All right everybody, I know many of you must have been waiting for this chapter. Well here it is. This is probably my favorite chapter that I wrote and my favorite boss battle. To this very day, it is still almost impossible to defeat N. Gin without getting at least once. Sit back and enjoy, it's going to be one bumpy ride.
For this chapter, I strongly recommend listening to The Corneria theme from Star Fox SNES version. It will pump up the adreneline big time. (Do a Barrel Roll XD)
Crash is not mine. OCs are mine.
Chapter 13 Star Bandicoot
Coco found herself swimming in the warp of the time twister when N. Gin's face suddenly appeared.
Coco's eyes widen in surprise as she stared at the scientist before her.
"So you want to go a few rounds? When this is over, we'll see who's obsolete!" The scientist, smirked.
Coco's vision cleared to find herself sitting within a tiny spaceship, before her stood the controls. The small girl held them firmly in her hands, ready to take action.
Suddenly a large armed robot appeared before her.
Within the thick glass of the head, N. Gin was sitting calmly at the controls.
"Little fool! Do you honestly think you can stop me?" N. Gin demanded, his metallic voice stone cold.
"I know I can defeat you, your machines are nothing but toys."
N. Gin, completely insulted by the young girl's sassy tone, started unleashing his weapons.
"Prepare to be pulverized…! BANDICOOT!"
From the center of the robot, a small compartment opened, unleashing numerous missiles toward the ship.
Coco used her machine guns to anniulate the missiles. One at a time, more missiles would fire from the from the compartments on each of the robots shoulders. Coco maneuvered to the left and right trying her best to destroyed each compartment of the robot.
Suddenly, the robot raised it's right arm, charging what looked like a gattling gun. Numerous rounds fired from the gun towards the bandicoot. The small girl barely managed to fly under the blasts as the gun continued to fire until the guns were finally lowered. Coco proceeded in shooting down the compartments on each shoulder to stop the onslaught of missiles. Then the gun on the left side raised and began charging. Just as it started firing, the bandicoot lowered to the ground. Once the gun was lowered, Coco proceeded with taking out the compartments. After some more time the center compartment was destroyed.
Coco continued spending more of her time with the shoulder compartments until the right gun was raised again. Forcing the bandicoot to go low. The gun fired, moving around in the air trying it's best to go lower and destroy the little ship while the bandicoot tried her best to keep the ship as low as possible. Finally, the gun was lowered to allow Coco to continue taking out the compartments. Coco barreled rolled higher and was able to take out of one of the compartments as she grinned, pleased with herself and continued with the second compartment. The left gun raised, forcing the little girl to lower herself once again.
"This is taking to long! There should be a way that I can take out those guns so I can destroy the last compartment." Coco thought to herself.
The gun had finished firing, lowering to the side. Coco proceeded to take out the last compartment waiting for the gun to raise again.
After a few minutes, the right gun raised. Coco fired her guns at the weapon for as long as she could until she was forced to go down again. The bandicoot continued moving left and right until the gun was lowered. Afterwards Coco moved towards the final compartment destroying it. The gun raised again, and the bandicoot didn't hesitate with firing at the gun for as long as she could.
The gun lowered once more Coco continued flying until the right gun raised. The bandicoot once again, continued to fire her guns and the gun was destroyed just as it was about to fire. Coco grinned; her strategy was working, she was going to defeat N. Gin.
Coco waited patiently for the final gun to raise. When it was ready, Coco fired her weapons until the last weapon was finally destroyed.
"Ha! I did it! I destroyed the weapons! N. Gin's robot is defenseless!" Coco beamed.
Her happy victory was short-lived however, when she noticed N. Gin grinning.
"I would be lying if I said that I wasn't impressed. You managed to break through my defenses with such poise. As much as I hate to admit it, I must commend you for that."
Coco felt her hair stand on end.
"However, this was only round one. After your brother defeated me last time, I reconstructed my robots weaponry to be stronger than it was before. I also took a step ahead and constructed additional weaponry for my robot, just incase you were to survive my first blast."
Coco glared. "Then I'll just stop your second wave then."
"Oh I wouldn't count on that…" N. Gin suddenly sprinted off into the sky.
Coco commanded her ship to reach above the moon until it was gone from sight and she was surrounded by the darkened silence of space.
reappeared; only this time his mech was now protected with four missile compartments on the top. 2 random looking weapons on the left and right. And one large weapon that looked like it would fire meteors.
Coco fired her weapons, but it looked like they weren't doing anything to penetrate through the weaponry. The 2 weapons began sprouting purple balls of energy crashing into her shuttle. Missiles were impailing the window one by one and the meteor was crashing along the bumper. Needless to say, Coco was in trouble.
"As you can see, this armory cannot be pentrated through regular machine guns. I also used plasma energy in 3 of my weapons to increase the damage of the enemy ship. It is only a matter of time until your ships defenses go down to zero and then it's lights out for you." N. Gin laughed.
"Warning! Shuttle's defense at 50% damage." The computer panel on the controls, answered.
Coco looked down at the readout again. She knew it was true; her regular weapons wouldn't be able to break through this second wave. Only a few more hits from enemy fire would be enough to send her ship into a oblivion. She had to to think and quickly.
Suddenly, she felt something connecting with her shuttle. At first she thought it was enemy ships from behind, but that all changed when she heard the familiar mew.
"Pura…! How did you get here!?" Coco asked.
The little cub mewed angrily as she banged her tiny paws against the window.
Coco attempted to fire her weapons again to find green laser shots that were much stronger than her machine guns.
"I still have a chance." Coco grinned, confidently.
N. Gin fired the plasma balls toward her again. Coco easily dodged side to side as she poured laser after laser into the two plasma cannons, firing for as long as she could. After giving them several hits they closed up. The third plasma meteor was coming her way. She confidently shot her blasts at the cannons opening until the first weapon was broken off.
"What?! That can't be! I made sure they were flawless! I'LL TAKE YOU DOWN!" N. GIN screamed.
Coco kept up her strategy as she noticed the next wave as plasma balls. She carefully moved out of the way before sending lasers into the cannons and until the first cannon was destroyed.
Although the bandicoot was picking up the pace and was taking down the weapons one by one, her shield was still dropping. Because she had to avoid the plasma balls, she had a harder time avoiding the incoming missiles that were streaming out in droves. Leaving her vulnerable no matter what weapon she was trying to avoid.
"Warning! Shuttles defenses at 75% damage."
"It's okay. Once I get rid of the last plasma ball, I can easily take care of the rest."
The bandicoot dodged the last cannon before she fired her gun. After some more time, tbe cannon was destroyed."
"Yes! Now all I have to is take of the remaining missle compartments, and then I'm out of here." The little bandicoot cheered
"It can't be! She destroyed all my plasma weapons! Well if I'm going down, she's down going with me!" N. Gin snarled.
"Warning! Shuttles defenses at 90% damage."
"All right! Let's finish this!"
Coco shot at the compartments, attempting to rip them off every time one of them opened. One by one, each of the compartments would be blown off until only compartment remained.
"Danger! Shuttle's defenses have reached 100% damage. All defenses have shut down."
Coco gulped nervously. On the one hand, she only had one last compartment to shut down, and she would have no problem dodging the missiles. On the other hand, it looked like N. Gin's robot had received quite a bit of damage and this last compartment being torn off would send it into self destruct. If the robot exploded, there would be s high of Coco being caught in the blast, sending her into a crash landing.
Coco debated if she should run now or like her brother, leave fate up to chance and go in and do what he would do.
She looked at the robot and glared, she had made up her mind, she would do what needed to be done. She would win this battle on her own, no matter the outcome.
She sped up towards the robot firing her cannons and avoiding the on coming missiles with ease. The compartment opened one last time and without thinking about it, the small girl fired her weapons into the compartment until it finally broke off.
Coco backed up slightly as the robot went into critical overload. Coco waited for the explosion; she had only one chance to survive and she had to time it perfectly.
Finally, the robot emitted an enormous explosion, breaking into thousands of pieces.
Just before the explosion, Coco flew high above, just missing the radius of the blast. The bandicoot watched with complete surprise, she had won.
From the wreckage, N. Gin could be seen fleeing in a small escape pod. His missile was rumbling in fury as he looked at the destruction of his robot.
"ARGH! NOT AGAIN!" With that, the cyborg vanished.
"Look Pura, we did it!" Coco cheered.
Pura mewed, bouncing happily in her shuttle.
"Let's head back to the hub; all we need to do now is collect the remaining 5 crystals and 8 gems."
The two disappeared in the warp to find themselves back in the hub.
Crash ran toward her.
"You made it! I thought something horrible happened!" Crash said, hugging his sister tightly.
"I'm fine Crash. Pura and I taught that N. Gin a lesson he'll never forget. Didn't we?"
Pura mewed, proudly.
"I can't believe it, I can't believe we're nearing the end! Soon we can go home and get some well deserved rest!" Crash sighed.
"That's what you think…" Came a voice from the moniter in the center of the hub.
Crash and Coco walked toward the the screen; showing the main controls of the time twister.
Sitting with his back to the controls was Cortex himself. Off to the side was , holding an ice pack to his head. Obviously nursing a severe migrane from his temper.
"I can't believe the two of you have managed to get past my minions, four times!" Cortex explained, suprisingly smiling at them.
"Hah! Your minions were too easy!" Coco spat back.
Crash said nothing.
"So all you two have to do now is collect the five renaming crystals and obtain the last 8 gems, and then it would appear that you'll have foiled my plans."
The siblings felt unnerved.
"What are you implying?" Crash demanded.
"I was only stating the obvious; it looks like history will once again repeat itself, and I will simply see my own defeat." If Cortex was angry, he didn't look it. He had to be up to something.
"What are you planning!?" Coco growled.
"But, I can't tell you that, my dear. It would ruin the surprise." Cortex replied, sweetly.
"I don't like surprises." Coco whispered to Pura. The little tiger barred her teeth in response.
"Whatever you are planning Cortex, it's not going to work. I might not be the smartest out there, but I do know how you operate. I'll beat you at your own game." Crash snarled.
Coco looked at her brother in surprise; she knew her brother could be very impulsive, but it was times like this that his impulsiveness really scared her.
N. Gin looked at Cortex; waiting for him to answer.
"Well then, we'll see which one of us will be the last one standing." The transmission was cut.
"Crash... Are you…"
"I don't know, but I'm going to need your gears to start turning." Crash whispered.
"Why?"
"I need you to think of a way we can shut down that time twister and a way that we can imprison Uka Uka again."
"I don't like the way your thinking." Coco whimpered.
"Me either; but it looks like we've got no other option. However, I might be able to come up with a plan that might give us an advantage."
"So what's the plan for now?"
"For the last crystals; let's stick together, neither of us should go find them on our own, especially since Aku Aku has been nowhere in sight."
"I guess that will work." Coco sighed.
Crash turned his attention toward one of the coordinates.
"You ready?" Crash asked, morbidly.
"Not in the least." Coco replied, sounding just as defeated.
Crash, Coco and Pura braced themselves as three jumped into the portal.
That's this chapter. The boss battle well to me, gave me such a rush. Then it comes crashing down when the chapter ends on a morbid note, but I shall not spoil anything yet. However, we are reaching the climax of the story very soon. So stay tuned for the remaining chapters.
Until then, Read and Review.