Tsukasa: Don't shoot, stay those morph guns! CHARACTER DEATH WARNING

I don't own any thing! AU! Ignores Jak X completely (Along with Jak and Daxter: The Lost Frontier). Also the people of Haven revere Jak and Daxter as heroes because of their battle against Gol and Maia and the names are rarely used out of respect to them. They think that the "other" Jak and Daxter's same names being just a coincidence.

Summary: Haven has reverted to it's Hell Hole status: A tyrannical council is rebelling under Ashlien's rule after the dark maker attack and managed to get enough power to re-banish Jak. 16 years after this, Ashlein is assassinated which the reformed Underground led again by Torn is still reeling from. For the first time since Praxis was overthrown, the Shadow (Samos) has been replaced as #1 on Haven's Most Wanted: A mysterious person known simply as 'The Shade' has taken his place. An AWOL guard who knows far too much about certain things but far too little about herself. The Underground can use all the help it can get but will this outlaw help or will she just continue to run?

Chapter 1: Racing is all there is

?POV

Racing is the only way to stay alive, and I race very well. So it's no wonder people want me to join their garages, but I race for no one for too long. I've got too much of a past to escape. Haven ain't exactly a Haven for any one. In fact, it's more of a Hell hole. But I have no where else to go. Nobody does. We all have to live under the corrupt new council who, I hear, are ten times worse than the Baron that was over thrown just before I was born. My mother abandoned me when I was six, and weeks later I found she'd killed herself. I hide from my grandfather; I don't think he even knows I exist.

My mom was a pretty woman; aquamarine hair that reached her shoulders, a heart shaped face and brilliant green eyes. She was thin and was depressed but I'm sure she was pretty when she smiled. She would always build new things, but one day, just before I turned six she picked up this picture and fell to pieces. She wouldn't let me see the picture and probably hid it some where in our old home by the stadium but I am betting it was a picture of daddy. She never spoke of him and wouldn't answer me when I asked about him. If I was anything to go on, he was a catch. I didn't think I was attractive but the boys chasing after me said otherwise. I wish I looked like mom though.

"Get up!" came the voice of Sam, her dad and mom were from the Wasteland. She was tall with green eyes, dark skin, and, black hair.

"Coming," I said yawning. I walked out in my blue top and gray pants to see Dan and Spike also waiting for me. Spike has his red hair in dreads like both his parents but his mom's green eyes and Dan, shortened from Danielle, was a white ottsel with orange fur on her head and wore a green tube top and black pants. Her mom, Tess, had found a way to turn her self into an ottsel and she and her husband (I don't know the story behind it), Daxter had been happy since. She has to smack him when he flirts with other women but she knows he loves only her.

"Come on Shade, you have a race in thirty minuets." Said Dan.

"I know, I know. How's the parents?" I asked.

"They keep inquiring about who the heck Shade, Blaze, and Boom are, but I won't tell." She said. Unlike her father, I hear, she can actually keep a secret.

"You'd better not tell cherry." said Sam (Boom). We gave each other these names in case we needed to meet up during a guard raid. Those happened often since Governess Ashlein was assassinated. Spike really hadn't gotten over his old lady's death yet. We try not to speak of it.

"The underground is starting again. Maybe you could join, Shade." Said Spike (Blaze).

"No, I don't think I want to work for some one whose name is Shadow." I said.

"Come on! We could be heroes like Jak and Daxter." Said Dan(Streak).

"Which ones? The ones that killed Gol and Maia or the ones the defeated the Metal head leader Kor?" I asked.

"Both!" said Dan. She was way overly eager to get involved in these things.

"You guys can join but I'll have to think about it." I said. I grabbed my helmet from the table in the small 3 room apartment I lived in with Sam, she and I alternated who got the bedroom. I slipped the helmet on and headed out. Another thing, aside from the three people in the apartment and my mother, no one has ever seen my face.

"I'll be at the stadium if you should need me." I yelled. As soon as I shut the door I ran right into Edge. He was a nice guy; he and I would race together sometimes.

"Hey there Shade." He said.

"Hey there Flash." I said.

"How are Boom, Streak, and Blaze?" he asked. He didn't know the others that well and vice versa.

"Good. They keep getting on me to join the Underground." I said.

"Well I might join, but my parents might not let me, my uncle being a guard and all." He said. His uncle had died in a racing accident years ago, and Edge looked just like him; red eyes, hair, and he had a stocky build. Flash and I used to both serve in the guard before I went AWOL upon finding out about the Dark Warrior program. And Red really ain't my color.

That is why I can't stay in one place too long: because I know too much. But I've managed to keep my real name even from the guards who hunt me. No one's ever gonna learn it either. As long as I keep racing no one's gonna keep me down.

Flash POV

I followed Shade to the stadium incase the guards ambushed her. I wonder what she looked like with out her helmet on. She never took it off in public so all I knew was she had some of the bluest eyes I've ever looked into. My uncle; I don't remember him at all. He went berserk and evil. Glad I don't remember him. I'd have nightmares if I did. I caught my reflection and looked at the figure that looked back. The tattoos were now a part of me and I wish they weren't. Shade some how managed to get away with wearing gray paint on her face and because she used so much of it; it was hard to tell what her facial features were. I'm sure that's what she was doing intentionally. She'd only had her helmet part way off once and all I can remember was her face was beautiful.

It was only a split second but at least three other guys realized she was a beauty too. Now I had competition-bad Edge! Bad! I walked into the stands and saw Shade's zoomer lowered onto the track. I looked over and saw in a hover chair was high councilor Veris. Oh no. There was going to be a raid and I knew the intended target. I dug into my pocket and pulled out a communicator that Shade had given me. I turned it on.

"Boom speaking?" came a girl's voice.

"Boom, this is Flash. Big Brother is moving in on Shade." I said. Shade called the council Big Brother. I hoped they knew what I was talking about.

"Stay put Flash, we're coming." said Boom.

Boom POV

That cherry had gone and gotten herself in trouble again. Well Shade not in trouble would be as disturbing as my dad's poopsie bear. Scratch that, nothing is quite as disturbing as seeing a big Wastelander curled up with a tattered teddy bear. It'd be like seeing King Mar smile. I'd only been home a few times since I infiltrated Haven to find out what was going on. Shade had been my first contact since she'd been a guard at the time and since she went AWOL, I'd been helping her escape the attempts made on her life. Very few knew my name was Sam. Fewer still knew I was a Wastelander. Shade was the only one who knew I was a Wastelander and I'd been meaning to ask my father and King Mar if she could come to the wasteland for her own safety.

She was a natural when it came to fighting.

We were moving as fast as we could while concealing our weaponry. I had a morph gun Shade had fixed up. She said her mom was good with machines too. Her mother was taboo. The only thing I knew was her mother was an amazing mechanic who took her own life. I was forbidden to even tell Streak and her father and my father went way back.

"Shade's in danger again. What is it this time?" said Blaze to thin air.

"We have to stop them from getting her!" I said cutting off the idle chit chat. We had a friend whose skinny white ass we had to save.

Shade POV

What was that slimy bastard doing here-oh shit! They were after me! Too late to run now. I glanced over the crowd and saw Flash talking into the communicator. I'd have to hold the guards off for a few minutes instead of alone. I am ever grateful to my friends. If only I knew I could trust them with my life's secret. No, knock it off Shade you've got to race for your life.

I looked up and saw the bastard smiling. He was going to postpone the race! He was going to try to apprehend me where I was positioned. Well that wasn't going to happen; this elf has a few tricks up her sleeves. Tricks like channeling. I revved my zoomer as he announced what a menace I was and the crowd was booing him since they already knew what I'd done and wanted to see a race. I leapt my zoomer over the other racers and began down the track as guard zoomers raced onto the track; the other racers abandoned their zoomers as the guards raced after me, firing at me as I raced ahead. I saw a boost and took it and the one on my tail crashed into a wall: One down several to go.

I reached into my racing suit and pulled out a small sphere containing yellow eco I crushed it in my hands and absorbed the eco. I fired as many fire balls at my pursuers as I could while the yellow eco lasted and I was driving one handed and I almost crashed into a wall. I only had three left when I reached an open space and I spotted Boom aiming at them and I heard said sound and I was home free. If only there was an eco that could let my fly, I'd have been able to make a cleaner get away.

I leapt off my zoomer and landed on my feet. I smirked up at Veris and I knew he knew what was on my face because he wiped it off with the show of force he displayed next and I prayed to what ever deity there was to forgive me for my berserker mode.

Boom POV

Oh boy. She was gonna blow!

"EVERYONE WHO VALUES LIFE RUN!" I yelled and dragged everyone out. I saw Flash running out and he met up with us.

"What's going on?" he asked.

"Shade's got anger issues and when she explodes she turns ugly." I said as we ran. Many civilians got the right idea while the guards were too many steps behind. Too bad for them; they were going to get a demon's furry. Shade glows all white and fires white fire balls at people when she is pissed enough and interrupting a race that's asking for it.

"She'll have to join the Underground now. They'll be the only place to run." said Streak.

"She probably still won't and she's too hot a target to have in the Underground to begin with." said Blaze.

"Spiky boy, need I remind you which fugitive was a hot target yet still a part of the underground?" I said. He glared at me because I was right. He was wrong.

Third POV

Little did Boom, Blaze, Streak, Flash, and Shade knew; Torn was in the stadium watching as a strange winged creature unleashed a furry down upon the guards.

'Light eco?' he wondered. When Jak was fighting Erol he received a light transformation that he said needed light eco. How could this racer be able to use eco like this unless they were a channeler.

"Don't let the Shade escape!" yelled Veris. Torn despised that man more than he had the Baron, he had no proof of it yet, but he knew he was the man who had killed Ashlein. If this man wanted the channeler then Torn wasn't going to let him have them. Veris didn't stand a chance. The furry of the channeler increased as they faced Veris. There were no remains of him. The glow left the channelers .?docid=19072724 and they began to fall into the stands. Torn heard a grunt and saw a very large girl dart past him and catch the elf. The girl was black with bright green eyes and a look on her face that reminded him of Sig sans the cybernetic eye.

The girl, he'd been able to tell it was a girl as she fell and he knew the Shade's reputation, was breathing shallowly.

"Has she over done THIS before?" he asked looking to the big girl.

"A couple times and she reduced half the old fortress into slag the one time. She wasn't glowing though. When we found her she reverted from being very pale and having ash colored hair. She also had claws and fangs." said Blaze showing up. Torn looked at his son questioningly,

"Spike, you know the Shade?" he asked.

"Yeah, she's not a very sociable person and doesn't want us really telling any one we know her since you just saw what happened. Boom's almost exactly like her." He said. Boom glared at Blaze (Spike). She had her reasons as did Shade.

"Boom?" he asked.

"Code names incase what just happened happens again. I'm Edge, but they call me Flash." said Edge keeping out of Torn's line of sight.

"He's our eyes and ears in the guard." said Streak climbing on Boom's shoulder.

"Danielle?" said Torn

"Hey could we talk else where?" she asked.