I don't own Jak and Daxter or any of it's characters, I only own Avelli, Axel, and her family.

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Jak, Daxter and Axel arrived back in their own timeline and found themselves in the Naughty Ottsel. Once they arrived, they saw Avelli, Kleiver, and Keira at the bar with Tess and her father, and Torn standing in the corner talking to Ashelin.

"We're back!" Daxter walked over to his favorite booth, the one closest to the bar, and sat down. "Damn that was some kind of trip!"

Keira ran over to Axel. "Can I see the time traveler?"

"Oh yeah. I forgot about that." Axel reached down to his belt and took off the strange device. "Here." He handed it to her.

"Thank you!" Keira grabbed it and ran over to the bar where she began to study it.

"We have a problem." Avelli turned to Jak. "The people who came through time when you left where Ashelin's mother and my father. They disappeared when you came back but still."

"Right." Jak sighed.

"We'll just have to look for people who look out of place." Torn walked over to the group. "We'll bring them here and keep an eye on them until you get back, we can't have them walking around and risk ruining the timeline."

Ashelin sighed. "This is going to get so complicated."

"Are you alright?" Avelli asked, grabbing Jak's shoulders.

"Yeah." He nodded, somewhat tired.

"Good." She smiled. "Go and get some sleep before you have to leave again."

Jak walked over towards the booth where Daxter was sitting and sat down. Torn walked over towards the same booth and sat down on the opposite side. Tess hopped over to the group and Samos brought them a few drinks.

"Thanks." Jak sighed.

"No problem my boy." Samos smiled. "I think you deserve it."

Jinx walked into the Naughty Ottsel with a cigar in his mouth and a smile behind it. He walked over towards Avelli who was now talking to Kleiver and patted her backside and quickly slipped his hand into her back pocket, and slipped it back out.

Avelli twitched. "I thought I asked you not to do that anymore Jinx."

"Relax sweetheart!" Jinx moved away from her and laughed. "It's nothin' new! I just wanted to say hi without breakin' up your conversation!"

"Too late." She rolled her eyes. "Anyway," she turned back to Kleiver and began to talk to him.

"That's sick!" Daxter twitched. "He's done it more then once!"

"Hey ladies!" Jinx walked over to the group Jak was in and stood beside the table. "How are all of you doin'?"

"I was fine." Jak looked away from him, somewhat angry at the action he had just performed on his mother's backside.

Axel walked over to the group and hit Jinx playfully. "You're gonna get yourself in trouble doin' that shit around here. Go get a room if you wanna do that."

"Maybe I will." Jinx laughed.

"Ick." Daxter shivered. "Quit talking like that!"

"Sorry rat boy but I'm in a good mood today." Jinx moved his cigar out of his mouth and placed it between his index and middle finger. "Anything I feel like sayin' is gonna come right out."

"Why are you in such a good mood?" Torn asked, looking up towards the blond. "I haven't seen you grin this much in ages."

"I've just finished a little somethin' for a certain someone." Jinx grinned.

"Who?" Daxter asked.

"That," Jinx picked up one of Jak's drinks, "is none of your business."

"Someone's got a girlfriend!" Tess said popping up next to Daxter.

"Do you?" Axel looked towards Jinx.

"Maybe." Jinx took a drink from the glass he had taken from Jak.

Axel moved closer towards Jak. "Let me have your ID's and I'll have Semton fix them up alright?"

"Right." Jak handed him his, and Daxter did the same.

"See ya." Axel walked away from the group and out of the bar.

Avelli looked down towards her watch. "I'd better get going, Louin is at home all alone. I'll see you in a few hours alright?"

"Fine by me." Kleiver moved his right hand. "Yeah I see you tomorrow morning."

Avelli looked towards Jak and locked eyes with him. Instead of coming over to him, she smiled at him, waved, and then walked out of the Naughty Ottsel without saying another word.

"Something is going on," Torn whispered to Jak once Jinx walked over towards the bar. "I haven't seen the two of them act like this in a long time."

"Whatever." Jak rubbed his temples. "I'm gonna go and try to get some sleep."

"Night!" Daxter said happily.

Jak stood up, scooted out from the booth, and walked to a door behind the bar, leading to a small room with a cot in the corner. He walked over to it and flopped down onto it. He rolled onto his left side, facing the wall, and sighed.

"Jakie-kun!"

Dammit. Jak thought, closing his eyes. This is starting to get stupid.


Avelli walked outside and reached back into the back pocket Jinx had reached into earlier. She felt a small piece of paper, grabbed it, and took it out. It was just an ordinary piece of lined paper folded over three times so Avelli opened it to see Jinx's handwriting.

Avelli,

Come over to my place at ten fifteen, I got somethin' I wanna show you.

Avelli closed the letter and looked down towards her watch to make sure she had enough time to make it. Nine fifty-five.

Plenty of time. Avelli thought to herself.


Avelli soon found herself standing outside of Jinx's small house, the same small house he had lived in all of his life. She walked over the fallen trashcans and passed the burning ones until she got to his front door. She reached down into her pocket, found a set of keys and searched through them until she found his house key. The key entered the keyhole, turned, opening the door and allowing her to enter his living room.

"Jinx!" she called out, stepping into the mess filled room. "Jinx where are you?"

"In the garage!" he yelled back.

She walked through his living room, stepping over papers and garbage bags that had yet to be taken out. The kitchen stood behind the living room and she walked through it, while trying not to step on the empty beer cans that coated the floor.

Damn this boy needs to clean. Avelli thought to herself.

Through a in the kitchen, Avelli walked into the dimly lit garage where Jinx stood looking at a large, covered object in the middle of the room. Avelli walked over towards him and placed her hands on her hips.

"So what is it?" she asked playfully.

"This." Jinx walked over to the blanket covering the object in the middle of the room and tore it off.

Underneath the cloth was a large, two seating, white hover car. The front had a small hood ornament on it Avelli couldn't see very well, and sliver lining on it surrounding the entire car. The interior was lined with red and black upholstery and sliver buttons on and around the dashboard.

"Jinx…" Avelli covered her mouth in shock and walked over to the car. "Sweet Mar, Jinx you fixed it."

"Yeah." Jinx scratched the back of his head. "It took me five years but I finally finished it. I, uh, want you to have it."

"I couldn't take this," Avelli said, still a bit breathless. "You've worked so hard on it."

Jinx walked behind her. "I worked hard on it 'cause I wanted to give it to you before you left."

Avelli turned around to him with the look of surprise on her face. Seeing how she was looking at him, Jinx tuned his head a bit and blushed.

"Ya know 'cause you always said you wanted a car like this and I found this one. I fixed it up the way you said you wanted it from when you were younger so I did it as a going away present. I know there's a slim chance I'll ever see you again in person so I figured this would be the best way for you to 'emember me."

"Jinx," Avelli looked away, "I didn't know that you felt that way, I'm sorry."

"I've been feelin' this way ever since Louin told me you were leaving. Mog and Grim wanna see you off too." Jinx walked over towards her.

"I almost forgot about them." Avelli looked back up at him. "I should have told you I was leaving instead of just taking off like that, I'm sorry."

"I know how you can make it up to me." Jinx reached down into his pocket and pulled out a pair of keys. "How 'bout you take me out for a little spin to make sure it works?"

Avelli smiled. "Alright then. Hurry up and get in."

Jinx ran over to the front of the garage and opened the door, pushing it upwards. Avelli started the car and carefully eased it out of the garage then allowing Jinx to close it back up and jump into the passenger's seat.

"Ready?" she asked looking over towards him.

"Yeah." He leaned back into the chair.

"Put your damn seatbelt on, you know I don't drive with unbuckled gun bearers," she teased, revving the engine.

"Fine, fine." Jinx reached over his shoulder and pulled the seat belt over his chest. "Happy now sweetheart?"

"Perfectly." She grinned.


"Hey Daxter," Torn looked towards the rat, "did you notice anything strange goin' on with Jak?"

"No." The Ottsel shook his head. "Why?"

"He's just acting a little off the mark." Torn shook his head and took a shot.

"Well a lot has happened to him," Tess said, coming into the conversation. "His father just passed, he lost the girl he likes, he found his mother, and he's being thrown back and forth between timelines. Damn that is a lot."

Axel walked back into the Naughty Ottsel and walked over to Daxter. "Here, Semton fixed your ID's and made them permanent. Give your partner the other one when he wakes up, something's come up so I can't do it."

"What came up?" Torn asked.

"Something not concerning you," Axel answered.

"Hey!" Torn hissed.

Axel turned away from the group and walked away before anyone could say or do anything else. Torn shook his head and turned back to the bar as Daxter sighed and watch the door to the Naughty Ottsel close tightly.


Avelli and Jinx had been driving around for an hour, driving around people, pissing people off, and laughing the whole time. When things in the car got suddenly quiet, Avelli pulled in the alleyway where the Underground Headquarters used to be. She shut off the engine and sighed.

"Jinx," she turned to him, "I want you to come with Louin and I when we leave."

"Nah." Jinx moved and put his feet on the dashboard. "I have'ta stay here."

"Why?" Avelli moved away from the wheel and completely faced him. "Why can't you come with us?"

"Why don't you just stay here?"

Avelli moved back into her seat and lowered her head. "Because every time I turn around here I see something from my past. Being here I remember how you and I used to hide here all the time before you moved our headquarters down into the sewers."

"What about Spargus? You could take over queen there and help Jak." Jinx looked at Avelli through the corner of his eyes.

"There's too much there." Avelli shook her head. "Besides if people find out that I'm Jak's mother he'll lose the crown."

"Forgot about that." Jinx sighed.

Avelli cracked a quick smile. "You know what tomorrow is?"

"How the hell could I forget?" Jinx leaned his head over the seat. "Damn that was one hell of a day."

"Our wedding day." Avelli leaned back against the seat. "I'm sorry if I ruined that day for you."

"We never would have worked out anythin' as a couple back then anyways." Jinx closed his eyes. "You think we could now?"

It was silent. Avelli moved towards the steering wheel, and placed her head on the top of it while Jinx kept his eyes closed. She leaned in towards the steering wheel, gripping it tightly with her hands when she pressed the horn, causing them to both jump.

"I'm sorry." Avelli laughed a bit.

"We'd better start headin' back. Cricket is gonna be here soon and he wants to talk to you before you leave." Jinx reached back and grabbed his seat belt once more.

"Really?" Avelli blinked. "How long have you known this?"

"A week." Jinx grinned. "He asked me not to tell ya but hey," he shrugged, "I don't care."

Avelli started the car once more, revving it a few times to make sure it would start once more. Jinx grinned and looked around, remembering how he and Avelli always came here to hang out with one another.

"Hey Avelli," he began, "if it were back then, I'd—"

The engine cut off his voice, and Avelli couldn't read his lips because he was looking away from her. Figuring that she would have heard it if she was meant to, she pressed down on the gas once more and zoomed out of the alley and back into traffic.

"Listen to her purr." Jinx grinned.

"Thanks Jinx." Avelli smiled as she rounded around traffic.

A small beeping filled the air as they stopped for traffic. Avelli looked down towards her watch and pushed a small button.

"Yeah?" She asked.

"Avelli," it was Axel, "Metal Heads are roamin' around down here! You gotta get over here!"

"Metal Heads?" Avelli asked, looking at her watch strangely. "I thought we finished all of those things off! Where are you?"

"So did I! Sig and I are down in Haven Forest. Hurry up and get down here already!"

Click.

"Damn." Avelli made a sharp u-turn and pressed down on the gas. "Are you coming or do you want me to drop you off?"

"I'm comin'!" Jinx grinned. "'Sides I got another present sittin' in the back for you that might come in handy."


"Jak! Jak!!"

The hero opened his eyes and turned over to see Torn standing in the doorway, breathing heavily.

"What?" Jak answered tiredly.

"We've spotted Metal Heads down in Haven Forest!" Torn walked into the room and over to the corner. "Hurry up and get ready! Avelli, Axel, Jinx, and Sig are all down there holding them back as well as they can."

"Crap." Jak stood up and stretched his arms over his head.

"Here." Torn tossed Jak a large gun. "Jinx was fixing it up for you but it should work fine. Hurry up and get down there."

Jak tossed the gun over his shoulder and walked out of the room. Blinded by the light coming from the bar lights, he covered his eyes and slowly grew used to them. He walked over to the table where Daxter was sleeping next to Tess.

"Come on Dax." He shook the small Ottsel. "Wake up."

Daxter sat up and yawned. "What is it Jak buddy?"

"We gotta go." Jak picked Daxter up and placed him on his shoulder.

"Where?" Daxter asked, rubbing his eyes.

"To fight some Metal Heads." Jak answered, laughing a bit.

"Metal Heads?!" Daxter repeated, waking Tess. "I thought we got rid of all of the Metal Heads!!"

"So did I." Jak sighed.

The two walked out of the Naughty Ottsel to see that it was still dark outside. Jak found a car sitting outside of the bar and jumped on it. He turned the key, and the car began to run and he drove off towards the forest.


When the two arrived in the forest, and headed back towards the large tree where Jak had once protected the younger version of Samos. There he saw large Metal Heads he had fought once before and they were firing their dark eco out towards the small group of fighters.

"Avelli!" Jak yelled out as he ran over towards them.

"It's about time boy!" Sig yelled, firing his peacemaker. "What the hell took you so long?"

"Sorry." Jak moved the gun Torn had given him towards a Metal Head when Jinx grabbed the barrel and pulled it backwards.

"It ain't gonna work pretty boy," Jinx said. "I'm not done fixin' up that gun."

"Dammit." Jak tossed it down onto the floor beside him.

"Here." Jinx handed him a different, larger gun. "Somethin' I was savin' for another time but now looks pretty good."

"Right." Jak rolled his eyes.

The whole group began firing at the Metal Heads but they didn't seem to stop coming. No matter how many they killed more and more just kept coming.

"Shit." Avelli moved towards Sig. "How the hell are we going to keep this up? We're gonna run out of ammo soon."

"Maybe if we kill the leader we'll get rid of these babies." Sig fired once more.

"The leader?" Axel asked. "Gonna be hard with all of these wanderin' around here don't ya think?"

"We have to find it," Avelli hissed. "We'll never get out of here if we don't."

"Calm down I'll go look for it." Sig began to move in towards the Metal Heads.

"Hold on!" Avelli ran over to him. "I'm coming with you!"

"Hell no stay where you are." Sig turned away.

"I'm going!" Avelli yelled.

"Quit trying to throw your damn life away!" Sig turned towards her. "Damn I don't know what's goin' through your mind but you'd better figure out what you're doin'! You keep pushing yourself dammit and you're gonna get hurt!"

"Shut the hell up!!" Avelli turned towards him as well. "I'll do whatever the hell I want! Where do you get off—"

"Can we focus a bit?" Jak asked over the sound of gunfire.

"Dammit Sig if you die," Avelli bit her lip, "I—"

A purple Metal Head shot hit Avelli, throwing her backwards, passed Jak, Jinx, and Axel. Sig stood there, watching, and then turned around and began firing once more as if nothing had happened.

"Avelli," Jak whispered.

Her body hit the ground and rolled to a stop at the base of the tree. Blood came from where she had been hit, and poured onto the ground underneath her, changing the color from green to dark red. She wasn't moving.

"Avelli!" Jak yelled.


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