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Chapter Twenty-Five: Space Oddity
The bandicoots and N- Team walked into the Psychetron room of the Zerolith where N. Terdimensional was waiting. Everyone looked down and saw that they were
on a big metal platform. Below the platform was a clear sphere with a swirling black hole trapped inside.
"Negative Black Hole Power," N. Terdimensional told the eight heroes, "So powerful, that when contained properly, provides the energy for my entire space station
fleet."
"We're here, N. Terdimensional. Physically and… mentally, I think," Neo said as he watched Crash pick his nose, "Anyway, do you remember our deal?"
"Yes, I remember," N. Terdimensional told them as a computer screen appeared with a picture of N. Sanity Island on it, "If you give me the crystals and gems, you'll
get to see your home again. Is that correct?"
Everyone nodded.
"Excellent," the huge Psychetron said, "Now just insert the crystals and gems into the slots around the room for… safe keeping."
They inserted the powerful objects into the crystal and gem shaped slots.
"What was I going to do next?" N. Terdimensional asked, "Hang on as I check my 'To Do List.' Bandicoots and N- Team arrive, talk about Black Hole Generator, insert
gems and crystals… oh yes! Surprise."
"Wait," Neo said, "What do you mean by…"
Huge bubble-like force fields surrounded each of our heroes.
"Surprise!" N. Terdimensional called.
"Tell us what's going on," Crunch demanded as he punched his force field.
"Oh, just my ingenious plan!" N. Terdimensional declared.
"What gives?" Nina asked, "We had a deal!"
"And you shall see your world again," N. Terdimensional told them, "You shall see it burn!"
"What do you mean?" Coco asked, "If you're going to attack the planet, why didn't you do it before."
"I guess that I should start the evil villain's monologue," the evil professor stated, "It's all quite simple. The Black Hole Generator is simply not enough for
interdimensional travel, as in to travel from one dimension to another, especially from the 0th Dimension. I would also need a second Psychetron for whatever
dimension I need to go to, from there, I can easily enter the other dimensions."
"A second Psychetron," Neo said, "That's mine! But how…"
"Neo, Neo, Neo," N. Terdimensional stated, "Do you remember where you got the plans for the Psychetron?"
"I got the plans," Neo said, "In… the mail. I never thought…"
"That it was all part of an elaborate plan to take over all dimensions?" N. Terdimensional asked, "Well, that's because you never thought of it."
"But some of your minions had gems and crystals," Coco said, "Why did we have to collect those?"
"Because, unlike your conventional crystals and gems," N. Terdimensional explained, "They can only be activated when an organic life form from another dimension is
near, and that is what the eight of you are. I also made my Interdroids hunt you down, just so that you won't suspect anything. They were going easy on you
anyway. Remember the army in Zeropolis? It was no army, just a mere scouting party. I have billions of Interdroids under my command, and hundreds of stronger
and more deadly Uberdroids! The end is now!"
He finished his monologue and noticed that everyone was asleep.
"There will be no sleeping while I'm talking!" he roared, jolting everyone awake, "Now I have to start all over again."
The Sarsaparilla zoomed through N. Terdimensional's fleet, with lasers blasting this way and that.
"Buckle up!" Plat told Billy Bob.
The hillbilly weasel tried to find a seatbelt on his seat, but can't find it.
"It's not here no more!" he said.
"Oh yeah!" Captain Plat exclaimed, "They're at the cleaners!"
"You're tellin' me this here problem now?" Billy Bob asked.
The ship zoomed into the Zerolith.
"Fire!" Plat called, and he pressed a button.
The ship blasted some important parts of the Zerolith.
"Shield Generator, damaged," a computerized voiced said, "It's also casual Friday."
The bubbles around Crash and Cortex deactivated.
"It appears that two rodents have been messing with the Zerolith's generators," N. Terdimensional said, "But while the crystals and gem charge, I'll deal with you
two rodents first!"
The Psychetron lowered, revealing that the Psychetron's base and arms was attached to a large robotic arm. N. Terdimensional "looked" at Crash and Cortex with
the base of the Psychetron.
"We're in trouble," Neo said.
The Psychetron lashed out at the two, acting like a hand with its arms as the fingers. Crash and Neo leapt out of the way. Cortex shot his ray gun at N.
Terdimensional, but his blasts bounced off the Psychetron's force field. It turned to Neo and blasted at him with its arms. Neo ducked, jumped, and did the Matrix-
style backwards bend. There was a loud crack.
"I almost forgot how much I hate fighting evil," Neo said.
Crash slid under N. Terdimensional's blasts. He ran over and straightened Cortex's back. The bandicoot and mad scientist hid behind a pipe.
"So he has a force field around him that we need to shut down, but how?" Neo asked.
Crash looked around and saw four generators with wires leading to the Psychetron. The orange marsupial tugged on Neo lab coat.
"Don't tug it!" Neo snapped, "It's brand new!"
Crash pointed to the generators.
"Oh, I see," Neo said, "Are you sure it will work?"
The pipe behind them disintegrated. They looked behind them and saw N. Terdimensional.
"I'll shoot them, and you'll go in for the kill, okay?" Cortex asked, and Crash nodded.
They dove out of the way of N. Terdimensional's blasts. Cortex quickly began blasting one of the generators.
"Come on, already!" Cortex muttered, "Blow up!"
The generator exploded.
"Now Crash!" Cortex called.
The Psychetron lashed at Crash, but the bandicoot jumped over the attack and spun the base several times. The Psychetron reared back as the force field came
back up.
"You idiots get down here this instant!" N. Terdimensional yelled.
Several Interdroids and Magmadroids appeared. Cortex began blasting the next generator as Crash fought the Interdroids. The generator exploded and Crash ran
to N. Terdimensional. The Psychetron avoided Crash's spins. Crash ducked under a Magmadroid's fireball and it hit N. Terdimensional.
"Watch where you're firing, scarp metal for brains!" he roared, "I am going to destroy the two of you once and for all!"
The Sarsaparilla flied through the inside of the Zerolith, blasting Jetdroids on the way.
"What are we gonna do?" Billy Bob asked.
"We are going to rescue our friends and stop N. Terdimensional in his plan to take over all of reality," Plat said.
"How's he gonna do that?" Billy Bob asked.
"The Ring of Thirteen," the Captain told Billy Bob, "N. Terdimensional's going to use it as a giant portal!"
An explosion rocked the ship.
"Billy Bob!" Plat called, "You have to go and operate the rear cannon to keep those Jetdroids off our backs!"
Billy Bob saluted and rushed to the rear cannon. He saw a big red button.
"What does this here button do?" he asked himself.
He pressed it and all of the Jetdroids behind them got incinerated.
"Wow!" Billy Bob exclaimed, "This would be when that Cortex feller would be sayin', 'and yet he doesn't have an autopilot.'"
Back with Crash and Cortex, there was only one shield generator left, and N. Terdimensional was very angry.
"You pests will be destroyed!" the Psychetron roared.
Neo pointed his ray gun at the final generator, but when he pulled the trigger all he got was a clicking sound.
"I'm out of ammo!" Neo told Crash, "What do we do?"
Crash looked at the generator, looked at Cortex, and smiled.
Cortex sighed and said, "Fine, go ahead."
Crash grabbed Cortex and threw him at the generator. Cortex quickly grabbed the on and off switch of the generator and pulled it down to "off."
"You will be destroyed, bandicoot!" N. Terdimensional bellowed as he pinned Crash against a wall with his arms, "Say goodbye. Well, you can't say goodbye because
you're mute but… never mind about that!"
N. Terdimensional charged up his base cannon. Crash stared at the base in fear. Then before you can say Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, the Sarsaparilla flew
through a wall and hit N. Terdimensional. The huge Psychetron was knocked into a wall. Crash fell and landed on the platform. The Sarsaparilla hovered next to the
platform, and Captain Plat and Billy Bob walked out of the ship.
"Billy Bob! Captain Plat!" Aku Aku said, "You came back!"
"I keep on telling you not to trust the guy," Plat said.
Nina helped he uncle climb back onto the platform, crushing his hand in the process.
"Thank you Nina," he said as he looked at his crushed hand, "I guess."
Then Billy Bob enveloped everyone in a bone-crushing hug.
"I missed you guys so much!" he cried.
"Can't… breathe," Tropy choked, "Billy Bob… let… go."
Billy Bob stopped hugging them.
"Now let's go before…" Plat said before N. Terdimensional shot the Sarsaparilla, making it explode, "…well, that."
"If I can't destroy you pests," N. Terdimensional said, "Then I can't at least postpone you, and then destroy you!"
He returned to his stationary form and began to glow a bright purple light along with the crystals and gems. The arms detached themselves and spun around the
Psychetron's base. A huge portal appeared beneath the fleet of N. Terdimensional's warships. They entered the portal and came into Earth's orbit.
"He's using the power of the crystals and gems!" Neo called, "This can't be good."
"What was your first clue?" Tropy asked.
"Hang on!" Coco yelled.
Everyone grabbed the floor's metal grating as the Zerolith began to shake violently. The shaking stopped and the Psychetron returned to its normal glow. Everyone
looked up at the Psychetron.
"What now?" Crunch asked.
"I expected him to say something by now," N. Gin said.
Suddenly, the base of the Psychetron gave a hiss of steam and started to slowly rotate. It detached itself and slowly floated down. Inside the Psychetron's base
was a control panel circling around a chair in the center, and sitting in that chair was someone wearing a read and black lab coat, red pants, black rubber boots and
gloves, and a black cape. He had yellow skin and a box-shaped bald head, except for gray springy hair growing at the sides. He had a full gray beard, red eyes, gray
bushy eyebrows, and a capital letter "A" stamped on his large forehead.
"Bandicoots and N- Team," he started, "Look upon the man once known as Professor N. Terdimensional, but shall be known from now on by his true name."
"And that would be?" Neo asked.
"I'm surprised, little Neo," he said, "After the bond that we share."
"Bond?" Neo asked, "James Bond?"
"No, not that kind of bond!" the man snapped, "Don't you remember?"
"Remember what?" Neo asked.
The man smirked and said, "Doctor Neo Periwinkle Cortex, I am Professor Archibald "Archie" Cortex. I am your father."
Next time on Crash Dimension Dilemma…
It's the stunning conclusion to Dimension Dilemma. It all ends there. The final battle. So I'll just let you wait in anticipation and not tell you much. Be sure not to miss
Chapter Twenty-Six: The Final Meltdown.
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