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CBNS ch.13

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After some hours walking, Crash and his friends managed to get out the cave and finally arrived to the last of the three Wumpa Islands, the one owned by Cortex himself.

Keeping his word to Klonoa, the bandicoot let the young cat to lead them towards Pinstripe’s toxic factory; where his friend Spyro was. However, little did he know about the harsh task to get there. Just in front of them stood a very large building, which looked like the entrance to a big facility.

“Co…Cortex…Power” read Croc with difficulty, not because he didn’t know how to read; but because of the rusty and poor state of the letters pined at the top of the door. Crash was a bit scared; he really wanted to kick Cortex’s butt, but he didn’t expect to do it right now.

“Are…you sure this is the correct place?” asked the human bandicoot sweatdropping. Klonoa surveyed the area a bit and after that, he sighed heavily in defeat.

“I’m sorry guys. It was easy to get there that time thanks to the blimp, but I think we’ll have to take the long way” he replied a little sad.

“Oo, oh! I see” answered Crash relieved.

“Still, if the factory is run by him. Why it has Cortex name on it?” asked Coco curious as she pointed out that little detail.

“Hey! Spyro asked him that same thing!” exclaimed Klonoa surprised. “I think he said something like: that old man doesn’t know anything about business, so I took the liberty to make some changes”.

“In other words, he took it from him in front of his eyes” she replied sarcastically.

“I guess. If you put it like that” said the human cat while scratching the back of his head. He really wasn’t the type of guy who would think things that thoroughly.

“Despite that” stated abruptly Aku Aku. “We can’t say that his actions are good for the island. We have to stop him from polluting the sea with those deadly chemicals”.

“You’re right” nodded Coco serious, taking heavily that responsibility. Then the two ventured into the facility, followed quickly by the astonished group.

Again, the heroes didn’t notice another surveillance camera perfectly positioned on a nearby tree. Everything it managed to record, before the group entered the building, Pinstripe and Tawna saw it inside Potoroo’s office.

“Thank God they’re alive” replied the female bandicoot, relieved to see Crash and Coco in one piece.

“Yeah-yeah. Wohoo for your knight in shining armor” said Pinstripe with a boring tone, and he took sip from his cappuccino.

“Too bad I have to get rid of him now”.

“What?! You promised not to hurt them!” she exclaimed angry.

“I wasn’t expecting that he’ll get this far!” he retorted her mad.

“That’s it Pinstripe! I will not let you do this”.

“Oh really? Well, I guess if that happens, I’ll just have to toss you into the dungeon and let the doctor do what he pleases. Sounds good for you babe?” he asked sarcastically, expecting an answer that didn’t come; only an angry glare from the blonde.

“I thought so” replied Pinstripe serious and then he stood up from his chair. “I’m going to get more cappuccino from the vending machine. Want some?” he asked while moving the empty plastic vase in his hand.

“No” she answered, still mad at him, so angry that she didn’t want to see his face. However, Pinstripe, being a bad guy, didn’t care that much and thought that she’ll calm down while he was out.

“Better for me” he replied sarcastically and left.

Tawna just stood there, completely powerless to help her friends because of Pinstripe’s threats to deliver her to Cortex. When, suddenly, a little tap against the glass called her attention. She turned around and saw a little bird using its beak to knock the office’s window. Being an animal lover as she is, Tawna didn’t think it twice and walked towards the window to let the little bird enter to the office. After that, it perched carefully on her fingers.

“Hmhmh” she giggled. “You’re really a cute bird” she said while stroking its little head, which actually pleased the little animal. And she just stayed there petting the bird.

Back to the entrance of the factory, we see that Rayman, Gex, Parappa and Hog managed to get there; just a few minutes later than Crash’s group.

“Cortex…Power” read the blond with difficulty. Again, this happened because of the poor state of the letters.

“Ya’ think this is his hideout?” asked the human dog, referring to their common enemy N. Tropy.

“Probably” he replied unsure.

“Well! We won’t know, till we find out!” exclaimed Gex joyful, ready to venture inside the suspicious and, probably, dangerous building.

“I guess so” replied Rayman, still uncertain. However, there was that slight possibility that they could be in the correct place.

“Alright Gex, you win. But let’s try to stick together”, reminded him the blond.

“No problema, amigo!” he replied happily while making an “o” with his hand, much like Crash. Still this didn’t surprise Rayman. He just couldn’t understand how his friend could make puns in moments like this.

“Ummm…I’ll take that as a yes” he replied sweatdropping. Then he turned around to call over Hog, who was surveying the area with his nose.

“Hey Hog! Come!” Rayman called him.

“Please, wait second!” replied the boy and he continued sniffing the area, like an animal. This confused his friends, since they didn’t know how savage Hog was.

“Hog smells different essences…seven to be exact…but Hog only recognizes two…a male and a female bandicoot” he stated.

“What does that mean?” asked Parappa confused.

“I guess we got a Fido in our hands” answered Gex puzzled, but still using his sense of humor. This, of course, slightly displeased Rayman as an angry vein popped out in his forehead.

“Can you be more specific?” asked him the blond.

“Hog doesn’t know” replied Hog also baffled. “Bandicoots have funny smell. They have essence of animal and human together” he explained them as the others got more confused.

Meanwhile, still in Wumpa Island, we see Abe fighting for his life against the menacing skeleton knight that wanted to chop him to pieces.

“It’s no use. Most of my powers are useless against him” he thought worried, and quickly dodged another of his attack.

“I have no other choice, but to get into his mind” and with that, he quickly jumped backwards and ran into a cave, followed by the skeleton. Once the two were inside, the human Mudokon hid in the shadows.

“I need to concentrate first” whispered Abe while watching the skeleton from a safe spot. Then he closed his eyes and concentrated as hard as he could in order to force his consciousness to penetrate the knight’s mind.

The very first moment, when both minds were beginning to connect, the skeleton felt so much pain that he was forced to kneel. However, he stood up with difficulty and desperately began to search for Abe in order to stop his mind power.

“I’m sorry, but you don’t leave me other choice” he thought with a sad tone without expecting an answer from him.

“Ple…please…” said the skeleton through his mind.

“Huh?” inquired the human Mudokon, surprised after hearing his voice for the first time.

“Please…you…stop…me”

“Let me see with my own eyes” thought Abe, just before finally penetrating the skeleton’s mind. After that, the two just stood there lifeless.

In a creepy dark place, Abe’s consciousness suddenly appeared out of nowhere. After surveying the area a bit, the Mudokon came to the conclusion that he was, in fact, inside the skeleton’s mind.

“Now…where are you” he said while looking through the area, until his eyes spotted the knight with both arms chained to the endless dark sky of his mind.

“I can see it now! You’re being controlled!” he exclaimed shocked. However, before he could do something, the floor where he was standing began to crumble until it was nothing but a thin dirt road. And at the end of it, behind the skeleton’s unconscious body, a gigantic version of the old man with the red clothes raised from the mind’s emptiness.

“Greetings, Mudokon Abe” said the man evilly.

“So it was you who was pulling the strings all alone. Free this poor soul from your control, now!” he ordered him.

“Please, after all that time I hardly expended to finally control his mind? No…at last, my worthless enemy is nothing but my slave”.

“Then I guess I’ll just have to get you out of his mind by force” replied Abe serious, not noticing a strange shadow puddle under his feet that tried to grab him with its black arms. Luckily, he realized this attempt to stop him and quickly backed away. After he did it, the puddle magically raised and began to take the form of a tall man with a bird mask and a black cape.

“You see Abe...nightmares can become quite dreadful when they’re combined with ancient magic”, explained the old man maliciously.

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Back with our other heroes, specifically Crash’s group, they were facing a small problem on their way to Pinstripe.

“Hahahaha! You should’ve never come here!” laughed madly a henchman of Pinstripe that was shooting them with two guns (enemy from Cortex Power that was always at the end of the road)

“Wahhhhh! I don’t like this at all!” cried Crash comically while hiding behind a big metal pipe, protecting himself from the shoots.

“Me neither!” cried Polar comically while hugging the bandicoot scared.

Coco, Penta and Aku Aku, who were hiding behind another metal pipe closer to them, only shot them angry looks, especially to Crash since he was supposed to save them instead of crying.

“We should have taken the left way” complained Pura, who was hiding behind a third metal pipe closer to the one where Coco and the others were. Beside him were also Croc and Klonoa, protecting from the shoots.

“Hahahaha! Come out! Come out, you all!” laughed the shooter, until a hollow sound from his guns surprised him.

“Oh crap” cursed the henchman.

“Now Crash! Croc, Klonoa! He’s out of ammo!” exclaimed Coco hurriedly. The three quickly left their hideouts and ran towards the shooter, who was charging his weapons.

“Like hell you’re gonna get me in time” muttered the henchman, refilling quickly his guns. Once he did it, he pointed them again against the youths.

“Ha! Told you tha-Ugh!” hissed the henchman in pain after he received the punches of both Crash and Croc in the stomach. Klonoa, on the other hand, used his wind hammer to smack him in the head.

After receiving those attacks, the henchman fell to the ground unconscious and the group finally settled down. Minutes later, we see them again arriving to yet another fork of the road.

“Great, now which way should we take?” asked Pura annoyed of this paths selection.

“Hmmmm, how about the right way again” suggested Coco.

“Why not the left one?” asked his brother curious, like the others.

“Think about it like this. Now that we went through the right way, there is a less chance than...let’s just say 50% based on the probabilities that we didn’t previously took in account when we get here so…” and Coco continued her long mathematical explanation while the others just stared at her with blank expressions.

“See now?” she asked his brother, after she finished explaining to them the whole probabilistic system, based on their situation.

“Ummmm…” wondered Crash sweatdropping while looking his friends' confused looks.

“I…in other words Coco” replied Penta also sweatdropping. “You said that now that we encountered that guy on the right path, there are less chances that we we’ll encounter another one on that same way?” she asked hesitantly.

“Exactly!” replied the female bandicoot smiling. After hearing those words, the rest of the group sighed relieved.

“Well then, it will be the right way!” exclaimed Crash happily, following his sister’s mathematical bases. However…

“Haha! Wrong way! You fools!” laughed crazily another henchman working for Pinstripe, shooting them with his guns.

“I hate probabilities!” cried the male bandicoot comically, hiding behind a metal pipe.

“Me too!” cried Polar comically while hugging Crash scared.

“No, no way…my calculations were wrong” whispered Coco, curled behind the metal pipe while Penta was seeing her sweatdropping.

“At least we should feel relieved that this is not a déjà vu” stated Aku Aku, trying to see the good side of this situation.

Some minutes later, we see that Rayman’s group also arrived to the fork of the road that Crash and his friends just passed.

“So…which way now?” asked Parappa doubtful.

“How about the right way?” suggested Rayman. “We came from the left one which didn’t have so many enemies. But we don’t know if by taking that way again we could end facing a strong enemy”.

“Are you crazy Ray?!” exclaimed Gex comically shocked.

“Wha…why you say that?” asked the blond a little startled.

“People always tend to choose the right way based on selfish perceptions, like right handed people always picking the right instead of the left for example” he explained to him. “So…I suggest that the left path is our right way to go!” he exclaimed with a comical pose while pointing the left way.

“Is that even a valid argument?” asked Rayman slightly disappointed.

“Emmm… R” muttered Parappa while raising his right arm. “I’m right handed by the way” he stated embarrassed, which made the blond sighed in defeat since it was two against one.

“Hog what you think?” asked him Rayman as the boy was surveying the area with his nose.

“Hog doesn’t know. Hog can’t smell bandicoots no more. Maybe smell of green water is affecting Hog’s nose” he gave an answer that was out of context.

“See Ray? More reasons to go to the left way!” stated Gex joyful with his right arm over the shoulders of the startled wild boy. “That path doesn’t have toxic” he said ironically.

“But Hog just said…” tried to reply the human boar, confused by the green haired man words, when the blond abruptly interrupted him.

“Fine, fine, we’ll go to the left” replied Rayman defeated and he led his team through the left path.

Meanwhile, inside Pinstripe’s office, the factory head was studying carefully all recorded tapes that mainly showed Crash Bandicoot. Taking a sip from his hot cappuccino, he began to think thoroughly a plan to get rid of him.

“Come on Pinstripe, think” he whispered to himself. “He must have a weakness or something that I could use for my advantage” he said while using the remote control to see each and every image of Crash recorded by his surveillance cameras.

“Wait a minute!” he muttered surprised and quickly returned to the previous one. In it, Crash was holding the first power crystal after he defeated Ripper Roo. Quickly, he searched for the image where the human bandicoot was holding the second one, after he defeated Koala Kong.

At that moment, an evil smile drew on Pinstripe face. Now he knew how to get rid of Crash, or to be more accurate, he knew who was going to get rid of him.

“I think Spyro will love to see this” he said sarcastically before drinking his cappuccino, pretty satisfied with the scheme he just thought.

Next to the window, Tawna saw and hear everything that Pinstripe was planning to do. But this time, she wasn’t going to stay there without doing anything. Now that she had a friend that could help her while she was being held.

She carefully opened the window and slowly brought her bird friend from the safety of her clothes.

“I’m counting on you Stormy, please help Crash and the others while I’m here” she whispered after she stroked him a bit, and let the bird flew into the sky. However, Stormy didn’t go away but remained flying over the factory; waiting for his opportunity to fulfill Tawna’s wish.


Will the two groups finally meet? Who will get first to Crash: Tawna or Pinstripe? Will Abe be able to defeat the evil men controlling the skeleton's mind? Find it out in the next episode ;)
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Hello there guys! =D I bring you, yet again XD, another chapter of the marvelous CBNS story written by me with the help of its original creator 123soleil :)

Some of you might wonder why this chapter was more comical than serious. Well...here's your answer 123soleil.deviantart.com/art/C… XD

Also, you might wonder why I decided to put both Crash and Rayman's team in the same place but without actually meeting them. Well...I'm planning to use three particular places such as Cortex Power (which you already seen), Generator Room and Toxic Waste from the first game. Which team will go to which place? That is up to you to guess xD

Lastly, don't you think that Gex could find Coco's intelligence quite cute? Just asking XD

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Alexray35's avatar
CNBS? Is not CBNS?