Hello Lads, Ladies and Lovelies. I hope you are all having a lovely day. Yes it is another chapter. Such shock! Such Wow! I feel like I am getting into the swing of it so I do hope you enjoy especially some more characters ready to join in! :3
Chapter 14
It's nothing but rain and thunder at Cortex's Castle. Perfectly normal weather conditions, but the inside is total silence with no machines running, no shouting and no elling and no constant experiments. Dingodile does not like it one bit, this eerie silence makes him think that something is wrong even by the castle standards. Dingodile looks around trying to find anyone when he hears someone laughing.
"He he he he he..." well more like giggling from Pinstripe? He also hears murmering from behind the door but can't understand a word he is saying so he opens the door slowly, trying not to draw attention to himself and what he see is something he can't unsee. Pinstripe flirting with a crudely drawn face on a plastic plate attached to a broom with yellow string on the top, sticks attach on the side to look like arms and a pink, lacy bra that manages to fit snuggly around the broom and hold a bunch of bullets in each cup.
'Oh dear god, what did I just walk into?' he thought when he can't take his eyes off the disturbing display.
"Oh ma belle, you are so funny! I can't remember the last time I laughed so hard." Dingodile is definitely not prepare for this, if only he had a camera on him.
"What's that? You left that half-wit bandicoot for me? And you find him extremely annoying that you want me to kill him for you? Of course I will ma belle! Anything for you, now kiss me!" he closes his eyesand kisses from the bottom of the broom and slowly going up with each kiss to the crudely drawn face. Ten he opened his eyes to see Dingodile looking at him with a mix of confusion and amusement. Pinstripe immediately jumps back,
"It's not what you think! I was just cleaning the floor! So that it's all nice and tidy before our masters get back." he said with a strain smile, sweeping the floor with the broom when the bullets falls out of the bra causing him to slip on them, fall on his butt hard on the floor.
"HAHAHAHAHA…."Dingodile laughs loudly with tears in his eyes. He is laughing so hard he is on the verge of falling onto the floor. Pinstripe's face is going red in shame.
"Mate, I thoght seeing you kissing your gun is bad but this just takes the cake, HAHAHAHA!"
Pinstripe starts to get angry, grabs his gun and jams it on Dingodile's nose, making him stop laughing.
"If you so much utter a word to anyone I will shoot you all through out your body you will look like swiss cheese," he whispers threateningly, jabbing at Dingo's nose after every word.
"Alright mate chill. Jus' teasin'. Say do ya know where everyone is?" Pinstripe sneaks the bra into his jacket and starts picking up the bullets when he answered,
"Nope. Things have been pretty quiet lately so don't know what's going on. Technically, I haven't seen Tiny either." he heard the door slam close as he was pondering, he turns around to see Dingo not there, shrugs his shoulders and continue picking up his bullets.
Dingo can't help but have a bad feeling that something awful has happened. He did think that Dr Cortex taking Nina somewhere out of the blue was a bit weird. He continues to wonder through the hall, pondering in his thoughts when he heard something whirling behind a close door. He doesn't know if he should go in based the clock on the door that shows it belongs to Dr. N. tropy and he knows how scary the timelord can be. Slowly, he opens the door and peek in to see no one in the room but a bed, a stack of books and a lot of clocks hanging on the walls, but something else peaked his interest. A board full of black and white photos of a young man around 17 or 18 that look suspiciously like Dr Neo Cortex with a beautiful young girl with long black hair tied in a plait that sling over the shoulder. Both of them look incrediably happy together but what are they doing in Dr Tropy's room? He takes a closer look at them and notice something off with them. They appear to not be look at the camera like they have no idea someone is taking a picture of them, like photos being taken by a stalker. Does that mean Dr Tropy was a stalker? One photo in particular has red crosses over Cortex's eyes and the words over the girl,
'She is mine!' He can't help but be scared, slowly backing away hoping Dr Cortex is ok. Then, the whirling noise came back again with a blue light shining in his direction. He turns towards it to see a giant platform with a screen at the back and electrods on each side of the platform, sending the electricity to keep powering the machine.
"Eh Dingo! Where are you!?" Pinstripe's voice carries from the hall,
"Over ere' mate." Pinstripe runs into the room,
"Oi, Brio just said something about Neo will pay or something like that. I think he might be in trou..." he was cut off when he tripped over a stack of books and bring both him and Dingodile down on to the platform. Suddenly, the machine starts making rapid beeping noise like it has been activated then the screen came on. Pinstripe and Dingodile can't help but watch the screen flikering the picture of objects such as Dingo's blow torch, Pinstripe's suit, his hair, then stopped at the lacy, pink bra with an arrow pointing at a picture of of a female bandicoot with wavy, shoulder length blonde hair. The two marsupials look at each other, afraid of what's going to happen when two rods brings out more electricity to the marsupials , causing them to disappearleaving behind a puff of smoke.
The torches lights up one by one up to the entrance of the temple where it's covered by multicoloured door beads.
"Come!" shouts the booming voice from the temple. They were escorted to the inside of the temple. Inside they see lots of decorative masks, feathers of different colours hanging from the ceiling and a giant stone throne covered with colourful fabrics and draping hanging above the throne. Sitting upon the throne is none other than Papu papu himself, wearing his chief's mask that is blue with red eyes and black feathers on top, red tattoos on his face and a skirt that is composed of four green sheets. Once they stand in front of Papu papu, the tribesmen pushes the hostages down to their knees and set the stretcher down on the ground causing Nina to groan in pain. Papu papu just looks down at them with a bored expression but also giving them a scrutinizing look when one of the tribesmen come up to Papu papu and whispered something in his ear. The Bandicoots and N. Gin felt like they have been kneeling for hours, trying to stay still despite the pain they are feeling. They stopped whispering, then Papu papu motions his hand across his neck which could only mean one thing. Instant kill. All the tribesmen surrounds the hostages and readied their spears. Pointing at them while everyone kneeling down looks around in fear no idea how to get out of this situation. Everything is in slow motion when,
"Chief! None of the herbs I've got could cure whatever the children….have…..got..." Everyone looked at the entrance to see a familiar blonde bandicoot that they wouldn't think to see in the village.
"T-Tawna?" Aku aku, Crash and Coco are shocked to see her but the only one she has her eyes on is Crash.
"Hello Crash." she said with an apologetic smile but then the moment's ruined when she got tumbled down by two marsupials, one with a crocodile tail and a blow torch and the other in a maroon suit which is N. Gin's turn to be shocked,
"Dingodile? Pinstripe?"
