Ah yes, another sister fic. I'm just crazy, no? This fan fiction gets to Loor's friend Alex, who got less face time than Fury did. Feeling like I was playing favorites, and loving my idea for the summary, this fic was born. Just try not to get too skeptical as I dip a little bit into the fantasy genre though.
I don't own anything.
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Sammich?
1-Password?
It was two years ago that Lauren, better known as Loor, had disappeared. Well, most people thought she had disappeared, but two select people knew better. Actually, three select people, but one of those people happened to be dead. The two left that knew the truth happened to be the girl's ex. boyfriend Damian and one of her closest friends Alex.
The truth was that Loor was somewhere else now. Another world somewhere else.
Alex remembered it well, when Loor had called a meeting between the group two years ago. She started talking what seemed to be nonsense about going into the world of Jak II, and having been sent back of Onin herself before the incident occurred to stop it from happening. Alex might have passed her off for needing to be committed to a loony bin if not for one thing.
The proof that Jak, and Daxter, had come back with Loor against her will. Though Alex had never gotten details, it seemed Lauren and Jak had gotten rather friendly to each other while Loor was in Haven, and as cute as it was that Jak had followed her to this world despite the fact that she told him not to because it would put things out of whack, Loor had the greater good on her mind at all times.
Loor had planned to send her new lover and his pet back to their own world and stay on her own. There was a great many arguments back and forth between them about Loor going with them, arguments that Jak eventually won.
When Alex asked to go with, Loor gave a very flat no.
Alex had gone to her bi-polar self and become very angry with her friend.
Loor left, in critical condition on the account of the eco that was in her system, to Jak's world with him and Daxter, and Alex stayed behind no matter how badly she wanted to go. Now, Alex could stand it no longer. It had been two years, and she had to know what became of her friend!
And so, Alex had a plan. That plan required getting into Loor's computer.
This plan had brought our friend Alex to Loor's house, where Loor's family still lived. Her own mother was buying eggs, which would hopefully give Alex time to get into Loor's room, which had not been touched since her family believed their youngest child had died, get into her computer, find what she needed, and get out.
Loor's Mom, upon seeing Alex and her own mother outside, invited them in. Alex slipped into the lower level of the house, unnoticed. She was getting good at that. Loor's room was mere steps away, and Alex let herself in, quietly shutting the door behind her.
Loor's room was untouched. The walls were still plastered with tons of Jak and Daxter fan art, the shelves were collecting dust, and there were still pop cans on the girl's desk. Alex walked over to Loor's bed, brushing a hand over where Jak had sat with Loor as her condition pertaining to eco was slowly killing her.
Turning and still looking around, Alex saw the mirror and took herself in. She was wearing one of her favorite shirts which was black and white striped, a pair of jeans with a lot of holes in it with matching black and white striped leggings, and a comfy pair of shoes. Her hair, which had grown to her shoulders, was dark brown. She had contacts in, not wearing her glasses. For fifteen, she had not filled out much, but she was working on it.
After that moment of vanity, she turned back to Loor's computer, which was off. Moving onto Loor's bed, which was up against the desk, she sat and poked the on/off button.
The computer buzzed to life. She quickly turned on the monitor too, watching as it started up Windows and such, and then went to the part she dreaded.
Loor's user name was already there; Nafiea. That was not the problem.
Alex didn't know Loor's password.
It was time to start shooting in the dark.
Jak
Nope.
Pervert-and-proud
Nu-uh.
Pendragon
Not happening.
Sighing, Alex glanced around, worrying that her mom would come looking for her. She had to hurry up. Loor had to leave a hint somewhere around! Loor was always ready for someone to have to get to her stuff in emergency. She started looking at the stuff on the desk. There was a bunch of pop cans, old gum wrappers, paper, pencils, and a book that had a page marked in it with a post-it note.
The book was the fourth Pendragon book. Alex picked it up and looked at the marked page, reading quickly to herself.
"I said zero. That's the origin code."
"Zero?" I repeated. "That's it? Just... zero?"
Zetlin gave a sly smile. "The phaders are a clever bunch. I knew they would try to crack the code, and I knew they would expect it to be a complex string of commands."
That was all Alex had to read. She grabbed the keyboard and pulled it back into her lap.
0
The song 'Paper Cut' by Linkin Park started playing as icons loaded onto Loor's desktop.
Alex was in.
Loor had various files on her desktop, but Alex went down to the shortcuts on the bottom bar. Those were more likely. In a few moments, Alex found Lauren's journals. All of them were locked, but they all had the same password. Alex clicked on the latest entry, which was the day before activity night, the day before the one that Loor left.
I still can hardly believe I'm going back after all that I've done. I mean, after everything I fought while In Jak's world, everything I pushed and pulled against, I'm going back. Can you believe it? I just have to hope that my friends will listen to me. I mean, I know Alex will stay even if she's pissed with me, but it's Damian that I'm worried about. Besides my model of the chip, he has one too. I just hope he does what I tell him to do and destroys it.
I don't need anyone else where I am. I know Alex is still steamed at me for saying she couldn't come along. Hell, Jak is kinda pissed at me too because I forced him to go hang at D's house instead of letting him stay with me for this last week. I know I didn't want him to go, but we were getting really dangerous around each other. Seriously, if Daxter hadn't followed us, Lyra would have had her way for once.
The day I'm no longer a virgin, I want it to be my own choice; not my dark personality's.
That reminds me, I'm really scared about going back to Haven. I mean... there's a third adventure. What's gonna happen? I haven't played it and Jak's gonna want me to stay with him! I swear, it's gonna be emotional breakdowns and frustration all over again!! I mean... what if I change something? Something big that puts everything out of whack?
Times like these, I really miss Fury. I could talk to her about this stuff and she'd be able to help me figure out what to do. And it's my fault she's... ya know... I just wish I could bring her back. I'd give anything to have her back.
Maybe I shouldn't go. Maybe I should just kill myself.
Damn it, I can't keep trying to talk myself out of this. I told him I'm going back, and I'm going back. I just... I don't know. Half of me wants to be part of the next fight. The other half insists that this is a bad idea. Then there's that little less than a billionth of a percent that says that I should go back and just sit on the sidelines.
I hate that little percent. It suggests that I might have some small measure of sanity.
Regardless, I have to get ready for that party. We're leaving right after activity night. I thought about obliterating all of my old VC-M1 files, along with the VC-M2 (New model that I was tweaking to try and prefect the conversion), but I'll keep 'em and put the 'hint' by the computer. Just in case someone ever needs to get into this stuff.
Just in case.
In, over, and out of the race.
-Loor
Alex looked over this journal entry, but the first paragraph was all she needed to know. Damian had a copy of the very thing that seemed to be at fault for taking Lauren between the worlds; the VC-M1. How did it work? Alex had no idea. All she knew is that she was paying a visit to Lauren's, and recently her own, ex. boyfriend.
She had to get to Damian.
Alex had been thinking the whole way home about what she had read. Loor had seemed awful worried about stuff in that journal entry. Heck, it sounded like she was writing her last will and testament.
That was a scary thought. It was fully possible that Lauren could be dead. Oh yes, Loor was a strong person, but strength would have only gotten her so far.
Shaking the thought out of her head as she and her mother arrived at home, she got out of the car and ran inside the house.
Alex's house was a single story home on a foundation that stuck three feet out of the ground. The garage was separate, where her mother parked the car. Walking up the cement steps and letting herself into the annex room for coats and the like, the dog currently kept in that room jumped at her with a welcoming malamute-hug.
"Odin, down!" She snapped at the one year old malamute, sighing and getting past Odin. She got past the second door into the little excuse they had for a dining room. There, their wolf Lakota and the other malamute Alaska attacked with their welcomes. The two smaller dogs; Jack and McKenzie, started barking from where they were trapped by a baby gate in her parent's bedroom. Pushing past the larger dogs, going quickly through the kitchen, she let herself through the door to the living room that was also her bedroom, quickly shutting it behind her.
The living room space had her bed in one corner, under a bunch of pictures of her family before various things such as alcohol had turned her mother into Alex's worst nightmare. Truth be told, she and her mother still had some good times, but there were other times that the two could not stand each other to the point of screaming fights, and sometimes blows being struck. That still happened, and times like those made Alex really miss Lauren. During those fights, if she felt like she needed her friend, she would call Loor for support. Other times, she would get on the Internet later in the night and talk to one of her IM buddies. Either way, it offered a little bit of help when she was feeling her worst.
Also in the room was a large TV, a big blue recliner, and a couch under two windows that looked into the outdoor kennel where they kept the other wolf they had; Annie. In the living room, there were only two of the family pets. One fat orange tomcat; Willy, and Bojo.
Bojo used to be Loor's cat. The white half-Persian puffball was given to Alex after Lauren was believed to be dead. Alex had taken good care of him, but he was getting to be old for a cat and just as lazy as one of their other cats; Fat Cat.
Walking over to the TV, Alex grabbed the phone that was above it off of it's base and flopped onto her bed, scratching Bojo when the animal got up and curled back up on her stomach. She quickly dialed Damian's number.
Ring...
Ring...
Ring...
"—Hello?"
"Hi... uh... Damian?"
"Alex, why are you calling?"
Alex ignored the urge to hang up on her ex. boyfriend, sighing. "I wanted something. You still have that old chip from two years ago, don't you?"
"... Why?"
"Because, man whore, I want to use it."
"But Loor told us not to go after her."
"She also told you to destroy it, but I'm pretty sure you didn't do that."
"Alex, I'm not going to let you use it. If Lauren saw you, she'd be so pissed with me."
"Yeah, and what is she gonna do to you? Come back and shove a chair up your ass?"
"Probably."
"I dunno, maybe I'll bring her cat with me so she doesn't try to kill me."
"Who says I even have the thing?!"
"Says me. I know you wouldn't destroy it."
"Okay, you have a point, but still! Why would I let you use it??"
"I'm pretty sure I could convince you."
"...How?"
Alex now smirked. "I have all of Loor's journals at my disposal Demon. I'm sure I'd find something to post all over the school in order to ruin your rep; among other things."
There was a long pause over the phone.
"Fine... come over tomorrow with that stupid cat."
And so Alex was walking away from her mother's car on a bright summer morning, towards Damian's house, holding Bojo in her arms. The old and lazy cat could not care less about what was happening to him, and the excuse for bringing the puffball was that Damian had not seen the cat since Lauren's 'death' and the boy wanted to see him.
Oddly enough, on Alex's mom, that worked.
Alex knocked twice on the front door was her mother pulled away, and Damian opened the door quickly to see her. Nodding, he motioned her inside.
She rolled her eyes. Demon always got all 'secret agent' if he was doing something he wasn't supposed to be doing to save his own skin. The house was empty besides herself and Damian, his parents out of the house currently. D led her into the kitchen and then down the hallway, the door at the end on the left being his. In his room, which was decorated with motor cross posters that involved various women in bikinis, he had a thirty-inch flat screen that he had gotten for his birthday. Also, on his desk, his PS2 lay in pieces, printed out directions to how to install the VC-M1 right beside such.
"So..." Alex muttered. "What exactly does the thingy do...?"
"A lot. It's an all around upgrade, which would have been no problem for Loor to make if not for its main reason for existing. It was made to take the plasma that is electrical power and turn it into a more manageable and concentrated liquid that would be less dangerous and get rid of heat admissions from the Play Station."
D glanced back at Alex who was giving him a blank look that told him she had no idea what he just said.
"It changes the energy." He finally said.
"Oh! Okay!" Despite the seriousness of the situation, Alex started bobbing on the spot with a strange smile on her face. She was majorly bi-polar, it seemed. One second, she was quiet and snappish, the next, goofy and off the walls in energy.
Bojo yawned as D started putting the PS2 back together. Several moments later, it was ready to go. Alex went up as Damian turned the PS2 on, the Jak III game in. He knew it had nothing to do with where, or when, she landed, but it was just something he thought was right to do. So he went to the scene player and started up the final scene.
The picture suddenly froze as Jak walked up behind Daxter and ottsel Tess, looking up at the precursor ship. Alex reached a hand back behind the PS2, pressing her fingers on the opening for the fan as she looked back at Damian.
"Ho-bay ho." He offered.
She froze, much like the screen, as the eco that came from the VC-M1's energy conversion struck her fingers, sparks jumping up her arm with pain.
Ready or not Loor... here I come.