So What Do Ya Say, Suga?

"Do we got ourselves a deal?" - Pinstripe, when offering Valynn an opportunity to train with him

This scene happens after Valynn is captured and brought to Pinstripe's office by the potoroo's henchmen while trying to flee Cortex Power. It is considered as their first meeting, but it's not love at first sight just yet.

Valynn has made a choice that she would soon regret: exploring Cortex Power out of curiosity, just like Crash did. She was spotted by Pinstripe's goons and attempted to fight back against them, but she was soon captured by them and was taken away to the office of Don Pinstrpelli Potorotti--commonly known as Pinstripe Potoroo. One of his slimmer minions notifies him of the intruder, and Pinstripe pages them to bring her in. His goons, ranging in size from slim to fat, take her into the office, her wrists briefly restrained by them until they release her from their grasp. As soon as she lands on the floor and recovers to look up at him, Pinstripe becomes intrigued about her and asks her what she is doing at the factory. Valynn tells him of her exploration, as because she was told of Crash's adventure to rescue his former girlfriend Tawna--who also happens to be Pinstripe's newly dumped girlfriend. The reason behind the breakup is because Pinstripe was simply too busy for her even though he did take her out on a couple of dates. Pinstripe smirks at the bandicoot and warns her that she shouldn't let her curiosity get the best of her, as because he and his henchmen are quite dangerous with their guns on hand. His minions then ask Pinstripe if he can take her back to Cortex and see what he will do to her, triggering Valynn's flashbacks of being created via the Evolvo Ray and escaping with her parents and older sister.
Valynn collapses on her knees in front of Pinstripe and his goons, to their puzzlement. She pleads them not to take her back to Dr. Cortex, as because she doesn't want to be a part of his army and she refuses to betray her family and friends back home at N. Sanity Island. Pinstripe hesitates for a moment, but he does recall seeing her defending herself with her martial arts style on his security cameras earlier before her abduction. He decides to give her an offer she cannot deny: train with him in order to become a braver, more confident fighter like him--as well as her adventurer mother, Alana. Valynn is surprised by this, as she had never trained with an evil bodyguard before, yet she assumes that she will be able to defend herself with Pinstripe's help. She willingly accepts, shaking his hand as his goons cheer for them.

NOTES: This is my first take on drawing Pinstripe's office by hand, and I hope I made it as close to what it was in the first game as I could. For the walls, I have shaded in red orange and mahogany to make it like their original color. In addition, I wanted to make the rug in Pinstripe's office look simple because the details in it are very complicated and it could take me a very long time to draw them out.

Pinstripe Potoroo (c) Naughty Dog, Activision, etc.
Valynn Bandicoot (c) me