Narrator: When we left our two friends Kiz and Kaza they were in the middle of a name-crisis because of Kiz's lack of skills with a computer and a keyboard.

Pixel_1: HEY!

Nar: Kiz feels offended by my statement, but ignoring her I continue with a sum-up of the storyline:

Jak is now out of prison and lives a relatively stabile life. Emaly on the other hand has a major identity-crisis and has decided to join the crimson guard in order to prevent Karlos from annihilating the rebels.

Pixel_1: You do know that 'nar' means something like 'jerk' in Danish, right?

Narrator: Ahem, when we left Jak Torn wanted to see him. That will be where we start.

Pixel_1: Aren't you forgetting something?

Narrator: Question not understood

Kebab: He's useless let's fire him

Pixel_1: Good idea, you're fired!

Narrator: BUT!

Kebab: Yer heard the lady, GO!

Pixel_1: I only own what I own, other people own the rest. (For example Naughty Dog.)

*Something enters through the cat-door*

Kebab: YER INSTALLED A CATDOOR?

Pixel_1: Well, yeah. Hi Nora!

Nora: Vous are a zneaki personne! And a meanie too. Vous traded moi for a cameo for Alex. *sobs* Moi have become sheep.

Pixel_1: Err, I think she means cheap. Don't worry Nora, I'll return you after this chapter.

Nora: Iz that really true?

Kebab: Don't be too sure. Yer might get a new name in the progress as well.

Pixel_1: HEY! *mutes both muses with funny accents* Shut up you two. Let's get on with the story, ok?

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Chapter 8: Jak, Jak and. Dark Jak (A/N: Guess who's going to be in this chapter. Jak. Surprise. or not)

"Take a deeeeeeeep breath, Jak, we're going in!"

"What took you so long!? I have important things to discuss with you! Close the door" Jak gulped and a 'shit' could be heard from his shoulder. Torn sat down behind his table and looked at a sheet of paper before handing it over to Jak

'Dear Alex. I found your muse in my room. She is safe and sound. I will return her asap. Sincerely Kiz' Jak read the note "What's this supposed to mean? Who's Alex and Kiz?"

"Probably a couple of loons." Torn send Daxter a death-glare that made him shut up

"This is a coded message, dummies. It means that someone has found something and is going to bring it back to base." Torn explained

"And what is this something then?" Jak handed the note back to Torn

"Dark eco" Jak gulped and Daxter started looking from Jak to Torn to Jak at very high speed, making him dizzy. Torn grinned viciously

"We have informers you know." Jak's palms got sweaty. Torn just broadened his smile.

"I don't know what you're talking about" Jak stood up and rushed to the door.

"Yes you do! Stay in here!" Jak didn't listen, but stormed out of the room and began running. No specific direction except away from the mad man. Daxter just buried his claws deep into Jak's jacket and held on for dear life.

"FUCK! Kill. Torn. Kill. Fucking. Informer. Kill. Self" Jak said between pants, as he lay exhausted on the ground in some closed subway tunnel.

"I get the kill Torn part, but what's with the fucking dark eco!?" Daxter screeched out and started walking away "I thought we agreed that we'd stay away from that. icky ooze" Jak sighed and sat up

"Atticus" He mumbled. "They did things"

"So fucking what, psyko? Dark eco? You outta your mind!?" For once, Daxter sounded serious. Paranoiac as always, but serious none the less.

"No Torn is, I don't know what he bloody wants me to do with it" Daxter scuffed and walked on. He had made it some hundred metres away and almost around a corner. For a second he peaked around it and then came running back in a hurry.

"Uh-oh. Code red code red!"

"Shit, what now? Metalheads?" Jak raised himself as quickly as he could. He was really exhausted from all the running

"No, dammit, TORN. Run for your life. He's on a zoomer!" Jak gave an annoyed snarl as he realized there weren't any exits nearby

"Come on, let's just ignore him" Jak started walking in the opposite direction. Daxter tried to catch up with him on all four, but Torn reaches Jak first

"You got pretty far."

"Shut up and leave me alone" If he hadn't been that tired we would have run further. He would have to confront him anyway.

"I won't and you have to come with me" Torn got off the zoomer and took out the keys. Jak just kept walking

"No"

"Yes. Now listen and listen good, boy. This is your chance to get back at him. Hit him with his own weapon. I know you want to." Jak grumphed. Torn always knew how to persuade people to what he wanted them to do. Jak looked over his shoulder to see a red tail hanging out if the zoomer's engine. Then walked on

"It is an offer," Torn continued

"Hell it isn't" Jak turned to face Torn who was an annoying bit taller than him. Torn lifted an eyebrow. Jak growled and walked back towards the zoomer that still had a tail. Luckily Torn didn't notice. He just stayed back.

"Go to Echo and Tia. They'll know what to do." Suddenly Torn noticed the new addition to his zoomer "GET YOUR RAT OUT OF MY ENGINE" Daxter quickly fled from Torns wrath as he approached the zoomer.

"Err, sorry. He does that by himself" Jak explained while Torn made a mental note to NOT let Daxter near anything ever again.

"I'm not a rat" Daxter muttered when climbing up on Jak's shoulder

"You're dirty" Jak stated as he saw the oil in Daxter's fur

"And you, my friend, haven't had a proper bath in weeks"

At that moment another zoomer made it round the corner. It came to a halt and a white and green haired girl jumped off. Both men (and an ottsel) looked at the odd mix of colours.

"Hydrogen peroxide, minor accident" Torn just nodded

"Jak Kiz, Kiz Jak. Take him to Echo and Tia" Torn just turned on his heel and walked back to his zoomer and looked into the engine to get a survey of the damages

"Righto then. Jak, hop on." The girl got back on her vehicle and moved a little to the front to make room for the extra passenger. "Good thing this baby was build for fat people"

"Like Krew," Daxter coughed and thereby earning himself a slap in the back of the head.

"Who are Echo and Tia?" Jak was getting rather curious. The girl sped up the zoomer and soon the walls were in a blur.

"Oh just two scientists. Crazy, but they know their stuff. Trust me"

"Then who did this to you, babe?" Daxter nuzzled her soft hair

"Kiz, not babe." That was all she managed to say before nearly swooning over the massage he was giving her hair

"Hey watch it!" If it hadn't been for Jak's quick reflexes they would have driven directly into a roadblock in the tunnel. He quickly turned the vehicle and made it stop.

"Sorry, but massages always gets the better of me and." Daxter continued a little. If she had been a cat she would have purred, but she was only an elf so she moaned softly. Jak dug into her hair and pulled out a smiling Daxter

"Daxter, leave her alone until the ride is over. Kiz, You have now gained a pain in the butt AND flees" Jak was trying to be serious, but couldn't help smiling over the fact that the girl had such an easy weakness to take advantage of. She just smiled at him and he couldn't help but to smile back. Daxter grinned and the ride continued.

"Ok, hold on we're going at full speed. " They had reached street-level and was heading home, or so Jak though. While running away Jak hadn't noticed exactly how far he had gotten, but judging from the length and speed of the ride until they reached the part of town, that he knew, he hadn't been wasting his time.

"We're here" Kiz abruptly stopped the zoomer in front of a big warehouse and thereby sending Daxter to crash-land against a wall with a thud. After e second he peeled off and landed on the ground with another thud.

"Ouch"

Jak on the other hand held on for dear life. The only problem was that he was holding her waist and the extra strong grip squeezed out all the air in her lungs with a cracking sound. A grimace froze on Kiz's face.

"Sorry, we'll have to look at that" Jak lifted her off the zoomer, opened her leather jacket and tried pressing different places around her rib-area

"Note to self: Never again. Aïïe"

"Bingo" Jak had in one move found the injury and moved the rib back to its original place

"Thanks, but no thanks, babe" Daxter's voice came from behind some trashcans and as he walked out into clear view of the other two Jak couldn't help but to laugh.

"Let me guess: oil from Torns zoomer, dust from that wall over there with your silhouette on it and dirt from the ground?" Jak mused

"Not dirt, it's smelly might-have-been-food-once-but-sure-isn't-now trash" Jak tried to hold back laughter as Daxter looked at his now grey, brown and greenish fur.

"Don't worry fuzzy, I'll give you a bath" Daxter tensed at the name, but realized actually how much he needed a bath at the moment and began nodding

"Yeah, yeah whatever"

Kiz walked over to a panel on the side of a big door in the warehouse, typed in a few numbers and got an alarming bleep from the panel.

"Stupid piece of crap! I typed the password correctly!" She tried typing again, but got the same result. She then hit the panel and surprisingly the doors slid open. Jak got on the zoomer, ready to drive it in so it wouldn't be stolen.

"Hi Kiz, thought it might be you. Not many burglars swear at the lock. Oh, Hi" The girl in the door nearly screwed off her head just to follow Jak on the zoomer as he rode it inside.

"Habba, habba"

"Calm down Tia, mind fixing a bath for. that while I keep Echo from assaulting Jak?" Kiz walked inside, hoping to find Jak before 'Echo' did. She didn't, but luckily Echo was paralysed in a very unlucky position. Kiz walked over to her and closed her mouth with a finger on the jaw.

"Miff Bunny." Her eyes widened as he walked closer to the two girls, but she quickly snapped back to reality. "You must be Jak, I'm Echo and that's Tia"

"Can't yer walk yerself!?" Tia was trying to get Daxter to stay on the ground while he was trying to get a ride. A dirty trail on her trousers marked where he had tried to move up.

"She's fine now, I'll take care of the dirty one" Kiz explained to Tia as she grabbed Daxter by the waist and placed him in her shoulder. Daxter formed 'I like her' with his mouth and pointed to the now dirty girl. Jak just shook his head and turned his attention to the two other girls.

Both girls' eyes glimpsed for a second before looking down at their papers.

"Experiment 5768" Echo started

"No, no that was the thing that ended up in Kiz's hair. It's this one," Tia help up a brown envelope with a seal on it. Both girls went 'Uuuuu' before ripping it open.

"So he's."

"I think so." Both of them were getting very exited. In fact a few 'squeals' could be heard as they read through the papers from the envelope.

"Err. I'm what?" Jak tried to take a sneak peak at the papers, but that just made the girls keep them even closer to their bodies

"You're our experiment"

"We get to do what we want to you" Both girls giggled.

"What do you want to do with him Echo?"

"I don't know Tia, what do you say. Let's run some tests?" They both suppressed a laugh.

"This way."

"Don't be shy."

"We don't bite."

"Much." Jak rolled eyes at the two.

"In here!" Tia showed him into a small room "It's on the table. Don't keep us waiting."

"Oh brother, now they want me to change clothes?" He mumbled before obeying them.

A light blue catsuit lay on the table. Jak mumbled something along the lines of 'horny chicks' before putting it on. Through the wall he could hear Kiz and Daxter arguing over the temperature in Daxter's bath.

"FINE! Stay like that, FOREVER" Kiz screamed and Jak heard a door slam. As he left the room three females were peeling off the catsuit with their eyes, mouth wide open. Jak sighed. 'Note to self: Never again. No more crazy scientist-chicks for me'. Kiz started pointing in different directions before pointing towards the room with Daxter in it and going in there. Echo pulled herself together and became scarily calm:

"Good to see it fits you." Tia got back to the real world with a slap in the back of her head

"Ouch. Ok, let's connect the damn thing. And while we're at it: NOT SO FUCKING HARD!"

"Tia. He's hot. You looked stupid." Echo's voice was just so low that Jak couldn't hear it

"Yeah, but he's also taken" Daxter had obviously heard their little conversation. Kiz was tapping her foot in the doorway.

"Huh?" Echo looked almost offended

"Well, what can I say, babe. He sure isn't mumbling your name in his sleep, is he?"

"Then who!?" Synchronically, from both girls.

"Phay, that's all I can tell you" Daxter was not good at being secretive, but he got saved by Jak's inpatient 'Ahem' and Kiz's iron grip around his waist. "Help." A soapy smell filled the air.

"Echo. Connect. Catsuit."

"Ok, ok. Just let me enjoy the sight for a few seconds."

"Three days later, status quo. Come on!" Tia was getting rather impatient and signalled Jak to follow her to a big blue circle drawn on the ground. The diameter was around 5 metres and inside the circle the concrete floor was replaced with some kind of metal.

"This suit is constructed to measure pulse, blood pressure," Tia continued, "heart rhythm, stroke volume, respiratorical reserve volume, inspiratorical reserve volume, breathing frequency, blood type, blood stream to specific areas, shut up Echo, muscle mass placement and changes in placement, composition of muscles. And if you wear these, we'll also be able to measure stuff on your eyes" She held out a pair of goggles

"You just have to stay inside the circle." Echo added, feeling very smart. Jak put on the goggles. Perfect fit surprisingly.

"This special metal plate made out of. well, we don't exactly know. It reflects. no. Ok, it helps us gather the information." Tia smiled. Jak was very close to asking her to repeat what she just said, but agreed with himself that it was Daxter's job to be the annoying one.

"So step on ladies and gentlemen, we're connecting." Echo ran over to a nearby machine and started tabbing the keys; making numbers, signs and text appear on its screen. Tia left Jak inside the circle. Jak could feel electricity run in the metal plate as well as in his suit. Above the centre of the circle, about 4 metres over it, was a big metal ball hanging from the roof in a chain. Lots of wires went from inside the ball and in to the machine Echo was typing on. Crackling noises blended with the voices herd in the room. Amongst those voices was Daxter's saying:

"Aww, do I have to?"

Confirming bleeps came from the machine near Echo.

"Receiving information." Tia was speed-reading a note that was printed directly out of the machine. "Holy shit!"

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Ok Nora, you can go home now

Nora: Wee *goes to the door* Hey Kizz, ze catdoor won't open

Pixel_1: Oh it's because it's one way; you can only enter. Hmm I'll try to open it for you *tabs control panel* Damn *tabs it again* Sorry Nora, I can't

Kebab: Surpri-ise.

Pixel_1: Oh shut up

Jak: Here let me help. *uses charm to open up the catdoor*. Voilá, ouvert.

Nora: zee ya! *Leaves*

Pixel_1: Wow, how'd you do that? Uh, Hurry, close it again; I don't want Kaza to leave

Kebab: Aww, man!

Jak: Sure *uses charm to close catdoor from the inside* There you go.

Pixel_1: While you're at it, would you mind changing our names back to normal? Remember I'm NOT kiz1, just kiz. Beware, I have the power.

Kebab: To what?

Pixel_1: Just shut up and let the man finish all right!

Kebab: Inspirational reject!

Pixel_1: That was so Darksbanes line and besides you can't say that. Jak?

Jak: Whatever she says. *Uses charm to get kiz and Kaza their names back*

Kiz and Kaza: *squeal and do happy dance*

Jak: I'll do the reviewers responses while they dance around.

AD, Phoe-chan, AD and NN (two people, three reviews. Nice. Almost like a sale) Thanks for the reviews. Everyone likes me *smiles to the spotlight, but it moves away* HEY!!

Kiz: I'll take it from here. *spotlight goes on Kiz*

RB: You like what I did to you? Aye? Ok, I went behind your back and added Darksbane as well. Hey, I have her muse already; I owe her! And then I went behind everybody's backs and added myself. Hehe, I'm mean, I know. But I deserved it. Err. Sure I do. NEXT!

Kaza: *grumbles* Selfish. Mean. Backstabber.

Kiz: HEY!!! Don't you dare!!

Kaza: *sticks out tongue*

Kiz: *Strangles Kaza, but realizes she needs him alive* SHIT! *Revives Kaza*

Kaza: Whoa, what happened?

Kiz: Err, nothing.

Shark. Let's start 'the number one clan'. I'm in it until someone *coughs really loud*

Kaza: Hint taken, HINT TAKEN!

Kiz: .inspires me to get a new name. Anyways, the Emaly/Karlos was well. read next chapter. That isn't up yet. stupid me. Besides, it would be too easy if it was 'just' Jak or Sig, right? I actually started out with Jak, but that's a long story.

Still waiting for your new story.

Nobinoir: Sorry for freaking out on the mail. I just got really mad and needed to let out some steam. Sorry. It was either that or killing the guy who invented messenger, and since I don't' know who the [bleep] he is. Well, sorry. You were just nearby. I'm usually not like that!

Well, I am the first to even give a hint to sex in this forum. I'm revolutionary. I also started on 'Glimpses'. Not a real story. And not much to read. YET! But once I get it going you will know what I mean by postmodern. I just need new batteries for the muse and I'll be.

Kaza: I'm NOT battery-driven!

Kiz: Well, I just located the problem.

Kaza: [bleep]

Kiz: [bleep] yourself!

Darksbane: Recognize yourself? Like it? Mmm?

I need to ask a favour. Can I help you write the part where Karlos dies? I really feel like killing him, and you say that I'm good at writing him. PLEASE? Then I'll. give you a. a. used 25 years old Danish-French Dictionary, or. a. small bottle of hotel-shampoo. What do you say? I know you can't resist this magnificent offer.?

Kaza: It's Darksbane, the numbskull

Kiz: Or I'll give you a bottle of skull-softener shampoo.?

Ok, how did you guys like my all-Jak chapter? Don't worry I don't plan on making an all-Emaly chapter next time. There's still a lot to write on the- crazy-fangirls-experiment-on-Jak. thing.

Kaza: Now she wan't yer ta review

Kiz: Please? Then I might not make another cliff hanger. might not.