A/N: Okay, I was watching my little sister play my favorite game on the PS2 the other day, and it was Jak 2. I thought that my little 11 year-old sister should not play a teen game and I was telling her that, but she kept telling me it was fine. I thought that maybe it was okay because of the comic relief. The little talking animal, Daxter, always on Jak's shoulder was the comic relief, so I thought maybe I should put something like that in my story that is really intense which was this one. So when you come to the little talking alien in these chapters just think of Daxter. I just wanted to tell you people that... and that I only got 2 reviews so far. Please R&R. Thanks!
Chapter 3
"I have no cameras in this tower," Slade said to Robin as he crawled his way through the tiny shaft. "So listen to everything carefully that I say. I have a map out of the whole thing, so trust me."
"Like I should really trust you," Robin said under his breath. "Whatever."
"Now go to your left and you should come to three new shafts," Slade said slowly so that Robin could get it all in. "Take the far right when you come to it."
While Robin was going through he heard something clinking on the metal floor ahead of him. Robin did not think it was very much, so he did not mention it to Slade. When Robin got to the three way shafts the noise got louder and Robin knew something was in the shaft with him and it was coming close.
Robin realized that the shafts were big enough to stand up in, so he got up and ran to the one he was supposed to go in and pulled out one of the bolts he got from the shaft. The thing was heavy enough to knock a person out cold. Robin pressed his back up to the wall of his shaft and listened to the slow clinking coming closer and closer.
Then the thing that was making the noise was right outside the shaft where Robin was in. Robin spun out of his shaft and expertly threw his bolt at the noisy intruder.
"Ahhhhhhhhh!" the thing screamed. Robin did not even get a glance at what it was. His bolt was stuck into the side of the shaft and the thing was gone.
"Robin?" Slade asked. He had heard the yell. "What is going on?"
"I have no idea," Robin said while looking down every shaft there and getting very confused. Then Robin felt something on his shoulder and looked at it. He found two furry feet and when he looked up he saw a furry looking animal looking down back at him with a smile. Robin just looked kind of confused.
"Were you that crazy psycho who threw that bolt at me?" the little fuzzy thing on Robin's shoulder said very cocky.
"Ahh!" Robin yelled in surprise and threw the creature off his shoulder and added, "You talk!"
"Well thanks for the very warm welcome," the orange animal said while getting to his two back feet like a human and brushed himself off. "And yes I do talk. I'm alien you know."
Robin knelled down to get face to face with the alien and sniffed, "You need a bath too. Phew! You stink."
"Well you don't smell all that great either," the thing said while pointing up at Robin. "You smell like laser dust." Then the animal widened his eyes in surprise and said in amazement, "So you're the one they are after! And this whole time I thought it was me."
"Shhh!" Robin said and looked around like someone was there. "If they find me out right now I'm dead."
"Shesh!" the alien said and rolled his eyes, "They will not kill you. These aliens will test all kinds of stuff on you. They have been dieing to get their hands on a real human to test their alien junk on. Didn't you know that?"
"Seems like my boss forgot to put that in when I jumped out of that helicopter," Robin muttered to himself. "I've got a job to do, so bye." Robin then walked to the shaft he had been going into.
"Hey wait!" the alien said and ran after Robin. He jumped onto his shoulder and Robin stopped with an annoyed glare. "I know this place top to bottom," the creature said with a crafty smile. "I'll help you if you can get me out of here. I've been trying to do it for months now. Deal?"
"Oh yeah," Robin said with a smirk. "Just stay on my shoulder and tag along as I almost barely get out of this dump alive."
"Really?!"
"No!" Robin said and shoved the creature off his shoulder and kept walking on.
"But what about getting help about this place?" the alien asked as he watched Robin walk away.
"My boss has a map of this place," Robin said, "Figure out the rest yourself." He then disappeared in the dark of the shaft.
"That kid is going to get in a whole heck of trouble with that attitude," the alien said to himself. "He is rude enough."
Robin did not care about the animal when Slade asked what he was talking to. Robin just said it was alien trying to get out of the tower alive. Slade was satisfied with it. Robin just did not mention about the testing of humans part though. Slade did not have to know everything.
Slade had lead Robin all the way till Robin was suspended in the air by a cable hooked onto the ceiling. Robin lowered himself slowly till he was a few inches away from a glass box with a black box on top of it. Lasers were all over the ground, so there was no use walking up to the box. The job had to be taken from above.
In the glass holding was metal wristband that was lit up from the lights under it. Robin had no idea what the alien gadget was, but knew that these people really wanted to keep it. The animal back in the shaft said they were aliens, so maybe they weren't people. Well, whatever they were, they were still trying to find Robin because Robin could still hear an alarm outside of the tiny room he was in.
Robin had seen Mission Impossible on the T.V. and thought it would be cool to really do something like going down into a room and not having to touch the floor, being too loud, or be too hot, but he never though he was going to have to do it.
Robin reached for the black box that Slade had said to open to get to get the gadget. He did not even get to touch it before he heard something above him whisper loudly, "Don't touch it!"
Robin cringed when he realized whom the voice belonged to. It was the alien from the shaft a few minutes before. Robin looked up at the creature and gave a really mean glare. If looks could kill the alien would have been dead in less than a second.
The alien jumped back when he saw the glare and whispered quietly, "If you touch that box a hundred volts of electricity will shoot through your body. I should know. I've seen others like me get tested for it."
"Then what would you like me to do?" Robin asked while getting very tiered of the animal.
The sneaky creature gave a wicked smile and said, "Remember the deal before?"
Robin frowned and said, "No way am I getting advice from a...uh...what are you?"
"Weaser," the creature said with a nod, "Half weasel and half otter."
"Whatever!" Robin whispered with rolling his eyes. "I don't need you. I'm wasting time, so get lost." The animal stayed and watched. And Robin whispered to Slade, "Do you know anything about this box?"
"Robin," Slade said and it seemed like he was getting mad, "You should have gotten the gadget by now. What is taking you so long?"
"Well, a little someone said that this box could kill me in less than a second," Robin said while glancing up at the alien who was smiling down at him from the open shaft. "I sort of don't want to take that chance if you don't mind."
"Then find a way to get through it," Slade said. "This is your mission, not mine."
Robin swore under his breath and looked up at the creature and said, "Open this box and I'll help you out of this place."
"It took you long enough to make up your mind," the creature said while sliding down the cord and crawling down Robin and getting all the way to Robin's arm. Robin got a fuzzy foot stuffed in his face once or twice. He was not enjoying this day one bit. "Hang onto my feet," the creature ordered.
Robin held onto the tiny feet and lowered him to the box. The alien pulled a hair off himself and let it fall onto the box. When it landed the whole box went haywire. Blue sparks zapped all over it and that is when the creature punched the box and it crumbled to the floor. Robin then lowered the creature in the glass box and it picked up the gadget.
Robin got him and the creature out of the room just in time because people that ran the place busted in the room they were just in right when the alien was pulled in. The people saw the empty glass case and saw the open shaft. They started to shoot their lasers at the shaft and Robin got hit in his left shoulder. Robin did not even notice it as he kept running through the shaft with the alien under his right arm.
Slade was now talking fast and not as calm as before. Orders were not as clear and Robin had only split seconds to think about where to run or he would have been shoot by the lasers. He finally came to a shaft that was smaller that meant that he was near the end.
"Don't go through the tiny shaft!" Slade yelled. Lasers were flying up all around Robin and the alien in his hands was getting a bit scared so he was fidgeting. "Look up and you will see a glass window that leads to the top of the tower. Go through it."
Robin looked up and heard the tiny thing in his arms yell, "Your boss must be insane! That place is loaded with guards."
"Shut up and hold on to that gadget or you're dead," Robin yelled and smashed the glass. He jumped out of the shaft and saw that it was night all around him and that the alien was right. Tons of guards looked at him and started to shot their lasers toward him in a heartbeat.
Robin thought fast and put the alien down on the ground and pulled out his pole and the bolts he had saved. Robin jumped into the air and let go of a bolt. He swung his pole at the hard metal in the air and hit it like he was using a bat.
BAM! Three guards were taken out by one bolt. But there were still some more left. Calculating everything in his head so fast, Robin dropped to the ground and did the same thing and took out five other guards. One bolt left and this one was as good as the others. None of the guards had a chance.
The alien just stood there with the gadget in his tiny fuzzy hands with his eyes wide with surprise. His jaw was on the floor as he stared at Robin. Robin walked up to the alien and took the gadget out of its hands.
"Now the deal is finished," Robin said while walking away. "Go do whatever."
The animal was not that easy to get rid of though. He jumped back onto Robin's shoulder and yelled, "Those guards are coming back any time now. I'm not safe yet." He took the gadget out of Robin's hand and looked at it. "This is mine till you really save me." With that he jumped off Robin.
The alien knew Robin too much now. He knew Robin wanted the gadget a lot. "One, two, three, now," the alien whispered and right on time Robin yelled after him, "Fine! Get on my shoulder and I'll get you to safety. Now give me the gadget."
The animal smiled and said, "Now you're talking. Let's get out of here. I hate this place."
"I hate you," Robin whined as the animal jumped on his shoulder.
"Robin!" Slade yelled.
"What?!" Robin yelled back. "I got the gadget and I'm on top of the tower."
"I lost contact with you for around five minutes," Slade said sternly. "Was it you?"
"Yeah I turned you off right when around 15 guards started to shoot at me," Robin said sarcastically, "Yeah, it was me."
"Just get on that helicopter that is above you," Slade said and finally got a camera on Robin so he could see him. "And what is that on your shoulder?!"
Robin gave a weak smile and looked up at the helicopter coming down. A ladder fell down to him. Robin took it and said to Slade, "I'll tell you what it is when I get back to you." He then turned off his earpiece.
"Whoa!" the alien yelled as Robin climbed the ladder. "You're taking me to your place? I said 'to safety', and I'm not meaning to be rude, but your place might be the exact opposite."
"It's either my place or down on that tower with tons of those guards," Robin said with a smirk. "What do you want to do?"
The alien looked down and sort of jumped with fright. "Your place," he said finally. "If I'm staying with you a long time then I got to know your name. Got one?"
"Robin," Robin answered and asked, "And yours is?"
"Enzo," the creature said and he thought he had finally met someone who could be a friend. What he did not know was that the two was going to have to be stuck with each other for a long time.
A/N: Hope it was good enough for you people. You will find out more about everything in the next chapter. Please send a review. Thanks! And the alien's name is pronounced in-zo.
