Chapter 2: 10 years later
Naruto was leaning on one of the Naughty Ottsel's walls lost in his thought, it had been 10 years since his friend had been sent into the Wasteland by Krew, but the guy still hadn't come back and he, Jak and Daxter during their stay in the Wasteland hadn't seen the guy either, he even asked the Precursor monks in the Wasteland if they had seen a black haired raptor hybrid, but all he got was a quick shove out the door by Seem, Samos and the new Dark Eco sage Tym had fainted when he asked them, Onin had had a heart attack and was now at the Haven City Medical Facility and all she had been able to "say" was "the destroyer of worlds". Getting up he was heading back inside when he suddenly found himself in a headlock and being given a noggie when a familiar voice spoke up.
"How you been doing kid?", the voice sounded familiar, but it didn't sound right though. Freeing himself, he looked at the guy. The guy was about a foot taller than Sig, had about the same muscular build as Sig, was clad in blue armor, but had no armor on his arms, was bare foot, had black hair with black dread locks on the back and sides of his head (dread locks; look at Predators or Knuckles from Sonic), he also had piercing orange eyes that he had to look away from, and sharp white teeth that looked like small daggers. The guy also had 2 scars: the first one was a very noticeable eye scar on his right eye, the second was 4 claw marks on his right cheek. Looking at his claws he saw they matched the scar, but he remembered only clawing two guys, one was a now deceased Krimzon, the other was a friend who he clawed by accident. He also noticed a piece of metal in the guy's left shoulder, but he couldn't see what it was covering. Getting annoyed at the guy he let out a soft growl, but was surprised to see a hurt look on the guy's face.
"Naruto, I can't believe you would growl at me. Your first friend in Haven, but maybe….you don't recognize me do you, kid?"
Shaking his head and turning around he decided he had had enough of dealing with this guy and was preparing to head into the Daxter's bar when he heard a raptor-like roar come from behind him and found himself in another headlock being given another noggie, this time the voice was dead-on, calm but also battle-hardened.
"Now do you recognize me, kid?"
"Yeah", he replied while reaching up and wrapping his arms around the guy's neck, he then threw over his shoulder and pounced on the guy. Within seconds a dust cloud swallowed the two and soon noises that sounded like a fox vs. a raptor erupted from the cloud. A loud whistle pierced the air, and the dust cloud went away revealing a pinned Naruto with a raptor-like metal-tipped tail in his mouth and both arms pinned to his back with a tall black-haired raptor-hybrid man with Naruto's tail in his mouth and pinning Naruto's arms to his back.
"What in the name of the Precursors is going on here?!" yelled a ticked off Daxter jumping off Jak's shoulder.
Spitting out the guy's tail Naruto replied, "Hey Jak, remember 10 years ago the guy that grabbed Daxter and you forced him to drop him and he looked you in the eyes, but he broke away and went to one of the booths and curled up like a dog?"
"Yeah."
"Well, this is him." Both Jak and Daxter's mouths dropped looking at the guy, he looked to be about 24, but 10 years ago he looked 24.
"What are you? Immortal?!" yelled Daxter at the guy. The guy spit out Naruto's tail and helped him up then turned to Daxter.
"Sort of, in a way. My name is Skyler.", the hybrid now looked like a human, but his eyes made Daxter very nervous. Skyler approached Jak, locking his gaze, "Heard much about you Jak defeated Metal Kor, defeated Cyber Errol, destroyed the Day Star, killed Mizo, even went to the Brink and got the world back in order. Impressive." The man looked away then looked back at Jak "I will make you break your gaze with me one day Jak." After the guy walked inside the bar Jak spoke up.
"Jeez, what's his problem?"
"He's still mad about being beaten by you 10 years ago" Naruto replied.
"He holds a grudge that long?"
"Yeah sometimes longer."
Walking inside the bar, they saw the guy hanging from the ceiling with the tail wrapped around him. Daxter was getting ready to say something when a hand clapped him in the mouth seeing that it was Jak he went quiet.
Time Skip: The Next Day
Skyler woke up and went to one of the bar stools, he asked Naruto for water with Krew's "special brew", he nodded and went to a secret compartment that Daxter during the remodeling hadn't found and removed a bottle that you could clearly see had Dark Eco in it. Daxter at seeing this grabbed from the fox.
"Are you CRAZY Naruto?! This stuff could kill anybody if they drink it!"
Both Skyler and Naruto looked at each other and started laughing, putting a puzzled look on Daxter's face.
"You don't know anything about Skyler do you Dax?"
"Uhhh-"
"Sorry Dax, but its what Krew used to put in my water when I didn't listen to him."
Daxter's mouth dropped at hearing this and the bottle fell out of his hand and was grabbed by the guy's tail and opened and half the bottle was poured into the water and the guy drank the mug without any side effects.
"Uhhhhh-"
"BURRRP" A small amount of greenish-orange fire erupted from Skyler's mouth covering Daxter who was now burnt to a crisp, but alive.
"Uh, Dax?"
"Yeah, Skyler"
"Ya may want to jump into the port."
"Why?"
"Fire's acidic, but if you want to risk it, don't blame me when your fur starts melting off your back."
"Wait, WHAT?!"
"3,2,1.…"
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHH! IT F#$%^ING BURNS!"
"Jump in water."
Running as fast as he could Daxter jumped into the port and returned all soaking wet with Jak, Naruto, and Skyler laughing, pointing at Skyler, "I hate you." and then fell on his back unconscious. Suddenly Jak and Naruto's communicators went off with Torn's voice coming through "Jak, Naruto I need you guys here now! We got two problems both of them serious!"
"Okay we're coming. Uh, mind if we bring a friend?" Jak asked uneasily.
"Fine just get your butts over here!"
Within minutes they were at the Freedom League HQ, upon entering the command room, Torn looked up and pulled out his own Vulcan Fury and had it aimed out Skyler.
"What is that freak doing here?!" Yelled Torn.
"Torn calm down! He's a friend." Naruto replied trying to calm the ex-Krizmon down.
"Not the last time I checked!"
"What do you mean, Torn?" Jak asked.
"He-" before anyone blinked Skyler had his hand over Torn's mouth.
"Listen Torn, I don't care what you still think about me, but I'll tell them when I think its time to, okay?"
Torn nodded and put his gun away and Skyler removed his hand.
"Now the reason I called, we have received reports of a large Metal Head group heading towards the new eco mine, and I want the four of you to take them out."
"Yay, more Metal Heads to kill, can't wait!" Daxter said, for once, happily.
With the four gone Torn remembered why the guy disappeared from Krimzon reports…
FLASH BACK:
"Commander Torn get up here!"
"Yes Baron."
The guy in the solitary confinement room was in pain probably from the shrapnel still sticking out of his arms which Torn cold here the guy screaming and yelling to help him. Now in the observation booth with the Baron and another KG, they watched as the guy pulled the large chunks of shrapnel from himself and fling them to the wall and screaming and bleeding glowing blue blood. After all 5 chunks were removed something…happened. The man got a visible orange aura around him, claws grew, his eyes went from orange to blood red and started to tear the room apart and yelling he would kill everyone and clawing at the metal wall along with trying to bust down the reinforced Precursor metal door.
"I think I'm gonna be sick." the Baron said as he left the room along with Torn who halfway out did hurl, but the third figure just watched with a cruel smile on his face, running out the door he caught up with Praxis and spoke.
"Praxis we can use him against the Metal Heads to win this war!"
"No, Errol. He's too uncontrollable, when he's done release him."
Errol was mad that the Praxis had rejected his idea, but would soon find somebody else to toy with.
FLASH BACK END
Shaking his head, Torn knew the guy was good, but something didn't feel right, namely the reappearance of this guy along with the KG death bots and Metal Heads, he began to think things over.
The four had arrived at the new eco mine only to find a few thousand Metals in the outside of the mine, but luckily the Metals hadn't spotted them yet. Trying to get past the two outside guards they let Skyler take them out, watching as he suddenly was behind them and snapped one's neck like a twig and grabbing the other one and twisting its neck and spine in different directions then bending the body in opposite directions then ripping it in two. They then went inside the mine only to be greeted by the entire Metal Head group, pulling out an unknown type weapon, that seemed to resemble a Vulcan Fury, but look like it had bigger rounds, Skyler pulled the trigger instead of looking like rounds flying out it looked more like a beam weapon obliterating any Metal Heads in its path, but it soon turned into an all-out fist fight against the Metals with Daxter becoming Dark Daxter (he gained the ability after the Brink adventure) and all four tag-teaming against the Metals.
Within 18 hours they had cleared the small cave of Metals, but with everybody hurt and low on ammo, 3 of them collapsing and the fourth carrying them back to base.
Torn was beginning to wonder why they were taking so long, suddenly the door flew open and in walked a wounded Skyler carrying a wounded Jak and Naruto on his shoulders and a wounded Daxter with the tail, setting them down gently the guy walked over to him, "Mission complete Oh High and Mighty Commander Torn, goodnight everybody!" and the guy spun around and fell to the ground, chuckling he ordered a medical team to deal with the four.
End Chapter
Sorry if this chapter seemed long and not very exciting, but trying to get story done in head and by the way I own none of the Predator or Sonic Franchises, any thing you recognize from other stories or games are just added in.
