Chapter 9: Final Battle against Kor

The group minus Shockwave, due to him losing an arm to Errol, arrived in the wasteland area that led into the old nest which seemed strangely deserted, but unfortunately nothing is ever easy.

Suddenly Metal Heads of all sizes come out of nowhere and heads towards the group.

"Been nice knowing you Jak." says Daxter as he hops off of Jak's shoulder and goes Dark.

"We're not dead yet Dax." replies Jak at which he pulls out the Peace Maker, Naruto Scattergun, Ratchet Ryno V, and Skyler turns his right arm into a eco cannon resembling Shockwave's cannon.

Soon it's a massive weapon/fist fight against hordes of Metal Heads and from Blackout's point-of-view it looks hopeless. You can hear the dying screams of the Metals, the sound of heavy weapon rounds being discharged, the sound of pain from our heroes being injured, the sound of claws and swords ripping thru flesh.

Within five hours, there's thousands of dead Metal Heads littering the battlefield with only one hero still conscious, the others are severely hurt and unconscious.

"This is worse then the Zerg! Get off me! [Puts cannon into Metal Head mouth and fires] Can't keep this up!" says Skyler as he defends a small position where his friends are unconscious and is taking the full force of the Metals on.

"Skyler, you there?" came Torn's voice over his com-link.

"Yeah! Please tell me we've got reinforcements on the way."

"You do, but you have to hold out for at least another ten minutes."

"WHAT?! Everybody but me is unconscious and you expect me to hold out for another ten minutes?! I'm getting injured and I don't know…[Fires round into Metal Head mouth]…how much longer I can even hold out!"

"Yeah."

"[Growls and slices off Metal's head] FINE!"

TEN MINUTES LATER:

Skyler fell to his knees as the last once of strength left his beaten body. The Eco Cannon fell apart from his right arm revealing a blue glowing skeletal arm that slowly began to regenerate the skin.

"Torn…if I make it out of this…I'll so cut your head off…" said Skyler as he fell to the ground and watched as Metal Heads began to boldly, yet slowly, advance on him.

Suddenly Skyler saw Freedom League troops advance on the Metals and were beating them back and then Skyler saw Torn approach.

"You…have…some serious…tendency for being late…"

A few hours later the group awoke inside of a Medical Tent and Skyler stepped in with his right arm bandaged up but the bright blue blood he had was very visible on the cloth and the group except Mike winced when they saw the bony fingers sticking out.

"Glad you guys are awake. Starting to worry about all of you."

"Brother, what happened to your arm?" said Mike getting up with his Wolf-pine tail drooped.

"Jak, I have a piece of advice for you: If you learn how to form Eco weapons, don't hold them if they form on your arm when you're about to pass out or you'll lose some skin. Also I'm not sure if I'll be joining in for the fight with Kor."

"What?! You're not coming with?! Aw man! Great! There goes our heavy hitter." cried Daxter jumping up.

"I said "I'm not sure", I didn't say I wasn't going Daxter. Clean your ears fleabag."

THIRTY MINUTES LATER:

Jak, Daxter, Naruto, Ratchet and Mike enter the nest and battle their way thru dozens of Stinger Metals, which wasn't very fun for any of them, and finally arrive in Kor's chamber.

"I see you've made it this far, but none of you are leaving here alive!" yells Kor as he drops down in front of the group.

Suddenly the ground starts shaking and it throws everybody off balance.

"Hey! W-what's going on?!" yells Daxter from Jak's shoulder.

His question is answered when a huge metal creature burst from the ground and someplace on its back opens up, revealing a giant Shockwave with a black & orange robot with black dreadlocks and blue eyes.

"Haven't used this mech in a while, but at least now I'm on even terms with you Kor!" said the robot with Skyler's voice.

"Skyler?! When did you get a giant robot body?!" yelled Daxter.

"I built this mech to match against Decepticons when I fought them. Now I get to have fun with it again." replied Skyler bringing out two pairs of white-hot wristblades.

Suddenly Daxter felt that being on Jak's shoulder wasn't the best course of action and got down and went Dark as Jak became Giant Dark Jak.

Naruto switched his Morph Gun to Blaster and began to dodge Dark Blasts from Kor while firing rounds at him. Ratchet began to fire the Ryno V while also dodging Kor's attacks. Mike became a long range artillery with his quills which he learned could be formed into different weapons and mostly formed them into Javelins which he fired at Kor with his tail and moved to a different spot with each shot.

Skyler charged Kor and Kor barely managed to avoid the wrist-blades and deliver a counterattack. Kor was beginning to think that maybe revealing himself to the heroes was a bad idea as Giant Dark swung a clawed hand, severing an arm. Suddenly Kor felt his left side get ripped open and saw that Skyler had turned his fist into brass-knuckles and slammed it thru his flesh.

"Kor time for you to meet the Void." said Skyler as he tossed a Void Grenade and Kor caught it.

The grenade explodes pulling Kor into its vortex.

"Everybody into the Void!" says Skyler as he is the first into the void, followed by Shockwave and Driller, then Giant Dark Jak, Dark Daxter, Naruto, Ratchet and Clank, then Mike.

The eight that followed Skyler found themselves in the desolate wasteland and they saw Kor looking around panically and saw the ruined Star Destroyer pass over them.

"That again? Wow! Guess this place doesn't end." said Dark Dax as Kor turned around and noticed them.

"Where is he?! Where'd he go?!" yelled Kor with fear in his voice.

Suddenly they felt the ground beneath them rumble and a large shadow appeared behind them. Everyone looks behind them to see a giant hovering over them and realize its Skyler. Then they all see two giant metal heads snake out of his back and both approach the group and look at them.

"My aren't you all interesting creatures." says the blue-eyed one.

"Shut up! I say we kill them!" yells the orange-eyed one and growls at the group.

"SHUT UP! [Grabs both of the heads and slams them together] Blaze! Hunter! Can't either of you ever get along or even agree?! Sorry guys, but these two are very annoying in this realm!" says Skyler as he seems to be steaming over the two.

"Sir you've hurt me!" says Blaze as he seems to bow his head in shame.

"Bah!" says Hunter looking away.

"That's enough! You two want to do something? Attack Kor!" says Skyler pointing at Kor who takes a few steps back.

"With pleasure!" says Hunter darkly as he detaches and lunges for Kor.

"Wait for me!" says Blaze as he does the same.

The two metal snakes dive into the earth, along with Driller, and begin to snake around Kor as he begins to panic and starts shooting Dark Eco blasts blindly. Suddenly Kor hears a gun cock and sees Shockwave aiming his cannon at him and his heart races as the round come flying at him, and he puts his tail in the way to block it but the tail explodes to pieces leaving Kor defenseless.

"MY TURN!" says Giant Dark Jak as he grabs Kor by the throat.

"W-wait! If you kill me, my Metal Heads will go insane! They'll destroy everything that's still standing!" says Kor as he sees a clawed hand being lifted up for a final blow.

"TOO BAD!" says Dark as he slices Kor's head off.


After leaving the Void, they arrive back in the nest to hear the sounds of screaming. Running outside they see Metal Heads attacking anything and everything with dozens of shredded Freedom League soldiers along with Torn who is bisected, in the distance they see smoke rising from Haven and see dozens of League transports being shoot out of the sky and over their com-links hear the sounds of dying. Suddenly time freezes.

"Skyler is this your doing?" asks Jak looking at him.

"No. I can tell if its natural time control or artifical. This is artifical." says Skyler and then suddenly points his Eco Cannon at a stranger behind him in a clock-shaped suit with one arm being bigger than the other.

"Easy, Mr. Skyler. I've been sent to pick you up seeing as how Mr. Ratchet couldn't do it. Somebody's messed with the time stream as I'm sure you've noticed." said the figure.

"Yeah, I've noticed. Mind telling everybody else your name before we get on with this?"

"[Smacks forehead] Oh, where are my manners? My name is Dr. N. Tropy. Come we've got much to do. Don't worry once we're done everything will return to normal. Originally the Metal Heads were supposed to retreat but somebody messed with time and you'll see once we arrive at our destination. Hurry along now." said Tropy as he opened a portal and everybody, including Blackout, Scorpio, Scorponok, Shockwave, and Driller, entered the portal.

END STORY