PSManiac: Hello everybody and welcome to Chapter Four! I am your host, PSManiac. Special thanks to PhantomBen, Christopher Mason, and CrashFad13 for their
ideas. Remember that I don't own the stuff that I didn't create. Enjoy!
Chapter Four: Scientist in the Water
Billy Bob's jeep flew through the deep dark darkness of the dark side of dark space darkly.
"If ya'll look below us," Billy Bob said, "You'll notice that them there worlds from the Ring of Thirteen have all spread out and stuff. The Zerolith was the force that
held them there worlds together. With it destroyed, those worlds floated across the dimension and some, like Zeropolis, joined the Zeronian Galaxy."
"The Zeronian Galaxy?" Coco asked, "What's that?"
"It's the first ever galaxy formed in the known 0th Dimension," Billy Bob explained, "Some kinda mysterious force has been drawing the worlds together. It's
completely invisible!"
Suddenly, the jeep crashed into a huge "Welcome to Port Zortuga" sign.
"Guess what," Billy Bob said, "We're here!"
After repairing the jeep again, the five of them walked down the streets of Zortuga. Its streets were filled with run down wood and metal houses, and piratey
sailors waddled down the gravel roads.
"Not quite what I was expecting," Coco said.
A fish and rat hybrid ran across Crunch's boots. Crunch screamed like a girl and leapt into Crash's arms. Crunch was so heavy that after a few seconds of trying to
hold the muscular bandicoot up, Crash collapsed.
"I know that this here port isn't the cleanest or the sturdiest on the outside," Billy Bob, "But on the inside, it's as tough as iron."
He leaned against a building, and the entire block collapsed.
"Maybe as tough as aluminum," Billy Bob corrected himself, "But it's still tough!"
"Anyway, we need to find Captain Plat," Crunch said, "Although I think that the author never explained why."
"It's a big plot hole," Coco said.
Crash looked around and pointed at something.
"What is it, Crash?" Coco asked.
She looked at where Crash was pointing and saw Captain Plat enter a Casino.
"There he is," Aku Aku said, "Let's follow him."
The N- Team, meanwhile, was swimming through a large coral reef. There were aquatic animals swimming all over the place.
"Everything's too happy down here," Uka Uka complained, "The colors, the lights; it's like a Disney movie!"
"Don't be so negative Uka Uka," Cortex said before he swam into a wall.
"I hate this world," Cortex said negatively.
The five evil doers looked up to see themselves in front of a huge dome of stone bricks.
"Hello? Is anyone up there?" Tropy called.
Really high up the dome, a fish man popped his head out a window.
"Who's there?" he called.
"Where are we?" Tropy called.
"Do we have a Wii?" the fish called back, "No, we do not have a Wii, but we want to buy one this weekend!"
"Do you have a power crystal?" Neo called.
"A shower stall?" the fish called, "There's one inside! Although I don't get why there is one, considering we're underwater. Here, I'll open the door!"
A large section of the wall opened, and the N- Team stepped through. They found themselves in a huge, underwater utopia city. There were fish and other aquatic
animals that bustled through the city, including fish men.
"Holy mackerel," the five villains spoke in unison.
They saw a sign beside them. Cortex swam up to read it.
"Welcome to Dratlantis," he read, "Located in the Wet Sea."
"I see that you are enjoying the sights," Said a voice behind the group.
They turned around and saw a large whale wearing a golden crown, a golden belt, and a red cape.
"I am King Uranus," the whale introduced himself, "I welcome you to Dratlantis."
"Hello," Neo said, "Nice to meet you, fish guy!"
"It's your majesty, to you!" King Uranus roared, "Guards, take them away!"
Thousands of fish man knights swam up and pointed laser spears at the five villainous heroes.
"Great job, chum for brains," Tropy told Cortex, "You got us all jailed."
"Don't worry, Tropy," Neo reassured, "I'm sure that this city's justice system will see us through."
2.5 seconds of court later…
"Guilty!" King Uranus called, "They shall be forced to fight the Krakker in ten minutes."
The N- Team glared at Cortex.
"Well, the Krakker doesn't seem so threatening," Neo said.
Then, palace guards dragged in a huge cage with a huge giant squid, lobster, and jellyfish hybrid inside with a sign that said "Krakker" on the front of the cage
door.
Neo gulped and said, "This could be a problem."
Our five heroes wandered into a small and dark casino. The only light was a small lamp that was hanging above a blackjack table with five players seated around it.
"I've got eighteen," one player, a polar bear, said.
"Nineteen," a fish in scuba gear told them.
Twenty-five," an antelope said disappointingly, "What do you have, Plat?"
A certain British platypus sighed and said, "Seventy-nine thousand,"
"Is that even possible in this game?" the polar bear asked.
"How many cards did you draw?" the fish asked, "What do you have, Frogfather?"
The Frogfather, a large purple frog with red spots, and a green pinstriped suit, showed his cards and said, "Twenty-one."
The other players groaned as the Frogfather pulled the hundreds of chips toward his giant pile of poker chips.
"I've got to go," the Frogfather said as he looked at his solid gold Polex watch, "If you need me I'll be at the docks, taking care of some 'garbage.'"
He put on his fedora hat and left.
"Do you want to play another round, Plat?" the antelope asked.
"No thanks, Steve," Captain Plat said, "I still have a billionth of a chip left, but I'm going to leave as long as I have enough for a cheese cracker."
He climbed off his seat and walked away.
"Hi Captain Plat!" Coco exclaimed.
This surprised the platypus so much that he screamed, jumped in the air, and dropped his chip. He chased after it as it rolled across the floor boards.
"No! No! No! No! No!" he yelled as it rolled down an air vent.
He then proceeded to having an emotional breakdown.
Crunch looked at the crying spaceship captain and said, "Perhaps we came at a bad time."
The N- Team walked into a large coliseum with a roaring crowd of thousands in the stands.
"Bring out the Krakker!" King Uranus decreed over the microphone, receiving a loud cheer in response.
The crowd began chanting, "Krakker! Krakker! Krakker!"
A giant domed cage was lowered around the arena part of the coliseum. A hole opened in the center of the arena. Out of the pit came the Krakker. The N- Team got
their weapons ready.
"Get ready!" Neo called.
The Krakker lunged itself at the N- Team. It knocked them back with its tentacle.
Neo got up and saw a door right next to him with an "unlocked" sign above the handle.
"Guys!" he called, "I found a way out!"
He grabbed the handle and got electrocuted.
"Of course," said a very fried Cortex, "It's always electrocuted, oisn't it?"
Tropy zapped the Krakker and barely avoided getting crushed by the beast's claws.
"Can't you do anything, Uka Uka?" Nina asked.
"Unfortunately, I can't send out a fireball since we're underwater," he explained.
"Why don't you just manipulate the bars of the cage to form yourself a body and get us out of here?" she asked.
"Oh yeah," the evil mask said, "I can't believe I haven't thought of that."
He formed himself a body out of the cage's metal bars. The Krakker saw the giant metal giant that was Uka Uka and swam away, whimpering like a dog.
"Look, Uka Uka!" Neo called.
Uka Uka saw that Cortex was pointing to King Uranus's scepter, which had a crystal on it.
Uka Uka bent down to King Uranus's level and said, "We'll be taking that scepter of yours now."
King Uranus, scared like a lemming, handed the evil mask the scepter. The five evil doers swam off.
"Well, that was easy," Tropy said.
"A little too easy," N. Gin said.
"And that phrase was kind of random," Neo said.
"A little too random," N. Gin said.
"Sorry about that a billionth of a poker chip, Captain Plat," Coco apologized.
"Don't worry, I'm over it," Plat said, "Us platypuses have an ability to get over stuff pretty quickly."
Crunch wiped his forehead and said, "Good, for a minute there I thought that you were going into a crying…"
"It was so young!" Plat cried.
"…fit," Crunch finished.
Suddenly, the bandicoots heard a distant exploding sound.
"Was that thunder?" Aku Aku asked.
Plat looked up to the sky out of his crying fit and said, "No, the sky is as clear as plastic wrap. So it has to be… cannon fire!"
He pushed the bandicoots out of the way of an oncoming cannonball. A huge fleet of ships appeared out of nowhere. All of the ships were made of black rotting
wood and rusting metal. The ships were lead by an even bigger ship, with a huge metal skull and ribcage on the front Robot zombie pirate ghosts swooped down
form the ships and began ransacking the port as cannons blew up the surrounding ships. The bandicoots began fighting the robots. One of the pirates ran up and
roared at the heroes, but Captain Plat threw a grenade in the unfortunate pirate's open mouth and exploded. Crunch picked one up, rolled it in a ball, and rolled at
an oncoming group of ten pirates. The ball crashed through the group, knocking them all over.
"Strike!" Crunch cheered, doing his strike dance.
This was why Crash and Coco never go bowling with Crunch. Crash spun a couple pirates and gazed down the street. There, on that part of the street, was a large
robot zombie pirate ghost, with cobwebs, rusted metal skin, and a long metal beard.
"Time to set sail, mateys!" Captain Metalbeard called, "The 0th Dimension is waiting. Yar."
Next time on Crash: Multiverse Mishap…
The bandicoots will battle Captain Metalbeard and his army of robot zombie pirate ghosts. Meanwhile, the N- Team will travel through the mysterious and deadly
Wet Sea. How will our heroes survive? Find out in Chapter Five: Tomb of the Pirate Emperor.
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