Crash and Coco exited the portal and appeared back in the bandicoot estate. Crash quickly collapsed in a chair in the basement and put his hands on his forehead trying to get a grasp on the situation.
"Crash, how are you feeling?" Coco asked.
"I'm feeling ok I just am not quite sure what happened?"
"You were being held captive in the tenth dimension Crash. But Aku found you and together we came and rescued you. You've been dead for three years but you are home now."
"Thanks Coco." Crash said as he hugged her little sister. "How long did you say I have been dead?"
"Three years, things have changed during your absence. Timmons is now the police commissioner; mutants are now being treated with more respect now and can even become involved in politics. It is even legal in some places to evolve animals into mutants." Coco replied. Crash then started to look around and noticed something.
"Where's Tawna? I've got to see her." Coco then just hung her head. "She doesn't live here anymore. She gave up hope on you ever returning and left the island.
"What?" Crash said. "Where did she go I have to see her?" But before Coco could reply she got a call from Timmons.
"Yes commissioner?"
"Coco meet me in the field on the far east side of the island. Something really bad has happened, something that may be the start of a new threat."
"Will do commissioner." She said as she hung up the phone and changed into her police uniform. Then she ran up to Crash.
"We'll have to talk about this more later. A new threat as came up we've got to get going." Then Coco grabbed her police uniform and threw it on
"What's with the police uniform?" Crash asked
"Oh I forgot to tell you I joined the police department. You told me to carry on your legacy this is my way to do it."
"Man I've been dead longer then I thought." Crash said as he hopped into Coco's car and drove off. About fifteen minutes later they arrived to the crime scene and Coco stepped out of the car.
"I'm here commissioner."
"Coco thank God you are here." Timmons said
"Oh I hope you don't mind I brought I friend with me who might come in handy." Coco said then Crash stepped out of the car.
"Hello Luke."
"Crash Bandicoot?" Luke said in shock
"Who were you expecting Spyro the Dragon?" (Thought I would throw in a joke about another one of Sony's great games for a little bit of humor.)
"You're dead."
"I was but to make long story short Coco found some complicated way that is too detailed to get into right now and brought me back to life. If you want we can discuss it more over a beer later."
"I'll take you up on that offer but right now we got a situation." Timmons said as he led the bandicoots to what looked like pieces of a destroyed airplane and what appeared to be the pilot lying on the ground dead.
"What happened here?" Coco asked.
"That's what we would like to find out. We believe that the plane may have got hit by terrorist and blown up."
"What makes you think that this wasn't just a freak accident that there wasn't something wrong with the controllers or something else?" Coco asked
"That was our first thought but look at the pilot. There are no burn residues on him which means that he was not in the plane when it exploded."
"So you are saying that he was thrown out of the plane by somebody." Crash asked
"That is our guess and also look at this." Luke said as he lifted up the pilot's shirt and revealed the N mark on his chest.
"No it can't be?" Crash gasped
"What do you make it for?" Luke asked.
"It looks like the mark of Cortex. But I killed him." Crash said
"That's what we thought to but the mark is too similar to the mark of Cortex."
"Do you think that it is possible that whoever cut this guy with the knife that the slash marks just coincidently turned out to look like the N of Cortex." Coco asked
"It's possible but we will have to wait for the autopsy results just to make sure. In the meantime we have to be prepared that Cortex may be back."
"We'll be ready for him if he is." Crash said then he turned to Coco. "Coco I want you to get a piece of the charred plane and run some test on it in the lab see if you can find out what crashed it. I'll meet up with you later."
"Where are you going Crash?"
"To find Tawna. I've got to see her, where is she?
"She is on Wumpa Island. I warn you Crash though. You may not like what you find." And with that Crash ran to the beach got on his speedboat and sped to Wumpa Island. When Crash arrived on Wumpa Island he got out of his boat and started asking people if they knew where Tawna was.
"Excuse me?" Crash asked one man. "Do you know where Tawna is?"
"You must be new here?" the man said "Everybody here knows where Tawna is. She is the main star at the Moulin Cortex night club on the far side of town."
"What is she doing working at a night club?" He thought to himself then it donned on him. "I better get going over there now!" He then raced over there just as soon as the night club was opening. Once he got there he sat at a bar and waited till it was time for Tawna to come out.
"Can I get you anything sir?" The bartender asked.
"Get me some bourbon." Crash asked then the bartender came and poured him a glass of bourbon whisky and Crash drank on it until Tawna came out. Then the curtains opened and Tawna appeared in a robe dancing in front of the cheering guys. Then after a minute of dancing she dropped the robe and showed off her real dance costume which looked like an extremely skimpy bikini which barely covered her. When Crash saw that his eyes got wide with shock and he accidently dropped his glass of whisky on the floor. Tawna then climbed up a set of stairs to the top of a pole and started sliding down the pole like a stripper. Crash was beyond pissed off. This is what Tawna has been doing since he died. She has been entertaining perverts at a night club? Crash had seen more than enough he took out his gun and fired it at the ceiling, shooting a hole at it to get her attention.
"Hey Tawna!?" He yelled. The blast from the gun got everyone's attention and the music stopped and everybody including Tawna turned around.
"Crash?" Tawna said in shock.
"Yeah Crash! Your boyfriend that you have apparently forgot about."
"Hey you're going to pay for those damages!" The bartender said. Crash without looking away from Tawna just fired his gun at his feet to make sure he stayed put.
"Shut up!" Crash said
"Hey man who do you think you are?" One of the guys at the nightclub said
"I'm Crash Bandicoot Bitch! And I'm taking my girlfriend out of here!"
"You can't be Crash Bandicoot he died years ago." Another guy holding a bottle of vodka in his hands said. Crash just took the bottle of vodka from his hands and threw it in the air and shot it shattering it to pieces then pointed his gun at the guys face.
"You were saying?" Then he turned to Tawna.
"Crash I'm working here!" Tawna said
"Not anymore we're leaving." Then Crash grabbed Tawna by the arm and started walking her out of there. Tawna quickly grabbed her robe and put it on and Crash stopped and handed the bartender two hundred dollar bills.
"I believe this should pay for the damages." Then he grabbed Tawna again and left.
As they were walking to Tawna's car Tawna just yelled at Crash.
"You got a lot of nerve dragging me out of work against my will Crash!"
"This is what you have done with your life? Becoming a stripper for those sicko's."
"Oh so now you actually care about my life!" Tawna yelled as they got into her car and started driving off. "It seems to me that you never gave a rat's ass about me before!"
"What are you talking about I always cared about you. Everything I did was for you."
"Bullshit! You never gave a second thought about what I wanted. You promised me you would not go back to N. Sanity Island after you got exiled. But then you went behind my back and lied and went back anyway!"
"If I didn't go back there was a chance he would have killed you and Coco and he would have killed everybody on N. Sanity Island.
"Who gives a crap about N. Sanity Island? They treated you like shit they hated you for no reason despite everything you did for them. Yet you chose them the people who hated you over us the people who loved you. Do you know how much hell you put us through? More than I could take." Then tears started flowing down her face. "Why? Why couldn't you of stayed here with me and Coco? We could have lived normal lives. You and I could have had a future together. Tell me why? Why did you throw all of that away for nothing? Why did you put me and Coco through hell?"
"I couldn't let those visions I had to come true."
"Those visions wouldn't have come true if you have just left the Destroyer alone and let him Destroy N. Sanity Island."
"You're saying you would rather have millions of people die just so you could be happy?"
"Yes!"
"Well I can't do that!"
"Fine! Be a hero get yourself killed for all I care but you will have to do it without me! I am through crying over you!" Then the car stopped in front of a house on a hill and Tawna got out.
"This is where you live now?" Crash asked.
"No this is a client's house."
"Client?" Then it hit Crash. "Tawna have you become a prostitute?
"Yes and I am more happy now than I ever was with you. Do me a favor Crash and stay out of my life. I don't ever want to see you again. You are dead to me!" Then Tawna slammed the door shut behind Crash who just stood there in shock. He walked over to the window to see Tawna and her male client making out before she dropped her robe and stripped naked for him. With that Crash just walked away depressed. He couldn't believe Tawna would completely abandon him over something like that. As he walked away sad it started raining which made the walk back to the ocean even more depressing. And for the first time ever while he was walking he started questioning if he made the right decision that day. Was Tawna right about him being selfish? Crash started bursting out in tears. He never would have dreamed that he would have lost Tawna over something like that. He was still crying when he reached his boat and as he hopped in it he turned around to Wumpa Island and said.
"I'm so sorry Tawna. I never meant to hurt you." Then he drove off back to N. Sanity Island.
Back on N. Sanity Island at the prison, a car drove up and out stepped Nina, Dingodile. And two Komodo dragon Mutants. She then had all of them put on gas mask and put tubes in the pouches of her Mechanical hands holding Carbon Dioxide gas.
"Let's do this boys" Then they punched the front door in and released the Carbon Dioxide into the front office causing the officers to cough and pass out. They then walked into the hallway to where the cell were.
"Hey you aren't supposed to be here. The guard said but Nina just took out a knife and stabbed him into the throat. They then walked up one of the cells and saw the blue kangaroo Ripper sitting in his cell.
"Hello Ripper Roo!" Nina said
"Who are you?" Ripper said. "Why are you here?"
"Oh I'm sorry I forgot to introduce myself my name is Nina Cortex, niece of the deceased Dr. Neo Cortex."
"If you are here to apologize for your uncles actions then sorry but his sins can't be forgiven?" Nina just laughed.
"No that's not what I'm here for. I here you were good at building machines. Built yourself a homemade bomb detonator and help Cortex build his Cortex Vortex back when you lived in his castle.
"What do you want?" Ripper growled.
"I want you to build me a new Cortex Vortex up in space, one that can level entire continents to the ground. I am here to complete my uncle's dream.
"Sorry to disappoint but I'm out of the villain business. I have my Ripper Roo side cured. I'm Richard now."
"Oh really now?" Nina grinned. "Komodo Joe the Ripper serum please?" Then Komodo Joe took out a syringe out of his left pocket that held the chemical that turned him into Ripper Roo.
"You see this Richard? In this Syringe is the chemical mixture that turned you into Ripper Roo. All I have to do is inject these chemicals back in you and you will go back into being Ripper Roo again and I have put in a little extra chemical that will make sure that the affects our permanent this time. So in case you want to be permanently Ripper Roo again I would suggest you do what I say." Richard was terrified. The last thing he wanted was to go back into Ripper Roo so he decided to give in to her demands.
"I'll do as you say."
"Good." Nina said then she grabbed the keys out of the dead guard's pocket that she killed with her knife and opened the cell door. "Let's get started then."