Episode 6: An Unforgettable Adventure- Part II

Since they started the mission, NiGHTS has been very affectionate about Shadow. But, now that Zack attempted to kill her for it, she couldn't do anything but kill him… but, before she did, Zack had his chance to kill Randy by twisting his tail so sharp, it broke his spine. Now, that NiGHTS is feeling a little "green" from her being too nervous to explain to Cream what happened to Randy and Zack, Tikal and Tanzanite decided to finish this extraordinary adventure with Spyro and Crash. But, first, let's see how Cream and Croc are doing.

"I'm starting to get a little worried, Croc." Cream said in a worried tone. "Will Randy be okay?"

"Don't worry, Cream." Croc encouraged. "Randy'll be okay without ya! Trust me."

"I hope so."

Argos beeped in and that made Cream quickly change the subject.

"What is it, Argos?" Cream asked.

"Just wanted to check on you since I checked on NiGHTS and the others." Argos replied. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah. It's just that Cream has been a worry story since they went about the mission. She's been worryin' about Randy this whole time."

"She shouldn't, really." Argos mumbled. "Ahem… anyway, calm down, Cream. Everything's alright now."

"But, what about Randy?" Cream asked.

"You'll know everything that happened when they get back." After he said that, a retching sound was heard from the background. It was barely audible, but Cream and Croc still heard it.

"What was that noise?" Croc asked.

"What noise?"

"That disgusting noise coming from behind you. It sounds like someone's puking."

"Actually, I can tell one thing about what happened. Somehow, NiGHTS was a little too nervous to tell you two about Randy and Zack. She got so nervous that she's highly ill from it, if you get my drift."

"Yeah, I get it." Croc groaned. Cream gasped.

"Oh, no! You mean, NiGHTS is sick?" She asked in a horrified voice.

"Yes." Argos replied.

"Will she be okay?"

"She'll be fine. She just needs to rest. The nervousness must've made her tired as well."

"Okay. Hope she feels better."

"Alright. Bye." Argos clicked off. Cream's brown eyes began to show a glassy luster as she slowly walked over to the bed. As soon as she sat down, the first tear slowly emerged from her eye and slid down her cheek at medium speed. Croc could feel her pain and sat next to her. He stroked her face gently before he spoke.

"Don't cry, Cream. They'll be back… and hopefully, NiGHTS will get well soon." He said calmly. The sad rabbit looked at the solemn reptile as she smiled, then slowly leaned in for a deep, passionate liplock. Her arms automatically reflexed by wrapping them around Croc's neck while his arms wrapped around her waist. It seemed like they kissed for eternity.

Later, at Icy Speedway…

"Just one more task. Then, we can get to Winter Tundra and beat Ripto once again. I don't know how he came back alive in the first place, but my guess would be an orb he caught at the very last minute." Spyro announced. "Now, in order to beat this challenge, each team needs to have a flyer and a rider. For example: I'm the flyer and Crash is gonna ride on my back. So, in your case: Tikal, you're the flyer while Tanzanite is your back rider. Here's how the challenge works: We'll do a race… but, while we're racing, we have to destroy some obsticles along the way. They are… arches, ice skaters, sea serpents, snowmobiles, and paragliders. We can destroy them in any order, but whomever destroys the most wins. Any questions?"

"Yeah." Crash replied. "How come you're calling this a race and we're not even racing?"

"It doesn't have to be a real race. It's the fact that we're 'racing' for who gets the most. Get my point?"

"Oh! Well, whatever you say."

"There's only one rule you have to follow or you're disqualified: NO CHEATING!"

"Aw, damn!" Crash swore to himself.

"Now, shall we begin?"

Seconds later…

"On your mark…" Spyro started. "…get set… GO!"

They flew off. They went their separate ways. Tikal flew in for the arches first while Spyro flew in for the sea serpents. Crash kept slipping every 3 seconds, making Spyro lose his balance.

"Crash, will you keep your marsupial ass on my back, please!" Spyro asked furiously. Crash finally regained himself by holding on to the purple dragon's horns.

"My bad, bastard!" He yelled back.

Meanwhile, with Tikal and Tanzanite…

"This is so much fun, Teekal!" Tanzanite exclaimed. "Are you having fun?"

"Yeah, despite NiGHTS' horrific sickness moment." Tikal replied as she flew through her last arch.

"Will purple lady be okay?"

"I'm sure she will. Her sickness is just temporoary."

"Okay… wait. What do temporoary mean?"

Tikal giggled at this question as she continued on with the ice skaters.

Later, at Argos' Space Station…

Argos just walked in a room where NiGHTS was. She was in a hospital bed, sipping from a glass of apple juice while watching tv. She had a tall trash can on her right side, just in case. Argos smiled as he got comfortable beside her.

"Feeling better?" He asked her. She nodded, taking her mouth off her straw.

"Yeah. I'm feeling much better, now that I've regained my confidence." She replied with bravery.

"Did you now? Well, that's good to hear. So, now that it's just you and me, why don't you…"

"…Tell you what happened? Okay. But, please pay attention because I'm only gonna explain this whole story once."

"Okay. I'm listening." He put his legs up on the bed, placing an arm around NiGHTS as she began her story.

"You see, we went to the Playstation Headquarters when we first arrived. Then, when Ratchet started making an insult about Shadow, that made me get really pissed off. I flew off with anger in my heart, having Tikal, Spyro, Crash, Randy, and Tanzanite following me. Zack was the first to go after me, however. As soon as he came up to me, we were in a brawling fight… just me and him. He was doing the fighting, but I was getting the beatdown. Every time I tried to attack, he punches me straight across my face. Then, just when I thought my life was over, Randy came to the rescue. He bit Zack right on his neck as he dropped me in response. As I was watching them, my eyes started to glow as I charged up my plasma cannon eyebeams. Zack has his chance to end his fight with Randy once and for all by fiercely twisting his tail until I heard a sickening crack from it. Zack killed him by breaking his spine along with his tail. That made me blast my laserbeams and it shot a hole right through Zack's chest. Then, after that, when you called me, that's when my sickness got to me for being so guilty. So, in conclusion, I felt so nervous was because since Zack killed Randy and I killed Zack, I was afraid that Cream wouldn't trust me anymore."

It was all silence after NiGHTS explained that whole story. Argos heard every word and his eyes became glossy as he kept his serious face on.

"If she comes to the feeling that she can't trust you anymore, then maybe you should tell her when she gets older." He suggested. NiGHTS sighed as she placed her glass on the table on her left side.

"That's gonna take a very long time, but if you say so…" She complained as she slowly began to leak tears for the first time. Argos embraced her lovingly as she whimpered on his shoulder, drenching the sweater with her tears. She and Argos cried for what seemed to be forever.

Meanwhile, in Ripto's dungeon…

Shadow, Prince Azerael, the baby dragons, and Jerry the Dinosaur were all in the same supersized cage. Ripto was sitting in a desk in front of them. Shadow was extremely pissed off at that short creature and he really wanted to escape as soon as possible.

"Why did you capture us again?" Prince Azerael asked. Ripto chuckled devilishly as he walked up to them.

"So, you guys won't cause any trouble for everybody living in Winter Tundra." He replied. Shadow stomped up to the cage bars and grabbed them in anger.

"That's not even a good reason!" The black hedgehog complained. "There has to be a better reason than that."

"Actually, there isn't. So, whenever you can be quiet…"

"Bitch." Shadow muttered to himself.

Meanwhile, back in Icy Speedway…

Tikal was just coming in for a landing. As she was getting to her feet, Tanzanite jumped off with a smile on his face. Spyro came crashing down, spraying a little snow on Tikal and Tanzanite as he landed face first. Crash landed on his back in the white snow. They were panting hard like an exhausted dog who just finished jogging for 30 minutes. Tanzanite laughed as Tikal just groaned with annoyance as she wiped some snow off her face and her braids.

"That was enterprising." She said in an annoyed voice. "What happened to you two?"

"Crash here kept slipping off my back!" Spyro yelled. "He could've stayed on, but he had to try to act like a goddamn idiot and stand up on me!"

"I was just tryin' to get that last sea serpent by tacklin' it! Shit!" Crash complained.

"Guys! Can you two just stop and telly up who got the most of everything?" Tikal finally asked.

"Okay." Spyro replied. He pulled out a laptop and typed for a minute. "Alright. Crash and I destroyed all 8 sea serpents, 4 ice skaters, and two paragilders before we crash landed just now. That's a total of 14. Now, you and Tanzanie here destroyed all 8 arches, the last 4 ice skaters, all the snowmobiles, and the other 6 paragliders we missed. That's a grand total of 26. You two win!"

"They won?" Crash exclaimed. "Goddamn! I guess it was my fault!"

"Darn tootin', bastard! Anyway, congratulations. As an honor for participating in the challenge and winning, may the entire fairy body of Avalar reward you two with your own specials. For you Tikal, a jazzy new outfit…" Right on cue, a fairy flew up to Tikal and sprinkled fairy dust all over her and a green shirt with black jeans and fancy sneakers on her feet. She was dazzled and speechless as Spyro continued. "…and for Tanzanite, a new makover from a Yoshi to a chinese dragon." A fairy sprinkled fairy dust on Tanzanite and he was completely transformed into a short-legged chinese dragon with yellow spikes tracing his back to the end of his tail. I awed at the sight of his new look.

"They're lucky." Crash complained.

"Thanks, Spyro." Tikal said as she continued to examine herself in her new outfit. "This event was really exciting."

"I'm sure it was. Next stop: Ripto's Arena!" Spyro announced as he flew off with Crash on his back. Tikal wanted to fly herself, but she noticed huge brown wings on Tanzanite's back and decided to let him fly her instead. He took off with her on his back, following Spyro.

Later, in Ripto's arena…

Spyro, Tikal, Tanzanite, and Crash arrived, but Ripto was nowhere to be seen. They were puzzled until an explosion errupted from the castle. When the smoke cleared, they were impressed to see NiGHTS along with Shadow, the baby dragons and Jerry running out, and Prince Azerael. NiGHTS had the dead Ripto in her hand while Shadow's amazing strength was shown by carrying the robotic Gulp in his hand.

"DAAAAAAAAMN!" Spyro and Crash exclaimed. Tikal shook her head in annoyance as she walked up to them.

"Oh, my God! NiGHTS, you're all better!" She exclaimed. "That was fast."

"Well, I'm a nightmaren. After all, nightmaren tend to heal themselves within 20 minutes after being sick." NiGHTS explained. Shadow nodded in agreement.

"That promise about not seeing her again was totally proposterous. Now that we've broken it, we'll be together forever." He agreed. He then whistled when he saw Tanzanite. "Wow. What happened to your Yoshi?"

"We had to do a big challenge before we got here and since we won, he got this transformation as a reward. As for me, well… look at me." Tikal replied as she turned around to show her new outfit.

"You look great." Prince Azerael commented as he walked up to them.

"Thanks."

"Well, the mission had finally been completed. Thanks for your help, guys." Spyro said to everybody. "Crash, you can go home now."

"Finally! I can get outta here and away from that hatin' dragon!" He exclaimed with relief as he spun really fast, then disappeared. Spyro chuckled.

"That bandicoot. Always fighting with me. Thanks again!" The purple dragon said before he ran up to the baby dragons just in time for Hunter and Bianca to arrive. NiGHTS prepared herself for transportation back to their headquarters. Shadow came into the circle and this puzzled her.

"Shadow, what are you doing?" She asked. Shadow chuckled.

"I'm gonna take Zack's place." He replied smoothly. Tikal sighed.

"You told him, didn't you?" She asked. NiGHTS bowed her head.

"Yeah. He wanted to know so bad." She replied. After everyone assembled, NiGHTS teleported themselves back to the headquarters.

Meanwhile, at the headquarters…

"That kiss came outta nowhere!" Cream exclaimed. "I hope we won't get in trouble for it."

"Me, too." Croc agreed. Then, a swift sound was heard.

"NiGHTS! You're back!" Cream exclaimed as she ran up to them and hugged the human nightmaren, who didn't even show a slight smirk. Cream noticed. "What's wrong?"

"There's something I have to tell you." NiGHTS replied as she kneeled down. "About Randy… um… he's… (sighs) …How can I put this? Um… Randy can no longer be… in your arms… forever."

"What? What do you mean?"

"What I mean is… Randy's… dead. Zack killed him… and I killed Zack for it."

"OH, NO! He was a good friend!" Cream cried in NiGHTS' arms. She embraced her back. Tanzanite began to cry as well, laying down on his stomach like a dog. Tikal's eyes were glossy, but she didn't leak a tear.

"I have a trinket to remember him by." NiGHTS continued as she pulled out Randy's special collar. Cream took it and held it close to her chest.

"I'll never forget you, Randy!" She yelled at the ceiling before a tear of hers dropped on the white diamond piece of the collar. It began to glow as Cream continued to cry. NiGHTS grew shocked and took a quick hover back, towards Tikal, Croc, Tanzanite, and Shadow as they watched speechlessly as well. Minutes later, Cream's entire body was covered by the brightness of the diamond's glow. Then, they noticed that Croc was being forced into the particle as well. When his body was completely inside the glow, they saw two figures getting taller. When the glow finally cleared, it revealed Cream as a 22-year-old version of herself. She was wearing an orange t-shirt with the same white collar that was on her little dress, green khakis with sweeter-looking shoes similar to her smaller ones, and was wearing no gloves. She had seductive brown eyes, her original cream-colored fur, and long ears almost as long as NiGHTS' hair. Tikal, NiGHTS, Tanzanite, who fainted, and Shadow were all stunned to see this.

"Cream, is that you?" Tikal asked. Cream looked at herself in a full-body mirror and was thrilled to see herself like this as well.

"Wow! Randy's collar isn't just for show after all." She said in a female teenager kind of voice. "Hey! What about Croc?"

She turned around and saw Croc as a masculine, but tall dragon with muscles bigger than ever on his arms. He was still green with a yellow underbelly, but had brown horns on his head, a long tail, and blue eyes. He was wearing a brown vest, showing his bare, strong chest and abs and green, baggy pants with a black belt around the waist. He was bare-footed still. Cream cooed at his new look.

"Look at you, sexy boy." She said seductively as she walked up yo him and placed Randy's collar, which turned into a diamond necklace, around his neck. She rubbed his chest sexually. "I'm gonna love being with you."

"So will I." Croc spoke in a deep, male voice. They moved in closer for a delicious liplock, having Cream's arms around his neck and Croc's arms around her waist, nearly massaging her butt. Tikal and NiGHTS awed at this loveable sight.

"Well, now!" NiGHTS exclaimed. "Cream and Croc? In love?"

"That's adorable." Tikal finished. Shadow chuckled.

"I didn't know Cream would look so stylish for a 22-year-old." He said randomly. "Looks like our next mission will never be the same."

Apparently, Shadow could be right. On Episode 7, the next mission involves another search-and-rescue… but, this time, it's with Ratchet. I know what you're thinking: What? No Clank? Well, actually yes. Clank's disappeared and they believe Quadrant, leader of the Tyrannoids, is the scandal behind this. Will the find him or will Quadrant take over Marcadia forever? Find out on the next chapter.