Hello, readers. My name is CrashGuy01 and this is my fanfic, The Dark Fate. (Dramatic music) Norm, Penta, and Yaya will be narrating this story – they should be here by now! My talking is Italicized AND in quotations.

Geary (from Crash Nitro Kart), Penta (from Crash Bash), and Yaya (from Crash Nitro Kart [another version] came inside my room.

"I don't remember this on my contract," said Geary.

"I didn't give you guys one."

"Do we get paid for this?" asked Penta.

"Not exactly."

"Order us pizza," commanded Yaya.

"You're not in control of me!"

"Then who is?" asked Geary.

"I am! Norm, you narrate the story. Penta, you tell the readers the end of each chapter. Yaya, you keep those two in check."

"Yes, your highness!" said the three. (I hypnotized them into thinking I'm their ruler and to narrate this story. Classic, isn't it?)

"Here's the first chapter. I'll be right back."

"YES, he's gone, let's order a pizza," suggested Penta.

"Good idea," agreed Norm.

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The bandicoot,

with orange skin,

black nose,

green eyes,

thick eyebrows,

and brown hair,

Savior of the Island.

He rules the land

with his grin,

and abilities that are

unevenly matched.

He must possess all the traits

necessary to save our dear island

from an unnamed evil,

an ancient evil set on destruction.

The evil must be vanguished

by the bandicoot that goes by the name of

Crash Bandicoot.

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Chapter 1: Calling For Help

It was a nice and swell day at the Mask Carnival at the Motorworld. The sun was shining, people were walking, and Aku-Aku was selling graphic novels (of all things). A youngster with a propeller beanie notices Aku, grins evilly, and comes up to his stand.

"Hi," he said. "Can I get a graphic novel?"

"Sure!" Aku-Aku replied, giving him a graphic novel.

"Gee, thanks!" the youngster said. Using the novel in his hands, the youngster blew fire on it and then morphed into a black and purple dragon. Aku (that's what we'll call him) hid behind his stand.

"Who are you?" he whimpered.

"Who am I?" the dragon repeated. "Why, I'm the evil Valestrom! Leader of villains! Straight A accounting AP student! Master of all elements! And the most evil person in the universe! Now, do you have any questions?"

Aku looked like as if he didn't hear a word from the Valestrom. "What did you say? I stopped listening to you after you mentioned your name. You don't sound that imitating to me," the ancient mask said.

Valestrom was so mad, that his face was red and smoke came out of his ears. "ARRGH!" he growled. "I think I had it with you! But no matter. You won't interfere with my master plan! Dave, come here!"

A squirrel wearing a monocle, or eyepiece, came out of the circus tent. "Yes, master?" the squirrel said.

"Dave," Valestrom said, "install the underground sling pycnometer." (A pycnometer is a laboratory device.) Dave stuck a pycnometer in the ground. Soon the clouds above in the sky merged together to form a hurricane.

"With this evil machine," said Valestrom, "the entire world will be mine!" He laughs evilly.

"Could you at least doing something other than world domination?" questioned Dave.

"Quiet, Dave, no one was speaking to you," retorted Valestrom

"I must do something about this!" said Aku. He touches the pycnometer and he gets severely electrocuted.

"Sorry," said Dave, "but the psyconometer is off limits. Anyone who touches it will be electrocuted, burned, or frozen and will be cursed.

"CURSED?" Aku repeated. "Well, it can't be that bad." One of his feathers touched a shark tank, causing a hole allowing all of the water to rush out. The shark came out, too, and tried to eat the people at the carnival.

"Oh, no!" said Aku. He turns around and sees that the pycnometer was already in full effect.

"I must warn the others about this! But how?"

Suddenly, he sees a blue bike. He sits on the seat and the seat somewhat explodes. The question is, why Aku would attempt to ride it, but that's beyond me. "Oh well, I guess I'll have to use my kinetic powers."

Aku managed to move the bike, but at a super slow speed. He moved so slowly, a sloth, a turtle, and an old lady on stilts to passed by him.

"Ugh," sighed Aku. "I'll never get them at this speed. I know! I'll call them!"

He goes to a nearby telephone booth. He uses his powers to pick up the phone but snaps the cord off.

"Whoops!" He sees a man walking by. "Um, hello…" he said to the man. "Can you help me out here, please?"

"Sure thing," said the man. "What do you want me to do?"

"Can you use your cell phone to call one of my children?"

The man got out his iPhone from his pocket and Aku told him a phone number. The man then dialed the number and there was absolutely no response.

"Your phone has been motivated to an automatic voice messaging system," the voice said. "Crash Bandicoot (Aku does Crash's voice since we all know Crash speaks gibberish) is unavailable. After the tone, you may leave a voice message or you can press 5 for more options."

The tone was heard. "Hi," Aku said into the phone, "this is Aku-Aku and I have terribly bad news. I somehow triggered this dragon named Valestrom to unleash evil upon the world and now I'm cursed! Meet me at the food stand in the fair. We need all the help we can get! Bye!"

"Good morning and a cockle-doodle-doo to you all, stunt fans. This is Chick Gizzardlips alongside with Stew," said Chick alongside with Stew.

"Are you excited, Chick?" asked Stew. "Crash Bandicoot will slide down this water slide and into this pool of slime!" The camera did a close-up on Crash. And remember when I said we all know Crash speaks gibberish.

"Well here he goes!" Chick says as Crash goes down the water slide, but made a skidding halt when the pool of slime was being sucked into a truck. Crash starts barking at the foul reporters in gibberish.

"Sorry, little fella," said Stew, "but you're too inexperienced to do this."

Crash got a bazooka, turned it on and chased Stew, who was screaming like a little girl. When the bandicoot cornered Stew, he used the bazooka to pelt Chick with a boatload of Wumpa fruit.

Chick looks at the camera and says, "And that kids, is why you should never play with a bazooka." Stew was still screaming in the background.

Eventually, Crash attacked Chick, including the cameraman and the people inside the truck. All of the sudden a song was heard. It was Hannah Montana's Nobody's Perfect (this is Crash's voice mail ring tone). Crash picks up his cell pick up his cell phone and listened to Aku's voice message. The only thing he could do was to text his young, but intelligent sister, Coco.

Coco was bouncing in a bounce house, which was filled with foam balls cheering happily. A group of six-year olds who are also in the bounce house stared at her.

"Um, why there is a teenager in this kiddy bounce house?" one asked.

"I don't know," replied another one. "Let's get her!" So they pelted her with foam balls.

"AHH!" screamed Coco. "I'm being attacked by six-year olds!" She heard a ping signaling that she had a text message. She checked it and then tried to text Fake Crash, but her cell phone was taken by a six-year old.

"Hey!" she screamed. "Give it back!"

"I got her cell phone!" the six-year-old said, holding up her cell phone.

"I got her Nintendo DS!" another one said, holding up a pink Nintendo DS.

"I got her McDonalds's $20 gift card!" another one said, holding up a gift card with the McDonald's logo on it.

Suddenly an ice cream truck passed by. The six-year olds dropped everything and trampled over Coco and exited the bounce house and started chasing the truck. Coco picked up her cell phone and went back to texting Fake Crash.

Fake Crash was up in an airplane with a stunt daredevil.

"Dude," Fake Crash said to the daredevil, "Are you sure this is safe?"

"Of course!" replied the daredevil. "I did this like ten times!"

"Were you severely injured?"

"Yeah, but what does that have to do with anything? No pain, no gain!"

Fake Crash gulped and said, "Well, here I go!" He jumped out the airplane screaming. He then pulled out his cell phone and checked his text message and went to text message Crunch and was surprised to see the daredevil right next to him.

"Dude," he said, "use your parachute!"

"Okay!" shouted Fake Crash. "1…2…" It was too late. He landed a nearby hospital by the time he released his parachute. "…3," he moaned.

Crunch was at a hot dog stand waiting for the old hot dog man to fix his hot dog. Unfortunately, he was talking a long time to do it.

"Hurry up, fool!" Crunch hollered at him.

"Don't worry," he told to Crunch, "Just wait a minute." But Crunch picked him up and kicked him into the empty shark tank like a kicker king a football. He then fixed his hot dog himself, grumbling, and got out his cell phone. He checked Fake Crash's text message and went to go and call Von Clutch.

Von Clutch was at a pitching stand. Kids were looking at him.

"The rules are simple," the vendor told him. "Hit the target to win a prize."

"Can you hit the target, mister?" asked one of the kids.

"Yez! I'm a professional!" replied Von Clutch. He picked up a ball and threw it. The ball landed on the ground five inches away from his feet.

"I did vat on purpose. Let me try again!"

This time he hit the vendor's eye. "Vat waz an accident. One last time!"

He finally hit the target and the black-eyed vendor gave him a teddy bear. Von Clutch's built-in phone rang. After talking to Crunch on the phone, he called Pasadena.

"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to our Freak show. First up in our show, the albino snapping turtle!" An albino turtle came out and people threw popcorn at it.

"Such cruel people," Pasadena said, looking at them. "Do they even care about freaks?"

Her cell phone rang and it was Von Clutch. He told her to meet him and the others at the food stand.

Everybody met Aku at the food stand. Fake Crash, however, came in sitting in a wheelchair and had a leg cast. He was holding a Hannah Montana doll in his hand.

"Hey, guys," he said, "check this out. I found this Hannah Montana doll while I was coming here."

"Hey!" Crunch blurted out. "That's Crash's exclusive one of kind Hannah Montana doll-." Everyone near the food stand looked at him.

"…that he f-found…in the…trash!" Crash blushed.

"Wow, Crash," Aku said mortified. "I didn't know you liked Hannah Montana that much. Anyways, I have grave news to tell you all…"

End of Chapter 1

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Okay, guys that's a wrap-up! Stay tuned to Chapter 2: The Misery of Cortex!

Geary came in with the pizza.

"I got the pizza, guys!" he exclaimed.

Penta and Yaya went to go and get the pizza, but changed their minds.

"I don't like pimento cheese on my pizza!" complained Yaya.

"I don't like jalapenos on my pizza!" complained Penta.

"Oh, well," shrugged Geary. "Enough for me!" He ate the pizza in one big gulp. "Wait a minute! I don't eat pizza, and if I did, I certainly couldn't eat it in one big gulp!"

"Oops."