Chapter 6
Dr Neo Cortex is still unconcious from last night's encounter with Dr N Tropy. He is having difficulty waking up until he felt someone trying to shake him awake.
"Master," someone whispers.
"Master, wake up." Cortex stirs awake but can't see anything through his blurry vision. He blinks a couple of times so that his vision becomes clearer where he sees N. Gin n front of him. All of a sudden, he is filled with rage and immediately charge at N. Gin before he realised his hands are chained to the wall behind him. N. Gin takes a step back, in complete shock by his friend's sudden rage.
"You!" Cortex growled.
"You told Tropy where I was, didn't you?" Cortex growled, still pulling from his chains trying to get to N. Gin.
"No master! I didn't! I swear!"
"You are the only one I told what I am going to do, then all of a sudden he knows where I was going to be!" All N. Gin could do is put his hands up, trying to protect himself from Cortex's outburst.
"No Neo, I..." N. in has been cut off when they hear the door open to reveal N. Tropy and Uka uka.
"Hello, sleeping beauty." Tropy says sarcastically,
"I do hope you enjoy your sleep. You don't mind if I bring in a visitor, do you?" he said with a smug tone in his voice, pointing towards Uka uka. N. Tropy then looks at N. Gin with contempt.
"What are you doing here? Get out! Neo, Uka uka and I are going to have a little discussion where his dear niece is, or should I say his daughter?" Neo and N. Gin look shock at Tropy who took a pink slip out of his pocket.
"How did you get that!?" Cortex is outraged, trying to attack N. Tropy while struggling against his chains and all N. Gin can do is look at the slip in disbelief.
"Oh. I just found it among wth your other junk." he said nonchantly.
"Including this." he took out a family black and white framed photo of the Cortexes.
"It's such a beautiful picture of you and Nadia, and I presume the little baby is Nina?
Cortex looks desperate,
"Please. That photo is the only thing I have of them." Tropy just look at the photo and then back at Cortex, giving off a small chuckle. He then throws the photo on to the floor and stamp on it, cracking the glass under his foot. Then, he picks up the photo, takes the lighter out of his pocket and set it on fire in front of Cortex.
"No!" Cortex screams as he watches his late wife's face disintergrating before his very eyes. After Tropy shakes te ash off his hands, he slowly walk up to Cortex, taking satisfactory at Cortex's reaction,
"So, are you going to tell me where your little vampire brat is?" Cortex went from shock to angry and spit on Tropy's face.
"I am not telling you anything." Cortex says in a threatening tone. Tropy wipes the spit off his face in disgust and Uka uka just chuckle evily,
"Oh, we will after what I am going to do to you. For DISOBEYING AND BETRAYING ME!" Uka uka shouted close to Cortex's face, while Tropy turns to see N. Gin, still standing by the door.
"What are you still doing here? Get Out!" Tropy shouted
"Y-y-yes Dr Tropy." he turns to leave shen he sees Cortex giving him a dark glare. gave him a pitying look before he leaves.
"Tropy, since you brought Cortex to me, you get to watch me torturing him." Tropy just bows to Uka uka.
"I am going to enjoy this" he says with menacing glee, making Cortex terrified.
N. Gin is scared for Cortex, and for Nina. Judging by how bad and torturous Cortex's screams are from the other side of the door, he can tell they are going to know Nina's whereabouts. He immediately runs to the port and get into the Mecha Bandicoot robot that he still has in his possession and set himself ready to go to the bandicoot's house and warn them about Dr N. Tropy and Uka uka, hopefully they will help. He felt bad for leaving Cortex behind but he knows Cortex wants him to think of Nina first. His two oldest friends did make him her godfather and he promised that if anything happens to her parents, he will be the one to protect her. For Neo, Nadia and Nina.
The next morning in the Bandicoot residence, Coco is still passed out from last night's episode. Crunch is sitting by her side putting a cold, damp cloth on her forehead while Crash and Nina just explained to Aku aku what happened to Coco.
"This is worst than I thought. If something that's depleting her mentality effects her physically, then we need to take drastic measures." Aku aku says with great concern.
"What are you going to do?" Nina ask.
"Something I am hesitant to do. I am going to teleport myself into her mind and find out the real cause of her illness. I didn't want to do it unless it's the last resort as I am worried Coco won't be able to hande having me inside her mind, but I fear I have no choice." Aku aku floats towards Coco.
"Wait!" Nina shouted, causing Aku aku to stop.
"What are you expecting to find?" Nina ask.
"Anything that could help us get Coco back to her normal self." As Crunch took the cloth off to drench it in cold water, Aku aku takes a good look at Coco's face. He can see her breath growing rapidly and sweat still forming on her face, despite been having a cold cloth on her head to try and keep her temperature down.
"She doesn't look good Aku aku." Crunch says solemnly.
"I don't know what else to do." Suddenly Aku aku looks determined,
"Stand back Crunch, I don't want this to effect you too." Crunch looks confused but did as he says, standing with Nina and Crash to watch what Aku aku is going to do. Aku aku took a deep breath and closes his eyes, putting his full attention on Coco, He is surrounding her with golden light and hovering her over the sofa. Then, Aku aku dissappeared into thin air, however Coco is still the same as Aku aku left her. In the golden light, floating in the air, signalling that Aku aku has succeeded. Crunch runs towards her with a panic look on his face,
"Aku aku, are you in there!? Aku aku, can you hear me!?" Crunch shouted at Coco's ear but no response from either Aku aku or Coco. Crunch looks back at Crash and Nina who are just as worried as he is.
Aku aku is starting to feel dizzy and can feel his power drained from the teleportation, but he shakes the dizziness away so he can focus on helping Coco. He looks around a dark cave, seeing reflections of himself from shards of crystals on the walls around him. He continues to fly forward, hoping to find Coco. When he turn round the corner, he sees Coco making him breath a sigh of relief. He quickly flies in front of Coco,
"Coco, are you ok? Listen, we need to find this mysterious force that made you ill." Coco didn't respond, instead she just walks past Aku ku like he is not even there, completely entranced by something and Aku aku doesn't lie the look of it.
"Coco?" Aku aku still feels drained from lack of power so he can't do anything except to follow her, wondering what caused Coco to become this way. They continue down the dark cave until a source of purple light shines onto their eyes from the other end. Aku aku is blinded by it as he turns away from the light, but Coco is not affected and just walks towards the light. Aku aku has no choice but continue to follow her. Closer and closer her can see the outline of the source that looks like a giant power crystal. Closer and closer until Coco stops right in front of it. Aku aku is suddenly mesmorized by its beauty but there is something strange about it that caught Aku aku's attention. It looks like a hand, signalling to come inside the crystal that disturbs Aku aku, but what alarmed him is Coco walking towards the giant power crystal.
"Coco! Coco stay away from the crystal! It's dangerous!" She still didn't hear him as she slowly brings her hand up and moving it forward to touch the hand that's inside the crystal, but as she touches it, it's slowly sucks Coco in while her veins glow bright purple from her arms, causing Coco to scream in immense pain.
"No!" shouts Aku aku as he rushes forward to use the power he has left to pull Coco out of the crystal. The effort is futile as Coco disappears right before his eyes, enraging Aku aku.
"Give her back! Who are you!? What are you!?" his questions are being answered as he sees what look to be a woman inside the crystal. There is something familiar about her, from her long flowing hair to her slender figure, but the one feature that struck Aku aku are her eyes. They are the colour of amethyst that almost blends into the colour of the crystal. He only knows one person that has eyes like that.
"You-" before Aku aku could speak any further, the light of the crystal glows brighter and brighter until it surrounds him, magically teleports him back to the house. As Aku aku collapse to the ground , he breathes out a name before he passes out himself.
"Nadia." Crash, Crunch and Nina try to wake Aku aku up when Coco slowly stirs awake, sitting up with a groan. Crash saw this and rushes up to her with a beaming smile, when he realises that something is different about his little sister. Her eyes are a mixture of dark and light purple with little specks that looks like shards. She looks at them and speaks with a calm voice,
"It's good to see you too, Aku aku."
My goodness! Sorry for the wait as it took me a while to figure out what is going to happen next and I hope it is satisfactory as I want to give this story some twists, and I do love me some twists. :P as I think about this story further, I realise this is more of a Coco story than a Crash story which I think it is better as she needs more of a spotlight to show how amazing she is along with Nina. So I hope you like this chapter! :D
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