I have another Chapter out for you all. This is actually a very dark chapter and I like how it came out.

Other than that Enjoy

Crash is not mine. OC's are mine


Chapter 2 Underneath

Without stopping even for a minute, Crash bolted into his bedroom ripping off his swimsuit and replacing them with some denim shorts and packing a backpack with some supplies for wherever the hell he was probably going.

Once he was sure that he had everything that he may needed, he bolted out of the apartment; not even seeing if Sean and Holly were even there at all.

Crash ran as fast he could back to the deli to meet the others when he noticed everywhere in the streets was complaining about how the cars weren't starting and the signal's on the TVs and phones were acting batshit insane.

The bandicoot felt sympathy for all of them but he had no time to stop and explain what may have been going. Although he himself barely knew anything as it was, either.

Crash finally made it to the deli when he notice John and Nurse Renner sitting at the deli counter.

"Where's my baby?!" Nurse Renner demanded, tears streaming down her cheeks. "Was it..."

"No... It wasn't him; but it's someone who is really bad too." Crash lowered his head. "You could say he's my father; more or less creator."

John rested his hand on Nurse Renner's shoulder.

"Chrissy I'm sure Elkie is okay."

"Yeah... He won't hurt her... He needs her to get to me. It's happened before, twice actually." Crash sighed.

"You poor boy..." Nurse Renner sobbed, hugging him.

The door opened to reveal Charlotte and Kevin walk into the deli, dressed normally.

"We're ready..." Kevin said. "Now can someone explain to me what the hell is going on!"

Aku Aku emerged from the shadows, with a grave look on his face.

"I'm afraid that our timing could not have been worse; but Dr. Cortex has come up with a rather elaborate plan this time." The mask said, somberly.

"What kind of plan?" Charlotte asked.

"It seems that Cortex has designed these generators to be able to harness the planets digital and transportation devices. He must have purposely caused that earthquake with a device or set off a reaction in the Earth's interior to create the imbalance; and during the shock he took control using the generators."

"So that's why my cell phone signal was acting bizarrely." Kevin gasped.

"I'm afraid that's correct." Said the mask.

"Then how is he able to control those generators all at once?" Crash asked.

"He must be using one large program with a special type computer to do all of this; but what kind of program and where this computer is... I'm afraid I don't know..." The mask said apologetically.

"If Coco were here, she could help us..." Crash growled with tears forming in his eyes.

Nurse Renner gently patted his shoulder.

"It wasn't your fault." She said, softly.

Crash regained his composure.

"Aku, how many generators are there altogether?" He asked.

"There are about thirty generators the have been placed all around the world. We have to shut them down before Cortex harnesses enough power from them."

"But what about the controller?" Charlotte asked.

"We'll deal with that once we find out where Cortex is hiding; for now we need to focus our attention on the generators and get them out of the way."

Crash sighed.

"Well then, we have no time to waste."

He turned to his two other friends.

"You guys ready to see what one of my little adventures is like?"

"Sounds like fun..." Kevin shrugged.

Crash pulled out his transporter.

"It's Cortex's technology, so I doubt this is on the fritz."

The two nodded.

He turned to the mask.

"You ready?"

"Just like old times..."

The four started walking out the door."

"CRASH?!" Nurse called to him.

The bandicoot turned back towards her.

"Please bring my baby back to me, okay?"

The boy nodded as he walked out.

Meanwhile back in the mountains. Elkie was sitting inside a cell. She had been sitting in there for close to 4 hours now and all she was clothed in was her bathing suit.

No words could describe how frightened she was; but all she knew was that she was alone and freezing.

Her body jumped when she heard the sound of a door unlocking. She looked up to find out what was going on.

The sound of the door opening rang through her ears and some footsteps coming her way.

The source was Cortex himself walking into her cell and walking toward her with what looked like a china glass in his hand.

"You must be in complete shock, my dear; and for that I apologize for how my minion dragged you here." The scientist replied in his deep modulated voice.

Elkie balled herself into the cell corner, while using her long hair to cover her body.

Cortex slowly walked towards her.

"You don't need to contort yourself, dear. I'm only here to talk, and give you this." He said, handing her the glass cup.

The blind girl held it as if it was poison.

"It's only tea... there's nothing wrong with it."

Elkie still not satisfied sniffed the tea before she cautiously began to sip some.

Cortex sat down beside her.

"Please try to understand, my dear; this wasn't my intention to have you brought here like this. I'm afraid it was only way."

Elkie stared at him, with only the sound of his voice to identify him.

"You see, Crash has been causing me problems ever since he was first created. I've done everything in my power to subtly subdue, but he would continue to fight back. So he keeps leaving no choice. He forces me to provide blackmail. It seems like he hasn't learned from what happened to with Jane."

Elkie's head perked slightly.

"You must not have heard the entire ordeal with those two."

She continued to keep her head towards him.

"Jane is the love of his life; if anything were to happen with that tangle mess of hair, he wouldn't know what to do. Sad to say to this about you, dear; but you're only a rebound."

The blind girl felt her brows furrow.

Cortex smiled sinisterly at her.

"And I can in your eyes that you know that as well. You know that even when Crash became friends with you, he was still completely infatuated with his tangle mess of hair. He had never thought of you in that romantic light. Why is it now Crash is showing affection toward you?"

Elkie continued to glare; wanting the voice to shut up.

"And I know that if Jan comes back into his life, he'll toss you aside like a doll in a heartbeat; and I know you know that too."

The girl breathed deeply, trying to swallow back sobs.

Cortex rested his hand against her leg, causing her tense up.

"And you can relax your body; I have no intentions of having my way with you." Cortex sighed with great disdain.

The blind girl remained frigid.

"But I know Crash will come for you; even if you are just the other girl. You do provide a sense of balance as well; and if anything were to happen to you, Crash would do something irrational. But he wouldn't have a meltdown as if it were Jan, you are after all the other girl."

Elkie just sat there as she processed what Cortex had told; and everything he had told her made her feel hatred for Jan. Even with their relationship, in the long run Crash would ultimately choose the red head over her, leaving her in the dust.

She let a small sob escape her throat.

Cortex gently patted her shoulder.

"I understand how you must be feeling; and I hope you now have an understanding as to why I brought you here."

He stood up.

"I'll have someone escort you out of the cell so you can cleaned and some clothes."

His footsteps faded away to leave Elkie numbly staring off into space.


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