OK so Jak and Daxter happens to be my FAVOURITE video game of ALL time, so, as i was playing it today, (i started the series again) i was bored and wondering what would happen if I, myself, had been in the games ... and, well, here it is :P Please enjoy and Read&Review!
I'm really sorry, but the beginning BLOWS. i hate beginning things. so please stick with it until at least the third chapter to see if u love it or hate it! please :)
DISCLAIMER: I do not own... Yadda Yadda. Let's get on with the story.
My consciousness started coming back in small portions. First my hearing; i could hear something splashily crashing, and the skwock of birds. Then my sense of smell; brine, salt, and what's that weird tangy smell? Then touch; I was lying down on something small, coarse, and all over. And it was warm, like on a sunny day. Lastly, (not including taste) my sight came back. my eyelids slowly fluttered open taking in everything from the face of the boy with greenish-blonde hair hovering over me, the bright sun above him, the boy with orange hair on his shoulder, to the giant pelican sitting on a small island ten yards in front of us, out in the ocean... WHERE AM I?
It all started when I beat Jak III for the first time; I was sad that the series had ended and I didn't know what to do now. Doing the only thing an obsessed video game fanatic can do, I started playing them over again.
Getting up, I walked towards my beloved playstation2 that was still whirring from the game previously in it. Whilst pressing the button with the blue design on it, I grabbed the Jak III case. Disk in hand, I skillfully opened the case with my other, demonstrating how long I had been playing games. Quickly opening the Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy case, i pulled out the disk itself and slipped it into the slot still open from the other disk. Successfully closing the slot and sitting down, i grabbed the controller, ready to begin.
If only I had known! But if I did, would I still have done it anyway?
I got as far as the opening screen before I noticed something was askew. My old gaming system started buzzing out of control, and I automatically got worried. I got out of my chair that was specifically for me when I liked to play video games, and walked towards the system and TV. Getting there, I kneeled down in front of the TV to check if the red white and yellow cords were OK, and felt a shove at my back. My arms flailed as my body tilted head first towards the TV screen.
Expecting to feel nothing but pain, I braced myself for the collision with the glass, but I didn't come. When I looked up I could see the screen getting farther and farther away until it was a tiny square of light that disappeared with the distance.
The next thing I knew I was flat on my back with the lights dancing in front of my eyes. I faintly heard a 'Jak, Look!'
'No it can't be ...'
So I was in Sandover village. Yes, the Sandover village from the video-game Jak and Daxter. Don't ask me, all I know is that once I woke up I saw Jak hovering over me. Old Jak. Before he got injected with Dark Eco. He was roughly shaking my shoulders trying to get me to wake up and come with him.
I attempted to shoo him away with a, "Five more minutes!" But he was non-relenting.
i didn't fully regain all of my senses until i heard an annoyingly high-pitched voice i knew was to be Daxter's. I turned my head to the left of Jak's face, his shoulder, expecting to see an orange otzel there. Instead i saw a a small boy, about a head shorter than Jak, with orange hair, and green eyes. He was the one talking.
Then it hit me: this was before they had went to Misty Island and Daxter fell into the pit of Dark Eco.
I looked around, still not believing i was in a video game. I positioned my thumb and pointer finger over my arm and brought them together, HARD. "OUCH!" i squeaked. Ok this is definently real.
"Hey! Don't hurt yourself!"
i looked to our right and saw some one strikingly familiar walking over to us: Kiera.
Softly rubbing my arm, i got up and stood next to the waiting Jak and the impatient Daxter.
"Who's this?" She directed her question at Jak, completely ignoring me for the moment. He just shrugged. That's when i remembered that Jak was mute in the first game. i looked over at him, holding up the false pretense by looking confused as to why he didn't answer. He looked at me and i noticed soemthing. i could almost read the words "who are you?" in his eyes. Like a psychic connection, i could heard him talking in a deep yet childish voice.
This was Jak before he could talk. This was sweet and cheerful Jak. Jak without a care in the world except if Daxter was OK.
i stuck out my hand in his direction and said, "Hi, I'm Maddy."
He tentatively reached forward and placed his hand in mine.
"Can you hear me?" Again through the eyes. I nodded, not wanting to draw attention.
I shook Kiera's hand, and Daxters'. The latter holding on a bit longer than necessary, and waggling his eye brows. i couldn't hold in my laughter. He looked away sadly.
"No, no! I'm sorry, you just remind me of someone i know . . . used to know."
"Where did you come from?" Kieara asked looking at me suspiciously. "No boat, no one else, no wreckage."
Here's what i had been dreading. Should i tell her the truth; that her whole life is a video game, not real? Or should I lie? "My Daddy's boat crashed out at sea, and i was the only other one with him." Lie.
"I didn't know there was anything else out there." Jak could detect my lie, already. "What's it like? Don't direct the answer at me." He obviously didn't want the others to know, either.
"I used to live in this really big and beautiful house. i was home-schooled, so I never really had any real friends to talk to, only three really. The city was about the size of Sandover, but much, much louder. There was a constant buzz, whether from a bug or a car."
Daxter said, "What's a car?" While Kiera said, "How did you know this was named Sandover?"
I looked over at Jak in a panic, I hadn't meant to mention it, but it had just slipped out. I heard his voice in my mind saying, "Say Daxter said 'Welcome to Sandover when you first came. It's OK, I know you're not from here." I looked over to him and mouthed 'how?' He just shook his head.
"Daxter said, 'Welcome to Sandover' when I first, erm, woke up. And Daxter, A car is like a machine with wheels that it powered, kind of like a Zoomer. We have those there, too. Do you?"
I sufficiently distracted Daxter from commenting on something he hadn't said, with the idea of cars.
"Kiera has one of the only working ones around. She found it hovering over the sea one day, and decided to fix it . . ."
"It's back at Daddy's house. We should go introduce you to him. Maybe he'll know how to get you back to your own time." \
