PSManiac: Chapter two everybody, as in higher than one and less than three! At the end of this story is the title and
preview for the third and final installment for 0th Trilogy Trouble. On with the chapter! Special thanks to CrashFad13 for
his/her idea. If I didn't create it, then I don't own it. Enjoy!
Chapter Two: Crash to the Future
"Zeropolis?" Coco asked, "We're in Zeropolis! We're back in the 0th Dimension!"
"Your invention was another Psychetron," Aku Aku pointed out, "How are we supposed to get back?"
"I don't know," Coco said, "But we need to stop that thing first!"
The two other bandicoots and the floating mask looked up at the giant, roaring creature and gulped.
"Come on, then!" Coco told them.
The four of them ran up to the creature. Well, in Aku Aku's case he floated. Doctor N. Tangle looked down at the four heroes.
"Well, well, well," he said, "It looks like as if the bandicoots have joined the party. Gigantic Flytrap Thing, destroy them!"
The Gigantic Flytrap Thing (That's its real name. Go look in an encyclopedia or something if you don't believe me) roared and
charged at the bandicoots.
"Here he comes!" Crunch exclaimed.
The creature attempted to chomp the bandicoots, but they jumped out of the way. Crunch, with his arm cannon, blasted off
one of the creature's eyes.
"Yes, I got a hit!" he cheered.
Suddenly, the eye grew back. The Gigantic Flytrap Thing turned to Crunch and smiled.
"That's not good," Crunch muttered.
He jumped to avoid another one of the creature's bites.
"Small-minded mammals," N. Tangle called, "My plants are bred to have a special type of accelerated growth, which means
that they can heal any minor or moderate injury quickly and efficiently! You can't possibly win! Besides, Gigantic Flytrap
Thing didn't have his dinner yet, so he's very hungry. Ha!"
"Bring it on, Flower Boy!" Aku yelled back.
"You did not just call me 'Flower Boy,'" Doctor N. Tangle said.
"Oh yes I did," Aku Aku told the evil botanist.
The floating mask screamed girlishly and ducked out of the way of a huge thorn that was flying his way. The huge thorn hit
a nearby car, and the vehicle's car alarm went off.
"That noise is hurting my chlorophyll brain," N. Tangle stated.
The Gigantic Flytrap Thing ate the car, ceasing the alarm.
"Thanks," N. Tangle said, "Now where was I? Oh yeah, I was going to destroy you."
The N- Team watched as the walls of the garbage truck's compactor start to close in on them. Suddenly, a forked stick…
"For the last time, it's a scepter."
Fine, believe what you want. Anyway, a forked scepter came into the evil doers' view.
"Need a lift?" Tropy asked.
The four of them grabbed onto the scepter as Tropy hoisted them up from the Crushing Walls of Garbage-based Doom.
"Thanks a lot, Tropy," Neo said, "How can I ever repay you?"
"A raise on my paycheck would be nice," Tropy told him.
"Don't push it, Tropy," Neo muttered.
"Great job, Nefarious," Uka Uka complemented, "You managed to save our skin, unlike some people."
Cortex turned away to pout.
"How did you get here, anyway?" Nina asked.
"When we got zapped by the Psychetron," Tropy explained, "I landed about two blocks away. Oh, and guess where we
are."
"An accordion convention?" N. Gin asked hopefully.
"Um, no," Tropy answered, "We're back in Zeropolis, in the 0th Dimension!"
"So we have returned to the 0th Dimension," Neo said, "But we need to find a way to return home."
"Someone explain to me what this '0th Dimension' is!" Uka Uka commanded.
Suddenly, the wall behind the N- Team exploded. The four of them fell to the ground and looked up.
"Hey guys, guess what," Cortex said, "The sharp rocks joke is back again."
They searched for what might have caused the explosion. It just so happened to be an army of Interdroids.
"Oh great," Tropy muttered, "These guys again."
"We beat them before, we can beat them again!" Neo exclaimed.
"But something's different about them," Nina pointed out.
In fact, these Interdroids were different. They had eight legs and an abdomen-like body part. These Interdroids were also
black and blue with yellow eyes.
"Neo Periwinkle Cortex, Nina Cortex, Natasha "Nitro" Gin, Nefarious Tropy, and Uka Uka," one of the Interdroids, Eric, said,
"You are under arrest by order of General Wolfgang and the Delta Interdroid Enforcers."
"Delta Interdroids?" Uka Uka asked.
"Your brains will be sucked out tomorrow morning," Eric told them.
"I can't lose my brain!" Neo screamed, "I do my thinking with it!"
The bandicoots ran around the Gigantic Flytrap Thing, blasting it and bashing it. Unfortunately, it kept on regrowing any lost
body parts.
"That thing is regrowing too fast!" Crunch called, "We can't cause any serious enough damage without it healing itself like
that!"
"You shall all pay for your destruction!" N. Tangle called.
Then the huge plant creature tried to eat Coco whole, but Crash pushed her out of the way and got swallowed whole
instead.
"Crash!" Coco screamed.
"What are you going to do without your little rodent friend?" N. Tangle asked, "Becoming plant food comes to mind for some
reason."
"Crash," Coco mumbled sadly.
Her eyes widened when she heard a very familiar sound. It was the sound of wind spinning around quickly. The Gigantic
Flytrap Thing got a sickly look on his face.
"What's wrong?" N. Tangle asked the creature, "Are you sick? Are there weeds somewhere?"
Suddenly, an orange tornado burst out of the creature's stomach. Coco gasped and smiled widely. The spinning tornado
sucked the rest of the creature closer to it, and the Gigantic Flytrap Thing was eventually mulch. The orange tornado
stopped spinning and became a very dizzy Crash.
"Crash!" Coco called. "You're okay!"
Crash gave her a thumbs-up and fainted from dizziness. Coco noticed something on the ground. She picked it up and
realized that it was a power crystal.
"A power crystal!" she exclaimed, "It looks like as if our luck is changing."
"Well done," N. Tangle said, "It appears that you have defeated my plant. It can't heal itself after this much damage."
He opened a warp portal and was about to step through it when he turned back and said, "Don't think that this is the last
time we will battle. I will be back, and that's a promise."
He stepped through the warp portal as it closed behind him.
"Okay," Aku Aku said, "What was up with that nut job?"
"I don't know," Coco said, "But we need to find Billy Bob, only he can tell us what's going on here."
"Billy Bob?" a ferret who was hiding behind a car asked, "I know where he is. He works as a dishwasher at S. Cargot's
restaurant, the Croissant, down on 0th Street."
"Thanks!" Crunch called, as he and his friends carried the unconscious Crash to the restaurant.
"Listen here," Cortex said to the Delta Interdroids, "We don't want any trouble. We're… uhh… tourists. Yeah, that's it!
We're the Johnson family from… the West
World. Yeah, the West World!"
"We're robots, we're not stupid," Eric said.
"That's it! I've had enough of this!" Uka Uka roared.
He picked up the garbage truck, and the driver ran away. The mask threw the truck at the Delta Interdroids, and crushed all
of them.
"Easy as pie," Uka Uka said, "Why do I always have to save you idiots' skin?"
Uka Uka got hit by a laser blast.
"Who did that?" he yelled, "I'm so going to fry whoever did that!"
"So you are the N- Team?" a slightly squeaky German accent asked.
The N- Team looked up to the source of the voice. Perched on a rooftop was a vulture wearing a black aviator's helmet and
a black, medal-covered sash around his torso.
"You're not quite what I expected," the vulture said.
"Who's this clown?" Neo asked N. Gin.
"I am no clown!" the vulture yelled, "I am Sergeant Ludwig Lederhosen!"
"Stupid name list, huh?" Tropy asked.
"Sadly, yes," Lederhosen said, "But no matter! I have come here to arrest you and destroy you!"
"Oh yeah?" Neo asked, "You and what army?"
"That one," Lederhosen stated, pointing to an army of Delta Interdroids.
"How come I never notice these things?" Cortex asked himself.
"You have two choices, N- Team," Lederhosen told them, "You can surrender and die, or you can not surrender and die."
"Hmm… tough decision," Neo said, "Is there a third choice?"
"No," the vulture answered.
"Aw man," Neo said, "I guess we'll have to fight you guys, then."
Lederhosen smiled and said, "Wrong answer!"
The bandicoots walked into the restaurant. There were tables dotted everywhere, with the sound of classical music in the
air. The scent of food was also in the air, so Crash was drooling all over the place. The four of them walked over to the desk
in front of them and rang the bell. A yellow snail wearing a black tuxedo, a thin mustache on his face, and a brown shell
appeared behind the desk.
"Bonjour," the slug welcomed, "and welcome to S. Cargot's five-star restaurant, The Croissant. I am Mister S. Cargot II, and
how may I be of assistance?"
"We're looking for Billy Bob," Coco said.
"Billy Bob who, miss?" S. Cargot asked.
Coco sighed and said, "Billy Bob Jacob John William Earnest Patrick Christopher Arthur Matthew Maxwell Alfred Oswald Joe
Richard Elizabeth Jack Kenneth Walter Liam Linus James Tomas Timothy Eric Sheen Chester Adrian Alexander Carlton Gene
Weasellotti III."
S. Cargot's eyes narrowed.
"Oh… him," he said.
He escorted the bandicoots the kitchen doors. The snail opened the door.
"You, clean up boy!" he yelled, "Some people are here to see you!"
The door snapped open, crushing the poor snail into the wall. Standing in the doorway was none other than Billy Bob
wearing yellow rubber gloves and an apron over his overalls.
"Guys!" he cheered before giving the bandicoots a bone-crushing hug, "Y'all came back!"
"Can't… breathe," Crunch choked as Crash started to turn blue.
Billy Bob let go of his four friends.
"How did y'all come back?" the big weasel asked.
"Oh, you know," Aku Aku said, "Evil plants and some nut job."
"And what is this new bad guy's name?" Billy Bob asked.
Coco looked around and whispered, "He calls himself Doctor N. Tangle."
All the mirrors and glass objects break, and all the tables collapsed. S. Cargot stared at the destruction and went from
shocked to angry.
"Out!" he screamed as he threw the five heroes out of the restaurant.
"Does that always happen when y'all say that guy's name?" Billy Bob asked.
They nod in response.
"Well, there goes my job career."
Next time on Crash: Multiverse Mishap…
The bandicoots and Billy Bob begin their search for a way home. Meanwhile, the N- Team must defeat Lederhosen and his
army of Interdroids. What will happen?
Find out in Chapter Three: Men in Orange.
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