Crash Bandicoot meets Nazza

N.B. Crash Bandicoot and all related Crash stuff belongs to Naughty Dog and Sony/

Nazza is my own creation (obviously)/

[CHAPTER 10: MASKS OF AKU AKU]

Nazza reached the shore and looked up at the moon. Resisting the urge to howl, he looked around. 'Good. Coco's asleep.' He wandered onto the sand, then curled up and fell asleep.

The next day he woke up to find Crash swimming and Coco running around the beach like a madman.

'Hey Nazza!' said Crash. 'Come and have a swim!'

'I had a good enough swim yesterday,' said Nazza. 'When are we going to leave and go into the first level?'

'Right now if you want,' said Crash.

'Okay.'

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Two hours later they walked over to the path in the middle of the small beach that was surrounded by forest.

'Where does this path go?' asked Coco.

Suddenly Robin popped up. 'This path goes to the...uh...place.'

'Place?'

'Yeah,' said Robin. 'It's like before any of the levels.'

'The Practice Stage?' said Nazza.

'Yeah...' said Robin. 'That's probably it...'

So they walked along the path and came to a cave. Inside the cave was Aku Aku.

'Aku Aku!' said Crash. 'What are you doing in here?'

'I'm here for a reason,' said Aku Aku.

'What reason?' asked Coco.

'How should I know?'

Nazza looked around. 'What are those masks?'

'Oh yeah, that's why I'm here,' said Aku Aku. 'Here are three masks.'

'What do they do?' asked Crash.

Aku Aku used his psychic powers to make them float. 'Each one is a mask of a different character.'

The first one floated forward. 'This is the mask of Aku Aku. That's me. It can be used as sort of added protection.'

'Like in the games,' said Nazza.

'Yeah...' The next mask floated forward. 'This is the mask of Crash.'

'That's me.'

'When the mask-wearer wears this mask, they turn into their Psyco forms.'

'Don't you mean Psycho?'

'Nope.'

'Hey!' said Crash. 'How come *I* have to be the Psyco one?'

'Because you just are,' Aku Aku replied. The last mask floated forward. 'This is the mask of Nazza.'

'That's me.'

'No it isn't Crash, now shut up. When the mask-wearer wears this mask, they turn into their Inferno forms.'

'Inferno form?'

'Exactly.'

'Can we try out the masks?' asked Crash.

'Sure.'

'Hey, how come I don't have a mask?' asked Coco.

'Because you're just crap.'

'HUH?!?'

'Nothing.'

Crash walked over to his mask and picked it up. 'Feels heavy.'

'Just shut up and put on the mask,' said Aku Aku.

Crash put it on, and suddenly began spinning uncontrollably. 'What's - happening - to - me?!?'

'It's transforming you,' said Aku Aku.

When Crash stopped spinning he was red glowing green, and had guns latched to his arms. 'AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!'

'Do you really think it was right to give Psyco Crash some guns, seeing as he is psycho?'

'Oh well, too late now,' said Aku Aku as Crash unleashed his weaponry ammo on the cave.

'You gonna try yours on, Nazza?' Coco asked.

'Not yet,' he replied.

'Try it! Try it! TryTryTryTryTryTry!' shouted Psyco Crash.

'Did you purposely make Psyco Crash act like a kid on sugar steroids?' Coco asked.

'I was out of ideas,' said Aku Aku. 'Making him go crazy was an obvious thing to do.'

'You've created a monster,' said Nazza.

'Like Sextein!' said Luigi.

Coco jumped four feet into the air (even though she only has two feet), nearly scared to death. 'What the hell are you doing here?'

'I followed you here,' said Luigi.

'Tell us about it,' said Coco. 'But not now.'

'When?'

'Later.'

'As I was saying, you've created a monster!'

'Like Sextein!' Luigi added.

'Who the hell is Sextein,' said Aku Aku.

'Shadow4ever,' said Luigi.

'Yeah,' said Nazza.

'Who the hell is he?' said Coco. 'Never heard of him in your life.'

'Good work,' Nazza replied, patting her on the shoulder. 'Good work.'

Suddenly Crash smashed through the cave wall. 'Great,' said Aku Aku. 'I finally get this place up and running and Crash ruins it.'

'He's not as bad as Sextein,' said Luigi.

'Will you shut up about Sextein!?!' said Coco.

Luigi thought about that for a while, then said 'No.'

Meanwhile, Crash was running around the beach, spinning randomly and jumping into the water, only to jump out, spin himself dry and jump back in.

'Where's Crash?' Coco asked.

'That was a pointless question,' said Nazza.

'It's obvious he's off with Tawna,' said Luigi.

'I have a quest for you four,' said Aku Aku.

'Three,' Coco corrected. 'Crash is still gone.'

'Anyway, there's a path outside this cave, follow it to the first level of New Island.'

'Okay,' said Nazza. 'We'll do it tomorrow.'

So it was that they spent the rest of that day on the beach, laughing at Crash and his stupid, stupid ways, and so it was that that night they fell asleep.

'And so it was that the author developed a queer way of narrating,' said Nazza.

Shut up.