The mechanical door shut behind Kairi and Crash as they exited the observation room.
"Any idea where this could be?" Kairi asks. Crash scratches his head in thought. N. Trophy was never on any of Cortex's space stations, so he wouldn't know where a mad time lord would hang around. Crash answers her question with the quick shake of his head. "Okay, so we're just gonna run around here till we find him?" Crash shrugs as his way of saying 'don't have a better plan'.
The two turn back to the hallway to find it littered with heartless. Neoshadows to be exact. Crash pulls out his fruit bazooka and fires at one, causing it some damage and annoyance. It turns to see Crash insulting them by sticking his tongue at them. Kairi found the situation a bit funny. No one had insulted the heartless like this as far as she could recall. Eventually, Crash's taunting was noticed by the other neo shadows who began to charge at the two. Crash got into a battle ready position before looking to Kairi.
"Yes. I'm Ready." She says, getting into her battle position too. As the heartless get close, Crash performs a super body slam on the ground, and somehow knocks them away. Kairi takes this opportunity to cast some firaga's on the neoshadows before charging in and slashing the remaining ones. Crash meanwhile, was doing pretty good too. He was using his cyclone spin to attack the neoshadows and quickly retreat before sliding under them, knocking his target over. He finishes them off with another cyclone spin which finishes them.
"Good job." Kairi compliments. Crash offers a thumbs up as his form of endorsement. The next room was guarded by some strange robots with organic tentacles. "Ew! What are those!" Kairi exclaims. Crash only gives her a blank look. Right, he doesn't talk. Why is that anyway? Kairi wondered, but that can come later. Crash made so motions that Kairi could translate to 'watch me'.
Crash ran up to one of the creatures and looked to Kairi before pointing up. He then jumped onto the creature, shutting it down. He runs to another one, pointing down this time before sliding under this one, also shutting it down. He than regroups with Kairi.
"Sorry, I don't understand why you pointed up and down before defeating those enemy's." Kairi says.
Crash huffs in disappointment before getting on the ground and pretending to be one of the creatures, pointing his "tentacles" up, he then points to himself before going back to Crash, sliding around like he didi to the heartless. He then gets back into "robo monster mode" this time with the "tentacles" low to the ground, which he follows up as Crash jumping up and down.
"I think I understand. When the tentacles are up, hit them from below. When they are down, they're vulnerable from above." Kairi guesses to which Crash smiles and nods that she is correct.
Kairi then try's this on the remaining creatures, jumping up and smacking their top or casting thundaga, with her keyblade if the tentacles are up and if they were down, she'd cast a firaga aimed at their lowest point. The two did this with all the creatures in the room and in the next. What came after that was a room guarded by two lab assistants.
"I think this might be where Trophy is. It looks important, right?" Kairi asks, Crash nods in agreeance. The lab assistants ready their defences which was some lightning gloves used by one while the other readied some potions of some sort, probably to throw. Crash evaded the one's potions, spinning him into next week when he got close. Kairi, meanwhile ran straight for the lightning gloved one almost running into the electrical charge that was dispensed between his gloves. Kairi was surprised that even though she was stopped, the lab assistant didn't attack her. He only used the electricity as his shield before it wen't out. She then slashed him once with her keyblade which seemed to knock him out.
The two proceeded into the room they were guarding which seemed to be a dead end.
"Huh? Why guard this then?" Kairi asks. Crash scratches his head. This kind of room was familiar to him. Just what was it again? His question was answered when an alarm in the room blared. "Were we discovered?" Kairi worriedly asks. Crash takes Kairi's arm and leads her to the centre of the room. "What is it." She exclaims as she is taken. Suddenly, walls come up from the floor and attached something to the pairs back. After this, the walls collapse and the two begin to float around the room. The gravity had been turned off.
Crash, naturally, gains complete control of his jet pack and flys so he would be facing towards Kairi, who was struggling to do the same. Trying to move forward, caused her accidentally move up u til she banged her head on the ceiling.
"Ugh, how is this done?" Kairi groans. Crash flys up beside her and points at two triggers on her jetpacks handles. Kairi thought these might be for some kind of weapons system, but she pulls the triggers anyway and she moves forward. "Thanks." She thanks Crash. The wall that previously blocked the pair, then opened to reveal a glass tube that allowed the two to see out into space. "Its so pretty." Kairi says as she looks out of the tube.
Unfortunately, it looked like it wouldn't be a completely smooth ride there as there seemed to be large, live, loose wires floating about along with lasers firing about and exposed hot tubes. Crash makes his way though them and motions Kairi to follow. Very slowly, she makes her way past the obstacles, taking a lot of time to get past the wires. (She swore, the ends seemed to follow her wherever she went) Eventually, she makes it past them and joins with Crash to find a lone lab assistant with a jet pack and lightning gloves guarding a force field protected door. Crash flys up to him when he is vulnerable and knocks him into the force field causing it to shut down and the door to open.
Getting into the next room, the gravity is turned on and Crash and Kairi's jetpacks are removed.
"This must be it." Kairi says. Crash nods, agreeing with her before rushing into the next room and taking a battle ready stance. However, who they find is not N. Trophy. Instead, they find a teenage girl with shot black hair, metal hands, and a lower case n on her forehead.
"Wha? Your not Uncle Cortex!" She exclaims, looking like she was getting ready for battle herself.
"Cortex has a brother?" Kairi questions. Crash shrugs. He never actually thought about that.
"The names, Nina. And you've just walk into the worst spot to be Crash!" Nina exclaims, extending her metal hands to a ridiculous length to bring herself up to an elevated platform.
"Where's Trophy?" Kairi demands. Nina looks to her with a few moments of silence before speaking.
"Who are you again?" Nina asks.
"Does it matter?" Kairi asks, pointing Destiny's Embrace at her.
"I suppose not. It doesn't matter whats in the trash bag when its taken out." Nina taunts before grabbing barrels of some kind with her long arms and flinging them at the two. The battle had begun.