(Flashback)
Meanwhile in Kras City... A few weeks ago...
The city known for racing, crime, etc... has been infested by criminal gangs. It was long night for a huge deal. A man known as Rossi walked down the street, wearing a long-pitch black coat, pants, shoes. He just had the feeling of being a suspicious person.
He walked down and made a turn to an alley where he was suppose to meet the others in the rendevous point.
"Damn this sucks." He muttered under his breath. There was news of a new group rising he heard of known as the Masters of Doom. They've been making themselves known to criminal underworld who they are. Whoever their leader is, Rossi didn't know. Whoever was willing to hire him and his gang, he also didn't know. He was sent a message by one of his men about them to meet with on e of them here in this slummy alleyway for a job.
A sound occurred and the wind blew fast. Rossi couldn't handle the wind until it stopped and a cloaked figure appeared before him. He stared at the person for a while and then decided to speak first. "You a member of the Masters of Doom?"
The cloaked person said nothing. He couldn't even see his face.
"You gonna speak or what?"
The cloaked figure spoke in growly voice "The Masters of Doom would like to hire you to hunt down a person known as Uoi. A group of people will arrive to where he is in a short while. Prepare your men for kidnapping him and the others."
The cloaked figure was about to leave before Rossi asked what was this cloaked person's name was. She replied by telling Rossi her name: Enchanta.
(Flashback end)
Sly woke up in a strange bed. He didn't know where he was, taking heavy breaths and sweating.
He was greeted by Bentley and Murray who were very worried about him.
He had a flashback to Nazar healing him and suddenly his mind went blank. He instantly remembered him saying "For now your allies and friend will find you. Don't tell them that you've met me yet."
His mind was flooded with questions. Was that really Nazar? The one Mr. C told me about? The one who defeated Shadowis?
"Sly..." He jerked his head to see Bentley calling out to him.
"You ok, pal."
Sly nodded 'Yes'. He decided Nazar was to be thought about later. He turned to his friends and asked where were they and what happened.
Bentley explained that the building was collapsing so that they contacted Jak and the rest to help find him. Miraclously, everyone was able to find Sly and cheered that he survived and checked up on him seeing that he barely got a scratched on him but that he also looked to be extremely tired and passed out. Thanking Ratchet, Ashelin, and Daxter for finding the old town that was covered by ancient Precursor technology. Bentley also added about how Ratchet was suffering a huge headache to the point where he passed out, recovered, and how Jak, Murray, and Torn met Dr. Uoi.
Sly commented "That's a lot to take in."
"I know. But tell us what was going with that weird witch?" Bentley asked.
Sly looked at his friends and replied "She's a devil."
[Outside the town]
Ratchet was walking around despite doctor's orders that he should rest for awhile. He was walking with Clank and Daxter and just talking about their adventures. Although Clank was annoying Daxter with every single question poking holes in his adventure stories.
"I wonder how many times you're going to question me every single time I tell my story." Daxter annoyed.
"When you can answer it properly without any outlandish claims with you punching something known as a 'MetalHead'." Clank said.
"Are you skeptical of MetalHeads?" Daxter asked.
"No, I believe they could exist. But you said you and Jak defeated the MetalHead leader... uh what was his name again?"
"Kor." Daxter replies nonchalantly and his eyes were saying he's bored.
"Yes, Kor. You said you and Jak defeated him thus extinguishing the MetalHeads. Why would some of the MetalHeads survive after his death?" Clank asked.
"I don't know. Adaptation?" Daxter said. Though he did think about it how did some those MetalHeads survive after killing their leader.
Ratchet stated that the two could stop talking as they were headed to meet with the town leader, who is known as Rossi.
[Back in the room with Sly, Bentley, and Murray]
Sly put on his clothes and although both of his friends said that the doctor said to stay in bed. He knew they were right, but after what Nazar did for him and healed him, he felt extremely fine. Too fine like never before.
They heard the door open and entered in Keira. "Oh, you're awake!" She cheered and smiled.
"Everyone was worried about you," Jak also entered the room.
"Yeah, well I believe it is time for us to continue our original mission. I believe we've got Uoi." Sly suggested.
"Dr. Uoi," Bentley corrected "And he's willing to tell us everything."
"Where are we anyway?" Sly asked, he knew that they were in an old town made by Precursor technology but wanted exactly how could this place be here.
"Oh this place is known as Aopia." Keira said as she explained that the people have been hidden from the world and thus have remained here ever since the dawn of time.
"By the Precursor technology?" Sly asked, although he felt this was confusing.
"Yeah. Dr. Uoi said he was developing technology for them to be hidden or even improve it." Keira said.
"As how he did, he'll tell us back home. Right now all of us are going to rest here." Jak ordered.
This put the Cooper gang in great relief although deep down, they knew they needed to investigate this place a little more.
Night time...
Everyone was asleep... well almost everyone...
The Cooper gang was about to go to work. Bentley called this Operation: Alien World. Sly and Murray disagreed with the name suggesting stuff like Ancient City or Precursors, etc.
Anyway, Sly was running, walking on railings for such a town, it did have high buildings enough for the Cooper gang to sneak around. His mission was to investigate the area to see if their were any guards around or find the leader, Rossi as Ratchet mentioned to them before. Of course, take photos with his Binc-u-com.
He started to notice something strange about the town. You would think at nighttime people would still be around, stuff like drinking in a bar and guards on watch. Nope. Nobody was around and it was starting to get suspicious from the getgo.
He leaped from building to building until he reached what appeared to main building where Rossi should be.
(Binocucom talk)
Sly: Bentley, you there?
Bentley: Loud and clear, Sly. Did you find the main building?
Sly: Yeah, but here's the strange thing. There's no guards around.
Bentley: No, guards? That is strange.
Sly: What do you suggest we do?
Bentley: If there's no guards, then there might be a trap set for any of us. But this is a tricky situation.
Sly: Why not just hack and unlock the doors? They're not like regular doors from our planet.
Bentley: Not sure how different this planet's codes are compared to Earth's.
Sly (disappointed): Then I'm just going to take a few photos and that's it?
Bentley: If you're lucky that Rossi exits the building.
Sly: Remind me again what Ratchet said about him?
Bentley: He said something about him having secrets and didn't sound like a village leader more like a gangster.
Sly: I see...
(End Binocucom Talk)
Sly was watching the same building over and over. He was about to sleep when he heard the same scream hours ago when they arrived here. It's Enchanta, she's nearby. He leaped from building to building to return back to the hideout. He was about to contact Bentley when he started to see something strange.
"The heck?" Sly questioned. He saw that there were 3 Zoomers approaching a nearby building carrying packages. "This is interesting." He said as he took photos with Binocucom.
Middle of the night, bedroom...
Dream sequence...
Jak was running as he was witnessing a battle. He was on some desert planet as two figures (one in a white cloak, the other in an all black-cloak) were very powerful. Never had he seen such strength.
The man in all-black punched and fired more energy beams while the man in the white cloak was using illusions, clones, and his sword all to deflect and attack the man in all-black.
"Die, old man!" The man in black screamed while creating a strange energy ball in the palm of his hand that appears to be black and white at the same time.
He launched the energy ball, hoping it'll be the final blow to the man in white, but it didn't. The man in white quickly slashed it with his sword like it was nothing.
"That was my..." The man in black was shocked that he was able to that.
"You and I aren't equals in strength. Just because Shadowis trained you, doesn't mean you're strong," stated the man in white.
Jak stopped running after hearing that name: Shadowis. He saw that the man in black was about to say something, but immediately looked at Jak. Although to be fair, he was wondering why the man in black was looking at him.
The man in white quickly noticed this and yelled "Wait...!"
End Dream Sequence...
Jak woke up hesitantly and frantically. That was intense, he thought to himself as he took heavy breaths.
Keira slightly woke up and noticed Jak was awake. Feeling concerned, she asked "What's wrong?"
Jak took lighter breaths in order to not make Keira worry about him, "It's nothing. Nightmare."
"You can tell about it."
"No, I'd rather not."
"You don't have to repress yourself. You can tell me about it."
Jak agreed with her but wasn't sure how to tell her about the dream. "I'm telling you, it's nothing. Only a nightmare."
Keira was saddened a bit, but let it go as they both went back to sleep.
Middle of the night, outside...
Sly took the photos and went back to the rendezvous point where the Cooper Gang was.
"I'm back, guys." Sly greeted.
"Great. Now let me see those photos." Bentley demanded. After the photos were presented and enhanced to see what was going on. Bentley found something odd about them.
"Sly, when you said there were no guards around, you weren't kidding." Bentley remarked.
"It is strange, but I think we can infiltrate and see what's going on." Sly suggested.
"Not necessarily. It could be some kind of trap set-up." Bentley warned.
"Well, if it's a trap why not fight them inside the main building and get what we need?" Murray suggested.
"Again. This planet could have stronger enemies than the ones on Earth. We need to be cautious and just do recon." Bentley said firmly.
"Yeah but if we just do recon, we could get easily get caught." Murray presenting the flaw in Bentley's plan.
"While I'm glad we're all being cautious especially after getting used to the fact that aliens exist. I think we need to have this planned-out before we do anything. Especially since everyone has suspicions about Rossi." Sly added.
Bentley and Murray agreed with their friend and decided to work together on a plan.
