Uka Uka and Azrael awaited for the crystals to make it to them. Slick was still tied up, feeling a bit better, but his body still hurt like hell.
In the distance, the powerless Felinian saw a white fur yeti with two crystals walking towards the three.
"Oh no, Alex, no."
After a few minutes, Alex stood in front of them, holding out the crystals. Azrael appear in front of the yeti and took the crystal. Alex snarled at the wizard who look like he didn't want to take the crystals.
After giving the crystals to the villians, Slick appear in front of Alex untied. The yeti hug his best friend, not wanting to let go even though he was told to because Slick could barely breathe.
"Thanks to your foolish friendship, I got what I want and the world is closer to looking like this wasteland."
Uka Uka laughed maniac, teleporting out of the area. A portal appear and the reunited best friends went in.
--TimeTwister--
Alex and Slick arrived back to the TimeTwister to an unhappy Dr. Tropy and a displeased Aku Aku.
"Hello everyone. Nice to you all haha" Slick said, trying to break the ice.
Tawna and Alex helped Slick to a room so he can rest. After the Felinian was bandaged and sleeping, Alex came out to meet Dr. Tropy and Aku Aku.
"Alex, what you did was premature and reckless. My brother would've killed you both and take the crystals without us knowing."
"Excuse me? My best friend would've died if you two had a plan. And then what, guys? You would have a bigger problem than Uka Uka to deal with. Anyway, what was your plan?" Alex snapped back at the two.
They were silent. There were no plan. But Uka Uka wouldn't just spare Slick and Alex's life. It wasn't in his character.
"What's that? Silence? I thought so. Aku Aku, Crash's life is already in your hands. I be damned if you let him die!"
"Alex, the world is back in danger. We're trying to save it. I understand-"
"Don't act like you understand! Slick is my best friend, my brother. I would let the world die before I let him die. Our friendship is strong together and we promise to stop Uka Uka together. So, I don't give me lip when you couldn't come up with anything. If you had a heart, you would've done the same thing for who you cared about."
Alex walked away from Tropy and Aku Aku, walking back in Slick's room. The witch doctor lower his eyes floating away from the Time Wizard.
--Uka Uka's Lair--
Azrael went off to find Uka Uka. He needed to set his mind right. Ricky poisoned his mind to make him doubt about Uka Uka's loyalty.
Azrael walked up to the entrance of his leader's room, but quickly hid on the side as he heard Uka Uka voice along with another voice.
"Is our plan still going on?" an feminine voice asked.
"Without a pair of troublesome heroes in the way! But we gathered one of them here. We exchange his life for the crystals he took and they gave it to us" Uka Uka laughed.
"What about your 'apprentice?' She asked, causing Azrael's ears to perk up.
"He was only useful to keep your father and that annoying bandicoot locked away. I gave him what he wanted. As long as he out of our way, he can live."
"Ha, that's all he's useful for. His father is trying to free those two."
Uka Uka laughed. "I don't care. They should be dead now. Rescuing them for no reason. But it's time to continue on the plan."
"Don't worry. I got you. Hurricos is still on the works. My men are making sure we have everything in control."
His paws clench up. His anger rising. Azrael wanted to burst in there and tell Uka Uka off. But he didn't. He heard what his father was doing. The place Uka Uka told him to seal up with the spell from the Medieval Era. He left the area, thinking of an idea on the process.
--Big Wool's Ice Colosseum--
Coco carefully walked on the bridge to the platform while Big Wool stared at her, trying to figure out where he seen her before.
"You have something I want!" Coco shouted
"You mean this!" Wool said, pulling out the crystal.
"Oh, come on!" Coco, Austin, and Gotcho said, facepalming.
"Why would you show that? Now, she knows it's fake" Austin said
"Well Creed, it's your fault. You designed them like that" said Mr. Gotcho.
"Ugh, that's a fake crystal, you idiot! Screw this, I'm out of here!" Coco said, sliding to the bridge. Unfortunately it was destroyed by a cannon.
"Haha, you thought you walk away after I've been stranded here for days, stuck in this small submarine, and freezing cold in this place!"
"Aren't you a polar bear?"
Big Wool gasp. "Did you assume my species? How dare you! Do you not know who this submarine belongs to? My great granddaddy to my granddaddy to my daddy, The Bearminator."
Coco's eyes widen as she heard that name before.
"He was the best around the icebergs of Chillantica. Until he was beaten by little do-gooders killing him. You have insulted me, my daddy, my granddaddy, my great granddaddy. You shall not escape!"
With that said, the first cannon fired in the sky. Coco tap her feet together, revealing skate blades on her feet. The object Wool fired landed and it was an little mechicanal polar bear with a missile on it's back.
Listening to the beep going faster, the bandicoot moved from the bear's eyesight. The robot kept it's eyes on her and fire the missile, but missed.
The bear start chasing after Coco, trying to push her into the cold water. Playing an idea in her head, she stood by the edge of the platform. The bear charged full speed towards the bandicoot.
Skating to the side, Coco watch the bear fly out of the platform and fall into the water. A missile burst out of the water and hit Big Wool.
"Ouch! Creed, why did it hit me?"
"I don't know, man. It must've been an malfunction from the water. Just keep fighting" Austin said.
Big Wool's submarine twist over to the other side, a huge cannon in the middle this time. He fired a shot at the platform and destroy a quarter of the left side.
"Wool, why don't you use that cannon!?" Creed asked.
"It's an family tradition, man!" Wool answer, turning back to the three cannon. Two cannons fired and two robo bears land on the platform.
Coco dodge the missiles and try to get the bears to fall in the water. But when they bump into each other, they start to fight. She watch them push while Big Wool tried to get them to focus on the enemy. But the bears rolled into the water. Missiles flew out, circle around the polar bear and hit him.
A cannonball took a quarter of the right, leaving the platform in half.
"That's it. No more Mr. Nice Guy!" Wool yelled out.
"If this is Mr. Nice Guy, I hate to see you angry" Coco sarcastically said, ticking the bear off.
Three robot bears flew on to the platform. Two landed by the sides of Coco, but one slide off the platform, hanging on.
The bandicoot hears the beeping going faster from the other two bears. The beeping stop and the missiles fire. Coco perform a split, dodging the weapons.
The two bears whined as they were blown up by the missiles. The other robot bear started to malfunction, locking on to Coco, then to Big Wool. It couldn't make an decision, so it fired off.
Coco, Big Wool, even Austin and Gotcho follow the missile flying in the air, around the colosseum, and around the submarine. It end up flying into the big cannon behind Big Wool.
"Uh oh."
The submarine blew up. Big Wool flew in the air, not to be seen by the naked eye.
"Looks like he's blasting off" Coco said, laughing at her own joke. She looked around to find a way off the platform.
"Ugh, fun."
--Jungle Temple--
King Azrael went a message to the students in his school. Sasha, Bayley, Becky, Arnold, and even Mr. Marco came to help. They tried to stop the rocks from falling. But when the King try to break the seal, the temple continue to collapse.
"Your highness, we can't hold this much longer" Macro said, straining his magic.
"I can't hold on much longer" Bianca said, feeling weak.
Suddenly, everyone's magic stop working and the temple collapse. After the dust settled, The Sorceress, The King and the others looked at the temple, disappointed that they didn't even save Crash or Cortex.
"Don't worry...I save them for you."
King Azrael turned around to see his son behind him, holding an blue tube.
"Hi dad. I don't have much time, so I do the talking. I wanted to make you proud. The stories of the days people fear your name and wipe those who opposed you out of existence.
"But as I got the good ol' days in my head, thinking I can be like you, I never saw the world change for the better. Now, I tried to kill my family and destroy this world. I don't deserve the title of Prince nor your name. We may see each other later in our lives, but just know...I always love you."
Azrael teleported with the tube out of the temple. The king looked on, a tear rolling down his eye as a smile was on his face. "Let's go home everyone."
--TimeTwister--
Alex stood on the roof, looking at the moon. It was beautiful like the Earth's moon. Somedays he miss going to Earth to see how everyone is doing. He didn't regret being in The Forgotten World or whatever this place is.
He turn his head to see Tropy knocking on the door. The yeti turn his direction back to the moon. The Time Wizard walked over to the balcony Alex was standing by.
"Alex, I was just like you. I wasn't...like this before. I was a regular scientist, wanted the knowledge about time and space. My team, my girlfriend, and myself created a machine to travel through time. I tested it out and that day changed my life and changed me.
"I was trapped in the time stream, not able to stop or to go back. What felt like minutes turn out to be years. My skin change, my body felt like it was trying to shut down. I was back in the lab where I tested out the machine and found out nobody try to bring me back. My girlfriend was married, my friends never knew me. I thought I was in an alternate timeline, but it wasn't.
"I tried to kill myself but I wanted the world to pay for forgetting about me. So I created what you see today, learn to control my time traveling ability, and important, threw my heart away.
"For all these years I was evil, this mission is the time for me to do something good. My heart may be gone and I don't have any friends. But if it was one of y'all in danger, I would gladly risk my life for you."
Alex smiled after hearing about Tropy's statement. The two went inside to get ready for bed. As the group were together (with the exception of Slick), a portal appear and Coco was in front of them.
"Whew, thanks Doc. I would've have hypothermia if I stood there any longer."
"I didn't teleport you here. Where did you go? You're shivering" Tropy said, receiving a confuse look from the bandicoot.
"Then who did?"
"I did."
The heroes turn behind them, some had a look of surprised. Alex and Coco on the other hand were fueled by the rush of anger of the two people they despise.
"You son of a bitch!"
They went to punch the two. When they got close, their bodies froze.
"As expected, I knew they do that."