Remember. Jak is in Daxter's body and Daxter's in Jak's body.

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Jak stomped through the bushes. They were bigger than last time he stepped through them. Actually he was having a hard time adjusting to how small he really was. In some way he felt sorry for Daxter, to be trapped in this body. Sure Daxter was short in his human form but not this short.

Ever since the switch Jak noticed that he had a sense of lightness. Not because he was small and covered in fur instead of clothing and other trinkets, a spiritual lightness. He didn't have a heavy weight in his heart any more. As if the heavy weight has been lifted.

Jak snapped out of his thoughts when he saw some Metal Heads walking by. He saw the abnormality of the Metal Heads. How they were in a group, walking in one direction. They were definably going somewhere. Jak decided to follow.

He followed them to a large isolated beach. He gasped as he saw that thousands crowded the beach. Jak flung himself in hiding.

"So this is the great disturbance. I wonder why they are all here?" Jak thought out loud

His question was answered when a Metal Head crawled upon a large rock. It raised its large claws for silence. When it got none the creature screeched an ear-piercing screech. All the Metal Heads cowered in the ear splitting noise. Jak desperately blocked his ears as his face was painted in agony.

It seemed like forever but when the screech stopped Jak collapsed nearly from relief. He rubbed his ears as ringing was buzzing in the background of his hearing.

"Daxter isn't going to be too pleased with deafen his ears" Jak murmured sparing a thought for his long time friend

Then he shook his head clear of him and focused his attention on the meeting before him.

"Our Lord 'n' Mastur haz ordured usss to gathur here todaay" the Metal Head spoke, poor pronunciation dripped in his words, "For a re-nu-al ov our powur 'n' pre-pur-a-shon ov our attack on tha sity"

The creature held up a stone. Jak gasped as he saw the stone was pure black and shiny. Dark power oozed from the cursed stone. Jak noticed the midday sun hid behind a large dark grey cloud.

"This isn't good," he murmured

The sky went darker since the sun was absent. Jak shivered as a cold feeling ran down his spine. He wished he were his normal self. What ever they were going to do, he had to stop them and he couldn't do it with a scruffy scrawny body.

"I've got to find Dax" he sighed finally

Going back to Daxter would seem like crawling back to him, admitting he was wrong, begging for his help.

If it's to help the people in this city, especially Keira and Samos, then I must lay my pride down, Jak thought to himself

He turned to leave but he turned back as a loud noise sounded from the mass.

***

Daxter shot the last of the Metal Heads. He collected the remaining Dark Eco. He felt the power of it and felt some sort of light zap. He felt the Dark Eco running in his veins, he felt he could take on all the Metal Heads in this world. He felt he could take on all of the Baron's legions… he felt powerful.

He understood why Jak wasn't afraid of anything, why he was bold to face the Metal Heads and why he wasn't afraid to stand up to the Baron. Daxter felt his features twisting into a smirk, he couldn't help it, he felt it was part of this. He turned and ran towards the gathering.

He approached and was in view of the monsters. He saw one perched itself on a high rock addressing the gathering.

"Our Lord 'n' Mastur haz ordured usss to gathur here todaay" he heard the Metal Head spoke. He shivered as its throaty creaky voice mispronounced the words, "For a re-nu-al ov our powur 'n' pre-pur-a-shon ov our attack on tha sity"

The Metal Head, out of nowhere, lifted a large black stone. It seemed to ooze of black wavy stuff. The stone itself was black and shiny, shiny like…

"Dark Eco…" Daxter gasped

He felt a deep tingerly sensation, as if he felt some connection with the stone. He was attracted to its power, his body seemed to react to that. Daxter shook himself and concentrated at the job at hand. He was going to experience how letting loose your dark side feels like. At first Daxter was reluctant, scared even but soon grew bold and timed his attack.

The Metal Head raised the stone above his head. The crowd was deeply awed by the stone and raised their heads looking at it in a chilled silence.

Now!

Daxter lept from his hiding palace as and let go the power he was holding back for so long. He felt the Dark Eco spread all over his body as sparks emitted from his skin and crackled around him. His vision darkened, guessing from the metamorphosis, his eyes were covered in its dark murkiness. He landed in the middle of the crowd. Some surrounding Metal Heads drew their attention to him.

They saw it was the monstrous human that had been opposing them. They screeched and try to destory their enemy.

Daxter felt unbelievable power.  He slashed his mutated nails at the Metal Heads. They screeched and hissed in pain. Soon the ceremony stopped and all Metal Heads were aware of him.

"This is it!" Daxter cried

He thought about the Dark Bomb move that Jak had always done. He pictured it exactly in his mind and directed his body to do the same. He lept in the air as he felt the power surging to his fist then aimed his fist to the ground unleashing the power.

***

Jak gasped as he saw himself…or more accurately Daxter in his demon form fighting. He saw what many of his enemies and friends saw when he was in that state. The black murky eyes, the purple skin, the light purple horns and hair, the long dark nails and that smirk.

He saw Daxter slashing at the Metal Heads, Dark Eco radiating from him and zapping the Metal Heads. Jak looked over to the speaker and saw it was hissing and shouting with the rest of them. Jak had an idea.

Jak ran from his hiding place and ran on all fours across pass the crowd to the rock. He climbed the rock in a typical squirrelly way and with his best spinning kick he kicked the stone from the Metal Head's grasp.

The creature hissed as it realised it was attacked. It looked down to see orange matter rush past, holding the stone. The creature growled and ran after it.

Meanwhile Daxter came down for the Dark Bomb attack. He punched the ground hard and saw purple shockwave emitting from his grasp, spreading across the terrain. All who were in its radius were thrown into the air, being zapped with Dark Eco.

Jak saw the shockwave and jumped as high as his little legs could spring him. He saw the creature that was after him fell prey to the attack. It screeched and as it was thrown into the air and zapped then as soon as it hit the ground its body disintegrated into nothing and left it's Metal Skull behind.

Jak looked over to Daxter who was back to normal but leaning over puffed out.

"Daxter" he called

Daxter turned to see his old Ottsel self-running towards him.

"Jak" he gasped

"Tiering isn't it?" Jak lighten up, "You know it isn't always easy to be me"

"I figured" Daxter puffed

"We got their source of power. Lets head back to the city and see what we can do with it" Jak suggested

Daxter eyed the stone. His body tingerled reacting with the stone's power. Daxter stared at it in a trance as he was drawn more and more by the stone. He reached out to touch the stone. Jak looked at his friend in puzzlement and when he saw Daxter was no long himself he pulled away.

"Daxter?" Jak said puzzled

Daxter stepped forward to try and touch the stone again

"Daxter!" Jak called backing away from him

Daxter didn't respond and kept reaching for the stone.

"DAXTER!" Jak shouted, "Stop it!"

Daxter didn't cease. Instead he approached Jak in a faster pace

Jak backed away in a faster pace.

"Crap" Jak cursed

Jak felt cold water at his feet. He looked behind him and water only there to meet him. He turned back to Daxter.

Jak looked at the stone. It vibrated slightly in his grip. By the look of it, the feel of it he realized it to be Dark Eco. A stone made of Dark Eco. Jak looked up in Daxter in understanding.

"Daxter! Control yourself!" Jak half commanded half pleaded

Daxter made no response to him and kept reaching for the stone. Jak had to get away from Daxter. He was attracted by the Dark Eco in the stone and on top of that Daxter didn't know how to properly control the Dark Eco. This wasn't good.

Jak dodged Daxter's grasp and ran past him onto the sand. Daxter turned, unnatural hatred flared in his glazed eyes. He ran after Jak. Jak had a good headstart but Daxter now had longer legs and in no time catched up to Jak. Jak dodged Daxter's attempts to grab him.

Daxter grew impatient and in his zombie state reached for the gun. Jak saw Daxter drawing out his Blaster gun. His eyes grew wide with fear.

"Crap!" Jak cried as Daxter aim his first bullet at him

Jak dodged it. Another and another came. Jak dodged them, barely. Jak was tireing. His Ottsel body wasn't built for cross-country running plus Daxter was shooting at him!

Jak saw the door to accessing the city. He needed to reach it; he needed to get inside to get away. He poured the last for his strength, energy and effort and sprinted the last leg. Daxter slid to a stop and fired a number of bullets.

Jak saw the door getting closer and closer…

"AHHHHHH" Jak screeched as pain and fell to the ground, the stone under him.

He was so close…so close… He saw the door he was almost there, he could almost smell the metal.

He turned and saw his thigh was covered in crimson colour. Then he looked up to see Daxter's glazed eyes. Well his blue eyes looking back at him hard and cold.

"You…shot…me," Jak could only croak as disbelief clouded his mind

Daxter reached out and picked up the stone. Daxter felt power surge through his body. He felt the power, the Dark Eco powering him up again. He felt the bold fearless power. He was unstoppable, he could take on the world, the world was at his mercy and if it didn't bow down he would unleash his untold power.

He shot me! Daxter shot me! Jak couldn't believe what had just happened. Daxter was a fairly nice guy and cared for his friends. The same Daxter just shot him!

Jak saw his eyes; they were full of greed and lust. Jak knew he felt the power and wanted more. Daxter wasn't the person to do this sort of thing. Daxter wouldn't hurt anyone but he felt prey to his alter ego and letting it take control of his mind.

Daxter turned his attention from the stone to Jak and gave a smirk. Jak shivered.

He was in deep Yakow dung. He was injured and his friend was turning into a maniac. He faced loads of Metal Heads, he faced Erol in the race track, he faced Mar's tomb and he even face the Baron twice but nothing prepared him for this.