Dr. Neo Cortex is a scientist with only one desire, to vanquish Crash Bandicoot and take over the world. He would work his massive cranium every night plotting the bandicoot's doom, but at every turn Crash has pulled through and turned out victorious. No matter how many times Cortex tried, there was no plan too tough for the heroic bandicoot. One day he wandered about how crash's mind worked, upon having this thought he beleived he finally snapped. To wander what his arch nemesis thinks, a thought and plan Cortex never hoped to turn to.

"If that meddling Bandicoot was even stupider than he is now, then maybe, just maybe I can vanquish him forever! Muahahahahahaha!" Explained Cortex, talking to himself in his evil chair.

"I heard laughing dr. Cortex, you finally have something?" asked N.Gin, seeming excited.

"If the Bandicoot wasn't himself, to say, he was someone else is a plan that comes to mind..." explained Cortex, stroking his beard.

"Will you need use of my mechs? Heheheh!" said N.Gin, seeming overly excited.

"No... but I will need to make alterations to your matter distorter... come N.Gin! We are to make a soul swapping device! Muahahahahahaha!" Stated dr. Cortex, now standing on his chair.

The next day, within the deepest region of the iceberg lab, Cortex and Gin were still up after a full 24 hours of working on the evil device.

"I think it's ready!" said Gin, wiping his face of oil.

"Excellent, we'll need test subjects! Nina! Tropy!" Cortex shouted, rubbing his hands together.

"What is it now dr?" asked Dr. Tropy, the towering armor clad scientist.

"Yeah, I was kinda busy!" Shouted Nina, Cortex's gothic niece.

"We wanted to test our soul swapping device, don't worry i'll swap you straight back if it works!" said Cortex, Nina and tropy looked at eachother, curiously. N.Gin pulled the lever on the huge soul swapping device, a beam hit Nina, then redirected to Tropy. After the small sequence, Tropy and Nina looked at eachother in shock.

"What the? It worked! I'm in Tropy's body!" Said Tropy, with Nina's nasally voice.

"As astonishing as this is Dr, I would like to be me again!" Said Nina, with Tropy's british accent.

"Oh you want to swap back? Lemme see... what?" shouted Cortex, furiously bashing the device.

"What is it dr. cortex?" Asked N.Gin, cowering slightly.

"I can't use the device again, what's going on?" Yelled Cortex, getting outraged now.

"WHAT?" Shouted Nina and Tropy in unison and shock.

"You're saying we're stuck like this forever? Ludicrous!" said Nina, still with Tropy's soul inside her, in disbelief.

"No way! I hate looking down on all of you, I don't know how Tropy copes but i sure can't!" shouted Tropy, still with Nina's soul inside him.

"Ah, I see, the device needs to recharge for 2 hours before firing again!" explained N.Gin, checking the device's screen.

"Argh! I was hoping we could have that feeble minded fool crash defeaten by then!" yelled Cortex, kicking random objects.

"Well you're going to be a good doctor and swap us back instead, then take care of your bad playmate crash later, right?" explained Nina, still with Tropy's soul inside her.

"Fine... me and N.Gin will work into making the machine fire faster!" said Cortex, getting straight back to work.

"But Dr. Cortex, it is barely functional as it is! Any more alterations and it might become hazardous! You do know what this device used to be, right?" ranted N.Gin, panicking.

"Of course i know you buffoon! Do you think I'm that stupid?" said Cortex, laughing as he flipped his protective mask back on.