Walking into the station, the bandicoots and Sora see a long hallway lined with hot and cold pipes with some electricity coursing above them. Additionally, there are small robots moving around, presumably guarding of cleaning up. Crash leads the way. jumping and spinning the robots away as he navigates over the pipes. Eventually, the group comes across two branching hallways.
"Which way do we go?" Sora asks. Crash makes some noises while pointing in a direction.
"Its best if we follow Crash. He's been here before." Crunch says.
Crash turns right and leads the group over rivers of waste flowing through the floors.
"I think I see what you mean." Sora says. "No concept for safety." When there aren't waste rivers, there are hot pipes to jump over along with electricity to avoid. Then another branching path, this time Crash goes left where more toxic rivers lay to be jumped over. The group come across a pair of floating spike bots guarding one of the pits. Sora readies his keyblade.
"Stop! These bots can't be destroyed with out getting hurt yourself!" Coco exclaims.
"Really?" Sora asks. "We'll just let me try something." Sora switches his keyblade to Sigma Matrix and shot locks the two and fires. The bots interiors turn to pure metal, stopping their functions and causing them to plummet into the sludge below.
"Kid, your just getting more impressive as we go on." Crunch compliments. The group goes down the hallway and reaches a point where another hallway joined with the one they were currently on. What lay beyond was a pool of toxic waste with small squares guarded by spike bots being the only way to get across.
"Well, these guys aren't that impressive. They aren't even taking notice of us." Sora says, switching his keyblade to Memory, form changes it, and shoots all the spike bots in the room with pinpoint accuracy.
"Seriously, when this is done, you need to tell me where I can get one of those." Crunch says. The group carefully jumps over the squares to the end where multiple electric nodes are dangerously bouncing electricity between each other. They evade these, jump over more pipes and waste, and move on to the next room.
The next room was dark, but the path out of it was thankfully lit. But path would be a bit to... complimentary in this case. Yet it was another case of having to parkour through the room.
"Whats the point of this?! Why not just have a hallway in and out like normal people." Crunch exclaims, getting frustrated with all the jumping.
"Dr. Cortex does love making his faculties hard to get into." Aku Aku says. Crash makes some noises, Aku Aku responds. "Yes. It is strange that Dr. Cortex had this place rebuilt the exact same way it was before.
"Rebuilt?" Sora asks.
"Cortex's original castle burned down after Crash first took him down." Aku Aku responds.
"How did the fire start?" Sora asks, to which Crash can only scratch his head.
"That is a good question." Aku Aku states.
Meanwhile, while the group is making their way through the generator room, Cortex and N. Gin watch them through multiple camera bots in the same room.
"Oh, look N. Gin The bandicoots have come to stop me." Cortex says, sounding board an on the verge of yawning.
"If you'd like sir, I could fire up my new mech suit and destroy them." N. Gin suggests.
"Don't bother, it'll just end up like all the other ones." Cortex sharply responds. "Let them come to me. I'll make sure they never thwart my plans again." It is then Cortex see's a new individual with the bandicoots. "Who is that?"
"I don't know sir, but I heard Tiny say he fights with a giant key. Must have gotten even more brain damage from the fall." N. Gin responds.
"You fool! Tiny's not crazy. Thats a key blade wielder. One from another world." Cortex raises his voice.
"Is that a problem?" N. Gin responds.
"I see Uka Uka hasn't told you." Cortex says quite enough so N. Gin doesn't hear him. "Under normal circumstances, it would be. But with Uka Uka's help, he shall be defeated easily."
The gang had long finished crossing the generator room and the room next door, the toxic waste disposal room where Crash had managed to pick up more Wumpa fruit ammo from wooden crates just lying about. And soon, they found themselves sneaking in room with a fancy desk, fancy chairs, multiple pictures of some other animal Sora didn't know in a suit, and it was overlooking some kind of power station.
There, they find a different creature sitting at the desk and on the phone with someone. This one was notably bulkier than the one in the paintings and had no hair and... did he have a crocodile tail?
"Thats Dingodile." Coco tells Sora.
"... and for the love of Uka Uka, I told you to get an interior decorator in here yesterday! I ain't havin my new office lookin like the last guys place!" Dingodile yells at the phone. "If Cassandra's not available then just contact someone else, mate! I ain't gotta tell you this! Just get it done!" Dingodile hangs up and immediately gets another call. "What is it!" His face falls the second he hears who's on the phone. "Eh, sorry Dr. Cortex. I'm just a little heated up. What do you need?... Oh I see. I'll deal with them then"
Dingodile hangs up and takes out a flamethrower that was hiding behind his chair.
"Alright, mates. You can come out now! I know you're in here. And I'm gonna roast yas if you're hiding or not." Dingo says as he charges up the flame thrower. The bandicoots and Sora come out of hiding.
"Alright, you found us. Want a prize?" Crunch asks as he bashes bis fist together.
"I'm already on the track to get it." Dingo says before a shield of fire coming from the roof envelops him. "That'd be you on your knees." Dingo fires his flame thrower at the group causing them to scatter around the room. Crash hides behind on of the chairs before he realizes he isn't anymore. "Them, chairs may be bullet proof, but they ain't got nothin on my flame thrower."
Sora fires a wateraga which brings down a small portion of his shields, but in what felt like not time at all, the shields came back up.
"We need to find a way to stop the flame throwers in the roof before the shield comes back!" Coco exclaims. Crash takes out a Wumpa fruit and looks at it quizzically, before deciding that it's not going to do the trick and eats it, then returning a shrug to the others.
"I have an idea! But I don't know how long it'll last." Sora calls out to the bandicoots. Sora casts wateraga again before casting blizzara on the little flame spouts on the roof. "Quickly!" Coco takes this opportunity to cyclone spin Dingodile before jumping out of the way of the way of the flame shield, which had just broken through the ice. Everyone then hears a loud alarm.
"Uh oh. Dingo's gonna blow and we don't have cover!" Crunch exclaims.
"Get behind me!" Sora yells. The bandicoots do so and Sora casts reflect around them just as Dingodile's pack blows, mixes with the fire, and also sets the room ablaze.
"Thats gonna be a pain to clean up." Dingo mumbles as he gets to his feet.
Sora does the same thing he did before, this time with Crash knocking him out. They do this one more time with Crunch punching him so hard, he flys through the window and into the power room. There, the group watches him get electrocuted and eventually pass out from exhaustion.
"What now?" Sora asks.
"Its been a tough day. Let him sleep it off." Crunch answers.
"I mean, where do we go now. This place doesn't look like it has an exit." Sora clarifies. Crash messes around with one of the pictures a bit before it lifts to reveal the path onwards. "Secret passage. Cool."
"Onwards!" Coco exclaims.