Crash Ten Sanity

Chapter 5

Crash and Cortex finally pulled out of their embrace. Crash looked at his best friend, a bit puzzled. He never saw Cortex look like this before. It was quite strange to him.

"What happened to you," Crash finally asked.

"Long story," Cortex answered, looking sheepish.

Coco and N. Gin were on Coco's laptop, looking at the tenth dimension. N. Gin was really close to the female bandicoot, prompting Cortex to wonder if N. Gin had finally confessed his feelings for Coco or not. 'Sure hope he did,' Cortex thought.

Coco stated, "Well, the scans been sweeping the tenth dimension. Nothing seems out of the ordinary."

N. Gin added, "As of right now..."

Crunch shook his head and wondered, "How could this all be happening though?"

Aku-Aku questioned, "Yes, how can they be alive when you all defeated them?"

John shrugged as he answered, "Well, we never said that they were alive."

Pete nodded in agreement and added, "Yeah, we just said that we saw them in visions."

Coco zoomed on a factory that was being built with a rather large metal Wumpa Fruit as its logo.

She gasped and stated, "Hey guys, you might want to check THIS out!"

Everyone peeked over Coco's shoulder as they saw a rather large machine.

Nacey asked, "What's that?"

Nina answered, "Don't know..."

Crash whispered, "Never saw THAT when we were there."

Aku-Aku stated, "Whatever it is can't be good." That's when he saw something and added, "Coco, freeze the feed for a moment."

Coco did as she was asked as she froze the frame. There, was a rather LARGE and long machine that almost looked like a giant washing machine only with a lot of tubes.

Nacey started to say, "What on earth...?"

Nina told them, "That wasn't there before."

Crash asked his sister, "What do you think it is?"

Coco answered, "Not sure but I have a question for you."

Cortex stated, although it was more of a question, "A question for us?"

Coco nodded as she asked, "Did you ever destroy the Vice-Versa-Reversa Device that the Evil Twins told you about?"

John answered, "Actually, now that you ask, we never found it."

Pete added, "That's right. We looked everywhere but never found the thing."

Crunch pointed to a logo on the front of the machine and asked, "Hey, isn't that their creepy logo?"

Everyone took a look as the Twin Sanity team groaned with annoyance.

N. Gin questioned, "Does that answer your question?"

Crunch answered, "Clear as day."

Crash groaned, "Great, as if we didn't have enough problems..."

Aku-Aku commented, "We have to go to Iceberg Lair, use the Psychroton, get to the 10th dimension, and shut down the Vice-Versa-Reversa."

Nacey stated, "Sounds simple enough."

Cortex got a good look at N. Gin and replied, "I will never get used to that..."

N. Gin asked, "What? Me looking like a person?"

Cortex answered, "That and the fact that you no longer need the rocket to live. Velo did really bless you, Nicholas."

N. Gin blushed proudly as he stated, "Thank you my master...Neo."

Cortex nodded as the group headed towards the bay, like they did oh so long ago. Along the way, Crash had explained to Cortex that Papu Papu had passed on, due to being overweight. As for Pinstripe, he left the island.

Cortex questioned, "For good?"

Crash shook his head and answered, "Nah. I think he'll be back. I know he will. Tawna and his baby are buried here."

Just saying that alone made Cortex lower his head in regret. Crash instantly felt bad but there was not much he could do now. Everything was now set in stone. Polar, Pura, Koala Kong, Fake Crash, Carbon Crash, Madame Amberley, N. Trance, Rilla Roo, Chick "Gizzard Lips", Stew, The Viscount, Yaya, Penta Penguin, Farmer Ernest, and Rusty the Walrus were all dead...and it was all thanks to Phoenix...

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Meanwhile, Tiny was at the bay, bored as all heck. He didn't know where everyone was. He didn't know what happened to Phoenix, or N. Gin, or even Nina. All he knew was that he was at this stupid bay, bored and vengeful. That's when he heard some commotion. Quickly hiding, he saw Crunch walking ahead of the bandicoots. Tiny didn't need to re-think the golden opportunity that was now in his lap. He lunged out, pinning Crunch to the beach.

Crunch protested, "Hey!"

Tiny snarled, "Tiny will make you pay!"

Crunch struggled underneath Tiny's grip. But it was of no use, the tiger had gotten stronger. Crunch quickly reacted by kicking him Tiny off of him. Tiny roared, mostly in annoyance. Cortex, N. Gin, and Nina all saw the mutant tiger and Cortex and Nina were automatically puzzled.

Pete asked, "Cortex? What's wrong?"

Cortex questioned, "Well, why didn't Tiny go back to normal?"

Nina added, "Come to think of it, why didn't you guys go back to normal?"

N. Gin informed them, "Well, Coco and I did some checking and it seems whoever was there when Velo waved his scepter, was changed in someway shape or form. For example, we had the curse of evil lifted from us. John and Pete can now no longer evolve, Aku-Aku is wiser, Crash is more of a leader, Coco is less stubborn, and Crunch thinks more on his feet."

Crunch breathed a sigh of relief as he stated, "That was close."

Tiny huffed, "Now Tiny mad!"

As he said that, Cortex looked at his tiger creation. He couldn't believe that one of his creations had so much anger in his very being. Crash looked at his best friend and couldn't help but wonder if Velo did more to him than they all originally thought. Crunch toppled Tiny with pure power, using his brains as well.

Nina gushed, "That was awesome!"

Aku-Aku stated, "Now get out of our sight, Tiny."

Tiny huffed, "Tiny know you did something to my friends!"

Nacey asked her brother, "Did he always talk in the third person?"

Cortex ignored her as he went over to Tiny and asked, "Tiny?"

Tiny looked as he snorted at Cortex, not recognizing the ex-evil scientist.

He asked, "Tiny don't want to talk to short yellow bald man. ...Tiny already lost his favorite short yellow bald man..."

Cortex's facial expression changed from sadness to pity as he gently - and unafraid - rubbed Tiny's snout. Tiny perked up as everyone watched in complete and total awe.

Cortex whispered, "Yeah, you remember that, don't you? The way I did it when I first created you..."

Tiny looked in complete and total awe and asked, "Tiny wanna know if you are really Cortex."

Cortex smiled as he answered, "Yes, Tiny. It's me. Doctor Neo Periwinkle Cortex."

Tiny still looked stunned and was about to say something else when a familiar voice caught their attention.

"Alright, hands in the air! No one move!"

Everyone threw their hands up when they saw two long swords coming out of the jungle.

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Wishmaker1028: That doesn't look good! Who could it be? Are the Evil Twins really alive? Will I ever stop asking questions? There's only one way of finding out! You guys stay tuned! Please read and review! And always think outside of the box!