PSManiac: Chapter Twelve everybody! I do not own anything that is not of my own creation. Thanks to all who reviewed and suggested. Enjoy!
Chapter Twelve: Revenge of the Math
The bandicoots tried their best to push the walls away, but their efforts were futile.
"We have to think of something before we become as flat as pancakes!" Aku Aku exclaimed.
Suddenly, the walls stopped and pulled back.
"Okay, what happened?" Billy Bob asked.
A nearby door opened up into one of the school's hallways.
"Who cares? We're free!" Victor cheered as they rushed out.
"We still need to get the power crystal in this school," Coco explained.
"To the auditorium!" Moritz exclaimed as he rushed down the hall.
"Moritz!" Victor called, "You're going the wrong way."
"Oh yeah," said Moritz, "I knew that."
They ran in the correct direction, not noticing a mysterious orb of blue light flicker behind them.
They scampered into the auditorium, skidding to a halt to see that no one was there.
"I don't get it," Coco said, "The talent show should have started by now, so where is everyone?"
Crash walked forward to inspect the auditorium further. He noticed what looked like a square shaped metal object at his feet. He picked it up. Suddenly, a force field cut him off from his friends.
"Crash!" Coco called, pounding her fist against the force field.
"And now it's just you and me, bandicoot!" a voice called.
Darth Teacher appeared on Crash's side of the force field.
"You have nowhere to run!" he exclaimed as he drew his red Light Ruler, "Now defend yourself from the wrath of Darth Teacher."
Crash struck a karate pose as his battle with Darth Teacher began.
"Face me!" Darth teacher exclaimed as three orbs of dark energy began to rotate around him.
He charged at Crash, who leapt out of the way. Crash looked at the metal object in his furry grasp and noticed that the object had a button on it. Crash pressed the button with his thumb and a glowing blue ruler emerged from the object. It was a blue Light Ruler. Crash smiled and held the light ruler like a sword. Darth Teacher sent red lasers at Crash, who deflected them with his Light Ruler.
"How dare you use a fine weapon like that against me!" Darth Teacher sneered, "I shall increase your suffering."
One of the orbs sped towards Crash. Our hero blocked its attack and slashed his weapon downwards at the orb. The orb jumped back and sped towards Crash again. He ducked and stabbed the orb as it passed overhead. It turned into wispy, black smoke and disappeared.
"Foolish marsupial!" Darth Teacher roared as he sent a bolt of lightning towards Crash.
Crash blocked the lightning, but the bolt continued to push against Crash's Light Ruler.
"You can't stop me!" Darth Teacher exclaimed, "I have brought hundreds of foes to their demise, and you shall be no different."
Cortex glared at N. Tangle.
"So, you're the one controlling these huge vines," said Cortex, "Not exactly the best evil plan, but doable."
"My plan goes far beyond the Sulfur Vines here," N. Tangle explained, "Plant life shall rule all when I'm finished."
"Plants?" Cortex asked, "I'm not sure if you noticed, but plants aren't really the most threatening things."
"You will find your statement false soon enough," N. Tangle informed, "Just like those bandicoots."
"The bandicoots?" Tropy asked.
"They're here?" asked Cortex.
"Well, yeah," the plant-crazed scientist said, "You guys were on the same world like, twice!"
"Hmm," Uka Uka said, "I know those bandicoots well enough to say, you're done for."
"Once my master plan goes into effect, no one will stop me!" N. Tangle declared, "I just wish that stupid Wolfgang would stop messing around with the jungle worlds with his factories. Now, where was I? Ah yes, I remember. It's your doom!"
He disappeared in thin air. The sulfur vines reared back and shot towards the N- Team.
"Look out!" Nina yelled as they leapt out of the way.
"Surf's up, dudes!" Brad hollered.
He drew out a metal surf board. He leapt onto it and the surf board began to hover off the ground. Quill blasted a laser rifle at the huge vines, each one exploding into green goop. The N- Team did the same.
"I'm not sure if you noticed this!" Quill called, "But whenever one vine falls, two take its place!"
"Cowabunga!" Brad cheered.
He surfed up and down the vines, blasting as he went.
"There has to be something to fry this thing!" Cortex exclaimed as he ducked under an oncoming vine.
"I got it!" Quill called, "The main Sulfrix base has a whole bunch of weapons to fight of space pirates and such! There has to be something there to eradicate this thing."
"You heard the porcupine!" Uka Uka roared.
"Hedgehog," Quill corrected.
"Whatever," the mask said, "Let's move!"
They ran towards the base. The sulfur vines dove underground in pursuit.
"Hurry, Cortex!" Uka Uka roared.
"I'm running my fastest!" Cortex called, "Curse the original developers for giving me such tiny legs!"
One over the vines grabbed Cortex's ankle and lifted him into the air.
"Doctor Cortex!" N. Gin hollered.
"I'm fine!" Cortex called, hanging upside down, "I just threw up a bit in my suit!"
"What should we do?" Nina asked.
"Getting me down would be nice!"
Darth Teacher sent another orb of darkness at Crash. Our marsupial hero sliced the oncoming orb in half.
"You turn," Darth Teacher said to the last remaining orb.
The orb rotated left to right, as if to shake its head in disagreement.
"Listen," Darth Teacher scolded, "You are going to go up there and…"
Crash impaled the orb.
"Hey, I wasn't done!" exclaimed Darth Teacher slashing his Light Ruler downwards at the bandicoot, "And now it's just you and me, mano a… you know what I mean."
Their weapons began clashing over and over again in a blurry of slashes, blocks, and uppercuts. Darth Teacher used his telekinetic powers to throw Crash to the ground and separate the bandicoot from his weapon.
"And now, you perish," Darth Teacher said as he readied his Light Ruler for one final strike.
Suddenly, the ground beneath Darth Teacher rapidly rose upwards. A power crystal fell to the floor and Crash picked it up. Beneath the platform was a spinning drill. The drill opened and many ant soldiers filed out. One of them looked around.
"Hey," he said, "Where'd that Darth Teacher guy go?"
Crash pointed to the top of the drill. The ants pointed their blasters at the evil principal.
"Now, frost!" the ant yelled, "Wait, no, that's not it. Shiver! No… Lower your central body temperature! No. What was it?"
"Is it 'Freeze'?" Coco asked.
"Yeah! Freeze!"
The force field lowered, and Coco ran up to hug her big brother.
"Now that is out of the way," Victor said before he and his brother pointed their laser pistols at the bandicoots, "It's time to get back to destroying you."
"Victor, how could you?" Aku Aku asked.
"Very easily, actually," he explained, "We're your enemies, remember?"
Suddenly, a portal opened beneath the bandicoots' feet, and they fell through. The portal closed. Victor stared at where the bandicoots once were."
"Aw, nuts."
"There's nuts!?"
Cortex's eyes lit up.
"Duh," he said.
Cortex aimed his blaster and shot the vine to smithereens. He smiled evilly but realized that he was over a hundred feet in the air.
"Uh oh," he said before he plummeted downwards.
He screamed as he fell, fell as he screamed, but Brad flew up on his surf board and caught the doctor. Cortex had his eyes closed, still screaming.
"Whoa, chill dude," Brad said.
After much running they finally made it into the base.
"Okay," Quill said, "We have to find the commanders and fry that thing.
They ran up several flights of stairs. The base rocked as the sulfur vines attacked the ship.
"Where is everyone?" Cortex asked when they reached the control room.
"No time!" Quill exclaimed as he activated the computer.
The screen glowed to life and went to a password screen.
"I don't know the password!" He exclaimed.
N. Gin pushed Quill out of the way and said, "Stand back, I am a whiz when it comes to computers."
"You don't even know how to work a printer, let alone a computer," Cortex said.
"Done!" N. Gin exclaimed as the screen went to the computer's desktop.
"But, how…?" Cortex asked.
"I figured the password out," N. Gin explained, "It was 12345. Strange, it's same as my computer."
Quill pushed a button and the sulfur vines were eradicated.
"That was easy!" Quill cheered.
There was a bright flash of light and the N- Team was gone.
"Where did…" Quill started.
"Gnarly teleportation dude," Brad added.
Three Interdroids infiltrated N. Tangle's ship, which was hovering over the world of Gaseous.
"The security seems pretty low," one Interdroid said, "But keep on your toes."
Vines sprang up and impaled one of the Interdroids.
"Sparky!" an Interdroid called to his fallen comrade.
Another Interdroid was destroyed by a gigantic nearby Venus flytrap. The surviving Interdroid shot the flytrap, ducked under the vines, and ran down the hall. He saw it silhouette of N. Tangle at the end of the hall.
"I have you now," the Interdroid said as he blasted N. Tangle.
He fell limp on the ground. The Interdroid, Terry, ran up and peeled of N. Tangle's helmet, and became very surprised to see the face of a deactivated Interdroid under there.
"What?" the Interdroid asked.
He heard a muffled screaming from the control room. He entered the room and saw what looked like N. Tangle sitting in a chair. On closer inspection, he realized that he was tied to the chair by vines. The Interdroid lifted the helmet away and saw that it was another Interdroid with vines around his mouth.
Terry ripped the vines away from the Interdroid's mouth and asked, "What happened, soldier?"
Immediately, the Interdroid screamed, "There's a bomb on the ceiling!"
Terry shot his head up and saw what looked like an acorn surrounded with leaves and vines and a ticking down timer. At only two seconds were left.
"This is going to hurt," Terry said.
The ship exploded in green flames, followed by a huge, blue shockwave that ripped apart whatever was left of the space vessel.
Wolfgang watched the explosion on a screen in his base. He snarled.
"Those were my best assassins," he growled, "Such a horrible waste of expensive machine parts. I should have known this was a trap."
"Sir!" an Interdroid called from a computer, "That's not the only problem we're having. It seems that this plant guy also implanted a virus into our main computer's mainframe during his transmission to us."
"What about the security programs?" Wolfgang asked.
"Every security program it comes across gets deleted."
"Firewalls?"
"Deleted."
"Pop-up blockers?"
"Deleted."
"That picture of my mother at the company Christmas party?"
Both of them shivered in fear before the Interdroid stated, "Deleted."
"Curses!" Wolfgang roared, "I want a price to be put on his head. Gather every bounty hunter out there! I want him dead yesterday!"
"Yes sir!" the Interdroid said before turning back to his computer.
"Mark my words, N. Tangle," Wolfgang said as the Interdroid's head blew up, "I shall make your corpse into my midmorning salad."
Next time on Crash: Multiverse Mishap…
The rivalry between N. Tangle and Wolfgang grows stronger, and we discover what will happen to the bandicoots and N- Team. Solve the mystery in Chapter Thirteen: Crash of the Jungle…
PSManiac: I guess that now would be a good time to announce my next project for the Super Mario series titled Super Mario Bros.: the Brothers ' Beginning, coming soon. Anyway, review and suggest!