Hey, Crash Bandicoot fans. I am back again with another chapter! I just realized that I last made an update back in July so I do apologize for the long, excruciating wait. I have been hit with a summer job and then university has been a mess thus far. I have gladly gotten some support from my good friend, undeadartist666, encouraging me to post. What you are about to read is a long chapter, to compensate for me being missing, and what better way to post than on Halloween (yes, maybe I am a ghost, boo!) Now then, going ahead to mention once again and this is the last time I will mention this until I say that OC submissions are done for, I am accepting OCs if you want them to be featured. Don't expect them to be Gary or Mary Stu's though (I learned my mistake from the last version of this fanfic). Without further ado, Chapter 4: Sequences!
I do not own any of the cut or uncut Crash Bandicoot characters, I just own Dr. N. Force, Nimbus and his family, some other OCs (I think), and undeadartist666's Ella Mental, Cassidy Bandicoot, Woodworm, and Sprocket)
Three hours away from the start of the Super Wars, Nimbus and his family has planned out where he wanted the stage to be set and how it should look like: in the city of Hirane, with neon-lit buildings, lovely attraction sites, and crowd-pleasers. It hosts the infamous Coliseum, now in ruins, Terminus Stadium that has held numerous battles and events. For four weeks, Nimbus' family have gone through the reconstruction of the city full of rubble, debris, and destroyed landscape and went through the quick builds of their dream city; a haven of color and infrastructure. 4 LED screens were around the Coliseum, and billboards were all over the city, advertising for the event, simple products, and what's included in their trip for this event. A theme park, circus, and community centres that allowed for recreation purposes were built to satisfy the public. The aliens worked hard in building structures such as the DecaStar Hotels, Onyx Tower, and the Silver Bridge and by forming high-altitude mountains, fierce rivers, dangerous racetracks, and warzones. In addition to, the family cleaned and polished the Coliseum so that it could be used for what was mentioned by Nimbus 'the most remarkable battle in existence'. He claims that this rebuild would revitalize the look of the planet and would establish a new beginning. The leader of the family of 15 asked Prodigy to somehow turn daylight into a moonlit night while maintaining the appropriate temperatures for visitors to accustom to. Like usual, Prodigy surprises and performs this task without failure, turning quite a sunny, warm day, into a summer cool night, where the moon illuminates the planet. Nimbus and Prodigy are in a small building set near the Transporter pad, where they are waiting for people from other dimensions to arrive to the planet.
"Prodigy, how are we on the commodities and the hospitality for the month?" asked Nimbus, frantically panicking about the outcome of the event he has been planning for weeks. Prodigy quickly types on her laptop to check the statuses of these commodities and hospitalities using a very sophisticated program. She looks back to Nimbus with a grin on her face.
"They are all set," she said with enthusiasm. "I have made sure that the Transporter intertwines with our teleport pad just outside Hirane, so that our visitors can get a formal introduction. From there, the visitors and competitors will have fulfilled essential needs such as their shelter, food, sanitation, and more. I also made sure all of the 'family' is doing something"
"Great, great," Nimbus responds while rubbing his chin. "And...in terms of the battles themselves?" He looks on, squinting his eyes while looking at the place he called home but now calls it a ghost planet.
"Yup," the intelligent woman responds. "The augmented reality system, the VR Hub System, the Time Twister, every other machine is operating at full speed. I personally went with some of the group to each dimension to set up areas. Terminus Stadium, our racetracks, warzones, everything is ready to go. There is nothing to worry about!" She puts her hand on Nimbus' arm, who expresses sorrow and worry.
"I am just worried that the event is going to go off in infamy as the event that flopped," the former warrior responded. "We gathered a whole load of people and I do not want to disappoint." Nimbus looks around to see that no one was in the room. He slowly but painfully gets up from the chair he was sitting on. The battles that he has had in the past had started to catch up to him, but it was not going to stop him, he kept claiming. His frail feet drag along the cold floor to the corner of the room, where a fridge is located. He opens its door to reveal racks full of chemicals and already-made potions. He grabs an oddly-shaped flask that contains a murky purple liquid and starts to guzzle down the drink. As it travels through his body system, from a frail body, it becomes a robust figure. The alien stands upright and firm, fully perpendicular to the surface of the floor.
"Much better," Nimbus says as he smiles with relief. He turns around and looks through a wardrobe of robes that his family used to don. He grabs a sleek, lustrous gold robe that each texture of the robe sparkled like a million stars and wears it. He walks toward the door to the hallways and as he is a few feet away from the door, a scuffle and the sound of cries vibrates the hollow walls. Nimbus scoffs it off, believing he is just hearing voices and opens the door to the sight of a masked individual with what was believed to be a ray gun and a Xaminlocaorphian.
"Hey!" Nimbus yells out. "What are you doing?" The masked individual starts to sprint away, and Nimbus attempts to catch up but trips over the robe. He crawls over to see which one of the family members were hurt. The little kid was the victim of an incineration, judging by the charcoaled skin and the torn clothing. The skirmish to breathe was something the young boy couldn't win. At this moment of time, Nimbus is madly pacing around, wishing the Revivor was built but knowing it cannot be possible due to the possible breaks in the physical realm. What was once a family of 15 became a group of 14. An elderly female Xaminlocaorph with white skin and a bulky body shape with obvious aging features walks around the corner with a look of mortification at the sight she saw from her very own eyes.
"What happened, Nimbus?" the elder asked. Nimbus looks towards him, with rage inside him, knowing a dirty secret.
"You know, Aunt Sirnae," Nimbus muttered, "The people from these other dimensions have not arrived yet and looking at it, someone from our own kind has killed the kid. Our own kind! I just wonder who did it...It wasn't you or I, as you have the biggest heart and care that I know of, and I was in my room getting ready to welcome these folks. It wasn't Prodigy either, as she is ready to welcome these people from the other dimensions. That leaves 11 suspects...My brother Ulis, Uncle Phelan, the three female triplets, my cousin Michiko, my sister Kiarra, Grandpa Brink, Dretax, Zod, and my nephew Moon. Anyone you think did it, aunt?"
"I'm not so sure, Nimbusular…" she responds. Nimbus rolls her eyes since he does not like to be called by his full first name. "...I just do not want to make any assumptions about this. This is family, and I just know that you will make the correct decisions. Your father was right about you, you know. He said that one day, you would be a man of righteous mind and fairness, and you would do anything you can to make your family happy and safe and proud. As your aunt, but more importantly, as a mother, I'm so proud of you doing something for your home with this super war and for wanting to solve a dark case." She smiles, not regretting every single word said.
"Thank you, auntie," Nimbus said with a tiny frown. All of a sudden, the sounds of the blowing, vicious winds and machines whirring can be heard. "Ah, they are here. I have to go, Aunt Sirnae. I'll see you out there?"
"You bet," the elder yelled out in excitement. "Go get 'em, kid!" Nimbus smiles and hugs her for a brief period of time, and hurries off outside to run to the Coliseum, where he would first meet everyone.
Visitors from the Normal dimension are the first set of people to appear out of thin air in particles from the Transporter pad that is encompassed by a massive glass dome. This dome was at ground level with the city and was just 500 metres from it.
As people from all 10 dimensions come packing into the city of Hirane, they are surprised by the outlook and pleasing colours of the city. Fingers pointing at the LED-coloured 3D Reuleaux triangle-shaped Onyx Tower with symbols of trefoil knots. Murmurs of excitement and faces of pure intrigue were the expressions and attitudes that these visitors had when looking at the vibrant colours. From the view they were at, they would see the tall hotel and tower, the Silver Bridge, which looked to be the closest thing to them, Terminus Stadium and its newly attached LED screens, and a blue-flashing rollercoaster with an ascent to the peak of the tower and a drop with some added loops and helixes.
"This place looks just like Velo's planet," screamed out one person.
"Not even," another yelled. "This is a beauty!" Numerous went ahead to nod and agree with an interest of what they were about to fully witness, as they are unbeknownst if the city has more attractions once entered. Nimbus comes from the door and walks toward a five feet platform so that everyone was able to see him. He first coughed so that the sea of eyes were glued to the alien. Some winced and were terrified to see an alien, some were astonished to see another alien exist but were keeping their guard up, as he was just like Nitrous Oxide and Velo, an alien. And others, which meant most of them, didn't care and were ready to hear him speak.
"Don't worry, I will not hurt any of you," Nimbus mentioned, with the audience chuckling. "I am not a bad alien at all. Everyone can hear and see me?" The crowd bobs their head up and down, while some say yes. "Perfect! My name is Nimbus and I am pretty much the leader of my planet. Before I confirm that you guys are here for the event, I just want to explain a couple of things. First, I want to thank you all for actually trusting the billboards posted around your dimension and coming here to watch what I think will be an event that will be talked about for generations to come." The visitors started to clap, cheering loudly.
"Second," Nimbus continued "Recently, an asteroid hit this planet and destroyed civilization. Only my family of 15 survived as we were traveling to your dimension to talk to my long-time friend Nitros Oxide, whom you guys may despise." The group started to boo the fact that Oxide's name was mentioned. "Now now, don't boo him because you might actually depend on him for the wars." Nimbus winks, knowing fully well how capable his friend from when he was a child is of winning a battle that may be suited best for him. "But the main point is, our purpose is to start making a new life; a place where all can live together in unity. We also plan in reviving our own kind but that's beside the point. Right now, you are about to walk into a city…Hirane. These buildings, structures, everything that you see, was a project that we worked on for four weeks. A rebuild that will keep you guys satisfied to the fullest. Now then, I will explain the rules and details of the event later on tonight but I suppose we can take you guys out to the fresh air. Let's do this!" Nimbus and the rest started to clap and as he was about to walk off the platform and said one final thing.
"Oh, by the way, you guys do not need the astronaut suits. We have a special type of air mixed with pure oxygen, pure nitrogen, pure hydrogen, and krypton. No dangerous chemicals in the atmosphere. And the land is pure solid, so nothing to worry about. Now, come on, follow me!" He walks off the platform now and opens the door to let the people out. The visitors from the Normal dimension converse with each other as Nimbus leads them towards the Silver Bridge, where Ulis was waiting. Ulis was rather a muscular-shaped, brown-skinned alien that towers over his brother by several inches. He was the giant, billed at 7 feet tall and 300 pounds. Ulis smiled and waved to the sea of bodies walking.
"Guys, this is my brother Ulis," Nimbus introduced. "If there is one thing you should know about this man, he is the kindest and funniest person alive." His brother's deep laughs were heard, as mumbles were heard.
"Oh, stop it, you chimp," Ulis responded. "Yes, I am the great Ulis and I really hope that diva didn't bore you inside there. My God, I could never listen to him for 30 seconds straight. You know, one time, Nimbus, you were playing football or soccer or however you people call it, and you had an open net right in front of you, and you tripped over the ball?" Ulis widely smiles, happily reminiscing of the memory. "Man, it was like you did it on purpose, it seemed like." As Ulis finished laughing again, Nimbus kicked him in the nether region, but it ended up hurting Nimbus himself, causing a mildly funny reaction.
"Woah, why aren't you hurt, mister Ulis?" said a peculiar person nearby the alien. "Do you guys have…you know?" Ulis chuckles, sounding like Santa Claus as they made it seem like.
"Oh, I had a steel jock strap on," Ulis replied. "Knew this idiot would do that, so I decided to protect myself, haha. And yes, to your other question. Now come on, fellows, let's cross the bridge. Thanks again, Nimbus! I'll see you in a bit." Ulis walks with the group across the Silver Bridge, which was a wide steel bridge with tiny holes and that was 30 feet high from the manmade river by the family.
"As you can see," Ulis stated, "you are over the river of Englefolk, a well-lit fast-stream of water that would basically hurt you if you went in the water without a lifebuoy or a lifejacket. No one is permitted to go there unless it is part of the competition." He continued to speak as they walked inside the city, where the tunes of Elvis Presley's Viva Las Vegas was playing through the speakers of the city. The group sounded off with 'ooo's' and 'aah's' as the walk kept on going.
"My brother was probably very proud to talk about this rebuild," Ulis continued. "Heck, for the first time in my life, me making jokes about him didn't seem to entertain him. I guess I have to make stronger jokes for him this time around. Anyways, welcome to the city I grew up in, Hirane! It is also called the City of Love, Money, Attractions, and so much more. Of course, I made those up." Some people chuckled at his claim. "The DecaStar Hotels is where you guys will be staying and since you are from the Normal Dimension, you guys stay at the First Star Hotel, we call it. Luxurious suites for everyone, 1500 rooms in the very case that any attendance picks up, a swimming pool, a shopping market, and a restaurant right in your hotel. And many more specific cool details about the hotels as well as other important things can be found in the pamphlet in the lobby of the hotel. Of course, every hotel gets that privilege of luxury, so do not worry. Just remember that your hotel is the hotel with the one blue star on the roof. We also have the Onyx Tower, the tallest rotating tower. We also have other things such as an amusement park and other things for your pleasure. And finally, the Coliseum, where you guys will be witnessing the event itself. Terminus Stadium, and I like to call it, the second version of it, after the asteroids hit. We rebuilt it and made sure it is extremely stable for the large capacity we are about to have at this time. A lot of history with that arena, especially associated with my brother Nimbus, who was a warrior and fought valiantly. Now then, there is one thing you need to know…People from other dimensions will be here, and you shall not interact with certain ones, because they will start a brawl with you."
The group continued to walk towards the entrance of the Coliseum, where Prodigy was waiting for them.
"Hi everyone, my name is Prodigy and I will be guiding you to your seats. I helped engineer most of the structures here, as I am, as Nimbus would say, a multi-talented lady of sorts. Follow me if you will."
The group walked away from Ulis, who got an alert that the next batch of visitors from the Normal Dimension came, and followed Prodigy inside the Coliseum so they can grab some food and took their seats. Ulis rushed back to the Silver Bridge to meet up with the next batch of people. This process of the visitors being greeted, being told about the city and going inside the coliseum repeated until all visitors from the 10 dimensions were seated. All that was left were the crowd of viewers who would be watching from their homes, and the heroes and villains who were prepared to fight. Nimbus alerted the Aku Akus and the Uka Ukas that they will be teleported to disclosed rooms that separated each dimension from each other.
Back in the Normal Dimension, before they stepped on the teleporter pad, the bandicoots were doing their own thing; Crash slurping on some Wumpa Whip, Coco checking the sub-reddit dedicated to her family, and Crunch was having a conversation with Tiny Tiger and Koala Kong about muscles, weightlifting, and who is the strongest out of the three. They were surrounded by three Lab Assistants, Dingodile, Ripper Roo, Nina, and Pasadena.
"Tiny have big muscles and can carry 500 pound dumbbell," Tiny bragged.
"Yeah, but Tiny has no brain and no legs," Crunch fired back. The group surrounded them started to laugh at the burn given. Kong growled to get attention, as he started to flex his muscles while his pecs danced.
"Same with you…wait, what's your name? Oh right, Mr. Irrelevant!" The group once again laughed, which made Kong get furious and resulted in him rushing at Crunch and they brawled. Tiny Tiger gave his classic roar and jumped into the fight. As they brawled, the group continued to laugh at the hilarity that ensued.
"No, mate," Dingodile retorted. "Mr. Irrelevant is my project, Rilla Roo!" Everyone looked towards Rilla Roo, who was eating and strangely fondling a banana.
"See what I mean?" Dingodile continued. As the brawl continued, Dr. Neo Cortex walks past, ignoring the crowd, and heads towards Crash. He shook his head in annoyance, unhappy that he has to team up with his mortal enemy yet again to defeat a bunch of 'nobodies', according to the mad scientist.
"Crash, Crash, Crash," Cortex started off as Crash looked on with a huge grin on his face. He grabs a chicken from the ground and throws at Cortex's big head. The villain falls back on his rear end and grunts as he was hit, but was unamused with Crash's antics, who was giggling like a little girl. Cortex groans and stands back on his feet.
"I'm afraid that we are to team up yet again," Cortex disappointingly said. "This time, I have to co-operate with your crazier antics and ludicrous family. Feels like I am talking to a statue and my close-mouthed mother. Anyways, you cretin, I figured I would have to either side with you or kill you once and for all. But since my plans have always been foiled by you, you wretched bafoon, I guess I should just put my evil takeover on hold and help save our universe with you. So, what do you say, Crash? Deal or no deal?" Cortex crosses his arms and patiently waited for an answer. Crash just grinned like a cheeky monkey and stared at Cortex. He obviously wanted something: Wumpa fruit. "Okay, fine, you will get a year's supply of Wumpa fruit, as long as you don't get too fat from it!" With that, Crash nodded his head, jumping up and down in a star position with excitement.
"Are you all ready to go?" Uka Uka bellows. "We need to get to the place on time!" The muscular men stopped brawling and everyone started to walk to the pad.
"Everyone ready?" Aku Aku asked. Everyone responds with a resounding yes. The teleporter pad starts to disintegrate the bodies, meaning that they are about to travel to the location: Xaminlocaorph.
Back in Xaminlocaorph, after all visitors have been seated, he grabs a hoverboard and levitates at the top of the Coliseum to determine if the competitors have arrived. He grabs his walkie-talkie from his robe and holds the button so that he can be heard by whoever else had the walkie-talkies.
"Aunt Sirnae, Kiarra, Phelan, Prodigy, Moon, Brink, Dretax, Michiko, Zod, triplets," Nimbus signaled.
"Roger," said everyone asynchronously.
"Okay," Nimbus spoke. "Just tell them about what will occur and some details about the city and such, okay? Thank you." Nimbus turned off his walkie-talkie and flew back to where the entrance was. He safely landed and the hoverboard folded into a size of a Post-It note. He put it in his pocket and opened the gate to the Coliseum. Ulis was waiting for him before another door that led to the arena floors. He gave Nimbus a microphone that he could set up on his chest.
"Ready, bro?" Ulis asked. Nimbus scoffs off at the fact that even though his brother was older than him by a year, he was acting as if he was a cool kid around the block.
"Never been ready. 'dude'," responded Nimbus, to which as he said the word 'dude', he bends his index and middle fingers acting as quotation marks. Ulis chuckles at how old school his brother is, and refocuses. He turns on his own microphone and coughs on it to not only make sure it works, but to get everyone's attention.
"Ladies and gentlemen, good evening and welcome to Xaminlocaorph!" he says this in a deep voice that sort of resembled Aku Aku's. "You do not need to know who I is, but I am here to introduce to you a special man. Okay, this voice isn't working well so let me change it real quick…" Ulis sounds out robotic sounds to make it seem like he is modifying the microphone to make it operate in his regular voice. In the background, the crowd chuckles at the idiocy of the unknown speaker and Nimbus facepalms that the crowd actually think this is funny.
"Ah, back to normal!" Ulis says as he chuckles. "As you all may know, my name is Ulis-" The crowd cuts him off to cheer loudly for him. His laugh blares through the speakers, entertained by the fact that the crowd loves him. "Thank you, thank you very much. Anyways, I would like you all to please welcome the man, or alien, who made it all possible…A man of an immersive imagination and enjoyment. People, creatures, whatever you may be, let's give a huge round of applause to the man, the myth, the legend, Nimbus!"
The crowd roars with cheers as Nimbus jogs out, raising his hands and waving at the crowd. He sees that the cameras and the LED screens sync up well together. As he was introduced, an array of rainbow fireworks were blown off. Some blasted off from the edges of the top of the arena and some blasted from the middle of the floor, and these fireworks had distinct patterns such as stars, an explosion of green and blue, and many more. He noticed that the seats were half full, but that's because this would be the first time this event would be televised all across the 10 dimensions. He realized that possibly, millions were watching at their peaceful homes, and they actually cared about this. He turned on his mic and started his little speech.
"Good evening, everybody. I hope you all had a safe and thus far, decent trip to the Coliseum. Well, my name, as you all know, is Nimbus, and I already explained to you about this planet and all the stuff that you guys either think is boring or not appealing to you. Well, that's okay, because now, we get to the juicy stuff. We get to the actual event itself: Super Wars. Battles between 10 worlds, colliding to see who would be the most superior of them all. Each world is different from the rest. You got the normals, the humanoids, the robots, the space freaks, the hypnotized, the elementals, the mutants, the heroes, the supernaturals, and the villains. Duking it out for your entertainment and to repurpose my planet. Now then, before I introduce the men and the women and the creatures out here, I just have to explain the rules and the formatting of the event.
First, I believe there are 50+ competitors from every dimension so the likelihood is that this might be a 3 to 4-week event, depending on the circumstances. That being said, you will be treated like royalty for trusting us and for attending. Second, for every battle that ensues, 10 randoms will be selected from each dimension by their masks or their leaders. For example, Crash from the Normals, Tiny from the Humans, Cortex from the Robots, etcetera, etcetera. Thirdly, my family has decided the battles that the competitors are contested in vary every time. So, for example, you might have a speedrunning contest, archery, racing, complete an obstacle course without falling or getting hit by something, Ballistix, and many many more that you guys may or may not know. We created some new minigames to make some things original and interesting. Each contest will have their own set of rules that we will explain later on as each battle is about to happen. And these battles will be randomly spun by a wheel of battles. So pretty fun stuff right there, don't you think? Finally, the points go like this: 10 to 1, 10 being the highest and 1 being the lowest. If you win, you get 10 points, and if you lose, you get 1 point. Each team will get some kind of point based on their ranks. In the end, the dimension with the most points will get a large trophy and unlimited free trips to this planet. Well, those are the rules to the event and now is the most exciting part, the entrances, the introductions of your respective dimensions. Please, give a round of applause to the Dimensions!"
The audience started to laugh at first, as they saw a sight to see. Nimbus, plainly confused as what's happening, turn around to see Ulis hook up an electric guitar and lean towards a microphone stand. He plays a few notes to tune, making sure all strings play well.
"Ladies and gentlemen, this is the theme song for the event!" he yells out to the microphone, meaning that feedback pierced through some ears. "I love this song!" He starts to play the guitar to the tune of 'Greatest Show on Road' by Kid Rock. As he belts the first riff, the crowd starts to dance and bop their head, pumped up for the event. As he rocks on, Nimbus is shown on the screen, grabbing his head and noticeably furious, as fumes came out of his ears. This led to some chuckles by the audience.
As Ulis sings the chorus, the teams start to come out simultaneously, and the crowd starts to scream and cheer out loud for their respective teams, hoping that they come out on top. The Normal Dimension team was led by Crash, Cortex, Aku Aku, and Uka Uka, and all of them grin and sternly look around the place. The Humanoid Dimension was led by Aku Aku and Uka Uka, and all look petrified, not mustering up their courage. The Mechanic Dimension was led by Android Cortex, and they had no expression since they were technically robots. The Space Dimension was commandeered by Cassidy Bandicoot, and they all smiled and wave at the crowd. Alpha N. Trance led his team of entranced minions of the Hypnotized Dimension. Ella Mental of the Elemented Dimension walked with bravery as the group followed along. The mutated Dr. Cortex and his team set their eyes on the Supernatural team, who were led by Cortex and . In the meanwhile, the Heroes were led by Aku Aku and Uka Uka, and they had wide smiles, excited to fight off crime. Finally, the Evil Dimension, influenced by Evil Crash and Cortex, showed powerful expressions to demonstrate dominance to all other dimensions. They all stand united with their respective ends, staring at each other. As Ulis belts out the final note, he softly says the one line that gets the crowd riled up.
"Let the games begin…"
And finally, the end of the chapter is here, and finally, the end of the boring intro to the actual real fun: the event itself! I just realized in the previous chapter, the final Author's note had numerous lies such as that I would update before university started and that this would be a short chapter. What lies! The first battle will happen next chapter, no more waiting for you guys. I hope you guys enjoyed this read, and I will see you next time! ?
