Chapter 2: To The Crystals!

"Whoa! I'm so tired! I have to go to sleep!" Coco said as she fell into her bed.

"You're just making up an excuse! Why doesn't anyone want to watch the marathon with me?" Crash asked later that night.

"Um, I have to go fight with Uka-Uka!" Aku-Aku said and ran into the bathroom and locked the door.

"I'll watch!" Crunch said as he jumped onto the couch next to Crash, "Do we have sunflower seeds?" Crunch asked.

"Um.... no..." Crash said.

"Fine, I going to go get some sunflower seeds! Hey! Come with me! This way I wont miss anything!" Crunch said and they were off!

"I hate this island when it gets dark!" Crash said, but Crunch was too busy looking for those seeds!

"Lets split up! Meet me at home in like a half-an-hour!" Crunch called as he zipped away.

"Darn-it!" Crash said. He started looking around a little bit, just to see what he could find when suddenly he was teleported to Cortex's new lab!

"Good evening Crash, why it looks like you're up past your bed time! Tsk, tsk, tsk! Looks like Otto is going to take care of you! OTTO!" Cortex called from a window far above the arena he was in. Just then, half of the arena became flooded! Then a little otter stuck his head up.

"Don't worry Dr.! I won't fail!" Otto said in a tough voice. He then took a bag of ousters he had. He then started throwing them at him! Crash had to dive away from a lot! But then one just hit him.

"WHOA!" Crash screamed and fell to the ground!

"Excellent!" Cortex called from above. Back at home, Aku-Aku sensed Crash's trouble and went to help! He flew to the lab and gave Crash an extra live! Crash then woke up and was ready to battle again! Of course, this time he had Aku-Aku!

"Don't worry! I can take care of him again!" Otto said and started throwing rapidly! But Crash dodged all but one! The ouster was headed straight for him, when Aku-Aku jumped in front of him, and took the beating, he then fell to the ground, and was lifeless, just like a real mask.

"Why you no good pile of!" Crash said and jumped really hard on Otto's head.

"I see stars!" Otto said, and sunk to the bottom of the pond he was fighting in.

"Argh! And I thought he would actually defeat you! Oh well, good thing Uka-Uka told me to have this, just in case!" Cortex said and turned on a siren. After it stopped, N. Gin in his giant N. Gin robot jumped through the roof! The only way to beat him was to break into the cockpit! BUT IT WAS A STINKEN' 40-FT ROBOT!

"Gulp Hello N. Gin!" Crash said.

"Dr. Cortex, your plan is magnificent!" N. Gin said.

"MY PLAN!" Uka-Uka yelled from the background.

"Oh yeah... well Crash Bandicoot, are you ready to die?" N. Gin called and the giant robot, which shot a bunch of missiles from the big missile on the head of the robot.

"Uh-oh!" Crash yelled and ran out of the way of all of them.

"ARGH! Looks like a need to make a slight adjustment!" N. Gin said and pulled a switch. Just then the robot shot out TNT boxes out, starting the 3-second fuse when landing on the ground! Crash was surrounded, and one had reach 0... Crash jumped in the air high enough not to explode with the boxes.

"Drat!" N. Gin said and pulled down another switch. Then Nitro boxes were flying out! Aku-Aku had awakened a little bit, and Crash grabbed him, and used him as a shield! A nitro box came flying, and then Aku-Aku fell to the ground lifeless again. The robot had run out of TNTs and nitro's.

"That is IT!" N. Gin yelled and made his robot have a fit, and jump all over the place! Just then, the robot made a huge gigantic hole, and had fallen in! So had Otto, Crash, Aku-Aku, and all the water! They all landed in a prison. N. Gin had a key, and grabbed Otto, and then left, leaving unconscious Crash lying there with the water, the robot, and Aku-Aku.

"Huh?" Crash said as he sat up.

"Shredder Roo and Ripper Roo, go watch our prisoner!" Cortex called from down the hall. The only answer he got was a bunch of crazy hysterical laughter. Ripper Roo came down with another mental dog. But this dog was green, and was Shredder Roo. Ripper Roo, and Shredder Roo both sat there laughing, so Crash grabbed Aku-Aku and got the key from the desk with help from Aku-Aku when he had waken up, and they tip-toed away. They made there way through the Evolvo Ray room, to see Dingodile and Pinstripe working it.

"Hey, lets have him have a gun! A machine gun to be exact!" Pinstripe said as he took out a machine gun, he was about to give it to the subject they were working on, but spotted Crash and Aku-Aku!

"Hey, them loons think they can get away, eh?" Pinstripe said, "Dingodile! Lets team up!" Pinstripe said and Dingodile and himself held one hand together, and spun around! It kind of looked like what Crash looks like when he does his spin, when they were done, then looked morph together!

"Hey mate!" Pinstripe said.

"Nice flamethrower Dingodile!" Dingodile said. (They had also traded bodies!) Dingodile took his flamethrower, and shot fire out rapidly! But since he was just using it for the first time, he kind of had to kneel low to keep it under control! So Crash just kept jumping over it. Then Pinstripe took the machine gun and shot rapidly. He was having quite a lot of fun! Just then he went to out of control, and shot Dingodile! The morphing had stopped, and they were in their own separate bodies!

"Idiot!" Pinstripes said in discuss. Crash then sneaked up on him, and did a twirl! Making him faint next to Dingodile.

"I wonder what Cortex has planned this time?" Aku-Aku said.

"If you must know, I'm the one with the whole plan this time!" Uka-Uka said as he floated up, "You see, I decided since Cortex made you from an Evolvo Ray, I thought I would make a better army than Cortex, and defeat you! You know, a little, fight fire with fire! HAHAHA!" Uka-Uka laughed.

"But how? If it failed before, what makes you so sure it will work this time?" Aku-Aku wondered.

"That's why you are the stupid brother! You see, N. Brio was the one who actually made that machine, and this time, N. Gin built it! So now it will work! Oh yeah, I'm not just using Australian creatures, I'm using creature from around the world! But, as we all know, N. Gin's bin machines always use crystals, so the only way to stop us, is to find 25 crystals from around the world this time, again!" Uka-Uka said.

"But..." Crash said, as he noticed something on a table in the back. He then whispered to Aku-Aku to distract Uka-Uka, and meet him in one of Cortex's blimps. So Aku-Aku yelled at Uka-Uka, and they started having an argument, while Crash went over to the table. He knew his eyes weren't lying, and he picked up the crystal map. On it, it showed the 25 spots in the world that hide the crystals, so Crash snuck into one of the blimp's that had a big capital 'N' on it, and flew to the window that was near the Evolvo Ray room. Aku-Aku saw it, and disappeared, and appeared in the blimp.

"HUH?" Uka-Uka said as Aku-Aku just disappeared.

"Well, its says here on the map, to go to Miami Beach to find the first!" Crash told Aku-Aku.

"Then let's go to Miami!" Aku-Aku said as he punched in the coordinates, and they were off on their new journey!