Jak stared at the small pool of water as he wonder if things for him would ever be okay. He was in the desert, nearby where he had met Ashleen when he was an outcast in Kregon City.
It had been a week since the whole episode with the whole end of the world and the destruction of Errol. The city was rebuilding and were still trying to figure out what to do with Jak and what he had done for and against the city.
He was turned into a monster against his will, yet people turn to him on their most desperate hour as if he was some kind of hero. Yet as soon as the crisis was over they would all turn against him as if Jak was responsible not only for saving them but also being blamed for what they were being forced to live through.
"They call me a hero, yet they say it with fear in their eyes." Jak thought bitterly to himself as he stared into the water, as he saw his darker half standing besides him in the water.
"I guess it's true about how a mirror can show what's on your mind, but I wonder… is it even worth it anymore to even hold him back and not to just let him take total control over me?" Jak thought to himself as he had thrown his hand through the water distorting the image, leaving the image of only dark Jak laughing at him.
Jak just stared at the image lost in thought as his communicator had gone off another thing he wished he could get rid of.
"Jak we need you to come to HQ we have another mission for you to do." Torn said through the communicator as Jak glared at it before he had answered it.
"No thanks I'm not in the mood to be your fucking lap dog today." Jak said as he had than used dark eco to destroy it as dark Jak had laughed at this action.
"Shut up!" Jak yelled as he than shot dark eco lighting in all directions before he was able to clam up enough to stop his assault.
"Having a bad day hero, I think we all have one of those once in awhile." said a girl with elf features with long black hair and dark blue eyes. She was wearing jeans and an army style shirt similar to what most people wore in the wastelands.
"Who the hell are you?" Jak asked as he jumped up from where he was sitting, surprised that the girl was able to sneak up on him without Jak noticing her as he had than pulled out his gun.
"Whoa easy there partner, I just came to enjoy the view. Besides it's not nice to shoot someone unarmed. If you don't believe me than you can come over here and frisk me." She said as she threw her hands up defensively as she waited to see what he would do.
"So than go ahead and leave me alone." Jak muttered as he had put his gun away and stared at the water again.
"Nope sorry hero, but I can't just leave you here so you can try and have an unheroic death." she explained as he stood up angrily and walked over to where she was standing.
"Will you stop calling me that, I'm not a hero!" Jak yelled as dark eco had sparked around him.
"I'm sorry if it upsets you, but you are. You save a city who should have died for what it had done to you. I mean the lord used you in experiments that destroyed your natural abilities to make you talk only to hear you scream.
Not to mention, he let you escape knowing that he didn't have to chain you up like the other prisoners, since he knew that you were scared of the fact that not only your body, but your very soul was damaged thanks to him." she explained as Jak looked like he was going to hit her.
"What in the precursors are you talking about?" Jak snapped as he tried to keep dark Jak at bay.
"Don't you dare play dumb with me, you may fool those around you, but you can't lie to yourself or have you finally figured out a way to get past the nightmares? The names Alexis hero and trust me we'll meet again." she said disappearing into the mist that surrounded the desert.
"What was that about, and how could she possibly know about my nightmares?" Jak thought as he stared at the spot Alexis was standing at, not even noticing his best friend walking up to him, since he had left Dexter in the car when they had first arrived there.
"Jak… Jak! If you keep daydreaming sooner or later you're gonna become a metal head's dinner." Dexter said as Jak rolled his eyes at this as Dexter had crawled onto his shoulder pad.
"Sorry Dex I'll take you back to the bar in a second." Jak said as he had started to walk back to the car.
"At this hour? Yeah right like I want to be stuck with you in a car for an hour, only to than go and greet an angry babe." Dexter yelled in annoyance.
"What did you do this time?" Jak asked knowing that his friend enjoyed venting.
"Me! I didn't do anything Tess is the one that started it." Dexter said as Jak slapped his hand over Dexter's mouth to shut him up.
Jak than pulled out his gun as he than destroyed a group of metal heads.
"More metal heads, I thought we killed them all." Dexter said as Jak made sure they were all dead.
"What gave you that foolish idea rodent, all you need is one of them to keep a race alive." Alexis said as she appeared before them leaning against a tree nearby.
"What do you want?" Jak asked angrily as Dexter made a whistling noise at her.
"What's wrong hero not pleased to see me?" Alexis asked as she walked over to where they were standing.
"Hold it a sec sister, how come you're not metal meat?" Dexter asked as he had jumped off of Jak's shoulder.
"Simple, they can't attack what they can't see." Alexis explained as realization had hit Jak.
"Wait a sec you can only use that-"
"If you can use dark eco, you're not the only one with secrets hero." Alexis said cutting Jak off.
"Okay dat's it toots what do you know that we don't?" Dexter asked wondering who this chick was.
"What do I know? I know more than you can imagine, but I'll tell you what, you want to here. That Jak's real name is Mar prince of Spargus. You were sent to the past as a child to become a channeler, only to return home and get experimented on by Lord Braxos, do I need to continue?" Alexis asked knowing that she had hit a sore spot.
"How do you know all this?" Jak asked her confused as Dexter tried to get his attention.
"Well let's just say that where I come from you're all the rave. This was fun hero, but I have other people to bother; so later." Alexis said as she had started to walk away.
"Hold on a sec you still owe me some answers." Jak yelled as he ran after her.
"Sorry hero but I don't give those for free." Alexis said as Jak had tackled her to the ground pinning Alexis underneath him.
"Sorry hero but I only like you as a friend, so get off of me." Alexis snapped as she used red eco to make him go flying into the air as she had quickly stood up.
"What the hell are you?" Jak asked as he landed on his feet.
"I could ask you the same thing." Alexis said as she had pulled out twin blades of yellow eco as Jak had turned into his darker half.
"Um… Jak?" Dexter called out trying to calm his friend down only to end up getting shot at by dark eco.
"How sad is that all it takes for you to feel threatened by something else; a creature that you despise as you go against your only morals that make you a hero." Alexis said as she had swung the blades at him.
Jak hadn't answered her as he had broke the blades as he had than tried to use them against her as they quickly disappeared.
"Shame on you Jak and to think I was about to go easy on you, looks like I'm going to have to stop holding back on you." Alexis said as she used blue eco to fly into the air and avoid his attack.
Jak was going to shoot her out of the air making this a quick battle when he had realized that his gun was gone.
"Looking for this hero? Do you really think I would let you have an advantage over me?" Alexis asked as she showed Jak his gun as she than put it on top of a pile of rocks landing on the ground a few feet away from him.
"Now if you can be a good boy you can have your little toy back." Alexis said as she tried to locate where Jak had run off to.
"You need to learn some manners channeler." Jak said as he had snuck up behind her and punched Alexis in the face, making her go flying a few feet before falling to the ground.
"A channeler? I'm many things hero, but a channeler I am not." Alexis said as she quickly raised a shield to protect her from Jak's assault.
"Than what are you than?" Jak asked as he tried to break her shield.
"Come on hero shut off your attack before you make me do something we'll both regret." Alexis said as she noticed what was behind Jak.
"Go ahead I'd like to see you try." Jak said as he stopped hitting the shield to see what she would do since he was now out of dark eco.
"Very well." Alexis said sighing as she used yellow eco to electrocute Jak and send him flying into a pile of rocks.
Alexis than used dark eco as a sonic wave to bring the rocks tumbling down on top of him making sure that it would be awhile before Jak would be able to face her.
"Hey rodent when your friend wakes up tell him to talk to Vin, oh and no hard feelings." Alexis said as she summoned Jak's gun to where Dexter was hiding as she than got on a bike that was nearby and drove away…
A half an hour later Jak had woken up and cleared the ruble around him knowing that the girl was long gone.
"Dexter don't even dare think about it." Jak said as he had noticed that Dexter was holding his gun and trying to use it.
"Dexter don't you even dare use that." Jak yelled as he had taken the gun away from him before he was able to even try and use it.
"Aw Jak come on I should get to use it after saving your life." Dexter whined as Jak had rolled his eyes at this and got inside the car as he had drove to the HQ…
"Great all I do is say hi to the guy and he's already at my throat like our first encounter couldn't have gone any worse." Alexis thought as she was pacing in the small hut that she was given that laid on the outskirts of Kregon City.
"At least we met he's kind of cute. Though I feel bad for him but than again it can't be helped. Besides Errol always tells me I was only created to destroy him." Alexis thought bitterly as she remembered her own time in the dungeons as she tried to get her mind off of them.
"At least he was lucky Jak got only the dark eco and I got everything else." Alexis thought as she was playing with her dagger the only weapon she had besides her eco.
"None of that matters now, what does is now that we've met, I need to come up with a new plan so that next time we meet, I can take him by surprise." Alexis thought as she had than begin to work on her fighting skills…
"Jak my boy we were starting to worry about you." Samos said as Jak had entered the room and leaned against a nearby wall.
"Sorry for the wait old green but we had to deal with some crazy bitch before we came here." Dexter said as he had walked over to where Tess was sitting.
"So I'm guess there's another victory to add under Jak's belt." Tess said as Jak and Dexter shared a look.
"From the looks of it, I say the shrimp finally lost one. Well it was bound to happen sooner or later." Torn said as Jak just glared at him.
"It wasn't my fault the girl wasn't normal she was able to control eco the same way I can, but she said she wasn't a channeler so I'm not sure what she was." Jak said as he was rubbing his eyes as he was saying this.
"Interesting but she's probably right, the only people here that use eco are you my boy and the monks. Unless there might have been another success in the Barron's projects." Samos said as he had walked over to the window.
"That's impossible, the dungeons where destroyed and anything else that was trapped inside. Even if she was one of his pets, why would she be released now instead of when he was about to die." Torn explained as Ashleen glared at him for bringing it up.
"Why are you mad at me I'm just saying; when we disarmed it all the prisoners where already dead from the dark eco that was spilled." Torn explained as Jak had heard enough and had left the room.
"Why did you say that Torn when you knew how much it bothers Jak?" Ashleen asked knowing that Torn was hiding something.
"I was just stating facts besides what's makes you think that there's something else to it?" Torn asked as she had placed her hands on her hips not believing him.
"Fine don't tell me just don't regret that decision later." Ashleen said as she had left the room…
Jak had walked to the pier; lost in thought not even noticing where he was going.
"Out for a stroll hero? Don't you think it's a little late for that?" Alexis asked as she sat a few feet in front of him with her feet dangling in the water.
Jak didn't even hesitate as he pulled out his gun and pulled the trigger only to find out that it was a hologram.
"You shot me, what is wrong with you?" Alexis asked as she stood in front of the Naughty Ossel.
"I think you know the answer to that." Jak said as he had fired again only to hit the window as she had teleported out of the way.
"Nice try hero but I think you need to work on your aim." Alexis said as she had appeared a few feet in front of him.
"Only when they won't hold still." Jak said as he had shot her in the shoulder.
"Wow good for you hero, but let's see what you do to this." Alexis said as she had made a whip out of dark eco as she made Jak fly into a nearby building as she had than healed herself.
She had than leaped on top of Jak who was still lying on the ground as she had pulled out her swords and held them under his neck.
"My how the hero has fallen, funny Errol was wrong, he said you would put up more of a fight. Knowing him, I bet he wishes he was here right now." Alexis said as Jak just glared at her.
"What are you waiting for?" Jak asked after a few moments of silence as she had just stood there.
"Nothing I just thought I would just be generous and let you live for now, though that doesn't mean I won't give you a present for it." Alexis said as one of the blades had disappeared as she had than pulled something out of her pocket.
Jak had used this to shove her off of him though he had received a deep cut from her blade as he had done this.
He was than about to attack her but he had lost his balance as he was starting to get dizzy from losing so much blood.
"Don't worry hero you'll get what you deserve and your gift will be here when you wake up." Alexis said as she had used the hilt of her sword to knock Jak unconscious as she had than just left him lay there in a pool of his own blood.
Well theirs the first chapter R&R and tell me what you guys think.