Chapter five: Coco's Attempt
Coco tore through the jungle using as much strength as she could. Taking the blow from Komodo Joe caused her to lose a fair amount of blood, and Coco had been feeling lightheaded, but did her best to ignore it. Her mind was too focused. She wanted to do something that Crash never could: Destroy Cortex. The mad scientist had done much to cause emotional torture to the female bandicoot, but having his goons kill Dingodile was far too much.
Coco shoved branches out of the way as she ran through the thick bush of jungle. She had been running for hours with no sleep. The rain fell heavily, and the sky was so covered in clouds that no one would've been able to tell that it was actually morning.
Finally, early in the morning, after hours and hours of running, Coco was finally able to see Cortex's castle. Feeling full of energy and anger, Coco narrowed her eyes and charged off towards the castle.
However, Coco stopped herself when she came within the final several yards from the front door. She had noticed that the door was open, and wasn't sure if some of Cortex's minions were waiting just inside the door. She decided the try and find a alternate route into the castle, turned to her left and started working her way around the castle.
Coco sneaked around the castle, quietly brushing away as she went along. She wanted to be careful just in case any of Cortex's men were patrolling around outside the castle.
After a few minutes of searching, Coco finally managed to find an opening near the ground that she could fit in. After a quick inspection, she saw that it was air duct network for the first floor. She smirked to herself. The perfect way to get in without being noticed. Coco quickly leapt up a short distance, grabbing the grate covering the entrance to the duct. After pulling it off, it was just another simple jump before Coco was inside.
Luckily, the inside of the duct was small enough for Coco to crawl through easily. She pulled herself through the ducts using her arms, constantly looking down the different paths to see which ways she could go.
Coco felt like she was in a huge maze with several ways out. She wasn't sure where she'd end up, but she didn't really care either, just as long as she didn't end up in the hands of Cortex or his minions.
After crawling for several minutes, Coco came across a grate on the floor of the duct, the first one she came across since entering the castle. Coco looked down through the grate and saw Pinstripe, Koala Kong and the Komodo Bros. talking. Coco suddenly felt a slight wince of pain coming from her shoulder, suddenly remembering how much that sword hurt as it sliced across her skin. After recovering from the pain, Coco continued crawling, as she knew far better than to barge in on a group of dangerous minions of Cortex.
Crawling for a few more minutes, Coco came across another grate. Looking down through it, she saw nothing but Rilla Roo lying on the ground, seemingly unconscious. Wondering what could knock him out, Coco suddenly noticed that he was starting to wake up. Deciding to act quick, Coco got into a sitting position and thrust her foot into the grate with enough force to dislodge it. The grate fell from the duct until landing directly on Rilla Roo's back, knocking the mutant down again.
However, this didn't knock him out. Coco quickly dropped down the hole in the grate, planting her feet into Rilla Roo's back, which still had the grate resting on it.
*BONK!*
"OUCH!!"
Coco stood in silence for a few seconds before getting off Rilla Roo and examining his face, which was twisted in a strange expression with his eyes looking in two different directions and his tongue sticking out from between his teeth.
{Did he just talk?} Coco thought to herself. Shrugging the thought off, Coco walked away from Rilla Roo, off in the opposite direction the other minions were.
Coco wisely sneaked down the corridors of Cortex's castle by pressing her back against the walls that were shrouded in shadows. She continued for a good ten minutes before coming to a pair of large doors. Coco stared at them curiously.
{Could these doors lead to Cortex?} Coco thought.
Deciding to try it out, Coco quietly pushed open the door and sneaked into the room.
Inside the room, Coco looked around. She was in what looked like a huge, spacious laboratory. While the room had tables of vials and such in the room, they were all close to the wall, leaving a huge space in the middle of the room, almost like a makeshift battle arena. There was a big, square- shaped hold in the floor directly in the middle of the room.
Coco spotted another door on the other side of the room. She quietly sneaked across the room, thinking that she was as good as safe. That was, until.........
"YOU!"
Coco's eyes snapped open, instantly knowing the voice. Spinning to her right, she saw the short figure that was Dr. N. Gin standing by one of the tables, staring at her with wide eyes.
"They told me you were dead!" N. Gin stated.
"I'll show you how dead I am!" Coco growled as she charged at her rival.
N. Gin knew that he'd never win against her unless he had help, so he did the only thing he could.
He ran.
Coco chased N. Gin into the middle, open part of the room. N. Gin charged towards the hold in the floor and jumped down. Coco instantly froze, wondering what would make him jump down a hole.
Suddenly, she found out. She heard a loud clang coming from the hole, followed by the sound of an elevator moving. Suddenly, she saw N. Gin starting to rise from the hole. At first, she thought that the hole wasn't that deep, but that was before she saw what N. Gin was riding. Coco stood in shock as a mech five times her height armed to the teeth with weapons rose from the hole, standing on an elevator platform. N. Gin sat in the pilot's seat, laughing at Coco.
"Not so tough now, are we?" N. Gin laughed. "I'll see to it that I finish what those other minions couldn't!"
Coco's eyes widened even more when she saw six rockets fire from he back of the mech, starting to home in on her. Once the rockets were close enough, Coco leapt into the air, flipping over the rockets as they went by. All the rockets hit the wall on the other side of the room, resulting in several small explosions.
{He's not going to give me an easy time.} Coco thought as she landed on the ground. {I have to find out how to destroy that thing.}
Coco quickly reached into her backpack and pulled out her laptop. She dove out of the way to avoid one of the mech's fists slamming into the ground. Coco rolled on the ground, managing to prevent her precious laptop from being destroyed. As N. Gin was recovering from his own attack, Coco aimed her laptop at N. Gin and started typing.
{Come on! Come on!} Coco thought, being very impatient with her laptop for once. {What's the weakness?}
Suddenly, the right hand of the mech, which was shaped like a giant version of Pinstripe's Tommy Gun, looked like it was getting ready to start firing bullets. Coco quickly ran to the side, never taking her laptop off of the mech. As soon as she started running, bullets started firing from N. Gin's mech. Luckily, she was running fast enough to avoid the bullets. As soon as the bullets stopped firing, Coco stopped running.
Coco looked down at her laptop, which she was still carrying. The process had finished and the laptop had located the weakness. Coco looked at the weakness, and suddenly, she narrowed her eyes in hopelessness. Coco quickly closed the laptop and put it back in the backpack.
Coco ran at N. Gin, avoiding another swing from one of the fists. Coco ran around the giant mech until she arrived at the back. Before N. Gin had a chance to turn around, Coco jumped into the air and slammed her palm against a large button that said 'Do not press' on it. As soon as she pushed it, Coco ran to safety.
N. Gin suddenly felt the mech starting to shake. It didn't take him long to realize what Coco had done. He sighed. "Why do we even HAVE that button?"
Just as Coco dove behind a desk, N. Gin's mech exploded, sending the short scientist rocketing into the ceiling, instantly knocking him out. His head went through the ceiling, leaving him stuck there.
Feeling triumphant, Coco quickly ran from the lab, out the door on the other side of the room.
Coco sneaked through the next few hallways, feeling somewhat certain that she wouldn't run into any more of Cortex's minions, as she had seen most of them talking in another hallway.
As she was passing a steel door, Coco suddenly saw a pair of shadows starting to emerge from around the far corner of the hallway. As the shadows came into view a little better, she saw that it was the Komodo Bros. Not wanting to risk another encounter with the blade-wielding lizards, Coco grabbed the handle of the door, quickly opened it and ran inside, quietly closing the door behind her.
Inside the room, Coco placed her ear against the door, listening for the Komodo Bros. to pass. The pair's footsteps became louder as they approached the door, and quieter as they walked away from it.
When she couldn't hear footsteps anymore, Coco felt that it was safe to leave the room, and was about to do so until she caught something out of the corner of her eye. Looking into the room, she saw something that made her eyes spring open in shock. Both hands flew to her mouth to prevent herself from gasping.
She thought she was seeing a ghost.
To be continued.........
Author's notes: Again, sorry for the shorter chapter. I couldn't think of enough filler, and I only have a few more chapters to go. Sorry for taking so long to upload it as well. Please read and review!
Coco tore through the jungle using as much strength as she could. Taking the blow from Komodo Joe caused her to lose a fair amount of blood, and Coco had been feeling lightheaded, but did her best to ignore it. Her mind was too focused. She wanted to do something that Crash never could: Destroy Cortex. The mad scientist had done much to cause emotional torture to the female bandicoot, but having his goons kill Dingodile was far too much.
Coco shoved branches out of the way as she ran through the thick bush of jungle. She had been running for hours with no sleep. The rain fell heavily, and the sky was so covered in clouds that no one would've been able to tell that it was actually morning.
Finally, early in the morning, after hours and hours of running, Coco was finally able to see Cortex's castle. Feeling full of energy and anger, Coco narrowed her eyes and charged off towards the castle.
However, Coco stopped herself when she came within the final several yards from the front door. She had noticed that the door was open, and wasn't sure if some of Cortex's minions were waiting just inside the door. She decided the try and find a alternate route into the castle, turned to her left and started working her way around the castle.
Coco sneaked around the castle, quietly brushing away as she went along. She wanted to be careful just in case any of Cortex's men were patrolling around outside the castle.
After a few minutes of searching, Coco finally managed to find an opening near the ground that she could fit in. After a quick inspection, she saw that it was air duct network for the first floor. She smirked to herself. The perfect way to get in without being noticed. Coco quickly leapt up a short distance, grabbing the grate covering the entrance to the duct. After pulling it off, it was just another simple jump before Coco was inside.
Luckily, the inside of the duct was small enough for Coco to crawl through easily. She pulled herself through the ducts using her arms, constantly looking down the different paths to see which ways she could go.
Coco felt like she was in a huge maze with several ways out. She wasn't sure where she'd end up, but she didn't really care either, just as long as she didn't end up in the hands of Cortex or his minions.
After crawling for several minutes, Coco came across a grate on the floor of the duct, the first one she came across since entering the castle. Coco looked down through the grate and saw Pinstripe, Koala Kong and the Komodo Bros. talking. Coco suddenly felt a slight wince of pain coming from her shoulder, suddenly remembering how much that sword hurt as it sliced across her skin. After recovering from the pain, Coco continued crawling, as she knew far better than to barge in on a group of dangerous minions of Cortex.
Crawling for a few more minutes, Coco came across another grate. Looking down through it, she saw nothing but Rilla Roo lying on the ground, seemingly unconscious. Wondering what could knock him out, Coco suddenly noticed that he was starting to wake up. Deciding to act quick, Coco got into a sitting position and thrust her foot into the grate with enough force to dislodge it. The grate fell from the duct until landing directly on Rilla Roo's back, knocking the mutant down again.
However, this didn't knock him out. Coco quickly dropped down the hole in the grate, planting her feet into Rilla Roo's back, which still had the grate resting on it.
*BONK!*
"OUCH!!"
Coco stood in silence for a few seconds before getting off Rilla Roo and examining his face, which was twisted in a strange expression with his eyes looking in two different directions and his tongue sticking out from between his teeth.
{Did he just talk?} Coco thought to herself. Shrugging the thought off, Coco walked away from Rilla Roo, off in the opposite direction the other minions were.
Coco wisely sneaked down the corridors of Cortex's castle by pressing her back against the walls that were shrouded in shadows. She continued for a good ten minutes before coming to a pair of large doors. Coco stared at them curiously.
{Could these doors lead to Cortex?} Coco thought.
Deciding to try it out, Coco quietly pushed open the door and sneaked into the room.
Inside the room, Coco looked around. She was in what looked like a huge, spacious laboratory. While the room had tables of vials and such in the room, they were all close to the wall, leaving a huge space in the middle of the room, almost like a makeshift battle arena. There was a big, square- shaped hold in the floor directly in the middle of the room.
Coco spotted another door on the other side of the room. She quietly sneaked across the room, thinking that she was as good as safe. That was, until.........
"YOU!"
Coco's eyes snapped open, instantly knowing the voice. Spinning to her right, she saw the short figure that was Dr. N. Gin standing by one of the tables, staring at her with wide eyes.
"They told me you were dead!" N. Gin stated.
"I'll show you how dead I am!" Coco growled as she charged at her rival.
N. Gin knew that he'd never win against her unless he had help, so he did the only thing he could.
He ran.
Coco chased N. Gin into the middle, open part of the room. N. Gin charged towards the hold in the floor and jumped down. Coco instantly froze, wondering what would make him jump down a hole.
Suddenly, she found out. She heard a loud clang coming from the hole, followed by the sound of an elevator moving. Suddenly, she saw N. Gin starting to rise from the hole. At first, she thought that the hole wasn't that deep, but that was before she saw what N. Gin was riding. Coco stood in shock as a mech five times her height armed to the teeth with weapons rose from the hole, standing on an elevator platform. N. Gin sat in the pilot's seat, laughing at Coco.
"Not so tough now, are we?" N. Gin laughed. "I'll see to it that I finish what those other minions couldn't!"
Coco's eyes widened even more when she saw six rockets fire from he back of the mech, starting to home in on her. Once the rockets were close enough, Coco leapt into the air, flipping over the rockets as they went by. All the rockets hit the wall on the other side of the room, resulting in several small explosions.
{He's not going to give me an easy time.} Coco thought as she landed on the ground. {I have to find out how to destroy that thing.}
Coco quickly reached into her backpack and pulled out her laptop. She dove out of the way to avoid one of the mech's fists slamming into the ground. Coco rolled on the ground, managing to prevent her precious laptop from being destroyed. As N. Gin was recovering from his own attack, Coco aimed her laptop at N. Gin and started typing.
{Come on! Come on!} Coco thought, being very impatient with her laptop for once. {What's the weakness?}
Suddenly, the right hand of the mech, which was shaped like a giant version of Pinstripe's Tommy Gun, looked like it was getting ready to start firing bullets. Coco quickly ran to the side, never taking her laptop off of the mech. As soon as she started running, bullets started firing from N. Gin's mech. Luckily, she was running fast enough to avoid the bullets. As soon as the bullets stopped firing, Coco stopped running.
Coco looked down at her laptop, which she was still carrying. The process had finished and the laptop had located the weakness. Coco looked at the weakness, and suddenly, she narrowed her eyes in hopelessness. Coco quickly closed the laptop and put it back in the backpack.
Coco ran at N. Gin, avoiding another swing from one of the fists. Coco ran around the giant mech until she arrived at the back. Before N. Gin had a chance to turn around, Coco jumped into the air and slammed her palm against a large button that said 'Do not press' on it. As soon as she pushed it, Coco ran to safety.
N. Gin suddenly felt the mech starting to shake. It didn't take him long to realize what Coco had done. He sighed. "Why do we even HAVE that button?"
Just as Coco dove behind a desk, N. Gin's mech exploded, sending the short scientist rocketing into the ceiling, instantly knocking him out. His head went through the ceiling, leaving him stuck there.
Feeling triumphant, Coco quickly ran from the lab, out the door on the other side of the room.
Coco sneaked through the next few hallways, feeling somewhat certain that she wouldn't run into any more of Cortex's minions, as she had seen most of them talking in another hallway.
As she was passing a steel door, Coco suddenly saw a pair of shadows starting to emerge from around the far corner of the hallway. As the shadows came into view a little better, she saw that it was the Komodo Bros. Not wanting to risk another encounter with the blade-wielding lizards, Coco grabbed the handle of the door, quickly opened it and ran inside, quietly closing the door behind her.
Inside the room, Coco placed her ear against the door, listening for the Komodo Bros. to pass. The pair's footsteps became louder as they approached the door, and quieter as they walked away from it.
When she couldn't hear footsteps anymore, Coco felt that it was safe to leave the room, and was about to do so until she caught something out of the corner of her eye. Looking into the room, she saw something that made her eyes spring open in shock. Both hands flew to her mouth to prevent herself from gasping.
She thought she was seeing a ghost.
To be continued.........
Author's notes: Again, sorry for the shorter chapter. I couldn't think of enough filler, and I only have a few more chapters to go. Sorry for taking so long to upload it as well. Please read and review!