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A Surprising Introduction — Description
While walking contently through the jungle at a leisurely pace , Crash felt something bounce off his head. Puzzled, he looked down to see a succulent looking wamba fruit roll to a stop. Crash leaned over and picked it up, the same confused look on his face.

“What the…”

He was interrupted by a bombardment of wamba fruit, each one pelting him unmercifully. Without any kind of style whatsoever, Crash leapt out of the path of the chaotic attack.

“Whoa! What’s going on?”

Crash caught as many of the fruits that he could, careful not to puncture them. He nearly cried as a few smashed over the ground and into trees. What a waste of precious food! With a quick glance around, Crash realized where the attack was originating from. A bush, and obviously it was stockpiled with ammunition because the attacks kept coming. Crash quickly moved toward the bush and reached into the leaves. A moment later he found himself face to face with a tiny bandicoot girl. He held her up by the wrist, and he was surprised at how extremely angry she looked.

“Let me go you stupid jerk!” She swung a punch at him, and Crash dodged his head just in time. “I’m warning you…”

She used the momentum from her first punch to try at it again, this time missing Crash’s nose by a hair.

“Oyi! Hold on a second kid!”

The girl’s face was still scowling at him in angry resentment, and Crash found himself shamefully frightened by her intensity. She closed her fist again, and hooked her arm around to club him across the side of the head. Crash released his hold on her, and the two of them collapsed onto their rears. Crash rubbed his head and looked back at the girl with a look of utter bewilderment.

“Wow, what the hell is up with you?”

The girl, still scowling, remained where she was and crossed her arms.

“I might ask you the same thing. What do you expect when you go creeping around like that?”

Crash felt a flare of irritation burn inside him. “What do you mean? I was just taking a pleasant walk. You were the one hiding in a bush. And what’s up with throwing all that food, that’s a big waste you know.”

The girl’s surprisingly familiar green eyes went wide with disbelief. “Waste? The trees are full of these things, they’re all over the ground too. You’re being hypercritical.”

Crash’s eyes matched the little girl’s intensity. “What the hell does that mean?”

The girl growled angrily. “You are an idiot.”

Crash was about to say something very impolite, but he held back. Somehow this girl drove him…crazy. Crash got to his feet and brushed off his pants roughly.

“If you’re going to be such a pain in the ass, I’m out of
here.”

The girl cocked her head in mock innocence. “I don’t care what you do, just as long as you don’t spout of any more of your unintelligent remarks.”

Crash clenched his fists. He would have probably said something else to her, if Aku Aku didn’t appear out of the trees.

“There you are.” Relief was apparent in Aku’s voice. “I’ve been searching everywhere for you Coco.”

The girl called Coco crossed her arms in anger. “I’m fine on my own you know.”

Crash bellowed a laugh. “Yeah, you’d have done pretty well if I was some giant mutant gorilla or something, eh?” Crash laughed again. “Some creature not as mild mannered as I am, I’m sure you’d be just fine.”

Coco leapt to her feet. “The only thing I regret is that I had to bear your idiotic absurdity, you butt-faced baboon.”

Now Crash and Coco were face to face, glowering at one another. Aku had a wide smile on his face, and both bandicoots noticed it at the same time.

“What are you smiling about?” Crash demanded.

Aku’s soft grin remained. “Well Coco, I see you have met your brother.”

Two jaws dropped and Crash and Coco glanced at one another in shock. Crash coughed.

“She’s my…my…?” He trailed off. “I’ve got a headache.”

Coco’s sparkling green eyes went wide with excitement. “This is him? The guy who kicked Cortex’s butt?” She smiled wide. “You’re Crash!”

“You were persistent to find him, my dear, and here he is.”

Crash went rigid as Coco hugged him tightly. Aku laughed heartily as Coco demonstrated such childish enthusiasm, contrasting strongly to her passionate fury she showed moments before. Crash was still unsure what to make of it. Yet he couldn’t help but hug the cute little girl in return.

“Aku told me all the cool stuff you did. All the enemies you defeated. I can’t believe I’ve finally found you.”

Crash smiled. “So, you gonna give me an apology for all the nasty things you said?”

Instantly, Coco stepped away from him. The smile dimmed.

“No.” Coco tilted her head. “At least, not until you apologize to me first.”

Crash grimaced. “Well, that ain’t going to happen.”

Aku floated near Coco. “Well, I suppose it turns out each of you is as stubborn as the other. How about the two of you agree to disagree?”

The two bandicoot siblings looked at each other once more, and finally the two of them relented simultaneously. Coco brushed her long blonde ponytail behind one shoulder and grinned.

"I’m glad I found you, big brother.”

Crash didn’t even try to fight it, and smiled at her in return.
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From "A New Plot Unfolds", a Crash B. fanfiction

*Please note that I intentionally replaced "Wampa" with "Wamba", just cause I like the name better. That's all^^

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