters once again. The Mario characters will be dressed in their Mario Striker clothes, the Zelda characters from Twilight Princess and Star Fox characters from Star Fox Command. Plus, Ash Ketchum will play a big role in the Naruto world in his Battle Frotiner clothing. The anime and video game characters are once again making an entrance to replace Disney. Anyway, this is the first chapter and it's extremely long. Please read, don't flame and review.
Chapter 1: The thief and doing the jobs:
"A scattered dream that's like a far-off memory. A far-off memory that's like a scattered dream. I want to line the pieces up--yours and mine." said the voice of Crash Bandicoot.
Last time, Crash Bandicoot and his friends, Shadow the Hedgehog and Knuckles the Echidna had defeated the evil Bowser and sealed away Bandicoot Hearts. But Crash had not returned to his world and went out to search for his best friend, Crunch Bandicoot. Coco Bandicoot, Crash's little sister, was waiting for them at Wumpa Jungle. She had waited for 3 years. And still, Crash and the others had not yet returned. That is, because Crash was in the Castle Oblivion and he has forgotten his memories. Alongside Shadow and Knuckles, they made their way through and fought against Marluxia, one of the black clothed people. They defeated him and Crash came upon a female bandicoot who looked like his sister but has pink hair. She then put Crash in an orb so he could go to sleep and help him regain his memories. In the meantime, Crunch was having his own problems. Bowser came to take over his body but Crunch won, but he is not seen around. 3 years had gone by. Meanwhile, the hooded cloaked figure with the spiky back was sitting on a rock by a dark beach, waiting. Then, another hooded figure smaller than he is appeared and walked before him. The figure turned to the smaller one.
"I see you had finally arrived, young one" he said to the younger one "I had been to seen him… he does look a lot like you though…"
"Who does?" asked the smaller one "And who are you?"
"I am what's left" the figure said "Or maybe… I am there ever was."
"I meant what is your name?" asked the smaller one.
The bigger one chuckled and said "My name has no importance to it. But tell me, what about you? Do you know your true name?"
"My name is…" the younger one said but stopped. Because it suddenly turned white.
"Crash?" came a familiar voice.
Then all of a sudden, the screen frizzles and Crash was see woken up by Coco.
"Give me a break C…" Crash said because the rest of Coco's name was cut off. Crash and Crunch are seen racing against each other on the beach. Then Crash was seen talking to Pikachu, Mewtwo and Samus. Then he, Coco and Crunch watched the sunset.
"If there are other worlds out there, why did we end up on this one?" Crunch asked.
The next thing was Crash looking at the chalk drawing he did with Coco.
"This world has been connected" Bowser said while wearing his brown cloak.
"Who's there?" Crash asked as he turned around.
"Tied to the darkness… soon to be totally eclipsed." Bowser said.
Crash and Coco were seen by the docks having a chat.
"Crash, don't ever change" Coco said.
Then the sky turned black in the next scene and Crunch and Crash was standing there. Crunch saying "The door has opened" he outstretched his hand. Crash tried to reach him but was stopped by the darkness. Crash then was seen standing up against the heartless giant, Darkside as Bowser's voice said "You understand nothing".
And Crash was last seen trying to catch Coco but she disappeared and the gust from the dark door blew him out.
Suddenly, an unfamiliar bandicoot woke up in shock. It was a sunny day and the bandicoot got up. He has blonde hair and he looked like Crash. He then looked out of the window. His room was a mess. The blonde haired bandicoot put his hands to his head and said "Another dream… about him. But why… I don't understand why I kept dreaming of this bandicoot… Crash…"
He opened the window and he looked at the sandy little island and gasped.
"Oh no! I am late. I got to meet up with Sora, Tidus and Kairi soon!" He got up, quickly got dressed. He was now wearing white baggy trousers, a white jacket, a black vest and black shoes. He got into his rowing boat and rowed towards the island known as the Destiny Island.
He met up with a blonde-ish brown spiky hair boy who wore a black jacket, top and baggy pants which holds huge red pockets and yellow big shoes. Next to him was a blonde hair boy who wore a yellow jacket and blue shorts. And finally a girl with red long hair and wore a pink dress.
"Where have you been, Anakin?" the brown haired boy asked the bandicoot.
"Sorry Sora. I must have slept in" Anakin Bandicoot said.
"Don't worry, Anakin" the girl said "Take a seat."
"OK, Kairi" Anakin said. He turned to the blonde hair boy. "Alright, Tidus?"
"I'm fine" Tidus said.
"But doesn't this makes you angry" Sora said.
Tidus nodded "Of course. That's just so wrong. We didn't do anything!"
"Wario's gone too far this time!" Kairi said.
Anakin could only nod.
Sora the replied "I mean, it's true that stuff's been stolen around town. And we've got a score to settle with Wario and everything. So if he wants to think we did it, I can't really blame him. See...that's not what really bugs me. What really bugs me is that Wario's going around telling everybody we're the thieves! Now the whole town and their mothers are treating us like Kindergardeners! Have you ever been this ticked off before in your life? 'Cause I haven't. No sir. Never in my whole life." He sat back down "Now...what to do?"
"Hey, Anakin" Kairi said to Anakin "Aren't you gonna say something? You seemed quiet."
"Well…" Anakin said and then he had an idea "We could find the real thieves and keep the record straight."
"That sounds like fun" Tidus said standing up.
Sora crosses his arms "But what about Wario and his little 'pets', Waluigi, Pauline and Ness?"
"First, we gotta clear our names" Anakin said "And then, once we find the culprits, we could get everyone off our backs." Sora slightly growls in annoyance. "What's wrong with you, Sora?"
Tidus was checking his camera and gasped "Oh no. Our ---- are gone!" Tidus puts a hand to his throat at his inability to say 'photos'. "What happened?"
"What?" Sora asked "all the ---- are gone too?" And then he held his throat "Huh?"
"Huh? You can't say ----? Why not?" Kairi asked before she did the same.
"But wait… But you do understand what I'm saying, right? Our ------ are gone!" Tidus asked.
"Stolen…" Anakin reminded him "And not just the -----, but the word ----- too."
"Yeah" Sora said "but it doesn't make sense. What kinda thief is that? Wario could never have pulled that off."
"Right" Anakin said.
Sora leapt to his feet "OK, time for some recon."
Sora, Tidus and Kairi ran out of the scene. Anakin was about to follow but then all of a sudden, he felt dizzy.
"What the…?" and then he fells over and blacks out.
Then he hears a voice he doesn't recognise. "His heart is returning. Doubtless he'll awaken very soon."
Then Anakin opened his eyes again and got up. "Who's heart is returning? Crash?" he asked himself.
"Anakin" Kairi called over to him "Come on."
They each talked to each shop and telling them it was not their fault and it wasn't them who stole it. Few believed them. One even lost her cat, but Anakin found it on the roof. But just as they could ask what they said, the words from what the thief stole disappeared too.
"Looks like the culprit is going around stealing ------. And not just ------, but the word ------, too." Sora said.
"This isn't just your average thief" Tidus said.
"Maybe Wario would know about this" Kairi said, that she didn't want to but they must.
"We got to talk to them. They should be in the sandlot" Anakin said.
They all ran down there. In front of them was 4 people. One is short and was very fat. He wore a yellow shirt, a yellow hat and purple overalls. He has a twisted moustache and a pink pointy nose. Next to him was another man who was tall and thin. He also has a twisted moustache and he wore a purple hat and shirt and wore black overalls. Next to them was a woman with black hair and a red dress. And the youngest one wore a red hat, a blue and white shirt and red shorts. The fat one was none other than Wario, the tall one is Waluigi, the girl is Pauline and the boy is Ness. Waluigi spotted them approaching them.
"Wha ha ha. Look who's here" He cackled "The thieves!"
"That was low you know" Pauline said.
"Oh yeah? Says you!" Sora snapped.
Wario stepped forward and said "Nice comeback there, spiky!"
"WHAT DID YOU SAY?" Sora snapped as he got out a battling rod.
"Calm down, Sora!" Kairi said.
"Now, you could kindly give us back those ----- now" Wario said.
"Yeah, cause you're the only ones who took it" Waluigi said.
"That was undeniable proof that we totally owned you losers. So what did you do? Burn it? Ha, not that we need some ------ to prove that you're losers" Wario smirked nastily.
"Hey, Wario. Want to replay that?" Pauline asked.
"Wha ha ha ha ha ha!" Wario laughed "Now you're talking!"
"Then come on then you cowards!" Sora snarled as he goes in his fighting position.
"I guess if you get on your knees and beg, maybe I'll let it slide" Wario laughed at them. Anakin then knelt in front of them.
"Anakin!" Sora shouted.
Wario laughed again, but then all of a sudden, Anakin kicked him in the face.
"Ooh… that gotta hurt!" Tidus smiled.
"Why you…" Wario snarls as he grabbed his battling sword. Sora tosses his to Anakin. Anakin grabbed it.
"Focus now, Anakin! You're doing this for us!" Tidus called.
Anakin nodded and as Wario waved his sword, Anakin begins to feel dizzy.
"Come on, bandicoot! Keep goofing around and fight!" Wario said.
Then Anakin came back in focus and charged. Wario did the same and they clashed their weapons. They held on. But Anakin somehow leapt over Wario and slashed him from behind. Wario got up again and says "Kneel, loser!" and starts throwing some slashes but Anakin dodged them. He then ducked under Wario's upper slash and kicked him in his stomach. Wario grunted as he walked back and Anakin then leapt in the air and hit him in the head. Wario wobbled a bit and then fell down to his knees.
He looked up and glared at Anakin, who was still standing.
"Who's the loser now, Wario?" Sora teased.
Waluigi and Pauline saw that their leader was in trouble and came in front of him guarding him.
"Hey… you got lucky today, but Wario's not feeling hot, OK?" Waluigi snarls.
"That's right. The tournament will decide. We'll see you there!" Pauline said.
"I got to take a picture of this" Tidus said as he got out his camera and took the picture of Anakin, victorious over Wario. After taking it, he gave him a thumbs up but then a white jacket creature thing came and took the camera away from him and ran off.
"What was that?" asked Sora.
"The thief!" Kairi gasped and they ran after him. Sora, Kairi and Tidus lost their tracks but Anakin managed to chase it towards a forest and in front of an gate outside the mansion. As Anakin reaches towards it he stopped as he heard a voice in his head/
We have come for you, my liege.
"What?" Anakin asked.
Then the zipper around his face loosen showing a scary face. Anakin gasped and grabbed his sword. He tries to hit it but everything he hit, it did NOT do any effect.
"What? No use" Anakin said. Then something happens. Anakin looked at his sword and gasped. His sword was covered with data. "What is this?" It has then turned to a sword which resembles a key. He has a yellow frame around the handle and a sliver blade which looked like a key. "What…what is this thing?" Anakin gasped as he looked at the mysterious weapon.
What Anakin was holding was the keyblade. It was the weapon Crash used in his adventures. Anakin didn't know this, but he decided to use this to defeat the creature.
"I hope this thing comes in handy" he said and he attacks again. This time, it took some damage. It tries to come up behind him but then Anakin spins around behind him and slashed it defeating it. Then it disappeared, the photos falling to the ground. Anakin was about to look at the keyblade again but it disappears. He sighed and picked up the photos and walks away.
He met again with Sora, Kairi and Tidus and they looked at the photo. The first one is where Anakin is, standing outside a shop.
"What's this?" asked Sora.
"I remember this. I was his first costumer when he opened his shop" Anakin said "so we asked to take a picture together."
"It's a really nice photo, Anakin. Oh…" Kairi covered her mouth.
"Hey you said the word "photo", Kairi" Tidus said "So, Anakin. Tell us more of this picture thief."
"Not much to say really" Anakin lied "I actually found there laying on the ground."
"Well, that's not much proof that to say we haven't done it" Sora said. He looked at the next picture and chuckled "Anakin, there's you with Selphie."
"You look so happy there, Anakin" Kairi said.
"Do not" Anakin said coldly.
"Hey. Did anybody else notice that all the stolen pictures are of Anakin?" Tidus asked.
"Oh yeah" Kairi said as he looked at the photo "so that why everyone thought it was us."
"So, Wario isn't accusing us after all?" Sora asked.
"Wait. They were all about me?" Anakin asked.
"Yeah" Tidus said as he held up another "See?" and another.
"Look" Kairi gasped.
And Tidus held up the last one. "Right? Every single one. Wouldn't it be weird if the thief was after the real Anakin or something."
Anakin then thought of this. He thought of the worlds that grey thing had said.
"Oh come on, get serious" Sora chuckled cutting Anakin back to his senses "why would anyone wanna steal a knucklehead like Anakin?"
"Oh, thanks!" Anakin said sarcastically.
"I was kidding Anakin" Sora laughed "Don't get too angry."
"Well, it's getting late, so let's go back home!" Tidus said.
Tidus, Sora and Kairi waved goodbye to Anakin and left. Anakin put his hand to his face and looked at the sky and smiled. But then he stopped smiling. He heard a voice coming from somewhere.
"Where… am I?" asked the voice.
Anakin gasped. Could that voice be… Crash? "Who's there?" he asked.
The voice then said "Who are you?"
And then it disappeared. Anakin shook his head and walked home. "Could that be the voice of… Crash Bandicoot?" he asked.
Meanwhile, in the other part of the place, two men were at the computer. One man wore a red robe and has a red scare wrapped around his face, only revealing his eyes and mouth. The other, the black cloaked person, walks in.
"I have bad news, Diz" the hooded man said.
"I already knew" Diz said "Those Organization miscreants… they must have already found us."
"But why would the Nobodies steal the photographs?" asked the cloaked man, his face hidden by his jacket.
"Both are nothing but data to them. The fools could never tell the difference. We are running out of time. Rachel must make haste if we want to get Crash back and fighting again." Diz said.
As Anakin went to sleep again, he had more dreams of Crash's last adventures. This time it's in Terserve Town. Crash had just been woken up by Tails.
"Are you OK?" asked Tails.
"W…Where am I?" asked Crash.
Then we sees Crash running to the second district and he was confronted by the heartless as his voice said "Wait a minute. What happened to my home? My island? Crunch… C…"
Once again, he didn't finish saying Coco's name, but her image flickered in front of her, and now we sees Crash confronting a short man wearing a red hat and shirts and wore blue overalls and wore a black moustache known as Mario.
"Who are you?" asked Crash.
"And they keep coming after you, as long you continue to wield the keyblade" Mario said.
The next scene shows Crash meeting Shadow and Knuckles the first time.
"Hey, why don't you come with us? We could go to other worlds with our vessel" Knuckles said.
"Crash, go with them" Mario said "Especially if you want to find your friends."
Then we sees Shadow, Knuckles and Crash putting their hands on each other.
"Shadow the Hedgehog…"
"Name's Knuckles the Echidna"
"And I'm Crash Bandicoot. I'll go with you guys."
Mario was seen with Peach talking to Crash.
"The heartless has great fear of the keyblade" Mario said.
Then we sees Shadow and Knuckles talking to Zelda and Krystal.
"That's right. The keyblade" Zelda said.
Then we see Crash sealing the keyhole in West City (The DBZ world) as Paragas said "but the bandicoot's a problem. He found one of the keyholes."
Anakin woke up in the morning and starts to understand. He looked in his hands and said "A… key…blade?"
As he walked down the alleyway. "So that's a keyblade huh?" asked Anakin as he picked up a stick and pretend to use it as a sword, hoping for the keyblade to appear. But it never appeared.
"What was that about?" Anakin said as he throws the stick. Then the stick hit someone. Anakin turned around. "Oh." He had thrown the stick at the cloaked figure.
"Err… sorry about that" Anakin said as the figure just walked off without saying anything. "man… he's so stubborn."
He has just found Sora, Kairi and Tidus drinking orange juice. Kairi offered him some juice. "Thank you" Anakin said as he took his drink and took a drink.
It was Tidus who spoke first "By the way, do you guys think we'll be together like this?"
"I sure hope so" Kairi said.
"Huh? Why did you ask that, Tidus?" asked Sora.
"I was thinking out loud" Tidus said.
"Well, I doubt we can be together forever. But isn't that what growing up's all about? What's important isn't how often we see each other, but how often we think about each other. Right?" Sora replied. Kairi nodded at her boyfriend and Anakin nodded.
Tidus laughs suddenly.
"What is so funny, Tidus?" Sora asked.
"Where did you get that off? Kellogg's Honey Loops?" Tidus joked.
Anakin and Kairi laughed as well. Sora slapped Tidus on the back of the head "That's it! No more salty sea ice cream for you! Man, today just don't get any badder than this."
"Maybe it was the thief that appeared yesterday?" Kairi asked.
"No. I just wish that summer vacation to be over, that's all" Sora said as he stands up "Wait a minute. That's it! We all go to the city! Because we haven't gone once this entire vacation! Big buildings! Blue skies! Let's just get on the ferry and go!" Kairi, Anakin and Tidus just stood up and remained silent. "What? No? Why not?"
"If you haven't noticed, Sora, but we're broke" Anakin said.
"Maybe you forgot that I am clever" Sora grinned his famous Sora grin.
Sora ran out and followed by Tidus and Kairi. Anakin just stayed behind to think about the dreams he had. What connection does he have with the legendary hero Crash Bandicoot? Just then, Tidus came back in to tell him to hurry up.
Anakin followed Tidus and they found Sora and Kairi looking at a poster which stays Struggle Tournament.
"The Struggle Tournament" Sora said. "And it's just 2 days to go."
"I remembered that the current champion, Captain Falcon, will be there" Kairi said.
"Man, Sora and Anakin will go great in the tournament" Tidus said. "Oh no!" He then groaned.
"What?" asked Anakin.
"Wario is gone enter and for some reason, Ness is too" Tidus said.
"Ness? Weird." Sora then turned to Anakin "You and I have to make it to the finals. That way, no matter who wins, the four of us can spilt the prize."
"You two are gonna clean up now" Tidus smiled.
"Go get them" Kairi said.
Anakin and Sora put their arms together to make a sign of friendship. "It's a promise" Sora said to him. Once that is done, they counted their money. Sora said "OK, time to get down to business. One ticket cost 900 coins, so how much do we got?"
"3600" Kairi counted.
"Right. And that makes it 300 each to spend for the tickets. What's else is there for us?" asked Sora.
"1200" Kairi said "A total of 4800."
Sora put his hand behind his head and grinned.
Anakin asked "So what do we spend on what when we get there?"
"Wumpa Fruit of course" Sora said "what else is there?"
"What about watermelon?" asked Tidus.
"Too pricey" Sora said "They are like… err… 2000 money each."
"OK" Anakin said "Wumpa Fruit it is and a Papou Fruit as well."
"Papou Fruit?" asked the other 3.
"Yeah, so Sora and Kairi can share one and get married or something" Anakin laughed.
Sora was red in the face like we wanted to beat him seriously for that, but Kairi hold him down.
"So we need 4800 money together?" Tidus asked.
"That's right, and all we got are…" Kairi said.
"800 money" Tidus said.
"650" Kairi said.
"150. Sorry about that guys" Anakin apologised.
"Don't worry, Anakin" Kairi said.
"So that's 1600 money" Sora said "We need another 3200. Let's get some jobs and get some money. We have till the ferry leaves to earn 800 money each. Meet me at the station with the money you got." He runs off.
"I thought he said he has everything covered" Tidus sighed.
Anakin laughed "I guess those Wumpa fruit must be very tasty."
Anakin did lots of jobs like sticking up posters, delivering letters, putting the trash away and did some swords skills that keep the ball in the air. After those jobs, he nodded and said "well, that should be enough. Let's head to the station."
He found the others by the station.
"All present and accounted for?" Sora said general like.
"We are sir" Tidus said "What've we got."
"Let's see" Anakin said and show him lots of gold coins.
"Alright!" Kairi cheered.
"Way to go, Anakin!" Sora said.
"We could by a Papou fruit for Sora and Kairi with this" Tidus teased causing Sora and Kairi to blush and Anakin laughing.
"Nice job everyone" Kairi said "Added to what we started, we now have…" she shows them their pouch "Tada. 5000 money."
"Alright!" Sora cheered.
Kairi gave the bag to Anakin and said "Come on. Let's buy our tickets."
Kairi and Tidus ran up. Sora walks up to Anakin.
"You know something, Anakin Bandicoot" Sora said "we can't be together forever, so let's make this the best we can remember."
"What?" Anakin turned to him.
Sora laughed and poked him in the stomach and said "Gotcha!" And runs off. Anakin was about to run over to him but then someone appeared and trips him over.
"Whoa!"
As he fell down, the stick he just flew landed in front of him. The other 3 stopped to look at him. As Anakin slowly got to his feet as he grunted and wiped his lip. Then when he got up, he was standing beside the same cloaked figure. "Huh?" The man grabbed his arms and pulled his eye under his hood and whispered.
"Can you feel Crash Bandicoot?"
"What?" Anakin asked.
"Anakin, three minutes" Sora called to him.
"Right" Anakin said as the man let go. He turned to look at him but he was gone. He catches up with his friends and they saw Sora by the counter. "Four students please."
"Anakin, the money" Tidus said.
Anakin checked his pocket, but he gasped. "Oh no!" He then remembered the guy who he just picked up. "HE TOOK IT!" Anakin ran back outside.
"Where are you're going?" asked Kairi as she, Sora and Tidus joined Anakin outside the station.
"Remember when I fell?" Anakin said "I had that money before. I bet that guy in the coat took it."
"Guy?" Tidus and Sora asked.
"He couldn't gone too far!" Anakin said.
"What are you're talking about? There was no guy. We just saw you get up" Sora said.
"WHAT?!" Anakin gasped as the bells rings "But he… There wasn't… Really?"
They all nodded. Then they could hear the ferry whistle. They missed it.
"Oh boy" Tidus said.
Anakin looked around "There wasn't anyone there?"
The 4 leaves and they climbed on top of the clock tower, drinking orange juice. They watched the ferry moved towards the sea. Anakin was too busy thinking about that man while some of his drink falls onto his gloved hand.
"Anakin, you're spilling some" Tidus said.
"Oh thanks" Anakin said as he took his drink again.
"Cheer up already" Sora said "We could go back tomorrow and maybe we could buy some Wumpa Fruit."
"That was definitely weird though" Anakin said.
"Strange" Kairi said.
"You said it" Sora said.
Anakin remained silent and thought of the words the man said to him and whispered to himself "Can you feel Crash Bandicoot?"
Back at the computer lab, the screen said that the Restoration is at 28 as Diz sat there.
"Rachel, hurry!" Diz said "we need Crash's help once again".
The cloaked figure walked back in, tossing the money pouch up and down. "Is it that hard to go to the city?"
"Then we'd be giving our enemy another entry point" Diz said.
"And what shall I do with this?" asked the figure holding the money.
"We could always buy some orange juice" Diz said as he laughs as this and the figures toss it up and down again, "You see, objects from that town must be kept out of the real world. You can delete that fake money and replace it with the real one when Crash awakens."
What are they're planning with Crash? What does this all mean to Anakin?
To be continued…
A/N: OK. So Diz will be the same but have a different name for his true form. And you can guess who is the cloaked figure. And guess who is Anakin suppose to be? Anyway, the next chapter will be up soon, so see ya.