Chapter 14: Rescuing An Unknown Friend

The duo were ducking down passageways and across vents, hugging the walls and keeping to the few shadows that the afternoon lent them. Avoiding the Krimzon Guards was fairly easy, which didn't seem right. The guards weren't paying any attention to anything, but each other. Gossiping and such. One guard kept talking about a crazy guy that had been in the prison. He supposedly killed 20-30 men within only 5 minutes. Then Errol had to come and he knocked him out.

Jak shook his head, he knew that was a bit of old news gossip about him.

As they searched the compound they became more and more frustrated for they couldn't figure out where the door to the prison cells was. "We don't have all day," Daxter muttered. "Maybe if we start pushing buttons," he suggested, indicating a door-opening panel. His finger reached for a bright shiny red button.

Jak shook his head in panic and said, "Don't touch that!"

Too late. A massive door about twenty feet away rolled up revealing a huge security tank. The tank rumbled forward toward the duo. Daxter felt his knees stiffen in terror. His jaw worked up and down stuttering, "J-Jak." he said

Jak grabbed Daxter and ran for safety. Daxter felt himself being jerked out of his fright and found himself being placed on Jak's shoulder. The tank fired, striking a nearby building. Plaster and brick fell down around the duo as they continued to run. Daxter closed his eyes against the debris and when she opened them he couldn't see Jak's face, being that it was covered in white dust. The tank fired another shot and Daxter screamed, ducking out of the way. Jak rushed forward, trying to elude the tank. What he didn't know was that the door to the prison cell wasn't that far ahead of him.

The two friends ducked into an open doorway that was sheltered from the security tank. Jak cupped a hand over Daxter's mouth as the ottself began to shake in fear. They stood there one calm, the other filled with silent panic. The sound of the tank came closer and Daxter began to get even more frightened. Jak shook his head and they waited.

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Moments passed.

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The ground shook as the tank approached, knocking stuff off of the walls. The tank rolled past the doorway, continuing down the walk and opened a secret door, that turned out to be a courtyard, continued its way; the duo came out when it was out of sight. They sighed in relief. They were safe, if only for a while.

"Hey Jak." Daxter said, "There's the door."

Sure enough the door to the prison was right in front of them. "Nice." Jak said with a smile and entered the room on the other side of the door. Once inside Jak began to look for the the friends that covered that girl's discription. Suddenly he found one. "Umm..." he began, "are you Goofy or are you Mickey?"

The being in the small cell looked up. "Well, I be.." he began
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Olivia suddenly heard a noise of smelt something that reminded her of her brother's dirty gym socks that haven't been washed in months. Turning around and looking up she saw none other that Krew himself. "Oh shit." she cursed, which cause Riku and Sora to look at her strangely. "Sorry."

"And what do we have here? Aye?" he said, "A trio of humans and their pet."

That got Donald. "Hey!" he yelled, "I'm not pet! I'm their friend."

"Oh another talking animal." Krew said, "What's this world coming to." he turned towards Olivia."And who are you little...lady?" he asked

Olivia waved her hand in front of her nose indicating that he stunk. "None of your business." she said

"Where's that barmaid?" he said looking around for Tess.

"Working out back." Riku said.

"Ah. So you're a boy too, aye." Krew said, "Thought you were a girl." Which got both Sora and Riku angery. "My mistake." with that Krew floated towards the back.

"Let me guess." Sora growled, "Krew?"

"Yep." Olivia answered

Suddenly the door opened to reveal Jak and Daxter, who had somebody walking behind them. "Goofy!" Donald yelled as he ran up to his friend.

"Hey ya fellas." Goofy said

"Looks like you found your friends." Jak said placing his arms over his chest.

"Yeah!" Daxter said as he hopped onto the bar.

Sora looked up and spoke. "Ya, we sortta eluded those Krimson Guards."

"We?" Riku asked, "More like you were following me."

"Well," Sora began, "We still got away from them."

"Well, fella's I didn't know you almost got captured too." Goofy said

"You said you'd pay us." Daxter said talking to Olivia. "Where's the money?"

Suddenly Tess came out with a whole crate full of bear and food. "Here's your pay." Tess said, "Thanks for the money." she said winking at Olivia.

"Oooo!" Daxter said rubbing his hands together. "Now this is what I'm talking about." He then jumped into the crate and began tasting the drinks. "Oooh, now that's good...That's the stuff...Ooo a purple bottle...Yikes that even tastier.."Daxter suddenly fell over backwards drunk. "I see birds running in the skiiiiiiies..."

"Oh no." Jak said

"He's singing?" Riku asked with a unbelievable look on his face.

"Thanks again." Olivia said as she and he friends walked out of the bar.

Mysterous Angel: Thank was an interesting chapter...And no, I didn't plan it to end like that...But, you can never know exactly how a chapter is going to end until it's written. So...Please review and I'll update very soon!