Title: Foresight
Author: Quick-demon
Rating: T (Contains swearing and some violence)
Disclaimers: I don't own Jak and characters, although I wish there was some sort of Jak collectable memorabilia that I could own... (sigh).
Genre: General, Mystery and a little Humour on the side
Game: I wrote this when Jak 3 was around. Takes place after Jak 3 and before Jak X
Summery: How can Jak stop the enemy when he's the only one who can see them? Or is Dark Eco finally turning him to madness? Or is there more to the whole situation than meets the eye
Author's Notes: Please note the idea is partly from a book that I've read (ages ago now). But it is not going to conform to that book, this story is basicly my own. I basicly don't own that idea, but the rest of the story is mine.
It's been over a year since I've started this story and last updated. I've made a decision to finish my stories (since I don't like when people don't finish their stories and Im sadly one of them). I haven't written in this fandom for a long time so I'm quite out of the loop but I know that I enjoy writing in this fandom and always will.
This has been recently updated and fixed most if not all grammer and spelling errors... hopefully.
Jak enjoyed the simple life in Haven City. His small apartment home, his own Zoomer and an exciting and dangerous job at Freedom HQ. Even if he was recognized as Mar and was suppose to have a life of luxury but he decided--much to the disappointment of Daxter-- he preferred to live as he always had. Have what he needed. After all what he wanted he already had, and that was action and adventure.
He was relieved not to be a fugitive or he didn't have to prove himself yet again. He was lucky to have such great and trust worthy friends, who helped him through his downs and celebrated his ups.
So when he went to Freedom HQ for his next mission, he never expected the consequences and events to unfold after it as it did. It changed him and his life forever...
Jak entered the HQ with Daxter on his shoulder. Jak responded to a call sent out to him and came here for the details. He approached the hologram table. Ashelin was reading the readout from the control panel on the table.
"Jak, glad your here" she acknowledged his presence
"What's wrong?" Jak decided to get down to business, after all it was his job. A payed job!
"While mining Eco at the new mines, we found clusters of Metal Head eggs" Ashelin started, "It's underground within an Eco rich cavern"
"Oh and let me guess, you want us to flush them out?" Daxter responded lazily from Jak's shoulder
"Yes. A simple mission. I would have put someone less qualified but we're busy trying to keep the city secure that I've got no one left" Ashelin murmured
Jak nodded in understanding. Lately there has been riots in the city. The people are finally free from war and poverty and are impatient to get their lives back. The city is still being rebuilt, physically and economically but its a slow process and the people want to use their newly acquired rights and freedom... now.
"Before the mining we installed a Warp Gate so you'll be going there through here" Ashelin pointed to the new feature of the HQ--the Warp Gate, "Machines made the tunnels to reach the Eco stores but our workers have been attacked by Metal Heads, while stumbling on a nest of Eggs. It's strange that there are adultl Metal Heads there to guard the eggs"
"Great! Mother Metal Heads!" Daxter muttered under his breath, "Not just a nasty Metal Head but one with Maternal Instincts!"
"Maybe the Metal Heads are finally learning that we can kill them" Jak smirked
"Anyway, I want you two to kill them all. Other than diminishing their numbers, we can continue to mine Eco and get this city's economy back online"
"Don't worry, we can take out a few Metal Heads" Jak said in his macho cockyness.
Ashelin nodded, "Make sure you get every last one. I don't want to have unexpected attacks from new born Metal Heads while mining for Eco"
"What you doubt us?" Daxter mocked shock and offense, "After we saved the world, not once, not twice but three times?"
He made his emphasized his point by holding three fingers up.
"Just get on with it" she said pointedly
Jak said nothing as he turned towards the activated Warp Gate and vanished in the blue film with white sparks.
He entered on the other side as if he just walked through the door. His eyes adjusted to the dimness of the tunnel they were in. Small lights were embedded in the rock walls, lighting up their path. The cave was eerie. The air was cold and damp. Jak's footsteps cut through the silence, echoing forever into the cave darkness.
Daxter shivered as his ears drooped, indicating the fear that was rising within him. Jak pulled out his Morph Gun and set it to Blaster mode. Daxter kept eyeing the cave around him. The dim fairy light was hardly keeping the darkness that threatened to engulf them.
Finally the reached the end of the tunnel into a large cavern and stopped with their eyes wide with amazement.
Before them was wall to wall and even to ceiling of yellow Metal Heads eggs. Jiggling from time to time with anticipation to release the monsters inside.
"Holy Yakow!" Daxter exclaimed, "There must be hundreds--no thousands in here!"
"This is like an incubation chamber" Jak murmured, "There must be so much Eco down here that they can lay so many eggs"
"I hate to be here when they actually hatch" Daxter gulped glancing at a jiggling egg
Jak loaded his gun and switched it. The machine changed accordingly, parts disappearing and reappearing in sequence. Jak aimed the gun towards the nearest cluster and launched the bomb. A small bomb screeched from its cartridge and on impact with its yellow targets it exploded. The cluster of eggs burned and quickly disappeared in purplish grey smoke. Jak re-aimed to the next set of small cluster and fired. He repeated the process, reloading when he ran out.
It was a slow process but it was effective in getting rid of the clusters of eggs. When Jak finished the seventh set of clusters a figure appeared before them. Four yellow eyes glowed from the darkness and growled at them.
"About time you showed up" Daxter taunted, "I was wondering when your stupid brain would figure out that we're here"
The creature growled in response and leapt from the shadow in attack.
Jak turned from his main objective to the creature. With no time to switch guns he fired. The mini bomb popped from its cartridge and exploded on impact with the Metal Head. The creature screeched as it was thrown across the carven.
Jak switched his morph gun again to the basic Scatter mode and fired. Like a rag doll the monster was thrown against the wall. Jak was about to fire again when a small baby like blue creature crawled on top of the Metal Head.
Jak, at first thought it was a Metal Head, but when he saw it glowing a white radiance. It was a small round creature with four legs and three fingers on each limb. It was like a dragon, with its reptilian snout and small tail but it was matched with large innocent purple eyes. It blinked at Jak innocently as if a young child had just stood in front of him.
Jak couldn't shoot it. He wouldn't. It was in the firing line.
"Jak! What are you waiting for!" Daxter yelled, "Shoot!"
"I-I can't" Jak growled, "There's that creature on it"
"Creature? What creature? The only creature here it that ugly thing there"
The baby looking dragon creature started to glow again. The Metal Head breathed in suddenly and growled slowly.
What's it doing? Jak frowned
"Jaaaaak!" Daxter whined in annoyance.
"Wait Dax!"
"Jak! Are you insane?" Daxter screeched knocking on Jak's fluro hair, "Have you lost your mind?"
The blue creature looked at Daxter and blinked curiously.
"Look Dax" Jak nudged his friend with his shoulder, "Look. Do you see it?"
Daxter looked. All he saw was a dying Metal Head.
"What see a hundred pound dying Metal Head, yeah sure?"
"No Dax, the creature on top"
"What creature?" Daxter squinted at the Metal Head then looked around seeing if he could find another life form, "There's no other creature or creatures!"
Jak blinked in surprise as tiny alarm bells rang his head. Am I seeing things?
"Jak? Are you ok buddy?" Daxter asked, his voice was in genuine concern
Jak blinked and gave a short laugh to cover his embarrassing mistake, "Yeah... just messing with ya"
Daxter frowned then grinned. He punched Jak's head lightly in playfulness (since he was on Jak's shoulder) and said, "You sly Crocadog! You had me there pal! I'll get you back for that one!"
Jak gave a nervous grin, "Yeah"
Jak turned back to the Metal Head but the blue glowing creature had vanished. Jak blinked as his mind milled at the sight he saw. Was that creature real? Am I imaging some creatures off a kid's cartoon? Daxter didn't see it...
"Jak?" Daxter asked again puzzled by Jak's strange behavior
Jak snapped out of it and raised his gun again but didn't fire.
"Jak?"
"Dax, its dead" Jak muttered
"It died?" Daxter frowned, "I thought Metal Heads had more will than that! They never back down until they're not breathing"
Jak knew it had to be that creature that was on the Metal Head. It was glowing as soon as it touched the Metal Head. The creature sucked the life out of the Metal Head...
There was no other explanation. The Metal Head was badly injured but Metal Heads had this incredible will to destroy who ever attacked it when it was in near death. That's why Metal Heads are so dangerous. That's why there was such a danger for Jak's delay in finishing it off.
Without a word Jak morphed his gun again and turned to the rock walls and started to destroy the eggs once more. When he was half way more fully grown Metal Head creatures came from the darkness to approach the intruder.
"Wow the others took their time" Daxter muttered, "They really must be stupid!"
"No... Dax, they're just hatched" Jak replied quietly
"What!"
Jak pointed to empty egg cells at the back of the cave.
"Ashelin thought there were Metal Heads guarding this nest but it looks like they've been hatching from the eggs"
"What! They're born fully grown?"
"Remember the Metal Head Leader Kor?" Jak asked
Daxter recalled the event when they faced the ugly double faced, double crossing leader. He remembered the leader popped out eggs and fully groan Metal Heads appeared from the shells within a minute.
"Yeah..." Daxter muttered not liking where this is going
"Well maybe this is the same thing..."
"But there's no leader! And if the eggs are laid on the walls near a supply of Eco they took a week or so to hatch... well that's what Sig said. You remember dropping the crate on those eggs in the pool of Dark Eco in the mines? If they hatched this quickly, believe me, we would have noticed"
"Maybe something is different here..." Jak murmured
"Like what?" Daxter asked
The three newly born, newly grown Metal Heads approached them cutting their conversation shot. Jak raised his gun. The Metal Heads attacked but they never had a chance. He switched his again and pointed the Arc Wielder towards the group. He zapped the Metal heads until they fell to the ground. He released the trigger momentarily as the beasts growled and grunted as they tried to rise off the floor.
Jak zapped them again. Just before he did, the little blue creature appeared out of no where to suck life out of the weakened Metal Head. Jak realized too late and electricity zapped the baby creature. It glowed brightly as if it was absorbing the energy then suddenly it got an overload and burst in a dozen small glowing balls that look like tiny stars. Jak looked on in awe as he watched the tiny stars rise towards the ceiling. He frowned. He didn't see them stop or explode. Instead they they just passed through the rock ceiling...as if there were in open air.
Daxter was scratching his head. Not because he saw stars disappear like ghost though walls, since he couldn't see that, he was confused to why the blue electricity from the Arc Wielder didn't hit the target but stopped in front of the Metal Head.
"That's really weird" Daxter commented
"No kidding" Jak agreed even if he was agreeing on another event entirely.
"Jak!" Daxter pointed to the rising Metal Heads
Jak snapped his mind back to the present. The zapped Metal Heads rose back on their feet and a few new ones joined them. The eggs jiggled more quickly as if they creatures inside were impatient to be born. Jak noticed and kept his gun raised.
Then suddenly screeches and the sickening cracking of eggs opening filled the air. The Metal Head creatures burst from their yellow cocoons, wet in yellow slime, howling in their monstrous screech. Now they were hatching at an alarming rate.
Jak and Daxter looked upon the hatching with wide-eyed fear. There was no way they could face this many Metal Heads just by themselves. Jak switched to his Peace Maker and shot a few Metal Heads at the front. He dared not to use any heavy duty artillery since they could cause a cave in... trapping themselves or killing them if rocks hit them.
The strange creature forgotten, Jak made a decision. Jak switched his gun again and launched a flying disc in the air. The little mini flying saucer, invented by the sweet Tess, spat yellow bullets to the crowd of monsters below. Creatures screeched in anger and in hurt.
Jak wasted no time. He turned and ran.
Metal Heads noticed and in red fury chased after the menacing long eared human.
Use to Jak's movements, Daxter held on accordingly and he looked back to see a wave--no a title wave of Metal Heads chasing after them. The stream had been narrowed by the tunnel they entered but it hadn't slowed their wrath.
Jak morphed his gun yet again and ran full speed towards the glowing Warp Gate. Once near by the gate, Jak skidded to a stop and turned towards the impending danger. Jak pointed skywards and launched his missile. The small missile spat out, curved and slammed into the ceiling. A white flash blinded all the occupants, except Jak and Dax who shielded their eyes and then the mushroom cloud followed.
The Super Nova missile significantly weakened the cave structure and deep cracks raced across the ceiling and walls and chunks of rock followed. Large boulders fell onto of the screeching Metal Heads. Jak, satisfied that he done the worst damage possible to kill these Metal Head creatures he turned to escape through the artificial teleporter .
"JAAAAAAAAK!" Daxter screamed
Jak instantly looked upwards to find a large builder heading towards them. Jak saw they had a split second chance to escape out of harms way.
The spit second chance passed as quickly as it came and the boulder slammed into the ground, followed by other smaller but heavy rocks to complete the job.
To be continued...
Did Jak and Daxter make it out in time or are they pancakes underneath the rock? Find out in the up coming chapter. You never know... anything can happen...
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