I only own my OC, Taylor, I do not own Tess, Bentley, Penelope, N. Tropy, or the two surprise villains.
A/N: As usual, I do not own any of the music, all rights go to the creators of Crash Bandicoot.
Taylor, Tess, and Penelope look around the small room, when a monitor lowers down, and showed the face of their target, who soon said, "Well, haven't we gotten far with a girl who is working with a cowardly superhero, and a bunch of animals, especially with some vermin." That word caused Tess and Penelope to glare at him, as he continued, "At least you don't have with you an annoying marsupial. Anyway, I am Dr. Nefarious Tropy, Master of Time, and the creator of the once great Time Twister Machine that arrogant bandicoot destroyed. Nosfearatu has had this backup plan to try and end this little charade that you've been doing, so you won't be leaving my section of the castle with my Treasure Key. I swear it!"
The monitor turned off, and rose back up, and the door opened to the next location.
[Play Future Frenzy - Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy]
The trio soon see what looks like a waiting room, due to the clocks on the walls, but there were a lot of things to make it dangerous, for giant blades and walls were going too fast.
Taylor soon looked, and asked, "You think this was supposed to be tough, N. Tropy?" This caused Penelope and Tess to be confused, as Taylor said, "This gauntlet is only accessible once I use the only Ability I wasn't tested on, which I got from the third world I was in, which is Chronomancy, or the ability to magically control time." Tess and Penelope were surprised, as Taylor was right."
Penelope soon said, "You're right Taylor, if you use the Chronomancy Ability, you can be able to get through this gauntlet."
Bentle soon said through the communicator, "You better hurry Taylor, for I sense the gate to N. Tropy will close and you will be too late."
"Then we better hurry," Tess said, causing Taylor and Penelope to nod in agreement, and begin to trek the gauntlet.
They soon see the blades were moving very fast, Taylor soon used soon shook her staff, and the blades begin to slow down, and the girls begin to move swiftly. Next were the walls, which were closing and opening too fast. Taylor spun her staff, and tapped the ground with it, causing the walls to stop, allowing the girls to move quickly, and made it to the gate.
"Yes! We made it," Tess said.
Suddenly the gate closed down in front of them, causing Penelope to say, "Oh no! We're too late! The lost person is doomed!"
"That's what N. Tropy thinks," Taylor said, as she turned the diamond on her staff, and suddenly time went backwards a bit.
"Yes! We made it," Tess said. This caused Taylor to quickly spin her staff, and tapped the bottom to stop time a bit, and the girls quickly ran to the gate before time resumed and the gate closed.
Penelope soon said, "That was a bit of Deja Vu," Taylor and Tess nodded and went to where N. Tropy is.
[Stop Music]
They soon see a large area with a big gap. In front of them was N. Tropy, who has opened a time portal to a location, but they did see the two pods. N. Tropy soon said, "They didn't know they couldn't get to me for the gate was rigged to close the second the reach it. Now it is time for the backup plan to be fulfilled!"
"That's what you think, Dr. Nefarious Tropy!" Taylor cried as she switched to her Frost of Christmas form.
N. Tropy looked, and asked, "What?" Taylor then shoots his wrist, since she believes is the source of the time portal's power with an ice arrow. Breaking it and causing the time portal to close, which also caused N. Tropy to kneel and yell out, "No! My new mobile wrist Time Twister Machine!"
"You mean a little watch?" Tess asked.
N. Tropy glared at the group, causing Penelope to say, "Oh dear, we're really in trouble."
Taylor got her staff ready, and said, "Don't worry you two, stay put, I'll take care of him."
[Play Dr. N. Tropy - Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy]
The big area's middle section rose up along with the pods, creating a big gap with some tuning fork heads on some pillars that rose from the abyss below them, with N. Tropy on the side opposite of Taylor, and he said while having his weapon, a large tuning fork, and said, "You will pay for ruining the backup plan you little skunk, you will pay, and I will make you turn back the clock to fix what you broke."
He soon slams down the tuning fork, causing a shock wave, which caused some tiles to appear, but not enough to get to N. Tropy. N. Tropy soon began to small spheres at Taylor, but they missed her. N. Tropy thn used an attack with a line, which Taylor jumped over. N. Tropy caused another shock wave, causing some tiles to move to make a jumping bridge to N. Tropy, which Taylor used, and when she was close, whacked N. Tropy, causing him to vanish, and reappear on the side Taylor was on, and caused another shock wave that caused some less tiles.
After repeating the process two more times until N. Tropy lied down defeated, and he soon said, "When it comes to serving Nosfearatu, my time is up, but when it comes to life, yours, Fearbrave, soon will be too!"
[Stop Music]
He soon got out an hourglass, opened it, and took out an object, and said, "Here is the final Treasure Key, I wish you luck against Nosfearatu."
Taylor soon nodded in agreement, but then noticed the pods that were lowered down, and said, "Before we head back, let's see who are in those pods."
Taylor, Penelope and Tess soon opened at the fist pod, which showed an orange anthropomorphic Eurasian eagle owl that had some sort of Cossacks outfit, no one understood, until they opened the second pod, which had a surprise to Penelope, it was an anthropomorphic purple mandril, wearing blue gloves and pants, a white lab coat, and on his head is a plug.
Penelope soon said, "No way, it's Dr. M. The brains of the Cooper gang of Sly's father, and if that's him, then that eagle owl is the ancient enemy of the Coopers, Clockwork, which what he looked like before he began to replace his mortal body with a robot!"
Taylor soon said, "This means the lost person is Sly Cooper!" Soon Dr. M and Clockwork were waking up, Taylor knows they won't be happy, but before she talks to them, she then said, "I know it is already known, but I figured out why N. Brio, N. Gin, and N. Tropy were needed, N. Tropy managed to travel through time during the time the late villains were alive, and got the DNA samples, N. Brio used his biology skills to make the DNA samples perfect for cloning, and N. Gin built the machine to clone the villains." She soon looks at the now cloned Dr. M and Clockwork, "I know you guys want to fulfill what your original selves failed to do, but you are actually clones, you don't have to do that, you have a choice, either follow your original selves' footsteps, or after you pay you can just surrender, and maybe have a less sentence your original selves' would've been carried out if they were captured, so history won't repeat itself."
The clonedDr. M thought, and said, "You know, I think you might be right Fearbrave, very well, I surrender."
The cloned Clockwork, glared at her, thought, then said, "Oh, very well, I surrender too."
Taylor soon smiled, and she, Penelope and Tess escorted the villains back to the lobby.
So, Taylor defeated N. Tropy, found out who the cloned villains were, and know who the lost person is. What will happen next? Anyway, if you're reading this, thanks for reading, and once again thank YouTuber Rnjwalkthrough, whose YouTube videos is what I used for the atmosphere of the chapter. Clockwork's original form was thought up by me actually. If you want to know when the next chapter is, follow me or the story, write a review, but please no flames, add it to your favorites, and as usual, and if I get to it, the story will continue in the next chapter. SEE YA!