Based in between Jak 2 beginning starts when Jak is Captured - pairing Jak and Erol
Disclaimer: i don't make a profit from this story and all the characters belong to Naughty Dog
Chapter 1
After the blast and the hard landing on concrete Jak arose to his feet to find himself and Daxter not longer in fresh smelling air but an unclean, polluted atmosphere and not a bit of green grass or fresh sea water to be found, but big solid buildings and walk ways, even Samos and Keira weren't with them. As Jak looked around his surroundings he ban to wonder 'Where are we? this doesn't look anything like Sandover Village and where are Samos and Keira?.
Daxter, being frustrated with Precursor technology as usual threw down the last remaining part of the Rift rider, which they all were on only minuets before, "OK that's the last time I EVER touch any stupid Precursor crap". Before Jak could answer his best friend they heard heavy footsteps and unfamiliar voices "There he is, step away from the animal" all of a sudden before Jak could react he was surrounded by men covered in red armour, Jak looked around himself there was nowhere to run.
The men in red armour seemed a lot bigger and stronger against Jak's frame and with them all having what seemed to be heavy duty weapons and guns Jak knew he wouldn't stand a chance even if he tried to escape. Daxter quickly ran in between one of the new stranger's legs and escaped down the walkway. "Forget the Rat the Baron wants him" said one of the men who was dressed in yellow and seem to have markings on his face, 'What have I done? Who's this Baron and what does he want with me?' Jak thought, to afraid to say anything at this point, he just looked to left, then to the right and finally back up at the man stud in front of him, "We've been wait for you" the man in yellow finished, the next thing Jak saw was the blunt end of one of the larger red armoured men's weapon smacking him square in the face knocking him down and making him feel fairly woozy as he began to loose consciousness he heard a familiar voice, which by now seemed so far away "Don't worry Jak I'll save ya' before you know it" then his vision began turning black as he heard "take him away".
When Jak became conscious again he sat up very slowly with a groan and one hand over his eyes "augh, what happened" he said out loud As he did he felt the top of his head, he realised his racing goggles were gone, he then looked around something wasn't right "w-what the?" he looked down at his cloths, no longer his nice blue tunic but a Karkee jumpsuit with the word 'Prisoner' wrote on it, he noticed something else about his appearance, his belts over his chest and waist were also missing. "Hey I'm no- where's my gear?" Jak began to shout in a fit of panic "WHERE AM I?", his eyes focused on his location; tall dark solid brick walls with only one wall having a small window, which didn't protrude much light through, there was a small sink in one corner, one chair with a table, a toilet and a bed that had two chains on each end holding it to the wall and the door was dark cold steel with only a small square frame with vertical bars.
Jak ran and jumped up to the small window but he was no where near grabbing it he tried a crouch jump to make himself go further up but no joy, now in a frantic state of mind he ran up to the cold cell door and shouted through the bars "DAXTER, SAMOS, KEIRA, ANYONE HEEEEEEEEEEELLLLP!". "SHUT IT IN THERE, OR I'LL SHUT IT FOR YOU!" a voice from outside the door shouted, followed by a bang on his cell door Jak quickly ducked out of sight and crouched behind the heavy door. 'OK Jak calm down you can't think straight if you're screaming your head off' the young hero said to himself, breathing deeply to try and settle his nerves, 'Let's look at the facts we know and work from there, right' he tried to rationalise himself 'right, Daxter and I had just crashed landed in this place there was no sign of Samos or Keira but Daxter seemed OK' Jak got up from his crouch and began to pase the room slowly as he thought through what had happened from when he and Daxter had gone through the rift ring to this point in time 'hmm...Daxter was saying how he wasn't going to use precursor stuff again then those creepy guys came...and then I'm here' Jak stopped his paseing and sat down on the bed, with his legs over the side of the bed he placed his arms on his knees and put is head down to face the floor and his feet, no longer did he have his leather sandles but some bandage feet protectors instead. 'What do they want?' the young hero kept thinking over and over again. He kept mulling over the last few things he remembered hearing and what was meant by them 'who is this Baron? How does he know me? Is he in league with Gol and found out how I stopped him and his sister?' Before he could work out any thing else there was a jingle of keys at the other side of the door, Jak sat up with at start when he saw his cell door open.
"Ahh so you've finally decided to wake up then" the dark shadow said with a kind of smug tone to their voice. As the figure stepped forward Jak realised who he was, he was the man who said that the Baron wanted him. As he came closer to Jak in the dimly lighten room the first thing that caught Jak's eye was the man's markings on his face and his yellow uniform. The marked man clicked his figures towards one of the other shadowed figures behind him straight away the figure gave the commander a clipboard and a pen "Now first things first name" Jak looked at him a little nervous "come on boy speak up your name!" the man said enfatically "J-Jak" the young hero stuttered. The commander nodded and wrote Jak's name down "age?" he said not looking up from the clip board "er...what?" Jak questioned "age, come on it's not that hard a question how old are you" the commander seemed to be quite calm but Jak still didn't feel at ease "fifteen going on sixteen" he replied trying to keep calm, the man said nothing to the reply "height?" Jak thought about it "five foot six" he remembered his uncle measuring him against the wall only recently and saying how much he had grown and how much taller he was against Daxter before he was transformed, the man looked up from his clipboard and looked Jak up and down "hmm you're awfully short for your age" was the response, Jak felt a little put out by that reply 'hey who does he think he is kidnapping me then saying I'm short he's no giant himself' "that'll be all for now" the commander answered, turning to walk out the room when Jak finally plucked up the courage to ask him something "excuse me, but where am I? and who are you?" the marked man stopped and turned to face Jak with a slight grin on his face all of a sudden Jak felt a cold chill run down his spin "I'm commander Erol and this Jak is your new home from now until the day you die", Jak swallowed to try and keep his mouth from drying up when it came to asking the next question, "but what do you want with me?", "don't worry Jak we have big plans for you" with that Erol gave out a small chuckle as he walked out the door and slammed it shut behind him then Jak was left all alone.
He sat back on the bed with his back against the wall, bringing his knees up to his chest and wrapped his arms around them he suddenly felt quite scared as that was the very words Gol's sister Maia used to tell them all they were going to use Samos and his Eco powers. Jak shivered at the very thought of what this Erol had planned for him 'Daxter where are you? I hope you can help me out of here before anything happens to me, I don't mind admitting it...I'm scared' as he wondered what had Erol got in store for him he looked up towards the small window and all he could see was a few flickering stars 'Please Dax help me'. With that he laid down on his back and stared up at the ceiling and sighed out "welcome home Jak" in a sarcastic tone, after that he closed his eyes and just hoped that when he woke up he would see that he wasn't in a cold damp cell but in his uncle's hut hearing him tell Jak that it was all just a bad dream, but sadly that wasn't to be.
To be continued