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PSManiac Presents… Crash: Multiverse Mishap

Chapter One: The Day the Mirth Stood Still

It was a bright and sunny day on N. Sanity Island… let's change that, shall we? Now, it's a dark and rainy day on N. Sanity Island. The bandicoots were inside their

home, waiting for the skies to clear.

"Come on, stop rainy already," Crunch muttered as he watched the storm through a window, "I thought that we were supposed to get nothing but sunshine this

week, but it's been raining for three days straight!"

It had been two weeks since the bandicoots had their adventure in the 0th Dimension. Cortex, now a human thanks to the Evolvo Ray, tried to take over the world

a week ago. That quest involved a banana, two Swedish tuba players, and a CD of Sunny and Cher's Greatest Hits. Please don't ask. Meanwhile, Crash and Aku

Aku were playing Crash Nitro Kart on Crash's Playstation 3.

"I'm catching up to you, Crash," Aku said, "I'm almost at the finish line, I'm so going to win! And… you win."

Crash cheered. Coco walked into the room, dragging a machine behind her.

"Lost again, Aku Aku?" she asked.

"Yeah, but you know what they say," he told her, "692nd time's the charm. By the way, what is that thing?"

"This is the solution to our rainy day problems," Coco said as she pointed to the contraption, "It can move the rain storm up to twenty miles away! It's the

Weathertron 5!"

"What happened to the first four Weathertrons?" Crunch asked jokingly.

"They imploded," Coco answered.

"That was a rhetorical question," Crunch said, "I was even asking jokingly. Just look a few lines above."

"Are you sure that this invention of yours will work, Coco?" Aku Aku asked.

"Of course it will work," she said, leaning against the machine.

The Weathertron 5 fell apart.

Coco looked at the machine, looked at her family, and said, "I'll fix that."

"How are you feeling, Doctor Cortex?" N. Gin asked as he and his employer walked down the halls of the Iceberg Lab.

"Well, most people use nerves," Cortex said.

"I meant how you are doing, ever since the whole monkey incident," N. Gin corrected his boss.

"Oh, well, okay I guess," Neo answered, "But I still have a slight attraction to bananas."

"Exactly how slight, doctor?" N. Gin asked.

Dingodile came into view, and he was peeling a banana. Cortex tackled the poor hybrid and devoured the banana.

When he finished the fruit, Neo looked up at N. Gin and said, "It's very slight."

Tropy walked into the hallway through his bedroom door. He stared at Cortex, at the unconscious Dingodile, and at N. Gin.

"I don't even want to know," he said as he went back into his bedroom.

The entire evil lair shook violently as a certain evil mask roared, "Cortex!"

"That can't be good," N. Gin told Cortex.

"Coming, Uka Uka!" Neo called as he raced up the stairs.

He ran up several flights of stairs, but got tired after flight eighteen.

"Why did I have to make this lab so tall?" he asked himself, panting.

He trudged up the last twenty-seven flights of stairs and into Uka Uka's room. The evil mask's room was painted red and has wooden masks and lit torches hanging

on the walls. Bones hung from the ceiling, and several evil-looking totem heads served as tables and chairs.

"What do you require, Master Uka Uka?" Cortex said, panting heavily.

"What do I require?" Uka Uka asked, "I require that to be destroyed!"

He pulled Cortex to a corner of the room and to a tiny daisy growing out of a crack in the wall.

"A daisy?" Cortex asked.

"A daisy that should not be growing in a room of evil!" Uka Uka roared, "So get rid of it!"

"Okay," Neo said as he grabbed the flower by the stem, "Ouch!"

He jumped back suddenly, holding his gloved hand in pain.

"Since when did daisies get thorns?" he asked no on in particular.

Uka sighed and said, "If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself."

He cast a fireball at the daisy, but the small white flower wasn't even singed. Suddenly, blue lights flashed and alarms blared loudly.

"That's a Blueberry Muffin Alert!" Cortex exclaimed, "Something's wrong with the Psychetron!"

Cortex and Uka Uka ran out the door and slammed the door behind them. The daisy turned to the door, and grinned to show its sharp teeth.

The bandicoots gathered in their front yard with the Weathertron. Crash held the umbrella to shield them from the rain.

"The Weathertron will shoot a beam of into the sky and move the storm away," Coco said.

"Fire away, then," Crunch said.

Coco pressed a button on the Weathertron. The machine emitted a humming sound that eventually became louder and louder. Suddenly, Crash's umbrella got

struck by lightning. Crash dropped the umbrella in pain. It fell onto the Weathertron. Sparks flew off the Weathertron from the sudden surge of energy.

"Is it supposed to be doing that?" Crunch asked.

"Something's wrong!" Coco exclaimed, "The energy charts are off the scale! The machine is overloading!"

In a bright flash of light, the four bandicoots and the Weathertron disappeared.

The villains rushed down to the Psychetron room to see what's going on.

"Uncle Cortex, something's wrong with the Psychetron!" Nina stated.

Indeed, the Psychetron was emitting a red light instead of its normal blue light. Ripper Roo laughed and bounced up and down. Tropy, annoyed, smacked the crazy

kangaroo into a wall with his stick…

"It's a scepter!"

What ever…. Anyway, a bright beam of light came out of the Psychetron and into the center of the room. The light beam began to grow larger and larger.

"I blame you for this!" Uka Uka roared at Cortex.

All of the villains began running away from the huge wall of bright light.

"I wish that I didn't eat all those churros this morning," Neo said, panting heavily.

They couldn't outrun the giant beam of light, and they disappeared as soon as it caught up with them.

"I knew that I should've called in sick today," Tropy stated.

Crash woke up and found himself in the middle of a bustling, futuristic city. He looked at Crunch, who was asleep beside him, and lightly tapped the muscle bound

bandicoot's shoulder.

"Five more minutes, Mom," Crunch mumbled in his sleep.

Crash shook Crunch quickly.

"I'm up! I'm up!" Crunch exclaimed.

Coco and Aku Aku, who were asleep nearby, woke up from the ruckus.

Coco yawned and asked, "What time is it?"

Aku Aku looked around.

"This city, it looks familiar," the floating mask said, "But where have I seen it before?"

"I guess that we should ask around," Crunch suggested.

"That should be easy," Coco said, "There are thousands of people here."

Suddenly, the ground began to rumble and everyone ran away.

"So much for that plan," Crunch said.

"I think I know what is causing the rumbling and making everyone run away," Aku Aku said.

"What is it?" Coco asked.

"It's that!" the wooden mask exclaimed.

The three bandicoots looked at a traffic cone.

"A little bit to the left," Aku Aku said.

It was a giant monster! It was a flytrap-like monster that had spiked leaves for arms and a thin green stem covered in thorns. Its roots crawled across the ground

like tentacles, and it had two black eyes that were on short stalks on top of the creature's head.

"Our luck can't be that bad!" Crunch exclaimed.

Then they noticed a person standing on top of the creature's head. He wore leaves arranged in a flowing cloak, with roots on the bottom the crawled along the

floor like tentacles. He had long sleeves and tree branches for hands. The most notable of his characteristics, was that he wore a big Venus flytrap head for a

helmet, and his glowing yellow eyes peered out of the "helmet's" mouth. He got out a microphone and turned it on. Almost instantly a loud ringing sound rung

through the city like sleigh bell during Christmastime, and the man tapped the microphone in an attempt to make the ringing stop.

"People of Zeropolis," he said in a slightly deep and whispery voice, "You day of reckoning has come. For too long you have pursued the ways of science and

technology instead of bringing plant life proper respect. You have cut down our forests, built cities in their place, and poisoned the air in which we all breathe. I

have come to bring plants into their revolution! I shall rid all of you of animal life! I am Doctor N. Tangle!"

All of Zeropolis's glass objects broke and all the car alarms went off.

"Stupid cursed name joke," he muttered.

At the other side of the city, Neo, Nina, N. Gin, and Uka Uka found themselves lying face-down in a dumpster. The lid of the dumpster was closed, so their only light

source was a few cracks and holes in the dumpster.

"You'd better explained to me what happened, Cortex!" Uka roared.

"I wish that I could, Lord Uka Uka," Cortex said, "But I have no idea what could have caused the Psychetron to malfunction like that."

"Cortex, when we get out of the dumpster," Uka Uka said, "I'm going to throw you back in!"

"Do any of you hear a beeping sound?" Nina asked.

There was, in fact, a beeping sound.

"Yeah," Neo said, "I hear it, too. It's almost like a truck backing up."

The next thing they knew was that they were flipped upside down and got loaded into a garbage truck. Cortex looked up and saw that Uka Uka had a crystal stuck

on his back.

"Uka Uka!" Neo exclaimed, "You have a crystal stuck on your back!"

"I do?" the evil mask asked.

He spun around, to try and spot the source of great power, but it can be difficult trying to see something on the back on your head.

"I got it," Neo said as he got the crystal off of Uka Uka's back.

The mask fried Cortex with a fireball.

"Don't touch me," he growled.

"Guys," Nina said, "Is it just me, or are the walls moving closer?"

"The garbage truck is going to compact us like trash!" Neo screamed.

"We are the trash," Nina told him.

Next time on Crash: Multiverse Mishap…

The bandicoots must pummel a plant of predictable problems proficiently. Meanwhile, the Cortexes must escape the compactor creatively to avoid crushed craniums.

Will N. Tangle tangle our heroes in doom? Will our heroes return to their home? Can you wait without dying in anticipation? Find out in Chapter Two: Crash to the

Future.

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