Cortex Returns

Cortex Returns

By Dr N Gin40

Prologue
It had started ten years after the Sorceresses defeat. Spyro and his friends had been taking a vacation to Dragon Shores, when Zoe collapsed. She said her fellow fairies were in trouble, and they all whisked off to Fairyland. Gnasty Gnorc, Scorch, Chacksia, and Skook were capturing fairies, and they ran away from Spyro into a different portal. Ripto used the fairies to create a power crystal for his scepter, but he only had 100 out of 101 fairies required. He grew and turned super-powerful. He then hurled Spyro through to another dimension and took over the Dragon Lands.
Spyro ended up on earth in Australia, and helped Crash and Coco Bandicoot defeat the evil Dr. Neo Cortex. Spyro jumped into one of N. Gin's portals to HOPEFULLY end up in the Dragon Lands. But Cortex, N. Gin, and Komodo Joe followed him, and it looks like Spyro has more trouble than he bargained for…
Chapter 1

Whatever N. Gin's portal did to the pain Spyro had experienced traveling through dimensions, Spyro liked. Spyro was just floating through, pain NOT included. Spyro noticed some little dots way behind him. "Hey! Maybe Crash and Coco decided to come with me! Wait. There are THREE little dots. Uh-oh. Hey whoa! The bright light again! Here we go!
"Splat!"
"OW! Rough landing. Well I'm ho…"
Spyro looked around. This was definitely NOT, the Dragon Lands. The trees were twisted and bent in very awkward positions. The road in front of him zigzagged, and went ABOVE and BELOW the ground. There were gopher holes just floating in the air, and Spyro could see a spec that looked somewhat like a gopher way up there. AND the bushes looked like they had teeth and eyes on them. Spyro didn't doubt they did.
"What the heck is this place!?" Spyro yelled. As if in answer to his question, two things rushed past followed by another thing that seemed to be chasing the first two. "I'll go check it out, THEN maybe I'll get some answers."
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"Sssso, were are we?" Joe asked, looking around at the strange landscape.
"I don't know," N. Gin answered.
"There'ssss a ccccasssstle up there on that hill," Joe pointed out.
"The perfect place to start our takeover," Cortex also pointed out.
"Ha, ha ha ha ha ha, ha!" they all laughed evilly.
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"Pant. Pant. Whew! Whatever those things are, they're fast! Much longer and I'm gonna collapse!" Spyro whined. "WHOA!" Spyro went flying. The things had stopped, and Spyro had tripped over one.
"What's that?" what Spyro thought was the male said.
"Beats me," said what Spyro thought was the female.
"I-I'm Spyro," Spyro told them.
"I'm Al Wolf. Pleased ta' meet 'cha," said Al, putting out his hand.
"And I'm Whitney Wolf. I'm also pleased to meet you," said Whitney.
Spyro looked them up and down. Al looked a lot like Crash. Except that he was gray, had no spiky hair, had a fatter muzzle, green eyes, and was dressed a little differently.
Whitney looked a lot like Coco except she was also gray, was a redhead, had purple on her eyelids, had green eyes, and dressed differently.
"Uh, what was that thing chasing you?" Spyro asked.
"Speedy. He's an ant who can turn into a gaping black hole. But we discovered, as we were throwing food in his mouth to try to satisfy him, that he hates salt. So now he's cowering over there by that tree." Al replied.
Spyro looked over at the tree indicated, and saw a (very cute) little red ant. It was currently whimpering like a dog.
"He can turn into a BLACK HOLE?" Spyro asked nervously.
"Figuratively speaking of course. What I mean is his mouth gets all huge, and he tries to eat anything within a two mile radius," Al assured him.
"Whew! At least that's better than a black hole," Spyro sighed in relief. "I just fell out of another dimension, and after seeing this one, I'm beginning to think nothing will surprise me," Spyro said.
"Another dimension!?" Whitney said with alarm.
So Spyro told them his story.
"So then I ended up here," Spyro concluded.
"Wow. You've been through a lot," Al said amazed.
"You bet!" Spyro agreed.
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"Wham wham wham wham wham!" Cortex banged on the door of the castle. "Open up!"
A little hole appeared above him and a pair of eyes peered out. "State your business," said a cold, cruel sounding voice.
"I wish to speak to the owner of this castle!" Cortex yelled above a thunderstorm that had started, but seemed to only be happening around the castle itself.
The eyes peered down at Cortex, Joe, and N. Gin. "Very well," said whoever it was.
"Creeaaakk!" the door creaked open. All three of the villains pulled out their weapons before they entered.
"I shall escort you to the Dark Lord," said the figure, who, after stepping out of the shadows, was revealed to be an at least ten feet tall SOMETHING wearing a cloak. The villains put their weapons back in their holsters.
"Thees had beeter work Corteex," N. Gin whispered in Cortex's ear.

"Don't worry N. Gin, it will," Cortex assured him.
They walked up a long flight of stairs, and N. Gin counted 500 until he stopped counting. Rats creeped around, and bats soared overhead. At the very top was a door. "The Dark Lord awaits," said the tall figure.
"Creak!" went the door.
A small, short figure stood there, staring out the window. He turned around and pulled down his hood, revealing him to be a wrinkled, nearly bald, old man wearing huge glasses. "I've been expecting you," he said in a small, pipy voice.
N. Gin and Cortex quickly pulled out their hand-held lasers and pointed them at the "Dark Lord", while Joe pulled out his sword to defend them all.
"Okay 'Dark Lord', hand your castle over to us and we won't hurt you," Cortex ordered.
The Dark Lord waved his hand and all three slammed into the wall. "If you want my castle you must defeat me in battle first," said the Dark Lord.
"Greet," N. Gin muttered.
"One of you three will battle me. If I win you pay with your lives. If you win you get my castle, my island, and my minions." Dark Lord said.
"I'll fight!" Joe hissed.
"The one with the object in his head shall fight," Dark Lord commanded.
"Meee?" N. Gin asked, puzzled.
"Yes you! You have an hour till we fight. My minion here shall wait outside, and then escort you to the arena," the Dark Lord ordered. And with that he walked out of the room with his minion and slammed the door.
"Now what!?" N. Gin yelled. "How am I supposed to deefeeat someone with that kind of magical magneetude?"
"What?"
"I scanned him with my Magic Scanner (Copeeright of N. Geen Rockeets.).
"Magic Scanner?"
"I'eed rather not talk about eet."
"O-kay. N. Gin, do you have your portable Robo-Gin?" Cortex asked.
"I theenk so," N. Gin answered. And then he started emptying his pockets. All sorts of things came out. Mini-Rockets, Nitro Sprayer, and all sorts of other things. "A-ha! Heere eet ees!"
"Perfect! Now let's see magic beat this! This dimension will be ours!" Cortex smiled evilly.

Chapter 2

"So where are we going?" asked Spyro
"Nowhere really. There's not really anywhere TO go," Al answered.
"Hey, I saw three figures going towards Dark Lord's place, maybe we can see who they are," Whitney suggested.
"Yea, I wonder who they ar…" Spyro froze. He had totally forgot about the figures in the dimension portal. Spyro had a pretty good idea who those figures were.
"We need to go to Dark Lords castle, NOW."
"Hey hey, what's the ru…" Spyro grabbed Al and Whitney's hands in his mouth and tore up to the castle.
"Wham wham wham wham wham!"
The hole appeared again with the eyes. "State your busine…"
"I need to know, did three people come here!? One with a fat head and a "N" on his forehead, one with a missile in his head, and one a lizard with a samurai sword."
"Yes."
"I need in NOW!!!" Spyro said urgently.
The eyes looked them up and down.
"Creeaakkk!" went the door.
"Follow me," said the ten-foot tall doorkeeper.
This time they went down a flight of stairs, which opened up into a huge arena.
"The fight of N. Gin vs. the Dark Lord is about to begin!" rumbled another of the ten footers who appeared to be the referee.
Spyro looked at the arena, and saw N. Gin in another of his huge droids, and a little old man.
"Please make whatever preparations you must before the fight," the referee to both of them. But he seemed to make a gesture at the old man that Spyro guessed must be the Dark Lord.
Right in front of them a horrifying transformation occurred. A huge rip appeared in the Dark Lord, and something long and spindly started coming out. The old man suddenly just blew apart, and a horrible creature emerged. It had two legs that had very hard, sharp things sprouting on the knees. It had nine arms, four on one side, four on the other, and one on the back. Its chest had a huge hole in it that opened up, revealing long, sharp teeth and a thin, slimy tongue. And to best describe it's face, (for people who have seen Star Wars Ep. 2) it looked like the face of the Acklay without the crest on the back of it. It was also twenty feet tall. Long samurai swords suddenly appeared in each hand.
"EEERRAAHHH!!!" screeched the creature.
"The Dark Lord chooses his true form! He will use no magic in the battle!" yelled the referee.
Spyro heard cheering, and he looked to his side to see seats filled with dozens of the ten footers.
"Great," Spyro muttered.

"EEERRAAHHH!" screeched the Dark Lord again.
"Ding! Ding!
N. Gin fired one of his lasers and fried one of Dark Lords arms. What was left of it fell to the ground.
But to N. Gins horror, it just grew back.
"EEERRAAHHH!"
"I thought you saeed no mageec!" N. Gin yelled.
"That's just natural, it's not magic!" the referee yelled back.
"Hey Spyro, you know the one in the robot?" Al asked.
"Yea. It's N. Gin," Spyro answered grimly.
"I hope your friend there wins."
"Why? Don't you want Dark Lord to keep ruling?"
"No one who still has his or her minds wants him to stay in power."
"Well, N. Gin and his friends certainly won't help. They're evil."
"ANYTHING would be better than the Dark Lord."
"How so?"
"This land used to be lush and beautiful. Trees and flowers blossomed, and everyone was happy. But then Dark Lord showed up and everything went to heck. Not to mention the land split into eight different islands," Al explained.
"Wow."
"Hey you two! Look!" Whitney exclaimed.
Dark Lord hurled one of his swords like a boomerang, and it sliced off one of N. Gin's two arms.
"AARRRGGHHH!!! You well pay!!!"
The hand on his remaining arm retracted and came back out as a missile launcher. He fired.
"BOOM!!!"
"EEERRAAHHH!!!" Dark Lord screeched again.
Dark Lord lay in a pool of blood on the ground. His mouth on his chest was gone, replaced with a huge hole showing his insides. All but two of his arms were gone, and he was missing half a leg. Not to mention his bottom jaw was gone.
But to everybody's horror (except the ten footers), he started healing. A thin layer of skin went over the hole in his chest, and little nubs appeared where his arms were. The nubs exploded, and out came all the arms, fully re-grown. Then his leg re-grew. The only part not growing back was his jaw.
He screeched yet again, but it wasn't quite as powerful, because of the missing jaw.
"Shista," N. Gin muttered.
Dark Lord leaped on top of N. Gin. And then his chest mouth appeared again. It bit onto the Robo-Gin, and it started ripping out wires.
"Oh no!" N. Gin cried.
"Beep!" N. Gin hit an emergency escape button. The cockpit and remaining arm rocketed out and hovered in the air. He flew high above the arena.
"I hopeed eet wouldn't come to thees."
He pressed a button labeled, "Atomic Vaporizer". The arm retracted again and came out as a teeny gun, which was rather harmless looking. But then matter started to build up in front of it. Purple, electric looking matter.
"Tsseewww!"
The matter hit Dark Lord. He let out a high-pitched scream that was worse than any before (it shattered the window of the Robo-Gin). A scream of immense pain and agony. A scream of someone who knew he had been defeated. A bright, blinding light surrounded the arena. And then it was gone. Dark Lord and the arena.
The referee looked like he was gonna break down and cry.
"And <sob> N. Gin wins!" he yelled.
N. Gin hovered down in front of Spyro, who hadn't known N. Gin was aware of his presence.
"Heh heh heh. Now NO ONE can beat me!!! And now, Spyro, you die," N. Gin said, leveling a regular laser at Spyro. "HA! HA! HA! HA!"

Chapter 3

Right before N. Gin fired two something's leaped out from behind Spyro and butted N. Gin, causing him to shoot a huge hole in the ceiling.
"What was that!?" Al asked Spyro.
Spyro looked hard (as they had gotten farther away). "!!!!!" Spyro was amazed.
"What? You know what it is?" Al questioned.
"It-it's Crash and Coco!" Spyro said, eyes wide open looking at the fight.
Crash had jumped on the remaining arm of the droid, while Coco jumped into the cockpit (remember the window shattered), and was currently kicking N. Gin.
"Whoa. They're good," Al and Whitney said at the same time.
"Stop Crash!" yelled Coco.
"What? Why!?" Crash said, turning around. He saw N. Gin was holding her by the neck, and was pointing a ray gun at her.
"Yipe!!!" Crash looked at where Spyro was. He saw Spyro and his other two friends were trapped in a cage.
"Surrender, or they all die," Cortex warned.

What was a Bandicoot to do? Defeat his enemies and have his friends die? (Ya right) He jumped off and landed on the ground. Cortex immediately dropped a floating cage on him (it was remote controlled).
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N. Gin was on a laptop of his, searching around for a gruesome, painful way to kill the Bandicoots (and Spyro, and Al, and Whitney).
"Can you beeleeave theey have eenteerneet coneecteeons heere? Heey look!" N. Gin looked at his "Villain Finder" that had been in the bag with his laptop (he had just left it on the table, and must have bumped the "ON" switch).
"Beep! Beep!"
The "Villain Finder" was showing Tiny, Dingodile, Tropy, Moe, Pinstripe, and Roo.
"But theey weent through a deeffreent portal! How could theey bee heere?"
"Maybe the portals were tuned to the same dimension," Cortex suggested.
"Heemmm. I know!!! Weell seend thee Bandeecoot to go and feetch zem!" N. Gin suggested.
"But how do we make sure they do the job?" Joe hissed.
"I'll put trackeers in theere skeen that meesiles track eef theey deesobeey," N. Gin explained.
"Ingenious N. Gin!!! Let's do this. Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!" Cortex laughed.