A bright blue-white aura started to shine upon the vision. And it was in there that a figure that was made up of blue light started to zoom around the area, looking with a straight face.
"The light at the end of the tunnel has drawn closer towards you…but do you really want to leave it all gone to waste right now?"
It went up into the air and casted down two more figures of light, this time both of them started to take up a set of monstrous forms. It went between the pair of them, bringing its eyes towards them both every now and again.
"The dangers of the past are being awakened, and only you have the power to stop them. Without your contributions, the city would be devoured like it almost was in years gone by, and the world would be a more dangerous place."
Both monsters turned away from each other, brought their heads up and gave out fierce roars before they both faded out into nothing. That left the human figure to go up in the air and go further away from the scene.
"The world is depending on you!"
It gradually changed itself into a fireball, before that too started to fade into nothing, allowing the blue and white aura that once surrounded the scene to fade out into a deep black abyss.
The scene started to show a blurred vision of a dark temple-like location, showing bright glowing torches around the pillars and ancient precursor writing among the walls. From nearby, Daxter showed up and looked ahead with a curious expression.
"Jak, I think you aught to take a look around this place!"
He looked around the scene, allowing Jak to end up siting up and rubbing his head as if he was having a migrane. From behind him, Hikaru sat up and looked around the cold temples brought around her.
"Where in the City are we?" Jak asked.
"Looks like some kind of underground graveyard… but… why here?" Hikaru started to panic.
Jak looked around the scene, and saw crypt upon crypt lying right ahead of him. While that happened, he looked on up, and saw a faint hole in the ceiling above them, positioned twenty feet above their heads.
"Must be the way the Metal Head pushed us down here after defeating us", Jak said with a curious tone. "Try and help me get up there!"
"What about us, blondie?" Daxter growled while pointing at himself and Hikaru.
"I promise to fetch a rope down!"
Hikaru took a tight hold around Jak's waist, and brought him up into the air. Then, he brought himself firmly around one of the pillars and tried to climb up… but that was until a white essence suddenly flew past him.
"Hey, what the-"
The pillar started to crumble upon his feet, causing him to fall onto the ground, hard on his back. He looked up, with Daxter going behind him and rubbing his back better. The vision of the essence suddenly started to play within Jak's mind.
"What kind of strange figure was that?" Hikaru questioned.
"Could that be… a case of the paranormal?" Daxter gulped. "GHOSTS?!?"
He gave out an ear piercing squeal, which suddenly echoed across the whole room. While that happened, the white essence started to come down towards the ground, showing itself as a white ball fading into another figure.
"Hey, no need to worry about it Daxter!" the essence spoke with a light and wise voice. "I feared worse than specters!"
"Who said that?"
"Remember me?"
The light around the essence brought itself around the room, and as soon as it faded out they were seen looking on at a spiritual figure of a male with white hair that spiked behind him and a set of laboratory clothing. Daxter immediately jumped at the sight of him.
"Vin? But… what are you doing here?"
"The afterlife had to gather somewhere, didn't they?"
All that Daxter could do was look on at the figure with surprise, while Hikaru just stood there, looking unconvinced. Then, from further behind him came two more similar essences, this time with one of them glowing a bright blue color, the other having a lemon yellow essence around it.
"And it had to be here", sighed a deep and rough voice from the blue essence. "Why here instead of somewhere more majestic like Mar's tomb? I deserved the comfort there!"
"I like it here", cackled a youthful voice from the yellow essence.
"Erol, why?"
"At least it's quieter than the city as you left it, my dear Baron."
The figures then allowed their burst of light to shine across the temple, and as soon as the lights faded out, the group were then seen looking at two spectre-type figures – one of which being another male with thick navy blue clothing, his right hand side of his face covered with steel and a brown moustache lying underneath his intact red eye; the other wore mainly yellow and blue racing garb, with a mask tied on the top of his head and ginger hair spiking behind him.
"Erol, you're here too?" Daxter gasped with widened eyes. "And the pain-in-the-neck that was Baron Praxis?!? But… I thought you would have both gone to Hell by now!"
"In my world, Dax", Hikaru started while folding her arms, "there never was a Heaven or a Hell. Just an empty void to roam free after our time was over."
She just stood still, with her arms folded and her hair lightly blowing in the draft. While that happened, the group looked on at her, before bringing their attention back towards the specters a few seconds later.
"I still disapprove of your presence as such", scowled the Baron, "but I have heard that you've managed to annihilate the Metal Heads up ther-"
"Actually," Jak interrupted, "they've made a comeback. They've sent us down here into this murky place. And all we're asking for is a simple way to get out!"
Erol blinked with a shocked expression, while being silent for two seconds. "Well, that's where we shall come in."
Daxter's ears dropped down right underneath his neck, leaving him to start cringing as he listened hard at what were once two of his enemies and one of his closest friends. Then, in a blur, Erol hovered ahead of his group and looked down at the three of them.
"I may still see you as some vile Eco Freak, but if what you're saying is true, then maybe we can help you."
"Yeah!" Vin smiled while hovering next to Erol. "If the Metal Heads are responsible for the lack of peace around this part of the city, then we'll help you defeat them again. That way, both parties will get our share of the profits."
As he spoke, Vin waved his hands into the air, and hovered clumsily into Erol, leaving them to let go of one another before they hit one of the walls of the temple around them. However, Vin's strategy just left Jak's face with a confused look.
"How can you do so in such spiritual forms?" Jak questioned them.
"We have our reasons", sneered Praxis. "Open your gun up, Jak!"
Jak looked down at his morph gun, which was held within his own two arms, its Peacemaker mode still locked in. And then he pulled it out, looking on at it with a curious expression. While that happened, Daxter climbed up to him with a shaky look around him.
"You really think you're gonna listen to that nut-hole?"
"Face it, Dax. We have no other choice. We're either stuck here or taking them with us to fend for the city again."
With that, he took a hold of the ammo storage unit, and twisted it to show an empty hole around it. And then, all of a sudden, a bright white surge of lightning started to fill the room, causing him to drop the weapon straight to the ground.
The strobe lights continued to flash very hard, leaving him to bring his arms over his eyes while the energy continued to get stored within the weapon. After the light faded out, he brought his arms away and looked around the room to see what remained.
The spirits were gone, leaving him to pay attention to his weapon. He picked it up, and looked hard at the ammo storage space, which now held a new gun mod for it – it was in the shape of three darts set in line with one another.
"Wow, just look at the power held in that thing now!" Hikaru smiled with a broad smirk.
"Never mind that, how will they help out?" Jak asked her.
All three of them looked at each other, exchanging curious look about them. And then, the gun started to lift in the air and point right behind them, glowing a light fusion of white, blue and yellow essences around it.
"Remember, we will be there for you at your hardest times…"It then brought out a light beam shining into the darkness brought there, bringing a stone door into view. It instantly opened up, leaving them to look on at it with a set of widened eyes upon their faces.
"A door?" Jak asked with a dumbstruck expression.
"Well, how come I never thought of that?" sighed Daxter with an expression of disbelief.
They instantly started walking towards the door, sharing a set of confused facial expressions brought around them. They then reached the door and were instantly brought into the broad daylight of the city.
"It's good to see you still alive", said a female computer voice from a speaker above them.
"Okay, whoever recorded that voice must be hanging herself after that", Daxter growled.
They looked on at the view of the city. Right in front of them, a large fountain was seen in the middle of a reservoir which branched into several canals leading further in or out of the city. They looked behind them, and saw the door they came out from, ending up with them leading out from the basement of the palace.
"Well, the city looks a lot better than when we left it", nodded Daxter.
"Yeah", smiled Jak. "Wonder how Sig and Tess are going on after we left the pair back at the bar."
The group then gave each other a set of straight glances around them, before they carefully made their way towards the canals. While they walked, Daxter brought himself up onto Jak's shoulder and looked at the view from there.
"And I bet they would be pleased to see the result of the new weapon mod, eh?" Hikaru smiled curiously.
"I may be trigger-happy myself", started Jak, "but I could be worried about what kind of results they could blast upon us."
"Oh, that's nothing to worry about!" Daxter replied with a broad smile. "It's not like a flamin' Metal Head has possessed their minds or something! That'll make Erol more loco than he is already!"
As soon as he finished shouting, a yellow bolt instantly brought itself out from the gun and struck Daxter's arm like a bee sting, leaving him to scream instantly. He growled and looked on at the gun while holding onto his injury.
"I HEARD THAT!!!""Ah, shaddap ya face!!!" Daxter painfully shouted back.
Back near the Southern parts of the city, the Metal Heads continued to surround the buildings with as much rage as they could contain. At the same time, the trophies that escaped from the Naughty Ottsel were seen flying about, firing yellow lasers onto the streets below.
Nearby, Sig was seen running his way down the streets, getting out his staff-based weapon and using it to fire at the flying targets brought above him. And then… one of which ended up stopping right in front of him, aiming a charged shot at him.
It then launched the laser at him, causing him to roll on the ground and fire a shot back at him. This one managed to chip off one side of the trophy, leaving it to spin around in the air before flying away from him.
He continued to chase it, but… by the time he reached the industrial section… there was no sign of the trophies anywhere. However… there was a presence of a shake in the ground, causing him to look on at a nearby grating and see it broken open.
From out of there, several Metal Heads covered in oozing silver slime came out and went around the city. The one that ended up with its face chipped also showed up in full form, causing Sig to instantly retreat back towards the Naughty Ottsel.
It was official to him – the citizens of Haven City were slowly being hunted down like they were by Wastelanders within the past few years.
-end of part 5-