A Dragon out of Time, A Crash and Spyro Story

Epilogue

Nine years ago, Dr. Cortex, the young child whose life he saved: N-Gin, his brilliant creation Subject C3, and I successfully built a time machine. It is the single greatest achievement of my life, however I never really understood the motivation behind building it, other than Cortex wanted to use it to change history for the better. He was by far the smartest human being on the planet, a curse given to him by my father: Anton Tropy. I wanted to believe that I could maybe help my nephew, maybe cure him of the premature death looming over his head while he and I were on the remote N Sanity archipelago. Although in reality I was only following in my father's footsteps, wanting to perfect humanity, no matter the cost. In that blindness, I never saw what Cortex was becoming, a monster. Well, apparently there was an explanation for how horrible he became other than him slowly loosing however much of him was indeed human (I'd argue his genetics constituted a new species), and it had to do with an evil spirit. Magic and mysticism, time travel and... Dragons, Nefarious Tropy's life just kept getting weirder and weirder.

"Were you ever ashamed of what you did to your grandson, father?"

"I perfected him, perfected humanity, made both better. How could I possibly ever be ashamed of that?"

"I knew you would never change, you belong in a prison."

"You say my grandson is dead, so there is no surviving evidence left of my... experimentations with humans. But I believe being held here against my will counts."

"Officially your dead, and nobody, including your wife or your affairs could care less." Nefarious Tropy was currently in a very, very remote, privately constructed, scientific facility in Antarctica. His father, Anton Tropy, was currently being held in this facility, for even in his advanced age his mind could still prove useful.

"I'm assuming your latest tests with my genetic "key" have proven unsuccessful. I'm telling you, even in anthropomorphic animals the key will not work. The mind of a human is necessary. All you're doing is inhumane animal testing at this point."

His father's jab raised doubts in Nefarious' mind that he could successfully duplicate Cortex's method of creating Subject C3, and if all of his failed attempts were destroying potentially sentient life. He'd been working with a multitude of animals like Cortex did, and each time the test subjects couldn't accept "Anton's Key" and remain alive like "Coco" did. The Time Twister may have been my greatest invention, but C3 may have been his nephew's.

"I don't even know why I'm going to tell you this, you don't deserve to know. But your grandson, ten years ago, stabilized Anton's Key. In an anthropomorphic bandicoot he created, he was able to integrate "Anton's Key" into her genes and stabilize the negative consequences of your genetic marker. She can live a normal live and retain the brilliance you always intended. It's very possible, and that creature is still alive today."

"Impossible, the effects of the genetic marker are impossible to reverse without losing the genius associated with it. It can't be done. I spent my entire life confirming it!"

"Apparently it took a genius suffering from your 'disease' to figure out how to cure it. Unfortunately Cortex couldn't cure himself in time."

"Why hasn't... C3 been brought here to this facility to be analyzed and dissected? If my key can be maintained and stabilized in humans, it'd be the scientific breakthrough of millennia. Our posterity would be leagues smarter than us! We'd perfect humanity Nefarious!"

"Because I believe she has a life of her own. At least now I believe that. And I'm tired of following in your footsteps father. I will not drop to your level to perfect humanity."

With that, Nefarious walked out of Anton's holding cell and closed the door. He was met by Dr. Nitrus Brio. He was one of the only students to befriend Cortex at Madame Amberly's Academy before Cortex murdered a student there in self-defense. After he graduated from college, Nefarious offered him employment at this compound. The research being done here was to change the world, although right now it might just save it.