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Chapter Four ~~ A DOUBLE-DECKER ZOOMER?!?!?!

Little Jak ran up to his father yelling, " Dad! Dad!"

Jak picked him up and hugged him tightly. He set him down and asked, " Are you alright?"

" Yeah," Little Jak said shakily.

" Yeah? Okay," Jak panted. He looked up and saw Sig.

" O'Conell," Sig nodded.

Jak grabbed Sig blindly and shoved him against the statue. He shouted, " What the hell are you doing here?! No scratch that. I don't care. Who the hell are those guys and where are they taking my wife?!"

" I'm not sure, cherry," Sig tried to calm Jak down. He reached into his pocket and fished out a picture of Erol. He looked hard at Jak and said, " But wherever this man is, your wife will most surely be."

Little Jak snatched the picture out of Sig's hand and said, " Hey, I know him. He's the curator. He works at the Haven City Museum." Little Jak looked at Sig.

" You sure?" Sig asked him.

" Believe him," Jak put a hand on Little Jak's shoulder and pulled him with him. " He spends more time there then he does at home."

The four of them quickly walked towards Jak's parked hovercar. Jak began to talk.

" Okay, you're here, the bad guys are here, and Keira's been kidnapped," Jak said as they walked. " Let me guess."

" Yeah," Sig said. " They once again removed the creature from his grave."

" I don't mean to point fingers but isn't that you're job to make sure that doesn't happen?" Daxter asked and he pointed the scepter at Sig.

" The woman who was with him," Sig explained, " she knows things that no living person could possibly know. She knew exactly where the creature was buried."

Jak looked at Sig.

" We were hoping she would lead us to the bracelet," Sig continued. " She obviously did. And now they have it."

They finally reached Jak's zoomer when Little Jak spoke up.

" I wouldn't get to nervous just yet," Little Jak told them and he pushed up his sleeve to reveal the bracelet. Sig took his wrist in his hands.

" Is that gold?" Daxter asked as he peered at the bracelet.

" When I stuck it on, I saw the pyramids at Giza," Little Jak said. " Then whoosh! Straight across the desert to Karnak."

" By putting this on, you have started a chain reaction that could bring about the next apocalypse," Sig said worriedly.

Little Jak gasped.

" You, lighten up," Jak pointed at Sig and then he turned to Little Jak and said, " You, big trouble," and he looked at Daxter. " You, get in the hovercar."

They all got into the hovercar and sped off down the road.

" I am sorry if I scared your kid," Sig said to Jak, " but you must understand, now that the bracelet is on his wrist, we only have seven days before the Metal Head King awakens."

" We? What we?" Jak asked as he kept his eyes on the road. There was hardly any traffic since it was raining so hard.

" If he is not killed," Sig said, " he will raise the army of Mar."

" I take it that's not a good thing?" Daxter asked from the back.

" Oh, he'll wipe out the world," Jak nodded sarcastically.

" Ah, the old ' wipe out the world' ploy," Daxter sat back.

They sped through an intersection without slowing down and they narrowly missed hitting a guard.

" Whoever kills the Metal Head King can send Mar's army back to the Underworld," Sig said. " Or use it to destroy mankind and rule the Earth."

" So that's why they dug up the Baron," Jak muttered. " He's the only one tough enough to take out the Metal Head King."

" That's their plan," Sig nodded.

They pulled up to a huge building with the words ' Heaven City Museum' carved into one of the many pillars holding the place up.

Jak turned off the engine and turned around so he was facing Little Jak.

" Okay Lil Jak, I've got a big job for you," Jak told him.

Little Jak's eyes widened with excitement.

" I want you to stay here and protect the car," Jak said slowly and his eyes narrowed.

" I can do that," Daxter offered.

" Protect the car?" Little Jak's face fell. " C'mon dad. Just because I'm a kid doesn't mean I'm stupid."

" I know," Jak ruffled Little Jak's hair playfully.

" Dad!" Little Jak pushed his hand away.

" Ehh," Jak muttered and smiled a little.

" If you see anyone come out screaming, it's just me," Daxter shuddered.

Jak swiftly turned around and looked at Daxter. " Maybe you should stay here and watch him."

" Yes, now you're talking," Daxter nodded vigorously.

Outside, Jak opened the back of the zoomer and pulled back a canopy. About 15 or 20 guns and ammo rolled out neatly.

" You want the Blaster?" Jak asked Sig.

" No, I prefer the Vulcan," Sig muttered as he stared at the guns.

Jak grabbed the Blaster, Sig grabbed the Vulcan, and they both grabbed as much ammo as they could.

Sig noticed the tattoo on Jak's wrist. He thought about something before he cleared his throat.

" If I were to say to you," Sig began, " I'm a stranger traveling from the east, seeking that which is lost-"

Jak looked up at him with a weird look on his face. " Then I would reply that I am a stranger traveling from the west. It is I whom you seek. How-"

" Then it is true," Sig said excitedly. He grabbed Jak's arm and said, " You have the sacred mark."

" What, that?" Jak shrugged it off and he took his arm away from Sig. " No, that got slapped on me in an orphanage in Cairo."

" That mark means that you're a protector of man, a warrior of God, a Wastelander," Sig smirked.

" Sorry," Jak cocked his Blaster and lightning flashed overhead. " You've got the wrong guy."

. . . . .

Inside the museum, everyone was gathered in the storeroom. The guards had formed a circle around the encased form of Baron Praxis. They were bowing in unison and Erol was reading from the Book of the Dead. A stone coffin was burning in the corner and torches were lit all around the cramped room.

Torn walked up with his hands folded. Four men behind him carried the unconscious form of Keira on a platform. Her hands and feet we bound.

The four men dropped her and the platform onto a table. She moaned and opened her eyes. She saw Erol reading from the Book of the Dead in ancient Precursor.

" Erol?" she mumbled. She looked at the center of the room and gasped when she saw the form inside the crystal. " They found him."

Indeed, you could see the Baron's decomposed arms and legs sticking out of the gunk he was frozen in. You could even make out his head.

. . . . .

Upstairs, Sig and Jak were in the ancient Egypt part of the museum and they could faintly hear someone or something chanting in the distance.

They were both alert and they would jump at the slightest crash of thunder. Jak and Sig kept their guns loaded and pointed outwards just in case something leaps out at them.

They grew closer and the faint chanting grew louder.

. . . . .

Keira watched in horror as the chanting grew more rapid and she looked around for an exit, any way to escape.

She knew what Erol was saying. He was chanting over and over, " Rise up! Rise up!"

. . . . .

Jak and Sig kept their eyes open for the slightest movement. As the passed a coffin with a mummy inside, there was a slight shriek.

Jak screamed as he pointed his gun at the mummy but it seemed more interested in squealing and moving in little squirms.

The two men backed up into another coffin, which was encased in glass. The mummy inside there threw itself against the glass, scaring the crap out of the men.

All of the mummies suddenly came to life and they were all shrieking and growling. Jak and Sig didn't know what to do.

. . . . .

Jak and Sig finally made it past the trapped mummies and found themselves in the storeroom where the chanting was coming from. The kept the guns up as they watched.

Keira was feeling terrified right about now as the chanting intensified greatly. She could see the Baron's decomposed foot start to twitch and move.

Keira gasped in horror as the Baron's hand shot threw the amber-like cage and he began to growl loudly.

Torn looked up from his spot on the floor.

The Baron snarled as he broke out of his containment and walked out. His disgusting skin began to ravel back around his body and he seemed to get a little better in what he looked like. You could still, however, see his intestines and brain and such but other than that he looked just like a mummy.

Even Torn looked up in alarm as the decomposing Baron walked around.

Keira shivered and said, " Baron Praxis."

Without taking a chance to really look at his surroundings, the Baron walked up to Erol and asked in ancient Precursor what year it was.

" My Lord," Erol spoke in fluent Precursor, " it is the Year of the Scorpion."

" Truly?!" the Baron said back in Precursor.

" Yes," Erol replied.

The Baron laughed evilly. A door opened and he stopped. He turned to see Ashelin walking towards them.

Keira gasped and she suddenly felt faint. When she opened her eyes she found herself staring at Anck-su-namun. With a flash, the vision was gone and Ashelin was back.

Ashelin stopped as she reached the Baron. She stared at him for a second to two before Erol interrupted.

" Do not be frightened," Erol told her.

" I am not afraid," Ashelin responded. Then she spoke in Precursor, " I am Anck-su-namun reincarnated."

" Only in body," the Baron said in Precursor as he fingered Ashelin's hair. " But soon I shall bring your soul back from the Underworld and you will once again be my true daughter."

Ashelin and the Baron continued to stare at each other while Erol and Torn prepared to open the chest.

Meanwhile, Jak and Sig were still watching from the balcony.

" You know," Jak sighed, " a couple of years ago this would've seemed really strange to me." Jak began to walk away to start the beginning of the plan he and Sig had cooked up.

Torn put some special liquid around the edge of the chest that would open it.

" Lord Praxis will be much pleased," Erol said as Torn lifted the lid. His smile faded when he saw what was inside. He lifted out a baseball statue.

" Where is it?!" he asked in a harsh whisper. " Where is the bracelet?"

Torn growled, " I think I know."

. . . . .

" And at the very top of the gold pyramid," Little Jak told his uncle from outside by the hovercar, " there was a huge diamond."

" Huge? How huge?" Daxter asked his nephew.

" It was so big, it would reflect the sun and wink at distant travelers, beckoning them to their deaths," Little Jak leaned forward when he said the last part.

. . . . .

" I have a gift for you," Ashelin told her father and she nodded at Keira.

" HER!" the Baron cried angrily.

Keira shuddered and said a silent prayer.

" I knew it would please you to watch her die," Ashelin smiled. She snapped her fingers and the guards around Keira stood up.

Keira instantly tried to get off the platform but the men held her tightly.

" Get-no! Get off!" Keira shouted as the men picked up the platform and began to carry her away. She tried to kick them but to no avail. She gasped when she realized where they were taking her-the burning coffin.

" Oh my God," Keira gasped in horror. The huge flames seemed to taunt her as they licked the sides of the coffin.

" The Underworld awaits you," the Baron said in Precursor.

" You wait! I'll put you in your grave again!" Keira shouted to him.

" Our thinking was, not if we put you in your grave first," Erol said from behind her.

The Baron shouted something in Precursor but Keira was too frightened and enraged to hear what he said. Ashelin, however, translated.

" Burn her!" Ashelin shouted with a grin.

" You bast-" Keira shouted but was cut off as the platform was lifted high and the men shoved the platform towards the flames. Keira screamed in horror, " AHHH!"

Jak suddenly sprinted out of no where and leaped over the flames. He landed on one end of the platform and Keira tumbled over his shoulder.

Jak punched one man out with his free hand and before anyone else could react, Sig started shoot the Vulcan at them from the balcony.

Sig shot the Baron several times but the bullets just bounced off his body.

Several others drew their guns and shot at Sig but he was quicker.

. . . . .

Little Jak and Daxter gasped as they heard the gunshots. Little Jak slid off the hoot of the hovercar while Daxter tried to open it.

" Open it! Open it!" Little Jak screeched.

" I'm trying, I'm trying!" Daxter tried to shove the key into the door.

. . . . .

Erol took off for the exit while Torn tossed Ashelin another Vulcan.

Ashelin cocked the gun and started to fire at Sig.

Sig quickly moved behind a large crate and reloaded.

Torn drew two small guns and began to fire at Sig as well.

Jak and Keira stood behind another large crate. Jak swiftly cut Keira's binds with a knife. He stopped and came out from behind the crate with his Blaster and began to shoot.

The blaster smacked another guard and that guard hit another and they both tumbled into the burning coffin.

. . . . .

" Hurry up!" Little Jak and Daxter had gotten into the zoomer and Daxter was trying to put the key in the ignition.

" Come on, come on, come on!" Daxter said franticly as he tried to put the key in with his shaky hands. He cried out in disbelief as the key broke off in the ignition.

" You broke it, you broke it, you broke it!!" Little Jak screamed at his uncle.

" You be quiet, Lil Jak!" Daxter tried to calm down but he gave up and began to hit his fists on the wheel, as if he were trying to make it start. " If there's gonna be hysterics, they'll come from me!"

. . . . .

Sig moved up and down the balcony, continuing to shoot.

Torn and Ashelin shot back at him but they were having trouble.

Jak fired at everything he saw. He stopped when the Baron looked at him in surprise.

" YOU!" the Baron howled.

Jak's only response was to shoot him, but the Blaster hardly had any effect on him except make him jerk back.

A guard, and it just so happens that it was the same guard that ducked from the sword Jak threw at him, began to shoot at Jak but he had retreated back behind the crate with Keira. He handed her a gun and they both nodded. The two of them leaped out from behind the crate and began firing together.

The guard's eyes widened and he ducked as the bullets struck the man behind him as well as the flammable liquid tanks.

As Jak and Keira shot, the moved backwards towards the staircase.

Jak noticed that the flammable liquid had begun to leak. He smirked to himself and he shot at the tanks. The whole thing went up in a huge explosion and several guards were set on fire.

The Baron looked up and saw Jak and Keira making a break for it. He growled and he spun around. He shoved two guards out of the way and he grabbed the same vase that was found at the dig site.

Sig continued to fire at he remaining tanks of flammable liquid and several exploded with a huge fireball. Jak and Keira had made their way up to him and gasped as the Baron began to talk in Precursor.

" Collect your bones!" the Baron lifted the same vase that was found at the dig site out of a crate. " Gather your limbs! Shake the earth from your flesh!"

Ashelin stood up and glared at Keira and Jak.

Jak, Keira, and Sig stopped running and watched in utter horror as the Baron lifted the lid of the vase and sand flew out.

" Your Master is here!" the Baron shouted as the sand swirled and took the form of four decomposing Krimson Guards.

" Oh, no," Jak muttered as he ushered Keira and Sig out the door. " Not these guys again!"

" DESTROY THEM!" the Baron shouted and pointed at them.

The Krimson Guards roared and their mouths stretched insanely long.

. . . . .

Little Jak and Daxter gasped when they heard the roaring. The two of them scrambled out of the car and Daxter grabbed the scepter.

" What are we gonna do?" Daxter asked hysterically. " What are we gonna do?!"

" You're asking me?! I'm only eight years old!" Little Jak shouted.

. . . . .

Jak, Keira, and Sig burst through the doors of the museum and took off running but Keira stopped and ran back. She grabbed a nearby bench and began to pull it in front of the doors.

" Honey, whatcha doin'?" Jak ran back and grabbed Keira. " These guys don't use doors."

The three of them ran towards Jak's zoomer-Jak's empty zoomer.

" Where the hell's Daxter?!" Jak screamed. He turned to the sound of another zoomer and his eyes nearly fell out of his sockets when he saw Daxter and Little Jak driving up in a double-decker zoomer.

Daxter turned and stopped the bus. Keira and Sig wasted no time in jumping aboard the huge zoomer.

" What's the matter with my zoomer?" Jak asked Daxter through the open window.

" I was forced to find an alternative means of transportation," Daxter said nervously.

" A DOUBLE-DECKER ZOOMER?!" Jak bellowed as he pointed to the red and white zoomer with a second floor. (A/N: It was the size of a normal delivery truck.)

" It was his idea!" Daxter pointed to Little Jak, who was standing behind him with Keira.

" Was not!" Little Jak shouted back.

" Was too!"

" Just go!" Jak shouted as he ran to the back of the zoomer where the door was.

Daxter put his foot down on the accelerator and turned the wheel. He did continue to argue, " It was too!"

" Was not!!" Little Jak screamed as loud as he could.

" Oh, jeez," Daxter muttered as he drove the zoomer out of the parking lot.

The four mummy Krimson Guards burst through the brick walls of the museum and instantly began to follow the zoomer.

Jak looked up as he loaded the Blaster. He watched as the Guards ran towards this zoomer.

" No, no!" Jak shouted as the Guards crushed his zoomer with a shower of sparks. " Not my zoomer!!" Jak had to hold on as Daxter swerved hard to the right in order to avoid another zoomer.

The Guards continued to chase after them on foot even though the bus was speeding up.

" Oh, I hate mummies," Jak glared at them through the rain splattered back window.

" Glad to see me now, doughboy?" Sig cocked his Vulcan and asked Jak.

" Just like old times, huh?" Jak said sarcastically as he climbed up to the second level.

Jak sat on the last seat and shot at the mummies through the open window. He hit one, but they were just as tough as the Baron was. He shot another one but it and the other three kept sprinting and the fourth soon recovered.

Jak continued to stare as the mummies leaped off the ground and began to run on the sides of the buildings on all fours.

Jak looked to his right and back to his left. He muttered, " Right," just as one lunged for him. He raised the blaster and he shot the mummy to pieces. He tried to shoot the other one but it was leaping from pillar to pillar and he couldn't aim directly at it.

The mummy jumped but it ended up landing on the bottom half, where it met Sig's wrath.

Jak looked at the remaining three that were running on the side of the buildings. He was hurriedly reloading his Blaster but the mummies were quicker. They landed on the roof with a snarl and they began to punch the hard metal and denting it. Jak shot repetitively at the monsters but he missed and only succeeded in blasting holes in the roof.

Daxter was having a hard time maneuvering the double-decker zoomer because of its height. He was sweating up a storm and he didn't even stop for a red light.

Sig was reloading his Vulcan when the other half of the mummy came screeching into the zoomer with only its top half since Sig shot his bottom half off. It smacked the Vulcan out of Sig's hands and then it smacked Sig into the window.

Keira and Little Jak turned around and screamed as Sig fought viciously with the mummy. It seemed as thought Sig was loosing.

The mummy supported itself by hanging onto the polls on the ceiling and it threw Sig back and forth against the side of the zoomer.

It continued to do that until Sig broke lose and punched the mummy onto the seat.

Jak was reloading his gun and the mummy was punching through the ceiling. Jak cocked his gun and looked up as the mummy jumped down behind him and knocked him flat.

" Ohh! Ohh!" Jak cried as the Blaster flew out of his hands and skidded to the back of the bus. He crawled as fast as he could on all fours towards it but just as he was about to grab it, the mummy grabbed his belt and pulled him back to the front while screaming all the way.

The mummy threw Jak up and he hit the ceiling. He let him fall to the hard floor and then he picked him up and threw him up again.

The zoomer was approaching a turn. Inside, Sig was still fighting with the mummy.

Keira turned and gasped as the mummy pinned Sig down on a seat. The mummy snickered as long claws replaced its fingers.

Sig screamed as the mummy slashed his arm.

" Turn! Turn! Turn, Daxter! Turn!" Keira shouted to Daxter as she stood protectively in front of Little Jak.

Daxter made a hard right turn as he turned the wheel 180 degrees and everyone on the bus was thrown into a window.

" Aaah!" Daxter screamed as the zoomer hit several lampposts with a shower of blue and yellow sparks. He shut his eyes as the sparks hit him through the open window. " Yaagh!"

Jak tried his hardest not to get strangled but he was having some trouble. The mummy was grasping him around the neck and Jak would punch him every chance he got.

Another zoomer turned right into the path of the double-decker zoomer.

" NO! Get outta the way!" Daxter made a frantic hand motion to the driver and he made a wise choice in moving his sorry butt off the road.

Daxter couldn't avoid the parked zoomer and they hit it hard. That slowed them down but Daxter kept his foot on the gas.

When their zoomer hit the parked one, Jak and the mummy were thrown into a window. That gave Jak the time he needed to crawl as fast as his legs would carry him towards his Blaster.

Jak lunged and grabbed his Blaster with a triumphant smile.

Daxter made another hard left and Jak was knocked onto his side and the Blaster flew out of his hands and out the bottom half of the second floor. It landed loudly on the hood next to Daxter's open window. Keira turned at the sound and saw the gun.

Sig threw the mummy into the window hard. It spun around and slashed Sig with its claws. Sig groaned and fell back onto the seat in pain.

The mummy got above his head and screeched with its mouth wide open.

" AHH!" Sig screamed right back but gasped, as there was a cocking sound and then a bang. He opened his eyes to see Keira shooting the hell outta the mummy.well, what was left of it. The rest of the mummy was flung out the back window with a crash of glass.

Daxter turned to see what the commotion was about.

" Look out!!" Little Jak screamed.

Daxter's head whipped around and he had only a split second to turn the zoomer to the left. The bums began to shout as Daxter drove straight through their turf.

The mummy had Jak's neck in his hands and it was screeching at him. Jak punched him several times before he made a V with his fingers and dug them into the mummy's eye sockets. Jak withdrew his fingers and tried to shake the gunk off them.

Daxter's eyes widened and he gasped when he saw where he had driven the bus. He didn't have anywhere to turn as they came speeding up to it.

Jak struggled some more until he looked over the mummy's shoulder.

" Uh, oh." Jak muttered as he punched the mummy as hard as he could and then he threw himself onto the floor with his hands over his head.

The mummy turned around to see what he was staring at and it growled in surprise as the words LOW BRIDGE came up fast into his line of vision.

Jak looked up as the whole top part of the zoomer was ripped clear off its hinges.

" Woah!" he shouted as he covered his head tightly.

After they had passed under the bridge, a smashed mummy now covered the sign LOW BRIDGE.

Jak sat up and he pushed the chairs and parts of the zoomer off him. He stood up fully and now realized that they were traveling on the Haven City Bridge that stood over the lake. He muttered as he made his way back down to the first floor.

Daxter brought the zoomer to a stop as soon as he could. His hands were stuck to the steering wheel and sweat ran like a fountain down his worried face.

" Great driving, Uncle Dax," Little Jak hugged his petrified uncle.

" Y-Yeah," Daxter muttered.

" You alright?" Jak asked Sig and panted.

" This was.my first double-decker zoomer ride," Sig smirked and panted.

" Wait a second," Keira stopped. " How many mummies did you kill, Jak?"

Jak held up two fingers. " Why?"

" Weren't there four-" Keira was cut off by Daxter's scream. Everyone turned to see Daxter get pulled out the open window by the fourth mummy.

" Daxter!" Jak, Keira, and Sig shouted in unison.

Keira screamed as Daxter was slammed up against the right side of the bus nearest to the edge of the bridge. The mummy had his hand wrapped tightly around Daxter's neck and claws were appearing in its other hand.

Jak shot the mummy twice through the window and on the third shot, the mummy was blasted off the bridge.

" Uncle Dax!" Little Jak opened a window and shouted to him.

Jak shook Daxter gently until he opened his eyes.

" Are you okay?" Jak asked.

" Yeah." Daxter said as he fingered his throat.

Daxter sighed and he leaned against the side of the zoomer. Jak panted and he looked at Keira.

Keira beckoned him with a finger and they drew into a passionate kiss.

" Oh, jeez, get a room," Little Jak walked off the bus and he stared at the water a few ways away from his parents. He turned to look at them but a hand suddenly clamped tightly around his mouth.

" Let me go!" Little Jak managed to scream just as his parents looked up.

" Lil Jak!" Jak shouted as his son was thrown into a waiting zoomer. He ran as fast as he could go as the zoomer took off. He didn't stop once even when he saw a man in red coming running out of a small room and jump into the zoomer. The Bridge alarm bell was beginning to ring.

" STOP!" Jak yelled as he sprinted for them. He gasped as the bridge began to rise up and part. He didn't stop though, and he continued to run even as the bridge grew higher.

Jak jumped for the other side of the bridge and just managed to grab onto it. He pulled himself halfway up only to see the zoomer disappear into the distance with his only son.

" Lil Jak," Jak panted sorrowfully.

~~~End of Chapter Four~~~

A/N: I've always wanted to write this chapter cause Daxter gets to drive. The truth was that I was gonna stop after this but I've decided to write more. I'm halfway done the next chapter so keep R&R!

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