Chapter 12: Ballin' Hard
Crash & Jade are in for the dodge-ball game of their lives. With nowhere to go, they must avoid being bombarded by the balls, which will, btw, hurt them. Bad. Really bad.
Jade: "This is bad. What do we do?"
Aku: "You guys hold them off long enough while I find a way out."
Evil Student: "Yeah, good luck with that, losers! ATTACK!"
All of the kids begin to throw the red-balls at Crash & Jade with brutal force. Both of them desperately try to evade them, but Crash isn't so lucky, as he's hit in the face & stomach multiple times. Jade's cat-like abilities allowed her to swiftly dodge & jump over the incoming balls. the kids then ceased fire to gather more balls.
Jade: "Oh, dude! You don't look so good, haven't you ever played dodge-ball before?"
Crash shakes his head, although he dodged far more hazardeous objects in the past, such as rocks, spears, swords, & explosive crates. He gets up to his feet, but is still in pain.
Evi Student: "You rodents ready for more?"
Jade: "Wait! Time-out!"
Gym Coach: "*blows whistle*, Sorry kids, those are the rules."
Whole class: "AWWWWW!"
Jade: "Aku Aku, you almost done finding a way out?"
Aku: "Almost, Jade, just a few more minutes."
Gym Coach: "*blows whistle*, Time-in!"
Whole class: "YAAAY!"
Jade: "Okay, Crash. As soon as you see a ball coming towards you, smack it out of the way or grab it as fast as you can!"
Crash: "*nods head*"
Evil Student: "DODGE-BALLS, READY!"
The evil students prepare to once again bombard Crash & Jade with the balls, but Crash is prepared this time. As the balls are thrown, he grabs the first one that comes to him.
Gym Coach: "*blows whistle*, A ball's been caught! You're out!"
Evil Student: "What? Aw man!"
One of the kids is sent to the bleachers after being disqualified.
Aku: "Guys, I have found an exit! We must go, now!"
Jade: "Aww, but we're having so much fun!" *throws ball at a student*
*BOOMP*
Crash: "Oooooo!"
Evil Student: "Oh-no, we're losing! We have to-*BOOMP* *starts sobbing*"
The balls stop firing because the evil class stare at Crash & Jade with fear. As both of them raise a ball with devious smiles on their faces, the class screams & rushes to the bleachers.
Gym Coach: "*blows whistle*, the filthy mutant-animals win the game! Ugh, I can kiss this job goodbye."
Jade: "Whoo-hoo! We got those bad kids! Gimme four!"
Crash & Jade high-'four' each other.
Crash: "Yeah!"
Aku: "Ahem!"
Jade: "Oh, right."
Aku Aku floats down to the Bandicoot & Tigress & shape-shifts into a hover-board for both of them to ride on. The school bell rings as the trio finally exits the Academy of Evil. They are now en route to pursue Andrea & get the 3rd Power Crystal from her.
Jade: "Oh, I hope this means school's out forever."
Aku: "Before we go after Andrea, we must return home first to track her whereabouts. I feel a troubling disturbance among Wumpa Island, someone unusual is present there, too."
Crash: "*gulp*"
Meanwhile, at a farther away location across the seas, Cortex & N. Trap are also pursuing Andrea by flying on Cortex's hover-sled. Uka Uka contacts them on their transmitter for a status update, expecting bad news.
Cortex: "Oh, master Uka Uka! We've-"
Uka: "Don't tell me, Crash, my brother, & that cat-girl got away with ANOTHER Crystal, & you, ONCE AGAIN, failed to stop him!"
N. Trap intervenes.
N. Trap: "Actually, it's more complicated than that."
Uka: "What in the voodoo do you mean?"
A nervous Cortex tries to make his point quickly.
Cortex: "Well, uh, there's this young girl named Andrea Amberly who happens to be the daughter of Madame Amberly, she's the top hall monitor at the Academy of Evil & she wanted to stop the N. Dustries all on her own, so she took the Crystal from the school & now we're trying to find where she's off to. But the meddling rodents are also after her, so we have to get to Andrea before they do. *pant*, *pant*, *pant*"
Uka: "*sigh*Whatever, just, JUST DO WHATEVER NOW & DON'T FAIL ME THIS TIME!"
Cortex: "Don't you worry, Uka Uka, I have a plan! I always do!"
Uka: "Yeah, & that's what worries me." *transmission ends*
N. Trap: "A plan? When did you come up with one, just now?"
Cortex rolls his eyes as they fly off into the night. the beautiful-&-bright full-moon's water reflection glistens into N. Traps eyes, she & Cortex gets blinded out of disgust. Because we all know, evil scientists hate such pretty things.
N. Trap: "This moon, doesn't look so repulsing?"
Cortex: "It does, it reminds me of thinking of ways to blow it up!"
The two evil scientists get sort of a romantic feeling, happily sighing together in agreement.
Cortex & N. Trap: "*sigh*"
(End of Ch. 12)
