Meanwhile, in a peaceful village, there was a floating mask watching over three marsupials. One was very big and buff while doing push-ups, one had a screwdriver, and the third one, who appeared to be a girl, was working in something by herself. It looked very happy and pleasant so far like nothing could possibly ruin their moment. Unfortunately, Cherry's, Patch's, Atticus's, and Mo's falls weren't included in the groups plan.
"What the heck was that!?" the female marsupial realized.
"Yow!" the smaller and weaker male marsupial was crushed underneath the group.
The bigger and stronger marsupial stood up and picked up the group off of the weaker one.
"Where are we?" Patch asked. "And who's the big guy with the muscles?"
"That's Crunch," the female marsupial explained. "You guys must be new here."
"Uh, you could say that..." Cherry shrugged.
"Well, an introduction is necessary," the female said. "I'm Coco Bandicoot and this is my brother Crash." she then gestured to the smaller and weaker marsupial.
"When'd you guys get to Wumpa Island?" Crash asked.
"We kind of dropped in, literally." Atticus said.
"I'll say." Crash chuckled to that.
"Are you children all right?" the mask floated over to them in concern.
"We're alright." Mo smiled.
Patch was a little surprised at the talking mask at first.
"What are you working on, Coco?" Cherry asked.
"I'm having a hard time getting my gizmo to work," Coco complained. "If I can't get this to work, we'll have no way to recycle butter!"
"Why do you need to recycle butter?" Patch asked.
"It's my newest invention." Coco informed.
"Cool." Patch smiled.
Cherry took a look to Coco's invention. "You seem to be missing something."
Coco took a look and saw she was right and looked to see her brother had it.
'Why do I have a bad feeling something bad might happen?' Atticus thought to himself.
Crash was about to give the gadget to his sister, but something overshadowing them came up. "Look at that!"
The others stopped what they were doing and looked up to see the shadow.
"Oh, boy..." Cherry did not like the sight of this herself.
There was a giant metal blimp with a huge N on it in the air.
"Why do I have a bad feeling about that?" Patch asked.
"You have a good reason to..." Coco replied.
"What's happening?" Mo was nervous at first.
"I don't know, but I know that it can't be good." Atticus said.
The blimp opened at the bottom and a megaphone came out.
"I-Is this thing on?" a voice asked through the megaphone. "Yeah? Oh... Haha! I'm back, babies!"
"We don't even know who you are!" Patch yelled out.
"Oh, I'm just a genius, I can't actually hear you," the voice continued. "I'm actually far away like in a hovercraft or something."
The mask narrowed his eyes and floated closer away from the bandicoots. "I will deal with him..."
"You want some company to get rid of this guy?" Patch asked.
"Please, allow me." Crunch volunteered himself.
"I think you two will get along just fine." Cherry said to Atticus about Crunch.
"Same here and when he sees what me and Patch can do, oh, man, will he be surprised." Atticus whispered to her.
Suddenly, a cage slammed down on the mask and it was rising up.
"HELP!" the mask cried for help.
Another cage slammed down and captured the female bandicoot.
"Crash, help!" Coco called for her brother.
"Just like a villain, being unfair." Patch growled at the blimp.
Another cage came down and trapped Mo.
"HEY!" Atticus was very angry at that.
"Coco!" Crash held out his hand for his sister.
A freeze ray came crashing down and it froze Crunch, Atticus, and Patch, but Crash and Cherry dodged it.
"I love to do bad things!" the voice laughed as the blimp flew off with its hostages. "Ta-Ta!"
"I seriously hate villains!" Patch growled while frozen.
Crash looked to his sister's invention and then threw it at the blimp to try to free one of the innocent kidnapped victims.
"Crash!" Cherry scolded.
"Crash?! It was the only thing I had to throw at the blimp." Crash defended himself.
One of the cages came loose and was able to fall on the ground, though far away from them.
"Uh, we're just gonna stay here a while." Crunch muttered while he was still stuck with Atticus and Patch.
"There's gotta be someway to defrost you, can't you use your muscles?" Cherry asked.
"I think me and Patch can break out of these frozen positions the three of us are in." Atticus said, knowing that now was the perfect time to use his full strength.
"Guh, I think I'm freezing my gizzard!" Crunch sounded totally uncomfortable in his new ice prison.
"Come on, Crash, let's go find that cage." Cherry suggested.
"Yeah." Crash agreed.
Atticus and Patch then used their full strength and got free and then freed Crush.
"Thanks, guys," Crunch smiled to them. "I gotta say, I've never seen anyone that strong since... Well... Me!"
"Thanks, we'll take that as a compliment." Atticus said.
"Totally." Patch added.
"So, where are you guys from anyway?" Crunch asked. "I'd remember folks like you and I can't say I've ever seen anyone like you two before."
"We're not exactly from around here." Atticus told him.
"How's that?" Crunch asked.
"It's... It's kind of hard to explain, sir..." Patch rubbed the back of his head.
It was then noticed that Atticus and Patch had also been turned into bandicoots as they were now apart of this world, oddly enough.
"Well, you two definitely look like you two work out a lot." Crush said.
"How can you tell?" Patch asked.
"Because of both of your muscles." Crush said, pointing to the two of them.
This confused them both until they both looked at each other.
"Oh... Yeah..." Patch chuckled sheepishly. "We also like to wrestle when we have free time."
"Oh, yeah?" Crunch smirked to that.
"Yep, we sure do." Atticus smirked back.
"Maybe I could take you on." Crunch chuckled.
"Oh, we wouldn't want you to get hurt." Patch told the big and strong bandicoot.
"I'm the strongest fellow in Wumpa Island, I challenge you!" Crunch insisted. "Um... Maybe after Aku-Aku, Coco, or that other little lady get rescued though."
"Agreed," Atticus said. "Let's catch up to Crash and Cherry."
"Come on!" Patch already ran off, due to his instincts.
Atticus and Crunch chuckled to this and went to find their missing friends.
