Author's Note: Special thanks to Jonah-EN (my number one fan) and crossover master CadeXHybrid for reviewing. Chapters 3 and 4 of Act II are extremely short so forgive me on that note. Then again, Act II itself is really short, seeing as I never exactly thought this one through. Don't worry though, Act III is plenty long to make up for this; Tchuss from the Geek.

Chapter 3:

Gem Power

The loud grinding of stones on the beach underneath the hulls of the two airships behind Spyro announced the arrival of the other Heroes. Both cockpits opened to allow Crash, Coco, Crunch, Jak, Kiera, and Daxter out onto the stony beach.

"That Hellcat thing is awesome," Crash said in awe as he clambered out of the green Hellcat's cockpit.

"Glad you like it," Jak grinned back as he repeated Crash's motions. Spyro and Cynder led the way for them all inside the temple, where the hallway extended out to a partially frozen area. Crash walked along at the back of the group. He stopped to look at a reflective piece of ice that was bent so that the reflection of his stomach area seemed bloated. Crash chuckled and began moving into different positions so that different parts of him were seemingly compressed and stretched. The rest of the team (who hadn't noticed him stopping) had gone off ahead and when he looked around for them, he was unable to find them. He started walking along the hall, but when he came to a fork in the road he scratched his head in confusion. The left was much lighter and therefore it was more likely that his friends went there, but he felt a strange pull to the right, a pull which he felt he should follow. Crash walked along the tunnel as it got increasingly darker and darker until he couldn't see a thing. Suddenly, the ground beneath him gave way to emptiness and he toppled down into the depths of the caves, letting out a loud "WHOA!" as he did so.

Crash opened his eyes slowly to the sight of long shadows. He groaned and got up off of his aching back and onto his feet. The bandicoot observed his surroundings to find that this new cave was much stonier than the one above had been and that different colored crystals littered the walls. He edged away from a suspicious looking purple one and stumbled straight onto something. The bandicoot hero looked back to see that what he had tripped on was a Power Gem, a yellow one.

"Now what's this doing here?" he wondered, bending down to pick it up. He leapt away with a cry of shock when it began glowing and rising off the ground. In a spark of electricity, it transformed from a translucent yellow stone into the unmistakable form of Rok-Ko the Earth Elemental.

"Yo, what up Bandicoot?" he said. The mast got a look at Crash's shocked expression and sighed. "Don't worry, I ain't gonna hurt ya, technically I'm still locked up in my prison with the Ancients looking over me. By the way, did you know that the Ancients are a bunch of short, furry, orange dudes like the one riding on the green-haired dude's shoulder? Anyway, the head Ancient guy was all like: "You go and help Crash Bandicoot in his fight against the Villains," but I was all like: "Oh no brother, I'm through with Fuzz-head," then the Ancient dude zapped me with his staff and he was all like: "Do it, I order you too," and then I'm all like: "Okay dude, chill." So here I am doing what he told me to."

"Which is?" Crash asked.

"I'm supposed to give you some of your old powers back. So Crash, remember when you could knock guys, like, 50 feet away from you with one of those spin attacks?" he asked Crash.

"Yeah mate, I've been wondering why I couldn't do it anymore," Crash sighed.

"Well, it's 'cause you got those powers from the Gems, more specifically us Elementals. You see, before UkaUka went and made us all go be evil and destructive and all that, we were just placed into hibernation around the Wumpa Islands with our energies split up into the Colored Gems. Then when you defeated us, you locked us up way away from Earth and the Colored Gems were taken to different parts of the universe so we couldn't be resurrected again. So now that you've found the Yellow Gem, you now have the ability to blast guys away from you back, something that should really help." Crash scratched his head.

"So wait, if my ability to knock people so far away came from the Yellow Gem, then what do the others do?" he asked.

"Well let's see; if you find the Green Gem I will grant you your Super Belly-Flop move back; the Purple Gem will grant you with your Hover Ability; and then the others will grant you with stuff you ain't never seen before." Rok-Ko grinned. "Sorry to leave like this but, I gotta go, peace." And with that, Rok-Ko disappeared and the Yellow Gem reappeared, shocked Crash with yellow electricity and settled back on the ground as a Clear Gem. Crash shook his head to clear it and looked around. The question now was: how did he get back to the others? The sound of footsteps came from an opening in front of him which sloped far up. He ran at it and managed to use his arms and legs to climb out of the hole and find himself facing the toes of Jak's boots.

"There you are," Jak chuckled, reaching down to pull Crash out by the scruff of his neck. He set Crash back down on the ground, where he was then tackled by Coco.

"Where were you?" she half-screamed, punching him in the arm. Crash rubbed the place sorely then grabbed Coco around the neck with his elbow and started rubbing his knuckles into her hair. Jak watched with a half-amused face until his eyes alighted on Spyro who was giving the group an aggravated look.

"Okay guys, let's get moving, Spyro looks like he's gonna have a hissy fit," Jak chuckled, breaking the bandicoots apart. He then led everyone behind the two dragons onward through the caves towards the inner sanctum of the Celestial Caves.