It is a peaceful day on N. Sanity Island. Birds are singing, cute and cuddly critters are scampering about, and Crash, Coco and all of their friends (Polar, Pura, Crunch, Tawna, Isabella, Megumi, Ami, Liz, Baby T., Baby Crash, Baby Coco, Pasadena O'Possum, Ebenezer Von Clutch, King Chicken, Yaya Panda, Hasty, Chick, Stew, and even Penta Penguin & Fake Crash) are all gathered together at Crash's place for an afternoon cookout.

"Mmm-mm! I'm starving!" exclaims Pasadena O'Possum. "Where are those burgers at?"

"Calm yourself, Pasadena, dear." said Megumi, resting her hand on Pasadena's shoulder. "Crash and Coco will have them out here in just a few moments."

From inside the house, Coco calls out, "Who's hungry?"

She and Crash emerge from the house with several plates of burger patties.

"Because me and Crash here have cooked too many burgers!" Coco says happily.

"It's about time! Let's eat!" exclaims Ami, as she and the others approach Crash and Coco for their burgers.

"Hold up!" said Chick. "There aren't any chicken burgers in that pile, are there?"

"Chicken burgers?!" shouts Stew. "You mean to tell me they cook our kind into patties?! The horror!" He screams and faints from shock.

Crunch scoffs and says, "Drama queen."

As everyone settles down to eat, Coco finds Pura happily sitting with Polar, Baby T., Bay Crash, Baby Coco and her penpal, Yaya Panda, and sits down with them.

"Hey, Yaya!" said Coco. "How's everything going? I see you've met our cute and cuddly animal friends."

"I know!" exclaims Yaya as she pinches Polar's cheeks. "They are so cute!"

"I know, right?" said Coco. "They take to kind people real easily."

As they continue to make small talk, Isabella, who has become a mother figure to Coco, approaches her from behind and starts to playfully tickle her.

Coco laughs as Isabella continues to tickle her and says, "Okay, Isabella! Okay! I surrender! You got me!"

Isabella laughs and says to Coco, "Come along, dear. What do you say we play a game of catch, huh?"

"I'd love to!" exclaims Coco as she gets up. "You coming, Yaya?"

"You two go on ahead!" said Yaya. "I've got my animal friends to keep me company."

The two of them smile at each other as Coco follows Isabella to the beach, with Pura following close behind. Once they get to the beach, Isabella turns and sees Pura nuzzling his head against her leg.

"Oh! I see Pura wants to play, too!" Isabella says gleefully. "You're up, Coco!"

Isabella happily playing with Coco and Pura attracts the attention of the newest Crash character, Hasty the Moose, who lays eyes on Isabella and is immediately smitten by her beauty as she happily laughs.

He gulps down his food and approaches Crash, Tawna and Liz, who are sitting on the front porch of Crash's house making small talk.

"Oh, hey, Hasty!" Tawna happily exclaims. "We weren't expecting to see you here!"

"Hasty?" Liz asks curiously.

"Yeah, we met him during our Winter Festival Grand Prix season." Tawna replies. "He's a real chill dude."

Crash waves at Hasty as Tawna turns back to him, asking, "So what's going on, Hasty?"

Hasty clears his throat and says to Crash and the others as he gestures towards Isabella, "Say, Crash, little buddy. Do you plan on introducing me to that cute bandicoot friend of yours over there?"

"You mean Isabella?" Tawna asks. "Oh, you're going to love her!"

"Of course we can introduce the two of you!" Liz says as she gets up and takes Hasty's hand. "Come on!"

As they start to walk towards Isabella, Megumi approaches them with a plate of burgers and says, "Hey, guys! I wanted to save some food for Aku Aku, but I can't seem to find him anywhere. Have any of you seen him lately?"

"Hmm. Good question, Megumi." said Tawna. "I have not seen him lately. Have you, Liz?"

"Nope. Not since last week." said Liz. "What about you, Crash?"

Crash shakes his head, every bit as confused as the others.

"Hmm. That truly is bizzare." said Tawna, confused.

Suddenly, everyone stops what they were doing as the sky begins to grow dark.

"Hey, is it just me, or is it starting to get dark?" asks Von Clutch.

"Yeah! It's only noon!" exclaims Yaya.

"Uh, would it have anything to do with that large ship blocking the sun?" asks Ami.

Everyone looks up and sees a giant space carrier blocking out the sun.

"Oh, this can't be good." Coco says worriedly as she, Pura and Isabella regroup with the others.

Suddenly, a tractor beam is fired from the ship directly at the heroes.

"Everyone! Get inside, quick!" Tawna yells as the tractor beam gets closer.

Before everyone can make it to the house, though, the tractor beam hits and starts to pull everyone up onto the carrier.

"Chick, help!" exclaims Stew, as Chick, who is holding on to a fence post, grabs Stew's hand.

"I got you, Stew!" exclaims Chick.

"Don't let me go!" exclaims Stew.

However, the fence post comes loose and the tractor beam sucks them up into the carrier with everyone screaming along the way.

Meanwhile, over in Papu Papu's village, Papu Papu, overhearing the commotion outside, is rudely awoken from his nap.

"What goes on out here?" Papu Papu shouts as he barges out of his hut. "Who interrupt Papu Papu's beauty sleep?"

A native running past him shouts, "RUN!"

Papu Papu glances upwards and sees the large carrier firing another tractor beam at him. He is lifted from his village and into the carrier, yelling the whole way. The carrier then takes off up and out of earth's atmosphere at hyperspeed.