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)