Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped
Retold by Mutitoon90
Chapter Four
Crash felt like he was floating in air for a few moments. Then, he felt the familar pull of gravity on his body and landed on the ground with a loud thud.
"Ow!" The hero of the Wumpa Islands exclaimed in pain.
Crash picked himself up from the ground, rubbing his sore backside, when a foul smell entered his nose.
"Whoa!" Crash yelled out; his hands went to his nose, "That reeks!"
Then, the bandicoot took a look at his surroundings, seeing the plant life, which was familar and strange at the same time. Crash took a deep breath and felt the humid air flow throughout his lungs. After a sharp exhale, he took a mental note.
'This isn't Wumpa Island.'
Then, he started to explore the land. Unknown to the bandicoot, there were a pair of eyes watching Crash with great curiousity and wonder.
Coco coughed out of the dust that entered her lungs as she picked herself to her feet after falling out of the portal.
"Ow! That hurt!" The youngest member announced as she dusted herself and her clothes.
After removing as much dust as she could, she turned her attention to the enviroment she was in and saw that she was in a bamboo forest.
"Wow! I must be in ancient China!"
Then, her bandicoot ears picked up the sound of voices. This caused Coco to follow the sound and found the source of the voices: two men in Chinese clothing. She hid herself from the men to keep them from being frightened by her appearance.
In normal circumstanes, most people, who are not native to China, would have a difficult time understanding the two men, but Coco had no difficultly of understanding the men. To her, the men spoke prefect English.
Papu Papu came to Wumpa Island a week after Cortex's first defeat, and he wanted to speak with Crash and Nathan. Crash was the only one who could understand Papu Papu, because of the spell of understanding, and Nathan was not on the island at the time. This problem also gave the Papu tribe leader an idea. He used the same spell again, but this time it was used on the island, granting the evoled animals the gift of understanding any human language.
Coco was grateful for this gate, but there were times that she did not receive that gift. This was one of those times as she heard the noble-looking man and the lower-class man talked to each other..
"So, we have the tiger cub and its mother, I am right?" The man in blue asked the man in brown.
"We do have the cub," answered the peasant, "but the mother..."
"How can you allow this to happen?" The nobleman yelled at the peasant, "The Emperor will be most displeased."
Coco heard the tone of terror in the nobleman's voice, telling her that the Emperor was someone she did not to cross paths with, if not enrage. Coco listened on as the men spoke.
"I know how upset he would become when he dicovers the death of the mother, but think this: would you want to find out how anrgy he would become if the cub was dead as well?"
The nobleman placed his talon-like fingers on his chin, giving some thought about the peasant's words.
"What you speak might be true," replied the worried noble, "but it still does not forgive us for losing the mother to death or spare us the Emperor's fury."
"But the Emperor must hear us out." The brown clothed man said.
"He will not." The blue noble announced, "I've been in his court long enough to know better than to depend on simple wishing."
"We cannot escape his fury, so we must return to him with the cub." The peasant announced.
In a moment of defeat, the noble said, "If I am to lose my life, I will do so with honor."
"And I will do so myself." The peasant nodded in agreement.
Coco watched on as the two walked away from the area where Coco was hiding.
"That's horrible!" Coco exclaimed softly with her worries on the tiger cub, "What am I gonna do?"
Then, she heard a voice yell out an announcement.
"To the Imperial Palace!"
Coco heard this and got an idea. She knew that she had to act quickly or she'll be as good as dead, if not worse. Gathering her courage, she went out of her hiding place and dashed to a wagon. As she tried to regain her breath, a meek mew rang in her ears. She turned around and saw a baby tiger with the saddest amber eyes she had ever seen.
"You must be the cub that lost its mother?" Coco asked the cub, forgeting that her capabilities of understanding is limited to humans.
The cub still looked sad, causing Coco to realized her mistake.
"Oops!"
"I thought I heard a girl's voice over there." A voice spoke out, grabbing the bandicoot's attention.
"And it is a thought!" Another announced; the tone was in harsh disbelief.
"Oh, no!" Coco exclaimed under her breath.
The bandicoot looked for a place to hide. The cub mewed again, and Coco turned to the cub and got another idea. She jumped into the cage of the tiger and managed to squeeze through the bars and conceal herself in the hay before the two men came to the place where she stood a few moments earlier.
"I told you that you were dreaming of things." The second voice announced.
"I swear that I heard something." The first said, "You might be right."
The second voice laughed loudly and said, "You might be need of a wife! I will help you have one as soon as we return home."
The softer first voice made a quick laugh.
"I think you are correct."
The second voice laughed again and started to talk to the first voice as Coco carefully listened to the footsteps of the departing men. Once she heard no more footsteps or talking, she pulled herself out of the hay and was ready to escape from the cage, when something grabbed her leg.
"What?" Coco asked as she turned her head, and her eyes landed on the tiger cub's amber eyes, "You? Please, let me go. I'm on an important mission."
The cub refused to let her go and started rubbing its head on her leg. Seeing this, Coco gave a heavy, regretful sigh and said, "You win."
The cub purred as the bandicoot sat down next to it.
"How could I be such a jerk!" Coco mentally yelled at herself, "This little guy lost his mom not too long ago, and I had the nerve to say no to him. Man, I need to talk to Luna or Nathan when I get back home."
A loud voice yelled out, "Forward!" Then, the cage jerked before it moved with the rest of the convoy.
"Looks like we're together in this." Coco announced to the cub, which was asleep in her lap.
Nathan fell to the ground after his entering the silver portal through time. Sitting up, Nathan looked around and found himself a very strange place.
"Now, this is weird." The boy announced to no one, "Where or when am I?"
He stood up and looked around. Finding no clues on the walls, Nathan went to the window, hoping for another clue. As he neared the window, Nathan saw something that caused him to step back: a shark!
"Whoa! Wasn't expecting that!"
Nathan neared the window again and saw the underwater world and everything in it: the sea life, the plants, and the ruins. Noticing the similar markings that he found on the walls, Nathan realized that he was in an underwater ruin.
"Nathan." A familiar voice rang out to him.
The dark-haired boy turned and saw the anicent mask that was Aku-Aku.
"What are you doing here?" Nathan asked the mask.
"I had to follow you," answered the mask, "I sensed a familiar aura from the portal, so I followed after you."
"Do you know where or when am I?" Nathan asked.
"I believe you are in Atlantis." Aku-Aku announced.
"Atlantis!" Nathan was shortly stunned upon hearing the name of the world he had found himself in, but he returned to his senses and said, "I'm in Atlantis!"
"It's really more towards what is left of the city in a year or so." The colorful mask smiled sheepishly at the boy.
"Really?" Nathan asked. "Well, that explains the smell of mildew."
Aku-Aku smiled as the boy made a sad and honest statement.
"Crash would probably prefer to be with a friend than by himself."
The mask smiled sadly as the thought of the bandicoot entered his mind. He could see Crash's goofy face. A laugh slipped out of his mouth as he recalled his first meeting with the bandicoot on Crash's and Nathan's first adventure.
"Aku-Aku?" Nathan's voice pulled the mask's mind back to reality.
"Huh?"
"Aku-Aku, we need a course of action." Nathan said.
"Oh, yes." The mask said, "Good thing that my powers go beyond those you have seen on the Wumpa Islands."
Nathan smiled with great confidence and asked, "How far beyond?"
"Ow!" Luna yelled out in pain when she landed on her 'tail'.
"That's gotta hurt!"
"Shut it!" Luna yelled at the silver wolf, who was fused with her body.
Then, a cold blast of wind hit Luna's body, causing to exclaim with a loud 'BRRRRR!' Sash flew out of Luna's body and changed into her form of a wolf. Luna gave Sash a dirty look, which caused the wolf to show a grin.
"Hey," the wolf spoke, "you have fur too, or did you forgot?"
"Sash, don't get smart with me." Luna growled, "You know how much I hate the cold."
"And that's why you haven't changed your form." Sash said, showing a smug smile.
"Oh, shut it!" Luna announced.
The human looked around for any sign of life. Failing to hide any life, besides herself and Sash, Luna took a deep breath before she went to her hands and knees. The girl started to growl like a beast as she felt her body increase in size and shape, causing great pain to the girl. The arms and legs became so muscular that the sleeves of the green shirt and the legs of the jeans tore from the pressure of trying to keep together. Brown and white hair grew out of very pore on her body, turning into a coat of fur covering her body. Her human ears started to convert into a point until they were wolf-like. The feet became longer and thinner by apperance, becoming paws. Her fingernails grew into claws, sharp and ready for almost anything. A brown tail popped out of the girl's jeans as it grew out of her spine.
"Luna, are you all right?" Sash asked with concern in her voice.
"I'm fine, Sash." The wolf-like creature replied in a growl-like voice. It turned to the silver wolf and gave the cocky grin only Luna gave to anyone she trusted.
The wolf sighed in relief. Sash knew about Luna's lack of self-control in her werewolf form, both pyshically and mentally. The person that has seen Luna in her werewolf form and took the time to understand her was Nathan; Dr. Brio was shocked at the girl's werewolf apperance and fainted. The boy saw Luna as herself, despite he quick shock at Luna's transformation.
"Luna," called out the human-like wolf, "we need to find out what Cortex is up to."
"Right!" Luna nodded in agreement.
Then, the duo of wolves ran off into the Ice Age.
In the age of the dinosuars and after an hour of looking around in the landscape, Crash recalled seeing drawings familar to the flora of the area.
"Wait a second." The bandicoot thought to himself, "These plants look like those...prehistoic plants that Nathan metioned a while ago. He also mentioned a name of the time where the plants lived in. Now, what was the name again?"
A noise of rustling bushes tore Crash from his thoughts. As Crash looked around, everything but the wind was still. Seeing nothing was wrong, he returned to his thoughts.
"Now, where was I?" Crash mused to himself.
Then, something rubbed against his leg. Crash looked at his leg...
"WHOA!"
He jumped a few feet away from the creature, which was an infant tyrannosaurus rex.
"I've got to be in Jurassic Park!" Crash yelled again.
The green dinosaur got frightened and went off in the bushes.
"Hey, wait!" Crash called out to the smaller reptile, "I didn't mean to scare ya; it's just that you freaked me out."
The infant dinosaur's appeared from the bushes and saw the bandicoot, who was trying to reach out to the dinosaur. The tyrannosaurus rex sniffed the offered hand, and then it licked Crash's hand. Crash pulled back his hand as the infant licked its lips for a moment until it shook its hean and struck out its tongue in disgust.
Seeing this, Crash laughed as he said, "Guess bandicoot's not your favorite favor."
The dinosaur looked at Crash, who petted the infant's head. Then, Crash noticed a shine from the bushes.
"What the...?" The bandicoot asked.
The dinosaur heard the question and looked at its new friend. It turned its gaze to the direction of Crash's attention. After a moment of thought, the infant dinosaur went to the shine.
"Hey!" Crash said to the tyrannosaurus rex, who returned with a clear gem in its mouth.
"Huh?" Crash touched the gem.
The dinosaur loosened the jewel from its mouth. The gem fell to the ground, but Crash caught the gem quickly.
"That was close." The bandicoot smiled and sighed in relief.
Then, Crash heard a strange humming noise from behind him. He turned and saw a silver, floating orb.
"What's going on?" Crash asked out loud.
Then, several cavemen-like beings exited from the sphere. Crash knew that the beings were Neo Cortex's robots.
"Talk about your lame attempts in blending in." Crash announced thoughtlessly, attracting the attention of the robots. Seeing this, Crash repeated a statement that often flew out of Luna's mouth.
"Oh, shit."
The robots advanced at the hero. Then, the human-like machines noticed the gem in Crash's hand. One of the robots made an anouncement upon seeing the clear object.
"Crash Bandicoot: Found. Status: Alive and in possession of a power gem. Objective: Destory Crash Bandicoot and retrieve power gem."
"I'll repeat myself: Oh, shit!" Crash responded to the announcement.
The robots attacked Crash with the weapons of clubs and spears that came with the attire. Many of the weapons fail to make contct with Crash, and all of the weapons that did were deflected by Crash's spin attack.
"Is that the best you guys got?" The bandicoot asked, cocking an eyebrow.
Then, a pair of hands grabbed Crash by the arms, and Crash started to struggle, but it was in vain, because the arms and hands were too strong to allow Crash to be released. This impartment allowed the robots to freely attack the trapped mammal.
"I'm in deep trouble." Crash announced to himself as the robots advanced towards him.
Then, a pair of jaws filled with sharpened teeth bit into the arm of Crash's captor and tore it off. The bandicoot was confused, but he realized that his attention was on the attacking human-like robots and mad an announcement.
"Okay! Playtime's over!"
With a few strong spins, Crash was able to defeat his metal foes, which were in pieces. Crash looked and found his rescuer, the tyrannosaurus rex, gnawing on the robotic arm.
"Thanks, pal."
The infant looked at Crash and showed a toothy grin to the bandicoot. Amused by the sight, Crash petted the creature.
"Looks like no one's looking out for ya, huh?" Crash asked.
The dinosaur tilted its head in confusion.
"Don't worry," grinned Crash, "I'll take care of you."
The dinosaur grinned at Crash, who turned his attention to the gem.
"By a guess, Cortex is after this." The bandicoot asked out loud to himself, "I better asked Aku-Aku about this later."
Then, he pocketed the gem and started off again. The baby dinosaur looked at the bandicoot as he walked away. With sad, tear-filled eyes, the infant started to go the other way.
"Hey, Baby-T!"
The tyrannosaurus rex turned around and saw its new friend looking at it.
"Are you coming or not?" Crash asked.
The dinosaur smiled as its eyes shined brightly as it went to Crash.
"Good thing is a friend." Crash smiled, recalling the first time he met Nathan. The memory of the meeting and the akwardness from the two friends caused Crash to release a laugh. Little did both nathan and Crash at the time that it would be the start of one and a half years of friendship and adventures.
Baby-T rubbed its head against the bandicoot's gloved hand, causing Crash to remember his mission.
"I better find a way back to the time twister machine." Crash said to himself and Baby-T.
Then, the two journeyed off into the area.
Back in China, the convey was in a halt to rest for the night. Darkness gave Coco the ideal means to escape.
"Perfect." Coco smirked as she exited the cage.
She was about to escape when a certain tiger cub grabbed her shirt.
"Hey!" Coco exclaimed softly at the tiger.
The cub refused to let the she-bandicoot go, not wanting Coco to leave him.
"Fine." Coco sighed in defeat, "Come along."
The cub purred as it followed Coco away from the company to the ruler of the nation. It took a few minutes until they heard a yell.
"The tiger cub is gone!"
"Uh, no!" A meekly and frightened Coco muttered out before she turned to the cub and said, "Come on! We have to go!"
The cub failed to understand the bandicoot, but when Coco ran off, it followed its rescuer. The voices of the convey yelled out into the night, scaring the escaping duo. Then, Coco tripped on something, landing on the ground very hard.
"Ow!" Coco yelled.
She turned to her feet and saw a white, transparent gem. The she-bandicoot grabbed the gem.
"What's this?"
A mew rang into her ears, causing her to turn to the tiger cub.
"Hi." Coco smiled at the tiger as he tucked the gem into her pocket.
The smile on Coco's face upon seeing the cub soon disappeared after shouts from the men rang into her ears.
"The tiger went this way!"
"Oh no!" Coco wimpered.
Then, she truly realized that the tiger might be a cub, but it was big enough to be ridden on by anyone, including herself. She got on the tiger's back quickly, and the tiger started to run off with great speed to escape the convey of wagons and men.
In the ruins of Atlantis, Nathan and Aku-Aku explored the ruins within a few hours and found nothing beyond the similar markings on the walls and water-filled passageways.
"I don't know if we can." Nathan announced his concerns to the magic mask.
"Don't worry about it." Aku-Aku replied, "I am very powerful, espeaically in water."
"Are you positive about that?" The human asked in doubt.
Aku-Aku looked at the boy with an expression that said, 'You cannot be seriously asking that question'.
"Sorry," apologized Nathan, "but you're made of wood."
"I am a witch doctor's spirit that lived on the Wumpa Islands for his life and afterlife. I know my way around the waters."
With a very sheepish grin, Nathan said, "I'm sorry. I guess my logic interfered my trust in you. I might not want to be involved with my family's 'business', but I'm still adepting to being around other people and trusting them."
"I know," Aku-Aku replied, "Crash has been helping you. Doctor Brio, Coco, and even Luna and Sash have been helping you to be 'different' from your family."
Nathan smiled at the mask and asked, "How do we go underwater?"
Aku-Aku did not answer, but he flew at Nathan and planted himself onto the boy's face. Nathan fell into the water, but he failed to feel the water on his skin. Nathan looked around into the water and said the fauna and flora of the waters, where the ruins rested in. Then, he looked at his body and saw the familiar, colorful aura of Aku-Aku. This tells Nathan that Aku-Aku is protecting him from the water.
"Amazing!" Nathan said as he started to swim in the water, "It's like I'm wearing a full body scuba suit!
"You are enjoying this?" The mask's voice echoed in Nathan's mind.
"Yeah!" Nathan replied with a child-like glee, "This is so much fun!"
Aku-Aku's fatherly laugh comforted the boy as he became more skillful in swimming. Then, Nathan saw something shining in the sand.
"What's that?"
"I do not know, but it feels...familiar."
"Familiar?" Nathan asked.
The now-masked boy swam to shiny object's place in the sand and grabbed the object, which Nathan discovered was a gem.
"I do not believe my eyes!" Aku-Aku exclaimed in surprise, "It's a power gem!"
"A power gem?"
Then out of nowhere, a small, red shark chraged at the boy, who managed to dodge the attack. The shark turned around, saw the masked boy, and let out a roar, revealing that the shark was a robot.
"Uh-oh..." Nathan said before he swam to the surface of the water and escaped the false shark.
"That was close!" Nathan sighed out of relief as Aku-Aku freed himself from Nathan's face.
"I agree." The mask sighed in relief as well.
"Wait a moment." Nathan announced, showing the gem, "What's the story about this gem?"
Aku-Aku smiled at Nathan, because the boy was talking like Luna for that moment, and answered.
"That gem is a power gem, a great source of energy. This may be what my brother, Uka-Uka, is after."
"Damn!" Nathan cursed answer his breath, "I bet three out of three that my uncle's just waiting for us to gather the gems, so he can take them for us!"
"I fear you must right, but if we do not obtain the gems, Cortex's robots will."
The dark haired boy thought until he spoke.
"Good point. Then, we must get the gems."
Then, a dark grin appeared on the boy's face as he added, "It'll be a good way of teaching my uncle a good lesson of 'gimme, gimme, never gets.'
Aku-Aku felt a little uneasy upon seeing the grim grin, but he knew that Nathan was right and agreed to help by saying, "I can sense another gem nearby. We better get to the gem before those machines find them."
"Right." Nathan agreed, "Lead the way."
Then, the mask flew off to another part of the ruins with Nathan behind him.
In the Ice Age, Luna, in her werewolf form, and Sash have traveled for a few hours. On the way, the duo have fought off many saber-tooth tigers, angry mammoths, and many of Cortex's robots, which wore the attire for the time and climate. The wolves found a cave and started a fire, planning to stay in the cave for the night.
"This stinks!" Luna complained, rubbing her arms to warm herself, "Even with fur, I still freeze."
"Quit whining!" Sash responded, "It's not that bad."
"Easy for you to say!"
"No, it's very for me. I hate the cold just as much as you."
"Cold?" An Aussie-accented voice asked, "How about I warm ya up?"
Then, a large flame entered the cave, surrrounding the hybrids in fire. The roaring fire consumed the duo and lasted for a few mintues. Once the the flame died down, the only things standing was the cave and a silver-furred Luna, who held up a energy barrier.
"That warms things up a bit." Luna said as the barrier disappeared.
Sash removed herself from Luna's body, changing the silver fur to brown.
"Agreed, Luna." The silver wolf announced, "Now, who would be so 'noble' to warm us?"
"Yeah, let's asked." Luna grinned.
The wolves exited the cave and were greeted by a gasp of surprise.
"How did ya keep yourselves from becoming firewood!"
The wolves looked around and found a strange creature: a hybrid of a crocodile and a dingo wearing tan pants and carrying a propane tank with a spraying hose on his back.
"That looks like trouble." Luna said.
"No news needed here, Luna." Sash replied.
"I'm gonna make toast out of you two." The repile-mammal announced before aiming the hose at the wolves and firing at them.
The stream of flame almost hit the duo, whom managed to dodge the flames.
"This guy means business!" Luna growled out in anger.
Sash just growled at the hybrid.
"Ha," laughed the attack, "ya two are quick on your feet!"
Then, Luna disappeared.
"Where she go?" The reptile searched for the brown wolf-girl.
Then, a voice entered the attacker's dingo-ears.
"Don't think that all females are weak."
The assassin turned around and tried to spray fire onto Luna, but he missed.
"Where did she go?"
Sash sat down and watched this game that Luna was playing with the enemy.
"Enjoy, Luna." The silver wolf grinned at the sight of the frightened foe.
Luna was very fast on her feet, even faster than Sash in her spirit-like form, but only in her werewolf form. She could outrun anyone, if she wanted to, but Sash knew that Luna had to learn self-control over her powers and capabilites, which took a long time for Luna to learn.
The reptile-mammal looked for Luna, firing at where the brown she-wolf could be at, but where Luna was at, she was not there...at least not when the flame touched the ground.
"Dammit!" The attacker cursed out in fury, "Why can't ya stand still?"
"Fine." Luna said, appearing behind the reptile and punched the propane tank. The power of the punch sent the hybrid to the ground.
"What the...?" Those were the only words the attacker exclaimed before the tank blew up.
"That's gonna leave a mark!" Luna said as she watched the explosion.
The debris cleared, revealing the attacker and a familiar silver aura surrounding him.
"Sash!" The wolf-woman growled in fury, "Why did you do that?"
The silver aura left the assassin and changed into the form of th wolf. Sash replied, "You'll see."
Then, Sash went to the attacker and dug at his pockets until two transparent gems popped out.
"Whoa!" The brown wolf exclaimed, "What are those jewels?"
"I have no idea," Sash answered, "but I have a feeling about the reason why Cortex might what these."
Thinking about the statement, Luna replied, "You may have a point there." Then, she looked at the wolves' attacker for a moment and returned to Sash and said, "Let's take this guy prisoner. He may have some info about Cortex's plan."
"Good idea." The silver wolf agreed. Then, she noticed something behind Luna and said, "Luna, look!"
Luna turned around and saw the silver portal through time.
"Looks like our way back." Luna announced before turning to the assassin's direction.
"Wait a sec!" Sash spoke out, causing Luna to stop.
"What is it?" The brown werewolf asked her partner.
"You may need to change appearances."
Luna looked at her body and realized that she needed to change back to her human form for Crash and Coco.
"Good point." Luna answered.
Luna took a deep breath before she started to transform. Her body shrunk in size, her tail regressed back to a tail bone, her claws became fingernails and toenails, her ears dulled to human ears, her back paws became feet, the fangs drew back, and the fur grew small and transparent. Luna was human once again.
"Well, that was fun." Luna said as she streched her body, "It's been a while since I was in that form."
"I know." Sash said, rolling her golden eyes before changing her form and fusing into Luna.
Then, the fuse form of Sash and Luna went to the reptile-mammal hybrid, picked his lump body up and over her shoulder, and carried him into the portal.
Back in Atlantis, Nathan and Aku-Aku searched for the second power gem with no luck so far.
"It's been hours since we've arrived in this era." Nathan said out of boredom.
"I know." Aku-Aku agreed, still looking for the gem.
Then, a red shark jumped out of the water and tried to snap at the two allies.
"Whoa!" Nathan exclaimed, jumping out of the way.
The red shark, upon returning to the water, swam around in a circle.
"This shark's getting on my nevres!" Nathan growled in fury, and Aku-Aku agreed, saying, "We should 'teach him a lesson.'"
The human turned to the mask and gave a grin.
"Apparently, Luna's affecting you as well."
Aku-Aku replied with a grin as he said, "I believe you are right."
Then, the mask attached himself to Nathan's face, and they dived into the water. The shark chraged at the duo, whom were chraging at it. Nathan and Aku-Aku sliced through the robot, which split in two and exploded.
"Nathan, look!" Aku-Aku's voice announced to Nathan's mind.
The boy looked and saw another power crystal gem to the bottom. He swam to the gem and grabbed it.
"This is good." Nathan said.
Then, he saw the silver orb that serves as the portal through time.
"It is to go." The mask said.
Nathan swam into the portal, and the portal disappeared.
In the era of anicent China, it was sunrise. The sunlight of the morning woke up Coco and the tiger cub, who was sleeping in the bamboo forest with some help from the dew drop from the leaves.
"Hey!" A half-sleeping Coco exclaimed in a moan; with little sleep and rough sleeping conditions, the young she-bandicoot was very tired. She looked at the tiger, who gave out a yawn and shook his head to rid itself of the dew in its fur. Seeing this, Coco laughed a little and said, "Not really a morning person."
The cub looked at Coco and purred as it rubbed his head against Coco's furry arm.
"Hey! That tickles!" Coco giggled when she saw a panda eating bamboo, causing her to say, "Time to go."
Coco got up and started to walk out of the forest with the cub following right behind her, when she heard a familiar and unwanted voice.
"Coco Bandicoot: Found. Status: Alive and in possession of a power gem. Objective: Destory Coco Bandicoot and retrieve power gem."
Coco turned around and saw Cortex's robots in Chinese clothing in a failed attempt to hide from the population of the era. She could not help herself from laughing, amused the tried and failed disguises.
"Could Cortex be any dumber?" The she-bandicoot laughed out.
Then, the robot advanced at her, just to only miss her by inches before recieving a roundhouse kick to the head, which flew off of the machine's body.
"Nice try!" Coco yelled out before she jumped on the the cub's back, and the duo ran off until they reached the Great Wall itself.
"Whoa!" Coco exclaimed, causing the tiger cub to stop. Once stopped, she said, "That was close!"
Then, she saw a gem, similar to the one she found earlier.
"Now, that's weird!" Coco said as she got off the tiger and went to the gem's resting place.
She grabbed it, when she heard another robot.
"Destory Coco Bandicoot."
The young bandicoot turned around and saw five more robots charging at her and the tiger cub.
"Run!" Coco yelled out and ran away.
The cub ran after his new friend, hoping to catch up with her. It followed Coco into the sphere-like portal through time.
Hours later in the time of the dinosaurs, Crash was not very successful in his search. The only thing that he found were pteridactyls, which thought Crash was dinner, and more of the Cortex's robots disguised as cavemen. Crash turned to Baby-T, who looked very tired from the long walk.
"I know." Crash said, petting the dinosaur's head, "I'm tired."
Then, the bandicoot slumped onto a white stump, and the next thing Crash knew was that he was on his back.
"What the!" Crash shouted out in confused fury, which lasted for a few moments.
A very anrgy triceratops glared at the one, who used in stub of its missing horn as a seat: Crash. The bandicoot and the tyrannosaurus rex was in awe and fear as the giant creature bellowed out its fury before it chraged at them. The friends started running away, knowing they were too weak to fight off a furious dinosaur.
"RUN!" Crash yelled out as he ran away from the outraged dinosaur, while Baby-T did not even hear the command to retreat.
The triceratops chased after the two with a great, blind fury. It did not care what it did as long as its sight was on the bandicoot that sat on its missing horn and the tyrannosaurus rex that would grow to be its natural nemesis.
Crash wanted to escape, but the dinosaur that chased him was closing in on him and Baby-T. He needed a plan, but no ideas manifested in his mind. Only the thoughts of running away filled his mind. This caused him to not pay attenetion on what was on the 'path', and he tripped on a rock, landing on the ground.
"OW!"
Baby-T turned around upon hearing shout of pain and saw Crash in great danger. It dashed off to its friend's rescue.
"Damn!" The bandicoot exclaimed as he looked behind him to see the chraging dinosaur coming at him. Seeing that it was the end for him, Crash smiled and said under his breath, "Nathan, Luna, Coco, please be strong when I'm gone." With that, Crash closed his eyes, ready to meet his death.
The dinosaur was prepared to flatten Crash, when a flash of lime-green came in front of it and grabbed its prey. The triceratops looked to its right and saw its prey on the back of the infant tyrannosaurus rex, which was growling at it.
"Huh?" Crash asked, opening an eye. He saw the head of Baby-T and became relieved and happy.
"Baby-T! Ya came!"
The celebration was shortened by the rage-filled bellow of the triceratops, which caused Baby-T to turn around and run away in the opposite direction. Seeing the escaping duo, the ginat dinosaur gave chase again.
Crash was impressed by Baby-T's speed, but he looked behind him and saw the triceratops, which was catching up them him and his friend.
"That's not good!"
The bandicoot turned his attention to the front of Baby-T and noticed something shiny, but Baby-T gulped it down!
"What the...!"
Crash didn't have enough time to finish his sentence, because he and Baby-T went to the silver, sphere-like portal through time.