Speed Meets Insanity

Sonic was speeding up and down the hallways of Cortex's lab. Every turn he took led to a possible experiment Cortex was working on. Then, after about 5 minutes, he found a door that led outside. He exited the building, dashed from viewpoint of any of the laboratory's windows, and looked around. "Man, this place sure ain't Mobius." The environment was heavily tropical, with not a cloud in the sky. There was but a single mountain rather than the multitude he's used to seeing, and there was only one house, with a round door. He walked up to it, and right before he could knock, his head got hit with something squishy, knocking him on his stomach. When he swiftly recovered, he took the object and it looked like an engorged peach. "Who threw this?" shouted Sonic. Then, from behind a nearby coconut tree, appeared an orange creature that was about 50% taller than Sonic, had spikey brown hair on top of his head, brown gloves, and wore blue shorts. "Who are you?" asked the hedgehog. The creature looked confused, and then dashed off out of sight. Sonic soon pursued him, but found him nowhere. "Where are you?" he asked. Then, he got hit in the back of his head with another fruit, not knocking him down this time, however. Sonic swiftly turned around, and saw the orange creature again. Sonic dashed towards him, and caught him by the ankle. "Alright, no more running. Who are you?" Just then, the creature laughed a semi-high-pitched laugh, then spun like a tornado, freeing himself from Sonic. However, this time he didn't run away. This time, he made a stance as if he was about ready to fight. Sonic did the same, and when they were about to charge at each other, a peacefully deep voice shouted, "That is enough, you two!" Sonic turned his head, and saw a wooden mask with four different colored feathers on top, green eyes, big red nose, red mouth with big white teeth, and a green-leafy beard, floating towards them. "Floating masks? That can't be normal. I must be dreaming." Said Sonic.

"I assure you, blue hedgehog that this is not a dream, for if it was, neither you, nor I would be having the exact same one." said the mask.

"Okay, well can you at least tell this thing to stop bothering me so I can figure out where I am?" asked Sonic.

"You are on Wumpa Island, and Crash here is merely trying to play a little game with you." said the mask.

Sonic looked dumbfounded, looked at the orange bandicoot, and said, "He's playing a game? What game involves throwing fruit at random people?"

"Dodge-Fruit!" replied the mask.

Sonic then responded, "Okay, well that mystery is solved. Thanks, I guess… Mr…"

"I am Aku-Aku, one of Crash's friends on this island." responded Aku-Aku. "Come, you may stay with us for a while if you so desire."

"Well, I guess I am pretty hungry. Sign me up!" replied Sonic. Then the trio made for the house Sonic went to earlier. Crash was the first one in, being greeted by his sister bandicoot, Coco. "Hey Crash! How was your round of Dodge-Fruit?"

Crash began doing a small role-play on how well it went, speaking gibberish along the way.

"I see…" started Coco, then turning her attention to Sonic, "… and who do we have here?" she asked with a small hint of flirtiness in her voice.

Aku-Aku replied, "This is Sonic. Apparently Dr. Cortex opened a new dimension, and he was a victim who was transported through."

Coco, with a day-dreamed grin, replied, "Oh, hmm, I see, I see." while was lost in thought. Just then, the floor shook mildly, and an angry deep voice from the kitchen exclaimed, "Where is my jar of Wumpa Fruits?"

Crash gained a worried look on his face, then bolted out the door. Just as he did, a large red bandicoot, with camo pants and robotic right arm, made his way into the living room. "I repeat, WHERE ARE MY WUMPA FRUITS?" He then stared at Sonic and said, "YOU, YOU MUST'VE TAKEN EM!" Sonic bolted out the door, and Aku-Aku got in the doorway in front of the red bandicoot, "Now now, Crunch, I don't think he took them!"

Crunch knocked aside Aku-Aku, and exited the house to hunt for Sonic, "COME BACK HERE YOU WUMPA-STEALING, SPEEDY FREAK!"