Disclaimer! I don't own Crash Bandicoot. I still can't program...
January 4th, about a year later...
Neo continued walking down the mountain that the castle was located on. The air was cold, the wind blew slightly, and it was sprinkling. The Stars barely shone through the thin clouds. He shivered. He needed to take a break from his project. Since last month, each of the Ns would complete some project. His was a deep sea base. With NGin's permission, after he was assigned the project during Christmas (It was a little game they decided to make), he used a controlled submarine connected to a monitor to find something amazing. Originally, the base would be at the average bottom of the ocean, but he found a trench. The deepest point in the trench was 36,089 feet (11,000 meters) BSL. That discovery began to make his project a lot harder, but surprisingly, his was probably the furthest from impossible. NGin had to make space base, and Nitrus had... Something a little crazy.
Nitrus had to make a resurrection machine. It didn't have to work on humans, but it had to at least work animals that they plan to use as Cortex Commandos. It might be the hardest, but Nitrus always did seem to achieve the impossible. Neo tripped.
He stopped backtracking. He got up and dusted himself off. He turned around to see a bandicoot... Wait, not a bandicoot... A potoroo hiding in some kind of fossil. It was very young, young enough to use the evolvo-ray on. The fossil was also very small. Neo bent down to pick up the potoroo and fossil, the fossil would be useful to Nitrus. Strangely, the potoroo didn't try to run, despite it being in perfect condition. It couldn't really run anyways, it was almost completely trapped in the fossil. Again, the potoroo was hiding, and Neo was about to find out why. From behind a rock, the dingo walked forward, with three ten-month old puppies following. Cortex smiled a love-hate smile, but frowned when a puppy without an ear or tail limped behind them. 'Poor thing.' Neo thought. His eyes widened when he remembered that that was the puppy the Crunch Bandicoot and Koala Kong had gotten to last year. The dingos ignored him, but picked up their pace a little.
When Neo made it back to the castle, he managed to get the potoroo out of the fossil without breaking it. He still didn't know what the skeleton was. He placed the fossil in NItrus's work place and then returned to his own. He didn't know what he was thinking, maybe because it was 11 pm, but he named the potoroo Don Pinstipelli Potorotti. He was originally going to name him Stars, after the night, but then he randomly thought of America, because of "Stars and Stripes". America made him think of gangs, for some reason. Pinstripes. He had no clue how that went from there. He carried Don Pinstripelli Potorotti, or Pinstripe Potoroo, to room 97. Unlike Koala Kong and Rusty, and every mutant after them, he didn't get along with Crunch right away. 'They just have to warm up to each other...' Neo thought as he walked back to his room.
He was wrong. So very wrong. Crunch may have been three years old, but he was strong for his age.
Neo woke up the next morning to see Nitrus taking care of Pinstripe because Crunch beat him up. Neo decided to make another room child proof, room 96, so that Pinstripe, and whatever mutants he made after, wouldn't have to deal with Crunch's power. He wanted to be mad at Crunch, but he really couldn't. Crunch was probably his favorite. He knew it was bad to have favorites, but he couldn't help it. He loved bandicoots. Note the tense.