Crash and Spyro React to the Cancelled Crash Bandicoot 5 and the Fall of Crash Team Rumble

Crash and Spyro React to the Cancelled Crash Bandicoot 5 and the Fall of Crash Team Rumble is a crossover fanfiction short written by MarioFan65. It is a crossover with Crash Bandicoot and Spyro the Dragon, focusing on Crash and Spyro reacting to the cancellation of a proposed Crash Bandicoot 5 as well the fall of Crash Team Rumble as well looking into some various concept arts seen from that game. It was released on December 7, 2024.

Characters

• Crash Bandicoot
• Spyro the Dragon

Transcript

(At the Wumpa Islands, Crash, Coco, Crunch and Tawna are seen in the living room while playing Crash Team Rumble together and winning a match in battle)

• Crash: Woo!
• Coco: Yeah! Score one!
• Crunch: That was a good game! We totally rock on the charts!
• Tawna: Gaming is always fun when you need it.
• Crash: He he he.
• Aku Aku: I always love all of my people. My family and my friends.
• Coco: We really love to give caring one and another.
• Aku Aku: There's always a spirit in you, Coco.
• Coco: Like a Christmas spirit.
• Crunch: We're on a roll this year.
• Tawna: A lot of good luck have come this way.
• Spyro: *he and Sparx show up on a portal, depressed* Hey guys.
• Crash: Ooh?
• Coco: Hey Spyro, what's wrong?
• Crunch: Why you look droopy?
• Tawna: You're not feeling yourself today. All that sheep kicking and rhynoc burning must have given you a long day, huh?
• Spyro: Let Sparx explain.
• Sparx: *in tears* Guys, Crash Bandicoot 5 is cancelled.
• Everyone: What?!
• Crunch: Already? A pitch must have failed like with Crash Twinsanity's early versions.
• Sparx: No! Crash Bandicoot 5 is really cancelled, forever!
• Crash: Whoa!
• Coco: What? Why?
• Tawna: What is the reason for the cancellation to happen? We haven't even gotten an announcement yet!
• Spyro: The reason why Activision cancelled the game because, the sales for Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time did not meet Activision's expectations and why the sales are low compared to the N. Sane Trilogy.
• Coco: Like come on! We just got a new game recently and why can't we get another?
• Aku Aku: Say, why are you here? Don't you have a new game coming up despite a rumor?
• Spyro: Well, Crash 5 has concept arts and was suppose to be a crossover with my franchise which means, I would have gotten a crossover with you guys!
• Crash: Whoa!
• Coco: Hey, we could have gotten a new Crash and Spyro crossover game, but why a crossover in a mainline game?
• Crunch: Could have been a spin-off that take place after a Crash 5 if planned.
• Tawna: Are there any concept proof for the reason why the game didn't happen?
• Spyro: The game would have start off with a Academy of Evil type setting and the concept art is real! *he and everyone look at some Crash 5 concept arts*
• Sparx: Ooh.
• Crash: Woah!
• Coco: It's the Academy of Evil from Crash Twinsanity! How surprising!
• Crunch: Man, we could have seen the return of Madame Amberley in the game.
• Tawna: *look at a concept art of Crash and Cortex running in N. Gin's mind* What the? What is Crash and Cortex doing in N. Gin's mind?
• Crunch: And why Cortex is young?
• Spyro: I don't know. Flashback scenes, I guess.
• Sparx: *see a concept art of Crash and Cortex running from Cortex's nightmare* Whoa, a circus!
• Coco: Circuses seem a bit scary for a scientist.
• Crash: Aah!
• Crunch: *see a concept art of Cortex's family* Whoa! Dr. Neo Cortex has a family!
• Tawna: And I thought Nina was the only one in the family.
• Crunch: *see a concept art of Crash hiding while going against Pinstripe Potoroo* Boy, that Pinstripe fight would have been wild!
• Tawna: That gotta hurt!
• Spyro: It burns!
• Sparx: *see a concept of Crash looking in Pinstripe's office* What is Crash doing in Pinstripe's office?
• Crash: Ooh?
• Aku Aku: And what are those rodents in the pic? Mice? Next please.
• Coco: *see a concept art of Crash going against Tiny Tiger* Holy moly. You almost had a fight with Tiny Tiger, Crash.
• Crash: Whoa!
• Crunch: Boy, that tiger gotta hurt.
• Tawna: He would have killed us all if he weren't in his savage form.
• Spyro: *see a concept art of Crash going against Uka Uka* Whoa! I smell the fear in this one.
• Sparx: I see dragon statues.
• Crash: Ooh.
• Coco: What is Uka Uka doing with all the dragon statues?
• Crunch: I feel like he's going into the portal!
• Tawna: That seem like bad news to me.
• Crash: *see a concept art of him and Coco riding on Spyro while Uka Uka take control of the dragon elders* Whoa!
• Coco: That's us riding on you!
• Spyro: Oh my goodness. It can't be happening. We're about to be chased by Uka Uka and his henchmen of controlled Dragon Elders!
• Coco: I thought the Council of Elders from A Hero's Tail are the leader of the dragons or Nestor from the first Spyro game.
• Crunch: What are the feathers they're holding?
• Tawna: It look like the world is in danger.
• Aku Aku: They must be elemental feathers. With each feather give each power.
• Sparx: Like the Quantum Masks from It's About Time.
• Spyro: *see a concept art of the dragons* Ooh, sharp.
• Coco: They look like dragon elders to me.
• Crunch: Whoa!
• Spyro: *see a concept art of Crash and Spyro in the Artisans* Take a look at that. Me and Crash are crashing in the Artisans.
• Aku Aku: It's on fire.
• Coco: *see a concept art of Crash and Spyro in the Peace Keepers world* What's going on in Peace Keepers?
• Sparx: So many branch curses.
• Aku Aku: *see a concept art of Crash and Spyro in the Magic Crafters* The Magic Crafters is frozen. Why?
• Tawna: *see a concept art of Crash looking at the frozen gnorcs* The gnorcs are frozen. Is that Gnasty Gnorc?
• Spyro: I thought he died in the last game.
• Sparx: I wonder how different his fate is.
• Coco: *see a concept art of Crash and Spyro in the Beast Makers world* What's going on in the Beast Makers?
• Crunch: Tiki Gnorcs? Why?
• Tawna: I never seen them making an alliance with Uka Uka.
• Spyro: So what's next? Cortex's scientists working with Ripto and his crew?
• Coco: You never know.
• Aku Aku: *see a concept art of Crash and Spyro at the Dream Weavers world* Ooh, there's about to be a biggest showdown in the Dream Weavers world.
• Sparx: This is not looking good for the rest of us.
• Spyro: Things are not looking bright my friends.
• Coco: Stranger danger.
• Tawna: Oh guys. Look. Crash Team Rumble concept art.
• Crash: *he and everyone see some concept art for Crash Team Rumble* Whoa!
• Coco: That's a whole lot of characters that were going to be in the game.
• Crunch: More concept art. How beautiful the game is gonna be.
• Tawna: The game was originally called Wumpa League just to let you know.
• Spyro: Early gameplay footage!
• Sparx: Hey. The game was almost as big as Team Rumble was!
• Crash: Ooh.
• Coco: So many original characters were gonna make it in.
• Crunch: A shame a early version of the game was cancelled.
• Tawna: Why? Everyone worked off their butts for years before getting shifted to Call of Duty.
• Coco: What was the reason for the cancellations?
• Spyro: It's because, Activision prefer live-service games better which sucks. There's no reason to cancel a game everyone wanted to play over a live-serve with no hype or interest at all.
• Coco: Isn't Team Rumble a live-service game too?
• Sparx: It is and the game was good.
• Aku Aku: I also heard that Wumpa League was reworked into Monster Mechs which would have been the first original IP since Skylanders, but was deined and went back into a Crash Bandicoot game.
• Coco: Wait a minute! Those concept arts we've seen were in the banners of Crash Team Rumble!
• Spyro: No way!
• Sparx: So this is why the layoffs happen and Toys for Bob is now an indie studio ever since the Microsoft merge.
• Crunch: Wow. I can't believe it.
• Tawna: That's all the concept arts for Crash Bandicoot 5 and Crash Team Rumble.
• Catbat: *show up* I'm amazed Crash Team Rumble was originally called Crash Bandicoot Wumpa League.
• Coco: Catbat? How did you get in here?
• Catbat: I just wanted to see some concept arts for fun. At least, I made it to the game.
• Crunch: Lucky you. That rooster surfer and hyena biker could have make it to the game too.
• Sparx: No offense why people don't wanna play with us anymore.
• Spyro: Hey, Crash 4 just sold 5 million and how did Activision not beg for another game?!
• Catbat: Greedy Activision. They only care, but money.
• Crunch: It sucks that we will never see another Crash and Spyro game ever again since the layoffs.
• Spyro: Thanks a lot Activision for screwing us up over the game.
• Crash: *mad* Mmm!
• Aku Aku: You'll never know when to quit over a new game.
• Sparx: Is this because why there is no Spyro 4 or Crash 5? Cause you stink! *flame at the screen*

TO BE CONTINUED

Trivia

• The short was made in wake of the cancelled Crash Bandicoot 5 which would have featured a crossover with Spyro the Dragon and some early concepts of Crash Team Rumble.