Chapter Two

Neo Cortex pointed his ray gun at Crash.

"I need an ans- What the?"

"What?" said Fake Crash.

"You- You- You're not Crash!"

"I know. Crash is over there." he pointed to underneath the desk. Crash jumped up and span Cortex. He fell out of the chair.

"Darn you, Crash Bandicoot!"

All of a sudden, a huge anchor broke through the celing and landed in front of Crash. All three of them slowly moved their eyes up the chain and saw a floating ghost ship up ahead.

"Run!" the three of them said.

Ropes were falling down and ghost pirates were climbing down them.

"Stop! We mean you no harm!" they said as Crash and Neo skidded through the door and down the hall with Coco, Spear and Fake Crash hot on their heel.

They broke out of the front door and Neo shot the space-pirates.

"STOP!" yelled a handsome warrior about Coco's age. No, he was not a zombie, but he still came from the flying pirate ship.

"They are telling the truth." "We are actually here to help you."

"Who are you?" asked Coco.

"My name is Xarlo, but people usually refer to me as 'The Warrior Of Zenchi.'"

"Why you helping us? We don't need no help? Crunch pities da fool who needs help!" Crunch said.

"We do." said Coco. "I saw a huge star bigger than the sun through my telescope recently, but I didn't want to say because I thought you wouldn't believe me."

"Crunch pities da fool who don't belie-"

"That's enough."

"So will you let us help you? We know what to do. We have to collect the 50 crystals of the land of Zenchi. Come with us on this inter-universal adventure to save the world!"

"OK."

Crash, Coco, Crunch, Aku Aku, Pura, Spear, Fake Crash, Sheila, Forge, The Warrior, and Cortex all entered with the space pirates and the door shut. The machine disappeared.

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Martin Bandicoot: Thanks to my neighbour Rosie for helping me with this. Also, I need some ideas for Hoover Havoc and Crash-A-Catastrophe, so please go to The Bandicoot Bungalow. Thanks to those who reviewed!