Author's Note: Jeez, I've taken a long time to get this up. It's an ugly little combination of writers block and finally catching up to where I was writing the story. From now on, it's one chapter updates instead of the usual two. I also had a little trouble to deal with in the Sly Cooper area. See, some anonymous yahoo thought it was their job to tell off everyone he thought was being mean to Slylady345, and apparently he saw one of my reviews as insulting so he decided to leave a crappy little review on this story telling me to get out of her face. Luckily, he was an anonymous so I could delete the review and I talked to Slylady345 and worked out the entire thing. Dang it was frustrating. Anyway, back to the story; Geek out.

Act III:

Crash's World

Chapter 1:

Battle of the Skies

The two Hellcat fighters emerged into a raging battle between flying ships similar to their own. Two capital ships were broadside of each other, one a red and yellow zeppelin with the distinctive 'N' symbol of Neo Cortex, the other a blue and white submarine like ship. Each of the smaller fighters flying around carried either the red and yellow of the Villains or the blue and white of the defenders. Jak looked around for the Villains and cursed as he realized that they must have found security inside either the zeppelin or the semi-ruined and reconstructed castle far below them. A translucent green dome covered the island the castle/fortress was on, obviously a forcefield. It seemed most likely that they would be in there, damn it. Jak turned on the comms unit and called Crash.

"Crash, we've got to help them!" Crash agreed and split off from Jak after a squad of yellow and red fighters. A flood of missiles soon made them disappear from the skies in a giant fireball, followed by several others. Jak turned his Hellcat to follow a larger fighter and shot at it with Yellow Eco blasts. It exploded after a few shots, blowing away into little fiery pieces. Another fighter came up on his tail, but a quick somersault and a few Yellow Eco blasts turned the tides against that one. Jak watched as Crash's Hellcat's cockpit opened to let the two dragons out into the fray. He continued watching as Spyro dove at a fighter, sending it into an out of control somersault and then blasted it with fire. The crispy hull of the ship fell and collided with a much larger ship below. Daxter whooped from behind Jak in happiness and made false punches at the fighters.

"They ain't got nothing on us, Jak. Absolutely nothing," he grinned confidently. Jak was prevented from sharing his friend's casual attitude by the appearance of powerful turrets on the side of the zeppelin.

"Seems it's a little too early to celebrate Dax," Jak warned as he changed his flight path to do a fly by shoot at the turrets. "Dax, get on the gun!" he ordered.

"Aye-aye, sir!" Daxter said with a mock salute. He crawled into the gun chamber and rode the Hellcat's small turret to the top of the ship. Daxter pulled his goggles down over his eyes, aimed, and fired at the turrets as Jak flew by them. In a minute, they were Swiss cheese and then exploded.

Back with Crash, he had a few more heavy pieces of artillery to deal with. Several ground-to-air missile launchers were stationed around the perimeter of the protective dome over Cortex Castle. Crash held the missile firing button down, waiting for a lock on. As soon as he had it, he released the trigger and let them fly straight into the missile storage compartments with satisfactory and cinematic explosions. It seemed they were winning until several much more frightening looking Villain ships appeared above and started firing what looked like arcing Dark Eco bolts around. Crash turned the Hellcat up to look at the vehicles and opened a volley of Yellow Eco blasts upon them. The explosion of one of these vehicles turned out to have a wide radius, taking out the two on either side of it. After seeing this, the pilots of the elite fighters spread out across the skies so as not to blow each other up when they went down. Jak could be seen firing missiles at two elites, with satisfyingly explosive results. Spyro and Cynder teamed up to take down some more elites, so that their numbers dwindled. So with some more Yellow Eco bolts, missiles, and magical attacks, all of the elites were defeated.

All of the blue and white fighters were now converging on the Villains' airship, lasers charged. A crackly transmission gave the order to fire and they did so without hesitation. However, the attacks simply bounced off in random directions, without even leaving a score upon the armored balloon. Jak had an idea.

"Keira, take the controls, I'm going in," he ordered. Keira looked at him as if he were crazy.

"What? By yourself?" she gasped. Jak smiled.

"You doubt me?" He pushed the button which transferred control to Keira's side of the Hellcat and opened the cockpit. Keira reluctantly pulled the Hellcat up to the side of the airship so that Jak could hop into the hangar, just as Crash's allowed him to jump out and Spyro landed upon the inside. Jak nodded, he hadn't expected the other two to let him go by himself so this was unsurprising.

"Come on, I know the way," Crash said casually as he slung his Bazooka off his back. Jak replicated Crash's movements but instead of a gun of staff as he was used to, the long blade of the Eco Sword slid out of his back holster. He had never fought with a bladed weapon, even back in Sandover Village he had always just used his fists or a club when hunting or anything of the sort, never a blade. So it seemed he would have to educate himself in the use of a sword. What looked like a man in a lab coat with thick lab goggles approaching seemed to be his chance. The thing moved too awkwardly to be an actual person, it must be a robot. Indeed, one swing of the blade revealed a torso full of circuits, hydraulic pumps, and gears rather than flesh and bone. Crash snorted and put away his Bazooka. He ran over to a group of Lab Assistants and simply spun into them, causing them to fly into the walls and crack. Spyro meanwhile, chose to favor his Electric powers and ensnared a chain of Lab Assistants in the charge. One by one, they exploded as their power reserves overflowed.

The three Heroes blew their way through the Lab Assistants through several rooms until they reached the power generator room. The large, glass cylinder crackled with Dark Energy flowing through its conduits, creating all the station's energy. Crash fired a Nitro at it with no effect, while Spyro's Earth Missile had a similar outcome. Jak ordered the other two aside, charged a large amount of Red Eco within the blade of his sword, and swung it at the glass. It broke into a thousand tiny fragments, allowing the Dark Energy to course through everything. Already, the sound of Dark Eco disintegrating objects could be heard. Jak lead the way out of the generator room, through the now empty halls and to their Hellcats in the hangar. Just as the airship exploded in a mighty cinematic bang, the three Heroes sailed off into the sky.

Author's Note: Reviews motivate me to write, just ask CadeXHybrid.