Chapter 11: The Scitzafranic

It had been three months since Jak's great escape. Kristine had brought him to the Underground base. He had successfully passed all of Torn's tests with ease, though Daxter was another story. When he had met Krew, he hadn't been afraid, however Daxter had been extremely afraid. He had thought that Krew would actually eat him. Today they were headed towards the pumping station, where they had to save one of Torn's old military buddies. As they reached their destination, all that was there was a Krimson Guard cruiser. Suddenly a woman jumped behind Jak. Out of instinct, Kristine attacked her for attacking Jak. When both women had their guns pulled out and pointed towards each other, Kristine had found out it was none other than Ashelin.

"Ashelin?" she asked

"Kristine?" Ashelin asked, "Well it looks like Torn was right about you. You are a good fighter."

"Sorry." Kristine apologized

Shaking her head Ashelin said, "Don't be." Then she looked at Jak, "Who's he?"

"This is Jak and the furry thing on his shoulder is Daxter." Kristine replied.

"He's you're friend that you needed to get out of prison?" she asked

"Yep."

"I see why." Ashelin replied, as she looked Jak over.

"Ashelin, Jak and I are only friends. So get those dirty thoughts out of your head." Kristine said while placing her hands on her hips.

"Dirty thoughts!" Daxter exclaimed, "What dirty thoughts?"

"Uh-huh." Ashelin said, as Kristine rolled her eyes.

"What a dang dong second!" Daxter yelled out, "You two know each other?"

"Yeah." Ashelin replied

"How?" Jak asked

"It's a long story, however we don't have time."

"Why?" Jak asked

"Because of them." she said pointing towards a whole army of metal heads, both cat-like, crab-heads, and scorpion metal heads alike.

Kristine pulled out her sonic gun and began shooting the large crab-heads, while Jak pulled out his blaster. The three of them began to shoot every single monster in sight. Within seconds metal head brains, guts, and blood was on everything, including them.

Suddenly Jak stopped and grabbed his chest. His skin began to turn deathly pale, talons began to take the place of his fingers, black, soulless eyes took the place of his beautiful creane blue eyes, as two large, black horns bulged their way through his skull to the top of his head. When the transformation was complete Jak was no longer standing there. Instead, there stood a monster from your worse nightmares. He looked up at the Metal Heads, who were no longer interested in the two women; seeing how he was a much greater threat. The monster gave a sadistic smile at the creatures, before he attacked them. He slashed, disremembered, gutted and tore into them. Kristine even swore that she saw him bite and suck the blood from one.

After about twenty minutes after the battle started it ended within the five that the monster had been there. After all the creatures where dead he stopped and began to look around. He spotted Kristine standing there with an unknown red headed woman. He began to walk towards them, this made Ashelin nervous. She pulled out her pistol and pointed it at him.

"Ashelin don't!" Kristine yelled, "He's only seeing if you're a threat to him. He doesn't really have Jak's memories of you being a threat or not."

The monster continued to watch them and listened to them. Suddenly, as if coming to a decision about the situation he began to shrink in size and in minutes, where the monster once stood, Jak was now standing and looking extremely exhausted.

Ashelin put away her pistol and walked towards her cruiser. "Kristine, tell Torn that the Baron is up to something." she said, "And whatever it is, it's big." Pulling out a golden sword she threw it at Kristine. "Keep it. You'll need it, however, do be careful.

Kristine looked at the gold and silver sword. "Hey, what's that?" Daxter asked curiously.

"It's the sword of Shiva." she said, "She was Mar's wife. It's charged with both yellow and red eco."

"How?" Jak asked

"Nobody knows." she replied, "It only activates when a direct descendant uses it and it only allows that descendant to use it."

"You'll need to go and see the old soothsayer in the Bazzar for more information on what's going on and possibly on how to activate that sword." Ashelin said, "It just may be the key in saving this city." Ashelin then tossed them a pass in which Jak caught.

"Let's go Jak." Kristine said

"Yeah, ole Tattoo Wonder may have some new missions for us." Daxter said

"Don't call Torn that." Kristine said in Torn defense as she entered the city.

Jak looked at Daxter who was very puzzled in what he had said to make her mad. "What'd I say?" he asked obliviously.

As they entered the Underground Torn looked up from a map on the table and said, "Jak, I've got another mission for you and Kristine."

"Who or what do we have to blow up, disremember, and/or kill." Jak said with a smirk.

Torn shook his head. Clearly not amused by this. "I need you three to help Vin."

"Vin?" Jak asked

"NOT AGAIN!" Kristine cried

"Who's Vin?" Daxter asked from Jak's shoulder

"You'll see." she said, "Where is he?"

"The Strip Mine." Torn replied

"Again!" Kristine yelled, "Torn, he really needs 24/7 protection...and that's just from himself." This caused Jak and Daxter to look at each other worriedly

"Just go." Torn said with a none amused look on his face.

Two hours and six hundred metal heads later. Jak, Kristine, and Daxter stood by a matenance door being fired at by some lunatic. "Do something Jak!" Daxter yelled, "This guy is crazy!"

Well this is new. Kristine thought as another bullet whizzed by her head.

"Hey!" Jak yelled, "Are you Vin?"

"Stay back!" yelled a geeky man in a white shirt and brown overalls.

"Vin! It's Kristine!" she yelled, "Torn sent us to help you!"

"What?" he said, "Thank the precursors!" he said as he leaned over a desk and looked out towards them. "Where's the army?"

"We're it." Daxter said stating the obvious.

"What!" Vin yelled, "What do they think I'm worth?"

"I'm beginning to wonder that myself." Jak whispered

"Let's just go before more of those metal heads come back." Kristine said as she ran towards the nearest warp gate.

Once they were all through and back in Vin's lad they followed him. "I wanna thank-you for saving me back there." he said as he began punching buttons. "I've been edgie lately."

"You don't say." Daxter said with a smile, "We couldn't tell."

"Really?" Vin asked

"Yeah." Daxter replied, "Aaahhhh! A Metal Head!"

"Aaaahhhh! wha-where?" Vin screemed as he promptly fell on his butt.

"Just kidding." Daxter said as he walked past Vin, "Nice reaction though." This caused both Jak and Kristine to begin chuckling silently.

"Not funny!" Vin yelled

"That was weird." Daxter said

"Jak, I'll catch up with you later." Kristine said as she walked over to a one seater zoomer.

"Why?" he asked, "Where are you going?"

"I promised to meet a friend somewhere." she said, "Go to Krew's. I'm sure he has another job for you."

"Fine." he said.

As the duo waltzed into the Hip Hog Saloon, Krew began speaking, "As you both know, by now, racing is the main sport in Haven City. Errol is the supreme champion, he's reckless, dangerous, and most of all, a winner."

"Jak," Daxter began with a bit of worry in his voice, "I don't like the look he has in his eyes, and it's not for food."

"Don't worry Dax," Jak stated, "What's the worse that could happen?"

10 minutes later

"Aaahhh!" Daxter screamed, "You had to ask!"

"Hang on Dax, we're almost there." Jak yelled back as he raced through the city to the stadium.

Meanwhile

"Hey girls!" Kristine said as she waved at her two friends.

Keira and Tess looked up from the zoomer they were working on behind the curtain well Keira was anyways. "Finally you're here." Keira stated with a sigh.

"I was just telling Keira about that cute guy we saved a few months back." Tess said with a smile.

"The way she's discribing him, makes me want to meet him." Keira said with a dreamy smile.

"You mean...Jak?" Kristine asked

"Yeah him." Keira said, then yelled, "JAK!"

"Yep." Kristine replied with her own mischevious smile.

"Why didn'y you bring him?" Keira asked with a frown.

"Cause Krew has a job for them." she stated just as two unknown figures entered the garage.

"Hello, umm...Krew sent us!" yelled a masculine voice.

"Let me guess you have nothing better to do, so you're gonna try racing. Right?" Keira asked

"Let me handle this one." said a sqeaky voice, "Look lady we can do anything you throw at us..."

That voice...It can't be. Keira thought. Kristine got up from her seat as she went to talk to Daxter, when Keira spoke. "Daxter?" she asked as she opened the curtain.

"And another thing..." Daxter stopped mid-sentence and answer, "Yeah?"

"Daxter it is you!" she squealed as she ran out and hugged him. Looking up she saw Jak standing there. "Jak, you look different."

"Yeah, it's been difficult." he said as he drifted off.

"The Baron did something to him." Daxter stated, "Now he has these super cool moves."

"Looks like the gang is back together now." Kristine said with a smile as she entered the room.

"Yeah." Daxter said, "All we need is Ole Log in the Head." Jak slapped Daxter upside the head for saying that.

"Now let's find a way home." Jak said as everyone began to catch up with each other.

GMB: Okay, there's the update that everybody wanted...Now I want 30 to 35 reviews in order to update this story...Oh and that's the total number in all chapters...

Quote of the Day: #1. "Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid."