Lonely Alice- hi everyone!!! I'm back miss me? nah, of course not! Anyways... i'll tell the basics of the story and stuff like that rigth now, okay? Ella goes into haven city with the boys and does everything that is in the game, it's just a basic retelling of the game like the frist one! XD Ella will be much more different in this one with little quirks and a smart mouth. She's grown up from her 13 year old self in Revelations, she's much smarter and brighter. Oh yes! And she loves her guns... VILA LA GUNS! Oh yes, and if anyone hasn't read Revelations... I suggest you go back and read it too... just a suggestion! This will be in 3rd person, so it could be from Ella's point of view or Jak's. There will be six missions of my own, later on in the fanfiction. Anyways... let's get on with the fanfiction.

WARNING, I AM A HORROR WRITER... (i didn't want to do Revelations as horror... but now, muahahahahaa... FEAR ME!!!!)

I would really like it if you would review. It would be SOO helpful!!!

R.E.R (read. enjoy. read)


Define- Millennium -noun: a period of general righteousness and happiness, esp. in the indefinite future...

Story creatred along the lines of 3Days Grace's Animal I Have Become


Millennium

Phase I

Ella winced at the sun as it rose.

She hated these kind of days, after living in Rock Village for about a week or so she hadn't seen the sun in a long while. Rain poruing down on her every day and sleeping until her little heart chose to wake her. All she cared about was getting more sleep before Samos came and yelled at her again. Daxter was resting on the seats as Keira was looking over the rider. She rolled over and hit the jewel in her pocket, she remember when she took it from the diggers back in the caves where the Red sage lived. She winced again and sat up with a stone in her back. 'i hate life...' She thought to herself as she got out and walked over to Keira's room, he hair was a mess and she had droll on the side of her face 'nice...'

She wipped off the droll and ran her fingers through her hair before grabbing her diary and opening it to a blank page and began to write.

'last days in sandover village/ rock village... i'm happy we are going but, i like it here! as long as i'm with the boys and making sure they aren't killing themselves... everything will be fine, more or less' Ella looked out the window to Misty Island before she finshed writing in her book, she shoved it under the bed and ran outside. Samos had given her and Keira something every year. Keira got a diary too but she got a new wrench too, Ella got a necklace that had sliver melted down and a small rock inside. A bell.

Jak stood by the rider as Ella walked up, she rolled her eyes as he motioned for her to get in. Daxter was still asleep, but looked like he was beginning to wake slowly.

"I think I've figured out most of this machine," the mechanic putting a hand on the back of the rider and looking towards the glowing at the other end, "It interacts somehow with that large Precursor ring." Keira sighed, turning and sitting down behind the consol, "I just hope we didn't break anything moving it here to the lab..." Ella nodded and move in as Jak got in.

Jak, attempting to sit close to Keira failed; when Daxter had been woken up and looked to Keira.

"Easy for you to say!" he shouted, motioning with his head between Jak and himself, "We did all the heavy lifting!"

"Ture." Ella said sitting back into the seat, she watched as Daxter's grin returned and was reaching out to touch a rounded object stuck into the consol.

"Daxter!" the ottsel recoiled at Samos' voice, "Don't touch anything!" Samos ordered as Ella rolled her eyes, Samos continued glaring at Daxter, "Though the precursor's vanished long ago, the artifacts they left behind can still do great harm!" Ella mocked him as the boys rolled their eyes at him

"Or great good! If you figure out how to use them." Keira piped smiling at the boys.

"I've had some experience with such things," Samos looked back to Jak again, his expression clam for once, "I know you can make it work." Ella rolled her eyes and sat back in the seat, she didn't even want to go! The Blue sage said it would be a learning lesson, yawn.

Jak paused and then pushed the red gem in the consol, Ella sat up when she saw the thing that Daxter was so fascinated in pop up and start to spin.

"Looks like Jak's still got the mojo!" Daxter exclaimed, Ella smiled and leaned closer to it.

"Interesting," she paused, licking her lips, "It appears to be reading out from preset coordinates."

They all jumped as the rider suddenly jerked.

The circular piece of metal attached to it's back beginning to spin, streams of blue eco streaming from the needles to the ring in front of them. Ella leaned back into the seat as the sky darkened. The ring broke away from its supports and started floating into the air. Light was shining in the ring as Daxter gasped.

"Wow... look at that!" Daxter breathed, staring in awe at the spinning metal. Ella nodded as a sick sense went up her back and into her brain. 'i think i'm gonna be sick...'

"Finally..." a rough, sinister voice came from the ring, "the last rift gate has been opened!" the light from the vortex turned sickly purple as black spider like creatures came out and went into the village.

"Aaahhhh! What are those things?!" Daxter screeched, hiding behind the control consol. Ella moved closer to Jak, not knowing why. Samos said something but before Ella could ask, the voice came back and a terrible creature had come out and looked around.

"You cannot hide from me boy!" it growled, clenching a single muted fist in Jak's direction. Ella swallowed in fear as Keira cried in horror.

"Do something Jak!" Ella and Keira were both trembling as Daxter started pushing random buttons.

"What's this do?!" Daxter jumped onto the consol, pushing random buttons, "or this? How bout that?!" Ella reached across Jak and smacked his head.

"Don't push random buttons! You'll get us all killed!"

"I don't see you doing anything!" Daxter yelled back as Jak grabbed a hold of the stick in front of him, the rider jerked into motion and sent them flying into the tunnel of blue engry.

"What was that thing?" Ella and Keira gasped at the same time.

"Hang on everyone!" Samos exclaimed as the rider was jerked.

"I want off this thing!" Daxter yelled, clutching onto the control consol. Ella grabbed onto it too as a beam of blue striked the rider and Keira went flying off screaming. Ella flew beside Jak as Samos and Keira went in a different direction.

"Find yourself Jak!" Ella looked ahead of her as Samos and Keira disappered, she swallowed.

"Oh Precusors..." She yelled as they were blind sided by a flash of bright light.

Ella sat up slowly after landing hard on metal, she coughed lightly looking towards Daxter. He laid on his stomach, Ella stood and looked around the metal world that they just had landed in. Jak stood glancing at his female friend then looked the way of a loud crashing sound.

"Ok, I swear, that's the last time I ever, EVER touch any stupid precursor crap!" Daxter ranted, not noticing the armed men coming up from behind him. Jak spotted them, as Ella was still watching Daxter.

"There he is," a metallic voice came from one of the guards, the leader motioning them forwards with two fingers, "move in." Ella moved closer to Jak and watched them as they circled around them.

"Step away from the animal," another guard spoke, Ella watched Daxter dive between the men's feet and run away.

"Some friend..." Ella growled as the men came closer.

"Forget the rat," the leader, the only man who wore no face mask, spoke, his voice the only human sounding one of the group, "the baron wants him."

"Let me go!" Jak truned glaring at the men that were pulling Ella away from him, Jak move towards her ready to grab her and run but was pushed back. Ella grabbed one of the guys and pulled on their arms. One spun around slapping Ella across her face, she fell to the ground holding her mouth. She jumped up again and started yelling.

"Leave him alone! He hasn't done anything wrong! Not in his whole life..." The leader truned to to her and shouted.

"Shut up, girl!" he looked up and down at her and smiled. "But..." Ella swallowed and backed up, she didn't like what his eyes were thinking. He smiled at her and move towards her, she stepped back a bit and watched him put his arm around her wasit.

"What's your name?"

"Michelle." She said by nervousness.

She looked back to Jak, his eyes were telling her a clear message. Run away, and don't come back. She nodded and kicked the man in the knee. She bolted away from him and could hear the sounds of the man's voice yelling for her to stop. Her feet kept on moving as Daxter jumped on her shoulder and a loud call came from over her.

"Deathen." She said softly as the bird flew along side of her. She stopped for a second truning to see if Jak made it throught and was following her.

Nope.

He stood in the middle with the grauds closing in on him.

"Don't worry Jak! We'll save you as soon as we can!" Jak looked to her, she swallowed again before giving him a peace sign and winking.

"No time!" She yelled before running around the corner. Jak nodded and looked back to the leader. He smiled before motioning for one of the grauds.

"We've been waiting for you," the last words the young hero heard before having the but of one of the grauds shove it into his face.

Two Years Later...

Blood curling screams came from inside of Hevan City's prison. Other prisoners covered their ears at the sounds of a young teen screams. Jak arched his back at the dark eco that was forcefully put into his body, he was tied down to a metal table. People below listened in fear that they would be next, his screams rang through their ears and killed their spirts. The blonde stopped screaming as the metal arm that was pushing eco through his veins pulled back, letting him lay back down on the table and giving the other prisoners a chance to breathe.

"Dark eco injection cycle complete," a metallic, female voice stated. Purple energy flew away from the teen's body "Bio reading's nominal and unchanged." Jak's head slumped to the side as a bigger man growled towards the captain.

"Bah, nothing," he motioned to Jak like he was a thing. "I was informed that this one might be different!" The man nodded looking back down at him.

"He is surprisingly resistant to your... experiments Baron Praxis," Errol replied, stepping around the table "I fear the Dark Warrior has failed."

The baron in rage stormed back over and grabbed the teen's hair and pulling his head up. "You should at least be dead with all the Dark Eco I've pumped into you!" he snarled, releasing his hold.

"What now?" Errol demanded, neither noticing the semi-consciousness of the blonde "Metal head armies are pressing their attacks. Without a new weapon, my men cannot hold them off forever!"

The baron turned his back to him, "I will not be remembered as the man who lost this city to those vile creatures!" he turned on the commander, advancing so that Errol was forced to back up, "Move forward with the final plan!" he motioned to Jak, "And finish off this... thing tonight!"

"As you wish," Errol growled stepping aside only to let the Baron pass, Errol truned walking back to the teen. "I'll be back later." He growled before following the Baron out and slamming the doors shut.

Seconds later, a package was tossed up onto the centre of the room where Jak was, a hovering mechanism manned by a small, orange ottsel soon appearing. He had a huge smile across his face as he landed.

"Ding ding! Third floor!" Daxter spoke, rising the mechanism higher over the platform, "Body chains, roach food, torture devices!" He jumped off and pulled out a comm.unit.

"I have found the hero! Haha! I win, lalala! Daxter one, Catzeye nothin'!!!" Daxter got a fuzy reply back that showed that the person on the other side was pissed.

>Shut up! I'm stuck you hear me? Give me a break will you?! Catzeye out!

Daxter winced and sighed at the sound, he jumped on the table and walked up to Jak's head.

"Hey buddy, you seen any heroes around here?" looking at the teens face, he straightened immediately, he looked around at his buddy. "Whoa! What'd they do t'you?"

Receiving no response, Daxter turned, his ears drooping, "Jak! It's me! Daxter!" Jak hello was a quick glance up and then slumping back down. The orange ottsel planted his hands on his hips, "Well that's a fine hello! I've been crawling around in this place, risking my tail!" he turned, then paused and looked back at Jak, with his tail in hand. "literally, to save you! I've been looking for you for two years!" He shouted kneeling down.

Grabbing onto his friends shirt collar, he begged.

"Say something! Just this once!"

Two blue eyes snapped open, dilated; he looked up to his friend. "I'm gonna kill Praxis!" He yelled loudly as Daxter covered his mouth.

"Shhhh!" Daxter hissed "right now we gotta get you outta here!" the ottsel straightened, hopping onto the blonde's arm, "just let me figure out how to open the security locks on the chair-"

Dark eco pumped faster then blood, taking over Jak. A bloody scream came from inside of Jak's throat and expolding out into the air for everyone to hear. His skin truned pale and went rigth to ghostly white, his hair changed to grey and his eyes darkened to onyx as his muscles grew and his teeth sharpened into fangs. His nails became long and black as horns pushed out through his hair, Daxter jumped off the table in fear.

"Or, uh... you could do it," Daxter gulped, ears pinned back, "Jak? Easy now..." Daxter moved closer holding his hands out to Jak, then backed away when Jak started to advanceon him, "It's... It's your old pal Daxter! Remember?!"

Jak growled, bringing his hand forward to attack, but stopped. He stumbled slightly and grabbed hold of the table to steady himself.

"Daxter...?" Jak said as his horns went back, and eyes went back to blue. Skin going back to normal Daxter walked up to him, pissed.

"What the heck was that?!" Daxter exclaimed, "Sheesh! Remind me not to piss you off!" the ottsel stepped around his friend, motioning towards the main area of the prison, "C'mon, tall dark and gruesome, we're outta here." Jak nodded following his friend.

"I'uh, brought you some new threads. Put'em on." Jak nodded grabbing the package and pulling on a pair of brownish shorts, he pulled on the blue tunic and put on a brown belt around his chest before tying on the brown bag on his wasit. He tightened the ties on his shorts while Daxter yelled into the comm.unit.

"Catzeye? Are you gonna answer me atleast?" Getting no answer Daxter started to bite his nails. He started to pace as Jak tied his brown boots. He walked up as Daxter jumped up onto his shoulder.

"Who were you talking to?" Jak asked walking towards the doors, he took one more glance to the table before looking back to Daxter.

"No one important! Catzeye will find us! Or we'll have to... or maybe... nah! I know that... or-" Daxter shook his head and padded Jak's head. "I hope you still remember how to do all those fancy moves of yours, bud." Jak smirked and nodded.

He moved towards the crates jumped on them, heading down a hallway. Roll jumping to the other side in the hallway, being careful not to fall in, they went on. Jak stopped when they came to a room, he looked in and saw no people in there. They walked into the locker room looking around, before Daxter started jumping on his shoulder pointing at the crates in the corner.

"Break those crates, Jak, maybe they have something good in 'em!" Jak did what his friend said and kicked the crates in, only having a health pack and a couple blobs of Dark eco fall out. The Dark eco went right into Jak's body as they kept on walking, Daxter spoke into the thing again only having a fuzy reply.

"Shit." Daxter whispered.

Jumping over a series of uneven platforms, when Jak pulled himself up he heard the sounds of voices.

"Hold it right there!" He yelled running towards him, Jak punched through the coming grauds. The duo dashed forward leaping on to platforms and taking out grauds. Jak stopped for a breather as Daxter slumped on his head.

"How huge is this thing?" Jak asked while waiting for the next platform to land infront of them, Daxter poked Jak's head again and whispered something in his ear.

"I don't think the alarm's been tripped, they don't know we're coming!"

He grinned, "Their lose, I guess."

Jumping on the pole infront of them, they jumped off on the other side jumping onto another platform. Continuing on they jumped on soild ground looking around trying to figure away out of this maze.

"Behind us, Jak!" Behind them was a small opening, going through it he continued on taking out two grauds out that were unknow to his pressence. Jak had to roll jump across two more gaps, then stopped just before a grated area in the floor.

"Jak... what's wrong?" Jak pointed down towards the grate.

"Something doesn't feel right."

"I hear nothing... forget about!" Jak nodded going forward, then ducked when two bullets came up slicing his leg and face. He jumped on a pannel of controls and listened to Daxter yell into his comm.unit.

"Catzeye! Help! Help!" Jak listened as the voice echoed with a glee dancing through their voice.

>Don't worry, I'm right-

The celing fell in and a girl with brown hair landed on the grate, she grabbed two guns and let off a round of bullets going down. Truning she took care of another group running in, she truned to where the blonde was sitting.

"Daxter! Get down!" Daxter hit Jak's head and he got down as she aimmed for the wall, the bullet hit the wall and went through the grate before taking out the last graud. She sighed and sat on the grate, looking towards the boys. She stood again flipping her brown hair and pointing to the door.

"Come on boys, lets get into gear!" She ran down the hall with Jak and Daxter behind her, Daxter started calling out to her as Jak kept his eyes open for any KG.

"Catzeye! What took you so long?"

"I got stuck in the vents." She stated stopping, Jak stopped and looked at her werid as Daxter lanched himself to her shoulder. Jak looked up and down at her, she couldn't be older then himself. Black shorts and fish net stocking that was covered by tigh high socks, she had ballet slippers on that the socks covered too. She pulled on her vest as she put her guns back, it covered until it reached her stomach then it was bare until it reached her shorts. She truned and tied up her brown hair lifting up her goggles that seemed eeriely odd, she gave him a smirk as he stared at her lime green eyes.

"Hey Jak," She said truning, he heard a small jiggle as she truned. "Long time no see?" He stared at her opened mouth as he could hear more grauds coming, she rolled her eyes and pulled out her guns.

"Precursor!" She shouted before cartwheeling into a room and letting off a round of bullets at the grauds coming towards them. Jak ran in and saw them on the floor barely moving. Daxter jumped onto her shoulder again and padded her head.

"That's my Catzeye!" She smiled and pointed to a wooden door.

"Can you break this?" Jak nodded and broke the thing, she followed behind him as he ran out into an area with water and a couple of metal crates ontop of each other. She truned and pointed to his leg, he looked down and saw the blood.

"Can you walk?" She asked, he nodded as she walked up to the crates and hit them, she held out a health pack and smiled. He took it with a glance at Daxter now back on his shoulder, Dark eco flew out of the box and zoomed into his body. Catzeye stared blankly for a second then shrugged.

"Meh," She pointed up to a window as she pulled herself up some iron crates. "Come on slow pokes, were out of here!" Jak smiled at Daxter at the thought of being outside for once since he came to this land. Jak jumped out frist and then the girl, she landed on all fours and stood. She stretched and let out a groan.

"Finally! Out of the old dusty prison!" She smiled and walked forward

"We're free!" Daxter exclaimed, stretching his arms out. Jak glanced at the girl, trying to find her name in his brain.

"Michelle?" She truned at the sound of her name and smiled. She hitched her guns on her belts and smiled at him. Her lime green eyes looking right at him.

"Yeah it's me, kinda a lot to take in, huh?" Jak nodded walking forward to her. She walked beside him in the metal city around them, she smiled as he began to talk.

"Yeah, two years can really change a person." She smiled and rumbed her head.

"Ture." She sighed and looked to the ground. Her brown hair falling infront of her face as she walked on. "It took so long... at frist I was too sarced but I got over it and we all here together again!" Daxter started jumping on his shoulder with a across his face.

"I helped!" Daxter piped. Jak wanted to smile and show Ella and Daxter his thanks for getting him out of that place, but he couldn't knowing that a demon landed under his skin ready to attack anyone that crossed his path. Ella and Daxter kept going on as he looked around the looking at the metal city, small glass windows hung inside of them and were dull. He stopped when a man grabbed his arm with a smile.

"Hello, strangers, my name is Kor," he paused, stepping in front of Jak, "May I help you-"

"You look like a reasonably smart man," Jak cut him off, advancing on the old man, "I want information. Where the hell am I?!" Ella rolled her eyes as Daxter hopped down on the ground, standing beside Kor was a young boy.

"Uh, sorry. He's new to the whole conversation thing," he apologized, Ella walked up to where Jak was standing. She could've told him where they were but choose not to, something about this old man still shivers down her spine.

"Well, my angry young friend," Kor brushed off his shirt, "you are a guest of his majesty, baron Praxis, the ruler of glorious Haven City." Ella mocked him like she did for Samos.

"I was just a guest in the good baron's prison," Jak spat like acid.

"Inside a cell or inside the city, walls surround us both. We are all his prisoners!" Ella nodded slightly as Jak looked to Daxter, the sound of metal Kor expression turn to fear.

"Speaking of being at the wrong place at the wrong time, I'd move on if I were you," Ella watched the old man move behind them as the Krizmon Grauds came closer. Ella gave a eerie grin as they came closer and began to speak.

"By order of his eminence, the grand protector of this city baron Praxis, everyone in this sector is hereby under arrest for the suspect of harboring underground fugitives. Surrender and die!" the leader of the patrol ground out from behind his mask. Ella snorted and got ready to fight as Daxter jumped down.

"Uh, excuse me, sir," Daxter spoke, stepping forwards, "Don't you mean surrender, or die?!"

"Not in this city!" Kor backed further away, keeping the child behind him, "Protect us from these guards, and I'll introduce you to someone who can help you!" Ella smiled as Jak truned back to the grauds.

"Bring it!" He shouted, Jak ran into the group Ella hot on his heels. Punching through every graud that dared to mess with him, Jak could feel a power flooding his whole body as he punched everyone of them. The power ripped through his body and came bubbling to the top. The demon attacked everyone of the grauds sending them flying back with dark eco burning their very souls. Jak truned when he heard a yelp of pain, Ella jumped back as a KG moved closer. She kicked him but he grabbed her leg, twisted it and she fell flat on her face. Jak heard a chuckle but Ella got the better of him, moved her leg up into his face and did a handstand on to her feet. The graud fell back and groaned in pain, Ella smiled at him as he laid there.

"Ella?" Jak asked letting the demon the go back to sleep, Ella smiled at him even though it was still clear that the demon was still out.

"Yes?" He clenched his fist feeling a new power that pulsed through out his whole body taking over his mind and soul.

"That was cool!" Daxter exclaimed, standing in front of his friend, "do it again!" Ella walked up placing her hand on his shoulder and looking at him werid.

"Are you alright?"

"Something's... happening to me..." he ground out, clenching his fists, "something he did... I can't... control it..." Ella looked to Kor as he walked up to them again.

"Very impressive," Kor commented, raising a hand to his chin.

"Uh, you ok Jak?" Daxter asked his still panting friend, Ella touched the place where the ground met her face and licked off the blood on her hands. She placed the other hand on Jak's shoulder.

"What you just did was very brave," Kor motioned to the boy standing beside him, "this child is important."

"This kid?" Daxter walked over, poking the kid, who covered his face with his arms, "he looks kinda scruffy."

Jak flet Ella's hand clench as more KG's flew over, they stop and point down to them.

"You are in a restricted zone, move along!" Kor sighed and looked back to the trio.

"Thank you for your help, but I must get this boy to safety."

"Hey! What about us?!" Daxter exclaimed.

"There is an underground group waging war against baron Praxis," Kor turned back to them, "it's leader, the Shadow, could use fighters like you. Go to the-" Ella rasied her hand with a smirk growing across her face.

"Slums right? Dead end?" Kor nodded slowly looking at her, she pulled out her pass and smiled.

"I am Lt Catzeye, I know where the Slums are you don't have to tell me twice!" She jumped up and grabbed a zoomer that a person was on and lowered it. Jak truned his head to a sound that he remembered all too well. A brown hawk with a a metal head landed on Ella's arm, she smiled at the bird and motioned to the man to leave.

"Thanks anyways ol' man." He nodded and walked away, Jak looked over to Ella with a smirk.

"New attitude?" She rolled her eyes and leaned on the zoomer.

"Whatever, get your ass on this zoomer." Jak nodded and jumped on the back and put his arms around Ella as she took off at the speed of sound. He watched her face as she zoomed past KG's and people.

"Not afraid of heights?" Jak asked with a smirk.

"Yes. But if you want somethin' you have to fight for it." She said coldly back. Jak nodded looking to Daxter, he made a crazy face and pointed to Ella.

"I saw that," She hissed back, Jak looked next to them and glanced at Deathen.

"I didn't know Deathen came," She shrugged and truned the corner, she stopped and jumped off.

"Where I go, he goes." Jak jumped off and looked at the older ruin down builds around him, Ella pointed down the way at a dead end with a blonde girl standing around.

"In there. Just wait two seconds... I'll be along in-" When Ella truned Jak was gone and walking towards the girl and man pacing. She sighed and ran after him.

"Looks like trouble Deathen."

"We're looking for a guy named Torn, we know El-" the woman looked to the right, and a man with brown dreadlocks walked up to Jak, staring him down, "um, are you... Torn?"

"Maybe this guy's a mute," Daxter quipped, "like... you used to be!"

Ella snorted. "Hardly."

"New faces make me nervous," Torn spoke ingoring his Lt's comment and poked Jak in the chest; his voice sounded gravelly, "Word is you're out to join the fight for the city. Y'know, picking the wrong side could be," he paused, getting right in Jak's face, "unhealthy."

"Oh Tornie poo!" The three males heads snapped towards the female voice as she walked up planting her hands on her hips like she did before. "These guys are wit' me, please be nice to them." She said with a fake smile.

Jak ignored her, glaring back at Torn, "We want to see the Shadow."

Torn chuckled humorlessly as did Ella, both of her friends glared at her. She backed up with a odd smile.

"I thought it was a joke!"

"Not likely." Torn ingored his Lt again, " If you wanna join something, why don't you and your pet go join the circus," he turned and took a few steps away, then looked back to them, "Unless you've got the fur, for a really tough task."

Pulling his curved knife from it's holder on his back, Torn ran a finger along the smooth side, "Steal the barons banner from the top of the ruined tower, and bring it back to me. Then," he threw the knife up into the air, then caught it again, "maybe we'll talk."

"Fine," Jak spat at him, turning to exit the alleyway. Ella followed behind him but stopped when she heard her name said coldly.

"Wha?" She said truning back to Torn. He glared at her as she jumped on with Jak behind her.

"No help. No questions asked."

"I wasn't gonna help, chill." She said slamming her foot on the gas and speeding away.

XXXXXXX

"There's the banner!" Daxter yelled with a smile moving across his face. Jak nodded jogging up to the banner and grabbing it, Daxter jumped off his shoulder and smiled.

"Sadly we couldn't bring Ella along!"

"I heard that!" Ella shouted up, Daxter pulled a face at her as she sat on the wall closet to the opening. Deathen flew over head as Jak grabbed the flag and pulled a pose with his osttel friend doing a little dance. Lucky their egos are crushed when the ground under them crumbled, the tower was falling. Falling, Jak bounced off an old tarp and sliding down a nearby cable. Jak landed on the ground on his feet as his buddy landed on his face.

"Nice." Ella saiding jumping off of the wall.

Torn watched the tower fall, his face changed from one of surpize to one of a smirking fool. "Yah, I guess you guys are in." He truned to Ella. "Lt. Catzeye, that's it for tonight." She nodded as he walked away.

"Boys, I think it's time to go home. Don't you think?" Jak looked at her werid as she walked on, Daxter jumped back on his shoulder rumbing his face.

"Oh yeah, we're bad." Ella rolled her eyes as she jumped on the nearest zoomer.

"Am I ever gonna get to drive again?" She counted on her fingers and shook her head.

"No. Maybe if you get it frist next time." She said with a smile moving over her face. Jak got on and looked around as the wood aruond him truned to red metal.

"Where do you live?"

"Just outside of the Slums, it's easier to get home that way." Jak nodded as the zoomer stopped, she jumped off and opened the black door with red on it. Climbing the stairs to the 2nd floor Ella opened the door, Daxter ran in jumping on the red couch. Jak walked in looking around at the red walls with black flowers, he smiled at Ella as she pulled out a pop for herself and him. Jak took it and sat beside Daxter as Ella walked down the hallway.

"So this is where you've been living?" Daxter nodded looking down the hallway as Ella came back with a brush moving through out her hair. Her hair went to the middle of her back unlike back in Sandover that went down to her hips.

"When did you dye your hair?"

"A year ago." She said tying it up, she threw a towel at Jak and Daxter. "Take a bath, you both need it."

"But I had a bath!"

"Standing in the rain doesn't count."

"Yes it does!"

"That was two days ago." Ella said pointing down the hallway. "Now go," She leaned close to Daxter's face. "Before I drown you myself." Daxter swallowed and nodded, he ran down the hallway. Jak followed behind him.

Truning the water to hot, Jak striped all his clothing and jumped in the tub. He felt the demon inside of him claming down as the water cleaned his soul out and soaked into his body. He looked to Daxter, and sighed.

"Ella's... different." Daxter truned his head and laughed.

"Yup. Different is a word for her now. Dyed her to brown. 16 years old. Lt Catzeye..." He chuckled and looked back to him. "Smart and trigger happy, I wouldn't piss her off personal..." Jak nodded and sunk lower into the bath.

"That's good." 'and we won't have to save her anymore...' Jak added mentally in his head.

Finshing, the boys dried themselves off and pulled on boxers. Daxter should Jak where his room was, it was just like outside but it had a bed and small lamp. He tossed his clothes onto the bed and walked out of the room, he saw a door and opened it slowly. He walked in and saw Ella on the bed with her shoes still on, he stopped and took a good look at his female friend.

Her brown hair falling over her face as she laid in her bed, battle scars on her arms and on her legs. She had turely grown up, no more joking around and goofing off. Ella started to move after the sounds of a Krizmon Graud Hellcat drove by, she sat up and rumbed her eyes. She gave a weak smile to the boys and got out of the bed, she walked into Daxter's room and pointed to the bed.

"Both of you sleep in here. If you need me, which I think you won't, I'm in the next room over." She walked out and went back to her room, a couple minutes later the light truned off. Ella locked her door and leaned on it, she slid down slowly pulling off her shoes and socks. She yanked off her skirt and vest before popping a thermometer into her mouth. She pulled it out when she was on her bed, she sighed and laid back on the bed.

"101.1, I'll be fine for a couple days... I hope." She pulled the sheets up and closer her eyes as she difted slowly into sleep.

TBC...