When Jak awoke he was in a hospital room, covered in bandages. It was late at night and the green sun was high in the night sky. There was a news terminal and several chairs and a couch in his room. No one was in the chairs but Keria's sleeping form was on the couch. He tried to get up but his back hurt too much. He had no memory of what he had done as Dark Jak but that wasn't surprising. Anytime he went Dark of his own accord he knew what he was doing even if he couldn't completely control it but when sheer rage and anger overcame him it was like he had passed out. He turned on the news terminal; he switched off the sound and turned on the closed captioning so that he would not wake Keria.
The reporter on the screen was talking to Torn and Sig:
Reporter: So what happened after the wall was destroyed?
Torn: When the wall blew the Metal-Heads tried to make a push but with the water rushing out they were hindered. It was several minutes before they could come through. All of our men had been pulled safely back except for one.
Sig: The Metal-Heads started rushing in and we were ready to just blast the hell out of anything that moved until one of our soldiers identified the lone soldier as Jak.
Jak immediately turned on the sound, he needed to see this the best he could. Someone had filmed the entire episode of his rampage.
He watched from a onlooker's point of view as he saw himself stand up and change. He saw himself cut down Metal-Heads like a blowtorch through butter. He saw himself kill everything in sight and he saw himself leap and use the Dark Bomb, taught by the Oracle, to send a shockwave through the Metal-Heads.
Torn: As you can see, Jak destroyed a large portion of the army with his Dark Bomb attack but some still remained.
Seeing all this was filling Jak with a sickening feeling. The video then showed what happened after his rampage. The Metal-Heads crashed into him. He disappeared under them for only a second before several dozen KG Hellcats flew in and began just cutting the rest of the Metal-Heads to pieces.
Part of it made him feel good that he easily held off a large portion the Metal-Heads but another was making him feel sick. He knew his Dark self was strong but seeing the wanton destruction he caused made him disgusted with himself. He wasn't sorry for the Metal-Heads, heavens no. But seeing himself like that seeing what he had done a year ago. What he had done when the KG overpowered him, what he had done when his rage took him over and his blood lust had to be filled.
"It's not your fault Jak," said a voice. "You did nothing wrong." It was Keria. She had woken up and was now by his bed.
"Look at me though Keria." said Jak pointing to the screen. "That what happens to me when I get angry, you said it yourself. I change."
Keria looked like he had just slapped her and she almost began to cry.
"Oh God Keria," Jak said when he realized what he had done to her. "I didn't... I didn't mean..."
"Jak," she sobbed. "I said that a year ago can't you just let it go! You didn't mean to me what you do now. I thought that what they had done to you had made it impossible for you to love me or anything ever again."
"Keria," he said again. "Please, please stop crying I'm sorry."
She looked up, her eyes red and puffy. "I know." she said. "I know."
They kissed.
(((Gol and Maia's Citadel)))
"Isn't that sweet?" sneered Gol. He was staring into a crystal ball like thing watching Jak and Keria in the hospital. "He really cares for her."
"She's his weak link," answered Maia. "She's the one we can use as bait."
"Of course, dear sister." said Gol, not looking away from the ball. "But there is no way we can separate them, he is constantly at her side."
"But there must be some way to separate them, short of killing the other of course."
"I know that!" spat Gol. "He'd follow her into hell, kick the devil in the balls and waltz out with her in hand."
"Well then you think of something!" shrieked Maia.
"I will," said Gol turning back to his glowing ball. "And when I do you'll wish you had never been born, Jak!"