Slarti: Well this is the second chapter of the day
Jen: We're leaving
Slarti: What?! Why?!
Church: Oh, don't pop a vessel. It's only for a week, we're going on vacation.
Slarti: Vacation? Where? And why didn't I know about this?
Jen: We're going to Rome and you didn't know because it's a vacation from you.
Church: Bye *takes off out the door with Jen*
Slarti:...sniff...I'm all alone. I think I'm gonna cry...I don't own.
Krew and Sig spun around when they heard the door open for the second time in as many minutes, "Back already…ah!" He cut himself off when he saw who it was. "My dear Cynder. I haven't seen you in two years, mm? I was beginning to wonder if you had forgotten me," he falsely bemoaned, putting a hand to his heart in pretend hurt.
"Aww, I could never forget you, Krewsie!" Sin cooed. "And I thought I told you not to call me Cynder?"
"Old habits die hard, my dear," Krew said with a shrug. "You can give the ore to Sig, ey."
Sin tossed the two bags to Sig who took them into a back room. "So, how's Rayne?" she asked as she slid into one of the bar seats.
"She was worried when she didn't hear from you. But now I guess she can rest easy, ey." Krew floated closer to the girl, "Where were you, mm?"
"Locked up in the Baron's prison with Jak and Elle."
"What were you doing there?" Krew asked, surprised.
"Ever heard of the Dark Warrior Program?" She asked. Krew nodded, "There's your answer."
"You volunteered for that?"
Sin snorted, "Yeah right, more like Erol was having a bad day and decided to torture the first person he ran into. Unfortunately, it just happened to be me and E."
"And the other boy…Jak?"
"He was already there." It was then that Sig decided to reappear.
"Kid's on his way back," he informed them. "He got a pretty good score on the course…for a rookie."
"Sig, go grab the plasma pistol in the back, ey?" The man nodded and took off again.
"Plasma pistol?" Sin asked.
"It's for you, mm. Can't have my girl traipsing around unprotected, can I?"
"I'm not unprotected!" she argued. "I've got my sword!" she patted the blade resting on her hip.
"Never the less, you will take it. A sword is not enough protection, ey." Sig walked back over to the two and handed Sin the gun. She glared at the weapon before sighing in defeat, "Fine. I'll keep the fuckin gun."
"Heh, that's my girl," Krew said before zooming over to the door as it opened and Jak and Dax walked in. "Excellent shooting, Jak!" said blond blinked, how did Krew know his name? He looked at Sin, who had magically appeared at his side, and she smirked at him as Krew continued. "Ever thought of being a wastelander, mm?"
Westelander? "Can't say that I have."
Krew seemed to understand his lack of knowledge and explained a bit, "Wastelanders find items for me outside the city walls, ey. Any artifact or weapon worth having comes through my hands. Work for me and I'll throw some of the sweeter items your way, hmm?
Jak smirked, "Kill metal heads? Get toys? Sounds good to me, hey Sin?"
"Don't gotta ask me twice."
"Slow down Jak, Sin, and the fat man!" Dax yelled from Jak's shoulder. "You three had better run that by me again. Cause there's no way I'm goin outside the city to face more metal heads!"
Sin grinned at the enraged ottsel, "Suffer." Daxter gaped at her.
Krew chuckled and gestured to Sig, "Sig will show you the ropes."
Sig stepped forward, "So, you wanna be wastelanders, huh doughboys? Well, we'll see what you're made of when we get out in the thick," he explained. "Krew wants some new trophies to put butts in chairs at the Hip Hog. So I'm gonna bag him five nasty metal heads at the pumping station."
Jak and Sin grinned at each other while Daxter gulped. Sig laughed and said, "Don't wet your fur, chili pepper, cause we're rollin' with the Peace Maker!" He grabbed his gun displayed the weapon to them.
"Woooh!" Daxter exclaimed with a huge smile. "I need one of those! Where'd you get it?"
Krew chose this moment to interrupt, "Don't ask. Sig needs someone to watch his back while he tracks the metal heads, ey."
"We'll meet at the pumping station," Sig continued. "Listen Cherries, don't you leave me dangling in the wind out there!"
"Lets do it," Jak said, eager to get going.
"Of course," said Sin. "But first, I need to take a whiz." She took of in the direction of the bathroom. "I'll be right back!" she yelled over her shoulder before disappearing through a door.
Half an hour later they arrived at that pumping station and located Sig secluded behind a few palm trees. He turned to them and grinned. "Hello Cherries. Ready to hunt a few metal heads?" Daxter shook his head but was ignored. "Follow me, stick close, and watch my six. This is gonna be fun!" He took of and Jak and Sin followed, cutting down metal heads one by one.
Sin thought back to the gun Krew had given her and shook her head. I told him I didn't need it she thought. Unfortunately fate didn't seem to agree with her because as soon as she had finished that though Sig's Peace Maker shorted out and the metal heads swarmed. She hacked most of them to pieces and saw that Jak had killed all of his as well. She was about to relax when she saw one last metal head sneaking up on Sig, who was still working on his gun. She was too far away and Jak's blaster would have hit Sig as well as the creature. "Shit," she mumbled as she pulled out her pistol. She fired as soon as the metal head had pounced, hitting it square in the head and killing it instantly. "I hate it when Krew's right," she said as she tucked the pistol away. Sig stood up, with a fixed Peace Maker, and nodded his thanks and gestured to the patrolling metal head on a ledge.
"There's the last one. Stand back." They nodded and took a few steps back as Sig started charging his gun. As soon as it had reached full capacity he fired and down went the last metal head. "Boom! Home team 5, metal heads nothing!" He turned to the trio and said, "That was the last one. Tell Krew we got 'em all cooked and canned. I'm gonna clean Peace Maker and collect the trophies. Ya did good rookies." Sin and Jak nodded and took off.
Halfway through the water slums Sin stopped. Jak looked back when he realized she was no longer with him, "Sin?" Instead of answering, however, she started digging trough her pouch. "What are you doing?"
"Eighteen."
Jak was confused, "Eighteen…what?"
"Metal head skull gems," she said like it was the most obvious thing in the world. Jak's eyes then widened in realization and he immediately checked his pouch.
"Twelve," he mumbled, Sin had won this round.
"That's enough," she said. "It only asked for twenty five."
They approached the hut and entered to find the precursor statue waiting, not that it could actually go anywhere.
"Where do we put the skull gems?" Sin whispered to Jak. He shrugged, "In front of it, I guess." They set the gems down and jumped back when the precursor's eyes suddenly lit up. Twin beams of dark eco shot out of it's mouth and hit both Jak and Sin in the chest.
"You do well to rid the world of this metal head scourge. As a reward I grant you a dark power." Jak and Sin were forcefully changed into their dark forms and released from the beams. Jak jumped into the air and, upon landing, released a powerful pulse of dark energy and Sin held up her hands, which were now surrounded by dark purple lightning. She smirked and looked over to where Daxter was cowering in the corner. She pointed a finger at him and sent a harmless spark of lightning at him, causing him to jump about ten feet with a squeal of terror. He clambered onto Jak's shoulder and glared at the snickering girl. "Not funny!"
Sin and Jak changed back and Sin laughed harder at the ottsel's frazzled appearance. "I thought it was!" Daxter glowered and looked to Jak for help only to find the blond laughing behind his hand. "TRAITOR!" he bellowed right in Jak's ear making the elf cringe.
"Sorry," he said.
"Yeah, well, just don't do it again," he muttered and the three took off.
Slarti: Well, that's it. Looks like we learned a bit about Sin's past in these chapters. I hope you enjoyed this. Please review, they give me reason to go on.