In Crash's world, everyone was relaxing comfortably by his house.
"So how has it been for you guys so far, mates?" Crash asked.
"Great. Any sign of Cortex since you and the others beat him?" Leo responded.
"Not a tuff of hair." Crash answered.
"The peace and quiet must be nice." Raph admitted.
"What?! Raph? Enjoying peace and quiet?! It’s the end of the world!" Mikey yelled in fake panic as everyone turned around, seeing him and the others with their orders.
"Hey, even tough guys like us to relax every once in a while." Crunch replied as everyone came to grab their food except the geniuses.
"Come on you stupid thing. Work!" Coco growled before Crunch walked up to her, Donnie and Twilight.
"Wow, we should clean this place up, childrens. It’s been like a metric year!" Crunch said as Coco peeked out from the Doominator Eye.
"Who's going to make us, you? I don't think so." Coco mocked, making Donnie and Twilight snicker as they kept working.
"Okay, guess I'll just say some catchphrases. Drink lemonade, vitamin C." Crunch said as Twilight pulled on a wire inside the Doominator, electrifying herself, and catching on fire.
"Gah! Ow! Hot!" Twilight yelped as Pinkie appeared with a fire extinguisher in hand.
"Hold still!" Pinkie suggested as Twilight screamed before she sprayed the science girl with the fire extinguisher, covering Twilight in the substance.
"Thanks, Pinks. I owe one." Twilight said in gratitude as her head popped out of the pile-up.
"My fault. Sorry." Coco apologized.
"No problem." Twilight responded, forgiving Coco as Crunch chuckled a bit about what just happened.
"Quiet you!" Coco growled.
"So, what are we doing with this broken bot?" Donnie asked as Coco sighed.
"If we get this Doominator eye working, we'll have the best entertainment system of all time! It'll play games, watch movies, and dispense butter! It'll be the mother of all TiVos!" Coco answered, making everyone else cheer at that.
"That does sound good." Crunch admitted.
"Crash, Mikey, Pinkie, Sonata, to get this thing working we'll need a bunch of parts. Here's a list. First up is the capacitron by my house." Coco said as she gave them the list, which had six items on it.
"We'll get right on it. Come on, guys." Crash replied before Pinkie started shuddering.
"You okay, Pinkie?" Sonata asked while eating a taco.
"D-D-D-D-D-Doozy!" Pinkie shuddered as she shook right off the Roadroller.
"If it's anything like last time, it's gotta be bad." Leo dreaded.
"Me and Aria will go with them." Adagio delcared.
"Actually, me, Rainbow Dash, Casey, and Shinigami will go with them as well. Just as insurance in case those three, especially Mikey, start goofing off." Raph replied as Aria went back to eating her nachos.
"Fine, just don't get yourself in trouble. Got that?" Adagio asked.
"Adagio, I'll be fine." Sonata shrugged off.
"Not with that doozy in the future, you won't." Adagio argued.
"She always been like this?" Crash asked Aria, who sighed at the question.
"You have no idea." Aria answered.
"Alright, Adagio. I'll stay here if you want me to.... NOT! SMOKE BOMB!" Sonata yelled as she threw a smoke bomb, covering her escape alongside Mikey, Pinkie, Crash, Aku Aku, Raph, Rainbow Dash, Casey, and Shinigami.
"GRR!!!" Adagio growled furiously as Batlado put a claw on the siren ninja's shoulder.
"I understand perfectly how you feel, Adagio." Batlado said in empathy.
As everyone rushed away and got the capacitron, they spotted Ratnicians stealing the other five parts. But the Ratnicians looked a bit raggier.
"Ratnicians!" The goofball trio gasped.
"Wait, those are Ratnicians?" Raph asked.
"That's right, mates." Crash answered, making Raph, Rainbow Dash and Casey start howling in laughter.
"These losers are the lackeys you fought?!" Raph laughed.
"Even Spike could beat them!" Rainbow Dash mocked in laughter.
"No, wait! They couldn't beat a fly!" Casey added, making the three of them laugh harder, before a Ratnician brought out a beaker of sulfuric acid.
"Oh no, you don't!" Pinkie said as she threw a shuriken, shattering the beaker.
"GAH! Revengocide me!" A Ratnician yelled.
"Retreat!" A second Ratnician ordered.
"No! We must revengocide our fallen brethren!" A third Ratnician argued.
"I'm not dead." The first Ratnician said.
"Oh, okay then. RETREAT!!!" The third Ratnician ordered as the Ratnicians bolted off with the stolen parts.
"After them!" Crash said.
"Heh! We'll beat 'em in ten seconds flat!" Rainbow Dash boasted as she, Raph and Casey ran after them.
"These guys fight smarter, not harder?" Shinigami assumed.
"Big time." Mikey answered.
"Ambush realization in 5... 4... 3... 2... 1." Crash counted down before they heard Raph, Rainbow Dash and Casey scream. "Called it."
"They need help." The Goofball Trio deadpanned.
"You guys fought them. What's the best plan of attack?" Shinigami asked.
"Simple, really. Up close and personal, but fight smarter." Crash answered.
"Sneak and Strike?" Mikey assumed.
"Sneak an' strike, mate." Crash confirmed, leaving Shini confused.
"Sneak and Strike?" Shini asked.
"It's a signature attack strategy with us. Follow our lead." Crash informed.
"If you say so." Shini shrugged as they went to the three hotheads, who were being overwhelmed.
"This is humiliating." Raph growled.
"Why are they called Ratnicians anyway?" Casey asked.
"It's Mikey. He named them that." Rainbow Dash answered.
"No, they're actually known as Ratnicians." Aku Aku corrected.
"Ya know, Casey, they’re mutant rats, and I’m surprised that you didn’t scream at the sight of them." Mikey said, impressed by what happened.
"Mikey?" Casey asked in surprise, before Mikey shushed him.
"We have a plan." Mikey said.
"A plan?" Raph skeptically asked as Crash preformed his Swordnarang move and knocked out a few Ratnicians.
"I'm only say this once. Let my friends go and you can all leave here with all your teeth." Crash threatened as he caught his Booken Sword.
"Oh yeah? You and what titan army?" The Ratnician mocked.
"Don't need one. I can beat you guys up with tap of my foot." Crash quipped, making the Ratnicians burst out laughing, before he tapped his foot, making pink smoke appear around 5 of them and a beating was heard. When the smoke cleared, the 5 Ratnicians were unconscious.
"ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! THIS IS THE THIRD TIME!!!" The Ratnician whined as Crash tapped his foot again, causing a chain wrapped around 5 more and pulled them in the bushes, before Mikey beat the heck out of them. "If she's next, I'm-" The Ratnician was cut off when Crash tapped his foot again and a blue blur came and knocked out 5 more, leaving 5 left. "That's it! I'm outta here!" The Ratnician declared as he and the other 4 started to run away before Crash tapped his foot again and Shini appeared in front of the fleeing Ratnicians.
"Keep your eyes on me." Shinigami said as she swung her Hypnoball like a pendulum, making the last of the Ratnicians then fell asleep.
"Not bad on the first try." Crash admitted as he gently kicked one of the sleeping Ratnicians, unknowingly stirring him up a bit.
"What was that about them being Harmless Dorks?" Sonata asked, feeling agitated as she started untying Raph, Casey, and Rainbow Dash.
"I didn't even know they were rats!" Casey said.
"Guys, one of them got away!" Mikey called out.
"Huh, that wasn't the doozy, but I didn't expect that to happen." Pinkie admitted before Sonata noticed something.
"Hey Crash, you sure you told us all of Cortex's Lieutenants?" Sonata asked as she staring at foot prints.
"Why do you ask?" Crash wondered as Sonata pointed to strange foot prints.
"Huh, strange kangaroo prints." Mikey noticed.
"Kangaroo?! That's gotta be Rilla Roo!" Crash realized.
"Who?" The others except Aku Aku asked in confusion.
"Another mutant hybrid like Dingodile. And like his namesake, he’s half gorilla, half kangaroo." Crash answered, making everyone laughed at the explanation. "Guys, this ain’t a laughin’ matter."
"Crash is right." Aku Aku agreed.
"Sorry, Crash. But seriously... A Kangaroo?" Mikey laughed.
"That means all five of his limbs, includin' that tail o' his, are strong enough to crush boulders!" Crash explained, frightening the others, even Rainbow Dash, Raph and Casey.
"Okay, now I'm afraid." Sonata yelped.
"Why didn't we fight him last time?" Pinkie asked.
"That's because he wasn't workin' for Cortex anymore, and neither were some mutants, and a human." Crash answered.
"So something is wrong." Mikey assumed, before Raph decided to get everyone back on track.
"Let's just get the parts!" Raph yelled, snapping everyone out of it.
"Yeah! I can't wait to play those games on the new TV!" Rainbow Dash agreed as everyone rushed for the Ratnician and found at a strange building.
"What’s this place?" Crash wondered.
"Maybe an Observatory? It's got a telescope." Mikey guessed.
"But what’s inside?" Sonata added.
"Guys, Ratnicians with parts at ten-thirty!" Raph reminded as the Ratnician ran for it, only for his shape to be made from Shuriken and Kunai knives that the ninjas threw at him.
"Wow! Nice drawing we did with our shuriken and kunai." Pinkie noticed with a smile.
"Alright Poindexter, give us the parts!" Raph ordered
"Alright... GO FETCH!!!" The Ratnician yelled as he threw the last two parts away onto another piece of land.
Rainbow Dash sped off to grab the part. "Almost there!" Rainbow Dash said before the wind blew in. "WHOA!" Rainbow Dash screamed before she grabbed a ledge. "Phew... Grr... I got cocky again."
"It's pretty windy up there." Crash said.
"Looks like I'll need to move when no wind's around." Rainbow Dash as she rushed and grabbed the parts when the wind died down. "YEAH!!! TAKE THAT WIND!!!"
"You do know you kinda insulted Leo, right?" Mikey teased.
"Watch it, Mikey!" Rainbow Dash growled.
"So, what do we do with him?" Crash asked.
"Maybe he'll tell us why this 'Rilla Roo' came by." Sonata suggested.
"Don't know anything. I swear!" The Ratnician whimper as Raph was about to threaten him, but was stopped by Mikey.
"I'll take care of it." Mikey reassured as he turned to the Ratnician. "Listen up, you weasel. Tell us, or Raph will play some knuckle music on ya." Mikey threatened as Raph cracked his knuckles in anticipation with a smile as Sonata, Pinkie and Rainbow Dash fist-bumped each other.
"All I know is the boss nabbed him a few weeks ago." The Ratnician answered before he grabbed a smoke vial. "Later, nimrods!" He taunted as the Ratnician broke the vial on the ground, blinding the heroes while he fled completely from their view.
“Somebody grab him!” Casey said.
“I got him!” Mikey called out.
“MIKEY!!! That's my arm!” Raph yelled with a whack on Mikey’s head.
“I think I got him!” Pinkie said.
“Pinkie, that's my leg!” Crash responded.
“Did I get him?” Sonata wondered.
“Sonata! Watch where you're grabbing!” Rainbow Dash said with a… blush?
“Sorry.” The goofball trio apologized as when the smoke cleared, they stood at attention with their hands behind them.
“Let's get moving.” Casey said as they left back for the house, while a familiar and unstable loser was watching them.
It was N. Gin, and it turned out that the building from earlier is his hideout. “They're back! Even those two monsters! But who are those three?” N. Gin wondered as electricity surged through a device.
“RAAAAARRRRGGGHHHH!!!” A creature screamed in pain.
“Now now, my precious, you'll be in a new home. One where you will be controlled and used. Heheh...” N. Gin laughed as the next thing the creature knew, he felt electricity surge through him. “Now, which weapon of destruction should I give you.” N. Gin wondered as he looked through his weapon arsenal. “Hmm... Maybe the doom hammer will drop on those goody-do-gooder-shoes this time.” N. Gin declared as he grabbed the spring sledgehammer, before noticing that his axe was missing. “That's weird. Eh. Doesn’t matter anyway.”
Later, Crash, Aku Aku, the goofball trio, Rainbow Dash, Raph and Casey went into a cave and down a stream, taking them back towards Coco's house.
“Guys, that stream was a shortcut to get back to her.” Aku Aku informed.
“That was handy.” Sonata noted.
“SONATA!!!!!” Adagio roared in anger.
“Uh-oh! If you need me, I'll be at Dingo's Diner!” Sonata yelped as she ran off to Dingo's Diner to hide from Adagio.
“Hey Coco, we got your parts.” Mikey said as he and the others got back to the Doominator Eye.
“Thanks! You guys did a great job, but what happened to you? And where's Sonata?” Coco asked.
“Fought a bunch of Ratnicians and Sonata’s hiding at Dingo's Diner from Adagio because she used a smoke bomb to get away from her.” Pinkie answered with a *Squee!*
“She was mad when you guys left.” Coco remembered.
“Mostly at Sonata.” Raph added.
“Big time.” Donnie agreed.
"Anyway, this Doominator Eye's gonna be the best invention yet!" Twilight said in excitement as she, Donnie and Coco began to continue working on the Doominator Eye.
To be Continued...