Chapter 10: Searching the Islands
Noel, Ken, Banjo and Kazooie, and Grace leave the Digital World and return to the space area and they start searching for the next world to go to and while searching Noel sees a world that looks like an island with a skull shaped rock and a waterfall flowing down from the skull rock.
"I wonder if there's something in this world..." Noel said.
"What? That backwater world? Screw that. Let's go somewhere else." Ken said.
"B-But what if L-Luke is in there? I have to be sure..." Noel said.
"It's a waste of time! I don't see anything worth jack in that world. Let's GO. As in, screw that word and go somewhere else." Ken said.
"B-But..." Noel stops talking.
"But there might be Black Xetis and Heartless in that world. I'm also sure there's a Keyhole in that island." Banjo said.
"Eevee!" Grace said in agreement.
"No! That island is worthless! Screw it!" Ken yelled.
"No one cares what you say. It's up to Noel." Kazooie said.
"W-We're going anyway. I want to be sure if Luke is there and I want to see him." Noel said as she points her Keyblade at the island world.
"Like hell you will! I said NO!" Ken said as he grabs Noel's arm and tries to take the Keyblade.
"St-Stop!" Noel said trying to free herself from Ken's grip.
"Let go of her, Ken!" Banjo said.
"Shuddup! What I say should GOES! And I say SCREW IT!" Ken yelled while still holding Noel's arm and tries to take the Keyblade
Ken keeps trying to keep Noel from going to the island world but Noel keeps trying to free herself but Grace bites Ken's arm but after Noel frees herself her Keyblade unleashes the light trail and then the light portal gets created and Noel tries to go into the light portal but Ken goes after her to try and stop her but Banjo and Kazooie attempt to stop Ken but everyone goes into the light portal.
In a jungle the light portal appears in the air and Noel and Grace fall out of the light portal and Noel lands on the ground while Grace lands on Noel and Noel sits up.
"Th-That was...unpleasant. Are you okay, Grace?" Noel asked.
"Eevee!" Grace answered and nods.
"I-I wonder where they are. Where are Ken and Banjo and Kazooie?" Noel asked looking around the jungle. "L-Let's go search for them." Noel said.
"Eevee." Grace said.
"I know Ken is rude, but we should look for him too. If I abandon him, then I'd be no better than he is." Noel said.
Noel and Grace start searching through the jungle area but as they search around something looks at the two from the bushes and as Noel and Grace continue to search the jungle Grace turns around and stats growling.
"What's wrong, Grace?" Noel asked looking at what Grace is looking at and coming out of the bushes is what looks like a giant hog and confronts the two. "A-A hog! What does it want?" Noel asked and the hog charges at the two but they dodge.
"Eevee!" Grace said as he charges at the hog.
"Grace, wait!" Noel said.
Grace charges at the hog but the hog charges at Grace as well as they attack the hog delivers a big blow at Grace knocking him back and Noel runs to him but the hog charges at them again.
"N-No...!" Noel said.
As the hog was about to charge something arrives at the jungle and then strikes at the charging hog and knocks it back.
"Huh?" Noel asked as she sees something in front of her and it's an orange furred bandicoot with dark orange spiky hair, green eyes, wearing blue jeans, brown finger less gloves, and red shoes. "U-Um..." Noel stops talking as the hog charges at the bandicoot again. "Look out!" Noel said.
The hog charges at the bandicoot who delivers a counter spin attack and knocks the hog down but the hog attacks the bandicoot but the bandicoot delivers a slide kick and then finishes the hog with another spin attack and defeats the hog making it run away.
After the hog was defeated the bandicoot walks over to Noel.
"U-Um...thank you..." Noel said and the bandicoot nods. "D-do you know where we are?" Noel asked.
"..." The bandicoot doesn't say anything.
"There you are." A voice said and the bandicoot looks up to see what looks like a floating light brown mask with yellow eyes, green eyebrows, has different colored feathers on the top, and a green goatee. "You really shouldn't wander by yourself without me, Crash." The floating mask said.
"A t-talking m-mask?" Noel asked.
"Oh, hello there. Now I think I know. Crash came to save you from something." The mask said.
"U-Um...hello. I-I'm sorry, but I've never really seen a talking mask before." Noel said.
"That's okay. It's unusual. I assure you, I'm not dangerous. My name is Aku-Aku. I'm a witch doctor mask. I see you've met Crash already." Aku-Aku said and the bandicoot named Crash waves at Noel and smiles.
"It's nice to meet you. I'm N-Noel and this is G-Grace." Noel introduced.
"A pleasure to meet you, Noel. May I ask what you are doing here in N. Sanity Island?" Aku-Aku asked.
"So that's where we are...? U-Um...I-I got separated from my friends." Noel said.
"Your friends? May I ask who they are?" Aku-Aku asked.
"Well, first, the l-loud one is Ke..." Noel stops talking after realizing about how Ken acted.
"Who?" Aku-Aku asked while Crash is confused.
"O-Oh...I-I'm sorry. I'm looking for Banjo and Kazooie." Noel said.
"I see." Aku-Aku said.
"I'm also trying to look for my brother, L-Luke." Noel said.
"Hmm. Well, normally, this island is not inhabited with humans, but I'm certain Crash and I will do what we can to find them, if you wish." Aku-Aku said and Crash nods.
"Th-That's so nice. Thank you." Noel said.
"Let's look around. I'm certain they could be here somewhere." Aku-Aku said.
"Okay. Let's go." Noel said.
Meanwhile in a different part of the jungle Banjo and Kazooie are on a tree stump.
"Golly, I wonder where we are..." Banjo said.
"I dunno. We must be in some jungle." Kazooie said.
"I hope Noel is okay..." Banjo said.
"We should go find her. I also hope we find Ken so I can peck that jerk head of his 'till the cows come home." Kazooie said.
"Let's just find Noel first and if we find Ken, we'll get him to apologize." Banjo said.
As the two start to move they see what looks like a small white furred polar bear.
"Huh? A polar bear?" Banjo asked.
"What's a polar bear doing in a jungle?" Kazooie asked.
"I don't know. Hey, little guy." Banjo said.
"Polar! Where are you?!" A voice called and they see what looks like a muscular male bandicoot wearing a white camouflage pants, red combat boots, has a metal ring on his left arm, and a metal right arm. "There you are. Quit goin' off by yourself. One of these days, you'll get hurt!" The muscular bandicoot said and then he sees Banjo and Kazooie. "Hey! Who're you supposed to be?" The muscular bandicoot asked.
"I'm Banjo and this Kazooie. We just found your polar bear friend. We were just on our way to find our friend Noel." Banjo said.
"So move it or lose it, muscle-brain." Kazooie said.
"Don't call me that! Name's Crunch! If ya no threat, then I guess I won't attack you. C'mon, Polar. Let's get back home." Crunch said and Polar comes with him.
"If we stick with him, then I'm sure we'll find Noel." Banjo said.
"Fine by me. Long as he doesn't get annoying." Kazooie said and the two go with Crunch.
Meanwhile Noel, Grace, Crash, and Aku-Aku move through the jungle and later on they arrive at a grassy field and a small house and Crash and Aku-Aku go to the house while Noel and Grace follow them and enter the house and in the house they see a female bandicoot with blonde hair tied to a long ponytail, has green eyes, wearing a white short sleeved shirt with a smiling flower light blue jeans, pink shoes, and has a pink flower on her hair working on something which is a gadget.
"Coco." Aku-Aku said and the female bandicoot named Coco turns to see them.
"Oh, Aku-Aku. Crash. Nice to see you." Coco said and then she sees Noel. "Who's this?" Coco asked.
"This is Noel. We found here in the jungle and she's trying to find her friends and her brother." Aku-Aku explained.
"Nice to meet you, Noel. Didn't think we'd have a human here in N. Sanity Island." Coco said.
"Long as she's not with Cortex, then I guess she can be welcomed here." A voice said and they see Crunch entering the house with Polar and Banjo and Kazooie enter the house.
"Banjo! Kazooie!" Noel cheered.
"Noel! You're here! You're safe too!" Banjo said.
"You haven't seen Ken yet, have you?" Noel asked.
"Nope. No sign of that jerk. Why're you even worried about him?" Kazooie asked.
"W-Well..." Noel stops talking.
Just then Coco's gadget starts to create smoke and it explodes.
"Ugh! Stupid thing!" Coco said throwing the gadget to the ground.
"What're you working on?" Banjo asked.
"I'm working on a device that can try to locate things in Island. This thing still has bugs them, but now it's busted! I have to start all over again. I think a Power Crystal should also try to give it an extra boost." Coco explained. "Crash, can you be a good big brother and see if you can find me a Power Crystal?" Coco asked and Crash nods.
"Is it okay if we help?" Noel asked.
"Sure. That would be great. Aku-Aku did tell me that you're trying to find your brother. If you help Crash bring me a Power Crystal and if it powers up my device after I redo it, I think it might help find your brother." Coco said.
"That's great. Thank you." Noel said.
"Where can we find one of those Power Crystal things?" Kazooie asked.
"They're somewhere on the island. Let's search the island and we'll might be able to find a Power Crystal." Aku-Aku said.
"O-Okay. Let's go." Noel said.
Noel, Banjo and Kazooie, Grace, Crash, and Aku-Aku leave the house and make their way to the island's jungles to search for a Power Crystal and later on they find an entrance to a cave and they decide to in to search of a Power Crystal but they later exit the cave and are now in the different part of the jungle and they keep searching until Grace finds something.
"Eevee!" Grace said pointing at something.
"What is it, Grace?" Noel asked and she looks at what Grace is looking at and it's a pink sparkling crystal.
"That's it. The Power Crystal. Let's take it and give to Coco." Aku-Aku said.
Crash walks over to the Power Crystal but just then something rises from the ground and knocks Crash back and everyone sees what looks like a red echidna with dreadlocks, purple eyes, wearing white spiked gloves, yellow and green shoes, and has a white crescent mark on his chest.
"Crash, are you okay?" Noel asked and Crash nods.
"Who're you?" Banjo asked.
"Huh? Sorry 'bout that. I was just digging underground to try and find out where I am and then my treasure hunting instincts lead me here as I assumed there was a crystal." The red echidna explained.
"Oh, you were looking for the Power Crystal. We were actually trying to have that for Coco." Noel said.
"Huh? You wanted this? Well, if you say so. You probably need it more than I do. I dunno what to do with it. Here. Take it." The red echidna said throwing the Power Crystal to Noel.
"Thank you." Noel said.
"No thanks are necessary. Good luck what you're doing." The red echidna said as he digs into the ground.
"Well, looks like we got that Power Crystal thing." Kazooie said.
"Good. Now let's deliver it to Coco." Aku-Aku said.
"L-Luke...I hope you're here..." Noel said.
Noel, Banjo and Kazooie, Grace, Crash, and Aku-Aku make their way back to the Bandicoot House and they go to Coco.
"Perfect! While you were out searching, I've finished fixing it. Now let's see what happens when I put this Power Crystal into this device." Coco said as she takes the Power Crystal and puts it in her device and it starts powering up. "Haha! It's working! Good! Now it should be able to location mostly everything around here!" Coco said.
"That's great." Banjo said.
Unknowing to them a girl with pale skin, black hair, a buck tooth, wearing a black school outfit, a black backpack, white stockings, black shoes, has metal hands, and has a letter 'n' on her forehead is behind a window and watches the group.
"So, the bandicoots have something that locate just about anything! Hmhm. Uncle's gonna have a field day with this!" The girl said as she leaves the outside house.
"Now that the device is operational, it should be able to locate anything. This could include your brother, Noel." Coco said.
"I-Is it okay if we use it?" Noel asked.
"I don't see why not. Good luck with your search. Let me know if there's anything." Coco said and Crash nods.
"Thank you, Coco." Noel said.
"C'mon, Noel. Let's go find your brother." Banjo said.
"If we run into Ken, I'll peck him until he apologizes to you a million times." Kazooie said.
"Let's just find Luke." Noel said as she leaves the Bandicoot House and the others follow her.
While outside the Bandicoot House Noel manages to activate Coco's location device and then it shows something on the device's radar.
"I think there's something on the radar." Noel said.
"Yes. I think it's showing us somewhere in the island. Let's see if we can follow where the location is." Aku-Aku said.
"That sounds good. Your brother might be in the island after all." Banjo said.
"I hope so..." Noel said.
Noel, Banjo and Kazooie, Grace, Crash, and Aku-Aku go to the island's jungle to follow the location device's location and they go through the jungle and arrive at what looks like a ruined area and while exploring the location device starts going off.
"Something has to be here..." Noel said.
"Ya think it's your brother or that dork Ken?" Kazooie asked.
"Let's take a look at this place." Banjo said.
They start exploring the ruined place but just then Werewolf Black Xetis appear and Powerwild Heartless appear.
"O-Oh, no..." Noel said.
"Eevee!" Grace said.
"What are they?" Aku-Aku asked.
"B-Black Xetis and H-Heartless!" Noel answered taking out her Keyblade.
"I knew they'd be here." Banjo said.
"Let's peck some Black Xetis and Heartless." Kazooie said.
"Crash, it's best to help them." Aku-Aku said and Crash nods.
The Werewolf Black Xetis attack the group with their claws while the Powerwild Heartless multi punch but Noel slashes with her Keyblade followed by casting Blizzard while Banjo has Kazooie triple peck but the Werewolf Black Xetis unleash a powerful howl but Grace uses Tackle while Crash spins at the Werewolf Black Xetis but the Powerwild Heartless slide at Crash and then aerial multi punch but Noel slashes at the Powerwild Heartless with her Keyblade and then uses Spin Slash but the Werewolf Black Xetis bite at Noel with their fangs but Crash slide kicks while Banjo and Kazooie roll at them while Grace tail whips but the Werewolf Black Xetis enter berserk mode and attack in their frenzy while Powerwild Heartless multi punch but Noel slashes with her Keyblade and then casts Fire and the group defeat the Black Xetis and the Heartless.
"Hopefully we don't see anymore of them." Banjo said.
"That won't be possible..." Noel said.
Just then they start hearing a sound and the location device goes off.
"What's going here...? Who's there...?" Noel asked looking around.
Something comes out of the ruins and it's what looks like a light blue tiny creature with blue eyes, a yellow floating dot, small pink wings on its back, and wearing a small red bowtie.
"What is that?" Kazooie asked.
"I'm not so sure." Aku-Aku said.
"H-Hello. What are you?" Noel asked.
"Chao chao." The tiny light blue creature said.
"Eevee." Grace said.
"Chao chao chao." The light blue creature said.
"This creature is unusual, but at least it's not a Black Xeti or a Heartless." Noel said.
"I think you're right, Noel. Still, we don't know what it is." Banjo said.
"We'll figure that out later. Right now, we should continue trying to find Noel's brother." Aku-Aku said.
"Y-Yes, but we can't just leave this creature by itself. How would you like to come with us?" Noel asked.
"Chao chao chao chao!" The light blue creature said liking the idea.
"It's settled. Let's get out of here." Noel said.
The group leave the ruined area and Noel uses the location device to try to locate something else and it determines another location.
"I-I think it's pointing somewhere else." Noel said.
"Then let's see if we can follow it." Banjo said and Crash nods.
Meanwhile in a different part of the jungle with lots of trees a small female cream colored rabbit wearing a red dress with light blue bow on it, white gloves, and yellow and orange shoes is standing waiting for something and later on something comes jumping from tree to tree and comes down to the rabbit and it's a male purple chameleon with yellow eyes, a yellow horn on his face, black spikes on his back, white gloves with black and purple wristbands, and purple and black shoes.
"Mister Espio! Did you find Cheese yet?" The rabbit asked.
"Forgive me. He is not in the trees. I will do my best to continue my search." The chameleon said.
"Okay. I'll count on you." The rabbit said.
Just then something starts to appear and it's Spider Black Xetis and Bouncywild Heartless.
"Them again. Evil does not know when to quit." The chameleon said taking out a shuriken.
"Please be careful, Mister Espio." The rabbit said.
"Just stay behind me. Now, evil demons, feel the wrath of my ninja power!" The chameleon said as he turns invisible and then attacks the Black Xetis and the Heartless.
Meanwhile Noel, Banjo and Kazooie, Grace, Crash, Aku-Aku, and the light blue creature search the jungle with the location device and as they keep going Noel sees the location device indicating that they're getting closer to the different part of the jungle and later on they arrive at the different jungle with lots of trees and there they see the rabbit surrounded by Spider Black Xetis and Bouncywild Heartless.
"Oh, no...that poor rabbit is in trouble!" Noel said and the light blue creature sees the rabbit.
"Chao chao! Chao!" The light blue creature said.
"Huh? You know her..." Noel asked.
"Whatever the case, we should help that rabbit girl out." Banjo said.
As the group prepare to fight the Black Xetis and the Heartless something strikes at them.
"Huh? What just happened? I don't anything." Kazooie said.
Just then the chameleon appears.
"Did you do that?" Aku-Aku asked.
"Yes. I defeated those monsters. Though I do appreciate your assistance." The chameleon said.
Just then more Spider Black Xetis and Bouncywild Heartless appear.
"Our turn." Noel said.
"I'll assist you." The chameleon said.
The Spider Black Xetis shoot webs at the group to try and trap them while Bouncywild Heartless shoot balls from their slingshots but Noel slashes at the Spider Black Xetis while Grace uses Tackle while Banjo has Kazooie shoot eggs at the Bouncywild Heartless but the Spider Black Xetis shoot venom but the chameleon throws a shuriken at the Spiders while Crash spins at the Bouncywilds but the Bouncywilds place banana peels on the ground for the group to slip on but Noel casts Blizzard while the chameleon turns invisible and strikes at the Bouncywilds but the Spider Black Xetis attack with their fangs but Banjo has Kazooie charge at the Spiders while Grace uses Bite but the Spider Black Xetis shoot webs while the Bouncywilds shoot balls from their slingshots but Noel performs a slide dash and then triple slashes with her Keyblade and then swing slashes and the group defeat the Spider Black Xetis and the Bouncywild Heartless.
"Th-Thank you for helping us..." Noel said.
"Your thanks are not necessary." The chameleon said.
"You did it, Mister Espio! Your new friends even helped." The rabbit said.
"Chao! Chao!" The light blue creature cheered as he flies from Noel and to the rabbit.
"Cheese! You're here!" The rabbit cheered hugging the light blue creature named Cheese. "Thank you so much for finding Cheese." The rabbit said to Noel.
"You're welcome. I didn't know that this adorable creature belonged to you." Noel said.
"I see you have found Cheese. Well done." The chameleon said.
"Now that we know that this creature belongs to the rabbit, we should get back to tryin' to find your brother, Noel." Banjo said.
"R-Right." Noel said.
"Can we help?" The rabbit asked.
"Oh, you wish to help me...?" Noel asked.
"You found Cheese and brought him back. I want to return to the favor and help you." The rabbit said.
"Chao!" Cheese said in agreement.
"If you think you should." Noel said.
"If she's going, then I must go as well. I need to protect her from any threat." The chameleon said.
"That sounds good to me." Noel said.
"Then I suppose it's settled." Aku-Aku said and Crash nods.
"May I ask who you are, miss?" The rabbit asked.
"I'm N-Noel. And these are Banjo and Kazooie and Grace." Noel introduced her friends. "And that's Crash and his mask friend, Aku-Akuy." Noel introduced Crash and Aku-Aku.
"It's nice to meet you, Miss Noel. My name is Cream the Rabbit and you already met my Chao friend, Cheese." Cream introduced. "That's Mister Espio. He may look stern, but he's actually nice." Cream introduced the chameleon Espio.
"A pleasure to make your acquaintance, Noel." Espio said.
"It's nice to meet you too." Noel said.
"So where should we look for your brother?" Cream asked.
"W-Well, we're using Coco's location device to try and find my brother, but so far, we found your Chao friend and you two." Noel answered.
"I see. Perhaps we should use it again to find your brother's whereabouts. We shall find your brother, even if it takes us forever." Espio said.
"O-Okay. I wonder if..." Noel was cut off by more Black Xetis appearing.
"Oh, no. More of these monsters!" Cream said.
"Don't worry. We'll take care of them." Banjo said.
Before the Black Xetis could attack multiple lightning bolts appear and strike at the Black Xetis destroying them.
"What just happened?" Kazooie asked.
"I happened." A voice said and they see something coming and it's Ken.
"Ken!" Noel said running to him and the two stare at each other but Ken turns his head away from Noel making her feel sad. "Are you...o-okay?" Noel asked.
"I was startin' to feel better after not seeing that damn face of yours!" Ken said making Noel feel more sad.
"U-Um...th-thank you for helping us..." Noel said.
"HELP you?! Don't make me laugh! I wasn't tryin' to 'help' you! Those damn Black Xetis got in my way! I woulda just let 'em kill you and your idiot friends!" Ken snapped.
"Hey! Don't talk to her like that!" Kazooie yelled.
"Eevee!" Grace yelled.
"Chao chao!' Cheese yelled.
"I-I'm sorry for getting us in here. I just wanted to see if Luke was here. H-He's my b-brother." Noel said.
"I don't give two damns if he's your great-grandfather! I told you goin' to this damn island was a waste of our damn time! Guess ya helped with that after all!" Ken said.
"B-But coming here wasn't a waste of time...we helped these two against the Black Xetis and the Heartless and found Cream's friend." Noel said.
"Oh, ya helped a little girl's pet. How noble of ya! Like hell! You call yourself helpful?! Please. All you do is slow everyone down. That's exactly what you are, a heavy BURDEN and a weakling! I knew comin' with ya was a mistake! I shoulda stayed at that crap city when I had the chance." Ken said as he starts to walk away.
"K-Ken, please wait. I-I..." Noel stops talking.
"Sh-Sh-Sh-Shuddup, ya stupid stuttering girl! You're IRRITATING! You and your l'il pets can just have your l'il adventure and get killed for all I care! I'm tired of seein' your damn face! I don't wanna see it again! Don't let me see it again, pink-haired stuttering, stupid freak! Have fun findin' your precious brother, even though you're nothin' but a waste of space!" Ken snapped as he starts to walk away.
"Hey! That wasn't very nice!" Cream yelled.
"Chao chao!" Cheese yelled.
"You can it, l'il bunny. You're as irritating as that damn stupid girl!" Ken said as he leaves the jungle.
After Ken left Noel starts to have tears flowing from her eyes.
"That's it! Now I wanna peck that jerk's head until his head's severely injured!" Kazooie said.
"Eevee..." Grace said looking sadly at Noel.
"Miss Noel...please don't listen to the mean things he said." Cream said.
"How dare he...I shall make him regret his words." Espio said.
Crash walks over to Noel for comfort.
"I-It's okay, Crash. I'll be okay." Noel said.
"Ya sure?" Banjo asked.
"Y-Yes. Let's get back to finding Luke." Noel said.
"Cheese and I will help you." Cream said.
"Chao!" Cheese said.
"Thank you." Noel said.
Meanwhile in an airship in a room the yellow skinned man from before is plotting something and later on the girl that spied on the bandicoots arrives in the room.
"Uncle, you're not gonna believe what I found." The girl said.
"Oh, do tell me, Nina. What is it?" The yellow man asked.
"I saw Coco making a location device. And it can locate just about ANYTHING in the island." The girl named Nina informed.
"A device that locate ANYTHING? Hmm...if it can be anything, then it should be able to locate the Keyhole to this world!" The yellow man said.
"What's that?! A device that can locate the Keyhole?!" The dark brown floating mask from before asked.
"Yes. Just imagine, Uka-Uka. If we take the device from those bandicoots, we can use it to find the Keyhole!" The yellow man said.
"And then we'll plunge this world into darkness!" Uka-Uka said laughing evilly. "I hope for your sake you have a plan, Cortex." Uka-Uka said.
"Oh, I have a very good one in mind. Since it's created by Coco and since Crash cares about her safety..." Cortex thinks and laughs evilly. "Tiny! Dingodile!" Cortex called.
Two animals appear in the room.
One is a muscular orange furred tiger with sharp claws, razor teeth, wearing torn green clothing, red shoes, and spiked shoulder pads.
The other animal has an upper body of a brown furred dingo with a mouth of a crocodile, a green tail of a crocodile, wearing blue pants, and is carrying a flamethrower on his back.
"G'day, Dr. Cortex! What orders do ya have?" Dingodile asked.
"I need you to go to Island and cause as much damage as you want. That would surely make Crash come running." Cortex said.
"Then Tiny squash bandicoot!" Tiny said.
"Yes. You may do so. Oh, and I believe that a girl carrying a weapon known as a Keyblade is also at N. Sanity Island." Cortex said.
"Whaddya want us to do with her?" Dingodile asked.
"I don't care. Have fun." Cortex said.
"With pleasure, Doc." Dingodile said.
"Tiny destroy Bandicoot and girl!" Tiny said as he runs through a wall.
"Oh, would it kill him to use the door?" Cortex asked face palming.
"Dr. Cortex!" A voice said and it's a man with pink skin and orange hair on the left side, a metallic face on the right side and a big right eye, wearing a lab coat with multiple bolts on on his body, black gloves, black boots, and has a rocket on the right side of his head.
"Yes. What is it, Dr. N. Gin?" Cortex asked
"Are we ready to destroy the bandicoots? N. Gin asked.
"Yes, but it will have to be just Crash and the traitor Crunch. I have plans for Coco." Cortex said.
"Excellent." N. Gin said.
"In that case, why don't Dr. N. Gin and I take care of Coco?" Nina suggested.
"Very well. I shall leave that to you both. Allow me to have the Black Xetis and the Heartless help you." Cortex as he summons Spider Black Xetis and Powerwild Heartless.
"It shall be done." N. Gin said.
"Let the plan be executed! Do not fail me this time, Cortex!" Uka-Uka said.
"I assure you, Uka-Uka. With the Black Xetis and the Heartless under our command, this world will be as good as ours." Cortex said laughing evilly.
Meanwhile in the N. Sanity Island jungles Noel, Banjo and Kazooie, Grace, Espio, Cream and Cheese, Crash, and Aku-Aku continue to search the island for Luke with the location device but so far there is no sign of Luke anywhere but they keep looking but they encounter more Black Xetis and Heartless but Noel fights them off and they keep searching for Luke through the island and they go to different parts of the jungle but there is still no Luke much to Noel's disappointment.
"I don't think Luke is around..." Noel said.
"Don't give up hope, Noel. I'm certain he can be here. Perhaps we should go see Coco and ask for her help." Aku-Aku suggested.
"Okay." Noel said.
The group make their way back to the Bandicoot House to see Coco and they find her on her laptop while petting her pet tiger Pura.
"Coco." Aku-Aku said.
"Oh, hey, guys. How's your search so far?" Coco asked.
"We-Well, we've found Cream and Cheese and Espio, but I haven't found my brother yet." Noel said.
"Oh, that's too bad. I'm sorry, Noel. Is there anything I can do to help?" Coco asked.
"We were thinking that this device should be enhanced..." Aku-Aku said.
"I'll see what I do. I hope there are no bugs." Coco said.
As Coco is looking at her location device a loud noise is heard and the group turn to see what the noise was.
"Wh-What was that...?" Noel asked.
"I don't know." Coco said.
"I have a feeling it's Cortex and my brother causing trouble again. Crash, we should check that out." Aku-Aku said and Crash nods.
"I'll go too. If Cortex is involved, I wanna mess him up along with his henchmen." Crunch said.
"Can we help?" Noel asked.
"Yes. Let's hurry. Coco, you stay here and work on your device." Aku-Aku said.
"Got it. Be careful." Coco said and Crash nods.
"L-Let's go see what's happening." Noel said as she sees smoke coming from the farthest jungle. "I think the noise has something to do with the smoke and it's somewhere in the jungle." Noel said.
"We'd best go see. If it's evil, I'll assist." Espio said.
"I'll come too. I want to try to help." Cream said.
"Chao." Cheese said.
"Then let's get goin'." Banjo said.
"R-Right." Noel said and everyone goes into the jungle to check out the noise and the source of the smoke.
That's another chapter down. I hope you enjoyed this one. Don't worry. There is NO rushing! I promise you. I'm doing my best to put some effort into this story. Let me know how this is. Anyway, next time, Noel, Banjo and Kazooie, Grace, Espio, Cream and Cheese, Crash and Aku-Aku, and Crunch find the source of the noise and the smoke, but Coco gets kidnapped and they have to save her. I'll see you all in the next chapter. Take care, goodbye for now, don't forget to favorite, follow, and leave a review! Bye!