PSManiac: Hello my people! Fans! Reviewers! Readers! Rejoice! For the Thirteenth chapter has come on this… Friday the
13th? Wow! Talk about bad luck, huh? I am here to announce that this story shall have two more sequels, making it a
trilogy! Also, special thanks to CrashFad13 and Christopher Mason for their ideas that are in this chapter. I own nothing that
I didn't create myself. Enjoy!
Chapter Thirteen: Ah! Robot!
Gigadroid spat out the annoying insect from the last chapter and turned to the bandicoots.
"Prepare to be destroyed, bandicoots!" he hollered as he turned back into a sphere and charged at them. Our heroes dove
out of the way of the black ball of certain doom.
"Leave us alone you metal freak!" Coco yelled.
"I guess I'll spare you," Gigadroid said the obvious pun. He rolled after the bandicoots again, missed, ricocheted off a
building, and turned back into a robot as he landed. He aimed his arm cannon and began firing at the bandicoots. Crunch
picked up a car and used it as a shield to block the blasts of energy. Crunch threw the car at Gigadroid, only to have the
huge robot's claw catch it and break it in half.
A dinosaur watched the battle from the sidewalk. He picked up his cell phone and said, "Yeah, about that car insurance…"
Gigadroid chased after Crash. Our favorite bandicoot hero dove into a hole in the street. Gigadroid smashed the hole with his
claw only to have Crash pop up in a nearby hole. He smashed that one only to have Crash pop up in a third hole. He
smashed that one as Crash popped back to the first hole. Several smashes and pops later, Gigadroid smashed two of the
holes with both of his hands. He smirked as Crash popped up in the remaining hole. Then he realized something. It wasn't
his true purpose like some sort of story with a moral, or a sense of sanity. What he realized was that he was stuck. He
struggled a bit, but to no avail. Crash, seeing the chance to strike, jumped and spun Gigadroid's head. The robot became
free when the orange marsupial spun his noggin, but it still hurt. Aku Aku created a body out of the rubble and charged to
fight Gigadroid. He was hurled back because the large robot blasted several missiles at Aku Aku. Coco kicked Gigadroid in the
head while he was distracted. Aku shot stone spikes at Gigadroid, piercing the robot's armor. Crunch blasted Gigadroid with
his arm cannon.
"I'm losing?" he asked, "How could this happen?"
"Umm…" Coco said, "You're a bad guy in a Crash Bandicoot fan fiction."
Crash delivered the final blow to Gigadroid's head. It flew off, landed in the street, and exploded. In its place was a crystal.
Crash picked up the crystal and held it up triumphantly before storing it in his bottomless pockets. (How else is he supposed
to store all those crystals?) Coco walked up to the still standing Gigadroid body. She poked it lightly with her index finger and
the armor fell apart.
"I guess that's the last of Gigadroid," said Crunch.
"Look over there!" Aku announced, "The citizens of Newt York are coming to congratulate us!"
"I don't know, Aku," Coco said in a worried tone, "Judging by the pitchforks and flaming torches, I believe that is an angry
mob."
"Why would they be an angry mob?" Crunch asked. Coco pointed at the now destroyed downtown Newt York.
Crunch stared at the ruins and mumbled, "Oh…"
"Run for it!" Aku Aku called. They began running away from the furious group of dinosaurs.
A few hours later the bandicoots finally escaped the angry mob. The wondered the dark jungle until they have come to a cliff
at the edge of Tropica. Across from the cliff was another floating island. This one was covered in swampland. Connecting
these two islands was a narrow, rickety bridge of wooden planks, wooden poles, and rope. The bandicoots slowly crept
across the old bridge.
"What ever you do," Coco advised, "Don't look down."
Crash looked down to see that the bottom of the chasm was covered in very sharp spikes. Crash puked in his mouth just like
in the last chapter. He looked back to see that all of the planks behind him has broken off and fallen into the spiky pit. He
gulped deeply and continued on, only to realize that an Interdroid at the other island's end of the bridge was sawing off the
supporting ropes.
"Oh no!" Coco gasped, "What do we do?"
All hope seemed lost when… nothing happened.
"Stupid saw," the Interdroid, Lawrence, muttered. Indeed, the saw was as blunt as a bowling ball.
"Hmm…" he said before taking out his arm cannon, "I'll just blast it, then."
Aku Aku turned to his friends.
"We have to stop him," he said, "We have to use our heads on this one."
Crash looked at Aku Aku and grinned.
Moments later, Aku Aku was whooshing through the air yelling, "Not my head!"
The wooden mask collided with the robot and both became unconscious.
"Hoorah!" Coco cheered.
"Uh, Coco," Crunch said as he pointed to the rope. It was about to break!
"Run!" Coco screamed. They began to run for the lives across the bridge. The rope snapped, the bridge fell, and the
bandicoots began screaming, and screaming, and screaming some more. Soon the bandicoots realized that they weren't
dying. Coco turned around.
"Hey guys, look!" she said, "We made it to the other side!"
Crash looked to see that they we on the other island. He then turned around to see that the bridge had gone. He screamed
again.
"Snap outta it!" Crunch yelled, picking Crash up and shaking him violently. A rather dizzy Crash gave Crunch two thumps-up.
Aku Aku slowly floated up.
"Wha… What happened?" he asked.
"We made it to the other side of the bridge," Coco stated. Lawrence tried to strangle Crunch, but he just grabbed the robot
and threw him into the chasm. There was a loud crash and you can just hear Lawrence yell, "I'm okay!"
The bridge, which had gotten snagged on a branch, fell on Lawrence.
"I'm still okay!" he called.
The bandicoots soon came to a large door.
"How do we get through?" Coco asked, looking at the padlock on the door. Crunch stepped up to the door and used all his
strength to try to open the gateway, but it didn't even budge.
"It's impossible," he said, panting heavily and covered in sweat. Crash walked up to the door and lightly pushed it. The door
opened wide.
"Well, I loosened it!" Crunch said.
Cortex jumped out of the way of a fireball that Salami has thrown at him. Nina tried to punch the Djinn, but he just
teleported out of the way.
"It's like making an evil plan that actually works!" Neo stated, "It's impossible!"
Neo noticed that Tropy was sitting at the sidelines, reading a book.
"Tropy!" Neo roared, "Why are you reading a book at a time like this?"
"It's the Dimension Dilemma Walkthrough book," Tropy answered, "I have found out how to defeat this guy! His weakness
is the thermos!"
"Lord Cortex!" N. Gin called, "We could use some help right about now!"
N. Gin used the missile launcher in his back pocket to fire missiles at Salami, but the Djinn's magic made the missiles chase
after N. Gin. By then, N. Gin was running away from the rouge missiles like a baboon with diarrhea sprinting to the toilet.
"Ha ha ha!" Salami laughed, "I hadn't had this much fun in ten thousand years! Back then, I had cursed that McCain guy.
Good times, good times."
Neo took careful aim and blasted the thermos. A large crack appeared on the container, and Salami roared in pain.
"How dare you!" he roared at the mad scientist. A huge gust of wind that Salami conjured up knocked Cortex off his feet and
through a glue factory, a hen house, and a red rubber glove emporium before finally ending up at a McDonald's.
After narrowly escaping being served with fries and a soda, Neo rejoined his team in the fight.
"As you can see, mortals," Salami stated, "You will never win, and soon all worlds shall be wrapped in chaos! You all shall be
my sla-"
He was cut off when Tropy zapped the thermos.
"Hey! Don't do that!" Salami commanded, "Especially when I was-"
N. Gin's missile hit it.
"Now listen here," Salami bellowed, "You will stop this nonsense right now or I will have to-"
Nina punched the thermos with her fists.
"Please! Don't do that!" Salami begged, "One more hit and I'm done for! I have a wife and three kids! Well, not really. But
please! Or I will destroy you all! Bwahahahaha-"
Neo blasted the thermos with one final shot and it exploded. Salami disappeared with a power crystal in his place. Cortex
picked up the crystal.
"Another power crystal!" he exclaimed, "It's like Christmas in… what month is it?"
"June," Nina answered.
"Yeah!" Cortex said, "Christmas in June!"
He stashed the crystal away. He looked up to see that they were right in front of a train station. He also noticed that there
was a train there with no caboose.
"That's our train!" Cortex informed his minions, "Let's go!"
They rushed onto the train just before it was about to leave. The four of them sat down. On one pair of seats were Neo and
Nina, and on the pair of seats in front were N. Gin and Tropy. Tropy turned around to talk with his boss and Nina.
"What I don't understand is how the train left without us," Nina said. Then Tropy saw an Interdroid in the seat behind them
get its arm cannon ready. He quickly
electrocuted it with his stick-
"It's a scepter!"
Fine, it's a scepter. The robot fell to the floor. Tropy picked up a small pin that the robot was holding.
"If I know my classical steam trains right," the time scientist said, "Then this is the pin used to keep the caboose connected
with the rest of the train."
"Well, that explains that," Cortex said.
"Master, come and look over here!" N. Gin said. The cyborg tore a power crystal out of the robot's processors.
"Two power crystals in one chapter," Cortex said, "It must be a new record."
"But sir," N. Gin said, "What do we do with the robot's body?"
Cortex looked out the window to see that the train was going across a metal bridge over a deep gorge. He grinned evilly.
Moments later, the robot was thrown out of one of the windows of the train and into the spiky pit.
"Now, I'm not okay!" Lawrence called as the offline robot landed on him and the bridge.
"I can't believe you, lackeys!" N. Terdimensional roared. Ratsputin, Hairy, Fangula, Smash, and Dash stood nervously before
their master.
"You guys can't capture a few under evolved misfits!" he roared, "And I thought that you, Fangula, would be the one to end
all this. However, you can't even get the research on Salami Kebab right!"
"But sir-," Fangula said before being cut off.
"No if, ands, or buts, Fangula!" the living machine roared before pausing.
"Wait a minute," he said, "We still have one more force that can be rid of those annoyances forever!"
The moss-covered troll-like creature stepped into the room. He had moss "hair," glowing yellow eyes, sharp thorns for teeth,
tree trunks for legs, wooden skin, and a mushroom cap for a hat.
"Did Moss Face come at a bad time?" he asked.
"No, Moss Face," N. Terdimensional said, "I was just about to call you down. You're going to Gaseous."
"Hooray!" Moss Face cheered, "I going on a vacation!"
"No," his master said, "It's for a mission."
"Oh," said Moss Face, "Moss Face guesses it's just as good."
"Excellent…"
Next time on Crash: Dimension Dilemma...
The Bandicoots and N- Team try to survive the horrors of the swamp world, Gaseous. They will meet new friends and new
enemies. What will happen? Find out in Chapter Fourteen: Swamp Fever.
PSManiac: Keep reviews and suggestions coming in. I love reading them every day. Happy Friday the 13th everyone!