Your Guardian Angel
Chapter 14: Thriller
Jenny walked briskly into the garage with Jak coming in behind her. Daxter was finally awake and sitting on Jak's shoulder. Jenny barely took notice of Kleiver standing in the middle of the garage as she looked around at the cars.
"Well if it isn't the newbie's!" Kleiver laughed and Jenny jerked her head towards him glaring.
Jak approached Kleiver with his eyes narrowed. Daxter was grumbling about something.
"Keep yapping jelly boy," Dax shouted "We'll see who…"
Kleiver pulled Daxter off Jak's shoulder and closer to his face, "Bit ya bum, rat boy or I'll pound you!"
Jenny growled snatching Daxter out of the man's grip and placing him on her shoulder. Daxter smiled down at her before speaking.
"Great stink of the precursors! I got two words for ya… tooth brush!" Dax snapped pointing at the fat man.
Jak looked over at the vehicles to the group's right, talking absentmindedly, "Nice rides."
"You like what ya see? We use these babies to make runs into the deep desert to retrieve artifacts. Tough wheels for tough work" Kleiver said turning towards the cars.
"Well you said we could use one of 'em" Jenny stated stepping in between Jak and Kleiver to look at the cars.
"I did, didn't I," Jenny and Dax nodded "But not one of those! Those are for the big boys. You can use that one" Kleiver motioned to one behind their backs.
"Hah! What a runt!" Daxter complained.
"Seems to fit you" Kleiver muttered and Daxter glared back at him.
The little vehicle looked more like a two seated go cart than a car. Jenny raised her eyebrow and snorted.
"Get in guys, I'll drive" Jenny said moving to get into the vehicle.
Just before she did, Kleiver spoke, "Care to wager a little something on a race then? If you win I'll let you keep that little vehicle for as long as you live. And if I win?"
"We don't have anything" Jak stated.
Kleiver looked at Daxter then at Jenny, "That little brat right there could be of some use. I really do need somebody to clean up this place and my place. My vehicle against her."
"NO…" Jak began but Jenny cut him off.
"Done," Jak and Daxter widened their eyes at her "What? Don't worry, if there's one thing I can do, its race!"
Jenny slid into the drivers seat looking over the gears while Jak growled, "Jenny this is stupid and idiotic."
"And?" she asked smiling lightly.
"Whatever but it's not my fault if you have to work for Kleiver the rest of your life" Jak said as the fat man himself climbed into a car and headed out of the garage.
Jenny rolled her eyes and turned the key starting the vehicle up while pulling her goggle over her eyes and her scarf over her mouth and nose. There was a gear switch and four pedals. Jenny put her foot on the break then pushed the switch up until it was on drive. She brought her foot of the break taking a glance over at Jak and Daxter.
She smiled and hit the gas shooting out of the garage. After driving out into the desert she spotted where Kleiver was. But first she wanted to figure out what the other two pedals were. Jenny hit the break then pressed her foot against the one to the left of the break. The car started to ease backwards.
'Okay so that's reverse, then what's the other?' Jenny asked herself.
'Uh… Don't ask me I only know as much as you know!' Kala laughed in Jenny's head while the brunette shook her head.
Hesitantly, Jenny pressed in the pedal to the right of the gas. Once it was all the way down the car sprang into the air. Daxter screamed like a girl while Jenny laughed.
"Aw… that's awesome!" Jenny shouted, punching the gas and then making a sharp turn towards where Kleiver was.
"Jenny you're a loon!" Daxter shouted at her as she neared the starting line of a race track. Jenny shook her head and listened clearly. Kleiver's voice came over the speaker of the car.
"Look brat, were racing with the Marauders also. But if neither of us get first then it's whoever is ahead of the other. I give ya a warning, if you do by some slim chance beat everybody, you'll want to head back to the garage quickly, the Marauders don't take losing very well. See ya at the finish line."
Jenny growled back and got ready to punch the gas. Jak took a look over at her then looked ahead as some man standing near the line waved a flag then brought it down.
Everybody shot forward. Jenny moved around the blob of cars that were in front of her and pasted them all. Kleiver's growl came of the speaker and Jenny just laughed. This was one of those things that was just to easy for her.
Jenny crossed her finish line, way ahead of everyone else. She took Kleiver's advice and started to head back to the garage. Suddenly, Jak's comm. flew out of his pouch and hovered in the air around the buggy.
"I said you could keep the car for as long as you live," he growled then began to laugh "We'll see how long that."
"Longer than you, asshole!" Jenny shouted at the comm. before it disconnected.
Jak rolled his eyes at Jenny, "What? That guy really pisses me off!"
"Jak… you're gonna have your hand full with her" Daxter laughed and Jenny just smiled as she pulled into the garage.
Damas was standing there waiting on them. Jenny skidded to a halt right in front of him and stood up looking down at the king over roll cage of the buggy as she pushed her goggles onto her head and her scarf around her neck.
"Was up Sand King?" Jenny asked sarcastically resting her arms on the role cage and her chin on her arms.
"Nice wheel work" Damas said simply, ignoring the girl's comment.
Pecker, who was resting on Damas' shoulder, spoke, "This one will be of use. I think you should keep them for now."
"Can it, Pecker!" Daxter shouted jumping onto Jenny's shoulder.
"There's a sand storm approaching," Damas stated then continued "Storms turn the sand revealing artifacts that have been buried for hundreds of years. We've picked up a few artifacts on the scope. I need you two to go and get them. Of course your work wont be with out pay."
"I'm up for it! Lets go Jak" Jenny said sliding back into her seat.
"Be careful, if you get caught in the storm it will tear your flesh from your bones" Damas warned then walked away.
"No prob" Jenny said as Daxter gulped. Jenny laughed and pulled her goggles and scarf back into place.
With a small smirk on her lips she took of out of the garage and into the desert. The first artifact was near the race track where she had raced against Kleiver and the Marauders. As she neared it she slowed the car just a bit and moved so that the artifact would pass by Jak. The blonde reached out and snatched it out of the sand then sat it on the floor between them.
Jenny smiled as she looked on the screen in the center of the dash board. It showed a map of the desert and had flashing green dots that were the artifacts. She quickly headed for the next one.
Marauders suddenly surrounded her, firing at the unarmored vehicle. Jenny rolled her eyes pulling her Hell Raiser out and holding it up with one hand on the wheel. She aimed at the vehicle closest to her and fired. The vehicle skidded away from her vehicle and into another. They both crashed into the desert cliff and exploded.
Jenny laughed as Jak shock his head. They got the next few artifacts without difficulty every now and then destroying and Marauder.
The storm was getting closer. The wind was raging send the sand everywhere. Jenny could fell her arms begin to get sticky and raw. Her bare skin was red as Jak reached out and grabbed the last artifact. She made a sharp turn towards the city.
Daxter hid behind her back as she pushed down the gas pedal. Just before the storm took a nasty turn, Jenny shot through the garage door. With a sigh from Jak she parked the vehicle and climbed out with the artifacts. As she held the artifacts in one arm holding the artifacts her other hand came up to remove the goggles and scarf from her face.
Damas was waiting for them, "You made it."
"Aw," Pecker said from his shoulder "Is someone beginning to care?"
"My concern was for the artifacts," Damas stated not breaking "Good work," Damas quickly noted that Jenny was holding a pair of shoulder armor for a female and another one that matched Jak's one piece of shoulder armor "Pecker tells me that the armor you found was once wore by Mar and his wife in battles long ago. You may keep it."
Jenny handed over the other artifacts and tossed Jak the one shoulder armor to him while looking over the pair she head. With a shrug, she pulled them onto her shoulder. The armor was much like Jak's only it came down a bit over her upper arm. It also seemed lighter than Jak's.
Damas left the garage with Pecker flying behind him. It wasn't long before Zan came running into the garage.
"He there you three are! I've been looking all over for you" Zan stated stopping in front of them.
"Well somebody had to go make us risk our lives to get a bunch of stinking precursor crap!" Daxter whined , jumping on Jenny's shoulder.
"What? We got some cool looking armor, didn't we," Jenny turned to Jak not changing her look "Jak, I want some ice cream… with some pickles!"
"Ew!" Daxter said as Jak and Zan stared at her.
"What?" Jenny asked innocently, shrugging her shoulders.
"Let's go, Jenny" Jak said, turning around to follow Zan.
Jenny smiled and ran forward, jumping on Jak's back. He caught her easily and continued following Zan.
"Damas said you three would be staying with me. There's an extra room at my place that I don't use" Zan stated.
Jak followed Zan through the streets of Spargus. Only a few minutes of walking and Jenny was breathing evenly against his neck and her eyes closed in sleep. Zan looked back at the young couple every once in awhile then looked forward again smiling.
Zan walked up the steps of a small sandstone house near the beach. He held the door open for Jak, but Daxter of course ran in front of the blonde and into the small house. Jak looked around then turned to Zan.
The house was simple just a small sitting area with one three cushioned couch and a small arm chair. There was four doors on the back wall that led to the two bedrooms, a bathroom, and a supply closet. There was also a small kitchen to the right of the door.
"You two can have that room," Zan pointed to the door on the far left "I thought you two wouldn't want Daxter sleeping in the same room and since there was nothing in the supply closet, I made him up a bed in there for now."
Daxter ran over to the closet and pulled it open. Like Zan said, there was one large pillow lying on the ground with a blanket over it and another, much smaller, pillow lying against the wall. There was a small lamp placed on the floor near the bed. Daxter smiled and returned to the three still standing in front of the door.
"It's nice, thanks Zan" Daxter said and Zan just nodded.
Jak walked passed Daxter into the room that Zan had indicated earlier. He managed to push the door open without waking Jenny and walked into the small room. It wasn't much. Just one bed and a small closet.
Jak laid his fiancée down on the bed and began gently pulling off her effects and tossing them into the closet. After pulling off his own boots and holster he laid down next to her, wrapping his arms around her waist and placing his hands on her stomach.
He, too, soon drifted into a peaceful sleep.
Me: I know, I know! This took a really long time but I have a good reason! The one act play competition is coming up and we're rehearsing four times a week (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday!) from 3:40 till 6:30! And on weekends 12:00 till 3:30! Anyways till next time!!!