Beep! Beep! Beep! An alarm clock blared through the darkness of a room. On the bed, an unknown figure squirmed and squirmed in the sheets as the foreign noise blared throughout the room. The figure then fell from the bed ad landed on the floor with a loud thud from the force of impact. The figure groaned, then crawled to the nearby body mirror mounted on the black wall of the room. The figure then got up and looked in the mirror. Small delicate toes painted black were attached to a pair of feet. The feet were pale, and were attached to a pair of equally pale long legs, and so on and so forth. In the mirror was the reflection of sixteen year old Ashley, and she looked dead as ever. Her long flowing bright pink hair surrounded her small, seemingly weak body. Numerous scars lightly showed themselves on her left arm and right hip. Some were healing, while some were from last night, over her pain of losing her older brother Jak and her friend Daxter. She remembered the day it happened, as it was a day to remember.
FLASHBACK
Date: May 18. Year: 5006. The sun, a big bright ball of fire, shone brightly. The trees swayed lazily with the salty sea breeze blowing around them. The waves lapped gently at the sandy shore, and birds flew around, occasionally letting out a mating call. And Jak, our green haired protagonist as well as his little sister Ashley, and his friend Daxter, were preparing for a test. Keira had recently had the rift rider raised up on a platform in front of the large precursor ring (thanks to Jak and Daxter of course. Ashley had just watched while eating a coconut limber) and had finally decided to test it out one day. And today was the day to test it out! So Ashley, Jak, Daxter, Keira and Samos all piled onto the machine and awaited for something to happen. Jak fiddled with the precursor artifact mounted on the dashboard and suddenly the huge precursor ring in front of them began to move. A bright purple light emanated from it, and suddenly the sky went dark. Out of the precursor ring came hundreds of strange creatures. "AGHHH! WHAT ARE THOSE THINGS?!" Daxter screeched as he ducked for cover. No one could provide an answer for him. Suddenly, a large creature came from the depths of the ring and roared. "You cannot hide from me boy!" "Do something Jak!" Keira screamed. Jak, not knowing what to do, pressed the artifact and they were suddenly shot into the precursor ring. The creature roared again and disappeared. Light surrounded them as they flew. "What was that?!" Keira exclaimed as they flew. "I don't kn- "Ashley started but was soon interrupted as the rift rider exploded! Keira screamed. "Find yourself Jak!" Samos cried before they all disappeared. There was a moments pause before Jak and Daxter found themselves landing on hard concrete. Daxter got up slowly as well as Jak, and kicked a nearby pipe away from him. "Okay, I
swear that's the last time I ever, ever, touch any stupid Precursor crap!" he screamed. He stopped his rambling however, and turned around. Behind him and Jak were several men, all dressed up in red armour. Leading them was a man with fiery orange hair and a sadistic smile. The men surrounded them. Daxter let out a yell and ran away. "Forget the rat! The baron wants him." Said the man. He turned to Jak. "We've been waiting for you." He practically purred, and everything suddenly went black for jak as he was knocked out with the butt of a rifle. Meanwhile, Ashley was struggling to get up from where she had landed. She too had landed on concrete, but in a completely different location from Jak and Daxter. "W-where am I?" she murmured as she got up slowly and gently. She looked around and found herself in a city. Large buildings surrounded her and zoomers flew past her. But these zoomers were far more sophisticated then the zoomers back at home. The people in them were much more sophisticated as well. They wore different clothing and had different accents. She marveled at this, and looked around her. No sign of her two friends. All of a sudden, she knew she was lost. And she had lost them.
END OF FLASHBACK
Ashley sighed as she walked her way to the bathroom. The events of that day were almost a year ago. And she still had not found her brother or Daxter. She lost hope, and decided to make something of herself in the city of which she found out it was Haven City. Making something of herself was not something she had done. Instead she had fallen in with the wrong crowd, and was soon smoking weed and popping pills. The pills made her woozy and gave her a terrible headache when the high had ended. But she didn't care. She enjoyed the high the pills and weed gave her. So she continued. "I should meet them today," she thought as she stepped into the shower. The cold water flowed down on her body as she sighed. Today was going to be depressing.