It happened so fast for everyone. The plan was told to the Galactic Rangers and then it had to be timed accordingly. However, no one could have predicted the Precursor Robot coming down and taking out half of the Galactic Rangers.

The strategy was working though with Jak leading the main front against Shadowis's army, the only problem was how the Precursor Robot was blocking the way to get to the main ship.

Shadowis sat atop at his main ship and awaited one of the heroes to come to him and face him like the scorned they were.

'They shunned me for a long time... and I have gotten the power I needed to achieve my goal.' Shadowis thought to himself.

Although it wasn't enough, the evacuation process was going very well with the Air Trains and the Galactic Rangers helping out.

Ratchet flying with Clank's Thruster Pack and calling on communications "Everybody in position?"

"Yeah, but that robot is a problem," Bentley warned.

There was something seen through Ratchet's eyes. A flash of light occurs to show a young man crippling with fear and despair as if the weight of the world came down onto him. Ratchet blinked twice before almost hitting the Precursor Robot's nearby arm as it turned to fire another energy beam.

"That thing is bothersome," Sly stated as Bentley pointed out that there's nothing they can do except try to complete their mission.

The Galactic Rangers tried to pursue further than they ever did before, but the Precursor Robot fired another energy beam at them creating more destruction.

Jak taking a HellCat and Daxter riding alongside him flew it around the Robot and started firing at it. Not much was done as it had an energy shield surrounding itself to defend itself from any energy attacks.

Ratchet flew around and kept firing missiles from the Devastator at the Precursor Robot. No damage whatsoever. "Jak, any idea on how this robot can be defeated?" Ratchet asked as he dodged an energy beam from the robot.

With no quick answer, the robot fired more energy beams across Haven City. People are screaming and the Galactic Rangers are cowering in fear. Cora was shocked, but not surprised at this action. She flew around trying to fire at not only the robot but also at the army of Shadowis.

"These things are starting to get annoying." She said as she fired from her Combustor.

Shadowis watched from afar and was amused though only for a little bit. 'The turmoil is good here... I wonder how much fun I'm going to have here...' Shadowis thought to himself as he leaps from his spaceship and lands atop the Precursor Robot. His body started to glow dark red energy started to flow out his body as the energy also flowed around the robot.

"COME AND FACE ME, HEROES!" Shadowis shouted at the top of his lungs. The dark red energy made the Precursor robot's eyes change from regular yellow to dark red.

"What is that?" Ratchet asked as he shocked by what he's seeing.

"Ratchet, I'm getting an unbelievable reading on this energy he's controlling. It's... off the charts..." Clank explained in fear.

Ratchet agreed with him, though not much he can do about it just being astonished wasn't going to do much against Shadowis.

"WHAT WILL DO YOU NOW, HEROES?! I CHANGED THE GAME FOR YOU!" Shadowis yelled as he put out his hands and then the Precursor Robot followed suit. A charge of red energy formed and burst throughout the entirety of Haven City in an instant flash.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooOOOOOOOOOooooOOOOM!

Ratchet and Clank have been pushed further away up from such power. The Galactic Rangers were also pushed and flown away into other people and debris.

"AND YOU ARE GONE, HEROES!" Shadowis's voice echoed throughout this shockwave occurring.


A few minutes later...

While it wasn't fast enough children are heard crying,l for their mother and father, women calling for their loved ones, and men running and trying to take care of their family.

Jak woke up to a lot of this noise and as such quickly asserted the situation. He got up by his arms but bowed on his knees as there was a lot of pain in his body. He coughed and almost felt like throwing up, but he felt he was fine for now.

He called out "Daxter!...Dax! Keira! Torn!" No words were spoken back to him, only the noise of the people and Shadowis's conniving laughter.


Sly also woke up and this time was ready to go. He tried finding Bentley and Murray, but they were nowhere to be seen. He was worried about them so he kept running but noticed the Precursor Robot nearby, flying and striking its missiles at more debris as if it wanted to kill more people.


Ratchet has flown for a while until he regained control with Clank and they held it together in the air.

He saw all below him, his eyes widened to the horrific scene. All the debris... Haven City... it was like a huge space weapon just destroyed its planet, only it's the city that has massive destruction.

Ratchet asked fin a frenzy, "Clank, what the heck just happened?"

He was going to explain what had occurred that was until Shadowis flew up to Ratchet in a flash and elbows onto Ratchet's stomach.

Clank screamed "Ratchet!"

They flew across the sky as Shadowis flew beside them ready to strike again. Ratchet with quick thinking tries to hit him with his OmniWrench, but Shadowis dodges it and elbows him again on the stomach.


Sly runs and keeps running trying to find his friends as well as the others, however, he quickly notices something in the air. He screams "Ratchet!"

He could not hear him and there was nothing he could do about it.


Clank yelled "Ratchet! Wake up!"

The lombax appeared to be just dangling there in the air with his best friend trying to carry him to safety and away from Shadowis. Though it appeared that he was not around as if he disappeared to somewhere else.

However, Clank hoped too soon as Shadowis came over again and flew to throw a punch at Clank, which caused him to let go of Ratchet and himself to fall at a high speed. Clank was too damaged from the punch so he couldn't scream or even do something. That is until something flew by to catch him and Ratchet. It was a creature of pure light with wings. The little robot has no idea what this was almost closed his eyes and the light creature flew down to the ground and laid the duo safely so that Shadowis couldn't hurt them anymore.

The light creature turned back into Jak and he saw Sly running towards him. Jak immediately saw that Shadowis was coming for Sly and he transformed into Dark Jak to stop him.

Sly turned to see that Shadowis was coming for him very fast, however, Dark Jak passed him to strike his claws into Shadowis. However, Shadowis did not let him faze him.

"Ah, so you are the famous hero that saved Haven City... I was wondering when you can show yourself to stop me." Shadowis gloated as he prepared a fist and punched Dark Jak directly in the face.

Dark Jak responds by doing a few more scratches on Shadowis only for him to dodge his strikes even more. Dark Jak rampages throughout the debris following through Shadowis as they both tried striking each other, only for one to dodge the other.

Shadowis yelled out "That's right, attack me more, creature!" Dark Jak growled as he jumped into the air and spun crazily to do Dark Strike spreading a lot of Dark Eco into the area, including touching Shadowis.

Shadowis materialized his sword and growled, "Damn you!" He flew fast to stab Dark Jak until Sly Cooper swung his cane to block the attack. They were locked -on between their two weapons.

Shadowis smiled "Cooper... well, well."

Sly also smiled "It's been a long time coming, Shadowis." They both leaped back after clashing.

Dark Jak and Sly Cooper stood next to each other and standing afar from them were Shadowis.

Shadowis smiled "It appears I've brought all of you to me..-" He was interrupted abruptly by Ratchet yelling "THIS IS FOR CLANK!"

Ratchet threw his OmniWrench like a boomerang at Shadowis who blocked it quickly with his sword. The wrench came back to Ratchet's hand as he stood beside Dark Jak and Sly.

Shadowis smiled yet again. "Wipe that smile off your face!" Ratchet yelled as he proceeded to for another attack, but was stopped instantly by Cooper.

"Hold on. Don't be so rash." The thief said as Ratchet scowled heavily at Shadowis.

"But he hurt Clank. I'll never forgive him for that!" Ratchet raged.

Sly closed his eyes reminding himself of the fight that occurred on earth against him and Shadowis. So, he knows how Ratchet feels in this situation.

Sly stated, "I know how you feel, but this guy... he's on another level compared to you and me."

The lombax was taken by Sly's words. Yes, he is indeed strong. However, how to defeat him is going to be a challenge.

Ratchet asked "Then what do you suggest we do about him? It's not like he's just going to sit there."

Sly remarked, "I don't know... however, we mustn't be rash with him."

Shadowis commented "I do love the conversation you two are having. It's inevitable though. You cannot destroy me!" He hovered above the ground and went towards the three heroes who took defensive stances.

Dark Jak charged first, striking his claws at Shadowis who blocked with his sword, meanwhile Sly and Ratchet attacked at the same time. The space demon insanely twirled Dark Jak at them, causing to be pushed back and on the ground.

This made Dark Jak angrier as he got up and charged directly at Shadowis again. "I'm amused creature, is that all you got?" Shadowis taunted Dark Jak.

Dark Jak growled as he grew into a giant (3x the size of the original Dark Jak). This immediately shocked Sly and Ratchet.

"What power..." Ratchet said in astonishment.

Dark Jak went in for the kill as Shadowis flew to kick him, however, he got grabbed and thrown into the sky above. This annoyed the space demon as he charged a red energy ball and threw it at Dark Jak.

Dark Jak in his giant form was little effected by it.

'Using my regular attacks will not work on this creature... I assumed his powers of Dark Eco would've been unmatched but this is ridiculous!' Shadwis thought to himself as he flew down to attack at Dark Jak, but he grabbed him again, and threw him across the debris.

He reverted back to his original size, ran fast and struck Shadowis in the face around 10 times. He growled in pure anger.

Ratchet came by and fired off a missile from the Devastator, then a few rounds from the Combustor, and then a few bombs from the Bomb Glove, lastly took out his Plasma Whip to strike at Shadowis.

Shadowis using his telekinesis reverted half of Ratchet's weapon attacks to different locations near Haven City except for bombs and the Plasma Whip attack.

Ratchet went for it again with Plasma Whip, but it caught onto Shadowis's sword, who in turn pulled it towards closer to punch Ratchet, but Ratchet took out his OmniWrench and struck Shadowis in the face, preventing the punch. Shadowis got pushed back by that and his reflexes did not kick as Sly Cooper swung his cane to hit him in the face. Ratchet took a double-bladed laser sword and clashed Shadowis against his own sword.

This was enough for him to charge up red energy and make a powerful, enormous ball of it to hit the heroes with. "THIS IS YOUR END!"

Dark Jak prevent him from doing so by coming by and using the Dark Bomb, knocking Shadowis down on to the ground. Ratchet jumped and tried to attkac him with the laser sword, but Shadowis dodged it. And then Sly clashed with Shadowis again. His cane against Shadowis's sword.

They clashed a few times after that Ratchet joined in and clashed with Shadowis. Dark Jak also joined in as Shadowis blocked Ratchet with his foot, Sly with his sword, and Dark Jak with his tail. He twirled around and threw all three heroes across the debris, not before Dark Jak held onto him and headbutted him.

Astounded by such strength, he was never pushed this far to be defeated nor his power tested. Feeling that he might get bested by these weaklings, he charges up more red energy and completely transforms into something else entirely. Almost looking like he's a real demon.

His armor is gone and he has horns, sharp teeth, a longer tail, skin completely red, and black eyes that loom like space itself. this demon form of Shadowis roared at the top if it's lungs. In retaliation, Dark Jak growled and ran towards this new Shadowis.

They both had their energies colliding with each other as if to see who was stronger. Dark Jak struck Shadowis, but also vice-versa.

They kept striking each other before Dark Jak reverted back inot Jak and Shadowis reverted back into himself. They both grew tired.

"I want to beat you so bad..." Jak said, but in a low voice. It was enough for Shadowis to hear, though.

"That's rich coming from you, hero..." Shadowis said also in a low voice. "I want to do the same thing."

"Why? Why are you doing this to us?" Jak asked as he tried to get up. Sly and Ratchet also came by to help Jak up on his feet.

"You ask why I'm doing all of this, but even if I told you, the knowledge granted to you would be useless." Shadowis remarked as he tried to get up.

"What are you talking about?" Sly asked.

"My goal is to wish away the heroism you espouse to the innocent people across the galaxy and the universe. I shall be the true hero everyone shall fight for and be idealized." Shadowis stated proudly.

"Wish away heroism? Become a true hero?! Give us a break! You attacked Metropolis and Haven City! Don't you dare call yourself a true hero in front of me!" Ratchet yelled in anger. How dare he call himself a hero?!

"Yeah after all the horrible stuff you and the Masters of Doom caused on Earth! Don't flatter yourself after you hurt my friends and those cops!" Sly also yelled enraged.

"Then tell me what do you wish to do to me?" Shadowis asked nonchalant as he got back up on his feet.

"First, were gonna beat you to a pulp. And then we'll defeat the Masters of Doom!" Jak shouted proudly.

"Oh, I see. That is noble of you three. However, what about my planet, my city, my friends, my everything. They suffered at the hands of Nazar, the Warrior of the Universe and the Precursors. Why should they get to decide who loves and dies by you heroes." Shadowis explained.

This surprised the trio. Ratchet asked Shadowis to further explain what is he talking about and how does he know Nazar.

"All this talk about about 'balance of the universe'is a bunch of nonsense. A lie used to sacrifice those for the nature of being powerful. It is the nature of those who are previewed to be godlike to put those who have no power in fear. As such nature itself creates a balance between good and evil. Good defined by its nature a defense and innocence and pure. Evil defined by its nature as disgust, ravage, and guilty. For years the Warrior of the Universe was supposed to be granted to me as my old master Nazar appointed me. But the Precursors felt I wasn't good enough for them. And thus began a cycle of good and evil. And then the truth hit, why were so many heroes corrupting that cycle. Captain Qwark teaming up with Chairman Drek and had his reputation ruined. The Precursors letting planets fallen to the Dark Makers. The Zoni not using the Great Clock to bring those who are dead back. Sly's family being a bunch of thieves. Where was the heroism espoused in this other than allowing millions upon millions to e sacrificed. The cycle of good and evil was twisted into something mores and I developed a questioning of myself as who I align with. I searched for Morbius and allowed myself to be trained under him. You see I'm not the villain here... I'm merely someone who wants to guide back to the cycle of true good and true evil. Letting people sacrificed is something I did not sign up for. I created the Masters of Doom along with Mr. Z to further out purpose for Morbius. To release the Red-Eyed Silver Dragon with the Q-Crystal and allow Morbius reconquer the universe for he shall achieve this dream of mine." Shadow explained entirely his true goal to the trio as they stood there, astounded by what he's saying.

"It wasn't until you trying to defeat me did you tell something more about good and evil. What exactly is it? How objective can we be about it? Who exactly is good and evil in this universe? What you are trying to do to me is no different than what I am trying to do to you. Everyone sees through the lie of a 'hero'. There are none only those who use innocent people as pawns for their supposed 'battles'" Shadowis said as he stared at the trio's dumbfounded looks on their faces.

"You're saying you're doing all of this because you want to get rid of the Precursors I'm assuming." Jak asks in shock.

"Yes and Nazar. I assume all of three of you met with him in dreams and weird messages he likes to give. He dares not show himself, but he will and then he'll tell you that I'm the main enemy next to Morbius. All that does is prove my point, that these 'gods' do not look out for the people. Only selfishness is expressed here. I shall do away this selfishness and as such the cycle of good and evil will end once and for all." Shadowis remarked.

Sly asks "But if you seek to end this cycle, what would happen if it repeats again? You cannot control destiny..."

"You speak of destiny as if you know it. I don't care if you wish to understand the purpose of my goal. As soon I defeat you three, the cycle can end. And all of nonsense of balance of the universe shall die with Nazar and the Precursors." Shadowis explained as his eyes darted away from the trio and looked up in the sky.

"With all this talk about power and gods, why Morbius? Why him exactly?" Ratchet asks out of curiousness.

"Well that's a story for another time...however, I should ask you this... why are you heroes, really? Is it because of destiny?" Shadowis asks in contempt of them.

"Maybe, I don't know the answer to the problem you propose. And yet I feel if you might as well be right about it. If what you say is true then let us help you achieve it but not by Morbius's way." Jak said.

"I don't want your help to be honest. It'll only be ruined by what I want to truly achieve. If anything it'll bring false hope." Shadowis remarked.

"Don't be stubborn! If you want to end the cycle then why not let us help?!" Jak asked.

"Because of power. The one who holds real power knows how to use it. All the Precursors have ever done is use it for their goals and selfishness. How are we to believe you won't just side with them and their goals." Shadowis added.

"Then you're just a compete hypocrite! A maniacal emperor took out my own species and I didn't see you willing to help me at all!" Ratchet yelled.

"Emperor Percival was inevitable. I once tried to seek to help the lombax, I was prevented from doing because of so-called 'balance'. And that only further proves my point. What is this system if let's others suffer." Shadowis said, clenching his fist in anger. "I truly do feel for you, Ratchet. I do sincerely. I understand the pain of losing your own species died at the hands of maniacal dictator.

"I lost my family to the Fiendish Five. I defeated their leader Clockwerk and kept the Theivus Racconus in safe hands. You Masters of Doom attempted to steal it, why?" Sly asks, clenching his teeth.

"To find the Dragon. Unfortunately, on Earth it is yet to be found." Shadowis replied and added further that he'll tell them next time the story behind that as well. "From here on out, our fight shall be glorious. You can defeat me, though I doubt it, and claim the title of heroes again. Or I defeat you and fulfill my purpose. However, this goes down it is our destiny to be here today and fight." Shadowis explained as he took a fighting stance and prepared himself for battle.

Ratchet, Sly, and Jak came at Shadowis and thus began the fight for their lives.