Ch36
After dealing with the turrets in the Robot section, all of us were given the assignment to go to the sewers from the KG section of town and infiltrate the Metal Head section of the city. "Dark, dirty, dangerous. I'm beginning to like this war," Jak smiled with a smugness only comparable to Daxter. "Easy for you to say, Dark Boy," Tess frowned as she stood on my shoulder. "I've never been in those sewers before, so I'm gonna be smelling bad for a week most likely."
"Well, there is always the option of you staying behind, Tess. But I don't blame ya," I smiled slyly at her. "After all, girls like us need to keep clean. That's what I'd like to say, if it weren't for the fact that, when we were in there last, there was barely anything relating to poo or pee in the pipes at all." "She's got a point there at least," Daxter smiled.
"Okay, I'll go along. But if I touch as much as a single piece of human excrement when we're down there, you're going to wash every nook and cranny on my body with your tongue," Tess frowned directly at me. "Tough, but fair," I smiled back. (Remember your 10th birthday? That's what it's gonna be like soon) Malice cackled in my head. (Oh, shut up) I thought right back.
When we finally arrived in the sewers, I immediately readied the Arc Wielder and blasted some KG robots just as soon as I saw them, Jak, Tess, and Jacob doing the exact same. "Nice shot, guys!" Tess smiled from atop my shoulder as she held her Vulcan pistol with both hands. She may have been short, but she was definitely not about to get out of this place without shooting some baddies, that was for sure!
We then proceeded forward a bit more until we approached the area that held the moving platform and the crazed turret gun at the other side of the bottomless pit. "Well this is weird," Tess said as she noticed how there was no end to the dark chasm below us. "You mean that there's no end if we were to fall off, or that this auto turret is going BUCKWILD ON US!" I exclaimed that last bit as the shots were not only fired super-fast, but that it wasn't a side-to-side shooting. It was firing right for us! "Hang on guys!" I exclaimed as I activated Light Freeze just as the bullets would've hit Jak and I grabbed hold of the group.
After a quick jump up and a flight of fancy, I made it to the other side of the turret gun and obliterated it with a Peacemaker shot. "Whew... now that was scary," Jacob spoke as he dusted himself off. "Don't count your Flutfluts before they hatch, Jacob," Jak smirked at him as we went through the door and we were... at the exit to the Metal Head section... (Are you freaking kidding me?! Almost half of the level is missing!) Malice exclaimed in my head. (I'm upset too, but I have a feeling that simple level changing isn't the worst that could happen to us," I frowned right back.
"By the way, Tess, I have a question," Jak asked her as we mounted the elevator to go up. "Yeah? What is it?" she asked my husband. "When Daxter got transformed, he lost all his clothes. But when you transformed, your clothes changed with you... so how does that work?" Jak asked. "If you must know, Dark Boy, my clothes were completely unaffected by the Dark Eco. It was just a simple case of me shrinking out of them," Tess frowned. "The reason I had these clothes handy is because I was trying to find a way to get Daxter some new duds, so I was having him wear some clothes I made that were Ottsel-sized... how ironic that I made them look like my clothes by the time I was done."
"I see. So the reason I lost my clothes way back when wasn't because of the dark eco itself?" Daxter asked. "Doesn't look that way, schnookums," Tess smiled with flirty eyes at him, making the air very awkward. Thank god that Ashelin's voice came over the speaker as we exited the elevator. "Guys, this is Ashelin. You're in enemy territory now so stay on your toes," she spoke. "We've gotten intelligence reports that the Metal Heads are developing weapons of mass destruction from within their section of the city. You need to destroy them at the source. There should be five of them altogether. Good luck."
"Wanna do this guys?" I smiled as Malice took over. "Jak and Dax, you take care of those power pods. The rest of us will do some Metal Head hunting for the Naughty Ottsel," she smiled maniacally. "Lead the way, mom!" Jacob smirked as he summoned his Light Eco powers and Tess jumped onto his shoulder instead. "Let's start the bloodbath!" Malice cackled as we began the mission that would be the best we'd done thus far!