Amor vincit omnia
Chapter two
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Crunch woke up to a cold bed. Assuming Tiger had gotten out of bed, he tapped that way anyway to make sure, but felt only air. Am I on the wrong side of the bed? He reached the other way, and his hand pressed against a wall. There is no wall next to the bed... and Crunch sat up with a blood curdling scream. Opening his eyes, he saw he was nowhere near his own bed. He got up, feet dangling above the floor. Why is everything so big? He scavenged through the closets, and finally came across something he liked, before getting in front of a mirror, and nearly suffering a heart attack. There, in the mirror, looking back at him, was that wimp, Crash. Getting dressed, he quickly rushed home. Coco calling after him: "Where are you going, crash?
"Get out of my house!" He heard Tiger yell as he heard objects crash into the wall, before a bowl came out the window and right at him. Blocking it with his paws by reflex, he was flung back from the force of it. Then he saw himself running out of the house, Tiger yelling "And stay out."
Crunch approached the house, grabbing the spare key below the flower pot, and getting in. then he hugged the fox from behind, who was in the kitchen, looking for something to munch on. "Don't touch me." Tiger said, "I've been having a very bad morning, runt."
"You had a bad morning?" Crunch grunted, "I woke up in the wrong body, in the wrong bed, in the wrong fucking house. Look at me, I'm a total wimp. My entire life of training, gone."
"Crunch?" Tiger said, "Is that you?
"It's me, love." Crunch replied, "Gonna help me get my body back?"
"Hell yeah" Tiger said, "You're supposed to be my big meaty hunk. Let's see if anyone knows anything about this."
"Maybe AKU AKU might know something." Crunch suggested.
"Hate to think that the piece of wood might be useful." Tiger answered, "But it's worth a try." he said, breaking free from Crunch with far too much ease. "Let's go find the living surfboard."
Coco and Aku Aku were searching the island for Crash, when suddenly, the massive Crunch walked up, talking gibberish. It took them a while, but after a few minutes, they realized it was in fact Crash in front of them. Understandably, Crash seemed quite happy with the change, and went home, while Coco decided she needed a relaxing break, and needed it urgently. She and Aku-Aku went for their usual spot to relax on the beach, then a fuming mad three tailed fox broke through the foliage, followed by what looked like Crash. An ice dart pinned Aku-Aku to the ground. "What did you do to my mate?"
"Me?" Aku-Aku asked, "Nothing. I don't have that kind of magic. And because you ask so nicely, I'll tell you that I can not sense any magic on him."
"Can you reverse it?" Crunch asked, "I want my body back."
"I can try, but it doesn't feel like it." Aku-Aku says, as Crunch starts to glow. The glow dissipates again, but nothing happened. "Too bad, now go pest my brother or something."
"Oh we will" Tiger said, nudging Crunch along. "Come, love. We got more visits to make."
"Sure. Wanna fly the ship?" Crunch asked in return.
"Hell yeah."
"Cortex" the black mask yelled, "you ruined six plans in a row! This is your final chance. Lucky seven or you're FIRED.
"Does that in or exclude the current plan to terminate that blasted bandicoot?" Cortex replied.
"What's the plan?" Uka-Uka asked.
"I built this machine" Cortex replied, leaning against it, "and used it to swap Crash's and Crunch's body to prevent them both from using their usual fighting techniques against us. We should have an easy fight on our hands now."
"So YOU DID THIS!" Tiger yelled as he stormed in, and grabbed Cortex in a choke hold, "Give me back my mate, NOW!"
"O... kay... just... let... me..." Cortex choked out, just as the machine blew to bits.
"No need to thank me." A blue bandicoot called, always a pleasure to cause a pandemonium, before his shape fell apart into a cloud of snow.
"FIX IT" Tiger ordered.
"I can't." Cortex replied, "I burned the blueprints"
"Then you're not worth my time." Tiger said, changing his grip and applying some rotary force until he heard a snap.
"That's one way of getting rid of dead weight." Uka-Uka said. "who wants to take his place as my chief of staff?"
"Depends, Can you give my mate his body back?" Tiger countermanded.
"I'm sorry, no. I can't." Uka-Uka answered.
"Then no deal. Goodbye." and with that, Tiger marched out, ushering Crunch along with him.
"So... what are we gonna do now?" Crunch asked, "I'm stuck being a wimp!" They'd landed their ship hear Wumpa village. So far, it had been a disaster. "All my years of training. Gone... guess all that's left is going back to training."
"I'll stay with you, Crunch." Tiger said, hugging his mate, "I'll help you, get it all back. I promise." he kissed the small bandicoot. "I swear. I love you, Crunch."
"I love you too." Crunch replied, hugging Tiger tightly, crying lightly into his mate's shoulder. That night, Tiger lifted Crunch to bed, and they cuddled together, as tiger once again vowed not to leave his now vulnerable mate alone in this. He needed this bandicoot, and for the first time, he really felt that this bandicoot also needed him, and he would not let his mate down, even if it would get rough, and with that thought firmly in his mind, Tiger drifted off to sleep
