Chapter 3: Miami Beach 'Vacation'

The next day they reached Miami Beach.

"The map shows the crystal on some giant ship! I'll stay here, but I have boxes scattered out that will help, inside of them, are mini-me's that work as perfect as me!" Aku-Aku said as he sent Crash down a rope ladder. Crash climbed down onto the beach.

"This place is pretty nice!" Crash said as a bunch of huge crabs started climbing out of the sand, and attacking Crash! But crash just jumped on them, and they eventually stopped.

"Now to find that ship and get that crystal!" Crash said as he looked around to find a ship, but he only saw little sailboats, "Maybe there is a port on the other side of the beach!"

"Well, well, I say, my dear boy, you do have ways into finding trouble!" N. Tropy said as Crash ran into him.

"Uh-oh! Hey wait!" Crash said as he spotted an 'Aku-Aku' box. He went up to it, and smashed it! A little mask of Aku-Aku popped out, and Crash grabbed it! Now he was ready to quick battle N. Tropy!

"Hi-YA!" N. Troy said as he took his clock wand and threw it like a spear to hit Crash, but it missed, due to poor aim! While he was picking it up, Crash spun him, hurting him by 1 HP! But N. Tropy had 2 more left!

"HAHA!" N. Tropy said as he shot his wand at Crash, making him so very old. Then he threw the spear again, and in missed, when it hit the sand, Crash went to normal age! He then again, spun him.

"You little!" N. Tropy said and zapped the battlefield around Crash. He made it go back in time, to the ice age, and then made Crash very old again! Now Crash was flying around on ice, and was very old and slow! N. Tropy had hit Crash, but Aku-Aku saved him! Then the wand hit the ice, and was stuck! N. Tropy went for it, and when he did... CRASH SPUN HIM AGAIN! Causing him to fall to the ground and faint.

"Now, to find that port!" Crash said and went around a rock and found a big harbor. There sat a huge ship! Crash walked up to the harbor, and just barely made the jump onto the ship.

"Hmm..." Crash said as he was walking in a hall in the ship, just then, he fell two halls down, and was in the hall that is under water on the outside.

"Whew!" Koala Kong said as he was working on something, he turned around and saw Crash!

"Hi!" Crash said and sweetly smiled.

"I loath you!" Koala Kong said in a grimly voice, then with his muscle, pulled a piece off the side of the ship, and water came flying in! Koala Kong disappeared in the water, and a big wall of water was chasing Crash!

"Hmm, reminds me of those boulder Dash levels in the past!" Crash said as he ran away. The weight of the water caused the ship to start sinking, making it harder and harder for Crash to run away from the water. Then all of these holes started appearing, and Crash had to jump them. Then came a huge hole, with weak floorboards, but Crash made it! All the water started filling up the hole, and the sinking stopped, since they were in really shallow waters at the time. Crash knew he no longer had to run, so he walked up to a door, opened it, and there were stairs! So he walked up, and into a room with a crystal. Crash grabbed it, not realizing, he stepped on some tile thing with a capital 'N' on it.

"I GOT THE CRYSTAL!" Crash sang as the platform started rising, the roof opened, and Crash continued floating up.

"Huh?" Crash said as he realized he was floating up. It brought him to the top of the bow, which had not sunken. Koala Kong was waiting.

"Um, what?" Crash said as Koala Kong stood there, with an angry face and foam coming from his mouth. Koala Kong picked up a crate that was next to him and threw it. He then smiled as if he enjoyed almost sending Crash into the water, where piranhas waited. (Cortex's piranhas)

"Whoa! Watch it there!" Crash said as Koala Kong started quickly throwing crates in all directions, then he moved on to TNT's! He threw 2 at a time though! Every time 1 exploded, he would throw another 2, but he only 5... then he took the anchor he found and threw it, good thing Crash moved out of the, and the anchor went flying.

"Huh?" Koala Kong said stupidly, as he felt something on his ankle, and looked down. The chain for the anchor that went flying was wrapped around his ankle.

"GULP!" Koala Kong said, and he went flying past the horizon.

"HAHA!" Crash said as he jumped on to the deck and walked back to the blimp, but as he was walking, some of Cortex's henchmen were flying around in little airplanes, now Crash had to dodge the bullets, dodge the people, and get back to the blimp! Luckily, there were only 2! Crash threw a rock at one, and the other kept shooting! Crash was running and thinking at the same time! He couldn't let them see the blimp; otherwise, they would shoot it, and deflate it! So he took a purple pink-poka-dotted umbrella, and used it to reflect the bullets! What-do-ya-know! It worked! One of the bullets hit the umbrella, and hit the plane back! The two planes were now both exploded, and the henchmen were both lost in the ocean or something!

"Suckers!" Crash yelled and went back to the blimp. The rope ladder was still sitting there, so he climbed back up.

"How did it go?" Aku-Aku asked.

"I got the crystal!" Crash said as he handed Aku-Aku back the crystal.

"Great job!" Aku-Aku

"Where to next?" Crash asked as Aku-Aku set the crystal down on some table.

"Uh, Antarctica," Aku-Aku said as he ran over to the map to study it.

"OH BOY!" Crash said sarcastically, and they were on their way to the cold island of snow.