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Anyway, here is chapter 7!

Dingodile and the others noticed that I was locking up my cell. With my paws? And where was my jacket? Who took it off of me? Why would they?

I finally went to sleep while the other minions were arguing about the crystal that Coco and Crunch got away with. Plus they wanted to know where Crash went after all of that mess from the beginning.

Just then, I heard shouting. It was coming from Cortex himself, he was talking with the villains. Tropy was with him, they were discussing something about a real plan to get the crystals back. I put my ear up to the wall of my cell to listen. I couldn't catch too much as Cortex opened up my cell. I looked at him as he looked at me.

"Where is your jacket?" Cortex wondered. He picked me up and looked at me real good. I licked his face.

"Ha ha ha ha ha!" I laughed. I wasn't wearing the collar. It was on the floor next to my feet as Cortex placed me down and saw it.

"What is this?" He pondered and looked at me.

I laughed. He didn't understand me, so I snatched the collar from his hands and placed it around my own neck. The light on the collar flashed a green color. I started to speak.

"It's my collar. You now have one more talking minion." I grinned. Cortex was pleased that he can understand me now.

"Great! This means that I can understand what you are thinking! This means that our huge plan to get the crystals and take over the world will not fail!" Cortex danced as he picked me up again and spun me around. I was dizzy but I shook off the feeling.

"Are we going tonight? I got school tomorrow." I whimpered a bit.

"No, you do not have school tomorrow, it's a weekend tomorrow. The school is closed. They are open Monday-Friday." Cortex explained to me. I then nodded as I understood.

"Oh... Nina never told me that before we left school today." I answered. Cortex opened up all of the cells as everyone was let out. Pinstripe was giving Tiny a glare before he followed us. Dingodile and Koala Kong were behind them.

Brio was working on the machine that Cortex had blue printed. N Gin was helping him while Tropy watched, he was making sure that everything would be in place. He finally heard footsteps and noticed that I was not wearing my jacket.

"Hmmm... Why isn't Ripper Roo wearing that jacket? Wasn't his claws dangerous?" Tropy gave me a long look before looking at Cortex.

"Well, he talks now. Go on Ripper Roo, say something." Cortex bowed and decided to give me the spotlight.

"I do talk. He's right. My jacket is not on because Nina was concerned about it. She thinks that I shouldn't be treated like I'm sick, like I'm not worthy of having paws or arms exposed." I explained. This made Tropy raise a brow.

"Well, that does make sense... You're lucky that Brio doesn't have anymore jackets for you. He might put you back in one if you need it again." Tropy smirked at me.

"Oh shut up! I'm not that crazy. Not at the moment..." I growled.

"Now now. We need to get to work! I'm going to need all of the help I can get." Cortex stopped me from speaking before I caused too much trouble. I was already in trouble with the other minions because of my past actions. Pinstripe was still giving me stares, cold stares...

Brio got out a wrench so that he could attach the firing piece of the weapon to the end of the huge gun. Koala Kong was working on the tanks while Tiny and Dingodile were helping me place the TNTs inside of the tanks. I started bouncing around when I saw TNT, I don't know why but I did. When the tanks were all loaded up, we helped N Gin with a new gun.

"Hey! Careful Kangaroo! This gun is not to be touched on that spot. The top is very sensitive..." N Gin pulled the gun back for a couple of seconds. Dingodile grabbed it from him so that he could load it up with poison. Something to kill Crash with. Koala Kong grinned as he watched from afar. He was helping Tropy and Brio.

"Hey Cortex, I have a question!" A voice stunned them all. It was the Komodo bros. Moe and Joe hissed in.

"Oh no... I didn't let you guys out for a reason..." Cortex face palmed himself, he shoved me out of the way for a bit.

"Well we wanted to know if you are really going to let Ripper Roo do this mission with us... You know... We don't want your plans getting messed up like in the past." Joe hissed.

"Ripper Roo is fine... He almost helped me get Crash. Yes he was in the way, but he is fine now." Cortex stood up for me. The brothers were shocked at what he said about me, even they knew better than to judge a new minion.

"You know, I was the one that was closer to killing Crash than any of you were." I spoke again. Everyone didn't quite hear me except for Moe and Joe who hissed at me.

"Look, can you both leave? We are working on something!" Cortex growled at them.

"Yes, please leave if you both have nothing to help us on. We do not need your help with starting a riot. We already have Pinstripe over here." Brio looked at them finally. Tropy pointed his staff at them as a threat.

"Fine fine! Have him help us! Let's get back to our cell!" Moe hissed. Joe followed behind him. Cortex signed with relief as no one heard what his new minion said. I looked at Cortex for a while. Some memory flashed in my mind:

"No! No! You killed him! Croooooooow!" A voice screamed out.

An airship was visible in the distance of me... A net was thrown on top of me as I was placed inside of the airship. I was taken from somewhere... I don't know where though...

"Help me! Help me! Get me out of here!" The voice cried...

"Oh shut it! You are part of us now..." The voice of an evil scientist laughed. Another scientist was with him.

I saw some strange room and bars in front of me... Then...

I stopped breathing for a couple of seconds. I was trying to take in what I saw... I don't remember too much of anything as I continued to help Cortex after that long memory. N Gin was done with his new gun as he tested it out on Tropy by mistake.

"Ouch! You dumb ass! What were you thinking!?" Tropy yelled at N Gin who grinned shyly.

"Oops, my hands slipped." He chuckled.

"Slipped my ass!" He walked off.

"Well I guess it works. The feeling from the blast makes you stunned after 15 seconds." N Gin looked at us and explained.

"Hey mates! Tiny and I finished loading up the tanks. They all have TNTs inside them now." He pointed to the outside. Cortex gave them a thumbs up and continued working on the huge weapon.

"Hey, Tiny hasn't seen Uka Uka in a loong time. Where is Uka Uka?" Tiny roared.

"He's sealed back up again..." Cortex replied. He didn't want to see that evil mask again. After what he did.

"Oh... Can Cortex get Uka Uka back?" Tiny asked.

"No. We do not need him at the moment. And plus, we can get Crash without him." Cortex rolled his eyes. He then looked at what he was doing. I was giving him more screws and pieces. I was using my paws for real this time!

Moe and Joe were around the corner, they were not done with me yet. They didn't want me hogging all of the spotlight as they snickered and jumped at me finally when I wasn't looking. The knocked over the huge weapon and me! They hissed and tackled me down, I was pinned to the ground. I yipped.

"Dear god! Get off of me!" I yipped. Cortex and Brio were trying to get the two off of me. I was barely breathing. N Gin lifted up the huge weapon that we were working on. He then tried to get Tropy who was now stunned from the gun that he shot him with.

"The brothers are going to kill Ripper Roo! I need you in there!" N Gin was called to him.

"Well, now you need my help! You shot my ass and now I cannot get up! My legs cannot move! YOU SHOT ME IN THE LEGS!" Tropy shouted at him while trying to get up, but it wasn't working.

"Oops, I didn't mean to choose you... I wanted to test it without destroying this castle. Sorry..." N Gin stepped a few feet back. Tropy, still angry, sighed and didn't say anything else.

"Just... Go..." He growled.

N Gin left the hallway of the castle and saw that Tiny and Koala Kong had the two komodo dragons held down. I was on the floor, I was hurt pretty bad by their bites and slashes from their swords.

"Ouch... Ripper Roo, I..." N Gin walked over to me and lifted me up a bit, I looked at him. My vision was getting blurry from the attacks. I couldn't even speak much. My collar was fine, but I was feeling faint. Blackness finally reached my eyes. I could no longer see Cortex yelling at Joe and Moe, I couldn't even hear them anymore either...

"Cage! Cage! Cage! Wake up!" A voice called. I looked around, I was wondering who Cage was? I wasn't a cage, I was a kangaroo! A kangaroo that now has a loving family in a castle. I live in a castle.

This place was blue... No ground... I was floating along a few winds. Finally I saw a black kangaroo. He looked at me for a while. My blue fur was blowing in this strange wind. He finally spoke to me.

"Cage. I know this is you..." The kangaroo spoke to me.

"What? I don't know who you are..." I answered. I really didn't know who this guy was or why he was calling me Cage. My name is Ripper Roo...

"Oh, then should I call you by the new name you were given? Is it Ripper Roo?" The black kangaroo asked me. He didn't sound too pleased to know that I was accepting my capture. But what capture? I thought I was born in this new family...

"You know me? How?" I asked.

"You don't remember a damn thing, don't you?" He sighed.

"No... I do not know you... And you know my name? My real name?" I continued to question him.

"I know you. And I know your new name and your real name." This strange kangaroo answered my questions.

"What is your name?" I asked him finally.

"My name is Crow..." The kangaroo replied. He looked at me for a while as I did the same.

That name... It sounded familiar! It sounded like the one that was screaming in my dreams! In my thoughts! But was it really him? Crow...

"So your name is Crow... And my name is Cage?" I was now confused about my own name. Ripper Roo sounded right, but why was I refered to as Cage?

"Yes... You will soon come back to us..." Crow disappeared.

"Wait! I need to know what's going on!" I chased after him, but he was gone...

I woke up in my cell. My collar was still on.

"Hello?" I asked as I got up.

"You are awake!" N Gin hugged me. I've never felt so loved before. N Gin never showed his love side towards me. I was on a bed in my cell, I was covered in blankets. He was petting me now.

"Where are the others?" I asked.

"They have finished up on everything. Now that you are awake, you can help us out." N Gin got me up on my feet. I felt like a new person. But I was still the same blue laughing kangaroo. Though my laughing was cut short now that I could talk.

"Let's defeat Crash then..." I growled. I bounced up and down as N Gin lead me to the meeting room. Moe and Joe were tied up by Tropy.

"Well, you both are finally here." Brio sat back down. Tropy only sighed, he looked at the komodo dragons carefully.

"Don't worry, they will not try to do anything else..." Tropy smirked at them finally.

"Says you..." Rilla Roo rolled his eyes.

"Hey, where were you?" Tropy looked at the monkey hybrid.

"I was in my cell, you guys forgot about me." He grumbled.

"Oops..." Cortex placed his hand over his mouth before speaking.

"So sir, what is the plan?" Dingodile finally got him to think.

"Oh! Right! The plan is that we all go to the island and blow up part of the beach! This will get Coco and Crash out of their home as well as Crunch, he will be wanting to fight us all. That's when you all will get out the 3 tanks full of explosives and I will handle the huge gun that I've been working on for a couple of months now. N Gin will stun Crunch and Coco as I will kill Crash! Then we get rid of Aku Aku and we take the crystals and take over the world!" Cortex explained his plan.

"That sounds good!" I clapped my paws together for the first time. Rilla Roo and Dingodile gave him a thumbs up while Koala Kong and Tiny were jumping up and down with happiness. Tropy only looked at N Gin. Pinstripe clicked his tommy gun and looked at the picture of his love. His dream.

"Pinstripe, we need you to help out with the huge gun." Cortex snapped the minion back into attention.

"Oh yes, I will help you sir." Pinstripe nodded and smirked at me. He didn't seem to want me in this plan at all, but as long as Cortex is around, there is nothing he could do about it. Tiny and Dingodile could care less about me being on this mission. They knew I was useful in some way. Rilla Roo didn't mind me either.

"Don't worry Ripper Roo, we are all in this together. I know Pinstripe is giving you looks." Dingodile patted my head.

"Tiny wants to kill bandicoot!" Tiny leaped into the airship first. Tropy dragged Moe and Joe inside. They were mumbling, as they tried to chew through the ropes. Pinstripe went in after N Gin as Koala Kong followed behind. Once everyone was in the airship, it lifted into the air and flew to the island. The tanks were attached to the bottom of the ship as it landed.

Tiny drove the first tank, Koala Kong drove in the second one while Dingodile and I rode in the last one. The TNTs were in the tanks, as we had to carefully get the tanks at the edge of the beach.

Cortex and Pinstripe were pushing the large weapon at the center of the beach. They all had Crash's home surrounded. From the inside Aku Aku could sense their presence.

"We've got trouble children!" He flew over to them in worry.

"Oh? Who is it now?" Crunch growled and placed down his game controller. He was playing a game with Crash but they had to see what was going on outside.

"It's Cortex..." Coco looked at him and his minions. I was also seen by her. She looked at me.

"It looks like he has brought back that blue guy." Aku Aku knew who Coco was looking at.

"He's got more help too." Crunch looked at everyone else.

Crash stuck his finger in his ear, it was itchy. Then he grinned and looked outside. He saw Cortex looking at him.

Finally they opened the door. Coco told Pura and Polar to stay inside. They didn't need to be fighting a war that they were not in at the moment. This was only a bandicoot war. Cortex saw them all come out.

"What do you want?" Crunch growled at us.

"Oh? What do we want? Oh nothing... Except for a few prizes..." Cortex clasped his hands together. Tropy quickly used his staff to zap Coco and keep her busy while Dingodile, Koala Kong, Tiny and I blasted TNTs out of the tanks. They exploded all over the place as I laughed like crazy upon each explosion.

Crash was dodging the blasts as Crunch was the one that was trying to keep up. Coco was running from Tropy with Aku Aku at her side.

"You will not get away!" Tropy was blasting her. Coco ducked as she slid under a branch. Tropy ran into it and it flipped him over. He was on the ground now.

"That takes care of him!" Coco chuckled a bit as Rilla Roo stopped her in her tracks.

"Are you going somewhere?" He growled, Moe was at his side. Joe finally came in from behind.

"Yessss... Are you going somewhere?" Joe hissed in her ear.

"I can handle you brutes anytime." Coco was ready to fight them. It was the only choice she had. Mean while, I was having a blast! I was in a tank chasing two bandicoots. N Gin was afar, he was aiming to shoot Crash with his new stun gun. Cortex and Pinstripe were on the other side, getting ready to shoot Crash with the large weapon he created.

Aku Aku was watching Coco the whole time. He wasn't paying any attention to Crash. He wanted to make sure all of his children were alright. Though he couldn't stand to see Crash's little sister get hurt.

"Coco, I want to check on Crash, can you fight them alone?" Aku Aku asked her.

"Yes. Yes I can..." Coco was sure of herself.

Aku Aku smiled at her for a bit and looked at the villains that surrounded her. He flew away to see if Crash was doing okay.

Crash was on the ground, he was stunned from being shot by N Gin's stun gun. Cortex was now about to shoot him. Aku Aku quickly used his blast to blind Cortex and Pinstripe.

"Whoa! Whoa! I cannot see!" Pinstripe yelped out loud. Cortex covered his eyes and fell off balance. I noticed that crazy mask was going to try and ruin our plan. I leaped out of the tank while Dingodile was driving it and pinned the mask down.

I held a firm grip on the mask as he tried to struggle.

"Let go!" Aku Aku was moving around. I laughed until something hit my side real hard. I rolled over in the sand and looked up. It was Crunch! He saved that crazy mask.

"You thought you all exploded me! You didn't!" Crunch growled. Aku Aku was now free as he blasted me. The colorful blow hurt so bad I yipped and leaped away. I went into the ship and hid under Cortex's desk.

"Well we took care of that blue kangaroo! He was insane to begin with." Crunch laughed.

"Mates! We are losing the fight!" Dingodile saw that Tropy, Rilla Roo, Moe and Joe were injured.

Tiny was still going to blast Crash's house. With Pura and Polar inside, they would get killed. Coco saw this and leaped on Tiny. She was trying to take control of the tank. Koala Kong was catching up with Dingodile.

"Hey! Get him!" Koala Kong roared.

Dingodile turned his focus on Crunch but he was already lifting up the tanks. He threw him towards the ocean. I saw this from the window of the ship. I shouted to Dingodile.

"Let's all go back! This war is at a loss!" I called. Cortex finally couldn't seem to aim at Crash, Aku Aku was over him like crazy. He ditched his weapon and the tanks. The minions did the same and got back into the airship.

The battle was over. Crash won it. Though he was stunned from the shot he was given. Coco and Crunch helped him. Aku Aku helped the most. They stopped Tiny from destroying their house.

"Shit! How did this happen?" Cortex was angry.

"We all tried... It's that mask!" I growled.

"Yeah, he's the one we need to seal!" Pinstripe agreed with me for the first time.

"I guess we need Uka Uka." N Gin finally admitted.

"We do. I hate to say so..." Tropy was injured badly. He was lying down in a bed.

"Well, I guess we will have to break him free again." Cortex looked at the ground. Brio wasn't going to like this, but it was the only way to get Aku Aku out of the way once and for all. I watched as Cortex flew us to the place where Uka Uka was sealed.

I wanted to know how this other mask can help us. Is he even a mask? Is he a person that I've never seen before? What was he like in the past? I didn't know the answers to my own questions. I finally stopped thinking about them as I focused on the mission that was ahead of us.

I was going to figure out a way to help my team... Crash won't get away with this...


To be continued...

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