Ratchet, Keira, and the others were relieved to hear that Jak is alive and doing well. He even awoke and was trying to get out of bed. Doctors were advising him not to do that and lay down and relax until they tell him when he's free to go.

Damn doctors, he cussed in his thoughts.

Keira and everyone entered in his room. Keira gave him another huge hug and held onto him tightly. She cried tears of joy, thanking the Precursors that he's still alive.

Then she berated him not to do something that stupid again.

Jak only smiled and told her that it was nothing to worry about and that he's fine.

Keira sighed and muttered something her breath.

After a few hours, Keira was contacted by Ashleigh to discuss the incident that occurred. Daxter wanted to come along to explain what happened.

Clank went with Bentley to some lab that they could help with the doctors.

Murray left to go and try to bring any food for Jak feeling that he was hungry after that fight.

Ratchet and Sly were the only ones left in the room with Jak.

They all stared at each other before Rathet broke the silence and started to say, "That was risky with what you did."

Jak remarked "Not my fault. Dark's been trying to get out every time I've been attacked. It's not like I can't control him, I can. He just comes out whenever he feels a fight is gonna occur. Light has been trying to suppress him and balance it out. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't."

"So it's like an episode of seizure or something like it," Sly added.

"I guess. The thing is, this is the first time I became Dark and fell into a deep sleep after turning back to me." He said in a serious tone. "I'm sorry for making Keira worried."

After a few hours of explaining his past with the other two, they started to understand that Jak was just like them, an orphan who grew up without a parent and only had someone else as their family.

He then explained to them the concept of Eco and why he's able to become Dark Jak and Light Jak.

"So let me get this straight, you have the power of something called Eco." Ratchet remarked, feeling this is a bit weird to know about.

"Well, it's not my power, it's something I'm good at controlling," Jak explained.

"So it's like your world's energy for weapons, ore, anything special," Sly said.

"Correct. It also comes in 6 different colors: green, red, yellow, blue, light, and dark. I can control all of them if I near an Eco vent or however I can get it." Jak added.

"So what about that Dark form?" Ratchet asked, not meaning to pry.

Jak sighed, remembering what Baron Praxis did to him, "That's a story for another time."

Feeling they shouldn't ask any more questions, Sly quickly changed the subject to more important matters: Shadowis.

"Your orange friend explained to us about an informant who knew something about Shadowis. Care to share?"

Jak nodded, "Yeah, the old man was killed by MX though. I remember he told me to find out more information from a person called Uoi who lives in the Far East."

"So was there any more info other than that?" Ratchet asked.

Jak replied, "Only rumors from criminal gangs."

After minutes of explanation, the three of them agreed to rest up and prepare for what's to come.

Feeling so beat even after sleeping for who knows how many hours, Jak decided to sleep for who knows how long, probably five hours he said to himself.

He slept deeply, then eyes were cracked open and he sat up in his bed. He stretched his arms up high and felt relief as his back popped.

Jak rubbed his eyes and yawned. "Well, that was a good sleep." He said to himself and looked around. Sly was sitting in a chair, also asleep and so was Ratchet.

He got out of the bed and approached his piles of clothes, assuming it was left by either Keira or Dax.

He observed the clothes and quickly changed into them as they fit nearly perfectly and were comfortable. He left as quietly as he could and let Sly and Ratchet sleep.

The doctor came in and found Jak standing in front of him. "Ah, you're ready to leave?" He said, jokingly.

"I was gonna check on you some more and discuss say you were going to be dismissed tomorrow morning. Leaving early will only cause trouble in the hospital." The doctor suggested.

Jak shook his head and agreed to the doctor's demands, while consciously he didn't agree that he should be bedridden all the time, he didn't want to deal with his friends bickering at him for ridiculous nonsense. He changed his clothes quick and went back to bed where the doctor reset his entire IV.

"I wonder how you managed to get out of this without the alarm ringing." The doctor was a bit bewildered by this. After that, he did his daily check-up on Jak and left the room.

Sly had woken up, gasping and taking heavy breaths. He had a nightmare that echoed the past events with Shadowis. When he woke up in a panic, breathing hard, and he was sweating.

"Something, wrong?" Jak asked, just witnessing Sly waking up frantically.

Sly needed some air and so he told Jak it was merely nothing. So he quietly left the room and decided to take a walk around the hospital, even maybe get some food.

Back at the room, Ratchet also woke up, though not like Sly. He noticed Jak was awake and asked how was he. Jak said he was fine and couldn't wait for tomorrow to leave this damn hospital.


[Back at Earth; Police Station]

"We've arrested five criminal gangs just only in Paris alone. We've interrogated most of the members. While they committed a lot of crimes, none of them so far have no intel on the Masters of Doom." An officer reported to Inspector Fox.

Damn it, she cussed in her mind and ordered the officer to keep scouting certain areas to find more gangs and to bring them to interrogation.

He saluted her and went out on his way.

Fox rubbed her eyes from the stress. In times like this, coffee was needed.

"You are under a lot of stress." An unknown voice spoke to her.

She jumped and pointed her gun, shouting "Show yourself!" No one was in the room.

Out of nowhere, a bright, white light appeared in the room, turning into a figure with a white cloak and wolf-like snout.

Fox took a heavy breath and aimed her gun at the figure. "Who are you?!"

"My name is Nazar. A friend, an ally, and knows where Sly Cooper." He explained.

"What?..." Fox lowered her weapon and started to shake. "You know where ring-"

"Please just let me explain what's going on," Nazar pleaded.

"And you expect me to just trust you? How do I know you're not an enemy?" She raised her gun to Nazar's face.

"I am the Warrior of the Universe. I come here to tell you about the man known as Shadowis." Nazar explained.

Shadowis? She was surprised to hear that from him.

"Then..." she lowered her weapon. "...you know about the Masters of Doom then."

"I do."

"Well then, you can report to the INTERPOL your knowledge of them." Fox said.

"That wouldn't be necessary. This is an other-worldly matter even beyond your planet."

"Planet? Other-worldly?"

"Yes, where me and Shadowis come from are from another planet, another system, another galaxy," Nazar added.

"So you're like an alien..." She was about to faint, but stopped herself from doing so.

"I cannot believe what I'm hearing..." she rubbed her forehead trying to settle out this new knowledge, heck everything she ever knew.

"I know it's hard to comprehend but I need to speak with you on certain matters and certain matters alone."

"Alright," she took a deep breath, "tell me everything."

"Right now, I have frozen time so that no one can come in this room as we speak. I hope you can understand the gravity of danger set in foot here," Nazar began.

"You see long ago in a far, far away point in the galaxy I was chosen by the previous 'Warrior of the Universe' as an apprentice. The Precursors, creators of our universe, decreed the one and only 'Warrior of the Universe' to protect and guide its way forward. However, certain rules were placed as to what I can do and cannot do. Due to these, I have chosen to take on an apprentice to be the next Warrior of the Universe as I am soon to retire and go out in peace. However, my apprentice was corrupted by Morbius, the Dark Beast, sealed away by the First Warrior of the Universe in a jar."

Fox getting confused in the middle of this story, but decided not to ask as she let Nazar finish his story.

"As you see my apprentice when he became corrupted by his power of Darkness, he took on a new name: Shadowis. Shadowis was able to conquer and destroy other planets until I was able to defeat him by seali him in a tomb. However, the Masters of Doom founded by Mr. Z has been able to find the tomb and unseal him. They bow to his need as well as to Morbius. They have chosen to take on every world's heroes. So far they've decided to take on Jak, Ratchet, and Sly Cooper."

Carmelita tried processing what Nazar just said and really needed time to think. "I'm sorta following."

"I understand it can be tough to understand, however, you must not tell your fellow policemen. It'll only endanger them and yourself."

Fox was astonished. Then she asked "Wait, then why are you the only one to tell me? Why not Cooper or the other two people you mentioned?"

"The day I meet them hasn't come yet. I could easily take you with me to the planet Cooper and his friends are on. It will be against the rules on me. Let me remind of a certain event that occurred not too long ago. Remember the van the Cooper gang suddenly vanished in a second by a strange light appearing out of nowhere?" Nazar suggested.

Fox nodded.

"That was me."

She was shocked that he had such power to do that. Not everyday you can get encounter like this, let alone speaking with an alien being.

"If you had that much power, why didn't you stop Shadowis?" Fox asked, getting angry with Nazar.

"Believe I've tried dozens of times even freezing time when he chased the Cooper gang and even in space." He replied, feeling sad about all of this.

"That's all fine and dandy, Nazar." Someone spoke out appearing out of the wall.

Fox and Nazar turned to see a man phasing out of a wall. The man appeared to be tall, lithe, gasly all black robe. Only his arms and face appeared to have shown fair, pale skin with dark yellow eyes.

"Lucio!" Nazar shouted. He quickly pushed Inspector Fox to his side to protect her.

"Hello, old man!" Lucio greeted, while throwing in a punch to Nazar, who quickly blocked it.

This caused time to unfreeze and the punch sending Nazar flying across the station.

"What the!" An offficer shouted. Everyone in the station was surprised as to what was going on.

Nazar got up and looked back at Lucio.

Lucio, who exited the hole he just created in Inspector Fox's office, decided to get into a banter with Nazar. "I was surprised to see that you're here after all this time. It's like you're a robot waiting for a malfunction. No, mistake here. Not possible for you to defeat the Masters of Doom."

The two of them were staring at each other. The silence went on for a few minutes until Lucio broke the silence. Lucio remarked, "So that's it. You're not gonna attack!"

Nazar gritted his teeth in anger while maintaining his face to be serious.

"How did you know about this place?" asked Nazar

"Who else do you think? Shadowis knew you would be her." answered Lucio.

Nazar chuckled, "Very well. I'll ask you a different question. What have you come here for?"

"It's obvious, ain't it? To kill the woman!" said Lucio.

"Then allow me to kick your ass!" scowled Nazar.

"Bring it!" shouted Lucio

They both vanished and reappeared in front of each other with Nazar punching Lucio right at his face, knocking him away from him. Lucio stopped himself from sliding on the ground any further, he got shocked when Nazar got in front of him again and punched his face again.

The punch didn't knock him out automatically, however, Nazar did a spinning back kick towards Lucio's face again and sends him flying out of the building and into the sky.

Lucio, using his ability to fly, charged up a certain amount of energy power and aimed directly at Nazar.

"Take this!" Lucio screamed as he fired off a black energy beam towards Nazar.

Nazar held out his hand as the beam came to him and absorbed its energy, like it was nothing.

Lucio was shocked by this and charged up even more energy and fired it at Nazar.

He vanished the moment the blast was closing onto him as the blast bursted only to the ground. (BOOOOMMM!)

Nazar materialized a sword into his hand and leaped into the sky where Lucio was.

While Nazar was going for a parry attack, Lucio grabbed the sword with one hand and swung him around like a ferry wheel. The use of centripetal force launched Nazar further away from Lucio.

Charging up more power, he continuously fired a spark of bright energy balls all around from his body.

Using his sword, Nazar cut through some of them but was hit by a lot.

Carmelita watching this fight through the hole those two just made couldn't stand and watch Nazar being beaten like this. She decided to aim her pistol at Lucio and fire some shots, hoping it would damage him.

Lucio smirked as the blasts from the woman's weapon barely hurt, he found it amusing that someone like had the audacity to fire a weapon. Very rare for this to occur.

He glared at her and decided to telepathically choke her to demand Nazar to stop fighting him.

Carmelita losing her grip on her weapon, drops it, and is held up into the air until she reaches Lucio's hand.

She struggle by trying to hit his arm, but it's no use. He kept smirking and thought it was adorable for her to try and "fight" him.

"Listen up, Nazar! You stop fighting me or else this woman dies by the blood of your hands!" demanded Lucio.

She closed one eye and opened another looking directly at Nazar and hoping he could help her.

"Let her go, Lucio." Nazar, not fazed by Lucio's bluff.

"You think I won't kill her! Watch me!" Lucio raises his index finger and made a small blackish orb and was about point it to Fox's head.

Nazar quickly also raised his index finger.

Lucio froze. He couldn't move a single muscle in his body and the black orb vanished.

Immediately, Carmelita fell out of Lucio's grasp and as she's falling, a portal opened up out of nowhere.

The inspector went into it very quickly and landed onto sand. She groaned as she got up and saw that the portal closed.

Great, now where am I, thought Inspector Fox. There were two powerful aliens fighting on her planet and she was being useless.


[Earth]

Nazar and Lucio duke it out. They went at each other with a barrage of punches and kicks.

Lucio landed a powerful roundhouse kick to Nazar's face and then another set of energy beams to him.

"You're getting weak, old man," mocked Lucio.

"You and your Masters of Doom will never defeat the heroes. I'm at least confident in that!" Nazar countered.

"Only a fool with idealism!" Lucio shouted as they both flew at each other.


I'll end it here ! ;)