I headed back to Kong's house, I sat inside by the fireplace, Kong just sat on his chair looking at me, he then said "Tani, don't worry.... I'm sure Crunch wont be gone for long" I replied "Yeah right, you know Cortex! He's a heartless human that'll do anything to get his own way!" I just turned away from Kong, and laid down to rest.

It had been days, weeks and even months and still no sign of the spaceship, or anyone else for that matter... I sat outside every night waiting for you, and still nothing... I started to feel stupid for doing so, I was just plain confused... I had nothing to do with my life.

About a year on after that, I had moved away from Kong's... as it was becoming a disgusting pig-sty and I moved on into the jungles and lived a harder life, I liked it though. Even though I had almost nothing, besides myself and my freedom. Until around two years later... I saw a familiar flying car in the skies, I actually smiled for once... and followed it. The car landed down at the beach, I ran over to see and it was obviously Pinstripe and his crew, they greeted me "Hey Tani! It's great to see yo!" Pinstripe yelled, I came over and greeted them too "It's great to see you guys again... no harsh feelings from three years ago?" I told them, they agreed and I told them everything about what happened to you and stuff... They understood me which made me feel much better, Pinstripe then told me about getting a job and earning cash, I liked the idea, since my home wasn't such a nice place... I decided that I should try and earn as much money as possible to build a home for me and you when you return...

Pinstripe and the Potoroo bros took me to the place named 'Moulin Cortex', and that's where I met the owner, Favorani Potorotii. He had a list of jobs that I could take, some jobs were rather... perverted, that I would never consider so I chose the bar tender job but was the lowest paid job but was still better than nothing.

The Moulin Cortex was.... very disturbing for me at first, the dancers were all whores, both anthros AND humans, and even robotgirls! And they danced in front of many anthros and people I never even knew or seen before... possibly all Cortex's rejected minions and Lab Assistants... And that's when I saw Tawna, I was shocked when I saw her... dancing away in stupid slutty ways like a whore puppet or something. I never knew she was like this and actually liked it... I just did my job and tried to ignore the madness, after a few weeks I got used to it though, some random perverts did try and chat me up, but they ended up with ether a black eye or broken nose.

Tawna then finally noticed me, stupid blonde she is... so caught up with all the attention she got, "Oh my god is that you Tani! WOW" she screamed, she came over to me and I just stepped away "Don't even go near me... tart!" I told her, she looked at me as she didn't understand me, oh she sure did that stupid blonde! Tawna just walked away like the tart that she is.

I soon then counted up all the cash I had earned after a few months, I found that I had hardly anything to ever afford to build a home... I had only one choice but, to do a higher paid job. I went to see Favorani, "Tani, my dear... I bet you'd make a great dancer and you'll earn ten times more cash..." he told me, I wasn't all to thrilled by it but I went ahead to try it out anyway. The worst thing was, was that I had to dress like a whore AND dance beside Tawna! Blurgh! But I knew it'll be worth the effort.

I was in my costume, Tawna walked over to me to tell me what to do "Wow, so much for calling me a wh0re" she told me, I just growled at her, she did get scared too... hah, she better! "Only because I'm dressed like you it doesn't mean I'll BE like you!" "I'm not actually a wh0re! I'm with my lovely Pinstripe!" "Pinstripe! He's with you? Don't make me laugh, he never even bothers cheering for ya!" As me and Tawna argued, a mysterious female potoroo came in, she was obviously Tiffany, with the white fur and all, I unfortunately judged her before I even knew her "Oh great, another wh0re working by my side..." I said aloud "Excuse me? Please do not judge me before you even know me." she said bluntly, I frowned but she had a point, I just turned away and said nothing, as it was time for us to go on stage.

The curtains pulled up and there we were, us three standing on stage, with tons of perverted fans waiting for our moves, Tawna with her fat lard mouth shouted "Ok naughty boys, ready for some sweet dancing now?" all the pathetic guys shouted yes of course, she and Tiffany started doing their moves, I followed along with them, it wasn't even that hard... in fact, it was easy to impress the small minded guys off the stage bellow.

Weeks latter, I started getting used to the dancing, I got tons and tons of money for it... but I hated doing it with all my heart. Many guys did try to touch me but I did the usual beating to them and that's when I started to get into trouble... Favorani told me "Tani, I know you hate your fan boys but you should try to deal with them verbally rather than physically..." I replied "Yeah freaking right, I'm not letting any of those scums near me!" Favorani replied "Well, it's just that.... every time you beat someone up, less customers will come each time and if I get too little customers... you get no cash" I thought for a moment... I then decided he was right, so from then on I decided to try and avoid all the guys there and it seemed ok, the ones who approached me, well... I dealt with them verbally and I ended up changing their lives for the good of them... and Pinstripe finally dumped Tawna at the time, as he and Tiffany found true love for each other... I became friends with Tiffany too... since I soon knew she was definitely not a whore at all.

But it wasn't long until Tiffany, Pinstripe, Blaze and Siegdog left Moulin Cortex to build their own home in southern Australia... I had to stay however, to get enough money to leave as well. Tiffany and Pinstripe did come to see me now and then, they were the only real friends I had around, at the time.

At last, I had finally raised more than enough cash to build the home I've been wanting to build for a long time, I soon told Favorani I was leaving... this didn't go all to well neither.

"But Tani, without you... the Moulin Cortex will go out of business..." Favorani pleaded, I didn't care though... "Sorry, my time spent here has paid off... It's time for me to move on" I left the building without turning back... But Favorani didn't like the idea however... and had a plot in mind...

So here I was, walking away and heading back towards the seas, ready to travel back to X.Treme island, "And where do you think you're going?" a voice was said from behind me, I turned and saw about five Potoroo gangsters, I knew they wanted trouble... I growled "What do you losers want?" "Well, Mr Potorotii doesn't want you to leave the club, and if you do... I'm afraid I'm going to have to blow your head off!" I quickly ran into the darkness, the potoroo's tried to find me, I lashed out at each one, bringing them down with a thud! But there were too many of gangsters, so I had no choice but to escape them before getting myself hurt... I was extremely furious that Favorani would do this to me! But I headed back home anyway, because I know I could easily get killed if I made a foolish mistake.

I had arrived at my home... I sat down and rested after a night of drama. Not long after, I heard someone knocking, I rolled my eyes and went to answer the door, Tawna was standing there "Oh jeeze, what do YOU want?" I asked "Tani! You cant DO THIS to us!" "Do what?" "Leave the Moulin Cortex! We're going to go out of business and then I'll loose my job!" Tawna screamed at me, I just rolled my eyes for the second time "Do you really think I have a heart for that place? Well, NO!" "Then why the heck did you work there in the first place then?" she asked me, "I only worked there to get enough money to build a brand new home for me and Crunch... when he returns..." I told the lard "What? Crunch? But he's gone! Remember? Cortex took him ages ago and I doubt he'll ever bring him back!" just as Tawna said that, I felt a strong sense of hate inside of me "How DARE you fricken say that! Crunch will be back! He's brave and will do whatever he can to come back home!" "Come on Tani, we have to move on... Dr Cortex properly killed him by now, you know how cruel Cortex was to him... and how much they hated one another!" Tawna told me, this is when I couldn't take her bullshit anymore! I stepped closer to her and snarled, she looked at me in fear "T...Tani? No I didn't mean it!" I just ignored her words "how... DARE YOU F**KEN SAY THAT ABOUT YOUR OWN BROTHER!" I then grasped her by the neck, struggling to think of what to do as she started to gasp for air and then I just tossed her to the floor, she screamed and cried! Then I kicked her and she slid across the floor. Tawna tried to crawl away from me while bruised and wounded slightly, I then started to think about you and then realized I shouldn't hurt her too much, since she's your relation... even though she deserved much more! "...Now, I want you to GET out of my fricken house! I NEVER want to see your ugly face, ever again!" I screamed, Tawna slowly got to her feet and scrammed off out the door... That's what she gets for saying that about you. Crunch.

I few days had passed now, I meet up with Dr Brio and I got him to order lots of building material and goodies to go with the house, He, Kong and I managed to build the home, with Dr Brio's brains, Kong's strength and my... ideas and all put into one, it was great working together as one... Pinstripes gang even gave us a helping hand and a few tips. I felt very happy, for once.

The home was done, and I was happy with it... I placed old photos of me and you on the walls, while we were still young... It made me sad seeing your face, and I started to have bad feelings that Tawna might have been right, but I pushed those feelings away... and yeah, that's about it... until around a year latter when you returned, man. I don't think you know how much light you have brought back into my life, I know it sounds cheesy but yeah... not sure how else to say it.

Chapter 4