Chapter 37

Kiki managed to effortlessly destroy the first forcefield blocking our path with her bombs combined with the missile's destructive force. And it was then that I decided it'd be a good idea for our group to go to the gun course, since Torn suggested we do that to get a gun upgrade or two. And upon entering, we saw Daxter's girlfriend right there and she looked at Daxter with giddiness.

"Daxter! You're back!" Tess smiled happily and widely as she then picked him up and hugged him to her breasts, which I smiled. "Did that mean old desert hurt your itty bitty paws?" Tess asked cutely as Daxter smiled.

"Easy, Tess," Daxter smiled as Tess then let him down and she smiled at him. "So how's biz?"

"I've been designing new gun mods to help out the war effort," Tess smiled.

"You make guns now?" Jak asked.

"Yep! And I just finished this new gun," Tess smiled as she then started to speak in words that I couldn't understand at all to describe the potency of the gun. I didn't catch a word of it because of the multiple long words, but I did see that it was a mod for the Blaster.

"Um... could you say that in dumb speak? I didn't understand a word of what you just said," I said with a frown.

"Same here," Errol and Kiki said.

"Fine, I'll explain in more regular talk. Simply fire the gun and it'll release a small floating disc that proceeds to shoot everything around its radius with up to 50 Blaster shots fired in quick succession. And once it's emptied, it'll fall to the ground and explode, causing some splash damage to any poor baddies in the blast zone," Tess smiled. "Heehee! It's a hobby!"

I then went to get the gun and smiled at how she gave me, Kiki, and Errol one, but she held it back from Jak. "Not so fast, Jak. First, before I give you this gun, you need to prove you can protect my little schnookums in the new gun course," Tess said, Daxter simply smiling and giving a little air kiss to her, which I smiled at.

"Going to be honest, Dax, I think Tess may be the one," I whispered to the little Ottsel's ears, him smirking at that as I then got a call from Torn.

"Sasha, I need you and the others to report back so we can deal a heavy blow in the KG sector of the city," Torn said, me nodding at that and leading myself, Kiki, and Errol towards the Naughty Ottsel, where Torn was standing at the radar and he then looked confused at the absence of Jak.

"Jak's doing the gun course so he can get a new gun from Tess," I said, him nodding at that.

"Okay, here's the deal," Torn said as he showed some very nasty looking guns in the KG sector. "There are automated laser cannons armed in the KG sector of the city, all of them being on the elevated walkway. I'm going to need you to go there and take them out. There's sure to be heavy defenses when they realize what you're doing, so be cautious. You get the idea," Torn said, Errol nodding at that.

"Yeah, I got the gist," Errol frowned as we then went out and got a three-seater Zoomer and proceeded towards the Industrial sector of the city, where we came across the elevated walkways. One towards the Power Station (which was locked up tight from the KG forces) and one by where we arrived.

"Okay, I'll get the ones from the Power Station forward and you and Kiki get these ones," Errol said, me nodding at that and finding it a bit surprising how Errol was actually the one barking orders for a change. But I didn't say anything, since I knew he'd just get pissed. I then proceeded to push a couple different switches on the walkway as the laser cannon tried to lock onto me... but it was over the moment Kiki smashed the power supply. Once she took it out with a bomb, the cannon fell down and exploded, which was awesome! Kiki and I did this process to the next one and then joined with Errol to finish off the last one, all the cannons being eliminated and there being little to no issues from the KG robots, since we had our Arc Wielders take them out from a distance.

"Now time to go back to Torn's place, I'd say," Kiki said with a smile.

"Agreed. By the way, isn't it getting dark?" I asked as I looked above us and saw that it was actually cloudy out and that the sun was setting behind the clouds in the distance.

"It is, but we can pull off a few more jobs before bed, right?" Kiki smiled.

"Easy for you to say. You almost never sleep for anything," Errol frowned. And that was true. Kiki, being a Metal Head, never required sleep and even then, if she did lie down, she only needed about a half hour at the most before being ready for action again. We then arrived at the Naughty Ottsel to see that Torn was looking at the maps for the Metal Head sector of Haven City.

"I think it's time that we dealt a blow to the Metal Heads' ranks. From what I've been able to discover, there's a weak point in the walls that used to lead to that location. Apparently Veger wasn't doing too good of a job at patchwork. Use Kiki's bombs to blow a hole into the wall, then we'll need you to divert into two separate teams. Jak and Kiki will go and demolish every single one of the Metal Heads' secret weapons, which have been used to make Dark Eco mortars happen to our troops every night. And as for Errol and Sasha, Samos wants you two to go through the door to South Haven Forest and heal up the plants that have been infected by these mortars. Once accomplished, Samos said there are very old ruins there that are possibly linked to the Catacombs. He'll tell you more when you get the job done," Torn said, me smirking at that job description.

"Okay, I'll take Daxter for this excursion, since he's not going to be safe from the Dark Eco, got it, Jak?" I said, him nodding and Dax smirking at that.

"Thanks, Sasha. I may have protection now, but I'll take cleaning up infected flowers over fighting Metal Heads any day of the week," Daxter smiled at me.

"As well you should," Kiki smirked with a wink directed right at Torn.

"I think she wants an apology for your comment you said earlier, Torn," Jak smiled.

"Peh, I'll apologize when those mortars are taken care of, got it?" Torn said, Kiki smirking at that.

"I'll hold you to that, Torn," Kiki smiled as we then went off to do the jobs and I looked at Kiki before she went off ahead.

"You're becoming more and more like Daxter every day, Kiki. I think we need to keep you away from him for awhile," I smiled at her.

"Heehee, I just want to help you guys out and prove that a Metal Head can be a good guy," Kiki smiled widely.

"You've already proven that much, so prove it some more. Make me proud, Kiki," I smiled at her as I gave her a quick hug and she giggled at me.

"Of course, mom," she smiled as she then went ahead with Jak and I heard a loud explosion soon after. I then looked at Errol with a smile and he simply frowned.

"Ready to have a little race? Let's see who can get the most plants healed. Whoever wins gets a foot massage from the loser," I smiled at Errol, him smirking at that.

"The stakes are raised for this one, I see. Okay, time to finally win something against you!" Errol smiled at me widely.