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YAAAAAAY!! Big war scene, people screaming, heads crushed, you get the
picture. Yay violence!!
Chapter 7
The siren woke the city early the next day. Startled citizens leapt from their beds in fear, dressing in their armor and manning their weapons. The siren was like a sudden scream that rent the calm night air asunder.
Great waves of people swirled about the maze of passages that was the city. Jak and Keira left the bed immediately. Keira donned her thin red Krimzon Guard armor, while Jak put on his tunic. Both grabbed their guns in unison, Jak with his Morph-Gun and four barrels, and Keira with her Red Eco rifle. Without speaking the two slowly made their way through the tidal wave of people marching to their positions. Jak took his position at the west side of the city, while Keira took hers farther back the two embraced again before separating.
The action seemed to go too quickly. Everyone was in their positions, shifting nervously as the dust about them settled. The city was eerily calm, even the wumbees and yakows in the other sections of the city couldn't be heard. It seemed as though the very ground felt the tension of the moment.
Ashelin's voice boomed over the loudspeakers atop the Palace. "To all brave people fighting for this city: The Metal Head army is in view over the city walls, less than a mile away. Though many may rush bravely into battle, all will not survive. This is it, the battle for the city begins. I have one thing to say to you all: If we are to give our lives to these bastards, we give them hell before we do!" (no, I have never seen The Matrix Revolutions, why would you think that?)
A great cry rose up about the city. People cheered and clapped for several minutes before the previous tension set in again. Jak's Peace Maker felt slippery with sweat in his hands. He heard the heavy breathing of his sections behind him. The other commanders were not faring to well either. Sig was staring stony-eyed at the wall, unblinking; grinding his teeth together nervously. Shady had her hands clasped tight around the two powerful Red Eco pistols in both hands. Mogg was slamming his fist into his other hand nervously.
Ashelin and Torn were both staring at their squadron of unflinching Krimzon Elite, thinking back into the past, before all this had happened. How had it come to this? Ashelin nervously spoke into her radio. "Ax," she said, "have you made any progress?" Ax was the leader of the company exploring Mar's Tomb. He was a husky man or about six feet. He never really talked much to anyone.
"Not yet," came Ax's low-voiced reply, "this place is a natural maze. We've come across several doors that we've had to blast open. Most were filled with giant spiders and dead ends. We've got two more to go."
"Be careful," replied Ashelin, "according to Jak and Daxter there are other things in there besides spiders."
"Thanks for the warning, Governess. Will do." There was a small 'click' as the radio was turned off at the other end.
Ashelin looked over at Torn's tattooed face. He was staring out into the distance, his blue eyes reflecting the light of the morning sun as it slowly began to rise over the city walls. "Are you alright?" she asked uncertainly.
"What?" asked Torn, not looking over to her.
"Are you alright?" she repeated.
"Yeah, yeah. Why wouldn't I be?" he rasped back.
"I don't know, you just seem a little..." she trailed off.
"An army of Dark Eco-powered Metal Heads led by two Dark Eco-powered psychopaths is about to attack the city. Why wouldn't I be a little on edge?" he looked over at her and gave her a rare smirk. Ashelin smiled smugly back. She then turned the frequency on her radio to the one that all commanders' radios were set on.
"Commanders," she said importantly, "are your sections in position?"
"All set," grunted Sig.
"Fine here," came Mogg's stern reply.
"Huzzah!"
"Was that a 'yes' or a 'no,' Commander Sis?"
"That was a 'yes,' Governess," replied Shady. There was a muffled "You cow," added on afterward.
"How about you, Jak?"
"Everyone's here, from what I can see" –
"Hey, govey!" Daxter interrupted, "while we're waiting here, can we have a couple of drinks?"
"Not now, Dax," Jak growled to the Ottsel on his shoulder.
"What? I was just trying to" –
"Quiet!"
Ashelin rolled her eyes, then changed the frequency to 6.54, the Palace's frequency. "Veseer, what can you see?" Doctor Veseer was surveying the surrounding Wasteland for any sign of activity using the Palace's cameras.
"Nothing yet," Veseer said shakily, "everything seems normal – WAIT!! OH NO! They're coming! They're coming!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!"
"Doctor!" Ashelin shouted, "which direction? Where are they coming from?"
"Er – er...um, from the – uh – from the west."
"Jak," she said into her radio, "they're coming to your location."
"Got it!" replied Jak.
"NO WAIT!!" cried Veseer, "they're coming from the east! No north! South! Oh god, we're surrounded! There are thousands of them!! We're gonna die!!"
"All commanders! All commanders!" Ashelin thundered into the radio, "the Metal Heads are coming from all sides! Prepare for battle now!!" Ashelin turned to Torn who was staring glassy-eyed at the city wall in the distance. "Ready?"
Torn cocked his Vulcan Fury, which made a brief charging sound. Grinning, torn looked over at Ashelin. "As I'll ever be."
Five minutes passed before clues that something big was coming began showing up. A rumbling sound began to reach the ears of the inhabitants of the city, like thunder roaring across the Wasteland. Loose rocks and pebbles began to shake and jump as thousands of Metal Head feet came closer and closer.
The men and women behind Jak and Shady began to twitch and shake nervously. They began whispering to each other and look around wide-eyed. "Steady," Jak shouted back to them.
"The commander said steady!" came Tess' voice somewhere within the ranks of volunteers. Daxter smiled smugly.
"That's my girl," he said dreamily.
Two minutes passed before Veseer's voice broke out over the Palace's loudspeakers. "Half a mile, I repeat, half a mile until the Metal Heads reach the city!"
"Ready weapons!" Jak roared to his troops, cocking his Peace Maker. The uneven clicking of weapons being cocked followed almost unostentatiously. Jak's gun felt slick in his hands. Sweat beaded on his brow and under his goggles. Daxter was biting his nails nervously.
Out of nowhere there was an enormous explosion outside the city walls. The city shook violently as the explosions passed. "What the HELL was that, Veseer?" Ashelin spat into the radio.
"The Metal Heads have some kinds of weapons," replied Veseer, "they're firing at the city walls. They're still standing but I don't know how many blasts the walls can take!"
Jak looked wide-eyed at the walls as another blast racked the walls. Two more blasts occurred ten seconds apart. A crack began to form at the base of the wall. It grew with every blast, slowly moving up the wall like some thin serpent. Jak noticed this in the nick of time. "Everyone take cover now!" he thundered. Everyone in the company flung themselves into ditches, stoops and doorways. At that very second there was an almighty explosion as chunks of three-foot-thick rock and electrified metal flew into the area where just seconds before hundreds of volunteers had been.
Animalistic war cries flooded through the opening as Dark Metal Head after Dark Metal Head flooded through it. "The wall is breached, the wall is breached!" Jak yelled into the radio. He flung himself out into the path of the Metal Heads, slamming the first one he saw across the head with the butt of his gun. It was the first time he'd seen Dark Metal Heads. Their size and build seemed to have been increased slightly through the Dark Eco injections. They seemed much more animalistic and predatory. Some had maws with row upon row of uneven, dagger-sharp teeth. Others were more reptilian, crawling on all fours sporting five-inch-long claws.
All of them had a deep purplish color and an aura that seemed to pulsate in the humid air of the morning.
JAK
The Metal Head that had been struck screeched in surprise as it was hurled backward. Jak heard shouts as his company followed him into battle. As the frontlines of the two sides collided, a pandemic uproar followed. People and Metal Heads flipped over each other in the shear force of the impact. Jak ducked under an energy scythe that would have taken his head clean off a second later. He tripped the bearer, a burly Metal Head with a tan bandana around its neck. The moment it hit the ground it was torn open by the flurry of Vulcan Fury bullets that rained down from Jak's gun.
He looked into the carnage happening before him. They were severely outnumbered. An unceasing river of Metal Heads flowed out of the mouth at the break in the wall. But the elves were fighting back. Jak could see a large group of people in a formation with their backs to each other, guns pointed outward. Metal Heads were falling quickly, thick oily blood leaking from the gun wounds they inherited from the formation.
Jak looked up just in time to see a fist coming towards him. It collided with him with great force, nearly cracking his ribs. He was sent flying backward ten feet landing on his back. He coughed up several droplets of blood. The blonde elf looked up just in time to roll out of the way of the Metal Head's next attack. He rolled out of the way of its fist, which left a large dent in the concrete. Jak pulled out his Peace Maker and let the enormous humanoid Metal Head have a fully-charged dose of Peace Maker power.
The pulsating sphere of electricity exploded on collision with the Metal Head's chest. The creature was carried fifty feet backward and collided with several of its comrades.
A wall of Metal Heads charged him a second later. Jak and several other men knelt down and unleashed a wave of Vulcan Fury bullets towards the attackers. The creatures fell backward, arms and legs flailing about.
A Metal Head grabbed Jak from behind, attempting to smother him with an enormous bear hug. Jak wiggled and tried to break free of the deadly grip of the creature. A slow, guttural choking escaped the creature's throat that had to be laughter. Jak's vision became blurry as the oxygen was squeezed from his lungs. A single shot of Red Eco flew from somewhere in the bloody battle. It struck the Metal Head between the eyes. Shards of shining Skull Gem fell around Jak as the Metal Head fell lifeless to the ground.
A moment later Jak felt himself tripped by a lizard like creature. Its rows of uneven teeth glistened in the sunlight; drool dripping in between them. The creature reared up on its hind legs and shakily began to run at Jak. Jak simultaneously charged the creature. The creature made a grab for him, but he was already airborne. Jak flipped in midair and landed a hand plant on the Metal Head's broad shoulders. He did a midair flip, spun around as soon as he hit the ground, and broke the creature's neck in one fluid motion.
TESS
Tess slashed several attacking Metal Heads across their faces with her knife. She had not too long ago lost her gun to the hands of a Metal Head with an energy sword. She was now using the knife Torn had given her in her days with the Underground.
Tess' training in the Underground was serving her well. Though she didn't appear to be extremely skilled on the outside, she believed she might have been able to hold her own against even Jak. Tess narrowly avoided a sword slash by a thin Metal Head with a glowing long sword. She somersaulted under the creature's outstretched arms and sunk the blade deep into its intestines. The creature shrieked as a fountain of blood squirted from its wound.
Tess picked up its dropped energy sword and ran one creature through that was strangling a small man. Tess observed the ongoing carnage and tried not to look as several people were ripped apart by two sadistic creatures. Then she noticed something else. In the distance she could see Jak. He was in a deadly bear hug with one large Metal Head. He looked on the verge of passing out. Without thinking, Tess grabbed a Red Eco pistol from the hands of a man next to her. She aimed and fired one shot that flew towards the Metal Head. In one perfect shot the Metal Head's head was shattered.
Tess smiled and continued fighting. Though she had plenty of energy left, she didn't know exactly how much more she could take...
The battle had just begun. Outside the city walls were wave upon wave of Metal Heads. Somewhere in the very back Gol and Maia hovered observing their work. "Isn't it wonderful, dear sister?" gasped Gol, "as soon as Haven falls, nothing will stand in our way. We may have failed once, but not again. The world WILL know the beauty of Dark Eco!"
"I simply cannot believe the foolishness of these people," laughed Maia, "why would they not make alliances with other cities? You never know what may happen..."
The brother and sister laughed at their own cleverness. Haven's defenses were falling rapidly. The walls had been broken on all sides. Sig, Mogg, Jak, Shady, and Ashelin were all battling the Metal Heads. Too many people were falling at too great of a rate. Soon, the city would fall...
Ekobean: gasp, gasp Sry it took sooooo long. I have had a lot to do over these few days. Sorry about the ending, it's hard to write stuff like that. Look for the next chapter soon, I hope. You know the drill, no flames, lotza reviews, and something new.
Recommendations: I recommend Shadowsister's "Fire's Child" and "WWWWWTHAOMG." It's really funny. Also I recommend "Demons and Angels" by Keaton the Black Jackal, and "Sanity" by Flaming red dragon. Ok, that's it. Thx fo everything.
Chapter 7
The siren woke the city early the next day. Startled citizens leapt from their beds in fear, dressing in their armor and manning their weapons. The siren was like a sudden scream that rent the calm night air asunder.
Great waves of people swirled about the maze of passages that was the city. Jak and Keira left the bed immediately. Keira donned her thin red Krimzon Guard armor, while Jak put on his tunic. Both grabbed their guns in unison, Jak with his Morph-Gun and four barrels, and Keira with her Red Eco rifle. Without speaking the two slowly made their way through the tidal wave of people marching to their positions. Jak took his position at the west side of the city, while Keira took hers farther back the two embraced again before separating.
The action seemed to go too quickly. Everyone was in their positions, shifting nervously as the dust about them settled. The city was eerily calm, even the wumbees and yakows in the other sections of the city couldn't be heard. It seemed as though the very ground felt the tension of the moment.
Ashelin's voice boomed over the loudspeakers atop the Palace. "To all brave people fighting for this city: The Metal Head army is in view over the city walls, less than a mile away. Though many may rush bravely into battle, all will not survive. This is it, the battle for the city begins. I have one thing to say to you all: If we are to give our lives to these bastards, we give them hell before we do!" (no, I have never seen The Matrix Revolutions, why would you think that?)
A great cry rose up about the city. People cheered and clapped for several minutes before the previous tension set in again. Jak's Peace Maker felt slippery with sweat in his hands. He heard the heavy breathing of his sections behind him. The other commanders were not faring to well either. Sig was staring stony-eyed at the wall, unblinking; grinding his teeth together nervously. Shady had her hands clasped tight around the two powerful Red Eco pistols in both hands. Mogg was slamming his fist into his other hand nervously.
Ashelin and Torn were both staring at their squadron of unflinching Krimzon Elite, thinking back into the past, before all this had happened. How had it come to this? Ashelin nervously spoke into her radio. "Ax," she said, "have you made any progress?" Ax was the leader of the company exploring Mar's Tomb. He was a husky man or about six feet. He never really talked much to anyone.
"Not yet," came Ax's low-voiced reply, "this place is a natural maze. We've come across several doors that we've had to blast open. Most were filled with giant spiders and dead ends. We've got two more to go."
"Be careful," replied Ashelin, "according to Jak and Daxter there are other things in there besides spiders."
"Thanks for the warning, Governess. Will do." There was a small 'click' as the radio was turned off at the other end.
Ashelin looked over at Torn's tattooed face. He was staring out into the distance, his blue eyes reflecting the light of the morning sun as it slowly began to rise over the city walls. "Are you alright?" she asked uncertainly.
"What?" asked Torn, not looking over to her.
"Are you alright?" she repeated.
"Yeah, yeah. Why wouldn't I be?" he rasped back.
"I don't know, you just seem a little..." she trailed off.
"An army of Dark Eco-powered Metal Heads led by two Dark Eco-powered psychopaths is about to attack the city. Why wouldn't I be a little on edge?" he looked over at her and gave her a rare smirk. Ashelin smiled smugly back. She then turned the frequency on her radio to the one that all commanders' radios were set on.
"Commanders," she said importantly, "are your sections in position?"
"All set," grunted Sig.
"Fine here," came Mogg's stern reply.
"Huzzah!"
"Was that a 'yes' or a 'no,' Commander Sis?"
"That was a 'yes,' Governess," replied Shady. There was a muffled "You cow," added on afterward.
"How about you, Jak?"
"Everyone's here, from what I can see" –
"Hey, govey!" Daxter interrupted, "while we're waiting here, can we have a couple of drinks?"
"Not now, Dax," Jak growled to the Ottsel on his shoulder.
"What? I was just trying to" –
"Quiet!"
Ashelin rolled her eyes, then changed the frequency to 6.54, the Palace's frequency. "Veseer, what can you see?" Doctor Veseer was surveying the surrounding Wasteland for any sign of activity using the Palace's cameras.
"Nothing yet," Veseer said shakily, "everything seems normal – WAIT!! OH NO! They're coming! They're coming!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!"
"Doctor!" Ashelin shouted, "which direction? Where are they coming from?"
"Er – er...um, from the – uh – from the west."
"Jak," she said into her radio, "they're coming to your location."
"Got it!" replied Jak.
"NO WAIT!!" cried Veseer, "they're coming from the east! No north! South! Oh god, we're surrounded! There are thousands of them!! We're gonna die!!"
"All commanders! All commanders!" Ashelin thundered into the radio, "the Metal Heads are coming from all sides! Prepare for battle now!!" Ashelin turned to Torn who was staring glassy-eyed at the city wall in the distance. "Ready?"
Torn cocked his Vulcan Fury, which made a brief charging sound. Grinning, torn looked over at Ashelin. "As I'll ever be."
Five minutes passed before clues that something big was coming began showing up. A rumbling sound began to reach the ears of the inhabitants of the city, like thunder roaring across the Wasteland. Loose rocks and pebbles began to shake and jump as thousands of Metal Head feet came closer and closer.
The men and women behind Jak and Shady began to twitch and shake nervously. They began whispering to each other and look around wide-eyed. "Steady," Jak shouted back to them.
"The commander said steady!" came Tess' voice somewhere within the ranks of volunteers. Daxter smiled smugly.
"That's my girl," he said dreamily.
Two minutes passed before Veseer's voice broke out over the Palace's loudspeakers. "Half a mile, I repeat, half a mile until the Metal Heads reach the city!"
"Ready weapons!" Jak roared to his troops, cocking his Peace Maker. The uneven clicking of weapons being cocked followed almost unostentatiously. Jak's gun felt slick in his hands. Sweat beaded on his brow and under his goggles. Daxter was biting his nails nervously.
Out of nowhere there was an enormous explosion outside the city walls. The city shook violently as the explosions passed. "What the HELL was that, Veseer?" Ashelin spat into the radio.
"The Metal Heads have some kinds of weapons," replied Veseer, "they're firing at the city walls. They're still standing but I don't know how many blasts the walls can take!"
Jak looked wide-eyed at the walls as another blast racked the walls. Two more blasts occurred ten seconds apart. A crack began to form at the base of the wall. It grew with every blast, slowly moving up the wall like some thin serpent. Jak noticed this in the nick of time. "Everyone take cover now!" he thundered. Everyone in the company flung themselves into ditches, stoops and doorways. At that very second there was an almighty explosion as chunks of three-foot-thick rock and electrified metal flew into the area where just seconds before hundreds of volunteers had been.
Animalistic war cries flooded through the opening as Dark Metal Head after Dark Metal Head flooded through it. "The wall is breached, the wall is breached!" Jak yelled into the radio. He flung himself out into the path of the Metal Heads, slamming the first one he saw across the head with the butt of his gun. It was the first time he'd seen Dark Metal Heads. Their size and build seemed to have been increased slightly through the Dark Eco injections. They seemed much more animalistic and predatory. Some had maws with row upon row of uneven, dagger-sharp teeth. Others were more reptilian, crawling on all fours sporting five-inch-long claws.
All of them had a deep purplish color and an aura that seemed to pulsate in the humid air of the morning.
JAK
The Metal Head that had been struck screeched in surprise as it was hurled backward. Jak heard shouts as his company followed him into battle. As the frontlines of the two sides collided, a pandemic uproar followed. People and Metal Heads flipped over each other in the shear force of the impact. Jak ducked under an energy scythe that would have taken his head clean off a second later. He tripped the bearer, a burly Metal Head with a tan bandana around its neck. The moment it hit the ground it was torn open by the flurry of Vulcan Fury bullets that rained down from Jak's gun.
He looked into the carnage happening before him. They were severely outnumbered. An unceasing river of Metal Heads flowed out of the mouth at the break in the wall. But the elves were fighting back. Jak could see a large group of people in a formation with their backs to each other, guns pointed outward. Metal Heads were falling quickly, thick oily blood leaking from the gun wounds they inherited from the formation.
Jak looked up just in time to see a fist coming towards him. It collided with him with great force, nearly cracking his ribs. He was sent flying backward ten feet landing on his back. He coughed up several droplets of blood. The blonde elf looked up just in time to roll out of the way of the Metal Head's next attack. He rolled out of the way of its fist, which left a large dent in the concrete. Jak pulled out his Peace Maker and let the enormous humanoid Metal Head have a fully-charged dose of Peace Maker power.
The pulsating sphere of electricity exploded on collision with the Metal Head's chest. The creature was carried fifty feet backward and collided with several of its comrades.
A wall of Metal Heads charged him a second later. Jak and several other men knelt down and unleashed a wave of Vulcan Fury bullets towards the attackers. The creatures fell backward, arms and legs flailing about.
A Metal Head grabbed Jak from behind, attempting to smother him with an enormous bear hug. Jak wiggled and tried to break free of the deadly grip of the creature. A slow, guttural choking escaped the creature's throat that had to be laughter. Jak's vision became blurry as the oxygen was squeezed from his lungs. A single shot of Red Eco flew from somewhere in the bloody battle. It struck the Metal Head between the eyes. Shards of shining Skull Gem fell around Jak as the Metal Head fell lifeless to the ground.
A moment later Jak felt himself tripped by a lizard like creature. Its rows of uneven teeth glistened in the sunlight; drool dripping in between them. The creature reared up on its hind legs and shakily began to run at Jak. Jak simultaneously charged the creature. The creature made a grab for him, but he was already airborne. Jak flipped in midair and landed a hand plant on the Metal Head's broad shoulders. He did a midair flip, spun around as soon as he hit the ground, and broke the creature's neck in one fluid motion.
TESS
Tess slashed several attacking Metal Heads across their faces with her knife. She had not too long ago lost her gun to the hands of a Metal Head with an energy sword. She was now using the knife Torn had given her in her days with the Underground.
Tess' training in the Underground was serving her well. Though she didn't appear to be extremely skilled on the outside, she believed she might have been able to hold her own against even Jak. Tess narrowly avoided a sword slash by a thin Metal Head with a glowing long sword. She somersaulted under the creature's outstretched arms and sunk the blade deep into its intestines. The creature shrieked as a fountain of blood squirted from its wound.
Tess picked up its dropped energy sword and ran one creature through that was strangling a small man. Tess observed the ongoing carnage and tried not to look as several people were ripped apart by two sadistic creatures. Then she noticed something else. In the distance she could see Jak. He was in a deadly bear hug with one large Metal Head. He looked on the verge of passing out. Without thinking, Tess grabbed a Red Eco pistol from the hands of a man next to her. She aimed and fired one shot that flew towards the Metal Head. In one perfect shot the Metal Head's head was shattered.
Tess smiled and continued fighting. Though she had plenty of energy left, she didn't know exactly how much more she could take...
The battle had just begun. Outside the city walls were wave upon wave of Metal Heads. Somewhere in the very back Gol and Maia hovered observing their work. "Isn't it wonderful, dear sister?" gasped Gol, "as soon as Haven falls, nothing will stand in our way. We may have failed once, but not again. The world WILL know the beauty of Dark Eco!"
"I simply cannot believe the foolishness of these people," laughed Maia, "why would they not make alliances with other cities? You never know what may happen..."
The brother and sister laughed at their own cleverness. Haven's defenses were falling rapidly. The walls had been broken on all sides. Sig, Mogg, Jak, Shady, and Ashelin were all battling the Metal Heads. Too many people were falling at too great of a rate. Soon, the city would fall...
Ekobean: gasp, gasp Sry it took sooooo long. I have had a lot to do over these few days. Sorry about the ending, it's hard to write stuff like that. Look for the next chapter soon, I hope. You know the drill, no flames, lotza reviews, and something new.
Recommendations: I recommend Shadowsister's "Fire's Child" and "WWWWWTHAOMG." It's really funny. Also I recommend "Demons and Angels" by Keaton the Black Jackal, and "Sanity" by Flaming red dragon. Ok, that's it. Thx fo everything.