The N. T-egg-onizer
The bandicoots, mask, and hedgehog made it inside the laboratory, but when they did, the doors shut and locked behind them. "I think Dr. Cortex knows that we are here, you four." said Aku-Aku.
"And where there's this Cortex guy, there's Eggman." said Sonic.
Crunch then said, "Hmm, 'eggs' have protein. Hey hedgehog, mind if I-"
"No!" said Sonic basically reading Crunch's weak mind.
Crunch crossed his arms and sighed. Coco sighed as well, but not in disappointment, as she got back to staring at Sonic. "Okay Sonic, do you remember your bearings from your last visit in this facility?" asked Aku-Aku.
"Yeah, but I also remember there being a lot of different labs in here, too." replied Sonic.
"Oh, I know you'll find your way, Honey." said Coco, hands folded to her cheek as she stared at Sonic.
"Uh… what was that?" asked Sonic, hearing him being called 'Honey.'
"Huh? Oh, nothing!" said Coco, turning slightly pink in the face.
Sonic turned his face forward, pretending not to have heard what he just did.
A few hours had passed, and none of the labs seemed to have the mad scientists in any of them. They were just about to give up when… "Uh, anyone feel that rumbling?" asked Coco.
"I can certainly see the building shaking, but I feel nothing as I am more the floating type." stated Aku-Aku.
"Might be me. After all, I never got my Wumpa Fruits!" said Crunch, giving a deadly gaze to Crash, who was busy pretending he was a giant monster causing the rumbling. "No, it's coming from over here!" shouted Sonic. He rushed over to the room that the source of the shaking was in, and then he said, "Uh… guys, you should check this out!" Crash was the first one over, and when he saw what he saw, he began speaking a loud gibberish. Aku-Aku floated over and said, "Oh my! This does not look good at all!" When the rest of the gang came, the rumbling had stopped. The source was a raising platform with an immense machine it was hoisting up. The robot had six capsules on poles, connected to an egg-shaped axis. The egg part had four spider-like legs, and two crab-like claws. The pods were spinning at a relatively fast pace, when one of them spoke, "Ahaha! You've finally made it, Crash!" The pod it came from had Cortex inside it. "And I see you've made a new friend."
"Wait a second!" said Eggman, who was inside another of the pods, "That's Sonic! How did he get here?"
"None of your business Egg-Head!" exclaimed Sonic.
Crash seemed nonchalant about the machine's threatening looks. He just sat on the floor, gained a glazed look in his eyes, scratched his backside, and began napping. Meanwhile, Eggman growled and said, "You won't be calling me that anymore, once me and my new colleagues here crush with our new creation, 'The N. T-egg-onizer!' OHOHOHOHOHO!"
"Uh, Tiny thought we call it Tiny's Winning Machine." said Tiny, in another one of the swirling pods.
"Silence, fool! Let us rid ourselves of these infernal animals once and for all!" shouted Cortex.
"Finally, a plan that may actually work." stated N. Tropy, in another pod.
"Whatever, I just wanna kill for fun, y'know?" said Dingo-Dile.
"This indeed looks grim." said Aku-Aku.
"Not to me! I've taken down crud like this more times than I can count!" said Sonic, then he started towards the machine, when Eggman pressed a button, causing a tractor beam from his pod to stop Sonic right in his path. "OHOHOHO! You really thought that with 5 ½ brilliant minds invested into this machine, you could still tackle us, one-on-six? You really are a fool, hedgehog!" said Eggman with triumph.
"Oh Dingo-Dile, I believe now would be a good time to test out your part of the machine." Said Cortex.
"You're bloody-correct, Cortex!" said Dingo-Dile. He then pulled a lever, and a tri-spouted flamethrower appeared from his pod, aiming at Sonic.
"N. Gin, why not try yours out as well." said Cortex.
"Finally!" shouted N. Gin. He then pulled his lever and a series of rocket launchers were spawned from his pod, aiming at Sonic as well.
"Any last words, you spikey little fiend?" asked N. Tropy.
"Just a few to Crash." said Sonic, hoping this next plan of his will work.
"Splendid! He will talk to Crash, and then we eliminate Crash! It's like nothing will have ever happened. Go on, say what you must!" said Cortex, excitedly.
"Hey Crash!" shouted Sonic to the insane marsupial. Crash gave him his attention, and Sonic said, "Look at these giant Wumpa Fruits that are about to kill me!"
"That really was pointless, you know." said Cortex, "Not even someone as dimwitted as Crash Bandicoot could really think our capsules are…"
"WUMPA!" shouted Crash. Cortex, Eggman, and the rest looked, and Crash was dashing towards the machine with a psychotic look in his eyes.
Cortex, with fear in his eyes, said, "No you fool! These are not Wumpa Fruits! They are advanced engineering of the highest- AAAAAAAAAH!" Crash quickly began pummeling the machine, hoping to find Wumpa Fruits in each of the pods. When he couldn't find any, he just went to the next pod. When he ran out of pods, he eventually went to the axis of the machine, and began ripping it apart, finding the chaos emeralds in the process. He bit one, thinking it was a Wumpa, but he threw it behind him because it was rock-solid. In the end, N. Gin, N. Tropy, Tiny, and Dingo-Dile were piled on the ground, and Crash found the food reserves of the robot, which happened to be Wumpa-Fruits. "Well that sure was a unique battle." said Aku-Aku.
"Thanks for the save, Crash." said Sonic. Crash wasn't listening however, due to his love for the fruits in which he was rewarded. "Hey, where's Eggguy and Cortex?" asked Crunch, swiftly looking for them.
"Right here, Bozos!" shouted a scratchy voice. The five looked over and saw the voice had come from Eggman, holding Cortex's portal gun. "We may have failed in trying to take over my world, but there is still the matter of Eggman's world." said Cortex.
Eggman pulled one of his mustache hairs, released it, fired the portal gun at it, and opened a portal. He then said, "I'd say it was nice knowing you, but then I would be lying. So long, hedgehog! OHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHO!" The two scientists fled through the portal, and Sonic began after them, but was pulled back by Coco, who suddenly kissed him out of nowhere. When she released, she said, "Good Luck, Big Blue." Sonic nodded, then took off, changing his facial expression to one as if he couldn't get out of there fast enough, seeing as how he officially has two stalkers now. Sonic dashed through the portal, when Crash accidentally dropped his last Wumpa Fruit. He began chasing it until it had rolled through the portal, taking him with it. "Crash? No!" shouted Aku-Aku, who chased after Crash through the dimensional doorway, and it shut right behind him. "Three down, two to go." said Crunch out of nowhere, making Coco face-palm.