Due to the contents of this chapter, I have changed the rating to :MATURE:. If you cry easily, Get a BOX of tissues. My MOM cried reading this. Please, Ignore the few typos, I wrote and edited this 1500 miles away from home on a laptop with a tiny keyboard and a touchpad mouse . ;;

Also, please pardon my lateness. I'm not blaming it on Furcadia this time, i'm blaming it on the worst betrayel and let down of my life. I caught my BEST FRIEND stealing from my house. She was also the one who hacked many of my online accounts. I've been stressing bad.

THIS IS A WARNING.

Sake cried herself to sleep that night, still upset at the fact Jak had blown up at her the way he did. She was only trying to help him. Instead, he yelled at her like she was some small child. That memory haunted her like a plague in her dreams, forcing to wake from her unpleasent slumber.

"I just wanted to help him..." She sobbed, her eyes becoming red and sore. Elsewhere the blonde haired hero also sat awake and alert as ever. He dug his fingers into the sand of the beach as the ocean's waves washed over his toes. He growled lightly to himself, clenching some sand and picking it up,

"I'm so tired of people constantly pushing me around. Why can't they just let me live!" He half yelled to no one in particular. Then he felt a warm hand on his shoulder, which made his line of veiw jolt around for the source.

"They aren't trying to tell you how to live..." He finally fixed his sapphire blue gaze on Damas. "They are simply trying to help." Jak looked away.

"I wish they would stop then. I don't need anyone's help right now. I never have to begin with." He picked up a rock and chuncked it as hard as possible into the ocean.

"But without their help, where would you be now?" Damas sat next to him, smiling faintly.

"I'd still be in Sandover... growing up to be a famous warrior or something." He chuckled, watching the waves roll in and out, never seasing.

"You would have needed some help with that as well. Jak... You are a man who needs someone to help him along in life." His deep voice took on a saddened tone. "My someone died many years ago..."

"Who?"

"My wife. The Baron executed her before he banished me to the wasteland. I had to practically start a new life when I got here. My son is most likely still in Haven City." Jak smiled at this.

"Chances are, me and Sake fought him." He picked up another rock and threw it just as far as before.

"Speaking of her, where is she? I figured that you two were inseperable..." Jak's fist clenched at her mere mention.

"I don't want to talk about it..." Damas immediatly shut up.

"Well Jak, I suggest you go get sone rest. You've got a big day ahead of you tonorrow." Jak slowly stood and looked down at him. "Yeah. See you tomorrow..." He headed off to the palace where he resided in a private room.

However, he didn't make it to his room. Instead, he stopped at Sake's door and slowly opened it. He peeked in, only to find that she was out like a light. Yet again, she had fellen asleep with something clasped in her hands. Last time, is was the game cover to a game that he had supposedly starred in in her world. This time was different. This time, she was holding a thin book. His curiosity took over and he creapt in to take a look at it's content. Carefully, he pulled the book from her fingers and opened its cover. He skimmed the pages, looking for anything interesting. A name on one of the pages caught his eye. 'Errol...' He thought as he read the entire entry:

I had that nightmare again... I just want it to go away... I don't want to remember it anymore... It all began many years ago... about 3 or 4 now... I had first arrived in Haven City and met a young man named Jak. He was actually a game character from where I come from. However, the night we met, we were seperated. I didn't see him for 2 more years or so.

While I remained isolated in my cell, I tried about 4 times to escape. The 4th attenpt is forever burned into my memory... I had just escaped from those lame KG's yet again and was mere feet from the door when I was hit over the back of my head. Before I went unconcious, I heard Errol's sadistic laugh, "Take her to my quarters. I'll deal with her there." The guards all snickered as I blacked out. They knew exactly what he was going to do to me. My guess is I wasn't the first girl he did it to. Well, I woke up later on a large comfortable bed. I looked around, wondering if it was all a dream. When I looked down, I realised I had been stripped bare. I was laying in a bed not of my own. A familiar voice came from behind me. "So you're finally awake I see..." The voice snickered as I turned around to see who it was. It was none other than Errol.

He pinned me down and started to kiss me. I tried to resist... But I was still weak. I don't want to remember the rest of that horrible tale...

Jak realised the date was not but 3 days ago. He turned the page to read the next entry. It started out pretty much the same, speaking of a nightmare where she was raped by Errol. However, this one went a bit further, and it also talked about a girl named Dessa. His only guess was that she was a friend of something... She was much more however.

I want these nitemares to end... please... The pages were stained with tears. Errol did more to me than just rape me... He gave me something special... A child. When I first found out I had concieved a child at his hand, I was shocked. However, I decided to keep the child and live as her mother. I wouldn't let Errol effect her life in any way. When the day she was born came, I was allowed to keep her. Having her though didn't grant me any extra food. Everyday, I tried to be the best parent I could, feeding her and crading her close when she cried.

However, despite my best efforts, I was only allowed to keep her for maybe a few weeks. One day, Errol came into my cell and took Dessa from me. He held her out and slowly injected a needle into her small arm. The vile he used was filled with Dark Eco. He slowly injected into her, letting it spread throughout her tiny body. The acidic substance shut down every vital and non vital organ in her frail form, killing her instantly. I cried for weeks after that... unable to get over the death of my first child. I had officially given up on life... Errol could do with me as he pleased. I didn't care anymore because there was no point to me living anymore. It tore me up... I still cry about her death to this day... The last few words were difficult to make out because of the numeerous tear stains on the thin paper. Towards the and, he could easily read the sentence: "Suicide was my only option...until he saved me..."

He closed the book and slipped it slowly back into her hands and picked her blanket up off of the floor. He slipped if over her shoulders and kissed her forehead. "I love you..." He stroked her cheek with a few delacate fingers and finally headed for his room. Daxter was there waiting for him. "Where have you been?" he asked in a sleepy voice.

"I've been enjoying the moon..." He layed down on his bed as Daxter curled up on his stomach.

"You okay big guy? You look like you want to cry..." Daxter looked directly into his friend's eyes. Jak stroked the back of his head, looking out of the window on the wall next to his bed. He had a perfect veiw of the full moon.

"Don't worry about it..." Daxter did as told and went to sleep. Jak did the same, still thinking of those painful words he had read before.

He awoke the next morning to find Damas looking down at him. The Sand King was smiling wide. "Morning." Jak sat up, making the sleeping ball of fuzz roll off of his stomach.

"I would like you to pay a visit to the monk temple. Our scanners are picking up weird signals there, and we want you to check them out." Jak rolled off of his bed and got prepared without a second to waste. He went down the hallway to Sake's room, but stopped his hand before he knocked. 'No... what am I thinking!' He thought as he slapped his forehead. She was most likely still very mad at him for what he had said. So, he simply went on to do his job. Little did he know, she wasn't in her room, let alone Spargus...

Jak climbed into his Dune Hopper and soared over the dunes of the arid desert like they were nothing. The Marauders couldn't keep up as he coasted smoothly along. "You'll have to do better than that!" Daxter gave them a rasberry as Jak came up to the ocean islands he had to jump using the Hopper's powerful hydrolics. This was no problem at all. He easily cleared them and pulled up to the stone gates of the temple. They opened, granting him passage. Following the same path as before, he arrived in the room with the large beam of light that shined down onto a central alter. His amulet Ashlein had given him seemed to react to a near by door which looked like Mar's seal. As he got closer, the amulet glowed and the door opened to reveal an elevator. He and Daxter jumped on and rode it to the bottom of the shaft. As they reached the bottom, Pecker, the annoying motor mouth, flapped up to them.

"Finally, I caught up with you!" He squawked, his feathery chest heaving from lack or air. "Onin says we must get back to Haven City! We can use these subrails the Precursors built." He indicated what looked to be some kind of levetating machine built to ride the pipe which led into the core of the obviously man-made planet.

So, being the hero that he had to be, he climbed in, turned it on, and let it rip. And oh boy did it rip! It took off like a yakkow that just got branded. Jak could barely control at such incredible speeds. The skin on his cheeks rippled like water as he turned the wheel this way and that to avoid the defenses that were built in. He felt the blood rushing to his head when he realised he was riding on he roof of the tube! The vehicle swerved around as it jumped over a gap, clipping the bottom end. Now it was going even faster, making all control literally impossible. Then, as suddenly as the thing sped up, it slowed to a snail's pace, or what seemed to be. He jumped out right before it slammed into a quickly oncoming wall.

"I have got to retire from this hero stuff..." He shook his head and stood before a glowing Precursor entity that appeared before him. Yet again, he was granted with another light power because he 'proved his heroism'. This was geting old...fast... This time, it was a special sheild made from a pure untainted light.

"Jak, is it me... or can I not feel my legs...?" Daxter's entire body shook and his fur was ragged to no end.

"It's you." He joked as Daxter passed out on his shoulder. So, he waited for his buddy to wake up before he proceded. After a fast elevator ride, they were at the top of yet another shaft. This one led to a mining facility that had long since been abandonned. Pecker seemed to be at home in the hollowed out valley.

"This is a mining facilty Mar built... We are close to Haven City." He stopped for a moment as Daxter spoke.

"Sheesh, did that guy ever SLEEP!" Jak chuckled, shrugging.

"He must have carved away at the rocks to get at the eco power-" Pecker interuppted him.

"I'll fly ahead and tell Onin we're back. Watch your tail feathers Jak... this is a spooooky place..." Pecker took flight to get back as fast as possible. Jak took out his blaster and equipped the second stage mod. The sound of sharp claws on hard rock shot through his ears. Not 5 minutes after entering the place and he had been targeted for lunch. Using his blaster, he knocked down a metal platforn. It fell flat over a gap, forming a rather conveient bridge. After crossing, he was ambushed by a group of Metal Heads that resembled lizards. They had head mounted guns with deadly accuracy, rapid fire, and stunning Dark Eco rounds, which Jak experianced first hand. Despite their gunpower, they dropped like flies.

The mine was more of a maze than anything. There were your basic metal bridges, rickety elevators, and of course, the ever hungry Metal Heads who all wanted to slap some A-1 steak sauce on Jak's fried hide. Daxter was the appetiser. Many perished, or tried to flee. They ended up dying as well due to Jak's incredible sharp shooting skills. All the while Daxter was mouthing off phrases, rooting Jak on and dissing the Metal Heads.

As the self-indulged hero and his onoxious sidekick rounded a corner, they spotted a small rat cowering near a wheel. He knocked the rat into the wheel, and it started to run. However, it didn't get very far because it was too stupid to climb out of the wheel to run. This was a good thing for Jak, as this rat like crature was actually the mine's source of power. The lights turned on and the machinery came to life. This enabled him to continue on further. Along the path, there were 2 other areas he had to force the rats into the wheels. But, the animals got more agressive, fighting back.

The last wheel activated a door that slid open to reveal a small passageway into another room. However, a glimmer or light in the dark corner before the room caught Jak's keen eye. He padded over to it, and discovered that it was actually armor of a sort. He clipped it to his legs, thinking that it fit perfectly. Talk about conveinent! With that out of the way, he continued on to the next room to his right.

Large crates of explosives and barrels of eco lay strewn about, blanketing the rather large area. A switch seemed to call to Jak, begging him to pull it. So, he pulled it back, activating whatever it was attatched to. Believe it or not, it was the crane switch for a crane needed to move a train loaded with Plasmite explosives. The preset orders on the machine made it position the train on a set of tracks, which were in turn connected to a large frieght elevator. Jak stepped on as it moved down, still holding his blaster tightly. Once the elevator reached the bottom of an expansive chasm, he train immediatly started moving. Jak ran to keep up with it, but froze when he saw that there were huge gaps in the track. Aiming carefully through the scope on his blaster, he shot the switches, which made the track pieces fall into place.

Hitting all of the switches was difficult. Many times, the train almost slammed into the tracks that werent lowered. Jak shot the final target, which dropped the last piece of track. The train had gained some speed and slammed into a thick metal door. the Plasmite chemicals and explosives created a huge exlosion, which turned the door into mincemeat. "Alright! Now we're gettin' somewhere!" Jak cheered himself on, then continued down the grueling path to Haven City. He could already smell the noxious fumes and flames from the attack on the palace, even though it had taken place weeks ago.

There was another short elevator ride, followed by a short walk which led to an open chasm. Across the way was a door and a few wall carvings. They looked like the giant Precursor robot he had faught during his quest to save the world from being overrun with Dark Eco.

"Hello Jak..." Laughed a rather deep and familiar voice. Daxter's eyes shot open as Vegar stepped through the door on the oppisite side of the hollowed space."The monks told me you were coming through the Precursor Subrails... I've been expecting you." He snickered.

"What do you want with me!" Jak growled, sparks of Eco jumping around like a dancer.

"I don't want anything with you. I simply want control of Haven City, Spargus, and any other city on this planet. I can't do that with you in the way, now can I?" He took a few steps forward, a smug smile still painting his haggered face. "I want to make the world peaceful..."

"Yeah, you've done a real nice job up until now... letting the Metal Heads destroy the palace and all." Jak lowered his gun to his side as Daxter jumped from his shoulder.

"You couldn't be more mistaken my dear boy... I needed quick access to the Catacombs, so I attacked the palace myself..." The sadistic smile grew even wider. "We're on a time clock Jak. That light in tghe sky... Do you know what it is!" He pointed to the roof, trying to indicate the bright purple light that had been steadily getting brighter. "Our worst nightmare has found us, and I intend to destroy it using the power of the Precursors. I will fill the world with light and bring peace to it once more!" He gave Jak the classic evil guy laugh.

"Listen Count Vulgar-""It's VEGAR!" Vegar interrupted Daxter, who continued anyway. "Wouldn't it be nice to relax in the shade sometimes... watching the hot babes prance around in their skimpy bikinis... You know... I get that special 'feeling' in my tail sometimes...-" Vegar stopped Daxter before his little fantasy went on any further.

"I will start the clensing of the world with your demise! I now weild the very power of the ancient ones! Destroy them!" He raised his staff, which brought the carving on the wall behind him to life. It was actually a Precursor Robot! It burst from the wall and opened its metalic eyes. Using its on board AI, it concidered Vegar it's master, and Jak and Daxter to be the enemy. Powering up its jetpacks, it hovered over the bottonmless gap as Vegar left once more through the door he came from.

"Great... If i didn't know any better, I'd say Gol and Maia were back or something..." Jak raised his gun and tried to fire at the robot. His bullets merely bounced off, playing Pinball with the cave walls. The robot countered with some kind of laser which it sweapt across the ground. Jak hit the ground as it passed over him. Then he got back up and jumped over as iit made another pass. Then, it slammed the laser into the ground, creating super charged waves to spread out in all directins. These were also easily avoidable. It's next attack consisted of it using a cannon like weapon to launch living creatures from the barrell. Luckily for Jak, they were easily disposable. However, they split, creating more of a threat than before. Despite this unique ability, they still died like they were nothing.

With a hawk eye, Jak noticed 3 trains sitting on bent tracks above the robot's head. He aimed for one and let a stream of bullets connect with the switch until it slipped from the tracks and onto the robot's head. It screeched, going down with the heavy train. It blasted back up, angrier than ever.

It repeated the same attacks as before, but they were more rapid and difficult to avoid. The monsters it launched were a bit stronger and larger, but they died all the same. He took this time to shoot anbother train, causing it to collide with the robot. It went down again, only to come back up for a third helping of whoop-ass. Again, it repeated its previous sttacks, but with two fast lasers instead of just one. The monsters were exactly the same, and died exactly the same. Finally, Jak shot the third and final train, causing it to slip from the tracks. It colided with the robot, sending it down for good. With an impressivce explosin, it was gone. Jak's reward was what looked to be the core of the creature. The core conducted electricity, so he conveintly attatched it to his vulcan to turn into a lightning gun. Amazingly, it worked!

He somehow found a way across the gap and got to the other side. The door opened to reveal another airlock door that was exactly like the one in Haven city. It opened, he got on the elevator behind it, and it closed as it moved up. The one at the top of the shaft opened to reveal Haven City in ruins. Metal Heads roamed the area like they ruled the place, and technically, they did. There wasn't a human alive in the area. So, to defend himself, he held his new gun close, and had already given it a fitting nickname: The Arc Weilder.

"This place looks as bad as my old bedroom back home..." Daxter looked at the burning buildings, trying to remember where exactly they were. Jak already knew where they were: the Stadium section where he had won zoomer races in his 'free time'.

"Jak! it's you!" Samas' old voice rang out over the dead silence as Jak approached what looked to be a forcefeild of a sort. "See Keira? I told you I could feel Jak's energy!" Keira just simply smiled at him. A few thoughts ran though her mind such as 'Maybe I could get him back...' but her or Jak's love live wasnt very important at the moment. "Jak, you must reach us! But Veger has blocked this pathway with this forcefeild."

"Veger was the one who attacked the Palace! He said he was looking for something below, In the Catacombs." Jak nearly yelled, only to be stopped by Samos.

"Those passageways beneath the city must be terribly important... To get here, find a way through the sewers and navagate north until you can connect with us." Samas said in a matter of factly voice. "And.. Jak... I'm sorry about Vegar banashing you... we all are. Ashlein really did try to keep it from happening..." Jak tensed up at her name.

"I know..." He waved to them before heading back the way he had came. The entrance to the sewers was hidden in the walls, which looked very much like the wall it was imbedded in. It opened as he approached and closed yet again as he boarded the elevator it hid.

The sewers were expansive, leading this way and that. The smell was unbearable. The pressence of Metal Heads was appearent. "Stick close Daxter..." Jak switched to his trusty blaster and travelled through the sewer maze. He EVENTUALLY found the end after a grueling 'adventure' through the winding pathways of DEATH. The trip ended in yet another elevator, which took him up to another door. This door opened into Haven City, or at least what was left of it. The area he was led into was the Port area. It, too, was in ruin. He soon found his way to the Naughty Ottsel, which looked more like a war post than anything. He got his answer as soon as he stepped through the doors.

"Jak, I never thought I'd see you again..." Jak gave the Tattooed Wonder a 'skip the pleasentries' look. "I'm glad you're back... we've been really needing you to help us in this war. I can't save the city alone.. not the way you and Sake did." This was where Jak drew the line.

"Look, I didn't come back to save the city. I came back to get even with Veger." He rested his hand on the side of what looked to be a holo projector.

"Go figure... that man was always short a few cards." The Tattooed elf also rested his weight on the projector. Then, an image shot from it as he pressed a button. "Ashlein, can you hear me? It's Jak! He's back in the city!" A 3D figure of Ashlein's head appeared over projector's surface.

"It's good to see you're back." She smiled, facing the hero. "Where's Sake? I would have thought she would have come back with you." Torn looked puzzled.

"Sake's back?" Torn asked, raising an eyebrow. Jak nodded.

"That doesn't matter right now." Jak noted as Ashlein's face disappeared and was replaced with a 3D model of a Blast Bot.

"Uh-Oh Jak... we've got enemy units heading this way. 3 heavily armoured blast bots. Think you can handel it?" Jak took on a devilish smile.

"Handel it... What can I not handel?" He snickered. He looked at Daxter and smiled.

"Women!" The furry ottsel joked. He ended up getting smacked. The Demolition Duo left the Ottsel and proceded with their mission. It was easy, perhaps too easy. They returned to the Ottsel where Torn already had another mission lined up.

The holo image of Ashlein's head appeared again as she spoke. It was replaced with Samos, but Jak didn't hear a word either of them had said. He was actually quite worried. Then, a familiar face appeared over the projector.

"Hahah! I LIVE!" Errol's reconstructed face phased in and out of existance as he spoke. "Still fighting or the weak link, eh Jak? Well, Not me. I've made some friends in very high places..." A faint scream could he heard in the background that caught Jak's attention.

"Errol, How in the hell can you be alive!" Jak's eyes narrowed in anger.

"I wouldn't be too harsh my dear hero... Concidering I'm holding all the cards..." Another 3D face appeared on the projector.

"Jak! Errol's back! He-" Sake's face blipped onto the screen for a moment, then faded.

CLIFFIE! dun duuun DUUUUUN...