A Twinsane Wedding
Chapter 2 Mixed Emotions
On the ride back to the lab, Cortex took out his ray gun. He was contemplating on weather or not to blast his nemesis right here and now. As Crash was looking out to sea while at the same time rocking him back and forth, Cortex turned the dial on his weapon from a dazed, crazy eyed face, (the Stun setting) to a light pink smiley with dark pink heart shaped eyes.
'The Love setting. Why did I install this setting on here in the first place?' He scratched his chin, trying to remember. 'That's right, I was trying to get a girlfriend. Man, why have I never been able to get one?'
Cortex had never been one with the ladies, and N. Brio and N. Gin were the closest thing that the scientist had to 'friends'. Even though N. Brio had betrayed Cortex by siding with Crash to help him destroy the Cortex Vortex by way of collecting every gem, he knew that he didn't want his master to be alone with the others and Uka Uka, so he came back in the end, Brio wanted to remain loyal to him.
'The only people I've got are Nina, N. Brio and N. Gin. Nobody else would want a failure like me. Uka Uka's already got it in for me, been only a few days since his last defeat. N. Tropy would just like for me to succeed in destroying Crash for once. But, do I really want to destroy him? I mean I hate him, and I could easily do away with him right here.' He set his weapon from the happy heart eyed face to a skull sign.
This was the disintegrate setting. One hit on anything (including human, or creature) would instantly vaporise them into nothing.
'Yeah, with just one blast I could easily erase him right out of my life forever. I'd be free.' As he started to pull the trigger, he felt something inside him. A little voice telling him something else. He growled in frustration. 'No I can't do it, why can't I just get rid of him right now?' Cortex shoved his weapon back into his pocket. He looked up at Crash who looked back at him and smiled. While the man gave a semi smile back at him. Pretty soon, they were back at the lab. The bandicoot hopped off and sat Cortex down. They walked over and stepped onto the same platform they had used to get down to get back up.
The pair headed back into the lab. Coco was pacing the floor, clearly still as nervous as ever. "Oh, I hope Crash is ok. You know how long Cortex has been after him."
"Cortex is nothing but a failure! He's failed me at least three times! I can't believe I helped you bring him back!" Uka Uka roared.
"I've failed you only twice, not three times. Once with the crystals and gems and the other time when you summoned the Elementals. And me and Crash did defeat you not to long ago, and together we all managed to beat the Evil Twins." Cortex reminded him as he and Crash walked over.
"Crash! Oh thank goodness, I thought Cortex would have tried to kill you?" Coco shouted as she threw her arms around her brother.
"Nope, I didn't try to kill him, but the Natives and Papu Papu sure took their swing at me." Cortex turned sideways and showed them the stab wound, he soon started to feel a little pain in the area. When he looked down, he saw blood was now seeping through his coat, turning it from white to red, "Ok, this wounds getting worse, and I almost got turned into a human shish kebab! Inches away from being speared right through the neck!" Crash nodded.
"I'll go get the first aid supplies." Nina said.
"Cortex, exactly how many people are mad you?" Coco wondered.
"Hm, let's see, Papu Papu and the natives, the Evil Twins, Uka Uka, almost every member of the N Team except for N Gin, Madam Amberly, you. And I think that's it."
"That's quite a list."
Nina returned with a cotton gauze, a roll of medical tape and a bottle of disinfectant in her hands. "Come with me Uncle Neo, let's get you cleaned up." The scientist nodded and followed the young girl. "Yikes, why do so many people hate you?"
"I'm not sure Nina. I have no idea why. You don't hate me do you?" Cortex's niece was shocked. Why would her uncle even ask that?
"Why on Earth would I ever hate you? I mean sure, you replaced my regular hands with robotic ones, but they're so much better. We're family, that means we stick together, and you're the only one I've got." They entered a room with dim florencent lights. Nina helped Cortex up onto an examining table, causing him to wince in pain. "Ok, now let's see how bad this injury is." She lifted up his lab coat, her eyes widened as she saw streaks of fresh crimson blood running down his side, she grabbed a towel and wiped up the excess. "Yeah, it looks like the natives did a number on you, the wound doesn't look too deep." Nina opened the bottle and soaked the gauze. "Now this is gonna sting a bit, so brace yourself." She warned. Cortex nodded his head. As soon as the cotton hit the wound, her uncle gritted his teeth and gripped the table to keep from squirming. "Sorry. Oh and forgot to ask, how was therapy?"
Cortex didn't want to lie, so he gave his honest opinion. Taking a minute to collect himself and take a deep breath, (hoping this would distract him from the pain) he spoke, "You know, it wasn't all that bad. I don't even know why I complained to Coco about it." He then remembered what Dr. Jacobson said. "Oh and speaking of Coco, Dr. Jacobson said there might be some kind of rivalry between you two as well. But he wants to stay focused on us for right now. And I can't believe that I'm about to say this but he really isn't too bad at his job. In fact, he's quite good. He said he wants me and Crash back next week for another session."
"And you're going to go back?" Nina wondered, as she cut the bandage and started wrapping it around Cortex's middle, nice and snug.
"Yes, I told Jacobson that we'd be back. But why does his office have to be in Totem Hokum? Cause that has to be the worst place in all of N. Sanity Island. I've kind of got a bit of a reputation there."
"Not a matter of choice, he wanted to stay in the village. You see, Dr. Eric Jacobson used to be one of Papu Papu's minions years ago, but he chose to follow a different path. Because he was the only one of them that spoke English and was capable of forming words, he didn't want to walk the path of evil and he rarely leaves his office except to restock his fruit bowl."
"So, he chose to become a therapist and help people with their issues?"
"Now you're catching on. And I'm shocked that you want to go back, I mean you did complain earlier." Nina gave one last tug on the bandage and applied the tape before pulling down his coat. "There you go, all better." She gave him a pat on the back and helped him down off the table. "Ready to head back out?" Cortex nodded.
"You really are a good neice. Thanks for fixing me up. And I'm sorry for complaining."
"No problem. Let's go." They headed back out to the main part of the lab. Immediately when she saw Coco, Nina cringed at the thought of her and the sister of her uncles worst enemy having to go through therapy sessions. "Coco, you're not gonna beleive this but Dr. Jacobson says there might be a rivalry between us as well as my uncle and your brother."
"Yeah, us Bandicoots and Cortex's have never really gotten along with each other have we?" Coco asked.
"Nope, you all practically want to kill each other if you even look in the other's general direction." Uka Uka said, glaring at his brother. "Well, we'd better be getting back to our temporary shelter on N. Sanity Island, since 'somebody' destroyed our space station years ago. And Cortex told me about what you did to his old castle and the Cortex Vortex as well." Crash gave a nervous smile when the witch doctor said that. He rubbed the back of his neck and slowly walked backward. Clearly Cortex's old boss was still holding a grudge against him.
"And we're heading back home as well. Since we're all going the same way, I guess we'll head back together." Aku Aku replied.
"Really, us all together in the same boat? On a two minute ride back to the island? Yeah like that's gonna end well." Cortex commented. "Well, let's go." Of course in his mind, he couldn't seem to let go of the image of him being comforted by Crash, or the title of that book Dr. Jacobson had in his office. What was going through his mind about all that? His brain hurt just thinking about it. 'I only feel hate for him, there's no possible way I could feel anything else, could I?' He pondered that as they all headed down to the boatsman.
A/N
And we're back...wait a minute this ain't a talk show! Dang it! XD I'm also typing this on the Fanfiction app on my phone, cause my tablets outdated. Curse you old technology!
Um...*clears throat* ahem. Focus, isn't there something you'd like to say to the reviewers?
Right, should have done this in the last chapter *facepalm* sorry guys. Thank you Cortex.
Anytime
RainbowDash-the-hedgehog: I can always count on your support for my stories.
FlautaRara: Thank you. This is actually my second Crashtex story. I'll see what I can do for the next therapy session. Thanks for your suggestion.
Anon: Thank you so much, glad you've enjoyed this little tale so far.
Woah, woah, woah wait. That's the shipping name that the people gave me and Crash?
Yup.
Oh great. *hangs head*
Hey not my fault, I didn't start this. But I am one of them. Crashtex for life! And for those of you who want to check out my second story on these two, it's in the Skylanders fandom. The story's titled Fixing What's Broken. And yes, a temporary shelter in place of Cortex Castle on N. Sanity Island with Crash. Like I said, it's an AU. Yeah this so isn't going to end well. XD And I plan on having the rest of the N Team make an appearance as well. Alright, I'll have a little chat with Cortex here, until next time. Keep smiling!
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