August 31st, 1996

The Father moved slowly, it was his time. He did not have a very good life. He had only one friend, Nitrous Brio, loyal till the end. He remembered when he had met Brio, at Madame Amberly's they quickly became the best of friends, though in the decades they had known each other they had made several others. Brio was about two years younger than Neo and had a nice gesture, nicer than most. They were the best students, now they were the world's greatest criminals.

The Leader of the Committee of Evil, the Father's ultimate goal was to take control of the Earth and make it his own personal beach.

The Father looked at Brio, the chemist's mind was years ahead of most. It was he who had perfected the Evolvo Ray after the Father built it. He was experimenting with some chemicals in the Father's castle, named Cortex Castle. Brio was working on a personal project, to make life out of simple chemical reactions, he was not having much success at the moment, but the Father knew that with time, his friend would achieve the goal.

It was on the third and largest island and nearly took up the entirety of the island itself. The generator room which was at the tip of the island spilled pollutions which had scarred the island and the sea around it for years to come. Guarding the generator room, which was in capacity the largest part of the castle, on the southern tip of the castle was Pinstripe Potterroo and, somehow, his girlfriend, Tawna. Pinstripe was evolved to sentience by the Evolvo Ray, and soon after Tawna was as well, the two instantly took affection to each other, though the Father swore that Tawna had actually cared for Crash. The day the animals had started caring for each other in such a way, the evolution had allowed cross breeding between the species, was the day that the Father decided his cronies were getting out of control and needed a general. Cortex thought of Koala Kong, he was loyal and was a marsupial, but he was in no way smart enough to be a general. It was Crash Bandicoot, he had all the qualities, strength, brain and he even cared for others, like he did for Tawna.

The Father remembered telling Brio to get him three bandicoots, that was the day he had evolved Crash, Tawna and Coco. Although Tawna and Coco had both been rejected by the Cortex Vortex, a mind manipulation or persuasion device, Coco had become deadly in the process and was chained in the dungeon. Coco was technically a mutant, because her DNA had been spliced with that of a... the Father could not remember at the moment. The Father chuckled, for when he had seen the evolved Crash with Tawna he had remarked, "Eww, bandicoots in love!" It was a test, to see if the bandicoots felt shame, which they did.

The Father walked slowly, sure he was shorter and stouter than some, but he was an extremely angry being. Why the Father had a short temper, but his anger compared to that of his friend 's was nothing. When working on a rocket, it had blown up. The Father would not and could not accept his friend's death and had literally rebuilt him from the charred ruins of the rocket. It was a new techno-organic cybernetic design that had allowed him to hack into 's life force. This was slowly tinted his friend's skin, though, making it gray and then blue. approached the Father.

"Yes, doctor?" asked the Father.

"We are ready to commence the operation on Crash, also...," 's voice after becoming a cyborg had become cybernetic, it gave him the ability to hack into any object that was connected to cyberspace.

"Yes, doctor?" asked the Father.

"The Komodo Dragon has gotten wings, naturally of course, confirming my hypothesis that the lizard came form a prehistoric species that resembled the tyrannosaurus rex to an extent but was larger, with a large wingspan as well... this creature can barely fit in the dungeons," revealed .

"Get Doctor Brio to work up a formula, a sedative later, right now, let me see my prized creature," the Father smiled, rare. He knew that watching him was Uka Uka, a magical mask that plagued the Earth. There were eight masks originally, but one turned good, this one was Aku Aku. The Father had trapped Aku Aku and put him in a box on the Island beach, the Aboriginal Tribals new well enough not to touch the orange crates. Uka Uka hired the Father to plague the Earth, though for twenty years since the mask disappeared, nothing had happned. The Father vowed to use the Cortex Vortex and his Cortex Commandos to take over the Earth and free his master.

Grinning with a huge grin, the Father walked to Crash, evolved and strapped in a chair right below the Cortex Vortex.